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STRADIVARIUS FINDS:
'ELECTRIC ́ ́AGE ... SUNDAY OPENING OF THE CROOK OF 1929.
DAWNING.
DOCUMENTS SAID TO BE WORLD USING LESS COAL
FORGED.
DEALERS ARRESTED.
Like the books of Livy, supposed to have been found years ago in a convent of Naples, and the more recent statues of Dossena, the Stradivarius documents-or at least the greater part of them-appear now to be a forgery.
Count Tomaso Gnoli, Dirtetor of the Brera Library and biblicgra- phic superintendent of Lombardy, who declared last January to a re- presentative of the Corriere della Sera that "the find was a precious contribution to the history of the great violin maker," writes to the some newspaper admitting and ex- plaining his mistake.
Latest Version.
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The following is the latest ver sion of the affair. About two years ago two old furniture dealers of Bergamo, Damned Zanardi and Ravasio, began offering for sale to various
the persons
supposed Stradivarius papers, they said. they had found in an old drawer purchased from a nobleman of Bergamo. Signor Bisiach,, a well- known violin" maker · and an ex- thusiastic student of bis great predecessor, bought nearly all of them at various intervals during the last two years for 30,000 lire, (about £540).
FOR POWER.
HOW BRITAIN LAGS.
Coal, as a source of power, is steadily losing ground; electricity is making rapid strides.
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THEATRES.
OVERWHELMING PUBLIC
DEMAND."
LONDON, MANAGERS"
STATEMENT.
The question of the opening of the London theatres on Sundays was discussed recently at a con ference of the Society of West End Theatre Managers, and the Enter- ontainments Protection Association,
This is among the conclusions in a report of the World Power Con ferezice, which represents forty. eight countries.
the special investigations which the report is based have been carried on since 1920, and are the frst made by an authoritative body to examine the world situation as whole. regarding the part which coul, oil, gas, water-power, and electricity Eave played and will play, in economic and industrial development.
Coal Resources,
Other striking statements in the report include :--
The world's coal resources will
following a request to the London County Council by the two bodies that theatres should be granted the same facilities for Sunday per- formances as kinemas.
BURGLARS WHO DRIVE TO WORK.
NEW USE FOR STOLEN CARS.
The ordinary professional man of 1920 still goes to his work in the same manner as he has done for years-by train, tube or onibus.
Sometimes
is he
sufficiently
alluent to go to and from his office
in his own private ear.
But the crook of 1929 in England
travels to his work neither by train, tube nor omnibus. Nor does he go
to work in his own car.
He merely appropriates some one else's for the space of a few hours.
It is all so simple.
Afterwards a statement was issu- ed in which it was pointed out that the agitation of the two organisa. tions has reference solely to the addo, and a speedy method of trans
ministrative county of London.
Powers Needed.
No More "Fences.", The crook has a job of work to
port is necessary to carry it out properly. He searches for a likely looking car which has been left, out-
last for at least 4,000 years.
The decline in the demand for It is desired (it was stated) that side some une's front door while coal for power purposes in 1997 both the Lord Chamberlain and the the owner pays a visit, and drives was not much less than four hun-L.C.C. should be clothed with ap-off:
dred million tons compared with propriate powers, which at present The car is then cfficially report- they do not possess, enabling themed the police as having been stoler..
1913.
A world movement towards lawfully to permit Sunday opening No doubt the crook would con- electrification on the widest posto the public of places of entertainsider this a harsh word.
sible scale is now under way.
During the last fifteen years the development of nil. the utilisa tion on 10 extensive scale of water-power, and the scientific combustion of low-grade fuels, such as brown coal, have served to complicate the situation, and have rendered necessary a clear conception of the new power-
producing elementa within the world's industrial complex.
The documents purchased by Signor Bisiach were nearly 300 in number: many were insignificant but some were of great interest. A biography of Stradivarius, written apparently eight years after his under modern conditions, power is It is strongly emphasised that, death by his Confessor, a certain becoming exceedingly important, Father Bonavente; a treatise on the and the future development of the art of making violins attributed to world as a whole depends on the Stradivarius himself, and letters from Christofori, the inventor ofse that each country will make of the pianoforte, were especially its available resources.. prized
Ground to Make Up.
The figures relating to electricity show that Great Britain has much ground to make up.
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'On his
is recognised that the exercise of view, he has merely "borrowed" similar powers in other parts of the it for a few hours, although, of country is a matter for the local course, pressure of business will licensing authorities and the public prevent his returning the car to the "borrowed" it. spot from where he concerned.
It will be found eventually by the police abandoned in some out-of-the- way spot.
"There is no real traffic in stolen
It is considered (the statement continued) that London, in view of its cosmopolitan character, the lurge number of overseas visitors attracted annually, as well as by cars now-a-days," said an official at reason of the tens of thousands of one of the West-End police stations "The residents who already patronise to a Press representative. special position. It is not desired, practically impossible to Sunday entertainments, is in a registration precautions, make it except as a matter of defence of stolen, car, and the one or two all those dependent on the theatre fences who some years ago did a industry, to close any of the other large traffic in stolen cars exist, for entertainments which at present business purposes, no longer. are unlawfully opened to the public on Sundays, as there is an whelming public demand for Sun- day entertainments.
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"Care are still stolen, however- and there is a pretty fair weekly average of such thefts being report The ed. In nearly every case the lost inconsistent car is found within a few hours of
its having been reported as stolen. for the particular job he has in The thief simply borrows it hand, and abandons it as soon as he has Bnished."
If
In some of these cases reckless driving on the part of the thieves, or the pressing need for exceeding the speed limit, results in a crash, and, while the miscreants frequent- ly escape, injury, as well as succeed- ing in eluding their pursuers for a This short while, the real owner of the car has to sit down and make out a claim on his insurance company.
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When at the beginning of this rear the newspapers began to give news of the End Signor Bisiach,
It is also considered essential whose good faith in the matter is In 1927 Great Britain and Ireland, that the Sunday Observance Act of beyond question, presented part of with a population of 47,296,444, pro with public opinion at the present
1790, so obviously the documents, to Couns Gnoli as duced only 9.750 million units. In time, should be amended or re- the official authority charged with the same year Germany, with a pealed. This Act is utterly ignor the task of examining old books population of 62,500,000, produced ed by the L.C.C. as well as by and prints found in Lombardy, and 19.444 million anita, Norway, with a very large number of persons, in Count Gnoli, after a short and, as population of 2,619,773, produced cluding managers and employees of he now admits, incomplete examine-eight thousand million units: Japan: over 300 places of entertainment in tion, did not hesitate to declare with a population of 58,178,704, also Londen, and also by the press who that he believed the documents to produced eight thousand million advertise Sunday entertainments. be authentic and "very important." units, and the United States, 'with
Employees. Experts Taken In la a population of 105,710,620, pro-
With regard to the question of Two or three other experts ex-duced 80,905 pressed the game opinion. The nearly ten times as much as Great employment on Sunday this is a
Britain.
matter which, in the opinion of the Government then ordered the con-
which Electricity alone, fiscation of all the documents in
had organisations, should be left entire possession of Signor Bisiach so that reached about 47,000 million unitaly to the trade unions and other
The Required Information should be If the thief is lucky he may escape, ed, and in order to prevent their might have been realised if all other employees, is order that they detection just as long as he needs sent to the they might be thoroughly examinin 1913, or 3.4 per cent. of what bodies who represent actors and all
in conference possible departure from Italy. On power producing
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11, Ice House STREET, February 27 Count Gnoli, together used for the generation of energy, managers, arrive at their own solu- the car, but in with a magistrate of Bergamo, who had risen in 1027 to more than tion, having regard to the indivi-efficiency of the police force does
Hong Kong is also a paleographist, began 100,000 million units, and the per- dual recessities of those who work not allow him even this amount of
and to the very many different rope. more minute study of all the centage was more than eleven,
forms and conditions under which manuscripts.
entertainment might be given on Sundays if lawfully permitted to thinks I can live on love, while he Nottingham wife: My husband do so.
They found that some of the manuscript sheets were of a paper evidently made in a period later than Stradivarius; that the ink did not contain the vitriol which was common ingredient of the ink of the time, and that the writing had been done with steel pens, the use of which was unknown in the days of. Stradivarius. As to the con- bents, certain anachronisms were discovered.
million
units: or
materials
Demand for Coal.
were may,
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with the
It is assumed that the coal saved through electrification, which is almost exactly equivalent annually With reference to the suggestion spends all his money on another to the coal which would have been which has been made that the open- Woman! consumed in generating electrical ing of theatres on Sunday will be output in 1927 would have been not opposed by the Lord's Day Obser- less than 160,000,000 tons compared vance Society (says the statement), with 1913. The result has been," it might be pointed out that the therefore, that these factors have accounted between them for a de- dine in the demand for coal of not much less than 400 million tons in 1927 compared with, 1913.
The United States Geological Survey has estimated the supply of oil at more than 6,000 million tons, capable of supplying present con
There is for iästance, a letter purporting to have been written by Stradivarius to Pope Benedict XIII in 1899, when, in fact Pope Innocent XIII was still alive. On the other hand, the documents con- tain data revealing a technical and on for about forty years. It historical knowledge which neither rubject to radical modification ns
is pointed out that this estimate ir of the two dealers of Bergamo seem the technique of mining and of oil
extraction changes.
ed to possess..
.Both dealers were arrested and denied forging the documents. They stated that they had copied
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them from the original ones, which,}: INCENTIVE TO THEFT. according to their version, are cow
no longer in Italy. Some experts DEFENDING SOLICITOR AND seem to believe that the only, au FIRM'S CARELESSNESS." thentic documents might perhaps be the biography of Stradivarius by Father Bonavente,
Sentence of four months' im- There is also talk of a scholar, Leigh (26), motor engineer, of prisonment was passed on Arthur now slated to be dead, who, it is Beath Street, Heaton Merzcy suggested, gave all the technical Stockport at the Manchester City and historical data to the forgers. Police Court, when he pleaded Court Grole has now stated in the Corriere della Sera that the bulk of the documents certainly for geries, so skilfully and so patient- ly executed as to make him believe that "forgers, like poets, are born."
STATEMENTS TO THE
POLICE.
JUDGE'S VIEW OF THE PROPER METHOD.
A detective informed Mr. Justice Humphreye at the Old Bailey that
ment made voluntarily by a pri
guilty to three charges of obtain ing goods by false pretences.
Society would not appear to have taken any effective step to prevent over 600 kinemas opening in Lon don on Sundays, nor apparently is I realised by that Society that the kinemas which Are open are probably producing 20 per cent. of American Sims in their. pro- grammes, substantial payment for which goes to American ilm pro- ducers and American workpeople. days would meet & large public de- The opening of theatres on Sun-
mand, would increase the numbers of British subjects employed, and by reason of. giving equality of opportunity benefit all those who live (or hope to live) by the British theatre.
NOVELIST DEFIES POLICE.
ARRESTED FOR SPEECH AGAINST GOVERNMENT.
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A humorous episode throwing light on the internal conditions in Leigh obtained a typewriter from Spain is afforded by an incident in giving the name of a customer, and einn, played a prominent part. & Manchester by ringing them up, which the novelist, Del Valle.. In. Asking for it to be taken to the Following speech by Inclan at left-luggage office at Centrala banquet in Madrid, in which he, Station, Manchester. The easy criticized the Government, the method by which the machine was police went to arrest him.
The obtained was criticised by the novelist told his wife to tell them solicitor for defence, Mr. R. J. to go away as he was in bed. The Watts. He said the prisoner col-police returned to the station for lected the type-writer from the instructions and were sent back office and sold it within a week to with a warrant, another firm, which paid him £4 Inclan thereupon consented to go and did not make any inquiries, if they dressed him, combed his Mr. Watts suggested that such care hair and cleaned his books, which
be took down in writing a state-lessness was an incentive to steal. they did for the sake of peace.
Boder:
"These statements should be the xact language of the man," said Mr. Justice Humphreys, "The pro.
The prisoner had been convicted Inclan at the station told the
at Middlesex in 1025 for obtaining superintendent that he did not re-
a motor-car by false pretences. He cognize any authority in Spain to had gone straight until a short day.
time ago, when he suffered a severe He was fined 250 pesetas but
per way for a statement to be made loss owing to two bills of exchange refused to pay it and was locked
is to say to the man,Here is a which he received being dishonour- pen and paper; write down your ed. Since that time he had to live":
statement."
I am not saying yes from hand to mouth. Leigh had
did anything improper at all, but I think it is the better way, because it is in the man's own hand writing."
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