LONDON THEATRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1028, 19 July 1930, Page 15

LONDON THEATRE

The film record of “Living London” has been so successful at the London Theatre that it is being screened there for a second week. The picture makes a great appeal to the imagination. By means of it one can almost trace how London became the cradle of the world’s pres-ent-day commerce. A procession of pictures of famous palaces and memorials which tell the history of the Empire in wood, stone and bronze indicate liow the capital is packed with historic mementoes. Commerce, architecture and art also have their places, and when one has seen the wonders of the Albert Hall building, the “talkie” provides selections by Squire’s noted double quartet. which made a name at this hall. A peep at Drury Lane Theatre has interest added by a George Robey sketch; to lend effect to the Hyde Park scenes patrons are treated to a community song incident there, and with the picture of the London Cenotaph one gets the actual sound of the last memorial proceedings there. The city’s marts, its strange mixture of ancient and modern side by side, and such curiosities as the dogs’ cemetery, the chapel of the Peculiar People, strange restaurants in Soho, and buildings which act as combined church and shop, are dealt with. And so on.

More of London’s celebrated places, and queer places are seen in one hour than could be covered by a visitor in a six months’ stay in the city. The programme includes a series of Dunedin scenes, a “Micky Mouse” cartoon, and two comediea.