CHIEF ALE TASTER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19377, 15 July 1937, Page 13

CHIEF ALE TASTER

LONDON BEADLE LEAD

LONDON. May 26,

Mr. Edward Ilipwell, for 40 years Billingsgate’s beadle and senior ale Conner for the City of London, died to-day, in his ninetieth year. Few men in the city had so rich a fund of memories of old London. He could recall the time when milkmaids delivered milk in the city from pails hung from wooden yokes on their shoulders. He could remember when policemen were clad in blue swallowtailed coats, white trousers and shiny top hats; when postmen wore scarlet uniforms and Smithlield market was full of live cattle for sale in thp pens.

ing his mannerisms and expressing a personality that he had enriched by my affectionate remembrance of him. “Character work, perhaps more than any other, is based on the theory that the fine must follow the form. Before the player can express the fine (which is the action), the mind must conceive the character. Anyone can draw the shape of a bottle, but it requires art to give it form. And that idea of form must be mentally conceived before a fine is drawn.

“I think my favourite role is ‘The Polite Lunatic’ in ‘The Belle of New York.' I consider it also one of the most difficult parts I have ever played. One could almost describe it as an eiK deavour to acta madman sanely.”