NEW HARLEY STREET

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 124, 21 November 1925, Page 16

NEW HARLEY STREET

SPRINGING UP IN LONDON. One of the minor post-war changes in London ia the tendency of commerce to insinuate its way into discreet West End squares and streets, where formerly people merely lived in a dignified manner, and into regions that were sacred to professions. The turning of o fine old house in Cavendiih Square into a piano showroom was one symptom of the change, and there has quite recently been a tendency among the doctors to move a" little farther west. Business offices that become established in these characterful quarters show an interesting tendency to what may ,be called protective colouring—that ia to say, they look.. as little like .business | offices as possible, says the London cor* respondent. of the "Manchester Guardian." On the fringe of the doctors' quarter, in New Cavendish - Street there is a house with a pleasant newly : painted face "thai looks as if it oiight to De iir the country. There is nothing whatever in its appearance to suggest pie new career on which this house has just entered as the office of a well-known woman publicity, agent. Her name in inconspicuous letters on the door-post might be merely a domestics feature. . The new note in business ie carried out in an amusing fashion in the interior decorations, where the sanctum of the chief suggests the consulting room of an impressive specialist. The proprietor would tell you that this is in keeping, because she is trying to do for a man's business what the doctor does for his body. "People come to consult me about their selling methods just as they go to the doctor about their adenoids."