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Show THE SALT LAKE TKIBUNE, SUNDAY. MORNING, STARCH Even the People Are Discarding Spats: ob Hats a,nd Other British Institutions 71. -- fli 4 Iri: Favor of Yankee Subways. Stores, J-- Vv If If!! 111 i and Divorces ovies A' 'A- - if" it- -' ill fk, J -- A? 1- 7 1! ) O U 1 i Piccadilly C'van. , . ' . Onc typically Brituh, iH buildbuilJ'mgt an living ay to Americanized it it new underneath itation a a Dialling ings; tubay that m New Ymk't TimuStfuartt . x Fam tli u tfc St ft .. A bLuMENFELD By DAVID 0t LONDON. l. HIS anctent capital of one of tht rctet ceu tnei tht world hat ever teen u gradually lounf - (I i) d ,' V. it origiaalirjr, and it tlowly but turely takinf em th characlerBtict of an American ty. London for th fcrrt time American! who do not notice it, of eourte, but thoM better traveled who ' have known grimy, imoky. foggy old London tiact tht dayt when Queen Victoria wat wont to drive in the ttreett with i her two Scotch Highlander! perched on tha back of her ' carriage realize the change better than tlmott any other clast. The itrcett are changing, the traffic it changing yott ' vehicle in London these dayt. hardly ever tee ! Th people are changing, too, and though there u itill ! dUtinct flavor, to to ipeak, which it typically London, the old order hat gone forever and hai left a new city with new ideat, "new feeling and new viewpoint j Tht old intitu(ioai bava gone by tht board, with remark The top hat, without which bo repectabl s able twiftneta. i man of buunett would have gone to tht city in tht old dayt. I it teldom aeen tava at wedding or funeralv Instead, the i derby and lha felt hat reign tupremt. ' Spatt have gone tht way of too hU. pipet are irooked ; in tht rtreet a crime unpardoned in the dayt be fort the war and peert of tfw realm rid on motor oraniWei. The htntora cab it ai rare in Piccadilly m it it on Fifth avenue, , 1 New buUdingt art tither.Americaniied or art baing built on tha American plan, dtcUting machine! and electric rype-writert an rapidly being installed in tht office big and tnull conctmt alike. London bat realized that it mutt takt hi place k tht -' 'commercial age at the supreme bwntis metropolis of the world, and to tha traditional color of the old city hat gona , and King Elfficiency it moving in, vit Trafalgar Square . Vr , epot-Ught- . - n . U irv mm .,i n ' . frantporlation ii. iii. Hi. Lull II t i Ath field and hit daughter .... . He Americanized London Lord hat ii tv'mhng electric . . no store rmf on, fmt like Broadway. Ma-ia- hone-draw- II ' " r It f M 7 ex-wi-fe In tr I K 1 1 1 u Ii I-- i ' 7 . s ti , finHAT k probably the root of tht change London'! lack of color. Everything today it gray of black tff I . 4 dark brown save the new American-pla- n building, I i ,4tK- which art white when run up, but which toon takt OB tht ' t i k tone common to London building by truoa oi 1 4s the fogs and tht tmoke. Ll the" and" In . of days thTeaxly TfiH, KingEdward dtyt , present king,, tht street! were as colorful at thoat in Pariw The soldier wert drpssed in red tht thin red linn of glory the omnibuiet were green, and blue, and yellow, and pink J and purple, tht messenger boy wort colored uniforms, dm great hou-e- s of the rich opened their door to display gor-Lady Chutilon.. . . . Her geously clothed flunkeys who walked with grave but pic dioartt wat at eaty and thi of the door tht) down to open step ruresqut dignity comfortable as . that of 4 n carriages which drew up outside. Hollywood cmema-actreToday the carriage and pair it a thing of the past, and , the is arrive morerthan to at houtt;;, likely Lrd Tomnoddy 'in a broken down taxicab or a motor car of a decided prewhat stride London ha made in war vintage, for once again the old order has given place metamorphizing herself into an the the titled it generally at poor to new, so that personage Americanized state of efficiency. as the proverbial church mouse, and the ton and daughters At the foot of Regent street ot those who formerly waited on him and hit kind are, like a stands Piccadilly Circus, but a Rolls-Royof and the motor haughty owner not, proud Piccadilly Circus so changed and mora haughty than can and footmen so modernized that, tave in it themselves. topography, it it scarcely recognizable, for it ha become a small first thing which ttriket the visitor to London it the edition of the "Great White motor of its traffic Giant and Way" of the "Roaring Forties" omnibuses mil along tht streets from early morning of New York. And where foruntil long after midnight Tazkab by the thousand whiz merly the carriage of the wealthy and scoot around corner! and up the big thoroughfare, and Famed octrtu Gladys Cooper, . folk trotted around in dignified traffic copt another American d divorced second marriage, to everywhere the motor ease, the circular one-winstitution guide and supervise and control with perfect ! fttOed with typical J. S. traffic rip and roar and grunt equanimity. A . J J: and shivers and speeds, while on Under the streets run London's underground railroad ys ' in the matrimonial annalt wall for hundred Never be tht deca building but New far better controlled. York plan, tern built on the trie signs flash and wink and jump with alt tht glaring color of England ha there been such a long list of shattered roMore expensive, but faf more comfortable. " ' of tht rainbow. mance to come up for adjudication, ' It is possible today to make a journey in. say 40 minute, inclined the sidewalks On and British few and crowds to look the A battle, jostle ago years urge tocietywat of an hour. For Lord which previously toot: for all the world kke the masse in Times Square, and no askance at men and women whose marriage had been anAihfirld, a Detroit man and one of tht few British peer on apologise as they used to for bumping into another nulled by divorce proceeding. A Mayfair bastes in those speaking English with an American accent, has given Lonother the the for is: slgoan today "Bump person, chap 'day, whatever her personal feelings might have been, would doners the finest traction service of any city in the world. 08 the sidewalk and let tht devil look after the hindmost not have asked t divorced man or woman to one of her Indeed, the new subway station just opened at Piccadilly And where New York talk en it ttreett foreve of , at hornet or parties. Circus can justly lay claim to being the most efficient and It talks money from morndollar. London is no better. Her reasons were partly cloaked on religious grounds, subway station in the world. but more because she had to bow to the dictate of a society ing till night. Here, in an immense circular .hall with shaded flood lights which decreed that divorced person were more ot less taboo. Cj' cunningly concealed in the wall cornice, are polished oak Thus it wat that hundreds o( society couples disappeared newspapers carry pages and pages of advertisement! escalators leading down to the spotless tracks 60 tnd 1 00 in the American style, the itorei di written There are barber' shop and talk every year from the quiet streets of Mayfair to liv secluded feet below street level. copy and uneventful lives on the French and Italian Riviera, or windows with play their goods under a regular goods emporiums and shoe stores and druggist booked passage across the Atlantic to start afresh in tht giant slogan which compel one to ttop, look and listen. little city below the earth which, with ail due respect, make United State. Even the cigarette manufacturer are now putting up their , the subway stores of Timet Square or any other big New ware in American-shape- d The reasons were obvious. No one care who is who, or York subway entrance look like 30 cent. packet with tobacco treated in the American fashion. what is what in tht tunny tea town of southern France ot And Piccadilly Circus itself) Shades of Queen Victoria I ; Rotarian aocieiirt and boosting clubs art the order ol Gone are the graystone buildings which formed the famous tht little bay of Italy, and a for America well, the better tht day and every English bustnest man has a sneaking regard la thir place American office building with Quadrant part of England regarded the United State in those dayt for Mr. Sinclair Lewis' "Babbitt." as a country where one was divorced on day and remarried d store fronts rear skyward, equipped with express the next. A few yards from Piccadilly Circus is the site ot one of elevators, cable offices, tobacco and newspaper kiosks the ITiat aftermath Then came the war and its aftermath. whole wondrous gamut of modern, London's most famous institutions the old Empire Musk big business has left people with entirely changed ideas in this country. accessories. ' Hall where, before the war, one met everyone from mem- -' If anything it eucour-age- s Tien you know that onjy 25 years ago hardly any bers of the royal family to world champion prizefighters. .jo longer frowns1 on divorce. it. Pick up a daily newspaper and you will see that Here you saw the most beautiful of the London stores would so lower themselves as to buy and, if you cared to look at what was going on on the stage, the advertising . space in the newspapers, you will realize society has more than its share of divorce sensations. Indeed, KEA Mgiin Prlnttd in G. 8. A.) i (Copyrlaht, u I 4 v 'ySy gray-blac- , rX FEW weeks ago at a big dinner party two married couplet sat opposite to each other cracking joke and A little passing the usual dinner table witticisms. further down the table was a young man who seemed more than amused at their antics. That is easy to understand, for he Is a rising young solicitor, and it was he who had arranged the divorcing of one of the couples, while his vis a vis had done the same thing for ' the other. . tha ot stand 'he Bush budding in The quartet had simply exchanged wive and husbands ' built by New York'$ Irving T. Buh. and were perfectly at home with their new exchanges Add ihe American trend in London architecture. tothat the fact that the dinner party in question was bold . in one of the most exclusive .hornet in Mayfair awT you will see bow things have changed sine th dayt when the "not most marvelous- ballets in existence. "Z" at home" sign wat"alway put up for those who bad been Today the Empire has been rebuilt as dragged through whit wtt known at the "shtmt of the the finest movie palace in England, built and divorce court." firm, American American an run by giving It must not be imagined, however, that society has the talkies and American movies and American monopoly of divorce and speedy remarriage in England. Tho music to 3500 Londoners at every performfashion for it is really little else hat spread to all strata ance. and you are just as likely to find that little Mr. Brown of Why not an English movie palace with Tooting Bee which occupies the tame sort of social standEnglish pictures) Well, no one would go ii no longer ing at a residential district as Railroad avenue to it It it taf to say that the average Mr. Brown, but rejoices in tha nam of Smith, while Mister British flapper know as much about her Brown .that was is now the husband of Mr. Hollywood heroet as Kay from Kansas e Smith's spouse, ; v The , Gty or Doris from Denver. All of which is very puzzling and confusing until one gets American movie hat been adopted and used to it, which, strange to say, one quickly does in London, taken .to heart by Londoners of all a city whost ancient traditions are only rivaled by her ability classes and nothing can conceivably to adapt herself to rapidly changing modern manner ana shake it from its pedesUL modes. -- ' But London (toll, preserves some ot her eld-titradition and appearance. NOT necessary to deal here with the slow but That - which sht hat borrowed from Americanization of many London institutions. America it, in tha main, America' best. Let it suffice to say that, insofar as divorce is concerned, And London is proud to acknowledge it. Londoners art just as as their cousins in New . .Hat - York, Chicago, or any other important city in the United frght, E British divorce court judge arc State. calm. working overtime tht ytar, just a is not only accepted Divorce society; it is mora A -- i have been, made absolute. It it a perfectly simple matter to get a divorce in England today. Generally it it a man who play tha role of the one who it to blame, for courtesy still stands high hero despite the wteckage of morals" caused by the war. All Mr. John Jones has to do, therefor, it to produce a hotel bill to show that he hat passed a couple of nights with a lady who-inot his wife and by means of a small tip inveigle one of the hotel servants to come forward as a witness to prove the bill. Unless there is obvious collusion, that is all the evidence that is necessary. The cast it filed, heard in the space of a few minutes a nd pre sto there is Mr, John Jones com plete with his decree nisi I A period of six month then has to pas and ht and hit i are given the decree absolute and at then free to marry' again, which they, nearly alwaya do. . Indeed, so many are the aew marriages thai m society circles' k it becoming almost risky to ask a man after hi if her husband it ''wife or to inquire from Lady m the best of health, , for more likely than not yon will bo , met with a quiet star and your friends will pull you into a corner and ayt "Yon silly assl Didn't yon know) They were divorced last week. s tyslem. ' ; the laundrymen art helping oat in the Ama icanization of jolly, old London, so many column were latterly devoted to long descrfptioo of court case that an edict was pasted forbidding the printing of anything but the barest details of a cats, Since that law, divorce ha increased again by leap and bounds. There were many who to reared tht publicity that they cbota . to of the newspaper divorce report remain in holy but unsuited wedlock. Directly the baa oa lengthy reports was issued, the court wert literally flooded with application, and today, if you scan the law bstt in the big London dailies you will find an end lest string of name of people who have been awarded decree nisi and in another column an equally long list of those whose decree . " I- - . Even ... V ? ft ,- l t itv mencan ecomes an ondon 24, 1929. . .ho, 1 - borse-drtw- -- V - u. ce rE white-arme- r . ar - threo-ouarfl- sj te . THE lood-lighted , " flood-lighte- . lt. newly-wedd- ed one-tim- -- ITIS today . by often than not expected I A glance through tha lists tht last year will reveal people m every walk of life whose matrimonial tangle have had to be unravelled by tht medium of tht law court. Peer, barons, member tf Parliament, famous generals, chauffeur, clerks, doctors ther art all there. the In this last year you will find two noble earls, t, ' Earl of Errol and tht Earl of Nortbesk, heading a long list of notable names which include the Countess of Gostord, Lady Chunton. Lady Ross, Sir Walter Gibbons, Sir Wik v liam Davison. Sir Max Bond, Sir Roth Lethbridge and Sir Neville Pearson, who married the daughter of Lord Melchett, and who has now remarried one of England's most famous Mist Gladys Cooper, who wat formerly married actresses to Mr. Buckmaiter. To go further down the list would be irksome. On might as well buy a Debrett or a Burke's Landed Gentry and have don with it I This condition of affairs has been blamed on most things, , pot excepting the movies which always seem to come in for As a matter of fact no one is blamewrongful censure. England is merely marching with the times. Her worthy. ycung women go out into the world and compete in offices No for jobs with men. and they refuse to be intimidated. longer is a husband's word law neither is it the last. Secnty-fiv- e per cent of the thousands of divorces in this country are caused by this new attitude on the part of women whose viewpoint toward marriage is summed up in the old adage, "If at first you don't succeed try, try again. to-wi- |