FANNY
SIR,—I wrote two versions of my review of Fanny, the Drury Lane musical, because I thought I could improve it.
In the first I said, in effect: 'The girl is well-dressed, but a bore.' In the second: 'The girl is a bore, but well-dressed.'
After being misquoted on ITV, I printed on November 22 an item-by-item comparison of what I had said in each version about actors, story, decor and music. They showed no discrepancy.
Nor do the two paragraphs you quote. One is an opinion: Fanny is an extremely good- looking show; the other, a fact: the audience received it with a minimum of enthusiasm.
If Pharos had seen this analysis of my texts he might not have for once grasped the wrong end of the stick. I am nevertheless grateful for his indication that Barber's readers will take his sense if they read 'farther than his introductory paragraphs.'
A writer likes to be judged by what he has written, and not by mere headlines.—Yours Daily Express, Fleet Street, London
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