... A CORRECTION. Sir, In your notice on tbe pantomimo at Dpera House, Northampton, in this day's paper, it is stated that tno ballets have boon arranged by Mr. Will Bishop, and danced by my quartet. I beg to inform you that the four girls are my pumls, and that their :1a noes wero arranged oy my wife (Madame Phasey), who has always arranged tho bal lets that have been sent from my school.-- ...

... Sir, There is no question as to the neces sity (more so than ever) for a Touring Mana gers' Association. And I shall bo pleased to subscribe to and assist in the formation of one. Yours truly, WALTER SEALBY. juycoom 1 ueatre, Sheffield. January II, 1898. ...

... RETURN FARES. SIR,--The New Year has brought me a new experience concerning contracts. My concert company was engaged to go from London to appear at a provincial town 011 New Year's Eve for a foe and return fareR. Judge of my surprise when soon after midnight, on submitting my account, the manager disputed my claim for the cost of our return tickets, contending that return fares meant ...

... THEATRE BANDS. Sir, Lately much ink 1ms been sited in lamentation over the shortcoming of our pro vincial theatre orchestras, and many eminent j London professional gentlemen have learn edly discoursed thereon. I think it but fair that the country cousin should have a Eat his town relation now and tiien, when gets the chance. I heard at a theatre, not a hundred miles from the Charing Cross ...

... SIR,--I have read the correspondence under this heading with much interest. I can fully endorse the letters of this week by Ruben Abraham and Crwth and their statement that the band is a distinct attraction to the theatre, and the audience are not slow to appreciate a good performance of overtures, entr' actes intormezzi. &c. When it comes to nerforming opera, a thoroughly competent band ...

... SELECTION AND TRAINING. SIR,--In dealing with the important subject of the selection and training of actors, which has, fortunately, long received attention in the columns of THE STAGE, we may be not a little enlightened by standing upon the old ways awhile, and considering how actors have been selected and trained in time past. To take the cases of two theatrical stars of tho first ...

... TOURING MANAGERS' ASSOCIATION. SIR,--The letter signed A Poor Travelling Manager, which appears in your last week's issue, hits the nail on the head exactly. It is, indeed, time that travelling managers formed an association of their own. What with the small percentage Given, the large amount of printing required by the resident managers, and the large sum of money expended 111 travelling ...

... RETURN PARES. Sir, In your last issue Mr. J. E. Nott, Barnes grossly misrepresents the facts which are: I engaged his company bv letter, and in that letter I clcarly (as I thought) stated his fees and 44 fares to return from Loughborough to Loudon would be paid. At settlement, as he says, he demauded 14 return fares, which claim I repudiated but said if, on producing my letter, it trans ...

... 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 ...

... FASHION FOR MEN. Sir, Can you find space for so trivial a subject as tho above The new play of tho early sixties, which will reproduce the fashions of the time, may, I hope, be a strong factor in the resumption by men of the 44 Peg-top nether garment, whioh, to my mind, was and is most com fortable and graceful, moreover, showing to tho best advantage a neatly- shaped and well- ahod foot. ...

... A CORRECTION. Sir. In your issuo of last week it was stated that Mr. J. Preston Vasey was pre sented with a valuable cigar and cigarette holder by his Cadoxton friends and members of A Judas Crime company. This is evi dently a mistake. Your correspondent must have misunderstood matters, as tho above was presented to Mr. Vasey on behalf of myself only. Yours very trulv, NELSON WATTS PHILLIPS, ...

... MISS MAUDE STAFFORD. Sir, My attention has only just been called to a notice in your last issue of the Prince of Wales's, Birmingham, wherein I am stated to have been somewhat stiff in boy's clothes. I am not appearing in Birming ham, nor, indeed, have I ever appeared there in any other capacity than that of principal boy in pantomime and burlesque. I have never played a subordinate part ...