Entertainments are in full swing but the Pantomime has more or less dropped out except at one or two of the suburban theatres. "Peter Pan") is of course being revived and so is "Charley's Aunt." There is not tragedy now being performed in London and everything is aimed at pure amusement, Of course we have 2 few unusual pieces and on Monday 6 Broughton's "Bethlehem" was xevived by the Glastonbury Players at the Church House, Westminster, for series of performances, with Dorothy Silk repeating he quisitely beautiful impersonation the Virgin, and the composer conducting. Of the music itself it is only necessary to say that each successive hearing confirms the impression that it contains some of Broughton's best music. Everybody] in the play wears modern dress, just in Middle Ages all the characters wore costumes of the day. The! "only exception in this ease is the] Archangel Gabriel, who has almost modern dress. The Virgin wears the clothes of a 20th century miner's wife in shawl and apron. Soveph isin shivt sleeves as a money, and the Adoration of the Chitd by the light of a miner's safety lamp occurs in a stable with pit head in the background. The shepherds become farm Jabourers; the Wise Men Become a Chelsea Artist, a p.D. and an M.A. in full academic costumes; Herod is in evening dress, with tov, hat; Herodias has a fashionable short skirt and smokes cigarettes through a Jong tube; Calepas is a police constable; Herod's tittle son is an Eton ey; his nurse is in up-to-date unform, and two Tommies in Icho l'on each side of Herod's throne. There is no scenery strictly speaking: the whole action takes place in front of green curtains.
We ave having also Jazz mus! of every kind and dancing is doubtedly more popular than anything. Every hotel gives dances—fancy elvess and otherwise—and the tickets range about two guineas each, Finally we are having community singing on a large scale, and many well known people are taking part. Here is the programme of one which was held on Monday at the Albert Wall, and which was very success Violin Sol been in the water for about 7 days.
Crowe has been in ill-health consequent upon her distress at the Jdeath of her father. Last Saturday' week she went out alone from her} home, 74, Elm Park Road, Chelsea, ito lunch with friends. She did not keep the appointment, and later in tha afternoon telephoned her mother} she would not be home before to an evening party. That }was the last heard of her. Special inquiries were instituted in this di trict as it was thought that Mi [Crowe might make for her father's grave at Studland. The rector of Studland, the Rev. Arthur Collins, for days' kept watch on Sir Eyre Crowe's grave, Women came to the graveyard, but not Miss Crowe. Neither was she seen in the village Mor at Swanag The Prime Minister, who was the guest of honour at the dinner givea in London by Mr. J. C. W, Reith, Jmanaging director, and staff of the B.B.C, said it wasin matter for profound congratulation and thanks giving that the birth of broadcasting in this country had been attended by such men as had controlled the policy of the Board of the B.B.C. A reference to the rapid advancement of science in m dern times and its Influence on civilization brought the Prime Minister to the question of the moving picture, and he said ho looked with the gravest appreheasion on the effect of the commoner type of film representing white races when presented to the coloured races of the world. "In my view, ho continued, "'the whole progress of lvilisation in this world is bound up with the capacity that the white races have, and will have, to help the other races of the world to advance, and if their power to do that be impeded by false ideas of what the white races stand for it may well be that their effort will not] only fail, but that: the conception the white races generated in the hearts of the coloured races may be an initial step in the downfall of those white races themselvc
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