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THE LONDON SEASON.

LONDON, March 7th.

BETTER STERIT,"

NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO SHAKESPEARE.

A NEW THEATRE AT: STRATFORD.- ON-AVON.

The London Daily Telegraph Tast. month made an appeal for funds to erect a new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. On the first day the subscriptions exceeded £3,000.

The dividual anoints received show in what measure the appeal has stirred the ine agination of all classes of people. The largest figure the list is £1,000 and the smallest is.

The main purpose of the Eight-Hour Day Convention is to establish by inter- London hotels and the West End national agreement the rule that persons

In addition to the £1,000 contributed tradesmen are anticipating a prosperous engaged in industry shall normally work

by the Proprietors of the Daily Tele- season. The infax of Americana pep an eight-hour day and a forty-eight-hour, a similar amount was contributed mises to be as large as usual. The shops week. Exception is made in the ease of hy Mr. Archibald D. Flower, chairman are looking their best, and the parks in special kinds of work such as those in- of the Governors of the Shakespeare i

Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. the spring sunshine with the trees burst. volving continuous processes, and for Sir Oswald Stoll and Sir Barry Jackson ing into leaf and the flower beds smiling special circumstances such as accident, have each sent £300. The theatrical pro- fession. which includes all who are con a gsy welcome are showing signs of early actual or threatened, and urgent. work tonected with theatrical work, have cer- lovelificas. Visitors who have not been be done to machinery or plant, and the tainly been, faithful to their tradition in here for years remark on the many in Convention does not apply to an indus coming forward so readily to assist in this trial undertaking in which only members tribute to the genius of Shakespeare," By provements in the streets and buildings, notably in the Strand, in Piccadilly, and ordinary postal, telegraph and telephone the sums they have contributed, but by

of the same family are employed. The themselves they have given the fund

wonderful start, not solely by reason of in Regent Street.

servicos are also outside the scope of the reason also of the spontaneity with which There are some who regret the altered Convention except where constructional. their gifts have been made, says the appearance of Regent since the old build-maintenance, or repair work is concerned. Telegraph, which goes on to say

From Mr. George Bernard Shaw and inga erected during the Regency bar

Mrs. Kendal we have received 100gs, exch and the same amount has come from the gone It wears & new face entirely for

The experts at the Treasury are never Eccentric Club, Lady Wyndham. Mr. people whose absenco has extended over at a loss to produce a well-grounded Fred Terry and Miss Julia Neilson, Sir years, Some highbrows who brood over computation of the nation's prospectiva Messrs. Herbert Clayton and Jack Walle: Gerald du Maurier, Mr. Henry Ainley. London are apt to be very critical of the finances, and experience proves that their and Mr Frederick Harrison are repre bold new buildings, but there can be no sources of information are trustworthy.sented by subscriptions of £100 doubt that in the greater light and air This fact lends additional significance; letter, printed below, that distinguished Arthur Pinero has given 30gs, and in a space they are a decided improvement on to Mr. Winston Churchill's cautious but dramatist holds that it

"would bring the old; while the large shop windows are sanguine expectation of, the course of grave discredit on this country if the for better suited to display. Rents being events in the industrial world during, fine theatre in place of the old one," de- opportunity were neglected of erecting a terrific, however, Regent Street has the coming months. Speaking to in stroyed by fire early in March. Mr. Alec special interest in experiencing a good audience of active womer supporters of Ren also sends 30gs, and Miss Gladys!

Cooper and Mr. Archibald de Bear are the Conservative and Unionist Party in contributors of £50. The Earl of Latbem. MOORING GIANT AIRSHIPS.

London a day or two ago the Chancellor Mr. Basil Denn, Miss Sybil Thermlike, The development of a great airship of the Exchequer said: There is a the Misses Violet and Irene Vanbrugh, Miss Fay Compton, Miss Marie Tempest, service between England and the East better spirit, there is a more friendly Mr. Leon Quartermaine, Mr. Ivor Novello, goes on quietly but surely. One indica-and reasonable atmosphere. Whatever and Mr. Mollison also figure in the role tion of this is the erection of two great agitators may say I am quite sure that who forwards 30s, announces that it is of early helpers. Mr. Norman Wilkinson, mooring masÍK

feet high. over 200

irst instalment." octagonal, each with a base of 70 feet cognition through the coal mining popula across, one at Cardington near Bedford, tion of the country as a whole, of the and the other at Ismailia, on the Suez,

London:season.

there is considerable measure of re-

Canal Major G. H. Scott, the famous efforts made by the community and the airship captain, described these masts State to help them round » difficult and some of the problems connected with corner." them in a paper which he read a few days ago Lefore, the Royal Aeronautical Society.

times to look at the bright side of things; The Chancellor may be trusted" at all.

but in" saying what I have quoted he is.. within the mark. There is undoubtedly he seen in all sorts of ways too numerous a better spirit in the country which may

to indicate here. And, of course, this is what every true Briton desires. wucy MONEY DIDN'T TALK

Compared with the new masts that at Palham from which R. 33 broke away last year in a gale is a very primitive affair, and very far from being as rigid As an airship mast ought to be. If the The desire of rich 'Americans to get top of the mast is not rigid my dude hold of old English houses and things. sirable strains are put upon the frame has already prompted a private Member work of the ship attached to it. The of Parliament to introduce & Bill to pre- vent the cxport of our historical posses question of rigidity affects also the ques-sions. As you know, several stately "tion of mooring to a mast on a floating houses" have gone or are going across ship. Major Scott does not approve of the Atlantic. It is just possible that the Bill already referred to will gain a' this plan. His paper gave a good idea quicker transfer to the Statute Book of the great amount of research work than would otherwise have been the case which has been done in studying ther. Howell Mabbott at the annual din 20 announcement that was made, try

fascinating problems connected with ner of the London Cornish Association. mooring airships.

A NOTABLE CLERGYMAN.

..He disclosed that an American mil- lionaire recently tried to buy a rock in Cornwall on which John Wesley sat to Most people have heard of Prebendary write one of his "hymns The answer Carlile, the founder of the Church Army given to the visitor with a superfluous and its guiding spirit since 1850. This number of dollars indicated that we still week be has resigned his living of St. have some respect for our national re Mary-at-Hill, Monument, a benefice helica "Needless to say." said Mr. has held since 1891, Being in his Mabbott, he failed.

"There is not eightieth year he feels he ought to give enough money in all America to buy up his parish and allow a younger man that relic.

Needless to say, also, the to carry it on. It is a sentiment which Cornishmen at the dinner applauded the many of the parochial clergy who bang sentiment. on to their livings even when too old roPPY DAYS. might take to heart.

Prebendary Carlile is not, however, re that a record sum, £305,000, was the res There is every reason for gratification linquishing his work for the Church Army. There are so many pressing Ponse to last year's Poppy Day appeal problems requiring much thought, he for the ex-service men. The figures are "There is our missionary work announced for the first time this week. and our work in connection with the Poppies are essentially the symbol of housing of the families of ex-Army men."

sacrifice, and there could be no better! Ordained in 1880, he founded the Church proof that their message does not go by Army in the slums of Westminster, in 1882, and the extent. to which the

organisation grew may be a judged from the fact that two years ago the actual amount of money handled exceeded £357,000. When he first went to St Mary-at-Hill in the City his vicarage consisted of one room on the top floor of a house, and it is related on one occa sion that two princesses called to see him at lunch-time. He had little food in the house, and so he sent out for some sandwiches and biscuits,

His church at St. Mary-at-Hill. has always been packed on Sunday evenings, He only preaches on topical subjects, and has a women's brass band in the chancel. He has given film shows to the congrega tion, and encourages them to clap, laugh or stamp. The Church of England can- not boast of a more devoted priest, and no man is more beloved by the poor and needy of London.

INTERNATIONAL S-HOUR DAY.

unheeded.

There is abundant need for generosity.. service men are in dire need of assistance. Lord Haig has estimated that 700,000, ex- Even more poignant statistics were pro- sided by a speaker in the House of Com mons a few days ago who insisted that there were 200,000 men who fought in the war in receipt of poor law relief. Poppy Day is a chance for all to give Hongkong and elsewhere have nobly some recompense Britons living in helped. Let us hope that in the years to did not pass through the fires of war come those of the, new generation who will contribute freely.

VICKERS NEW CHAIRMAN,

General Sir Herbert Lawrence, the new chairman of Vickers, Ltd., the great

firm with houses in China and elsewhere abroad, appears to collect company directorships as other people da postage stamps or blue china. He is a director of a score of companies. It is a mora The Government deserve, credit and profitable if less artistic hobby, particu congratulation for bringing to succesularly, since the concerns with which he ful conclusion the recent negotiations in is connected are of the calibre of Glyn, London undertaken to give effect fo the Mills, Currie, & Co., and the London Washington Eight-Hour Day Convention Midland and Scottish Railway. The re- of 1919. The parties to the new agreemarkable thing is that Sir Herbert was ment are Britain, France, Germany, not e City man before he was a soldier. Belgium and Italy. Ratification has still The chief characteristic of Sir Herbert to follow, and it is desirable that the is his extraordinary capacity for hard principles accepted by the London Eon-work. He acquires seats. important ference should be embodied in more com Commissions with the same facility with prehensive international arrangements, which he finds himself present at import- but, as Bir Arthur Steel-Maitland, | ant board meeting. He also finds time: Minister of, Labour, maid at, the conclu- for sport, and is keenly interested in i sion of the proceedings," agreement Army football; when he was a young man among the nations present was india he was a member of the Richmond pensable if a wider measure of agreement. “Angger "XV., and played against I was to be obtained.”

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