... CORRECTION FROM BRISTOL Sir, I must write at once to correct a serious and misleading error in Nicholas Renton's letter published under the heading Rake's Progress on the Rates? in your issue of November 28. Mr Renton states that the Bristol Old Vic has been 'tailed out by the Arts Council to the extent of another £100,000. This is quite incorrect and I am at a loss to know from whence he ...

... A Mouthpiece? SIR,--Des Wilson in his article on waste in subsidised companies adopts a familiar, sentimental tone. It's White House paranoia, last heard when a President tried to hold out that he stood far the truth--until his cover was blown. Does Mr Wilson speak for himself in this article, or is he the mouth piece of the directors of the Royal Shakespeare Company? When he says, ...

... Handle with care? SIR, For Frederick Jaeger to repeat by implication the fiction that the present Equity Council can take the credit for the recent successes in negotiations with the BBC, com mercial radio and the new Provincial Theatre Contract is very much in line with the dishonest claim made in a recent CRAPE advertisement that the Rules Revision Committee were UNANIMOUSLY in favour of the ...

... MK. My apologies to the Bristol Old Vic and Douglas Morris. I did in fact misread the report about their grant situation in the press, and therefore withdraw my comment that they have been bailed out for an extra £100.000 by the Arts Council. I am happy this company will be one of the few to end this financial year with a clean sheet, and not as was reported in The Stage with an expected £48 ...

... Inaccuracies SIR,--In the hope that the majority of Equity members have not been taken in by the apalling scare tactics being used by the callers of the Referenda--and that they will not be put off from voting altogether, for it is not too late and papers bearing postmark of 19th will be valid, or they can be delivered by hand I feel that some response must be made to the principal ...

... A hollow claim Quote ANOTHER event last week was the publication of the Independent Broadcasting Authority evidence to the Annan Committee, talking extravagantly of the present ascen dancy of ITV, as we see it, in the fields of news, current affairs, drama and perhaps documentaries also.' 'The claim of dramatic superiority sounded particularly hollow in an autumn when the one-shot play has ...

... Dispel the confusion SIR.--In her letter to your columns Miriam Karlin saw fit contemptuously to admonish for inaccuracies two previous correspondents and then promptly proceeded to wallow in that very sin herself. May I. speaking as an erstwhile confessedly apathetic member of the silent majority and a supporter of the demand for the current referenda, attempt to dispel a little of the ...

... Conflict the essence SIR,--As an Equity member and member of Crape I wish to answer, and dispel, some of the points made by Nigel Douglas in his letter which are seriously misleading. 1. Affiliation to the T.U.C. cannot be described as subservience, this is misleading. We are affiliated, not a servant. He missuses us as well as the word. 2. Who ever said the Equity branches would be small? ...

... Resolution Nine SIR. I must again crave your indulgence in order to refute yet more misleading allegations; this time made against my own personal motivations bv Michael Denison. Resolution Nine was in no sense an attempt to pre-empt'-the work of the Rules Revision Committee. It was drafted eight months ago. in the knowledge that no proposals dealing with restructuring would otherwise be put ...

... Jennie-this was no remarkable woman Dear Sir, I cannot say. not having seen Young Winston, whether or not I agree with your correspondent (Let ters, December 12), that Anne Ban croft would have been the only choice for Jennie. I am sure Lee Remick is a good actress but I waited through 'the whole of the series for her to be the remarkable woman we were constantly told she was during the ...

... Music head to leave BBC THE BBC's head of music pro grammes. John Culshaw, will be leaving the BBC in June to become a freelance. This may include assign ments with the BBC. Because of this the BBC has decided to merge music programmes and arts features next year into one department known as Music and Arts, Television, under Humphrey Burton who, as already announced, will be rejoining the BBC ...

... UNOFFICIAL BRANCH Sir, May I, through your columns, inform Equity members living in central London, that we are hoping to form an unofficial central London branch. An informal meeting will be held on Saturday, December 7 at 82 Neal Street, W.C.2 from 12 noon till 2 pm to discuss the formation of the branch. All Equity members living in Wl, W2, W9, WC1, WC2, SW1, and N.W.8 (Westminster borough) ...