Inside this actor’s studio, a familiar face on the TV

RE “Recasting the Actor’s Studio” [Aug. 25]: What a kick!

Being an actor, I started to read with great interest your article about the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s retirement community last Thursday, but when I turned to Page 11, I was dumbstruck! There I was on the television screen in John Alderson’s living room in a scene from a movie I made at Fox in 1952 (released in ‘53), “Titanic.”

When I think of the odds of that one frame appearing in The Times photograph, it boggles my mind.

Please let John Alderson know I’m delighted he still watches “Titanic.”

And my sincere thanks to writer David Keeps and photographer Stephen Osman for giving me such a thrill.

AUDREY DALTON SIMENZ

Mission Viejo

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Mr. Alderson’s new bathroom is as lovely to look at as the rest of his cottage. However, I wonder if he will miss the large mirror over the vanity. Will he miss the medicine cabinet? Will he now have to stoop over for medicines and grooming items? Will he have to remind the housekeeper to get the dust bunnies and hair that collect on the sides and counter of his new vanity?

I hope after the photo shoot, he got back a place to hang his towels.

JANE HAINES

Oxnard