... THE GREAT WHEEL. Sir, Our attention has been drawn to a paragraph in your issue of the 10th inst. in reference to the matter of the celebrated stoppage of the (iigantic Wheel at Karl's Court ip. May, 18S6. We would say, for your information, that this is a separate company from the London Exhibitions, Limited, and that neither Mr. Imre Kiralfy nor Mr. Chapman is, or ever has been, in any way ...

... SELECTION AND TRAINING. Sir,-- The answer to Miss lloyai s letter is obvious. Jo long as officers' daughters, etc., pay po'iiums, so lon^ will the Salmon ana (luc'tstein stylo of management flourish, salaries become worse and worse. lady seems to forget that whilst she v ts paying to act she was keeping some actress from earning a fair wage. Now she feels the pinch herself when she wants a ...

... . SELECTION AND TRAINING. SIR--, I have not followed the discussion in your columns on Selection and Training, but I have glanced at some of the letters, and it appears to me that a number of your correspondents look upon Selection and Training as the remedy for the low salaries at present ruling. I believe I am correct in thinking that the majority of the advocates of these desiderata ...

... Sir, In The Stage of last week I notice in the 44 Chit Clmt column that Mr. Marion Crawford intends writing a play and probably calling it In Old Madrid. I beg to call attention to tho fact that this is tho title of my play which is now on tour, and has been touring for the last eighteen months. Hie play has been ex ceedingly successful, and will in all pro bability tour for several years yet ...

... 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. ...

... SIR,--The close of this century is going to mark the greatest event in dramatic history. At last we are approaching the consummation of the dearest hopes of those who love our work. If a scheme of selecting, training, and registering actors is put into effect, as no doubt it will be, the dramatic profession will rise to its proper status: Com pi ants of the present condition are loud and ...

... TOURING--AND AFTER. SIR,--Signs are not wanting that the touring system of complete companies, which has held sway in theatrical business for the last fifteen years, is beginning to reveal evidences of collapse. lhis is tho result not, as some have rashly asserted, because of a decrease in tho average takings in provincial theatres but in con sequence of tho increasing burden of ex penditure ...

... . IS IT VERY WELL? SIR,-- The placid, dream-like optimism of John Hare-cum-Benjamin Goldfinch concerning the English drama is the outcome of charming thoughts after sunset, the sweet contemplation of a great actor in the evening; but to the cold morning of youthful reflection, in the full light of hard, flint-like facts of the vanishing nineteenth century, it is all emptiness, ana as lar ...

... . Sin, When the time comes round for the listriDution of the Covont Garden Fund I lope our president, Mr. Boerbohm Tree, ivi.. not fail to speak up for an equal share or tho Dramatic and Musical Sick Fund. It has tho same right to its fair portion as iny other society devoted to the same interests. Wo may be small ns regards lumber of members, but that would permit }f more liberality being ...

... Sin, -Your correspondent R. O. in geniously divides tho actors from tho in competent* by terming them the Joneses and Smiths respectively. Wo hear a lot about the Joneses there nro hundreds of I them walking about ready and eager to work. But still managers will tell you that it is as difficult to engago good artists as ii is difficult for artists to obtain good en gagements. Managers would ...

... SELECTION AND TRAINING. SIR,--I should like to say how heartily I agree with the letters of your two correspondents, Mr. F. R. Mason and F. D. in your issue of August 17. Mr. Mason takes Mr. Cyril Harrison to task somewhat in his reply to Miss Royal's remarks, and rightly, for to say the least of it, Mr. Harrison b letter was decidedly curt I No doubt the reason Mr. Harrison did not give ...