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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN FRIDAY MAY 25 1956 5 EXPERIMENT AND INSPIRATION IN L.C.C BUILDING New Schools and Housing Estates By an Architectural Correspondent NEW DRIVE AGAINST POACHERS WHO SLAUGHTER SALMON Gelignite Gangs on Cumberland Derwent From our Spcciil Correspondent A coach tour arranged by the Cement and Concrete Association yesterday carried senior architects and engineers to inspect a number of the new L.C.C. housing estates and schools now under construction or recently completed in and around the south-west of London. The housing was at Picton Street, Camberwetl at Loughborough Road, Brixton the Fitzhugh Estate, Wandsworth Common the Ackroydon Estate, Putney the Alton Estate, Roehampton and the large 100-acre site at Roehampton Lane at the side of Richmond Park where building only began recently, The thra schools seen were all of the new secondary comprehensive kind the Dick Sheppard girls' school and the Strand boys' school, both at Tulse Hill, and the Elliott mixed school on the Ashburton Estate, Putney. This new L.C.C. building is not only of a comparatively high aesthetic quality but it is also of some experimental and technical interest, especially in its site organisation and handling, in its use of reinforced concrete and of new materials such as wired glass, corrugated aluminium alloy, and concrete slabs having exposed aggregate.

In the framed concrete structures, pre-east that is pre-fabricated-r-parts, lifted into place by a tower crane, have been used in many instances, saving time and labour and pre-stressing has also sometimes been applied that new method of "stretching" the steel bars in the concrete so that a much lighter beam or column than usual is produced. COCKERMOUTH. THURSDAY. Almost every summer, when the salmon and sea trout are running in hundreds up the river Derwent in Cumberland, its tree-lined banks the scene of an intensive battle of wits and staying power between a host of poachers and a small but unergetic patrol of bailiffs. Anglers know this water as one of.

the best lisheries on the West Coast, comparable in some stretches to the best of the Scottish rivers. The poachers in their nefarious way know this too; and the scale of their depredations in a dry summer like last year's, when 201b. or 301b. salmon lying -uporific in pools could be hoisted out easily as taking a hat oif a peg, is certainly a matter to appal the or anyone who cares about the plunder of a good fishery. In the opinion of the man who leads protecting force.

Mr William Sinclair, who is the divisional Inspector ol the Cumberland River Board, the Derwent over the last twenty years has been the most poached rirver in the u-ountry. Since the salmon and sea are on their way up to spawn, the potential loss of fish, apart frotip the number actually taken, runs into thousands. If the board relaxed its clforts, a fine river coukl well be ilenurted. The poaching has always lieen bad year the drought made it exceptionally heavy. It is estimated last season every other salmon and -L-a trout running uo the Derwent went the poacher.

At Workington, the seaward outlet of the river, which the bailiffs reckon to be the centre of the poaching, there were 7(1 successful prosecutions last year. effects, such as the informal layout of the buildings and the admirable and careful use of existing trees in the landscape, especially in the suburban estates. Many have complained aibout the 1M-fect high tower blocks which are the L.C.C.'s special contribution to post-war housing. (These have come to us from Stockholm, but they were originally conceived in theory by Le Corbusier in his "Plan for Yet they do provide one sensible solution to the housing problem in I hie "Great Wen" of London. Living in flats is not perhaps ideal, especially for children, and flats cost more than houses at least in this country but they save land, when the blocks are high they hold back the sprawl, and they allow generous open spaces between the blocks.

At Ackroydon some local opposition to the tower blocks has produced a curious and somewhat unhappy result. In the four-tower blocks, three are eleven storeys high as intended, but the remaining one has been curtailed to a squat eight storeys. Such opposition is foolish all the blocks could with advantage, both practical and aesthetic, be increased in height to at least fourteen storeys. "Factory" Schools The new educational concept has produced some interesting but alarming L.C.C. school designs, all containing multistorey blocks.

Reinforced concrete, brick, and glass are the main materials used. The designs are clean, adventurous, and show honest expression of materials and structure but they lack something humour, perhaps first-class craftsmanship certainly, as well as focal points of visual interest as foils to the geometry which lively, curving pieces of sculpture or the baroque exuberance of concentrated planting could supply. And one wonders if these buildings, however well equipped and practical they may be, really do provide the right framework for educating children. Do" their great size and mechanistic impersonality create the orooer atmosphere Are they not lacking in a human intimacy and charm They certainly look-like factories, but that may be a criticism less of their architects than of our present educational philosophy. However, much praise is due to the L.C.C.

and its architects foe their recent works. May the new L.C.C. architect, who will soon be appointed when Dr Martin leaves, develop the tradition which botii Professor Matthew and Dr Martin have founded well but may he demand more finesse in detailing and finishing than is now apparent, and therefore less false economy. river is soon under attack at several points. It needs courage to tackle them sometimes.

They may work in pairs, or even in gangs of ten or twenty or more. In the dark they are not averse to throwing brickbats when challenged. Mr Sinclair has recovered knuckledusters and loaded sticks from some. The weapons suggest the sort of poaching it is. There is an English tradition that criminality in a country setting is merely roguish.

Old Ned the poacher, who takes a salmon from under the nose of the squire, would be readily pardoned by readers of the novelettes in which he appears. There are some of his kind left here and there in the villages. But here one can only see modern poaching as an extremely slovenly and wasteful job. Explosives are used. A jam jar full of gelignite will kill everything in the pool.

The poachers take perhaps the dozen salmon nearest the bank and leave scores of other fish and fry to float away. In one poacher's house which was raided twelve sticks of gelignite, fuses, and detonators were found. Quicklime is an equally villainous method. A bag of this in a pool squanders good and immature fish for some distance up and down the river. The nets used, which have a mesh about three-quarters of an inch across, also take everything out of a pool.

Mr Sinclair in his riverside chases has by now collected a complete poacher's armoury. He showed me a poke net. a funnel-shaped affair, which poachers stretch across the top of a pool, the fish being driven into it. There is also a curtain net, which is carried along a pool by two swimmers, one at each end. The best pools are set with stakes to hinder this and nets are often recovered from them.

When the nets cost about 10 each and it is known that most poachers go into the business again after conviction it is clear what a paying game it must be. Children Used As in most country places, the regular poachers are known to the bailiffs and the police. Catching them Ted-handed, Mr Sinclair says, is hard enough. But it is even harder to get a conviction when, for example, the Game Laws give immunity to a man found with a poaching net on the river bank so long as the net is dry. If.

however, he has a hooked implement or gaff, he can be challenged. The worst poached section of the river, the bailiffs say. is in and around Workington, where the Derwent ambles beside the factories and the public park. A fall in the river level may leave many fish just in from the sea stranded and temptingly in view. Last year children were openly taking them out.

A few children were even found to be in the employ of a local poacher, who was paying them 2s 6d a fish when delivered to his house. Children were repeatedly warned, but the slight effect of this obliged the board to prosecute children over the age of 13. A few of the poachers are said to be full-time professionals." Many of the others, according to Mr Sinclair, gave up their jobs in the mines or factories at Workington in the poaching season they sigh on the unemployment register, he says, and then they are found living 24 hours a day on the river bank. Since they can reckon to get 5 for a 201b. fish, this would certainly be a lucrative tax-free occupation.

The fish are no doubt innocently served up at hotels and seaside boarding-houses how exactly they get there and who are the middlemen tor receivers) is hard to pin down. At least in hard evidence which would be accepted by a court. The only thing that can be done. Mr Sinclair says, is to have bailiffs enough to work the same 24-hour day as the ooachers. Part of the London County Council Alton Estate at Roehampton (top left) Strand beneath) part the Fitzhugh Estate Wandsworth Common.

Three examples of post-war building. Architects of the L.C.C. worked, in the case of the school, under housing designs were supervised by Mrs R. Stjernstedt and Mr Oliver Comprehensive School, Tulse Hill and the-London County Council's approach to the direction of Mr J. M.

Kidali. The Cox. (See article oh this-page.) MISCELLANY River Watchers On the other Cumberland rivers, like the Esk, the Irt, Ellen, and Calder, which are covered by Mr Sinclair and his five bailiffs, there were about. thirty poaching convictions. It is agreed that rhe that got away" were numerous, as well as extremely clever.

The board is determined that last wear's pillage shall not be repeated. Occasionally, when they are hard-pressed, the bailiffs can call on volunteers from local fishing associations to help in patrolling, as well as police assistance. But, as Mr Sinclair makes i plain, it is a 24-hour job for the poachers think nothing of working round the clock and more permanent bailiffs are needed. For this reason the board is this year recruiting river watchers from university students and others. They will be paid 8 a week, ki-hich (being on the side of right and rusticel is about a quarter of what assiduous poachers are supposed to earn.

River watching here, Mr Sinclair is by no means a job for the dreamer. At the height of the poaching season he frequently goes without sleep and little food for 48 hours or more. You have to be on the spot to get the evidence," he says, with a menacing Scots burr. Being on the spot seems to mean so fleet-footed and elusive are the enemy being within grabbing distance of them. The poachers watch his movements with an eagle eye.

They know his car and where he parks it some are armed with binoculars; they have look-out systems on the bank and code of whistles to give warning. If he and' his bailiffs are not about, the Ring -Time at the Qarden Twenty-five vears' opera-going sees few changes in Ring-time "at Covent Garden (writes There is still the-same delicious crushed vegetable smell in the market, and a gallery ticket for "Siegfried costs no more than it did in 1931. (In fact, in real money it costs less.) In spite of prosperity, or Inflation, and the passing of the horseshoe of boxes, to-day's Ring audience hardly differs from its predecessors. True, the tiaras and the ostrich plumes have gone and its general appearance is rather more burgerlich, but It' seems basically the same audience that listened to Lehm'ann. Leider.

and Melchior 25 years ago. There are still the same three main groups the smart set the young, and the savants. The smart set is largely preoccupied with the length of the dinner interval and makes anxious inquiries of the attendants- as to the duration of each. -At the Prinz Regenten Theater in Munich it is the custom in the intervals to summon the audience back from the surrounding gardens by sounding Wagnerian horn-calls from the theatre's battlements here it would be difficult to detach the brass section of the orchestra for duty in Chesterfield gardens. Youth, on the other hand: still wants to cheer its head off at the fall of each curtain, and is considerably mortified by the polite reception in the better priced parts of the house.

Hard on Hagen The savants consider that "The Ring" is mounted for their personal benefit, as indeed it is. These are the elderly and the middle-aged. The men will tell you about tne intellectual stamina that Wagner demands from the and carry slim pocket torches to light their scores. The women, especially the older women, drink of the Wagnerian fountain to renew memories of their youth. 1 heard it in Frankfurt, my dear oh, it must have been It is simply no trouble at all to them to interpret the action to their niece or grand-daughter scene by scene, from beginning to end.

Would you prefer me, dear, to tell you Swedish Influence At the Elliott school a. thin undulating roof of "shell" concrete has been erected, over a part of the building 106 feet lon-g. Clearly, concrete construction has advanced a long way since that flour miil was erected in Swansea in 1897 as the first multi-storey reinforced concrete building in this country. The ancient and still eminently satisfactory material brickwork has been used a great deal, but mainly as cladding. All the new L.C.C.

building- has a consistent style which is dignified and unaffected. The most remarkable feature of the housing is its obvious Swedish inspiration at least in its external, visual Bridge AMONG THE By Retirement has brought ample leisure to a reader who has long been a keen contract player of good calibre. He intends to move into the upper circles, to travel, and to play a good deal of first-class competition bridge, but seeks advice on sharpening his qualifications. 1 make three simple suggestions. First, to join a really first-class club, which may entail moving to London.

Second, to subscribe to both British and American bridge magazines. Third, to secure, and to study intently, any obtainable records of recent international matches. In the course of such preliminary studies he may find that he lacks full information about one or two British bidding systems and several of the more popular American and Continental systems, of which the textbooks should be i procured and mastered. i Below I give a summary of how a couple ot the very best British players handled a deal in the last Gold Cup contest, which may indicate how puzzled a comparative tiro may be when he first ventures to pit his wits against the mighty. The score was game to Meredith occupied the North chair and Dodds sat South.

1 wonder what a majority of readers would have made of Meredith's bidding. The South hand was fk 10. 2. A. K.

.1. 5 O. 10. 8. 5.

J. I -r North, as dealer, promptly bid 3C. This was doubled by East, passed by South and passed by West (presumably in the hope of penalties). North rescued himself into 3D. which was sirnilarlv doubled by East EXHIBITION OF By Eric The exhibition of 34 bronzes bv Rodin, at Roland, Browse, and Delbanco's, is comprehensive enough to justify one in revising one's attitude to a sculptor who was hailed during his lifetime as a genius fell into disfavour through one of those rapid swings in the pendulum of fashion that obliterate great reputations overnight, and now makes us wonder why anything so ephemeral as fashion could influence us so profoundly.

Twenty years ago Rodin seemed full of intolerable weaknesses. For one thing he was a modeller of surfaces and we were persuaded that the only respectable method for a sculptor was to carve basic structures. Moreover he was a sentimentalist who insisted on striking impressive but meaningless attitudes. In addition, he had no sense of design, no classic restraint, none of that formal Serenity we loved so much in Piero Delia Francesca. Brancusi's static simplifications had made Rodin's nervous flutterings obsolete so we thought.

To-day Brancusi begins to look empty, and Rodin's stature is increasing as rapidly as it shrank. Here, one feels, looking from one to another of these bronzes, is a man passionately convinced of the importance of what he had to say and wonderfully inventive in his ways of saying it. Sentimental Certainly but. MANCHESTER CINEMAS C3NEPHONE. Market St.

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On the whole the promise was kept, especially as Peter Hall had so skilfully directed the play in costumes and scenery bv Disley Jones. The suffocating buttons-and-bovvs, high-heeled boots, and plush and champagne atmosphere of the naughty 1900s Vie Parlsienne was exquisitely caught and only occasionally dispelled by heavy-handedness among the players. The story is about a pretty girl entangled in a family of retired prostitutes and procuresses who eccentrically chooses to be a wife when she might easily have been more profitably a mistress in the mother-to-daugjiter tradition. It is a cruel tale in the improper Colette form but sentimentalised in exactly the same wav that might be expected from the author of Prefer Blondes." Gigi herself is Dla.ved bv a dramatically pretty and girl called Leslie Caroru who would have been much wiser not to try to soeak English. As little, or as much, of her dialogue would have been understandable she had spoken it in French.

As it turned ou; she played a in the accents of a handsome Swede. Among the other women the most interesting performance was by Estelle winwood whose name can be found by macriage in the male line of the Terry-Gielgud family). The only sign that she has lived forty years in the United States was when she said siddown instead of sit down," and it was impossible to determine whether art or nature dictated her superbly vulgar vowels and diphthongs in words like roof," about." and' house." ail of which were pronounced in the purest Empire (Leicester Square! manner from the mouth of one who must have flourished in what the French call the Ompeer. Bui the best and most integrated performance of all was by Tony Britton as the millionaire young man. a combination of all the rich, handsome, publicity-conscious bridegrooms of whom we have heard so much lately.

With Esme Percy as a pimpish butler, he established beyond argument the fact that on the London stage the women have to fight as hard against the men as among each other when it comes to dominating a play. "DAS RHEINGOLD" AT COVENT GARDEN Hans Hotter as Wotan Wagner called "Das Rheingold" a Vorabend or preliminary evening to ihe three great dramas to follow in the Ring cycle a prelude, in fact. It it is function of a orelude to whet the appetite for what is to come then the performance at Covent Garden last night certainly succeeded. It left one thirsting to hear ihe rest of the cycle. Away from Hie opera house the idea of "Das Rheingold can seem grotesque.

Whoever heard ot a prelude lasting so many hours, or an opera with no interval at all? There were moments even last night -when one wished Wagner had provided an interval somewhere. The score is so concentrated if possible more so the other parts of the even after many hearings one is bound to attention when Wagner demands it fully and all the time. But what perhaps more than anything makes the gold of "Das Rheingold" glitter is Wagner's sheer delight in theatrical effect theatrical effects in the sense that Verdi, Puccini, and Tchaikovsky knew and used them land this is not to undermine the validity of Wagner's dramatic theories. There are the sheer mechanical delights of scenes under the Rhine las always beautifully managed at Covent Garden), clouds, fire, and rainbows tloatmg over the stage, and in the third scene a luminous blue dragon lurching out of a fire-red mist. Then there are the theatrical effects produced directly by (he music, the rasping brass of the giants and tiie glittering triads sung off-stage at the end by the Rhine maidens and ihe surging cn 1 of the sword motif.

If "it is legitimate to distinguish theatrical etTccAs t)f these two sorts frum dramatic i-fTecls dependent on the clash between tine and another ihen Wagner falls down on the last. It is the disappointment of Das Rheingold that such i'Oientially fine moments as the enforced submission of Albench when in the guise of a toad and. in Scene Four. Alberich's curse, are gone before one has had time to savour them. Perhaps Wagner was always too fond of his characters explaining rather than doing.

The Covent Garden production Last night was little altered from that last year. Rudolf Kempe. after extricating from a muffled start on the fiat of the prelude, more than anvone work shine. Tf Hans Holler. :i.c was i disappointing times that i on.v ones high expectations from such an was on'v his urwr register t.aat rnugn at limes unsteady Maria von a-Fricka.

projected her voice spleuriirt'v Ericn Witte. as well as making a fasc. noting character of Loge, had a fine sense of line. For the rest the singers from the home stable the Rhine maidens Froh and Freia were even more consistent if not quite so brilliant as the visitors. Particu-larlv fine was the strong firm singing of lenn Madeira in the small part of F.

G. about what happens next? Now Rageii is the son of Alberich But none of them synopsises as lucidly as the American Wagnerite heard last year at the Munich opera arid in the last act the Rhine comes right up and wets everything and old Hagen jest has to swim for it." Qrazing Rights in Cambridge Vou mentioned recently archaic laws governing Cambridge commons (writes E. There is one that annually causes perturbation, telephone calls to the R.S.P.C.A., and letters to the press. Any person who is resident in Cambridge, or owns or occupies land in it, may graze stock on the commons, after registering the stock with the council at 4s a bead, and this right, with which the council may not interfere, has existed from time immemorial and could be altered only by legislation. On some commons it extends clay and night all the year, on others from May to February only.

Thus when frost grips the country, horses are. still oh these commons, their coats perhaps covered with frozen snow, a sight that disturbs most oeople. However, the council cannot leeally remove the animals and the R.S.P.C.A. is evidently not of the opinion that their inspector can or should take action under cruelty legislation. He does sometimes -feed them, but it seems to be a moot point whether animals used to an outdoor life do suffer in such weather.

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United States? near-mobility lifted poor Cho-Cho-San rather above the plane of her essential naivete, the fault was the composer's-; apd in any case they were movingly done. She was well supported by Suzuki' (Anna Pollak) and Sharpless (Frederick Sharp), while Ronald Dowd did what there is to be done, with Pinkerton, who is the dirtiest of operatic dogs, for by reason of his upbringing and traditions he should have known, better. If the performance as a whole lacked a good deal of the resilience and suppleness implicit in a score which, for all its excess and incidental touches of vulgarity, as a whole charmingly blends expressive emotionalism with sensuous grace, much of the stigma attached to unimaginative accompaniment. The orchestral playing was not always well synchronised with the stage, and' not invariably integrated within its own compass. Leo Quayle conducted.

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started I from there MIGHTY I and passed by South and West. This time North redoubled. South took him out into 3H. which West doubled for penalties, and South accordingly played the deal in 3H. sustaining a 300-point penalty.

A novice would probably imagine that were in agreement to regard an opening bid of three in a suit as weak and on no account to interfere with it. He would consequently regard North's second bid of 3D as showing something like a 1-0-6-6 hand until North's subsequent redouble an unmistakable request to be taken out proved that North hated diamonds. Here are the four hands North 5, 4. 3. 9, 7, 6.

2. (i. J. 10. 4.

2. kst East 0 K. 8. 1. 9, 6.

Q. 10. 4. 3. 8.

K. 7. 2. A. 9.

4. K. 9. A. 8.

7. 5. i. South 4k J. 10.

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3 -6. North's opening bid was a pure psychic, intended to scare off bidding what might be a lay-down game. His hand was not. or course, strong enough to justify an attempt to coax South into showing his better major. Mr Dodds in the South chair obviouslv possesses a mystical nose whereby he can recognise a psychic.

It is probable that suffered agonies of speculation before they accepted a 300-point penalty in lieu of game. RODIN BRONZES Newton sentiment, if deeply felt, can vitalise the work of art, provided the artist can make his medium carry the burden of its meaning. And that is precisely what Rodin could do whenever his emotional voltage was high enough. One test of that voltage is easy to applv. Does the gesture he has invented look inevitable or does it look strained and mannered Three times out of five Rodin manages to make his figures as inevitable as Michelangelo's Jeremiah in the Sistine ChapeL The Thinker shows his knuckles; the figure called "L'Ombre" from the Poste de l'Enfer strikes a ridiculous attitude: the Burghers of Calais (small studies for five of the isolated figures are included) are overwhelmed bv humility or despair: Balzac frowns like an amateur actor attempting the part of lago.

Yet. either in spite of or because of this passionate romanticism, each of these bronzes, however small, is utterly convincing. Reduce the voltage in any of them and it would lose its authority. We can now see Rodin's weaknesses clearly, but we can also see that they are quite unimportant. When Michelangelo died there still remained a number of Mich elan geloesque things to be said in sculpture.

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They may be able to take on a job that is too complex for your own staff; they may be able to do work now in progrress on a morp fconomical basis. Talbot Stead DEiJlSSATE IICHt5TU 3 i( LUf WUUU. fl CC Pi IT Puccini, music's leading sadist, not only tried to break his Butterfly on a heavy wheel of fictitious misery but pursued his machinations beyond the ideal tit that is the right expression) into the actual by demanding from the soprano who sings the part something wellnigh impossible a suggestion of physical fragility conveyed by the vocal equipment of the sturdiest of prima donnas. The two irreconcilabl'es were almost resolved in the Opera House. last night by Amy Shuard, who was a guest 'artist from Covent Garden, because of the regrettable illness of the Sadler's Wells singer who should have taken the title role in their performance of Madam Butterfly." Miss Shuard dedicated her splendid voice to a performance which revealed the pathos of the part.

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