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It will surprise us, indeed, when the issue is put to the fest, if it is not found that local Official dom mây be credited with broader vision that Mr. Elliot has revealed with his paltry · scheme.
Tory Scandal
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There is hope for democracy, and reason for some renewal of confidence in British political in- stitutions, in the proceedings at the Conservative Party Confer- ence last week. There was some. very plain speaking at the Con- ference upon the use that is made of the Party by "climbers" and the shameless purchase of seats that Is-tolerated in constituencies where its members are reluctant to unbutton their own pockets.
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Those entering Parliament by this, door are usually sheer dead-weight in the House of Com mons and a very bad advertise- ment for popular suffrage. As matters stand, candidates with more ability than money are vir- tually notified that they can find a career only with the Opposition: The Conference was sufficiently impressed with the scandal to carry a condemnatory resolution.
The Lyceum
It is hardly surprising that the British Government's plans for creating emergency camps in the country should have come under heavy criticism. Possibly there must be an experimental stage in the policy of camp construction, but the dimensions of the Bill introduced in the House of Com- mons last week seem to be need- lessly modest, in view of the cer- tain utility of these structures, whether Britain has peace or war, Camps of the type proposed are precisely what urban life de mands, now that there is a great expansion of holiday seekers, and it is recognised that town child-memorial to that great ren must have longer spells of fresh air.
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The decision to pull down the Lyceum Theatre, the scene of the great triumphs of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, has moved Lon don to unnecessarily gloomy. re- flection. Sir John-Martin-Harvey, who for fourteen years played with Irving at the Lyceum, feels that the famous theatre should have been kept as a permanent
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fame; and the general opinion seems to be that the disappear- ance of the Lyceum is á consid- erable blow to the prosperity of the living drama.
For évacuation purposes, the Minister of Health seems to
Sentimental regrets in plenty think that they will always play
hang round the Lyceum, Here a minor part to billeting. But the it was that the young Irving smaller tax that they would levy electrified the town in "The upon administrative supervision Bells"; that he entertained Cab should be an inducement to make inet Ministers and dignitaries of their use as extensive as possible. the Church in the Beefsteak Much the same view may be Room; that he spent £2,000,000 taken in Hong Kong regarding on his immense series of produc- when the refugee camps which have tions, and that Gladato
way been erected here, for different Prime Minister, would reasons than those governing from the House of needs in England.
It would be absurd, for stance, so much money having been spent upon them, were: to be pulled down on rmin of hostilities between Chir Japan when presumably fugees would begin to their for
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refresh himself, with the glories of Shakespeare.
But the Lyceum not the Lyceum
to-day Irving. Only
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