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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1680, 11 May 1904, Page 61

It is difficult for laymen to credit som® of tli© letters received by players and managers, but tbey are none the less authentic. For instance, at what is known as the ''super agency'’’ in New York recently the appended application was actually in the mail: —''Dear S’iT, —I am a young man 20 years of age, and would like to know if you have enny chance fore me in your company. I have bin working at a good thrad fore about 2-t years, and my pairence do not now about me workeing at the business at all, my pairence keep bothering me to go upon the stage., But I hope you do not think I am stage struck. Is al the same to me if I get a 1 posit on are not, I'll tell you why I rite this letter, we have a good deal of friends', and relations in our house, they al say, saim thing that I am foolish fore worksing at the thrad lam working at. We have a quartet to home, and I am the tenner singer they al say I have a splendid voice for singing they have trubeled so that I go and learn the vaudival thrad., We have an awful jollie familie at home we are eather singing ore telin each jokes to make each other laugh. I am willing to take and learn to anny kind of a posi-. tion for the starte in your company so as to learn the thrad to satisfy 'my pairence. I have plaid with the Sarlstdat Amateur Dramatic Club in takeing anchirs ore Hebrew comedian part I am quick and active on my feet and hand. If you now enny company let me now and I will refir the letter to them. Pleas let me liar from you soon as possiable.” Joseph Jefferson, the noted American actor, who visited “the colonies" some forty years ago, the creator of Hip Van Winkle, has recently celebrated his 75th "Birthday. Mr Jefferson is a native of Philadelphia, and began to .act when he was, it "s said, only three years old, and he has been noting ever since.