... . To the Editor of THE STAGE Sir,--I have read many curious letters in your paper about rooms and various other necessities of touring actors. But isn't there something wrong with the various controlling systems? We arrive here having previously fixed for a combined room--18s. This as Newcastle. We are told that they are rationed for coals and are only able to light a small fire after we ...

... . Abergavenny landladies are hav ing a good time at the expense of the small companies who visit the town. The apartments, such as exist, are situated in mean streets, in cheap little houses with no con veniences of any sort. The land ladies only want 25s. or more for bedroom and sitting-room, and 3s. extca for fires. In many eases there is no gas. Yours, etc., TOURING CHORISTER. ...

... . Sir,--May I, as a provincial actor of nearly twenty years, ask you, through the medium of your valuable paper, to give publicity to a scheme that has been in process of formation for some time to try to relieve the state that has been reached in regard to lodgings and the price of them? It is a subject that vitally affects all actors and actresses, and I do not hesitate to say that some ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,-- Has any one thought of tho consequonoes of this dearth of dates for drama companies, and whet it means to us druna aotoni and actress? My wife and I havo been eleven yeans in the profession, and the last three have boon the hardest. The number of companies besng in such excess to the demand entails great hardships on legitimate artists. This year I have ...

... . ALEXANDRIA DOINGS. To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--In your issue of October 2 you publish an article over the initials N. L. N., on. The Near East Forces and their entertaining. Your correspondent has overlooked, or, what is more likely, he had left Alexandria before it came into being, what was undoubtedly from an artistic point of view, if nothing else, the best of tftie many ...

... . To the Editor oi THE STAGE. Sir,--I was greatly interested in the article on this subject. The author is sometimes so badly served. His play is mis-cast, and the best ideas are distorted. Lines that are written to be spoken in quiet, even tones ars very often given in an unnatural, high-pitched voice. Of course, it is a great thing to be heard, but the boy at the back of the gallery is a ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--Not long ago you published a letter from a lady who deplored being unable to get a single engagement because managers had, through scarcity of men,, been forced to arrange joints. The married men who have remained at home, either through age or for other reasons> have been able to command tho best of joint erl- gagements that have been going, ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--Will you allow a comment on your comments concerning the British Drama League which appeared in your last issue? Tlie Drama League may, as you say, be pretentious, but your feel- I ing that its aims are unpractical can only be justified by the event. That its aims are useful you will, I be lieve, be the first to admit if you will glance through the enclosed ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. ,r,-^Stagre managers, as a rule, take addresses of tne company on Monday. I suggest that one stage manager should Jrop a Jine to another aaking him to forward any liats of addresses of following towns (here quote your town), and do the same for him (the latter ouoting his tour). What you don't get from one might be sup plied by another. Any bad re ports from ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir, I read tho accounts of tJis British Drama League Conference at Stratford-on-Avon, which oeared in Thb Stuck. It struck me that Miss 1 1 am man's speech on the ShaJcespesra Memorial National Thoatro Com- mitteo was very much to the point1, and I am at a loss to understand why it should liavo been so hotly resented by oertain members ot that committee. SureJy ...

... . Sir, I was certainly under the impression that after the enor mous struggle our Council has Ittul wo should at least find that it had secured a few improvements for the actor. But 1 fail to dis cover them in the various clausen set forth. Ani why are theee clauoes to be accepted as final, without consulting the members as a body. Surely we have a voice in the matter- -or why belong to a ...

... . Sir --The small -salaried artist (43 5s. weekly), whose class const i tuto the majority of the A. A. mem bership. finds at the termination of tour nowadays that be or she has ttuueoed^ in MiTtogf a vwy ines^r i *um. Under present conditions it would be utterly impossible for the small-salaried artist to give a week or fortnight's rehearsal free, as proposed in the Standard^ Contract, I ...