The Ziegfeld Theatre in New York—a well-composed, though not particularly felicitous Modernist fugade, yet one that certainly wears something of the provocative and slightly sinister ambience of the stage-door about it—also reties solely on floodlighting for ite night architecture. This only augments the courseness of its cornice of pendentive swags, The rejuvenated "Savoy" in London ie a vivid, warm and comforting piece of work.
reminds ux that even architecturally England ix "till somewhere on the map, An irenic anachronism condemned the inauguration of thix delightful transformation scene to provide the setting for a revival of those heavily dated Gilbert and Sullivan operas, which rely for their support on the most reactionary theatre public in London.
Tt may be regretted that the exterior of Louis de Soissonx' and A. W. Kenyon's Welwyn Theatre was not more in harmony with their Shredded Wheat Factory, but the paramount claims of "amenity" apparently decreed that all the civic buildings of that garden city must wear a uniform, georgian dress. The interior—in which acoustic devices are skilfully used ax decora-ive features—is as good as could be, and an stand comparison with anything abroad.
Mix Elizabeth Scott's new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, opened on April 2% of this your, ix as fine an example of Modernist theatre architecture as anything hitherto built or Flenned abroad,
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