... . Sir; Your Eastbourne critio seems to be very inaocurate in his report of a sword loav ing the stago for the auditorium through the error of tho person who held it. Mr. Loslie Carter is quite correct in his denial. I was the guilty one. Still, as in the business of the piece I am supposed to have my sword dashefl out of my hand by tho superhumau strength of Tronham, who is armed with a stick ...

... . Sir, In the interest of managers all over tho country I must ask you to give space to detail a fraud that has been perpetrated upon my maaager and myself in this town. Somo -unprincipled scoundrel wired my mawaper last Friday to Harrogate in my name, asking for £4 to be wired to me on the pica that my mother was dying and I wanted to go to her. The whole story was a fabrication, my mother ...

... JACKO. Sir, In your correspondents roport last week of Jacko at the Boyal, Darwen. he omitted my name, although it is on the Dills twice and on the programmes, and I was conducting tho orohestra. Jacko is an original musical absurdity, the overture incidental music, songs, dances, being com- noKpd and arranged bv vours resnectfullv.. GEO. BURTON. Princes Theatre, Accrington, May a, 1898, ...

... THE SUPER QUESTION. Sir,--Much has been said and written lately on the subject of soldiers as supers, and one of your correspondents recently endeavourod to relieve himself of a few cynical remarks on the matter. Not a few of the gentleman's would-be caustic remarks were really true. In the first place, the ordinary supers have themselves to blame for soldiers ever being engaged as ...

... FRESH PANTOMIMES WANTED. SIR,--Before you close your columns to this interesting discussion, perhaps you will kindly allow me a little space. For a considerable time past it has been my conviction that many improvements could be made in this claws of entertainment, such as new plots, titles, scenario, and a different arrangement of the characters in the quinade. My contention is thai a ...

... . CAN STAMINA BE IMPARTED IN SUMMER? To the Editor of The Stage. Sin, The answer to the above important question is decidedly Yes. ISo matter whetlier physical or mental labour is a meant, or even if, as is too often the cae in the summer, an exccss of either baa to be accomplished, Dr. Tibbies' Vi- Coeoa will jirovc of inestimable service. Tho iiu minor J^vdedaess and tiredness whi.h ...

... LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. TOURING MANAGERS' ASSOCIATION. Sir, The actors have an association, alec the local managers, anil we, who need it most, have none. What I suggest is this, that we should form an association of re- sponsible managers say at a nominal subscription to enable us to support befitting premises and secretary, with the object ol protecting our interests. On railway travel. ling, ...

... . 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 ...

... 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' ...

... 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 ...