WHAT THEY THINK OF LONDON

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1247, 2 October 1911, Page 11

WHAT THEY THINK OF LONDON

Scores of colonial visitors'are returning homo by each outgoing mail boat (says the "Australasian"). All will carry some impression of London to Australians who wore unable to make the Coronation trip. llow many will return with such startling views, as Miss Eva Tanguay, a wellknown American music-hall singer, who ■•has-been visiting London? "The dingiest, dirtiest, most crowded together, povertystricken place 1 ever say, is one dictum. Of the London policemen, Miss Tanguay opines that tliey are "tho most absurd things, too. 1 They wear great, long chinwhiskers, that hang down on cither side, and they look like country 'Reubens'. For that matter," continues the vivacious actress, "all Englishmen are stupid, and don't know how to talk. They don't seem to havo tiny joints to their* brains. As for the English women, they are frights— positive frights. They wear tho shabbiest, frumpiest clothes, particularly in tho streets." It may bo that Miss Tanguay is gifted with the seeing eye and the understanding heart. But ono statement raises the suspicion that tho young actress is not an entirely trustworthy witness. She tells us "you can travel all over London for a shilling in a taxi-cab, which is nice." It would bo "nice," if it were true. Unfortunately it is not. as too many of our late Australian visitors will recall to their soriow.