ROMANTIC PEDANTRY SIR, — This side idolatry I greatly admire your Mr.
Alan Brien—as much as, indeed rather more than, any other current dramatic critic. He therefore occa- sions in me considerable discomfort and even distress when he calls me—in respect of my attitude to A Taste of Honey—an old woman and a bald-pated pedagogue!
'Old woman' and 'pedagogue' are, I suppose, understandable in view of our obvious difference of opinion as to what stinks on the stage, and what does not.
But `bald-pated. my foot! 'What though grey Do something mingle with our younger brown'—as Antony remarked just a shade porripously—I still possess what can only be described as a shock of hair on my pate. Young Mr. Brien brushes it quite the wrong way by using so 'violently inaccurate' an adjective.—Yours faithfully, ALAN DENT News Chronicle, Bourerie Street, EC4
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