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HAZLITT'S CENTENARY.
INN WHERE ESSAYS WERE WROTE.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, NOVEMBER 1st, 1930.
A hundred years ago on September 18, William Hazlitt, literary critic and essayist, died in London. Our picture showa The Pheasant Inn, or the Winterslow Hut, as it is sometimes called, where Hazlitt was visited by Charles and Mary Lamb and where he wrote the Winter- slow Essays. The inn lies a little to the north of the village of Winterslow on the old road to Andover, just over the Wiltshire border. Hazlitt spent several months here yearly after
parting from his wife. (Times copyright)..
AN ITALIAN GRAPE FESTIVAL.
At the village of Impruneta, near Florence, a vintage festival was held recently on a grand scale. During the afternoon there was a procession of elaborately decorated cars drawn by oxen, and later in the day there was dancing in the streets and visitors were regaled with the fruit of the vineyards. Our picture shows women of Impruneta wearing their festival dress and carrying tambourines in front of the big vine vat, which was an outstanding features in the Festa of the Grape procession. (Timca copyright).
COLLEGE GIRL AS STAR.
Frances Dee, a young College girl who has secured an engagement with the Fox studios.
in Hollywood.
TOURISTS IN SOVIET RUSSIA.
Moscow's Appeal
Thinkers.
The tide of foreign tourists
to Moscow-chiefly Americans la ebbing, after a season in which it reached the highest levels since the revolution.
Trustworthy figures are not yet available, but it seems likely that the total of visitors will have been considerably above the 5,000 mark. A mere nothing, of course, for Paris or Berlin. But for the So- viet capital, with its three suitable hotels, the influx problems of ac- commodation, feeding and inter- preting were formidable.
Unfortunately, the highest point of foreign tourism coincided with the lowest point in recent years conditions. for Soviet living Visitor's were impressed by the obvious signs of industrial con- struction, by the matchless under. takings in social betterment. "But they were no less impressed "by the equally obvious signs of hard- ships for the population evidenced by food queues' and general grumbling.
Source of Puzzlement,
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To the Moscovites, in fact, the droves of Americans, camera and guide-book in hand, were a con- stant source of puzzlement. The sight was familiar enough on the streets.
"What do they want to see ?" more than one Russian has asked this writer. "How we stand in queues? How badly we are dress. cd compared to them?"
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This inferiority complex some- times even showed itself in a thick irony. "Here they are, monopolis- ing the only decent restaurants in town, drinking up our vodka and sunoking up our cigarettes....... The natives are too accustomed to their surroundings to understand the sheer thrill for the outside wandering visitor .in merely through the tangled half-Asiatic streets of their city.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
HOME FOR YOUNG BUSINESS MEN.
A ROCKEFELLER MODEL CITY.
These architect's drawings show how John D. Rockefeller, Jr., upper right, has Below is combined beauty and utility in his model residential city. Above is a view of the office, store and apartment bulding resembling the old English inn of the stagecoach era. pictured one of the private dwellings. Note the built-in garage at the rear, the absence of outside wiring and the beauty of the landscaping.
ity and hence freedom from the annoying necessity of frequent re-
A model community now being house burned several years ago. developed by John D. Rockefeller,
Is Object Lesson.
Interiors are Lavish.
A glimpse inside the dwellings reveals a housewives'-Utopa.
Jr., at Forest Hill, his famous The new city is intended pri-pairs, declared C. O. Heydt, pres Food for Thought. Paris as a tourist centre appeals father's picturesque old estate, ismarily for the younger executives ident of the Abeyton Realty Cor first of all to the senses, with its a home lovers' fairyland trans and professional working classes. Poration, the Rockefeller organi- It is the hope of Rockefeller that zation in charge of the develop night life and promise of quicken- formed into reality.
Moscow, alone One thousand fireproof dwell it will serve as an educational obment. ed enjoyments. among the cities of the worldings equipped with very modern ject lesson to other wealthy men, appeals first of all to the mind. conveniences, a $750,000 office, showing them how to invest their There is scarcely a tourist 80 store and apartment building, money to help the housing situa-
A. vestibule and tiled hall opens rapid that Moscow does not start beautiful winding boulevards, a tion and place more families in
off the iving room. On the other the machinery in his or her mind transportation system, a recrea-their own homes.
However, there is nothing that side is a dining room. The living tion centre and everything else moving a little faster.
about the rooms are 23 feet long by 13 wide. Things which were taken for that goes to make up a complete savors of charity granted as eternally truc are sud-residential city is planned on the project. Homes are priced at An enclosed porch opens off the
from $25,000 to $40,000. Buyers end of the living room. denly shaken up and placed in
The dining room, 13 by 15 feet. doubt, Age-old notions of private
must make down payments of 15 per cent of the total, and are is on the other side of the en- property, of the class relations, of the Importance of clothes and of money find themselves for the
given 15 years to complete the trance hall, and off the dining first time on the defensive. Their
purchase. No second mortgages room a dining alcove with break- tested,
will be permitted, Rockefeller fast nook furniture leads to a
tiled kitchen. truth is questioned and
having arranged to care for all For the tourist with the slightest inclination for mental exercise,
financing through first mortgages at six per cent. Moscow is an unforgettable ex- perience.
400-acre tract:
The housing development will monument in be a Rockefeller memory of the many pleasant hours father and son spent on the old estate, located in East Cleve and Cleveland Heights, land suburbs adjoning Cleveland on the It was the elder oil king's cast. eummer home until the large
Of Proven Value for Nursing Mothers
IN pregnancy and lactation the diet of the nursing mother. must be reinforced to establish a rich milk secretion, to safe- mother's health guard the against overstrain and to ensure to normal λ quick return atrength after the confinement. "Ovaltine" completely meets these requirements by providing adequate
appropriate . and
has hren nourishment. It proved to have a definite effect in improving the quality and quantity of the breast milk.
Moreover, ita easily digested, delicious in flavour, wholly nourishing and does not convey any noxious or unpalatable sub- Btances to the milk.
that It is. recommended "Ovaltine" should be given. about the sixth month of gestu tion and continued throughout the nursing period.
The kitchen has a gas range in a deep tiled recess, a large enam- Eighty-one houses, of seven and elled sink, an electric refrigerator, eight rooms each, and a novel and built-in cupboards and closets. business block constitute the pres- A wide back hall gives entry to ent building programme. Fifteen
a lavatory, several deep closets dwellings have been completed, and opens onto the rear yard. and the others are under roof.) Sewer installation provides for a possible population of 20,000.
A master bed chamber, several closets, another bath, a servant's room with bath are found on the second floor....."
$5,000,000 Already Spent, The old private golf links, where
The laundry, 10 by 13 feet, and John D., Sr., played his favourite the boiler room, 18 by 19 fect, game, and the lake, where young are in the basement. They occupy Rockefeller learned to swim, are the basement space. not utilized preserved and probably will be for the garage.
utilized for recreation facilities
for residents of the model city. but no 'definite details have been worked.out.
.....
Unique Store Building.
The $750,000 fireproof store and office building new being '.... còn-”
Vastness of the project is indi-structed, which is designed to har- casted by the fact that $5,000,000 monize with the other buildings, has been expended to date, not in- has a street frontage of 574 feet. The outside will resemble an old cluding land values.
English inn of the stagecoach era. A visitor at the development is Stores, offices, a branch bank and amazed at its distinctiveness.
apartments will be housed in this There is not a pole in the entire building, at Mayfield and Leo district. All wires for electricity roads, Cleveland Heights.
and telephone service have been The site is a tract of park-like, placed underground. Except for country, characterized by rolling trees and shrubbery, there will ap-ground. It is within easy reach pear only artistic lighting stan-
dards and lanterns and street of Cleveland's downtown business
centre. signs.
The community was designed by The houses are in modified
Andrey J. Thomas of New York. English syle, but cach is different He also drew plans for a series of and each stands on a plot 56 by model tenements sponsored by 160 feet, set back from the street. Rockefeller and the Metropolitan Every block is landscaped to fit in- Life Insurance Company in and to the completed picture.
near New York city."
Engineers and workmen have All garages are built in, but are been busy for four years on the Secrecy veils the com completely cut off from the base-project.
Built-In Garages.
The makers will send to ament portions to be used by oc-plete plans for the development, qualifed nurse, on receipt of her cupants. Back of the garages are but it is expected to be the finest professional card, a sufficient wide streiches of lawn, making of its type In the world, surpass the back as attractive as the fronting the vast Florida projects of
the boom days. quantity for trial in any case
Several building Inspectors at
All details are being handled by under her charge.
convention tending a recent pronounced the houses "the best the Rockefeller interests. All ever built on earth." They have construction, landscaping and de- 12-inch brick-on-tile walls, four signing is being done by Rocke- inch concrete sub-floors on the feller workmen to ensure that the first story, with sound-deadening beauty of the entire development will be considered in each indivi between them, and wide, oak-top dual home.
OVALTINE
TONIC FOOD BEVERAGE
Manufactured by A, WANDER, LTD. (Dept, 153), 184, Queen's Gate, London, S.W.7.
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floors. Melal lath is used through- out and all flashings and down- The residential section will con nect with Cleveland's new rapid spouts are copper.
transit system over a new Forest "Mr. Rockefeller has sought to Hin boulevard to the East Cleve provide here a community of good land station. At present it is homes for the younger people, planned not to have any traction hores that will stand, that have cars in the district, but to have architectual and structural qual frequent bus services,