... DEADLY SAMENESS To the Editor of THE STAGE. Dear Sir.--Your Sheffield correspondent touched on a salient feature of repertory circles in last week's Stage by protesting at the deadly sameness of repertory players. One finds it a little difficult to sort out just what the writer was advocating, hut if, as seems poisible, he wanted to see specialised players in provincial repertory, he was ...

... HELPING HAND To the Editor of The Stage. SIR, Twicc within the past few weeks it has been reported to me that the comedian in the revue playing the theatre where 1 was due the following week with my Thanks for the Memory show has gone forward at Ihc linalc and told the audience about, the coming week's attraction and had given my show a pleasant boost. Personally I think such good feeling is ...

... To the Editor of The Stage. CIR, Under the beading, Another Customer Lost, your correspondent, B. Stephenson, expresses indignation upon hearing a certain artist, and he observes the difference in the material offered on TV and the music hall stage. Although I maintain most of our comedians boycott filth and give of their best, I sympathise with this reader. There have been, and still are, too ...

... . |)IAR Sir, I'm glad you brought up about the gags directed against a few faithful followers. I love variety and go every week to different halls but it makes me feel uncomfortable and ill at ease, be cause I'm always alone and when the comedian starts gagging about All alone, lady? Where's your husband? I'll come down there in a minute and keep you company I just feel I want to run out. To ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE Dear Sir, I know a repertory company, playing a season at a recognised commercial theatre, who recently presented a comedy in which the leading part was played by a beginner in her fifth week in a pro fessional company. Another lead ing part was played by a beginner in his first professional season. The rest of the company were mostly inexperienced beginners. If ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE. SIR,--I should like to answer the Misquotation in The Daily Sketch and quoted by Georgie Wood in THE STAGE, dated July 5. Firstly, the quotation that The Sketch attributed to me, I did not say. I answered their questions as follows: Q. What sort of contract are the girls on (in Le Cirque Nu de Paris A. An Equity contract. Q. Can they leave the show when they ...

... To the Editor of The Stage. QIR> In all my vears of reading The Stage, I declare your issue of May 17 to be the most interesting. For a letter appearing in it seems to indicate that nudes can write I Ths is to me a startling fact, for by inference and observation I had concluded that the life of the nude was a form of vegetable existence; that in the allocation of intelligence she was one of ...

... Dancing in Revue To the Editor of THE STAGE IN almost 99 per cent of revues on the road to-day the dancing and chorus condemn the show from the very beginning. There are very few revues Of any) in which the dancing act performs either with the chorus or as princi pal dancers. By this, we mean the dancing acts do their set act. and that is that. There is very little co-operation in scenes. In ...

... STICKS OF ROCK To the Editor of The Stage. Dear Sir. I .saw a letter in a well-known daily paper from a lady asking people to tend her sticks of rock for her stall in aid of u good cause; she made over £9 on the rock people sent her. It gave me the idea of writing this letter to Tin Siv.i- to ask its readers to send me something (however small) for our stalls at a bazaar we are holding in the ...

... Same Few Names RE: your article on fading Variety Halls by Ross Wade. 1 would like to endorse most excuses put forward. However, it's no use begging the TV for mercy and asking for TV Holidays to entice the people out to the hall*. You need only look at the bills each week and sec for yourself that the same few names do the rounds. Variety must accept the challenge and create it's own ...

... Letter to the Editor. Dear Sir. I frequently *ee mentioned in your columns the entertainments of present-day Gret Yarmouth, ibo. a few week* ago. reference to some of j the earlier summer ahowt. Do any of your readers remember ChappeH s Ring, where many star* of the music hall firs* appeared? This entertainment was given in a circular wood-and-canvas structure on the beach, with wooden stage ...

... (To the Editor of THE STAGE). Dear Sir. Your correspondent a ...