A silent film entitled "Back from Shanghai" has just been completed in London. The release date has not yet been fixed. "The Bioscope" in reviewing this film describes it as "fair offering for the smaller hall." The critic goes on to say "opening with scenes of Shanghai. the film promises well but fails to keep this up." The story is of "a stolen Chinese vase and the efforts to regain it" with mil comedy and old-fashioned rus' about stuff" and "fair love interest."
"The Bioscope's" expert, clearly, was not enthusiastic. It may be doubted whether Shanghai will ever have the chance of seeing itself ay the setting of this "fair love stor/" on the screen. Shanghai will perhaps survive the disappointment, The Indian Conference The Prime Minister's statement: to the House of Commons on the subject of the representation of the British Government at the London Conference on the Indian Constitution shoved rally reasonable opinion in support of that very momentous gathering. The Government are obviously right in insisting on the retention of their sole responsibility for legislative proposals when that stage is reacked. Sir Austen Chamberlain's dis comfiture at the rejection of his suggestion for the association of a member of the Simon Commission ith the conference may perhaps well mitigated by the knowledge that Mr. R, H. A. Carter, who has been appointed Secretary-General of the Conference, was one of the assistant secretaries to the Commission and has a profound knowledge of the Indian constitutional problem and of the Commission's reactions thereto. "The prospects of the Conference generally cannot yet be accurately gauged. Much will depend on the character of the statement to be made by Mr. Wedgwood Benn on the subject of the Indian representation. Reports from India clearly hint that there ig a movement even among extreme Congress circles for support of the Hendon Conference. It is. specially' noteworthy that the "Hindu," an eminently" sane but yet uneompromising organ of the Congress, is throwing its weight on the side of reconsid hitherto taken up by Mr. ud Pandit Motilal Nehru, joun may be able to throw more! Tight on these reports on Friday.
The Prime Minister's Salary The recommendation that the Prime Minister's salary should be! immediately raised from £5,000 to £7,000 a year is one which the Committee of Inquiry were expected make. The difficulty of maintaining the office of Prime Minister on a salary which is less than that drawn by the Attorney-General (eho, in' addition, receives fees amounting to more' than twice his salary of $7.000 a year) has been the subject of bitter comment by Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Lloyd George. Mr, Ramsay MacDonald has been most scrupulous in assuring himself of general support for the recommendation now made and he need have no qualms in permitting the necessary action to be taken. The! Committee were probably" well-advised to go no further at the moment, although it is a matter for serious consideration that the prizes of political point of material benefits are comparatively far below the emoluments to be secured from the realm of "big business." Mr. Reginald McKenna and Lord Birkenhead are two. outstanding} examples of statesmen who have! found it more profitable-to give to the: City what have withdrawn
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