... CIR, Your editorial on Restric- k-' ted Entry contains information so inaccurate as to make nonsense of your central argument. The resolution passed at the An nual General Meeting of Equity does NOT say that new members shall be restricted to those who have completed a defined term with recognised repertory companies, etc. On the contrary, it suggests that entry in the field of repertory shall ...

... is no valid or logical argu ment against it. If there is, we have yet to see it. I should have thought it was obvious to everyone, though appar ently not to Hugh Cross, that if, over the years, you limit the num ber of people coming into the pro fession you eventually will benefit everyone, including the over 40s I: won't happen in a coupic of years, but no one claimed it would. If he is so ...

... Running Time of 'Blitz!' SIR', I am rather concerned as to the correct running time of Mr. Lionel Bart's musical Blitz! Having read the majority of the critics' reviews, I noted that three critics made mention that the musi cal lasted three hours I was therefore somewhat shocked, when I attended the first Saturday matinic of the show on May 12, to find that the musical only lasted just over H ...

... WHY NOT LOOK AT SCHOOLS? 1 REGRET that in your interesting paper you do not find space to men tion the excellent pro grammes on School Television. Many wonderful actors and actresses appear on both channels, but never a men tion of their performances appears. This must be very disappoiniing for them. I will declare my own in terest at once. I have scripted two programmes for A-R's Books To ...

... THE YOUNG AFFAIR SIR,--Margaret Cowan's column (March 10 issue) contained a reference to the effect that Ron Rowson with David Henley will produce The Young Affair for the Grade Organisation witb Cliff Richard and Pier Angeh Since producing Serious Charge my company have had Cliff Richard under contract for his sole and exclusive film services for a film this year to be followed by a ...

... IN-THE-ROUND SIR, In your references to pioneers of Theatre-in-the- Round in this country, I am sur prised you have overlooked John English and his touring Arena Theatre, which 1 believe was the first professional effort of this kind in England. This charming horse-shoe shaped theatre with its semi-circular curtain track seems to me to retain a lot of the advantages of the proscenium stage, ...

... 'PHONEY' DEAR SIR,-- I am one of the phoney provincial critics that Mr. Lawrence, author of the ill-fated Meet Mr. Tombs, talks so disparagingly about. in nis letter, ivir. i.awrence brackets his own play with Aunt Edwina which also came to Bristol and was. in my opinion, infinitely better, and states that we phonies made the mistake of taking a comedy seriously. In fact, the one thing it ...

... NIGHT OF 100 STARS SIR, I am greatly disappointed to bear that there will be no Night of 100 Sears midnight chanty matinee at (he London Palladium this year, simply because the usual producers, Charies Rus sell and Lance Hamilton, are, for once, not available. For eight years or more now, both these splendid people have expended a colossal amount of time and energy on the organisation of dm ...

... The Lighting Man SIR.--What an excellent article in THE STAGE on Revolution in Sound, by David Collinson. How ashamed we theatre people should be. Long before cinema, long before television, the theatre was a going concern, yet what strides these new form of entertainment have taken forward, whilst we have stuck in the mud, and in many ways slipped back a step or two: Most provincial ...

... Old King Cole SIR.-- Mrs. W. Toms is correct in saying that Leslie Macdonell's Palladium pantomime this year is not the first time that Old King Coile has been given a full panto mime story and treatment. I have before me as I write a programme of His Majesty's, Aiberdeen. when Robert Arthur Theatres Co. present by arrange ment with Howard and Wyndham Ltd. the entirely new and original ...

... Whitworth Jones SIR, In connection with some research on which I am at present engaged I am trying to trace the career after 1922 of the actor Whit- worfh Jones. His last recorded performance would seem to be as Sir Peter EHingham in Love in a Cottage at the Globe in January, 1918, and his career to have been most varied. It even includes a period of four vears during which be served under ...

... Managements and Plays QIR.-- I sympathise with Mr. MHU O in his problem of trying to interest managements in his play, but cannot in any way agree with him. He is being grossly unfair to our managements when he states that plays often lie in offices unread or months on end'. Surely Mr. Mills, you are letting your imagina tion run away with you? Months? A fow weeks perhaps, hut that seems to ...