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ART OF LOVE MAKING.
PHILOSOPHY AND ADVICE
FOR BEGINNERS.
There is a quaint compound of worldly wisdom and spoof in (Werner "How to Make Love Laurie), which should ensure making the reader smile, even if it does not make him love. Perhaps nobody can learn to make love from books-and especially in "six easy lessons"-for however much you learn this way you forget in moments of crisis.
Here are two propositions which you may discuss with any friend of the opposite sex if you are hard up for conversation. Or you may try them on the local debating society
The male in his complacency is so bernused with being loved that he forgets to love-in which the female assists him by being so ready to love that she fre- quently becomes unlovable.
A plump girl usually is placid, a thin-or shall we say slender, girl not infrequently is pas sionate. A girl who turns her toes in is almost invariably very passionate.
On the whole_it_will_be_wiser. not to discuss the question until you have, by careful observation. made sure that she does not turn
· her toes in.
I wonder how many matches are missed because of the failure of the modern girl to observe this way of wisdom, more practised in the previous and far more marrying generation :-
She should seek never to be wholly understood (for if any man every wholly understood a dare woman he would never marry her), but must strive to remain perpetually - a mystery that the male cannot penetrate.
The following is, I suppose, meant to be a "spoof” paragraph. And yet it contains more wisdom than may be found In many tomes
The girl has to ask herself:' Do I love this man well enough to give my life into his keeping, cook his meats, darn his socks, and sew on his buttons? Is my love strong enough to withstand the discovery that he snorės; that he coughs for twenty minutes after rising; that he is prone to indigestion; that he wears a chest protector; that the beast dotes on fried onions? Will familiarity of him breed contempt in me? With his hair disappearing and his temper gone, with an increased girth and a decreased mirth, will he awake in me the same pride of posses- sion twenty years hence that he awakes in me now? Can I, in short, take this man for better or worse? Dare I risk it?
Finally getting to the honey- moon and after, let me end with this quotation which, if it cashrines no new thought does contain an old one which all know and few care to remember:-
Courtship and the recital of sweet nothings must not cease with the honeymoon, Love must not-depart-with-the-lovers- return to earth. Love must not end because married. life has begun. As a French wit has said, Married love is bizarre, but it is not forbidden."
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So a joyous honeymoon should be the aim of all lovers-a honeymoon as long as the domestic purse, but not so long that the bride's travelling costume is out of fashion before the honeymoon is over.
Then, when it is over, the real test begins. The reward of passing it with flying colours is such that it is well worth striving. for.
THE CHINA MAIL. IT
CHESTNUTS' RE-ROASTED.
SEYMOUR HICKS'S BOOK.
"SCOTTISH POEMS.
Under the title of "The Northern
SHERLOCK HOLMES.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1924.
ĢEORGE ELIOT'S "LETTERS"
WILL...
· LOSA TO THE WORLD.
"ELAINE AT THE GATES.""
NOVEL
"Eline at the Gates." W. B. Butter-
Maxwell (Thornton worth, 7. Gd.]
Muse (Nelson), Mr. Johni Buchan Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose DESTROYED UNDER NIECE'S MR. W. B. MAXWELL'S NEW Many of Mr. Seymour Hicks's has compiled an anthology of Scot: "Memories and Adventures" have numerous admirers, who know ish vernacular poetry, and an ex-just been published (Hodder and him only as a famous comedian, seedingly rich and comprehensive Stoughton, 20s.), bag, he tells us, will learn with surprise that Ho volume it is. The 215 pieces often been asked whether he hima- is also a keen student of crimino-given, ranging from the earlient
Letters which would undoubtedly logy.
Enown Scottish verse to the work self has the qualities with which be
have Tarined an important contri He has studied this subject to of contemporaries, give the cream invested Sherlock Holmes.
· Mr. ¡Maxwell's new novel is on good purpose, and his new book, of Scots poetry. For. says the He modestly doubts it, yet a few bulion to English erature haven hig and challenging seale: it is
Chestnuts Re-roasted" (Hodder editor his able introduction, I and Stoughton, 3s. 6d.). is a mine havo confined my clinice to pieces of the actual problems in real life just been carefully and solemnly not one to be rushed through at u
which in varying degree seem to that have come his way have burnt. ine to be litonilure, from a bottle been very similar to some that song just redeemed from dengerel be invented for the exhibition by some quaintness of fancy, to the
of anecdotes dealing with the careers of notorious murderers.
Here is one of Burchill, who killed a fellow Oxford under graduate whom he took out to Canada with him.
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high flights of Buns and Dunbar. of the reasoning powers of Mr. Mr. Buchan has done for his gen-Holnes. He made a grim reply to the eration as valuable work as Allan hangman on the morning of his Ramsay did for his in "The Tea execution. It was a bitter win-Table: Miscellany and The Ever. ter morning, and as he had to green, in exhibiting to the literate walk some distance in the open the enduring loveliness of the to the scaffold he was asked by Scottish muse. the man who was shortly to place the knot under his car if he would like a cloak to keep him warm. "No," said Bur- chill. "It's very kind of you, but I don't think I shall catch cold."
Lesser Dangers Feared. This reminds the author of the two felons in Australia who, having been convicted of murder, were sentenced to death and had to pay the extreme penalty on the same morning.
There was only one scaffold, and they tossed who should go to it first. The one who lost, on leaving his friend, turned round and without meaning to be funny in the least bit (as may well be imagined) said: Well, good-bye. Bill, old boy. Do you mind holding my hat for a minute?" Even in the most tragic moments men have thought subconsciously of lesser dangers when the greater was at hand. This was the case with Dr. Palmer, the poisoner, on the morning of his execution.
Without any sign of fear he followed the prison chaplain to the execution shed, know ing that the moment that he set his foot on the trap before him he would be hurled into eternity. The struc- ture he was led into was only a temporary one, and as he stepped on to the newly laid planks which surrounded the drop one of them creaked under his weight. Startled slightly, he stepped back and said to the warder at his side: "Good heavens is this safe??
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Gilbert's Bon Mot Then there is a story of Deeming, i but this derives its main interest.
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from Sir W.S." Gilbert's comment on the crime and the criminal. Deeming was the fibrtible creature who married wife after wife and for sake of their money murdered them in cold blood and then buried the bodies in the basement of his house under a thick layer of cement.
A gentleman had disappeared, He had drawn a bank balance of 440, which was known to be on him. It was feared that he had beon murdered for the sake of the money. He had last beer heard
sitting, however much the heroine's They were written by George fate may intrigue you; while those Eliot, the famous novelist, and it who care for the development of them thus writer of "Adnın Bede,"
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in that splendid romance Spinster of this l'arish he makes the first chapter the clue to and symbol of
"The Million the Floss," and modern fiction will study every other great books, wrote freely and page of this highly skilled crafts: frankly of her work, the books she
· Following his went practice-as was engaged upon, her domestic affaits and her travels. They were of particular interest in that they were in the novelist's own · hand-
The ghild Elaine is writing and reflected in an intimate
brought from penury to the gates of a splendid home; they open for a The melancholy task of destroy-moment to clarg against her face.
of, stopping at a large hotel in way the life of her tinite. London, having come from the country that day. In the even-
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the story.
ing he went to a music-halling the letters levolved upon Mr.
Metaphorically, this is repeated came out of it about 10 o'clock, Henry Woodtlipe Clarke, na
twice in her young womulood---. returned to his hotel, changed gentleman farmer of Sunnyside. on the eve of an expected inherit- his evening clothes, which were Binbrook, Bear Grimsby, Lines,ance and on the marrow of her found in lus room next day, and Mr. Clarke is a grandson of Air.betrothat. The trials and strange disappeared utterly. A week had
Clarke, who married elapsed at the time that I was Edwant
adventures that follow form the consulted, but the polico had Christian Evans, sister of Mury bulk of the book, discovered nothing. Where was Ann Cross, and known to 1he the man?
Flaving there facts laid before him by relatives in the country. Sir Arthur, applying Mr. Holmes's methods of deduction, replied by return of post that he was evident by either in Edinburgh or Glasgow,
Whoo Sir William road of this wretch's modus operandi he looked up from. his morning paper, and observed. "Dear, dear! A strange man this Deam- ing. He seems to have made a hobby of marrying In haste and cementing at leisure." Seymour Hicks knew the famous advocate, Montagu Williams, very well, and heard from his own lips the story of an acquittal he obtained for a prisoner who was undoubted-It proved later that he had, in fact, ly guilty of murder. The case for first gone to Edinburgh. How did the prosecution depended largely | Conan Doyle arrive at this conclu- on the proving of the fact that asion? bowler hat found near the body of the victim belonged to the man in the dock. This the defence střenu- ously denied, and the battle for two days raged round this vital ̄ piece of evidence.
Williams, in his final address, took the hat to his hand, and so convinced the jury there was no. shadow of evidence that could be brought to prove that it belonged to the accused that they brought in a verdict of "Not guilty." The judge ordered the man's discharge, and he was told that he was free: He was. leaving the dock when he turned back and said, "Thank you very much, Mr. Williams, I'm much obliged. And oh, by the way, do you mind handing me my hat?"
world us (ieorge Eliot.
The novelist kept up a long correspondence with her niece. Emily Susannah
Clarke, Dr. Clarke's daughter, vi lived at St. Peter's, Thanet. The latter died at the age of 80, on July 20, and in her will she directed her executors to hun or destroy all the letters addressed to her by her late aust.
Interviewed, M. Renry Clarke said that he regretfully carried ont the duty laid upon him as executor, and bad burnt the whole of the letters,
The first clear deduction was that the man hud meant to dis- |
The-terms-of-the-will-left-ine- appear Why else should he draw out all his money? He had no other course, and I solemnly left the hotel at night, but it¦ Burut the whole of the letters, nist have been before midnight, said Mr. Clarke sadly. when the doors me shut and it is impossible to get out without the The knowledge of the porter. inference was that, he departed when the hall was full of returt ing guesta from 11 to 11,30 o'clock. If he intended to con- real himself in London he need never have gone to the hotel at all. Clearly he was going "to catch a train.
himself in the crowd. When one turns up the time table and.
that the great Scotch expresses start about midnight, the goal is reached.
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But even more than by the plot the careful render will be attracted, first, by the character of the girl, and, secondly, by that of the clergy- man who for a time" dominates her career. Here are two figures aspects of whom no doubt can be readily seen in life or have already been depicted, but who, as a whole, are new in fiction. In particular, the man is a brilliant conception and his every development keeps the reader on tenter-hooks.
_In_a_work_ch sample a scale_" there is room for wonderful sketches of incidental scenes and characters
of suburban flapperdom, of a modern mother with a past, of* mission work in London, of a rotired man's home in a south const golfing resort.
Our one regret about this new book is that Mr. Maxwell has..re- turned to his more sombre tone as in "The Curded Flimé." The warmer geniality of "Hill Rise" or
Sir Arthur saya that he quotes the "Spinster" already referred to
It must be to this case to show that the generalis, ve on a few pages, missing.
one large tertians where all lines of reasoning advocafed by But for that "Elaine at the Gates" his fellow-passengers would dis- Holmes have a real application to would challenge his most popular embark and where he would lose | life.
ENGUERARs.
U. S. SECRET SERVICE MEN
Knew the man who unfolded the future. And when his
greedy bands had almost reached her heart, when dis- illusionment came and she clutched at prison bars-
IT is a tremendous drama from the record written by
William J. Flynn.
'BEHIND THE
CURTAIN
WITH LUCILLE RICKSEN, JOHNNY HARRON, WINIFRED BRYSON, CHARLES CLARY AND OTHERS.
À SENSATIONAL, SWIFT-MOVING ROMANCE FROM LIFE,
THEMING WITH INTRIGUE.
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SENSATIONAL
BREATHTAKING
A PICTURE OF THRILLS.
Commencing To-morrow
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SCREENLAND.
"BEHIND THE CURTAIN,”
Proves Gripping Mystery.
"MARY AIN'T GUILTY."
Heart interest that's the one
element that puts a picture over "Behind the Curtain, Univer- big. Mary Pickford in "Mary sal attraction which was given its Ain't Guilty, which is scheduled initial showing on the screen at for 4 days' run at the World the World Theatre, came heralded
Theatre, commencing Wednesday, as a mystery story of unusual
has it in a degree few pictures conception and unusual solution.
attained. There's no It lived up to the advance notices have in both instances, and in addition harrowing tragedy and no sob gave pleasure by the manner-in-stuff-but there's pathos that will- which it was acted and in the tug at the heartstrings, there is perfection of its direction by plenty of joyous laugher, there is Chester Franklin.
a beauty of sentiment that will make everybody happy and there is such compelling simplicity with so much intrigue. You'll never want to take your eyes off the screen for one moment. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll go away happy. Many you saw but this is the best. It is a comedy with a "kick" and is packed with laughter.
Lucille Ricksen is joyously thoughtless in her love for the youth whose father threatens to apank him and send him to another school if he does not aub stitute study for matrimonial desires. The youth is personated by Johnny Harron, and they elope with grave consequences to the girl's sister, played by Winifred Bryson, who as the unloved but loving plaything of a man of wealth has a difficult part which she achieves without being betrayed by the opportunity for overacting.
The man played by Charles Clary, is the father of the youth who eloped and knowledge of this escapade brings, the final break between the father and sister of his son's wife, the older woman being accused of having contrived the elopement.
That night the man is found murderet on the lawn of the home in which he has maintained the woman and she and a man known
Gregorious, played by Eric Myne, to bring souls back from the spirit world, and the woman also has had an experience with the pro- fessor.
From then on the story con- cerns itself with developing the unusually conceived plan by which the real criminal is brought to justice through his own con- fession--a plan that includes in its scope a manifestation of the powers of a spiritualistic medium to bring about a materialization-
to the police for his criminal with dire consequences to the record as Blug-Gorman played-by-medium-
George Cooper, are convicted of Clarence Geldert as the District the crime and sentenced to death. Attorney and Pat Harmon es Gorman is the victim of his bellef "Spike" Have the other character in the power of Professor parts.
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A STORY OF YOUTH, LOVE AND MIRTH
THAT SPARKLES WITH WIT AND HUMOUR !
MARY PICKFORD
IN
"Mary Ain't Guilty”
A COMEDY WITH A "KICK" & PACKED WITH LAUGHTER
MANY YOU SAW BUT THIS IS THE BEST.
IN THIS SUPER-FEATURE THERE'S
PATHOS THAT WILL TUG AT THE HEARTSTRINGS.
PLENTY OF JOYOUS LAUGHTER.
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A BEAUTY OF SENTIMENT THAT WILL MAKE
EVERYBODY HAPPY,
SUCH COMPELLING SIMPLICITY WITH
MUCH INTRIGUE.
SO
YOU'LL NEVER WANT TO TAKE YOUR EYES OFF
THE SCREEN FOR A MOMENT.
YOU'LL LAUGH, YOU'LL CRY.
YOU'LL GO AWAY HAPPY.
Commencing Wednesday, 5th November..
Remember The Date,
WORLD THEATRE.