6 SEPTEMBER 1957, Page 19

TV APPLE CART

Sin,—Replying to Mr. Richard Findlater's criticisms that 'top people' in the entertainment industry are overpaid, Mr. Jack Hawkins appears to suggest that he was paid a fee in the region of £350 for acting one night in The Apple Cart. He also tells the readers of your journal that for four weeks' rehearsals on this television play he was paid 'considerably less' than for a day's work in a film studio. Do not these figures confirm Mr. Findlater's asides about overpayment of stars, in proportion to other artists? And why does the BBC, and Mr. Hawkins, keep so secret and still about the real amount of fees paid?—Yours faith- fully, D. CALDWELL o 21 Gloucester Place Mews, Baker Street, W I