... C.R.A.P.E. SIR,--1. Organised attacks will be launched (at the A.G.M.) to take over Equity and destroy the individual rights of members. The agenda for the A.G.M. con tains no evidence for this hysterical allegation C.R.A.P.E, far from seeking to do this, has as one of its. cardinal principles the expansion of the individual rights of members; it has no intention of taking over Equity, and ...

... PARTY LISTS SIR,--It is here again--the Equity Annual Council election bringing with it the usual charges and counter-charges of one group wanting to run Equity not as a trade union, but as a gentlemen's association with decisions being made over the port at the Garrick Club. Once again, we nave tne scares of reds under the beds, or' perhaps if we are to believe everything we read, already ...

... MUSIC HALL SIR, I am writing a new illustrated history of the music hall, and I wonder if any of your readers have any memories or anecdotes, or any old programmes, photographs or the like, which they could send me. Anything which was sent would be carefully copied and returned immediately, and full acknowled gement for use would be made in the book. Please send to me at 17 Glenelg Mews. ...

... Auditions for New Faces Dear Sir, With reference to the letter from Mr. Chris Wortman concerning the New Faces audition he attended. Nobody got there at midnight, but the first act. an organist plus organ had been waiting since five o'clock in the morning. He played his music pressed against the back wall of the stage still wearing his street clothes. Mr Wortman didn't see him because of the ...

... CLARIFICATION SIR.--I trust that I may beg to use your columns, once again, to clarify an issue causing me grave concern. Any member who misconstrues my references to Walk-ons. by as serting that the tiers referred to include Extras, will be guilty of an attempt to sabotage all progress in negotiation on behalf of Walk-ons. I have submitted an Amendment to clarify the issue mostly through fear ...

... STAND UP AND FIGHT SIR,--I read with interest your editorial in the current edition of The Stage when you argue forcefully for the profession to stand up and fight. Certainly it would be a noble cause for Equity to begin to sing the praises of live theatre by a sustained public relations effort. With perhaps over 70% ot Equity's actor membership out of work at any one time, it is certainly ...

... EXPLANATION SIR, A number of people who have asked me why I am not standing in the forthcoming Equity Council election had clearly as sumed that twenty-five years of inertia in Harley Street had finally taken their toll, or, more seriously, that 1 was out of sym pathy with the policies and achievements of the outgoing Council, and saw no hope of exert ing any influence over their suc cessors ...

... PROTEST SIR,--I would like to protest at the pressure being brought to bear on the Government to ban the forthcoming visit of the Bolshoi Ballet on account of the alleged mistreatment of the Panovs. I was not present at the various Equity council meetings when this matter was discussed so I would like to take this opportunity of putting my point of view. Of course one believes ...

... PRAISE WHERE DUE SIR.--Your reviewer rightly showered praise on everyone connected with the Ayckbourn trilogy. Everyone, that is, except the Greenwich Theatre, which is thanked for the use of the hall. What is this supposed to mean:- Isn't the best theatre a co-operative effort? We at Greenwich decided to mount the trilogy. We paid for it from our own slender resources and used our own ...

... RIGHTS OR WRONGS? SIR, Let me try to put it in words which even Derek Bond might find difficult to misunderstand and misrepresent. There is a clear distinction between removing members' rights-- to which I am as opposed as Mr. Bond is--and replacing inadequate rights with more democratic ones of which I 'am strongly in favour, unlike Mr. Bond. In failing to make this dis tinction, Mr. Bond ...

... Hard lines on the artists Dear Sir. Seemingly New Faces auditioners never learn. Chris Wortman's experience (Television Today. June 12) of Victoria Palace conditionf was similar to that I noticed earlier in the year at the Oldham club where ATV's New Faces auditions were held. At least half a dozen artists walked out in disgust. These free-for-alls and haphazard arrangements may suit the audi ...