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England, long pictured as the naval ogre of the world, a monster uncontent with parity in armament with the United States, may be given her answer. For, speaking in the House of Commons two weeks ago William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced that two of the big British cruisers that had been building under the terms of the disarmament treaty had been abandoned. At the same time he declared that Britain intended to restrict it cruiser tonnage next year to a mar', below that of the treaty agreement...
...though Mr. Clive were offending his old patrons with his depressing antics, his spook dramas and extended productions of ham pieces. His old patrons have all quietly removed to the even hamier perlieus of the Henry Jewett sideshow on Huntington Avenue, but one feels that Mr. Clive, when peeping through a hole in the asbestos curtain, must miss the nice old ladies with ear trumpets, the nice old gentlemen with sidewhiskers, and the nice schoolkids who used to consider "Charley's Aunt" such a thriller. The Copley is now given over to strange and uncouth peasants from far places...
...Clive, even in his managerial decline, can't quite help being funny, but it's perfectly obvious that last night his regular performers failed to show up and he hurried over to the Plaza across the street and got the coat check girl and a dining room captain to help out in the parts of the rascally smugglers. He might be able to do a Pygmalion with the coat check girl if he could teach her cockney, and there is a scene in Mr. Pinero's "Magistrate" where the waiter would fit in nicely but it's all very quaint...
...William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced to the assembled commoners that the Government has decided to "about ship" as regards its naval construction program. He said that two of the three cruisers ordered to be laid down this year would not be proceeded with, owing to "the situation disclosed at the Geneva Naval Conference." The announcement was received by prolonged cheering in all parts of the House...
Partly disagreeing with Mr. Clive, Mr. Woolley attributed the imminent rise in the standards of the stage to a desire of the audience for more details and better methods, and voiced praise of dramatic activity in college...