6 AUGUST 1948, Page 17

THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE

StR,—Your paragraph on this subject in The Spectator of July 30th will be greatly appreciated by all who have the cause of opera at heart, but it contains one important apis-statement which I should like to bring to your attention. The Arts Council has never given financial support to the operas produced at the Cambridge Theatre. The whole burden has been carried by Mr. Jay Pomeroy and his friends.—Yours faithfully,

DOROTHY C. PRATT

(Chairman, Music, Art and Drama Society).

141 Park Lane, W. 1.