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A DESPOT OF THE THEATRE
FRANCE SHOULD BE ON SPEAKING TERMS WITH GERMANY
Sir Arthur Pinero's methods in HEIR TO FRENCH THRONE
the theatre were once described by
a manager as "delightfully despo- tic." He attended every rehear- aal, never allowed the smallest de- parture from his script, and never altered it during production. He! would act every part in the play himself in order to show the cast: exactly how each line was to be spoken.
INTERVIEWED IN EXILE
BELIEVES IN HIGHER WAGES
(By Bertrand de Jowerel)
Also, like Mr. Eden Phillpotts, This is the first interview given ialist organisations to which your he rarely attended his own first by the Comte de Paris, son of the politicians find themselves bound. nights. "After seeing the dress Duc de Guise, and heir, in the eyes They are then powerless to take rehearsal," he said, "I cannot of legitimists, to the throne of the measures necessary in order to bear going to one of my plays for France. It is the first indication improve the condition of the several weeks."
Įthat exiled röyalists, whether one workers.... They find themselves |regards them as important or in-caught in scandals such as we significant, are thinking in terms of have recently witnessed, such as But once he did attend a first the modern world, and expressing we are even now witnessing...." night.
Alexander Woollcott, the sympathy with the Left Wing. New York dramatic critic, telle the story.
TACT
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Strong State Required "Then is your Highness' anti- capitalist?"
SAT in the Brussels tram,
ing over the questions I had "I think it necessary that the Tan-prepared for the man whom our great feudal lords of to-day should royalists call "Monsieur le Dan-be curbed even as the great feudal lorda of five centuries ago were
It was May 27, 1898, the first night of "The Second Mrs. queray."
rose, Phin."
dictatorship can accomplish
As soon as the curtain Pinero, having staked his all on But would he see me? I had an eurbed by the kings. 'I feel that Jan obscure provincial actress for appointment. Only I had not told no
the title role, slipped out of the him that I was a Left Wing journa-that task as efficiently as the mon- theatre and vanished into the list. Would the door be closed?
archy. sheltering darkness of St. James's It was not.
"Your Highness often goes to Park.
The gate of the "Manor d'Anjou" Italy. The achievements of Mus- The actress, disturbingly beau- was wide open, and the overgrown solini are, some say, impressive." tiful, but indisciplined and inex- park was swathed in a white even-
"Fascism may be an ideal re- pert, had been good in rehearsal, ing mist-the home of the Sleeping gime for Italy. That is for Italians Could she keep her head on a first Beauty. I was led into the wait to decide. But I know that the night?
ing-room and gazed upon the por-French nation do not want a regi- Pinero, unwilling to watch yet traits of the prince's ancestors gime that would restrict personal and very large transactions are for the finish of the first act.
unable to stay away, hurried back wild, wise, humorous, Henry the freedom, and might not hold bu- Fourth, and sad. suspicious Louis man life sacred. They want the negotiated without any hitch.
the Thirteenth. Here were, side State to be strong...but is the Grain, and most articles of food MAKING PAULA
by side, the hated Austrian, State really strong in a dictator- Marie-Antoinette, and the hand-ship? Is it not true that the cash, and the list of such articles There George Alexander, who some, debonair Duc d' Aumale, dictator must constantly revive the will be extended during the had always disapproved of the se- who sang dirty songs with the fervour of his followers? He must (coming year.
lection, told him that the pretty troopers during the conquest of then be a greater demagogue even On the other hand it has filter-provincial had lost her nerve. ̈ ̈ ̈ Algeria.
than a politician in a democratic Jed through to Everyman that Pinero brushed him aside and
State Both Claims United The meaning of the closing of money can be managed by the went straight to his leading lady's the ledgers in any business office State, and depends for its value dressing-room. He took her hands and the tricolour, nestling against There were flags also, the white
"The country," he continued, has lost its self-confidence. Those is so clear that it is taken for on public policy. The devalua in his and kissed them. "My dear," each other. Over the house, a responsible for running the coun granted; but in the world of tion of the American dollar was he said, "if only you will play the large, rambling, late Victorian try must recover a sense of duty State business, which depends on decreed not because of the slump next three acts as magnificently structure, the tricolour alone flap- events that, like time and tide, in business, for at no time has as you have played the first, Iped in the evening breeze. I re-
without which France cannot live wait for no man, it is just as any State had a bigger reserve to shall be a made man."
ja life worthy of her history. And useful as in a private concern to guarantee its currency,
then..." It was When he came back for the final der failed to make his come-back
membered that; in 1872, the preten-¡ have some definite period at decided that it would be advis curtain, the house was on its feat because he stated that, for him, slightly formal "We" for a friend- He leant forward, dropping tha which we pause and look around able for the dollar to have a cheering. to estimate gains and losses. lower value for internal trade, had recovered her nerve.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell there was but one flag, the white The week between Christmas and and it was written down accord-
"I have a horror of war.. And I flag with the lilies of gold. The New Year Day is such a "slack-lingly; to avoid any misunder-
pretender of to-day, the Duc de feel very strongly that the lack of tide" period. How does our bal-istanding it was stated that the
Guise, and his son, the Comte de stability, the absence of purpose in Jance of public prosperity stand? volume of foreign trade was so
Paris, belong to the younger our foreign policy, makes it impos- Cash ledgers and the annual cast-small in comparison that it could Fused
branch of the royal family, the Or-sible to benefit from whatever ing of balances are intended not be disregarded. The President
undertakes. An electricity merger is announc-leans, the elder, the Bourbons, be- policy one so much to indicate the financial has the power by decree to write ed.
ing extinct. The Orleans ruled might speak with Germany; as a position for its own sake as the it down still further; and the
France from 1880 to 1848, under matter of fact we ought to." lines of profit and loss for our silver purchases, which will be Financial Note
the tricolour. So the white flagi Peasants Support Sought guidance in the coming year. On legal up to a quarter of the value Platinum blondes are somewhat here is a mere reminder that now
How does the Prince propose to our insight into the true condi- of the gold reserve, are another lighter to-day.
the claimant unites both claims, win his way to the long deserted tion of our business, and the op-means of keeping the value of
that of the Bourbon and the Or-throne? He regards it as possible portunities of advance, will de- the gold dollar down to the value British to The Caw
leans.
that some political leader, feeling pend our future prosperity, which is considered convenient. "The rook is one of our national
After a few minutes a very tail, his Prime Ministership to be Taking the most general and The third point about money birds," declares a naturalist straight, soldierly old man came frugile, might recall the Royal obvious feature of the last year which Kas filtered into the com-
in, bowed, and, behind him I be Family in order to lean henceforth first, we cannot fail to notice that mon consciousness is that the For Cryin' Out Loud
held a slender, youthful figure upon something more durable than something is happening to the payment of debts due in another "Is tear gas the only effectivo the Comte de Paris,
a mere majority in the House. But world's money; money as a fun- country's money is also a matter means of dispelling moba?" asks a
auch a move could not come in the damental condition of civilisation, of policy. The debts due to writer. is not what it used to be
near future. The Royalist idea has It is England on the Continent have Well, it's a step in the riot direc-"Here we are, like a couple of un-tinuous propaganda of the "Action won some ground through the con all, very well for the economists all been written off in effect, if tion.. to tell us that the old belief in not yet in form, because it was
Francaise." But only in the bour- money as something solid and de-more profitable to retain the The Sunday Dinner
geoisie. finite, something valuable in it-active trade than to collect the self, was a delusion, or at any ledger debts. The failure of the rate a misunderstanding. The U.S.A. to make any similar fact remains that most of us are arrangement was responsible for very-simple-people-and-carry-on the rise in the dollar which made, our activities by taking most of foreign trade very difficult. the facts of life for granted. Payment can only be made in The Decision Analysis is a difficult and con-goods if the amount due exceeds fusing operation, and when prac- the very limited credits avail-barber or an author. ticed by untrained minds is apt able from the sale of goods in
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Your Daily Smile!
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Mary bought a little lamb-
It was so very small
That when her husband took his
share
She'd none herself at all.
"Appalling Disparity”
The A.D.C. left, and I thought,
der graduates who, don't know what to say to each other."
But I was wrong. The Comte de Paris knows his job better than I know mine.
If
We
"We must win the workers and the peasants," he said. "They must be taught to look upon the Evidently he did not intend that
King as their natural ally against... France should continue to know
the feudal lords of to-day. It has nothing of his family.
"There is an appalling dis-justice to the weak and the op lever bean the King's role to grant parity," he said, "between the con- pressed. A mighty change-over in adition of the labouring classes and
that of the ruling class. And the place before the monarchy can come the minds of the people has to take aristocracy, has unfortunately
back. For we cannot conceive a shown no Buch sense of respon-monarchy which would not have as sibility as that which exists in ita baals the workers on the land England.
"We are exiles, as you know, and
and in the factory."
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I don't know whether to be
Why not toss for it; heads
.
or
to have unexpected and occa- the country that is to receive the tales, sionally disastrous results.
If payment; and if goods are not
the old attitude to money was a wanted every payment takes The Petty Gash Account delusion, it was a very usefuljaway 'some portion of the money
A barber in the West End fines
one, which made possible a mar that might go to support trade. his assistants when they cut cus-I can judge the political situation vellous raising of the of life Can wonder that
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people of the world. Intellec-admit that they are radicals are tually it is noteworthy that there asking why the total of credits Epigram
has never been a year, in which should be limited by any other Some girls can get all the so many books about money have consideration than the people's! they like, and others like all been published as in 1934. Fifty wants? If this is a heresy the men they can, get. years ago there was an occasion-responsible statesmen will in the al book published with some near future have to show why it Truism such title as "Money, how to use is so, for that is the direction in
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in France only from hearsay. But I regard it as disastrous that the, men who demand stable, orderly men government, and those who clam- the four for better working and, living conditions, should find themselves opponents, enemies. Such is the result of bad government. The
The modern girl thinks she's a working classes of France are in a
and invest it." Now every month which thought is travelling what live wires and the reformers agree brings some new book with a title ever labels may be used or dis- she is shocking like "What is Money?"
carded. "Rugged Individualism” We note that the passing year rhas gone the way of many other The Elements has established that whatever outworn ideals, simply because it
The caveman, declares a scientist,
money may be, it is undoubtedly has not been able to adapt itself did not know what real love was
a necessity. Gone are the days to the new needs of a new era
when the Soviet would issue a What used to be a dull and re- Don't Cry
law that paper currency issued condite science has had to Still, Le had a rough ides.
by the Government must be used descend into the market place! The least shed the better..
in the same month, and would and defend its methods and solu-f
become out of date and not ne- tions. "Planning" to make the
fearful plight. And the regime which has failed to ensure, in our Age of Plenty, that every family should have enough, has disquali fied itself.”:
"Your Highness thinks it es sential," I said, "that a vital, mini- mum should be guaranteed to every family. Such is the aim of
the Radical Socialist and Socialist Partias."
Yes, but your parties can come
gotiable if not so used. The products of an age of plenty and a very much more interest into office only. if they have money medium of foreign purchases and available for more people, or even ing field of controversy than the to spend on elections and newa- sales is now carefully safe for everybody, will be the stuff of cld politics of jealousy and terri- papers. And where does the money guarded by foreign "credits" the politics of the near future; torial acquisition
come from? From powerful capi
says here that cannibals won't eat a man who smokes a "Well, who do you think is going the taste of a lot of cannibais!" to stop smoking just to pamper