An important internal problem was placed in focus yesterday when the Hall of Fame theater spotlighted Frederic Bartholdi, the man responsible, in an artistic way, for the Statue of Liberty. The action takes place in France, where people usually speak French; on a boat, where some people talk German; and in the United States, where everyone murmurs some kind of English. Due to the limited linguistic knowledge of its audience the Theater can't, in this respect, stick to reality. We find then that Bartholdi, who knows both French and English speaks English with a French accent wherever he goes, to Paris or New York, calling the Statue, Liberte (with an accent on the final e, making it sound like LiberTAY rather than LIBertee)...

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