Now" that the~ strike is over, London is making desperate efforts to get back to normal once more, The business of the nation has been seriously upset, however, and in many directions things ate in a state of chaos which will take considerable sorting out.
'The theatres have all resumed again, though four or five closed down' when the receipts were.redueed to about £6 a wight. This war not because people were frightened to go to the theatres, but because they did not want to walk more than they were obliged. We actually had one new production during the strike, namely, Sean 0°Ca; "The Plough and the Stars" which, though good, is not good as "Juno and the Paycock, and which also deals with the revolutionary side of Ireland in 1916.
This week we have about six new productions. The Opera started in the middle of the Strike, and much to everyone's surprise has been doing extraordinarily well. Evidently has been supported by people who can afford to go to it and can come away in their own motor cars.
The hotels suffered not at all Crowds of people came to live in town instead of staying in the sub-turbs, and asa result there was! ross profiteering in prices of rooms, Now presumably every bedly has gone back to their homes, here will come the usual influx of summer visitors to take! their places,
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