Letter: The walk out that never was
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Your support makes all the difference.IRVING Wardle's anecdote about Ralph Richardson walking out on Basil Dean ('Art of luvvie flouncing makes a comeback', 13 February), appeared in print in 1966 in Letters From an Actor by William Redford. I am sorry to spoil a good story but my 1967 English edition has a sticker which reads, 'Author's note. Since publication of Letters From an Actor, Mr Basil Dean and Sir Ralph Richardson have strongly denied that there is any truth in the anecdote concerning them which appears on pages 51 and 52 of this book. I told it in good faith but I am now quite certain that it has no foundation in fact'.
Peter Stattersfield
Newcastle upon Tyne
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