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SCHOOLBOY'S MARRIAGE_ COURT STORY OF ARTIST'S MODEL
AFTER 20 YEARS-
General Napier Owen, rosiding at. bis mother's addreas, Coingwith Newtown, Montgomeryshire, a former public school boy Bugby), attended before Mr Gill The Westminster Police Court to answer summons for desertion and Movelies
the instance of his wife Frances, tagat-Warwick Street, Pimlico,
society for the Protection of Women, a representative of whom appeared for her.
SECRET FROM PARENTS. Opening the case on her behalf, be said that she was in a very unhappy position, her marriage having been a secret one from defendant's parents and family...
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like the spare time of most European cilies, is taken up with listening Wireless started late there, but thetadon, SW Already several transmitting at Mrs. Owca, when making application and a rapidly increasing number for the summons, stated that she was then quite without, means, and was re-. ceiving sets. Broadcasting is a Guvern-ferred for legal aid to sobcitors of a ment monopoly. Licences for receing sets are given out at prices dependent on the position of the individuals who want them. Workmen and clerks pay ap proximately two shillings and a few pence a year for the right to use a crystal sut, and four shillings and a few pence for the right to use a set with valves. Both the parties at the time were, very p The Izvestia on Fridays publishes the young, Owen at the time of the ceremony programme for the following week Then July, 1900, being only 19 years of age. broadcasting stations, collaborating ju The parties lived together at varioas this programme are those of the Alliance addresses for some years, the last place of Trade Unions and the Third Inter-being: at Drayton-gardens, S.W. The national. They send out weather re: husband insisted that his parenta-should ports, a news bulletin, lectures, lesson nos know of the marriage, in the English language and in Esper-
The secret was kept when Mr. Owen nato, concerts, and occasionally speeches. went home to Wales, when he left for a There are receivers in most of the work-position of a Government secretary at ing men's clubs with earphones but, North Borneo, with the promise that he happily, there is a shortage of loud would send for his wife to join him there. speakers so that wireless, though de vastating conversation in a fair number of homes, has not yet developed the full vehemence of which we know is, is capable: The trade union lender M. Melnichansky, whose views on wireless are diametrically opposed to my own, is the chief enthusiast and instigator of wireless development in Russia. "He was to have come to England to study its development here and possibly to buy apparatus for Russia. He was, however refused an English visa; whether because of his connection with the trade unicas or because of a desire to save Russia from the loud speakers from which it is too late to save England, I will not at- tempt to determine.
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In the years that passed a few letters seven or eight were received from him, and some few remittances, amounting to between £60 and £70, but no arrangement. was made for the wife to go out to him.
Owen said that he through, ill-health roturned from North Borneo in 1924, and stayed at a nursing home at Putney. The
found out that be was there, and visited him on fairly friendly terms, but. no arrangement was made to live together again, he stated that it was impossible
take her to his home at Wales, as his mother would not receive her
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On February 2nd this year, the wife received a letter from her husband, stat- ing that it was many years since ther had lived together, and he had finaly made up his mind not to do so in future. In the circumstances he enclosed an hotel bill to show that he had stayed with a woman which no doubt Mrs, Owen would be able to confirm so as to take legal. action to free him and obtain her own! freedom.
"The most popular form of amusement in Moscow is the kinematograph. Some of the picture theatres belong to the State and others are in private hands. Moscow, like London, crowds, to see Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin. Wild West dramas are much liked and share the bills with pic Mrs. Owen, giving evidence, said at the tures of young persons dropping from time of the secret marriage Owen had aeroplanes on express trains and ordi- an allowance from his family. By pro nary films the captions of which point fession; she was an artist's model, but out that they illustrate the dissolute and her work was uncertain, and some weeks contemptible life of the bourgeoisie Ashe had earned nothing at all. In sad -aumber of films are produced in Russia. tones she added:---
Some of these are of a definitely revolu tionary character. One such Alm, recent-
shown, illustrated the mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin in 1805, and was a stirring in effect that an English theatrical producer who was in Moscow and saw it expased bis astonishment that any Government could feel strong enough to allow such a film to be shown They must be very sure of their posi tion to allow such revolutionary pro- paganda as that." This film was success in Moscow but is hardly likely 4 be shown outside Russis. Some of the picture theatres run almost continual performances and have adopted the system of serial publication, dividing dramas into parts with promising cur- tains and so compelling the spectators to visit them again and again in order to ace the whole story.
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The kinematograph offers little criticism -of-contemporary life. Irony does not carry well from a screen, and it is not to the picture theatres that one must go to enjoy comment on the present. There is plenty of that to be mind in the cabarets, the theatres, and the circus. The closas in the circus even found courage to laugh in the bad times of 1920, when Bim and Bom (the famous Moscow clowns) brought the house down "by their illustration of Government con-
trol. Bim met Bom dragging enormous gack "What have you been after" says Bim."Getting wood." And is that the wood Oh, no,” says Bom, in a shocked voice," this is the Wood With great reverence be produces a broken match from his pocket. Then what have you got in that sack "Oh, that is the necessary, permits."
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"I have been without bread at times. I have indeed I have always worked anything I could get, musical comedy on the stage at nursing, and needle-
'work.
Asked about the interview with her husband at the nursing home, on his re-l turn from Borneo, Mrs. Owen said that on these occasions her husband gave her altogether about £60, assuring her that in the future he would have plenty of mener from his people and that she would be kept in the position she should be as his wife.
“DEPENDENT ON HIS MOTHER”
Counsel for Mr. Owen said the deser- tion was admitted, but he could make no offer to the wife-not a penny. Mr. Owen was absolutely dependant on-bis mother-now a widow 80 years of age. It was as the Court had heard, a mar- ringe of which the parents disapproved.
Owen gavo etidence that he was entire
dependent or his mother, who had a life interest in his deceased father's
anded property
Cross-examined on a letter said to be written to Mrs. Owen offering her £800
the event of her taking divorce pro- ceedings, Owen said he bad never heard of it. He had property coming to him on his mother's death. an The Magistrate: Do you mean to say that your mother does not allow you pocket-moneyl
Owen: Nothing whatever. The Magistrate: You have a property interest you can raise money on...
Counsel; "He only gets money for bare cessities. He has no income whatever. Mr. Gill said, "at any rate, he should Make a nominal order of 53. a week, and The Cabarets, which in 1918 were quite when the position altered, as he hoped definitely at odds with the revolution, are it would, the wife could come at once' lively with good tempered-comraent, but to the Court and get it renewed. the most fruitful field for the observer ofAD contemporary Russia is certainly the theatre. The revolution is already The audiences at all these performances old fact, and Moscow is rapidly stabilis are of all classes, though, naturally, more ing and ripening for the new comedy of of the young folk brought up with the umaaners. People are able to laugh At revolution go to the newer playe," and themselves of a few years ago, and so at more elderly people go to revivals of the characters" of to-day. I saw a pre revolutionary plays. Ou the whole, very mixed audience shouting with think, Moscow audiences give an im amusement at the bourgeois" family in pression of youth. The foreign diploma- “Mandate, with its reversible pictures the corps set a dubious example in at- on the walls, sentimental oleographs on tending the ballet in evening dress, but one side and portraits of Marx and they are not much imitated. Still, the Engels on the other. A marriage, is in simplicity of 1920, when jerseys und view, and, in order to imprem the proshawls were common in the opera stalls, pective father-in-law that his son is is rapidly disappearing marrying well, the brother of the young
Wireless, the kinematography and the woman is made to pretend to be a Com-theatre are all more or less intellectual munist and to possess the party *man-ausements. There are plenty of others. date." He produces a certificate of Football in Russia (played in summer, identity and with this innocent doca- not winter) is developing. A team ment as mandate overaves everybody of Russian workmen recently toured on the stage, who treat the boy with an Europe. There is horse-racing with a exaggerated terrified respect that fairly totalisator. During the winter there are shook the house with delighted laughter. almost weekly skating contests and long- A new ballet, based on Notre Dame distance ske-ing competitions (Archangel de Paris," has been produced this winter, Moscow, Moscow-Leningrad, &c.)." Tour and a large repertoire of old ones con- Moscow does much more aki-ing now than tinues. There is a Theatre of the Be formerly, and on holidays numbers of volution which plays up to its name, and young men and girls may be seen ski-ing a good deal of the contemporary drama both in the town and outside. In BuT- has a decided revolutionary favouz mer there is rowing on the Moscow river When I was in Moscow there was excite and a great deal of camping.. Fishing, ment against and on behalf of a play which is largely practised, hardly comes called Rear, China which included within the scope of this article,, nor yet the banging of two Chinamen by the shouting which is controlled by an All- captain of an English ship, a
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