... 3 Sra, I think Thespis the Second rather f too sweeping in his letter last week. I, like Jem the Penman, ask why should ladies j play such parts Paul in The Octoroon, Sam in The Ticket of Leave Man, etc., when we have boy actors to play them I know boys over twelve years of age who are re markably intelligent, not a bit awkward, but rather graceful. For instance, there is Master Ottiwell ...

... SIR>-- I do not think it is always the case that when on actress plays a boy a part she owes her engagement to the inability of an actor to play that part, according to your corresponelont Thespis tho Serontl. 1 l>cliovo it is more due to tho fact that there is a difficulty to find young actors to look the part. Mr. Arthur Shirley once told mo the reason that a girl was engaged to play tho ...

... LONDON DEBUTS. Sir, Whi\e the Actors' Association is contemplating tho selection, training, and registration of the actors of tho future, is there any man, woman, or association who will undertake to select for engagements in London the many sterling actors touring tho provinces, who never get the chance to exhibit their abilities to a West-end audi ence There are men who can and do givo ...

... LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. UNDATED SHEET MUSIC. Sib, Under the above heading Mr. Wil liam A. Baskcomb asked in last week's Stage 44 How is it that sheet music, unlike books, never contains on its title-page the date of publication? Had Mr. Baskcomb regretted that occasionally this informa tion was omitted I could have understood him, but after seven years in the music- publishing business I can ...

... Sir, I too am a theatrical dog, and have borne with patienco the indignity of being smuggled. Often, such is tho depression of my naturally high spirits at this degrading treatment, my tail, usually of a curly disposition, hangs limp, and shows beneath mv mistress's capo, and then comes the ter rible dictum, Dog ticket, Miss. Now, I and my mistress are boon companions, and without me who ...

... Sir, In Tuesday's Daily Mail is a para graph 44 Fooling an Audience, relating that t Clitheroe. in Lancashire, a company play ing Man's Enemy bolted on Saturday night with the receipts, loaving their accounts unpaid, etc. I should feel obliged if you will publish the fact that Messrs. Dottridge, Longdon, and Hastings hold the sole Lon don and provincial rights of tho abovo play, nnd no other ...

... PRONUNCIATION. SIR, --The defects and difficulties of English orthoepy considered specially in connection with dramatic elocution, havo been brought under our immediate notice by a letter and a leading article, which it is to be hoped will greatly encourage this branch of study, so long neglected by the vast majority of actors. E. L. O. gave voice to the perplexity and elissatistaction ...

... BOYS' PARTS. Sir, I cannot, as one of an audience, agree with your correspondent Ihcspie the Second that audionces withhold then sympathy from a lx>y actor playing a boy part, and ,4 readily extend it to a^ girl playing a boy's part; neither can 1 agree that a girl plays the part of a boy better. No matter how woll the part be played, il by a female (I cannot say girl, as we Ire- quently see a ...

... . 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 ...

... . SIR,--Why will certain resident managers persist in advancing the Bogus one monoy for printing and fares, thereby suonlying him with tho sinews of war that he may carry on the ravages of swindling and leave behind him a track of baggage and unpaid hotel bills? Of course, any man with tho slightest knowledge of resident management must know tho awkward position the resident maup.ger is in on ...

... . HOW TO GET PLAYS. SIR,--I have read with great interest tho leader in last week's Stack, and venture to suggest a remedy for the present dearth of plays. As matters aro at present managers not only do not read plays sent to them, but nro too indifferent to make short journeys to see productions. Sometimes they send absoluctiy incapable substitutes to witness performances of plays they ...

... . Sir, Actors' dogs might logically be car ried at throe-quarter canine lares. Or, on the analogy of priests and soldiers in France i.e., friends and protectors of man at half fares. 'Bikes are mere w oaring rp- parel, liko boots or skates.-- Y.iu^s faith fully, Cecil Brooking. The Liars South Co., T. Royal, Huddcrafield. ...