... 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 ...

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... SIR,--The proposed scheme for the above at the Lyceum on Friday last, for which you have agitated so long in your columns, ought to meet with the support of every member of the profession who has not only the welfare of the stage at heart as a profession, but who at the same time recognises that, the stage is about to be put on such a basis that it will be lifted permanently on to a level ...

... THE PLAY QUESTION. SIR,--I am extremely glad to see that your Correspondent L. has been brave enough again to broach the idea in your columns of a Society of Dramatic Authors. I am firmly convinced that the only way of raising the dramatic supply out of its present indescribable state of chaos is by the organised co-operation of the playwrights, but, strange to pay, the chief diffloultv ...

... . (Queries and letters for publication mutt be authenticated with names and addresses of senders. Those correspondents t cho write to correct any errors that appear in our columns relative to names or parts are informed that in all cases programmes or bill* must be en closed for our guidance) Edward Carleton.-- Redfern Hollins created the part of Geoffrey Wilder In Dorothy, produced at the ...

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... . The following letters, waiting to be claimed at the Actors' Association, must be applied for ah tho offices of the society, and applications must t> accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope H. J. Barrett, Gordon Bailey, Ridge- wood Barrle, Edwin Brett, Cecil Brooking, W. H. Brame, Charlie Cameron, Sybil Carlisle, Combes, Conipton CoutU, H. Chichester, C. Barrel!. C. Esdalc, J. Ellery, ...