... SUMMER STOCK. SIR,--Your admirable article on this subject touches upon a point which is very true--viz., the lack of knowledge of the dramatic literature of the English stage evinced by the majority of the managers of English theatres, even men of some practical experience. If you can spare the space, will you publish the subjoined list of hackueyed playa which I have drawn up? These are ...

... UNION OF SCENIC ARTISTS. SIR,--For the past few weeks a vast amount of your valuable space has been monopolized by correspondence bearing on the grievances under which we neglected scenic artists have, till now, silently suffered. The subject, it is true, by your courtesy has been agitated and well ventilated, many excellent ideas auggested, and on June 27 44 Saas proposed a simultaneous ...

... ACTORS' ENFRANCHISEMENT. SIR,--I enclose you a copy of a letter I have forwarded to our candidates at North Oxon:--Faithfully yours. H. A. LONSDELL. [Copy.] Sir, I ara in receipt of vour election address, and with most of the views ex pressed therein I am heartily in accord. I therefore propose to abandou my work and tako a jouruey of some 200 miles to record ray vote. You will not think I am ...

... ONE-ACT PLAYS. Sir, I have read with deep interest the various letters in your paper on tho subject of One-act Plays, and would like to say a few words in defence of what your corres pondent terming himself The Great Un* acted is pleased to call managerial indiffer ences. I am a youthful playwright, and think I may say in all truthfulness entirely without influence of auy kind, yet I havo ...

... UNION OF SCENIC ARTISTS. SIR,--Pardon my intruding on your ever valuable time, but as ono of ray brother artists, ''Saas, has agitated the unity of all scenic artist, throughout the country, I shall bo only too happy to further any suggestion for our united welfare, which has been lapsing now for some years for the want of some kind helping hands. Of course, there are an auointed few holding ...

... SIR,--Wanted a first-class experienced scenic artist''; a permanency to a suitable man'' Such advertisements appear regularly in your paper and other organs. Now the question is, do the said advertisers require an experienced artist? My answer is as a rule ''No, and my reason for, making this assertion is this. I have invariably watched whom these managsrs engaged, ana liave found the ...

... Sir, Miss Minnie Palmer commissions Mr. George Manchester to write her musical comedy entitled The School Oirl which she has purchased. Tho play witl that name was advertised for severa weekfl no one objecting to or claim ing ths title. London aud provin cial papers paragraphed it extensively, ant managers wrote from nearly every town to try and book it, as in the provincos there is probably ...

... THE SCHOOL GIRL. Sir, Knowing your earnestness in always championing what is right aud just, and as yours was one of the papers that kindly mentioned my piece some months ago, 1 venture to trespass upon your valuable space again to claim my own, as Miss Palmer seems to ignore some of our leading journals, which tell her plainly that the title i3 mine by right of priority. They did not copy ...

... MUSIC HALL SCENERY. SIR,--May I crave spaco to answer your correspondent A. P's. letter on the above subjeot? I grant him that there is an irritating repetition and sameness in the succession of back and front cloths at our minor halls, but much the same thing occurs in our minor theatres, and might be remedied by that increased activity among scenic artists which has been so much dis- ...

... THE WAR CLOUD FLYING MACHINE. SIR,--Your Wolverhampton correspondent describes this as a thing like a wicker backet. While I am the last man in the world to kick at honest criticism, I really think the gentleman in this case has been too severe. I enclose photo of the machine, taken on the stage of this theatre, suspended in the air above the city, as it really appears at night. Its ...

... ACT DROP. Sir, I am sorry to trouble you ngaiui but Mr. Grafton iu his letter say-* that you! Liverpool correspondent did not approve of i the painting, and as the painting was not mentioned Mr. Grafton does me a grave in- justice. If Mr. Grafton ia perfectly satis- tied with one thing, how can ho be mora than equally ao with another? I refer to _ tho concluding linea of his letter. Thank ...

... Sir,-- Soms of your readsrs may remember that in a letter on the above subject I mentioned having seen a cloth representing Windsor Castle put 011 by a provincial manager to do duty for the Gardens of the a wsll -known French palace. It may therefore interest you to learn that the manager I referred to is this week engaging asc^uic artist. This, of curse, is only a small matter; but we may ...