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SIR,—In your issue of June 6, Mr. Kenneth Gre0 writes, `Unlike Cherkassky, he [Sir John Gielgod! does not waste his virtuosity on the equivalent °I Gershwin.' Disregarding the distressingly predieliit# , smart reviewer's reaction to the composer of, ib Concerto in F, I suggest that Mr. Gregory's revere he for Sir John has clouded his judgment. Anyone.g has witnessed his cavortings in Nude With a 1/01111' his dead-pan hamming in The Barretts of.1 Street and his fleeting appearance in that animal' Who's Who In Show Business, Around the Worldi^ Eighty Days, will find it difficult to give serious at le

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tion to any of Mr. Gregory's opinions, on either merits of George Gershwin or anything else.—Y°

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