TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8989, 31 December 1894, Page 3

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We cannot undertake to publish letters copies of which have bean scab to any other journal. Correspondents desiring insertion of their communications should therefore send us a statement that they have nob been and will not be forwarded to any other paper.

OPERA COMPANY.

TO THE EDITOR OF TUB PRESS, ' Sir,- —I am in entire' sympathy with the "Father of a Large Family" who wrote you a few days ago.. These are not the times to raise prices of admission. I have but a small sum to spend on the theatre, and if it will not go far enough to cover admittance for my wife and daughters, of course I too must stop away. Though my circumstances permit of pit tickets only, 1 sympathise with the occupants of the stalls who, when entering, are held up to unseemly derision, and would suggest to the management that amongst the extras at Is each they propose to introduce should be invisibility of bald men and mashers whilst goiug to their seats, through the kind agency of an usher and large umbrella.— Yours, &c.

A Silknt Pittite. TO THE EDITOR OF TUB PRESS. Sra, —Several of your correspondents seem to be greatly concerned about/the prices to be charged'by the Opera Company when they (Opera Company) oome to Christohurch. If I remember rightly, the prices have been five, three, two and one shillings for several yeats past. Surely "A Mau with a Large Family and Small Means" and "A Poor Bachelor,'' &c, do not think Messrs Williamson and Co. are running an expensive Opera Company simply for the benefit of their health or from philanthropic motives. lam quite sure that there will be excellent houses without "A Man with a Large FamilyandSmallMeans,"orauy of the other hard-np correspondents putting their hands in their pockets.—Yours, &c, Pokaki.

TO TOE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —The correspondents writing so far on this Bubject seem to consider the question only from the point of view of the public. Now I, like "A Lover of Opera," look at it from the point of view of the Company, but I came to a different conclusion from him. The Opera Company have a right to charge as much as they can, but it is folly to charge so much that people will stay away. Now I may say-that I am in the habit of going a good deal to the theatre, and I like to take others with mc who cannot afford to pay as well as I can. Now in these bad times my income is considerably reduced, like other people's, aud I simply cannot afford to pay high prices, bo I shall simply abstain from going at all. I know that there are innumerable people of the same iutention, so white the prices are thus raised I am satisfied the Opera Company will get very poor houses, \ Surely it must pay them better .to have the house full at the usual prices rather than empty at Melbourne prices. However, they can please themselves, but I intend to please myself by staying away.—Youra, _c, Another Bachelor.