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FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1932.

MOST FAMOUS HOUSE IN LONDON

The Absorbing Story of No. 10, Downing Street.

HISTORY IN A SURVEY.

If you want to know the whole York is a mystery.

the most important history of house in London, 10, Downing an Strect, you will have to spend £2 12s. 6d on the fourteenth volume of London of the great Survey which B. T. Batsford, Ltd., publish, for the London County Council.

It is perhaps the most absorbing of the whole series, though it deals with only a tiny corner of the parish of St. Margaret, West- minster, just a few square yards of ground on the west side of White

Guards! hall, between the Hors0 and Downing Street.

Two Important Pictures. And among its 159 plates and 71 two illustrations in the text are Important photographs. They are pietures of the very heart of the room British Empire, the Cabinet at 10, Downing Street. Mr. Bald- win gave special permission for them to be taken, in 1927, on con. dition, that the L. C. C. should re- tain the copyright and not allow the reproduction of them.

are master-

One can scarcely realise, with- out seeing the pictures in this book, what beautiful house it is. doors and replaces pieces, aud the wrought-iron balustrade of the main staircase a thing of infinite grace and dignity in its proportions.

LOCAL SHARE MARKET.

Little Business Passing.

QUIET.

THE

The official summary issued by the Stock Exchange to-day states:- There was no material change at the morning session, the market be- ing very much on the qalet side, with scarcely any business passing. Salės.

Cements combined), $10.50. Constructions (new), $1.85. China Lights, $26/$26.60, Providents (now), $2.45.

Buyers.

Trams, $224. Earlier in the book will be found exhaustive Recount of the western portion of King Henry. VIII's Whitehall Palace, and of the so-called Holbein Gate Whitehall, which joined the halves, Traditionally this gate was designed by Hans Holbein, but it is made clear that tradition is al- most certainly inaccurate.

across

two

If Holbein had any connection with the gate it, was by living over it.

The "Recreational" Part.

The western part of the palace was, so to speak, its "recreational" rart. Here was the cockpit theatre and the tennis court-real tennis, of course, not lawn tennia--which war not demolished until the 19th century.

The Holbein Gale Was pulled down in 1759, because it was such an obstruction to traffic. There was a plan for erecting it at the end of the Long Walk in Windsor Great Park, but it came to nothing.

Benguets, $11. Chinese Estates, $95. Trams, $22.60.

Singapore Tractions, 3/. Cements (combined), $19.05. Cements (old), $124. Sinceres, $16. Providents (old), $5.30. Providents (new), $2.40. Ewes, Tls. 16

China Lights, $26.30. Canton Ices, $5%. Dairy Farms, $29.30. Constructions, (new), $1.80. H.K. Government Loans, $2 cent. premium.

Sellers, Indo-Chinas (pref.), $45. Indo-Chinas, (def.), $32. Trams, $22.80.

Telephones (part paid), $28. Hotels (old), $16.20. Ewos, T. 16.30. Electrics, $79. Entertainments (old), $161⁄2.

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SHAKESPEARE'S MEMORIAL

NEW THEATRE AT STRATFORD.

AN ENGINEERING MARVEL,

A-theatre which embodies many are used for setting scenes before of the most elaborate engineering they are required, behind sound- devices in the world and which will proof fire-resisting woollen cur

tains.. *When

ia the scene be without parallel in Britain question is needed, the whole will open its doors to the public side stage is rolled Into the here on St. George's Day 1932. central position on. rails, and the stage which was being used in the previous scene moves into. the "stable" on the other side of the theatre to be reset.

It is the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, and after

day spent exploring the Wonders of its rolling stages, {ta foyers. resturants, ter- taces and balconies, I realise that, to find its equal, a traveller would need to go as far as Bayreuth or Salzburg.

As one approaches Stratford the hüge red mass of the building stands out surprisingly from the trees and the gardens which run along the river bank. It is almost the first thing one sees, and pro- claims to all comers that the thea- tre is the most important thing in the town.

This allows the producer to make] use of the full depth of his stage, whereas with the revolving type heff can only set his scene on half of it at a time. The only drawback to the use of a rolling stage in London would be the amount of space which It would take up in a city of high ground rentals.

Precautions Against - Fire. Elaborate precautions are being) taken to guard against danger from fire. The ventilation system admits fresh air from above, and it is drawn out by exhaust fans under the seats. The general direction, of the draught is towards the stage, ào that it is directed away from the audience in case of firo. When the safety curtain shuts off the stage, an automatic fan comes into: action and draws the air in the same direction.

At a closer view, one realises that' anything which is surprising about it is intentional. It is un- expected to find an important cen- tre of drama in such a place, and this atauds for everything that a modern theatre should be. It catches the eye, is dignified, and, above all, is, from one's first glimpse, unmistakably a theatre. Most Ingenious of all is a device What A team of three architects are on the roof of the tower.

the theatre. working on

Miss In best term a smaller tower Elisabeth Scott won the original comes up in the centre of the main competition for designs, and took one, the sides being hinged fan- Into partnership Mr. J. C. Sheplights, kept erect by a connecting! herd and Mr. Maurice Chesterton. line with a fusible link in the mid- The architects have made full use dle of it. If fire breaks out this of the opportunity afforded by the link breaks, the fahlights fall away: site. A wide terrace leads up to at the sides, and the whole tower is the entrance from the gardens, and turned into a colossal chimney. steps from the river enable play- The object of the architects in Longplanning their auditorium has been goers to arrive by water. windows in the restaurant open on to the terrace, while, in the even for intelligent people as a play-

It will hold, about 1,000| About four hours later, Sergeantings, lights on high poles, their house: Cordeaux who was patrolling the glare hidden by umbrella-like people, and there are farge foyers Tsun Wan Road met the four men, shades, illuminate the forecourt.; on each level, as well as two res- proceeding towards Laichikok. 011 76 Feet Above The Stage.

taurants. his approach, the first defendant Mr. Chesterton led me up a maze threw away the gimlet, which was of ladders to the top of the tower recovered. When the men were above the stage, and we looked charged they admitted the bur- down 70ft to the acting “area. glary.

Lady Castlemaine, King Charles II's favourite, lived in rooms which The included those above the Gate, and Papys tells us of a fire there in January, 1668-4. There is an inde pendent record, too, of an allow with the gimlet, and then removed ance of £1 made to four men "for two iron bars. The noise of the their Attendance and paines in iron bars being dropped to the playing the water Engins when the ground awoke the occupant of the fier was at ye Countess of Castle-room, who ut once aroused the nuns. maine's lodgings."

The inmates of the temple began to beat gangs, and the intruders, grow ing alarmed, bolted.

It is pleasant to realise that any man, however poor or humble in origin, may live in it, provided only that he Prime Minister of Engi lund; no man may declare that the house is not to let.

Alterations to No. 10. A particularly interesting set of illustrations is that which records the alterations made to No. 10, then called "The Exchequer House," by Sir Robert Walpole, between 1732, and 1735. The sketch elevations of the walls of the main rooms even give the subjects of the pictures on each wall and the names of the artists.

These seven drawinga were con tained in a scrapbook which is said to have belonged to Horace Wal- pole, and which was found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. How it got to New

ABERDEEN ROAD MOTOR SMASH.

Public Motor Car Driver Fined $20.

GOOD RECORD SPOILT.

Court Traffe

The facts of an accident which occurred at Aberdeen recently, were disclosed in the Central Police this morning, when Sergeant Dall prosecut- ed the Chinese driver of the pubile car, before Mr. Schofield, for driving in a manner that was dan Defendant pleaded guilty gerous.

Sergeant Dall said that defendant

As for the Cockpit, cock-fighting certainly went on there in James I's reign, and perhaps until 1671, when the Royal Cockpit was built in what is now Queen Anne's Gate., At any rate, it was adapted into a theatre during the later part of its existence, and used as one before it was adapted, for the Children of the Blackfriars performed there in January, 1608-9.

Work of Adaptation. This book records in detail, some of the work of adaptation, such as "Hanging the Throne and Chaire in the Cockpit with cloth bound about with whalebone, packthread and wyer, for the better foulding of the same to come down from the Clouds to the Stage."

ATTEMPT TO ROB CHINESE TEMPLE.

Four Coolies Sentenced.

NINE MONTHS' HARD.

Concluding Sub-Inspector Elston, said he had been instructed to ask for a very heavy penalty. "There is no doubt" he said, "had these men gained outrance, it would have developed into an armed robbery. and I ask Your Worship to impose the heaviest possible penalty."

After the men had been convicted the Prosecuting Officer said that about two hours before the offence on which the defendants' had been tried, an armed robbery was com- mitted in the vicinity of the same temple. The complainant had been confronted with the four defendants but was unable to identify them as his assailants owing to the fact that the four men who held him up were wearing black masks. The prosecu- tion were not suggesting that these defendants were the same four, but it went to show that Tsun Wan was becoming the venue of troublesome

Nine months hard labour was im-

There has been much talk lately of revolving stages," but Mr. Chesterton explained to me that a system, hitherto unknown in this country, has been adopted here which has better results and in leas complicated,

As epace is not very important when the whole site already belongs to the theatre, it has been possible to provide two large "stables" each as large as the acting area on either side of the stage. These

even

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An elaborate grand staircase, with a carved ceiling, and a foun- tain at the foot, leads to the circle. There is only one gallery, and the Royal box is at the back of the front section of it. Above the box and the entrance to the more high- by priced circle seats comes the "gallery" proper.

"The thing we have aimed at inj designing the stage is elasticity,” said Mr. Chesterton, "and there is no reason why any producer who works here should not be suited, whether his methods are elaborate and spectacular, or extremely sim- ple."

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international.

over the for English soul of Scota exiles all clamours for world..... If you turn Barrie into speaking America

a London journalist, he will not be him, and already his work has passed into other tongues.. Setting one in heart; he will best against PINS 3' PHOSFERIKE TAINTON & Parsons) LIMITED, Ludgate Hill, Lesson, Bystande out from an obscure Scottish vill age, unfriended, almost self-taught (every Scot somehow; gete good education, but usually by his own efforts), he has walked through the wilderness of this world, so searchingly that he can tell us more about it than we can ever learn of ourselves. But do we even now know how or why he can thus speak to us?

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The trade no doubt, ¿clung to r In connection with an attempted

him, and often marred the clearness robbery of the Po Kwong Yuen happeninga.

and liberty of his flight. It is a Temple, at Lo Wai, Taun Wan Dis-

cocksure thing, this Journalism trist, four Chinese Ng Chuk-nam, Li posed on each.

When you have been at it for Fuk, Chu Kwai and Li Ling, were

time, you know qurely enough whe charged before Mr. J. S. Maclaren,

ther your manner a good or bad, at District Office South, this morn

WHICH IS BARRIE ?

accomplished of defective. But you! ing with burglary. The first

He has called himself two men may quite well be ignorant whether; defendant was in addition, charged "No one so obscure nowadays"M'Connachie and the family so your matter, be sublime or silly. with having possession of na(to" quote Courage for the last licitor and I have said he is Through that danger Barrie even- overtook a lorry at a bend, on the instrument fit for an unlawful purok about him." There have whole. af. Henley's description of in the two plays just explored time) "but that he can have a several It may even be that the tually passed to the mastery shown Seen several about James Matthew Stevenson does apply equally to But it wasnevar certain till they both in his lifetime and in many (except in some smaller dort in his would not spoil romance by a crude Outlining the case; Detective Sub-years to come, when his books postry) never learnt the utter for or even silly cross-heading. In the Inspector Elston kald the attempt alone survive.

of flying, as Barrie and Peter Pan end, however, Barrie has given occurred at about midnight on Janu- The title of that great work learnt it, nor saw go far beyond that portion of him wings, which ary 7. The four defendants broke brings us up short against one 'tact the paths of all the western stars" "Journalists seldom have.-F. J the woodwork of a window at the about him which has been taken far beyond the misty island in the Harvey Darton, In "3 M7Barrie.” back of the temple by prising it for granted. He is national, Hebrides, which is hidden in the

wrong side, in Aberdeen Road, above Tin Wan village. The over-taken lorry, in order to avoid a collision swerved to the left and banged into a tree, while the car, in trying to get out of the way of an on-coming lorry, collided with the embankment. Damage was done to the car and the lorry, the more serious sufferer

being the lorry.

Scanning defendant's driving re- cord sheet, his. Worship remarked- It is a pity you have spoilt your record like this. It will have to be twenty dollars."

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All defendants, who are unemploy-Batrie, and there will be more, Barrie, if you add that Stevenson appeared that the imp of journalism

ed earth coolles, pleaded guilty.

Another Chinese driver was charged with carrying 26′ passengers 2:3"

THE LEAGUE WILL SUCCEED

MAND UA INSINCARDS NAM

on his lorry, this being in excess of LORD PONSONBY'S

his limit

Mr. Schofield--You seem to make

your lorry into a bus..

Defendant-That day was the funeral of my mistress, and my mastor instructed me to take this party down to the grave.

His Worship-If you take that number of persons there will be Thore funerals than one!

BELIEF.

The League of Nations might, sion, were preventing disarmament; Have faults, but so long as it did. It was miltaken Iden that arms "not rest on physical force it was ments brought security, and the likely gradually" to” gain strength, was no such thing as unprovol Speaking on disaridament at | Referring to the trouble in Man-{ aggression.""" Hel" was Stockport, Lord Ponsonby sald wel churia, Lord Ponsonby said people about the ecisionEn which should not get that, freedom from were taking an unreasonable view, forthcoming International the fear and suspicion which lay He never supposed you could stop armament Conference

at the bottom of the growth of Wars like turning off armaments until we could have an the League Fined international conference on warifetru His hope szpin

afteon dollars. Y Magdebts and

For having a load on his lorry in rested in excess to that which he is permitted

Chinese driver was ined

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