A seat on the top deck of the bus
brings you to a good height to appreciate the 'Drama through the Ages' frieze
which is fixed to the outside of the Shaftesbury Avenue Odeon. The work is by
the sculptor Gilbert Bayes who also produced the 'Queen of Time' bronze at the
entrance to Selfridges department store and many of the carvings on the exterior
of the Natural History Museum. The building was originally the Saville Theatre
but was bought in the 1960s by Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager, as a venue
for rock concerts, until finally becoming a cinema.