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THE CHINA MAIL.
··BLIND" VIOLINIST.
INSPIRED BY NOISE OF TRAFFIC.
Shaw attends the first rehearsal of a play full lof contagious enthusiasm, With Pinero, a heavy, pall-like secrecy lies over the plece, and he proceeds to break down the Intelligence.
On fine days people walking near temperament, and pre conceived Kensington Gardens are likely to
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who
now well
CHASING CLUES,
NEW LONDON SOCIETY
GAME,
On the steps of a flat in Mayfair two girls, exquisitely dressed. were seen seated with their hats at a mathematical problem, says the Daily Mail. beside them, working feverishly
TREASURE FLEET.
£10,000,000 "SPOIL OF LONG-
LOST SHIPS.
According to a message which has reached London, regular saly- age work has started in Navarino
Turkish ships sunk by the com Bay, on the west coast of Greece, in search of treasure lost in the bined English, French, and Russian
In 1827.
One of the most cheery, good-lIdeas of the actors, until every humoured and revealing books one concerned is on the verge of meet an elderly blind violinist of
distinguished appearance collapse," about shining lights in Society. Barrie looks in to see how the plays with exceptional vigour and and stage celebrities has just come rehearsals of his play shape with brilliancy. He is Signor Alfredo the air of a trespasser who feels Nardi, an Italian composer, once Hamilton, the novelist, and play. that he would thoroughly deserve the friend of Liszt, Massenet, and mystery, of a series of mysteries, / Fleets under Admiral Codringtop
They were engaged in solving a In Unwritten History Mrto have something flung at him for Tschaikowsky, and
for they belonged to a new sect Hamilton weaves his own in- poking his nose into a place where known In London musical circles. in the world of fashion-the The Navarino Recovery, Limited. teresting life story into a narrative he ought not to be.
On one occasion Barrie lost ls that I find my inspiration,” he} and were engaged on a new game: has completed his preliminary" "It is in the streets, in the open, Society of Bright Young People state that the salvage contractor threaded with illuminating anec dotes about the great people.
Here is a picture of London in
a combination of a "rag," a trea-investigations and that divers have its pre-war days:
sure hunt, and a test of observation. located several of the sunken ships.
The last exploit of the society, which is composed of young men and women, sons and daughters of some of the most famous people in hounds on the London Under London, was a game of hare and ground railways.
Mrs. Asquith and her carefully selected group of sycophants and Imitators, who were not content
with suffering from a virulent form of auto infatuation, but kept on saying so
pipe, and every member of the company and of the theatre staff said, "the sounds of the traffic, joined in the search. The tragic the thousand and one noises of the cry went up, Barrie's lost his busy streets, all breathe melodies pips!" and the play was ignored to me. They have supplied me and forgotten.
with many of the themes and idees for my latest compositions,
"One day I was standing by Piccadilly Circus Tube Station,
I
The author was invited by Charles Frohman to write a play When asked why he had taken
The game began in Bryanstone-
One of the divers went down to
a depth of 150 feet, when the dragging, hook was caught in the upper part of a large and com which appeared to be resting clear paratively well-preserved vessel
of the mud on the sea bed.
The value of the treasure in the the traffic. Gradually the sounds collected for the start. Each come battle is put at about £10,000,000. and I listened to the thunder of squire, W., where about 20 cars 63 ships which were sunk in the blended into a grand hymn of petitor was given an envelope to In the flagship alone, the "Capitan down, I call it 'London Town."tained the words: exultent life, and I have written it open at 2.30 p.m., and this con- Bey," there was said to be more
such a risk Frohman replied: waiting for a friend. He was lato, darned independence, and when "I liked your tie and your asked you if you'd do the job, told me you'd burst before you let something came into your face that
It was their incradicable bellef, religion almost, that they had made a corner in wit, intellectually, and independence of thought action. Not to be a Soul was to be a mere body. ༢. ” . .
"Success in art, letters, musicie down." the drame, politjos, and medicine depended, doglike, upon their bone of praise, they thought They stood for freakishness and faddisin.
"They took a fiendish delight in carrying Our metaphorical
raids on English ilfe for the pur.
Frohman, Mr. Hamilton in cidentally remarks, "knew less about plays than any man I have
ever met."
44 MRS. PAT CAMPBELL, The author gives a quaint picture of Mrs. Patrick Campbell's supper
parties."
Dose of collecting and making bonfires of the last remaining relics Discarding the conventional of early Victorianism. And they attire of the modern woman and succeeded remarkably well.
the enormous hat for which she ..."Their persistent, autocratic had so great a fondness, she always propaganda made itself felt, not appeared on these occasions in a only in both Houses of Parliament, one-piece melancholy, robe, which the Press, Eton, Harrow, Oxford, I might have come from the dress
all the arts.
with a face most pluckily "devold
Cambridge; and the Army, burning-room of Dante's Beatrice; and,
"It is true that the South African millionaire had made a break in their rhythm here and there, especk ally in Park Lane and Grosvenor Square, and that already there had been several assaults upon the por- ticulls of the House of Lords.". especially during the devastating régime of the billliant person from Wales who gave out titles to all. the men who wrote his praises and licked his boots with as little respect for the dignity of England as a man has for the rules of decency who is lent a country house and makes presents of the fripes and peaches.” '
A WAR EPISODE.
of his compositions at a concert he
Signor Nardi was to play some IRGA SLGVO. was giving at the Steinway hit
I had it Douglas Fairbanks in 1013 when, as a young actor, he crossed on the Olympic for a hot- the only man in Piccadilly, to wear day in England and was almost
top hat and wil-cout. fr was good to find that his remarkable and well-deserved success had let him with a head that was perfectly normal in size, and a Inmour as fresh as it has ever athlete, as well as an artist since heen He had developed into an
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A equals 2, then must 2 equal A. This led to a good deal of con- centrated thought. Then one car dashed away to the Ritz Hotel, to be followed at intervals by rever sing the alphabet, Z becomes A and LRGA Ritz.
petitors as they arrived werk given
At the Riz Hotel the com-
another clue. more difficult than the first, which on solution led them to the London Museum
than £2,000,000 in specie. Other vessels had large quantities of gold, jewels, and statuary looted from Greek towns.
by beautiful young women, who asked them if they had a "clue."..
But the clue which put many of the young women out of the runn-
ing was as follows
Take a certain number (below five) and cube it. This result and another number greater than it by EMBARRASSED YOUNG MEN.
one are the first two figures of the telephone number you are seeking. The next clue led to a hairdres The third figure is one less than sers shop in Regent street, where the last, and the last is the cube photograph of a young man, who, of all four numbers is 20, and the the competitors were handed a root of the first figure. The sun
centre of Piccadilly Circus. it was stated, could be found in the exchange is Victoria, where, the was-and many other young men.
He next clue can be obtai.e l
Hence beauty in distress on the
too, who blushed when accosted steps in Mayfair,
▲ Soothing Balm.
The last clue led competitors to the Tea Lawn at Hyde Park,
of make-up and her abundant hairs pre-war days, and bore the in Rossetti's disarray, hurried eminders of all his pictures in the through supper in order to enjoy a GITH upon his body. Sane, green cigar..
Shrewd, energetic, high-spirited, Women do not figue largely in kind and thoughtful, he had no Mr. Hamilton's history, but Missions to the permanent Clare Sheridan finds it place:
"The beautiful, plucky, but fortable and mistaken belief in the much relief is afforded by massaging the There was only a few moments For soreness of the mosties stier viol-where the prize money was divid loyalty of picture Înus or any com
ent exercise and for rheumatio paina, ed among the first three home. astonishingly unexpected. Clare retention of his enormous popu alected parts thoroughly with Cham difference in time between the Sheridan, who is as little frighten larity that allowed him to sheken berlain's Pain Balm. Try it when you first and second arrival. ed of the pen as she is of the platform or her sculptor's tools in his efforts to take his next
have need of such a prepaiation and see for yourself what an excellent iniment is poor. She makes no picture better than his last, Thet is 8uld everywhere. bones about it.
little "leisure that he allowed him- "To that distressing fact must be self was spent in playing games put down, of course, the various for the hardening of his muscles, things that she had done which (uul low-he-mminged to and the have not been understood. The time to read as widely as he did! Kipling episode, for instance, and
was n puzzle to me.
In contrast to this are some griather Russian busts. Also the vague pictures of England during the linking of her name with that of war.
Mr. Hamilton telis of a my Charlie Chapin. » sierious" expedition in which he' took part in January, 1915. He, with certain picked men, was ordered to entrain at Euston for a place near the East Coast,,"
They had sealed orders, which
were not to be opened until a certain moment after their arrival
there At the small smart country station they were joined by detachment of the-Guards and of artillery. They read the ordess at the appointed time, and found that they were to mount guns and rearchlights round the King's Cottage, at Sandringham.
Women
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his wife, Mary Pickford who did He was helped very greatly by
"Mr. Sheridan, like all beauti-'
not look a day older tha when she appeared in her first picture, ful and very sensitive should have preserved from the was by, no incans an easy life for
and worked as hard as he did. I difiealt art of self-preservation by
camry grateful for her beantsler of them, or one free from anxiety. The fickleness of the Women who are obliged public hung like the word of to earn their livings are always Daniles over both their heads, sneliow a little more unscrupulous but they did not intend to let it than men," They have a greater fall throng any fault of theirs. impatience of tradition.**
They were blissfully happy to- Mg Handon had the honour of gelier und as hanch in love as turtle dining at Windsor in the days of
loves, King Edward
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CHAPLIN TRAGEDIAN,
with the flapping feet and comie As Toy Charles Spencer Claplin,
It appeared that the King and long table but at a number of Sal Queen, after many months of unes in the dining hall, so that it deep anxiety, had felt the need of the age and beauty of the rooin. ceaseless and unsparing work and looked like a Festaurant, but for ustache, doomed to be funny at all costs, he struck me then as a a short holiday, and had slipped an
the braient when then who had grown out of his
away,
It WAR very certain that, a party entered, all the lights ragged trousers, but was without
flushed up and made the gold plate listen on the screens, In the middle of dinner the ancient ens ton took place of drinking wine the King, 11. somewjut
sufficient tragic gifts that belong to every great comedian. Shy as a segull and, like Douglas Fair banks, without a swollen head, it Reemed to me that he only needed
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been dropped on nearby fields, and Kitchener had another worry to add to his daily pile.
"It got about among us that he had said we were to sit on the King's head in case of a buzz.' This was probably a very free and to try to persuade the King to colloquial adaptation of his orders
keep well under cover in the
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Oneen Victoria commanded that he should give his well-known watched him put a handkerchief imitation of her august self
his head, sink his chin and, blow
levent of a raid, which we all knew but his cheeks, said in her ice
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was easier said than done.
"As a fine shot, a born sailor, and a man who eagerly and gladly would have given ten years of his
life to be in the thick of the fight ing, the King, we knew jolly well, inevitably would be with us if there were to be a buzz, acting in all probability as a gun layer and having an excellent time."
Then follows an account of a charming informal dinner-party at the Cottage; of how after dinner the Queen went into the draw- ing-room to knit socks for sold- fers, while the King told inter- esting anecdotes; of the days that followed when the Queen and Princess Mary sat on the gun platforms and had long talks with the mea; and of how the Queen sat down in the mud with laugh ter" when one of the officers, while playing golf, swung himself off his feet into an artificial lake.
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tone, "We are not amused,” and left him worse than dead...
The offender was, not Admiral Masse hot someone less celebrated.
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which kept one on edge.
right story to enable him to brenk There is a story of Admirat "way from the easy stuff that he Maxse which is not correct.
was doing, and which he had been content to do to the infinite amuse- is to this effet:
ment of all the peoples to whom' his name is a household word,.
America, to prove himself an actor since his earliest years upon the raudeville stage in England, and,
with a power to draw tears as well of the utmost sympathy and charm,
as laughter and stir the deeper emotions of an audience that is far inore eager than lie seems to think to go up with man to the high- est point of his capacity. 1 would like to see him play "Richard II," film for instance, and 1 am sure that he would have brought Mark Sabre to life in "If Winter Comes" with electrical effect. But of all the BUILDING UP THE BABIES. parts that he is capable of playing
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