Reunited at last with the Swingalongamax poster that disappeared mysteriously from the lobby of the Victoria Palace, as described in my forthcoming memoir Backstage Confidential. When I worked on the show during the early 1970s Mr Bygraves was an imposing presence, but I didn’t know he had mystical powers until revisiting the theatre years later. Harry Dunbar, who was doing a similar job to the one I did half a century earlier, assured me the poster was on display, but after searching the theatre from top to bottom we concluded that the spirit of Max had conjured it away. (For the avoidance of doubt, as the lawyers say, this is not the actual vanished poster, but a recently acquired copy from the original print run.)