Hardly bad Andre-Francois-Poncet, now French Ambassador to Italy, arrived in Rome to take up his duties, before Fiance and Haly clashed over a demand in the Chumber of Deputies that France re- turn Tunisia, Savoy and other colonies to Italy. Above, the, new Ambassador about to present credentials to King Victor Emmanuel.
Ex-Premier Laval Sells
Mineral Water
IN
Paris.
Thursday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 12, 1939.
LUTYENS HAS A
"JOKE SHELF'
And "Bad Temper" Chair
By A. B. AUSTIN WHO designed that chair?"
asked the new Presi- dent of the Royal Academy.
Bir Edwin Lutyens, elected P.R.A. on Saturday in auccession to Sir William Llewellyn, looked at me amiably.
I had gone to his house in Mans- feld-street, W., to ask the architect of the Cenotaph, Government House, Delhi, Liverpool Cathedral and the Queen's Doll's House, a few questions about modern art and the future of the Royal Academy,
He pointed to one of four chairs by his fireside and repeated his ques- tion.
It was a square, upholstered chair, with two of its sides high-backed. A narrow, padded rest, perhaps slx inches high, ran along its third side. "Perhaps," I said fatuously, "you designed it."
Sir Edwin chuckled: "Nonsense. Napoleon the Cirent designed it. He wanted the narrow rest so that he could swing his legs over it.
His
Gallery”
"Napoleon, you see, was a very short-tempered man. He could fung himself back into his chair, and say? 'You - fool.""
Sir Edwin flung himself back and swung up a leg. I jumped aside just
elbow. Sir Edwin apologised.
SIK EDWIN LUTYENS, seated in the chair at his Home recently.
Gambling wife asks:
CANNOT A WOMAN HAVE ANY SECRET FROM HER HUSBAND?
spends her allowance?
¡N a tall, modern office building in the Champs in time, catching it slightly on the SHOULD a wife's bank manager reveal to her husband how she
Elysees here, a short, swarthy man in a black frock-coat and a butterfly tie is bending daily over a desk heaped with papers.
"Not at all," I said. "A very effective demoustention."
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Mrs. Mary Sunderland, London doctor's wife who sued her to his feet and made a gesture bank for damages because her husband was told that she sent towards the mantelpiece above his peat-cheques to a bookmaker, recently lost her case. Jamming fire,
**Have you ever seen this before?" he A Red.
I chose une picture from a very einture art gallery ranged along the
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He is Pierre Laval, former French Premier, the statesman who concluded in 1935 the Franco-Italian
greement regarding Tunis which Mussolini now claimsteaty of the mantelpiece. France has not kept, and planned the Hoare-Laval pactoph of Venus de Milo. that nem for ending the Abyssinian war.
He was asked about Italy's claim that he had promised French support for the Abyssinian conquest in return for an accord between the two nations over Tunis.
"I have nothint to say now," bejamount of mineral water he drank miled, "but the time may come when as a boy, while he was delivering
shall have a lot to say."
beefsteaks and mutton chops to the Fur the time being Pierre Laval, neighbouring farmers for his father, laited only a few years ago as the the local butcher,
reatest statesman France had pro- Besides his mineral water com- uced since the World War, is busy pany M. Laval is interested in farm- elling mineral
water thousands, livestock, and his legat practice, bottles, filled from springs bub for he is a prominent Paris Inwyer.) ling up in the mountain fastnesses
[
is native province of Auvergne,
The former Premier, who is how
PREMIER AGAIN?
Since the overthrow of his Cabinet, My-live, ageribes the good health Perre Laval has been "lying low"
e har enjoyed all hue to the (Continued on Next Coltman.)
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V. Lucas gave me that NAIK DA
· Here's anotlar e. Edwin happly
I begin to realize that the mentit plcer pillery was meant to pete an
L. G.'s Double
Dat betere I had the to camp' to l Leg gment, Ble Edwin was paire so aute in the middle of the can.
I don't sappale you've ever seen a
as wettek before." he sa19. Here's the made of Bristol glust, Been used spute a fut, too.
Fresh-faced, stout, with white mouss
farbe white hate growing rather tam. and u most unspoiled, huus for
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the note of 63. he brandiabed the web- Stick ativquonately, und showed me a
pt of ald Dutch brass bound wedding
Pruck by a rh arti mi9jury. Det v * Have you ever bera misiska for Mr. Lloyd Cleon?
w pit it Bus way. He answered. * People have come up to me in the street and Putes to eprat Wila
Of course, if you saw Mr. LADE Geort and myself sittet Togather, you worth & see any resemblances
"But I woultin't say ton much abouT 1 if I were yuli. Mr. Lloyd Grena mightn't like it, and F'm not sure that
"Not Quite-"
Later she said :-
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"Now what independence has wife got? Does this decision mean that a husband van ask the bank if she is being too extravagant about dress?
"I know womeh who spend a lot
Sleepwalking Boy Was 'Burglar'
committed
of their allowance on dress. Some of them spend too much.
"One day a woman may be over-drawn and her husband may run up the bank and nsk why, [ suppose tie bankc manager is entitled to say that her drasanaker's bills are too big and that she has spent £5 on hat." Lord Justice du Pareq, giving Judgment for Barclays Bank, with jests, said the ordinary person would say that, where husband and wife
nmity, were living together in statement could be made safely to one about the other which any one would be reluctant to make to any une else. Society expected a hus- hand to be his wife's adviser and protector.
n
FAMILY ROW FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy
Airs. Sunderland, who is the wife { burglary at of Dr. Arthur Sunderland, of Hyde Oxford-while walking in his Park Mansions, W., said that when sleep.
the protested about a dishonoured ebeque and the manager told her for husband that a great deal of her ne- family row. Her husband thought count went to hookmakers, it must
that her gambling was no more than a occasional flutter.
This was the plea made him in the juvenile court recent ly, when he was charged.
Miss Emma Clarke, of St. Mary's- road, Oxford, found the boy in a when he found out," she added to "There was an awful upheaval room at her house. He had taken me last night. "We might have been
£19.
pated. It was only because our Mr. Cevil Bartram, defending, said marriage is on a pretty firm rock that three years ago the boy in- that we got over It” dulged in a childish prank.
A few days before the burglary he received an anonymous letter, demanding 30s., otherwise his em- player would be told of what occurred three years ago. He suggested that this got on the counted for. what happened.
A doctor said that the boy and his brother were both sleepwalkers.
The boy was put on probation for
Mrs. Sunderland thinks that a wife Is entitled to strict privacy about her money for brusekeeping and dress, and she had the surplus for her own entertainment.
"I don't spend much on dress or bridge," she said. "I just happen to the pictures, and. I don't play
Leaving the room. i remembered boy's mind while sleeping and ecke the horses. My husband never
modern art Sir Edwin thought about it for a moment, and then deliverid bin- Butt:
*The Royal Acndony can never be quite in the vau.. but don't commit
Walking towards his front door. I Tooked up at the fine Georgian fanlight. Standlig on a ledge over the door was
a year.
31 YEARS OF
a fantastle, gargoyllah bust, or hrud, with | GASTRIC ULCERS
nhat that might have been a pagoda or a mosque. pair of horn-rimmed glasses.
and a smile like that of the Chinese god | Stomach Now Quite Healed of plenty.
It was Sir Edwin Lutyena
In French politics. But he is being; seriously considered as a Presidential possibility when President Albert Lebrun's term of office explies.
His only dangerous rival is Edouard Herriot, the present President of the
Chamber, of Beputles.
Pierre Laval hates sports, and has never played at any game in his
still smokes upwards of life. He sixty cigarettes a day and works sixteen hours day,
1
His white washable tie, which he winds around a wire frame and pushes into his
*
starched collar, is a family tradition, He has worn It ever since he was a student.
Name Change Mystifies
Butte, Mont. There is just one thing that still Intrigues court attaches here in the case of Charles Collar, Judgo J. J. Lynch granted him A request to change him name from Collar to Sakellaris and, while he presumably told the court the renson therefor, no one else about the court has been able to figure it out.
Who could blame a stomach sufferer for giving up every hope of a curo after
long years of suffering?
But relief does surely come when the remedy that never fails is put to the test. Mrs. M. H. Y. discovered that to her ever lasting joy. She writes: "I have been
terrible sutterer from ulcers in the
stomach for 31 years. I have tried no end of remedies, all of which failed. lave suffered no end of pain, but was advised to take Maciean Krand Stomach
questioned how I spent my money. and I felt I was entitled to privacy. "He never said. 'You are going it, or 'You are spending to much.
"Now, I suppose, every husband In the country can ask his wife's bank manager how she is spending the money he gives her."
Adolescent Crime
"There is a wave of adolescent crime passing through the country, and judging by the fact that in this calendar thirty of the 48 accused people are under the
age of 25
matters have reached a pretty si
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shop-breaking,
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and larceny offences, one of the youths asking for 22 cases and the other 17 cases to be dealt with.
Counsel said the offences appeared to be senseless, and no proft had been made out of what were "extra- ordinary escapades."
The Recorder remarked, "What is In that the crime happening now which was committed in the old days by hardened criminals la now being committed by young persons of 17 to 23 years of age." In a later ense in which two other young mien were in the dock, the Recorder 're- ferred to "systematic crime being comes committed пов by middle-aged criminals bal by gangs of youths to whom chances of going straight aro being given."
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