The Sentinel=record., 1914-11-29

Iers in uniform. Americans are very scarce, non being en route to the Ri yiera or other European resorts.
 There has been a revolutionary change in staff at aH these nostelries, manager, clerks, doormen, walters of Herman or Austrian blood having been sent to detention camps No restau- rant or hotel can remain open with any chance of making money unless it can announce that no alien enc mics are employed here" One of the | largest hotels on the Strand was re- gently the target for much newspaper criticism because its orchestra never played God save the King" That orchestra now plays the national air every evening with frequent repiti- tions of "Tipperary", "Marsellaise" and other favorite songs of tAe allies.
 The theatres are having hard time of it. War was blow enough but the darkened streets with their accom-. panying gloom and the closing of res taurants at ten o'clock, whether they be Piccadilly grade or inert pub" was a harder blow. Rates have been re- duced, soldiers and nurses in uniform are admitted at half price patriotic me Odies are the chief repertoire of the orchestras-but it is all uphill work.
 The theatrical profession is in de spair Since Drake has been put on by Beerbohm Tree, nothing new las tbeen attempted. Old plays are the or der of the day. But for one or two American impOrtations, Londoners would have nothing new to see Even The Country Girl, The Earl and the IGirl' and The Belle of New York" have been revived. George Edward, who recently returned from a deten. tion camp in Germany, has no heart for new musical shows"
 Most of the galleries are open-the fear of the suffragette having depart. ed-but many of the best known mas terpieces have been taken from the walls to places of safety.
 In the streets recruits in companies, battalion and regiments pass along daily, many of them without uniforms. These are the men the country calls for, but Englishmen rarely stop even to look at them. Even the women who knit socks or mufflers as they ride to their work in busses do not lift their eyes to watch passing troops. Some of the papers complain that there should be bands and that peo De should stop to look at the yolun- teers but people do not. It is evidently not the British way.
 Leicester Square at night is not what tourists are wont to consider it, la center of gayety and amusement The Belgian influx has added some what to it's population, but the cafes and theatres simply cannot overcome the impression of gloom. Two-thirds of the street lights are out and the other third have the upper part of the globe painted black, while no electric al signs are allowed. It is as if Broad way were Set back to 1860.
 Regent and Oxford and tine adjoin- ing shopping thoroughfares ack their leustomary number of busses, some lines having been taken off altogether as the army communicated them All the shops have reduced the number of their employees, but make brave show of Business as Usual" their window showing now many of the staff have enlisted or that certain proportion of the receipts will be de. voted to the Prince of Wales Fund, or that gifts for soldiers or sailors can be obtained with a discount from reg ular rates.
 In the city itself, the Stock Ex- cnange men stand in Throgmorton Istreet at noon-day from force Of habit and talk of business that may come sooner or later. Figures show that un- employment is below the average, the rush of hundreds of thousands to the colorS accounting for that. At an que tion sale at the Wool Exchange this week, the seats were crowded but the bidding was brisk only for grades of wool that could be used for khaki.