16 MAY 1969, Page 31

Over-exposed

Sir: Despite Dr Kennedy Holland's intem- perate outburst (Letters, 2 May), one does wonder what Mr Capitanchik has done to throw her. I am not here concerned with the pros and cons of The Play Room, except in so far as it is a reviewer's duty to give his own views —not to follow other critics blindly as Dr Kennedy Holland would apparently have him do.

What _I find intolerable is her snide not to say bitchy remark, inspired by his name, 'Is his native language English?' One had hoped that this particular form of bigotry had receded. It seems not, unfortunately.

In passing one might inquire from her own turgid style what Dr Kennedy Holland's own native language might be. Surely not English? Ralph Roney 52 Welbeck Street, London WI