CHRISTMAS IN LONDON
EXTRAORDINARILY QUIET
I’ress Assoc. By Tel. Copyright ArA’. —N.Z. Cable Assoc. Rec. Dec. 27, 8.5 a.in, London, Dec. 25.
Christmas Day was extraordinarily quiet. Omnibuses and trams were withdrawn from the streets at four p.m., but the taxi cab drivers, who reaped a large harvest, saved the streets from appearing strangely desolate. The churches were crowded during the morning, and there were a few football matches which attracted their usual excited crowds. The theatres, however, were closed. The weather was strangely good, it having cleared up. A curious feature of London’s Christmas shopping this year is the decline in pantomime. There are only two, Jack and the Beanstalk at the Lyceum, and Dick Whittington at the Palladium, but neither are attracting the old time hosts of children. Real pantomime seems over and children’s plays have taken its place.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LII, Issue 8478, 27 December 1923, Page 4
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