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Brussels.-M. Joseph Wanters. editor of Zr Peuple, the official of the Belgian Socialist Party, has died at the age 54. He was several times a Minister in the Coalition Cabinets. “
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SUDDEN CONCLUSION OF THE SHARES CASE.
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EXPERT CRITICISED,
The action brought by Mr. Charles Cook, of Galley Hall, Galleywood,
SHAKESPEARE ON
THE TALKIES."
HOW TO MAKE HIM
POPULAR.
WOULD IT HELP THE THEATRE?
Si: Gerald Du. Maurier and, Sir
EX-EMPERORS $300 HOUSEKEEPING.
HOW. THE MIGHTY ARE FALLEN.
United Fress. }
Feping.The Boy Emperer," once the ruler of all China, hus
Essex. against Messrs. Sidney Her.Nigel Playfair debated the question, moved into a small house in Tien-
Angora.Negotiations for a set-bert Martin, John Martin. and tlement of the long-drawn Ürovde.B.S. Aldridge, the executors nf Turkish dispute on the subject of the will of Mr. J. B. Martin, came the exchange of populations pre- scribed by the Treaty of Lansange are about to be rested.
Beli Farther communal tension is reported from Mysore State. In
Bangalore town great excitement
prevailed because of a false nour as to the removal of the ided which was the cause of the previous dis turbance.
Do we want a national theatre
or less seriously-at the London School of Economies recent
-more
to a sudden conclusion in the Chany; as the last of the series of the cry Division
Mr. J. B. Martin was a rich bachelor, who, it was stated, was
partly responsible for the building
f Victoria Strket.
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Mr. Cook sought, to recover 3⁄4,000 shares in the Westminster Trust. London-The Venezuelan Laga Ltd., which he said were a gift to tion in London has received "an | bíta by Mr. J. B. Martin, builcial intimation that the insurree- Mr. Alexander Grant, K.C., for
tion of Generals Gabaldon and
Southend. Fredrick William Curtis, a Thundersley butcher, was charged at the Southend Police Court with obtaining by false pre tences a leg of lamb from Alfred Bullock, another Southend butcher.ficates were the genuine signatures He was remanded.
lectures and counter-iectures" in aid of the King Edward's Hospital Fund. Sir Gerald Du Maurier, in
tein with his wife- and single con- cabine, because he can no longer. afford to live in a large house.
With his small fortune abnost gone, the former Emperor is now dependent for support on the kind- one of his old Manchu retainers.
posing a national theatre, made But they, too, are suffering from' the subject the text for some gloomy falling incomes, and are not able to reflections on the state of the
spare him enough to keep up any. theatre in general. He could act thing resembling an Imperial mer- see how a national theatre could be a success. It was difficult enough
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Juge.
All Ambition Gone.
to fill a modern theatre, at the pre-The ex-Emperor, now approach. Urbina (who led the recent raid on Mr. Cook, said immediately the sent prices, in competition with what ing the age of thirty, is not pre- the real menace-the talking pared to anything to ear his the Isinnd of Curaeno) has been sun-case was called that, having heard pressed by the Government.
the evidence for the defence, he film.
living. He is not ambitions, and desired to say that he, as well as the Difficult Modern Conditions. his friends say he has no hopes solicitors instructing him and Mr... I know after 34 years' experi- whatever of recovering his lost ence how frightfully difficult modern power. He, is content to liye quiet. Cork, were satished that the signa-
ures on the transfers and certi-rönditions in the theatre are. Ily with his two companions and a don't believe that a sufficient public few Manchus who have" remained could be found in London to make with him since his abdication. the.
most exquisitely produced When the Emperor"abdicated, an Hamlet pay its way. It is an im- agreement was made to leave him possible
position" we are up poesession of his landed property against." He went on to complain and a large part of his jewels and of the unfairness of allowing kinema curios... But succeeding so-called theatres to open on Sunday while Republican Governments have ruled the regular theatres were forbidden
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Catalus. The body of about 60 found on the beach below the cliffs near Cambus, on the Ber- wickshire quast, has been identified as that of Duncan McKenzie, of the Mull of Wintyre. It is surmised that he lost his way and fell over the cliffs.
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"Chester.—During excavations in a content garden workmen found a Rorian wall 12ft. thick and faced on both sides with bleeks of sand stone about 3ft. square. It is be Heyed to be a Roman defensive wall dating from the second century A.D.
of Mr. J. B. Martin.
Counsel and " Expert." "Having said that," added Mr. Grant," desire to withdraw un reservedly any charge against any person whatsoever and particularly the charge made against Mr. Sidney Martin. I also desire to withdraw any imputation or suggestion that the defendants have been guilty of any wrongful action of any sort or kind whatsoever."
He submitted to the action being dismissed"
London. Musical instruments is duty to make some observations were destroyed by a fr in the handhout the class of person who, in the stand at Central Park. East Ham. name of an expert, apparently was The bandstand was used by a con-repared to make direct charges of cert party and the fire apparently forgery against people on evidengr had been smouldering for some time which seemed to the uninitiated in before it burst into flame.
these matters to be alisolately un- warranted.
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Penge. As a non-stop train from London Bridge to Epson with pass ing through Penge West station at
redited speed, Herlers Duke, aged about CO, of Great Chart-street. Hoston, attempted to light and was crushed between the platform and the train. He received injuries
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He mentioned a picture house in London which recently took £1,200
against this agreement, and the ex-Emperor's property has gradu. ally been confiscuted and sold. It's is said that all of bis income from
An Unlucky Investment.
The ex-Emperor also made apl unfortunate investment
He put
on one Sunday alone, with a talking property has now been cut off. Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., form. If we ever had a nationni the defence,, said that if the rase had gone on he would have felt it theatre, he should demand that it should be "open on Sunday as well as week-days. A well-known clergy-850,000, almost all of his ready man told him that to open the theatres on Sunday would be a tenace to Christianity, by preventi ing people going to church. He afterwards asked one of his stage hands how many of the theatre workers went to church on Sunday.
It is not very far removed from being a public danger," he said, thut a person could come, and, be ing an expert, make charges of for sery on evidence such as this with; put asking if the signatures had been witnessed."
He could now say, however, that his clients recognised that there was at some time friendship between Mr. J. B. Martin and Mr. Cook. and that Mr. Cook had an expecta
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Londe. The young Emperor's money publicity and public indignation Chicago, July 1-Newspaper and he replied "about half per was lost. together with that of against allinnees between crime and thousands of other unfortunate officialdom have banned politicians cent.".
from open attendance at gangland's Why should the theatre not behinese depositors. allowed to make a living on Sunday? The ex-Emperor felt his poverty elaborate funerals, a report of the most keenly when the newe was Illinois Association for Criminal As to a national theatre, would Sir reported to him that the tuals of Justice said recently. The report Nigel. Playfair be prepared to put his immediate ancestors, the Man was prepared for the association by 100,000 into it? If so, he would cha Emperors, had been broken Ihn Landesen of the American
into by Chinese soldiers ad de Sir General Deecrated and rolled.
Scraping together all the money he could, by the sale of some trea-
ures, he managed to get $1,000 toi. contribute to a fund for re-emban
tion that he would benefit after Mr. Martin's death. As the charges had lose the lot.
en withdrawn he would not ask | Maurier also doubted whether even for costs against Mr. Cook,
if we had with us the great actors Mr. Justice Romer: It is right for
of the past they would be able to tor to say that I am perfectly satis
foundation whatever for the
mother, who had left the house fo-ed without epsts. only a few minutes, an eight-year- ddDagenham girl. Jenny Pulten. was fatally burned when her clothes caught fire from the kitchen copper. The child rushed into the street a mass of flames: She was taken to
lition, and died later.
Hanstanton.-Lord Fermey, P., as the principal guest of the Lon- don and North Eastern Railway
Romford Hostal in a critical con- Company, formally opened the new
ballroom the company have added the their Sandringham Hotel at Hun
..
Sir Nigel Playfair.
Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, after a statewide sur- vey of crime made in co-operation. with the Chicago Crime Ceminis-
sion:
stars from
$10,000 Funeral{
the
the Lee-Leopold trial four years Among then was that of Judge John R. Caverly, who presided at.
later: Alderman John "Bathhouse" Coughlin, sportsman and pulitjeian. nine other city aldermen, Congress- man J. W. Rainey and Thomas Gallagher, Titto Ruffo, opera star, and long list of gangsters.
In the eight years beginning with from which he died almost immed-bed on the evidence that there is make a murcess of plars in the pre- ing and re-burying the bodies of the funeral of "Big Jim" Colosimo sent theatre with costs as they are. the Empress Dowager and other in 1920 and ending with the rites Rumford.In the absence of her charges. The action will be dismiss. To compete with the talkies al personages which had been taken for "Big Tim" Murphy in 1928, the existing theatres would have to out of their coffins, stripped of their the list of public officials and poli- ticians who displayed their grief at the on be rebuilt to rival the comfort and gents, and thrown
orgenusness of the picture theatres ours of their tombs. Other Man the costly caskets of assassinated report said. The high point in where people went to watch those thus, once rich and powerful, were gangsters dwindle perceptibly, the able to contribute only an audioficial attendance at gang funerals frightful
Ponal $4,000, and with this money i He left the sentence unfinished.
came when Colosimo was buried And all for a penny instead of atypic burial rites were held. amid ostratation considered in 'keep- bound"!
Rent Free-But 100 Servants.
ing with the position be occupied in the underworld-absolute lord. The ex-Emperor has been living ship over vice and gambling: Leith.-A large dock shed was des- | stafiton.
fur the past two years n the Amon Colosimo's honorary pall trayed by fire recently.
Lewes Dr. Henry Grvis has Sir Nigel Playfair, in arguing the
Changyuan gardën Tientsin, bearers were congressman, alder
judges, London-A bronze statue of an appointed Provincial Grantcase for a national theatre, said that located in the Japanese Concession. men, negro, on exhibition at Australia Master of the Mark Province of if they were te cunquer unemploy Although the place was given him Chicago Civic Opera Company and House. Strand, has been stolen. Sussex in succession to the Inte Sirment in the profession it might be rent free, by the Divisional Com the Italian Societies that B4
Charles O'Brien Harding. It holds as well to consider the possibilities mander in charge of Tientsin, it Jim" had ruled. Southend.--Mr. and Mrs. John ready the offer of Deputy Proof a modified nationalisation of the was so large that he had to keep
In We must turn from that more than 10 servants, and other diagram how the attendance at gang. a chart which shows in Meadows, of Fairfax-drive. West-incial Grand Master in Craft theatre.
tiff-on-Sea, celebrated their golden Masonry for the saine Provitice.
elusive coterie the theatre-going expenses were in proportion. funerais dwindled over the years wedding recently.
public and attempt to attract the London, Mr. J. R. Dent has been larger public which now hardly ever an old Chinese friend, fu Chung Yu
Seeing the young man's plight, many world-known names appear. Dublin-Mr. M. J. Keys, the out-appointed headmaster of West- went to the theatre.
offered him the "use of one of his! gning Labour Mayor of Limerick,minster City School for Boys,
"On the day of judgment the houses, also in the Japanese Con- was re-elected for the ensuing 12 Palur-street, Westminster. In suc- months by votes to 11 for Aldercession to Dr. F. H. Stevens likely to be offered to Bernard Shawed at once to move with his house; heavenly Order of Merit is more cession, and the ex-Emperor deeld man Reidy.
Dent has been an assistant naster
than to Whimsical Walker." OF hold. Cardiff swarm of bees invaded at St. Albans School since 1914.
It is estimated that the ex- A Post Offre letter-box on the main He will take up his new duties next se, the State was not likely to zive £1.000.000 to start pational January,
con road at Glandwr, near Barmouth,
theatre. There was a committee in Emperor. his wife, and his and until driven away prevented the Birmingham.-A resolution pass-existence "composed of elderly and chine are now living on about posting of letters.
ed' at a meeting of the Imperial slightly moriband people" which 2000 a month Communications Committee of the had about £90,000 in its possession! Ashford-Miss Jeanne de Casalis, ritish Empire Longue, expressed for the purpose, and more would
The funeral of Anthony D'An- the actress, and Mr. Colin Clive, the hope that the Government would forthcoming.
The menace" of the talking film dres, slain by his associates, sur- who takes the leading part in
see its way to reintroduce penny. Journey's End," were married at
The State might he naked to show was the greatest argument for a passed in cost and impressiveness postage on inland letters and on the register office, Ashford, Kent.
its interest in the scheme by grant national theatre, he said. and sug that of Colosimo. Twenty-one city those from Great Britain to al
ing a small subsidy, as was done in grated that the invention might be and state judges were counted at Belfast.The body of James Ket-parts of the British Empire, which very country but our own, for the applied to popularise fine prodne the rites, the report revealed. nedy, a retired farmer, of Peterfield, course had already been, adopted by encouragement of dramatic art. tions of Shakespeare and the classics "The funeral of Dion: O'Banion. who had been missing sinee Christ-Canada and New Zealand.
The Government might grant some at a national theatre, and so bring in 1824 set a new record for osten- mar, has been found in the lake at London-Mr. R. Holland-Martin relief in rates and taxes, and pos in a profit This he called "cantitious display, the report said. Johnstown Park, about four miles has been elected Prime Warden of sibly provide a site.
ning the clasice." The talkie, Blms!" Five thousand persons packed the from Nenagh (Co. Tipperary).
would in time penetrate into every streets for the rites, thirty auto- the Fishmongers' Company. Mr.
home like the gramophone.. and mobiles carried the flowers to the Swansen.-The famous Telford Leicester Reed Master of the Vint- Chain Bridge over the River Deg aters' Company. Sir Arthur Wheeler He thought that, judging from might be made a valuable instru- cemetary and the casket, the best money could buy, cost ten thousand Berywn, in the Vale of Llangollen. Master of the Framework Knitters their professions, a Labour Government in dramatic education. is being reconstructed at the Brymbo Company, and Fr. G. Westwood ment might be more inclined to help In his second innings Sir Gerald dollars." Steel Works. The old bridge and Potter Master of the Turners Com-than previous Governments. No Du Maurier gave freeb illustrations
But few notables were here, the report said, on account of adverse piers were washed away by the last pany. Mr. A. Charles Knight has doubt, the scheme was impracticable of the and state of the theatre. "I great food,
Teen appointed Clerk and Solicitor if the theatre was regarded solely don't see how the most magnificent publicity: to the Musicians' Company. as a place of amusement, hut the play of Shakespeare could compete The funeral of Angelo Genna, Chicago-Mr. Henry Ford de-
notorious Genne elares that if he could make a choice Ardeer-Major F. A. Freeth, theatre should be regarded plac as with the talkies, and the fapper first of the
means of education as part of the vote, and daylight saving, and the brothers to be alain, was estimated he would prefer to have all his em- D.S.e., F.R.B., late manager of the
other things we managers have to to have cost ten thousand dollars, ployees between the ages of 35 and research department of Messrs. general social well-being.
the report said. Only two or three CO, for then we should have a Brunner, Mond & Co., Ltd., Win-
going to see great contend with.
"If you were to ask a lovely officials were counted at the rites. stable and experienced "foren. We nington, and Mr W. Rintoul, plays would, no doubt, die out if
Then, in June 1928, came the should not care how much over 60 F.I.C, manager of the research de- they ceased to be produced. One lady who can walk on the stage and
were so long as they could partment of Messrs. Nobel's Ex-might as well argue that because. the earn $100 a week to accept £10 assassination of "Big Tim" Murphy, her er master people did not care for at bastionel theatre theorien lerdon and angisted mil stances would we have working for been appointed joint research man- great pictures, we should not have would do this, and I wouldn't blame robber. There was no ostentatious us a force made up of young men agers to Imperial Chemical Indus- a State-supported National Gallery. her (here Sir Gerald Da Maurier funeral and not an official appear
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