1934-12-18 — Page 9

THE

TELEGRAPH. HONGKONG

TUESDAY DECEMBER

1934

CHANGING LONDON

'THE MARINA' RESTAURANT.

NEW SLANTS ON DRAMA

drondfully in the way. The re- moval of King William IV has been decrood by the City Corporation because a big scheme for a sub- way is to be carried out at the London Bridge end of King William Street. King William, 15ft, high, mounted on a pedestal 25ft. high, atands on the site o. tho Boer's Head Tavern, where Falstaff and Prince Hal caroused. Thero is power under the London Traffic Act to remove structures of statues likely to hindor the free flow of vehicles, and during the next few years many familiar jAgures in stone and bronze will be sent to the groan shados of out-

LONDON ARENA

London, Dec. 1. Glass-lined walle are to be a feature of London's newest res-lying parks, taurant, to be opened in Devon. shire House.shortly, Mr. Oliver

A memorandum has been issued Messel, who. bas designed many decors and masks for revues and relating to London Arena, Ltd. A ballots, is responsible for the stadium arena is to be erected of decoration which will be based on within a low hundred yards.

Venetian

Westminster. scheme. Venetian Parliament-aquaro, Rcenes will be painted on some In construction and equipment parts of the glass-lined walls by the London Arena will embody the special process, giving a stereo-experience gained from the con- scopic affect. The bar is to re-struction and operation of the present a gondola, whilst, Banking great arenas in other large cities the alcove which will house the of the world. It will enclose a band, are to be two life size statues floor space measuring 300ft. by of negroes dressed as gondolier!. 130ft, Mr. Norman Hartnell, the drons designor, is collaborating with Mr. Messel in some of the decorn tion designs. The restaurant is likely to be called the "Marina",

"Whon is a play not a play?" was the question asked by Mr. John van Druten, the dramatist, when

van

reason be

menn

King Achmed Zogu of Albania li suan zbava tögether with the late Queen Mother, (at left) mod his sisters and nephew, Prince Essad (at right) all wearing the Albanian peasant costume,

ns- successful novelists," added Mr. van Druten "you would bo tounded."

TALKIES' GOOD TURN Another type of mind could think only of stories. For a long time that type had the run of the theatre. But since the beginning of this century things had hap-

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valued the coat at £800. The Ploneer Housing Trust in of the theatre. Professor L. R.

valuers came to the stores and

On August 21, 1980, Major identical coat in respect of which Washing Plain Silk

in all Colours Peckham is the owner of the "R.E. Wilberforce presided. Mr.

Stacke telephoned asking for the Messrs. Selfridge had paid £305, Sassoon" house, to be opened Druten said that an American

coat to be sent to the Great West-15s. to Mrs. Stacke,

The box with the coat seen at Elephant Crepe shortly by Sir Samuel Hoare. The newspaper recently asked what flats have been given by Mrs. ware his ton favourite plays. He

ern Hotel, and two days later he

Georgette Meyor 'Sassoon lu memory of her first wrote down about twenty-five

telephoned anying that he had not defendant's solicitors' office had Printed Check Silk son, and are the latest and most including "Mary Rose." "Un the

received it. Thereafter he was been at the Great Western Hotel Printed

in the name of Stacke. The cont Printed Crepe ...

Georgette modern yet erected in London. Spot," Broadway." "A Sleeping

told that it could not be found.

As he said that his wife was go- would be identified by witnesses Printed Mre, Sassoon appointed one of the Clergyman" and the American farco

in the theatre caused by 'Barker, ing to Scotland the next day, who had romodelled the coat and younger school of architects, Mr.She Loves Me Not". He left outponed. The first was the eruption

who valued the coat in 1930. Maxwoll Fry, and associated with Shakespeare. for one

His Lordship would also hear him as export advlaer, Miss Denby, cause he did not want to be Chekhov, and Shaw. He could not Messra, Selfridge lent her a mole-put in new lining, and by valuers

The case for plaintiffs was that thought of him as an intellectua! formerly secretary of the Kensing priggish and for another reason it add Ibsen because, although one skin coat. ton Housing Trust and an nuthorl-

was impossible to choose among dramatist, he every time, used a Mrs, Stacke actually had her cont that in July 1930, Major Stacke ty on working-class flats. The Shakespeare. Then he began to good story. Barker, Chekhov, and returned to her at the time her handed in the box at the reception name on it, but the hotel porter site was given to the trust, and wonder: "Docs favourite

would state that knowing Major was so confined that it was only the plays I enjoyed most or the Shaw opened a new vein, and husband telephoned and said that, office of the hotel. The box had no

plays that

best?" The placed the first interest in charac-ho wanted it back.

ter. Whatever the talking picture

In June 1932, defendant's, solici, Stacks well he wrote "Stacke" on difference between admiration and had done, and whether it was, or

In 1932, when wrong. Cer-

A message WAN enjoyment neomed tainly there were on his list Ibsen's was not a menace to the stage, ittors telephoned saying that a conf the box.

had at least drawn off very largely had been found. Thereupon an "Wild Duck," and "June and the that other class of dramatist the employce of Messrs. Selfridge went sent to Major Stacke to take away Paycock" and "Journey's End" plot inventor, and it had changed to their office and was shown a the box, he said that he thought When he first saw "Journey's End the mire of audiences regarding reen box containing a fur cont. the box contained old Army records, There was no label on the out- but on opening it he found it con- privately given by the stage the plot play. Society he knew after the first Pimpernel" you sat through three lue of the box, but there was a fur tained a fur coat. After signing act and a half that it was one of gets for the sake of one moment's istorage inbel of Mesars. Selfridge on a re-int he took it away; and Inter

eated with Messrs. Selfridge. the best plays he had ever seen. revelation of the identity of Sir the tie-string of the cual and a the defendant's rolleitor communi As he left the theatre one lady Perey Blakeney. But said: "Of course it is very good and Interesting. but it is not a play," She meant perhaps, that a play must have plot, just as Bongs must have tunes-though he know quite a number of so-called

were

In The Scarlet

nowadays,

the film audiences wanted, and got in revelation every five minutes. Ten Minute Ali was a purely plot play, but it differed Iron "Raffles" or any of the earlier! melodramas. 11 depended songs which had none (laughter) longer on the plot, but was, in E. M. Forster had said that "The king died and then the Queen died elect, a highly Ingenious cross- of a broken heart was the plot, word puzzle which required a far more intelligent application from

The king died and then the Queen, the audience. died, and nobody know why, but it

AWIES afterwards discovered sho

M. Flandin, Premier of France, can had died of a broken heart"-that

shoot, as well as he can governi (was the mystery. If you tried to friends declaro. Here he takes

phoriant on the wing.

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summarise plays in ten lines, they seemed remarkably feeble. Wero the best plays plays? (This he ad-

possible to erect a five-storey block-mitted sounded rather like Ger-

of twenty flats of reinforced con- crole construction. The windows are large and the balconica ure exceptionally spacious, providing room for two small beds for chil- dren sleeping out. All rooms have been standardised, and this has resulted in reduced building costs -about £370 per flat. The rent of the larger lints, which contain a living-room, hall, three bedrooms, kitchen and larder, and bathroom, is 11s. per week, Inclusive of rates and water rate. The smaller flats, with two bedrooms, are only 9s. a week inclusive,

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STATUE MIGRATION City statues are beginning 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

trude Stein). One might think! the best plays had no pilota; but then one remembered Shakes care

MAJOR'S WIFE IN LAWSUIT

MYSTERY OF LOST FUR COAT-

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and Ibsen and "Juno and the Pay- SELFRIDGE & CO. cock". He thought that however dreary might be some playa, auch 4s Chekhov's showing the decline

PLAINTIFFS

The story of a Canadian fur sable

and deeny of a once grand family,'cout, which belonged to Mrs. and would rather sit through three Stacke, wife of Major H. Stacke, of acts of "The Cherry Orchard" than Half-Moon Street, London, was melo- to belure Mr. Justice Singleton through those Ingenious dramas in which mothers and sona in the King's Bench Division, re-

without recognising each cently. met other, where the child was adopted Selfridge & Co. (Ltd.), of Oxford and taken away in the prologue, Street, London, claimed aguonst and afterwards turned up as pro- Mrs. Stucke to recover £306, his.. seesting enuncil against the ma- 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 assorted 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.

The muney, plaintiffs said, had character must do something. The slow moving intellectual novelists been paid to her under a mistaken of to-day did not need plots; but bellef that the cont was lost while they usually yearned for the stage, in their custody.

Mr. John W. Morris, for though they effected to dispise it.

the

They wrote three hundred page plaintiffs, said that on July 5, 1930, la very unsettled' and has meditat-novels In which a woman con- the coat, which plaintiffs contended

for some time. There are others who may be leaving their present

homes.

ed retirement to a quieter place templated leaving her husband, was the coat in question, was de and even packed her bag, but posited in the fur department of eventually did not go. But when Messrs. Selridge, and on day they wrote for the theatre they of the same star Mrs. Stroke's jumped to the other extreme, be- cause their theory was that plot was essential. "If you could read the unproduced plays of some

It is not always realised that London has well over 200 statues --or public memorials standing in the open air. Many of them are

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