To the Editor of the "Norta-Cuina Dairy News."
S1r,—Who wrote the plays that are now being each day advertised in your columns as being performed at the Olympic Theatre? From last number of the "Observer" note that the name of the man, or woman, who wrote the play sometimes ig given in the)'st of plays advertised by that journal and sometimes is not. Why are these things in London and Shanghai; and as far as I know in New York? Are those who create the parts in a ley jealous of the wretched author who had the effrontery write it? Or does the producer in not publishing the dramatist's name act on the principle of being cruel to be kind? Personally I think the omission of the author's name is a mistake. Lots of people like to know who wrote a play: just aa lots of people like to know who wrote a novel, even more so than who published, and who printed it.
I am, ete,
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