... To the Editor of The Stage Dear Sir. Perhaps Mr. Tom Arnold would care to explain in your columns the justification for a charge to the j public (on the stall floor at least) of i one shilling for the programme ot Ace j of Clubs at the Cambridge Theatre, j This programme contains a cover and eight pages, two of advertisements. It gives the usual particulars of cast and musical numbers, eight ...

... To the Editor of The Stac.b Sir,--I read with great interest the article in your column Chit Chat. under the heading Old Timers. I. too. am an old actress and over 60. and have found the same difficulty The agents, bless them, are far too busy exploiting the youngsters to be bothered with us and. save for a few exceptions, we're all out of work. The problem is. how to deal with the ...

... To (he Editor of Tm Stack. Sir,-- We are desirous of locating information regarding the parent* of our mother. Isabella. Our grandmother we believe. one of the Clifton Sisters who were on the stage as old- lime singers round about I85O-I8W. It appears that she died approximately in 18%. Her nvtrried name wss Edwards and it would appear that Clifton might have been only her stage name, al ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir.--A sentimental notion of mine has recently gone astray--but because it brought to light the possibility of the Canterbury Music Hall one day being rebuilt, you may, perhaps, be interested. To worry about a forgotten doorway in a dingy lane may seem rather absurd when Lupino Lane, for ample, ha.s been making such heroic eflorts to save, not a bit of falling ...

... 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 Editor of The Stage. Dear Sir. I should take it as a great favour if any of your readers could five me any information as to the where- about* of Arthur Slater, the original whistling Man in White. I am the son of his brother, (t. J. Stewart (who died I two or three years ago). My relations j and I often discuss the time* when, playing the London halls, he either stayed with us or paid ...

... To the Editor of Thk Stage. Dear Sir. If my father. Espinosa, had been with us at ifiis time, I feel sure j that he would have said, Bravo, I Dolin. so may I. through the courtesy of your columns, say it for both of us? It is about time that ballet waj appreciated in alt its facets, and that it should more often be presented to the general public in an understandable and palatable form. I ...

... To the Editor of The Stage Sir, As a music-hall enthusiast for over 45 years I was extremely interested in reading that the old Euston Music- hall is going back to live shows. In my opinion it was the most comfortable and well-conducted hall in London and, being on the Syndicate tour, was always an excellent show. I expect some of your readers remember the manager. Fred McAvoy, and his ...

... To the Editor of The Stags Sir, I would like to pay tribute to Frankie Howerd, Jack Jackson, Char- mi%n Innes. Dave Morris, and Frankie Vaughan who, with our local band (Staveley Works), Doreen Brailsford, and Cecil Staton, gave their services free of charge for a concert held at the Regal. Chesterfield, on Sunday, October 8, in aid of this appeal fund. The Associated British Cinemas, Ltd.. ...

... To the Editor of The Stage Sir.--To-day is Actors' Day. the forty-fourth since its inauguration in 1906. As a trustee I feel the object of this Fund cannot he too widely known. It can truly be said that what the profession from Irving downwards thought worthy of support then, is just as worthy to-day Indeed, what finer object could any society have than to encourage I helping others and ...

... To the Editor of The Stack Dear Sir. The Oxford Playhouse and the city's New Theatre have honoured the greatest dramatist since Shake speare The Oxford University Dramatic Society has never performed u Shaw play. A whole page of a pro gramme of an O.U.D.S. play in the open-air announced: O.UD.S.'s next i play will be Shaw's Caesar and Cleo- 1 patra This was not given, and no explanation was ...

... Kitty Attwood and George Allen, Denise Austin. Maureen Comfort, R d'Alion, Bobby Dixon. Billy Kay, Diana Kaye. Vera Makin, Juan Treger. Cyril Wheeler, Fred Younge. Applications for letters must be made to Ihe LEITLR-BOX DEPARTMENTT. Thf Sia.e Office, 19-21, Tavistock- street, W.C.2, and accompanied by an envelope properly stamped and ad dressed In cases where, owing to a duplication of names, ...