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(OXFORD BOAT ·FACE
JEWISH WEDDING
Joseph Salti
REGISTRY AND SYNAGOGUE CEREMONIES
-After
Kong.
The Dresses
the bride
MEN BEHIND THE
KING
THE VERY DECEPTIVE
DECEPTIVE
"BABE"
13
HIS MAJESTY'S PILOT AND HIS
SHADOW
(By William J. Makin) ·
7
ET me confess that the man wording of some national pre-
most in clamation in the future. who baffles me
The Earl of Dudley is a man King Edward's entourage is the bland Major the Hon. Piers who has experienced life keenly, Meeting him for the for he has had many tragedies- Legh.
His
a Eegistry ceremony, which took place at 3.30 p.m.`yes- terday, the marriage of Mr. Ellis Notice To Contributors.
M Joseph. of Joseph and Co. to All communications intended for
The Oxford consolation tea-partyiss Fanny Salti, of Manila, was publication should be addressed to last month, it is said, quite wiped solemnised at the "Oleh Leah" the Editor, and, be accompanied by out all recollections of their latest Synagogue. at 4 pm.. the Writer's Name and Address Boat Race defeat. It was held
groom's father officiating. at St George's Hospital on the The bride who is the daughter invitation of a seven-year-old boy of Mr. and Mrs. S. Salti, of Mani- in the ward. He said in his 12 P.I arrived in Hong Kong letter:
last December. The bridegroom We are all Oxford and we hopes the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. you will come but some of the Joseph of 4, Felix Villas, Hong girls are Cambridge but they don't matter. On their arrival the crew were
A slim-atting white lace gown first time you are deceived by for a man of his years.
was killed Hong Kong, Saturday, May 30, 1936. greeted with a blackboard sketch
by one of the children. It was with long tight sleeved jacket was the smooth expressionless face, mother was drowned, his seven-. entitled "The Oxford Boat Face." chosen by the bride. She wore a the languid drawl, and the limp year-old
white straw picture hat trimmed moustache. Krown as "Babe, Chelsea Embankment and his with orange blossom and carried you are apt to think him inno-wife, the beautiful daughter of Only in the the Duke of Sutherland was 3 sheaf of white gardenias and cent of ideas.
course of getting to know him, barned to death in the Meopham Jasmine.
The bridegroom's sister. Miss which is not easy, do you disair disaster in 1930.
It was this last tragedy which That brought the King and the Earl Naomi Joseph who recently recover that he has the most de- tarned for the wedding fromvastating brain of all
bland mask conceals the perfect of Dudley, who had for many Shanghai on the Empress of Canada. wore a very smart Vion-memory, a mine of information years been great friends, even King, and a great imagination. The closer together. net stitched organdie coat
drawl of his voice masks a bit-feeling that his grief-stricken white crepe. by Naomi. white straw picture hat was trim-ins wit. The languid pose con- friend should have his mind ceals a dynamically active body, distracted. asked him to accom- med with organdie flowers.
He pany him on his great tour of carried a white shirred organdic He never forgets a detail. South America. The Earl is a
The Palestine. Crisis
G
EXPLANATION
OF TO-DAYS CARTOON
Fresh Water In Salt Lake
(REAT Salt Lake, in the state
over
Her
She
provided
in
SOD
in
The
од
avoid being held ceives about 16 inches of preci-by the Clover Flower Shop. assessing you with the help of Throughout the South Ameri-
Mr. Julis Braunthal has an interesting article in the April issue of the Contemporary Review which goes a long way towards explaining the reasons for the communal rioting with which Palestine is now being racked. Indeed, the writer was fearful at the time of writing that the smoulding embers of
of Utah. is now approximate the communal discord could not be prevented from bursting into ly one-third salt, content, yet
muff trimmed with fresh white is a shrewd judge of a man.
To sit and talk with him, serious-minded young man who fame, and in this respect his the middle of the lake can be
yardenias. -
listening to that languid drawl, devotes much of his time to the too found fresh water. Antelope Is-
The bride's mother wore a pur- prophecy has been only
international` com- amply borne out by the recent land, a low mountaincus peak ris-ple toned cocktail dress with grey you might get the impression study of those problems of
that he had lived most of his trade and the ing out of the lake. provides fresh accessories and a corsage of whitelife in a comfortable arm-chair-merce in which King Edward news of serious riots in
spring water as sweet as can be country.
gardenias.
The half-closed eyes suggest he has shown himself so keenly in- found anywhere. The island re-
All the Bowers were
recent years. really terested is bored. They are It is difficult to see how the Arabs can
the pitation each year in the form of for
The bride was given away
The wit can tour, and ever since, the mainly responsible
(a very shrewd mind. winter months. marriage by Mr. Edward Ray- or the occasionál epigram slips two have been constant trouble. The argument of the stow during the
hardly As the snow melts, much of the mond, whilst the duties of best out smoothly, almost unnotice-panions. Arab Nationalists is
man were undertaken by Mr.ably. He seems to have acquir- completely logical but it is water seeps into the soil and frac-
“Chief Air Pilot” ed a Balfour-like detachment. cogent, and appeals to all the tures of the rocks. Later to appear Maurice Weill
Following the ceremony, a large Nevertheless, like all, in King Another young man who innate conservatism of an E2s-jas fresh water springs.
party ef relatives
friends Edward's little Cabinet, Major plays an important part in King tern people. Briefly it is this:
is the that Jewish Babe Herman's Famous gathered at the Jewish Recreation the Hon. Piers Legh is a man Edward's new career It is admitted
Club. On leaving. Mrs. Joseph of tact, much charm and con- aviator, Flight Lieutenant immigration has been of ser-
Double Play
navy blue silk
costume siderable worldly knowledge. Edward H. Fielden, A.F.C. Not vice to the welfare of the whole
¡wore a
with cream lace blouse, set offThe hand that takes yours may very long ago he was appoint- country. But it is held to be
THIS is one of the interesting with a navy blue hat. an
be limp, but I know it to bejed Chief Air Pilot and an Extra THIS changing. Palestine from
legends about the slugging
King Edward, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph are leaving strong and with velvet glove Equerry Arab land into a Jewish
Here it is in Babe's for Shanghai and Japan on the To-day he is approaching 40, although for some seven years Twenty years ago, less than 10 outfelder.
three ss. D'Artagnan to-day.
slight but wiry individual.
he has been personal pilot to per cent of the population of own words. "There were
His Majesty, accompanying Palestine was Jewish: 10 years men on base for Brooklyn, with out. Fewster was ся
him all over England and on ago they were about 15 perjene man cent.: today they are in the first, Vance on second, and Deber-
trips abroad. neighbourhood of 30 per cent.;ry on third. Mogridge was pitch-
The
one 1
are the Boston second baseman. Mean-i
and
The Earl Of Dadley There is one man whom King
01
сап-
When I last talked with him
Your Daily Smile! "What is the new building you have and the. Arabs hold that ifing for Boston. I hit a line drive on the hill there?" asked a visitor Edward, when Prince of Wales
the would call in to a conference at over a glass of sherry-the one immigration continues without off the right-field wall and Deberry of a farmer. "Well," replied
to discuss solitary drink a day this young interruption, the Jews will scored. The ball bounced back off farmer, “If I find z tenant for it, it's St. James's Palace
some difficult problem. This man permits himself he was rapidly amount to half the the right-field wall all the way to a bungalow; if I don't, it's a barn.'
man is the Earl of Dudley, like most airmen, extremely population.
Jews
Bill: What is meant by this state-whose advice King Edward modest and above all discreet. Europeanizing the country, and while, I rounded first and beaded ment about the City's Pulse?
than any We did, however, go through the Arab Nationalists want it for second. Second baseman threw Jack: Oh, it's just a reference to often values more
air log-book of King other. It is "ith the Earl of the to remain ariental A spirit of to shortstop covering second, and a the policemen's beats, I expect
Dudley that ing Edward will Edward, with its brief record of Arab independence is abroad, play was made for me as I slid and they do not desire that the inte the bag. Then somebody Brevity may be the soal of wit, but discuss an idea or a phrase that flights up and down England. place shall always remain under yelled to throw the ball home, and there is something less witty than he thinks of introducing in his But Flight-Lieutenant Fielden It is with the added little to the sparse entries the yoke of a British or any the shortstop threw. I thought crude in the short epitaph on a tomb-latest speech
stone which ran--
Earl of Dudley that the King in that book.
(Continued on Page 11) will doubtless consult upon the
other Mandate. Independence Fewster was trying to score, never
is
Thorpe's
the ultimate goal The dreaming it was Vance So I hit Corpse. Arabs also hold that the Jews out for third. Fewster, like 1 are obtaining possession of the did, had figured Vauce would best of the land. They argue score, but Vance was afraid, the that small-holders are being outfielder would catch my liner. elitninated and that the Jews when I next looked up Vance was have obtained the natural on third, and there was Fewster. wealth of the country for them- and here I was three of us all selves, represented mainly by on one bag." the mineral regions of the Dead Sea and the water power of the
genera-
the Mandatory
Jordan. When it was repre- eight-hour day has been intro- sented to a Arab Nationalist duced successfully by the Jews that extensive reclamation and in place of the oriental working] health work had been carried day which lasts from sunrise out in Palestine with Jewish to sunset. capital, he replied: "Better a The question of the changing plague of malaria than a plague ownership of the land exercises of Jews."
both parties to the dispute. There is no gainsaying that According to the Arab reckon- kind of argument, unfortunate-ing, small-holders are being ly; but it appears that the Jews, eliminated by Jews. The Jews on their side, have a strong retort that 88.5 per cent. of the case. They hold that Palestine land acquired by them has been and Trans-Jordan have still obtained from big landlords at room for hundreds of thou-fair prices, and only 9.5 per And sands of people, and hundreds cent. from small-holders. of thousands of Jews through-they can still point to the fact! out the world have no home. that their ownership is opening re- They ask why a home should up a country which had be denied to the Jews when mained stagnant for they have shown their willing-tions before ness and ability to open it up Altogether with their own strength. They Government has a difficult row point to the fact that since the to hoe. They are committed to Balfour Declaration the Jews a policy, and cannot afford to have taken into the country change it in the face of threats They have cer- more than £50,000,000 in capi-and violence. tal In the past year alone they tain obligations under the Man- have introduced more than date to maintain, and they must £10,000,000—this into a coun-be maintained while the sub- try with not more than version of central authority is 1,200,000 inhabitants. The aimed at by rioting, shooting arzon. The authorities whole of the country has been and fertilised by the rivulets into have shown commendable re- which this stream of capital straint hitherto in dealing with has been transformed. It has an awkward situation. It is to: (certainly been to the benefit of be hoped that the Arab leaders the Jews; but it has also pro-will be prevailed upon to call violent fited the Arabs. Other fea-loff all instigation to tures of their case paint to the revolt, and thus create an at value of health work, reclama-mosphere of calm in which both tion schemes, etc, introduced by sides can discuss the important the Jews to the social condi-matters of policy concerned it. tions of the country. The a spirit of conciliation. *
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
ANTELOPE ISLAND LOCATED IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE GREAT SALT LAKE -NOW ONE-THIRD SALT —
A.E.. BARGREM
HAS FRESH WATER ON-IT
-of ROCKFORD, IL
HAS BEEN CHIEF OF POLICE - 49 YEARS
KO
MICHIGAN' - 1936.
THE LICENSE PLATES
OF JDE LOUIS BEAR NO LICENSE
NOMBERS -- ONLY LETTERS
Here Lies John Late Mayor of Donder
Here Lars Him, Here Les He
Di Do DUD,
Di Do Dee
EPITAPH IN DUNDEE, Scotland
BABE HERMAN'S
FAMOUS
DOUBLE PLAY.
HE TRIPLED WITH THE BASIS FULL NO
A DOUBLE PLAY
RESULTED!
RE OVER-RAN THE
TWO BASERUNNERS. ASTEAD OF HIM!