THE FRENCH PLAYS AT THE GAIETY.
['TO TRH EDITOR OF TIIR `. SPRETATOR.]
Sne—Last year, I had to correct your reporter on French, Plays on a matter of fact ; and this year, I have to do the same. There has been no "game of brag" on the part of the Manage- ment of the Gaiety Theatre, and. no statement that stalls, &c., were difficult to get. The subscription this year is nearly i7,000^ for six weeks, or an average of One hundred and fifty pounds for each performance. If the subscribers on Tuesday in Whitsun. week used their tickets sparingly, that is their affair, not ours.. I trust that you will give this correction publicity ; last year, you screened your representative from correction.—I am, Sir, &e.,
Gaiety Theatre, Strand, Ana 11th. Joins lloszuseSILEAD.
[Certainly, we had hastily supposed that there must have been some connection between the very high prices charged and the. very empty state of the house. If, as Mr. Hollingshead now convinces us, there was no such connection, we would suggest to him that in future he might profitably offer to sell stalls. at half-price, or even quarter-price, to people who would engage, not to use them, but who only want to boast to their friends of having bought them, and then sell them again to bondfido. theatre-goers, at a less extravagant rate.—En. Spectator.]
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