‘Beautiful’ Spelling
“Titanic” actress Gloria Stuart is an enchanting raconteur, and Steven Smith an engaging and witty writer, but he betrays his comparative youth when he quotes Stuart as having been taken to see “Kathryn” Cornell (“Back in Bloom,” Dec. 20). As her biographer Tad Mosel wrote in “Leading Lady,” Katharine Cornell (1893-1974) made a small point of pride of “this beautiful and distinctive spelling.”
JAMES E. BRODHEAD
Santa Barbara
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