TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1931.
A HOLIDAY IN BLUEBEARD'S LAND
THE VOLUPTUARY, WHO BECAME A SAINT.
Somewhere on the Loire between in return for a mortgage on his cas- Nantes and Angers, is an old, tles. - monastery, which has been convert- ed into the most charming of Eng- Hah county-houses.
Here I come each year to spend my holiday, writes R. H. Bruce Lockhart in the Evening Etandard.
It is a pleasant backwater in the rushing river of life. The sun shines un fields smiling with corn. The food is the beat in the world.
The wines are cheap and umbrosial. There are no distractions, no cine mas, few motorcars. It is the land of Bluebeard-or, rather, of the man who until recently was sup- posed to have served as the model for Perrault's fairy-tale.
an epic.
The Gilded Youth
PEARL DISPLAY.
THE
Interesting Exhibition
at Komor's.
Mr. Kodaka, the great merchant and expert from Japan, has come again to Komor's. His exhibition this year excels anything which be has shown us before. Not only are the pearls themselves both natural and cultured, of very great beauty, but the settings are particularly fine artistically.
CHINA MAIL.
FISH WALK IN THE DARK.
Miraculous Incident
in Bengal.
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Calcutta, Oct. 2.
AIR SPEED ERROR.
Stainforth's 407,5
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Owing to the discovery of slight error the figure of the air speed record attained by Flt-Lt. An amazing story of a mira-Stainforth on September 28 has culous incident which occurred been reduced from 408.8 miles during the recent lunar eclipse, per hour to 407.5.
Stainforth flow the 3-kilometre as yet unverified from reliable sources, comes from Bazeedpur course five times, and in accord- Village (Bengal), 20 miles south-ance with the rules four conso- cutive runs were used for the The exhibition includes pearls of east of Muzaffarpur.
History tells of fishes that calculation. It will be remem- many colours-pink, grey, orange, Alchemy For Dents.
etc.
To the inexpert eye there is dropped from the clouds and bered that the first four were Such profligacy cannot last. As no very great difference between fishes that flew in the air, but taken, viz.:- Gilles becomes more desperate, his them as they lie in the showcase of the Statesman purports to re- mysticism takes a wrong turning together, but it has been discovered count how, at dead of night, as To repay his debts he seeks the aid by a well-dressed woman that the the moon was slowly darkening of alchemiats. Prelati, prince of colour of the pearls they wear by the passing of the ecliptic No. 4 necromancers, is brought from makes a very great difference to ahadow, there arose out of the
A subsequent examination of Italy. Gilles retires to his castles, their there to indulge in the orgies which advise
We stagnant water of a small rivulet the cinema film records on which all ladies to be "about 10,000 fish of abnormal the speed calculations are based are to encompass his ruin. Pre- very careful when they choose a size, none less than 36 lb. in decided the Royal Aero Club to lati, who la a celebrant of the pearl string with regard to their weight, which walked over 50 rule out the first run, and in or Black Mass and who tries to invoke effect on the skin.
feet of dry land into the sparklder that no possible question Satan to help his master, explains Pearls are themselves so perfecting waters of the Baraila Chur, should arise, to take the second,
Rut all to no purpose.
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this tale from a correspondent
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his failure by the insufficiency of in texture and lustre that, unless the sacrifice offered. 'Ile demands they are of the correct colour they human sacrifice, and Gilles agrees. may make the skin look sallow and, as a general rule brunettes who Gilles de Raiz, Marshal of France, As one by one his castles are have a warm coloured skin are best comrade-in-arms to Joan of Arc, taken from him-Chantoce is one Buited by pearls of a pinkish or richest man of his times, mystic, of the first to go-Gilles sinks orange tint, leaving the more white
"Peculiar Sound." and. voluptuary, Sadiat
finally, lower and lower. He has become and bluc tones for those who Hearing what is described aa child-murderer, was no Bluebeard.a drunkard. His abductions be posscas a milky complexion. "a peculiar sound," the villagers No. 5 There was no Fatima, no Sister come bold almost to recklessness.
Pearl necklaces, of course, always rushed to the place with lathis, Average: 407.5 m.p.m. Anne, in his life, but in the magai The Duke of Brittany, now rich enthral women even in these days and then, overcoming their first Royal Aero Club representa- tude of his rise and fall his story is beyond his dreams, no longer of the very cheap and almost uni- surprise, began to deal out lathi tives flew to Paris on October 15 humours Gilles. The Duke'a Chan- versal string. But when you see blows on those piscatorial pedes-with a portfolio containing the cellor, who is also Bishop of a catured pearl necklace you realise trians. But, apparently, the official account of the fight, to- To-day, all that remains of his Nantes, is his avowed enemy.
what a world of difference there is harder they hit the better the gether with the cinema photo-i former greatness is the ruined cas-
At last the blow falls, The between them and imitation beads. fish liked it, for the story adds:-graphic records. This report tle at Chantoce, close to my monas Bishop institutes an inquiry. The Not that they are by any means "The queerest part of the in-has to be accepted by the Feder tery, where he was born in Decem-ovidence brought before him 15 prohibited in price. The necklaces cident was that the blows. pro-ation Aeronautique Internation-
His father was the overwhelming. More than two Sleur de Laval, grand-nephew of hundred boys and girls are known can be bought from about $80, but duced no effect, and, in spite of ale before it can stand
a tiny graduated pearl necklace the obstruction, the fishes man-official record. It is, of course, Du Guesclin. His mother was a to have entored the portals of would come to about $200 and aged to get into the lake with-incontestable. Croan and the daughter of the moat Chantoce, of Tiffauges, and makes a lovely wearing apparel. out leaving any injured or dead The calculations based on tho avaricious and rapacious of French Machecoul-never to appear again. Mr. Kodaka dnes not only exhibit on the ground." Yet next cinema film record are very ela nobles.
They have been violated, tortured, pearl necklaces at Messrs. Komor morning there were definite signa borate, and the difficulties were At the age of eleven Gilies in left immolated, and flung down the and Komor's art room in Chater all round that something unusual intensified by the shortness of a
cellars by Gillés. an orphan. His estates are enor
The Bishop Rond. He also has a lovely collec. had happened.
3-kilometre courae. mous, At the age of sixteen hoordera his arrest.
tion of rings, tie-pins, studs, and abducts his fiancee with all her
And
now comes the strongest earrings, etc., which are being sold worldly gootis. At eighteen he trial in history. Gilles and the
at the moderate price of $20 up- arrests his mother-in-law and seizes companions who have fleeced and
ward. her lands. The King's ambassader, ruined him are brought to Nantes. sent to rentonstrate with the trucu-
ber, 1404.
An early visit to Komor's will be All his life he has been in fear of advisable as the exhibition lasts for lent baron, is stripped and beaten hell-fire. It is the dread of excom-only ten days from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
At nineteen he is richer, in communication more than the threat of} parison with his contemporaries, terture which at last induces him
John than
D. Rockefeller Or to speak. And when he speaks his Henry Ford. He has received a
confession is complete. He regretá fair education-not as good as the his dissipation. He wishes his historians make out. He can, how-
death to be an example to others. ever, read and write. He has a He begs the Church to pray for his
Above all, he lost soul. taste for culture. likes the good things of life.
The Warrior.
And now a miracle occurs. All in not bad in Gilles. If his beard
is black, there is blue blood in his veins.
He is a soldier by birth. In the struggle for the French
throne he takes the alde of the French King. He meets Joan of Arc at Chinon. He is the first to espouse her cause, the first to re- buke the Dauphin for his luke.
warmness.
His enthusiasm is a manifesta tion of the exalted mysticism In his character, He brings his vast wealth and his picked troops to her support. He is with her at Or- leans, When she is wounded, it is his troops who restore the for tunes of the day. He brings her to the coronation at Rheims. For his services he is made a marshal- the youngest marshal in the his- tory of France.
The Spendthrift.
Then comes the set-back. Joan
is betrayed and burnt at the stake. With the death of his heroine Gilles' enthuiusm evaporates. He is tired of war. Now he plunges into an Ife has his ocean of extravagance. own troupe of players. He comes back to rleans to stage his own drama: "The Mystery of the Slege of Orleans."
No Rheinhardt was ever more lavish in his production. The thea- tre itself is a marvel of construc tion-a scaffolding as high as a modern house with six platforms each as large as the largest modern atage. A hundred and forty regu- lar actors and more than five hun dred supers are engaged.
The cos- tumes are the richest silks and vel- vets that money can buy, and no costume is worn more than once.
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The Atonement,
And when he is condemned to death he makes his last request:
QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S CHEF.
A Salvation Army Cook.
Concluding his tale of this lunar miracle, the correspondent adds: "This sort of migration of fishes has never been witness- ed or heard of by the oldest fishermen of the district, and
as an
MOTORCAR COMES BACK TO LIFE,
the incident is the talk of the Buried At Devil's Punch Bowl By
whole neighbourhood."
HEIFETZ COMING. 48,000 Hours of Violin Playing.
Annoyed Owner?
Nearly. 20 entries wero received for the run for veteran carS from London to Brighton on November 16.
These included a car built 35 years ago and an 1897 model which lay buried near Hindhead Heifetz, who will be heard in re-for over 20 years.
The owner and his wife drove cital here at the King's Theatre on
that he may be led to the scaffold Few of those poor people who December 4, estimates that he has it from London.
During the
in a procession through the town enjoy the hospitality of the Sal-played a violin for 48,000 hours journey it broke down 40 times. and that his two servants, who vation Army at the Palais du during his life. That is the oqui-So exasperated was the owner have also been condemned, may be Peuple in Paris know, that their valent of playing nearly five and a that he finally turned it over hanged with him. Even at the last food is prepared by a former half years steadily, twenty-four the edge of the Devil's Punch- his sense of the dramatic returns to chef of the British Royal House-hours a day without a break and no bowl, and there loft it.
The There was also a steam car which him. He sees himself as Christ hold. He is M. Georges Douay, time for sleep or meals. beside the two thieves.
who was formerly a chef of figure includes both the time he has was built in 1904, which runs at His, petition is granted, and on Queen Alexandra.
spent giving concerts and practis-a working pressure of 600 lb. per the morning of his death the banks In an interview with a reing,
square inch.
The run was limited to cars of the Loire are black with people. presentative of the "New York
built in 1904 or carlier. A week before they would have Herald" in Paris, M. Douay re- torn the child-murderer to pieces.called days when the Prince of To-day, they have taken the re-Wales, then a.boy of 15, used to pentant ainner to their heart. go into the Royal kitchen to get
As soon as the noose is drawn, a slice of pie or cake. the crowd in an excess of religious
he Shortly before the war fervour rushes forward to take his made a cake for the Kaiser at body and give it burial. By the Corfu. Then came the great ugony of his atonement tho de struggle, and he left the service generate of yesterday has become a of the Queen to take his place in saint.
the French Army. He cooked
Thus dies Gilles de Raiz in the for Marshal Foch and General thirty-seventh year of his life. Pershing, and from time to time For years his shrine remains a received packets of cigarettes, pilgrimage for expectant mothers. food, and clothing from the Then he passes into legend. He Queen. becomes identified with Bluebeard. One historian after another repeats the error. Mr. Shaw introduces: him into his Joan of Arc, and even Mr. Show, gives him a blue beard. It has been left to M. Gabory, the crudite historian of the Vendes, to restore Gilles to his true colour.
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A spare part for a car that had broken down in the heart of the African desert has been rushed by aeroplane. from London.
Three British motorists, Captain Filby, Mr. Parker, and Dr. Demuralt are driving from Cairo to Cape Town under the auspicas of the Overseas League, represent- ing a number of British firms, with the object of opening up new trade
in Africa.
At the age of thirty, Heifetz has twenty-seven years of playing be hind him. He himself does not re- member a time when he could not play the violin 'any more than you
Their car is a 20 years old Rolls- remember a time when you Royce, carrying about two
tons, could not walk. For his angers and the first trouble was encounter- were trained for, fiddling when he ed 60 miles from Juba, in the was three years old: His father Soudan. Owing to the heavy rain, bought him an instrument of quarthe Government had graded up both ter size and started him on his first sides of the road to form an acute lesson. From then on throughout
ridge to allow the water to drain his childhood he averaged four off, so the car had to be driven at a hours a day practising. His first considerable angle. Berlin.
After 280 "Once more a barricade which public, appearance was made at the miles the excessive strain resulted opposes research into the pro age of five. It is his boast that
in the snapping of a rear axle car- since the age of seven he has been dan shaft. of life has fallen," says Prof. F. Mayer, in reporting to a self-supporting citizen, The Bishop of Derby (Dr. the "Frankfurter Zeitung" the Pearce), who presented the isolation in pure crystalline form prízes at Buxton College Speech (of vitamin D, the "sunlight Day mentioned as examples of vitamin," which prevents rickets. brevity in young children the This achievement is the work little boy who wrote as an essay of Prof. Windaus, of Gottingen on a cricket match, "Raining-University, who in 1927 succeed. no play," and the little girl who ed inextracting from ergos. in another essay wrote, "Man is terin, which had been treated, what woman has to marry."
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The car was towed by 30 natives to the village of Bor, where a tele gram was sent to the Rolls-Royce. works' at Derby, asking for a spare part to be sent immediately. The part was sent off at once to London, put on the African air mall, and `de- ilvered exactly seven days after the Because he was rejected ne a despatch of the telegram, in the pallbearer for a friend's burial village of Bor. Two hours later,
· Pallbearer.'
Free seats and free meals are pro vided for the whole town. The famous "Mystery" costs him more than 80,000 gold crowns-in pre- sent-day money equivalent to mil- lions of pounds sterling. Giles Is on the high road, to rain, e Mr. A. D. C. Mason, in his stance containing a large propor.
He has recourse to borrowing.
head master's report, said that tion of this particular vitamin, In despair his relations appeal to at the College they did not allow After years of further work he Mr. Milbradt, who is a farmer all pre-conceived ideas of time and the King, who issues a writ of rea- music and art to be crowded out has been able to, free this sub was requested to act as pall-distance to be able to procure a vital traint on Gilles's action. Gilles by utilitarian subjects.
They stance completely from the by bearer. The undertaker reject-spare part thousands of miles away has little respect for kings. He started before prayers every products of irradiation which it ed him because he wore overalls from England in 7 days and this turns to the Duke of Britanny, who morning by listening to a work contained, so that the vitamin is He admitted having shot at for a pre-war cart Captain Filby fgnores the writ. The Duke covets of one of the great mas loft, in absolutely uncontaminated the hearso "in revenge, and was said in a message received in Lon-
given a suspended sentence. Chantoce. Ho lends Gilles money ters played on the gramophone. conditions."
don, aubsequently,
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during the funeral (says Router journey towards the South.
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