Angry Young Men Come To Blows In London Pub

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28532, 11 March 1958, Page 13

Angry Young Men Come To Blows In London Pub

(Re c. 9 p. m .) LONDON, March 9. Two of Britain’s “angry young tten ” found something to be teally angry about last night—*ach other—according to London dewspapers today. They were so angry that they c ame to blows in a Chelsea pub. According to the “Daily Herald,’’ the row started during , e fi rs t performance of a new PJay at the Royal Court Theatre, oloane square, when one group f Colin Wilson, the author 01 “The Outsider.” had an argument with a rival group headed by poet Christopher Logue. « ended in a pub near the neatre with Logue on his back and Wilson standing over him, I * ‘Daily Herald.” Tbe newspaper quoted an a .^? Unt of the dispute by the Hopkins, who said: we were in the theatre watch-

ing the play, ‘The Tenth Chance,’ by Stuart Alroyd, when Logue shouted that the play was rubbish. Then he slammed out of the theatre. “We met him later in the pub —and the argument grew more and more heated.” Colin Wilson, according to the “Daily Herald,” said: “During the argument I pushed Logue and sent him sprawling. He deserves to be slugged. The man’s a damned nuisance. “This won’t be the end of it of course. The angry young men are only starting to get angry.” The angry young men were young intellectuals who were angry because they could find no burning cause to fight for, and they resented the welfare state and the feeling that their lives were being regimented, said the “Daily Herald.”