... OH! SUSANNAH! Sir.-- Many unfounded rumours havo ob tained in certain quarters to the effect that Mr. H. J. Leslie was the owner of the entire provincial rights of Oh! Susannah! during the past year. As this report is calculated to injure us on our forthcoming tour, owinp to managers and others oeliov- ing the existing company to be under dif ferent auspices, we beg to state that wo have ...

... INGENIOUS FRAUD. Sin,-- I quite agree with Mr. W. F. Morion. The tamo game was played here in Wigan last year, and by the same person, using exactly tho tame method and name. If the publishers of the various law journals would lake the matter in hand, and acquaint the solicitors of the country about it through the medium of their publi cations, they would soon be able to stop the fraud and ...

... FULL AND EFFICIENT. Sir, If an actor, or an actross, could be granted the right to append to his, or her, name certain initials of fitness gained by examination, the question of efficiency could be decided at once. As an illustration, the namos Smith, Brown, Jones, or Robinson appearing on a bill do not carry with them convincing proof to the playgoer who reads the said bill that they are ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. SIR,-- In answer to Mr. Brierley's letter re above, allow me to point out to him that slating has nothing whatever to do with criticism. rne wora critic comes irom me i*reea; Kritikos a critic, which is itself derived from Krinein, to separate, 1 It is only by separating the various com- penont parts of anything that wo can become thoroughly acquainted with that ...

... . HOW TO GET PLAYS. SIR,-- The question of the supply of plays is ono of intense personal interest to would-be dramatists. An instance of unintelligible and in defensible treatment of an u known writer's play seems to me to call for (lie dignity of print, that one may r,?ad it set forth as a story to ho wondered at. An unknown writer loved tho theatre, and, after some years of, he hoped, ...

... . Sin, I notice in your last week's edition of Thr Stage you have a short paragraph re my bankruptcy, in which you state that I lost £120 over the tour of Odd Man Out. This is not correct, as that piece was toured by my brother, Mr. A. G. Spry, who is at present going t hrough the Bankruptcy Court over that piece. My statement of affairs showed a loss of £450 16s. 9d. over Man* 9 Ambition tour ...

... A PAIR OF SPECTACLES. St it, I seo in tho current issue of The Stack that I am reported aa appearing with Mr. Charles Groves's A I'air of Spcctaclci Co.,_ and as this involves tho rathor serious implication that Mr. Julian Hartleigh is running his Co. under Mr. Graven' name, end that I am a party to euch a proceeding, I wibIi to give tho state ment tho most unqualified contradiction. Mr. ...

... THE STAGE IN JAPAN. SIR.-- In your account of Mr. Osman Edwards's very interesting lecture, no mention is mado of the use of the revolving stage. Perhaps a brief description of my visit to a largo theatre in Tokio three years ago may be acceptable. On arriving at tho entrance we were struck with the enormous hoau of shoos, sandals (indeed all kinds of loot-covcrings), lying massed together. ...

... . PAST PRIMK DONNE. SIR,--Your contributor, The Lounger, in his very interesting paper, under the above heading, mentioned Madame Haigh Corri. He had evidently inadvertently mingled the names of Madame Haigh Dyer and Madamo Ida Gillies Corri, as his description applies faithfully to the latter lady. The former lady, who, as the wife? of Henry Haigh, tho celebrated operatic tenor, commenced ...

... PATTI'S BIRTHDAY. Sir, In your Many Happy Returns of tho Day in your issue of April 6 you give Mdme. Adelina Patti's birthday as April 9. This is an error. I have several times pub lished the certificate of her birth, which in some particulars those concerning her father and mother are not quite in accord ance with fact. Mdme. Potti was born in Madrid February 19 (nineteenth), 1843, and was ...

... THE GAIETY, BRIGHTON. MIR, in noticing tne liaiety, Jjngiiton, last week you wero good enough to say it had started prosperously under the hard working; management of Messrs. Dunkin and Evans.' This is an error. Messrs. Dun- kin and Evans were the former managers. It is now under the management of Mr Herbert Kinsley and yours faithfully, Wilton Reed, Gaiety, Brighton. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. ...

... THE PAVILION, EDINBURGH. Sir, In your notico of our theatre last week you refer to the Edinburgh Opera Co. as having hire ...