... To the Editor, THE STAGE Dear Sir, Your article in The Stage on June 21 re a try-out theatre for variety acts was excel lent. However, there arc a few obstacles including finance to overcome before such a scheme can be made practical, but with hard work, enthusiasm, and a large dose of true comradeship these try out shows would benefit consider ably artists and agents and even tually the ...

... To the Editor of The Stage. Dear Sir. It k welcome news that works arc m the course of preparation on the life and achievements of William Poel. I should like to remind hk biographers that a valuable collection ...

... To the Editor of The Stage. Dear Sir. May I call your attention to the following? In 1947 Geoffrey Kendal and Peter Merit on formed a small company of six artists, to present abridged Shakespeare plays, in an Elizabethan setting, to the schools and colleges of India. The company was private enterprise Despite hair-raising adventures in remote places the tour was a great success, thanks in part ...

... To the Editor of Thi- Stage. Dear Sir.-- Miss Ellen Pollock's plain- live cry, Can beggars be choosers a remarkable commentary on the pre- *M state of what *he rightly describes as our helmed profession. It it ironical, to say the leaM. that an artist of Mi Pollock 's distinction should be a beggar, while anybody with the necessary but elusive cah is free to be the ctKKwer. to use ihe West ...

... To the Editor of The Staoe. Dear Sir. Oscar Quitak'* suggestion in h letter published in ihe columns of The Stage last week, that we should i all get other jobs and not have to rely exclusively on the theatre. really j shocks mc. This is tantamount to say- I ing that there should be no professional theatre, and that we should all become amateurs, because a profession in w!mh one does not ...

... To the Editor of The Stage. Dear Sir, am at present gathering material for a book on the psychology of the actor, the first study of this kind ever to be made. As a result of testing and research there seems to be good reason to believe that it is possible to get a far more accurate picture of any given individual's suitability for a stage career through psychological investi gation than can ...

... To the Editor of The STAGE Dear Sir, In your issue of July 19, referring to Mr. Eric Elliott's forth coming visit to India, it is stated that This is said to be the first time that a company of this kind has made a lour on such a scale since Matheson Lang visited India in 1912. May I point out that simultaneously with Lang's visit to India I made a tour of India and the Far East on a very ...

... To the Editor of The STAGE Sir,--Some of your readers may be interested to know that the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham, has the finest theatre collection on Shakespeare in this country, and that it is freely available to all for information and consultation at all times, either by letter or personal visit. Photostat copies of an non-copy rignt material can be supplied. The ...

... (To the Editor of The Stage) Sir, Re your article on page 3 jf last week, Where Can I See i You Working? 1 am in full agree- i- iient with your demand that artists should have an opportunity to show what they can do, and [hat nanagers, impresarios, and pro- iuccrs should be given the oppor- unity to see such artists on a professional stage. May I draw your attention to the act that Dolly ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE. Sir, I read the letter from Mr. Walter Saltoun with veiV mmrh interest, and I agree with most of what he says. In cidentally, in the same page as his letter was a living exemplification of his criticism. I refer to the notes dealing with the great work done by Dundee Re pertory Theatre by producing new. and good, plavs. 1 would not have the West End any less ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE Dear Sir. 1 m prompted u> write t you by Ihe editorial entitled Pr >phets 1 feel very strongly about the matter, for, as far as opera is concernrd, I am a fair example of a British artist being treated uitli curiou* indifference. Whatever sort of reputation 1 may have made and I speak not only for myself hut for British opera singer* generalU after ilaymg Don ...

... To the Editor of THE STAGE Dear Sir. America has its Oscar, and here we have the Silver Star I Award for the best film actor and actress of the year. Could we not have a Novcllo Trophy presented in the same way for the best actor and actress in the theatre? I am sure there are those who will agree that many a per- i formance given on the stage is just as worthy of some similar recognition. ...