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REYNOLDS DENNISTON.

THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 24cm, 199).

THEATRE ROYAL

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MONDAY Evening, April. 28th.

AN EVENT IN HONGKONG'S

THEATRICAL HISTORY.

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TUESDAY, 27th-The after-the-war comedy of demobilization,

CIVILIAN CLOTHES."

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WEDNESDAY, 28th.-The vivid Vital Drama of Real Life,

THE THIRD DEGREE."

THURSDAY, 29th.-The greatest play produced during the last decade. The play

that ran for 18 months in London under the title of " UNCLE SAM,"

FRIENDLY ENEMIES."

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THE ACQUITTAL.”

SATURDAY, 1st May.-The Farca of Farces, one continual scream,

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PULLING DOWN OLD LONDON VANISHING HISTORIC

LANDMARKS,

James, and William Street, all of which are doomed, according to Mr. Murray: | In 1774 the brothers disposed of the whole property m a lottery containing 10 prizes of which the highest was valued. at $125,000.

[BY WALTER LITTLEFIELD, ], "To make room for traffic in a crowded

The Adelphi Theatre is opposite the centre a plan has been devised which strikes at the very heart of the eighteenth Strawl end of Adams Street. It was built century London. A new outlet is needed by Scott and first opened in 1906 with the acress the Thames and a new routa, to name of Sans-Pareil. It took its present relieve the congested streets in the neigh-name in 1520 and was rebuilt in 1958. bourhood, and in particular to provide the Inst century it was principally devoted h direct and suitable communication beto melodrama and farce and famous tween Piccadilly. Regent Street and the people have acted on its stage. Just cast of it is the Vaudeville Theatre opened in Strand.

1970, and principally given to comedy. Both will remain untouched..

In

John Murray, FR.I.B.A., F.S.I., Sur. veyor to the Crown Estates in London, Ceel which will now have a more pleas Opposite, of course, stands the Hotel was called in late last year as expert ad-ing," if less historical, western exposure. viser by the County Council to devise, at is the largest hotel in Europe, occupy scheme by which the region lying east of ing two and three-fourths acres of ground

and containing 1,250 rooms. Charing Cross and Trafalgar and the In King William Street the Beefsteak Thames could be relieved and that part | Club and the Ophthalmic Hospital will of the town bountified at the same time.dianppear from that locality. So will the In making the details of his plans known chief entrance of the Charing Cross Hos recently to the London press Mr. Murray pital, which is in Agar Street. Tho explained that no bad nos yet received facade of the hospital is in Grecian style, official approval, but were 4 suggestion designed by Decious Barton in 191 based on long experience in site Values The building, owing to the surroundiag and provision for public amenities in teeming population, has long been one of Central London."

the chief medical schools of London. The All the buildings covering the space beland here as well as that along Bedford tween West Strand and the Victoria E- Streep to the east is still owned by ike' bankment (aorth and south) and between Duke of Bedford. the Grand Hotel and the Constitutional Further west the "Imperial Wag" will Club and Hotel Cecil (west and enst) are entirely wipe out the Charing Cross Man- to coûte down of the plan is carried out, „ions, made famous in the sumę way, lying with the removal of the Charing Cross south of the Wyndham's and the New Station and hotel to the south side of the Theatre, whose sites will be measurably river and a handsome road bridge reimproved. The *Way will enter placing the Hungerford Railroad Bridge. Leicester Square, having crossed Charing On the plot thua expo-ed, which would Cross Road by cutting of the angle form include about 750,000 square feet, would {ed by the road and Cranbourn Street, be erected an approach to the bridge, be- south of Bear Street, where the old bear ginning with a Monument of Victory on pits were and the baiting took place in the Strand and flanked by great dowed the eighteenth century. Government buildings, with" an opera house between the western one, and the Constitutional Club,

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CHANGING SHARING CROS8.

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TO APARE SOME HELICS. From the time of the French Revolution Leicester Square has been known as the sylum of foreign political refugees. Its Now, a locality like Charing Cross relics, however, will not be disturbed. could not be dealt with like an isolated The square, now filled with foreign restau- parcel of real estate. It is not only a rants, studios and art dealers, "takes ita great centre of trafe in Londor but, in name from Leicester House, built on the deed of the United Kingdom. So the first north side by Robert Sidney, Earl of consideration had to be the provision of Leicester, carly in the seventeenth cen- facilities for the huge and increasing tury. "After him, Sidney Ailey was also traffe that met, mingled or crossed, Mr. named. Leicester House was purchased Murray frankly admitted that in plotting by and became the pouting place" of out the area for" demolition his second the Prince of Wales, afterward George consideration was not the historical in.. who had been turned out of St. portance of the sites to be spared, but"||James's for taking his mother's part rather the low commercial value of the against his father. The Duke of Cumber. buildings to be destroyed. The value of land, who fought at Culloden, was born existing properties and new avenues had here in 1711. Frederick, Prince of Wales, to be laid out, so far as possible through in his. turn, quarreled with his father in blocks of which the present value was rela 1737, came hither and died here, 1781. tively small, so that there would be a The Empire Theatre was erected on probability of carrying some of the cost the site of Leicester House in the months of the improvements by the increased preceding its opening at Easter, 1834. value of the sites and frontages that were to be made.

Mr. Murray told the London reporters, that he would regret the destruction of When Northumberland Avenue was cut the entire Adelphi block with the hotel, through in 1876 the family mansion of the terrace and arches south of John Street, Dake was pulled down and the land let some of the decoration, of which had been but on ground leases for long terms of designed by the brothers Adam, but that years. But at 7 Craven Strect, on which the buildings themselves, were falling into all the buildings must give way for the decay and were mostly built on brick new opera house. Eenjamin Franklin liver arches which bad a limited life. On the in 1771. On the Strand opposive Craven other hand, he said with enthusiasm that Street is the Golden Cross Hotel, once on the Adelphi site and on the correspond- well-known hostelry and place of departure ing area to the west of the new bridge for old mail coaches, and here Mr. Pick-there would be an opportunity of con wick is described as having been assailed |structing monumental buildings similar in by the hackney coachma and to have been thereupor taken under the protec tion of Mr. Jingle. The United States "Exchange is at 9 Strand. The Strand would be broadened here.

design and suitable for Government or Colonial offices In the perspective view be shows these with large domes, forming stately masses on either side of the bridge. Still further west by indicates an ideal, site for a new opera house.

from

The Charing Cross Station, which with the hotel of the same name is to be re- moved, is the West End terminus of the the cutting of an Imperial Way

North of the Strand the plans include South-Eastern Railway. It occupies the Leicester Square running east and then site of Hungerford Market, which was south until is meets the prospect, before demolished to make way for it, and the the approach to the bridge, cutting present railway bridge is partly support directly through the blocks now" formed ed upon piers of the old Hungerford suhe Leicester Square and Charing Cross pension bridge, which was for pedestrians Road, contining the Alhambra Music only, and in 1863 was taken to Clifton Hall, the road and St. Martin's Lane, and set up cross the Avon there. Oppo containing the Garrick, Wyndham and site the station, E. M. Barry's copy of New Theatres, the lans and Bedfordbury the Cross originally grected to Queen Street, with some manufacturing buildings Eleanor in the centre of the ancient left on the south and the Garrick Club on village of Charing is to remain untouched, the north, wiping out the Peabody Build- Also opposite the station is Adelaide ings and the Medical School, and reaching Street, named after the late Queen Dow- West Strand by a broadening of Agai ager, once noted for the concert rooms Street, which would make an entire sweep koown as the Adelaide Gallery, now, and of the west side of Bedford for many years sed as Gatti's restaurade The broadening of the Strand wild entail the demolition of this frontage alau.

TO LEVEL HISTORIC HOMES.

000 feet long and 195 broad; the approach The Imperial Way" would be about

to the new bridge 700 feet long and 225 broad; two new broad streets would be opened between the "Imperial Way" and Garrick and Beddard Streets.

THE FUTURE OF BUBKER.

Villiers und Buckingham Streets, ne cording to Mr. Murray's plans, will both be obliterated. Both were named after the Dukes of Buckingham, whose mansion upon this site originally formelt part of York House-once the residence of the Archbishop of York and afterwards the home of Lord Bacon, who was born in it. The late Mr. Lampard, at the United At the bottom of Buckingham Street are Serdang mesting always gave utterance to the beautiful York Stairs, or Water Gate, words which cheered the investor and Mr. designed by Inigo Jones and partly G. Croll, has successor, follows his good carved by Nicholas "Stone. Peter the example. The meeting of this good Com Great lodged at 15 Buckingham Streit pany-which even in these times is paying Samuel Pepys dwelt in the house opposite.40 per cent.-took place recently, and this Villiers

and Buckingham, as well is what Mr. Croll said upon the future of George and Duke Streets and Of Lane, rubber-Since I addressed you last vear which must also disappear, perpetuate in a great change has come over the rubber many landmarks the memory of George position. As the result of war conditions, Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, Who in large stocks had accumulated in the pro- the course of one revolving moon Was ducing countries, and wo were entering chemist, fidder, statesman, and buffoon. upon the period when, as the outcome of On the Adelphi block is Coutts Bank, the large planting in the years 1911, 3912 hoso cellarage extends "far back into the and 1913, most of us had looked to the Adelphi. With it will go Durham and possibility of two or three years of over- Adams Streets, and the terrace overlook upply. The expericnos of the past twelve ing the Embankment and the Thames months has entirely dissipated any pros- which occupies part of the site of Durham pect of this, while the large and ever- House the town palace of the Bishop of increasing requirements of manufacturers Durham, David Garrick died

to meet the demands made upon them in Adelphi Terrace, not far from that connection with the rapid development in ham Yard (now Street), where Foote the use of motor vehicles of all descrip membered him in early life attempting to tions quite spart from the innawerable. rearn his living with three quarts of other uses of rubber-justify one in vinegar in the cellar, calling himself anticipating that the rubber industry. wine merchant," The Junior Garrick the during the next few years is more likelv French Club, the Crichton Club, surd the to be faced with shortage of the raw New Thames Yacht Club all occupy pre material than with a prospect of over mises overlooking Adelphi Terrace. may interest same to know that the name our produce gives us no caum for anxiety. It supply. While, however, the marketing of "Adelphi

comes from the Greek word the present adverse rate of exchange and and refers to the Brothers" Adam, who the exceptionally high price of rice very built the vast arches over the site of Dur- considerably adds to the cost of produc ham House, and erected the streets above tion, and it is well that this should be them upon a level with the Etrand, which borne in mind by shareholders in rubber they named after themselves John, Robert, companies.

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