21 MARCH 1992, page 50

Long Life

Private lives Nigel Nicolson T he obituaries of Harold Hobson, the drama critic who died last week at the age of 87, were everything that he would have wished to read about......

Once Upon A Time, Nearly Three Decades Ago Now, Italian

restaurants meant candles in straw-swaddled Chianti bottles, zealously wielded oversized pepperpots and porno- don with everything. But the days of Mario and Luigi are long......