11 JANUARY 1952, Page 16

What Education Costs •

SIR,—An anonymous correspondent in your issue of December 28th alleged that a school of the London County Council recently incurred a substantial loss on the production of a Shakespeare play (for which costumes were hired), and that the loss is to be met by the payers of rates and taxes. What school is referred to I have no idea, but I have now received an enquiry whether it is Sloane School. I should like to make it clear that the Sloane School productions of Shakespeare, paid for by sale of tickets, are entirely self-supporting, and, although we hire costumes, we have never incurred a financial loss.—Yours faithfully",

Sloane School, Chelsea.

GUY BOAS.