... Sir,-- May I be allowed through yonr pages to reply te the correspondent who discovers similarity between Mr, Lady Bel lamy, produced by Mr. Alex. Maclean, at Margate, and the play Lady Clancarty I I have never seen the latter play but any small likeness of detail can be easily ac counted for by the fact that the authors in both cases have studied the history of the period. All readers of ...

... MR. HARVEY'S RICHARD III. Sib, Your critic, in bia very kind notice of Mr. Harvey's production of Jiichard III., draws attention to the fact that during almost each change of scene the curtain falls, and the house is left in what prac tically amounts to utter darkness sometimes for comparatively long periods. As Mr. Harvey's stage manager, I should like to point out what actually did ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE Sir, Mr. Martin Harvey on WednTday Wt wk, wlin?i *enkinr m support of |jJf_ a i' j, --ion of wubiHrriptiotM. Mny I point out that at our iwpent v r ii-ia, i -nat ti, - ...

... NOT BEFORE THE MISSUS Sir,-- Re- your paragraph as to Miss Nannie Goldman's production of Not Before the Minus, I would like to point out the London rights of the piece have not yet been definitely arranged for. They are dependent on the settlement of matters now in the hands o( the solicitors.-- Yours truly, J. WILLOUGHBY WOODWARD (Author). April 23, 1910. ...

... MY LADY BELLAMY. Sir, I am surprised to read in yonr Chit Chat column of to-day's issae yonr publica tion of Mr. W. Rumsey's comment! on my production of the new and original play, My Lady Bellamy, at Margate last week. I shall be obliged if you will publish the fact that this play is adapted in all its essentials from the recent novel by Miss Dorothea Moor*, and I fail to trace iu tie story ...

... SKETCH PRODUCTION. Sir, I was delighted to read the article on thin subject the other week, and to observe that some effort will be mode to arrest a rapidly-growing ovil tho per nicious practice of so-called sketch man agers, who obtain the services of aotors free for a trial week. I feel strongly on the matter, haying suffered much by the unfair competition that one who speculates with a ...

... . To tho editor of The Stag*. Sir, One wonders whether the Scciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ever turns its attention to a form of cruelty that exists in our profession. Last week I met a youth in Brighton who is on the ri({ht road to becoming a derelict as he was when Ed. E. Ford and I firet met him in Dublin. He then, on his own ac cord, sing a chorus of mino from the gal ...