... . Sir, We are on tho verge of a reign of farcical comedy in the metropolis 1 According to managerial theorists and wiseacrcs, tho inconstant public has been suddenly ?eized with a violent attack of hilarity, and demands irresponsible farce, and so the merry epidemic is about to burst on the dramatic horizon. In a few days five iWest-ond theatres will be 44 turning money away from all parts. ...

... . If you will kindly allow mo space I should liko to express my satisfaction with tho answers in your issue of October 5 to tho letter of Thespis the Second. I maintain that there are plenty of boy actors equally clover as girls if given tho samo chances, and I havo two sons who have been repeatedly noticed in your paner as demonstrating the fact. And why women should play burlesque boys I ...

... . LONDON AND THE PROVINCES. SIR,--The state of dramatic writing and production in the provinces, and the overwhelming percentage of London successes in every theatrical bill of fare, are indeed matters of no little pith and moment, and well worthy the attention shown them in recent issues of THE STAGE. Ever since our drama began to deserve the name of a national art it has beon regarded as ...

... CHURCH AND STAGE. SIR,--In a recent issue you alluded to the sermon preached last Sunday at Cardiff by the Rev. James Baillie, in which the stage was attacked with the usual amount of exaggeration and misrepresentation indulged in by the Unco' guid. One of the main contentions of this gentleman's diatribe appeared to be that actors must so get inside their parts as to become ac tually ...

... ALLEGED A.B.F. FRAUDS. Sin, I see by reports in the daily papers that someone calling herself Minnie Grey .has been charged with obtaining money from the Actors Benevolent Fund by fraud. jAi.Minnie Grey is my name, I shall be glad ;if you will afford me%n opportunity, through ;tho columns of your paper, of saying that I am not the person mentioned, nor have I ever applied to the Actors' ...

... THE STAGE AND THE WAR. SIR,--I quite agree with the remarks of your correspondent in his letter, under the above heading, in your recent issue. As ho very justly says, lhe theatre is the home of Art, not politics. Yet, at the present moment, it is impossible to enter either theatre or music hall without per ceiving that managers and artists, instead of endeavouring to allay the inflammable ...

... SIR,--Mr. Whitmore Ledger writes, under the above heading, a protest against orchestras at theatres playing Rule Britannia at the present time of war, and although the above-mentioned gentleman may not wax enthusiastic at hearing Rule Britannia played, he certainly ought to take into consideration that everyone, surely, is not to be deprived of hearing the dear okl soul inspiring tune ...

... . (Queries and letters for publication mutt be authenticated with names and addresses of senders. Those correspondents t cho write to correct any errors that appear in our columns relative to names or parts are informed that in all cases programmes or bill* must be en closed for our guidance) Edward Carleton.-- Redfern Hollins created the part of Geoffrey Wilder In Dorothy, produced at the ...

... All applications for letters in the follow ing list should- be sent to LETTER BOX DEPARTMENT. TUB STAQB M Offices. 16, York Street, Covent Garden, London, Letters are kept for one month only, then returned to G.P.O. No Circular fl Admitted. Adair, Mr. Frank Horton, Miss Amy Ainslcy, Mr.Gilbert Howard, Mr O. Allan, Mrs. Vaughan Hugh, Mr. Edwin Ambrose, Mr. George Humphrey, Mr. J. Archibald, Mr. ...

... INGENIOUS FRAUD. Sin,-- I quite agree with Mr. W. F. Morion. The tamo game was played here in Wigan last year, and by the same person, using exactly tho tame method and name. If the publishers of the various law journals would lake the matter in hand, and acquaint the solicitors of the country about it through the medium of their publi cations, they would soon be able to stop the fraud and ...

... CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. Sir, As the Founder's Day Dinner of 1897, two days after the laying of the foundation stone at Horsham by H.R.H. the Prince of Y/ales, a suggestion was made to tho treasurer, Mr. Alderman Vaugban Morgan, that many 44 Old Blues would value tho opportunity of making, according to their ability, a thank-offering for benefits received at Christ's Hospital, and that these ...

... PLAYS, PLAYWRIGHTS, AND MANAGERS. SIR,-- I shall esteem it a favour if you will spare me the space for a few lines referring to your critic's criticism of my play The Klondike Rush, and, at the same time, to the subject chosen as the heading of my letter. As I think my experience in connection with the first play I have had accepted and produced will be of benefit to other young playwrights ...