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2,000 SONGS WRITTEN IN
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GOOD-BYE.EE.”.
"Goud-bye-ee! Good-byt-ce! Bipe the tear, baby dear, from
your tye-eepi Memories of Victoria Station in war time came back to me, says a Press correspondent, as I listened to Weston and Lee, the popular composers, playing over the song that first made them famous.
They have been together for ff teen years, during which period they have written more, than 2,000 songs. When I called to congratu late them they were celebrating the anniversary by writing another.
Bob Weston, the Londoner plump, quick-witted, fuent and slightly deaf-did most of the talk ing. But Lee, the Yorkshireman, small, shrewd, shy and droll-in terjected occasional humorous com "I was once a choir boy in Ieling. ton," said Bob.
mente.
"Until they found out what was wrong with the choir," added Bart Then I did club taras, con- tinued his partner, "but my father found out I had been performing on the Sabbath, and there was A row. At sixteen I wrote The Boys of the Chelsea School, and placed it with George Leyton. More than £1,000 worth of penny copies were sold in aid of the Crimean veterans. Then I ran away and joined a cirens. «
Troops' Anthem.
"At twenty I married and settl ed down to a safe job on the rail way at thirty bob a week. Just ay our first baby arrived I got the sack. I never told my wife, but I wrote another gong-and sold it for nine pounds. I have been a song
writer ever since."
"I started in a religious atmos- phere, too," said Bert. "I was a boy organist at Ravensthorpe."
Until some one discovered that one of the voluntarie, he was play. ing was really In the Shade of the Sheltering Palm' from 'Florodors' -and told the vicat!" put in his partner.
Then I went to a piano shop in Manchester, and did a bit of con- cert work besides," went on Bert. seriously until I was thirty. My "I did not take up song writing earliest hit was a curate song for Ernest Shand, What Would the Congregation Say? I also wrote When Father Laid the Carpet on the Stairs," which Bill Williams made the first best seller among comie gramophone "record."
It was during the war that these two were first persuaded to collaborate.. "Good-bye-ee!" was written in a shelter beneath the promenade at Brighton. It was hours, and completed in two
thous in mapy brought them
royalties. ands of pounds in
It soon became the anthem of the troop.
It was sung under a heavy bar rage at Festubert, and on board sinking merchant ship that bad been torpedoed at the Channel.
Their other successes include such "well-remembered songs as Fancy You Fancying Me," "Samoa," "In These Hard Times," "Somebody Would Shout Out Shop," and more recently, "Singing My Way Round the World," and Gracie Fields latest hit, "A Coople o' Dooks." They have also written the books and lyrics for a number of musical comedy successes.
LANGUAGE POLICY IN INDIÄ.
AN ARMY ORDER.
SEPTEMBER 6, 1930.
OLD CATHOLICS? AND.
LAMBETH.
TREMENDOUS STEP TOWARDS UNITY.
L
MAID'S DEATH AFTER CUP OF TEA.
CASE THAT "REQUIRES. INVESTIGATION"
The mysterious death of a oven- teen-year-old servant girl, Elsie Isabel: Duckett, of Monk Sherborne, near Basingstoke, Hants, caused the Winchester city coroner to ad- a case which required further in- earn the inquest. It was, he said, vestigation.
The Bishop of London took the chair at a luncheon given at the Holborn Restaurant recently by the Society of St. Willibrord in honour of the Old Catholic delegation to
Sarah Jane Duckett, mother of the Lambeth Conference. The mom bers of the delegation are the Most Rev, Frederick Konninck, Arch-the girl, stated that her daughter bishop of Utrecht, the Bishop of was employed as a general maid Haarlem, and the Bishop of Deven- by Mt. Rex Budd, of Monk Shor
barne..
"She came home for half a day said Mrs. Duckett, "but or Sun- every Wednesday and Sunday," day, July 8, I received a telephone message from Mr. Budd which stated: Elsie is ill; will come up at three o'clock in the motor.
The Commander in Chief has directed the attention of all forces in India, to the policy laid down in 1935 on the language question, and has introduced modifications to simplify the general system, to be given effect to from the last onward. An Army Order states that Roman Urdu is, and will remain, the lengua franca of the Indian Army, English the common lanter
The Archbishop of Utrecht, who guage of the Imperial Army and
history of the Old Catholic Church that of administration of the In-spoke in Dutch, briedy sketched the dian Army itself. As a knowledge in the Netherlands, where, he said, of both Roman Urdu and English it had kept the Faith intact al though assailed on the one hand by should, therefore, be possessed by Protestants, who had deprived it of as large a proportion of Indian all its buildings and reduced it to officers and non-commissioned officers worship in cellars and attics, and on the other by Jesuit missionaries, as possible, it is essential to remove
who had at times rather imposed any possible confliction between the their views on the Vatican, instead teaching of these two languages. of taking their instructions from it It had taken his Church some time In Roman Urdu, therefore, English to understand for what the Church words will in' future be spelt as in of England now stood, but, now that English. The phonetic spelling of it had done so, the North So was no barrier between the Churches of English words in Roman Urdu two seafaring peoples. In the past manuals, text-books, and official men in search of union, as had been documents will be discontinued, the case in 1680, bad looked too Indian ranks will be encouraged to much at the points of difference be spell English words as in English. tween the two Churches and had not in manuals and printed documents taken their stand upon the in- English words will be put in italic numerable points upon which they and in the case of words which were agreed. After explaining that occae infrequently in a book and he did not know why his Church was sometimes called Jansenist, and which are difficult to pronounce the
What roitbor be, nor any writer of phonetic spelling will be given in a footnote. The present practice of whom he had ever heard, could dei
fine what Jansenism was, he said treating all English words feminine will be dropped. English that without going into details he words used in Roman Urdu, except could assure his bearers that in its those usually treated as feminine, negotiations at Lambeth his delega- will be regarded as of the masculine tions at Lambeth his delegation had gender. The object of this is to been able to take a tremendous step make written Roman Urdu assimi. forward in the direction of Chris ate the normal colloquial Urdu oftian unity. the Indian Army.
ST
Plurals of English words will follow the normal grammatical rules of Urdu. The existing rules for the transliteration of English words into Roman Urdu 'are can- celled and revised rules will be issued shortly. Training manuals and text-books which have been issuad or which are on the point of issue must, however, remain in the use for some time. In those produced in future and new ad books, English words will be spet ditions or reprints of existing as now laid down. In examinations latitude will bellowed in the mat ter of spelling English words until thisystem has been in vogue for some time.
EXPELLED "M.A. SENT TO PRISON.
CHEQUE BOOK THEFT AT CAMBRIDGE.
The downfall of a
Master of Arts who became an officer in the Royal Navy was disclosed at Cam bridge Police Court last month.
Archibald Eze, aged 38, was sent to six months' imprisonment for stealing a cheque book from Mr. Harold Jeffreys, M.A., FR.S., Fellow of St. John's College, and a mathematical lecturer in Cam bridge University."
The police, case was that Rae called upon. Mr. Jeffreys at his rooms in St. John's College on the voning of July 24. He remained about half-an-hour, and they left the room together. Later the police Weston and Lee do not believe arrested Rae at Babraham, a few ix inspiration. "....
miles from Cambridge, and a che "Every morning at ten sharp que book was found on him which said Mr. Weston, "Bert comes to he refused to account for, stating my house and we start work-whe that it Ead been placed in his cus ther we have. got an idea or not.
tody." If we are in form we knock out at
Mr. Jeffreys, giving evidence song before luncheon. At the most said there was someone at his old we expect to complete it in a co-school with the same name as Bae, ple of mornings. If it does not come right by then, we know it is but he did not recognise him as that person. He did recognise the cheque book which was produced, "In which case I charge him up and said it might have been left
a dud, and scrap it."
"I did not wait for the car, but went immediately to Mr. Budd's house, where I saw my daughter in one of the servant's bedrooms. I said: "Elsie, you do look ill. What- ever is the matter with you!
"Elsie replied: 'I know I am ill,' but I don't know what is the mat- tor. My daughter explained that she had taken the breakfast into the breakfast room and had brought out the teapot from the room. She took a cup from a cupboard, put milk and sugar into it, "and then poured out some tea.
"She drank half, found that it was bitter and nasty, and threw the rest into the sink. She did not feel well afterwards."
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The mother added that she saw Mr. Budd, who said that the docST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL,"
tor would not say much about
Howa Koud. SEPTEMBER 7, 1930, 12th Sanday after
Trinity
She went home, but later Mr. Budd visited her in his mo tor-car and asked her consent to take her daughter to bospital..
Mr. Duckett agreed, and went to the hospital with her daughter. She saw Elsio, two or three times every day, but she was too ill to say anything except:
It was that cup."
CHEMICALS FROM POTATO
*** FLOUR."
A DUTCH INVENTION. Dr. F. C. Gerritsen, of the
ACTRESS GORED IN BULL-RING. RESCUED BY HER FRIENDS.
A Mexican actress, Señorita Celin Montalvan, was gered by a ball in Agricultural Research Station of the ring as Monterey, Mexico, last Groningen, has made an invention month, The animal inflicted pain-which will probably soon acquire ful injuries on the actress, but her
great importance for the Dutch Señorita Montalvan had volun potato-growing districts, and there. fore for the world market of potato- teered to fight the bull in order to flour. The province of Groningen condition is not serious.
of please the thousand spectators who is the largest world centre thronged the ring. When she en and hurled her nine feet against port is 120,000,000 kilograms, with
24,000,000 kilograms of dextrine. tered the arena the animal charged potato flour mills; the annual ex the fence, but although she was in. jured and almost blinded with sand she picked herself up gamely, aad, clutching her matador's sword, rushed at the beast again.
The bull, however, was getting the better of the struggle when several of the actress's friends jumped into the arena and forcibly carried her off to safety. After this the animal was killed by the regular matador. Seferita Montal yan said afterwards that she had had enough of bull-6ghting, and would not attempt such sport again.
THE THREE-CARD TRICK.
the
Aa interesting ruling on three-card trick was given by Mr. Oulton, the Tower Bridge magis trate last month.
Dr. Gerritsen has invented a bacteriological process of making butyl alcohol and acetone from potato "pulp. For three years past there has been considerable- bioche- mical production of acetone and butyl alcohol (C. H. OH) in the United States from maize, but the process cannot be used for potatoes.
Butyl-alcohol is much used in the chemical industrica-e.g., in the making of cellulose lacquer. Acc tries as a solvent-eg, in the mak tons is used in the chemical indus ing of acetate silk..
The invention will be patented,
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UNION CHURCH. (KINNEDY ROAD). SUNDAY, September 7, 1950- Morsing worship stila.. Evening Worship at 6 p.m.
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Edward Charles Marshall, of Park Grove, Leyton, Essex; Harold Coleman, of Southampton Street, Camberwell, S.E., and Robert LONDON'S LOVELIEST SUBURB Ward, of Dongola Road, Plaistow, E., were charged under the Gaming Act with working the three-card trick on a member of the RAF in a train between Woking and Waterice. They were also charged under the railway company's-by- laws, with "entering a railway car riage for gaming. There was third. charge under the Vagrancy Act, with playing a game of chance. Dealing with the third charge, Mr. Oulton said:
To secure a conviction the pro-
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with the cost of my fare to his on the floor of his room among Becution must prove that the game unexcelled in Enroll" Fürel had and
house," said Beit Lee,
"And I present him with a bill some other papera for the whisky he was consumed," retorted Bob Weston.
WHY YOU HAVE INDIGESTION,
HOW TO NELIEVE IT.
Rae. You are quite
at school with you sure I was Mr. Jeffroys remember there was a person of the same name at
school.
Tac. That was me.- Rae said he went to St. John's College to return the cheque-book which he had found lying on the ground. He went to the porter's lodge, but found no one there. He then forgot all about it
was a game of chance. The three- card trick has been held to be a game of skill. The fact that the defendants, by improper methods, induced the complainant to play the game, does not alter its char acter. Does the fact that a card was marked do sot and if so, does it become a game of chance i
I have no hesitation in answer- ing the first question in the afirma trve. If the dealer exhibited a plain card for the picture card it would cease to be a game of skill,
So, also, if one of the party to the game be prevented from exer- cixing his skill by the other party. then, as in this case, the gaine, is to longer one of skill. Does the game then become one of chance? I think not.
When food enters your stomach, largo quanities of acid-bearing Rae's record showed he was born gastric juice are at once secreted at Dunfermline. He won a scholar If too much gastric juice ia secret ship at the age of 12; and went to ed the food soon becomes a sour, college at Newcastle-onfyne, Ab fermenting mase, which may re- Glasgow University ho took his main in the stomach several hours, M.A degree with honours in 1918 causing great pain and distress. He served in the Royal Navy a Instant relief can be obtained in sub-lieutenant until 1918, when he cases of this kind by taking returned to Glasgow University na
Bisurated Magnesia powder or a medical student. tablets immediately after eating He started drinking heavily, led or whenever pain is felt. This a fast life, and was sentenced to surely, and quickly neutra hard labour for stealing cheques, Bince the Exeter with Hople than adhich be dorged the backer, in certain to
wortalitareenathes and biegls the from the university and hig
It is now no more a game of chance than it is of skill. Two birds have been killed with one atone. Skill and chance have been slain by certainty. The marked card is certain to be backed and
"Hong Kong Daily Press Office, inflamed stomach lining, and removed from the yagister of mediaze each fined.20%, or
once restores painless, normal digeston. Get a package of 'Bisarated Magnesia from your chemist. to-day Use as directed, and you can laugh at digestive troubles.
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Other convictions followed at dif- ferent places. He had had work of various kinds, but had been unable to keep away from drink, And lost all his employment.
seven days on the second charge. On the first charge Marshall was sent to prison for six months, Cole- man for three months and Ward for six weeks, all with hard labour, The third charge was dismissed
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