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WEDNESDAY, JUNE IT 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
"Went off like an
Madame Seelt, the celebrated}" PHRASES árrow," "straight medium, arrived in New York THAT WILL as a dart," by the "Morganatic" and WIL NEVER DIE. straight as a met by Prohibition agents who
die,"
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A sensation was caused at Dingle mayoress, who has beeh beused. Under Dell by the arrest of the of poaching eggs.
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Forging is becoming very pre- valent, among blacksmiths in the Midlands.
who feel keenly in such matters has this satisfaction: that in the decade and more which has gone, there, was evidence of that striving after theatre right- cousness which, in spite of the perfection of the production of "Saint Joan," has yet to reach its ultim- ate height. No matter what was attempted whether a comedy of the type of "I'll Leave it to You" a hunter." Who would ever think a modern conception of "The of coining these phrases now as a Tempestor those things of result of his own experience? colour "Kismet" and the Dunsany Then take all the plays there was brought to bear similes derived from the beasts
common on every production a. well
as ugly as a toad," "as hungry thought out scheme; an intense as a hawk." "as sleepy as an owl," practical enthusiasm.
"as merry as a lark," and a
as sulky devotion to duty that carried 48 a bear," and so forth. All conviction and imbued his these the townsman, who repre colleagues to a remarkable degree,sents nowadays so large a propor To Д perfect knowledge of ton of the population, repeats stagecraft, there was allied a per-knowledge at recond-hand.
glibly, but he is taking all his Wiliam Choppin, a workman fect knowldege of actingan have had a hundred years of rail- the River Dee, has been arrested- We engaged In road-making beside almost uncanny perception of the ways, but how few expressions has for breaking into the bank. finer points of the thing being popular speech borrowed from produced. It will be seen that them. "Off the rails," "fullsteam Mr. Sinclair brings to his duties ahead," and possibly, but doubt at the Hart Theatre, Toronto, fully, "express speed" are all that considerable experience and en- readily occur to one. *thusiasm. There will go with mechanical age bring in new pro- Will the him the best wishes of those who verbial expressions? Will our sons find in the art of the theatre talk of "noisy as an atmospheric, entertainment and education and drunk as a skidding car," or who believe it still has a mission cheery as a char-a-bane"? WIL in life. Our University has its the phrases slip out in ordinary own problems to solve and the conversation just as we might say. day may not be yet for a Chair "cheery as a cricket," even though of Dramatic Art. The time may
we very seidons now either hear or come when such a thing will be see crickets It seems unlikely. a matter of practical politics. If 80 we trust its first occupant may be Mr. W. Sinclair.
Why Juries?
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LAST 2 WEEKS.
MARGOT ASQUITH AS A TRAVELLER.
never have a true sense of pr portion. It is enormously to the credit of the American publio that they have never chosen a man of bad character for a President. THE BUNNY SPAINISH SHOHE. She found in 1923 that the pro-
There is health in fox-hunting, and even shooting tirea idle men, which ensures a certain morality. A good many qualities are brought out in riding straight across a big country, and a fox always has B chance to escape. like reynard to her, but when Mr. Most of her quarry are, indeed. Lloyd George is in the ring she, is
done in due course. The Chinese issues be argued and decided by Government must be
Reviewing "Places and Persons, held legal minds, certain in the belief by Margot Asquith, Countess of responsible for the murder owing those most intimately concerned. writes in the Sunday Times" that of the justice that will fall to Oxford and Asquith, J. M. Bulloch to their utter inability to keep An incident has occurred at as Margot Asquith-it is awkward Home which it is felt brings the to give her her title and inaccurate The British Note to China injury system into a little disrepute, to call her Mrs.can always say respect of the Hankow riots points and seems to prove that precon- with Ulysses, "I am a part of allgress of America is not so interest- out that "the responsibility does to weigh more with a jury than is much more than a record of though she could not bring herself ceived views or feelings are likely that I have met," ber new booking as the backwardness of Spain,** not rest upon the British authori- are the unquestioned facts of a travel, while it is less a memoir to see the backwardness of the ties who were unable to obtain case. The incident was in re-than its immediate predecessors. bull-ring. Her refusal gave her a prompt and adequate protection prominent member of the Com-made to Egypt vis Italy in 1891, to quoque argument about bunting:
lation to the kidnapping of a It consists of jettings on journeys chance to answer the usual tu from the Chinese authorities, and munist party at Home by five America in 1922, Spain in 1923, and were obliged to act for them- British Fascists.
The facts of Italy in 1924, with some 'redec- 'selves.' There is absolutely no
the case were not seriously dis- tione upon life as I see it in 1925'' parallel in the Mackenzie murder. dragged from a railway train, it all runs the authentic Margot, puted. The Communist was by way of epilogue. But through The assassins were not attacked. forced into a motor ear, driven intensely alive, and with a far They were in no danger of being away, and detained for a night. deeper understanding than is usual- attacked or even menaced. They quite clear that in the eyes of call eschatology, for even in 1891 In summing up the judge made it ly supposed of what the theologians could see by their flashlights who British law each individual is she wrote:-"I never forget death, the occupants of the car were. entitled to justice. Yet in spite not for one moment of the day." picador, toreador, and matadr And they proceeded with their of this "hint" and the facts of the Behind and beneath all her flutter combined, for, all forgetful of her dastardly work, Mitigating
case the jury, after an absence ng gaiety, which scintillates with usual artistic detachment, ahe even circumstances BLANCH-At Home. Mr.
of twenty minutes, brought in a sides thus she tells us incidental tells the stray Frenchman from were entirely verdict of "not guilty" and the de-y that she took dancing lessona whom she bought fruit and sweete Norman F. Blanch, unt!! absent. The only course open to fendants were discharged. It is from Letty Lind-there is always in Paris on her way back from three or four years ago, Far the British and other foreign probable that the incident may be an idea and sometimes an awed Madrid, that his absence of prin- Eastern General Manager of Powers is obvious.
considered a huge joke, so re- note, as when she says of the ciple, incapacity for straight deal- Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd. (By Cable).
The people at Home are fully Communists views; but the fact by seeing the Colosseum: "The foreign affairs bad brought dazzl garded by jurymen with anti-pellbound wonder created in her ing. and pathetic ignorance of conversant with the facts of the remains that the jurymen waived earth seems to have sighed so deep ing career into seclusion. ugly situation in China, as is the legal aspect of the matter in that she shook off all her acidic topicality of the anger jars borne out by the Press comments coming to their decision, which ornaments."'
in a book which has claims far on the British Note to the Chinese has been described as a "serious out the characteristics in herself absence from, the index seenis to At almost every stop she brings beyond mere journalism, and its Government in regard to the such incidents as this mar the re- when she reached Cairo, and still and disquieting occurrence. "No
This spirit was particularly roused show that the writer feels the same. Hankow riots. The British Charge cord of local jurymen; but those more when she struck the desert provocative of the remark that there The visit to Italy last year- It is difficult to see how the
d'Affaires states that he has who have sat as such and listened wanton murder of a British sub-
"repeatedly warned the Chinese
for hours "to various CrO98- examinations and summings-up, ject, Mr. Mackenzie, in Shanghai,
Government of the grave and have gone to a room with a can further the ends of the responsibility it is incurring by conglomeration of facts and students, rioters, and strikers. In
allowing the present anti-British doubts, would doubtless be glad to fact, it can only have the opposite The Chinese Government must be very irksome.
agitation to proceed unchecked."
be relieved from a duty which can be at times very onerous and effect, for it will most undoubtedly stiffen the determination of the
made to shoulder that responsi- Municipal Council to reject all shirks it in the slightest degree bility from first to last. If it manner of compromise. Further-
it must be answerable for the more, it will strengthen the Powers in the stand that they consequences. There is a limit to have taken against Bolshevist-
the tolerance and patience of the inspired mob rule in the Inter-
Powers. And it must appear to national Settlement.
many that that limit has been! Taking the fact as cabled by
reached in the wanton murder of Reuter there is not one solitary Mr. Mackenzie in Shanghai. feature justifying the use of arms
Hongkong. Wednesday, June 17, 1925.
WANTON AND COLD- BLOODED.
against a defenceless British sub-Walter Sinclair. ject engaged in the very innocent It was the senior Chaplain of occupation of taking a motor drive the Cathedral who, after seeing with a young lady.
There was "Saint Joan" suggested that a absolutely nothing bearing the University might well be in- Chair of Dramatic Art at the slightest semblance to a state of stituted and that Mr. Blaclair emergency, as was the case when might become its first occupant. the mob forced back the Police There was no response to that toward the Police Station on May gestion. Hongkong, in a collec original and clear-sighted sug- 30. No term can adequately tive sense at any rate, has no describe it except wanton, cold-artistic fealings. It could not see blooded, brutal, unprovoked, far from being utopian_and
that the suggestion premeditated murder.
that as it had The facts of the
about it case are so an Immense potentiality for simple that any other conclusion and apart from its artisti sighi-
quite impossible. The Britial
fcalice, Toronto now claims Mr Consul General bas
word protest Civil Governor and
Cumml
This of course, is
WAS
The
If I were surrounded by the is something in the quality of atone right colouring and allowed to in Rome which makes it look like read and make love in the sun, I course linen of the time of Queen could be intensely happy. I was Elizabeth"-is chiefly interesting born out of doors, but, though a for her encounter with Mussolini, gipsy in some ways. I knew no with whom she spoke in French. one upon whom dirt, ugliness, Having seen many "pocket Nepo- discomfort, and unpunctuality leons," she decides that he is a jar so much. A mixture of city "very rare man".- clerk, a post office woman, and a wandering circus giri.
SEEING AMERICA.
No one can doubt that Musso- lini, in spite of fundamental de- fects, has done great things for Italy. My fear for him would- be that, like all converts or per- verte, his new Faith may make- him forgetful of his old and this. is a great danger,
强
have received advices from Messrs. Messrs. Donnelly and Whyte, Wm. Gaymer and Son Ltd., stating 1899, her mother, who had accom
When she left Egypt in January, tract for the supply of their Cyder Charlotte, afterwarde Lamily Ribbles that they have secured the con- panied her, said of her sister to the Hongkong Favilion at the dale: "I believe if she had to British Exhiblilon, Wembley.
go to New York to-morrow morning A Chinese. was found dead in
she would pack up and be quite Winglok Street last night with ready to start. It took Mrs. obiter dicta-though she says that,
The book is so saturated with soms electric wire entangled round day to start for the Statue of that one could quote from it by the
Asquith exactly thirty years to a brilliance. always exhausts her his body. The man is believed to Liberty, only to find, after a whirl-column. Here are some typical have been electrocuted by coming wind tour of thirteen woeke, that examples:→
in contact with fallen wires.
TO-DAYS SMILE.
in spite of the generosity and kindli ness, there is an "undercurrent of illiberalisus und ferocity" in the United States. Her tour there is too recent, to be recounted in detail.- As in everything she writes, there is an astonishing amount of frank- ness about her, observations even to the extent of recounting her failures on the platform-which should offeud. no one who thinks seriously of things, though she is quite conscious that Americans are "nationally vain." Here are some of the "refactiona'' -
The ingrained ides that, because there is no King, and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is perpétal interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated heer
have viated
MARGOT MOTs.
Nothing devours time like regularity of life...
Italian music is insultingly obvions and. hna no argument whatever..
It is difficult problem, this "matter of life, but I am sure you. must face ideals and not fidget with them People should be a aludy, Pleasure an interruption. Work a consolation, and Hope a duby.
I have no doubt that if Christ were to come down on earth; t morrow He would be exposed to a more modern form of crac
The joy and hope of life bol the foot of the children. IfN through
fight evere ins
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