... CORRECTION SIR. Just a brief correction to your review of the Leeds Catch 22. This was not in fact the British premiere as the play was staged t>y HPLG at the Cockpit in London this year on Thursday. January 30, for three days. The Stage was invited but unfortunately was not able to attend. The real mystery is of course why nobody had staged this inter esting piece before. It has been in ...

... WHAT A BRANCH CAN DO SIR--As a contributor to the letter columns of THE STAGE on three or four occasions. I feel as perturbed as Ian Barritt was on your impartiality as to how Equity should be run. I agree with him that the EMAG article should either have been in the letter column or as a paid ment. One of my letters to your column in the past had many mis prints. This, you kindly reprinted ...

... LION COMIQUES SIR,--A century ago the music hall stages of Britain were dominated by the Lion Comiques--George Leybourne, the original Champagne Charlie, the Great Vance, Arthur Lloyd and G. H. Macdermott were the big four. Chappells have invited me to write a book Lion Comique on the men and their songs. As I want to tell the full story, I would be grateful for any unpublished data or ...

... THE ANTI-REFERENDERS Sir, Other than Equity, is there a Union of workers anywhere, in this country or elsewhere, some of whose members openly and actually declare opposition to the holding of a referendum? I am merely putting a question. Your*: faithfullv Reuben Elyy. 145 Gloucester Avenue, N.W.I. ...

... Dear Sir, I am in almost total disagreement with Sandy Allison in criticising the acting in Thames's Jennys and London Weekend's The Affairs of the Heart. Lee Remick gives a very creditable performance as Jennie Jerome. After all, it is extremely difficult for an American to portray another, who won the heart of Lord Randolph Churchill, probably the greatest British statesman of this century ...

... ROSIE LYONS SIR. I would like to have news of a relation in our family. She was a dancer named Rosie Lyons, and I have seen a copy of The Stage with a picture of her on the front page, in costume, as a ballet dancer, but when my mother-in-law died many papers were lost. The time is about 1911-1912, as far as I know. I would really appreciate any news. Yours sincerelv. E. J. FIRMIN (Mrs) 33 ...

... FUNDS FOR THE FRINGE SIR.--In last week's Stage Leader you admitted your almost total lack of knowledge of the mechanism by which Fringe companies obtain grants. You then proceeded to print a piece devoid of facts and full of slanders, mystifications, smears, inaccuracies and mean innuendoes Page 20 of the very same issue carried an article More Demands from Women which contained' ...

... OLD VIC OUTLOOK SIR,--The Arts Council's warning that lack of money could mean the mothballing of the Old Vic when the National Theatre Company moves to the South Bank will not gladden the hearts of Londoners with pride in their city. Visitors from home and abroad for whom going has long been a prime tourist attraction will have one more reason for holidaying elsewhere. Festival organisers ...

... THE AUTOGRAPH HUNTER SIR,--Can you please allow me, a mere member of the public (one might almost say a cross-section) a little space in your columns? If so, I'm sure your subscribers will hear something to their advantage! Reflections of an Autograph Hunter (Written with the icy cold wind howling round me at the stage door yet again!). I sometimes wonder what the stars and would-be stars ...

... EVELYN NORRIS HOME SIR,--I was very interested in the appeal for more residents at the Evelyn Norris Home, Worthing, which appeared in the Equity News Sheet last month. I am 81 and live with my widowed daughter. I decided to go to said Home for a couple of weeks' holiday in September. The day my daughter took me down, the manager and his wife were attending a funeral in London, so we were met ...

... Repetition SIR,--Your correspondent William Maxwell seems to share the philosophy of that if lies are repeated often enough they will be believed. Once and for all Conn and Van- nessa Redgraves lobby were not refused an audience with the Coun cil. On the contrary, in spite of a very busy agenda, they were invited to send three of their number into the Council chamber to present their ...

... Sheffield Lyceum SIR,--May I. through your columns, thank the hosts of your readers who opposed the recent proposed demolition of the Sheffield Lyceum, following my earlier letter. All letters were presented to the inspector and indeed quotations from several of them were also used as evidence in the various statements. The inspector from the Depart ment of the Environment has now reported, ...