THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 29, 1937.
She holds the secret of being
SEVENTEEN
AT SEVENTY
NE May day in 1882, when she and her common sense was dead vitality she remains, at seventy- two, as vivid as the girl she was was seventeen, she was taken against play-acting. to 10, Downing-street by her grand- But the wisp of a girl had her at seventeen. mother, who hoped that the G.O.M. way. Her grandmother died a few Trouble Over Trousers: would be able to reinforce her own months later, leaving her money to opposition to the girl's desire to go the Church and her big house to on the stage.
And if Mr. Gladstone had had his
Way,
Etherington Mary Susan
might never have become our Marie Tempest "rogue in porcelain, as
such she has electrified
Mr.
Mary, to whom she said on her Hector Bolitho accustomed to write
By Dr. J. M. BULLOCH
It is not enough to be told this is the reward of the long school- ing of her body, yet it is in this that the secret lies-Her health, her sleep and immaculate attention to every facet of her appearance.
Each year she spends hundreds of pounds for her health.
She represents a standard of dign- ity, behaviour, beauty and fashion, and these expensive ministrations
tion.
Sir J. M. Barrie called her in con- deathbed-
of Kings and Queens-who tells us are the dues she pays for her posi- nection with the Daily Telegraph "I am going to join my Maker. I her story, in a piecemeal fashion in
In her house and she has never celebrations of her stage jubilee shall not see you again. Dress well, twenty-seven episodes, in "Marie
owned a "country cottage" she in- last year.
my child: remember that, for you Tempest.”
sists on the apex of sophistica- tion."
Old Mrs. Etherington, for all her will never be anything without it." She made her first big success in frills and imperial manner, was Mary, turned Marie for stage "Dorothy" in 1887. After many
She must have the most modern "sturdy, healthy, bigoted and sup- purposes, has always dressed well. successes under George Edwardes erstitious in the manner of her But she has also dressed her mind she left Daly's through a quarrel stove, the latest refrigerator, and the most perfect electric fire. One Sussex yeomen ancestors" all of and her art, and with a full share over a pair of trousers.
cannot imagine her on the stage or them so unlike rogues in porcelain of the grandmother's health and 1 The producer had ordered a pair in private life wearing old clothes
of long tousers for "San Toy." They and toasting a crumpet before were no doubt correct, but Marie
cottage fire. Thated them, cut them into shorts
and went on the stage.
By the left
The Army of Wisecracks
W
THINK! to-day tries
(By FRANK D. LONG)
HEN I was a rookie, away metaphorically; but next I noticed: back in the distant past "Don't rest on your laurels, they between '14 and '18, they used to make poor mattresses.” tell me I was not paid to think.
They told a million others like wise.
"Learn more; earn more.” "We judge ourselves by what we
are capable of doing; others judge us by what we do."
WOTINE are
Wrong! It was several millions Every mother's son in khaki “A hen doesn't quit scratching be- subordinate to some other mother's cause the worms are
scarce." sou in khaki was told the same.
Let him once be heard to say, “7. thought. the interruption was guaranteed, You're not paid to think
A few days ago I went back to the place where the standing order was Think not," and found in the very heart of it such a change as made me rub my eyes in misty wander.
It was unbelievable, unthinkable.
very heart of Alder showhich is to say, bang in the dle of the Lines--found build- peopled by soldiers who couldn't their heads without their eyes rashed into a challenging command in huge red letters:
THINK
THINK
And here's another piece of sound advice worth thinking aboût for the underlying virtue:
“Grin when you lose; pray when you win.”
Near to which I read
Enthusiasm is to a man what steam is to an engine.”
Do the work you are paid do, and then some. It's the some that matters"
"True courage is going on you are afraid."
That last has the true smack of Aldershot and the Lines about it. We return to sus wisecracking with:
"Even if you are on the right track you will get run over if you
There were fifteen of these build ings, bustling lives of industry, sit there."
-And And there it was each, as I en tered, turned left, turned turned about
THINK
right,
When I could take my eyes from the strange
vice 1 saw that this
new order was buttressed, so speak, with snappy reminders - df -various forms of folly of w
ple who think cannot be guilty.
Thus
“Pep without purpose
And this cheerfull
If you can pull, pus
can't push, get out of the Then there was a rea the rookie of the
thought he knew better:
"It's not the hours you put It's what you put into the hours."--
THINK
Still following the trail I came upon this.
"The world is your bed, but you
got to help
Take care of your tools and they will take care of you..
"This is a hospital for soles, but a workshop for real live
had reached the buildings
-time cobbler a sho had been for who prised the
ing Centre.
Nothing of the
focati
"It's what we lear after we think
we know it all that
Lotice
tween
George Edwardes was angry, and said if she did not wear the long trousers she must leave Daly's and she did; starting out to learn the art of acting apart from sing ing.
Mr. Bolitho says:
a
Although she keeps her own house books, studies her bank pass books every two weeks and pays her ac- counts on the nail, she is wildly ex- travagant, and she has saved little or nothing out of the quarter of a million pounds she has earned as She learned how to act from Dion an actress. ("Dot") Boucicault. *If he ever It is curious that extravagance created anything," she says, "he should go with the clerkly mind over
created me as an actress.”
accounts.
Marie Tempest shook an old tradi- tion in the theatre by going to When She Is Indignant
in
famous dressmakers here and
Noel Coward once said to Mr. Paris instead of a theatrical cos- Bolitho tumier for her clothes.
"I could not let myself down be- After fifty years on the stage fore Marie. She seems to demand Marie Tempest is able to wear an chivalry from one, good manners and ivory dress of flowing stuff, delicate admiration.”
as gossamer, and look no more than 4. Mr. Bolitho, who says she is one forty. This is the harvest of her of the few women who hold out discipline
their hand as if they still expected
No
hair
it to be kissed rather than shaken, frankly admits that:-
That discipline is summed up by "Her scorn and indignation are Mr. Bolitho in the phrase, "She ne to be avoided. There are degrees ver sits in an ármchair. Her body of confidence and familiarity which is at perpetual war with the word none of her friends would dare. lounge, even after a long day in the When she is angry she is frighten- theatre."
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