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The Sultan of Morocco, Mulai Yussof, is dangerously ill at
Rabat.
One of the oldest theatres in Turin, the Alfieri, has been des- troyed by fire.
A plaice 32 inches in length and weighing 9 lb. was land- ed by the Lowestoft trawler "Rochester."
Thirty-six trout were caught in one day at Lake Taupo, New Zealand, by Mr., G. H. Tinkham, a member of the U.S. Congress, who is on holiday there,
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Birmingham Gas Commitete decided to reduce the price of gas by 4d. per 1,000 cubic feet after the June reading to the pre-strike figure of Rs. 2d.
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Five coins realised nearly £1,000 at Glendining's, Oxford- cireus, W., a pattern crown of Charles II (1663) selling for $192 and a crown of 1662 for £162.
When Frank Wilton Rix, aged 30, brewery manager, East- bourne, was discovered dead in bed in Carlisle Road, Eastbourne, a bottle and overturned tumbler: were found close by.
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Announcing the discharge of the last quarantine case in con- nection with the Hendon small- pox outbreak, the chairman of the Urban Council said Hendonj was now free from any possible outbreak,
Maj. Gen. Sir John Hanbury- Williams, by command of the King, called on the Spanish Am- bassador to offer King George's congratulations on the 41st an- niversary of the birthday of the King of Spain,
For stealing £50 belonging to Lloyds Bank, John Martin Donnelly, cashier and chief clerk at one of the local branches, was fined £50 at Weymouth, it being stated he had got into the hands of money-lenders.
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A Great Western Railway ex- press from Plymouth to Penzance struck a motor car at a crossing near Gwinear Road and the vehicle was smashed, a wheel being flung over a hundred yards, but the driver escaped unhurt.
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A child suffering from small- pox was removed from Hackney, E., to the Metropolitan Asylums Board's isolation hospital at Long Reach.
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Two children were found dend in a gasfilled house in Whiteinch, Glasgow, while the father, suffer- ing from gas poisoning, was taken to the infirmary.
While on his way to attend a House of Lords Committee Lord Teynham was knocked down by a motor omnibus, but escaped with a few bruises,
For sending to London milk which was deficient in fat or con- tained added water, Annie Foot, farmer, of Manor Farm, Long Bredy, Dorchester, was fined £37
and £7 78. costs at Marylebone.
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Mr. Francis White, the new Assistant Secretary of State, who recently arrived in Washington te Mr. 18sume his new duties. White is a native of Baltimore and for some time has served as counsellor of the legation at Madrid, Spain. He succeeds Mr. Butler Wright, who has been appointed Minister to Roumania.
A Crown Derby dessert service, painted with landscapes, the bor- ders gilt and mazarine blue, realised £200 at Messrs. Sotheby's.
The membership for 1926 of the National Union of, Railway- men was 387,540, a decrease of 11,056 compared with the pre-
vious year.
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Sarwat Pasha, the Egyptian Premier, after a consultation with Zaghlul Pasha, the Nation-i alist leader; has agreed not to carry out his threat to resign.
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Knocked down by a motor-car
at Clapham Common, S.W., an unknown woman, described as about 65 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches in height, and with grey
hair, died in Bolingbroke Hos- pital, Battersea, S.W.
Mr. Frederic Cæsar Linfield, who was adopted prospective Liberal candidate for the Horn- castle Division, Lincolnshire, unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1910 and 1911, and was.mem- ber for Mid-Belfordshire from 1922-23.
To a deputation from the As- sociation of British Chambers of Commerce, Sir Philip Cunliffe- Lister, President of the Board of! Trade, replied that all the most useful functions of the Depart- ment of Overseas Trade were to be continued.
Mr. L. S. Amery, Dominions Secretary leaves in the third week of July for his Empire tour in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, and on his return about next January he will have travelled between 25,000 and 30,000 miles.
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Sir George Pearce, president of the Commonwealth Executive Council, has been ap pointed to represent Australia with Sir J. Cook, the High Com- missioner in London, at the next meeting of the League of Na- tions Assembly, and a woman delegate will also be appointed.
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The Food Council Executive The Latvian delegation who Committee continuing their in- went recently to Moscow to nego-quiry into fish supplies and tiate a trade agreement report prices, heard evidence regarding that the Bolshevik demands are costs and profits in the wholesale ridiculous and unacceptable and fish merchants' trade at Aber- that further negotiations are use- deen and Fleetwood, and also less.
about expenses and profits of fish retailers.
When Thomas Drummond, 37, After drinking arsenic in mis- labourer, was remanded for a
take for stout, Mr. Leonard Earl, week at Sunderland charged aged 60, farmer, of Willes- with arson at his home, the borough, Ashford, Kent, rushed Chief Constable said there were to a doctor, who administered an 61 occupants of the house, and antidote, but Mr. Earl died short- Drummond's action involvedly afterwards. them in danger.
The ancient ceremony of "beating of the bounds" of the manor and liberty of the Savoy, which includes the Inspection of certain iron plate marks on, among other places, Waterloo Bridge and the Hotel Cecil, was carried out in mail week.
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The Princess Royal opened the third Annual Old English Garden Fete and Amusement Fair, or ganised by the British Charities Association in aid of London hospitals, held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park, N.W..
Presented with a cheque for A ton of gold bullion valued at £1,200 at Hull for their services about £150,000 was guarded by in connection with technical edu- an armed escort of Southampton cation, Dr. J. T. Riley and Mr. T. police when it arrived at Hamble Luxton, two former principals of aerodrome by aeroplane from Hull Technical College, returned Amsterdam, and it was at once the gift and asked for the money conveyed to the diner "Olympic" to be invested in a scholarship for shipment to New York. trust fund.
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·“PARTNERS AGAIN" TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW.
The public favourites, Potash and Perlmutter in the person of George Sidney and Alexander Carr are booked for another appearance.
The vitriolic partners have, hi- therto dabbled in the prosaic | "Cloak & Suite" businean.
that, they took a filer in motion picture production, but now
AT THE QUEEN'S.
"WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING" TO-DAY & TO-MORROW.
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An Ottawa telegram says that the Canadian Customs Depart- ment has commissioned a fleet of more than 20 vessels, with speeds up to 30 knots, to patrol the Atlantic coast with a view to the prevention of smuggling, es- pecially rum-running The ves sels will be supplemented by 20 or 25 powerful motor-cars operating from strategic points in the Maritime Provinces.
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A party of three masters and one pupil, aged 17, of Wanganui College, New Zealand, while making a descent of Mount Egmont, in the North Island, roped together, slipped and fell 800 ft. down the mountain aide. Mr. Fenton Latham, language. master of the college, was killed, and Mr. Noel Baines is missing. The survivors were rescued in an exhausted condition,
AT THE STAR.
"MAN AND MAID" TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW.
and
"The Whole Town's Talking," the There are obetacles in "Man and Edward Laemmle production of the Maid" that seem insurmountable, John Emerson-Anita Loos stage but Madame Glyn has worked the comedy, will be showing at the situations out satisfactorily Queen's to-day and to-morrow. you are firmly convinced that the Here is a photoplay without slap- story couldn't possibly end in any stick, without great crowds or way but the one in which it does. massive settings; without sense- Harriet Hammond is indeed From tionalism or feats of daring yet it find. Madame Glyn chose her be- keeps the audience on the edge of cause ahe had such depths of Its seats throughout the entire tragedy in her eyes. She is a showing by the sheer masterly act blonde beauty and shows great
under this directorial genius.
We
have them, in "Partners Again" enjoying and suffering the experi- ences of automobile dealers,
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a
ters fow but perfectly played. The Nicholas Thermonde, is now
The plot is simple, the charac-parks of emotion...
Lew Cady as the hero, Sir
de-i Of course, it would not be so bad subtle touch of artistry
throughout..
finitely established as a lover. He Edward Everett if they had a reputable car to Horton, Virginia Lee Corbin, Otis has been wasting his time playing handle, but Montague Glass could Harlan' and Trixie Friganza have heavy roles in the past. Rense ses them with nothing but the four principal roles.
Adoree as the French cocotte, "Schenckmann Six," than which
To them and to Laemmle goas Suzette, gives a beautiful interpre- there is none worse. Potash, how the credit for a perfectly present- tation to that role, which is a diff. ever, survives the nervous break ad comedy, full of fine acting and cult one to portray. downs occasioned by his plunge good direction. The acting is not Alec Francis, as always, gives a into this impossible business, and the vigorous hand-and-chest type very finished performance. is able to furnish even more laughs but is the more delicate and more Dagmar Desmond, Paulette after the collapse of the business, amusing type which depends on the Daval, Crauford Kent, Gerald by an impromptu aeroplane ride he raising of an eye, the moving of a Grove, Jane Mercer, David Mir and takes involuntarily partners have laughs.
hand the turning of a head for its Jacqueline Gadsden have small but The world-famed
important parts, all presented most never had so good a vehicle, and
This is the most
difficult sort of satisfactorily,
the adaptation by Frances Marion picture to direct yet is, without Much comment should be caused in fully up to her high standard., doubt, the most interesting to by the gorgeous sets. Particularly It is constructed for laughing pur-| watch. The picture was made beautiful are those in the Parls poses only, and personally directed solely for comedy purposes and has apartment of the hero, Sir by Henry King, principally famous achieved Its end with a rare finesse. Nicholas, the bridal boudoir.being for his dramatic productions, but Those in the cast who do notable lovellest of also remembered for the direction work are Deloria del Rio Margaret
Victor Schertzinger.
of “281⁄2 Hours Leave," still re- Quimby, Robert Ober; Alleen Man-| under the supervision of Madame cognised as one of the most suc-, ning, Hayden Stevenson, and Mel Glyn and Chet Lyons. Is credited cessful comedies of the screen. colm Waite,
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