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Theatre-land is a wealthy coun- try and possesses a high propor- tion of motor-ears per head of

Paris, Apr. 16. population. Unfortunately, it never At a meeting at Lyons yesterday seems to know where to put them. afternoon M. Herriot defended him- It is now announced that the pro-self from the charge of having done blem is to be tackled squarely, and nothing but smoke his pipe with we hear stories, like Wellsian pro-Mr. Lamsay MacDonald on the oc- phecies, of a garage that will ac-casion of his historic visit in 1924 commodate motor-cars like books to Chequera, on a bookcaliclf and which is to be "They gave me," he said, "an! erected in the heart of Soho. Soho historic room, Cromwell's table and sooner or later is going to end its Queen Elizabeth's bed. Well, ́ ́ I life us London's garage. Once ask pardon of the Queen's memory upon a time you crossed the Channel but I slept very badly in her bed In crossing Oxford-street, but econ Mr. MacDonald and he, he added, it will be more like crossing the had worked into into the night, and Atlantic The deal of comfor were up at work again early the table dirtiness which smelled of next morning. garte is being overlaid with ferro. concrete.

SATURDAY, MAY 19, · 1928.

FAMOUS SOLDIER'S

MEMORY.

MODERN ROME SAYS "THUMBS DOWN.

CEREMONY IN CITY CHURCH. Į [By Richard Fletcher.]

"Anno, 1607, April the nine-

English audiences at a first night, teenth, at Saint Ethelburge in even in this day of resonant booing, Bishop Gate Street, did communi- are mild-in comparison to the out- cate with the rest of the pari- bursts of modern Rome. In Rome thioners these persons, 'seamen, the patrician occupants of the boxes purposing to goo to sea foure are no less outspoken than the inys after, for to discover a pass-gaily-clad occupants of the stalls.

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opera. "The Nightingale," lavishly mounted In the new Royal Opera' House, doubt- So runs an entry in the log less the finest building of its kind of Julin Pleyce, one of the comin the world. Stravinsky himself any of mariners who set out with conducted, and "Tutta Roma" was Henry Hudson on his first great present. voyage of discovery

in his Ship One passed countless footmen in the Half Moon.

livery into a spacious foyer hung On the 21st anniversary of with Royal blue and gold brocade. M. Herriot not unnaturally de- Hudson's Communion, the Gov-Phe passages are made of vari- scribes the Chequers meeting na aruor of the Hudson's Bay Comcoloured marble. The auditorium Yesterday (writes an Observer turning point in the history of any unveiled a window given by is brilliant beyond words. There correspondent) I went to look for natious, for it was the highest point the Company in honour of the are 106 boxes, including a graceful the essential spirit of Soho. Tradi-of his own popularity," "It was onvigator in the same church of Royal box. The thrones tion has it that this is to be found, from that cordial interview. best. Ethelburga the Virgin. vacant when "The Nightingale" was if anywhere, in Poland-street; and tween MacDonald and myself," The dim little church-it is the given. The upholstery is deep that by turning a corner you cross he declared, "that the possibilities mallest in London-now dwarf-peach-coloured velvet in a setting a frontier and come abruptly on of peace date.". He also lakes great ad by the buildings of those "Wor- of platinum and gold. The opera foreign parts. But you don't credit to himself as well as to M. shipfel Merchants" in whose ser- is not decorated. It is sculptured, You find first a number of Oxford- Briand for the work donn at Geneva vice Hudson sailed, was filled by The Muses and the Roman eagles street shops that have spread, as in favour of peace.

varied design, utterly business men and representatives form a it were, round the corner and the

"I remain convinced," stated M. of foreign lands when the Service modern and angular. ferro-concrete of

"7 Small bed, a cinema; and Herriot, that in order to solve of Dedication began. They were

Palace of Music, then there is Great Marlborough the numerous problems of inter-crowded even to the steps of the

The curtain is of peach-coloured 12 Egg-shaped.

13 Putrid. street, which has given itself over untional relations we must have a chancel where Hudson knelt with against a background af pale gold 16 Digitigrade carnivorous mammals.

embroidery wrought by hand to music and motor und hat shops, general charter of peace. It was his crew.

14 Insoluble substances. and is as well swept and garnished on the problem of peace that the Re-i

damask. There is a two-yardio Fit for ploughing. as Bond-street. Some of the new publicanu were united in 1924.

fringe of silk and gold.

17 Chief. Regent-street shops have spread Whatever may be the difference of

Above the proscenium arch is a 18 Title of respect (French).. into the other end of the street: conception that separate us, we When the first hymn of thanks-plaque proclaiming that the new 21 Quick more ferro-conereto.

shall permit no one to touch the giving had been sung and a building was brought into being 22 Tenfold. grandeur of that work or the social lection given,, Mr. C. V. by King Victor Emmanuel, Benito 24 Brade. majesty of its memory."

Sate, the Governor of the Com- Mussolini, il Duce and Prince 27 Detached hill pany, drew aside the curtains bo- Spada Potenzziani, the Covernor of 30 Ireland.

31 Inert Rome, soon to visit England.

gun. fore the window."

In honour of Henry The artists responsible for this 32 Calendar. Hudson, the Navigator," he declar Palace of music are Marcello Pia-33 Nothing. 34 Freehold. ed, "and of his courage, fortitude. centint, Francesco Guidi and Gac-

30 Shoot. and untimely death, we dedicate tano Rapisardi, all young men.

The Nightingale" was done in this window, on behalf of the Governor and Company of Adven- London last July as a ballet. tyrers of England trading into Rome the Chinese music was suny. Hudson's Bay, and entrust it to and the pallid Russian, composer

faced a fastidious audience,

50 Speculation (Abb.) the care and custody of the lector and churchwardens of this ancient thing began.

During the intermezzo the whis-52 Partially united lower petais, church."

Everyone laughed. 53 Listen to again. The whistlers imitated the song of 54 Emmots. In an address before the dedica the nightingale, and rival factions 56 Tenth part. tion the Governor told as much of cried out "Hush." The word used 50 Repose. the story of Hudson's life, as lawas "Zittire," and the whistling in- 57 Renter.. known. He told of his four renoverenscd. For a time the audience 58 Begins. ing at a pictorial advertisement for has been almost entirely rebuilt. voyages, of his life-long ambi-would be silent, but there were an American hotel of many stories There only remains Greck-street

were it not that one shy hovel of and Frith-street and a part of Oldtion to find a North-west passage interruptions until the final bar. only four stories blushes amongst Compton-street which can reason-an open shallop with eight com- and applauded, and he accepted the and finally of his casting away in Theri Stravinsky was both hissed haughtier brethren, while in the ably be called Soho. In two places ions, a few tools, and a little mixed reception with serene good background the even taller build-Soho has broken its boundaries and

food, by a mulinous crew, fendant who recognised him in nga of Regent-street overshadow spread to the north and to the cast. the circumstances we think stage with the artists the Romans New Compton-street, which is on

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Kings Bay, May 18, the Goldsmith's Renevolent As-

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It is a relief to hurry into Little the wrong side of Charing Cross-of him not in fallure, nor as one let loose. Pulteney-street, which is still dirty road, though it is half-full of music who died in a vain enune,” he

Frenzy of Faction. I thought of the Colosseum, a street market. It is shops and rehearsal rooms, breathes added," but as the bearer of an im- here that the newest garage is to sometimes a whiff of garlic; and perishable name whereof are wit-stone's throw from the opera house, be. It will abolish some of the there are semi-mythical tales about nesses the representatives here and the forefathers of the opera dirtiest courts-William and Mary-a cook who hides himself in one to-day of the English Government, patrons at their gladiators shows. You don't have to paddle far to court, for example, which is almost of its corners. They say he coal which Henry Hudson owed alle-It was the same frenzy of faction. go from RIVER to LAKES-par a rubbish heap-and round ed for a king and a prime minister: glance, the representatives of the None in the stalls whistled, but they Is only four but it's a tricky, some of the sharper corners. But that he was exiled and had curious treat nations of France, the United cried out their views.

how will it accommodate itself to adventures. But only the most States and of Canada, of Denmark, I stood clapping in an aisle, and the street market? Is that to knowledgeable persons know where he Netherlands, and of Newfound a beautiful young lady stirred from und, all of whom are in one way her suble cloak and shouted at me "Basta!" which means "enough." Fewer French, More Italian. r another linked in history with Then I was swept by the excited Wardour-Street.

The real Soho seems to have the four voyages I have described auditors towards a marvellous bar Here is Wardour-street. It is a moved to the north. Charlotte as well as representative mem-of onyx. long time since Wardour-street street has always been the centrers of the great interests of the Here the bejowelled women and was a part of Soho. Yesterday it of a foreign quarter. There is an city of London engaged in carry men in "fraks" and uniform re- might almost have been a street in old German school near by, and then on that traffic and Intercourse freshed themselves.

many long banners, Swiss Consulate and the Swiss Clubverseas which it was the ambition champagne. But the ladies pre- irenerous trip and you may find China, so Il difficult to achievė,

posters, and other decorations did and many restaurants and many of Henry Hudson to promote,"

ferred tiny ham sandwiches and The film people hung out of their artists in eccentric attire; and here,

crystallised fruits. windows. The arrowest part of on, is one of the last cafe bark

They seemed to agree that Puc- the street has not yet fallen to the where half the people speak French

Dr. Geille-Cobb, the rector, cini's "Turandot" was a version of ms, and here ane ilmast got ar Italian. smell of the real Soho; but soon it Many of the former inhabitants and a cablegram from Mr. Mac-musical Chinese, more to their like kives place to a few hat-shops and have moved into this northern an-enzie King, the Prime Minister of ing than Stratvinsky's "Nightín- dress-makers', which are apparently exe of Soho, M. E. S. Burdelt, Canada, in which the latter saldale," more characteristic of the Soho of directeur of the French Pro-" send greetings on behalf of the our days than restaurants. You estant School, told me. He said, people of Cannda who desire to join can still buy silk stockings from a that in the last twenty-five years with the people of Great Britain COMMITTED FOR TRIAL:

and the United States now paving stall in Berwick-street, and it has the French panulation of Ropa still something of the air of a decreased by half, though the Jews ribute to the great explorer whose LORD TERRINGTON REFUSED

n holds an honoured place, in market in foreign parts: people have been multiplied by five and

the Halians by ten. He said that he history of the Dominion." Yet every 1-The idea of letter golf is to still call it "quaint."

there seemed to be change one word to another and day it becomes more an affair of though de it in par, a given number of shops than of stalls; more an altair space left in all Solo for people to strokes. Thus to change COW tof "Yes moddam" than of the lusty,ive in, nevertheless in obscure HEN, in three strokes, Cow, Er y'are: goin' dirt cheap!"neys and unexnerted places over the church. It is expected that HOW. HEW, HEN.

And did not Berwick-street the the shops and behind the garages, 2--You can change only one other day announce its intention great many people still live in af advisertising itself as a street-ho. And one remembered how letter at a time.

on warm evenings-especially Sun- 3--You must have a complete in the most modern manner. just mire. Son seems to come

does? There is word, of gemmon usage, for each as Rezent-street

to life: and though all the business jump. Slang words and abbrevia an end of quaintness.

Dean-street. has lost its char-nd the factory people have gone, tions don't enunt.

acter; it has a theatre, another people on every dooraten great garage which has conereted and Grook-street, and Frill-elrent all the dark corners of the district, in which there an overal Italian St. Ethelburen's Church, with the name of Woodhouse and Co. and modern shops. Soho-square eluks, pre full of singing and the

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Reuter,

Dr. Grikic-Cobb explained that the window was one of a set of three which it was hoped to instal

[A message dated Londen, the the remaining two will be provided

the citizens of the United States 21st April, stated: After protract- nd of Canada.

ed proceedings with France, parti- The window presented by the due to his state of health, Hudson's Bay Company depicts Lord Terrington was brought to Tudson standing beside the Half London and cherred at the Man- aon reading his sailing orders be- sion House with fraudulent con- fore embarking. Below is a repre- version under the Larceny Act entation of the Communion service while practisine on a solicitor In the names of the Half Moon's crew There are twenty-one charges, in-

volving £70,000.]

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