“It was indeed a pleasure to see, at your theatre, the play of ‘The Little Lady in Blue.’ It is long since I have so much enjoyed anything. The rightly conducted Theatre still remains to me what it always was--the home of that magic art which cheers the loneliness of life and opens the portal into an ideal world. Alas, that it is not more generally conducted for such a purpose! ‘The Little Lady’ can hardly be considered _a play_; but, as you have presented it, it is a charming entertainment--a whimsical, almost grotesque, portrayal of eccentric characters and incredible incidents, which are made to _seem_ real, for the moment by the glamour of the Stage. Since the plot is so frail, I was all the more surprised and delighted that so much interest could be excited and sustained and so much pleasure diffused by the histrionic treatment of a theme so slender. You have set the play on the stage in an exquisite manner, and it is acted throughout with a scrupulous care and zeal that, in recent years, I have seldom seen equalled. It is easy to ridicule such quaint, fantastic, almost dream-like pieces. As Frederick Locker wrote: ‘We love the rare old days and rich That poetry has painted; We mourn that sacred age with which We never were acquainted!’ “But they have a potent charm, a sort of mignonette and wild-thyme fragrance, a power to touch the gentler feelings and soothe the mind, and so they are precious. “There is one blemish that should be removed--namely, the character of _A Girl of Portsmouth Town_: it adds nothing to the situation, and it is only a blot on the delicacy of the play. “I am glad to know the production is prosperous: it deserves to be--and it ought to fill your theatre for months, and I hope it will. “With kind regards, “Faithfully yours, “WILLIAM WINTER.” The cast of “The Little Lady in Blue appended: _Admiral Sir Anthony Addenbrooke_ A. G. Andrews. _Anthony Addenbrooke_ Jerome Patrick. _Captain Kent, R. N._ Frederick Graham. _Joe Porten_ Horace Braham. _Baron von Loewe_ Carl Sauerman. _John Speedwell_ Charles Garry. _Cobbledick_ George Giddens. _A Waiter_ Adrian H. Rosley. _A Process Server_ Harry Holiday. _Landlord of the Portsmouth Inn_ Roland Rushton. _Anne Churchill_ Frances Starr. _Miss Quick_ Lucy Beaumont. _A Girl of Portsmouth Town_ Eleanor Pendleton. “THE VERY MINUTE”--A MEMORANDUM.