THE LETTER MANIA.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 968, 24 September 1908, Page 18

THE LETTER MANIA.

Evtij dramatic star, as is well known, receives shoals of letters from all sorts and conditions of men and women and many are the curious stories told about the line these letters sometimes take. Margaret Anglin is of course not exempt from this particular form of mania on the part of the general public, and she has quite a collection of quaint epistles received at one time or the other during her career. She added a local one to that collection the other day from a virtuously indignant gentleman who had evidently picked her out as one of the distinguished Americans at present in Australia. He began with a “ protest against the action of President Roosevelt in treating so lightly the cadets who were guilty of ragging or hazing a junior to death,” and added that it would be a good thing when national quarrels were settled by arbitration which would bring about the destruction of the. military spirit. He did not mention the connection between hazing and the military spirit, probably because he was in a hurry to administer the jam after the physic, which jam consisted in congratulations on the wholesome character of the piece Margaret Anglin has been producing, and in commenting adversely on most of the other plays now being done in Australia by nearly every manager in the field —and all th s on one single sheet of letter paper.