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BEFORE YOU DECIDE
NOTES OF THE DAY
AFTER REPEAL-WHAT?
1933.
GILES PLAYFAIR FEARS THAT
SOON WE SHALL HAVE
NO ACTORS.....
THE other day I had the honour has been compelled to dismiss to dusting the audiferlum himself,
Stato nftor State. In America la recording its conviction in favour of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. The decision, scoms likely to be unanimous. In the circumstances, it is an odd thing famous provincial thentro man- the Americans seem to be too busy,agers in England. or something, to give the slightest on your NEW CAR to be followed after the playhouse, which decorates a there are no exceptions to this
thought the question of what amendment has been discarded, fashionable seaside resort. His general rule. There aro la the United States to go back to trionic celebrities of the past and well and are still doing well, touring shows which have done the old high-license regime that
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1938.
BANKING RECONSTRUCTION
The problems of industrial re- construction, which are to-day engaging the thought of some of the best brains in Britain, have seldom been more clearly explained than in a report on banking, finance and investment submitted in the last day or two to the annual conference of the
Ho owns and directs a spacious
ALL IS NOT WELL. It would be idlo to pretend that
8000
The Very Idea!
SWEEP AND, LOW
By Eddie "So & So" Kelly EVERBODY'S doing it. You
can buy tickets in the. Chinese National Sweep, the Irish Sweep, Tattersall's, Police Sweeps, Street Sweepe, and many other sweeps too numerous and dirty to men- common before 19201 Will of the present have been proud to There are some resident concert
tion. Consequently, Edward Kelly announces the opening they adopt the Ontario system, or bring their plays and their com- parties which have made a deal of
of an office for the sale of a modification thereof? Is the panics to him. "In two years money for their sponsors, But
sweep tickets In Hongkong. Quchee system one which could time," he said, cheerfully, and the and fact remains that all is not be profitably copled? Will it be helped himself to
well with our Provincial Theatre
Invest your money a whisky and necessary to find an entirely new soda, "every provincial theatre in improvement.
and there seems scant hope of Kelly Sweeps Inc. Do you method of handling the problem?
All of these questions become this country will be closed."
want half a million bucks? It would surprise many to rea-Would first prize in the more important each week. So far
The average Londoner, in so far so that in the palmy days of the as we can see, no-one has hardly
bothered to give them a thought. It as he thinks of the Theatre at all, Theatre the successful touring Irish Sweep be of any use would be very foolish to rush thinks of it only in terms of the actor was far more certain of a to you. Or would you like through with the task of repeal-West End stage. He is inclined to alar. It would surprise them to invest ten cents in the
lucrative living than the West End ing the dry in without devoting imagine that the handful of actors more to realise that there are many office Football Sweep? time to a consideration of what sort of control is to be exercised and actresses who perform there famous touring actors who have on are the sum representatives of refused and are ready to rofuae
If so, Kelly is your man the theatrical profession and that again any offer, however tempting. All you have to do is send the British Theatre begins and to play on the London Stage. ends within a
the necessary cash three-mile radius: And it is still true to say that in (together with ullage, corkage
afterword.
ON THE ROAD
The Return of motoring offences write periodically of in Britain for last year
hns
him
of Piccadilly-circus. Those who seldom rade, the richest actors and pillage) to win a prize. He a profession where fortunes aro theatre are those who have bothered to will invest the money (less cork-
1.
some interesting features. There /alumps and of theatro booms, aro build for themselves a provincial ro- lage, ullage and pillage) in any were 3,988 convictions for reck-writing what they know of the putation. less or dangerous driving, and financial status of the London
sweep you care to obtain tickets. But the main point le this. in: Saves worry and time. less than a fifth of the offenders managers. In actual fact the The successful had their Beences suspended. The Theatre is one of the most over knows how to act. He knows how Edward Kelly will depart the very
touring actor
If your ticket wins a prize,. description dangerous driving means something far more serious crowded of our national activities; to act because he has learned his at Home than it means in Hong- and if, numerically speaking, the craft in a hard school. A pro- next day by the P. & O. liner for kong, where a charge of negli-West End stage accounts for but vincial audience expecta a certain Europe; if it doesn't the applicant standard of histrionic competence. will be given the ticket, suitably gent driving would often be more a fraction of this national activity, And a provincial audience is not
framed and inscribed, as sulted to the facts. To bring the so to my mind is it only fractional- slow to voice its displeasure if that souvenir. charge home it is necessary to
of competence is not Edward Kelly has always been. prove the danger and that trify important. But the Provincial standard
lucky. Robert MacWhirter once ing formality is often dispensed Theatre is hard hit by the crisis, maintained,
gave him a gold watch and chain. with in local courts. In England It is hard enough hit to, stagger HIGH LEVEL OF INCOMPETENCE. In Parker fountain pon and five as in Hongkong, provisions limit- the wildest imagination of the
bucks in cash, ing the speed of certain vehicles most pessimistic theatrical com-rightly, that the best stage training started to get a bit sore, Kolly had
Old actors will tell you, quite
Naturally, when MacWhirter must begin on tour, Yesterday no to return the five bucks and the actor or actress would dare face a London audience until he or she had blame someone else for the loss of gold watch, but ho managed to been trained in this way. All our the fountain pen. graduated from the Provinces. greatest men of the theatre have
seems to be treated with general than 81,000 convictions under it. contempt, for there were more
inflicted was under two pounds, And, since the average, penalty
we must assumo that the typi- cerned to make it more respect- cal magistrate does not feel con-
ed.
We often wonder whether 15 m.p.h. prominently displayed
mentator.
THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION
The Provincial Theatre is literally threatened with ex- tinction.
Kelly has also been very picky in
other respects. He once got n To-day the discipline of Yestor-silver-plated spittoon from the day has been relaxed and the result Hongkong Hotel, a set of teaspoons And it is my bellef that if the is plain to see. Young men and from the Exchange Restaurant, and Labour Party. The origin of on commercial vehicles is intend-threat is fulfilled all that Is women walk the London Stage has several times managed to evade the analysis will doubtless pre-ed to mean anything at all. judice feeling regarding its con-
genuine and all that is founded on and maintain a high level of in- Peninsula.
without any previous experience the boy with the chit book at the worthy tradition in our theatre to competence. The perpetuation of day must inevitably disappear. the genuine theatrical craft la left When I speak of a Provincial rare few who still think it worth to the touring companies and the perceptibly improving.
In India the outlook seems tour I do not confine myself to
But for discussion r. Gandhi, the Poora meeting headed by a minor Landon star, the London Stage.
while to learn the fob of acting those companies, are left to bring spasmodic hope to
of the Congress would have call-
of
You're bound to be lucky If you. invest your lottery cash with Kelly pecially if you're a man. Inc. You can't go wrong, cs-
Kelly has had years of practice with barrels. Why not share in his luck. Let him buy your next. lottery ticket, and if it wins a
000.
clusions in many quarters, al MR. GANDHI'S MISTAKE though the rapidity with which this spirit is disappearing is one of the most remarkable results of the world economic, crisis. Proffered remedies for the world's ills are being examined ed off civil disobedience. Already which seek to entertain the public upon their merits to-day more fourfifths of those who had been by the presentation of some popu- understand the irreparable blow prize and you can get anything out
From these remarks it is easy to than ever before and the Labour in prison for it year ago have lar straight play; I Include the which would be struck at one of our of him, you'll know what luck is. report will undoubtedly be paid renounced it and come out. Mr. twice-nightly touring revues, con- oldeat national pastimes if the Pro- These results speak for them- the tribute of the close attention Gandhi, however, persuaded the cert parties, repertory companies, vincial Theatre were in fact to selves. In the last Chinese National of modern economists. Essen- meeting that instead of calling off theatrical performances of every suffer extinction. There is grave Sweep, a ticket obtained by Kelly tially, of course, the solution him to negotiate with the Viceroy
unconditionally-they should-allow sort and description.
danger of it—The reason for the was only 10,121 off the first prize. means reconstruction along So- for its removal on terms, cialist lines, by the creation of a Willingdon very properly refused show which is given at a large what he called his money's worth.
danger is not hard to discover nor In the last two Irish Sweeps Kelly All are affected by the depres- is the remedy for off. The average has just missed winning £2,000,- Lord sion in like manner, from the playgoer used to be content with National Investment Board and to make terms about the with theatre in some manufacturing In these days of financial depres- QUESTIONS ASKED. the amalgamation of the "Big drawal of a policy which is "whole town to the show which is given sion money ia tight and hard to
SEND YOUR MONEY NOW, NO Five in a single banking cor- ly unconstitutional" and with poration, under public ownership which "there can be no comprom in a village hall.
apare. Moreover, the average play- and control. A few years ago, ise." Mr. Gandhi, therefore, had such proposals would have been to climb down and withdraw civil greatest and the humblest, will tell luxuries of the cinema. He looks Every resident manager, the goer has grown used to the cheap condemned out of hand; but disobedience as a national policy you the same story. The pro- It is for the enterprising touring for more than his money's worth. those who are learning the les-sigence by calling upon individual Icently informed me that he had managers to fulfill his oxpectations. while persisting in his intran-prietor of a seaside pavilion re- Bons of 1929-38 will at least effort. His first sign of wisdom been in the Const business for 30 study what the authore Have to comes to-day with the announco years and that his experience was are interested in the welfare of our I seriously advise all those who say. Much of it consists of a ment that he will not take steps worth nothing to him. Nowadays Theatre to give to the Provinces plain statement of conditions likely to lead to re-imprisonment. whatever attraction he cares to their valuable attention; for if they commonly admitted to exist; it This can only mean that indivi- book he can never be sure of its do not all other effort, however is in the remedies that contro-dual disobedience will rapidly die appeal, and as often as not it turns brave and sincere, will be sadly veray lies, although the activities as a doctrine.
out to be a completo failure. He wasted.
of the National Government and
of the Roosevelt Administration EVENTS IN AMERICA contain in themselves the indica-
tions that ultimately planned economy, which is the basis, is much attention and the "I told you Events in America are exciting bound to come. The National so school is likely to become Investment Board would con-active. It is already being pointed stitute the general staff of out that he has been very anxious. the Government for planning over public works programmes and and co-ordinating the mobili- some other matters, to disregard sation and allocation of that the experience of others and buy part of the national wealth dea- his own. He may buy it rather tined for capital investment. It dear; but it would be a rash pro- the many would not directly finance any phot who, vlowing activities, public or private, but during the past few months, changes in Mr. Roosevelt's policy it would see that investment ventured any confident forecast of monics were diverted into social-what he will be doing three months ly-useful channels, ending the henco.. Bystem whero money does not
go where it is most needed, but
merely expresses the investor's present managers, and staff- natural desire to make privato |would continue to function under profit as quickly and as largely the new directorate, that the as possible. If anyone thinks government would indicate the that the undertaking is impos- general lines of policy and would sible, he need only be referred to require the single Banking Cor- the example of the War, when,poration to cooperate with the in a stato of admitted national Bank of England and the Nation- emergency, finance and invest-al Investment Board. The Re- mont were, in fact, drastically port also contemplates the crent- controlled by the Government. [lon of a now credit institution, Even to-day, the Chancellor of as recommended by the Macmil- the Exchequer, exercises some lan Committee, to take over the control over finance when he frozen credits of the Joint Stock wills it, by imposing restrictions Banka. The object is to in- on Stock exchango activities, troduce greater efficiency and and foreign investments. In simplicity into Britain's financial Its scheme for control of bank-Institutions, to squeeze out tho ing, the Report contemplates unnecessary middlemen and par
"the country z lnue TERDJIECES." It makes excellent restling) If nothing elNGA
that tho
Five and therewith the right to Inominato the directors, that the
"It's funny they're not 'Home, bocause I wrote that wo
Walo driving down för
ROBBERY
the patient brought in on that "Good morning, sister. How is emergency case last night dolor
"He had an
this morning?"
day, doctor."
uncomfortable. night, but la much improved to,
a serious condition. The police
"He sure was brought here in man said he found him in the middle of Der Voeux Road -wan- dering around in `dazed condi- tion. Poor fellow, he must have: been in a terrible brawl of some kind. Has he told anyone what happened yet: he wasn't able to | last night?"
"Why, yes, doctor. He says he was walking across the road and that he's near-sighted and that—”
"Hmmmmmmm, I sos; probably stepped right in front of an motor-car and didn't see it coming. Too bad, too bad; that's just. What
"No, doctor, that isn't it. He hailed a car, it stopped, he got in." and then
"So, that's it, eh? They got him in there on a pretenco of
giving him a lift and then robbed
him and threw him...”.
"No, doctor, it turned out
bo a public car."`
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