Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME.

"Not Forgotten"

TIME

New York, N. Y. New York, N. Y.

Gentlemen: Nov. 2, 1924

I have just read your little article, entitled Flowerless, in the Oct. 13 issue of TIME. I was Mr. Caruso's secretary for several years up until the time of his death, and I am in a position to give you some facts concerning the matter which this article treats rather fantastically.

Immediately upon the death of Mr. Caruso, it was the intention of his widow to build a chapel worthy of this great artist and man in which his body might rest for all time. All arrangements were made, and it was calculated that three months would elapse before the structure would finally be completed. Meantime, Mrs. Caruso preferred that her late husband's body rest somewhere else than in an exposed grave, and she made arrangements with friends of the family to keep it in a private chapel until the new one should be finished.

Labor conditions in Italy were such that great delay in the building was unavoidable; and eventually it took three years and thrice the original expense to put up the chapel. The work was carried on, nevertheless, as fast as possible, and no detail has been neglected.

The chapel is now complete except for interior decorations which are being worked on at present. I am enclosing the two pictures of the structure which were published last week in the Musical Digest.

I am convinced that the persons who originated this story are of that group of publicity seekers who, by associating themselves with an illustrious name, hope to attract attention to their little selves. It is a mistake to give credence to such reports. Enrico Caruso is not forgotten.

BRUNO ZIRATO.

"Faint Praise"

TIME

New York, N. Y. Lancaster, Pa.

Gentlemen: Nov. 3, 1924

As a reader of TIME from cover to cover every week, I think I can fairly offer a line of criticism about your handling of a personal item.

In several of your recent numbers, you have referred to the engagement and now the marriage of Miss Beatrice Beck, daughter of Solicitor General and Mrs. James Beck to one S. Pinkney Tuck, almost referring to him as "Mrs. Tuck's husband," as if he were wholly unknown and wholly unimportant in the event.

For your information, S. Pinkney Tuck is the son of the late Judge Somerville P. Tuck, who for many years was President Judge of the International Tribunal in Egypt, and rendered distinguished service to his country in that capacity.

Mr. Tuck is a graduate of Dartmouth College, about 1913, and for a young man has rendered distinguished service in the Consular Service, and more latterly in the State Department at Washington.

Incidentally, the attendance of the President and Mrs. Coolidge and many of the Diplomatic Corps at the wedding, was, I believe, not only in deference to Mrs. Tuck and her distinguished father, but in respect to a distinguished public servant in the State Department.

So please don't damn with such faint praise one who is deserving of at least a three line notice for his own accomplishments.

And now that that's off my chest, I want to tell you that I am reading and enjoying TIME very much every week. I have gotten to be quite dependent upon it; and it is exactly what I have been looking for for a number of years.

ROBERT E. MILLER.

A Hidden Meaning

TIME

New York, N. Y. Essex-on-Lake Champlain,

Gentlemen: N. Y., Nov. 1, 1924

In your last TIME WEEKLY MAGAZINE for Nov. 3, on page 5, you published a picture of

Col. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., which I would say was entirely uncalled for.

In the first place, I do not think that the Colonel is the type of man to do such a thing and more than that, I do not think he would care to have his picture taken doing it and published in what might be called a "decent" news magazine.

Whether you mean it for the Republican or the Democratic Party, I cannot say.

I also grant that many a time the Colonel might care to do it to the Democratic Party, but would refrain because of his position and possibly his name.

Hoping that in the future you will be able to show better taste and judgment, I remain, etc.

COPELIN R. DAY.

The picture referred to showed Col. Roosevelt in the act of making a public address. The editors are at a loss to understand what Subscriber Day means. --ED.

Pavlowa vs. Karsavina

TIME

New York, N. Y. New York, N. Y.

Gentlemen: Nov. 7, 1924

We want to thank you for your excellent notice of Karsavina in the Nov. 3 issue of TIME, and for the delightful references to the "most arrogant advertisement in the world". . . .

Comparisons with Pavlowa are probably inevitable but we would like to call to your attention a paragraph in the Chicago Tribune written by their dramatic critic, Oct. 31: "If you attend Karsavina's performance when she comes to Chicago, you will see one of the three or four great dancers left to an undeserving world. And you should pay no heed to the twitter as to whether she is more talented than Pavlowa, or less; they are not dancers of a kind. They were together years ago under Diaghileff in Russia, and were not in artistic conflict; they were as unlike as Nijinsky and Mordkin were unlike. ..."

It may take time to establish Karsavina in America after such arrogant advertising as you have reference to; but we think that Karsavina will quickly overcome the hypnotic influence of Pavlowa and become popular for her own qualities and in her own right without any comparisons or talk of the "incomparable."

WOLFSOHN MUSICAL BUREAU, INC. HORACE COON, Publicity.

The Chicago Tribune does well to describe the controversy over Pavlowa and Karsavina as "twitter."--ED.

From Rapid City

TIME

New York, N. Y. Rapid City, S. D.

Gentlemen: Oct. 27, 1924

I'm an advertising man by vocation as well as by instinct. I like TIME. I like TIME well enough to keep telling my friends about it.

I'm helping you watch that circulation of yours climb up and over the 100,000 mark. When that happens, Rapid City is going to be well represented on your subscription list.

ART BROWN.