In addition, the Limelight Control Committee furnishes us with the following scale of allowances and restrictions under a new clause of the Defence of the Realm Act:—
DRAMA.—The duration of the employment of limelight in Drama may be as follows:—
During eviction of heroine into snowstorm, allowance of one beam for a reasonable period not to exceed one minute.
For death of infant-phenomenon, double-beam lasting two minutes; supplementary allowance for angelic vision subsequent to same.
Embrace of hero and heroine at curtain fall, double-beam, two-and-a-half minutes.
FARCE AND COMEDY.—It is regretted that, in view of the situation, no allowances of limelight can at present be sanctioned.
MUSICAL PLAYS AND REVUES.—Patriotic or Hortatory Songs may be accompanied by four beams, with supplementary allowance for encore verses. (N.B. In these cases application should be supported by a recommendation from the particular Government Department, War Office. Admiralty, or Ministry of Munitions, extolled in the proposed ballad.)
Ethiopian Serenades, hitherto given by the light of (apparently) two full-moons, must be restricted to one beam, of reduced candle-power, thus combining realism with economy.