THE QUIET OF LONDON.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14039, 23 April 1920, Page 5

THE QUIET OF LONDON.

The iioiselessness of London is tterverackuii: to one who has been tonp accustoiiied r.o the clatter and din of a hijr American city, atorditig to Miss Klsie Martin, an American actress and opera Milder, who has ju-t arrived there from N'ev.- York. ••f shall become a nervous wreck if I

here |r>n<;." said .Miss Martin to a newspaper representative? "The silence of F.ondon i- awful. It makes me feci i- if the world had stopped movinji—:is if something dreadful were about to

"f lived in New York" tip in an apartment house that had >OO flats. All lotty.f could hear the roar of the

eivvated railway, the shrieking niotot; horns of New York's swift-movinjj traf- !>' . and the voices of the people in the crowds. People talk much louder in American cities. You have to shout to he heard.

" F.rerything is so solemn here. My l!ar in Pall Mall seems to be in a citv ot the dead. At night the street is almost de-ert»>d. It is dreadful. I cann:>t sleep. The silence gets on my nerves.

"There are tram lines on nearly alt t.ho streets in New York and trains speed ■ l ' l s r ;iln>ve and Wtvveon the rows of s kyvr;ipers. The whirl of life there jjves vitality: litit here it is like ileitis "i .i <tre;ini. I tee! drowsy and lack »>. [ :im going back to Nw orlc in'tore I lose my nerves."