2 APRIL 1994, Page 31

Thespian myth

Sir: John Mortimer's story about Michael Redgrave and his all-hearing hearing-aid struck me as too good to be true (Diary, 12 March). By strange coincidence, a very sim- ilar story about Mae West appeared in Sat- urday's Daily Telegraph. This time, the hearing-aid picked up police radio mes- sages causing her to blurt out 'traffic reports instead of the lines her colleagues were expecting' (Daily Telegraph, 12 March, review of Tony Curtis: the Autobiography).

Perhaps the emergence of yet another apocryphal anecdote?

Neil Doherty

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