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Star (Christchurch), Issue 20057, 21 September 1920, Page 8

Mr P. M. Ellis, of Dunedin., and Mr E. J. Fuller, of Dunedin, are in town. t Daloona left Melbourne for the Bluff on Saturday, September 18. Among its mails are seven bags for Christchurch, This morning’s arrivals from the north include Messrs W. J. M’Callum,C. H. Smith, J. llusden Salt and Norman Nash, all of Wellington; Mr W M. Dawn, of Auckland; and Mr F. Lowe, of Napier. The weather turned to rain this afternoon. The sky was overcast in the morning, with hardly a breath of Th< r r p was a. light drizzle about one o clock, followed two hours later by a fairly heavy downpour, Mr.H. Worral has been appointed by the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council, at the request of the Government, -to give evidence before the Parliamentary Committee 'which has been set up to inquire into the price of butter in the Dominion. Mr Worral will appear before the committee on Friday morning, leaving Christchurch on Thursday evening. The action ol several north-east coast (England) branches of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in moving in. favour of payment by results (according to a cablegram received yesterday) is stated to be most extraordinary in view of the fact that an account of a vote taken upon this subject by the society appears in their monthly report, recently to hand, to the effect that 00.987 votes were registered against the proposal, ’ and onlv 28,0.17 in favour. The coal supplies for the Christchurch Gas Company will be appreciably increased by the arrival of 700 tons from Newcastle this week. A Japanese boat, ;bhe Ginga Maru, is shortly due with another 1400 tons lor the Gas Company, as well as supplies for the Tramway Board and the Railway Department. The position so far as _ ordinary trade and household requirements are concerned has changed but some vessels are due to leave Grey mouth this week for Lyttelton with coal cargoes. <• J! 16 a series of lectures on ‘ The Modern Drama,” was given by Professor J. Shelley, before the Workers’ Education _ Association last night. He said that it was regrettable Uiat iSew Zealand should be far behind in such an English subject as the drama. In England, America, France, Germany, and other _ countries during the past four years, it had gone ahead at ■a tremendous rate. Many people, indeed, felt that there was a renaissance of the drama. They were justified, at least, in speaking of it as a revival. During the past year twelve different publications dealing with the drama had been newly issued in England alone. It was the one artistic movement which seemed to be general, and to be healthy and promising. Ho would not say that it would fulfil its promises, but there certainly was very groat promise in respect to it in the English-speaking countries, in Germany, and even in Russia. Before the world, Russia was the centre of the art worm as . far- as the drama was concerned, and the centre in Russia was the Art Theatre in Moscow. Protessor fehelley dealt particularly with ® ,u io tt • Thsen, referring to Dolls House,” “Ghosts.” “Brand,” Peer Gynt” “Emperor and Galilean, and “ Pillars of Society.”