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Lady Ozford, who was hostess at 10, Downing Street, from 1903
to 1916-longer than any other living woman-writes, on the in. adequacy of a Prime Minister's salary..
It is time the public should know," the declaras, "that unices a. Prime Minister is a man of means he cannot show adequate hot- · pitality to his colleagues" in the. Cabinet, distinguished, visitors from abroad, or maintain himself on the salary he receives to-day. Since no man holding this great office could even suggest an in- crease of his own salary," the proposal should come from those who" are living and who have held the office in the past." There has always been a demand Among the public for reminiscences and memoirs either by, or about, famous and "conspicuous people; and had the publishers in France of the eighteenth century been alive to-day they would have made
fabulous fortunes.
It would be interesting to know how much Mr. Pepys and « Mr. Greville could have made had they written their books for money,
are inclined to Although we think the curiosity of the public to know about the diet, the doings, the habite, and the sayings of famous people is due to a vulgar love of title-tattle, I am not sure that we are right in this surmise. Human nature will always be more interesting to more people than anatomy, astronomy, biology, or the digginge among the tombs
scale of miserable parsimony which no man of sense or human- ity can contemplate without pain and alarm."
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ÍDY QUR FILM CRITIC.) „
The Popular Sin" has all the elements of a box office' succees and is an excellent film of ita sort. Big names on the caste, luxurious settings, gorgeous dresses and a epicy story, make a picture "that most adulte will enjoy, though children would be more bored by it than harmed.
"The Popular Sin is loving some one else's husband or wife, and needless to say the scene is laid in Paris for the French are always made the stage scapegoats in these affairs, which bowever, are not unknown in any country.
Who Should Speak?" Money went further in those days than it does now, and much more expected of a Prime Minister. When my husband and I lived in io, Downing-street we entertained Florence Vidor and Greta Nissen, on an average fifty to one hundred two of the acknowledged beauties people a week at lunch, dinner or of the screen, play the heroines, tea, and at our garden parties and several other pretty ladies flit members of the Opposition as well across the stage. The two hus- as the Government could be seen bands are Clive Brook who is talking together under the trees. generally cast for the strong silent Their Majesties the King and man and Philip Strange who shares Queen honoured us with their com- the roles of wealthy dissipated
B. favour never paay, at dinner, before conferred even in the days Frenchmen with Adolphe Menjou. when he had rich Prime Ministers
The opposing of these very dil and a great Court. We were asked terent types in heroes and heroines to give to every hospital, and ex pected to subscribe to every ebaritis ciever as it does much to keep of mysterious and forgotten poten-able enterprise, from fallen girls, the characters clear, and, as all the strayed cats, to a colliery expio-parties are equally guilty of "The Serious subjects can only com- sion, or a jumble-sale. mund the attention of a circum. scribed cirele, and rewspapers are well advised to confine their community by the Bar that I say more like tributions to science by publishing money is made in twelve months occasional questionnaires na to by the leading lawyers to-day than whether fish laugh, birds feel, moles think, or lobsters bark.
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I do not suppose there has ever been a time when there was so much curiosity about the private lives of public people or so many unqualified authore to eatisfy it as there is to-day. The credulity of the gaping has been stretched to the utmost by the mirrors," the "dusters," and the signed and anonymous backstair gossip about the happenings in Downing-street, most of them trivial and half of them inaccurate.
Some days ago I read in the the papers controversy upon
A formation of the 1915 Coalition" Government between two living. and interested persons as to who was the most reliable judge of what was in the mind of a dead and singularly detached and dis interested man. The diarist who writes and publishes what was in his mind is the only person who need be believed, and the presump- tion that anyone clee knows better would be irritating were it not grotesque.
It is from no desire to belittle Popular Sin" leaves you to die the services rendered to the compose of your favour where you
All four act very well, and in- the Prime Minister earns in ten deed it would be very hard to find
years.
BETTER SALARIES FOR
MINISTERS.
AN INQUIRY LIKELY."
It is time that the public should any fault with the film provided "Grundy "complex is not know that unices a Prime Minister your is a man of means he cannot show over. developed. adequate hospitality to his col- Madame Yvonne Montfort (Flor. leagues in the Cabinet, distinguish- ed visitors from abroad, or, main-ence Vidor) is getting rather tired tain himself on the salary he of her George's love affaire when receives to-day.
the story opens, but she consents Since no man holding this great office could even suggest an in- to go away with him on a trip to crease of his own salary, the pro- "Reauville" when she discovers posal should come from those who two railway tickets in his pocket. are living and who have held the George (Philip Strange) had in- ofce in the past.
tended to take another lady,' and makes urgent business hie excuse to stay behind and gives his ticket to a man acquaintance Jean Corot (Clive Brook). This is the one weakness in the mechanics of the story. Yvonne and Jean meet in the wagon lit and during the fort- night which they spend in the same hotel fall love. A divorce follows and Yvome settles down with husband number two. Jean, like Shelley, wants an audience of The small estate left by the late pretty girla and soon gets himself Lord Oxford, after years of de-divorced on account of Blanchette, voted service in the State's most an actress played by Greta Nissen. responsible position has again The second Mrs. Jean proves toe I wonder if, after all the in- brought up the demand for a re- temperamental however and an- formation about the minds, the view of Ministerial salaries, and other divorce follows his finding movements, and the Ministers in particularly the salary of the "her in the appartement of his ex- Downing-street-few of them seri- Prime Minister, and Mr. Baldwin, wife'e ex-husband. Divorce number ous, most of them silly-that has replying to questions in the House three re-sorts the parties and if the covered the bookstalls in the lact of Commons, said he would will curtain had not fallen we should lew years, the public are any the ingly set up an inquiry. if that was probably have seen them at it
again wiser about the ten Prime Minis the general desire of the House. ters they have known. They have An early opportunity for the been told that some played chess, House to express its wishes is to a few played golf, one felled trees, be provided by the Labour party, another won racea, and the last who have decided to ask the Gov. smokes pipes. But beyond this erument to consent to a Parlia what do they know?
mentary investigation into
HEAVY BURDENS ON THE
SPEAKER.
the
Do they know what salary a salary and expenses of the office Prime Minister is paid, whether he of Speaker of the House of Com-
the
Not a very adifying story but most amusing, and excellently act ed in a light hearted vein.
Band Programme.
The Band of the 2nd Battalion KO.S.B. were very heartily ap plauded at the 8.30 performance. They appeared under the baton of is rich or poor, or whether there mons. It is probable that the W. A. Fitzearle, A.R.C.M., by is a salary attached to his office 1 Government will agree, as kind permission of Lt. Col. Comyn, Do they realise the enormous financial burdens of the office are C.M.G., D.S.O., and officers, and power that a British Prime Minis-known to be considerably in excess played for about 15 minutes. The ter wields as long as he remains of the official salary. Mr. William march Steadfast and True" by in office1
Graham, who was Financial Secre-
went with true martial
Musical I was intimate with five Prime tary to the Treasury in the Labour Terpe Ministers before the year 1908: Mr. Government, and is at
vigour and precision and present Gladstone, Lord Salisbury, Lord Chairman, of the Public Accounts Memories of the Past" which fol lowed was a medley of favourite Ballour, Lord Rosebery, and Sir Committes of the House of Com old tunes which pleased the audi Henry Campbell Bannerman, but moos, has given notice on "behalf until my husband went to 19, of the Labour party of the follow.ence very much Downing-street. I had no idea that ing resolution: they had more power than aay King of any country or any Presi dent of any Republic.
100 Years Ago,
It may be for a short or it may
be for a long period, but while he
All who heard the band last night
That a Select Committee be will hope that they will give us appointed to inquire into the other opportunities of hearing them emoluments and expenses attach- at the Queen's.
ing to the office of Mr. Speaker, and to report."
Labour has been privately discus sing the question of the Speaker's is in Downing street the power for salary expenses, and pension, good or for evil that the Prime after the retirement of Mr. Whit Alinister has is unassailable.
THE WEEK'S PROGRAMMES,
«Queen's,
To-day: The Popular Sin Tuesday and Wednesday: Janet By his private lile he can raice, and the general opinion ap- Gayor in a story of love and youth
pears to be that under the present "Two Girls Wanted."
Thursday to Saturday: Hotel or lower the standard of other system the holder of the office of
war story people's lives; by his public oratory Speaker is obliged to meet out of Imperial, an unusual he can inspire or boodwink his his own pocket heavy expenses staged in an hotel on the Austro- devoted followere; and he has which under a more equitable Russian frontier, with Pola Negri, limitless secret opportunities of system would be borne by the State.
World. enriching himself.
The Speaker receives a salary of
To-day: Lew
Carmel Cody, The man who becomes Prime £5,000 a year, and on retirement Meyers and Marceline Day in Minister of this country, unless a pension of £4,000 a year. Labour
"The Gay Deceiver." from an accident of rare circam dislikes the pension system, but
"Circe Tuesday and Wednesday: stance, is usually a man of honour realises that so long as the Speaker the Enchantress," an Ibanez story and experience, and as he is the is in office his duties and respon with Mae Murray, chief servant of his King and sibilities are a constant drain upon country, should be paid an ade his pocket. The experience of all quate salary.
modern Speakers has been that they left office poorer men than they entered it Opinion in all the A hundred years ago the Even-three political parties appears to ing Standard of the day printed favour an inquiry into the ques tion of Ministers salaries, and it the following
The higher offices of the is likely that the inquiry proposed Government are, Heaven known by Labour will be extended so sa ill-paid; and the middle and to include Ministerial salarien-- lover classes are paid upon a Manchester Guardian,
There is nothing new in this tuggestion
Thursday to Saturday:Three Faces Eaet," a drama of the Secret Service.
Star. To-day: "The Grip of the Yukon."
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