... . Last Thursday the Emergency Committee formed to deal with touring arrangements between touring and resident managers in Connection with the railway strike' sent out the subjoined letter to resident managers in the provinces:-- Dear Shy An Emergency Committee of touring managers has been meeting several time* daily at the office of the Thea trical Managers' Association, in Arder to ensure, as ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir-- I read Mr. Williams e. letter complaining about being tlUt in a guard', van. I think he had a cuhy journey compared with mine. I Mt Workington t 5ft p.m., arrived m Carlisle 710 p.DCL, and Kad to wait until 4155 *,*n. to catch the connection to Aberdeen. I bungod in the guard's van, nd had to stand all She way, not even allowed to sit on mv own luggag^-Wc ...

... . Sir, Referring to your Actors j Association report in last Thurs day's issue, is Mr. Arno'^1 Ben- natt'i adirtirablo letter sincere, or is it merely something: erosive with a sneer in it.*' Is there not a comprehensive adage ,anent| rharity bejarinnin^ at home? Is it a fa't that the members of the suO'^essful Make-Beliesve pantomime at the Hammersmith Playhouse were, for the first fbrok*n) ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir, Please allow me, through the medium of your paper, to voic a little matter that ha* been upper most in my mind for Home con siderable time the salaries of musical directors. resident and touring. I should like to )*>int out to tounng_ managers that the resi dent man's money has gone up, and by the b;w-k end*the average resident M.D. in general geoond-' class ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir, 1 can heartily appreciate Buster Valentine's appeal in behalf of performing animals. Is it not timo all such aits were prohibited? Every thinking person nvwt re- gard the unnatural conditions of such performances as an encroach ment on the freedom of animals, putting assido the question of do liberate cruelty in the attainment of their tricks. If all artists ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--I should like to support Buster Valentine's letter in the issue of July 24 of THE STAGE. A nation is proud to be regarded as the champion of the weak and oppressed, but it is equally fine in the individual to champion the cause of tne too often ill-treated animals, and finer still if he can do something to prevent their sorrows and pains. This applies, of ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir, I should liko through your widely read paper to call tho atten tion of those authorities who lot town halls for fit-up companies to the discomfort caused to artists from this c^uso. Some managers, when the charge for fires in dress ing rooms is not inclusive, dis allow tbo fires. Fancy, this bleak and bitter weather, a pantomime visiting tho town halls, ...

... . Sir,--I feel it my duty, after following with interest tlie letters recently published in THE STAGE on tho Subject of insanitary theatres and dressing rooftis, to write to you toiling you of my experience of a certain theatre. The dross ng-room which wfts allocated to the three male mem bers of the company (including my self) was handed over to us ai>- parently without being swept, dusted or ...

... . tJir,-- Oan nothing be done to im prove roort? I have juat visited ttiepubcw. Hoylake and Lye, and have had the greatest difficulty. At the first town tho house was barely furnished, with no proper things for use. We all hail to oook, clean up, and loo11 ftw ouwIts, and pov as miH furnished rooms with attendance. Any artists vot ing Cbejwtow to panics having been thero hrst^ At ilio next Wsn ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--The letters from musical directors on tour are, I trust, the beginning of a new standard of payment. Powerful and far reaching as the A.M.U. is, and greatly as it has benefited our profession, there is no standard of efficiency; and though one must be a member if on tour, it is princijKUly Wie xesi- dont musicians who benefit. In Sootland, it is true^ tho ...

... . Sir,--I quite agree with your two correspondents that, above all, the A.M.U. should exert itself in establishing a minimum for travelling conductors. They have already fixed minima for resident conductors, and I know a certain hall, classed as a No. 3, situated in don. where the salary has been fixed at £4 10s. and 9s. for the Monday matinee. Just compare this with the £4 10s. when travel ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE Sir,--Would you kindly find me a little space in your valuable paper to contradict this ridiculous scandal about performing animals. I contradict emphatically the nonsensical idea that according to Miss Dollie Hook and Mr. Milton Bode and others, performing animals are taught by cruelty, are generally badly treated and so forth. I myself am the owner of aeven ...