SOMETHING
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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1921.
NEW
AN IAN HAY COMEDY,
WILL JURIES AGREE?
BAD WHISKY FOR GOOD.
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"A Play To Cut."
Effect of Women Jurors. Shortage to Last a Year Yet. Captain McBeath, better known Now that the liability to servoj
Uncle Sam has let us down) as Ian Hay, author of "The First on juries has been extended to badly on the whisky deal, writes a Hundred Thousand" has pro-women, it will be interesting to correspondent in a Hume journal. duced វា new comedy entitled watob the effect on unanimity It is by no means good news A Safety Match" This is what among jarica. When one con-for the Scotsman to read that London aritio-saya of it :— aiders the diversity of opinion America, and other countries, are "What a play to cut!" If I which is held regarding any being supplied with plenty of were a Prussian producer I could controversial subject, it is surely good Scottish whisky when at have a most gory and delightful a matter for wonder that it is only the same time he is asked to time with "A Safety Match." I on rare occasions that a jury is swallow-when he can get any- would whip out my blue pencil unable to agree upon a verdict, thing at sil- either undiluted and whisk off the whole of the writes a correspondent in a Home rubbish from the U. 8. A., or a first act or scene, as Mr. Hay Journal,
blend which contains a consider- During the course of a murderable quantity of imported stuff. profers to call it, not without Six Brown Brothers come compunction, because it trial the evidence, as reported in There certainly is not a great contains the best acting in the the newspaper, is closely studied deal of American whisky coming Then I would make a and widely discussed by the into this country to-day, but Six Brown Brothers play.
(e88 of Snayling Rectory, general public. The evidence for during the lean years of produc- blowing the two acones
into the proscbution is often purely tion following the Control Board's and eliminating some circumstantial, and there is so embargo there was enough and Smith's Orchestra one
of the Veraker family. After large an element of doubt that ato spare, and it is still going the that, I would
for wide difference of opinion must rounds. pause Smith's Orchestra breath and proceed with more exist as to the prisoner's guilt or
caution. I would scrap Lady innocence. If the independent American whisky, and who are Strathrae with inoxorable fright-opinion were sought of twelve of accustomed to the Scottish fulness and eliminate the whole the general public, it is very variety, make no bonen about Let the Rest of the World go By---Waltz-
a unanimous their preference and it is not in Ferera & Franchini of the alfresco supper scene at improbable that
the beginning of the fifth scene, verdict would be secured. Yet favour of Uncle Sam's beverage. My Isle of Golden Dreams-Waitz-
thus causing the total disappear the twelve jurymen when they it may not be a fair deduction Blue & White Marimba Band ance of a drunken hired waiter retire from the box to consider that publicans are in some cases who has no business to be appear their verdict seldom fail to find ashamed of the American stuff, ing in a comedy or in any play complete agreement.
but at any rate it is no unusual What is the reason for this thing to find a bar placarded with All Star Trio which is not crude farce. I would
then ask the author, to rewrite almost unfailing agreement? Is the intimation, "We sell only the scene in the coal pit. I might the opinion of the jury swayed by Scotch whisky." even ask him to leave it out some outstanding, dominating
A good many of them, however, altogether or to mitigate the personality? A really convincing are by no means ashamed to sell hymn-singing, NO that some explanation is difficult to find.
American whisky, though, for the drama might be introduced into This is suroly a chance for one most part, they do not go out of the play and by the time I had of our analytical novelists. A their way to tell their customers done all that, Mr. Hay would description of a murder trial, o probably develop the spirit of the written, as it were, from within The demand for whisky at the to write an entirely new play. interesting study in psychology, so that supply has to be added to Now that women are called in some way. The retailer is un- Mr. Hay has not handled bio
He has upon to serve on juries it will be able to obtain an increase of his material with skill. crammed too much of his novel interesting to see whether failure supplies of home whisky, but he
in being offered into a dramatic structure, and the to agree upon a verdict will be
American, result is terrible congestion more frequent. When two strong Australian, Irish, and Canadian Moreover, he does not appear to willed females of different whisky, and even a type of have been quite certain in his opinions are on the aame jury, Spanish brandy, and, presumably, mind about the kind of play he new possibilities of a deadlock on the score that he has to take wanted to write. I inagine that will be opened up.
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ho started off to write about industrial disorder, and 80
we got the first scene. Then he
what he can get, he takes the foreign stuff in the hope that his customers DEGRADING METHODS.
won't know BOY
changed his mind and decided to Mr. Barnes, M.P., Denounces bring "The School for Scandal"
up to date, reversing the positions
of Sir Peter and Lady Teazle
of the
"Ca' Canny." Mr. George N. Barnes, M.P.,
of
better.
ONE THING THEY DO KNOW,
know Perhape thoy don't whether the whisky is from the United States or Madagascar,
But he liked his first scene so who started work at the age of but they know it is bad, wherever
it comes from. much that he had not the beart 11, who became secretary
Amalgamated Society of to scrap it. We start off, there-the
In this direction the American fore, with two first acts, one of Engineers and chairman of the supply has an established reput which has absolutely nothing Labour party in Parliament, and ation. Descriptions, such whatever to do with the rest who acted as Labour's repre-fire and water" and "poison" are
play,
and half-way sentative in the War Cabinet, freely attached to it. It may not through the evening we get expressed himself with freedom be so bad as to warrant these! a suggestion of a third first act and emphasis when asked his descriptions, but at any rate it is Now, an author may change his opinion as to the proposed reduc-not so good as the "real Mackay." mind in private as often as he tion of industrial wages.
That this foreign whisky is com-! "Most decidedly," he said. "Imon in this country to-day is not likes, but he must not change his mind in public. We pay to see an opposed to their reduction, denied. That it is much more irrit- a finished play, and not one in But I am also most decidedly of ant and does more harm than the course of construction or under-opinion that if the working home-made spirit has beon going repairs. The ullimate classes are to retain the wages proved.
surfeit in tho tuind of the
audience.
off on
not
"There are thousands of people.
effect of this proliferous material they are actually getting they I just had two glasses of and vacillation of theme is to will have to turn out the stuff."
whisky and then something "As an old workman I am sick happened to me." That story: induce a sense of tedium and
and ashamed of the ca' danny has been heard in every Court in methods which are, to my know the country within recent years. The play is very funny in ledge, so widely provalent. They and it is still being heard to-day. parts, though now and then some are not only detrimental in the These stories are products of the
to the workmen's of the humour is of the pedagogic long run
American invasion. sort, the kind which a sarcastic economic interest, but they are
It is only right to say that' schoolmaster works
also degrading to their humanity strong efforts were made by small boys who dare
"I am sick and ashamed of the British distillers to prevent the retaliate. Those scenes, parti-leaders who oucourage ca wholesale importation of Ameri- cularly when Miss Ena Gros-canny methods under the false can whisky in the years of the smith (bearing a strong facial pretence that there is a deliberate famine" in this country, but resemblance to her father) parti-plot by employers to cut wages without success. ripated in them, excited a great am sick and ashamed of the The truits of these years we deal of hearty laughter, and if position which Labour is made to still enjoy (perhaps) to-day. There the play could have been kept on assume as an enemy of the rest is not much American whisky their level, its success would be community. indisputable. Even as it is, too The time has come for Labour sold "neat," and retailers would indeterminate, it forms an agree to a more exalted place than it probably have to wait a long time before a customer arrived, who able entertainment. The political has over occupied in the nation's asked specially for American part was the least effective, and citizenship, and, as a Socialist, I whisky. So an American-Scottish I very much doubt whether Mr. am sick and ashamed of the compact has been arranged, and Hay has ever seen a deputation anti-social position into which it the two are being blended. of Labour men. The part of the is being forced.
HARD ON THE "SCOTCH." strong man of affairs-on this
This is not done in bond, as has occasion a most garrulous fellow, unemployed to day as a result of bean stated, but once the whisky than ordinarily thickthe utterly futile moulder's strike leaves bond it is beyond control. skulled-was played by Mr. of a year ago. The attitude of The retailer may do with it almost Bourchier with bis customary the bricklayers in regard to the what he pleases. It has been ability. Ho WLA best
in admission of ex-service men is said that it is no unusual thing the first
be unjustifiable. I am a Socialist, for one part Scottish to be blended really had something to work but as I grow older the merely with two parte American. Two on, but I found him unimpressive economic doctrine loosens its to one is pretty heavy odds against
appeal, and I become more and the poor old Scottish whisky. The acting in this first seone more convinced that the only The whisky shortage, or at was immeasurably the best in the solution for our social troubles least the shortage of home made play. All who took part in it lies in doing unto others as we whisky will last, we are told, for were excellent.
Meanwhile, I could not would be done by,"
another year or so, understand why Lord Kirkley
apparently, the man who wants (Mr. Frankleyn Ballamy) kept the blue Bky Was Я most his "wee hoof" will have to takel the Labour deputation on its feet unlikely person to be chairman the risk of what he drinks. while he was interviewing it--for of a colliery company. No! If he goes the right way about be was drawn as a decent, good-wonder the roof of his pit fell in it and asks for that blend to natured person until I saw that The very long cast contains many which his palate is more partic-| the author had kept the request actors and actresses of merit. Iularly suited the chances are he that they should be seated for an unable to do more than name will not do so badly. the entry of Mr. Bourchier. a few of the more notable ones, But if he merely aske fori
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an in addition to those already "whisky" he is risking a lot. He example of the superman's skill mentioned. They are Mr. Her will probably have to get down a in handling a situation with bert Marshall, Mr. Charles mouthful of American dopo good supcess when other people have Carson, Mr. H. R. Hignett, Mr backed up by a little reduced it to disorder, but I was Alfred A. Harrie, Mr. Stanley Baotch.
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hes much to do with what the Prince of Wales was admitted an a man who would allow anmon, but of these Miss Muriel medicinal purposen./ architect to build a house for him Pops and Miss Phyllis Relph' If Bootsh whisky is a good Americans have sent us in Hon. Frasuse of the or hisful
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