It is the price of the late Lord Keynes' -versatility
that his death leaves important positions to fill everywhere. One of the most important is the chairmanship of the Arts Council, which he did
• so much to create and foster. The Council is still in its early days and a bad appointment would be a disaster. It is no place for a mere administrator ; at the same time it is no place for an artist (in the broadest sense) weak at administration ; and the combination of the two necessary qualities is not easily discovered. One or two possible names suggest themselves (as they do for the still vacant chairmanship of the British Council), but there would be little gained by canvassing them here. To revert to Lord Keynes, some- one suggests that the Arts Theatre which he founded at Cambridge should be renamed the Keynes Theatre. There is much to be said for that—except that Keynes himself would beyond all question
have opposed it.
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