Part 26 (2/2)
The name of Rollo Wrissell see he recalled that Rollo Wrissell was one of the trustees and executors of the late Lord Woldo, the other being the --and thethe notice-board held a graphic representation of the First New Thought Church as it would be when completed
”Well,” said Edward Henry, not perhaps unjustifiably, ”this really is a bit thick! Here I've got an option on a plot of land for building a theatre, and somebody else has taken it to put up a church!”
He ventured inside the hoarding, and addressing the elegant youngto do with this,humorously, ”I'm the architect
It's true that nobody ever pays any attention to an architect in these days”
”Oh! You're Mr Alloyd?”
”I aeful eyes, and the expressiveto build a theatre here,” said Edward Henry
”I wish they had been!” said Mr Alloyd ”I'd just like to design a theatre! But of course I shall never get the chance”
”Why not?”
”I know I shan't,” Mr Alloyd insisted with glooust ”Only obtained this job by sheer accident!You got any ideas about theatres?”
”Well, I have,” said Edward Henry
Mr Alloyd turned on hileam
”And what are your ideas about theatres?”
”Well,” said Edward Henry, ”I should like to ot it into his head that when people pay for seats to see a play they want to be able to _see_ it, and not just get a look at it now and then over other people's heads and round corners of boxes and things In most theatres that I've been in the architects seemed to think that iron pillars and wooden heads are transparent Either that, or the architects were rascals! Sa! The pit costs half-a-crown, and you don't pay half-a-crown to hear glasses rattled in a bar ordown the street I was never yet in a London theatre where the architect had really understood that what the people in the pit wanted to hear was the play and nothing but the play”
”You're rather hard on us,” said Mr Alloyd
”Not so hard as you are on _us_!” said Edward Henry ”And then draughts! I suppose you think a draught on the back of the neck is good for us! But of course you'll say all this has nothing to do with architecture!”
”Oh, no, I shan't! Oh, no, I shan't!” exclairee with you!”
”You _do_?”
”Certainly You seem to be interested in theatres?”
”I am a bit”
”You come from the north?”
”No, I don't,” said Edward Henry Mr Alloyd had no right to be aware that he was not a Londoner
”I beg your pardon”
”I come from the Midlands”