London, Nov. 12.
Sir John Simon, Chancellor of [the Exchequer and Deputy Leader 04 the House of Commons, to-day established the truth of the report, circulating for some days, of the decision to postpone dealings on the London Stock Exchange in Brazilian Government bonds.—Reuter. effect The house was built by two architects, Basil Ward and Amyas Cannel, who came over from New Zealand about ten years ago (working their passage as coal trimmers) with a deicrmination to win some of the big prizes offered by the architectural profession in England. High honours came to the New Zealanders and are regarded as architects of rear promise, though some people down in Buckinghamshire, with a taste for imitation Elizabethan in architecture, will remain unappreciative of their brilliance.
Filming "The Yeoman"
On the return, early this summer, of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from a successful tour of the U.S.A.. I expressed a fear that when the copyright expired in fourteen years' time Hollywood might "discover" Gilbert and Sullivan, I wondered how much of the original librettos would be left by the time the Amer can scenario writers had finished their work of adaptation and almost inevitable "improvement."
The D'Oyly Carte family had re-pentadly refused substantial offers for the film rights from American companies, but now the operas are to be filmed in England by an English company. The first, "The Yeomen of the Guard," will start production early in the new year, Geoffrey Toye, late of Covent Garden, who is responsible for the film script, announces that he has used'only one line of "foreign" dialogue.
Admirers of Gilbert are curious to know what these few words will be.
Perhaps Mr. Toye has attempted to solve that famous conundrum, considered by Jack Point to be his best, that was asked but never answered "Why is a cook's brain-pan like an overwound clock?"
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