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Mr. H. . Phillips, the pro- prietor of the Carl Ross Opora Company, announced. that ho has decided" upon adopting" Mr. Asquith on Lord Fisher.
In the latest Instalment of his modern methods of stagecraft in the war book Mr. Asquith writes as production of grund opera, aud with follows on Lord Fisher: "Fisher, that object in view has engaged Mr. both in his qualities and in their W. J. Wilson, the producer of defects, was one of the most re- Decameron Nights at Drury markable men of lus time. His Lane, to supervise the staging of whole soul was in his profession; the forthcoming Curl Ross tours he brought to it a singularly in Mr. Wilson, who is British by ventive and original mind, and wide though intermittent range of birth, spent this, early days in Imaginative vision, and he worked America. In the course of an inter- every day harder and for longer view, Mr. Wilson said:"I in hours than probably any other servant of the Crown. But he was duced original methods in Americs, domineering and combative, and getting away from the old-fashioned for years became the storm centre style of stuge treatment, and giving of a succession of cyclones which the operas at setting more in keeping ravaged the higher personnel of
I shall try to the Navy. He had always at his with the themes. command an inexhaustible reser-avoid the stereotyped systent of voir of verbose and picturesque operatic production at present pre-Mes R. Kee phraseology, upon which he drewvalent in England, and gradu. Nr W. W. xing
Mr J. Fenwick freely, and even recklessly, with ally re-equip the Carl Rosa works Mr. Ferguson both tongue and pen. There were with a mise-en-sečne moro in keep M. F. Gaskes moments when he seemed almosting with modern stage development. De R. E. Gill Mr E.. Pay mozd to have lost his intellectual balance, "I shall introduce new lighting Mr & Mrs J. Could but in the midst of a resonant tirade effects and redress the operas, tal-Mrs.J. Gray Mr T. Haim against the incurable stupidity of ing them out of the druh, mostly apt T. P. Hall mankind in general, and politicians atmosphere in which they have Me & Mrs W. in particular, he would break off been given. It word, I intend to
Hanai' al and delight nae with the infectious escape from the furrow of tradition, gaiety, and sometinies the physicil My programme will only gradually pranks, of an overgrown schoolboy, be put into effect, one ögem being I saw him constantly, often daily, taken at a time and thoroughly pro- for years, and though we had our duced." difference-sometimes acute ones we remained good friends to the end."
Revival of the Waltz.
music in
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Mr T. Pearson
Mr & Mr. Rager Mr J. R. Pedley
& childrua Mra L. T. Kil
Mr M. T. Elzar
Mr 8. B. Perry Mr T. Fetrie MrE'R. Playford Miss D. l'onatord My C E. Fowell Bir F. Priestley Mr E. A, Pratt" Hrf. A. Batbitt
Mr & Mrs Ronzet
Mr & Mr. Rose
Mr J Schind or Mr M. Schont urg A.Me G. 0. Seliner
Mr W P. Simmons Mr J. colt Baystoulis H. F. Linnor Me EU. Kaufman Mr O. B. Capt. K. Hodges Mr P. Rosco Me & sira Langston Mr W. Vander Steen
Sparks fes C. Lauritsen Mr J. Lelas Miss H. Cillie Mr Leon Lipoosky Ir P. Marks Me Alphonso Melet Miss B. Marshall Mr. B. Martin, Mr J. McArthur
Mi W. Vernor Mr O. V. Vogel Mr A. R. Wagschal Mr & Mr G. T.
Walkor
Mr A. T. Waterfall Mr and Mrs Wation Jr.Mr E. G. Webster Mr C Weinberger F.Me N. Westwood Mr T. Whittaker rs H. Whittle Mr O. A. De Witt Capt. H. A. Moura Kr W. L. Wore ster Mr O. H., Montagas Mr M. Monseariff Miss M Worcester
Mr D. H. McMaster Miss M. Moore Mr F. H. M dy
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Mr & Mrs E. Land
Mr & Virg M. Plant
Drerard
Mr Richmond Mr. B. Fbank
M., W. Day Mr & Mrs J. H. . E. D. Shank
Gent
Mr. G. Shank Mr J. Tully Mra Tully
Miss Gero Mr Ya Hein M&Ms R. C. B. children
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Mr H. A White We . H. Ignott Mr & Mrs James Mr Beenahan Mr F. .Young
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Banque Industrielle.de. Chine.
The long, drawn out proceedings in the French Law Courts agains! The craze for the fox-trot and its the chairman, directors, and exaggerations such as the "shim- officials of the Banque Industrielle my" check-to-cheek dancing, and de Chine have now, come to an end | the "bootleggers' roll," is at last on by the decision of the Correctional the wane, and the old-fashioned Tribunal in Paris on August 2, says waltz is returning
to popular the China Express and Telegraph. favour. This was authoritatively It in two years since the bank crash- announced at the opening in Newed and caused so much trouble and York of the thirtieth annual con- loss, both on this side and in the vention of the International Far East, though more particularly Association of Masters of Dancing. in Chion. An investigation by the For the last two years, say the Parquet of the Seine resulted in a Mr R. Bjake dancing masters, the graceful waltz decision in the following October to Me FM. Crawford Mr & Mrs Matthews step has been disputing the reign take proceedings against certain Mr & Mrs Cicoker Mr & Mrs W. B. of jazz music, which is responsible officials. The trial just concluded for the graceless, coarse dancing in began two months ago. The Court vogue, and people have been giving has found most of those who were a sympathetic car to melodious waltz strains. Instead of the vul-on trial to be guilty, and fines and sentences have been inposed, gar ragtime, which brought the though, in view of the gravity of the fox-trot into such disrepute, the charges, it would not appear that
casino, cabarets, and grand ballrooms in the coming ed. The Court held that, although ahy undue severity has been exercis scason will consist of "sym- phonic jazz and classical ragtime"
it had been proved that new issues instead of dancing to "Yes, we of shares had been made under cir- have nu bananas." The dancing cumstances of great irregularity masters say that the more sophis (the allegation was that the direc ticated débutante will fox-trottors issued a large amount of fur- decorously to the
Feptember 4 mad scene ther capital when the bank was from
Lucia" or Beethoven's hopelessly insolvent), the guilt of Mr. W Barton Mr and Mrs W. J.
Me V. Benjamin Moonlight Sonata" done in the directors was not sufficient to atd Mes F. W. Mr and Mrs C. F. syncopation, A dance which is justify their being made civilly to be popularised next autumn responsible as regarded persons who is the American Tango, which had lost money by subscribing for has been evolved by the asso-shares. ciation after careful study of the varieties of tango danced in Amazing Case Of Red Tape." Spain, Brazil, and Mexico.
In the minds of people of a "Murder Will Out.",
certain type even the saving of a fellow-creature's life must be per formed in accordance with a đùe and proper protocol, and this type surely finds its highest expression ia a parkkeeper at Versailies. In mail week an elderly man, whose ennui of life was not diminished even on a beautiful afternoon in a delightful environment invested with the shade of the Roi Soleil, flag himself into the Grand Canal. as though she had committed Three soldiers were in a boat not suicide, but the fact that her house far away, and one, plunging Mr and Mrs J. had been ransacked pointed to into the water, hore the half- Berck murder, Police investigations, drowned individual to the Mr and Mrs W. failed to bring to light any clues bunk. Meanwhite the two
A murder mystery which was relegated four years ago to the files of insoluble problems has just been unravelled, owing probably to the fact that the murderers thought the whole affair had been forgotten, In February, 1919, a widow named Blanchard, aged 64, who lived alone on her farm ai Chanelle St. Mesmin, near Orleans, was found hanging from a bean in her birt
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Mr J. M. Boapar Me & Mrs J.:Martin Mr A. C. J. Bowker Mr J. R. May Mr and Mrs A. R. McGregor
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Mr J. Finlay Miller Mr T. Mito ell Mr H. G. Morten Mr J. M. E. Hikolo J. N. Owen H.Mrs A. J. Paterson Hr A. 1. Ponn Major & Mr F. H.
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VFJ. R. Collis Miss . Cooper
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Demaretz Mr and Mrs J. B.
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Mr D. Fitzgerald Mr RJ. Saunders Mr. M Golrich Mr. & Mrs B. Soutt Mrand Mrs W. D.Mr K. F. Shaw
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to the identity of her assassins, other soldiers had found a park- Mrs. H. D. Hillind bings and the affair appeared soon to be keeper and told him the man was Eng. Com. J. H.Mm J. 8. Thomson forgotten. Recently, however, it drowning. "Where?" he asked.
Hocken
Mr A. W. Tickle came to the knowledge of a police "In the Grand Canal." Ahl that is Mr W. A. Jordan Capt. Vidall. official in Paris that certain re- unfortunate," said the guardian. Mr. P. Koy
Mr J. M. Haye
Mr F. Des Voeux Hr and Mrs W. E sidents in Chapelle St. Mesmia; Now if it had been in the Bassin J. D. Kinnaird Wakebom had been spending gold pieces d'Apollon it would have been with Dr and Hea W. V.Capt. B. F. Walker", rather freely, and he sent a detect-in my jurisdiction. You'll have to ive to investigate, turning up. see the forest keeper." "Well
PALACE HOTEL meanwhile the particulars of the where does he live?" demanded |- crime committed there four years the astounded military. I don't. W. Berrett ago. As it appeared that Louis know," declared the parkkeeper Mr H. Frynilson Nation and his nephew Bourges, an extraordinary state of affairs Mr. A C. Burnie both former neighbours of the in view of the fact that his colleague fr and Mrs D. A‚Mr” §.” J. dn H. murdered widow, were spending resides in the park itself. But he
Moore Air J A. Pederson money than they could has evidently been trained in the Mr 0:0. Dance
Mr J. Jack
Mire C. Btingor.. honestly carn, they were arrested, school of Richelieu, which
Vif & drs E. Kals dir Reno Vezi and closely questioned about their believes that
the object of
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Mr. V. M. Ward movements on the night of the language is to conceal thought, Mr T. 1. Hooreman apt. A. E. Watt widow's death. They soon and what he meant probably was Mr & Mrs A. Lano Mr. B. Way fessed, and told.
a terrible that he had not official.cognisance Mr E. Layman - Wibust
En lane Mr A. F. Wheen story of the murder, deliher of the dwelling-place of the forest
Mr J. D. Lloyd BIs B. HL. Wild ately planned and coolly curried keeper. Thereupon the soldiers rt: Lloyd out in order to obtain possession of went to the telephone and informed the widow's savings. On the fatal the central police station of what
Mr L. Boob night, they related, they broke to had occurred."We cannot late Mr G. Lare n the widow's house, and, rouslag her, fere in the park," "came the answer! out of bed, demanded under "We should require a special order menaces that she should reveal the from the Beaux Arts Department hiding-place of her hoard. They to do that." Finally, the unfortunate. Lecturing on art in its relation to made her accompany them to the elder y man, who had been lying philosophy, under theosophical bara in which it was buried, and half-dead on the canal bank'durig auspices in the New Gallery,, Edin- having unearthed it, asked her to the progress of the official pourpit burgh, Miss I. M. Pagan said that lend them a rope. With this eyers, wis taken in a taxi by the hanged her from a beam in the bir disgusted soldiers at their own in a posture that would suggest expense-to hospital. suicide. For four years they escaped suspicion, but the gotèl för | m which they killed has at last beiry- ed them.
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the hoblest achievements in ort, in any land were connected with a time when the faith of the land was a living reality to its inhabitants.
Two sets of triplets were born within a stonethrow of each other in the Grosvenor Road district of Belfast, Mr. Magee, wife of an artisan, giving birth to two boys and a girl, and Mrs. Curran, whose hus
Para mantina tline, un the longer this is it not only range volds and grin, but band is a fishmonger, to two girls. elisearernur on the harder Tets core, prevents their, reunitine in pquymosis and a boy. All the infants are doing in bưˆila to day, applyit-with a vizörülis ! Chamberlain Cough Remedy podwell. They were baptised together. mange to the flat desparta and your tahes no opium or other partie the local Catholic Church. will be sus prard 'add 'delighted" do the may losiver as conf, ently to a child as pali fobtained. For sale by all uradnit. Fors le liy all Chető stud Mrs. Magne's sister-in-law has Chetesity and Storekeepers.
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