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When the Prince Broadcasts: Penny Postage:
Making of a Mannequin: Elizabethan Relics:
An Interesting Experiment: Chess:
Legal Jubilee: Riviera Sunshine: London's Godfather.
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LONDON, Jan. 11. When the Prince of Wales opened the series of radio talks on unemployment the National wavelength, apoke from studio 33- the most modern of all the talks studioe-on the third floor of Broadcasting House.
Here the keynote of the design is simplicity. Un the right of the Prince as he sits before the micro phone is a dummy mantelpieco and a dummy electric fire. Behind him curtains are drawn, over * non- existent window. A vividly-striped carpet with two chairs, upholstered to match, and two vases of real Howers break the simplicity of the
rooin,
Studio B has been, treated by the B.B.C. engineers to prevent a completely dead acoustic effect. You will notice, therefore, the slightest of schees when the Prince speaks.
·Zestful Ministers.
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Thackeray's House.
Sobo will shortly lose some of ita ment interesting old houses. Ar- rangements have been made to demolish part of Maple-street, just off Fitzroy-street, and, among the buildings to bo razed is Thackeray's house.
This pleasant .nld fieorgian building de rich in literary associa- tions, and has an air of dignity above that of most of the · höuses Is Maple-street. For years Thac keray lived there, and untold hours he spent roaming the noigh- bouring, streets alert for sugges `tions of "character. Some of his best work was don in Maple- street.
Close by are the haunts of
Do Eric Hazlitt.
Quincey, William Blake, and Mozart.
their leading lady. Maturin And Ben Welden are among the men, Eugéne O'Neill'a play "fn the Zone" has only once before been netod in this country; the characters are nine men, pent in the foc'a'lo of an occan-going tramp. Robert Newton has himself adapted "The Olive Orchard" from Guy de Maupassant'a "Champ d'Oliviers." It is a gume story, but it makes an ex- cellent ins-act play. The other two plays in the first fortnight's pro- gramine will give Miss Bannerman
chabeo
to shine. They are "Elegant Edward," in which the late Charles Hawtrey made a hit, and "Always Apologise." by Audrey Carten.
Fighting a Lone Battle, One woman,
Although Thackeray House has of recent years been sub-let to a number of artistic. people, several of the rooms remain almost as when Thackeray left, -
London's Godfather, ·
I. Suppose to no one man does the average Londoner owe more of his enjoyment of the parks than to Sir Lionel Earle, the Permanent Secretary to the Office of Works, whose retirement has been an- nounced.
To his enthusiasm as a gardener are due in great part the beauties of Hyde Park, St. James's Park, Kew, and Bushy, to mention only the most outstanding examples. And many a diplomatic or Conru- lar officer in remote parts of the world has received requests from him for rare plants for London's Parks
To
these
plants
ensure that should be hardy ones, Sir Lionel usually requested that they should come from an altitude of not less
silent and grey- haired, fought a lone battle for her sex among 50 inen and boys at the annual congress of the London Chess League. She showed no fear in face of the formidable opposi tion, and fortified by a plentiful supply of cigarettes, which she Sir Kingsley Wood, the Post-placed on the table in front of her, master-General, is under no illu- she started the tournament in ag.than 4,900ft. sions that it will be impossible for gressive style. As the game pro The scope of the Office of Works him to secure return of the ceeded she sustained a set-back, is very wide-and it has been penny postage this year, though it but she bore the knockmanful greatly enlarged by the authority nevertheless remains his greatest ly." Then her position becaraeit now exercises over ancient build aspiration to record this achieva hopeless and she resigned. Yet she inge as national monuments. ment during his administration. has still more matches to play be Another Minister who has a clear fore the tournament ends on Satur and definite aim, which he is also day, and, who knows, she may pursuing with zest, is Mr. Walter | ultimately win a place in the first Elliot, as Minister of Agricultures three ! He believe that the industry bas now its greatest opportunity to ra- cover.
The same verve for his task in developing our export trade is be- ing shown by Colonel Colville, as Minister of Overseas Trade. Each of these three Ministers baa a real flair for his work; and enjoys, as indcod do the whole Ministerial team, the fullest freedom for the exercise of initiative and judgment from their chief, the Prime Minis ter. 1
Fashion Parade Rehearsal. Few people realise that elaborate rehearsals precede the large man nequin paradus given in London. I was present at one of these trials
The Choice of a Title.
By choosing the name of a Lon don street ns the geographical.de- signation of his new title, Sir Joseph Davcen seems to have es- tablished a precedent. An official of the College of Heralds to whom I was talking yesterday could not, at all events, think of any similar case,
The majority of peers select the names of their principal residences, and the only notable exceptions re- cently have beenwich soldiers as Lord Byng of Viray and Lord Al- lenhy of Megiddo, who have chosen battlefielda with which they have been notably associated,
But in much instances they have a although it is not generally known, second English designation, and, Lord Byng is also" of Thorpe-le- Soken"
and Lord Allonby Felixstowe
of
at a West End establishment to day, and had the amusing ex- perience of watching mannequins having their complexions tested. Half a dozen girls-dark brown, medium, fair, auburn, and plati- In any case, let it not be sup Dum tresses were represented-posed that one is inferring any stood meekly in a row. Every one connection between such choice of was subjected to the ecstumier's battlefields and Sir Joseph's · selec- Forceful scrutiny, and then placed tion of Millbank. against differently coloured back- grounds. The groups of shades which suited individual types were discussed at length, after which conference a number of gowns fell to each model. The extreme styles of beauty did not get so many dres. ses as their more ordinary sister, but were allowed to wear the few startling creations-a compensation which they seemed to find pleasant.
Elizabethan Relics.
The Law Courts' Jubilee.
On January 11, as I have noted previously, marks the lapse of fifty years since the Law Courts were opened. There was one Lord. Chief Justice-Coleridge-ho took pride in alluding to them as the Royal Courts of Justice," which is their proper name, although no body ever uses it.
Perhaps because we do not use the full appellation of the Law A fierce light will be thrown for Courts (although the Telephone several months now on all things Directory doce) we do not often associated with the spacious days reflect that this building is the suc of Queen Elizabeth. True, the cessor of that certain place " ap- 100th anniversary of her birth does pointed by Magna Carte as the nót fall until September 7, but place where justice may always be already all arrangements have been obtained. ** completed for the first exhibition. here this month of a rare collection of Elizabethan relics,pictures, Fifty years is a very short life books, furniture, and armour. As for the Law Courts compared with Elizabeth's reign is still regarded the 607. years, during which: Weet- as the golden age of literature the minster Hall was the centre of Eng- period of Shakespeare, Spenser,lish justice Marlowe, and Ben Jonson books
Westminster Hall.
No wonder the Hall" became
of that time have bean loaned by synonymous with the practice of distinguished collectors, but popu-the law and that man who had lar interest, will no doubt centre achieved eminence in the law was in the personal rolic of the great pu
powerful at Westroinster." Queen. Included in this asctitin will be the rosary of Mary Queen of Scets and pieces of the ill-fated woman's neediowork.
The Shilling Tknstre, An interesting theatri
is promised at the
·Theatre, Fulham, ” by
Riviera !! Sunshine
The warni January sunshine was responsible at the week-end for what must be a rare spectacle at Hampstend. Some people I heard of who have a delightful garden hear the summit of the heath, and kave, only recently returned to in management, but if their enter-London from the Riviera, were so prise and energy, are properly restonished at the temperature that warded they should achieve a big they hastily telephoned around to success. For not only are they various friends
Joy Newton they are
bringing an old theatre, back to All were regular Riviera vistors, life; they are going to run it on and they were invited to come quito original lines. No ticket will roulid to a bocktail party on the east more than one shilling. They lawn at noon.
have grasped the fact that it is It was a bare success. The blue possible to present first-rate pro sky was worthy of the Côte d'Azur ductions at prices komparable to at its best in January; there were those of the picture house out red roses in full bloom, and there side the West End of London. was a marked absence of that
They open on
lusry 1 with disagreeable wind along the Medi two-performances
at 830terranean, known as the mistral, which so often makes outdoor cock- they inted tait parties in the South "impos-
And
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LONDON, Jan. 11. Tang Yu Lin, the Governor of Jehol, whose uncertain attitude to warda Manchukoo has added a fur. the Far complication to ther Eastern crisis, is a sportsman who bagan life as a bandit. For several years he was Chang Tao Lin's right, and man.
Quite recently two British diplo mats went up to Jehol to shoot. They were entertained officially by the Governor. During dinner be sent for his new English gun and, after giving a few imitation shots round the room, handed it to his guests for inspection.
Later the conversation turned on racing. One of the Englishmen offered to race his ponies against the Governor's Mongolian ponier provided he could bring his ow fodder.
Tang Yu Lin snid politely-that he would not take the bet.. The | Englishman would have no chance. He should see with his own efra.
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Next morning the governor pro» duced his ponies and had them ridden down the main street for the Englishinen's bonit. Tang was right. The ponies, ridden with n tight rein, wers paoers who cou go for miles...
Then, dressed in his general £, uniform, the governor sont for h awn special pony and jumped or his back, taking with him a great slick like a broomstick."
Getting up tremendous speed, 1 changed down the street, giving a perfect exhibition of the Cossack. stunt of slipping down on his stir- rups and firing under his pony's belly.
The Englishmen were ecstatic in their admiration, "That's what mande ane Governor of Jehol," said Tang quietly. It was that trick which won, me Chang Tso Lin's favour."
Ye Gods.
While walking with a friend. yesterday I found the best sample vet of the "ye olde "wania, which I loathe...
NYA
A tradesman's entrance !! nently Inbelled. "Ye merchanta entrance
My friend bestowed on this de-. vice one look.
Lupe ye olde polee," marked.
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