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CHANGING LONDON

"THE MARINA”. RESTAURANT

NEW SLANTS ON DRAMA

London, Dec. 1. Glass-lined walls are to be a feature of London's newest res taurant, to be opened in Devon- ahiro House, shortly. Mr. Oliver Mossel, who has designed many decors and masks for revues and ballets, is responsible for the decoration which will be bared on Venetian scheme. Venetian * Aconen will be painted on some parts of the glass-lined walls by special process, giving n Atoren- scopic effect. The bar is to

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dreadfully in the way. The re- moval of King William IV has beon: docrood by the City Corporation because a big scheme for a sub- way fa to be carried out at the London Bridge. end of King William Street.. King William, 15ft. high, mounted on a pedestal 26ft. high, stands on the alte o the Boer's load Tavern, whore Falstaff and Prince Hal caroused. There is power under the London Trafic Act to remove structures of atatuca likely to hinder the froe flow of vehicles, and during the [noxt few years many familiar figures in alone and bronze will ba sont to the groon shades of out- lying parks.

LONDON ARENA

A memorandum has been issued relating to London Arens, Ltd. A stadium arena is to be erected within a few hundred yards of Parliament-square,

Westminster.

In construction and equipment the London Arena will embody the experience gained from the con- struction and operation of the

present a gondola, whilst, flanking great arenas It, other large cities the alcove which will house the

band, are to be two life size statues of negroes dressed as gondelleri Mr. Norman Hartnell, the dress designer, in collaborating with Mr. Mennel in nome of the decorn- tion designs. The restaurant is likely to be called the "Marina".

The Pioneer Housing Trust in Packham is the owner of the "R.E. Sansoon" house, to bo opened shortly by Sir Samuel Hoare. The flata have been given by Mrs. Meyer Sassoon in memory of her son, and are the latest and most modern yet erected in London. Mrs. Bassoon appointed one of the younger school of architects, Mr. Maxwell Fry, and associated with him as expert adviser, Miss Denby, formerly secretary of the Kensing ton Housing Trust and an authori ty on working-class fata. The site was given to the trust, and was so confined that it was only

M. Flandin, Premier of France, can shoot as well as he can govern, friends declare. Here he takes a

phossant on the wing.

possible to erect a five-storey block of twenty flats of reinforced eon- crete construction. The windows are large and the balconies

are

of the world. It will enelono n floor space measuring 300ft. by 130ft.

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934.

Whon la a play not a play ?** was the question asked by Mr. John van Druten, the dramatist, when 110 Have, at Liverpool University, an address on the art of the theatre. Professor L. R. successful.nevelists," added Mr. valuers came to the stores

King Achmed Zogu of Albania in esen above together with the late Queen Mother, (at luft) and his sisters and nephew, Prince Eland (at right) all wearing the Albanian penaant costume.

Wilberforce presided, Mr. van Druten said that an American newspaper recently asked what were his ten favourite plays. He first wrote down about twenty-five. Including "Mary Rose," "On the Spot Broadway," "A Sleeping Clergyman" and the American farce "She Loves Me Not". He left out Shakespeare for one reason be- cause he did not want to be priggish and for another reason it was impossible to choose among Shakespeare. Then he began to wonder: "Docs 'favourite' mean the plays I enjoyed most or the playa that wero best?" The

van Druten "you would be tounded."

as-valued the 'coat at £800.

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case for plaintiffs was that

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The box with the coat seen at defendant's solicitors office had been at the Great Western Hole! in the name of Stacke. The coat would be identified by witnesses who had remodelled the coat and put in new lining, and by valuers Cotton who valued the coat in 1930.

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On August 21, 1930, Major TALKIES' GOOD TURN Stacke telephoned asking for the Another type of mind could coat to be sent to the Great West think only of stories. For a long ern Hotel, and two days later he time that type had the run of the telephoned saying that he had not theatre. But since the beginning received it. Thereafter he was of this century things had hap told that it could not be found. pened. The first was the cruption As he said that his wife was go in the theatre caused by Barker, ing to Scotland the next day,

Ferguson Chekhov, and Shaw. He could not Messra, Selfridge lent hor a mole thought of him as an intellectual The act actually and her coat that in July 1930, Major Stacke Brocade add Ibsen because, although one skin coat. dramatist, he every time, used a

Georgette good story. Barker, Chekhov, and returned to her at the time her handed in the box at the reception Embroidered Crepe

new vein, and husband telephoned and said that office of the hotel. The box had no

de Chine Pyjamas placed the first interest in charac- he wanted it back. Shaw oponed

name on it, but the hotel porter

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would state that knowing Major Printed and Emb: In June 1932, defendant's sollet-Stacke well he wrote "Stacke" on

Kimonos, From $2.50 enjoyment seement wrong. Cer.

was not a mesace to the stage, i tora telephoned saying that a coat the box.

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Quality tainly there were on his list Ibsen's had at least draws off very largely had been found. Thereupon an In 1932, when a message was Men's Embd "Wild Duck," and "Juno and the that other class of dramatist the employee of Messrs. Selfridge went seat to Major Stacke to take away

Kimonos Paycock" and "Journey's End". When he first saw "Journey's End" the mentor, find it lind changed, teen tus cntaining a town, the box, he sold that he thought the mind of audiences regarding There was no label on the out- but on opening it he found it con- green bux a fur coat, the box contained old Army records, -privately given by the stage Society-he knew after the first the plot play. In "The Searle ide of the box, but there was a furtained a fur coat: After algning Pure

Pimpernel you sat through three! acts for the sake of one moment's storage inbel of Measrs, Selfridge on receipt he took it away, and later revelation of the identity of Sir the tie-string, of the cost and the defendant's solicitor communi- Perey Blakeney, But nowadays department ticket.

'cated with Messrs. Selfridge. the film audiences wanted, and got,

difference between admiration and had done, and whether it was, or ter. Whatever the talking picture

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act and a half that it was one of The best plays he had ever seen. As ho left the theatre one lady said: "Of course it is very good and Interesting, but it la not play." Sho meant perhaps, that aren Minute All" was a purely a revenition every five minutes. play must have a plot, just as Honka must have tunes--though he plot play, but it differed from Raffles" or any the earlier knew quite a number of so-called

melodramas. It songs which had none (daughter) longer on the plot, but was, in:

depended E. M. Forster had said that "The erect, a highly ingenious eroa king died and then the Queen died word puzzle which required a far of a broken heart" was the plat more inteligent application from "The king died and then the Queen the audience. died, and nobody knew why, but it was afterwards diacovered she had died of a broken heart"-that was the mystery. If you tried to summarise plays in ten lines, they seemed remarkably feeble, Were the best plays plays 7 (This he nd- mitted sounded rather like Ger trude Stein). One might think the best plays had no plots; but then one remembered Shakespeare

a Chekhov's showing the decline

MAJOR'S WIFE IN LAWSUIT

MYSTERY OF LOST FUR COAT

PLAINTIFFS

The story of a Canadian fur sable

Mrs.

exceptionally spacious, providing and Ibsen and "Jung and the Pay SELFRIDGE & Co. room for two small beds for chilcock". He thought that however dren sleeping out. All rooms have dreary might be some plays, such been standardised, and this has reaulted in reduced building costs --about £370 per llat. The rent of - the larger hits, which contain a living-room, hall, three bedrooms, kitchen and larder, and bathroom, is 11. per week, inclusive of rates and water rate. The smaller flats, with two bedrooms, are only 9s, weak inclusive.

STATUE MIGRATION City statues are beginning to follow City people by migrating to the suburbs. Sir Robert Peel is leaving Cheapside shortly for the pleasant terrace of Police College Hendon, and King William IV, is to leave the approach to London Bridge for West Ham Park. The Prince Consort in. Holborn Circus is very unsettled and has meditat- od retirement to a quieter place for some time. There are others who may be leaving their present homes.

It is not always realised that London has well over 200 statues

or public memorials standing in

and decay of a once grand family, cont. which belonged to one would rather sit through three Stacke, wite of Major H. Stacke, of facts of “The Cherry Orchard” than Half-Moon Street, London, Was through those ingenious malo told before Mr. Justice Singleton dramas in which mothers and sons in the King's Bench Division, re- met without recognising euchcently.

other, where the child was adopted Selfridge & Co. (Ltd.), of Oxford and taken away in the prologue, Street, London, claimed against and afterwards turned up'ns pro- Mrs. Stacke to recover £305, 54., secuting council against the mo- which they had paid her in respect ther, who had shot someone who of the value of the coat, which she wanted to tell the truth about his asserted had been lost by them parentage (laughter). A play after she had placed it in their must portray a character, and the fur storage department, character must do something. The slow moving intellectual novelists of to-day did not need plots; but they usually yearned for the stage, though they effected to displae it. They wrote three hundred page novels in which a

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The money, plaintiffs said, had been paid to her under a mistaken xlief that the cost was lost while in their custody.

Mr. John W. Morris, for the plaintiffs, sald that on July 5, 1930, the coat, which plaintiffs contended templated leaving her husband, was the coat in question, was de and oven packed her bag, but posited in the fur department of eventually did not go. But when Messrs. Selfridge, and on July 8 they wrote for the theatre they of the same year Mrs. Stacke's jumped to the other extreme, be-

catise their theory was that plot was essential. "If you could read.

the open air. Many of them are the unproduced plays of some

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