The Select Committee are due to produce their recommendations} on "India before the close of this season, although they may not be:
ished {ill the new session besins, probably November 22. The issue then before the National Party, \Conservatives of all shades included, was put last night by Mr. Neville Chamberlain, speaking at Edgbaston, with all his accustomed force] and plainness: feel that if all our Party would! recollect this, that if In_consequence differences in our Party. about Mala we were to. Ist the Socialists come In, Well then Mr. Lansbury' bhar stated that what they would do would be at once "2 cone 1 2 Consutution far eta -Tnose who talk about the Govern ment's proposals. "as constituting a Surrender of, Indic" should. recollect that the. greatest dancer, of a set Fender of indo ies, not in any'
Government proposals. but in the} possible advent to power of a Social-
The Late Willie Clarkson was, natural that _innumer stories should gather about Willie Clarkson, the famous wig-maker and. theatrical costumier, who died Suddenly this morning in his shop] at the age of 73. He was a charac ter "in himself who deliberately" dressed the part, "allowing his hair beard to grow in fantastic shapes, and he was constantly in touch with famous people, whom, he used to say' he saw from an angle unknown to) ordinary folk."
"To him is attributed the remark'
"the Tear of Russia was the nicest Emperor I have ever known." But the same saying has also been tacked on to the late "OH" (Oscar Browning) of King's College, Cambridge, of the German Empero:
One. story I like which, T think, has never been published. " Clarkson was describing a visit to Windsor:
wath waiting in the corridor™ (he spoke with a slight list) "to! thee her Royal Highneth, when who should come along but "the Duke of Connaught. 'Hullo Clarkthon,' he thaid, what the devil are you doing} here?" "The affable of him, wath'
Once a circus proprietor came to] Clarkson in despair. He bad bought, and, without seeing it, had advertise "the fiercest lion in the world." When the beast arrived it turned out to be a sleek and placid lioness. Clarkson set to work and produced magnificent mane, which fitted on with elastic. Was it feminine vanity? The lioness quite seemed to enjoy wearing the wig, and the public never "knew.
One of the most wonderful wigs Clarkson ever made was for Sarah Bernhardt, when she played Mary Madalene'and had to throw her hair over the feet of the actor who played Christ. The wig was made of natural hair, 66 inches Jong.
The New Pantomimes Pantomime producers are already feverishly hunting for new songs—or rather not new, pantomime audi. fences demand something that they Know already, but familiar without being stale. "Formerly the popular summer seaside songs were revived in the pantos, giving people happy recollections of August junketings. But life moves so. quickly now that the summer ditties are merely museum pieces by Christmas.
Two music ball favourites of the moment are "Stick a geranium in
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