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STORMS BERLIN.
"DO YOU THINK CONSTANCE DOES RIGHT?"
[By Andrew Soutar.]
Covetousness is the ineradicable failing in most of us, yet rarely) do we know precisely what it is that we covet: the principal pro- right?" is the literal translation "Do you think Constance does vecation is that it belongs tof the German version of "Tho someone else, and we think it un-Constant Wife" This Intriguing fnir.....
title has nothing to do with the A few days ago the newspapers recorded that a young bride-elect phenomenal success of Somerset would inherit two million pounds Maugham's play, produced sterling next year. The break- Rudolf Forstor-Larrinaga, but it Reinhardt's "Kammerspiele" by fast table here (and probably in will help to make it a subject of thousands of homes) croaked
A gramophone record was con- nected to the giant speaker and of discontent at the breakfast an engineer in the basement was table, related two stories then instructed to increase the volume from my notebook, which is inbell
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"if placed on the top of Bush House," said a representative of under the signs of envy that wont more serious discussion, in Berlin Siemens, who hold, the right, forth. What could sho possibly than the delightfully light atmo- could easily be heard at the Ele should she have it? What had
do with all that money? Why "phere of the production actually
warrants phant and Castle."
the Oracle to say about it? This: sent us for years" is the unani- "The best comedy, England has Built on the electro-dynamic
Mankind is divided into two principle and driven by a 1,500 sections; those who have material mos verdict of critics, who by no volt generator, this loud-speaker wealth and those who haven't. means agree as a matter of course. has a 22in. square diaphram, The two sections distrust and, mis tained wit of dialogue falls below Maugliam, it is averred, in sus- which floata on a pneuntic rub-udge each other daily. The rich ber pad;
man doesn't appear able to for-for drawing-room comedy-but his Oscar Wilde-Germany's, criterion Is said to have 100 per cent. give the poor man for getting situations are stronger. England volume over anything else in Bri- much fun out of nothing; the pooring reason to be proud of him, man despises his rich neighbour is said, and Mr. Coward would for professing to get so little out do well to study the model. phone or radio;
of much. Nothing in life betraya, Can address plainly without dis-like money, the frailty of human type unknown in Germany, but The constant wife of the play fa tortion a crowd of 150,000.
nature.
the critics hope that German. And, lo subdue the murmurings;
women will go to see her, and,
1 Plan. well emulate her, they say, save 10 Individual performance. come away chastened. They may 5 Deviate. in that little journey with an old 12 Ceroni plants. of sound.
14 Kind of Steelyard. "Apart from the amazing com-
. "Did Constance do right?" The 15 Untied. pass and selectivity of the am-
One of the sweetest-tempered German male verdict is that she 10 Blackthorn, plifier, the volume was so terrific follows I ever met was a bachelor did. The audiences have been 17 Small inclosed field-work that the walls of the building and who belonged to the same golf more genuinely interested and 18 Be present at. the balustrates could be felt club. He had reached middle-amaged than they have been the 22 Fascination,
19 Arch found in mines, rocking. The windows of the of-age when he joined us, and his whole season. fice door facing it awayed to the income was no more than £500 lunch that the best hotel in Lon- 30 Covering,
|year. (That Was more than
enough for a bachelor's needs in don could provide.
31 Fisher with a large net, those halcyon days before the The writer was hungry: he had 33 Told.
missed his breakfast that morn-38 Fertile spot in desert. George, as I shall call him, Ing. Ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty 37 Throw out. couldn't play golf for tintacks. miles they travelled, and the great 19 Short treatise.
Iis handicap would have been a man seldom paused in his out- 42 Temper. hundred in a boys' club. But lining of the story that should 45 Wintry there wasn't a scratch member appeal to him.
48 Monster... At last the car was stopped by 50 Travelled in a vehicle. that didn't joy in going round with
Langahgo of Norway. George. He knew nothing about the side of the roud. There was 51 Perecived. rules of the game, but he did a shady copse on one side, and on 52 Ages. how the bright spots in life. He the ether a common ablaze with 58 Buy back. was always trying to chase the gorse. The lunch basket was 54 Give in return.
Icom out of the other fellow's lifted out of the limousine: the mind. There are many who would like
chauffeur opened it, after spread- to see the water permanently
Should the rain be pelting down ing 'a' snow-white cloth on, the restored, but the authorities are on a Saturday afternoon, making grass. Never had the guest gazed gainst . Mouts are all dinined golf impossible, George would on anything no appetising. Every in these days, they say, and even some into the smoking room, murk utensil was of gleaming allver.
4 Mediterranean Island modern conditions made theme doleful crowd, smile, dip a The salad cried out for apprecina Mark of a stripe.
7 Military Hist. desirable, the cost of the altera-hand into a capacious pocket, and tion. The wine winked at the sun.
8 Valley. tions that would be required to ring out a score of those ridi- Then, of a sudden: keep the mont at the Tower filled culous wire puzzles one may buy "We must got the human note ↑ Public school, with clear water, and at the same from the street vendors. And he into this story," said the host. 10 Severe. time keep the buildings free from would hand one to each of the "Here we are, about to enjoy...11 Contest. damp, would be, in these times of gloomy members with the words: Now, look at that poor devil" 13 Stald. strict economy, quite prohibitive."lere you are, my lord! Try to A dissolute trimp had come: Since the moat was drained in solve that one." And within half around the bend in the road. His 1843, it has been used for drilling an hour the dull company had shoulders were bent, His boots the troops at the Tower.
been changed into a crowd off were broken: every line in his laughing youngsters.
face was eloquent of hunger.
"Come here, my man," said the host. "Join us in the fenst.".
The tramp looked down on the wonderful "spread" and scowled. He thought it was a trap. Hel couldn't reason that a rich man might have a human streak.
WHY IT CANNOT BE KEPT FULL
The flood water has been drain London, and the very beautiful
ed from the moat at the Tower of
picture it made is to be seen no
more.
LETTER GOLF.
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George fell on evil days. They did debate the suggestion that a small fand should be raised that he might go abroad, but I was only a literary friend of It's not hard for some men to mine (as hard up as George him- go from SMOKE to STACK, judg-self), who supplied the necessary ing by what they sometimes money. He wrote a short story kanoke.
for him, sent him to an editor "I understand," said the rich with it, and the ten guineas so man. He turned to the writer: earned gave the old fellow an- "The poor devil is shy," he said. other chance. Those who might "He wouldn't care to ent with us. have helped argued that "he hnd Let's take a stroll through the| been a fool to himself." He had eopse there while he enjoys his squandered his money in trying to meal." Then, to the tramp: "Go make others happy. There's a ahead." he said, "there's plenty moval in that somewhere if you for all of us.Eat as much as you dig deeply
like.. We'll be, back, presently." And he even insisted on the chau- ffeur clearing out of the way for a while.
SMOKE
STACK
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2-You can change only one letter at a time..
3-You must have'n complete. word, of common usage, for each jump. Slang words and abbreviations don't count.
4-The order of letters can not be changed.
One solution is printed on another page of this issue.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
Here's recollection from the other side.
A friend of mine was engaged Thare you had a rielt man joy. to write a serial story for a pub-ing in the opportunity of giving lication belonging to a millionaire a poor man the surprise of hia who never ceased to take a deep life. The writer, who was equally interest in all that appeared in hungry, was hauled away for that his journals. Ile invited the stroll; he had to listen to móre writer to motor with him to his suggestions of how to get the hu- country house so that they might man note into his serial. talk over the plot of the proposed Try to get into the mind of story. His great slogan was: that tramp," urged the rich man. Get the human note into it, and "Will he ever forget? Not likely. you cannot fail."
You know, I feel happier, having
It was a glorious summer day. done that, than if I had made The rich man's sumptuous limou-twenty thousand in a deal. That's sine was brought around to the life office door,
They returned after twenty "We'll lunch by the roadside on minutes. our way down," he said, and in- The tramp was gone. quired of the chauffeur If the So was the whole of the silver basket had been replenished. It that hud lined the luncheon had. And with the best cold basket!.
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