... . BOGUS MANAGEMENT--A REMEDY? Sir,-- Quite recently, in consequence of insolvent touring management, my theatre has been closed, I have had to break faith with the public, members of the company have been in the town, some of them penniless, and unable to get their own private belongings. I have several times received from printers, authorities given by touring managers to deduct the account ...

... ADVANCES AND BOGUS. Sir,-- I think there is far more Bogus management going on among resident managers than travelling ones. There aro in tho provinces about thirty buildings called theatres whose managers advertise weekly for dramatio oompanies. New tour ing managers are bound to stay the course of those thirty deathbeds before a lessee of any properly-managed theatre will think of even ...

... Sir, --Reading the letter in your preceding issue from Mr. L. S. Moss, will you kindly allow us to say a few words regarding the above? No doubt Mr. Moss has been put to great inconvenience through Bogus, but all tour ing managers arc not the same. For instance, a manager starts upon the road with an entirely new play. Unless lecog- uised resident managers know something about it they will not ...

... . Sir, I am desirous of sincerely thanking those ladies and gentlemen who have so generously responded to the appeal I made on my daughter's behalf. I also wish to thank you for the very great interest you have taken in her sad case, for the sympathy you have shown, and for so kindly acting as treasurer to the fund raised for her benefit. I regret to say the present state of my daughter's ...

... . SOME OPEN LETTERS. IV.--TO THE STAGE-MANAGER. Dear Sir,--I took a little nephew of mine, aged ten, to see your pantomime the other evening; and, with all due respect to you, I would rather have seen the author's, I don't say this merely out of a craving for novelty, but for reasons which even you may sympathise with. Of course, the youngster enjoyed himself immensely. The way that funny man ...

... Sir, With reference to the article under this heading in your issue of the 11th inst., as you make several references to the National Sunday League, will you permit mo to say that we do not masquerade as The National Sunday League of Pro testant Dissenters who objeot to be desig nated, and I cannot understand why other persons, in addition to yourself, somewhat persistently use a form of ...

... Sir, --Orson is endowed with reason! At last comes the triumph of Leather-bridge over Gibbs! A resident manager at last has had the courage to try and grapple with that hydra-headed monster the Bogus Manager, and appeal to that great institution, the Actors' Association, for help and advice. Mr. Moss has my pathy and admiration, but his suggestion for the combination of provincial ...

... Sir,-- Like Tiik Stage I am somewhat mystified as to what is or was the 44 National Sunday League of Protestant Dissenters' 3tc. The National Sunday League has certainly been described as a religious body, and registered as such at Somerset House, ander tho title of ,4 Protestant dissenters who object to bo designated. Seeing the kind of entertainment that is given by the National Sunday ...

... . ADVANCES AND BOGUS. Sir, X liavo road with interest tho stimablo article on Bogus this week. I quite agree that Mr. Moss deservo com mendation for taking up tho cudgels and airing, through tho medium of your valuable weekly, his views of so vital a question. And yet I don't agree with all your corre spondents on this very important matter. In the first place, in the artiole in this week's ...

... Sir, To Mr. Dudley Harcourt's letter I say 44 Iiear, hear. The traps mostly young and inexperienced travelling managers are led into by the puffy advertisements of certain, what 1 call, bogus resident managers to get companies to their theatres, or what they call theatres, ought to be stopped. A short time back I was unfortnnnto enough to book a wooden khed, and my leturns were as follows: ...

... Sir,-- Permit me a remark it. connection with the sound notice of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Her Majesty's in your last issue. Mr. Tree in giving the play has doubtless referred to Mr. J. Moyr Smith's edition of it, published by subscription by Quaritch in July, 1892. Apart from the illustrations, the value of this edition is in tne account riven of the methods of staging adopted by ...

... . Hi R, The majority of travelling mana gers aro probably not aware of the exorbi tant charges now made by the Scottish ail way companies for tho carriage of tcenery and baggage. The usual and esta blished practice of the English companies of allowing ono truck free to companies of ten or more, and of charging 2d. per mile for the second truck or runner, has recently lieen superseded in ...