... MISS OLIVE STETTITH DISPLEASED. Dear Sir,-- I am grieved to find by your criticism in to day's Stage that I have progressed backwards in my art (see former notices of yours on me, which I enclose). I may. I hope, be permitted to state that my stage career has not been so short as you imagine. I commenced by walking on at the Lyceum three years ago last July, and since then have played small ...

... . Dear Sir, In reply to your _ Richmond correi.iiden letter in your issue of to-day, 1 never inferred that MiW Minnie Palmer s name was not uaed either on bill, or pro grammes. What 1 said was. that if Miss Palmer s name had been so advertised it was without any authority whatsoever, and If any telegram was read as purporting tocome from Pi.ln.er It must have been a forgery, as it never ...

... Sir,-- In your crltioism of The School for Scandal at the Vaudeville Theatre you mention the part of Tripp as being played by Mr J. Horton. It should be yours trulv, JOHN WHEATMAN Vaudeville Theatre, Strand. [The parte of irlpp (Mr. Wneatman), and Snake (Mr. J. Horton) were, through an error, inverted in order.-- Ed. The Staok. I ...

... LETTERS TO THE EDITOR MISS AGNES HUNTINGTON AND MARJORIE. SIR,--May 1 claim the assistance of your paper in order to explain to the public my reasons for declining to sing any longer the role of Wilfred at Prince of Wales Theatre. My retirement from Marjorie has been misrepresented by the notices which have been distributed to the public at the theatre, and it is only due to myself as well ...

... DEAR GRINGOIRE. Rive me the e u t i r rt'8i on ou were £°°d enough ,1 poetL pSu^SrSS- of translating fcheodore de J? Miss Klisabeth BpkhIp 2r'ir^ a of which Ijelonjfs tion. thereby enahii,, aslt inBert this correc- due.-- BtliovA render honour where honour yours faithfully, SIDNEY HER BERTEBASING. ...

... . (Queries and letters for publication must be authenticated with name and address of senders. Those Correspondents who write to correct any error that appears in our columns relating to names or parts are informed that in all cases programmes or bills must be enclosed for our guidance.) John S. Mitchell.-- You may obtain German plays from Herr Edward Bloch, 2, Briiderstrasse, Berlin, C. As ...

... BLACK BLOOD. Sir,-- Some weeks ago, I discovered, by a mere chance, that a novel which had appeared In a German monthly. Da* Cniversum, under the title Schwarzes Blut,aiul bearing Mr. Frlederlch ImmlWf's name as author, was nothing else but a German translation of Mr. George Manville Fenn'i celebrated novel, Black Blood, the serial rights of which are held by Messrs. Tillotson, whilst ...

... AN ACTORS' UNION. Sir,-- Having read all the views upon an Actors' Union, and having carefully thought the matter out, I think it i time that The Stage should take the thing in hand, and try to carry it to a successful issue. An /ctcrs' Union will not benefit the heads of t he profession they are beyond that. Therefore we cannot expect any help from them. But those of the rank and file cinnot ...

... SWEET LAVENDER AT TERRY'S. Dear Sir, Will you kindly i>ermit me to correct an error Into which you have fallen You ay the line Shall we flutter-- Sudeten death --you cry to me, have been introduced. As a fact these lines were written by the author, and have been spoken on 690 occasions, and 1 will venture to assert there are not ten words of gag in the whole plav.-- Sincerely yours, EDWARD ...

... HANS, THE BOATMAN. Dear Sir,-- In justice to a very able actor and the esteemed stage-manager of Mr. Tearle's Hans the lioatman com pan}*, will you give me space for a few words in refer ence to* a paragraph which appeared in your valuable columns last week The i>aragraph I refer to reads, Owing to the continued indisposition of Mr. Charles Arnold, it was, on Thursday, last week, found ...

... D*ar Si*,-- In your report of the performance of Buy Bias at Ktlburn Town Hall, January 31, you say the prompter had to come to my assistance more than once. Allow me to say this is incorrect. I was quite word perfect in my part, as both Mr. Felton and Miss Woolgar Mellon can assert. The prompter was trying to assist Ruy B'as, and then many of the Queen's speeches were cut by the stage-manager ...

... . Dear Sir, --Your Wolverhampton correspondent say, Mr Sidney Cooper's Co. of Pantomimists, who should have opened here on Boxing Night &c ,&c. It was never 1 my intention, nor Mr. CooperV, that the pantomime should i open here on Boxing Night. My arrangements for that date 1 and the production of the nantomime were made fnllv oiirhf months ago.--Yours sincerely, ROBERT ARTHUR, Theatre Royal ...