... Sib, Will you kindly permit mo to concur in a letter in your last week's issue signed Juvenile Lady 1 I can also testify, as no doubt hundreds of your other readers can do, to the discourtesy-- and one may well add dishonesty of certain gentlemen who advertise for artists to send photos, and then lay claim to them, also the accompanying postage for their return. Might I suggest that whenever ...

... Sih, In your last issue there appeared a letter signed A Juvenile Lady with whom I truly sym pathise. For my own part I wish tho system of sending photographs for approval were abolished altogether. Somo time ago I forwarded to a certain manager a photo accompanied by two penny stamps fon account of additional weight of protection cards), for its return. A long silence followed Eventually I ...

... To the Editor of The Stage. SIR,--It is a distressing fact that the theatrical profession is sadly overcrowded. The supply, not of stalled artists, but of people calling themselves so, is largely in excess of the demand. And I think it the duty of every right-minded member of our profession as far as possible --with, of course, the co-operation of THE STAGE, representing, as it always does, ...

... Srn, I can sympathise with your correspondents on the photograph question, having endured much myself. To save managers trouble and artists the loss of property, why should not actors have their photographs lithographed on their note-paper For a small sum they An have them beautifully done, almost equal in appearance to the original portrait.-- xours truly LEONARD EMBERSON. ...

... COURTESY. SIR,--Referring to the much-discussed question of photographs, may I be allowed to make a suggestion through your medium? Why should not artists print their own photographs? I do not wish to do the actor good at the expense of tho photographer, aa I hold by the good old motto, Live and let live (would to God everybody did so!); but I hardly think it would have this effect, even ...

... ARE THEATRES TOO FEW. Sm, Mr. Edmonds ia inaccnrate, and consequently misleading, in his account of Mr. Reynolds's unsuccess ful application for a license in Bristol. In that instance the justices decided, correctly, that they had no power to do what was asked of them, and for this reason Mr. Reynolds having acquired a site or the refusal of ono-- had plans prepared, and applied for a ...

... COURTESY. Sir, As tho father of the Juvenile Lady,'' and the writer of the postcards in question, I challenge Mr. Cyril Harrison to prove them libellous. I have yet to learn that to demand the return of one's own property or the alternative of le^al proceedings foi its recovery is libellous. The postcards wero only written after courteous applications for the return o! tho photo had been ...

... Sir,-- Oust a few words of advice on this vexed question. Last year I placed an advertisement in The Sta'sf, stating that I required two ladies to join my company. I had 425 answers. Of theso, 800 con tained photographs, and of theso 300 only 8o had stamps for return. Perhaps Miss juvenile Ladv will tell ine what I should have done with the 21B photographs for which uo stamps were sent Yours, ...

... Sin, Considering the growing practice on the part of managers (I do not speak from ray own experience only) to whom one seuds photos and stamps, or stamped envelope for return, to return neither; one may be excused, if, uncharitably perhaps, ono regards tho advertisements from the following point of view. One carefully worded advertisement for an entire company cost Is. ljd. will often bring ...

... Sin, The experience of your correspondent, Juvenile Lady, does not make pleasant reading. May I give another instance of courtesy? An individual advertised in your columns that he wantod a drama. The announcement appearing to bo a Genuine one, I responded. As giving the readiest escriptions of the drama I was willing to negotiate about, I enclosed a lengthy article from The Stage, and an ...

... COURTESY. Sra, When a young lady writes, or gets some- ono else to write, two libellous post-cards, threatening legal proceedings and using insulting expressions, is she entitled to any courtesy I reoeived a photo, with a stamp affixed to it no envelope. It got mislaid. After a lot of trouble I suc ceeded in finding it. In the meanwhile, I had received the before-mentioned post-card. I ...

... . ARE THEATRES TOO FEW? am, It is Mr. F. W. Tonkin who ib inaccurate, consequently misleading. I was iu tho court at Bristol when the decision re Mr. Walter Reynolds's licence was given, and heard the late Sir Charles Watken deliver it. The words were, in effeot Wc have resolved unanimously not to grant a fresh licensn for a theatre in this city I but as to a reason, he like Talleyrand-- ...