... Speaking for and against subsidy SIR 1 have not undergone the con version you attribute to me (page 1 The Stage and Television Today, May 19). In my lecture last Sunday at the Bury St Edmunds Festival, I did indeed mount the case against subsidy for the ...

... Speaking the facts SIR--While [he actual content of Stella Barnes's letter (April 16) made us smile ruefully The Stage's heading of Jesus Christ Superstar 'cheated' audience does great disservice to the industry which your newspaper is supposed to be ...

... Speaking up for the ranks SIR Those of us who have chosen to specialise in theatre for children have for years banged the drum for increased recognition and status for our work within our own profession. How refreshing, therefore, to find a champion from ...

... DOUBLE SPEAK SIR, For the benefit of those Equity Members who have been bemused by the attitude of the National Press in general and Mr Bernard Levin in particular towards the Sunday's SGM's. I have pre pared a short glossary of the terms that occur most ...

... Relatively speaking SIR, I am anxious to trace descen dants of my grandfather, Frederick Robert Hall, who was a well known concert harpist of his day. He was uncle to Marie Hall the eminent English violinist, who lived at Cheltenham, had one daughter ...

... Speaking for the Individuals SIR,--Peter Bennett was born of wealthy parents, went to public school, inherited a great deal of monev. and died a multi-millionaire. I, the eldest son of an out-of-work Welsh miner, left school at 1 4 in the thirties to ...

... Speak for yourself SIR,--Howard Goorney is at it again. Obviously not content with the Referendum result on the subject, he continues to drone on about his favourite pet-hate--Lists, and also Act For Equity, June 28. He warns us that in the AFE adven ...

... SPEAK UP! SIR, Science and its mate, acoustics, have made a hearing mess of modern theatres. Hearing aids should be supplied to all the cheaper seat patrons. This in con trast to the perfect hearing from front stalls to back gallery in all theatres built ...

... Speaking for the defence SIR Although I sympathise with the plight of your reader who was twice disappointed by his visit to Follies, I feel honour bound to defend Julia McKenzie against a charge of absenteeism, accompanied by a large photograph, singling ...

... Speaking out beautifully We must not be too hard on Trevor Nunn for introducing microphones into the National Theatre. Where is he to find young actors who have been trained to speak clear, straightforward English, audible at the back of the gallery ...

... SPEAKING SHAKESPEARE SIR. If the recordings of the Marlowe Society are anything to go by, Peter Hall's remarks about the speaking of Shakespeare in universities are fully justified. The academic temperament has nothing in common with the theatrical one ...

... It speaks for itself SIR, As one of the British sign inter preters who appears twice a month at the Albery Theatre in special sign language matinees of Children of a Lesser God, I would like to reassure Jamie Wells concerning his comment in THE STAGE ...