... 'Mother Goose' MY earliest remembrance of a pantomime is Mother Goose' at the Palace, Blackburn. I was about five and clearly recall a gTeai grey goose wadding on to th* stage, followed by a comic carry ing a golden egg. I was entrance*] and at curtain fall burst into tean and begged my mother to let mt stay for the second house. Like your contributor, R. B Marriott, never can I forget the ...

... Dear Sir. Mr. Raphael Tuck's campaign to ban X certificate films from television (Television Today, December 24) is yet another attempt to decide what the public should or should not be able to watch. TTiese numerous censorship campaigns which imply an omniscient auuuae 10 wnai is socially and morally permissible are not only an insolent assertion of moral and intellectual superio rity, but ...

... Publicity SIR,-- Your correspondent Patrick Desmond is to be congratulated on containing his exasperation in such moderate language over his experiences on the road with theatre managers regarding publicity. I feel, however, that his target should have been the theatre proprietors. The utter lack of awareness of the value of publicity by these gentlemen today is appalling. There are very ...

... ACTT and the BBC Dear Sir, The effect of non-recognition at the moment is that the ACTT cannot really represent its members. It is true in practice ACTT officials can meet the BBC to discuss individual grievances, but until it is officially recognised it cannot negotiate with the BBC on salaries, on conditions of work, on health, welfare, hours, grading, holidays, and on all the other ...

... Theatre Workshop SIR, I have been commissioned by Messrs. Victor Gollancz to prepare, in collaboration with Olive Barker and Brian Murphy, a documented history of Theatre Workshop, from its pre-war beginnings to its final season at Stratford East. The work will be fuHy illustrated, and will in terleave a linking commentary with rehearsal-logs, letters, contem porary criticisms and similar ...

... jyiR. BILL WARD has been appointed director of pro grammes of ATV network with effect from January 1. He now has total responsibility for all programme content and for creative deployment of talent on production within ATV. ...

... WENDY MoCLURE, wife of actor David Knight, is back in television after several years of semi-retirement since the birth of their four-year-old son, Eugene. Wendy is now in Glasgow filming episodesof Over to Una, the new STV series produced by Douglas Moodie. ...

... Then they fade away Dear Sir, I can honestly say that never in my life has a Press article moved me to write to congratulate the author. The article I refer to is your editorial in this week's issue of Television Today. Not only was it a necessary article, but an honest one. It is a glaring fact in television that the majority of shows are simply permutations of the same few top liners ...

... A service to the unions Dear Sir, May I support generally tne letter from Mr. G. T. Rhys, the General Secretary of the Association of Broadcasting Staff, published in your last week's issue and in particular his rejection of Mr. Annis's jibe that any union will find it difficult to present so many grades as does the ABS in Broadcasting and NATKE in the Entertainment Industry as a whole. The ...

... Battle for survival SIR, If Baynham Honri's figures are correct for the cost per seat of the new National Theatre, would ft not be more advisable, in the present economic situation of the country, to rehabilitate the famous Lyceum as our National Theatre and spend the rest of the money in saving pro vincial theatres from destruction? Unless there is an assurance 0 a reasonable circuit of ...

... Why not an agent's choice in Wales? Dear Sir, You quite rightly mentioned ir an editorial recently how useful a programme like Opportunity Knocks was. Surely this sort ol light entertainment is what is required by viewers, not pro grammes with the same faces week after week. Variety is everything, but here in Wales, as far as BBC (Wales) TV is concerned, it is a very long time since we last ...

... American theatre SIR,--The conclusions reached by Mr. Hugh Jenkins on the state of the theatre in America at the present time would certainly startle any American associated with the theatre there except for the compilers of a booklet published by a publicity organisation a few years ago. North America has an area of 8,600,000 square miles, England, Scotland and Wales combined an area of 88 ...