... A question for Miss McMahon I AM sure that all wouki-be writers for TV would be grateful to your correspondent. Grace J. McMahon (June 9 issue) if she wouJd clarify some thing in her letter. The lady complains that it is impossible to break into TV as a writer, unless you know some one. She has not, apparently, so far broken into the market yet she knows someone to quote her own words a well- ...

... CIR. I fully endorse most of Mr. Michael Codron's views contained in his article in the stage. A Success or a Flop? It is very unfortunate that today, in an age when so many people arc only loo willing to be led. that certain critics use the forum of the national popular Press as a chcap means of displaying their somewhat warped journalistic talents, by treating their review first4y as a ...

... LIGHTING SIR.--My attention has been drawn to a statement in a letter about modern lighting developments that you published last week, to the effect that acting area floods--not a very accurate description-- owe nothing in design or application to the German theatre inac- cin might intciesi iIk>sc of vour tedders who follow these technical matters to have thr is the further s have a w;iv ...

... 'BACHELOR FLAT SIR,--While every writer of a first play must expect a possible failure, as the author of Bachelor Flat I must express my horrified astonishment at the defiling, destructive, malicious, personaily maligning, pointedly vicious pens of the critics of the London daily papers Before David Pelham acquired the rights to the play many manage ments were interested, and one leading ...

... THIS IS NO NEW GROUSE SIR, Articles for the writer, advice for the writer, help for the writer Wonderful But, what about a few hard, cold facts for the writer? For a writer who is trying to make his way in the world of television has as much chance of getting his scripts accepted as a snowball has of surviving in hell. As a well-known producer told me in London recently: It is not a ...

... WHAT CAN AN AUTHOR DO? SIR.--As a newcomer to the theatre (though a lifelong protheatre (though a life-long proexperience with my first produced play, Pick Me A Quarrel, reviewed in the stage last week, is similar to that of other playwrights? There was a meeting of CORT in Canterbu/y the week of the show and other producers saw it. U was a splendid opportunity that I approached in all ...

... THE GOLDEN TOUCH' SIR. Michael Codron's article Success or Flop? omitted two important points. The provincial tour of The Golden Touch was too short to ensure a sufficiently smooth and well-geared production. Two weeks playing Edinburgh and two more in Glasgow was not long enough I was at the opening night in Glas gow and enjoyed a very fresh and entertaining show with superb danc ing. ...

... Don't blame me for that title SIR.-- 1 would like to thank you for your apt editorial comments on the issue of the withdrawal of the play Unwelcome Stranger (June 2. issue). However, you make no men 1 tion of the change of title. The real title of this plus is 1 Kids Are Murder, but this wts arbitrarily changed to Unwel come Stranger without consul tation with me and without any subsequent ...

... Sponsorship: is it feasible? LAWRENCE MASIDLOVER'S article, It's Time to Talk About Television and Sponsorship! (May 19 issue) raises a question in the minds of many people today. ror example: is not tne sponsored system the obvious choice for the Third Television Service In Britain? Television audiences are expanding every year and the Director General of ITA. Sir Robert Fraser. thinks that ...

... SIR, With reference to your Leader in last week's edition of The Stage. Mr. Perry, of Golders Green Hippodrome, omits to give in his list the Royal Ballet and the Festival Ballet in the past 12 months, both of which were packed all the time. It was a privilege and delight, from which we would be debarred rn a smaller house and the same applies to shows like The Merry Widow and The Dancing ...

... JyEAR SIR, With reference to your article on the demoli tion of the Marylebone Theatre, you may like to know that a photo graphic record of this theatre including the under-stage machin ery--was carried out a few years ago by Victor Glasstone for The Society for Theatre Research. A set of prints is preserved in the library of the Society, and a dupli cate set has been presented to the Enthoven ...

... C IR. My lower jaw fell open with a clang when I read Guy Taylor's extraordinary re marks about A-R's An Arabian Night he enjoys this kind of thing, he should be sitting in a cellar showing himself some old Sabu films. This was the worst script anyone has written for tele vision for a long time. The whole show was flaccid, visually muddled, and entirely out of scale for the small screen. One ...