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Ten Women
• Are these Your Choice
for the Hall of Fame?
on tend to understand hier verse.
eighteenth and nineteenth con- turies.
Lady Oxford and Asquith, whose age appears in no work of reference; Margot, the enemy of many and the friend of more; Margot, the wit, who said of Lady Astor that she was "too to flippant to feel, too noisy. pray."
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I vote for Nancy Astor, aged fifty-seven with the vitality of Beventeen. She has always been. an anomaly; a Puritan in Cavn lier Virginia; an American in
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I have no' among them! hope of telling you of the nameless heroines of modern life, unhonoured, un- |paragraphed, unphotographed, almost unknown: the women who do the work of the world, holding together five hundred Alexandra the beloved, now Fleming, who, as Dorothy L. the British House of Commons; Sayers, proved that a "thriller" Prohibitionist representing million homes; tending the Queen-Mother.
But, regal as Alexandra never could be a good novel as well? Plymouth, a 'constituency seven million sick; creating
She was the, first woman to tens of millions of new lives was; conscientious as Alexandra Then there is bullet-headed likely to abandon grog.
never was; superb in presence, Gertrude Stein, who dresses like take her seat in Parliament (the Women all women-are in tactful in speech, she has within a man. Intellectuals rave about Countess Markiewicz was the teresting: the flower-girl at the the last twenty years created her: you and I cannot even pre- first woman to be elected), and corner, the bride you saw step- such an admiration, based
respect; she has evoked such a My selection is Vicki. Baum, she was the terror of the House. Once she knew that Sir Fred- ping out of St. Margaret's, love as has been lavished on no Vienna-born in 1896, who started
was going to Westminster, your charwoman. ...But figures of world interest? other ruler in the modern world. life as a harpist and married erick Banbury
Go to the stage for your next the orchestra conductor. She "talk out" a temperance mea- Well-
vain effort to choice. £100,000-a-year Gracie werks always at night, and, sure of hera. She clung to his
make him sit down. Fields, aged thirty-seven, born when the mood is strong upon coat-tails in a in Rochdale, Lancs., with her her, writes until 6 am. fantastic versatility? Tallulah Before writing "Grand Hotel,"
Of women of action in the Bankhead, aged thiry-three, who she worked for six weeks as a husked the voices of the world? chambermaid in a Berlin hotel modern world there is no end: 1 plump for Elisabeth Bergner, to get her detall right. She has Joyce Wethered, four times golf five foot three, Jewish, auburn- gold hair and a golden voice. haired, and just as old as the
so temper- Go now to the other arts. of the tennis court. from 1919 Century. She is
mental that one day sire suid Painting gives you Mrs. Dod until she turned professional he would only play a certain Procter, painter of sculptural (after just beating a youthful part if the management would fleah, last year's election to the Helen Wills) in 1926; Helen aloof Dame Wills "Poker-Face" Moody her- give her a certain motor-car. Academy; and As the Duchess of York, she She made her film-name with Laura Knight, devotee of the self, seven times champion of was overshadowed by Alexandra, Jannings and Veidt in the silent circus, titled in 1929, an Acade- Wimbledon, whe staged a come-
back this year. Princess of Wales, Alexandra, film days in a picture called mician in 1927. the beloved. As Princess of "Nju." They call her the Ger- Music offers Dame Ethel Going from sport to larger Hongkong Eelegraph. Wales, she was overshadowed by
Smyth, seventy-seven-year-old issues there is Mrs. Petrie, who Alexandra, now Queen, still the man Duse.
mutant, who rules an orchestra has driven a motor-our round beloved. As Queen, she was..
From the stage to the screen. with a rod of iron; one of the Brooklands at 134 m.p.h.; Amy overshadowed by the memory of
Glamorous Dietrich, born in few musicians to put reality in- Johnson (Mrs. Mollison), who 1902, with her red-gold hair and stead of dreams into her music, put women on the air map by lovely legs? Mue'
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AN INDUSTRIAL OBLIGATION
The problem of the dopressed areas in Great Britain is one which is at the moment engag-
ing the serious attention of the Government, and Mr. Baldwin, The Primic Minister, has declared that from every point of view
he regards the introduction of new industries in these districts as the most important work 101 which, the British businessman can devote his capital and his brains. One of the greatest difficulties in maintaining and improving the industrial position at home and in helping the most
Louk, first, in the seats of the mighty, on the thrones of the world. I choose, first among the women of the world, Queen Mary. She, was born a Teck in 1807. At twenty-four she was betrothed to the King's cider brother, the Duke of Clarence, the
heir presumptive. Soon after he died, her engagement to the King-then Duke of York
was announced,
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NOTES OF THE DAY West with her.
FORTUNE SMILES
triumph over her limitations and
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Mr. Duff Cooper, who has just of face Gerald
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champion-in 1922, 1924, 1925, 1929; Suzanne Lenglen, queen
Sculpture pre her England-Australia flight in sents Lady Hil 1930; the Duchess of Bedford, ton Young, who, at the age of sixty-four, in widow of An- 1929, flew to India, tarctic
of hero ·But of all the women Captain Scolt, action, I'crown Amelia Earhart wife of an ex- Putnam, aged thirty-seven, the Cabinet Minis- American. air ace, christened "Lady Lindy." She passengered
ter.
for figure, her hast become Secretary of State
first professional of legends, War, is the allomat of modern times to mainly unprint- Grace achieve Cabinet rank. The honourable? is deserved. Mr. Cooper is a man Moore,
and self-reliance. nessee-born of There are two high spots in hs who graduated diplomatic carcer.. The first was to Covent Garen from a Green- Elsa Schiaparelli. She looked, flew
courage
examination. success in his
Dutr
Ten-
Haylett
My selection is a machine across the Atlantic a practitioner of in 1928; she flew one solo on another art the same course in 1932; she the Pacific this year-
to California in
flies under her maiden name.
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at Utord at a party to celebrate wich Village cafe and musical she thought, "funny" in sports covering the 2,100 miles from
comedy.ir.ey Temple, six kit, so she produced revolu- Honolulu his After the party there was poker-year-old carrer of £250 a week? tionary "robot" dresses for her- eighteen hours-alone; she still The pay was long. Mr.
None of these, I think. My self.
Now she designs for the Cooper was fortunate. There was
one of the very In the world of education Drowning pistol on the table. Vote goes to the Swede who can An undergraduate who had been show you with equal poignance world. She is the heaviest joser picked up the; the sorrow of the harlot and the few women who design clothes there are many names of note, There is sturdy, Russianised pistel, removed the magazine, and, glory of the bride. Greta Garbo, for woman.
She invented the divided the gun at the chiet aged twenty-nine, whose ambl pointing hard hit areas is that emigration winner, said Jestingly: "Duff, you tion is to play the title role in sk.rt. She revived the dunce's Dora Russell, pioneer of de-
mcky coin, I d nke to shoot you." Wilde's "Dorian Gray."
cap and made it the rage. She mocratic schools, pioneer of
new theory of social life; there is police- even designed a She went to Hollywood in has since the war has been practice pulted the trigger. There was
Minna Specht, German idealist. ally stopped and that increased a loud report and a bullet whistled 1925, and has reigned supreme woman's uniform and sent it to whose school was closed up and economie nationalism, which has past Mr. Cooper's car and buried
led to all kind of trade barriers between nations, has lessened by a vast amount the international trade which was the basis of so much of the trade in those areas that feel the depression most.
Schiaparelli
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It. was
not
its funds-£20,000-confiscated by the Nazis.
she is big
My choice is Maria Montes-
adopted. itself in the wall. The under-Versace. The very stubs of Scotland-yard. graduate had neglected to remove her cigarettes were sold in her
hat ve Sweden for 6d. each. the cartridge in the barrel."
She achieves her publicity as does Sir James Barric-by sin- enough to be called by her last gori, the first woman-to-be- FORGOTTEN BUT NOT LOST
cerely shunning it. Her real name with no prefix-has been granted a decree in medicine by
deaned as a cross between ivy the University of Rome. high spot in his name is Gustafsson. And they St. Helier and Anita Loos. She created a school for feeble- The other career was in the war.
friends again.
Together
She
The Government, however, has with the late Charles Lister, Mr. Bay she and John Gilbert are has a pale face, dominated by minded children and specialised
decided that these districts shall
forces.
Dull Cooper insisted
on joining
And from the screen to litera- huge dark eyes and a full and in child psychology. She evolved the modern theory of hand-work up. As the bureya 0..te cou d
Let us leave the arts and go for children; the system of treating them as human beings share in the work required in not afford to lose all its staff, the ture. Will you choose Gabrielle drooping mouth. connection with the re-equip- two men were warned that the. Long, who, as Marjorie Bowen
Lady Londonderry, born in instead of animals; the convic- ment of the nation's defence diplomatic careers would be end- or George Preedy, writes glitter- to politics,
ed. Mr. Dulf Cooper went to ing tales of the past? Or
work the Montessori But the Government France and won a D.S.O., which Rebreen West, one of the great 1879; granddaughter of a duke, tion that play was as important expects that industry also shall it was said should have been aminds writing to-day? Or Rose daughter of a viscount, wife of s
home and enulay. with her acid wit? Or a marquis, sole survivor of the method.
Finally, look at religion. Wil do its part. The policy of Pro-V.C. Then he came
took his old seat in the Foreign Etoncropped
Mrs. Atherton great political hostesses of the.
you choose Sister Aimee Semple tection which it has adopted has ofee. It was eighteen months
MacPherson, dynamic publiciser certainly given industry a con- belore Lord Curzon discovered
of religious feeling with coloured He was therefore allowed to siderable impetus, and Mr. Bald- him.
lights and Wurlitzer organs, hot-gospelling and a beauty win has been at pains to point stay. The first story is crystal truth. The second is not. But it
chorus e mplete? Will you choose out that there is a corresponding is already good legend.
Maude Royden,. Companion of moral obligation on industry asp
Ilonour, in her sixtieth year; also a suffragette in the pre-war days; fighter, writer, awimmer, motorist, preacher, Puritan?
a whole; it must not be all give "RUGGER" RECORDS
at
to stand that same year .
on the part of the Government, At the invitation of the Scottish and all take on the part of in- Rugby Union, the surviving mem- dividuals. As the Prime Minis-bers of the Scottish team who played in the first match against ter has pointed out, if, the Gov- the All Blacks in 1905 were pre- ernment makes it possible for sent at the international between people in industry to do far Scotland and New Zeniand
Murrayfield. They included tw better than they could have done Scots who in that match made a under the old fiscal system, the record which is key least that these people can do, for ever. In where it is in their power, is to 1905 they had the unique ex- perience of playing both againat see that when they have new and or their country. The firs works to put down, they should time was early in the year when, as a trial before the match aguhat remember the depressed areas.
Wales, Scotland came to. Fettes By following this policy, not only to pay what many people think will fresh employment be pro- the best school side of all time. vided by these new industries, Scotland won by fourteen points but a very great deal of good to Bx. In the iolowing autumn two of these Fettes boys were will result to these areas by the chosen for Scotiand against New knowledge that they are not Zealand, One was Moir Muckenzie, wholly dependent upon one in-a powerful forward, who scored dustry, however important. In both the tries for Fettes against Scotland. The other was the other words, all their eggs will seventeen-year-old Kenneth Mc- not be in one basket, and for the Leod, one of the greatest athletes young people coming along thereof all time and the only Scottish may in course of time be a schoo.boy who over won a cricket variety of employment, instead Blue at Cambridge. Altogether of everyone being driven to there were six Fattesians in the follow one single occupation. Scottish side which so nearly won its. match against the first All The Government is, so far as it lacks. There was not one in the can, setting an example in this Inst Scottish team which mat the regard; It is hoped that the New Zealanders-a proof that nation's industrial leaders will Scottish schoolboys respond to the reasonable appeal hardy as they were, or else that made to them by the Prime "Rugger" is no longer the be-all Minister.
and end-all of their existence.
are not so
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark |
"You guys get to work. We haven't time to discuss the European situation,
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My last place goes to Gen- eralissimo of the Salvation Army, Evangeline Booth, who rides and swims to keep fit at the age of seventy; who was born on Christmas Day, the seventh daughter of old General Booth, the founder of the Army; who preaches with the fervour of a Jewish prophet. She ran the Army in Canada from 1896 until 1905. She organised and led in person a campaign to the Yukon during the gold rush of 1898..
She ran the Army in America as a self-supporting unit. She succeeded General Higgins, who had displaced her brother, Bram- well, deposed by the Army Council in 1929.
She is tender behind her furious, preaching and fearless. attacks on what she believes to be wrong. And-unusually for a serious woman doing serious. work she has wit. Once she was told it was time that' she considered marriage. She an -swered: "I have considered it. That's why I'm still angl."
The tenth? You must fill that in for yourself. I have.
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