Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-06-18 | Page 8 | London's Prices Are Up

L LONDON'S PRICES ARE UP 1 y By MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Writer LO LONDON DON June l London London at atthe atthe atthe the present time is full of American American Ameri Amen can tourists Many of at them have come to England for the first time and they are having the surprise of ot their young oung lives Not at the climate The They had heard all about the need of ot grate fires often otten in June and July and August Not at the cordial welcome they get et from many people They had heard that the reputed coldness of the English was a mere myth But the thing that has knocked them has been the high prices The old superstition that England England England En En- gland is cheap compared with America still sUll persists Trouble Is who have told our tourists these things are folks folls who were acquainted with prewar I England when prices were really ridiculously low compared with America But today with the general upward upward up- up ward vard trend of ot things and with the pound sterling once more back at par London is every whit as ex expensive expensive ex- ex pensive as New York or Chicago S S There may be something of ot a 1 British invasion of at our New York stage but the theatre world of ot London promises to lJ c v v Americanized And that is some triumph because because be- be cause ause while the general public Is keen ceen to welcome an anything good that hat our country sends over many manyA A of ot the dramatic critics seem to think they must be super-patriots super and knock at the slightest But the fact remains that the three outstanding musical successes successes suc sue of ot the London season are three shows from America Rose America Rose RoseMarie Marie No o No Nanette anette and Tell Me More In the way of straight drama America once more sweeps the boards with Just Married l Rain Beggar on Horseback Dancing Mothers and The latter with its humor racy of our soil son has gone over with a smash Its It's the knockout of ot the season and promises to be as popular popular popular pop pop- pop pop- ular here as It has been all ll over our country Almost Almost any morning between and 9 15 16 there may be observed riding downtown In the Hampstead Hampstead Hampstead Hamp- Hamp stead underground a a swarthy skinned gray mustached man who pays no attention whatever to his neighbors and is Immensely absorbed absorbed absorbed ab ab- ab- ab in glancing through the contents contents contents con con- tents of ot his bundle of at morning papers He scrambles for a a. seat scat just like Johnny Jones the office boy and Susie Smith the cash girl And he happens to be Ramsay MacDonald who a few months ago was the first socialist labor-socialist prime minister Gr Great at Britain ever had and who now Is the official leader of ot the governments government's strongest opposition op op- op- op position Even America cant can't furnish a gr greater ater exam example le of simplicity