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The hero whose experiences in Rome form the subject matter of this book found himself on an afternoon in April long years age, loitering by the Fontana delle Tartarughe and looking stupidly at the boys and the tortoises and the dripping water with a wish in his mind for something more. But what? He had drifted hither and thither about Rome, from the Gate of the People to the Baths of Caracalla drifted day after day in his solitude through a month of April, more divinely blue and golden than the first spring-days of the world; and whether he was in the body or out of the, budy he scarcely knew, for he moved in a great bubble of Imagination that and never known the like of in all the years (perhaps twenty) of his life before he came to Rome, And yet he was wishing that same thing would break into his solitude and his dream.
That same night Deering takes the hero to dine at the Trattoria deOce, an eating house near the Vatican "not geographically near but under its spiritual shadow." There they meet Cooksey, a volatile British bounder, turned Papist and provided with a sarall post at the Vatican. Cooksey who, according to Deering, called all the cardinals by their Christian names. "A pour degenerate lot," Cooksey explained the College has gone to pieces very badly. All exemplary lives they rett me and not one who would poison a fly, let alone a guest at his own table."
THE CHINA MAIL.
lineage and resident in Roma, globe-trotters and authoresses, a Russian boarding house keeper, on English family from Bournemouth and others. Fro each DOW acquaintance there radiates a new range of experience and impres sion. The book 'is exceedingly good reading, Je analyses with amazing subtlety but contains not one single word et mulevolence. The general effect la a series "of delightful pictures which become the reader's sure possession,
SATURDAY APRIL 20, 1984
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higher helps men to reach levels of which they would otherwise be incapable, one good example | Reads almost like literature Husbands.There is an old being the inspiration of Nelson to just as jazz might be mistaken story of a bride, who, as she was
for music.
his fleet," -
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whole company by taking notes of the lecture on a little pad scrawling down words like "re publican (said to be)" and "(?) Etruscan," which we all tried to read. Julia listened fervently, her lips moving in the effort to ship get the message of the paving- | philosophers to evoke from com- stone by heart; and the monplace men the latent good in message ran on, ca un, now them, to Awaken their dormant translated from the ancient book, powers and to lift them to loftier now poured forth at an amazing planes. The lower cannot realise rate in the exposition of the Pro- their full possibilities without the fessor.
it all came finally higher. As at present we badly back to the stone on which Mr.need a religious genius we must Ram was trying to twist himself create an atmosphere fa which he into a tolerable attitude, without cad breaths, spoiling his trousers. "Ah," Very arresting is the account of exclaimed Julia uncontrollably, "the holiest man whose death "how one feels it on the very drove his message home as fifty spot!" Mr. Ram seemed to think years more of life could never so too; he raised himself, rueful-have done,"
N: B. ly inspecting the damp green traces it had left on the spot,
[Mother World, By Sir Francis The Professor dived again into Younghusband, K.C.SI, K.C.I.E.,] his book like a man possessed.”
("Roman Pictures" by Percy Lub. back-Jonathan Cape, London.]
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Take for example the description of the seminarist (his name Maundy) who had written a great deal of poetry at Oxford and had kept an old silver oil lamp burning AN ENGLISHMAN IN ROME. her weak cockney vowel-tones, night and day before a Greek He had also, while at the looked forlorn and wan after statuette. all, a child over-tired and not far Oxford, had his dressing-table from tears." Bannock and "Jaff" draped with an embroidered worshipped Deering, who sat, god-rochet and his favourite books like and aloof in a cultivated bound in apricot final, and he had collected thirty-five different attitude of flower frailty, sipping kinds of scented soap. Ho some vivid pink liquor with a languid air. his fair hand (which appeared to consider these achieve. he thought resembled Botticelli's mints as natural stages on the toying with a rosetipped cigarette, path to Rome: and be hailed the hero as one who would possibly
MOTHER WORLD: understand what it meant to hlo
This is written by the famous to have once, in an eating-house of Soho, been introduced to Aubrey traveller that men may have in fuller measure not only the love of Beardsley.
Miss Julia Turnbull who had their own country but the love of spent a fortnight at Assisi and the world-the ecstasy of life. The "the heart of language is very simple, but the thus attained to things Franciscan" collects a intensity of feeling makes the Inst the Forum for the chapter-The Christ that is to be party in purpose of showing off Professor almost rhythmical
Younghusband holds that faith Minchin-a man of European re-
man for whom in the lovableness of the world putaion and a Juila had "one of the frankest and should be our true mainstay in life. most gurgling of passions." Most Unless mea trust the world (ie. of the
Professor's lecture is God) they will either idle through life in a half-hearted way, or be delivered in a pit orcleft.
"Mind the tail of your skitt, Į active in a 'wrong-headed manner Mrs. Rollesby" cried Julia, and so do incalculable harın.-
Men Krowing heated; there's room Stress is laid on Unity. for Kathleen at this end, out of have their antagonisms and dislikes the puddle; wait, Professor, and hatreds but all the time soine- wait- want Mr. Ram to hear where deep down at the base they this really Mr. Rain, if you are irrefragably united! The op- crouch you can easily get in " position of inen to one another may ... It wasn't the best situ be necessary for preserving their tion for a classical lecture, and individuality. It may be to the Mr. Ram, splashing in the eventual benefit of both sides, as puddle, sighed faintly in good forcing out of each some latent Italian. "Her Famor di Dio hegood and toughening and refining murmured; he was very help it for hard use in the world. But less, and the girl called Kathleen' this opposition does not endure like seized him with a manly am unity, and is not fundamental. No and set him to rights on his single thing or person in the
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is completely scuffling, entire universe apologizing, we wedged our Isolated, all cohere together in a selves about the lecturer-with firmly united whole. A thing sudden changes of pressure may seem to have sharp edges, when Mrs. Rollesby leaned and cutting it definitely off from the pered over her capacious bosom world. In reality it is floating in to see what was happening to an atmosphere of influence from her skirt. Under the Professor's the encircling, whole which sur elbow sat a bewildered maiden rounds it. with a pulled-out neck like a hen's, and she distracted the
Then Cooksey takes the hero to see a ceremony at St. Peter's, Suddenly Deering passes across the square-Deering whom the ceremony attended by a surging hero had not seen since they were crowd of pilgrims. They climb at school together, but who had be on to a kind of scaffold in the pilgrims ffirong come, su Ruman that he could hard-choir.
beneath, but ly frame his lips to the uncouth and noises of the northern Goth- Deering wiw knew the real Rome and would hate the hero out of the sentimental twilight into the broad Doon of reality.
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The thicken they seem, far away turnirons confusion from the dozen of Bu spectators on the scaffold. But suddenly a middle- aged lady, a member of the scaffold A first stage on the path of initia-party, throws up her hand and strange tion ends in a café with plush seats cheers-cheers with a and huge mirrors painted with uncertain, bird-like pote which Sprays of climbing water lies. shockingly embarrasses the rest of There they meet Mr. Batinock- the pany. an Anierican opera singer with hard masculine pride and no professional engageme..tsalsu Mr. Jaffrey, an Englishmanas English as Peckham Rye" who danced for his living, and Edna, his sweetheart who danced also for hers. Edna coxxed and blandish ed Deering discreetly," and, even as she piped her childishness in
perch. Discreet ladies, black- veiled as they all were, sitting around her on the scaffold, look rigidly in front of them; and the poor enthusiast subsides, as best she can blushing and effacing herself
The hero nieets an English Jesuit, a young Oxford convert who had become a seminarist, an aristocratic English lady of ancient
Very clearly does the the author show how the influence of the
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It requires high spiritual leader- The heroine, six years a chorus changing into her travelling dress,
of salats, poets, girl, and still an ingenue.
turned to her maiden aunt, and The principal male, gilded, said: titled, but no hero, only discards
"Oh, auntie, how can I make apron- his saintly mother's.
age. sure that Horace will always be strings on coming of Prompted by youth and the as good and kind and lovable as springtime, he sees and covets he is now? How can I hold his the chorus girl, but is too fresh to understand any but the honour-affection and love?" able method of securing ponses- "Feed the brute," snapped the sion.
old lady. Now this is perhaps The colourless playwright, be vulgar, but it is undoubtedly the heroine, but saved from marriage truth. A good dinner will turn by his frequent failures, la still the roaring, raging lion into a condemned to be unstrung and aweet-tempored and docile lamb. unsung by want of the filthy lucre No man, I care not who he may be, necessary to launch his magnum nor of what nationality, can fall
Pub. Williams and Norgate.
trothed to the ever faithful
opus.
"THE GLEN O' WEEPING." The heroine's candid female, to fall to the blandishment of a mentor, who cynically guages the "swarrie," and for those unre- The story of the Glencoe financial possibilities of the generate ones who despise Magnacre and the events immedi-wealthy but witless baronet's in- Dickens, perhaps it might be well Lately preceding it.
fatuation for her reluctant pupil."'
The bearers of historical names
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The modern flapper, of noble to remind them that in Pickwick move easily and familiarly across family, who despises sentiment Papers a soiree is described by the pages, and we are given and addresses her high born "Old Blazes" as "biled leg o' insight into the maze of plots and mother as "Trotty" but who mutton and caper sauce." Thers. conspiracies which had for their finally convinces the spring stir- object the restoration of the red baronet that he has travelled may be those who say that they Stuarts by the elimination of far afield to find what was already do not like "biled leg o' mutton William of Orange,
at his elbow.
and caper sauce," but I can only, While not entirely removing the Forty-eight hours covers the reply that if such be the case, they odium of this wholesale murder. entire action of the story, which the brilliant authoress thrown is well enough told to be readable have never had it properly cook- upon it a dew and plausible light. Retrospect, however, fails to reed. Mark ye, it is a man's dish, which goes far towards palliatiny veal any one strong point either in just as a lark's tongue fried in the net as a political necessity characters or plot, Unfortunately for the memory of
honey, is a woman's, and yet there -W. F. Bradshaw. are some of the superior sex who William II. his contemporary
[Apron Strings. Richard | cannot resist it. historians are very definite and Marsh., John Long, 2-] emphatic in their statements, so we can all the more admire ther imaginative ingenuity of novellats,
the honourable Jacobites. The debauche Duke of Berwick,
*Eating without Fears,' by
· G. F. Scotson-Clark..
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Letters from Soldiers' Wives":
'Sir,In accordance with your
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'Sir, in answer to your letter have given birth to twins. Hop- ing this will be satisfactory.
'Sir, Just a few lines to say owing to your delay in sending money we have not a morsel of food in the house. Hoping you are the same."
As in "The Viper of Milan," natural son of James I., although there is no hero or heroine, and afterwards vietor of Almanza, is instructions on my paper I have the personal theme is always sub- but a strident neneatity, The given birth to a daughter on the ordinate to the historical, without | unfortunate Macdonalds of 21st of April.' any abatement of the romantic Glencoe, barbaric and primitive interest, Most of the minor actors thieves whose almost merited in the narrative are deleted befor slaughter was coupled to the failure of the Darien Schere, and the fall of the curtain.
The two outstanding characters cast as an obloquy on the reign are the Master of Stair, Secretary of a well meaning but much mis for Scotland, and the Countess of understood king. Breadalbane, both of whom are The book throbs with incident. unplacable, unscrupulous and un-and is well worth the attention of awerving in pursuit of their the great majority of readers who object. The Earls of Argyll and prefer the dull medicine of historie Breadalbane are outwardly loyal, fact to be coated with romantic but cautiously keep a foot in sugar. either camp. Sir Perseus Feather- stonehaugh, his sister Delia, and ["The Glen o' Weeping." Mar- Jerome Caryl are violent but jorie Bowen. John Long 2/- net.]}
-W. F. Bradshaw.
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Sir, send you a marage sertificate, but you only sent six back, there were seven, but one died, her name was Fanny, and he was baptized on half a sheet of notepaper by Revered Thomas."
'Quotable Anecdotes,' by G. B. Knox.
WARNER BROS
Classic of the Screen
"WHERE THE
NORTH BEGINS"
Featuring
BIN TIN TIN
THE FAMOUS POLICE DOG HERO,
SCREENLAND
ROY STEWART.
Coming Soon In New Play.
"Pure Grit," the Universal Western feature starring Roy Stewart which comes next Sunday to the World Theatre, presents the most cowardly man in the world. Two men had escapes from a penitentiary. To all appearances they were pals, mutually, of course, for their own protection. Their interests were a common bond of companionship, their destination the same, Mexico
But their natures were differ- ent, one was the natural criminal, the other a victim of circum- stances. The victim of circum- stances made the great mistake of placing trust in his fugitive com- panion.' He displayed a letter which was to identity him with his sister, a school teacher in the Texas wilderness, whom he had not seen since they both were
"A CHAPTER IN HER LIFE."
LOVE ADVENTURE.
"Where the North Begins."
Applied
psychology hardly sounds dramatic-but it all de- pends on what the word "applied"
As a means.
case in point-
The survival of the fittest in o* there's "A Chapter in Her Life," hollow phrase when applied to the big Universal production show civilized beings, but it applies with ing for the last time to-night at a vengeance to the people living in the World Theatre, and one of the the far north spaces, hundred of outstanding features in picture-miles from the nearest, outposts of dom to-day. It's all psychology....... applied in a series of engrossing civilization, according to events that make a play gripping-Hartigan, the screen actor. ly real, intensely satisfying, and Mr. Hartigan has lived in the totally different from anything northern reaches of Alaska, and
therefore knows speaks.
the screen has ever seen.
Clara Louise Burnham's cele- brated novel, "Jewel," is the basis of the play, and from it Lois Weber has scenarized and directed a masterpiece. One critic said it was not a play at all--that it was "a silce of life transferred to the screen." The expression is apt the picture actually does live-one fancies one is looking into the very souls of living people.
whereof he
"Up there, far from law,' a man's spunk or yellow streak in "There, brought out," he says the phrase.survival of the fittest ceases to be a more scientific phrase to explain evolution, or a facile way of explaining a man's "A Chapter in Her Life" is a success. Why I've seen men, tall' lesson in happiness. It tells the and brawny and self-conndest story of a simple child, placed in a come out there and show them. home torn by family discord. How she not only overcomes an selves mere children; while I've environment of hate, but, through also seen fellows who have been That trust broke the bond of her own steadfast faith in ideals, considered by others and them- companionship and revealed the succeeds in turning the hate to selves, failures, come out there,. cowardly and criminal nature of love, is told simply and human. and redeem themselves." The for the man in whom the trust was Whimsical humour lights it north, glamorous with odd types, placed. Watching his chance, he there are more laughs than tears. adventures, gold diggers, outcast, deliberately shot his companion The cast is splendid. Claude meu tired of living effete lives, is Gillingwater, as the hate-corroded the setting for, the outstanding But in Texas there are rangers millionaire grandfather, plays an picture announced by the World who have a peculiar faculty of excellent character part. Little Theatre This "Where the North uncovering just auch crimes. The Jane Mercer, latest child. luminary Begins," a Warner Brother
children.
for the letter.
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HERE'S A TREAT FOR
LOVERS OF ROMANCE!
A real treat is in store for lovers of romantic' acreen entertainment next Sunday, the 27th Inst.
when "PURE GRIT”, a Universal picture, starring "ROY STEWART”, will be shown at this theatre. "Pure Grit" is a combination of pure, unalloyed romance, excitement, love-interest and thrills such as only the big, open-space of the West ca give. "Pure Grit" teems with the conflict of rugged, two-fisted men, hard riding, daring stunts. You will enjoy Roy Stewart's romantic... characterization of a Texas ranger, and follow his fight with Dave Struve, the Western desperado, with breathless interest. Don't miss this stirring and eventful outdoor romance !
WORLD THEATRE.
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HUMAN SOULS BARED TO
TEACH A GREAT TRUTH !
The great novel which forms the basis of this picture becomes a living, breathing reality under the sure deft direction of Lois Weber. She has guided the seething cross currents of its surging passions and quivering desires to their triumphant denouement, making it a bit of life itself.
Here is a picture that bares human souls to teach a great lesson, and it does just that in an engrossing and fearless fashion. It runs the whole gaunt of human emotions-it will give you more than a passing thrill or laugh. Grippingly real, intensely satisfying and totally different from anything you have ever seen before.
WITH A TREMENDOUS ALL-STAR CAST
"A CHAPTER IN
HER LIFE
Showing for the last time to-day at the WORLD THEATRE
fact that a ranger was in love with of the screen, lives her part. Her classic of the screen, is the story J. the school teacher who was in due wistful appeal is charming-and of two men's fight to gain possci- tima presented with the letter real.
sion of a girl's heart, the one by from the long lost brother, lessen- Among the standard playere true love, the other by guile and dog bred among the wolves from with Gabriel and appropriate ed to a considerable degree the who fill good roles competently are brute strength.
puppyhood, he comes on the scone Felice McTavish, to himself. criminal's chance of carrying out Jacqueline Gadsden, Frances Ray- It is a fast moving tale of the in time to find Gabriel Dupree, the A fine cast of players has been his scheme.
mond, Robert Frazier, Eva That- frozen north, told amid tall pines trapper, left for dead by the out-assembled for the roles: Claire- * "Pure Grit" is a film version of cher, Ralph Yearsley, Fred Thom- and for reaching stretches of laws; his first impulse is to attack Adams, Walter McGrail, Pat William MacLeod Raine's famous sori and Beth Rayon.
snowy waste, along which range a the wounded man, but his second Hartigan, Myrtle Owen, Charles Western novel, "The Texas Scenically the play is no whit gang of outlaws responsible for is to befriend the victim. Later, Stevens and Fred Huntley. The Ranger," directed by Nat Rosa,behind its artistle casting and the lives of half a dozen traders. he helps further the romance and direction is by Chester Franklin In the cast are Esther Holston, acting. Some beautiful exteriors Rintintin, the famed police dog, thwart the well-apun intrigue by who also collaborated with Fred Jack Mower, Jero Austin and are taken on a famous California is the pivot around with much of which Shad Galloway, the factor Kennedy Myton on the origins! Verna Winter
estate
tha tanga mation revolves." da a) of the camp, hopes to de away I story.
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