... . Sir, I will feel obliged if you can inform mo through your valuable paper on the following subject. I have submitted two plays to two leading managers in London. One managor has had the play for nine months, and though the MS. has been acknowledged I have got no further reply and tho other lias beeu in the manager's hands for four months, and has not been acknowledged. Do ybu advise me to ...

... . Sir, 41 Jim tho Penman wiahes to know 44 Why should girls take the place of boys in plays'' Firstly, because they play them better; a boy of twelve or fourteen invariably lacks that indefinable quality we call charm. Bo the character repre sented of average importance only, a boy cannot, and does not, got as much out of it as a girl. Audiencos withhold thoir sympathy from the former, but ...

... . Sir,-- The above hospital has never before appealed to the Muaio Hall profession for help although situated in the heart of a district where its services are given annually to nearly hundreds of the children and wives of the less fortunate members of that profession. Mr. George Adney Payne and his co-director having generously lent the I anterbury free for a matinee on Monday, September 19, ...

... . Sir,-- I am told that the title of my play (recently produced at the Park, Phila delphia) has been claimed in England. I cohered tho title thorc-- The King's High- and now wo have the anomaly of my owning the title in the States and otheits it horo. I have ohaugecl the title to The Black Mask. Tho point is whether someone may not spring up and claim my second title. All goes to show tho ...

... . 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 ...

... . SIR,--The efforts of your paper are so untiring in any matter that affects the wel fare of tho theatrical profeesion, and especially the travelling portion of it, that I venture to draw your attention to a concession which, if it could be obtained from the railway companies, would prove an inestimable boon to muny of us. I refer to the free conveyance of dogs and bicycles when accompanied by ...

... BOY PARTS. Sib, In a criticism of that well-known PW Ileal Littlo Lord Fauttfleroy, which was given at Wolvoriiampton, your correspondent makes a remark on tho sub ject, of girls playing boys' parts. Lot mo quote his words: The greatest surprise to us, however, lies in tho fact that girls should always bo thought preferable \o impersonate boys' charactcrs. Are there no actors' sons equal to ...

... BUSINESS ON TOUR. Silt, In the last sentence of Transit's letter of last week, lie gives tho answer tc his own question, vie: -Theatres aro nl- ways being built in fresh places, so that the field is biggor than it was. Therein lies the crux of the whole complaint. There are more theatres and more oompanies, but the theatre-going public uoes not increase in sufficient proporti9n to keep up tho ...

... PRONUNCIATION. SUB,--Should the stage be guided by amel serviloly follow tho orthoepy of the lexicon, tho slip-slop slang of society, and the accumulated vulgar mispronunciations of centuries of fungi-like growth, at should it take up arms against this soa of phonotypio trammels and, by opposing, end them? Should it meekly quiesce in these errors should it still keep on wading through the ...

... . With reforence to my socent re- t marks re Lotters care of The Staok, kindly grant me a small space to say a few words on the above subject. The non-re direction of letters for artists arriving after tho company have left the town is a serious matter, and a source of incouvenience and anpoyanco to artists. It is a matter that should have every attention given to it by hall-keeper^ and ...

... Sir, I am afraid your oorreapondent'a notico of above play at Attercliffe may load readers to suppose it waa a new play produced there for the first time. Will you, therefore, allftw me, aa author and owner of the pieoe, to point out that it was first nrrxluced at the Britannia, in October, 1896, under the title Death or Glory, and that the titular alteration is the only one since that ...