... In your article What People Are Dancing London Life, 10 December) a couple at The Saddle Room were quoted as dancing the Hully Gully, but I fear our customers would never dream of doing such an old-fashioned dance! It was the latest discotheque swing! My horse is called Hully Gully, and I've had him 10 years. Peter Davis, Saddle Room, Hamilton Place, Wl. ...

... I am vainly trying to become a film actress. I have the looks, the figure, the personality and, I trust, the talent; what I haven't got, as Julie Collins (last week's London Life says, is the experience of film work, nor any official drama train ing. I have no parents to back me. I cannot afford photo graphs even! I have trudged the streets for over two years to no avail. Have I any faith left ...

... Stoooinz nirates I was astounded when I heard recently a pop song put out by one of the pirate radio stations actually singing about their future, pleading for their continuation and it was an obvious crib on another pop song. Do the pirate stations have to stoop to this to keep going? Tim Harrison, Camp- den Hill Road, W8. ...

... For the premiere of Kalei doscope, we read in London Life, no dinner jackets are to be worn, only mini-skirts or trousers. If this is true, the premiere should be a sensa tion! John Shim well, Pinfold Road, Streatham, SW16. ...

... Save our pubs When, oh when, will the brewers call a halt to the over-modernisation of our few remaining good old London pubs? During the current warm spell, I have turned to my favoured old standby thirst-quencher, a lager. But I don't particularly want it super-chilled. Yet, the brew ery bosses have installed so much cold-shelf space in the pubs it is almost impossible to get a room ...

... Although the various con sumer associations and th.iir magazines deal in gene al terms with whole ranges of goods and services, nobcdy actually keeps score on he good, bad, indifferent and j ist plain lousy service offered by some London stores. Co ild you ever possibly start si ch a feature, or would the law.1 of libel prevent you printing he stark facts about the appall ng attitude of so ...

... In an age when suffrage is universal and equality of the sexes is being demonstrated as the true sign of a grown-up civilisation, why, oh why, does the male escort still have to dig deeper and deeper into his pocket to act as an inferior flunkey to the very much superior Madame? Come off it, girls, you can't have it both ways you know. Either suc cumb to the master and be spoiled, or face ...

... Long hair girls Congratulations! As a 19-year- old fuddy-duddy, I was de lighted to read Angela Ince's article on long hair and the male sex. Surely to goodness the fashion-conscious girls of today are horribly aware of their male friends' lack of anything to do with fashion? I am always tempted to bark at these headless apparitions. Not only is their hair long, but nearly always ungroomed and ...

... I am distressed by the misleading nature of postcards in shop win dows. My ageing uncle, who has a predilection for French provin cial furniture, took several steps nearer the grave when he followed up a card which said French Chest For Sale, and a friend who merely wanted a stitch or two in a torn jacket was a changed man after following up Alterations Taken In. I have myself been in a ...

... Rprord rpntre I was interested in Ted All- beury's plea for ideas about countering loneliness (30 July). Has anyone considered running social centres, next to public libraries, where ticket-holders can play bor rowed gramophone records and perhaps play a juke box while drinking coffee? It would make a focal point for teenagers and housewives. Machines would deal with the staff problem, and a ...

... Having just received my 18 June issue of London Life, I hasten to reply to Mr Harry Secombe's letter about bacon. The bacon we have here would, I am sure, please Mr Secombe. It is very crisp and curls when fried or grilled. Oh, but what would I not give for some Wiltshire or Ayrshire right now -just sitting on my piaie an soggy-iiKe. piaie an soggy-iiKe. mice Wilkinson, East Audrey East Audrey ...

... I am delighted to hear that in the cultural counter-attack against sex, teenagers, beer and beach rioting, Daytona beach in Florida is now en joying, at the community's invitation, the sounds of your renowned London Symphony Orchestra. Extend this one- month invitation and let those strings resound in other areas of the United States where right and reason are suffering. Damita Jo, Pigalle ...