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THERE WOULD BE-
HAT was a first-rate suggestion put for- ward the other day:
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It would be the twentieth century's Great Exhibition; the Victorian age's Great Exhibition, The show Dint started the modern idea of Inter- national exhibitions, was also in Hyde Park, in 1851.
Than 1851 exhibition WHS LINENNEN At her residence, 18"modern" than
many held Morrisan Flat Road, Happy 11 was in many ways far more like Valley
is, Monday, July 011 PARA. Lily Linennen, aged 17 what 1940's should be than Wem- years, daughter of F. Linennen, biey's was. In 1924. It gave us our of the Dairy Farm Co., Ltd. Funeral will pass the Monument first modern building, now, unhappi- at 6 pm to itay.
|ly, destroyed--the Crystal Palace.
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TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1938
TRIBUTE TO COURAGE
סינסטון
since.
The Crystal Paince was modern bernuse it used modern building materials--cast fron and ghuss; also it was pre-fabricated at the factory. taken to Hyde Parks in vans, removed later to Sydcobar with little break-
nge.
I should lice to see another Crystal Palace rise in Hyde Park. Steel and glass would be the male- cials now. It would set the style for Its niclite exhibition buildings.
water taxis speeding on the Serpentine
a new Crystal Palace of steel and glass
none of the trouble there was getting to Wembley
I needn't loso anything in colour or variety by being imperial only. Glasgow is impressive but, being Scottish, a bit too practical; it doesn't exploit the vivid picture- squeness of some of the oversene colonice as the French Colonial Ex- hibition did in 1931.
They built an enormous replica of the Angkor Vat temple; hundreds of African, Negroes were installed in mud huts in the exhibition grounds, lived there more or less as they did at home
Maharajahs palaces, dazzling tem- ples, tropical jungles (without the (with Insects), "teeming" bazaars not too realistic draina) could be re- constructed it Hyde Park. We could: be shown the life of a typical British subject in Jamalen. I hope by then It'll be fit to show. The Gold Coast too might by then have straightened out its disputes.
we con
Every exhibition Icards from $15 predecessors. From Parla learn (besides respect for trees), the value of vistas, the modern deccra- tive use of water, Restaurants should overlook the Serpentino;
could be a water-taxl service long it; at nights on the Selno Just year there could be spectacular coloured-fountain displays.
there
From Glasgow I'm afraid we shall
HEEP graze in Hyde Park be disturbed. Personally, I think to tearn that the exhibition will be a
summer.
an
the general plan, their styles perhaps
art
night.
don't
They would be pleasanter as plain park, failure unless it's open on Sundays. cvery
amusing for exhibition visitors to walk and Drinks should be less of a problem should be left there, rustic oasis amid the show's steel rest in; but if they too were used, in London. than in Glasgow: lyde the gardens of Buckingham Palace Park is in a part of London which in and-glass glitter,
Existing bits of orchitecture-Hyde might be opened, now that the King accustomed to drink legally ull mid- Park Corner, the Albert Memorial and Queen spend so much time at
FROM Brussela (1935) and from almost every exhibi- should also be respected, worked into Windsor.
if they move to Windsor altogether,, tion I remember, we should, but
ex- lesson: special ነ
would profiteer. It achoed in faintly "period" ornament the Palace would provide a wonder probably won't, learn one important on the exhibition buildings nearest ful gallery for
enstre double tourists' good will and impulse hibition: this alone would :bi to
to spend if they could really con- American
vince themselves that hotels hadn't Planning should allow for emer thousands of extra
put up their prices specially, that The exhibition might be okuniul attendances. gencies. made as weatherproof as possible-- Another "if": if St. George's Hos everybody was giving them the cor-
rect change. nil is then demolished (it is to be un experiment not tried before, 1
The one great lesson is that, to be ink. Elegant covered ways could rebuilt in a few year's time) its site a success, an exhibition mustn't be out. Hyde Park is five muite run beside the main walks, leading would
car-park. two fur A useful from building to building and to the parking fees could go to rebuilding minutes from Victoria, is actually overlooked by dozens of hotels at which tourists stay.
hope something will come of the WHETHER this la to be an idea. I should like to book a room
Empire or an international high up in Park-lane for the summer- doesn't matter to this of 1940. There will be a grand view.
be obstacles article. There might
various tube stations.
fund.
The rrer emergency of fine wea- tort ther should niso be allowed plenty of open-air restaurants, cafes with vast disappearing windows, are exhibition are learning essential. to consider function. The
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One of
If the exhibition grounds extend in the way of the latter... function of most exhibition buildings into St. James's Park and the Green the most attractive pavilions at Paris ls (a) to be temporary, (b) to be Park (Hyde Park alone might or last year was Czecho-Slovakta's; will good show-pieces and shop windows, might not be enough) I hope the Czecho-Slovakin be in a position to Steel and glass, with some timber, delightful fowl in the lake will not stage a show in 19407
are perfect for this.
We know more about glass than Our new Crystal they did in 1851. Palace would be finer than the old Colour and artificial lighting, in all
its intricacies und splendour, can be
reg
Tom Driberg
A GHOST FOR THE CLACHAN
Per-
When
There have been few episodes in the history of aerial warfare so daringly conceived and so successfully carried out as that reported by the Japanese at Nanchang yesterday, when an undisclosed number of Japanese planes deliberately turned their noses to the hangar and slipped
and stirred the thatch with a plain- clown to land at high speed. used us elements in exhibition archi-o the Americans are going to have Tailor's Courage
tive moan, but the tailor sewed on Thereafter they attempted to set tecture. Opaque glass tempers sun- a Clachan too, as the Exhibition
bent,
one has proved such a success.
Many years before, the old house unperturbed. fre to Chinese planes on the
The minutes passed; it was nearly Al Paris last year, at Glasgow this haps theirs would be an even greater was supposed to be haunted.
midnight The midnight:
passed, but. ground and to other property at your trees were respected.
"At Paris success if they made it the clachan night came no one would pass.
few inhabitants of the neighbouring nothing happened. The tire fell low. the aerodrome: and
Anally, pavilions were built round trees. At that I used to see in my dreams.
This cluchan, Kerrow by nutne, was houses kept within doors after dark, The tailor stirred it up. The light Glasgow there is a restaurant called;
2 very small clachan, just a few or made a wide detour when they had fell on him as he sat cross-legged on sutisfied with the damage they the Treetops; trees grow through the scattered houses by the banks of the to be abroad near midnight; for then the floor, intent on his work.
There was a louder moan of the had done, they ran back to their moor.
river Glass in Strathglass. Standing the ghost appeared.
wind. The cold air was in the room But the tailor of the clachan had no itself! The tailor looked up. His (own planes and took off-with- A charming idea-but not a new apart from the others was a small,
fcare. He feared no man, dead or scalp crept; a grue passed over his out losing a man in the opera-one: they had it in 1851, too. Within broken-down house. The roof had
the Crystal Palace were enclosed long since vanished; only the shall alive. Nightly he boasted that he whole body. He turned round
remained the four bare walls and would see the ghost. In fact he would hind him, rising from the floor, ap- tion. The success, of course, some elms. Being under glass, they the high gables.
wait for it
it in its own home, in the
and a great hand, fingers long Peared depended largely
My grandfather was schoolmaster haunted house itself. the come out earlier than trees outside; upon
At last, despite the importunate thin. Before his horrifled eyes it ross Out of the silence as the hand element of surprise; but that only disadvantage was that all Lon-In Strathgiass, and my mother used
don's sparrows flocked to these clms, to take us there at holiday times to pleadings of his neighbours, he de-higher and higher, menacingly above On one of our cided to take his work and spend the rese came the words, "A big hand. see the old school. does not detract from the unto the detriment of the objects d'art et an old woman--the callleach as night in the dreaded house.
Night
Tailor" questionable gallantry of these below.
they called her told us the story of came. The tailor kindled a peat fire without flesh, or blood rising to thee, Because of the glass, they couldn't the ghost of the clachan. Since that in the old house. In the dim light he The wind swept pilots. China set the pace in
shoot the sparrowa. As she usually time the word has meant only one piled his needle. daring by sending out hand-bill aid in quandaries, the Queen sent for thing to me great disembodied down the stratth from the hills. It rustled the leaves round the house, raiders who flew over Japan. the Duke of Wellington. "Sparrow-Hand and a disembodied Voice. But that daredeviltry now has hawkcs, ma'am," he said. A pair of
sparrowhawks did the trick. been matched..
It seems almost wrong to try
I
HOPE 1940's exhibition will GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
respect the trees. Wan-
to analyse the motives and the dering in Hyde Park yesterday, I natures of brave men but, from could see no reason why it should one thing and another in Japan's not also respect the flowers, which mostly massed at the park's war history, it would seem that edges; there seemed to be plenty of the deliberate self-sacrifice of room.
REC
The gloss might suffer, I fear. soldiers is by no means un-Ferhaps that new invention would known, and in fact is fairly be of use afterwards the presown frequent. That is not to say grass which you lay in strips of paper. Certainly the funfair should there have not been, and are be put at the Marble Arch corner of not still, others than Japanese the park, where the grass is already permanently thinned by week-end who would give their lives to crowds: the orators would provide save their comrades. But it is the best of the side-shows, seldom that they are willing to surrender themselves without
ever, gives himself no chance of
engineers who, stuffing their making a fight of it. A Japan-uniforms with dynamite, blow ese, bent upon sacrifice, How- themselves and the Chinese life. As at Maohanchen during barbed wire to pieces so that the Sino-Japanese fighting of their infantry comrades might 1932, ho takes his life in his charge machine-guns.
hands and flings it away. It is The Nanchang affair is not a part of his religion, part of his quite in the same category. It soldier's creed, and not easily was more of an adventure, with understood by other peoples, to
death by no means a certainty.
go calmly to certain death, And while it seems a dreadful waste, But it took a very splendid sort one cannot help but admiro the of courage. It is a pity that cold courage which is necessary such gallantry should be expend- to such an action as that of the ed on so questionable a cause.
W
WET PAINT
| Cvor. Ikai by United Fintaru Bradmata, kun
"Nope-aln't painting it for a couple days vel. By that time people will have stopped touching it to see if it's wet!"
hirt.
Be-
The words rising in volume, the hand hovering above him, the poor tailor at last reached his fert, and bounded madly for the door. Onc wild look! The great Hand was on him, struck, missed, and spent itself on the bare wall. The tallor vanish-
ed into the night.
It Left Its Mark
But the ghostly hand left its mark. To this day the outline of five fingers spread out can be seen on the wall of that broken-down house.
Many a night since I heard that story
first from the cailleach I have heard that voice in crescendo-and- more terrifying somehow for the Gaelic-and seen that hand, bloodless, Deshless, disembodied, rising out of the floor.
I never doubted the story for a moment. The calliehch had seen the- mark of the hand with her own eyes, and so had my mother when a child.. Indeed. I can still say in Gaelic the words of the ghost.
I never went nearer that clachan: than the bridge over the Glass, but I' went the other day to see the Exhibi- tion Clachan. It was very real and very ple
pleasant
In the sunshine. There were the houses, with their thatched roofs, and the water with the nata and the boat. . I could hear the water running over the stones, under the
I could hear the woman sing tho cottage. But there was something missing for me,
ing
There was nothing weird or terrify- ing about these cottages, us thefe had been when I saw first from the bridge the clochan in Strathglass. There was no ghost-no Volce-no Handl
Perhaps our American friends, who like nothing better than a ghost, will mike room for a broken-down cottage with a ghostly hand, and transport lo a safe distance the ghost of Kerrow, if the Kerrow of sixty years ago still stands,
R. R.,