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FRAGMENTS OF HISTORY FOR
GRYSTAL PALACE..
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NEW YORK DANCE HALLS.
was
A COVETED SEAT.
LADY ASTOR'S RIVAL.
THE CHINA MAIL.
WHAT CAN A MAN.
LIVE ON?
AN INTERESTING ACTION.
THE FILM WORLD.
NEW STORIES KEIDED.
For a long time past critics have been urging upon film producers the necessity of obtaining stories specially
By common consent of all members of the House of Commons, it was tacity agreed that the first lady member of the House should be pro-
At the United States, Court for written for the screen instead of vided with one of the most con China on May 20, Judge Charles S. relying upon revised versions of venient veta, from which it is, in Lobingier beard a case brought by successful plays or novel, and there the theory which regulates the pro-H. S. Honigsberg and Co., Inc., is every indication that the necessity cedure of that assembly, most easy against Charles B. Jones.
for this is now being gradually to catch the Speaker's eye. Vis Mr. Earl B. Rose, of Jernigan, recognized. It was recorded In Countess Astor accordingly has Fessenden and Rose, appeared for this column some time ago that enjoyed the privilege of the first wat the plaintiff firm, and Messrs. Flem M. Maeterlinck is at present in an on the second row below the gang. Davies and Bryan, by Mr. R. T. American film studio studying the way, on the left of the Chair, and Bryan, Jr., were for the defence.. whole business of cinematography only once has she been deprived of It seems that on February 10, 1920 with 2 view to writing special On that occasion Mr. Billing the two parties entered into a written scenarios which will meet the in possession, and Lady contract whereby the plaintiffs em peculiar requirements of the screen. Astor contented herself. with a ployed the defendant, and the defes In England Sir Hall Caine and Mr. seat on one of the back benches.dant agreed to work for the plaintiffs. Temple Thurston have already done However, a serious and successful as shop foreman for a period of three this, and rumour has it that Sk challenge to a continuation of her ears at a salary of $350 per mensem. James Barrie proposes to follow in privilege was offered by Sir William On May 3 the defendant, according their footsteps for they all recognize Joynsor-Hicks, on his return to his to the plaintiffs version, in breach of that the me great need of the parliamentary duties, after, a long contract and without proper or just moment, as far as the cinematograph absence in India. For some years cause refused to performs his part of is concerned, is new stories Instead of Sir William's claim to the seat in the contract. Wherefore the plaintifs a rechaufe of old ones. question had never been disputed, claim for $10,000 damages plus in- For this reason we attended with and be took all the
terest and costs of action.
special interest the exhibition of the cautions possible to ensure that his In the course of his answer, the Progress Film Company's new produc absence did not involve loss of the defendant denied the allegation, and tion, The Starter Wooing, for which coveted position. A few minutes in his counterclaim alleges that at the proud claim had been made in after eight o'clock he visited the the time of the signing of the advance that the theme and subject House and left a card on the seat, greement, the plaintiffs, through of this story have never been used and at prayers at which service their duly authorized agent and before either on the stage or the the members are not strikingly attorney, H. S. Honigsberg, false screen. It would be difficul: to their attendance he and fraudulently represented imagine a bigger claim to put forward regular in again was present. When he to the defendant that a married for a story of which even the theme. arrived the seat was unoccupied, but couple (the defendant being mar had never been used before would be placed where his had been carefully China in the same manner as he admitted at once that the claim has apparently another card had beenried) could live in Shanghai and in worth its weight in gold. It must be deposited. This rival claim was the defendant and his wife had not been made out, though the old submitted by the hon. baronet for been living in San Francisco for theme of the father who to provide Mr. Speaker's ruling. Sir William the sum of $150 per month. Upon help for a sick child stoops to a explained that he had no desire to his coming to Shanghai, the defen- dishonourable action has been treated. raise any question of controversy dant finds that he cannot live, in very cleverly and with one or two and with other members, but he named the same manner and style as he new ideas, Subtitles are very
A BAPTIST PASTOR'S CHÄRGES,
The Rev. Job Roach Straton, pastor of the fashionable Calvary Baptist Church, has become one of the chief figures in the controversy From that time onward the collection Prosecutor as to the prevalence of berween the police and the Public
vice in New York City.
Early in 1917 official sanction for the formation of an Imperial War Muscum was given by the Cabinet.
of trophies andi records of all kinds has been proceeding, and the consum- meriam of this diligent efom will be reached at the Crystal Palace in June, when the exhibition is to be opened by the King
pre.
1
Scarlet Wooing, A Warning to Writes. THE EARLY DAYS OF MR. CHAPLIN.
In the course of a widely-advertised sermon which he preached the Rev. J. Staton told in graphic detail of visits which he and some friends paid to well-known dance hall's The preparation of this work has cabaret, frequented by women of the as witnesses of the fact that he was and his wife were living in San popular with the film world, therefore been one of no small dimensions, and under-verid, where liquor flowed first claimant of the seat Mr. Speaker's Francisco, at less than $400 to $500 we suggest, as an alternative to The it has called for enthusiasm and im- freely in spite of prohibition restric- agination, no less than for a judicious tions. His descriptions of existing selection of what has a real historical conditions, and his allegations that value. Exhibits innumerable have police protection is purchased on the been gathered during the last three
basis of monthly payments, made, he years from every land where the warsays on information gathered from the women, have caused a profound sensation, coming, as they do during a white-heat controversy already threat a sense, as it were, of the humanning to shake the present Tammany Hall City administration to its founda-
cast its mail, but he who would choose between what is worthy of preserva- tion and what is not must needs have
significance of things. Shortly after tions.
There have been shown in London
officer and the hon. member for Mexican currency per month. Had South Hackney (Mr. Bottomley). he, defendant, known that a married Having acted in accordance with the couple could not live for the sum of regulations of the House, was he $150 as aforesaid, he would not have three filmsinwhich Mr. Chaplin played entitled, he asked, to remove the signed the agreement nor come to the leading part before he had quite second card which had been left on China. The said representation on established the unique position which the seat?
the part of the plaintiffs' agent and he holds today. Technically they Mr. T. P. O'Conner (Nat, Liver attorney, the defendant says, is false are known as re-issues," and they Foci, Scotland) asked whether the and fraudulent whereby defendant open up rather an interesting ques rules of the House were not subject has suffered damages to the extent tion. The actor for the screen is to the good feeling of the members, of $10,000 which he claims.
immortalised, if not for all time, at and whether it did not accord with The defendant, examined by Mr. any rate for generations, and there the almost universal feeling of the Bryan, stated that while working in is no reason why our children's should get a special seat? ("Hear, a little morey every week. In all he should not laugh at the antics of House that the only lady member San Francisco, he was able to put by children and their descendants also hear," and "No.")
had saved about $500.
Mr. Chaplin. But at least there Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. Hall (C.U., Cross-examined by Mr. Rose, should be some guarantee that the Dulwich) asked whether lady witness said that he had no know antics which they see are those of members of the House should not be ledge of the living conditions in the actor when at the height of his amenable to the same regulations as China. His total expenditure for power. mer. They claimed equality on all April was $400. He had no docu Whether Mr. Chaplin has approved York pulpit since the famous sermons points, and should they not recognisements to prove that he was saving the re-issue of these earlier examples many years ago of Dr. Charles H. the usual customs prevailing in that ey in America
of his work it is impossible to say. Parkhurst, which resulted in an in-House? (Hear, hear.)
the armistice, for instance, there were found discarded as lumber those mem-few dance halls visited he found more The pastor's declaration that in the orable signposts. "Hell Fire Comer, Haig Street. and Piccadilly.
young men and women than in all the churches in New York was calculated. Lumber "they doubtless were to men who glanced at them as they toiled by locus the arterion of other clergy on the existing conditions, Nothing day after day, who knew them as the approaching the outspoken charges of direction posts to avenues of agony. Mr. Straton has been heard in a New and who uprooted them at last as sym- bols and ghosts of a ghastly past. But there were others, passivly with less cause to abhor them, who had the
and they will be seen at the Crystal
dun: On ne passe pas."
GUN THAT FIRED FIRST SHOT.
Here, ther, is an evidence of that more human interest which the 'compilers of the Museum have aways had before them, and with which they
are seeking to mirror the common human effort of the Empire.
07
This
Explor-
ing No Man's Land, a British soldier | might stumble into its jagged and ugly spikes, concealed from sight by layers of grass, and escape from its grip was virtually hopeless.
Sir William Joynson-Hicks remark
THE PRESS AND DIPLOMACY.
NORWEIGÁN MINISTER ON THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS,
After hearing the evidence, the FLYING OVER VESUVIUS.
AN AUSTRALIAN ATTEMPT.
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guests, departed motorcars participate in a mystericus festivity in the country. A long line of mator-cars speeded away at mid- night to Pearl Harbour Permsula, a forty minutes' run froin Honolulu. Few guests had any idea of the na
and on reaching an open space the tore of the entertainment provided,
guests were ustered between, lines of white-robed Hawallian women, wear- caps of scarlet, and yellow plum- age, through a gate into the grounds
Mr. H.-Whitmore stated that a If he has not, it must be a galling One day "caly was spear incl a handsome privale, residence be vision to see that grand memories Departmer: and the conviction a point of order threatened to develop
vestigation into the New Yorks Police! What had begun as a question on a man could live easily on $350... experience to know that even with Honolulu by the "Renown," but longing to Mr. and Mfrs. Robert clustered around these old posts as
Mr. A. D. Silas, a former cashier the film the evil that men do lives enough romance, interest and un- Arkinson, who received them with thickly as did the dirt and the grime. many men high in that organization, into a debate, judging by the number of the fire, said that be remembered after them. We do not mean to lim usual entertaiment was compressed Princess Kawananakoa, the organiser
Mr. Straton condemned in scathing of members who rose to speak. The Mr. Honigsberg dictating a letter to ply that these three films are bad into the brief visit of the Prince to of the festival. In such useless salvage they discover- ed what will assuredly become the terms modern dances and dress styles Speaker, however, expressed the the effect that a man could live on specimens of the comedian's work. suffice for a week.
The Prince was greeted with precious relics of posterity, So of the women, and the practices of opinion that there was no necessity Tis. 150 a month.
They are rather incidents in the The whisper went round early in chant of welcome, and escorted to Hell Fire Corner and many of the so-called hostesses of the dance for a debate on the subject, Sir W. Mr. R. Hutchinson, manager of evolution of the complete artist, and the day that the Prince proposed to the house, where his host and hostess these other legends have been saved, halls, whom he charged with being Joynson Hicks had, he said, correctly Dodge & Seymour, stated that he Mr. Chaplin would be quite justified try surf-riding on Wakiki Beach held a brief reception...A move was tally procurers for wealthy patrons be left to every hon. member to it not been for Mr. Seitz who asked ductions on which posterity ought to exhibition of surfriding by experts under a mighty banyan tree, s stated what the rule was.. It raust would have employed Mr. Jones had in saying that they are not the pro-quietly by himself, after a public then made to the gardens, where, Palace during the summer, as also willing to pay. He said he had no decide for himself whether he would him to refrain from doing so. will that rallying trench sign of Verificulty in gaining admission to these yield to anyone else the place which Mr. Rick, a shop foreman earn-fact, all amusing pieces of work, and city heard the whisper, and within tables raised one foot from the judge him. They are, as a matter of was concluded. Every body in the Hawaiian feast was prepared on places, which he visited in evening he took at eight o'clock. clothes under the guidance of a crau- preferred to retain his seat, he was living expenses were no less than which has built up the cemedian's ed by the San Diego magna vox," inspect an earth oven, where, a pig If he ing $350 a month, said that bis they all show the tremendous resource half an hour, as if it had been shout ground. The guests were invited to fear, who acted as sponsor with the entitled to it.
$200 a month. doorman, arranging that the clergy-
unchallenged position. The way in a large proportion of Honolulu as was baking, wrapped in large leaves, Mr. T. C. Britton, a banker, stated which Mr. Chaplin carries a baby sembled in bathing costumes on the and calabashes loaded with strange man's party should be entertained ed that correspondence had passed that the average living expenses of a about or deposita it on to the floor surfing beach, late in the afternoon, delicacies including octopus, pol, un
properly." At one Straton said, the bill for one round of regard to this matter, and that he be about $325, all depending on their little touches which seems so obvious
place, Mr. between himself and Lady Astor in married couple in Shanghai would and himself turns into the cradle are bathing being entirely suspended. known vegetables, mountaia apples," The jetty from the Manoa Hotel kui, nuts dried fish, pangest seven, Scotch "high-balls" whisky had no objection to its being pub social habits. purpose, in other words, is to make nearly £5, out of which the women
and soda served to his party was lished,
when seen on the screen, but which was packed tight from end to end. peppers, salads, and sweets. Mr. F. Watson deposed that his nobody else but Mr. Chaplin seems Camera men and cinema operators The banyan tree, which was sur- it less an abstruse technical display who had joined the table at the sug- the subject was discussed.
Lady Astor was not present when contract called for $350, and since to think of. Under present conditions erected their machines in native out-rounded by a grove of coconut palms, and a mere collection of armoury than gestion of the waiter admitted that
his arrival be bad received two vol-apparently the film actor has no rigged canoes and waited in the was hung with electric lights, giving an exhibition where a father can say.
Sir William Joynson-Hicks states untary increases from the company.method of keeping his early work off surf, in imminent risk of catastrophes, a soft, radiant, illumination. There they would receive a share. "This is the gun I used with my
that in his correspondence on the He was now paying $165 for board the screen in after life. Perhaps it The foreshore was obscured by were about a hundred European and battery, That is a model of the:
matter he made a definite offer to and rent, but he did not think the would be better if, after a term of crowds of rainbow-coloured bathers. American guests, including ladies in place where I fought not far from
give way to Lady Astor when she same could be got elsewhere.
years, he should be given some
Cheers went up. when the Prince evening, dress aud diamonds, who Ypres." Every British gun will, as within might have the radiant glow Daily Telegraph.
desired to address the House.-: Mr. Honigsberg gave evidence of power of veto.
emerged for a little quiet enjoyment seated themselves cross-legged on far as possible, have attached to it a whilst devising new pians of aggres
the details entered into by himself
privately from the new wing of the straw mat's placed on the ground. A and Mr. Jones-*- concise record of the part it played. sion. For less amusing is a specimen
hotel Hervore an ordinary swimming few chairs were provided for the In some cases the part was conspicu- of the enemy's "bear trip."
costume of dark blue, edged with Prince, his host and hostess, the ous.. Thus there will be seen the gun
red stripe. Duke Kahana Hawaiian Princess, and others. that fired the first British shot in the
moku, the famous Hawaiian· switc-
Flower wreaths were presented to war-from the decks of H.M.S.
mér, attended with a native outrigger every guest, and suspended round "Lance" at the mine layer Koenig
Unannounced and unexpected, and cance. Amid an enthusiastic cheer. their necks, the whole scene when Louise." The E Battery gun that
after a series of trying adventures, the Prince and his party shoved off the guests sat down, being extra- opened the military hostilities will
"LEST WE FORGET."
including a perilous fight over the the Hawaiian taking the steering ordinary romantic, especially when also be seen, and with it will be a Nevertheless, it is useless' at this
crater of Vesuvius, which nearly paddle. The Prince occupied the the Hawaiian corps de ballett made weapon of the famous L Battery, stage to attempt any detailed entamera-
brought disaster, Lieutenants Parer thwart taking the paddle next the an appearance in a natural alcave fought to the last by the crew, was tion of the 10,000 exhibits that are Minister, in a speech to the Foreign M. Benjamin Vogt, the Norwegian
and Melncosh, of the Australian Air Hawaiian. The party paddled out under the coconut frees, and began a Then there is to be housed for four years beneath Press Association recently discussed
Force, have arrived in Allahabad. for a mile, coming back at the speed continuous performace of rhythmical another historical piece. This is the the ample glass roofs of the Crystal the attitude of Norwegians towards people to write and draw with ease? Australia, despite, the opposition by cinemas, camera men, and obser paniment of gourds beaten on the Will it become possible for blind These intrepid airmen are flying to of an express train and surrounded hipawaying dances to the accom- anti-aircraft pompom, mounted at Palace. Something has first had to the League of Nations and the rela- Gresham College, which fired the first be done towards the rehabilitation of tion of the Press to the Leagu
The Royal Drawing Society, which which they received in official vers with powerful glasses. Frequent ground with-interminable barbaric is- holding its annual exhibition at quarters before they started.
runs were made the same way, men chants. A MOUNTI shot ever directed at a foreign for the building, after its duties as a train- He said that the League of Nations the Guildhall, bas lately been train the outset miany navigators were
ber of the crew declaring that it from London since the days of the ing and demobilisation headquarters, would provide the only way of securing children to draw objects which sceptical of their chance. One morn Romans, and the occasion of this inci- and now a big army of workmen are ing the salvation of Europe. I they had only known when blinding they stole away from Houns dent was the Zeppelin raid in Septem- engaged in bringing together a collec-was :the final result
TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF... of the folded. The pupils felt the object low, leaving a polite intimation of ber, 1915...
tion, unique in its completeness and historical development of centuries and then drew it. There is a draw their depature to the G. O. C., and Sixty guns will be exhibited in all diversity, as well as inspiring, as a) and a necessity if we wished to preventing of Beethoveb's face, drawn they have managed to reach Indiain on a surf-board standing on his you want a clear beat and good digestion, you must not let your the largest weigh fourteen tons revelation of that stim total of rational the destruction of civilsation.
It after. fingering the cast, which (says Reuter) without the necessary head. ". There is no foundation for waste from the, bodý, as is always the bowels become clogged with poisonous it will be restised how immense is the effort of which it is, as it were, the could not however, be worked by a is a remarkable
this statement. The surf-riding after case when your become; constipated. preliminary task of preparing the sur-legacy. The Museum, to which all few statesmen, or even by a large touch and memory. The next It has been a journey of many ad- noon was a huge, success. face of the floor and getting these the Government departments and war body of officials. It was a matter stage in the story is the Inven- ventures, including a flight over the monsters into position. The Navy and time organisations have readily offered for the democracies of the world, tion of some liquid stuff that could be crater of Vesuvius- an act of daring the Air Force have also contributed what treasures they have, owes much and above all, for the Press of the felt by the finger on the paper. Mr. which nearly saw the end of both substantial exhibits, and these will be to the early enthusiasm of Sir Alfred World. The League of Nations had T. R. Ablett, founder and art director aviators. The heat waves caused arranged along the long central hal. Mond, and not less to the practica: plenty of imperfections, but with of the society, having invented the them to drop suddenly 500ft, and only the galleries being devoted to such guidance of Sir Martin Convay. It regard to it he thought that he could material, which feels like fine frosted by skilful piloting did they manage to diverse interests as war paintings and will enshrine the emblems of a great not do better than quote an old glass, experimented himself and he extricate themselves. Another loss treach implements, realistic scenic story, and it will be m less surely a saying from the Balkans. This was shows a drawing of a cock and a cat they experienced was when flying from models and protective devices, and pageant merely because, in contrast the effect that people should which he did blindfolded. He Taranto all their maps were swept curios that throw an illuminating light with the generat acceptation of the could not do and then go and do it. blind people will
try and find out what they believes that with this material overboard They are dying a De be able to Haviland 9 machine of the 1917 on conditions in the German Army. term, it may be somewhat sombre in Every serious Pressman, he said, write and draw, and to follow model, which had been used for fight- Some of these are amusing and some sering, Looking at the lifebuoys of he regarded as a colleague with him writing and drawing. Much interesting purposes of the Western Front. tragic. "For instance, there is a cycle the Lusitania,
the wheel and bin self in diplomacy. Pressmen, like is being taken. In the scheme by "The old engine is beginning to with a dyname attachment for lighting nacle of H.M.S. Arethusa," the diplomats, presented a case to their many societies conected with the how signs of wear and tear said an officer's dug-out, and two of the shattered funnel of H.M.S. "Vindic country. What was more important, blind. The other exhibits of the Lieut. Parer, "and it was rather Worst defankers had to sit on the rtive," the portion of the Zeebrugge they presented the case of other exhibition-folow more familiar lines, disheartening to think we are only machine in shifts and pedal for all Mole, the formidable mines that countries to their own Government. but theres are many new aspects, half way." Leat. McIntosh, how they were worth in order that those bestrewed the Dardarelles-looking The branch of diplomacy which the Snapshot palating is one of the most ever, la quite optimistic, and intends at these is to recall to mind one chap- Press represented grew every day recent developments. Its object being to reach Port Darwin or perish in ter after another in a great epic, and more important compared with the to make the hand more dexterous, the attempt. They have no mechanich. it is well that the sorrow and the glory diplomacy of the diplomat. A great The age of the artists represented in which means that after the long of it all is thus recounted- less we opportunity, had been given to the the exhibition range from two years tension of flying they have to work forget
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