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SEVENTEEN YEARS EXPERI- ENCE OF LONDON.

PUBLIC TASTE CHANGES.

THE CHINA MAIL,

papers the same types of newly- CHARING CROSS. wadded couples, dogs and

cats,

champions of different games, and PRINCE HEANS PROPOSALS AT

railway accidents. And one can even any beforehand, according to the month, the particular breed of dog one will and displayed in their columns.

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MEETING OF L.C.C.

NEW BRIDGE SCHEME.

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the

The Prince of Wales paid an un- 1 found M. Diaghileff (writes a

That is what is known in Eng expected visit to the County Hall'

And in that representative of the "Observer")

to be present at the opening of the directing from the stalls of His land as tradition. Majesty's Theatre, the preparation sense theatrical criticism, repL.C.C. debate on the Charing Cross

It re-

'Bridge proposals, relates for the scene of his new ballet, Bents the best tradition.

mais falthful to the opinion t

"Morning Post." The Gods Go a-Begging."

It is "Give me all blue," he called to held twenty years ago. the man in charge of the light- strange, because critics change or He remained for more than two ing. The golden glow of sunshine die,, but those who succeed them; hours, and rande a tour of several opinions. of the Council's offices before leav faded from the Grecian glade, and express just the same the atmosphere became seft, mys-When, the morning after a new ing. As his motor-car drove out of

naked am tic, beautiful. And then, in order production, I

what the courtyard of the building, he loudly cheered by a crowd

to try the effect of the costumes opinion I have of the Press, I have was against the background of cypress no opinion, because the Press has which had gathered at the entrance. trees, he called for the dresses to no opinion. either. There is never, he brought Dresses At for gade, single fresh voleo even to say their harmony with the idyllic Bur-something stupid. ·

#1 once had an Italian valet who roundings was found to ba com-

used to call everything he did not plete.

like or When he had finished this re- hearsal, M. Diaghileff talked about the success of his season-success-

critic

After a long discussion the L.C.C.

bridge at Charing Cross and the adopted the scheme for a new rond removal of Charing Cross railway station to the south side of the could not understand Thames,

exactly When the Prince arrived at the! critle doca. County Hall, the division bell was futurista, and that is what the English

were crowd- ful even beyond past seasons, in Everything one tries to do, and ringing and members

News of his spite of the warm evenings and everything one tries to express, ia ing into the corridors from the remarked that it did not "accom- always futurista' for the English Council Chamber.

coming spread quickly, however, plish itself."

"The critics have, however, dur-and when he entered the Chamber "From the month of February

on the dala beside -the-Chamber Wit onwards," he said, explaining this in the few years acquired the to take a cent phrase, “I did not know for cer- habit of saying they do not wider- the Chairman, tain whether we were coming to stand. And now they ask why and filled by members standing in their London or not;, but there are three, and with what object, things The only answer I can friends of the Russian ballet in are done.

give to those questions is that Lady Cunard London,

Lady do not know in the least why or Juliet Duft. and Sir Thomas Beecham, who by their efforts de how, or with what object.

"In a scene by Picasso there is cided the question in the affirma-

a black spot. Several peopla camaj tive. And I am happy to express to ask him what it meant. He re- my warm sense of gratitude to

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Lieutenant-Colonel Levita, Chairman, made a speech of wel- come to the Princo, In which he referred to the interest he had shown in education, housing, and other of the Council's activities.

"Your Royal Highness's interest

them on the eve of the appearance plied that it was 'The shadow in of Sir Thomas Beecham, who will the Infinite, and the strangest is a source of very great pleasure the work," he declared. "This ennduct the first performance of thing is that everybody understood to them of us who are engaged in

what it meant. the new ballet, the music for which "I could also have invented simi- building is, in effect, a workshop in he has arranged from Handel, and nr replies, but I am afraid in that which we work strenuously for the when my other two friends will cast more things would be under- cause of good local government- certainly be in their boxes."

stood than ought to be. I am sure was opened by the King and we the public dummands much leas ex-appreciate the interest that your planation, and it is not in the least! Royal parents took in the welfare because it is more stupid than the of the people of London."

Prince As Landlord. critic. But the public has the ad-

1911 AND 1928.

M. Diaghileff reminded me that it is seventeen years since he first came to London, and he suggest

It

ed that the "Observer" might like vantage that, apart from the word The Frince was greeted with pro- to know what is interesting him understand, it has not forgotten longed applause when he rose to at the moment.

"All this time," he said, "I have been in contact with only two dif ferent clements, the public and the Press. During these seventeen years the pubile have changed com-

how to feel, and that is a point reply.

of which the, erities could learn a "I have the interest of a land- lesson from the public,"

lord in London," he told the Coun- cil. "It is in order to coment the good relations that have always existed between the Duchy of Corn- wall and the London County Coun- cil, that I am here. I think the Duchy has made quite substantial. contributions to one of the most the acute problems of I mean housing problem."

pletely the point, in fact, of DUCHESS PURCHASE. being unrecognisable.

"Perhaps the war may have con- tributed to this change, because it had the effect of making. Lon- don more international than it had ever been before.. At the time there must have been some kind, of desire on their part 10 make the necessary effort.

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The Duchess of Portland at the

There were cheers as he proceed- annual meeting of the Home of Rest for Horses, at West Croft ed to speak of the amount of build- Farm, Cricklewood, N.W., said that ing that has been done on the "When first arrived in Lon. same months ago she bought a, estate, and to the pride he felt at

the appearance in the press of a | don seventeen yeara ngo, the direc horse in Regent-street.

"The horse was so tired and letter written by Mr. George Barnes, tor at Covent Garden asked me to play all the oldest things, I had in this," she declared, "that it was in which he said that the Corn- almost unable to pull along its

London.

my repertoire, saying that they load. I stopped the man and ask-Wall estate in Kenningon was one of the best housing schemes of its could never be old enough for ed him to sell it to me. He

kind. But now what excites

brought it round to my house in

"We took that as a very nice pat the public every year is the pres Grosvenor square, and I gave him

on the back," he added. "But it is pect of the unexpected.

"It is true the public sometimes the money for it.

"We decided to send it to the not only in that part of London I think requires time to accustom itself to Home of Reat, where received that I take an interest. what is new, but it does not re- ¡ject it. For example, one ballet, care and treatment and became there is hardly a part of London in "The House Party, which at the quite well again, and is now at which I could not find my time of its production gave rather Welbeck: Abbey (the country seat about."

land)."

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The duke is the president of the ways ends by seeing the best side Home of Rest, and both he and of the production, and not the de- the duchess are known for their tails which have no importance. "Another great difference notice in the public is that seven- teen years ago every Engliahman had his own newspaper: opinion then was not his own, but that of his paper. That has.com- pletely changed. The opinion of the Press has ceased to play any part in the individual attitude to the theatre; often It even acts by contrary.

his

THE UNCHANGING PRESS. "Butene must admit, of course, that in all these years the news- papers have not essentially chang- ed at all. For the last ten years and more, we have seen in the

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