... To the Editor of The STAGE Dear Sir. Regarding mention in s recent edition of The Staoe that at Boston Repertory nearly half the company there are local amateurs, surely this is a case for British Equity to immediately investigate and stop also other repertory managements that may be employing too high a percent age of local amateurs, thos keeping the professional artsU out of work. Boston ...

... To the t-ditor of Tur Siac.e Pear Sir,-- As an actress-manager a bo, like your correspondent, Enid Hollins, turning umpiring playwright-- I should like to add my thanks to the readers of my first three-act play. Managers and manriKemcntt arc fre quently condemned for the lime they j take in reading plays vent them by the hopeful authors. May I say that I received the following letters of criti ...

... ARENA THEATRE To the Editor of Thb Stage Sir,--David Heilweil, a young man with revolutionary ideas of play presentation, gave Broadway audiences a 30year-old comedy, The Show Off, by George Kelly, in what some call central staging or theatre in the round, which consists of a platform in the centre of a room and around it, as m a stadium, rise 15 tiers of seats with no scenery, ...

... To the F.diior of Thf Stage Dear Sir,--My attention has been drawn to the paragraph in a recent copy of THE STAGE, in which Mr. MacQucen pope states that he is under contract to write a history of Covent Garden Theatre as part of the series of theatre histories he is doing I would like to point out that my work as official archivist of the Opera House should in no way upset Mr. Pope's plans ...

... To the Editor of The Stage Sir. I noticed in The Stage last week a paragraph. Three (fenera tions, and someone asks if this is a record. I would like to point out that this record is held by the Denville family. Four generations appeared at the Theatre Royal, Hanley all speaking lines. A copy of the day hill can be seen at Denville Hall, Northwood. Yours ALFRED DENVILLE. Harrow. ...

... Sir, surely the official archivist of the Royal Opera House is both in consistent and naive when he couples a demand in rather menacing tones for the nationalisation of the private collec tions of theatrical relics and playbills of Mr. Macquecn-Pope. myself and all other collectors of such material with an appeal to those of us who are your readers to present our as yet legally un nationalised ...

... To the Editor of Tin Stage. Sir. Would il he possible for you, in your column*, to nsk all artis-t*, when writing for work and sending managements photograph* and other particular! that en II for a reply, to enclose a stamped addressed envelope with their itppliealion* In this office we try to reply personally to all applicants, but when one receives jnvihitiK from 60 to 100 letters a day i ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE Dear Sir. Anne Kennington must count herself lucky, as a beginner, to have her play read so promptly. Per haps the most significant part of her letter in last week's issue is the fact that the two speedy and kindly returners of her play were a script-writer and a pioducer. My experience and I cannot count myself a beginner is that man agers, though often courteous ...

... BOSTON UPHELD To the Editor of THE STAGE Dear Sir, Naturally, as producer of j the Boston Repertory Company. I feel I must supply you with the true facts In 34 weeks only four amateurs have been used in our productions, one of these was callcd on twice and two others once, while the fourth has never appeared except as an off-stage laugh. ihe theatre, a fine ok! Regency build ing fully equipped ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE Dear Sir. I am interested in the letter headed Play Reading from Mr. Sydney Blow in the current issue of The Stage. Regarding the sentence, They cry out for plays, which lie for months unopened in their offices, I would merely say that all offices and manage ments cannot be alike. I am play reader for Messrs. Linnit and Dunfee. Ltd.. and 1 can assure Mr, Blow that ...

... To tl.e Editor of Tin Sim.f Dear Sir, --Mr. (..cm Id Blake i rijiht. All ma nagements u re not a like a nd it seems that the repertory managements and the smaller theatre*, who claim that they are look iny for new p la aro the wont offenders -with one or two notable exceptions. My own experiene tins been that West End maiWKemcrii are mmt prompt ;md courteous when it on script*., hot and Ihe ...

... To the Editor of The Stage Sir, The B.B.C. is sponsoring a series of programme* with the object of giving instruction in the art of acting for the radio to thousands who would like to do so but who have no experience. Far be it from me to criticise this seemingly benevolent gesture on the part of the B.B.C.. but have those concerned with (Coatinaed in next column) K oaliastd from pneediax col. ...