... OH! SUSANNAH! Sir.-- Many unfounded rumours havo ob tained in certain quarters to the effect that Mr. H. J. Leslie was the owner of the entire provincial rights of Oh! Susannah! during the past year. As this report is calculated to injure us on our forthcoming tour, owinp to managers and others oeliov- ing the existing company to be under dif ferent auspices, we beg to state that wo have ...

... RETURN PARES. Sir, In your last issue Mr. J. E. Nott, Barnes grossly misrepresents the facts which are: I engaged his company bv letter, and in that letter I clcarly (as I thought) stated his fees and 44 fares to return from Loughborough to Loudon would be paid. At settlement, as he says, he demauded 14 return fares, which claim I repudiated but said if, on producing my letter, it trans ...

... JUDAS CRIME CO. Sir, In your Issue of last week an ad vertisement appeared in your valuable columns advertising for amateurs, addressed 'Alfred Edwards, Prince's, Blackburn. As I occupied this theatre last week, the aforementioned has causod me a groat d ...

... ENLARGING THE SUPPLY. SIR,-- I hope that THE STAGE will continue to peg away on tho subject of tho admirable leader on managers and dramatists. It is ot no use blinking matters; the managerial pockets can no longer stand plays-- except us an occasional luxury-- from the three or four men who have hith. rto dominated the West-end market and in detault they are retrograding to the ...

... . Queries and letters for publication must be tuthenticated tcith names and addresses of tenders. Those correspondents i rho write to urrect any errors that appear in our columns elativs to names or parts are informed that a all cases programmes or bills must bs en- losed for our guidance.) Fra JTCK9 Hakd.-- (1) From Cliarles Dickens's Tale of Two Cities. (2) The lat* John Clayton played the ...

... . PAST PRIMK DONNE. SIR,--Your contributor, The Lounger, in his very interesting paper, under the above heading, mentioned Madame Haigh Corri. He had evidently inadvertently mingled the names of Madame Haigh Dyer and Madamo Ida Gillies Corri, as his description applies faithfully to the latter lady. The former lady, who, as the wife? of Henry Haigh, tho celebrated operatic tenor, commenced ...

... SCOTCH DRAMA. Sir,--And, thank goodness, Mr. Bret Harte, the Californian writer, lias ax plod id once, and we trust for ever, tho obstinate and untenable theory that the English public will not stand what it is supposed not to understand, are tho words of tho Daily Telegraph while reviewing tho production of Sue in its columns of Juno 11. Welcome wordB, say I, for no one ooulil have en- ...

... . IR May I, through the medium of your columns, make an appeal on l>elialf of an old actor, James Cumberland? The modern school, probably, does not know him, but surely he has numbers of acquaint ances still living who do. He is in most distressing circumstances. He has had thirty-five years on tho stage, and has played with most of the best people of his day. His wife has been a helpless ...

... CHRISTMAS AND THE POOR. Sir, The Corporation has again granted the use of the Guildhall for the annual ban quet of the Ragged School children of London, and the Prince of Wales has once more ont me a donation to, if 1 may quote tho words of His Royal Highness, the excellent fund which you are again kindly raising for providing dinners and hampers for tho poor and crippled children of tho ...

... . Wo have received the following letter from Mr. Charles Lyall, the late treasurer of tho Covent Garden Fund: To the Editor of Tht; Stagh. Sir, It is most surprising to read in your pnppr that the chief parties concerned in the attack upon our Thrift Society (which ca'.;sr>d the. c-onflfcn l ion of our pronerty with out trli> i) have nothing to do with, or any knowledge of, the di vision of ...

... Since this date, however, several papers in America, Australia, on tho Contineut, and in tho English provinces have lent their support to tho utterly unfounded rumour that tho novel Quo Vad s was responsible for the idea of the play The Sign of the Cross. To sot tho matter at rest once and for all, I communicated with M. Jasicnski, of Warsaw, in Russian Poland, anel from him I learned that M. ...

... BUSINESS IN THE PROVINCES. SIR,--Mr. Ben Greet assumes that in the provinces no bad actors, but only bad plays, exist. Casen, however, occur almost daily in which the cffcct of a continual thinning of provincial audiences is found to bo duo not to the quality of the play itseif, but to the quality of the acting of those engaged in it. The reason for this is not far. to seek. A proprietor oi ...