Foreign Aid

It seems to me that Joan Peterson misses the point in her response to the criticism levied on Dan Sullivan’s statement that Los Angeles actors need “a Brit . . . who will teach them how to speak Shakespeare in American.”

There are many fine American actors and teachers who are capable of teaching the speaking of Shakespearian verse. But for Sullivan to imply that we need an Englishman to come down from the mountaintop to show all of us lowly Yanks how to get it right is elitist and insulting; and as an American teacher, Ms. Peterson should be as outraged as I am.

JIM BOSTON

Burbank