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and child in the Dominion turne out to see them. They stand, like Big Ben, for. an England to which distance lends a magic en- chantment that we sometimes fail [By Evelyn Sharp.] to realise in our dealings with

Not all critics of our British. drama of the moment are either It is very entertaining to be these exiles who are dear to us. taken about London by a visitor THE POLICEMAN WHO KNOWS hostile or contemptuous. It was from overseas. We begin by But the Londori policeman does a little heartening, for instance. thinking that we are going to not fail to realise it. Perhaps he to come take him about, and we end by knows that he too stands for the tremely well-equipped observer discovering how little we know of unchangeable in the British Em-who had quite a number of good England that only England know. pire; and that is why, at the first words to say for it. He was Mr. He, on the contrary, who knows sound of a voice with an overseas G. D. Sondhi, of the Indian Educa- the Dominions too, knows an lilt in it, he is transformed from tion Service, who was over in England we have almost forgot a monument of impassivity into Eigland primarily as secretary to ten. because of our tendency to a friend and a father. He takes the Indian Olympic team.

On his way to Amsterdam Mr. allow, the events of yesterday-to our exile literally by the arms, con- obliterate those of the day before, ducts him to safety across the Sondhi, who happened to be keen- We remember vividly the last one-why strect, exchanged warly interested in the drama as a

made good, thing that happened to us, not experiences with him, and tells force the thing before last, which may him in the same breath the Court round of the British theatres sometimes be the thing that goes fixtures for the week and the best with a view to seeing what ideas on for ever.

places from which to view them; and actual plays he could take But the visitor from overseas, in short, so completely grasps the back with him to India. His were not by any means unfailingly the remembering.

overseas, mentality that we are views eternal things that do not change, left feeling utterly inadequate to those of a crank or impractical. also keeps stored. in his mind all show anybody round the London idealist Mr. Sondhi is an all- the little transient details that to that we foolishly thought we round sportsman with a wide us have passed like a watch in knew, because we had never left knowledge of men and affairs, and was a particularly good five- the night. In exile, he reads and it to make a New World.

On notes everything that has hap

There are others, too, besides miler in his younger days. pened in the old country since he the policeman. We stand in the the other hand, his views were left it-every royal marriage, flower department of a large store not always those of the averago every change of Government, I am sorry, but after my recent London playgoer.

The things that stirred him every industrial upheaval, every experiences I can no more call it theatrical vogue, every button a shop than I can call the morning most were not the big West End that is changed in our soldier's mail a post-and we discuss the successes. He preferred what is uniform and every submarine superiority of the Dominion roughy known as the "highbrow" that is scrapped-all the things, peony and the inferiority of the stuff. He was anxious to know big or little, that go to make up Dominion larkspur: In an instant about Mr. Terence Gray's work his England, the England that a grand visior in a frock-coat is at the Cambridge Festival Thea in his byes does not change in at our side with a large bunch of tre. Mr. Bernard Fagan's at Ox spite of many changes. So when what he calls delphiniums, and ford, the Welwyn "cup-winners." he refuses to be swept off his fect our friend is being conducted to the repertory theatres at Bir- by the new Regent-street or the the main entrance in order that mingham and Liverpool, and Mr. new Labour party, by one-way he may study the tints of our Nugent Monck's little Madder- traffic or Russian ballet, he is not English varieties by daylight. We market playhouse at Norwich, to special visit. being in the least superior or others, who merely grow larkspur which he made a "colonial." Seeing at last with in our back gardens, might talk Of the London plays he was his own eyes what he has read about them till we are as blue in much impressed by Mr. about for years, he is merely the face as they, and no frock worthy's "Justice," but the musi- confirming anticipations.

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comedies-American otherwise-left him cold:

Gals-

and

Folk Drama. It was very pleasant to know from Mr. Sondhi that, however, conscious of short-comings we may be, he has found very much more thoughtful and wholesome: life in the English theatre than

artistic

coated personage would throw.us so much as a petal. Nor does the THE BIG BEN OF DREAMS.

omnibus conductor ever take us It comes with the shock of tenderly out of the wrong bus and revelation to find; as one goes lead us down the street to the about day after day with one of right one, with added instructions these visitors from the other side, for future guidance. Far from how the old loyaltics remain unit, indeed! We who live in little conquered by the new, though the old London, who have, in fact. new in their way have become as made London what it is for over- he had been led to believe from indelible, and nothing could ever seas visitors to lose themselves the examples sent to India. "What now destroy. in our exile his in. we are flung contemptuously we see in India," said he, "apart proud citizenship of the New out of the omnibus on the pave-from amateur productions, is World. Hundreds of times do we ment-I mean,

commercial drama, of course, the only the hear Big Ben strike without any sidewalk, whether it is the right which does not help to any mutual

or understanding more emotion than is provoked or the wrong ominibus. by the sound of the dinner bell. For something like a month of

growth." But our guest stands entranced golden days we have basked in re-

He emphasised the fact that The man in the native India is a country where in Parliament Square as it flected glory. boom out the hour, and then street, the man in the store, the folk-drama is still a vital and re- turns to us and says: "Everyofficial, and the commoner have

gular thing. Accordingly all evening, when I sit down to dinner all combined to show us an Eng plays, which come near to folk- at seven o'clock, I turn on the land whose existence we had radio to hear Big Ben strike mid- almost forgotten, and showed it drama in spirit-plays of deep sincerity on the one hand and of night." Every evening:-to to. us simply because we were make sure, I suppose, that Eng-accompanied by a visitor who simple and unsophisticated hum- land is still there. Just as, alcalled a lift an elevator and a 'bus our on the other are those which will appeal. In particular though he would furiously reject ticket a check. We found it a plays that can be done either in the idea that he wants to change very pleasant England to pass a the open air or in every make- the government of the Dominions summer month in. an England shift little theatres are what is into a limited monarchy and re-full of kindly, satisfied people tains enough of his old ironic who do not seem to want it chang The "big box-office attraction," humour to smile at mob en-ed, and are content with flags and with an appeal of mere luxury or thusiasm for a baby princess, he bands and scarlet uniforms, and thrill, means nothing at all to prowls happily round. Bucking little princesses and big generals Indian audiences, which have ham Palace and St. James's to and wax celebrities and well- already been set wondering by see that other things, which to weeded flower beds and perfect those American films. him equally spell the thing he lawns, and lots of cricket and of calls England in his mind, have strawberry ices-I mean

pleasant changed as little as Big Ben. course, ice-cream. A

We go to Madame Tussaud's England indeed, if that were all because that, too, in a pillar of of it and if only one could feel it the Old World; and here again it were quite real! But we weakly is he who takes us round. For stifle the horrid impression that it is not we who can recognise at it may not be. because, real or a glance every famous general unreal, it is the England that and modern statesman, every liv-makes life endurable to. the dear ing royalty and President. Over exiles we send inexorably, over- here, where celebrities of this seas.to build a New World. kind are as common as peas, most "Manchester Guardian." of us would scarcely cross the road to see one of them; and we' take their features for granted. But when they go on an overseas

Rosalind Piggott, aged 83. was outhouse in found hanged in an White Cross-street, Brighton.

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Writing in the Landon "Evening (opened an inn to which the soldiers the amorous emptain on board his

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them in the year 1782 came the This seems somewhat drastie

"I read in an American Journal Captain Nelson, then commanding treatment, hardly likely to be pop

a discussion as to which is the HS, Albemarle, of 26 guns.ular in our time, when captains most beautiful city in the world;

and I am not surprised that a

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writer names Quebec, and

Games it with emphasis, w

We cannot wonder at the

literary enthusiasm, Quebec-

provoked

The mascstic appearance of Cape Diamond," says ons the fortifications

·writer· the cupeles, and misrats, like those of an Eastern city. blazing and sparkling in tha man, the noble, basin like a sheet of purest allver, la'. which might ride-with safety the navies of the world, the. graceful meanderings of tha River St Lawrence, the fer tile valley dotted with pic turesque habitant houses, the- distant falls of Montmorency ...the grim purple moun tains, the barriers to the North, form a picture which it. is no exaggeration to say is unsurpassed in any

any part of

the

ashore to marry: maids are usually

"Hiles Frentice," says a writer, welcome and other people hastan

to buy confetti, But Quebec ever was and ever will be a city of the strictest pro- prieties.

I would add that my first visit to this incomparable hoight was made during the

first considerable snowfall of the year, I believe some five feet of snow were down

In relatively a few hours, and... anything more bewitching than the whitened domes and ́ ́"pinnseler and the fairy-like cenes beyond 'the walls it is difficult to imagice.

But Quebec in the home of superb spectacles, and in the Chateru - Früntenso possesses, ons of the most dominating' hotels in the world. Here great hostelry like to

Is

no other one can-name-

majestic in the fashion of m modiaeval fortress, yet an up-to-data as any hotel in America and more comfort-

It to appland such chauviniam when one has set had a miez, Miss Simpson,able than most. From is terrRON = foot in Quebec and been received daughter of Sandy Simpson, whose clarions panorama of river and vile, with that courtly hospitality for charms so captivated the embryo apes and blue hills beyond is an which is people are famous. Admiral that when his vessel had folded us, and it is no surprise to Well, from port he clandestinely Bear that many thousands of Ame Naturally, romance is never far raturned for the purpose of wede ericans awak this pantal height away from such a picture There dogs the end of the int, which e

Is story told of the Lord Nelson purpose was defeated by Mr. Alex one burkmen

and of one Miles Prentios, - who under Davidson, then Quebec "See Napas and then dels served anderWolfs; and: sabes merchent, who, with the axistance Rather, we Quebec and find quently served bear. This fellow of his boat's crew, forcibly added aspiration to H

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