... **nn office would make an interest inu study, for in Italy no less than in England the impresario had to pay his way or go bankrupt. AM this j is not to he dismissed with the cheap gibe of utility opera contained in the Arts Council report. The Carl Rosa ...

... lia, and his comment, after three months here, was: If we ran farming in Australia the way you do here, we would soon be a bankrupt industry. His point was that, while agreeing we are highly mecha nised, we are also the most wasteful users of machinery ...

... a much lower rate of interest than is payable on borrowed money. Surely, if this proposition were true, we would all be bankrupt! A normal business return from invested funds is around 15 per cent. This exceeds his quoted 10 per cent per annum on a lease ...

... expensive accidents with loss of life, and high damage to property on the motorway which, if the farmer is responsible, could bankrupt him because such claims, including death, could easily amount to £30,000 or £40,000 for one single accident. Surely the Ministry ...

... musical theatre, then 1 am afraid they are getting what they deserve. Mr Phipps is quite right in saying that Broadway is now bankrupt of songwriters of the calibre of Rodgers and Ham- merstein and Irving Berlin. Yours faithfully R. E. FORRESTER The Ridge ...

... in heavy and entirely needless financial risk. Why do they do all this unless their object, like that of the W.R.P., is to bankrupt and destroy the Union, as part of an overall plan to break down the whole pattern of collective bargaining and pave the way ...

... group (and hence sensible and moderate) and yet its first action of any significance was to support a sort of mass squat in a bankrupt theatre on Tyneside, the full disastrous effects of which are not yet known. A figure of £15,000 lost has been mentioned ...

... referendum costing at least £10,000; perhaps to be followed by yet another and the result finally will be a well and truly bankrupt Equity. As one of the founder members of the Union. I would be the first to admit that some of our rules are archaic and ...

... Possibly this was because the Vic was at that time (without the generous subsidy that such theatres receive to-day) nearly bankrupt; and the BBC was and is cheated out of millions of pounds a year by the general public not paying its licence fees: a sort ...

... We shall be bankrupt! SIR.--As one of the founder members of Equity who fought to break up the Stage Guild, an actor/managerial association opposed to trade unionism, financed by the Nettlefold brothers. I urge members to vote in favour of all the Council's ...

... statements were made, though I must paraphrase. If Equity were an industrial company it would at this moment be declared bankrupt. If something-or-other (It was either an increase in subscriptions or the impositions of a £5 levy) Equity could not last ...

... statements were made, though I must paraphrase. If Equity were an industrial company it would at this moment be declared bankrupt. If something-or-other (It was either an increase in subscriptions or the impositions of a £5 levy) Equity could not last ...