... Rolling Mills SIR, I am the Entertainment Secretary of the Rolling Mills Club in Enfield, and I would like to point out a printing error in THE STAGE (July 27), page 5 Raising Kane. The club is in Enfield, and not Tooting. Please also through the medium of your paper please thank Tommy Kane for a very commendable write up of the function on the last Saturday in June which he commented on. ...

... Manchester memories SIR, How many artists are still around who appeared on the boards of the former Queens Park Hippo drome, Manchester and the Salford Hippodrome? Some may be able to reminisce over Bolton's Grand. Neville Dyer 2 Moorland Avenue Manchester M8 6WT Tel: 06 1-740 08 11 ...

... Peanuts SIR.-- I read with interest James Hartley's article Working for Peanuts (THE STAGE. December 8). One area of the entertainment field where one is really exploited is where children are employed for example, the panto babes and children who play small (or import ant to the play) parts. They are often recruited from drama and dancing schools and the pay hardly covers make-up and ex ...

... Coventry Controversy SIR.--John Linsie (THE STAGE. January 5) is right--the so-called controversy in Coventry arising from our production of Funny Peculiar was in fact no more than a storm in a sub-editor's tea-cup--what is disturbing and irresponsible is the way in which Mr Linsie has continued stirring the pot. He accuses us of going out of our way to engender gratuitous con troversy ...

... God Bless Doddy! SIR,--As some members of your profession possibly know, we are in the Manchester area and in danger of losing our best-loved theatre, the Manchester Palace. I write as a theatregoer, not a thespian. If you lived in this area you would also know that this same theatre would have been closed this Christmas but for Ken Dodd presen ting his own Christmas show, which is doing ...

... BUREAUCRACY AND THE ARTS SIR. I certainly agree with D. D. Howe that The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company must not be 'pushed off the road' (Letters. January 5). The provinces must be allowed to see and hear it and that is one of the reasons for the Arts Council's existence. In this instance a grant made available from public funds will not be frit tered away on grandiose superflu ities. The Arts ...

... COME TO HOXTON SIR, Although I agree with Mr Nightingale that Wilton's Music Hall should be restored sooner rather than later, might I suggest to him that he pays a visit to Hoxton Hall to see an excellent example of a wor king mid-I9th century saloon hall (ex-McDonald's). He can, if he wishes, come and see live theatre every Friday evening at 8, with music hall performances occurring on the ...

... NO COMPARTMENTS SIR,-- I agree wholeheartedly with Ms Margaret Miles (Letters, February 2)-- to compartmentalise is to destroy! We should act now to stop the decay, before it goes too far and ruins the Profession completely. A good case in point is the English Music Theatre Company. The con cept behind its foundation was, and still is, that of music theatre: ie, singing combined with acting, ...

... BIONIC EXTRAS SIR,-- I would like to say a word for the lower ranks, ie, extras, walk- ons and so on. In these enlightened and so-called days of equality, there are those (in a minority) who treat artists as block heads and third class citizens. This is ironic because there is a wealth of talent and enthusiasm within the group (although of course, there are those extras who are forever ...

... GEORGE GHENT/MARIE H0PPS SIR. I am trying to trace an actor and writer named George Ghent and a Miss Marie Hopps who until 1973/4 lived in Belsize Park, London but then went to work in Canada. I would be most obliged if you could, through your columns, enquire as to their present whereabouts. V !_ Yours sincerely Anthony Hartwell Wyndham Gomersal Road Heckmondwike West Yorks. ...

... UNHEARD EXIT LINES SIR. I cannot agree or accept the glowing report given in your paper last week to the Liverpool Playhouse production of Streamers. I can only believe that your reporter did not hear the many remarks being made at the end of the play as the audience left the theatre. A thin overworked plot that has been repeated so often in theatre and television with rampant self indul ...

... Blacklist of offenders SIR,--In view of your excellent and timely editorial on the maltreatment of aspiring writers, may I persist in perpetuating its sentiments, as they never seem to sink into the people who need them most. r ...