... 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 ...

... VOCAL EXERCISES AND BREATH-TAKING. i'kar sin,-- in your last issue I have read with much interest your cutting from The. American. Mtintciaii, entitled Does it pay tostiMy singing? Tne writer very truthfully points out the many advantage* accruing, not only to those who study it as a profession, but also to those who take it up as a pistimo. Jc is almost an a :cepr,ed truism of tne present ...

... THE DRAMA IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT. Dear 8ir I cannot understand why companies como so 1 frequently to Ryde and go awav without performing in tho ilh- r towns of this our beautiful Garden of England. Ic muat be more than two months sincj a play has heeji wit- ne-sed oithn1 in Cowes Newport, Sandown. Shanklin, or Vvntnor, et I believe that companies usually do well in all townsof the Wi^ht. >tai ...

... 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 ...

... iw v° to.ni?£' V^ANAPALUS. tro£rrett's Dor??} ^U8t r turned from re-witnessing Mr J^-peruninw06 in Ctoudian, and have also just William Archer's article in the a^*tio £1 *ehrttry, 1884, entitled Claudian Theology. it i8 not, however, with Messrs. Wills and Herman's play, nor with Mr. Archer's dis quisition thereon, that I have to do. In the learned and charming essay mentioned, the ...

... 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 ...

... Sir, --In this week's isaue of The Staos I find a notice of Arthur Wellesley '8 concert to the following effect: Mr. Hope essaying a not re ry *triking song, 4 Young Love,' the com poser (Otto Cantor) being at the piano. Allow mo to state, as a mere detail, that neither did Mr. Hope sing the song, 1 nor did I preside at the piano.-- Youra truly, Otto Castor. [Such a mere detail should have ...