... To the Editor of THE STAGE. bir,- The A.A. of)ntrn ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir, At prosoTit the Touring Httn- tra ...

... . Sir,--I am glad to see that the above subject is engaging the attention of your readers, especially of dramatists. I am sure Touring Manager hit the bull's-eye when he declared that melodrama failed to secure dates because the public in the provinces is ing it-- that is, outgrowing it in its prevailing form. There will always be a public for melodrama for the cultured and critical must ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--I am glad, and I am convinced that all fair-minded proprietors of concert parties will also be glad, that you have taken up this matter in yor columns. for many moons 1 have en deavoured to bring about a pro perly organised federation o f con cert party proprietors to abolish the abuses which we have been compelled to tolerate during the war, and at various ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--Is it not time that some measures were taken to prevent the indiscriminate opening of so-called theatre throughout the country? There are men, sometimes over- adventurous, but more often t in n ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir, Id answer to a letter in your paper on October 30, re apart- menu in Newcastle, the terras were arranged by poet, ao must haw been aaiisf notary at tbe time of booking Coal i rationed in New castle the same as in any otfier part d the country. Landladies cannot keep fires burning from parly morning until after mid nagtat. Yoor eorrespordmt aeked for tbe &re to ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE. Ssr, -May I, tfrroogfc the valuabla ...

... TETHERED PARTRIDGES. To the Editor, The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Sir, In a recent number of your journal I noticed a drawing: Partridges in No-Man's Land. It might interest some of your readers to know that last winter, near Armentieres, the wily Hun used to tie partridges to a stake in No-Man's Land in front of his wire. On the approach of our patrols the birds naturally rose ...

... Tin Be in tin Bonimt AM AUTG-CAUSRRIR. By Gerald! Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, Everyone in the motor world was more than delighted to receive the belated news of Lord Montagu's safety after all hope had been given up. Many obituary notices had appeared about him, and I had written one myself and I had that very rare and unusual feeling in a journalist supreme pleasure in scrapping my own copy ...

... TBe Bee in the Bonnet AN AUTO-CAUSEKIE. By (Geraldl Bsss. MY DEAR TATLER, So, despite the barrage of blank cartridge from the two great fortified places of Printing House Square and the Carmelite Monastery, the edificial proscription of the R.A.C. as another Hotel Brum or a Hotel Brillat-Savarin (a la Lord Devonport) has been withdrawn, and the club's own suggestion for the extension of its ...

... Tlhie Bee in the Bonnet AM AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Geraldl Biss0 MY DEAR TATLER, What I feared all along has happened and we have been very circumscribed in our movements down at Funkhole-on-Sea by the illness of Lizzie, who had to go into hospital seven miles away. No sooner had her beloved master made good his attestation and donned the King's khaki than she began to pine visibly and some days ...

... TB Bee In the Bonnet AM AUTO-CAUSEEIE. By Gerald Biss0 MY DEAR TATLER, What a sound chap it wafe old David, wasn't it who wrote of wars and rumours of wars The super-censored daily papers are bad enough, but London is simply awful worse than the paper-boys who used to yell and sell their scares and wares in the streets in those distant days of the autumn of 1914, which in mental perspective ...