Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-05
DULL TIME IN LONDON
Everyone Who Can Leaves
During Easter.
BIG STORES CLOSE UP
THE GLOBE THEATER TO BE TORN
DOWN.
Complaint of Rigid Press Censorship
by the Authorities in
South Africa.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

LONDON, March %, 1867
The usual Easter dulness has come upon
US. everybody who can fits from town
for this and next week. The king is off on
yachting cruise and the queen goes home
! to Denmark, SO. of course anybody who is
anybody must not be seen in town during
the holidays.
The best part of this society fitting Is
| that poor shop assistants. bank clerks and
all but the hard-working newspaper men,
whose work goes on steadily, holidays or
no holidays, can get away into green
fields or to the seashore out of dismal Lon
don and where the sun shines.
Everything goes TO show that the prac-
tice, which has been coming steadily INTO
vogue here during recent years, of closing
on Thursday night until the following
Tuesday morning, will be much more eN-
| tensively adopted this year. The move
ment has hitherto been largely confined to
| the stock brokers and the wholesale trad
| ers, but retail houses are now being in
duced to adopt the same arrangement. To-
morrow evening no less than c26 retail eS-
Adjustments some of them employing hun
dreds of men and women, will shut up
| shop and suspend all business until Tues
day, April /. This plan gives not only
principals, but clerks and assistants, good
four days continuous respite from labor,
and is of great advantage. AS a rule the
trade done on the Saturday between Good
Friday and Easter Sunday is little more
than normal. especially in the case of
offices and wholesale houses, and the week
end holiday Is consequently every year be-
coming more general. One result of this
change Is that a very much larger number
Of Londoners spend EaStertide out Of town
than used to be the case when business
was resumed on the Saturday.
Theaters to Close, Too.
Several Of the theaters will also close for
a few days at least. Speaking of theaters
the patriotic Americans heart would be
warmed just now II he could see "Old
Glory" floating in splendid style from the
top Of Drury Lane. where Ben Hur is to
be brought out next Monday. L never re-
member seeing any American emblem be-
fore on this ancient play house. When
DAILY owned the theater that bears his
| rame the flag used to be displayed there,
and have occasionally seen it elsewhere,
but on Drury Lane never When Klaw &
Erlanger open there on Monday there will
be just seven theaters In London run by
Americans. They are the principal ones.
too. The American invaders are very
| strong at present.
The Globe Theater was closed on Satur-
day night, as it Is In the way Of the new
avenue to run between the Strand and Hol-
born. and Good night, my liege. good
night" were the last words spoken by Miss
| Julia Nelson in the character of Nell
GWynn, the curtain fell forever. 1t Is
| indeed very appropriate that these words
| should close the career of theater which
| Is only removed by a few yards from the
| site which was until very recently occupied
| by the house in which Poor Nelly lived
! in Drury Lane. After the play was ended
! the audience were 10th to leave the house.
and after time the orchestra rose to the
! occasion and led the audience in the strains
| Of "Auld Lang Syne," followed by the ma
| tlonal anthem.
| 1t cannot be said that the Globe Theater
has been the scene of any great dramatic
reigns but some Interesting productions
| have been seen there Mr.. Richard Mans
| field played Richard III during his season
| in London at this theater, while it was
| there that the great serpentine dancer Loe
| Fuller, commenced her London career in a
| comedy entitled Caprice" Mr.. Hare pro-
duced THE Gay Lord Quex' at this thea
| ter, while ''Charley's Aunt ran for some
| hundred nights on its boards.
Street to Be Named for King.
It is suggested that the county council
| call the new thoroughfare from Holborn
| to the Strand after King Edward, and if
| they do they will be following a time-hon
| ored example. London is full of King
| streets. Queen streets and Princes streets
| Few of the monarchs and princes they
| commemorated, however. are specified by
| name Queen Ann and Queen Victoria are
| the most striking exceptions with Prince
Albert as not a bad third. William ", too.
| has an important street to his name, and
! the Stuarts have left their mark on some
| Of the quiet byways of Whitehall.
4 There is still King Henrys walk on the
| Thames. and also King and Queen wharf,
| probably dating from the reign of William
! and Mary. Though there are many George
| streets. it would be difficult to say which
1 of the Georges they were originally intend
| ed to commemorate. On the other hand,
! no such uncertainty is possible in the case
| Of Regent street, which is, perhaps, the
| appronr;af ey FAMED of all the
! highways of the capital. Political nomen-
I elature for streets has never been much in
| favor in London, and there may be some
| opposition to the proposal to call the ter
| mination of the new avenue Gladstone
| crescent.
Censorship in South Africa
One of the few war correspondents still
| in the field informs me that the rigors Of
! the censorship in South Africa are now as
bad as at any time during the campaign
Lord Kitchener or Gen. Ian Hamilton sees
| every telegram which leaves Pretoria and
| all messages relating to the operations are
| bound to be first sent to headquarters. No
| Information Is now allowed to be dispatch
ed to England unless it has been first ex-
| amined.
The Bloemfontein Post. OF which have
! before me the latest mail copy, does not
| lack variety because published under mar
| tial law. Night passes were. I observe,
1
| Belle of New York" at the Vaudeville. and
| there is an ingenious apology from Boer
| lady" at present In the refugee camp at
Bieemfontein, who confesses to unjust as
| pensions on another Of her sex. II will
| try" she writes, ito restrain my tongue
| in future. and to pay the cost OF adyertis-
ing this apology" The newspaper man.
| ager will presumably take care that she
! does the latter.
The leader Of the day is on the subject,
What has become Of Reitz?" His where
abouts, then, was a complete mystery at
| Bloemfontein, fact which is interesting
In the light Of his appearance at Pretoria
yesterday. A curious announcement. fol-
| lowing the death notices In the same issue.
is an advertisement signed by IN. Voor-
| boom. undertaken" to the effect that "all
| friends are respectfully invited" to the
funeral Of a nun with an Irish name
Decision as to Clifford's Inn.
| The court of appeals has just given the
decision In the case of the old lawyers
"inn'' I wrote about some weeks ago. 1t
| decides that Clinord's Inn is a charity. and
| that the "Antients" cannot sell the prop
| erty and divide the proceeds which may