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THERE WOULD BE

HAT was a first-rate

suggestion put for- ward the other day:

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It would be the twentieth century's Great Exhibition; the Victorian uge's Grent Exhibition, the show that started the modern idea of inter-

#150 exhibitions,

in national Hyde Park, In 1851,

wns

WIS more

STR.

That 1851 exhibition 18"modern" than many heidi

-Al her residence, Man son 161 Road, Valley, on Monday, July 18. 11138, Laly - Linennen, aged 17 years, doughter of 2 Lanennen, of the Dairy Farm Co., Ladi Puneal will purs the Monument at my lonely

The

what 1840's should be than Wem bley's was, in 1924. It gave us our first imodern building, naw, unhappi- ly, destroyed-the Crystal Palace.

• water taxis speeding on the

Serpentine

• a new Crystal Palace of steel and glass

none of the trouble there was getting to Wembley

in

Windsor.

'It needn't lose anything in colour or variety by being Imperial only. Glasgow is Impressive but, being Scotiah, a bit too practical; it. doesn't exploit the vivid picture- squeness of some of the overseas colonies as the French Colonial Ex- hibition did in 1931,

They bullt, an enormous replica of the Angkor Vot temple; hundreds of African Negroes were installed in mud hute in the exhibition grounds, lived there more or less as they did at home

Maharajahs' palaces, dazzling tem- ples, trapleal jungles (without the

(with insects), "teeming" bazaars not top realistic drains) could be re- constricted in Hyde Park. We could be shown the life of a typicat British subject in Jamalca. I hope by then It'll be it to show. The Gold Coast too might by then have straightened out its disputes.

Every exhibition learns from lis predecessors. From Paris we cân learn (besides respect, for trees) the value of vistas, the modern decora- tive, U80 of water. Restaurants should overlookt the Serpentine: there could be a water-taxi service along it; a night-as on the Seine Inst year-there could be spectacular coloured-fountain displays.

(1935) and

From Glasgow I'm afraid we shall learn that the exhibition will be a SHEEP graze in flyde Park be disturbed. Personally, I think it

They would be pleasanter as plain parks, failure unless it's open on Sundays. Every summer.

amusing for exhibition visitors to walk and Drinks should be less of a problem should be left there. rustic ensis amid the show's steel rest in; but if they too were used, in London than in Glasgow: Hyde the gardens of Buckingham Prince Park is in a part of London which is and-glass glitter.

night. Existing bits of architecture-Hyde might be opened, now that the King accustomed to drink legally till mid- Happy was in many ways far more like park Corner, the Albert Memorial and Queen spend so much time ut

FROM Brussels should also be respected, worked into

from almost every exhibi- If they move to Windsor altogether, tion I remember. we should, but the general plan, their styles perhaps nehoed in faintly "period" ornament the Palace would provide a wonder probably won't, learn une important would ex- lesson: don't

profiteer. It on the exbibition buildings nearest ful gallery for

will and impulse ensure double tourists' hibition: this alone would

to spend If they could really con- them.

American and

vince themselves that hotels hadn't Planning should allow for emer thousands of extru

put up their prices specially, that gencies. The exhibition might be colonial attendances.

Another "i": if St. George's Hos- everybody was giving them the cor- made as weatherproof as possible- an experiment not tried before, I

Elegant covered ways could pital is then demolished (it is to be reet change.

rebuilt in a few year's lime) its site car-park. from building to building and to the Parking fees could go to rebuilding various tube stations.

Thongkong Telegraph.

Tuesday, Juny 19, 1938.

TRIBUTE TO COURAGE

The Crystal Palace was modern because I used muxieru building materials-cast iron and glass; also It was pre-fabricated at the factory. taken to Hyde Park in vans, remove

later to Sydenham with httle break-

nge.

should like

In see another Crystal Palace arise in Hyde Park. Sleel and glass would be the mute- rials now. It would set the style for its antellite exhibition buildings.

ARCHITECTS

are

to consider function.

The

think.

run beside the main walks, leading

make would

fund.

article.

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special

a useful

art

good

The one great lesson is that, to be success, an exhibition mustn't be too far out, Hyde Park is five minutes from Victoria, is actually overlooked by dozens

of hotels at

W WHETHER this is to be an idea. I should like to book a room

Tom Driberg

which tourists stay. The rarer energency of fine wea-

1 hope something will come of the Lor: also be allowed ther should plenty of open-air restaurants, cafes

Empire or an international high up in Purk-lane for the sumn.cr to this of 1940. There will be a grand view. doesn't matter with vast disappearing windows, are exhibition

obstacles There have been few episodes

There might be learning essentiai, in the history of aerial warfare

If the exhibition grounds extend in the way of the latter... One of so daringly corecived and so function of most exhibition buildings into St. James's Park and the Green the most attractive pavillons at Paris sessfully carried out as that is to be temporary, (b) to be Park Hyde Park alone might.or last year was Czecha-Slovakig's; will good show-pieces and shop windows might not be enough) I hope the Czecho-Slovaktin be in a position to reported by the Japanese at Steel and glass, with some timber, delightful fowl in the late will not stage a show in 1940? Nanchang yesterday, when an are perfect for this. undisclosed number of Japanese planes deliberately turned their Doses to the hangar and slipped

und stirred the thatch with a plain- down to land at high speed,

tive mean, but the tailor sewed on Thereafter they attempted to set

unperturbed. Many years before, the old house

The minutes parsed; it was nearly fire to Chinese planes on the

At Faris lust year, at Glasgow this haps theirs would be an even greater was supposed to be haunted. When

midnight; midnight pussed, bul Spurs success if they made it the clachan night came no one would pass in nothing happened. The fire fell low. ground and to other property at

year trees were respected.

that I used to see in my dreams.

few inhabitants of the neighbouring the aerodrome; and finally, pavillons were built round trees.

This clachan, Kerrow by name, as houses kept within doors after dark, The tailor stirred it up. The light Glasgow there is a restaurant called

a very small clachan, just a few or made a wide detour when they hud fell on him on he sat cross-legged on satisfied with the damage they the Treetops; trees grow through the scattered houses by the banks of the to be abroad near midnight; for then the floor, Intent on his work,

There was a louder moan of the had done, they run back to their noor.

river Glass in Strathglass. Standing the ghost appeared.

But the tailor of the clachan had no wind. The cold air was in the room

itself! The tailor looked up.

His own planes and took off-with-

new apart from the others was a small,

broken-down house. The roof had fears. He feared no man, dead or

We know more about glass than they did in 1851. Our new Crystal Police would be finer than the old. Colour and artificial lighting, in all Its intricacies and splendour, can be used na elements in exhibition archi- tecture. Opaque glass tempers sun-

heut.

A GHOST FOR THE CLACHAN

O the Americans are going to have Tailor's Courage So to

A charming idea-but not a

Al

one has proved such a success.

Per-

out losing a man in the opera- the Crystal Palace were enclosed remalned-the four bare walls and would see the ghost. In fact he would whole body. He turned round. Be- one: they had it in 1851, too. Within long since vanished; only the shell alive. Nightly he boasted that he scalp crept; a gruc passed over his tion. The success, of course, some elms. Being under glass, they the high gables.

walt for it in its own home, in the hind him, rising from the floor, ap-

iscu.

peared a great hand, fingers long and thin. My grandfather was schoolmaster haunted house

Before his horrifled eyes it rose upon depended largely

the came out earlier than trees outside;

At last, despite the importunate

film. Out of the silence as the hand clement of surprise; but that only disadvantage was that all Lon-in Strathglass, and my mother used

don's sparrows flocked to these elms, to take us there at holiday times to pleadings of his neighbours, he de- higher and higher, menacingly above

cided to take his work and spend the does not detract from the unto the detriment of the objects d'urt see the old school. On one of our

Nights came the words, "A big hand visits an old woman--the cailleach as night in the dreaded house, questionable gallantry of these below.

they called her told us the story of came. The tailor kindled a pent are without flesh or blood rising to thee, Because of the glass, they couldn't the ghost of the clachan. Since that in the old house. In the dim light he pilots. China set the pace in daring by sending dut hand-bill shoot the spurrows, As she usually time the word has meant only one plied his needle. The wind swept hand hovering above him, the poor, did in quandaries, the Queen sent for thing to me great disembodied down the stratth from the hills. It tailor at last reached, his feet, und

rustied the leaves round the house, bounded madly for the door.

wild look! The great Hand was on the Duke of Wellington. "Sparrow-

him, struck, missed, and spent itself hawks, ma'am," he said. A pair of sparrowhawks did the trick,

on the bare wall. The tallor vanish- ed into the night.

raiders who flew over Japan. But that dare-deviltry now has been matched.

Hand and

disembodied Voice.

HOPE 1840's exhibition will GRIN AND BEAR IT

respect the

arc mostly

trees,

Wan-

The glass might suffer, I fear.

It seems almost wrong to try to analyse the motives and the dering in Hyde Park yesterday, I natures of brave men but, from could see no reason why it should one thing and another in Japan's not also respect the flowers, which massed at the park's war history, it would seem that edges; there seemed to be plenty of the deliberate self-sacrifice of room, soldiers is by no means un- Perhaps that new invention would known, and in fact is fairly be of use afterwards the presown frequent. That is not to say grass which you lay in strips of paper. Certainly the funfair, should there have not been, and are be put at the Marble Arch corner of not still, others than Japanese the park, where the grass is already thinned by week-end who would give their lives to permanently

crowds: the orators would provide save their comrades. But it is the best of the side-shows, seldom that they are willing to surrender themselves without making a fight of it. A Japan- ese, bent upon sacrifice, how- ever, gives himself no chance of life. As at Maohanchen during the Sino-Japanese fighting of their infantry comrades might 1932, he takes his life in his charge machine-guns,

engineers who, stuffing their uniforms with dynamite, blew themselves and the Chinese barbed wire to picces so that

hands and flings it away. It is The Nanchang affair is not|

a part of his religion, part of his quite in the same category. It soldier's creed, and not cally

was more of an adventure, with understood by other peoples, to go calmly to certain death. And death by no means a cortainty. while it seems a dreadful waste, But it took a very splendid sort one cannot help but admire the of courago. It is a pity that; cold courage which is necessary such gallantry should be expend to such an action as that of the ed on so questionable a cause.

WET PAINT

Copn 1828 be Walled Essiere Klyuddati, 200.

By Lichty

Lich

6:20

"Nope.an't painting it for a couple days yet. By that time

people will have stopped 't ouching it to see if it's wet?”!

Tallor!"

The words rising in volume, the

It Left Its Mark

One

But the ghostly hand left its mark. To this day the outline of five Angers. spread out can be seen on the wall of that broken-down house.

Many a night since I heard that story first from the cailleach I have heard that voice in crescendo-and more terrifying somehow for the Gaelic and seen that hand, bloodless,. fleshless, disembodied, rising out of the floor

I never doubted the story for a moment. The cailleach had seen the mark of the band with her own eyes, child, and so had my mother when Indeed, I can still say in Guelle the words of the ghost.

the

I never went nearer that clachan than bridge over the Glass, but I went the other day to see the Exhibi- flon Clachan. It was very real and. very pleasant in the sunshine. There were the houses with their thatched roofs, and the water with the news and the boat. I could hear the water- running over the stones under the bridge; I could hear the woman sing- ing in the cottage. But there was

for me. missing

Something

There was nothing weird or terrify- ing about these cottages, as there had been when I saw first from the bridge the clachan in Strothgians.

There was no ghostno Voice-no Handi

Perhaps our American friends, who

like nothing better than a ghost, will ranke room for a broken-down cottage with a ghostly hand, and transport to a safe distance the ghost of Kerrow, If the Kerrow of sixty years ago stik slands.

R. R.

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