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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18309, 17 February 1925, Page 5

The lofty aspiration, of Mr Bavin, Victorian . Attorney-General, in regard to the creation of a National Theatre is likely to remain just an aspiration, Btates the Sydney correspondent of the Melbourne "Argus." Mr Bavin has some courage, but he has not sufficient, nor is ever likely to have sufficient to prompt him to make this life-and-death political principle. . We can rub along without a National Theatre built and subsidised by the Government. Were one existent there; would doubtless be a new Department to control it, and the Minister in charge would have to select the plays and possibly the players. It is not difficult to imagine a scene in the Assembly with the Opposition attacking, using every just and unjust argument, and the Minister, supported by Continental precedent, replying and justifying his action even in regard to the ballets. Mr Bavin will be asked about thin National Theatre dream- Raucous voices will be raised in open-air election meetings to enquire whether a sheltershed for the unemployed is nbt more important. His own supporters will ask how he can give forth such schemes while the State still lacks a decent general library.