_To the editor of a popular monthly magazine upon its first birthday:_ I understand that your September issue will be made to mark ----'s first birthday. Judging from your paper your birthday plans miss the issue; because---- becomes a year younger every September. I do _not_ congratulate you even upon this fact; because you cannot help it. I do _not_ congratulate your readers because they get your paper so very cheap. I _do_ congratulate myself, however, for calling attention to these wonderful facts. _To W. Lestocq, referring to a statement made by R. C. Carton, the dramatist:_ I don't quite understand what he means by "holding up" the play. Over here it is a desperate expression--one that means pistols and murder, and all that. I presume it means something different in London, where Carton lives. _To Mrs. C. C. Cushing, the playwright, declining an invitation:_ It is impossible to come and see you because I haven't got Cottage No. 4, but I've got Cell No. 3 on the stage of the Empire Theater, where I am passing the summer months. _Even Frohman's cablegrams reflected his humor. In 1913 Billie Burke was ill at Carlsbad, so he cabled her some cheering message nearly every day. Here is a sample:_ Drove past your house to-day and ran over a dog. Your brother glared at me. _When Blanche Bates's first baby was born (she was at her country house near Ossining at the time), Frohman sent her this message:_ Ossining has now taken its real place among the communities of the country. Congratulations. _To Alfred Sutro, January, 1913:_ I was glad to hear from you. First let me strongly advise you to take the comedy side for the Alexander play. I honestly believe, unless it is something enormous, and for big stars and all that, the other side is no good any more. For the present, anyway, I speak of my own country. The usual serious difficulties between a husband and wife of that class--really they laugh at here now, instead of touching their emotions. They have gone along so rapidly. Take my advice in this matter, do! I am glad you have dropped that scene from the third act of your Du Maurier play. Now that I am back to town I intended writing you about it. I assure you I had a jolly good time for the first two acts of that farce, and I can see Gerald Du Maurier all through it. The third act worries me for this country, as I wrote you. But the performance may change all this. It is so difficult to judge farcical work where it is so thoroughly English in its scene that I speak of to get any idea from the reading of it for this country. Everything is going along splendidly. _To Haddon Chambers, March, 1913:_