Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1927, Page 57

FEVVES PASTIE OF ANGENTDAYS Mayfair Restores Toy The- ater Extolled by Robert Louis Stevenson. | Correspondence of the Associated Press. i LONDON.—Mayfair has taken up R “new” fad, a pastime that was old a century ago. It s the “penny plain, tuppence colored” toy theater | of which Robert Louis Stevenson | wrote 1t is quite fashionable to have a miniature stage for the parties held in the select district east of Hyde Park. The toy theater is placed in the center of a table and the tiny old-fashioned oil footlights are lighted, The guests group around to watch the tiny pasteboard actors, manipulated on the end of slender rods, disport themselves, while persons in the audi ence, or hehind a screen, read the corregponding parts from a pl T is a long list of pl from. ranging from d “Don Quixote” to the gor- | goous spectacle of “Timur the Tartar.” Real Story Revealed. The real story, however, is not in the vagaries of fair but in Ben- jamin Pollock, 71 -old friend of Robert Louis Steve who has been making these toy theaters in his cubbyhole shop in Shoreditch for the past 50 vears. He succeeded his father-inlaw, John Reddington, who made them in the same place for 40 years before Pollock took charge. Polloek i a shy, modest, little man. with gray hair and a slight stoop, acquired from hending over his work bench; a counterpart of Charles Dickens’ noted toymaker, Caleb Plum- mer. He was making another of his little theaters for Sacheverell Sitwell when interrupted and insisted on “‘putting on his Sunday coat” to be photg- graphed in his little, out-of-the-wal shop at 73 Hoxton street, in the shadow of Shoreditch Church. Stevenson Becomes Interested. “It must have been mome 40-0dd years ago that Mr. Stevenson hecame interested-in my little shop,” he sal. “J{e was not in such good health then. That was just before he went out to the Routh Seas and died. “Mr. Stevenson was particularly in- terested in the colored plates. “] remember the first time he came in. He had been passing by and saw some of my prints in the window, *How much ¥re tHey?" he asked. And 1 told him what I always told any one —penny plain, tuppence colored. Well, he came frequently after that.” The scenes and characters of the toy theaters, as well as the hooks ror the plays themselves, are all copied from early London theaters. They are printed from copper plates, in some instances more than 100 years old. Many of the ofiginal caricatures were made by George Crulkshank, cotemporary of Gillray and Phiz, who did much of the.illustrating of Charles Dickens’ books. : Does Own Lithographing. Pollock has a small hand press in ‘& back room hardly large enough to turn around in, where he lithographs the sheets himself. ser ~ pastes the sheets on cardboar but the figures and scenes and them according to furnished direc- ¢ tions. Famous men and women have found their way to the shop, among them George R. Sims, G. K. Ches - terton, Gordon Craig, son of Ellen : Terry, and the Sitwells, Poliock and a tobacconist, H. J. Webb of Old street, are the only sur- - vivors ot what was once & flourishing trade in London. Webb dates the vogue of the toy theaters back to 1812. Before 1870, when the demand < began ta wane, he says,. the Webbs kept 30 employes and five presses busy. ) Despite the temporary impetus given the business by society taking up the * theaters, when Pollock and Webb go {4t seems likely that the trade of *penny plain, tuppence colored” will go with them. . FIRYT RADIO BEACON STALLED BY BRITISH { id Ships in Determining £ llppxynul on Bcilly Islands Will| ' Bearings. Corraspondence of the Associated Press. LONDON.—The first of a series of | ; radio’ “beaconi to be installed at various points around the English coast ;to enable ships equipped with 1 directjon-finding apparatus to take their bearings, has been brought into use in Scilly Islands. The e { “GGG is repeated continuousl: . fair weather at the rate of words { per minute for 47 seconds, followed by a dash of 10 seconds and one repe- £ the call sign, the whole oper- king exactly 60 seconds. This 1 by three ated three riod of nine times, covering a tot In foggy ‘ minutes each half ho Weather the signal consists of the | one minute’s transmission and three minutes’ ousiy. The whole appa { The range of the rate hearings to a ship usi direction-finder ¢ 70 to 100 miles. for accu- an is ap- »a ' RUM RATION 1S LOST ' 70 SEAMEN OR BRITAIN Lime Juice for “Limeys” to Be Re-| placed With Straight Oranges, Minus Liquor. Correspondence of the Associated Press. LONDON.—The British seaman has lost his traditional name. Jack s no Jonger a “hmey." The admiralty has changed the ra- tion of lime juice—given to sailormen | immemorial to prevent | a4 is now giving a daily f orange j The lime juice was a teait out with a rum ration, his orange st “Oranges p —the ‘hottied s safd an ad ssman in announcing the and cheaper. The navy spends about 9,000 pounds sterling a year for lime ju It is also heavily But orange juice will he given plain.” Jack wanis to know what becomes . of the rum. HAS METAL LEG. Correspondence of the ociated Press. ne with an artifi eial leg is in the Zoological Gardens of Lei One bicterly cold day last Winter the crane escaped. When picked up after a long chase, it was found that both its legs were frozen. Soon after, when the bird alighted from a flicht, one leg snapped clean off. The crane was taken to the birds' hospital and the stump healed quickly. Then some one got the motion to try and fit the patient with an artifi- cial leg, made of aluminum. This was done, and the crane uses its new leg with perfect ease. she was’ reared. Marie Ha yer, prudence, is th> first woman in’ Ger- many mitted to the bench. signed to the Prus silence repeated continu- | 4 automatic. | g but now the sailor must take vitamines C | e | and Ford Band Co. fortified with rum. | MISS CLEO TAMPLETT, Daughter of Mrs. Paul Huot Tamplett, who announces her engagement to Mr. James William Millspaugh. WOMAN AUTHOR WRITES | NOVEL IN NINE WEEKS Unconsciously Absorbs Technique | While Passing Judgment on Others’ Productions. ctated Pres. ding rejection uthors is the be: f, ten in only nine weeke after she | had spent several| years as a manu- | script ‘reader for the publishing house which now bringing out nique writing,” says Mrs. ern, a novice in v world, EDITH M. S . to pass judgment on stories in manuscript form.” ' This experience, she feels, combined with racious appetits r current literature, gave her the alent of actual training in writ- fome 5,000 _The scene of “Purse Strings” is New Yok in the 18808, It shows the development of character in a con- ventional girl of that period and in her dilettante husband as they strug- gle to “keep up appearances,” emu- lating the wealthy household in which FIRST WOMAN JURIST APPOINTED IN GERMANY Fraulein Hagemeyer Is Named Dis- triet and County Judge by Ministry. COLOGNE, Fraulein ctor of juris- to be ad- She bhas been given the rank of district and county Judge. For the present she is as. sian ministry of justice at Berlin, as there is no va- cancy now in her home district, the Rhineland. Marie Huzemeyer. an international angle. 1 also handle legacies and bequests.” She prefers working for the state to set- ting up a private practice. 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