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Show NO GRUMBLING DONE BY UNDERPAID GIRLS Workers in Munitions Factories Fac-tories Are Cheerful Despite De-spite Difficulties. ACADEMY TO EXHIBIT Art in Black and White to Be Shown; Hotel Building Build-ing Stopped. By International News Servic Correspondent. LONDOX, Sept. 16. It would ba hard to find anywhere a merrier or gayer crowd than the girl workers in the munition factories of the London area. They have had to do without their summer vacation; they are very much underpaid, as compared with the male workers, and they have protested time and again to the minister of munitions, muni-tions, without receiving anything but promises in return, but, aside from wages, they find nothing to grumble about. Since Lloyd-George appointed 8e-' bohm Kowntree to supervise their "welfare" "wel-fare" sympathetic intelligence haa been applied to many matters important to health, but commonly overlooked in establishments es-tablishments run by men, Buch as rest roojns, meals and places in which to eat them. The welfare department of the ministry min-istry of munitions is now tackling th question of recreation, which is urgent in these days when thousands of women and girls are suffering from overstrain. Latel- a series of twice-nightly Bhown have been given in many munition workers' camps to crowded houses. This is only a beginning and the girls are being appealed to to take a hand in the business of organizing recreation. There is now a club for girls at Woolwich, Wool-wich, with Will Crooks, the well-known member of parliament, as chairman of the advisory committee, which is arranging ar-ranging sports on a ground near the arsenal. ar-senal. The girls themselves are everywhere forming dramatic societies and glee clubs and go in for dancing, gymnastics and many other forms of diversion to relieve the monotony of lives which would otherwise consist only of bed and work. ( Academy Plans Exhibit. j The British Royal academy intends ,next spring to introduce tho great in-I in-I novation of a black-and-white exhibition exhibi-tion at Burlington house. At the same time it is intended to have an exhibition exhibi-tion of war memorial sculpture in certain cer-tain of the galleries. The winter show this year will be an art and craft exhibition on an unusual un-usual scale of variety and thoroughness. The black and white exhibition excites most curiosity because It has been the section of th"e academy that has been almost neglected, in spite of the fact that etching is the medium in which British art of the present generation has expressed itself most prominently in the eyes of tho world in general. Black and white pictures have hitherto hither-to ahvavs been hunrr in a sort, nf rnn- demned cell, which was only occasionally occasion-ally found by hungry people looking for the refreshment room, and horo everything ev-erything was jammed together etchings, etch-ings, drawings and engravings jusb like the windows of a Hegent street shop before Americans came ovor here and taught London shopkeepers the art of artistic window dressing. Salesman Fight Bravely. Apropos of London shops, the Bound of tlio guns in Franco is today echoing in all of them and the thoughts 'of the "salesladies" are constantly turning to the men, who a year ago were junt an busy as they in selling pilks and calicos. Young salesmen from all the largo London Lon-don stores have enlisted by tho thousands thou-sands in the Kensingtons, the Queen' Westminsters, the London Scottish and other regiments which have covered themselves with glory. News of tho men is slow in coming through, though I have heard manv stories of individual bravery, but already al-ready thre is word of many casualties in famous victories. Oxford street and Kensington High strept Htore-s aro closely close-ly concerned with the taking of I'n-zieres I'n-zieres and Regent street salesmen havo fought bravely and with considerable losses at La Boleelle. War Stops Building. The boom in London hotel building, which set in just before the war, when London was crowded with Americans, as it had not been since the coronation, was naturally one of the activities that wn Btoppcd by the war. Bir Joseph Lynn 's n on -ti ppi ng Re. gent Palace hotel, near I'icendi llv, overlooking over-looking (ireen park, has never progressed beyond n skeleton of girders, now sadly sad-ly covered with rust. London s hotel accommodation in steadily decreasing, as the ministry of munitions commandeers one hotel fitter fitt-er the other, but Americans who are still thinking of coming over here this year will f i nd a new hot el as up-to-date as any in New York near KuvsrJl square in Hloomsbnry, beloved by American Amer-ican tourists the da vs when thev still flocked here on their summer pilgrimage. pilgrim-age. This hotel, opened only a few weeks ago. has several new features, such iii a rifle range on its roof garden and an immense swimming pool in its base-merit, base-merit, adjoining which is a gymnasium filled with the mechanical exercisers i which Americans know from the trans-i trans-i Atlantic, liners. T must not forget to add that it is a no-tip hotel. |