Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-09

CURED. and the preliminary skirmishinf
SHOWS that neither the progressives nor the
moderates intend to give any quarter SO
1ar the warfare has been confined mainly
to an exhibition Of violent abuse both par.
ties doing their best to blacken the fair
lame OF their opponents. and while the
moderates-or municipal reformers.' as
they prefer to be called-have been hurling
the epithet "wastrels' at their Opponents,
the latter have retaliated with cries Of the
oid gang and corruption" The council.
made two smart electioneering moves They
issued special report showing the finan.
cial results of the tramway Undertaking,
from which II appears that nearly E3OG 600
has gone to the relief of the rates.
The highways committee further an
nounced that services of night trans very
welcome to London workers, are shortly
20 De put into operation on several routes
hitherto without them or course. the
moderates will reply with an analysis Of
the councils figures that will give less
satisfactory Interpretation to them and will
belittle the new all-night services Tho
next few weeks will be exciting enough for
the ratepayers, who are following the con.
test closely. particularly the announce.
ment is now made that the progressives in
tend to fight every seat. A crop of libel
suits Is springing up. The first is one
brought by twelve of the progressives
against the Standard, which declared that
they are 'grafters."
One of the problems OF the twentieth
century is claimed to have been solved by O
new club, which has been started In Bloom-
bury. A member of the " est End Social
Circle, as the club has been named, tells
me that it is Matrimonial Bureau de-
Luxe, without the fees. The objects are
to assist strangers to become acquainted
with friends moving IN the same circle. and
to reintroduce families who, having spent
fo
out their daughters, having lost touch with
old acquaintance.
Only bachelor girls are eligible as mem.
bers or young widows of good social stand
Ing, and marriageabe young men. The
social program provides concerts, even-
ings whist drives. with music, literary
evenings and fancy dress balls. The BROTH
erless girl. who has bemoaned her lack OF
men friends, will now have opportunities
OF meeting your bachelors guaranteed to
be OF social standing and worthy of con-
sideration from q matrimonial point Of
view.
Music Hall Strike.
An unprecedented state of matters in the
music hall world has been brought about
as the result Of the recent dispute at q
place OF entertainment at Brixton-a Lon-
don suburb. A large section of artistes and
stage hands of various grades belonging to
three defensive organizations have gone on
strike on matter of remuneration Six
nails In various parts of London were un.
able to give the usual performances and
now the strike has extended to eight others,
including so prominent place as the tt.
Won, In the Strand. Artistes with big SAL
aries have Joined their humber confreres in
lhe nght with two or three of the leading
managers, and at the moment there is no
saying to what length the dispute may go.
In the meantime the halls affected are maxi
ing valiant efforts to get together scratch
companies. Comedians and jugglers who
mo he ha,
FOUND their opportunity, and with the helm
or piano and cinematograph ribbon or
TWO some OF the halls are managing to give
an entertainment of sorts, though whether
1t meets with the approval of their patrons
Is another question. The managers are de-
termined not to give way, and a lively
struggle seems likely.
Inc strike throws an Interesting light on
the salaries paid to successful music haN
artistes. One OF the managers declared that
many of them receive higher salaries than
caDlnet ministers, and this appears to be
actually the case. Mr.. Gibbons, the head
OF one of the music hall syndicates states
that he has agreements with Miss Marie
Lloyd, Mr. Alec Hurley and Mr. Arthur
ROBERTS at salaries of ESQ. 9S5 and ESQ q
week. respectively, and two of them have
other contracts which are concurrent with
those they have signed with Mr.. Gibbons,
This simply means that they take a turn
at halls which do not belong to the Gibbons
syndicate. It would appear however that
a successful music hall singer can make
between $4,000 and $4,000 Year, but these
cases are, of course. exceptional. The or
binary music hall artistic does not make
anything like that figure, but Mr.. Gibbons
states that the lowest salary paid to any
member of his companies Is "a week ft
Is certainly to the credit of the members
OF the profession, who themselves have
nothing to complain Of that on this occa-
sion they should have thrown in their lot
with the obscurer and more ill-paid meme
bers OF the music hall companies. f
l.. H. MOORE.