Sweden. She liked him so much that way that she persuaded him to carry on thus. Now Christina of Sweden was an extremely interesting and many-sided person, and I have an idea that this episode would be worth investigating. Can any of our Stockholm friends help?

Then there was Richard Wagner who was certainly no pansy, for we know much about the women in his life, who helped set him off to write all that tortured but magnificent music. He enjoyed wearing sumptuous brocade gowns. One can see his point of view in that.

The "Saturday Book" is a delightful annual compendium of interesting things, publiched in London and maybe available in big-city libraries. (It is in ours). It was in the 1953 number, I think, that the British drama critic Kenneth Tynan wrote a fascinating piece on TV on the stage. It's worth looking up.

It would be great if somebody could get down to it and produce a solid authentic study of known TVs in history, not simply a half-baked mishmash, such as some available works we are too polite to mention. A sloppy mixture of superficial history and dehydrated psychology doesn't fill the bill.

I have written merely a very brief introduction to a field that demands much more serious attention, but I must now swirl out to the kitchen, in my pretty flowered house frock, and fix myself a coffee before getting down to quite different tasks.

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