Show WHERE SIDDONS LIVED Home Rome of the Gre Great t English Actress to Be Torn Down A London landmark which Is Is about to be destroyed in the cause of commercial com corn mercial achievement is the home of f Mrs Siddons England's great greatest st tragic actress The house is to be torn down to make way for one of the stations of the new underground railway The rhe Society for tor the Preservation of Ancient Buildings some time agO had the structure marked with a tablet but in spite of their interest the antiquarians antiquarians an an- an- an cannot prevent its demoli demoU- tion It stands in upper Baker street an and 1 is only y a small and sev severely relY re re- re spec looking table three-story three dwelling with no special air of ot distinction Yet here it was that the bea beautiful Mrs Siddons Siddons Sid- Sid Siddons dons held her salons in the heyday of her success when an invitation to her house was a passport of social stand ing But Siddons wasn't always fa fa- a- a Wh When m her career began she was the daughter of or a small provincial theatrical theatrical theatrical the the- manager er |