`.` IERNIN'S " FORTNIGHT
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR;.] Sin,—On page 15 of the issue of The Spectator of July 5th, there appears an article headed " Music." The third paragraph of the article contains, a statement of a highly defama- tory character. The writer asserts in reference to the produc- tion of the opera Iernin, at the Lyceum . Theatre, that it was "a production that touched the lowest imaginable level,", and that "it has come off, the victim of poor performance."
'Your readers are led to suppose that my duties as the, producer of the opera were so inefficiently discharged that it became necessary to put an end to its performance. In fact, , the intention from the first was that the opera should run for a fortnight. I must ask you to publish an immediate withdrawal and apology,—Yours faithfully, ' , . SYDNEY RUSSELL.
Fairmead, Beaulieu Villas, Seven Sisters Road, N. 4. , [No announcement appears to have been made that` Iernin was to run for a fortnight only; and the advertise- ments announced matinees " next Wednesday and every Wed- nesday." The theatre, moreover, has been unoccupied • since the run of lernin ended.. However, if it is the case that the opera was to have been withdrawn on a certain date no matter what its success, then our critic; who is fully entitled to, express his views on the merits of the production, was in error in suggesting that post hoc was also propter The Spectator.]
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