49. “During the last war Shakespeare was played continuously at the Old Vic, and it is again the intention of that theatre to keep the door open.… Sadlers’ Wells Ballet lost music, scenery and dresses in Holland a fortnight ago, and has had to revise its repertory. Its London season will open on 4 June.” (The Times, 24 May, praised Richard Tauber’s performance of Schumann songs and Joseph Weingarten’s Beethoven piano concert: “At the end the audience could feel that they had listened to a serious interpretation of one of Beethoven’s noblest works.”) An entire page (5) of the Scotsman was devoted to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Home and Foreign Missions Day: “Praying about peace, advocating prayers for victory, declared the Rev. Ewan Maclean, ‘we could have peace tomorrow — the Pax Germanica.’”