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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "The Divine Woman," featuring Greta Garbo and Lars Hanson, is to be screened at the World Theatre for the last time to-day.
Greta Garbo displays her emotions with realism (if a bit overcone) in hor role as Marianne."
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Lars Hanson; as a soldier, ably sup ports the high standard of the film, which depicts him in love with "Mirianne But
delights fu luxury and joins the stage. The soldier is put in jail, but the couple eventually marry. Polly Meran, Dorothy Cam- minga, and Johnny Mack Brown are in- cluded in a strong cast.
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MOTHER SHOT
SON'S DESIRE TO RELIEVE SUFFERING
Richard Roger Corbett, 27, who kill ed hig mather in order to spare her fur- ther suffering from cancer and then shot himself with a revolver was oper ated on at Hyeres Hospital. The bul let was extracted. It is hoped that it will be possible to save his life.
It is now stated that before shoot- ing his mother Corbett gave her an anaesthetic. He fired and when she became unconscious prayed at her bed- eide until morning before he attempt ed suleide.
Corbett's father, who was a native of Oxfordshire, secretly married in 1902 a French chambermaid at, Hyeres. Later he founded the English Bank at Hyeres and died in 1908, The widow had many vicissitudes. Her son was educated at Lausanne and he did not
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Interesting acquisitions which have just been made by the trustees of the British Museum include a prehistoric Persian pot, of the early Bronze Age, from Nihavand, with remarkable paint- ed decoration of flying birds, presum- ably eagles.
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of the feather and the wing-like decoration characteristic of these vases from Mhavand, the date of which is probably between 3,000 and 2,500 B.C. Other antiquities include a pair of early Sabaan (Bronze Age) shaped Rhytona from Southern Arabia, of a rare type, the red-slip were being decorated with rudely-incised spirals and with balls beads in relief.
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Mr. A. T. Batholomey, of the Univeri sity Library, Cambridge, who is the literary executor of the late Mr. H Festing Jones,, has presented original two MSS. of books by his mother, the musical works by Mr. Jones, "The Crystal Casket" (an unpublished opera, "Diversions in Bicily," Castel- linaris," Mount Eryx," and a collection of twenty-eight songs. Mr. Vivian Burnet, of New York, has presented MSS. of books by his mother, the Hodgson novelist, Mrs. Frances Burnet, namely a part of "That Lass of Laurie's, and the nearly complete MS. of "His Grace of Osmonde." The department has also acquired letters hy Leconte de Lisle and Sainte Beuve..
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Viscount Levezhulme has given selection of antiques. Several from the Solomon felands include a large black. wooden fenst-dish" inlaid with conns shell, I canoe head, a figure of a native, and a mother-of-pearl shelt spoon.
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