... OUTCAST LONDON. Sir, On Mondav, February 14, 1898, a new and original drama in three acts, en titled Outcast London, was produced at the West London with very great success. Mr. Albert West was announced as the author. In 18£6 or 1887 I wrote a drama in three acts, entitled Outcast London whicli con tained similar plot and characters to those of Mr. Albert VVest's piece. My drama was played ...

... A DISCLAIMER. SIR,--Will you kindly accord mo space for a reply to Mr. George Edward Hall's generous championship of the gentleman I may, perhaps, be permitted to call the other Henry Edlin? My present communication may haply have the effeot of bringing about an amicable arrangement whereby confusion will be avoided for the future. I do not for a moment question tho abili ties of the new Mr. ...

... A DISCLAIMER. Sib, My attontion has been drawn to a very energetic 44 disclaimer in The Staob emanating from Mr. Horny (Harry) Edlin, who is very anxious that his friends and the profession in general should know that he is not the gentleman who proved so valu able an addition to our company at the ilrighton Aquarium last week. May I be permitted to corroborate this statement? My Mr. Edlin ...

... LIABILITY OF LESSEES. SIR,--The posting of notices by local managers, disclaiming responsibility as to dressing-rooms, mentioned by Mr. Renaud Lockwood in your last issue, though increasing the temptation to theft, does not, as a matter of fact, divert the lessee of his liability. He provides theatre, stage, and dressing- rooms for the travelling company, and just as he is liable for any ...

... LIABILITY OF LESSEES. Sin, The question of tho liability of iossees, which has been so ably handled in recent issues of Tiik Stage, encourages me Lo bring to the front a point which may perhaps have escaped general notice. Since the case of Gonti v. Sherwood was tried, it has become the custom of local managers to post notices in the theatre dressing rooms disclaiming any responsi bility on ...

... OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Sir, Seeing that a play is being per formed having for its basis a scene in the life of Oliver Goldsmith, I think it prudent to inform you that a play of mine, entitled Olirer Goldsmith was produced by Mr. Ed ward Ooinpton upon the occasion of the Trinity College, Dublin, Tercentenary in 1892, dealing with precisely the same scent* and introducing precisely tho same charac ...

... A PLEA FOR ENTERTAINMENT. iSm,-- Would you kindly put this note in your next issue of The Stage, for which I always do as much good as I can, as it ia tho A1 of all theatrical papers. We have no licensed hall in our little town. Wo (the inhabitants) always appre ciate an entertainment. Could not you help us to get a licensed building through your napor The nearest place licensed ia the l'uolic ...

... 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' ...

... A DISCLAIMER. 8m,-- I am informed that a Mr. Harry Edlin, who was spooially engaged for the last week of tho pantomime at the Brighton Aquarium, was at the Anal performance presented wit If a walking-stick. Evidently Jjjome gentleman has taken to himself the namo I have borno professionally for the past thirteon years ana more, as the presen ilation was oertainly not made to me, ...

... FRESH PANTOMIMES WANTED. Sir, In all directions wo find worn-out pantomimes beina produced every Christ mas, again and again suoh as Dick Whittington Cinderella Forty Thieves Robinson Crusoe f and a few others. The wonder to me is that audienoes can be found to witness these repetitions. Surely wo have good pantomimo writors capable of producing a new set of panto mimes if only managers would ...

... A CORRECTION. Sm, In your very kind notice of my pan tomime, Aladdin in hut week's STAGE, speaking of the Regent, Salford, the number who paid admission on the Saturday was put as one thousand one hundred whereas it should have been seven thousand one hundred. Yours truly. W. SLEY. 13, Peter Street, Manchester. ...