... THE LATE H. C. SIDNEY. Dear Sir,-- I notice in your last week's Chit-Chat, in recording the death of my husband, Mr. William Henry Critehley, professionally known as Mr. H. C. Sidney in Australia, you state the deceased actor, who was only 40 vears old, leaves behind him a daughter to mourn his loss.' 1 beg to say this is not correct, as our daughter, Florence Jessie, has been dead now 14 ...

... . Dear Sir,--I enclose copy of a letter I have addressed to Mr. Polini, and shall be glad if you can find room for it in your valuable paper.--Yours faithfully, F. MOIR BUSSY, Prince's, Bristol, Aug. 19. [COPY.] Prince's Theatre, Bristol. Aug. 19, 1890. Dear Mr. Polini,--^ There are few who will have read that portion of your letter in this week's Stage, which says you will be at your post ...

... LITTLE JACK SHEPPARD. Sir,-- In your able critique last week you mentioned that Miss Fanny Rohina appeared in a minor part in the original production at the Gaiety. Permit me to state that prior to appearing as Jack at the Standard, on the 18tli inst., Miss Ronina's only connection with the burlesque was when she plavcd the X\l\e-rule for two years in Australia. Yours obediently, A. D. Corry ...

... Dear Sir,-- Far be it from me to make capital out of an incident that can be of no interest to anyone, except to one's individual self, especially in such a widely circulated paper as yours, where space is so valuable; therefore, if you will kindly insert this explanatory letter, I will not write again on the subject. To your Leeds correspondent I offer a sincere apology. My impression that ...

... Sir,-- I beg to correct tho error in your paper. The Fair/ I Queen in Cindtrclla is not piatea oy o.iu^u, by yours very respectfully, Kill Howard, Theatre Boj' ...

... THE GONDOLIERS.'' Dear Sir,-- In your notice of our company at Working last week you say that it was a pity that members ot t',(j orchestra retired after a capital performance of The l*oet 11 Peasant overture, also that the piano, even in the hand* of a good performer, is a poor substitute for wind and Rt ring instruments. Further on that the style of the coO* ducting was notgood in the ...

... . TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAGE. SIR,-- To those who are accustomed to read THE STAGE with any sort of regularity, and to follow at all the tide of dramatic affairs as it ebbs and flows among the theatrical and literary clubs and professional coteries, two grievances are being constantly brought forward and dinned into their ears. ine nrsi may oe termed t in* wan ot the enacted. It is a ...

... . LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. PLAYHOUSE PAY. SIR,--In thanking you for the insertion of my letter last week, kindly allow me to supplement the remarks made in your editorial. The conditions of the contract were not all insisted upon, the clause as to finding our own dresses being, as far as the gentlemen were concerned, a dead letter, and I have no doubt the management will make the this fact; but, ...

... . THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Sir, Will you kindly allow me to state that I am not the writer of a letter in your issue of 7th Nov., headed On Agents, as some misunderstanding appears to have arisen on the subject I am, Sir, your obedient servant, HENRY KEMBLE. 12th October, 1890. ...

... . SOME LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. PLAYHOUSE PAY IN SCOTLAND. Sir, In continuation of your interesting discussior on this subject We were engaged to support aonc ...

... . BENEVOLENT BRANCH. DEAR SIR-- Your leading article in last week's issue, An Actors' Union.--XV. has been brought to the not ice of my committee, who viewed it with mixed feelings of satisfaction and pain. Before offering a few observations on the subject, may I request to be allowed to correct one or two slight errors You say the late J. W. Anson and Mr. J. D. Tidd caused, a to speak, the ...

... Dear Sir,-- Mr. Henry Arthur Jones has unconsciously taken my property for his own, the above title for his new play at the Shaftesbury Theatre ltelonging to a on -act piece mih me produced in London a year or two since, and duly jriticised in your own columns --I am. most sincerely. hnwiN Drew.-- 124, Gower-street, June 10. 18S0, ...