He
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Wrote 87 Verses to Prove
You Can't Do That There
'Ere
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How Old Was Methuselah?
BIBLE STORIES IN
NEW LIGHT
The theory that instead of the
COMPOSED IN
A
BATH
SECRETS OF FAMOUS SONG-WRITER THE composer who has written 87 verses to the tune of "You Can't Do That There 'Ere," and is now looking for an 88th, told the secrets of songs that have swept Britain.
He is Mr. Raymond Wallace, one of the world's best- known song-writers, and when his music goes round and round, it turns out cash for him.
Mr. Wallace disclosed that he had:-
Written smash hit songs while shaving.
Composed in the bath,
Thought out a song winner on the way to the office.
Written 87 verses of "You Can't Do That There 'Erc."
"but
may not be the way Mr. Wallace likes writing the! Wagner and Mozart composed." he words best of all.
of
said, "but it is evidently a good "A lot of my songs were com method for my sort songs,missioned by famous customers," because my song I'm One of the fr: Wallace continued. "Special- Nuts from Barzelona' zoldt Kanjonly written for stars like Marie
Lloys.
Cicely ropies in Britain alone.
Florrie Forde, Courtneldre. Ella Shields, Ella Retford Clarice Mayne, Ada
"Four million copies of
| Apple Blossom Time in Normandy" | Reeve, Vesta Tiley, Jack
were sold in America,"
Pleasants, and G. S. Melvin.
Title First
Mr. Wallace explained how a popular song is composed.
"Firat," he said, "I get the title. Occasionally it comes through inspiration. But, as a rule, it 14 hard work,
"Sometimes it takes three weeks. "Then comes the tune.
"The hardest part about writing In new tune is shutting the old familiar tunes out of one's head.
"Tunes come to me in all sorts of queer places. I have thought of a metody when I was shaving, In my bath, in n Tube train,
"One of my best songs was telephoned home."
single Abraham of the Bible story Mint Accused
there must have been at least two, and possibly three, separate in- dividuals, is put forward by Sir Leonard Woolley, excavator of Ur of the Chaldees, in "Abraham,
Of Fraud
Recent Discoveries and Hebrew COINS ISSUED ON ITS OWN Origins," published by Faber.
Sir Leonard is deeply concerned to preserve the essential historical
ne-
curacy of the Old Testament nurra. tive, at least as far back as the time
of Abraham, reinforced as it is by a
ACCOUNT
"An important market for mei nowadays hs the dance handj world.
"Comedy numbers with patter are, of course, very popular, ond
GEN. HENRY B. CLAGGETT.
Brig. Gon, Henry B. Claggett hna assumed command of the First Wing, general headquarters ir force, with headquarters at March Field Riverside, California.
I supply a lot of this materint to See His Son,
hand leaders like Jack Payne, Debroy Somers, and Henry Hall.
"I have co-operated with Jack Appeals To
Payne many times. The most not-f able occasion was when we pro-j dured that song You Can't Do That There Ere."
"I've already written 87 verses for it: and I'm not fitrished yet."
Mixed Blessings
The King
MR.
R. G. A. BOYNTON,
actor and father, for
Success in the song writing bidden by the L.C.C. to seel- business brings mixed blessings, his three-year-old son, whom
The more popular song be- comes the more it is broadcast-they have compulsorily adopted, has written a peti- tion of protest to the King-
and the shorter its life.
"The average life of a popular song is about 13 weeks," said Mr.
Wallace.
"At the peak of that period'a successful song will sell 40,000 copies a week.
Budapest, Apr. 9.
"In my Darcelona' days, a popu. The Magyarorszag reports alar song might reach a million Bel Sales in Britain, but the top nowa-
remarkable series of correspondences big financial scandal from
with
the early history of Mesopo grade, where, according to the days is about 250,000." - tamia, as now revealed by excavation, paper, the Yugoslav police have
It is from this point of view that his arrested the owners, directors, and new theory is put forward.
several other offeints of
the
"How," Sir Leonard asks, are we loskovich Bank on charges of to accept the 175 years of life allotted i to Abraham, to say nothing of the having cheated the Yugoslav State years of Methuselaft, and yet regard by forging coins of 50-dinara in The Biblical dates as far back as great numbers. Abraham as being substantially ac
Ex-Spy's Name Kept Secret
The Boskovich Bank is the chief SCOTSMAN WHO FACED Joint stock company which halds
curate?" Following are the main proprietor of the Kovnia A. G. TL stages in his argument:.
"Longevity" Explained.
The early Bibleni genealogies,
with their name lista and precisely
recorda,
the exelusive privilege of coining the
it
FIRING SQUAD
"My boy is all I have left to re- mind me of my dead wife," he said. "I am broken-hearted. This is Bumbledóm at its worst.
"allowed Toumle to go to an L.C.C. home at Ashford, Middlesex. last year. My wife was dying. 1 could not look after him. There no money coming into the home.
was
was allowed to see nim once n week. The Public Assistance Com- mittee paid my train Tare, 1s. 6d. Tommie was always glad to see me.
'Never To See Him'
"When my wife died the L.C.C. dé- cided to adopt him, under the powers they have by the Poor, Law Act.
"I was told that. I was never to see him again. I had committed no crime. When I protested I wa fold that it was a decision of the L.C.C. Public Assistance Commit.
tee.
"I could not believe that they could be so cruel.
am afraid Tommie will forget
all money of the Yugoslay State. A Scotsman's adventures in The mint has been carrying out a atated Ogures, are not the material which may be plausibly sup- and received for this purpose the sequent, effect on
sort of Government order for 50-dinar pieces, Russia in war-time and the con. his health posed to have been handed down by necessary stamps. When the stamps which led to financial trouble ural tradition, but would
most were returned it was found that a were related at the Solihull naturally be derived from written number of them were missing, and (Warwickshire) Police Court reme. Some time I hope to get a home!
is alleged that the mint had used longevity, between these lists and the pieces on its own acco
account, carly king-lints of Ur.
for arrears of rates. 3-In both cases destructive critics money and have the
They are exactly like the legal have urged auch longevity as an argu-i
same metal Mr. A. Pardon Smith (for the nent against accuracy in respect of value, but as the producing cost of defendant), said that his client did datcs.
one piece is only 12 dinars, the mint not wish to have his name and 4-In the case of Ur lists, King profited by 38 dinara on each plece. address disclosed. He was a Scots Mes-anni-padda (circa 3100 B.C.) was It is stated that a number of persons man who during the War belonged supposed by many scholars to be who hold prominent positions in the to the Intelligence Service and had mythical, on account of the great al- financial and economic life of Belgrade leged length of his reign (80 years, are implicated, and more arrests are gone to Russia where he became a followed by a reign of 38 years by his expected.
member of the Tear's own regiment and Flying Corps.
2-There is a parallel, in unnatural these stamps for producing 50-dinar cently when he was summoned together again, and have him back.
"son," Mcs-ki-ng-Nanner).
5.--Excavation has revented
temple near Ur built by "A-Anni- padda, king of Ur, son of Mex-anni- padda, kind of Ur" the said A-Anni- padda not being mentioned in the king
lista.
Conclusion: A-anni-padda was accidentally omitted from the lista on account of the resemblance in name, the length of his reiga being at the same time credited to his father in addition to the latter's own.
7-With that historical precedent, may not the various cases of Biblical longevity be similarly explained?
Man Who Made His
Own Prison
He became Minister of Trans- port to the Kerensky Government, but when the revolution broke out ho was arrested and thrown into prison.
"One morning," said Mr. Smith, "ho was taken out to be shot, in an attempt to make him open his
But I must see him from time to time, "I have written to the King for justice."
An L.C.C. official said: "It is true) that Mr. Boynton is barred from see- ing his son. The decision la one of the Publie Assistanco Committee. We can say nothing more."
Mr. Boynton is unemployed.
"LAW MADE ME A CRIMINAL"
MAN'S 46 YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE
When George Williams (72),
mouth. The ruse falled and he stone mason, pleaded guilty at was taken back to the prison where | London Sessions last month to ho was put into what was known shopbreaking at Kentish Town as the cork cell-a cell filled with he was stated to have had sen- Maison, Wisconsin, Apr. 8. The walls of a public prison mice and filth. He was kept there tences amounting to 46 years
for some days and his health was There still, however, remains a Leonard, famed University of but under the new rogime there
which have held William Ellery shattered. Eventually ho escaped, penal eervitude.
Leonard asks, that in the relatively
Names Handed On
+
further difflculty. How it is, Sir Wisconsin poet-professor, captive was no further employment for had sentences of seven years;
"At
at
At Leeds, York and Rochester, he Sheffield, one of five years; and at Wakefield and the Old Baliey, sen-
"In those days," he said bitterly, "penal servitude was worse than hell on earth. I was put in with old convicts, and there were thou- sands in those days,
servitude, penal servitude every time
"I never had a chance. Penal
1 went before a judge or recorder.
THE "HANGING SWORD"
dotailed Biblical history the same in an area of a faw city blocks him НАТО само be applied to what, on for 20 years have been pushed When he returned to this countences of ten years. the above interpretation, ware two or back but not broken down, he re keep his job on account of his bad said that he was only 18 when he more different porsonal Sir Leonard
try ho obtained work, but could not Pleading for leniency, Williams believes that the "second Abraham" vealed. was the grandson of the first, and was His wife, Grace Golden Leonard, and was prepared to do his best
health. To-day he was in work received his Brat seven years. called after him. Again, he can pro- is helping him loosen the grip of to pay off the arrears. duce a parallel from Mesopotamia.
the phobla which causes an un- he writes, "woro found
Mr. Pardon Smith said he was clay documents dated to the reign of overnablo fear of travelling any willing to help, and suggested that King Hammurabi, which bear the im- considerable distance from his a portion of the deficiency should print of inscribed soals giving the home. Recently he has been able be made up from the Court poor names of three generations in a single to get about a mile from home, box. family; the first man is called shu- while a year ago the phobic fear The Magistrates' clerk pointed ibisha, his son is Siniqisham, bis bound him within a quarter mile out that the box at present con- grandson 'is Iishu-ibisha again',
In addition, Abraham's brother, radius from this base, he explain-tained only five shillings. "Nahor, was named after his grand- ed.
The Rating Officer said that his breaking. The law has made me a father, Nahor, the father of Terah, so "I suppose I. really ought to be committee had no idea of the clrcriminal. that there was a precedent in the glad the public la so much incumstances when they applied for family for the repetition of ancestral terested in me, but I wish I could the committal, and he was prepared Davies, K.C.) asked Williams how he The acting chairman (Mr. Russell "Sir Leonard has given a most in- got away where I wouldn't have to to accept the offer which had boon could trust him not to commit fur- teresting and lucidly written account answer an many inquiries on the made.
ther crimes. of the manner in which recent excava- telephone," Leonard esid. "I'm Afterwards Mr. Pardon Smith tions have, in many respects, corro- not sick. I'm sound physically, said the tentacles of the Bolshevik bortod and illuminated the back- grind of the Bible story. At the Only: I have this nervous disorder (regimo were long and there was the prompt reply. same time, by the above speculations, which I don't suppose I over will an obvious reason why thy man's. overcome."--United name and address should not be he has given Biblical critics consider completely able food for thought..
revesled..
rmtuda.
Prest.
"All my crimes were for shop.
"By hanging a sword over my head and saying you will send me to penal servitude if I come back, again," was
sessions for a report on Williams, by Sentence was postponed until next:
{the probation-oflcer,
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