... The Welfitt-Gray Co. To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--May I once again ask you to favour me by publishing this letter in your next issue? I notice that in answer to my letter of last week Mr. Alfred Lugg has written making certain statements which I would like to put right. 1. Miss Welfitt's father had no thing to do with the Welfitt-Gray company. 2. All the artists received their salary at ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--Are they trying to drive drama off the road? Every week we hear of theatres such as Dalston, Coatbridge, Royal, Liverpool, going over to pictures. Macdonald and Young, having the number 2 and 3 rights of most of the musical West End shows, have booked heavily into drama nouses. Kesuit, many drama companies off the road through tlieir inability to get ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE. Dear Sir,--Having read the article entitled The Worries of an Actress-Manager, by Mise Peggy Primrose, in the Sunday Evening Telegram, I want you to be good enough to allow me to write a few words, putting the matter from another point of view Like Miw l^rimroae, 1 myself have found that being a manager entails the receipt of a large cor respondence and many ...

... . j I To the baitur uf jI'hl {Stage. Sir,--May I trouble you with my small experience of conditions in Ireland with an opera company. With regard to Sunday work, I think other members of the company and myself have only been too pleased to be able to help the I management in this respect, a? we have no matinees; and anyone who has travelled over here know? how deplorable the Saturday nights ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE. oir, lhe plot of Mr. Henry Arthur Jones's play, The Lie, rather reminds me of incidents in'a story entitled Mnrv Price, by U. VV M. Reynolds, author of Pickwick Abroad, and founder of the weekly newspaper still bear ing his name. In the narrative are two .sisters, the younger affianced to a poor, the elder to a wealthy, suitor. The latter Itas ibewxne tho victim ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--In your notice of this theatre in yesterday's issue, you state that The old Victoria Hall, Archer Street, Bayswater --established over a century--and known for a long time as the Bijou. Theatre, Bayswater, is now styled the Century The old Victoria Wall is still in existence; It is the assembly room under the old Bijou Theatre. It was known up till ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--I cannot for the life of me understand what our friend Mr. Sydney Paxton is driving at in his letter appearing in your issue of Thursday last. In full sympathy as he must be with the ideals of the late Sydney Valentine, be carmot possibly conceive, at this juncture. that those ideals, even it imper fectly realised, would be subver sive of the best interests ...

... . Sir,--Referring to your note to my letter in your last issue, I beg leave to point out, with all due respect, that it is you who need a little help in const ruing the words I quoted, as, whatever you meant, the membership you referred to in your article was not member ship of the profession, but compul sory menrbersnip of an associa tion, as the following quotations show. At the very ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir, As your next issue will be on Now Year's Day, may I take the liberty-- granted, I hope, by many years' service-- to wish for 1925 a total cessation of strife between manager and actor. The interests of both are identical. If this simple truth is not recognised and lived up to, will not bring prosperity. Will you further allow me to warn both actors and ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir. I notice in yoi*r last issue that tliis distinction is claimed for tho Royal. Sheffield, built in 1763, but rebuilt ten years later. Now, I suggest that the Royal, Bristol, has we better claim to the title. It was opened on May 30, 1766, and with the exception of the entrance to the pay-l>oxea being modernised, no alterations have been made to the theatre, ...

... . Mr. Fred Hendries. To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir, Permit me to tlmnk voa for inserting niv appeal on IkJiuU of poor Fred Hendries. who haj been blinded by being hit with a atone, tihpreby ^necessitating the removal of one eye, and perhaps Che low of the other. By suffering ,1 AWiHf lloiwlriiu lino Kuan tl'l I' I WVHJ IIIWH no reduced in health that his second operation cannot take ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--I have been nominated as a candidate for election to the Council. If my fellow-actors think fit to elect me, I shall strive to merit the trust reposed in me by devoting myself unsparingly to the interests of the Association. I am in favour of the closed shop, federation. licensing of managers, a strong forward trade union policy, the development of the A.A. ...