The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-22
J. 5. PRESS AGENT LINENS UP LONDON
Americans Made To Feel At Home, Especially Those
 SEtaying At Savoy

LONDON, Oct 21.-This old British capital has fallen victim to another American institution. For years there have been American bars, American cocktails, usually served warm, American slyschapers, some of them rearing up to an eminence of eight or nine stories, and hosts of press representatives and Intel1- gcnce bureaus. Now the old-tash- toned press agent has arrived. and is making things merry for jaded Lon doners and home-sick Americans.
 Fortunately the press agent Is at what amounts to a little bit of home -the Savoy hotel where the Amer lean tired of seeing ole buildings or sampling of bottles can go and meet those of his kind.
 Somehow or other the hotel has become a sort of American head quarters, and the visitor upon en- trance faces battery of horn srectacles and hears his native tongue The press agent supplies what the visitor alwNs subconscious- " missed.
 Just now the London dancing sea- son is starting, and the press agent MT. Richard Temple, who denies lie has ever worked with a circus ming start.
 Largest Suspended Floor.
 Dancing means dance floors. so tlse Savoy has put in the largest suspended dancing floor in the world 3,2S0 square feet, suspended by thousands of wires and 240 steel springs on pneumatic cushions. It gives" as much as 4 F inches at the center when crowded. But that is not all
 Balkan oak, matured for ten years, is the only wood in the world that will stand the strain imposed, MT. Temple deposes. British architects searched all over England and France for 8 supply of 1t, and failed chitect conceived the happy idea of going to the Balkans for it, and there strangely enough he found it.. lie had searched 29 days before he found a supply that was just ten years old. After many adventures, sinking all his available resources in an option and carrying the banner until he arrived from London, he got the wood. and brought it to England. Here it was baker for 12 days at g. temperature of 100 degrees before it was laid and Anna Pavlowa drove in the last (and 1S,000th) headless nail. That brings things up to:
 The Savoy Orpheans band. the largest in the world. brought from N6W I OTK TOT the opening or the dancing season. It is like other American bands here. only in that 1t is larger and finer. First, six hotel musicians spent six months In play ing 13,000 dance tunes so they could find 200 good enough for the bands repertoire. Two hundred pieces a week will be tried out during the season.
 Trouble With SaxOphones.
 Then there was the trouble with the saxophones, Reeds for the in- strument are scarce, and only one or two out of every 100 supplied are satisfactory. The leader of the band interview ewed-attributed the scarci- ty to the fact that they all come from the devasted areas of France. A leading musical instrument dealer attributed it to the fact that they all cGme from around Marseilles, where tEsre have been forest fires, Any way, they are scarce.
 The saxophonists' troubles are only beginning then, for the instru- ments have to be kept in a special room uniformly heated to atempera- ture of 72 degres. A sudden draugh would cause them 70 go flat
 The leader of the band was all