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BOOKS

MR. H. G. -WELLS BROUGHT TO GROUND.

Charles Mes reintos a visit to H. G. Wells in these terms in the "New Republic."

"Bir. Wells was lying on his stomach.

At forai, he'd, had an armelkår. Three of us were sitting in the library of the house at Easton Cilebe, lisfiming to him discuss à new world order: Philip Gnedals, a young airman who had 'playin a part in Jean and Velung ande niysel There was aranda “just beyond Line windows,, Ti, haut, a pool We heard the view of a younger Wells, Pather, my heat "won't run ?

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REVIEWETTES.

"The Girl with the Golden Eyes. By Selwyn Jepson. (Har- rap, 7 dd),There may

be tites when it would be in- espețlient to engage a professional Thief as valet, but Mr. Jepson's

young "have gets very good value out of his criminal when in affive pursuit of the angel with the aerate orbs Fighting, love, making, food and drink are mixed by deson dinier in appeting

proportions,

"Spanish Love." By Junnila Savane dovolley Bles, 7, fal.). the of the newest of publishers introdteed an gh! friend with a new sex. . In spherol de feminine trail over this red-hal record of "The bout we some six inebes Don Pedro, the Mutuior, jul long. I derived its native Dolores Annesley, the Super- power from a clock sprłys Mir, Coolant le, Laney 1 have seen Wells went on with, his disene sim. Wo wern at a dramatic phase in the history of got The story of life and riset in a crisis in an inwense interrogation. It's very myrterions," exited the

hanita Savage' smoking a pipe in the neighbourhood of the Adelphi many a time and oft.

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BOOK EXTRACTS.

Love-And All That,

THE CHINA MAIL.

"Love is woman's best cosmetic.” "To the wise philanderer each

woman is all woman."

"Nature is full of tricks for the

The Girls Mon Peater.

I was amused to read Mrs. Russell's nuive admission that she married because she was sick of being pestered by meu.

"Dear, dear, what an interesting complaint I can think of quite a dozon women of my friendship who would be only loo pleased to

POEMS IN PROSE.

The Favour of the Moon. '

The moon, who is caprice itself, looked in through the window when you lay asleep in your cradle, and murmured to herself: "Here is a child after my own

heart."

BATURDAY, JUNE 14 1924.

"THE FIVE STARS” IN JAPANESE POETRY.

MILTON TO HIS FATHER.

subjugation of man to woman, and give their glad eyes for a week of her staircase of clouds and passed 1673), devoted his whole life to the elder Milton did not seek to

the lovers' quarrel is one of them." | "A man keeps his kisses locked away with his best cigars, and only likes to enjoy them when the mood | is tipon him.”—An Astronomer of Large by A. G. Thornton. (Melrose.)

The Perfect Knut

"Men standing about look so absurd and untidy, My dear papa was the only mau lever knew who He could stand with elegance. had a line. Frum his chin to his kner he was immensely long and enrurd ever su faintly inwards. Seated he was adroirable, and standing superb. He became bis clothesy so wonderfully that his tailor never, sent in a bill during his lifetime, though of course he clained from the estate. So did Lobb In fact, there was nothing felt when Lobb had been paid. Papa had an exquisite foot. His bigh boots were talked of in every European army."-Lady Susan and Life by Storm Jameson,

To Kiss-or Not To Kiss

*It burt'hip to look at her, to be bar inside with the longing to take ter in his arms, to be brutal

and primitive and crush her lips

and raffle her hair, and feel her "The Pipers of the Market | helpless and dishevelled and Krap Plane." By Richard Dehumid his."

voice. For I've looked at the↑ (Thornton Butterworth. 74. Gd.)—- spring, and it isn't broken," Cam- I suppose not every render knows Wails, bad given way to idlem, of] Clo~ Graves. This lady has associate! fordon, Sovereignty writted a robust story with the -And the strange thing, futher hefliest of heroines. Malvina

it.

"Why is it that some of the nicest girls, nice to look at, nice to talk to; nice to be with, are never pestered by the too-persistent attentions of the male sex?

"While others equally nice and all that are escorted from the cradle to the grave by a neve, ending procession of gents, all willing and anxious to pet, pamper, protect, and poster?

"The truth is, suspect, just magic. For want of a better name men call it the mystery aura.

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"It is that curions something which gets a woman four or five husbands in one lifetime, while her better-looking, worthier sister never gets a serious beau

Then, very softly, she descended noiselessly through the window- pane. And sho embraced you with the tender suppleness of a mother and touched your face.... with her colours. Therefore your eyes are green and your cheeks extraordinarily • púle. Because you have gazed upon her your pupils have widened strangely and the tender clasping of her arma around your neck has left you with a yearning for tears.

Nevertheless in the overflowing of her joy, the moon filled the room like a phosphoric atmos- phere, like a luminous poison; and all this living light thought and said:

The memory of my kiss shall be always with you. You shall be beautiful as I am beautiful. You shall love that which I love, and, that which loves me-water and the clouds, silence and the night, the vast and-green-ken, the formless yet multiform waters, the place where you shall never

"It is a secret light behind glad! eyes. A certain curious sense of comfort and ease about their pre-

An ever-young, roguish be, the lover sence. neas of heart. And, ob just a little dash of sauce piquante,

"Men can't keep away from them.

lot of us usk

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rule

words. But one of his three-line

It was to Thomas Young that Matsunaga Teltoka'had five chief | Milton owed-as he tells us in the disciples, known as the "Five course of this epistle-his fra Stars" This is just a little later than the time when in France taste for poetry, but that he was Ronsard and six of his fellow; able to slake his thirst for study so Pleiades. One poem must serve father is to be thanked. Persuaded poets called themselves the long and so deeply, Milton's

to represent the whole school; its author, Yasuhara Telghlsu (1610- that his son was no ordinary man, poetry, and then destroyed all of burden him with the fetters of a his life-work save three hokku profession, but allowed him to nine lines in all, or less than thirty Indulge lus genius to the full Nevertheless, from the Latin poems, and that the simplest one, has made him immortal. Basho, epistle Ad Patrem, it is clear that the greatest of all musters of he was inclined to question the hokku-writing, called it the fleest value of an excessive devotion to single hakku ever written. Yet it the Muses. In this epistle Milton is hardly more than an almost inarticulate exclamation over the puts forth an eloquent plea on Impossibility of expressing, even behalf of poetry, and foretells with' beauties of Nature. One might in poetry, any of the supreme proud conviction his own eminence call it a Japanese form of Marlowe's in the art. Sharing his father's "If all the pens that poets ever love of music-the-elder Milton- held but it is finer by its

was both composer and performer simplicity and brevity; by its very he reminds him that poetry and inadequacy of wording it expresses what it has to say, better than music are sister-arts. Marlowe by his word-mastery:

cherry bloom,

"It is no wonder,” he says, "that Oh this, oh this!

you, a musician, should have a "Far beyond words it is!

poet for a son," and then, in à of Mountain

fashion which recalls the utterance Yoshinovania.

of Horace on the same subject, be "This," as Mr. Chamberlain says, goes on to enumerate all the "resists all attempts at adequate benefits he owes to his father. He representation In English." Far cannot hope to make a recompense, whom you shall beyond words it is! The first but he will rememberthem as long

translated literally. The second line, Kure wa, kore 'wa, 1 ̧ have. and third,

never know, monstrous flowers, odours by which men become mad, cats that, stretch themselves. upon planes and cry aloud with the bourse sweet voices of women!

mean, them:

To bakari bana no Yoshino yama literally as I can render That-that is all I can say)-flower-mountain Yoshino." The third line simply nanies Monat Yoshina; but even the most

believe. as he lives. He refuses to . his father's hatred of poetry; for you never bade me," he says, "follow the beaten path of gain, in hope of my making a fortune; nor did you seek to make a lawyer of me. It was my mind you desired should be enriched; qad therefore you allowed ine to company with learning in our

deep retirement, far from the stir of cities..... "I then," he proceeds prophetically-

then, albeit lowliest of the throng

ignorant slung-dweller in Japan cannot fail to know that this is the mountain whose sides, for some few days in Spring, are one great cloud of cherry-blossom, and the at their best in all the world.

sons of song; Perhaps the slum-dweller himself Not lost obscurely, in the mass of has made. pilgrimage of two

med,

pulsion and servinde, aid Mr. 11hai Richard Dolan is in re feel his fingers on her wrists and Quan love of eating weaves are not, the woman they know one place where cherry blooms are Shall" yet be crowned amid. the

"Of course it didn't matter what he said It was his voice she wanted to hear. She wanted to the touch of his lips on her hands." They drove in silence while the sentence. I wonder what she insistently at his mind. She would

And you shall be loved by my lovers, counted by my courtiers. You shall be the queen of inen with green eyes whose necks have clasped in my nocturnal *Tu-day women, as a think all too. little of the art of caresses, of those who love the

sea, the vast; green and tumulte ous sea, the place where they rating. They neglect the bond of

riot. the unnatural flowers which between man and wife. A wedded pair with this taste in comnion are like the censurs of some un- opportunity of meeting. Sport trouble the will, and the savage

And that is why, O accursed. then religion, but what of food the emblems of their folly." Let men and women look to it that at table delicious sympathy dear and spoilt child, that is why makes them one, and marriage will I am lying at this moment at your feet, seeking to find within your cease to be a future. If they agres upon their sauces and salads, what soul the image of the fearful matter if they disagree upun ulere goddess, the fairy godmother, the questions of conduct and finance?" poisonous nurse of all who are

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aid the voir is that while it 1 Baby is declared by her son would do if I kissed ber, knocked have once a day at least a pleasant| known rite, the odours that hundred miles on foot to see them,

~ won't run forward, it runs buck-Stephen to be a "Masterpiece,"

ward as well as it ever did."

And, in the lapsolic send she be more freezing than the colour has been pronounced a closer tie and lascivious animals that are living on a little rice and water bý A soul apart, remote from vulgar.

"There are some templations į certainly is. not to be resistori. Discussion of

the new world order stopped. The "To-morrow and To-morrow." Mr. Wef's of Men Lke Coxis. By Stepiph McKenna (Thornton yielded to M

Welk

of the moonlight,' he thought, and as remote. Should he do it roughly, for the pleasure of the dis effect of her flushed and

the Batterworth, 78, 64).—The endhevelted? Or with quietinsistence of Sonia. thank heavens. Fr to see the changing expressions of Compton Mackenzie would only her face-blank surprise, followed kill off Sylvia Scarlett, then by absolute disdain." The Fir McKenna and he could start with and the Pula, by Princess Bibesco meleri sheet,

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chronicler of great invention. When I saw him again he was] lying so much in the pool that a man from Mars might have taken him for drowned.”.

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-BAUDELAIRE.

the way. Perhaps even, complete- ly illiterate as he is, he knows this poem, and its later rival, by Ryota:

But no!

I thought, "A great white cloud. I looked again, and lot

fluttering blossoms of Down

Yoshino-mountain. -Curtis Hidden Page, in "Japanese

Poetry.

.ken.

assertions

The epistle ends with reiterated ર્યાં. devotion and

these youthful verses may survive, gratitude, and the hope that even that so the name and goodness of the writer's father may be preserv ed, to be an example to others of what fatherhood should be.-Harry Christopher Minchia, in "Talks and Traits."

TAKE A LESSON, IN LOVE

AT TOP SPEED!

Are you a dizzy" lover? Can you make love at a whirlwind pace? Perhaps yol take pride in your speed as a lover. Wait until you see "The Near Lady"! It's a revelation in spred, a lesson to the proud! Here is the speediest, peppiest, host sparkling comedy romance that dainty Gladys Walton ever rullicked through. Queen of the nifty dressers, treating the men rough and making them like it, she thought herself inmune to love, until a real He-man came along! It's GREAT!

Gladijs Walton The NEAR LADY A UniVERCAL ATTRACTION

GLADYS

"THE

WALTON

IN

NEAR LADY"

ALSO

17TH ROUND OF

THE NEW LEATHER PUSHERS (Colombia The Gem Of The Ocean)

AT THE WORLD TO-MORROW.

MILESTONES

"As I pass ench milestone by That tells me of the fleeting years, And tooking back down life's highway. What memories blind my eyes with tears, A friendship inne, a love sublime, Oh! happy days when youth was mine," You-have-seen-tho-play-but-you- have not yet seen the picture Come and see the picture at the

WORLD THEATRE

Final Showing To-night.

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SCREENLAND

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.

AS AFFECTED BY CLOTHES.

CLOTHE

Murie Prevost's Views.

Do clothes affect marriage? Ask any married woman and you Will find out that they dol.

Sometimes I wish a hand of strong minded women would get together and banish Dame Fashion from our shores furever. Then perhaps there would be a chance" for individuality to take her rightful place, and women would fook like persons rather than paper dolls all cut from the same pattern.,

We lave lived through the Rapper period-and survived. For a tine it was impossible to escape the everlasting tilted hal, con- spicuous scarf and goloshes-hot 10 mention the bobbed · Harin (whether it was becoming or hot). and the short skirt, which, I am curry to say, did not conflue itself entirely to girls whose legs were straight. Right DOW struggling through, an equally trying period of long skirts and women tail and short, thin und fät, are trying again to look as much like one another as they possibly

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Scene from BRASS Warner Bros.Production

IS

LOVE ONLY

SEX INSTINCT ? ARE CHILDREN BUT PAWNS IN THE MARRIAGE GAME? Our modern social life has received no more truthful and bitter arraignment than this story of Philip Baldwin's career presents. He has his pattern everywhere you turn. Strong ia purpuse, weak in fulfilment, moral in intention, susceptible through craving affection. Society's structure topples dangerously on such weak props.

"BRASS"

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The bitter story of a marriage that glittered like gold but proved a miserable counterfeit-

WITH A WONDERFUL CAST

headed by

MONTE BLUE and MARIE PREVOST

FRANK KEENAN

HARRY MYERS

MISS DUPONT

TRENE RICH

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GLADYS WALTON,

Forsakes Manicuring for Golf.

circles, but whose fortune is not so good of late.

The family dads and mothers meet and each sees in the other alleviation to present difficulties. A chapter of life's social code Is picturized at the World Theatre it was a crass thing to do, but one in "The Near Lady," a Universal must have results, so all hands in feature in which Gladys Walton is the parentage ring pointed to their children and indicated that a starred.

The story has as a basis a plan It was a barter pure and simple, a marriage would facilitate the plan. whereby a family well planted in

the Blue Book of society could berth in society for the bolstering. retain its rating when the bank up of a diminishing bank account. account dropped below par and It was "you cover my margins whereby another family of weak and get you in the Whoozis

club." social rating but with quantities of newly acquired wealth could attain the upper rounds of the soctul

ladder:

while. Then each of the young

that come between married people, and was known for the smartness Why don't women dress to suit More aften it is the petty little and good taste she showed in their own personality? As there | everyday things that get so on a dressing herself. She married and cannot possibly be a single style person's nerves that they even though her husband supplied her that will become everybody alike, tually lead to divorce. And divorce with adequate sums, she no longer the 'clever woman will choose a

is becoming more and more a com- took the interest she formerly lad gown, sulted to her type and become mon happening. My part in my In looking well and went around a personality.

latest picture, Brass, the Warner the house with her hair untidy and Why is it that the married Brothers classic of the screen wearing unbecoming house dresses woman so often allows herself to adapted front Charles Morri nove! Alter the divorce the wife resumed slump with the ending of the honey-dealing with the question of mar berbusiness career and incidentally moon? It has happened so often mige nad divorce the latter eupe the way of dressing she had before that it has come to be one of the cially, has made me think a great her marriage. Her husband fell most familiar tales told in the deal about the subject. As a rule in love with her again and after divorce courts. No wonder so when a man deserts his wife and an ardent courtship they were many men become dissatisfied with fireside the world condemns him. remarried. "But this time on a their wives when they allow them In many instances were the real different basis, for the min con- selves to get frumpy and old be- truth known it would condemn the fided in her his reason for neglect. fore their time. A man I know wife instead. One of the most fre- | Ing her, and you may be sure she makes a million dollars. The cast his rescue and well-a wild ride, quent accusations made by men won't make the same mistake Otis Harlan being especially good police court, a fifty dollar fine, a

very concisely expressed his views in an instance of this kind.

"Why shouldn't I get divorce ¿.*

he demanded. "The woman who is

against their wives is that twice. they haven't kept up the way

The he is developed from 2 comedy angle, made particularly funny by the titles, and has a usual entertainment value.

Miss Walton is very attractive

The action carried through for a

persons got the idea that to carry out the plan would mean a broken

man pretended to get drunk at a heart to the other, so the young club luncheon, the object being to give the girl a logical excuse to as the little manicurist who deserts break off the engagement. But he guessed wrong, The girl had the barber shop for the gulf course fallen in love with him and when when her dad's sausage machine arrest threatened she jumped to

is well balanced, Kate Price and

the action-against-the-ultimasto-oute-

"Brass" will be shown at the in the rules on the parents of the marriage, fade-out. For, of course,

manicurist, Their action is vir he loved her, too.

At heart neither family liked they should but have allowed them. World Theatre she can, tually all light comedy. Jerry Gen-such procedure, but balzaced the selves to slump. Why should aro Monte Blue, Frank Keenan, a man be satisfied with wife Helen Ferguson, frene Rich, Harry dron does good work as

leading man.

come and "pretended” to enthuse who dresses worst than the poorest Myers, Miss Dupont, Pat O'Malley,

Veer bewter Harvey Clark, Mar-The-action-contres-around the over-it. The outcome wasn't--all old girl in lus onze 7

garet Seddon and Edward Jobcon. manicurist and the only son of the that it should have been, but it The picture was produced by family of the Van Bibbers, who works out.well.

Fast action and splendidly acted. Harry Rapf and it was directed by have long been among those

present in society's most solact↓ Wall worth, whilo. Sidney Franklin,

my wife in nor the girl I married. She is careless about herself and looks years older than I do and before we were married she was so charming that I took atmost pride Very recently a young couple in introducing her to all my were divorced. Before. her mar friends as the girl I was to marry." riage the wife had been a business It isn't always the great big thing | elri earning a very good salary,