THE LATE ENTERTAINMENT.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 301, 24 October 1881, Page 2

THE LATE ENTERTAINMENT.

To THE EDITOK. Sir.—lt is with deep regret that I learnt the other day that the usual courtesy had not been extended to your contemporary the Express, on the occasion of the late entertainment—that no ticket was forwarded to that office, and that this was the reason why no critique appeared in the Express. Of course I cannot deny that the manner in which that journal treated the first performance of the Society was deserving of great censure, and betrayed both ignorance of stage matters and spite against the Society. The Society was therefore quite justified in witholding the advertising from that journal, hut a ticket should most assuredly have been forwarded to the office to enable the reporter to be present. As this was not done it looks very much as though the members were afraid of being criticised. Before concluding I must congratulate the performers and especially the lady amateurs, upon the excellent manner in which the affair passed off, and also upon the large attendance of the public, which latter was sufficient evidence that the harsh and undeserved criticism received upon the first occasion did not have any weight with those host qualified to judge. I may also remark that the last entertainment was decidedly better than the usual run of amateur performances, and I trust more difficult pieces will yet be presented by t!ie Society.—l am ko.,

A Member. [Our correspondent is entirely in error when he stites that no ticket was forwarded to the Express office. On enquiry " e find that the usual practice was complied with, and tickets were forwarded some days before the entertainment. Of course wo oan only surmise as to the reason why no critiquo appeared in the Express. It may lie the critic was ashamed of his last effort, but this is doubtful, and it is generally understood that our bed contemporary expec s to receive so much advertising in exchange for imieh criticism, good, bad, or indifferent. —Eu. M.T.J