24 MARCH 1944, Page 14

Sut,In his account of two current productions of Hamlet your

dramatic critic regrets that the part of Claudius the King is not given to a good actor. I should like to remind him of Sir Barry Jackson's production of Hamlet in modern dress, when this part was played by Frank Vosper. He gave a careful study of calculating villainy, which put the play as a whole in a new light, and incidentally somewhat altered the proportions which the part of Hamlet assumes in the hands of the actor-manager.-