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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 130, 26 February 1919, Page 3

In the cosy -warmth of tho theatre, with the lights from tho "foots" aud tho borders ■ making a glamorous glow over the stage, with music ami scenery asaccessories, mumming finds a congenial atmosphere. It is very different with the competitors in the character costume classes at the Town Hall competitions. There in the daytime no attempt is made to provide au "atmosphere"; the competitors stand forward on a broad sunlit Btage, with the blue of tho summer skies glimmering through the high windows. The slightest attempt at facial make-up lends an appalling garishness to the complexion, winch is eo often so palpable in the '.'movies." It would be much more advantageous to the performers and more convincing to the audience if the stage and auditorium could lie darkened during such performances. .. UNITED STATES AND "U.S." Obviously the great competitors for tho world's trade and commerce now arc the British Empire aiuj the Aniericnn Hepublic and undoubtedly Ameri'-n lino a pretty good start. Her war debt is only one-third of Great' Britain's, and her losses in men and material are immeasurably less. In Bpito of this she is not taking any chances. Both by purchase and construction her merchant fleet is vigorously growing, twenty-four hours to the day. That Uncle Sam is after commercial supremacy not »iii.v for to-day and to-morrow, but also "for keeps," is rather significantly shown in Congress's recent alteration to the Constitution. America was reaping in direct revenue from tho liquor business £KO,000,000 per annum, and yet decided that it was bad business! She evidently dc. cided also that a nation with its commerce to sustain had no time to talk any more about the liquor business eithci . The trado offered tho Treasury ,£100,000,000 sterling for-license, for. another yenr. subject to the ordinary referendum polls, but CoiirA'oss, 'directed, by the jnopl astute "big-business" brains of .the world naid: "Notliin' doing!" To save an;,further waste of time they wrote tlr answer in tho Constitution. Keen business men don't do these things as a matter of sentiment; neither do they take ;■ five-lmudred-million-dollar risk until al> solutoly convinced. If America, out aftc; our trade and the other fellow's too oan't afford inefficiency and waste- -no' evon for .£100,000,000 per annum—i\V Zealand certainly can't afford the vis , - n,t a paltry lone New 1 Zealand cuts it out on April. 10. Strike u'ul the top line.—Advt.