ABSTRACT
Having been given the free use of this Theatre, we may look upon ourselves as the first endowed Theatre in any English speaking country, the English speaking countries and Venezuela being the only countries which have never endowed their theatres; but the correspondents who write for parts in our plays or posts in the Theatre at a salary are in error. We are, and must be for some time to come, contented to find our work its own reward, the player giving his work, and the playwright his for nothing; and though this cannot go on always, we start our winter very cheerfully with a capital of some forty pounds. We playwrights can only thank these players, who have given us the delight of seeing our work so well performed, working with so much enthusiam, with so much patience.
that they may have found for themselves a lasting-place among the artists, the only aristocracy that has never been sold in the market or seen the people rise up against it.
