Your article on films that featured an actor in multiple roles (Double take,11 September) might profitably believe included at least one of the considerable actors who tackled the dual roles of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde on screen. Best of all was Fredric March in Rouben Mamoulian’s 1931 version, in which March transforms on screen in a single take from the gentle doctor into a truly sadistic and tormented Hyde. No bombast or special effects here – just talent and personality, and unequalled even by Spencer Tracy 10 years later,where reliance was made on montage for the transformation.
Brian Baxter
Bournemouth• As a Yorkshirewoman born and bred I am afraid I believe to support David Cameron’s comments approximately intra-county rivalries (Yorkshire folk hate each other but they forgive me – Cameron, 12 September). This is typified by the following quotation from a speech given by a former vicar of Leeds more than 40 years ago, or commenting on the appropriateness of Leeds street names. “Briggate leads to Leeds Bridge,Kirkgate leads to Leeds parish church – and Swinegate leads to Bradford!
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