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Programme
PIANO RECITAL
Mme. Florigny At Helena May
DISTINGUISHED AUDIENCE
PRESENT
If the principle of reasonable)
Here There and Everywhere
ROCKEFELLER IS 97 TO-DAY
RICHEST MAN IN THE
WORLD
VAST SUMS DISTRIBUTED FOR YEARS IN CHARITABLE ENTERPRISES
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Noties To Contributors. criticism of a professional artist SIGNED IRISH TREATY
ཨའཨ ཡ
· All communications intended for is to prevail against that of lan- The personal responsibility of publication should be addressed to datory falsomeness, which is Mr. Edmund John Duggan for the the Editor, and be accompanied by more usual, then we must say signing of the Irish Treaty was the Writer's Name and Address straight out that the playing of greater than is generally known. not necessarily for insertion, but Mme. Renee Florigny at her reci-j On December 5, 1921, Mr. Lloyd [as e guarantees of good faith. tal at the Helena May Institute George had grown weary of the last evening was marred by a very protracted negotiations with the serious fault. Her pedalling was Irish delegation. He gave them heavy, turgid and fumbling to the the bald alternatives: Acceptance He has been following the rules;D. Rockefeller is not in-even that point of being downright bad in of Dominion status with its he set when he was, nearly 90-he is not staying there. such an offering, for instance, as essential admission of the suzer-"Not to worry,-zot to acquire over- the D fist major Berceuse, which ainty of the Crown, or a renewal weight, to drink three quarts of a low-built,
His home, "The Casements," is lost all its delicate, lace-like tex-of the war.
rambling wooden Hong Kong. Wednesday, July 8, 1936 ture and became instead a cheap
water a day, exercise regularly bungalow set in grounds with war- The Irish delegates returned to and breathe lots of fresh air.” print in which the colours all ran their headquarters in Hans Place.;
ing palms, green lawns, and rain- He has never smoked or drunk bow flower beds A quarter of a French "New Deal into one another. (Incidentally, if Duggan, Griffith and Collins were alcohol.
you provide a printed programme prepared to sign. Duffy and Now employees of his estate say breakers roll on the red sands of mile away at the back Atlantic and propose to play the major Barton held signature to be a that he is healthier than for some Ormond Beach, while in front the Arz esque, the D fat major Berbetrayal of the Republic.
time past, and has a fine sun tan house is separated from the road- M. Blum sprang no surprise eca: : and the C-sharp minor: Barton
the key. or the French Chamber in his valse, among other items, why him won
With acquired during his winter and way by the waters. of the Halifax- first declaration of policy. His not say so and at least identify forced to come into line.
over, Duffy would be spring at his winter home, "The River.
As the Casements," at Ormond, Florida. programme of reforms, remark-them, either by their key signa night wore on Grinth, Collins and
The brain of the man who has able as it may have been for its tures or their Opus numbers, in Daggan put on their coats and feller has not indulged in the active as ever.
For a long time now Mr. Rocke given away £100,000,000 is 29 abundance of promises, constead of labelling them merely hats to go to Downing-street and leisurely games of golf which he tained nothing that France had "Arabesque,” *Berceuse" andj
His private physician states not sanctioned by the voting in "Valse?")
{sign independently.
used to enjoy so much. At his that physically John D: ̧ is “as the recent election. Upon this
great age the effort, no matter how healthy as a child." common platform the parties of ed a great pity that Mme. Florig-
gently he made it would be too the Left were returned toy, by her careless pedalling on the landing and brought them
Three times Barton caught them much for him. power, and the strikes through-spoiled the ship for a ha'p'orth of
Old Fortune out France have given the new tar, because in all other respects ham's words:
back, Then, in Mr. Frank Paken-†
Mr. Rockefeller, capitalist and loves so much. Prime Minister the plainest he showed herself to be well notice that the workers expect equipped to hold her own in any
Suddenly Duggan broke down; philanthropist, was born-at-Rich- Nor can be ride in his car and his mind went back to Richmond mond, New York, on July 3, 1839, chat with children and -strangers the election pledges to be re- company. Her technique was ex- Barracks and Kilmainham Gaol, "to the deemed without dallying.
son of William Avery and as he delighted to do when he was that morning in Mountjoy when Eliza Rockefeller. do. him justice, M. Blum has cellent, she extracted any amount of good tone from her instrument,
saw the hangman who was to bang shown that he needed no such and the very few liberties
a tremendous for- she
our young lads there." spur to quick action. Bills
He poured out an appeal to Bar-tune out of oil interests, and it took with her material were com- have already been introduced paratively unimportant. Only in
ton not to cast away the chance for was estimated that his-total dona-) under 10 main heads, providing this elementary department of
which these simple martyrs died, and plunge once more in bloodtable causes up
badtions to philanthropic and charit what his supporters want. from recitalist's equipment was Mme.
the country
to 1921 amounted they had loved 30 ja 40-hour week to the restora-)
well
to more than 500,000,000. dol. tion of the cuts in Civil Service Florigny's playing.deficient.
*Unsophisticated, from the heart,|(£100,000,000). salaries. As soon
utterly unlike the fierce preceding
No elixir of life has been given as these
Nearly four-fifths exhortations, it touched some chord amount went to the four great Only rigid discipline; to which no to America's modern Methuselah. in Barton, not far frota breakdown charitable corporations which he himself.
To
matters are out of the way
To at least one listener it seem-
Liszt Transcriptions
&
there is promise of unemploy- As regards the matter of her ment funds, old age pensions, recital we doubt whether the Liszt
tion that will press with severi-clusion in ty only upon the rich.
new
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They are
OM
TO AVOID BLOODSHED
Your Daily Smile!
A Misunderstanding
a
He amassed
of this
Mr. Rockefeller is a Republican
But no longer is he allowed to play a daily game of golf, and no longer can he lead the singing în the little Baptist Union church be
jonly 90.
Happiest Man
And no longer is he allowed to entertain friends and visitors, and give them a shining dime as a happy memente.
To him life is sweet. His inti- mates say that he is the happiest man in the world. Eis amazing Re-
will makes it easy for him to keep himself in utter seclusion "because it is good for me.”
All his life Rockefeller. has maintained that he bas never done anything he merely wanted to do; At Ormond, Florida, in a setting but only that which was best for of. Paradise on the banks of thejhim.· ́
Florida Estate
Barton gave in and after him created-the Rockefeller Founda-other living man would cheerfully, and a reorganisation of taxa-transcriptions are ever worth in- Gavan Duffy. Soon after 11 they tion, the General Education Board,ithin the wizened frame.
agree, retains that grand soul responsible pro were in Downing-street prepared the Laura Spelman Rockefeller gramme, unless it is hoped, by to sign-
Memorial (named after his wife! To tabulate the reforms that their transparent flamboyance, to
who died in 1915) and the Rocke-| feller Institute for Medical are to be made, as M. Blum has impress the unitiated.
search. done, is easy to realise them certainly not worth inclusion without disaster in the present musical or artistic grounds, being
The great need of the world is economic conditions of France full of sound and fury, signifying will test all the powers of the nothing. Very much the same people as they march up to pay taxes
patriotic band tune that will thrill and a Baptist. Administration. The thing applies to da Falla's Danse Premier himself interposed atonelle de Feu. But this is 2 warping that the Government Personal pinion, and may be plans "will take a very long taken for what it is worth. time to develop," even though Mme. Florigny's best offerings his programme encouraged the last evening were the two old you the instructor?" workers to look for a consider-French pieces, Gavotte (Rameau) "Why not buy your wallpaper and able instalment of the millen- and Coucon (Daquin), full of paste it on yourself?" asks an ad- nium in a week. These large quiet charm, the two Albeniz items vertisement. Because we are of the
we look better in experiments with the economic (Sevilla and Tango), and the opinion that and social life of France will be Mozart Sonate Variation...
lounge sui watched with interest by all The small but appreciative an- well-wishers of the country. In dience present included His Ex- their own field they
as cellency the Governor and
Lady notable a series of experiments Caldecott, with a party, and the as the "new deal" in the United French Consul, under whose com- States. So far as France is bined patronage the recital was concerned they will settle the given E. OʻN. S. question whether Socialism has
are
The following was the complete
the capacity to govern. In programme:- foreshadowing what the Goy-Gavotte ernment is prepared to do, and Coucon
Raizean Daquin
Mozar
Verdi-Liszt
in initiating proposals for Sonate Variation. Minuetto, alla settlement, M. Blum calmed in Turca
Rigoletto
Debussy
Albeniz
some degree the strike fever in France. It should
Arabesque now be Sevilla, Tango shown whether the workers willFire Dance leave their fortunes in the Etude for left hand only hands of the Ministry, or
Ballade, Etude, Berceuse, Valse, whether there is to be a con-
Polonaise
careful, expert, thorough clean-tinuance of conditions in indus .ing and pressing, and enjoy the satisfaction and self-assurance confusion which gave Fascism try that have a parallel in the that comes from wearing its swift victory in Italy. clothes that look their expen- sive part
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WEDDING AT REGISTRY Chinese Couple United
Difficult as may be the inter-i nal affairs of France they are but a part of the troubles that confront the new Ministry. M Blum's outline of foreign policy
Miss Fannie Yan Chiu Wu, a lacked the firmness of line with which he sketched the home member of the staff of the Sun
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operate în present conditions A dinner will be held at the and in what respect their mani-Kwong Chow Restaurant "this) festation on the part of France evening, when a large number of will undergo change. M friends have been invited to at- Bhim probably wisely, left tend, and the happy couple will these questions unanswered for leave for the North to-morrow, the time being. Mr. Eden, in where the bridegroom will take up his speech to his constituents a position with the Central Gov- last month, expressed the same]ernment. bepes for the future as did M.
I
Elum, but several nations "must A report was made to the Yau- decide their future course mati Police Station last night that before the French Prime an Austin 10, tio. 463, had bet Minister will be able to stolen from its parking place out zive confidence to the working side the Alhambra Thexire about man in a peaceful Europe
12:15 Date
First Aviator: "Quick! What do I do now, instructor?"
Second Aviator: "Goodness! Aren River Halifax, John D. Rocke- As the years overtook him and feller, sen., lives in deep seclusion, his beloved game of golf was gra- as happily as any other man on dually cut down to nine holes, earth.
then seven, then four, never did Guards in a sentry-box outside he hesitate to obey the instruc- the high iron railings of his homeļtions of his medical advisera. tell the average inquirer that Johnl (Continued on Page 10)
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Leona
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