British Artists at Covent Garden If it had really been
the case that no British artists were to be employed in the forthcoming Opera season at Covent Garden there would have been grounds for the letter of protest in The Times which was signed by 158 M.P.'s. But that is not the position. The management state that the intention is to employ at least as many British artists as last year, when of the principal per- formers 29 out of 85 were British, and of the remainder 809 out of 315. The season at Covent Garden has always been " international " in its character. It would be most unreasonable to suggest that it should now assume a different character, and become all-British. It is a pity that the M.P.'s should have allowed themselves even to hint at -the refusal of permits to foreign artists before they had more fully informed themselves of the facts.
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