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Here There and
Everywhere.
CINEMA PIONNE
Thereses
be reason to
that Mr. Mon-
has died, was king
possibility doubt the attain political tagu Pyke,
Britain's first
A stout, egy-faced man, gener- the ous, and awit in his way.
Monty Pyke never lost his love!
during
ten-year period prior to Indep
being disc med circles
for the theatre proper and for
in music balls. He hamated the stalls
TRIAL OF A PEER OF THE REALM
ECHOES OF FEUDALISM IN ENGLAND
ANCIENT AND PICTURESQUE CEREMONIAL
(By A Barrister-at-Law)
THE news that Lord de Chiffords When they reach him they kneel is to be tried by his peers" in and present to him the White
shot the Palace several nights a the House of Lords, of which he Staff, the symbol of his office. tweak with such of his cronies as is a member, on a charge of man-This he receives and hands hack "Monkey" Speyer, Ernest Pokden slaughter, has revived public into the Garter King of Arms.
Within The Bark and Warwick Brookes, who died terest in this ancient and pic-
The prisoner is then brought in only the other day.us
inter
Įturesque procedure.
He was a great dispenser of Throughout the centuries during by the Gentleman Usher of the at the cigars, regarding them with such which these trials have taken Black Rod. He alone of the Lards trade ex-awe that when he always gave a place the procedure has changed is not robed When he enters he
metal case with it.
but little and has come down, to us makes three reverences and falls In the founda-
United He lived at one time in the with all the old formalities for his knees and is then given a ference, caused house in Kensington Gore later?
All the members of the House sext within the "bar" of the in commercial occupied by Gaby Deslys, who
had a
room specially fashioned of Lords, whether they have legal Court the point beyond which no There is no such thing as a me
experience or not, act as judges uncommoner may pass. aval circles as
without any windows in it
der the presidency of a Lord High From this point the proceedings fixed language for a living diploma
trade situation is
"Monty Pyke was concerned nation. If words were always the May
the general strate
more with the commercial than Steward appointed by the King are similar to those in an ordinary the occasion He is usually court of law, the prisoner pleading used in the same way, with no closely link additions, it would mean that gical situation in the Westem the technical side of films. "Films for the Calor of the day guilty or not guilty, and evidence the nation had been embalmed Pacific..
(Continued on Page 11) and mummified, and had no new thoughts. But sometimes there is a new familiar use of had words that themselves
seemed to have finished their EXPLANATION OF
YESTERDAYS CARTOON
From The Cradle To
Grave
The
grave now
will: never rival the theatre,” he
When the evidence has been said once "The public. will always The trial does not take place in being called
the Chamber of the House of like the spoken word.”
some-Lords itself but usually either in given and counsel have addressed Parliament the Westminster Hall or the Royal the Court the Lords retire to the
Chamber of House of Lords proper. pigs Gallery at Westminster.
“But films might speak one suggested.
"Yes," he replied, "and might fly."
Your Daily Smile!
The Hint
All the peers, including the There the Lord High Steward career At present, owing to
Archbishops and Bishops (the stands up and puts the question the attempt to establish Inter-
Lords Spiritual) attend with the to each peer in the beginning national Law on a firm basis,
King's Judges in their robes and with the most junior baron Bach, there has been a great refur- bishing of some of the words
"Patience and perseverance wil are marshalled to their places by as the question is put, stands up whereby the great Roman
accomplish things,” said the the Garter King of Arms, entering in his place, lays his right hand concep- legists analysed the
rather garrulous passenger in the the court two by two, the most upon bis breast, and gives his an- railway carriage.c
junior baron leading.
[swer. "guilty" or "not guilty, tions of the functions and
“Nonsense!” bis. fellow traveller method of law. "Mandates"
THE famous French author
When the Lord. High Steward "upon my honour" (1763-1848) sniffed. Will patience and persever-
If the decision of the majority":" are now familiar, and their
Chateaubriand meaning is well understood as was bom or September 4-1768, ace enable you to carry water in a has taken his seat in the centre
sieviet
or one end of the Court, the Gar- is "guilty" there follows a strange "Certainly," the other said. "Sim- the appointment of a trustee to
upon a rock near the harbour of manage somebody else's estate st. Malo, France, on which his ply by waiting patiently for the ter King of Arms makes the an-relic of the days when all serious
cient proclamation: 'Oyez, Oyez, crimes were parished by death, in his interests without reparents were cast away in a ship water to freeze."
"Cases Of Blood” Oyez. Our Sovereign Lord the muneration beyond necessary wreck As soon as he grew to
King strictly charges and com- The Archbishops and Bishops expenses. The next word to manhood, the writer purchased
mands all manner of persons to who by the canons of the Church pass into common use has been the rock, directing that he be
He had long outstayed his wel-keep silence upon pain of imprison are forbidden to vote "in cases of "sanction." which has now been buried on the
same spot after
ment."
blood, make a "protestation," fully explained to the public as death His wish was
The commission from the King asking leave to be absent" when some penalty incurred by and Chateaubriand's
appointing the Lord High Steward judgment is given. This is grant- lawbreaker and imposed by due stands on the identical spot the other day?” process of law. If, for instance, where he was born. •
is then read, all the Peers stand-led and they withdraw. ing while this is being done. The The remaining lords then decide a blockade of the East African-
REMENTI
Garter King of Arms and the Gen-fon the punishment which should coast were imposed, and Il Duce Board Remenri (1830-1898)
fleman Usher of the Black Rod in be inflicted on the prisoner and carried out his threat of resist-was a native of Hungary. In the
to the their robes of state then advance return in their process ing it by force. he would be Hungarian rebellion against Aus-
towards the Lord High Steward, Court, where the Lord High Ste- waging war, which would makes in 1848, he joined his coun
Husband: "It we had a million starting from the opposite end of ward pronounces sentence, and the him an outlaw, but the Leaguey's army. During the War, and Member States would not be making war in meetings for many years thereafter, while dollars, do you know what I'd do the Court and stopping three times prisomer is removed by the Yeo-
Wife: "No, just what would you do on their way to make him a ze-man Usher of the Black Bod
[Continued on Page 11) force by their force, they would be was proscribed by the Austrian with my share of it?
with a thousand dollars, darling?" Government, he went about Hun- merely be imposing a military gary playing patriotic songs and sanction." The League, inflaming the Hungarians into theoretically, cannot make war the resistance against the Govern any more than the Police would be waging war in arresting the ment of Vienna Becognizing the great danger, the Austrian Government issued an official de- the New Territories.
cree providing the death penalty- A general election then is for Remenyi's playing. Six times another occasion for imposing various extraordinary courts sen- sanctions.GAL Government
tenced Remenyi to death in ab takes office with a programme sentia, for violating the decree. which consists of a number of They were unable to execute the promises that, they are sup sentence, however, because the
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* His Share
posed to fulfil as far as circum- violinist scaped their pursuit stances permit. If they judge after time. In 1860 Remen- the circumstances wrongly, or neglect to take their opportuni-yi was amnestied and returned ties the elector imposes the to Hungary, to an enthusiastic the official reception by his Govern sanction appropriate to occasion, by turning them out ment of their offices. On the other hand if any individual is held to
have opposed his own party Churchill is an opponent not to without due cause, the appro-be treated lightly. The difficul priate sanction is that he isty was met partly by the Con struck off the official list of servative Leader scoring 2 candidates. That does not pre-heavy success at the Annual vent his constituents from Congress of the party, and affirming by means of their partly by the slow procedure of votes that in their opinion his enquiry and revision which an action was justified. Is there rather risky with disaffection any obvious case for imposing at the boiling point. It was the sanctions in the forthcoming only policy that could have election?
succeeded, so long as it was The indictment of the Gov-not allowed to become stagna- ernment will be rather weak. tion It allowed time for the Mr. Stanley Baldwin is to an Die-hards to discover that "that xtraordinary degree a middle-cock would not fight" as the old -road man, and the cri-saying has it. And at the same will come from the time it convinced the Indian Right and the extreme Nationalists that the grant They will be which was so violently opposed, did not go enough must have substance It also too far, and the con-convinced them that if they did tion will be verysob us-1 not accept it ey might not get
hery
a long tim perhaps never so gen
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