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Cecil Treaty. The League of Nations Commission for the Reduction of Armaments considered a treaty propounded by Lord Robert Cecil. So much criticism was hurled at the scheme that the discussion was finished without coming to a vote. Another discussion will take place later...
...status of Lord Robert Cecil in the Cabinet was the subject of many questions. The Premier, however, was able to postpone the issue, but notice of questions was given by Philip Snowden, Laborite, and Sir W. Ellis Hume-Williams, Conservative; the Premier must make a definite reply soon...
...Wells is taking laborious pains in teaching himself the delights of the modern terpsichorean art. As yet he is not very proficient. Some jokester said he danced like an Outline of History. Arnold Bennett is reported to have acquired "a stage of proficiency," arrived at through many private lessons. Lord Balfour likes to see other people do it, but is too old to take it up himself. Lord Curzon has not yet fallen, but the Marchioness, his wife, is an exponent of no mean accomplishment. Lloyd George has not yet made his dancing debut, nor is he ever likely...
...Utopia?where he finds a handful of other Earthlings, as bewildered as he at finding themselves translated to a new and perfect universe. The others include those whom Mr. Wells seems to regard as typical public nuisances of a modern civilization?a titled lady, pleasant, but futile, a millionaire lord of the shady variety, a semi-prominent demi-mondaine? French diplomat, rulers of empire such as Lord Robert Cecil and Winston Churchill ?a bellicose priest who is obviously intended for Father Vaughan...
There are several plays well known to the American theatregoer now running in London. Pauline Lord and Anna Christie are at the Strand. E. U. R. and its robots persist at the St. Martin's. The British edition of the Music Box Revue at the Palace, So This Is London! at the Prince of Wales, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Partners Again, Secrets, a New Yorker could almost spend every night of a week in London seeing plays he had already seen in America, Though why he should is, of course, quite another matter. And then there is From Dover Street...