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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1947.

The crime-wave goes

to Cranbourne Gdns.

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HE door pushed open before Mrs Hendon had time to insert the key. And she knew it had kap-· pened. The crime wave had come to Cranbourne-gardens, N.W.11. To the home of the Hendon family. (Hendon is not the real name; the Hendons seek publicity no more than they sought the robbery).

Behind that trim privet hedge while Mrs Hendon had been out for an evening stroll with her 10-year-old son Richard- strangers had been prying and stealing.

Mrs Hendon could sense it us soon as she pushed open the door...even the cream hall way seemed less friendly than when she had left half an hour before.

After it happened, of course, nearly everyone in Cranbourne- gardens remembered having seen the two strange men hang- ing round the house three days

before.

News-in-Fino-Focus today turns its attention to the formal entry in a detectivo's notobook-- the report of one of the 700 housebreakings and burglaries every month in the London arop alone.

The story is told-

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By DAVID LEWIN

So she stuck her head out of silverware, and went upstairs to the window and

man the bedrooms. SAW H

standing at the back of Mrs From Mrs Hendon's room Hendon's kitchen. She called they took a beaver lamb coat out: "Is there anything you and a fox fur cape: from want?" and the man shuffled spare bedroom, another coat. away to join a companion on the pavement."

They looked for jewellery, Two gold fob watches on Mr Hendon's suits were ignored. But they took a paste replica bracelet and brooch. "It must have looked more valuable than the others," said Mrs Hendon. "It

A few nights later the terrier again sounded the alarm. This time the neighbour dialled 999. The police car came along in

in minutes. There were no nt the house. The road is quiet and sunny truders

summer, and the children doesn't matter," said the detec- come home from school for tive. "Glad you phoned." Junch at 12.30, and the trades- directed to the side men are

Cran- door.

in

ENTERING

CHOOSING

bourne-gardens BUT nobody dialled 999 when the suits, the shirts

strewn on

this time.

the

No money was taken. That is the third most popular thing for sneak thieves, it scenis.

The detective made the re- port-his third that day. They were all housebreaking (that is, between G a.m. and 9 p.m.- after which the law calls it bur- glory}.

The amounts of the thefts varied.

One was between £20

POCKET CARTOON

"I picked him up at

Euston.

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

CHE is the first singer."

" said my paper, "ever to

and £100-the commonest amount. The other was under have broken a glass with a song £20 that is the second largest over the radio, at a distance of

40 miles." category).

But not the land, we hope. If only

The third was Mrs Hendon.

as the

out of the

The detective's report said: the song could have travelled faster Housebreaking at house in Cran. than sound! The reporter goes on ta produce a sustained legato in the pre- bourne-gardens to the prejudice tell how the singer was induced- la sence of a tumbler. But nothing hap- of Mrs Hendon, housewife."

The value several hundred pened. It is the distance that does choir, singing the pounds. But the loss is greater it. A massed

"Ellah" in Mimms South Mimms, than figures suggest.

win- of course-brake a conservatory will dow m Luton, in 1924, "Even the jewellery is not so the State Newington aquarium, so clothing that for days on end, stray fish were THE strangers had found Mr important

Hendon's wardrobe. Out came stolen," said Mrs Hendon, as being picked up as for ́away as were she divided her time between Dalston and Highbury. And in 1831 floor. They clearing up and looking into the indignant tomato-forcers of Wor-

thing chased a sliger read

Mrs Hendon was out on her selected as their spoils three cupboards in the

she and drawers nows papers evening's stroll

druku so much glass. about the bur- Nobody, that is, until Mrs Hen-rey pin-stripe suits, several seemed to have missed on her place, because his morning exercises white silk shirts and ties to first checkup. glaries that don returned to discover the

match.

She had been through this or The explanation were going on. tragedy. Her husband, George, and said: "Isn't was away on business.

One suit-Mr Hendon's best deal before 20 years ago just scientifle explanation of this as Mr and Mrs Hendon were Term of glass-breathing is rather was left in the front hall. His married and had moved into a interesting The current set up by terrible?" teen-year-old Barbara was

wife saw it as she walked in. But then it was the youth club.

house not far away.

the lone-waves of a voice breaks into The other people. The windows had been lock-

detective told

That time all their clothing particles of warm alr, At the same

time of The back gate secured. "Clothing is the second on the went. But, today, money, alone there particles begins to swive The next-door eù.

quiver. no The men had tried the front list of things the housebreaker will not replace their losses. The warm air-particles revolve when neighbour ticed the stran- door, looked at the lock. One takes but nearly as much in "So we shall just have to do they einsh with the non-refractory totulma of the quivering glass-rim, gers first three of them put his shoulder to it, value as jewellery. Did you without," said Mrs Hendon.

thus setting up what is called days before. pressed hard. (The police re- miss any sheets or table linen?"

"My husband will have 110 fan

gina.jon. The lolules forma ducts, "The Her year-old port. said afterwards:

Mrs Hendon looked. The light shirts for his first summer through which the sound-waves per- terrier had front door was forced with bodily men had found the linen cup holiday since his demob." colate until they touch the area of Henco the started barking pressure").

board, pulled things out, but

'I shan't feel it so much un baroidal receptivity. in

Jate the

Was The men-the police feel sure taken nothing. It all til the winter. Then I shall smash. And that my little loves, is

how I met your grandmother. fur and there were two of them-looked creused though....handled by miss my cont. 1 afternoon

can't wouldn't stop. in the front room, ignored the strangers.

afford to buy a fur coat at to- In passing day's prices."

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A current theatrical experiment

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Embassy Theatre venture

THE

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MISSING

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AN article about the supercilious- of Londoners who visit small provincial theatres reminded me of what Mme. de Sevigne sald,

PERHAPS most Mrs Hendon in one of her letters. She described will miss the gold, bracelet a visit to a theatre in the country, and added: "I wept-just four or given to her by her mother-in-ave tears, enough for the provinces."

law and the gold watchchain TRY-OUT THEATRE

ON the fringes of London and

in Derbyshire, in the Eng-

lish Midlands, Anthony Haw-

By JOAN LITTLEFIELD

our Embassy

from her father: There was Dialogue at sea sentimental value in those.

But housebreakers do not un-ONE of those bluff and hearty sea captains, In command of a Trans- atlantic liner, saw a man, derstand such things.

3 recent "In the future,

and pop your voyage, looking very queer Jewels in an old kettle, or some miserable in a deckchair, "Come,

said the captain, that in't trey (son of Sir Charles Haw- Clemence Dane as its members, dis End. In future, all trey, & famous theatrical figure cusses polley and the plays chosen plays will have one week at Croydon thing like that," advised the spirit of Nelson in edit met the

detective.

the passenger. "Nelson suffered very of the early 1900's) is building by the three Directors. A represen- and three at Swiss Cottage."

And then he gave this tip: much from sen-sickness." "You might tative of the Arts Counci! Is present

Mir Hawtrey does not employ stars "Lock up outside, but do not well say that Wellington disliked at these meetings. The Embassy re-

play. Mary Ellis, for ilan Hay's that. Thieves who do get in snorted and passed on to torment unless they are necessary to the lock wardrobes or things like did said the passenger. The captain battlefields," said the captain, "He peared in "Hattie Stowe."

up 悲 theatre organisation

hich, in its way, should do as ceived no Government grant, ut pt much for the British stage ng the Old Vic has done.

Two years ago he took over the Embassy Theatre, at Swiss Cottage, in northwest London, which for many years before ព World War II had been

and prosperous experimental try-out theatre. The place was badly blitzed, the stage being completely destroyed; but, with Hawtrey Government aid, Mr got it repaired and opened, in February 1945, with a revival of Barrie's "Quality Street."

By February, 1047, 32 plays had been produced, 25 of either new or had not previously

been seen in Britain.

which

SUCCESSFUL PLAYS

Each plece runs a minimum

a cultural organisation is from Entertainments Tax.

exempt

thelr

Late in 1945, Mr Hawtrey assumed

Tail-piece

was told that the maximum penalty for building house without a licence was seven years' loss of liberty, smiled sardoni- cally and sald "Loss of what?"

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

new plece on the author of "Uncle will soon ruin them with asome other passenger. Tom's Cubin." He is always search- 3,000 MEMBERS

jemmy." ing for new authors, rece

receives about In Cranbourne-gardens the a week, out of The theatre runs a club, with 2,500 120 manuscripts

which

and next day all was quiet...except A MAN who one may be really good and full and 3.000 Sunday members who two more possible. In the past two for the banging of a carpenter for a moderate subscription a year have the use of a club room and can years his choice has been successful fitting a mortice lock at the

enough to warrant an English house with the squeaky gate. purchase tickets, at reduced prices publishing firm to bring out They form the nucleus of 1 per-

two handsome volumes entilled manent audience and

en- Embassy Theatre Successes." thusiasm is invaluable.

ANNUAL AWARDS management of the Theatre Royal, This year, Anthony Hawtrey has Buxton, Derbyshire. Here he core intituled "Embassy Theatre Awards" a play a week, but runs two com-

twn for the best actor, actress and play panies so that there may be weeks' rehearsal for every produc- of the year, within the Greater Lon- Includes Now plays are tried out and don area. His committes the companies are mainly composed Ivor Novello (Chairman), Alan Dent

critic).

Chapman Robert Lantz (of

the story movie company) Leslie Bloom (for 21 years Pre- re- sident of the Gallery First Nighters'

The Awards consist of

were lon.

of

of young people learning their

lows of a

Sometimes the productions come to the Embassy.

This year, Mr Hawirey bas

быль

fiester

two and a maximum of five weeks; opened the Embassy Dramatic School Club?' statuette in silver, to be per-

but the Embassy is not a repertory (closed since 1939) and taken over theatre. New casts are engaged for the Grand Theatre at Croydon, en manently exhibited at the ench production, ́ Several of the London's southern plays have been successfully trans ferred to London's West End, the completing his theatre scheme.

most notable being Joan

"No Room nt the Inn."

Fancolly

compelling study of child evacuces.

theatre,

outskiria thus with the names of winners inscribed upon it each year, and small repliens to be presented to each successful "We shall take 40 to 45 students artist at an annual dinner. a year," he says, "and we hope that one in three will be a scholarship Anthony Hawtrey, now 36 years

training Though the Embassy is run by Mr student. When their

is old, began as an actor, going to the Howtrey in collaboration with his completed, Our most promising Old Vic in 1930 as a student. Ho to became Director of Productions at Roland T. Outen, a committee, with gain practical

Then Val Gielgud (brother of John)

where we preferred 'directing to acting, and Chairman, and Sir David Maxwell shall try out plays intended for the still has one great ambition lett- Fyfe, Lady Maxwell-Fyfe (who is u. Embassy; and so, if they are good to make moving pictures in Bri- slster of Rex Harrison), Thelma enough, they will eventually reach taln which will equal those of Cazalet-Kerr, Sir Lewis Casson and the Embassy and, possibly, the West France.

p.m.actress-wife, Marjory Clark, and aludents will be sent to Buxton to the Embassy in 1030, has always

as they will go to parience.

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