SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL

Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1932, Page 7

SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL

OPENING OF NEW THEATRE

STRATFORD-ON-AVON EN FETE.

WELCOME TO PRINCE OF WALES.

By Telegraph— Press Assn.— Copyright.

Rec. 7 p.m. liondon, April 23. Stratford-on-Avon was gay with flags and flowers to welcome th© Prine© of Wales, who to-day opened th© Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Th© building has been likened to a warehouse, a factory, and an asylum. It is built in the so-called functional style, meaning architecture strictly subordinated to utility. All the experts agree that, however th© external brick work may he resented, the internal arrangements are perfect. Th© real glories lie behind the scenes. Everything here has been planned on the principle that only the best is good enough. Besides a superb rolling stage, on the lines of th© Stat© Opera Hous© in Berlin, there are large and airy dressing rooms and hot baths, while the auditorium is most comfortable.

PRICELESS U.S. COLLECTION

FOLGER £400,900 LIBRARY OPENED,

£2,000,000 MAINTENANCE FUND.

Rec. 7 p.m. Washington, April 23. The Folger Shakespearean library, containing 20,000 volumes of Shakespeare’s works, principally first editions, and one of th© most valuable collections of Elizabethan literature, comprising 75,000 volumes, was dedicated to-day in the presence of the President (Mr. H. C. Hoover) and the British Ambassador (Sir Ronald Lindsay). A message from King Georg© was read. The building, which is near the Capitol and cost £400,000, was donated by th© late Henry C. Folger, petroleum millionaire. His will provides a £2,000,000 fund for its maintenance.