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RAMSAY'S RAMBLINGS.
EX-PREMIER'S TRAVEL -
BOOK.
him
THE CHINA MAIL.
"BARE SOULS,”
SOME INTIMATE PEN PORTRAITS.
it fell or
UNAHLES LAMB.
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through the Holy, Land, every
Charles Lamb was a creature of name in which is written on the whim and frolic fancy, turned life heart.
upside down and inside out, "But we like sported with it, rifled with it, him most, he is
toxned it
in the mar like soup bubbles the best of tra-or thistletown, regardless of where velling-com-
whom it might ught panions, when he ...
In all his mockery and foams on shank's all his seriousness, in his busi- nag through his and in his leisure, it is clear own country and that what first and always inter- ested him was the human heart. talks with grey- Up to anything: down to any haired derelicts about the wild thing; whatever sit hominem. doings of his
A perfect man is his description of a doar friend: it fits himself. New boyhood, and
lives, new thoughts, new habits, new manners stimulated and ex cited him... Famb may well Rannoch and Lochaber the insolable mystery of
be a saint to those who Teel that
the I will go,
universe is in no way better solved than by the two delicately related keys of love and daughter.
"The wanderlust is perhaps the most precious of all the troublesome appetites of the soul of man. It makes keep in his cupboard a friend- ly old suit of comfortable wear that has paled under the fer- vent eyes of the sun and been matured by dust and mud and strides uphill to the magic lilt of ruin, and with that a pair of honast boots, nailed like the
nak door of an ancient keep. which of themselves direct one's way o'er moor and fell and bog and by-path away from the offence and clamour of cars and trains."
MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD. in Wanderings and Excursions.
(Jonathan Cape, 64, nel.)
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"The ex-Prime Minister geis
countryside where so much of his
so much colour and gaiety and romance out of. a single drop of ink, when describing his journeys especially those through the youth lies buried that we are glad he has had a selection made and put forth of his Travel- papers. says the "Morning Post" in a generous tribute of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's new book, "Wanderings and Excursions.”
The spirit' of
adventure awakens in aim as he passes by Tortuga, the den of the bucaneers, or skirts the coast of Hayti, with its one here, Toussaint. or
sees the unmatched, unearthly blue of the Central American mountains, or enters the decaying, ghost- haunted Halls of Jamaica," adds the "Morning Post." The past becomes alive again for him as he view the outposts of the Isle of Greece, dim but flushed in the morning light, or visits Constan- tinople (The meeting of many waters flowing from the East and the West; the No Man's Land be- tween Europe and Asia, where all men gather), or reads a Latin epitaph on a gravestone in the museum at Brindisi, or wanders
"Sure, by Tummel and Loch
By heather tracks wit heaven in
their wides.
"As a politician we have no use for him but as a wayfarer in Broad Scotland we like him fine, and are not afraid to con- fesa it."
GUSTAVE FEAT BERT. Flaubert was thorough-going idealist and, as with so many of that type, the idealism soured into pessimis because it could never be satisfied. The deepest pessimian "In his sketches, of political still less from
does not spring from inere negation, activities Mr. MacDonald has a materialism, which is apt to enjoy alt and slothful lightness of touch and a humor- its sees and let the world cus outlook which may well sur-the sudest pessimist, prise the bourgeois reader of this Madame du Defund or Flame book who has not been accus is one who asks too much of life and
VOLTAIRE.
whether
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be
angry, he might be discouraged, he might be weary, he might desperate he was never indolent and never indifferent. Life was a great game, or, if you preferred, a great battle; but while you lived You must make the most of it, must make every nerve and muscle you had tell something and do something.
JOHN KEATS.
inter-
But lus letters are at
rats in all the matters and rela- What is most striking about is of life is the richness and which he transfused and splendour of imagination with tomed to read his article in of the living; one whose ideal is penetrated even Labour publications," says the high, whose conception of what things
the commencet "Times Literary Supplement." men should be, of what men, might are familiar with this quality, and All readers of his poetry "His amused contempt for the noble that the scrdid the poetry would apply sufice to proceedings of the French Cham-alty, as it creeps upon the dull utrate it. ber, his racy accounts of the muddy earth, breeds nothing once less known and more personal, meetings of the Berlin Socialist Humu sons might be glorious in imagination. touches them every but disappointment and despair. and the glow and glamour of Conference with its clash between hops, in aspiration, in love, even Socialist moderates and Belshein metal achievement, and they in the middle of a letter he burst vist extremists, his sober warn-e--what they are.
where as it does the poems. Often inga against political violence
right into verse. Or he brings in his and legislative over-haste, and his dictum that one of the weakest that his bitterest enemy cannot they end and he begins. He him memories of Shakespeare and other poets till its difficult to tell where things in the world is an Act of dispute and that his friends rejoics self marks this element of his Parliament embody public opinion, his recog-infaxy to uge every parlice of him delightfully: "If I scribble long not his enormons vitality. Frora correspondence and enlarges upon it nition that in Republican Ger seemed to live, to vibrate and quiver letters I must play my vagaries-I many it is the capitalist who has with an intense, succeeded to the throne of the irrepressible animation, which en- whole pages I must be quaint and inexhaustible, must be too heavy, or too light, for feudalist and capitalism is now more strongly deeds, and extanded itself to every play my draughts as I please, and German tered into all his thoughts and fres of tropes and figures-I must entrenched than ever, will all thing and person that came near for my advantage seem very strange to the average him. He sums it up in three erudition, crown a white with a political opponent in this coun- words.
and your "J'aime tout." Mr. MacDonald rather from his like he hated, and he often liked near as I please. try, who has been apt to judge everything. The things he did not move into black or white, far and 'I like black, or a black with & white, and own party posters and headlines and hated the same thing as the in his own morning newspaper." mood took him.
which does
that
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THE PHOTOPLAY MAGNIFICENT
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THE GREAT HONORE DE BALZAC'S IMMORTAL STORY
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SLAVE OF DESIRE"
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"FANTOMAS"
CHANGE OF NEW EPIZOD ZERS-SUKDAT
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There is one thing about Voltaire
He might be
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SCREENLAND.
"FANTOMAS."
Rena Parker, the dark-eyed stage beauty who is playing an import- ant part in the William Fox serial "Fantomus" which will be shown at tha World Theatre from Sunday to Wednesday, gives up a very import- ant engagement in a play that was a hit in New York, to become the Countess in Fantomas."
This serial is Miss Parker's first attempt in motion pictures." She
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a part of themselves at all, but a People's opinions are often not
little, bag they carry.
to do by words what can only be done by a look. Women know that by instinct.”
"Men often aeem to me to want
"Feople don't understand that one must get up an appetite for talk, just as one must for dinner."
"It is wonderful what a very long way a very little talk goes, if it is said with the right glance."
"The only thing in which all men and women are alike "is in
their desire for admiration-large tion that is what they want-it draughts of unqualified admira- gives them a restful feeling."
"The only way you can under-
worth while; and even when you stand people, if you want to, la to take them to bits. Often is isn't can do it, you have to remember beside the bita.” that there is something else
"Freedom of movement
is
I
always beautiful, and I hate to ought to be covered up is any see movement hampered. What
thing unshapely or corpulent. should like to put some of my long clothes ought to be the men friends into decent cassocks
mark of age, not of youth and innocence." - "The House
of Menerdue,' by A. C. Benson.
COMING SOON.
"MORE TO BE. PITIED THAN SCORNED."
**More to Be Pitied Than Scorned" will be shown very shortly at the World Theatre..
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pleasant. There was no applause during her act, but she received an ovation when she finished and was not sure she had pleased. She re- New York as a spoken play and all bowing herself of. Yet the Wes This play ran for many weeks in ceived an invitation to the Royal of the thrills and throbs of the Box, but, being a modest girl, sheriginal have been retained-and-in- declined to go. When she left the tensified. theatre a derman officer spoke to
ed and stapped his face. Was the need introduction. her on the street. She felt offend-leading part, is too well known to J. Frank Glendon, who plays the officer arrested? No, but Mise Parker was. The American consul and his enormous following will He is admirably fitted to the part secured her release.
insure crowded houses wherever this picture is shown.
"SLAVE OF DESIRE."
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histrionic ability is necessary
Playing a part where, admirable well as physical strength, Glendon is perfectly at home in More to Be Pitied Than Scorned" and his banding of the role is exceptionally fine and finished.
Alice Lake, Rosemary Theby, Philo MeCollongh and Baby Josephine Adair make up the balance of the leading roles and each is perfect in his given part.
Anyone watching Miss Parker's had bad many offers to leave. the believe this was her first screen ap work in Fantomas" would hardly stage, but was loath to do this inpearance. 'view of the progress she was mak- quite a "fan" following.
Sho is sure to collect ing. In these days, however, the silent drama has a pulling power that makes continued resistance very hard for the stage actor or actress. When Edward Sedgwick was seeking a girl for the part of The Countess he happened to see
That the stories conceived and Miss Parker in "Betty Be Good." written by Honore de Balzac, hold and made her so flattering an offer gre Screen powabilities, was that she did not hesitate." Ble he proved at the World Theatre last Baby Adair, whose future as aÐ lieved she had an opportunity to do night, whers Gilbert E. Gable's actress is all before her, gives & sume fine acting in "Fantomna," "Have of Desire," a picturization heart-winning performance as Ruth and those who have watched her of Balzac novel, The Magic Lorraine. work know that she fulfilled all de- Skin," was shown.
This tiny, golden-haired sprite This story mands-her beauty adding to the lends itself admirably to screen bids fair to be the leader among effectiveness of her acting ability. treatment and both the producer, child actresses in a very short time. Miss Parker was born in Chicago Gilbert E. Gable, and the director, Her portrayal of emotion is So and was educated there. When
George D. Baker, Lave followed absolutely convincing that it re- schooling days were over she went closely the characters and events quired a considerable amount of to Paris, then to Berlin, and final of the story, de well as ita spizit. candy on several occasions to make ly to London, studying in each of While ucessarily much of the her stop crying fom her stage these capitals music, art and voice philosophy that Balzac put into his mamma after she had been culture.
story is missing in the screen ver carried away from her. Bien, that loss will be made up for, truthfulness to life, to manners and have read and admired this early to the admirers of Balzac, by the customs, and characters of early Nineteenth Century France, which novel of Balzac's and to those who the producer has pat into thewill serve as an admirable, intro are unfamiliar with his work, t photoplay
She began her stage career in vaudeville, anging and deacing Soon with her winning ways, her charming voice and her clever dancing she became prime donna in Nobody Home, and played in that both in New York and on the road. Then she was engaged for "To-night's the Night. She was the prima donna in "Flo Flo in Now York and spelat i sodion on the road with 16.Then Charl Dillingham engaged her Blossoms in she was
Zork an
Skin jake life upon the borean and The characters of The Magic in their acting by a great chek, pre- sont vividly the buse there of the novel, that whatever we wish and struggle for and get, that we also
Mr. Gable bas rade
and
literature, but to mould the spirit not only to enrich the world duction, to one who has done much,
and character of mankind,
The direction and the photo- gaphy are admimble throughout and the principal roles, so acted with fine understand
of their dramatic
SATURDAY,:
JUNE 13, 192
CHINA MAIL'S CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
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"MORE TO BE PITIED
THAN SCORNED"
WITH AN ALL STAR CAST INCLUDING ALICH LAKE, ROSEMARY THEBY, J. FRANK GLENDON, ETC.
MORE TO BE PITIED
EMAN SCÓRNIOR:
CHALLE BARET? Cause Beblaven Succam
Darkness in the home, brightness on the stage, a man torned by grief compelled to act out in the theatre the story of his own trouble and unaware that his fellow actors were the villains of his own home tragedy.
JACK DEMPSEY
THE TITLE HOLDER
(THE 7th, of the FIGHT AND
WORLD THEATRE