BRIGHTER LONDON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17216, 6 December 1923, Page 8

BRIGHTER LONDON.

MORE JOYS FOR VISITORS. LONDON, November 22. * Iu view- of* the. vast concourse of visitors which the Empire Exhibition will attract,” says the London “Daily Mail,” in a leading article, “ it is of the highest importance that the London County Council shall overhaul in a broad-minded way the licensing and entertainment systems. ‘ Restaurants, hotels and well-con-ducted clubs should not he treated as drinking dens. To limit cabaret entertainments to six girls is to suggest that to have a seventh artist would be dreadfully wrong. This is the sort of fussy_ interference which should cease. “ Killjoys fail to realise that modern men and women rightly demand that they shall have whatever respectable entertainment hotels, restaurants and clubs can provide. Obstruction to making Loudon brighter and better does bad service to tfade.” The London County Council has removed the restriction limiting the number of artists. Tt is said that all West End hotels will shortly give cabaret entertainments. The proposal of a committee of the London County Council that liquor should he allowed to he sold in the bars, but not in the auditoriums, of a number of music halls, including the Coliseum, has been rejected, the council deciding by 44 votes to 32 -that no liquor at all should be'sold or consumed on the premises. Mr George Bennie has designed an aerial railway a mile long to connect the suburban station of Stonebridge Park with the exhibition grounds. The carriages will be suspended from a single overhead rail and driven by- two air screws. They will he capable of a speed of 150 miles an hour.