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THE TRADITION OF TIME-WASTING,
The French Touring Club has just offered a series of prize, to be awarded four years from now, to those post offices, all over Face, which are the cleanest and test kept, and arranged in the most practical manner-for the service of the public.
The competition is a good idea, and it may do good if it attracta public attention to the amazingly.
slovenly way in which all public
administrative offices are kept in France. It will be necessary, how- ever, to change the whole attitude of the French people towards these things if any really effective change is to be made.
The tradition in all the lower grades of the public servits in France--and in many of the Baher grades, too-is still that of the peasants who made the Revolution of 1789. The peasant is too mean to pay the full price for anything, including labour, if he can help it,
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1929.
NOT A WET-DAY REFUGE.
IDEAS FOR BRIGHTENING UP
MUSEUMS.
CINEMA NOTES.
MORENO-COSTELLO IN "MIDNIGHT TAXI."
Socioty drama, for the present - London, Oct. 10. at least, has lost one of its most Muscums and art galleries will polished matinee idols. Antonio become a good deal more than a has gone over to melodrama. wet-day refuge if the recommien-
The handsome star portrays an dations of the Royal Commission Investigating them are adopted, adventurous bootleg king in "The with the slogan brighter and bet-Midnight Taxi" a Warner Bros' ter museums and art galleries.
thrill drama which is showing at the Star Theatre to-day for a run of three days.
Domestic life has at last gained recognition and an open air folk museum may record for posterity to marvel at, the breakfast table Antonio Moreno has long been a quarrel, the putting out of the prime favourite as an ardent-love- cat and all the other" incidents | maker. His appearance opposite which have hitherto been regarded Greta Garbo in "The Temptress," as unworthy, of perpetuity.
Clara Bow in "It," and Constanco Talmadge in The Venus Venice" are recent instances in which, his Spanish fire won him acclaim.
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Better publicity and advertising is urged and, as a place of onter tainment, museums, with their fearsome posters, may rival.
With Helen Costello na the Indy i theatres. It is proposed that the British, Natural History, and of his heart, Moreno's wooing in "The Midnight Taxi" takes a dif- Selence Museums, and the Nation
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BRIDE'S DREAM.
£1,000,000 TROUSSEAU.
London, Oct. 11.
A bride's dream of a £1,000,000. trousseau was the central theme of a novel dress display at Gros-
Made Hit in "Alibi." Chester Morris; featured in Roland West's mystery thriller "Albi," showing at the Queen's Theatre, was on the verge of giving up his theatrical aspira- tions when his opportunity came. He had visited the casting offices for mouths without success when an old friend of his father's, Augustus Thomas, the playwright, rot him a small part with Lonel Barrymore in "The Copperhead." In John Golden's "Turn to the Right" at the age of 17, he be- came the youngest lending man on the American stage.
The result is that post offices and all other public offices in France, and not less in Paris than elsewhere, are small, inconvenient, ill-ventilated, and ill-kept to a de- gree which is hardly credible to those who do not know, then, They look as if they were over repainted and never even swept. and us if the windows were only eleaned once a year. There is never any blotting paper to be, Found on the insufficient supply of desks, such pens as can be dis-venor House, which was witnessed covered' will never write, and the by 400 fashionable persons, ink is so economically made with
The curtains were drawn back a liberal addition of water to the official supply of black powder and disclosed a sleeping bride in a that it is painfully anaemic So, black and white satin slumber suit. indeel, is the staff, whose lives, Subsequent scenes "showed Pari-
His first leading role on Broad- passed in these conditions, can sian mannequins gorgeously gown-
Indeed, the ed and bejewelled, while, in the way was in a short-lived tay bardly be healthy. rate of mortality among them is gem scene, a page came in carry called "Thunder" After appear- very high,
ing a tray which contained jewelsing in another unsuccessful plece, reputedly worth £500,000, includ he played in stock for two seasons ing an enormous emerald which in Mount Vernon and in Provid belonged to a former King of Saxence, R.I. He returned to New ony.
York to do a play for Edgar Selwyn "The Exciters"-at the Times Square Theatre.
QUEEN'S
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Commencing Sunday.
Another scene displayed bride grooms' gifts, including £60,000 diamond necklaces. Emeralds, George M. Cohar sent Morris a one-act playet, "All the Horrors Towners." next he triumphed In rubies, sapphires, diamonds, and out on the road with the "So. This of Home" written by his father. "Yellow," A. H. Woods" "Grime," pearls accompanied many gowns, is London" company. Practically Morris' big chance arrived when and "Whispering Friends: of which the most notable one for every state was visited in the 41 George M. Cohan gave him the the conclusion of his engagement the evening was of glided blue son's work with his family in production
weeks' season. Then came juvenile lead in the Broadway in "Fast Life" he went west to
"The Home play in Roland West's "Alibi."
moire with a huge bustle bow. A white gown was composed entirely of long leaves, edged with velvet.
The Thrifty Letter-Writer, Some of the disorder is the fault of the public and of its habits, which perhaps date from the Re- volution also. If there are places of blotting paper supplied at the beginning of the day they are almost certainly pocketed by thrifty persons, who also reduce their private stationery bill by removing large bundles of tele graph forms to use as scribbling paper. On the other hand, the desks are often occupied for long periods by persons who presum- ably have no writing materials at home and will not go to the ex- pense of paying for a drink in à cafe, which would entitle them to ask the waiter to be supplied with "de quoi ecrire," but prefer to stand for hours in a post-office writing their private correspon. dence. It is no doubt also a sturdy Revolutionary individualism and Last evening, the Club "A team contempt for the convenience of defeated the 8th Destroyer Flotilla others which lead those who write in a Rugby match at Happy Valley. in post offices always to throw downThe game was a most enjoyable! the pens when they leave in such une, victory going to the Club by a way that the next comer caitong goal and three tries (14 hurdly escape covering his fingers points) to nil.
LOCAL RUGBY.
CLUB DEFEATS NAVAL
TEAM.
and the back of his paper with ink. In the first half, tries were The peasant Influence can be scored by Massey, Law Grand traced in another French adminig-Holmes, whilst in the second half trative tradition, and that is that Stanion went over for Holmes to the longest and most elaborate way convert...
must be the right way. This habit
descends straight from the "elude".
by hand,
of the country notaire, whow cir-laboriously filed in cumlocutions and multiplication when you wait impatiently while of documents, represent, to the peasant mind, all that is most official. As the typewriter remains unknown to most country nolaires ever to-day, so the time-saving or labour saving device or appliance or method is unknown in French public offices, and notably in post- offices. Time may be money, but, if so, the public must be made to spend as much of that kind of money as possible.
Bank Routine.
any
book with scissors, instead of being a receipt is being cut out of the torn out along a perforated edge, when you notice that papers which gummed are being slowly smeared should have been supplied ready with a sticky liquid out of a bottle, and when you observe that regis tera which will probably never be looked at or checked by superior authority are being care fully entered up for the smallest transaction, you realise that the "Administration" is still living and moving in an age when both time and human effort could safely of the authenticity of the docu- wasted. You can even imagine ment and of the existence of a suff-yourself much further back than the period of the Revolution-back cient balance, ending with waiting your turn to be paid by the single to the time before printing was
invented. cashier behind his barbed-wire entanglement--compare this, I say, with the cashing of a cheque In an English bank. As for cashing a postal order in a post-offies, the proofs of identity required make the ceremony at least as complicat-douane, all carelessly dressed, ali
Compare the time which is ne- cessary to cash a cheque in a French bank-the long verification
ed.
This impression is even stronger when you cross the frontier from France to Germany or Switzerland, and you pass through the hands of the numerous staff in the French
with cigarettes at the corners of The lavish extension of the their lips, all ruling up copy-books stages to be followed and the by hand, instead of using books forms to be filled up in the accom- previously ruled and printed, and plishment of any official operation all making six entries to the one in France belong to a tradition which is made by the smartly-uni-. which, if not that of the Revolu-formed Customs officer in the tion itself, is that of the period building across the frontier, ten. of the Revolution. It dates from yards away. the time when the most abundant
and therefore the cheapest thing If there is one country which, in France was man-power, The owing to its shortage in man French public service has sever power, should adopt every kind of abandoned that tradition, although labour and time-saving machinery, to-day man-power is the one thing every kind of closely economieni in which France is poor.
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should pay high individual salaries to secure a severely reduced but The post-offices present endless very efficient staff, it is France. examples of jobs which are done And yet France Is the country. by three men when they could have which stil maintains a numerous heen done by one. When you see staff, badly underpaid and work forms which could easily haveing an absurdly complicated ar been supplied really printed wing ministrative organisation.
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