... Sir,-- Your correspondent, 14 Ex-Manager, touches upon a part of the ma'.inti question tint I think may well be followed up. He says, Were I the manager of a West-end theatre I would Insert a now clause in my thea re rules that no member of my company should accept engagements for matinees. Mr. Hare, I believe, has already done this, and I hope his lead will be followed by all the managers ...

... MATINEES. Dear ir, As an old playgoer, with a fondness for new productions and fresh debit's, I go to many of the matii.t that so frequently take place, snd I must say t iat I often see a promising play or a clever performer, which well reward me for the price of the pit seat 1 disburse at the pay-box. One of such matinees I recall with a degree of pleasure which few even of the evening shows ...

... TRUE COLOURS AT THE VAUDEVILLE. Sir --Permit me to correct an error that has crept (through no fault of yours) Into your kindly c.iticimi as t tho author ship of my play, lately produced at a Vaudeville ma'inte, which authorship Is credited to another gentle. nan. The mistake fs only natural, from my name havi g been accidentally omitted from the programmes, although it had appeared for days ...

... THE LYCEUM VACATION COMPANY. Dbar Sir,-- I beg to sta'e that the H. Fei.ton announced to tfo on tour with the Haviland and Lvceum Comnanv is not Yours truly, C. H. FENTON. Lyceum Theatre. ...

... Dbar Sir,-- So far as I can see no one complains much of the matinte system except certain dramatic critics. Why they should rail against the givers of inatintts is to me a puzzle if they have too much work to do let them relinquish part of it for th benefit of their fellows, for, believe me, there are unemployed amongst pressmen as well us actors. The dramatic critic complains of th* long ...

... Dkar Sir,-- May I be permitted to say that from what 1 have experienced at matim'eM, the audiences are not com posed of the regular irght playgoers, and so tho morning performance cannot rob the manager of his night audience. There is a regular day audience in London. Mr. Beer boh in- Tree knows this, and he caters for it on Wednesdays. Other managers do the same thing on Saturdays. For a man ...

... BURNING OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, BURNLEY. Sir,-- In your issuo of Juno 14th you publish an accou n of the destruction by fire of the alove theatre, and in tn account you state that the thoatre was fitted up w Sprinklers which were of no use, as, owing to the fierce* no is of the blaze, it was impossible to get at them. As this statement is likely to bo very much misunderstood would you allow us ...

... MY NADINE. Dkab Sir,-- Allow me to contradict a report in yourw? week's issue, namely, that myself and Co. were announced w appear in Huddersfleld, hut, owing to somo cause, had no done so. Your correspondent, I think, should he more care'u re matters of that kind, and fully shows he did not tn previous week look at the programme when A Slice Luck Co. was announced. I nave never been in ...

... Dear Sir, --In your notice of our performance at P°nz:}{uy of Les Cloches de Corneville last week, you name Mr. Mft'^ as having played Bogo-- it should have been Mr. Martin. If you will correct this in your next issue you greatly oblige, yours truly, RICHARD MARTIN ...

... FAUSTINE'S LOVE. Sir,-- I must accept, with the best grace I can, your judg merit upon ray play, but I must needs protest against a critic visiting upon an author the vagaries of others. That the staging of the play proved bad was surely no fault of mine. If, too, a lady's harmless vanity incited her to wear rings in a nun's dress, or a gentleman's travelled experience to don jewellery as a ...

... IF NOT CLAIMED WITHIN SEVEN DAYS Dkar Sir. If not claimed within seven days is a melan choly phrase, which frequently nioets the eye of the poor player, ar:d sends his ho irt into his boots, provided, of course, that h> has a pair. Last week I discovered, through an advctlsoment in your columns, that myself and ft Professor Somebody had left a box at the Theatre Royal, Hetton-le- hole, ar d ...

... THE LATA MR J DELANEY Fir,-- I wish to thank, through the columns of your paper, on behalf of the members of tho company and myself the committee of the Actors' Benevolei.t Fund for their kind'and very prompt assistance in defraying the funeral expenses of th- late Mr. Jmes Delaney, professionally known as James Dillon, who died suddenly at Southtnd, July 1st, through lirnnbintr a Kim (l ...