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Festival Musie

Centre

Takes Shape

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By S. Gordon Coller

EN havo made build. inga by spraying coment on wire mesh and covering inflated balloons with concrete, but

until now never

has building beon designed round sound. Yet this in the amazing architectural conception which is

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reing through a forest of

scaffolding in the heart of London. destined in only nine months to become the Royal Festival Hall, per- manent memorial to the Festival of Britain 1951 and a new music centre.

The great hall which, besides ecting as a concert hall, has been designed as a centre for all the arts, is the work of team of 15 architects staff of the London Council,

Then, at

last, reproduction!

every should be perfect from zent of box, whether the hell bei full or not-for the seating has been so designed that the sound the reproduction qualities of hall remain unaffected if it is empty.

MR. MENZIES

His pledge: to dissolve the

Communist Party.

HOW TO TACKLE THE COMMUNISTS-

The Australian Way

The anti-Red Bill now bo- fore the Australian Parlia

the ment "provides for dissolution of the Australian

_by-

PETER DUFFIELD

How did the people of Aux- traila react to this sweeping attack?

Mr. Menalea's opening speech of the debate was acclaimed on all sides 05 a masterly anti- . Communist statement. The Bill was inmediately endorsed by the. New Soully Wales Socialist leaders powerful Catholic supppori was forthcom- ing from the state of Victoria.

Communist Party and of vided for anybody who car. ONUS OF PROOF, other Communist organisa- ries or displays anything tions, to disqualify Com- Indicating that he is or was

Mr Chifley, the leader of the munists from holding certain a Communist. The Bame Socialist Opposition, pivoting offices, and for

purposes penalty also is provided for with, dimcuity on a tricky connected therewith." those who contribute to or po

political spol, approved whole- heartedly the indletment of the When passed it will be solicit for Communism.

Communist Party, and narrowed RITAIN 8 now Con- cited вя the Communiut

his range of fire to an attack fronted by the ques- Party Dissolution Act. 1950. Communists

clause. forbidden on one Are

This clause, "Orus of tion: What are wo to It will come into operation employment by the Commoti- oon known as the

Proof" clause, became the focus, self carries is whistling tugrdo about the Communists

of attention--rallier Ulian the Bill itself.

All this work, however, would be useless if London's hum and bustle could penetrate the walls of the great hali.

Within a few hundred yards is

the sprawling railway terminus of Waterloo, and the Thames it-

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wealth. And by the Defence

and jostling barges slowly past who are plotting to disrupt on the day it receives Royal Forces. the facade of the hall.

our key Industries by To keep out all this noise, the strikea?. egg-shaped hall itsell has

formed of cavity walls skina of concrete with an

the

two

Assent.

says the Bill, the

The "Proof of Non-Commun-

was to le with ho individual.” Amendments wete secured on this issue.

How

did tho

WILE

Why has Australia introdured A "Communist" In this such drastic legislation? Buried Bill is defined as "a person under a quantity of whereas-es, am," in Menzies's original Bili

the Eill gives the answer, It is a question that has who supports or advocates. spare between. Nothing except nireatly confronted the objectives, policica, Because

double apecially-designed

principles OF Australian Communist Party, in cloors into the hall, surrounded Britain's overseas dominions teachings. un the by soundproof baffles, has been and they have answered practices of Communiam, as accordance with the basic theory

Communist it in drastic fashion.

itself react? It as expounded Party expounded by Marx and of Communian County allowed to penetrate this shell.

Lenin." Under it the Aus- by Marx and Lean, engages in widely said to be forestalling its led by Mr I. H. Not even heating and ventilating

activities or operations designed fate by diving underground. Matthew and alded by selen- pipes pass through it, the air

Canda already has anti- tralian Communist Party to assist or cockrate the com- The Sydney Communist paper tists, mathematicians, acoustics being warmed and conditioned experts and musicians, inor cooled if necessary by the Communist legislation; will be declared unlawful, ing of a revolutionary situation, came out with a banner-line in "Join the discharge system, South cluding Sir Malcolm Sargent, downward

Africa is preparing and the Governor-General in which the Australian Com red ink that sald

Party, acting as a Communist Party NOW." the well-town United King- being extracted beneath the auit. In Australia the House will appoint a receiver of its munlat

ditorium floors and balcony.

revolutionary minority, would of Representatives have re- property.

be able to selze power and establish 20 dictatorship of the cently passed a Bill which

dom conductor.

but!

that

Unlike other buildings, the Royal Festival Hall was de- signed from the inside The reason for this was the first priority was to achieve perfect musical acoustics in the main concert hall-a hall with a maximum audience capacity of 3,637 and a platform accommo- daling an orchestra of over 100 and a choir of 250. After cun- sultation with musicians Actentists, the diape chosen was that of an egg with two mues, the exact size and thape being determined by nathema- Bielany.

Inside The Egg

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Treated Air

to

contains the most ruthless 5-YEAR SENTENCES proletariat Before it enters the hall, the anti-Communist proposals air will be specially treated "remove" any sound, the ven- ever made by a democratic filating plant adapting itself country. automatically changes.

to

weather

in-

CRIPPLING FEW

A Gallup

And the people? Because, it continues, the Poll has shown that 74 percent All affiliated bodies of the ACP is active la operations

the of Australiens favour the out- to bring about Australian Communist Party designed

lawing of the Communist Party. averthrow of the Bystem of will be similarly dissolved. Australian Government and the intensely that Communism must Why do Australians feel so This Bill has already been These bodies are defined as attainment of economnle The other parts of the build before the Australian Senate those in which a majority dustrial

be outlawed? For three reasons: or political ends by and in are scarcely less remarkable and is soon to come before of the members are Com force, violence, intimidation or

than the main hall. They will

the largest flat include

foyer in it again.

munists or which support or advocate the objectives of Communism,

floors for 700 people command- London; a restaurant on two

Chief backer of the Bill ing views of Britain's capital through a gloss wall; a smalis Mr Robert Menzies, the theatre sealing 750

de Australian Prime Minister. people signed for chamber music and His anti-Socialist victory in dramatic performances,

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exhibition galleries;

end of last year was menates, and passenger lifts achieved on a series of

sulte

frund.

SPYING, SABOTAGE

Because the ACP is an in- the tegral part of the world Com- munist revolutionary movement

and elsewhere,

Firstly: Although it has no MPS the Australian Com- munist Party is far more power. inside the trade union movement than in most other Countries.

Greek Specially lighted pleture and the General Election at the Bill, is satisfied that such which, in the King'a Dominions and demand in the trade unions.

Inside this "egg," the audi- torium is raked in fashion, and the platform which

pro-

Where the Governor-

continues General,

body in prejudicial to the

Australian Commonwealth,

Communists rule, exploit,

"rolling The technique of the In engnges treasonable or yard and spreads to another and then to another, is fur more developed in Australia ocide her shores

faces it is also stepped up. A carrying 2,000 people un bour: downright promises. Amone security and defence of the espionage and holage and in strike" that begins at one dock- the point where the two meet a library, instrument store, full-them were the end of petrol he may declare it unlawful, subversive nature,

the Greeks used to put an orna- size orchestra mental pool, the water acting

.practico

practice any smaller

5 0:1

rooms, rationing, no State control The body

a month.

may appeal of banking and the sup- against the decision within pression of the Communists Outside, where part of the furthest river Thames has been reclaim-("Commos." not "Commies"

cd and u new. embankment to Australians).

approach built, visitors along a new river promenade with the gardens.

will

in

activities of

Because certain industries (including coal mining, iron and

than

Secondly: Austmila with her lis largely

can

be crippled

#reflector for the higher frequency notes which tend otherwise to be absorbed be-

steel, engineering, building and population the fore they recch

transport industries) are vitul cats.

How does this affect the Australia-and because the ACP, very fast by very few.

Lo the security and defence of Periphery and utterly dependent

on shipping, Instead of water, the Royal

individual Communist? The by means of strikes and stop- Festival Hall will have an im

DISSOLVE IT mence slab of slate to do this

Bill provides a penalty of pages, has caused dislocation,

of Thirdly: Austrália has agitber vital job. Above the platform,

Festival Holl

or retardation The Royal

five years' guol for a person disruption a corrugated orchestra reflector

101 part of a wider plan for the re- The first

knowingly becomes, work in those vital Industries. the troops, nor the nature, to two promises who the will be suspended from

Because in other words, the break

multary development of the South Bank have been purpose, of the Thames, which will later Menzies is carrying out the any act as celling for

Now continues to be or performs Government of Australia be emergency. a similar

kept. the ceiling sell being corru-

a Communist. lieves this Bill is necessary for 2 provide I National Theatre

(World 'Copyright Reservedj-London gated to provide the optimum

www also.

third promise as well. The same penalty is pro- Australia's welfare.

Express Service). diffusion of sound. All these elements-platform and audi- torfum angles, shape of reflector and ceiling, and so on-have been designed after much acous- He research including exacting experiments on the site.

But the care of the designers has not ended there. The plat-; form and sido walls will be highly polished to give inax)- mum sound reflection, and no carpet will be used to avoid ab-

instru sorption. Percussion

will have nents, like drums, their own concrete platform to reduce resonance.

strikes by.

Roman Remains Unearthed In London Bomb Sites

WHEN World War II Wentled five years

The lower walls of the has will be faced with Interlocking strange tales they wood panels which, though produced are not yet

been told. Fighly decorative, have

to absorb specially designed

ago

By G. GRAFTON GREEN

of the hall of the Sallers' Com- any house, and it mcast res

in about 30 pany which was destroyed

the war-time bombing.

were

#cross

feet (nine metres) and tom fect (three metres) deep.

Britain.

of

before

the

the bomb craters which scarred the face of London residence of the Lord Mayor of coveries in the crater form

Most of the finds on the site Cannon

Street, forcinaing new tecilon of the

Growing in the crater is 07. their London, and

ancient could be counted in

recovered from which is part of the route from Guildhall Muscura.

amazing range of plants, thousands. They are now the Tower of London to West-

rubbish pits. In one of these of which grow wild in so the inter.

One of the most Interesting is were found a magniâcent ewer, cast and central Europe. fast disappearing, but

an almost perfect Homan can- have

large was there a complete amphora (a Bie It engulfed

bulidings dal with the loops and sole cut elongated pottery for used for dropped, and some of them E nil

which stood along Walbrook, a from a single piece of leather, carrying wine or oil) and some ever before been recorded

was found narrow lane which was once the f

in the peat

food remarkably fine examples course of a stream emptying in- brought down by the

waters of the Waibrook, and Roman glass. Among them was About 20 different spc.v mer of 1941 after the heavy a 16 the Thames. This area was peat had preserved

been Identlied a beautiful double-banded bowl have raids of the previous winter. A the centre of Roman London the

2,000 years ago. When work Brooches, needles, tollet spoons which is regarded as one of the botanists who consider that new beauty

wind began last summer to clear the und a folding foot rule of the finest examples of Roman glass collection is unique. Migratin the ruins. The harsh, jante for the erection of a large rame period were also found, outlines of shattered masonry steel and concrete office block, and remains of a building yet found in London. were softened by a luxuriont

the City of London museum dating from the Arst century. architects, growth of plants with small

authorities seized the opportuni scientists and mathematicians pink flowers. Where had they ty to add to their knowledge of coud carry the design. But the come from? What were they? the Roman elty.) last and finest adaptation must

the lower frequency nutes. Similarly, leather panels at the back of the hall are there, not for beauty, but to absorb echo,

Musicians Decido

Thus, fur, the

The first started in the sum o

the raseny

willow

be left to musicians themselves. Botanists firially Identified wiro alone can decide car them ag

by what Is perfect reproduction. herb which had been unknown When it is built, this amazing in central London within living hall will, therefore, be "tuned," memory, though familiar in the

But the Systematic exactly as a musical instrument English countryside. is tuned.

botanists could not explain the

been

birds as carriers have ruled out on the grounds that' It is impossible to suppose they would all have come to this one spot and to nowhere else.

Similarly a theory that

Not far away a timber-lined Roman well was discovered. It was tea feet (three metres) deep and had been filed in with What further secrets the site reeds might have been contained mud and refuse. It yielded an holds will remain unknown. in the explosive mixture of the almost complete Roman boot, a The great new building now German bomb is discounted by bracelet, bucket handles and rises high above it, and little the assumption that the

certainly bones. In the chalk rubble lin- of the ground remains clear, plosion would almost excavation

was

The upper part of the walls mystery of how the seeds hat out of the question as the con- ing the base of the well was a Visitors, however, still Blop and hove, destroyed the seeds.

A

EX-

So the mystery remains to A who reigned about the middle to speculate on what may

of puzzle the botonists but facilities were of the third century.

who are schedule,

discovered on the other side is of removable plywood panels, got into the crannies of combed tractors were working to a time coin of the Emperor Postumus gaze at the scene, and perhaps which will be taken out, bored buildings. One theory was that given for examinations is be

Walbrook where no excavations keeping regular observation on and fretted until an almost the birds had brought them; made of the material excavated

have been to sce the As the mechanical grabs but have yet taken place, and the the crater. Visitors from over- exact balance of

has another that they had sound

been by the mechanical diggers.

rosebay willow herb grows in sens bcen

For

mainly three carried Into London on horses team,

of deep into the earth the history the open cellars of the buildings phenomenon, but even the ex- obtained.

composed of hoover. But birds

up their of London

been and horney volunteers who gave

could be seen in months during the Festival

perts among them have had

that stood there.

unable to throw light on

158 Britain next year, orchestras were not products of the war, spare time, spent weeks on the layers. The Roman floor of been destroyed by Are

The strangest of all the mys- origin. will play and musicians listen and people asked why such sile as the deep foundations

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այ teries of the bomb craters from all parts of the hall until process had not gone on in the the new building were being burnt waltle and ash lay on t

Above this was a medieval door so far defled all attempts to When all the bomb craters in this is done. Then, to obtain years before. I have never dug.

This particular crater Britain's cities have been filled of crushed chalk, and higher still solve it. Anal perfection, hundreds of heard a satisfactory answer,

is about 20 miles south of Lon- in and lost under new buldings, plugs in the ceiling

They were rewarded with one a 17th century led floor of taken out here and there

One of the biggest craters of the most notable finds of building that had been destroy- don, on the Surrey Downs near this crater roty still remain as It is off the beaton one of the unsolved mysteries wooden balles in the shape of was in the area between the Roman remains in London of ed by the Great Fire of London Box Hill, milk bottles substituted.

Mansion House, the official modern times. Today, the dis in 1000. Still higher was a floor track of ramblers, remoto from of the war.

NANCY

be

and

Field Day

'I'M TIRED OF

SUMMER--- I WISH WINTER WAS HERE

-CANIA BUSH MERAUMA.

I'D LOVE TO

SEE A SNOWMAN

AGAIN

and

By Ernie Bushmiller

COME ON

OVER TO THE CORN

FIELD

DON'T ITCH IT/

Fitch IT/

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