NP/AW

LYRIC THEATRE, HAMMERSMITH, W. 6.
(London & Local Playhouses, Ltd.)

Directors:

ARNOLD BENNETT
ALISTAIR N. TAYLOR
NIGEL PLAYFAIR

A. W. PILBEAM
Secretary.

Lessee and Manager
Business Manager

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Telephones :
Box Office: { 3012 Riverside
{ 3013 "
Manager's Office: 3015 Riverside

Telegraphic Address :
"Amalyric, London."

February 17th, 1926

Bertie van Thol Esq
10.£. Heath Drive,
Hampstead, N.W.3.

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your interesting letter; I am afraid I am not capable of giving a criticism of James Joyce's EXILES - I found it in many ways a very unpleasant play, but then many of the thoughts with which the young people of today are struggling are in the nature of what the older generation would call "unpleasant."

I certainly did not find the play at all dull, in fact, much of it was stimulating in quality and very beautifully written, though there were a good many places in which the attention, even of an audience desiring to be appreciative, would flag owing to Mr Joyce's inability, through want of experience, to know how the attention of an audience has to be held.

With kind regards,

Yours very truly,