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The petition of divorce by Isobel Burt v. Arthur Raymond Burt was granted, by Judge Milton D. Purdy
Mr. F. J. Schuhl represented petitioner.
SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1928.
THE ENGLISH ORIENT:
AMUSING TO EASTERN STRANGERS.
[lly Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.] Nothing, perhaps, amuses the Eastern stranger in England so in the US. Court for China, atniuch as the treatment accorded Shanghai.
to things Orientar or the stage, in magazines, on the filnis. What would you think, for example, of Mrs. Burt said that she had been a theatrical producer who in a living in Shanghai for 10 years. serious drama allowed a player to The last time that she had seen appear on the stage in a silk bat, her husband was in February, a morning coat, and a pair of "plus Yet incongruitles in 1927, at the Hotel Plaza, where fours?" they were residing at the time. Eastern dreas no less absurd than to be witnessed almost Petitioner did not know where her this are husband had gone, and he left her every day on the English slage and without any money and without in the illustrations of alories in paying for the hotel bill She had English magazines and books.
The impression seems to prevail not heard from him by letter, or that most Eastern people, whether telegram, nor had she received any nobles or pensants, habitually wear remittance from him. The only the flimsiest of silks, lavishly em- money petitioner had when her broidered with gold and silver. husband left was $35, which she They may on special occasions so paid to the hotel for a couple of attire themselves. But the fabrics days charges. Her husband had in general use among women for continually ill-treated hor, struck everyday wear are more often of her on the face, blackened her eye. cotton or linen, or of mere sub and cut her lip. After her hus-stantial woollen, und these nearly band's departure she had been for all hail from Manchester or Leeds. aix months in hospital. The only The odd notion, too, that all Asiatic reason pelloner could assign for his going away was because he waa dheavily in debt.
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RECEIVING ORDER AGAINST MRS. DYNE.
Mr. Tai Chi-tao who is now up north, will endeavour to secure the bust architectural talent to su people wear shoes of the flimsicstpervise this work. material turned up at the toes like aram's horns has often greatly In answer to the Judge, peti- amused me. What they usually do tioner and her husband was awear is clastic-sided boots or or- FRANCS CASE SEQUEL. publisher, and that he had been dinary ladies' shoes made in Lon- connected with Mr. Carl Crow on a don or Paris, or rubber-soled tennis salary and commission basis, shoes manufactured'in Edinburgh. The extraordinary Iden, too, With Messra, Powell and Crow he
to be held that every. had published a book, and at the seems
to from Constantinople
It is announced in the London time of his going away he had
wears ## zurban Gazette that a receiving order has been trying to push the sale of it. Mandalay
fez.
been made on a creditor's petition, Her husband's parents lived in St. Louis, U.S.A., but he had told her fact, fezzes are "going out" in under date June 15, against Mrs. that he had not heard from them Turkey, straw hats or bowlern tak-Aminta Marjorie Bradley Dyne, in 17 years old. Ining their place, and I tremble to respect of her separate estate. order to maintain herself she bad tell it-the basis of most turbans Mrs. Dyne is described as residing is an old bowler hat! Thousandsat Kenway Collage, Kenway-road, been engaged in stenography.
of worn-out bowlers are sent an Earl's Court, London, and now or Mr. Jacques Klass, manager of the Hotel Plaza, said that Mr. Burtally to the East to become the lately residing at Mount-street, left an unpaid bill of $333, and "foundations" of new turbans after Park-lane, London, and carrying on the business of a dealer in that, after his departure, petitioner their rims have been removed.
The Sheikh of Fiction.
foreign currency and exchange. acemed concerned over the matter,
The glorious appearance of the
In the King's Bench Divisioncar- They were still holding some trunks belonging to respondent. Moroccan sheikhs of film-land hasly this year, Messrs Ironmonger He had no knowledge as to Mr. frequently much amused me. The and Company, bankers, of Angel- last sheikh I spoke to was wearing court, Londen, E.C., were awarded Evidence was given by Mr. J. B. particularly dilapidated pair of 38,938 against Mrs. Dyne la res- secondhand Oxford "bag"" and a Katz, proprietor of the Commercial gaudy pull-over" beneath his low-pect of dealings in foreign cur- Express and Storage Co., that he ng burnous. Some, sheikhs, how-rency. The Court of Appeal dis- knew she parties in the case very ever, are exceedingly tidy, spotless, missed Mrs. Dyne's appeal against
the judgment. well, since he had been slaying and point-device.
since he WAS
Burt's whereabouts.
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TORNADO DEATHS.
The case led to a Departmental nt the Plaza at the time. There These "Arabian Nights?". What were many occasions when he had have they not done to you? They inquiry, one result of which was heard respondent using extreme have made you believe in an East that Mr. J. D. Gregory, an Assis profane language and had seen the which more resembles an annexe tant Under Secretary for Foreign was dismissed the Civil effects of his cruelty on petitioner. to pantomime than anything hu-Affairs, bemused you Service. There was one particular occasion, mu. They have just after the New Year holidays, into regarding the Orient as a great studded with when petitioner had run into the pleasure-garden |room-occupied by witness and his jalatial domes and inhabited by wife, seeking protection from her jople clothed mostly in jewels and husband's attacks.
sequins, people of unrestrained His Honour granted the petition. passions and children and im- petuous wilms, who, when they are not drinking sherbet or smoking nargilehs, were beheading someone or flying through the air an carpets. And many of your modern novels Á tornado swept over the south- have caused you fatuously to believe western section of Oklahoma and The Central Committee of the in an East scarcely less absurd--an struck the towns of Blair, Moun- Communist Party has discussed Orient filled with almond-eyed tain Park, and Snyder, agricultural questions and passed "ope-fiends," thieves who amenr a resolution suggesting the increase themselves in oil; hourls who spend of the price of grain, and the or-their time at lattice-casements on ganisation of a State grain reserve. the look-out for handsome Gafours, broken, and 200 volunteer reller and sheikhs who have nothings else workers from Altus rushed to the to do but abduct silly English or aid of the stricken towns. American women to impossible
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