... A MOTHER'S SIN CO. Sir The paragraph in your issue of January 18, anent the above Co., h rather ambiguous There was no misunder standing. We decided to pay salaries and allow the com pany to walk about rather than submit them to the discomforts that would have ensued had we remained in the town.-- Faithfully yours, M. R. MORAD, Queen's Theatre, Birmingham. Jan. 18, 1889). LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. ...

... . MISS FLORENCE ST. JOHN AND HER MANAGERS Sir,-- A paragraph having recently appeared in various newspapers to ihe effect that Mr. Horace Sedger an i Mr. ICdgar Bruce have sustained a serious loss by having to pay one for over nine months for doing nothing, and that a fort- rdghtago they paid the balance of £7 0 to my solicitors, I trust you will afford me the opportunity of a reply, because ...

... . PROVINCIAL CRITICS. Sir.-- Perhaps you may, to act in a somewhat philanthropic spirit, allow mo to moot what I think an unduly tolerated grievance, the arduous career of the provincial actor. I al lude I to the competency of some (if not the major por tion) of the provincial so-called critics. Too often, alas, they are but the ordinary reporters to the respective local press, men wkone ...

... THE GOLDEN LADDER. Dear Sir,-- I respectfully call your attention to the latter portion of your Hereford correspondent's critUiue on The Golden Ladder, as it tends to convey tho impression that wc present an imperfect representation of Messrs. O. R. Sims and Wilson Barrett's drama, and is calculated to do tho manage ment as well as myself an injury. As Mr. Chas. Dor n tori's stage manager, I ...

... . Dsii Bia,-- Will you permit me to intimate tothepro- feaaion generally that this matter ia proceeding rapidly towards that point when a meeting of ita supporters will be convenod, to decide on the line* upon which it shall become an institution t Signature* tc the form in circulation are coming in in far greater numbers than even rnv most aao- gnine hopes could have led me to expect, anil 1 ...

... Due Sis, In your isfiie of last week you aay in yonr notice or South Shields that a meed of praise is dne to Mr. A. Bayward for bis imrersonation of Simon Medwin in the drama of Self. This character was not undertaken by the aforesaid gentleman, but by-- Yours truly. ALFRED WEBB. T.R.. Bun- derland, July 24. [We no constantly receive letter* like the above, the outcome as a rule --of ...

... The Lilacs. Fishponds. K permit me to contradict a stsW^Jl- wl uuuaof the 13lh hmt 10 'TS thai tmu Mii,,!!,,.!,,!, nl.'J Mimic H.ii ...

... Di Sir,-- I wish to add a word to Ihewell-UeserreiPjJ irntiib in your paper r> oourteev of the Sjiii, and North- Western 1: anj and their o^ Travollina recently mgton lo Dub t^ L. and N.W.K. attache ...

... Dbas Bib,-- Your Brighton correspondent (in hu notice 01 the Juvenile Pantomimo performed there la*t wrok) credi Miss Ada Lonsdale with i> traimformsiion danoe it daaoed at every porfonnanoo by-- Yours truly, VioLBt. Ttbbbll (premteie dueuiw).-- OwUe-elreet. w-0- lath March, 1883. Diab 8ia, In your announcement of Mr. W. J. HfllJ provincial tonr you Bay Mr. J. Mortiraer'a 5/jr and S*/ W} ...

... LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. ''FIRST NIGHTS'' SIR,--I have seen a letter in your last number of Augast 22nd, which is Higned by Mr. F. W. Collins, a gentleman whose acquaintance I have not the good fortune to enjoy, though he seems to know a great deal more about me and my priva'4 opinions than I know myself. I should not trouble myself to answer his erroneous assertions were they made by him as ...

... Deab 8i,-On a former occasion I once complained, sir, about the airs certain members of the musical profession were so fond of showing, and of the liberties they were so freouently taking wi h their audiences, and now, with your kind permission, I wish to raise my vo'ce once more against the priggish character so many of tbetn take|pains to oolti- vato and cherish within themselves. I had the ...

... Dear 8ib,-- In your last issue your Rotherham corre spondent mentions Mr. John Melton and Co. as appearing at the Theatre Royal. It should have been Mr. Willunn Walton- Please correct in your next issue and oblige-- Yours truly* HENRY RUTLAND, Acting Manager, Queens' May Co. T.R., Doncaster, August 26th, 1881. ...