To the Editor of THE STAGE
... . Sir,-- It may interest you to know that when I came here ten years a?o the cost of production was about £2 for a set of sateen pierrot costumes. These, with the ?aitists' own comedy props and the girls' evening frocks, constituted a summer entertainment for a twenty-weeks' season. A decode has passed, and we managers find our selves. at any rate in towns like this, forced to Bpend a matter ...