... . BOOTLES' BABY. DiAR Sir, -In your la*t week's notice or Mr. Mil.lngton'a Booties' Baby company at Crojdon, you mentioned that Mis* May Ostlero vm prevented from playing through illnes*, in stead of which it chouid have been. Yours sincerely, Edith Ostlere, 1, Belmont-villas, Southend -on-Sea, Sept. 5. ...

... . Dsar Sia,-May I encroacn upon, h,vo of explanation In the course pwiish actors a arrange the ocean passages of a A.nerio actresses who have to Join theatrical 00 P uenoe 0f p about this time. In many ,or on sccount of the sages not having been ordered in t me lo ndo n), great strike in the case of those who were to sa a great many professionals have not be blame 'h the time they wished, ar.d ...

... . Sir,-- Your Stratford correHpondent, in your isaue of the th inatant, notices the new act-dropfct the Theatre Royal as neing painted by Mr. Fredericks, Jun., assisted by Mr. Hill- yard. 1 may mention that the act-drop in question was de signed and painted by myself, and Mr. Fredericks was only my assistant, which puta a very different complexion on the matter. Apologising for intruding upon ...

... MR. EDWIN DKKIV'S ENTERTAINMENT. Sia,-- I note in Mr. row's letter In your last issue he denies hiving worn a black or brown mousWobe as Sir Peter Teazle but admits he used a whited one. If Mr. Drew knows any thing to qualify him ai a profesior of the stage, he must know that to Wear any momtache for Sir Peter is an anachronism and as a teacher he should know als3 that mumnln iu Iwitt,.!. ...

... Si*,-- Referring to this iction, bro^ht y B,rnnni, tor Montague Roby, against Mr B. Moore [r()in usin([ in a perpetual injunction, restrainmg^ tho _ Minstrel, his playbills and programmes tho phras>. £n(| whi(,h the and the only children's troupe in the orI jn| ...

... Dear Sir.-- May I ask you to insert in your next issue an account of a very perilous little adventure which occurred to Mr. Ilarrv Tebbiitt (our Tom Strutt) and myself on Saturday last, at Matlock, whero we were playing at the time a report of which seems to be going the round of the Midland papers, a cutting from one of which I encloso? Tebbutt and myself hired a light boat out for a pull on ...