Fireplaces are often the bêtes noires of modern interior decoration, for many landlords object to having them removed, painted, or altered in any way. Provided the heating is by gas or electricity, plywood can again be made to work miracles. By simply forming a box with the existing shelf as the top, a simple and pleasant fitting can be constructed which will harmonize with any room. Lighting can again be included in the form or illuminated panels which will do much to relieve the monotony if te plywood area is excessive. rooms. to thou-lever, the great point is to depict of it} country folk as being as beastly as work possible. And to deepen the impresment sich throughout the play (like the Jub-Jub "which lives in perpetual an unrelieved ly fin. r with every-ge is "ac-"like nothing else. cardin'
It is true that most of the turning into London theatres just now are given up to revues and farces of a pretty feeble ci r. But it is difficult to think that the antidote offered by the Westminster has much to say for itself, Sorrows of Vackors The vackies (otherwise as you may remember children evacuated from town to country have caused a great many difficulties, but they were hardly expected to give rise to a legal point of the greatest subtlety. ' The Point is this. Do the people on whom vackies are billeted automatically be-their guardians An li-year-old boy was evacuated from East Ham to Faringdon in Berkshire. He was of the hopeless incorfigible order and at last the lady on them he had been planted applied to the local Juvenile Court to have him sent to an approved school (called, in a less mealy-mouthed age, a reformatory). The Faringdon magistrate, warily scenting trouble, referred her to East Ham. There too the magistrates were on their guard and dismissed the case, saying that Faringdon had full power to deal with it. But the chairman of the BE Bench gave away the show when he said that he could not imagine what would happen if the parents of eva-enated children had to realize that the people on whom their offspring were. billeted automatically became their guardians.
1 Consideration too might be the country folk who have vackies. For to be a guar-the eyes of the law is rather than to be a parent in respect of responsibilities.
We shall hear the Lord Chief Meanwhile the unfortunate lady in Faringdon is left with an incorrigibly bad boy on her hands.
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