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THEATRE CLOSED UNDER
"PADLOCK LAW.” -
SATURDAY, APRIL
1928.
CANBERRA, AND ITS CRITICS,
IS IT TOO HIGHLY ORGANISED?
Miss Gwen frangeon-Davies, the The whole of the continent is actress, who played the name part now watching the efforts that are when "Maya" was produced being mado to establish tho privately at the Small Gate Theatre Federal Capital of the Common- Salon, under Charing Cross Sta-wealth at Canberra. The enter tion, was not surprised when ale prise is a practical experiment in learnt that the New York police community life, the success had banned the play and shut up which will depend upon the extent the theatre under the "Padlock to which human nature, with all its
complexities, exerts itself.
""
"Maya" deals in fourteen scents with daily Incidents in the life of a
woman of the streets.
of
from
Canberra-202 miles Sydney by rail, 533 miles from "I do not think for a moment Melbourne by rail, and correspond- that the play is suited to producingly greater distances from the tion at a commercial theatre," said other capitals-has been establish- said Miss ffrangcon-Davics. The ed as the national centre of the gallery, and those who go to the Commonwealth; millions of pounds, have been spent in the erection of theatre simply for entertainment,
temporary Parliamentary and other would not understand it
"All the same, I cannot see for a Government buildings, in the con- moment how anybody can say that struction of roads, water sewerage, the play is in any way indecent, and electricity systems; house have been built, businesses One is compelled to realise the ex- trene beauty and the real inner established; an elaborate system of local government by Commission meaning of the play!
"The qualifications of the police has been set up; and now, miles for taking auch action are com-away from anywhere, buried in the pletely beyond me. Possibly they bash, there has sprung up a city in have acted on the complaints of the making, the inhabitants of one or two Mrs. Grundys. Well, which are mostly politicians, public the theatre is not for Mrs. Borvants, pressmen, and pick-and- Grundys
Victorians, shovel workers. carly OF Many intensely conventional people, including my mother, who saw the play, told me that they were quite cold with horror at some of the
They pay taxes, but have no votes: their lives are regulated by the Federal Capital Territory Com- mission, with its accompaniment of officialdom, red tape, and or passages, but they acknowledged dinances; and the nearest hotel that its beauty was such that one
Che summer temperature could not possibly take offence at it.
"The truth is that human nature Canberra is about 100 degrees, while the winter climate resembles always resents anything new. Maye is only a repetition of that of England) is about nine Shaw's 'Mrs. Warren's Profession.miles away, at Queanbeyan, in Now Even Wagner's operas were attack-South Wales.
A Vigilant Dorn.
of
ed on the same ground. Maya' is not an entertainment; it is not for! The trouble about the place is people who want to fill in a couple that it is too highly organised, not of hours after dinner; it is a only as regards the conduct of the essential services of civilised life: stimulating mental exercise.
"Our own Censorship sometimes even the private life of the in- can be very annoying, but it works dividual is more, rather than less, far better than any body of police subject to the discipline of the ever- possibly could. They permit the present Commission. For example, most awful and immoral plays to public servants who are employees appear, and then step in because an- of the Commission may, if they can ulher play a simply unconventional afford it, lease or rent a Commis --something new. These aspectssion cottage, or they may board of life, such as 'Maya" deals with, at a Commission hotel or guest- exist, and it is blind foolishness to house. But Bill Jones, single, the try to shut one's eyes to them." junior clerk, has to live at the bachelors quarters; Tom Brown, who earns a little more, has to re alde at the Hotel Ainslie, where the tariff is higher; and on. No one can own fand in the territory. The best one can get is a ninety- nloo years' lease,
'CHEAPER LIGHT AEROPLANES.
DROP IN PRICE FOLLOWS
HINKLER'S FLIGHT.
White Mr. Hinklers fight to Australia in a light aeroplane was
The De Havilland Moth two-
place.
Even the sporting and social lifo of the residents comes under a form of Commission supervision, as every club and association of this nature has to affiliate with the Canberra Social Service, which is being talked about everywhere Bomething of a
a very live phase of the Commia- surprise was caused in the air world by the vice
sion's nativity. The Social Ser
runs the football, cricket, announcement of a large reduc-tennis, and other clubs; it controla tion in the price of a popular make the Philharmonic and the Arts. of light aeroplane.
Society, the mothercraft centre, seater can now be bought, fully and-nearly everything about the equipped with Instruments, outfit Australia is spoken of us "the of tools, covers for engine, land of vast open spaces," and the airscrew, and cockpit, fully taxed designer of Canberra had this in and registered for one year; and mind when he decided on the lay- painted in the owner's choice of out of the city. There is the tem- colours for £650.
purary Parliament House, which Mr. St. Barbe, business manager cost about £1,000,000, in the centre of the De Havilland Company, said of the capital, and round it are that the reduction had been made
strewn the various centres possible by the increased output. Auburbs in a manner, quite in ac- They were now turning out one cordance with the traditions of Moth machine a day. A year ago "our fur-flung Empire." The shop- they were only turning out three ping centre, Kingston, is situated to machines a fortnight,
the east of Parliament House, while An inspection of the works re-the commercial centre ls to the vealed development almost north. The air line between the exaolly parallel to that of the two places would not be much more motor industry. The systems of than a mile, but the actual distance series production are the same, by road is two or three times that. and so are the arrangements for The reason for this is that there providing owners with service and are no straight roads in the Federal spare parts.
A
Orders by Flying Clubs.
The Math, it may be recalled, is fitted with exactly the same kind of Cirrus engine as that used by Mr. Hinkler.
and
capital-every roadway is a groce ful curve thickly hedged with trees, which may present a. problem to molorists when they grow up.
or
A number of Moths for Canada were in course of construction. These machines have been ordered
A "Dry" Territory. by the five flying clubs that have
Then there is the drink question. just been formed out there. The When Mr. King O'Malley was the machines are painted yellow, be-Minister for Home and Territorios, cause it has been found that, in and Canberra was merely a collec- that colour, they show up best tion of workmen's camps, he do against a background of snow, elded that if drink was abolished Out on the aerodrome were the from the Federal Capital Territory six Moths just completed for the the work would be carried on more Air Ministry..
expeditiously and more economi- cally, so an ordinance was passed prohibiting the manufacture sale of liquor within the Territory. And nominally the Territory has been dry ever since. But Quean- beyan, which boasts six hotels, is only nine miles or so away; there are more than 900 motor-cars re gistered in the Territory; and the price of beer in Queanbeyan is only 28. a bottle. The ordinance does not prohibit the drinking of beer, nor do the Canberra residents mind the distance they have to travel to The consumption of chocolates by get liquor or the price they have to women is stated to have declined, pay for it. And, despite the fact and this is attributed in some mea that the New South Wales laws sure to the cult of the cigarette and compel the closing of bars at 6 p.m., the present-day cost of ladies' hair-one can always get a drink in dressing.
Queanbeyan up till midnight.
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