NEW-YEAR
RESOLUTIONS
MR PINERO . . . . . To dramatise the Golliwog books.
MR BAILEY . . . . . To go home.
ADMIRAL RODJESTVENSKY . Ditto.
MR EUSTACE H MILLS . . To avoid the pleasures of the table, and to restrict himself to three peanuts and a plasmon biscuit per diem.
MR HENRY ARTHUR JONES . To try to learn to love Mr Beerbohm Tree.
MR BEERBOHM TREE . . To avoid performances of “The Tempest in a Teacup”.
MR ARTHUR COLLINS . . To justify the statement that “The White Cat” is a pantomime for children by introducing a perfectly sober character.
THE PROPHET DOWIE . . To open a subscription fund for supplying Zion City with a Tatcho reservoir.
MR TIM HEALY . . . . To smoke nothing but the new Irish-grown tobacco in the House of Commons smoking-room.
THE UNIONIST PARTY . . To avoid the House of Commons smoking-room.
THE LIBERAL PARTY . . . To avoid the House of Commons smoking-room.
MR WINSTON CHURCHILL . To avoid the House of Commons smoking-room.
MR C A PEARSON . . . To keep his Standard flying.
MR EVAN ROBERTS . . . To refuse a place in the Welsh fifteen.
MR RUDYARD KIPLING . . To publish an English translation of his later works.
THE MARQUESS OF ANGLESEY To purchase (on credit) four hundred emotional waistcoats.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT . . To wonder why somebody doesn’t do something about the Trusts.
MR W T STEAD . . . . To collaborate with Mr Pinero in his Golliwog play.