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PALACE WILL NOT INVITE
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
THE DIVORCED
RUCKINGHAM PALACE officials aré
WORLD'S
already preparing the lists from which invitations will be sent out to such functions as presentation at Court, Palace | YOUNGEST banquets, garden parties, and the Ascot
AIRMAN race meeting.
As is usual under the reign of a new King, the officials are reviewing the lists of those previously invited to such fune- tions.
Guilty parties in divorce caces will not be invited to royal functions.
It is expected that Queen Mary will play un important part in the
social reign that is about
new start.
to
The King will hold the first Levee his reign at St. James' Palace on February 9.
This picturesque gathering of people is the start of four busy months for the King and Queen un- til they are crowned in Westminster Abbey on May 12.
The Levee will be followed by two Investitures at Buckingham Palace on February 24 and 25. At these the King will greet those not anly in this country but from the Empire who will have special honours bestowed on them..
Then a week before the Corona- Alon the King and Queen will hold davo Courts for debutantes at Buck- Ingham Palace. They have been fxed for May 5 and 0. Those to be presented at these Coronation Courts will drive up The Mall, already guy standards and high terraced seats.
PALACE CLEANS
UP SOCIETY
THE clean-up of London Society
of
has begun. Hostesses of the type twhich the Archbishop Canterbury criticised in his broad- cast after the abdication of King Edward will be omitted from the list of guests to Palace functions this year.
Oficials at the Palace art go- ing carefully through the lists from which invitations are sent out to such functions as
Royal Ascot,
Buckingham Palace banquets, Buckingham Palace garden partics, Presentations at Court.
Guilty parties in divorce cases will be barred from any of these func- tous.
Debutantes who have been conspicuous at wild cocktail parties will also be cut out. So also will hostesses who have invited doubtful people to their own private parties.
Dowagers who make a living by chaperoning debutanter for fees, and undertaking, to get them desirable introductions, will also be barred.
This little Melbourne (Australia) boy, Eric Morris, is very interested in aviation. In spite of the fact that He is only three years nine months old, he has more that 40 hours' fly- ing to his credit, Picture shows Eric watching competitors check in at Essendon.
Piracy
Under the Sea
MOLLUSCS THAT BUILD RAFTS
Raids On Jelly Fish Jelly fish in all the Seven Seas are being attacked by pirates.
in
They аге
not ordinary pirates
are not
with, say, a patch on one eye and a wooden leg, but blind, sinister fel- lows whose vessels range the waters fleets oľ millions. And golnst them occan going jelly fish, however
have not a cuoping,
a chance: The
"pirates, of course, ar human, but belong to the Ianthina family
the of molluscs, perhaps strongest of all the creatures which carry their houses about on their backs. Instead of crawling about or anchoring them
themselves at the bottom of the sea, the Tanthina build "ships" for themselves and sail.
Their vessels explains Mr. A. Hyalt Verrill in "Strange Sea Shells"
An Invisible (George G. Harrap. 10s, Gd.), are
Man"
EXPERIMENTER'S CLAIM
formed from hardened mucus cxuded by the shell and supported by air bubbles. Supported by these rafts. which they can increase in size at will, the Ianthina "pirates" float al- most indefinitely and can Burvive heavy storms
.
CRUISING BUCCANEER The unthing "enptain" himself is,
Disappearance At Will however, blind so frequently, writes
Rome, Jan. 30.
If accounts be true a celentille step towards the creation of "the invisible mon" has been accomplished by an experimenter at Milani.
The Milanese engineer in question has taken out protective patent rights eserve his claim that he has to preserve discovered a method for projecting which render human rays w special beings invisible to the human eye. by Remarkable claims are made witnesses of
of test experiments. According to de
to descriptions furnished
to the "Secolo-Scra," of Milan, by a to the correspondent who was present and vouches for the authenticity of his experiences, a specles
of X-rays. directed against two people caused them to vanish gradually frora alght and then as gradually appear again at the will of the operator.
The witnesses were introduced by the inventor into a room containing an alcove draped in black, and with a diagonal sheet of glass between It and the room proper. A triple reflector cost a powerful light Into the alcove.
on
Mr. Verrill, he carries a "passenger" on his little ship-"a strange shrimp- like crustacean that is found only on the shell's rafts, where he has the deck ali to himself, and is quite happy and contented.... He is the same purplish blue as the Ianthing shell as if he actually wore a uni- form.
"Possibly, too, he may act as a Tookout to warn the shell of enemies and to notify it when a prize heaves in sight. No swashbuckling, dore- devli of a buccancer ever swept down on a ship and boarded her with more murderous intentions than the pur- ple fanthina exhibits when it comes in reach of some unsuspecting jelly fab.
"Regardless of whether the jelly fish is a slow-moving, fat-bellled. galleon of a creature, or a Portu- guese
man-of-war with gleaming, rainbow-tinted sall, and streaming, stinging tentacles, the purple shell- pirate ranges alongside and, seizing the prize with its proboscis, tears it apart with its long raap-like tongue covered with sharp, razor-edged teeth."
On the spectators' Elde of the
In addition to shell "pirates," the glass electric apparatus, said to look like
X-ray outfit, was
author Diso
of this fascinating, and at directed towards the alcove." Two
times startling, book tells of clams women then entered the alcove. One
which can dig through sand faster than a man, of a creature with excel-
sat on a low stool and the other on a leather armchair. They began a conversation.
THE DIMMING RAY
The inventor then turned on his ray. The lights grew in intensity, and the two ladies, to the story goes, began to become dim to the sight- and then became totally invisible. Their voices could still be heard. Parts of the armchair remained visible.
or
The experiment was then per- formed the other way round, the women gradually returning to view. "The witnesses go no further than to. describe their experiences,
but reject they
theory of trick hallucination. The Inventor keeps secret. Bodles apecially his process prepared to resist the ray remain visible, he says, and this explanation is given for the continued visibility of the armchair.
It is believed that the Hallan is working along the same Uncs os an Hungarian experimenter who 18 said to be able to change the. vibration of objects so that they. pass. ›beyond the vibratory rungo possibla
for the human eye to perceivé.
lent eyesight yet whose eyes. have neither pupils nor lenses, and of scallops which
can jump out of boots
Mr. Verrill has written a volume which is both on excellent introduc- tion to the study of conchology und an entertaining account of some of the wonders of the sen. It is very
fully illustrated.
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make their film debut in this picture, singing several spirituals and furn- Ishing background music. Miss Davies has the role of Belay Patterson, and Powell plays the part of Jerome, whose love for Belsy is far stronger than his desire for fame and fortune. The role of Napoleon is played by Claude Rains. Charles Ruggies, Ed- ward Everett Horton and Arthur Treacher have comedy roles as the indefatigable and highly amusing lovers of Miss Detay. Other comedy paris are taken by Walter Kingsford and Elleme Girardot as the oldes of Jerome. Frank Borzage directed,
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