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...banquet for Britain's M.P.s in the House of Commons dining hall, London's top-ranking master barber (the guild boss of hairdressers, perfumers and wigmakers) laid all about him with cutting comments on the hair styles of leading politicians, who often look, cried he, "like corn crakes [a short-billed rail] in a gale!" Of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS): "He ruins the whole effect by wings of hair sticking out on either side of his face and by a mustache that one would hardly call elegant." Of Laborites Hugh Gaitskell and Aneurin Bevan: "Quite...
...members of the Council group include an ex-president of the HDC, an ex-president of the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, and three students who are connected with Leverett and Dudley House drama. All of these individuals have, at one time or another, indicated strong opposition to the Opera Guild's proposal. One has stated that such a move would be "impossible," another that it is "totally unnecessary...
Half of the committee comes from House drama associations. Since the proposal would presumably damage House productions, this segment of the group could hardly be expected to view it dispassionately. Significantly, the committee includes no representative from the Opera Guild...
Generally speaking, a study group of this nature should either be impartial, or evenly divided in its opinions. This one is neither. A less biased group could include a representative of each of the college-wide drama organizations, including the Opera Guild, a member of a House drama group, and one or two impartial observers. This would not exceed the limit of six which the Council prefers to put on its study committees...
...Guild's plan admittedly has its flaws; undoubtedly, it has its bitter antagonists. Yet it is not, as one committee member condescendingly put it, "almost a thing of the past." It will be unfortunate if a group designed to facilitate the necessary drama co-ordination will, by its bias, ignore the Opera Guild, and slight its proposal...