Euston Road in London. Its entrance, designed by Philip Hardwick, cost £35,000 (now ) and had the highest portico in London at . The Great Hall opened in 1849 to improve accommodation for passengers, and a statue of Stephenson's father, George was installed in 1852. The Dukes of Grafton had become the main property owners in the area, and in 1857 the central section of the road, between Osnaburgh Street and Kings Cross, was renamed Euston Road after Euston Hall, their country house. The eastern section became Pentonville Road, the western Marylebone Road. The full length of Euston Road was dug up
The Blue Angel threatening to quit the production. "The Blue Angel" was to be his last great cinematic moment; it was also one of UFA's last great films. Film historian Andrew Sarris comments on this double irony: "The Blue Angel" was scheduled for its Berlin premiere on April 1, 1930, but UFA owner and industrialist Alfred Hugenberg, unhappy with socialist Heinrich Mann's association with the production, blocked release. Production manager Pommer defended the film, and Mann issued a statement distancing his scurrilous anti-bourgeois critique from Sternberg's more humane portrayal of the Professor Immanuel Rath in his movie version.. Sternberg, who declared himself apolitical,