"In California after the war, one of the few things that the German writers Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann agreed on was the deliciousness of their fellow emigre Salka Viertel's flourless chocolate cake. Mann was so keen on it that he crashed a wedding in Beverly Hills solely because he heard that Viertel's cake was to be served at the reception. Tom Dewe Mathews London"
"I had the privilege of seeing The First to Go, the play about disabled people in Nazi Germany by Nabil Shaban (Obituary, 30 October). It was a shocking experience, not least because the three actors were so unhistrionic about the atrocities visited on disabled people under that despicable regime. Fiona Allen Edinburgh"
"As someone who is terrified of dogs all dogs, big or small the pavement etiquette I'd most like to see is people putting theirs on a very short lead when they walk past others (The pavement vigilante': why Cameron Roh is naming and shaming bad walking etiquette, 5 November). Teresa Quayle Culcheth, Cheshire"
Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann praised Salka Viertel's flourless chocolate cake; Thomas Mann once crashed a Beverly Hills wedding solely to taste it. A staging of The First to Go, a play about disabled people in Nazi Germany by Nabil Shaban, shocked viewers because three actors depicted atrocities with restrained, unhistrionic performances. Correspondents offered condolences to longtime letter-writer Keith Flett after a particularly poignant recent contribution. One correspondent urged owners to use very short leads when passing pedestrians to ease fear of dogs and improve pavement etiquette. A country-diary remark suggested abundant oysters may have inspired Caesar's contemplation of an English invasion, with the correction that England did not then exist and it was a British invasion.
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