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STORY OF VILLAGE VENDETTA.
OTHER CHARGES DROPPED,
GLOUCESTER, May 4th Motor-cars and motor-coaches transported a large section of the population of the village of Avesing, Gloucestershire, to their county town to-day.
FINDERS KEEPERS."
LAURA LA PLANTE IN A DELIGHTFUL COMEDY.
THE PRIVATE WITH WRONG UNDERWEAR.
[BY OUR FILM CRITIĆ)
Finders Keepers? is one of: the most amusing films we have, had for some time. A stock joke has been taken bat has been pre-| a new and delightful sented in fashion.
VIEW DAY AT
"ACADEMY.
THE PICTURES OF THE YEAR.
MYSTICISM OF THE LATE CHARLES SIMS.
SIR WORPEN'S BLACK CAP."
Losnay, May 5th. Yesterday was Private View Day at the 160th annual exhibition of Laura la Plante, who has a big the Royal Academy at Burlington ger command of facial expression They made the 16-miles journey than any other film actress, is House, Piccadilly, W. to study at first hand the new responsible for most of Finders Mr. P. G. Konody, art critic of, evidence given to the commission Keepers and for all the humour. The Daily Mail, thus describes some She is a Colonel's daughter, laved appointed by the Bishop of Glous half the regiment, who flirts of the outstanding features. cester to inquire into a series of allegations against the morality and general conduct of their rector, the Rev. O. E. Hayden.
It Was announced that no evidence would be called on the charges that Mr. Hayden resorted to taverns and ale-houses, consumed liquer beyond his proper require ments, and caused scandal by treat- ing parishioners to refreshment in the hostelries.
Men nodded and women muritur- ed approval when the commis sioners were informed to-day on behalf of the complainants, that there was no charge of either Miss Nina Chipp, the infant-school main tres and leader of the choir, or Miss Sharpe, the daughter of a parishioner, having been guilty of misconduct with the rector.
room.
The sunlit inquiry chamber might at a first glance have been mistaken for a crowded drawing
The illusion was spoiled only now and then when someone had to mention words, and phrases of bad language which Mr. Hay den is alleged to have used. oc- casionally.
To most of these witnesses, whose Pevidence in some cases went back seven years, it was suggested that the inquiry was the culmination of aveadetta by some member of the local gentry against the rector, who had the support of the villagers.
Commissioners, counsel, and audience alike became convulsed with laughter when an earnest vil lage tradesman revealed that be cause the rector had threatened, as he said, to knock his damned head off if he kicked the rectory dog again, he sent a protest to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
sword
The Gloves Off,
« The archbishop received the let- ter by registered post, and lent suspicion should attach to this testimony the witness flourished the official postal receipt. Mr. Hayden replied to his ac cusers with the gloves off, and his wife said that when she heard to- day the words attributed to her husband she thought she must be either mad or dreaming:
LETTER TO PRIMATE.
TRADESMAN WHO GOT NO REPLY.
Lieut. Col. William H. Playne, of Middleton, said that the rector had a very angry dispute outside the Memorial Hall, and Mr. Hay den said, "Why the " "and" used two other improper words.
Sir Francis Hyett: Did the rec. tor say, "Damn" occasionally No, often.
Dr. Earengay: May we take it you are one of the gentry down there! Is it right to say that a few of the gentry are against him! -Yes
Dr. Earengey asked Col. Playne if he heard "Mr. Hayden' call one clergyman A white whiskered old beggar."
Col. Playne: I am certain be did not say beggar.
You are a lieutenant-colonel; you are accustomed to strong language what in the army is the vernacu. lar? Yes.
with them all, and gives her heart to a very youthful private. Laura's John Harron whom you may re- love is Carter, well played by
member as Mother's boy } in "What Price Glory" and he does not stand a chance against the blonde tornado who is willing ic marry him anywhere provided it is at once.
Never, perhaps, has the admittedly
high standard of contemporary British technical accomplishment. been put to more insignificant and trivial use, The fact that most of the pictures.
are well painted makes it the more regrettable that there should be such a dearth of ideas and westhetic ideals..:
Even an order that the camp to closed to civilians fails to
Six Mystical Paintings, daunt the colonel's daughter, war or Sims, whose art had reached a new It is the genius of the late Charles war she mends to be bride. Garbed in a borrowed uniform, she passes the sentry and goes on parade beside her lover. Then comes the joke, so familar and so dear to producers and to audiences, Laura's breeches are too big in the waist! They begin to ship as she marches beside Carter, and col- lapse entirely when the order to "double" 15 given, displaying underwear comparable with that which has won such fame for Talbuila Bankhead on the London stage. Carter hauls them up on the one a'de, and Laura on the other, while they jog round, the parade ground.
A
and unexpected phase when his life. was so tragically cut short, that salves this year's exhibition from dreariness. Yet the six mystical paintings from his brush, the noble results of spiritual experience and profound thought, were in danger of being rejected because some of his brother artists, unable to follow the flights of his imagination and to understand the local reasoning by which Sima was guided in the construction of his pictures, found in them traces of insanity!
23.
The charge of insanity brought against him because he was unobvious, because the reading of Inspection by Laura's father, a symbolical interpretation of the soul regular" helors he joined the assailed by passions and protected service, followe As he draws by the guardian angel requires an begins to go. nearer and tearer Laura's nerve intellectual effort, and because he
had expressed abstract ideas in 'ab-. stract form and colour.
Sho sees one man reproved for torg hair, another for being slackly braced. Her pack
Sims's Choice Of Themes weighs her down, her tin hat Talla over her nose, and her ride is
Unlike Blake, whose invention moved from shoulder to shoulder. bad something of the inspirational Face to face with her father the and sprang from irresistible inner scowls in so attempt to hide her promptings, Sims deliberately chose identity. He storms at the ser- his mystical themes because they geant for allowing a "man" on gave him a freedom of abstract im- parade with euch, long hair, the provision which is denied to the fatal breeches next catch his atten- artist who confines himself to the tion and Laura's cars are blasted representation of tangible facts. with some choice language. Then The abstract elements of these the climax, abe has a tunic button pictures have a clear kinship with undone, the rolónál pulls at it and the flaming, espiring rhytum and explodes at the revelation of lace the sharp contrasts of colour that and embroidery underneath. Ia are associated with El Greco's art. the middle of the outburst ho re- cognises Laura, and there is Mr. E. Procter occupies the place
Mr. Procter's Picture. delightful moment when he pulls himself together so as not to give her away. It is unnecessary to
add that Laura gets her wedding, but not until after the WI. "Finder's Keopers" is" amusing from beginning to end and a very real triumph for Laura La Plante. Even those who profess a weariness of American war films will enjoy the one and we recommend it most beartily to anyone who wants "a good laugh.
of
Traill Rosa,
farmer, Avening, said he heard the rector refer to a woman as damned old bitch.”
Dr. Earengey naked Mr. Ross if he ceased to go to the rectory after Mr. Hayden's daughter had become engaged to be married, adding: "You were somewhat of a disap- pointed suitor, were you not!"
"No, decidedly not," said Mr Ross.
George William Taylor, motor driver, of Avening, said the rector threatened to knock my dawned head off if I kicked his dog again. He said he wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury
Mr. Clements: Did his Grace reply 1-No. I am told they take no notice of single complaints.
Reator's Denials. Mr. Hayden,iving evidence
held last year by his wife's. memorable "Morning," with
✡ aimilar nude, Drowsing Venus."""
"Midday Best: Potato Harvest," is the most successful decorative. design produced for many years by Prof. Gerald Moira. The three "Brothers," by the 15- -years-old Miss Manning Sanders,
is a surprising mature group. Sir William Orpen is likely to create a mild sensation with his sati- rical Black Cap." Sir Arthur Cope's portrait of the King in his Garter robes is not likely to give rise to as much discussion as the late Charles Sims's bold attempt of a few years back.
Mr.
Whitney Smith's superb bronze half-figure of "Miss Molly Le Bas" and Mr. H. Haseltine's
SHE LOVED THEM ALL
AND they all loved her! That was the trouble-the whole regiment wanted to marry Laura I Then she met the handsome new recruit. See what happened when she sneaked into camp in uniform to be near him and was
swept into a general parade 1-
CARL ZARMENAR
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· Crowd Bewildered By The Sims Pictures,
MR. RAYMOND ASQUITH'S DAUGHTERS.
The London Gazette panoutices that the King has conferred on Miss Helen Frances Asquith and Miss Perdita Rose Mary Asquith the rank of earl's daughters.
Private View Day brings together an assemblage unlike that seen at other times during the season of the Royal Academy. The top hat comes
Lady Helen, who is twenty years into its own for nine glorious hours. old, and Lady Perdita, who is
eighteen," are- daughters, Boi (Mr: } Do you object to those words said, "Mr. Fowells tried to rule
The Cabinet, the Church, and Raymond Asquith, the eldest son the parish. He was not called the Services send distinguished 20 of the late Earl of Oxford, who the Lord Mayor for nothing" presentatives to this ceremonial was killed at the front in 1916 About the dog incident Mr. Hay-inspection of the year's output by The present earl is Julian Acquith, den anid that Taylor said he would known and unknown artists. Society their twelve-year-old brother, kick the dog again, whereupon he is fully mobilised, and traffic in said, "If you do I will jolly well Piccadilly becomes chaos, break your neck.”
in
On this day the pictures do not receive undivided attention. People como to look at each other as much as at the fine."
posed on a terrace which might be that of the Adelphi
I did object to them being used before school children in the street. M. Herbert G. Hares, school master at Avening, describing an incident outside the Memorial Hall in 1921, said the rector was in a very bad temper, and he (Mr. Hares) walked away in disgust. Mr. Hayden denied that "he Miss Myrtle Byng, daughter of habitually used the word "damn," Lady Eleanor Byng, of Avening, a but admitted that if was
Suddenly a woman in the group. pretty, fair-haired girl of 19, said probable he had escaped it while
gave a little gasp of astonishment. she had played tennis at the rectory playing tennis.
Aloysius Korn's Twinkle.co
and said, "Why, there he is!!! Mr. Clements: Bix persons have in 1928 and 1923 and had complain-
Although Mr. Oswald Birley's por- And there he was, the original Mr. ed about Mr. Hayden's bad given evidence on cath about your trait of Mr. Baldwin had no pipe, Ward, strolling down the other side language. She gave two words bad language. Are they all lying? Aloysius Horn had his Mr. W. O. of the room. But he was the only which she said the rector used fair--I think they are all mistaken. Hutchison has painted the now original who was detected in this ly frequently an
Mr. Hayden described the allega famous" Trader sitting very much way. A Mr George Fowells, of Chelten- tions as a whole business of cop at his ease in a comfortable chair, Portraits and the six mystical ham churchwarden at Avening in spiracy theor
with a new churchwarden and an paintings by the late Mr. Charles 1921, said that when he advised the Mr. Hayden said she had never unfinished drink on the table be Sims divided the attention of the rector in his own interest not to heard her husband use, the word side him. He looks out at the world crowd. The latter were frankly be see so much of the girls from the damn" or "b" If she had with a sardonic twinkle in his know wildering to the majority of people. village he let By,
done so she would never have given ing eyes. What a whimsical old The memory of their creator a tragic another tennis party as her hus old man," said one of his admirers death was still fresh in all minds, band's reputation would have been on the floor below. Don't you and oven, the amateur critics were
love him1
for the most part, silent as thos
Dr. Farenger here called the rector's son, who had to leave for Fa school în the north,
Rector's Son's Evidence
JA
ruined. He w
Servants at the rectory said they
had never heard Mr. Hayden use front of the full length represents the agonisett human figure shelter- An admiring little group stood in tried to grasp the significance of The boy, Francis Oswald, speak onthation of Mr. Edwin A. Ward, him ing besides a gigantic shadowy one Frances outside the Mr. Graham, & member of partea bainter, of the Birine Compassion, Memorial Hall, said when his : Quaker family, who lives next door father said "damn he was re to the rectory, said, Avening is who, as painted by Mr. James But all critics paused. without a peating a word used by Mr.very scandalous village, She Gunn, is a dignified and picturesque word of dissent before Mr. Arthur had never heard the rector ne bail figure in top hat and evening cloak, Walker's Duchess of York and, little, (Continued a nezt Delune), · language
(Continued on, next Column), Princess Elizabeth.
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