... . To the Editor of THE STAGE Sir. I I'll grcailj intercstod in inn nriiclo Ijy Miss Ada K frrnr in last week's issuo pn 41 Htago Nat ura lneiM especially thai |>oi- ion of it dealing with conveiffttion. In my young days it vvs always 'impressed upon me that tlie matt in the gallery was us a Vxiotis to henr what was X>oiii|{ said as the rest of 'lie house. It seems to mo that pitch lias been ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir, 1 hope 1 nespian s letter does not represent the attitude of the majority of professionals towards amateurs. I do not know how these matters are arranged in other towns, but in the small town where I live we have three very keen amateur societies. There are two picture-houses, one of which i convertible into a theatre. For perhaps two and a-half weeks during ...

... . Sir, I have seen in The Stage the names of those selected for tho Council of Equity. I wonder if those who voted are ungrateful or forgetful, as Miss Acfa Roscoe, whose name was on tho list of candidates, was not among tho elected. When the Actors' Association was on the verge of extinction Miss Roscoe offered to become honorary secretary, and for four and a-half years she attended tho ...

... THE LATE HAROLD MONTAGUE. To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--I should like to make known to those friends of my late husband, Harold Montague, who are unknown to me, a fund which I am raising to be presented In memory of Harold Montague, from his friends, to the Endowment Fund of The League of Remembrance, 1914-1919. Ho was greatly interested in this organisa tion, his work for it being ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--In these days one understands so well that managers are anxious to keep their theatres open and are ever striving to find out what the puplic really wants But what a blessing it would be if twice-nightly performances of plays could be abandoned. Poor artist, poor author, and one might often truthfully add, poor audi ence. Take the artist, who has to play ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--Portables could not succeed nowadays because the portable artist if not already gone is fast dying out. How many artists are there to-day who can do those things demanded in a portable? In the first place six plays a week (without doubling), three songs, and six semi-studied farces. ardrobe required anything' from Ancient Briton to modern society charac ...

... To the Editor of The Stage. Sir,--Will you kindly allow us to point out that the Theatre Correspondent of the Daily Herald, in its issue of December 28th, unwittingly misrepresents tho intentions of the Stage and Allied Arts Defence League when he asserts that in our approaches to the Government on the Entertainments Tax the theatre interests are anti-kinema, though the kinema interests are ...

... . Sir,-- I must reply to No Portables, if only to set his doubts at rest. Male clothing- except modern dress-- is always supplied by the management. Very few portables play turns and farces nowadays. Long shows are not in favour. No manager would put up a week's play such as No Portables quotes. A leading lady dying the 9ame kind of death three times in one week would tax the patience of ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Dear Sir,--At the Equity meeting at Drury Lane, Mr. Leslie Henson very kindly suggested the giving of a matinee in the event of certain unfortunate contingencies arising, since then happily averted. Why not still carry out this idea, in order, in some way. to mark the 44 happy settlement, by giving a matinee in favour of the Valentine Pension Memorial Fund Not ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--May I, through the column of our only paper, be allowed to express indignation at a custom becoming more prevalent for certain advance agents to bill and placard towns a week before the arrival of their companies. Arrived here on Monday, I was astounded to find the following morning that the town \\as plas tered with the bills of the com pany which is due to ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,-- As one who spent his childhood days in Marlow, I was grieved to read of the disfigure- 1 mervt. to the beautiful Frohman Memorial. I do not consider that it. has ever been sufficiently oared for. The last time I saw it, it was i greatly in need of cleaning, as it t was very banly streasea wiwi green from the trees which sur- 1 round it, and really looked ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--The recent discussion in your columns on the subject of voice culture is of course of great interest to one like myself, who has devoted a whole lifetime to the art and science of voice production. ,w,vv f.---- The whole issue is a very simple one, the secret- of both correct speaking; and singing being merely breath control, plus correct articu lation. If ...