... . Dear Sir, We have read with great interest the learned contributor on The Cruelties of Divorce, anl agree that reforms suggested by him are needed. It is, however, rather stressing the case for the married men and women. But what is to be said for the thousands of women, particularly tho3e who are condemned to celibacy or sin against then- natural desires, cither through mis-directcd or ...

... Sir, I was surprised to read in a letter from Mr. V. G. Fyfc suggestions that Scotland has been unfairly treated in your columns the contrary appears to mo to be the case. What is required is the necessary exercise of a sense of proportion in speaking of England and Scotland. How many pooplo realise the meaning of the word British, which can only be interpreted as English, Scotch, and Welsh, ...

... . DEAR SIR, If one took what Sir John Foster Fraser stated in his article The Curae of Bureaucracy to bo authentic, one would be led to believe that the Civil Servant's job is a sinecure. That such is not the case will bo borne out by the following fact. The total number of Civil Servants is 300,000 50 per cent, of that number receive less than £3 per week and 75 per cent. Ie3s than £4 per ...

... A Medical Index Expurgatorius. Dear Sir, Britannia is a new paper a lively, lusty youngster I may add but many of its hundreds of thousands of readers have no doubt reached the middle years. Those who have will remember the hectic days when Mr. Lloyd George, levied toll upon the community in order to give his promised 9d. for 4d. Amazingly large numbers of people quite seriouslj' believed ...

... . August 22, 1932. Dear Mr. Drewe,--I arn in receipt of yours of the 18th inst., with copy of the resolution pasaed at the meeting of your committee with regard to the revues I am concerned with in an effort to find fresh talent and to attract more patrons to theatres and music halls. I very strongly resent and pro test against your totally unjusti fiable suggestion that in doing this I am ...

... To the Editor of The Stage. Sir, The letter in your Issue of June 50, signed One of the Crowd, is misleading. The animal report of British Equity did not state that members of the east of 44 Cavalcade were asked to appear in the film without, pay- j meat; the phrase was without extra payment. Crowd artists playing in a studio get a guinea per day, but in this show they got less than a ...

... . A SUBSIDY SCHEME. To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--Would you kindly bring to the attention of your readers a scheme, with which I amongst many others warmly sympathise, for saving the historic theatre of Sadler's Wells and converting it into an Old Vic. for North London, by providing for its use by the fig Uld Vic. iMiake&peare and >pera companies, conjointly with he thea.tre in the ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--One must agree with Mr. Fred Roper'e first paragraph that your issue of June 23 was of exceptional interest to concert party proprietors, with its batch of letters on the subject under discussion and your leading article, which so ably summed up the matter Mr. Roper seems to have missed the Heal point, and in doing so has been to a great extent, respon ...

... . Sir,--Many do not realise that the principal--in fact, I suppose, the only--reason any man puts on a show-- of any kind--is to make money with it. As soon as this fact is realised many of the arguments put forward fall to pieces. Let us look at the facts of the matter, and what do we find? Much of the criticism in fact, nearly all of it seems to be levelled at Mr. Fred Roper, because he has ...

... . Sir,--If your leaders and the various articles and letters cause managers to view publicity as an art, as ordinary commercial enterprises do, then this controversy will have borne splendid fruit. But vour contributors mention matters that must be trite to every real publicity man and to most man agers. As to blocks, know ledge screens should be and is to the real Pressman-advance manager ...

... . To the Editor of The Stage, Sir,--May I express an opinion in regard to concert parties on tour broadcasting their programmes gratis? The mode of procedure is this: It is usually done during an ordinary performance. through the various corporations of different towns. who are under the impression that it advertise their concerts. The touring manager is approached somo weeks l*eforehand, ...

... . Sir, If artists would enclose stamped addressed envelopes oer- haps they would get their photo graphs returned. When I get these I return at once all photos. Recently I had more than sixty replies to an advertisement in The Stace for an artist, and out of these twenty failed to enclose stamped addressed envelopes. To return these photographs takes up a lot of a manager's time, apart 1 from ...