Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-11
Seeing London
Ideal Home Exhibition Her
aids Spring in London.
Geo. Moore Writing Book.
BY JOAN LITTLEFIELD.

Staff Correspondent of The Star and the
North American Newspaper Alliance.s
LONDON, March 11.-Spring in Lon
don would not be complete without the
famous Ideal home exhibition" which
lightens the hearts of women and the
pockets of men every March. This
year is the twenty-first in which the
exhibition has been held, and it prom
ises to be more popular than ever.
One of its chief features is series OF
ideal rooms designed in accordance
with the views of certain famous people
These provide interesting clues to the
characters of their creators.
Lady OXford'S room is inspired by
study of her husbands, the book-lined
room where prime minister took ref
uge from the worlds discordS, read and
meditated Sin quiet"
Sir William Orpcn has, of course, de-
signed studio. 1t is without the ac-
cepted trappings, however, and has been
reduced to the simplest terms--much
light, little furniture and rubber floor
for complete quiet.
Edmund Dulac's room is silver and
ashen gray, while that of Sir William
Arbuthnot Lane is so shaped that there
are no corners to mar its smOothneSs.
Other features of the exhibition in
:howing the development of bedroom
furnishings from the days of prehistoric
cavewomen to modern times: 1.-The viii
lage of welcome ill.," where seven full
sized houses and week end cottage
tempt would-be purchasers, and, of
course, the wonderful gardens of the
Sunny Hours which include tea in
closure. which Is a panorama OF the
Vale of Dedham, old millwheel and all,
made famous by the paintings Of Con-
stable.
George Moore's Last Book.
George Moore. the famous novelist,
who recently passed his seyenty-seventh
birthday in "meditating and remem-
bering," is now rewriting what he says
will be his last book, "Aphrodite In
Aulis.'
He began it last year and it was
almost finished when he discovered
he had missed the architecture" So
he burnt it and started again and nov
he hopes to finish 1t in three months,
after which he intends 10 live in
France.
The book concerns young Athe-
MAN who lived in the days of Pericles,
and the only portrait in it drawn from
personal knowledge Is that OF wolf.
Mr.. Moore once owned a wolf, which he
says was more devoted than any dog
or cat. One day, when the wolf was
about half grown he was taken to the
zoo.
He did not like the keeper" said
MIR. Moore, with chuckle, "but when
went to the ZOO to see him his joy was
overwhelming. The keeper told me not
to go in to him. but did and the wolf
threw me down. People shouted-but
he only wanted to lick me-"
Mr.. Moore is a delightful person to
talk with, with his slow speech and
puckish wit. For, ever young, he loves
to spring conversation surprises. And
what delights him more than anything
is to shock his hearers-mildly. He is
himself shocked, however, by the man.
ners, or lack of them, Of modern youth
The other day, when he heard a son
address his father as "Tom," his wrath
knew no bounds. He looks back long
ingly to the far-off days when young
people used to call their fathers "sir"
and he deplores the fact that this little
word of respect is now almost defunct.
"Save the Countryside"
An exhibition intended to draw at
tention to the plight of rural England,
which is gradually tending to become
night mare of gaudy petrol stations,
shrieking advertisements and hideouS
houses, has been opened in London
1t is called the Save the Countryside
Exhibition and is a panoramic sur
vey of rural Britain at its worst and
at it's best.
Every picture tells story and every
story points a moral. The display be-
gins with Kipling's poem. Our Eng
land Is Garden" and a study of lit
ter which produces shudder. Then
there is "Leafy" Warwickshire suffer-
ing from very bad attack of petrol,
bicycle, cigarette and tea signs; the
line of the South Downs being over
come by "bungalitis" and borderings
disfiguring an old Sussex highway.
The organizers have shown fear Of
no one They castigate with equal