... GUY FAWKES, ESQ. Dear Sir,1-- Your Not t ingham correspondent, in his flatter ing notice of Mr. Arthur Roberts's Guy Favokes Esq., bur lesque. credits me with the production of same, when it should have been Mr. George Capel. By inserting this will oblige yours very truly, W. H. RAWLINS, Theatre Royal, Edinburgh. ...

... DR. HOLDEN OUT IN THE COLD. Sir,-- I fear your esteemed Scarborough correspondent must l>e suffering from an attack La Nonna, otherwise he would surely have penned a different notice under the heading of Grand Pier Pavilion. He simply mentions one artist, and that one not yours truly. Considering I was the star artist, billed as such all over the town, and favourably noticed by the local ...

... SHAKESPEARE AND THE BIBLE. Sir, As the poets which more immediately followed Homer, as well, doubtless, as his contemporaries, are believed to have been indebted to tliat supreme master of epic for their happiest embellishments, so it would appear that dra matic writers of a later age, and notably our own Shake speare, have drawn from the Scripture narrative many of their aublimest passages ...

... . IN RE SHARP PRACTICE. SIR,--Allow me to supplement your remarks, In re Sharp Practice, which appeared in the last issue of THE STAGE. The engagements which were entered into, and which were signed on behalf of the management by Mr. Paravicini, the engaging agent, were for four or five months at the option of the management, the said engagement to commence on or about November 9, 1889. ...

... . DlAR Pis.-- In reply to your letter in last week s ST AO* beg to si y that I have changed tha title of mv drama m Battl s 1 (trough Li/9, tha registration number of which is Vft fAJMt. I have written i our oorrer*>oodit. Frank Marryat, Esq.; to this effect--Yours faithfully W. H. February 24, 1890. ...

... s>iR.--lt argues a poor opinion of Mr. Buchanans charac tenzation, and that ot the actor who impersonates Fathe Ch^l^'^Thi d Umt H1? ktte/ ll t uru, rl from int. Christian by the mere excision ot the word Jew. Th JSpnii it sub.,enient bearhig and manner of Itussiai and Polish Jews is as markwl as their features, and Mr di LangcsAbramolT is distinctively Jewish. Moreover, whoeve heard of a ...

... THE LATE H. C. SIDNEY. Dear Sir,-- In j*our issue of September 5 you publish letter from a correspondent at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sy ney, Australia. On behalf of and in justice to Mrs. H- Sidney, I l>ee to say she is the legal widow of the ...

... . Dear Sib.-- In last week's issue of Thk Stage my name was mentioned In cast of Croydon i antomini'\ It ii a mistak I j am engaged (since M iy) by Mr. Sidney Cooper, for Robin- son Crusoe, Court, Wigan.--I am, yours faithfully, DOLLY HARMER, Court Theatre, Wigan, December 10, 1890. ...

... Dbar Sir,-- Whilst thanking you for your kind praise of my singing of He knew it, at the Coventry Club Smoker, I should like to point out that it was not Mr. Walter Thornbury who appeared, but Cecil H. Thornbury. Your correction will oblige, Yours truly, Ckcil H. Thornbury, The Coventry Club, 8, New Coventry-street, Leicester-square, W February 17, 1890. ...

... THE BARRISTER.' Dear Sir,-- Your last edition, which contains a pArnnrae respecting the intended reproduction of The Jlarrister, that Mr. D'Orsay will play his original part (Cal)tJ Walker). In justice to Mr. D'Orsay and myself will I permit me to state that-- at the first representation of Barrister, which took place at the Grand Theatre, L also on the first tour of the comedy-- the part ...

... . MANAGERS AND ACTOR-MANAGERS Sir.--The object of this letter is not to enter into the question at issue. I have nothing to add to Mr. Charles VVyndham's characterist ic and incisive summing-up, which, in my opinion, settles the case. The rouge-pot in one hand and the ledger in the other may be a smart definition of the actor-manager, but unless he is supported by some of Mr. Wyndham's ...

... . Sir,--I am disappointed beyond measure to see the unhealthy dressing-room question, so strongly started by Messrs. Courtneidge and Lewis, and supported by well-known members of the profession, die the flickering death to which all actors' grievances seem doomed. Will notliing ever rouse us into action? Good men and women are dying around us whose lives we know have boen shortened by the ...