Lord Tyrrell, it appears, is, unbeknown to the general public,
" a film fan." So, at least, he has described himself in an interview. And there is no reason to sup- pose that lie will fill less competently than a hundred other people who could be named a post which requires no special qualifications,beyond common sense, and a taste that is neither too exacting nor too. lax. But he will have, to pay the penalty of the acceptance of his new office, and I should have thought it was rather a high one. Hence- forward, with his name displayed on tens of thousands of screens nightly throughout these islands, he will be the Film Censor and nothing elSe. A few highbrows may recall that he was once Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office and Ambassador in Paris, but essentially he is, and will remain, the Film Censor. M. Clemenceau, when told that the M. Paderewski who had become Prime Minister of Poland was really the great pianist, is said to have observed " What' a' fall." Should we say of Lord Tyrrell, who haS reversed the Process, " What a rise ? "
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