CASE OF FALSE PRETENCES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2471, 26 May 1915, Page 4

CASE OF FALSE PRETENCES

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Wanganul, May 24. Leslie Ellis was' sentenced to three months' imprisonment at the Magistrate's Court to-day for obtaining £7 15s. by false pretences. Very little is known publicly about the Lyceum Club in London, although it has aready made history in the women's movement, writes a correspondent in the "Manchester Guardian." One rule which much surprised outsiders is that actresses, who belong to perhaps the only profession in which women aro usually better paid than men, are not- admitted on . their professional qualification. It is said that this is because of the difficulty in fixing a definite standard for an actress, but the same would apply to a, journalist, who on tho other hand is eligible if she has a certain amount of work published. Tho actresses who are members come in, I am told, on other qualifications. Teachers and nurses also are not eligible on their professional standing, but may come, in on a university degree or because they have travelled in the world, or for some other special reason. If an artist, I believe that the candidate must havo been an exhibitor of nil exhibition of standing. Some definite original achievement is the passport generally demanded, although a few members are admitted on social qualifications at an increased subscription. It is matter for profound reflection that this club alone possesses six hundred members who have each published at least one book— a startling record. It is not frequented by hard-working journalists as much as one would imagine, for the excellent reason that the busiest journalist members have very little leisure, and the talk in the club lounge is therefore more of publishers and of theatrical managers who might conceivably accept a play than of editors. The club has no politics, and political discussions aro supposed to be barred. All the suffrage societies are well represented among the members, and one hears of members who are anti-suffragists. It is an institution of independent feminism, and deserves to survive—as, indeed, it is certain to do —tho present crisis in its affairs.