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SWEEP DISPUTE.
· FINAL ADDRESSES BY COUNSEL.
THE CHINA MAIL.
At the Chinese Club, läst night,
Counsel for the claimants in the Derby Sweep dispute addressed the Board of Arbitrators. The Arbitrators are sitting to decide who is the rightful claimant to ticket No. 3055, which drow the winner of the Hongkong Derby in the Sweep organized by the Chinese Club.
PAINTER OF QUEENS,
EDWARD HUGHES AND
HIS DAUGHTER -
STAGE STORIES.
GREATEST COMEDY ACTRESS SPEAKS.
15 a
In Pearson's Magazine, Miss Marle Tempest, qur greatest Edward Hughes painted and his comedy actress, proves herself a daughter Alice has photographed delightful raconteur. Her reminis so many Royalties and leading cences are brimming with pithy beauties, that there is, much of interest in the story of their artist-atories. Here is one of them; it life in London which Miss Alice Miss Tempest describes
concerns George Edwardes, who Hughes tells in "My Father and "prince among men I" (Thornton Butterworth, 155.). It was a beautiful companionship,
Hughes's portrait of the Queen, then Duchess of York-his first royal portrait-was "intended as surprise for the family and the sittings were arranged privately.",
Mrs. Violet Chan of Hongkong and Mr. Chick Soon-sing are the rival claimants, Mr. Elsley Zeitlyna (instructed by Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton) appears for Mrs. Chan.Mr. Chik is represented by Mr. C. G. Alabaster K.C., O.B.E.
My father managed to capture the exquisite colouring that won- derful fair hair and the delicate Mr. Zeitlyn, who spoke for two complexion that made the Duchess and a half hours, said the Board unique. had been told that a memorandum after being exhibited the portrait had been made by Chik regarding was "hung eventually ever the the winning ticket. He suggested King's own writing-table at Buck- In his opening speech that possibly ingham Palace.". an honest mistake had been made
The work by which Hughes is best knuwa is his brilliant portrait of Queen Alexandra in her Corona tion robes. The picture had been originally designed as a present to the King of Denmark from his daughter.
and 3066 had been written instead of 3076. But there was a time, if it was done honestly, when it must have been known to both Chik and his nephew, that it was a mistake, otherwise be could not explain the very remarkable fact that that Long before it was finished the ticket was not shown to anybody | Court declared thai such a beautiful except the nephew and the banker ikeness of her Majesty must the $12 man. Mr. Zeitlyn con- never leave the country. It hangs tended that the memorandum in state in the white drawing-room tame into existence for the pur-at poses of this casc.
Mr. Zeitlyn commented on the telegram sent by Chik to his nephew, "Forthwith pick out slip in which I myself made a copy of No. 3066," and said that if it was true such amemorandum was writ ten, he should have thought "Find the memorandum" would have been sufficient.
EVIDENCE OF MR. RUSS, Mr. Zeitlyn said that Mr. Rüss gave it in evidence that he first saw
For forty-eight weeks of the year we got on splendidly. There was never the slightest dissension between us. He was kind and considerate, and most generous. Then one day he would say:--
I want to see you to-morrow." What for? I would ask... ***About your new contract.' **All right,' I would say, and the next day I would go down to his office.
Now, what about your contract for next year?" he would begin.
"I would tell him what I expect- ed. Whatever it was made no haggle and lecture until he literally difference. He always started to drove me from his room in a high dudgeon. I would go down again in order to settle the matter, and again the same thing would happen. Iwon't come any more. I would insist. If you want me you
come to my house." that, he would reply.
"It's no good going on like
Well, the only thing is to get
Buckingham Palace. King Edward was delighted with it, and an arbitrator. Ring up Mr. Alfred Queen Alexandra presented Mr. Rothschild and ask him to settie Hughes with the Artists Gold the matter. You know him and I Medal on behalf of the King and know him, and he will settle the herself.
Miss Hughes once asked Prince Edward, the present Prince of Wales, when he was playing soldiers in her studio what he was going to be when he grew up,
"A soldier," he replied without any hesitation.
matter.'
'So he would ring up Mr. Roths- child and ask him to come down. over the telephone to Mr. Roths I also used to pour out my troubles child and ask him to settle them
for me.
"The next day the great finan- cler would turn ap and spend five minutes with George Edwardes
the exhibit on Monday, March 5. men-do not obey you?" I asked while I sat in the next room.
that
kind
"And what will you do if the "Put them in the guard-rom, he said promptly
WHY THE COLOUR LASTS, The brilliant state of her father's portraits despite the lapse of years is attributed by Miss Hughes to the extreme care he took in selecting and
preparing his colours. Through Lady Carnegie he was successful in getting some of the real Chinese.vermilion, special brand, as it was a secret mainly used in China for signing the death warrants of malefactors doomed to execution.
Before the war relaxed her rule, Miss Hughes devoted her great talent exclusively to photographing women and children.
Then he would come in and chat with me for a few moments. A minute or two more with George Edwardes, and he would come back and announce that all my troubles were at an end-
"The next morning George Ed- wardes would send round a groom with a torse for me, or a piece of jewellery, and at night there would be a lovely bouquet as a peace offering, and for the next forty- eight weeks he would be just been kindlier, more open-handed. At Christmas he always used to send me round a cheque for £100 as a present.
Ear Buxton, president of the special care and protection, he said who were charged with the heavy and official preparation, and was charming. No one could have
2
"Yet when it came to the new contract there was the same old
trouble all over again, the same I would not photograph men. I lectures that reduced me to tears do not like men's clothes. It is and teased my nerves all to picees. impossible to make a picture of a There was something in the great man in the ordinary garb of to-day.man that simply would not allow Miss Hughes finds that colour him to make a contract without photography, which she has taken bargaining.”
date I may be in a position to make Mr. Russ made no entry in his, an announcement which I hope diary of that fact, but simply relied will prove satisfactory to all con- on his memory, Mr. Russ went on cerned. (Hear hear. We are to say that on the 6th March he working to-day with that object.saw. Mr. F. C. Jenkin and showed I know many of you are anxious him the slip. Mr. Zeitlyn pointed
statement should be out that Mr. Russ was not instruct The Duke of Devonshire (Secre made. I can assure you that there ed until the 6th March, and asked tary of State for the Colonies) was will be no delay in making it as if it Was not 2 Strange the guest of the African Society at soon as possible." (Hear, hear) thing for a solicitor to make a dimer neid at the Trocadero Having remarked that the ad- a statement of Restaurant. His Grace was accomvancement of the happiness of the which must have gone unchalleng It was very difficult to obtain this panied by the Duchess of Devon-native races would alwas have oured were it not for the fact that those he hoped Parliamentary conditions responsibility of defending Mr. society, who was in the chair, pro would allow Mr. Onnsby-Gore, Quinn came to the opinion that the posed "Our Guest." It was
Parliamentary Secretary for the very circumstances of the telegram satisfactory feature of our public Colonies, in conjunction with other suggested that the memorandum life of Late years, he said, that Col-advisers of the Colonial Office, to was not in existence at that time onia and Dominion questions had make atrip to West Africa towards and that it must have appeared kept out of the party ruck of polit- the end of the year. (Cheers.) His after the arrival of the Korea ics, and, as far as they could see, utility at the Colonial Maru" on Tuesday evening. En they would ever get back to them. Office had materially increased by quiries were made and it was found (Hear, hear.)
the recent trip he took with Mr. the memorandum was not shown The Duke of Devonshire, in Edward Wood to the West Indies.to Mr. Jenkin. reply, said that our history in rela- (Hear, hear.) He hoped they Mr. Zeitlyn submitted that the tion to the opening out and the would be able to send out repre-memorandum was not in existence developinent of que great Continent sentatives of the Colonial Office on until March 6 of Africa was one-in-which we invitations from the Governments After stating that his client-had-up, "enables the operator to get a could have legitimate pride and of our extended Empire, so that nothing to hold back, Mr. Zeitlyn satisfaction. It was an example of they could make themselves said in conclusion:- what could be achieved under the
He who steals my purse steals free institutions of the British acquainted with the conditions
Our youngest Dominion trash, but he who steals my good Empire. They all looked forward was not a calm and peaceful spot, name steals my all, and I ask you with confidence to the Conference he declared, but he was confident in the name of members of the which would take place in the she would be able in due course to family, the old mother of 65, and her, father's methods were too the feature film commencing to autumn, and waich would mark take a worthy place among her the sisters of the man who hitherto another unward step in the develop-sister nations of the Empire has led an honourable career, by ment of our Empire. (Cheers.) Under, his guidance he hoped your verdict to restore him to the and in peace the Colonial Office could look for confidence and trust of those who it had been proved that the
ward to a year of tranquillity, know him and who despite these Empire was one of the greatest advancement, and - progress. black clouds, have never wavered factors of the world for the advance
(Cheers.)
in their belief in the innocence of human happiness and prosperity.
which I ask you, gentlemen, in (Cheers.) I know," proceeded
your award, to declare." his Grace, "that you would like to hear a pronouncement from me to- night, but I must ask you to possess yourselves in patience a little longer. I can assure you that I and my advisers are working hard at questions on Rhodesia, and I have every confidence that at no distant
Both i war
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there.
ADDRESS BY MR ALABASTER.
KINEMA LNOTES.
much more faithful resemblance," as well as doing away with the "expensive and never very satis- MAKY PICKFORD DRAMA AT|
THE STAR. factory process of retouching."
In what looks like an answer_to
the criticism that both her own and
A fine Mary Pickford drain is idealistic, Miss Hughes says:
**The Love Botli of us had an instinct tomorrow at the Star. bring out the best in our sitters. Light" is a story of Italy. Angela We had no desire to produce what Carlotti weds a strange foreigner in is called a clever picture by ac-time of war, who claims to have centuating some eccentricity of deserted his ship. A remarkable feature or for
situation develops, the stranger turns ont to be an enemy of Angela'a country. How she sacri- fees everything in order to protect not only her neighbour but her homies, is presented in a number of exciting episodes. Miss Pickford hau surrounded herself with af splendid cast, and the production in its setting is lavish. The Love Light" is not only a unique depar- turo in the type of production in which this popular star usually
a
Mr. J. B. Archer, of the Sarawak Civil Service, and late eriitor of the Sarawak Gazette, has been making short visit to the Malay States be fore proceeding on home leave.
Safe, Sure, Always Cares. Do not suffer from cramp colic or pals
Mr. Alabaster, after pointing out the atomsch when Chamberlain's
weak Colic and Diarrhoea Rounedy goes to the what he considered the right spot and gives immediato roliet. You cannot afford to be without it if you points in Mr. Zeitlyn's argument, are subject to attacks of this kind. For proceeded to examine the evidence sale by all Chemists and Storekeepers.given by witnesses for each side. Mr. Quinn, had told Mr. Gold- ring that he did not know who had home to join the editorial staff of bought ticket no. 3066. Mr. Gold the Straits Times,
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He was form-
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by a record which he took down one of the oldest established papers playa, but it is also a gripping drama at the time and which had in Colchester.
been put in as evidence. Sidney Quinn did not deny that con- versation, yat he came into Court;
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of unusual interest.
COUSIN KATE" AT
THE GRAND'
There is change of programme the Grand Theatre, Wanchai,
after his memory had been re- Although Mr. Jenkin, had no freshed and gave a story in the recollection of having seen the utmost detail of the purchase of memorandum, he did say it was at the ticket and how it was the num-mentioned, and if it was mention- ber was impressed on his memory.ed it must have been in existence to-day. The big picture is "Cousin
Kate,"
featuring Alice Joyce. Mr. Goldring had said that the "Mr. Jenkin tells the Court that it
discussed, that they Cousin Kate stands for efficiency, writing on ticket 3076 was fresh was and Quinn, in his evidence, stated did not go into it, but She spends her time looking into that he wrote. Chik's name on the that its existence was mentioned other people's little worries, giving ticket when it was sold months be and that it was a part of their case. them advice as to what they should fore. He added that when he sold According to his note of the evid and should not do to keep out of a ticket to a Chinese he wrote the ence Mr. Jenkin said, "I was told trouble. Even their love affairs" 27-28 name in his own handwriting with-it was part of plaintiff's case that must be seen into by Cousin Kate. 28 out exception. Mr. Mok, however, such memorandum was in exist. But one day Conain Kate herself had told them that when ence. Mr. Jenkin said it was falls in love. Her choice comes in produced by the discussed and Mr. Russ said it was for much criticism, and those to 3064 was West Point singing girl it there and that he saw it the day be whom Cquain Kato has given sivice had no name on it.
Clearly fore (Monday). Mr. Lee Wing-chi offer advice in return. It is all very
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there was an exception, and it was said he himself saw it the day be laughable. There is a great deal of an exception, as he claimed, on the fore that (Sunday). Therefore to humour in "Cousin Kate," and to very day, in the same room and on say it was not in existence was a great extent it is true to life. the same occasion as Chik bought intolerable. his ticket. Mr. Alabaster urged,
Mr. Alabaster complained that
that Chile had given a very clear the tickets had not been accounted and coherent account of what for in a satisfactory manner and In happened. His name was not regard to the witnesses who had written on the ticket when he been called for Mrs. Chan, suggest bought it. There was striking ed that they had discussed the case corroboration of that not only in between them so often than inocula- Mr. Mok's statement, but in the tion had become intoxication. They fact that when Mr. Goldring told had all beer intoxicated by the Chik that Quinn had given back toxin of auto-suggestion. Counsel his ticket, Chik replied that was not his ticker as his had no name uponit.
DISFUTED MEMORANDUM. Mr. Alabaster next tlealt with the allegations made against Mr. Russ
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