9 DECEMBER 1978, Page 17

Actor as critic

Sir: I wish we weren't beset by a thousand Misapprehensions, but alas we are; the Spec(tor recently referring to Dorothy Parker's tsmissal of a Broadway production: 'there's 1,ess to this than meets the eye', says that she Quad the show portentous; in fact it was the total lack of portent which prompted her PIZ::: so perhaps the Spectator meant The following week there was an article by Mr Mosley referring td 'the k2rctan riddle: All men are