... BEST BOOKINGS. Sir, I should be very muoh obliged if you would kindly look un the forms which 1 sent you some time back, giving the names of the theatres whore mv companies took the largest receipts in 18y7, as I see by a letter in your last issue from Mr. Mulhollana that vou must have stated that my A Night Out company visited the Metropole, Camberwell, which is not cor rect, and as I cannot ...

... A MANAGER'S PROMPTITUDE. Sib,-- -I would like to publicly thank Mr. Jefferson and his assistants, as well as Mr. Huish, the Fire Brigade, and all kind friends who helped tb deal with the fire, which oc curred in my property in Prudence Street on Friday last. Thero can be no donbt that Mr. JefferBon'8 promptitddo averted what might havo been a very serious panic in the theatre, and his action ...

... A SUICIDAL POLICY. Sir, --With regard to your editorial com ments--strictures, 1 suppose, would be mor descriptive-- on my letter concerning the management of suburban theatres, may I say that I received my information on such excellent and reliable authority that I can not but reiterate my faith in it. Free trado in amusements, as yon are always contend ing, is such an essential oondition of ...

... FRESH PANTOMIMES WANTED. SIR,--I have been very much interested in the correspondence which has recently appeared in your valuable paper anent the above important subject. It seems to me that pantomime--like the stage itself, and, in fact, everything, is passing through a process of evolution towards a higher and beter state. But, as in other matters which at times bring despair to the ...

... A SUICIDAL POLICY. SIR,--A man with a grievance frequently possesses the ingredients of a magnificent bore. My excuse for troubling you with my grievance is that the facts to which it refers display lamentable pigheadedness in those responsible for the management of suburban theatres. Much has been written and said about the advantages that will be heaped upon the drama by tho recent ...

... FRESH PANTOMIMES WANTED. Sib, I for one cannot agreo that we want new stories. What I fancy is required is acting. If Crusoe and Whittington would re member that they stood on a sinking ship, instead of blandly smiling and introducing songs and dances-- which, of course, are entirely out of place-- if the funny men would leavo clowning to the harlequinade, and play tho parts as in a drama; let ...

... SIR,--Permit me a passing word on the harlequinade question. This is not to be dismissed with the careless assertion:--O! the public do not care for harlequinades, now. The public cares just as much for these once absolutely indispensable sections of pantomime as it used to do; but it must be harlequinade suited to the end of this nineteenth century. Wo don't take an old farce, or comedy ...

... 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 ...

... . FRESH PANTOMIMES WANTED. SIR,--Some few of the old nurser stories are still safely available as the pivot--sub jects for fresh pantomimes; but others, being devoid of certain specially attractive characteristics, are to all intents and purposes played out; i.e., intrinsically, there is no longer any money in them as pantomime subjects. But the moment we can dismiss from our minds the ...