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nt a)- i ft TUESDAY MAY 23' 19 TAGS (HEVENING STANDARD IBS i Iffr i eievmon kill the leading actress And in th' Seen room Itself Peg Woffington the costume of Cleopatra! could not drink her pint of porter as a lady should without being stared at by duchesses In breaking this custom Garrick needed all his courage For the audience in those days was a savage monster which con ducted its dramatic criticism with a handy theatre bench and the lhstruments It avenged itself on Garrick by defeating him when he tried to stop the system by which seats were sold for half-price after fee third act Garrick was easily disconcerted by an interruption from the gallery and easily frightened into paying hush-money He wrote anonymous pamphlets against himself to prevent others writing worse 4 He was accused of toadying of being submission in the presence of a When he was staying at some great house his enemies would send him grubby little notes addressed to Garrick But he was born to please and even his old friends (like Dr Johnson) liked him As for his enemies some of them forgave him his extraordinary success band machines year Now well concentrate on second-hand ones It all cuts The juke men are trying everything to slave off ruin Strong corps ot salesmen are being sent out to induce restaurant owners to install jukeboxes instead of or 'in addition to television Where television is advertised outside the bars owners are implored to add the words too" And jukeboxes are leaving the assembly line with more coloured lights brighter plastic shinier steel and completely visible operation all to attract the attention and his nickeL There is even talk of doubling the threepenny charge to hear a record and reducing its playing time of three minutes to two or less in busy spots Or enlisting the aid of record companies who rely on the jukeboxes to popularise their records 5000 PLAYINGS ANEW tone-arm has been devised to reduce record wear per-1 mttting 5000 playings instead of 200 thus substantially reducing the chief operating cost said a manufacturer is always England Our jukeboxes would go well there you think Thirty per cent of our sales are made abroad a jukebox going to Casablanca We can easily alter the mechanism to take pennies in the slot think people iii Britain would want to put 3d in to hear a 2s 3d record play for minutes? They wouldn't Jike to inflict their own choice of music upon other people in a restaurant? And you don't think your Government would let us have dollars for 1 our jukeboxes anyway? Oh LIFE STORY By Phyllis Bentley) GollancxlJPs6d 297 pages bout 140000 words honest Yorkshire weaving Tb cloth is good durable worsted and if It is not exciting it wears well and is value for fee money Inff The Clot ft GARRICK By Margaret Barton Faber Faber 21s 324 pages Anybody sitting down to write the life story of David Garrick may be discouraged by the following facts: Garrick lived happily and virtuously with his wife He had no early struggle against public blindness to nis genius He did not live extravagantly and run into debt On the contrary he was as and businesslike as the rot could £120000 If 'the change in money values is allowed for he therefore made more money out of the stage than any other actor-manager has ever donp A career as blameless successful and dull as that of a wealthy grocer It may promise to be dull but it certainly is not so The reason Is that demure and industrious course was steered through the stormy and sometimes muddy waters of the eighteenth century theatre And the politics and personalities of that institution though they may lack dignity are never wanting in fun thrifty and businesslike as the £anaspn of a Huguenot could and he died worth £120 (XX) GARRICK came to the theatre from the wine business as a reformer He brought a new style of natural romantic acting which overwhelmed the measured bellowing of the classical manner then In vogue Said Quin champion of fee old acting is a new The inference was that' fee public would soon-weary of innovation Quin was wrong The popularity Garrick lasted as long as appeared on the boards' Only George HI remained faithful to the old style It hurt Garrick For one who looked French and to so large an extent was French Garrick was astonishingly English in one Important These storiea lan novelist belong to the period when India had still to obtain self-government Some of them retain an outlook which is now no longer relevant BLACK MISCHIEF and A HANDFUL OF DUST Evelyn Waugh Chapman and Hall 7s od Re-Issue In a uniform edition ana wme wemeca 0646 ER MAI DEN AR-Mgr ManeUaQrsten SheUilshTorp 2964 Flemings Half Moon- tUl 1 an Not Bun Directed by or Luncheons and Dinners MANDEVILLK Mandevillo-pUte Wl Grill and Oyster Bar specialised Fine food and wines Welbeck (X 1 MM VM Bniie Blqr Tpr Luncheons and Dinners n46nack Bar Betent It 6 Dover-at-Lunehes 1230- 1NOMME 3 Leleester-at (near eMmeoms-oe rrn I-S ussumm lut A to ten tSH lifting ill ime jeie rib thi fricl t- Inal LftC It -Is the life-story of Hannah Tyas and of four generations of her family' Need I say that in the day of adversity when all went wrong with the Tyas fortunes it was Hannah who saved the situation? 1 It might give fee impression that she was one of those managing northern women She is a little more interesting than that LI BRARY LI iiiimiimiiiiiiiiniitimimiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiniii richest niiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiimitiitiiiiiuiiim actor paid lUIllllllllllllllinilllllllllllilllllllllllimtlllliniU hush money IllllllllllllUlllillillllllllllllllllllllllllllimillililiiO respect He was an enthusiast for Shakespeare Now French opinion of the National Bard always tepid was in the eighteenth century downright chilly Voltaire called Hamlet a vulgar and barbarous drama in which the gravediggers made coarse jokes and Hamlet responded with equally disgusting sillinesses Garrick touring the Continent could not bring himself to visit Voltaire The service which Garrick per formed for Shakespeare was his plays to the Engl The public had been fobbed off with vile compilations 9 mpi of nonsense handed down in greasy manuscript from one generation of actors to another In Macbeth three comic witches sang and danced The Midsummer Night's Dream was Slaved as a musical comedy nd Richard III contained more lines by Colley Cibber than by Shakespeare GARRICK did not go quite so far as to play Shakespeare as irinted in the text For example te took great liberties with fee last act of Hamlet But he brought back much feat had been forgotten And he achieved an effect of astonishment as well as delight A more daring reform was his-expulsion of the audience from the stage Mrs Cibber used to die as Juliet with 200 admirers immediately behind 'her Drunken youths would interrupt the action of the play by kissing -coirtniierf REFUTE THE CHARCE that "the British can't make ySu ean do with" Sen tor Amariean BlendOoffee SUITS OVERCOATS COSTUMES TURNED ahnoet like new Qualtty tailoring guaranteed Alterations dent ssmiMts me Am irmr MMH )T1 WW HUMlh iuwn nwnu Alterations drpt7 garments made larsor wnaUer MUflts made to CL eanSBiL Cairpr pfor estimate to CMslnal ifS S4- CtorrlDYMU 2 stitris 14 service if required FAUTAFF 70 Flaat-aL caters for prtJata aimSj 20(0? 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(L afl jJ4 Medical Electricity uji' held In lamduo on June 7th partlcuLJs BetkiU sad its NEW YORK Tuesday QNCE 50 years ago in America there was a jukebox Taller than a man made of brilliant painted wood find shiny steel and decorated with coloured lights it was an automatic gramophone which played a record every time Someone put a nickel (threepence) in the slot People nocked to hear it play Soon there were other jukeboxes Nearly four hundred thousand of them in fact: one or more to every three hundred and fifty people in thq country They blared hit tunes in the taurants and in the bars and at the corner drug-stores the ctream of nickels never stopped Now television' has challenged the jukebox free television and the jukebox boom has broken ITS FREE 286000 television sets now in use in the United States nearly a Quarter are in public places In lew York cafes and bars there are already 10000 of them com- £ared with 30000 jukeboxes and devision is only in its infancy Instead of putting a nickel in fee jukebox slot customers now enjoy a free look at sports events or other televised highspots while they sip their beer or milk or eat their sandwich Against this competition juke men admit their business is one' of them told me while there is nothing cultural about the jukebox it certainly was He was right Before television came the people of America were feeding 960000000 nickels (£12000000) a year into th? jukeboxes Yet the biggest costs only £250 pen to install it free The inducement is the absence of any outlay or maintenance costs for the site TREATIES DELPHI Mon tv Fri 7pm Eat 415 to 815 Tuea 230 Beoond Year ot Charlea Cochran1! BLESS THE BRIDE AMBASSADORS Tern JTl71 En 7 Tuea Sat 230 LITTLE LAMM EAT IVY Noel Langley Find by Ch Hickman JContvjFrL 70 Jvd 230 8att af Yaur Life OHAIRIs Dk nwnaw iMNiMiiBw swuh mUHHt Bat 430 Bun Td5 (Mlina OfuyT) (Tem 6056) Mon to Fri 7O Bat 5 815 Mat Wed TASURETA new Revue Fields Tha lareo br JoimDihfett ker Tommy 1 Oer '6877 6 to VIRGINIA hq jMwram a nai MONTY wn neat: SOPHIE TUCKER IISWICK EMP-HS3Q 840 Queen ot Comedy In person MARTHA RATE Jackie Hunter Don Carlos Ba ispiiu if we A sr MaJ ml DB I I I O'BRIEN CHARIOTEERS Mon RAYS JMIM flUDWT DQO Tem 3161 70 Mn Wed to Bat 250 Dolores Orav In Emile Uttler's Bill Johnson Th WhL COMEDY Mountain Air Holiday comedy WhL 2578-tOVENT GARB EH Owera Thura ML at 7 Tha Magic Flute Fri an at 7 Boris Godunov (Last 2 trim of season) ladtar's VMia Sallet '-aia 7 Tues at CAN TE' iniwM mj jMmiwa on May CROYDON Cro 1941 625 to 8 ROUND THE WORLD EXPRESS AVIS Wxt Wk: 613 to 850 Miutha Kay Basrah Mlncriteh'a Hsr- monica Ra trail Eddie "war mlrte aSSI Priestley In revue Boris Godunov CARD! To-night UOHEI Lewie THE LINOEN TREEVby BIRNTE HALE to BOBBY HOWES in revue jsb isi TRtrnwiiT bl VIOLSHCBs Finsbury park 840 THANKS FOR THJLMEMORVT Llk- 230 Ferlvce KAmpaos A Wontnar urn wrasSi? EMF-Umh 44 AMARKEtT FidroI fJARLIQMf RQQ) Kirkwood Emit Irte' bUver7'Pat irtoc'a ltn Mon-Fri PAuinf MORI Lyric riv 44 to Sate 3 Jo mor ALL Tem 5878 Te-nishti The 15 wwji Tburs0 CoiManas Tri CaL fiSoaii (Last ok Bay 2512 In active pro-ation Pamela "Hansford nhnsoos NINTH HOUSE Dua Mar SlsL ftliraw Wad- Tbursi parstion CORINTH f- Ride Whl CaL 2J0 Hav to tasa'-TU 4788 Beta CALTPSO A Mats Musical America's juke-box addicts switch their custom and juke -firms turn their eyes on England uiuiiiniiiimiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiNiiiiiiiuui from EVELYH WEBBER imiimiiiitmiiiuimtniniiiaiiniiniuaiiunitma owner who stands at the same time to make a good portion of his rent from the machine New York's jukeboxes earn about £36 a week each the operator- gets about bf this 1 two-thirds and out of it he buys (The new records at 2s 3d each average retail price of records here is 3s Bd) Each record lasts for 200 playings or more earning at least 27s 9d over its purchase price Each juke-' box holds 12 to 21 records As the records become worn they are transferred to less busy locations on the operators of about 30 machines When they are useful no more he sells them to a second-hand dealer for 9d each 1 Discounting the wages of his assistant (if he has one) the weekly cost to an operator of servicing his jukeboxes is about five shillings each television jeopardising this money-making proposition you wonder at-the nearpanic 'in the business" one agent told me we were due for a depression- The teen-agers use the boxes much except in ntgot Hollywood films they haven't got the money There's less money about all Laughing uneasily he added Of nntlrflA It's nnlv a tamnnwAmr Of course it's only a temporary setback When the novelty of television wears off people will return to the jukeboxes Meanwhile we won't make as many new ones as before We used to sell a thousand new and second- PRINCE OF (Whl 8681) 743 Wed A Sat 51(f SS Dt Stmtsomeir DChurchUl Barnes in HE VIOlL PRINCES (Tem 6596) Olsen to Johnson (In personi HELLZAPOPtIN 615 to 84a Positively closing June 5 Last "-CM 2920 7 45 Th 230 J-0 The Niddsn Years by Travers Otway IT JAMES Whl 59031) REPERTORY Tuea June 1st lor 2 weeks I 3TINOV In FRENZY by Usunov IE HENSON TH FATM Ell irtdre'sTBn BUSH EM 630 840 StPHERORUIH to 8 40 i- STRAND Matthews VICTORIA PALACEVlC 1317 12''l-l835 A Vsn Dm Pr! 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(A) Food- Ful- 0 8884 TAURANT OE PARIS 425 Dean-eC-THE RESTAURANT DE PARIS 4 Oer 9455 49389 FROM THE CITY FROM THE PLOUGH By Alexander Barm Cape 8s 6d 224 pages THIS is a novel about soldiers rather than a novel about war although there is plenty of fighting in the final pages This story of one British battalion can be regarded ag an explanatory footnote to General Blumentritt's verdict that the British were the toughest opponents met by the German army during the war ARTICLES he SALE A WAITER 4 LARGE QUAHTltv of 24 and 26 gabs gSFEasSrattHft left 0941 Cash 'reglatet BINOCULARS Rom 6 30 prismatic a OovL recond with leather ease ClsTew yjpfomph 78 Oompsyne-adn ffW6 caps mikuiiu aiwwars Ijui K- Myrian-at London 8W3 Ken 4353 5NERA8 WANTED Leieae CMtaxea 9Pr Ikontae ftolleiflexea and Ktoie Exaktas eftiT7 ifflffl EK' ioa SSit WaLdkrW PIBBEL HJTRIO senaratln aeta 50-100 radiator eoyr skid suaj 400440V 3 ph mahannyndlo Ey1 Bwt walnut cocktail THE NETHERLANDS Siche-verell Sitwell Batsford IBs 168 pages The' buildings arts and costumes of a fascinating and hospitable land surveyed In- well-cboaen photographs and In writing sympathetic as well as Informative The iiarrebs1 trade union Mulk Raj Anand Cape 3s 6d 00 0DE0 EBPfai mJ2 fthfHA lALTO-Anns Wsiilp Wilding Tom Walls Turner-' Johnson ROYAL Mirbli Axnb 2545 ildo Otbrlslg Annl Mtmini OOCNClfY (A) Laat 5 dayi STuSflL TSSJri PriTJ7'lttiiwy'ADimstr TH51 fl l-ll!) 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