COMPETITIVE CONDITIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 22, 26 September 1913, Page 5

COMPETITIVE CONDITIONS.

INFORMATION WANTED. [To The Editor Stratford Post.] Sir, —Would you permit me through the columns of your paper to call the attention ol competitors to the essay competitions in connection with Bernard’s Pictures. Personally, as a parent ol prospective competitors, J should like some definite conditions specified by the proprietors, as a little incident of a week or more ago brings painfully to my mind how the manager of the said pictures can indulge in mental gymnastics, by upsetting the ordinary rules of competition and introducing ideas of Ids own, peculiarly in his own interests. To bo plain, Mr Diamond gave out that a singing competition would be open for amateurs. On the night in question two competitors breasted the foot-lights, one singing half his song and the other putting up a good performance. The latter was then told that it was no competition, because there were only two competitors. Why did the management not stipulate before that there must be three or more competitors before a prize would be given; then they ••ottkl have plea..eel themselves whether they dang or not? His failure to do this sufficiently demonstrated his motive, and does he think, in face of the above fact, that anyone with more than a vacuum in his cranium cares about entering in a competition that is going to be conditioned by a sot of rules formulatedafter the competition, peculiar to a psychological makeup that maintains that a child can learn more from one of Bernard’s Picture Shows than from a whole week of reading.—l am, etc., YOUNG OMAR.