... . Te the Editor of Tbi Stage. Sir--At more or less regular in tervals in the history of the A.A. has occurred a sort of religious revival of interest in its activities following a slump, and in the present manifestation which is, if anvthirip, slightly overdue. It was inevitable, and Mr. Hutchison and Mr Lasson are no more responsible for it than the skv is for the rain. They are merely ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir, Referring to the interesting obituary notice of the late Robert Mantel 1 in your columns, this versatile actor when supporting Misa Wallis also sustained the fol lowing r6les Romeo, Orlando, Bencdick, Leonatus, Posthumus, Octavius Cmsar, Claude Melnotte, St. Lo Love's Sacrifice Modus The Hunchback It may be interesting to add some of the names of tho company ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir, Having always interested myself in the above, I fully agree with Mr. Henry Tweedie's argu ments, and feel confident that the founder, the late Mrs. Kitty Car son. provided tho Fund with its correct title The new title, Lane- lev Hal!, conveys nothing, and ;s likely in time to alienate outside sympathy from the Fund. Wnile I am writing it ruight oiportune to ...

... . In the House of Commons on March 21 Mr. Rose (Lab.-Soc., Aberdeen, N.) asked leave to introduce a Bill dealing with agencies and registries. The Bill (he said) sought to restrict the amount of commission chargeable by employment agents to 10 per oent. for ten weeks. It sought to i prevent an evil known as commis sion-splitting. It was known that agents had invested money in man agement on ...

... . Sir, I notice from Hansard that Mr. Frank Rose, M P- 'n .,ntro- dticing the Agencies and Registries Bill in the Flouse of Commons, stated that it had the support of the Society of West End Theatre Man- agers. This is not correct. The society has not expressed any opinion either for or against the Bill. Yours faithfully. H. COLLINS, Secretary. Society of West End I 1 Theatre Managers, 52, ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--With reference to the very interesting notes, in a recent issue of your paper, about the performance in Vienna of a version, or perversion, of The Man Who Was Thursday, I should liko to assure your contributor and your readers, if indeed it is necessary that the whole of this extraor dinary proceeding is as much a puzzle to me as it can bo to any body. I ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--I should like to trespast on your valuable space in order to make known the claims of the Southend Repertory Theatre, which, apparently, your correspondent has not heard of. This organisation, under the directorship of Mr. H. HodgsonBentley has its headquarters at the Am bassadors, Southend-on-Sea, where they started operations on Feb ruary 5, 1923, and ...

... . To the Editor, THE STAGE. Sir, I do not question the right of tho Actors* Association to start a Christmas fund for tho relief of its members who are in need, but I was greatly astonished to real in last week's issue of The Stage the statement; No fund reaches more directly tho really struggling and deserving artist, which ap peared in the letter signed by cer tain officials of the Actors' ...

... . Sir,-- It may interest you to know that when I came here ten years a?o the cost of production was about £2 for a set of sateen pierrot costumes. These, with the ?aitists' own comedy props and the girls' evening frocks, constituted a summer entertainment for a twenty-weeks' season. A decode has passed, and we managers find our selves. at any rate in towns like this, forced to Bpend a matter ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir,--Your correspondent, A Yorkshire Journalist, hits the right nail on the head in complaining of the advance work of most of the touring propositions, and justly compares the well-organised film publicity of the picture-house unfavourably with the hazard, slip-shod manner in which the modern touring manager does his work. But the film man has better mate ...

... . To the Editor of THE STAGE. Dear Sir,--From time to time in your paper I have read articles on the subject of provincial managers and the treatment they receive when in the course of 'their business they apply for seats at London theatres. The following incident, I think, will interest you, and, I think, should bo made public. I go to London every year with the express purpose of seeing ...

... ''RESIDENT WORK. To the Editor of The Stage. Sir,--In the leading article in your issue of March 21 under the above heading you describe the Rusholine Repertory Theatre (Manchester's repertory theatre), as semi- professional. May I be permitted to correct that statement? This theatre is not, nor has it ever been, anything but entirely profes sional. At the present moment we have a company ...