An interview with Rebecca Frecknall said she was “the first woman to direct a major production of Cabaret”. In fact, Gillian Lynne directed and choreographed the 1986 London revival (“Willkommen, bienvenue ... new life at the Kit Kat Club”, 21 November, New Review, page 20). And we misspelled “Willkommen” in that headline with a single “l”.
Eagle-eyed readers noticed that Lord and Lady Mountbatten had their jackets buttoned the opposite way to normal in a photograph taken in 1958. The image had been flipped by the agency (“Anger over ‘grotesque abuse’ of £600,000 case to keep Mountbatten papers secret”, 7 November, page 31).
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