Lyceum Pheatre.—A letter from the Acting Honorary Secretary D.C. is submitted, state whilst his Committee feel that any useful purpose could be served by discussion of the ice of the closure of the theatre or of the fairness of such closing without adequate notice or by putting forward their views in accordance with the Council's invitation in the face of the very strong views held by the Council and its expert advisers, they nevertheless felt it necessary to record a strong protest on two particular points. (1) That the Council's experts permitted the A.D.C. and the Trustees to spend large sums of money under their supervision on a theatre which in their own opinion was due to he condemned almost immediately and That no adequate notice was given before actually closing the theatre, thus causing considerable financial loss to the Lessees, such loss consisting not only of immediate bookings of the Theatre but of prospective future be ings which might otherwise have been protected by adequate notice and preparation, In conclusion the Hon. Secretary to the A.D.C. requests expedition in the consideration and approval of the plans for the carrying out of the alterations required by the Council.
Having given consideration to "this letter members direct that the A.D.C. be informed that instructions have been given that consideration of the plans be expedite ed as much as possible and that, in regard to the protests recorded, reply be made as to—- (1) That the expenditure referred to was presumably in connexion with alterations considered desirable by the A.D.C. and/or the Theatre Trustees and in connexion with those considered to be absolutely requisite by a former Council] and such as would now be necessary had they not been already carried out. That the present Council did not therefore appreciate in what respect the A.D.C. and the Theatre Trustees considered that they had suffered an injustice in this connexion; and that whilst the present Council had ventured the opinion " that nothing short of complete reconstruction could possibly render the Theatre ideal,"
it had not "condemned" the Theatre except temporarily in the sense that certain al-
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