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STAGE LURES AN ACTRESS WIFE. ·
HUSBAND A "MOST WONDERFUL LOVER."
SOCK DARNING.
PLUCKIEST CHILD IN BRITAIN.
MONTHS OF AGONY IN COTTON WOOL.
FIGHT FOR LIFE.
There is a little girl lying in the Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End at Stratford, who is, per- haps, the most gallant child in the world.
The remarkable problem of a young actress who wrote to her husband, an omnibus driver, My most wonderful of layers," and in another letter that she was going back to the stage because she could not help it, came before the Willes-most unbearable agony, yet she has faced it, not only bravely, but den magistrate last month..
with a courage that is heartbreak. ing to me.
Mr. W. B. Lase, the magistrate, dismissing a summons against the husband for failing to maintain bis wife and two children, said that the wife would be far better em- ployed in looking after her hus band, bome, and children than amusing the public.
The actress was Mrs. Phyllis Blok, aged twenty. Her husband, Harold Timothy Blok, works for the Cricklewood garage.
Married at Fifteen. Mrs. Blok said that she was re- hearsing for a play at Daly's Theatre. She married her husband when he was fifteen and earning £6 a week on the stage. Her mar ried life had been five years of continuous quarreling.
She left her husband a number of times to return to the stage, and relatives took charge of the children. She was on tour when her husband wrote her letters in which he signed himie "Your disgusted husband." He wrote in one letter-
"The children's lives are in the melting pot, so I came to you at the theatre seeking reconciliation, but you were worse than I thought Do you forget the marriage you. wow you made in church, or is your memory as short as your heart wounds heal quickly! would not live with you again if you were smothered in diamonds,"
Mrs. Bick admitted that she wrote to her husband while the was away acting :--
"The fool in me won't let mo love you, anil I simply cannot come back to do the 101 jobs I leathe in the house.
It is too awful to contemplate,
For mouths she has endured
Last December thirteen-year-old Betty Fitch came from her home. at Brentwood to stay with relations at Stratford.
"One night as she stood in front of her bedroom fre ber night dress caught light. Her sercams brought help, but not before the child's body: had been burned from shoulder to foot, and only by a miracle was her face saved.
They carried her to the hospital, & poor little tortured crap of humanity, and from that day, to this she has lain motionless on her back, utterly helpless and with only her head showing above the cotton wool in which she is wrap- ped.
Medal For Fortitude."
When the burns have to be dress-
ed Betty has to be laid in a bath filled with before the unbandaging can be special preparation
attempted.
Last month the Queen, who is the patron of the hospital, paid it a surprise visit with the Duke of Gloucester, who is the president.
"She asked me how I got bura- ed," she said to a Press repre sentative, "And whether I should" be scarred much. And, do you kase, and here the whisper was eager and wondering], she even noticed my bookrest, and asked if I could turn the pages myself 3"
And can you, Batty?" "No," said Betty, with a funny little mila
Betty Fitch is a Girl Guide and has been awarded the most covet- ed medal of the association. Her mother, who stood with me by her bedside, told me about it, and pick.
I cannot come back to you again,ed up a little case from the locker. even for the sake of the children."
"I Must Go Back.** She wrote in another letter to her husband:-
"Tim, you are simply great. If I had smiled and sang through it all as you did, things might have been different, and I might have been at home now, darning your socks.
It was empty,
"It's pinned on me. mummie," whispered a little voice. A nurse moved forward and drew back the
blue bedjacket that spread under the child's chin and round her face. Under it was revealed the cotton wool that covers the dressings. and there on the sheet wear the blue medal, with
." For Fortitude.
She is a wonder," said Major
the
wurde
pisal, and his words were eclipsed by the nurse who looks after her.
But I can't do it, Tim, and I wile. shall never come back as your 1 am going back to the stage beJackson, the secretary of the hos ehuse I annot help it"
"Forgive me, my most wonder- ful of lovers, but I can never re turn to you. I could not back to home life for 1,000 babies."
come
The husband said he would have his wife back if she would give up the stage, and, as she expressed it,
darned his socks."
Mrs. Bok, asked if she were still infatuated with the stage, replied, "No, I am not now; but I shall go back again. 1 "must."
Mr. Luke, said that it was an unusual care, and one which went to the roots of matrimonial life. The wife's remarkable letters re- vealed the fact that she knew her own failings and her inability to discharge her duties as a wife and mother. They also gave evidence of the love the still bore her hus- band.
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Excavations the results of which may eclipse even the wonderful dis- coveries which were made in the tomb of Tutank-Auen are about to be undertaken in Moscow,
For nearly six months there has been a daily fight between life and death, but now Betty is pronounced "out of danger." At first it was thought that one hand and arm would not be saved. But surgical skill has averted the calamity of an amputation.
chives of the Kremlin which sup- port this belief, and he hopes that, ith their help and with modera methods of research, he will succe ed in unearthing the hidden vaulta and their secret contents.
Ivan the Terrible, who rebuilt the citadal about 1530, ordered his Ita lian architect, Fioraventi, to con- struct beneath it an elaborate system of underground passages, chambers, and dungeons, in which he might bile his treasures, his prisoners, and if need be, himself from the eyes of his foes.
Czar Ivan was" above all an in- passioned book-lover. He had in- herited a priceless collection of classical manuscripta from his grandfather, Czar Vassily, to whom They had been pressented by the Patriarch of Constantinople, More over, he spared no exertion in ob- taining other rate works -Hebrew, Latin, and Greek manuscripts.
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