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SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1928.
PEERS AND LOCAL OPTION.
LORD BALFOUR'S BILL REJECTED.
COMMUNIST THEATRE
FAILS.
VICTIM TO THE TAX- GATHERER..
Berlin's latest and best theatrical venture, the Communist theatre, directed by Erwin Piscator, has been declared bankrupt for arrears of amusement tax.
Westminster, June 26. "For the wicked old women, who
feel well-bred Have turned to a tea-shop,
The Saracen's Head.". --
Considering the full houses Herr The House of Lords is always Piscator had to show when business on the side of Mr. G. K. Cheater-was bad elsewhere, the news has ton. It is ever wary, as to day's come as a surprise to friends and debate ance more ahowed, of at-chemica alike. The enemies are tempts to promote State manage-faw; they are those who are unable ment, or local option, or any to distinguish between the Moscow system which may ultimately lead propaganda of a fiery spirit and. to the Englishman being deprived the extraordinarily high form of of his glass of beer...
art in production in which he has
The Peors enjoyed discussing incorporated his message. Lord Balfour of Burleigh's Bill to Piscator's combination of screen put the liquor, trade under dis-and stage is considered the biggest interested control so much that theatrical innovation of late years. they gave it a second day. At the The most fashionable people of end of the allotted time, this bid Berlin were willing to pay high for "nationalisation reached not prices for front seats, but Piscator by disinterested but irresponsible is sald never to have refused any management," as the Lord Chan-who desired free tickets, and to cellor described it, had been made huve suffered, in particular, from to look too ridiculous to be hoard the form of cheap subscriptions which he has, as was natural in an of again.
"Local option is not a principle; old director of the People's Theatre, it is a dodge," insisted Lord permitted to be extended to his Sumner In leading the attacks on own non-subsidised house."
Piscator has been permitted by
Lord Dawson of Penn was kinder.
no
a measure "promoted, by n body the authorities to be as violent in of thorough-going fanatics, and his political views as he liked. One of his most famous efforts was tho cynical presentation of the ex- The King's Physician, who is Kaiser, the Taar, and the Austrian invariably ready to commend the Emperor, reading despatches dur judicious use of the good things ing the Great War; another a film of life, was most sarcastic about strip showing pictures of all the local option. It is, he thinks, Tsar's ancestors, with details of habit much-more insidious than their deaths from disease or as- the taking of drink. "It is being sassination. But the fact that he proposed for greyhounds," he com-should fall a victim to anything so plained," and now for liquor. In banat as the tax-gatherer has a little while the New Health aroused sympathy on his behalf in Society will want local option on all political circles. brown bread."
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"Slum Pubs,"
tices of this particular aren as to The debate ended by the Earl of what he saw-and why he saw it." Birkenhead suddenly kindling an After such an entertainment oratorical bonfire at which to roast further speechmaking would have Lord Buckmaster: The Secretary been an anti-climax. The Lords for India had been wandering in rejected this latest, liquor Bill by and out and no one expected him 67 to 24 votes.
to speak, but the Peers are always A Commons Quarrel. Hable to a surprise from their In the Commons a resentful former Chancellor,
quarrel developed between the *Lord Buckmaster, one of the Chancellor and Mr. Snowden over strongest speakers for the Bill, a speech that the Socialist finan- had referred to "slum pubs"-clal expert had made outside the phrase which warmed Lord Bir-House. In this Mr. Snowden had kenhead to formidable ire. "We spoken of the decrease in the.. are invited to descend to the sugar duty as a "plant" between language of the gutter," he pro- Mr. Churchill and the refiners to tested, and loudly admonished his "bamboozle the public," and had opponent for imperllling the mentioned that sugar shares by dignity of the House.
more than coincidence has risen a "The nabla. Lord," added Lord few weeks before the Budget. Birkenhead, "happened to be in The Socialists by keeping up an
the neighbourhood of two wretch- odious nolso did their best to pre- ed public houses full of disorderly went the Chancellor rebutting Mr. people. Every man choose his Snowden's Imputations. But hav own promenade; I have not hap-ing declared that nothing short of pened to find myself In such a sudden death would silence, him, neighbourhood recently. I hope Mr. Churchill 'doggedly met the Lord Buckmaster will make repre-ex-Chancellor's charges point by sentations to the Licensing. Jus-point.
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