Gretna's romance did not end with the closing of the blacksmith's shop a5 a centre for north-bound lovers from over the Border. Its dedication to death in the war years war A much more impressive spectacle. Gver many square miles of quite unoccupied land there was built a city in which 30,000 people were employed, and where, in a series of small buildings, all carefully placed at a safe distance from each other, huge quantities of propelling charges of cordite, and of T.N.T. and other high explosives for shells were manufactured without any accident. And now the Gretna that fed the guns is on its last legs. {t comes under the hammer piece by piece. I saw some useful huts when I was down there the other week, Who wants a little hut that did its bit?
"Robert Burns"
It is still uncertain when the tong-awaited opera "Robert Burns" will make its initial appearance. Meanwhile Mr. Frederick Austin, of "Beggars' Opera" fame, is _completing his musical setting of Mr. John Drinkwater's book of the opera. In the hands of Mr, Drinkwater, who deals with the poet's complex psychology in an _entertainingl ingenious way, and Mr. Nigel PI fair, who, it is said, is "the best living undertaker of the dead," the production is certain to arouse the keenest interest, if not, indeed, a good deal of controversy on the part of students of Burns.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.