ONLY ONE KILT AT SCOTTISH SHOW
THE only kilt at the private view recently of the Scottish Art Exhibition, at the Royal Academy, was in a frame.
The laird had for the occasion changed into morning coat, lavender grey waistcoat, and a pair of spats, said "How d'you do?" and did the social round on the edge of the gilt frames as the English do once a year.
The only Glengarry present was a satin une with a bunch of espreys in Lt.
There was a time-two hundred years ago when the chieftain was to proud of his tartan he even wrap- ped his feet in It,
The full bland dress, in a glass ease, had Bight-fitting trousers with taclan socks and soles all in one.
Woman Wins Art Prize
Sydney,
For the first time in history the
There is a pleture, paintect in 1965, Archibald Prize, recognized us the of the first kilt, rather like a shrunken Herion of Australian art, has been She is Mas Nurn petticoat, and a pleture of the origin-won by a woman,
al golfer. It is William St. Clair, of Heysen, daughter of Haus Heysen, Bru, captain of the Honourable one of Australia's greatest landscape Company of Edinburgh Goiters, pointers.
driving off on the links with a thistle The Archibald Prize is worth about at his heet.
L450. In winning it, Miss Heysen | wore black velvet knee defeated some of Australia's leading breeches, a red hunting coat, bows protrait painters.
of ribbon above his calf, and his The portrait she submited was of club looked lite a long-handled hoe-Madame Elink Schumann, wife of hey stick. 1 golf ball is number-the Consul-General for the Nether- e for identification purposes.
RUBY GARLANDS
Jands.
Mis Hessen, who recently return- ed from London, was not formerly There in the whole history of Reot-well-known as a portrait painter, but tich dress in the exhibition from the was regarded as an eminent exponent Bowers and early days when kills were tarfended of fli-life, especially
with rubles round the waist and the blade of the dirk was sharp, to the decalent 80's when the turlan was a dressing-gown and the chleftain wore i a white cloths like an leebag round his head.
Nearly all the portraits are of men --they seem to have possessed all thei beauty and vanity of the perlad.
There is a piece of embroidery worked by Mary Queen of Scots that is no better then the rest but drew a birer crowd: an evening gown that Prince Charles once danced with; and a Mi-life of grouse and fruit.
fruit.
Monday,
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St. Moritz, famed summer and winter resort of the Swiss Alps, brings many noted persons together from throughout the world, A recent visitor there was Dr. Milan Stoyadinovitch, Premier of Yugo-Slavin, shown as he surveyed the winter activities.
Mortgage Runs 138 WATER IN LONDON'S
Years
Dallas. Pu.
Attorneys have discovered an un-. settled, 138-year-old mortgage on 120 acres now occupied by the College of Misericordia here which calls for an annual pyament of 00 bushels whent. College officials are seeking to trace the heirs of the mortgagor
to obtala clear title to the Innd."
Compensation
Firms in
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for British
China ·
London,
A.R.P. TRENCHES
THERE was 5ft. 6ins. of muddy water in A.R.P. trenches on Primrose Hill, N.W., recently forty days after the Home Office circular to local authorities asking them to make trenches permanent by steel and concrete reconstruction.
The flood was rising all the time. The trenches were ex-
Gracie's 'No' To pected to overflow.
4 Shows A Day
Los Angeles, Calif. for England recently, was asked by Gracie Flekis, who left Hollywood
the New York sinne for one week.
CONSIDERABLE number of questions dealing with the Far East were asked in the House of Commons recently. The question of clnima for compensation received from Twatten Century Films to appear on British firms in China was raised by Sir Charles Cayzer, as fol- lows:--
And Gracle was willing-con-
Sir Cartes Cayzer asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the re- dilians. Manter the minber and the extent solution adopted by the League
from Res drus in China in rus-the by Japan military action?
"They are asking me to do four
The AR.P. department of St. Pameras Borough Council, who are responsible for the trenches. said:
February 27, 1939.
Modern Toys "Too Perfect"
Your children probably play with mechanically-perfeel toys,, realiutic dolls, and teddy-bears. But are they ns happy and carefree as you were with less elaborate things to amuse you?
Misa Ethel Strudwick, headmistress of St. Paul's Girls' School wip describes herself as a thoroughly. old-fashioned woman" thinka nol.
Speaking at the Public Health Con- ference in Londen recently, zhe gold: |
"When I think of an old carpenter's bench in the corner of my Inther's studio on which was perched a doll'a house consisting of a wooden box on end, I wonder whether this newfound passion for giving chlidren baby dolls exactly like the real thing, or teddy- bears all glorious with plush, is really making them huppier than did the oll make-belleve toys which left so much to the imagination."
THIS REALISTIC AGE
Miss L. H. Crocker, of the Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham, commenting In the News Chronicle on this state- ment admitted its truth, but added:
"Miss Strudwick's statement is no argument against a realistle doll. | Wlien she was a child she probably Bad some lovely toys herself, but she remembers only those most familiar to her and thong she used for her own imaginative purposes.
"We live in an age of skill, so the child of this age must have techni cally perfect toys or be separated from the reality of his environment.
Miss Strudwick, naked to reply to this, observed:
COINTREAU
THE
F1327.
"I had not lovely toys, and did not miss them. It is a great pity that the | F1328. children of to-day do not live in a simpler age, for their own sakes, poor things!
"I notice that children who
arc
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NEW PARLOPHONE RECORDS.
Any Broken Hearis To Mend. F.T. Lovo's Old Sweet Melody. FT.
FIT.
I'm Sluping A Song For The Old Folks, Smile And Sing Your Cares Away, F.T.
THE ORGAN, THE DANCE BAND & ME. F1313, Harlem Swing, "F.T.
Swamp Fire. Q.9.
simply brought up to know the real pleasures of fresh air and the open! F1320. country are much happier than those
JOE DANIELS & HIS HOT SHOTS IN DRULINASTICKS. You're Lovely Madame. |"Stranded In Paris”.) What Have You Got That Gets Mc. F.T.
I.T.
who live in nurseries crowded with F1321. Two Sleepy People. ("Thanks For The Memory".) WT.
elaborate mechanical toys."
Girl Dances Till 2 a.in. To Pass Exams.
Stanley, Co. Durham. Few people can hope to win one scholarship at Oxford or Cam- bridge, but Joan Charlton, 18-years- old daughter of a Stanley colliery clerk, has just won two-one at euch University,
"We are at present experimenting. with other frenches 213
Regent's Park. One sertion there is being cupcicled. When we have ascer- tained the cost of concreting and roofing this specimen section, we shail to into the question of costs for the wine trench system with the Heine Office."
"Swotling before examinations is That is typical of the nititude of dangerous," she said, "When I
The oblest of the Home Office plan; but now I always go and dunce the
And on the eve of both examina- tions she danced until two in the morning.
of claim for compensation received | Council, on 20th January, inviting shows dally," she said "but if New local authorities all over the country, I younger I used to get very nervous, i
members of the League York audiences want to see what I per of destruction of their property [examine the proposals of the Cinese can do, I must give 'em my whole was to enable tocat authorities which night before." **Mr. Baller: Nearly 300 claims fortunamle asistance, His Majesty bag of tricks and two shows a daydopted it to go ahead with the work
Government for certain measures of
will be enough.”
amounts totalling over £230,000, on Government propose to make any account of destruction, contention, i response to the request of the Gracie added that Mr. Daryl damage accepted an admissible and have.
without further reference Home Office
WATCHMAN GUARDS
to
the
It was Joan's first attempt to win scholarship.
or looting, have so far been Chinese Government for asaalanet? Zauzek wanted her to stay in Holly- But focal authorities are debating "Rod" Turns Into
was determined to costs-while timbers rot and tren- bren presented to the Japanese Str. Butler: Certain proposals or woud, but she
The Chinese Government for econo-make her next two alnus in Enginud,ches cave in.
bren Governa Governmen1,
Then, if her contract
whs: enn-
Further up Prinrose 1 are other Borough Council.
Sir C. Cayzer: Can my right hon.jne assistance are under considera- Friend fuld out any hope of an early tion, but I am not able to make a tinued, she might agree to work trenches dug by order of Hampstead
Hollywood.
settlement of these claims?
Mr. Butler: My hon. Friend wil
Bew
b: aware that claims of this kind are usually settled at the end of hostili
Mr.
Butler: cannot
detailed statement at present.
CHINA AND JAPAN
"I'm afraid if I came here for gooil, Hollywood might make me halt und Mr. R. Morgan asked the Primne half and use the wrong halves," she Minister what action he has taken said.
His
A watchman stood beside them. Job was to stop children falling in-because if they had fallen in they might have drowned in the mud and water.
Hampstead Borough Council's
"The
what will be done about the tren-
Sir Henry Morris-Jones: Can my with reference to the refusal of the "Maybe Inter they'll get to know right hon. Friend give the approxi-Japanese authorities to allow goods me better; in fact they're beginning
A.R.I
sny: ciepartment mite total cost of the damage sus-to be exported from Tsingtao when to now. tained?
the exports have been fluanced "A few weeks back I felt it was council are considering the question cartwheel in the light of the Home Office re- more through foreign bankers by means useless to do splits and du than give the amount of the claims. of Chinese national currency; and for American applause. But now, if quest. It is a bit early to say yet
Mr. A. V. Alexander: What reply whether such refusal has been ex- they'll let me do my job in my own has been received from the Japanese tended to any other and, it so, what way, I'll get 'em to like me as well Government?
porta in China?
as English folks do." Me. Butler: Their receipt has
Butler: There have been been acknowledged by the Japanese cases in recent months in which the Government,
ut Tsingtao! Mfr. Thorne: Is it not true that have refused to permit exports, Japanese have made a declaru-either on the ground mentioned by tion that they will not pay com-my hon. Friend or without assign hensation for damaged property?. Ing any reason. His Majesty's Con- Mr. Butter: I should not like to sul-General at Tsingtao has made aecept such a general statement. frequent representations in the mat-
There
were
authorities Japanese authe
He Guarded Windsor Castle
Inspector Edmund Dear retired) also a number of ter to bis Japanese cullengue, who recently from his post as Metropolitan questions dealing with Japanese has pleaded military necessity as the interference with legitimate British justification for the netion taken. police chief at Windsor Castle. trade interests.
The matter has also been taken up Commander Marsden asked the by His Majesty's Ambassador Prime Minister under what rufe of Tokyo. International uw the Japanese Gov- The system of export permits has ernment are taking action to prevent recently been extended to Wellniwei Brish vessels from using the Pearl and Chefeo, where the situation years in the force and was appointed River as
the natural means of ap: being closely watched. proach to the British concession at Shameen?
Mr. Butter: The Japanese allege) that they are conducting militars operations which would be impeded, by the movements of third-party shipping.
the
any
2
Ife was formerly personal detective to the Duke of Windsor and was one of the few who knew beforehand that the Duke was to broadcast to the nation after his abdication.
Inspector Dear served twenty-six to Windsor Castle in 1934.
Sucked Under By Tons
Of Sand In A Mixer
"Half-finished trenches in St. James's Park, near the Admiralty. are railed off from the public walks. Nolice boards read: "It is dangerous logo near these trenches."
The depth of water in them is about 21. Westminster City Coun- cll Bre uncertain
their about future. They say: "Some RTE to be filled in, some are not." The counell, like other authorities. are counting the cost of making trenches permanent, They are afraid of exceeding Home
Office A.R.P. grants.
The Hoire Office circular issued on November 25 Informed local authorities that they could count on obtaining a twelve-year loan sanction for expenditure involved, including that on preliminary work, and clolm A.R.P. grants at the appropriate rate on the annual outlay,
A.R.P
expenditure, including that on trenches, is borne up to 60 per cent. by the Government and up 10 40 per cent. by the local authority.
The twelve-year loan sanction was believed to have been adopted to deal with zemi-permanent work.
RADIOLYMPIA
Commander Marsden asked the Prime Minister whether he has re- the statement from ceived Japanese Government on the ques-
WITH a doctor standing by, a gang of men worked tion of the reopening of the Yongisze River, and the inland waterways of desperately at Greenford, Middlesex, recently, to rescue
Yangisze basin to foreign ship-
a fellow-workman who was buried in 18 tons of sand in ping?
Mr. Muller: No
THIS YEAR statement Has: mixer. been received from the Japanese
There will be a Radlolympia, after Government on this subject subsc- The drama was at the works to dow. As Martindale landed the quent to the note of 14th Novem: of the Rockware Glass Syndicate, sand sucked him down and he was
The scheme for a £50,000 co- of ber, 1938. Further evidence
buried in it
operative advertising campaign to Japanese trading Un the Yangiste Ltd.
When, after an hour's work, the
CHECKING FLOW
replace it was turned down by a was communicated to the Japanese
Men rushed from all parts of the meeting of radio manufacturers Minister, for Foreign Affairs by Iftsman was renched, he was dead.
He was Richard Martindale, aged building and started to dig frantically. yesterday.
Ometals of the Radio Manufac "It was only the 'smallest chance 32, of Wellington-road, Roxeth, Hor-
that cost Martindale his life," said one furers' Association explained that the of his mates. "By an extraordinary Industry was committed to the hire of coincidence the sand started to flowlympis, so that unless the exhibition us Martindale jumped. It was as were held it would mean a financial
Majesty's Ambassador in Tokyo onj 14th January last.
Commander Marsden: In view of row. the fact that the Japanese are trad- He was in charge of mixing the ing on the river and are advertising materials for the night shift work. for passengers and goods for trans-
ships have the
"NOT A CHANCE"
all, this year.
sort, will my right hon. Friend sce In the factory vast quantities of though he was going down in quick-loss. that dur
Namo very fine sand and other materials and. He did not stand a chance." privileges?
are poured into the mixers through n Mr. Butler: That is the reason for gigantic funnel, sometimes the narrow the evidence submitted by His neck of the funnel checks the now. Majesty's Ambassador.
Usually when this occurs the man in
Imports Wild Geese
Willows, Cal.
Mr. Alexander: Are we to under-charge frees it with a long polo; some- Thirly wild geese, of half a dozen stand that the Government acquiesce times, however, it he thinks
Concrete Mixers Taxed
Celevland, O.
can different varieties, which took refuge All owners of concrete mixes and
in the holding up of British shipping; make it dow more easily he jumps on on the Spaulding wildfowl refuge tar prenders here now must take oat and are they going to do nothing the sand in the mouth of the hopper. after being wounded by hunters, automobile Bleenses, It was announ- That is what Martindale did but a have been shipped to Peter Scott, and by Chief Police Prosecutor Gerald more about it?
second before his feet touched the British ornithologist, who asked that Pilliod. The licenses cost $200 and Mr. A. Henderson asked the Primo sand, the sand freed itself and started' 60 such birds be sent him if possible. 4300.
Mr. Buller: No, Sir.
Snake
Cookstown, Australia. Bitten on the foot by a snake, Wil- liam Howard reached down for a stick with which to kill it, but the "stick" turned out to be another. snake, which bit him on the arm. Prompt Howard.
Inedical attention
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I had
paved
dona
as I was told-
I wouldn't have this nasty cold!
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KAY KYSER & HIS ORCHESTRA.
F1303. I've Got A Pocketful of Dreams, ("Sing Yon Ulaners') Q.8..
When Mother Nature Slugs. Her Lullaby. Waltz, F1301. Two Sleepy People, ("Tiunks For The Menery".)
Summer End. Q.5.
F1305. Marvellous. Tango,
6.7.7.
My Tango Dream, Tango,
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