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Office
Colonial
Controversy Over Site
By E. B. TIMOTHY
London, Dec. 1.
The site of the new Colonial Office building in London, planned to go eight storeys high and to house a staff of 1,200, is the subject of a surprise controversy.
When the Public Offices the many visitors from overacas. (Site) Act, 1947 was passed dition to existing Colonial Offer Every possible structural ad- for the express purpose of buildings had been made, but acquiring tho site of the old even so, it had been necessary Westminster Hospital, the to disperse the
commanded separate buildings in different Proposal
parts of London, in addition to general approval in Parlia-the main building at Downing
ment. Today, there
change in parliamentary
is a Street.
Speakont
and public opinion.
said:
House
0.3
stal in
Sve
*4 amongst
on behalf of the Lord Morrison "Surdy, amongst the Recent demolition of the old members of Your Lordships
well Westminster Hospital has dis closed a magnificent new view Membera of another place, there of the Abbey (from the north-was sufficient Imagination to which many people feel realise what the result would be west) should now be left unspoiled. without walling until the con- The site is unique. Across the tracts were about to be let for road is the historic Abbey,
Near-
comunencement of the new by are the classical rococo Central Hall and the Gothie Middlesex Major W. E. Simnett put for- Guildhall. On the other side of ward another opinion in favour Parliament
are the of proceeding with the building
afford, in
these Houses of Parliament
"...can we One of the leaders of oppost-days of urgent need for re- tion to bincking-out
retrenchment in Government ex- discovered
the
building.
red beauty of the site is penditure, to leave this costly the noted architect, and author site vacant and acquire another of the County of London Plan, in the neighbourhood at further Sir Patrick Abercrombie. He great expense?" says: "It is a question of ameni MOVING PASSAGE ties against economics. I would
Designer of the proposed like to see this view kept open. building is Mr Thomas Smith I have always
stated that there Tait, eminent private architect. should be
more clear space His chief works include the around the Abbey".
Scottish "Whitehall" in Edin- The Dean of Westminster, the burgh. Lloyds Bank in Cornhill. Very Rev. A. C. Don, declares: and
Unilever House. The
A PHONE CALL-AND SHE
WAS ON THE WAY TO FAME
(From Our London Correspondent)
London, Dec. 1.
One day not long ago, Australian-born Mrs Stella Marks, who now lives in London, received a telephone call from Sir James Mann, director of the famous Wallace Collection. Although she did not know it then, that call marked a turning point in her career as a miniature portrait painter.
on
...In no better way could it designs of the her and inspect some of her completing a miniature portrait sketched it in my pad. The res
be demonstrated
in the year of the Festival of Britain that this country is not wholly aban-Ac doned to utilitarianism",
GROWING STORM Lord Halifax, ns High Steward of Westminster, has spoken of ព view, which had been being obscure for generations, obliterated again if the plans of His Majesty's Government
pursued."
are
priety and
on
Sir James asked Mrs paint a similar portrait of the through the garden at Clarence Marks if he could call
Duke himself.
House," she said, "and when I And now, Mrs Marks is just saw a sultable expression I jus of Prince Charles.
of the work was done in the Our photograph showa her studio."
Mrs Marks has just one disap- putting the finishing touches to the delicate work of art which pointment about her will soon join
lates1 her other two portrail. Bad light duc to portrai's in Clarence House." wintry conditions In London
new work. Rather mystified, but Royal Battered by the interest library taken in her work by so Com- eminent an authority, Mrs struc Marks readily agreed, and
in due course Sir James Mra Marks painted the young prevented her from .completing Prince without formal sittings. it before the Princess left for
just strolled with him Malta to join her husband.
which have been view
at this year's Academy ond in the of tho House mona show a massive ture of ninety feet high. Judging by the lack of criticism, he has satisfied everyone so far as the building itself is
is concerned.
passage:
presented himself at her studio in St John's Wood.
He looked at some of her work
away.
"I
PHOTOS OF NEW COMMONS FOR 26 COUNTRIES
The Parliamentary announce- ment two years ago of the pro- posed new Colonial Office build-and mentioned casually that a ing included this moving friend"
in it. was interested A leading article in The
Would she mind if he borrowed Times contended that "ex- "On this ground, facing West- two or three of her miniatures? pediency should not be allowed minster Abbey and at the very to take Palomice over
Still puzzled by this unusual pro-heart of the Empire, a building
will be erected in keeping with "pproach Mrs Marks gave him The Government's recognition the historic surroundings and permission to take the miniatures Sir James thanked her expressing the high and departed. of the growing storm, but deter-worthily mination to abide by the original value which the
people plan, was expressed in a Lords' and Government of this coun- For several days, Mrs Marks debate.
try place on the friendship of heard no more about the visit. It was recalled that as a re- the Colonial peoples".
She had not asked who Sir sult of the many new and great This statement received wide James's friend was she thought developments in the Colonial publicity and appreciation in he would have told her if he had Empire, the present Colonial the Colonies; and fears are ex- wanted her to know. Office building had become in-pressed that reversal of the de- adequate, not only to house the clsion to build there would pro- staff, but to provide suitable duce an unfortunate effect in amenities for the reception of the Colonies,
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Then Sir James telephoned again. Kia "friend". had liked her work and wanted her to paint his wife. When Mrs Marks hung up the receiver it
was several moments before she
(FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT)
London.
Reopening Garbo's "Tomb"
Metro-Goldwyn - Mayer opened Tutankhamon's Tomb of Hollywood recent- ly-Grota Garbo's long- closed dressing-room suite," unused since she mnde "Two Faced Woman" m 1941.
Garbo's untouched dressing- rooms were a siamolihu respect with which he was treated in the days, when, with the excop- tion of Charlie Chaplin, she was the biggest name that Hollywood could put on the thestre mar- que
No reporter ever sell foot in- eido Garbo's dressing-rooms. Her own Press agent wad for- bidden to talk to ker.
Walter Pidgeon once admitted he had worked for the game studio as Garbo for 15 years, but never had one conversation with her."
Last month, MGM decided Garbo's sacred dressing-rooTES would be opened for blonde dancer Sally Forrest.
Recently decorators pulled down Garbo's plain grey curtains and put up folksy, tomato- pattern drapes, which Forrest
thought would be cule.
Garbo, described recently as
"tall, gawky and wearing ex- pensive clothes that don't quite nt" is living in Beverly Hills thinking about an American film comeback.
CHILDREN DON'T WANT FILM FAME
Only two percent of the boys and five percent of the girls answered 'Film Actor' or *Film Actress' to the question in a British Gov- ernment quiz on cinema- going: "What would you most like to be when you grow up?"
Asked which of 16 lm stars they would like to be, nearly one in seven said "mone." Bul when asked to choose between nine categories of fame, 32 percent of the girls voted for
Sots of photographs of the new House of Commons being a film star and 27 percent for exhibition in 26 countries of the Commonwealth and for a musician or anger, Colonies are being despatched by the British Council. Included in each set is a special 20" x 16" photograph of sport-45 percent as
Boys plumped
for fame An
• famous could collect her thoughts the the gift made to the House by the country to which the footballer or cricketer, anciber "friend", she now knew, was set is being sent. the Duke
Edinburgh and
of
Princess Elizabeth.
seven percent an an athlete.
Fourteen percent would like to she was commissioned to paint As soon as they arrive in Malta: Three silver gil
be a famous sailor or pilot, but the colonies they will be ashtrays. Eventually Mrs Marks com- put on show to the public, chair in oak.
Mauritius Ministers' table and the M.P. and the soldier came low down with two percent pleted the miniature of the In most Princess it now stands on the Council centres.
cases at British
New Zealand: Two despatch | each. boxes in purrurl. Duke's deak in his study in
Nigeria: Furniture Clarence House. A little while
Division Lobby in froko. later she was commissioned to
Cowboy and gangster films Northern Rhodesia; Two pairs each got a 25 percent vote as of brackets for the mace in the bronze,
WOMEN PREFER BRAINS
Women prefer brains sex appeal. Especially telligent women.
Each exhibition consists of 11 photographs Including a number of general views of the new House, the Chamber itself, one of the Division Lobbles, the Prime Minister's Conference Room and
the Press Room.
The exhibition also shows the opening ceremony performed by the King in Westminster Hall, and there la photograph Members reserving
their seats
irst
in the new Chamber (the first occasion upon which permission has been given for a photograph to to be taken of Members in the in-House). A photograph of the
London University eugenics professor L. S. Penrose, after long survey, says that "matings beween Intelligent males and unintelligent females are far more common than between in-
and telligent women
UA- intelligent males."
Showing, ho says, that brainy women are for more choosey than brainy men in their love
life.
Brainy women, he also found, have a higher reproductive rate than male geniuses.
Penrose, whose survey is in- tended to cover the reproduc- tive habits of humans, confirms earlier observations of scientists like Galton and Darwin that:
Geniuses and Imbeciles aro comparatively infertile.
The fertility rate rises steadily; as the intelligence quotient falls in the population
Blologists agree that Idiota are almost invariably sterile.
i
old Chamber before its destruc- tion is also included.
Speaker's
The following are among the countries to which exhibitions are being sent and the gifts presented by those countries to the new House.
Australia: The chair in black bean.
Barbados: Ministers' writing table and chair in ook.
British Guiana: Four triple silver gilt inkstands,
Ceylon:
Sergeant-at-Arms
chair In oak.
Cyprus: One members' writ- ing table in oak.
Fiji: One silver gilt inkstand. Gambia: Two allver güt ashtrays.
Gibraltar: Two table lamps in onk with bronze shades.
Gold Coast: Ministers' writ- ing table and chair in mansonia.
Hongkong: One
silver gilt triple inkstand.
India: Ono entrance door to new Chamber in oak.
Jamaica: Bar of House in
bronze.
Kenya: Ministers' table and' chair in olive.
By Mik
for
one
COWBOY FILMS
Was
best liked by the boya.. Girls gave musical top place,
Margaret Lockwood picked, as favourite actress by boys and girls by big margins.
Nyasaland: One silver Ellt triple inkstand and one silver gilt ashtray.
Pakistan: One entrance door Second to new Chamber in oak.
WIE
on both Hate Patricia Roc, but boys put Betty Sierra Leone: Ministers' writ- Grable third and Dale Evans
Ing table and chair in African fourth, while
gold walnut.
the girls made Anna
and Shirley Tem- Neagle Singapore: One table and five | ple third and fourth, chairs for Interview Room in
Roy Rogers was top of the boys, list of favourite
mach tars, with Alan Ladd, James Mason and Johnny Weismuller following in that order.
Girls
oak.
Tanganyika: One table ant ive chairs for Interview Roon
in iroko,
Trinidad: Ministers' writing table and chair in oak.
Uganda:
Furniture for one Division Lobby in mvule,
SIDE GLANCES
made James Mason No. 1, with Michael Wilding, Roy Rogers and Bing Crosby second, third and fourth.
By Galbraith
GOTA, 1999 BY BRA BERTICE, MA, T. 3, FEL A S, DET, 009, 2
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