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6 Page 6 THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 7, 1975 Sunday morning with Very 'Thirtiesin the 'Seventies 45 with virtuoso, many the a television one-liner quips are there. But he sprinkles them more sparing. ly than some, and they are shrugged on their way with urbane curls of the wrist, and the air of a latter-day Coward. It is hard to imagine 44- year-old Ned Sherrin. tall, abstracted, and slightly ascetic, as the producer of That Was The Week That Was." the 'Sixties satire show which launched one David Frost to fame.

And, indeed, that turns out to have been relatively brief phase in Sherrin's career, which stretches wav back into the 'Fifties and of which Nickleby and Me." Ned Sherrin and Carvi Brahms's new musical. opening at the Theatre Workshop 111 Stratford. East this ucek. is arguably more typical. For Ned Sherrin's first professional ploy on leaving 111 1953 was to write to Carvi Brahms already long established as an authoress in her own right and as the collaborator.

with S. J. Simon. on a series. of humorous novels until Simon's death--and suggest making her book.

No Bed for Bacon." into a musical. And Caryl Brahms recalls the moment as she reminisces with Sherrin in a Strattord restaurant, effulgent in purple, dark glasses, pearls and turquoise ring. Well, one used to get about six letters a year suggesting collaborations, but it was such a nice young voice on the line so I thought I'll just have him up for sherry and that'll be the end of it. But then he suggested musical--something I hadn't done before -and novelty, I'm afraid. is something I've never to Not that -4 was terribly musical." said Sherrin.

I'm a lyric writer, really. But I did manage to write a song once when Carvl and I put new words to an old folk song which I then sang down the phone to an arranger. What he heard and wrote down had nothing to do with the folk song, it seemed, so we took out a new A waiter appeared: Ned ordered, hands clasped as if in praver. "I suppose we'd done about 14 plays caned musicals when TW3 he said. But one had certainly never expected the kind of audience one found on TW3.

I think we were lucky in our timing, the Thirteen Years of Tory Misrule and so on, but we also struck a new way of dealing with current affairs-putting form of music hantand vaudeville, often quite traditional in flavour. The result, I think, was an interesting tension: the audience was lured in, as it were, through forms they had long been familiar with, and then they'd suddenly find the content quite new, even suppose the moment really realised extent of it Carvi, sipping a Campari soda with lemon, was party when a woman came up to me and said: Caryl Brahms? I must touch you, you wonderful In a wav." said Ned. "I'll be doing something similar in some work I'm doing with A.TV. next year, a series of seeming documentaries In which I present myself as a reactionary reporter who evokes views from his interviewees that are even more astoundingly reactionary than his own. And there's a connection, too, with Nickleby and where we try to run our humour and pathos on a knite edge so the audience is thrown off balance.

is the attempt to find a form in The common factor, I think, which one can. as it were, creep up 011 the audience unawares: caught off guard. an audience will ways it wouldn't think possible. "Now." said Ned. looking abstracted again, I must settle and be CarvI's eves lit up.

Did she inquired, by any delicious chance hear the magic word, settle Miss Brown, with a very rare English Lop rabbit. Catching the bunny bug QUESTION If Chinese you Govern- happen ment agricultural agent and you wish to find out where to obtain 1,000 rabbits for breeding purposes, to whom do you turn for advice Answer: Miss Margaret Brown. who retired last week from her job as Matron of the Camis Eskan and Braeholm Hospitals in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire. Dun between tending the sick for the last 43 years, Miss Brown has managed to build up quite international reputation as an an expert on the domestic rabbit. She holds high office in three leading rabbit organisations, is Making of a monster Now shortly that see we those may under- not water Loch Ness photographs, the man who took the most famous Loch Ness monster picture of all time comes clean at last: it was a fake.

Back in 1934 the Daily Mail astonished the world with the picture scoop of the centurya half-page giant, plus some smaller supporting shots, showing a long reptilian neck little head. unmistakably forging through the on the loch. In the distance were the familiar shoreline and mountains. The caption gave the exact time and place. Alas, there were no further sightings.

and some scientists were unsporting enough to suggest that this particular Nessie wasn't palacontologically verv convincing. The Mail let the subject subside, so to speak. Mandrake tracked down Tan Wetherell, now 63. behind the bar of the Cross Kevs pub in Chelsea, where he been landlord since the early 'Fifties. In 1934 he had been a actor.

The Loch Ness monster one of the great silly season said. standbys My at father, that Mimenaduhe Wetherell, was a fairly wellknown big-game hunter. The Mail commissioned him to look for the monster, using Asdic equipment and so on. When he reported -as he had expectedthat there were no signs of life, they seemed rather peeved. "So my father said, 'All right, we'll give them their I remember that we drove up to Scotland again in his Hillman.

There was a friend of his called Chambers, an insurance brokerthey're both dead now. the camera, which was a Leica, and still rather a novelty then. Chambers had a shoot on one side of the Loch. He was the one who sent off the pictures-actually the undeveloped strip of film. saving he'd seen the creature while out shooting and tried to snap it.

In fact we made it from one of the little 10v submarines vou could buy for about half-a-crown, plus some rubber tubing and what It was only a few inches high. you. "We found an inlet where the tiny ripples would look like full waves out on the loch, and with the actual scenery in the background. Then it was just a matter of winding up the sub and getting it to dive just below the surface so the neck and head drew a proper little in the water. I took about five shots with the Leica.

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Temple Bar, a handsome Portland stone triple archway designed by Wren in 1672 and principally by Tory front bencher Mr. Ian Gilmour, stood for two centuries as the City's western gateway across, Strand. Fleet Street Heads where of it traitors joins mounted on spikes on top made it a daunting landmark. In 1878 it was dismantled, stone by stone, and rebuilt in Theobald's Park, Hertfordshire, where it still stands, in a state of forlorn semi-decay. Where would Temple Bar return to Mandrake's colleague the letter's author, Lucas, who has been a frequent visitor to the monument since the 1940s, wants the Lord Mayor to see if it could be installed at the foot of Ludgate Hill.

Certainly, without traffic, Ludgate would be the happier for a replacement for that ugly railway bridge. That is, if British Rail could be persuaded to save itself money and close its odd Southern Region "outcrop" to Holborn Viaduct, and make the next down the line, Blackfriars, into a terminus instead. Efforts to get Temple Bar back to London have been frustrated for the past 50 years. Mr. Gilmour himself has tried in vain since 1948.

Lord Holford planned to rebuild it at the north-western cor- A he A Temple Bar, in exile. ner of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1956, but that came to nothing. My colleague's suggestion of Ludgate Hill would also bring the monument back to within the City itself, complementing that other Wren glory, St. Paul's.

It would be he says, if the City could reinstate by 1978-the centenary of the year they put it out in the cold." Off-limits election THE election fever that is infecting Australian expatriates here is at its most noticeable around Australia House, in the Strand. Any pedestrian is liable to be offered a "Shame, Fraser, shame" car sticker or a graph of Australia's unemployed. However, Australia's Electoral Act says that campaigners are to be allowed no closer than 20 feet from the entrance to Australia House--and they are not allowed inside all. In May last vear, some 20,000 Australians over here turned out to vote in the Federal election. And a mere 2,000 votes, distributed over crucial seats, were enough to put Labour into office.

So now campaign leaders are trying to rustle up every eligible voter by D-Day on Saturday. R. A. Priday BRIDGE British open TEXT weekend the first stage of the British open trials will take place in London. Four teams of four have been invited and the competitors include the six members of the British team which finished third in Brighton last July and 10 young players, of whom come from Scotland.

The trials will be played at the Eccentric Club, Ryder Street, London, over three weekends, December 13-14, January 3-4 and January 24-25. Three straight 32-board matches will be plaved each weekend and the winning team and best third pair will be invited to represent Britain in the fifth world team Olympiad, which is being staged in Monte Carlo from May 9-22 next year. A chance to visit Monte Carlo to support the British team at no expense and, at the same time, to, enjoy a weekend of bridge being provided by Bisquit in their Christmas bridge tournament. The tournament takes place at the Mount Royal Hotel from December a 26-29 and is being sponsored by Bisquit, and Harper's and Queen. The programme includes pairs events, Swiss teams and a simultaneous pairs championship and among a large number of prizes will be full board for two for a week at the Club in Djerba at the end of January and travel and full accommodation for two in Monte Carlo at the time of the Olympiad.

Full details and brochures can be obtained from Brigitte Aubert. 7, Stratford Place, London, W1A 4YU 01-629 6618). West found himself in an unenviable position on the above hand. North forced with 24 on the first round but could only himself to 44 after his partner's simple support. With hand, South launched into Blackwood and North's 54 showed two aces and one working king.

As this king obviously in spades, South jumped direct to 7. West now risked a Lightner double, calling for unusual from his partner, not in trumps and not in hearts. After South's opening bid of 1 East would have probably selected the right minor, but South, who also recognised the danger, let East off the hook by converting to 7N.T. ELIMINATION By Diana TurnerELIMINATE (in each (c) The price of (d) Two anagrams; (e) A restricting order; (f) Two paired with red; (g) The makings of permitted; (h) Two coupled with out; (i) One way to dilute; (j) Two words to mark; (k) Lady who gives (1) Two associations with from; (m) How to demand (n) Two synonyms; (o) One way to bow out; (p) Two paired with let; (q) Which sounds like abiding discontent; (r) Two associations with kept. 1.

Fit 20. Duster 2. All 21. Adjust 3. Bar 22.

Retire 4. Leaf 23. Arrest 5. Done 24. Respect 6.

Hall 25. Honours 7. Guns 26. Classed 8. Down 27.

Command 0009 Slip 28. Waiting 10. Snug 29. Pointed 11. Owed 30.

Charges 12. Black 31. Judging 13. Being 32. Dictates 14.

Water 33. Informed 15. Board 34. Trenches 16. House 17.

Where 35. Prudence 18. Press 36. Gracefully 19. Unrest 37.

Continuing That takes 36 out of the 37 words. What left with? Solution on Page 31. two words): (a) Two words to well; (b) Who decides on one's XMAS TE Dealer South Game All AK QJ 10 6 A 4 943 64 042 KQJ762 9853 OJ 86 4010753 9853 J982 10 AK 10752 AK Bidding South West North East 10 20 Pass 34 Pass 44 Pass 4N.T. Pass 54 Pass 74 Double Pass Pass 7N.T. Double Pass Pass Redouble Pass Pass Pass West led and declarer won the trick with dummy's A and immediately led dummy's 3.

When East followed with 6, declarer covered with 7 and held his breath. If West had followed it would have meant a loss of between 2,800 and 4,000, but when West showed out, declarer was able to dummy and finesse diamonds twice more, scoring the grand slam and 3,040 points. West's double of 70 looked sound but he picked an unfortumoment, for, if West had passed, North would have lost a diamond in the play as he would have no reason to play West for a void. West's final double of 7N.T. was a costly but understandable display of pique.

WHISKY TIME GET IT AT AUGUSTUS BARNETT BLACK BARNETT AUGUSTUS WHITE HORSE WHITE HAIG CUTTY SCOTCH 13:35, 8 CUTTY SARK UNITE HORSE HAIG SETS HISSY indch Whisk in big demand as a judge at shows, and is called in to advise a variety of people breeding rabbits both for show and for food. The Chinese request was her most recent-and her strangest SO far. Apparently, the Peking Government wanted to buy 1,000 British rabbits 800 does and 200 bucks. 6 6 6 Unfortunately, Britain does not produce the sort of rabbits that would meet their specifications. so I to refer them to contacts of mine on the Continent," says Miss Brown.

How did the bunny bug bite Miss Brown? "It all started when I was given a rabbit when I was a girl in Lanarkshire. "You know, they are really quite a lot like humans. I find they all have very different personalities and, although most people think of them as timid creatures, they can be really jealous and temperamental. I think the main reason I like them is their baby-faced and whiskered charm." Now that has retired, Miss Brown will have more time for her rabbits. At present she has 20 of them.

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