NEW SHOWMANSHIP

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 135, 12 June 1929, Page 9

NEW SHOWMANSHIP

USE OF TALKING FILM

CABINET AND PUBLIC

British Official Wireless.

RUGBY, 10th June. Mr. J. E. MaeDonald, the new Prime Minister, used wireless broadcasting on Saturday night to issue a message to the nation. He employed another modern method to-day ■ when he introduced his Cabinet to the public by means of a talking film which was taken in ihe garden of "No. 10, Downing Street, before the meeting of Cabinet.

Mr. Mac Donald, with his colleagues around him, spoke into the microphone and introduced his colleagues one by one. He. said: "May I introduce to you members of the Cabinet, who have been chosen for very hard work and because I believe the nation fully. believes they are perfectly competent to perform it? First of all, there is my old friend Mr. Snowden, who is Chancellor. Then there is Mr. Henderson, Foreign Secretary,- and ■'.; Mr. Clynes, Home Secretary. Lord Parmoor returns to his place as Lord President of the Council. Mr. Shaw has gone to the War Office to look after our great interests there, and Mr. Noel Buxton is in charge of agriculture. Mr. Webb is to look after the Dominions and colonies. Then there is behind me : Mr. Greenwood, who has gone to the Ministry of Health. Sir Charles Trevelyan goes back to the Board, of Education, but Mr.- Graham comes now to the Board of Trade from the Treasury. "Mr. Thomas has very broad shoulders, and I can assure you he is' going to have a very big burden put upon them. He is' going to look after the work we are doing for unemployment, and I feel sure the whole nation wishes him most heartily success. Mr. Alexander has come from the Board of Trade to the Admiralty, and I am sure he will show his great capacity aj; the Admiralty as he did at the Board of Trade. Mr. Adamson is a Scotsman and he is going to preside over the office he filled with so much success in 1924. Captain Wedgwood Benn is one of the young men who has now a task of the very greatest importance. He. is to be Secretary for India, and we wish him well in the very trying time he will have to face. Then there is our old friend Mr. George Lansbury, who is First Commissioner of Works, and who, is to; take a hand-' in the solution of the unemployment problem, and nobbdy has had greater experience of local government. Last but most unique, is our old friend Miss Margaret Bondfield. She is the first woman who has been admitted' to the Privy Council, and she is now the Eight Hon. Margaret Bondfield. . She is also the first woman to have taken a seat" in the Cabinet. ."'■■•' 4