15 JULY 1966, Page 16

Mr Tony Richardson

In our report from Cannes on May 20 we pub- lished a review of the film Mademoiselle directed by Tony Richardson. While our reviewer Ian Cameron holds by his own personal assessment of certain aspects of Mr Richardson's films he is ; happy to join with us in taking this, the first, o7portunity, to emphasise that his comments apply only to the artistic merits of Mr Richard- son's films and not in any way to his outstanding and widely recognised competence to clischaike' his duties as a professional film director.