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Precedent. Historians dug up and air-minded editors circulated the fact that, just 100 years before the R-101's tragedy, on Sept. 15, 1830, an ex-cabinet minister died at the inauguration of a then new-fangled mode of transportation: William Huskisson, the Duke of Wellington's Secretary of Colonies, bumped by the locomotive at the opening of one of Britain's first railroads (Liverpool & Manchester). Loud was the outcry then against "dangerous" railroads...
...fashion of the day to devise novel settings for old mysteries, and the "Subway Express", now in production at the Hollis Theatre, is one of the latest examples to remove the melodrama from the more conventional English manor house, or, as was the height of the mode a season or so ago, the New York night club...
...with the emphasis, as it is, on a novel setting, much of the success of the show depends on the realism of its staging. While latitude is graciously granted a Shakespearian company in dealing with the setting of a drama which has a twelfth century background, so commonplace a mode of transportation as an underground railway must come up to scratch in every way. It must be said, to the credit of the producers of the "Subway Express", that they have managed this feature of their presentation eminently satisfactorily...
...construed by the local ordinaries of dioceses, as circumstances may require. Last week the new Archbishop of Paris vastly endeared himself to Frenchwomen by his construction. Short sleeves, low necks, short skirts (should they again come in) and the scanty bathing costumes still sanctioned by the French mode were apparently all covered by this statement from His Eminence...
Admitting that short frocks only were smart on the third (post-deluge) day (which incidentally was fine),the Conservative Evening Standard's male representative at Ascot described as follows for readers who include most of the peerage what seemed to him to be the actual mode this year: "A tight-fitting bodice of transparent muslin with a skirt which may be made in one of two ways: either it is a mass of narrow frills from waist to hem or is gathered at the waist and flows outward, measuring goodness knows how many yards in circumference around the feet...