... consider that Mr. John Wood house has made out a good case for his society, and wtoen he speaks of the large sums paid tc musicians for the performance ol works is he speaking collectively or individually? Because I think I can say that individually the rank ...

... again, is a manager ex pected to pay a novice for, say, a few Jines this minimum salary Pav him or her for learning to walk, speak, move? How, if you are going to rank novices as full- fledged artists at the minimum, are you your begin ners? People must ...

... 178, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C.2., Feb. 5, 1921. [Hie reference to Mr. Re&n in the article was as follows Mr. Clifford Rcan, speaking for foe Council, said foat the A.T.M. was of opinion that it was useless to I rowed with a new contract so long as the present ...

... of this scandalous and un- English attempt to wreck my enterprise. The A.A. cannot justify their methods bv untruths. Facts speak for themselves. I take this opportunity of once more expressing my absolute con tempt for the methods of this par ticular branch ...

... should free the recog nised practice of playwriting from its' absurdly small circle foi another reason. At present, and again speaking generally, pro vincial audiences must accept either what London audiences nave en thusiastically supported or what managers ...

... amongst men. In relation to A.M., I would like to sav that he strikes the right nail on the head in moat of hi re marks. He speaks of titled ladies and gentlemen and war-time actors, but does not say anything of the war-product actor. By war-pro duct I ...

... has a legal object and cannot be de- footed in what one cannot help feeling is a position of publio in terest. Mr. Thring speaks of 44 this undeserved testimonial. ITow respectful end how becoming for a lawyer to write thus of one of the judge*. He asks ...

... an opinion in tho matter. I his we resent very much. We take it that the main causo of complaint is giving studt lines to speak and small parts. W o should like to point out and testify to the fact that it is not dono with the object of depriving legitimate ...

... properly gets going a a Is it really good for us in any sort of way, I wonder, to harrow us just for the sake of harrowing, so to speak I mean, the lunatic women who put a girl's eyes out because they're jealous of her, and the lady who wakes up from a seven ...