1930-12-27 — Page 7

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1930.

RIDDLE OF RETURN

OF EROS.

Too Many Fingers in Piccadilly Pie.

AN EVENT IN HISTORY.

of

Some day, about the time when newspapers begin to record the deaths

the last long-lived veterans of the Great War, an un- familiar statue will arlee in Pic-1 cadilly. "What's this"? will nakį the public. "Who put that there"?

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Experts, having examined the bronze cast, will certify the work

to

be nineteenth or possibly twentieth century, and Burlington House will suggest that the sculp tor-believed not to be Epstein- undoubtedly drew on the mytho logy of the Greeks. Then, within

day or two, a letter signed "Nonagenarian" will be printed in some newspaper affirming that the

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ing as a boy a similar statue in the Circus, known (if memory is faithful) as Eros,

After that, events will move fast, and it will be established that: Westminster City Council, together: with the LC.C. and certain other cherished old institutions of the capital, thinking to give London a huge surprise, are jocularly at the bottom of the whole affair.

Lightning Legislators. Everyone knows the fable of the boy who cried "Wolf"; nobody took any notice of him in the end. So

It is about Eros; every newspaper, on good official authority, has an- nounced at least fifteen times in the last five years that Gilbert's handiwork is about to return. It would be tiresome to say so again. aven were the

.tion" true.

"damnable Itera-

But perhaps people still care to know how London's Deliberative Bodies, Lon- great

don's Lightning Legislators, are getting on.

Westminster City Council, the the London County Council, Ministry of Transport, the London Traffic Advisory Committee, the Metropolitan Police, the Commis- sioners of Crown Lands and the Underground Company all have frezen finger in the Piccadilly ple. The last three may be exonerated, having done their part, but the still playing the first four are trusty and archaic game of "pass-- ed to you, please."

no

On August 11, the Ministry of Transport stated that the final lay- out of Piccadilly Circus had been approved, and that there was further obstacle to the return of the Shaftesbury Memorial. Work- men were indisputably seen in the Circus on the morning of the 15th. They had their breakfast thore, drilled up portions of the road, and then vanished without trace.

Yes-No Yes,

Now the Ministry of Transport has admitted that there was a mis- take. The Traffic Advisory Coun- cil had not been definitely satisfied with the lay-out. So some more experiments were conducted and in this way, after a period of micro-

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scopic watching, they discovered ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS,

they were-e-yes-they actually were, after all, really and truly quito satisfied. Eros-Eureka

But nothing more seemed to hap- pen. Seeking the cause of the in- activity, the London County Cour- cil, Scotland Yard and any others appealed to courteously referred an inquirer to Westminster City Council; and they are,,it is now clear, the prime, authentic Rip Van Winkles of the plece.

At first the Council refused-in- formation, then grew willing to vouchsafe, a little, but with the Instruction that they were not to be quoted as having said anything. Yet one sentence mus be quoted for its utter sinceritehind shining truth. "A point the Council has always attached great importance to," impressively declared this De liberative Body, "is that they should not proceed too hastily.".

A "Rehearsal."

"It may still be, some time before Eros is back?"

"Oh, yes," said the Council with simplicity...

Though the Transport Ministry states that the disposition of Pic cadilly Circus Is settled and ap proved, Westminater Council de clares it is not. The Department was warned that the Council dis agreed with them. "Well," said the Department, even though the site of the island in the Circus has been determined, it has yet to be seen where the statue will go on the laland

Westminster Council is going to resolve this point by putting up lath and canvas profile of the god. He will be tried, no doubt, in different positions, ted parties six other inter ect each

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Both the Army Air Corps and Navy Bureau of Aeronautics sud- denly have begun developing and experimenting with radically de- algned aircraft.

The Navy has ordered two of those freakish autogyroe-the plane that looks like a windmill and landa almost on a dime. It also is considering buying several of the Travelair Mystery "S" ships, which Capt. Frank Hawks and Jimmy Doo- little have made so famous.

While plans of the Army Air corps with regard to aviation's iatest inventions have not definite- ly been disclosed, it is known that for the past few months its fillers have been experimenting with low wing monoplanes capable of a speed axceeding 250 miles an hour.

First New Invention. Assistant Navy Secretary for Air Ingalls, in announcing the plan to buy the autogyros, characterized. the plane as "the first real inven tlon in aeronautics since the Wright Brothers flew their first plane.".

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Apparently they found ont, for Mr Ingalls later announced that such a plane would be a valuable asset to naval aviation and that his department contemplated purchas← ing a few.

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Two fishermen of the village, úf- Duwa, who happened to be out last night engaged in deep-sea fishing, told a Daily News correspondent the story of an experience that makes the hair "stand on end.”

It appears that they put out to sea last evening, when there was KO Indication at all of the terrific storm that all but overwhelmed them.

When some miles out they. were caught in a terrife gale walch blew them farther and farther out. The mainsall gave way, and they were left at the mercy of the sea.

Already. faced with destruction, the men were suddenly horrified to see a huge shark making for the boat.

The fishermen lifted their oars and began battering the fish, and succeeded in maiming it and cans Ing it to release its grip on the boat.

The two men drifted In their boat till morning, without food or water, completely exhausted, until At last they were noticed by a pass ing-beat from the same village which towed them ashore.

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