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WHAT FAMOUS BARRISTENS EARN.

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AT THE QUEEN'S.

"THE SPORTING CHANCE" TO-DAY ONLY.

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CLOSED ON SUNDAY. OLD LONDON CHARM | TWO YEARS' SILENCE. A “SYZYGY " MOON.

VISITORS WHO MISS HISTORIC PLACES.

LONDON AN OPEN DAY.

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RETURNED TRAVELLER'S

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LOST CHARACTERS,

In London, losing its age-old charm?

A London-born man who is re visiting the city for the first time after 30 years in Australia writes to the "Daily Mail" declaring that in his opinion it is.

London has lost the quaint characters who is open on

made London and made Charles Dickens the writes). Their passing has made all the difference.

"The Sporting Chance" shows one of the most realistic race track нcenes ever witnessed on the screen. There can be few lives as strena-After watching the events that' Many foreign visitors who have, OUR 18 a. auccessful barrister's lead up to this big scene it is un-only a limited time in England are There is a superstition, however, likely that there is a person in the expressing regret that so many that princely fortunes can be made theatre who will not be on his or places of historic interest are open easily at the Bar, but the truth is her toes until, the climax of the only on week-days, and that conse- that money is more hardly earned

atene is reached.

quently Sunday is a lost day for in the Temple than anywhere else,

Another novel effect introduced them when they are touring. and there are few incomes which

Sulgrave Manor, Northampton-

home can compare to that of a big mer. "The Sporting Chance" is a pony

the ancestral chand or industrialist, writes

race staged in a ball room, the shire,

Washington, Barrister. Some put

ponies ridden by a bevy of beauti- George Sir John

ful Hollywood maidens. This is a Sunitays, but, ns a "Daily Mail" Simon's

professional earnings ЕГОВА as high as £60,000 year, anil

he new twist in filming entertainment correspondent pointed out recently, and is many American tourists who go to fore Sir Douglas Hogg took office in rich men's m....sions

Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick are it is known he ran Sir Johnsrather cleverly introduc.. very close.

Bat these two Titans The story tells of the lov of a disappointed when they find the stand quite alone. Their incomes wealthy sportsman who overstepped chief places of interest closed, are easily the greatest earned at the the bounds of speculation and finds Bur. Sir Edward Clarke's best himself in financial difficulties. He year was £20,000. But this does thinks his daughter will marry the ton Court can be seen on Sundays a young im from 2-6 p.m., while the gardens not mean that a corresponding in- sporting man but erense prevails through the pro-pecunious but handsome Southern-are open on that day from 8 n.m. * fession. The present is a notori-fer who has entered his horse in 'a ously lean time for the field.

famous race meets the girl and the

Two decades ago there were jusual complications follow. number of great advocates who The picture as a whole is put on could be said to stand in the "front in a rather extravagant manner runk." But after Lord Carson went with a cast including Lou Tellegen to the Lards the front rank con-who is seen in the part of the vil sisted of Simon and Hagg.

Han, Dorothy Phillips as the hero-

WORLD THEATRE.

Where once there were Duke, ine, George Fawcett as the father Finlay, Clark, and Rufus Isaacs, and Thee Von Eltz as the hero. there are now comparatively few The photography is excellent and butstanding figures at the Bar the story well told. Edward Marshall-Hall was the last of the gresit Old Bailey herous. He was as well known as any man in England. He once boasted to me that in no single restaurant was he offered a numbered ticket for his cont and hat. This is fame in-i deed.

Lord Carson.

"THE SILENT RIDER" TO-DAY ONLY.

was

That Blanche Mehalley, piquant Jady in "The Silent Rider," is destined for stardom, was the itus even he with his magnificent universal prediction of those far- appearance did not create the im- pression in court that Sir Edwardtunate enough to see a recent pre- Carson made. I well remember view ofthe Western film. seeing him come into a packed curi in the Lyle Samuel libel tion in 1918, le worse an old lat Lered gown, and a crazy old wig perchard an the top of his head: and every person in court seemed to dwindle and grow insignificant in comparison with this dominating personality.

took

'The charming Blanche chosen by Gibson to play opposite him in "The Silent Rider" because of her excellent work in his picture The Texas Streak" and her excep tionally fine portrayal of Marian Faer more than justified Gibson's) choice.

The

deals young little

The Sent Rider" is a fast Imoving. thrilling epic of the cattle When Sir Dougins Hogg offer there was a great gap to be entry and is said to be the best filled in the silks bench, and it has picture set produced in which remained to a large extent empty Gibson is starred. It was adapted Katherine Newlin Burt's Mr. Norman Birkett, Mr. William from Jowift, and Mr. Stuart Bevan have smashing magazine success all assumed a very leading but not Red Headed Husband" and dominating position. Perhaps Mr. with the problems of a Bevan is the most attractive of all mother, when she and her present-day advocates in manner.boy are deserted by her rascal hus- How she hides her sorrow He has a courteous, sensitive face, band. and une feels, looking at and listen while waiting on a table of rough ing to him, that it is still something but kindly cowhands, all of whom to be a great gentleman. Ind he are in love with her, and how she eared for polities he would have finally encounters the one real love, been an adornment to the Treasury is only one of the finest themes of bench. One hopes that what the the year.

Treasury bench has lost the King's In nédition to Gibson and Bench may gain; but rumour has Bianche, a strong cast of featured it that he does not desire judicial Western players do splendid work. promotion.

Romantic Austerity,' Mr. Jowitt is one of the hand- somest men at the Bar. He looks like a poet who decided to reject|| the Muse for Law, and has done

very thoroughly.

There is a

AT THE STAR.

"SIXTY CENTS AN HOUR" TO-DAY ONLY.

romanile austerity about his face To him who has faith and waite, which accorda il with the atmos-all things come. This is Walter For in phere of the commercial court in Hiers's favourite adage, which he so largely engages. "Sixty Cents an Hour," in which he Probably Mr. Birkett's practice is starred as Jimmy Kirk, he is excites most eavy among his con-abused by the president of But temporaries. He lives in a con- Zavina National Bank.

the

his

Day to See London.

The State Apartments at Hamp-

EXPLORER IN UNKNOWN

BRAZIL.

EARTH TILTS THAT MAY CAUSE MADNESS.

AMONG WILDEST OF INDIANS. ISLANDERS' STRANGE WAYS

Alarm is beginning to be felt for tire afety of Col. P. H. Fawcett, from whom no news has been re- ceived since shortly after he set out, in the early part of 1925, in the face of great risks, on an ex- pedition to the interior of Brazil. Dr. D. G. Hogarth, referring to Col. Fawcett's long silence in his presidential address to the Royal Geographical Society at the Bollan Hall, Bond Street, W., sald

Before his departure Colonel Where are the bellman, the Fawcett stated that he proposed to crossing-sweeper, the lavender go where none but he could hope girl with her pretty song? Ito ponetrate and pass. have steaed in vain for the muftin-man, who I am told is almost extinct.- I have not found one of the old whip-minders, although I am told that just one

Clarence D. Chamberlin, duration record co-pilet and plucky aviator who amnated the world's non-stop flight record by dying in Wright- Bellance plane over the opon Atlantic from Now York to Eisleben, Germany, a distance of approximately 4,100 miles in 46 hours.

until dusk. and täis privilege is very popular among people whose only opportunity of seeing the place is on a Sunday.

on

nublic The majority of famous buildings in London are open Sunday, including the following:

Tate Gallery, 2–6 ́p.m. British Museum, 2 p.m.-dusk. London Museum, G p.m. National Portrait Gallery,

2.30-5.30 p.m. Victoria and Albert Museum,

2.30-5.30 p.m. National Gallery, 2-5 p.m.

Sunday is a good day for visiting |

tinual atmosphere of "causes celo-time comes. Shortly after the pur bres." He has a particularly beau- chase of a narrow alley alongside tiful and expressive voice. One of the bank, Kirk discovers that the feels if he asked one to take shares wall of the bank extends a fect the public buildings of London. in company it would be difficult over his property. It is a case of There is less traffic on the roads, to refuse. This is, I suppose, the tearing the entire wall down and there are fewer crowds, and one "Special Jury" gift. "Is that Mr. rebuilding at great expense or buy-tan travel from place to place in

comparative comfort. Birkett?" said a beautiful young ing Kirk out. The bank president Visitors who are not quite sure lady to me one day in court. "How chooses the latter, and the money what to do on Sunday might make charming he is! I had to listen to is reluctantly handed over. Jimmy, a point of staying in London, for him, because he's against me now the possessor of considerable on that day they can see the major- my own case."

Mr. J. B. Melville, who took silk wealth, finds himself in a position ity of those places they ought to

to ask Marie Smith, daughter of see.

in

the other day, should be a danger the bank president, to marry him.

ous competitor in the front row. He is accepted readily enough and round practice at the Junior Bar. celebrates with

He probably had the best all-

His great quality is that he has the sodas.

"courage of the arena," and, like

the Peninsula soldier, dock nat

know when he is beaten,

He and Mr. Pritt, who are both

one of Jenks'a)

THE RATS OF LONDON.

"The black rat is a wonderful

"It can be safely said that the

by the way, members of the Labour climber, and overhead travelling Party, have, by taking silk, releas-facilities, electric cables, &c., have ed a great amount of work for the Junior Bar. Who will profit by given it its chance, and no place. this? Among the younger men, is secure from its invasion," Mr. Walter Monckton will go far states the annual report of the He is a person of wide interests. Medical Officer of Health for the He la a fine cricketer and a keen City of London. horseman, and was President of the Oxford Union. His practice number of rats in the City is be-| correspondingly general in interesting kept down, but the old Eng- On his table peerage claims jostle fish black rat appears to out- with libel and commercial disputes. He is a fine political speaker, but number the so-called sewer rat by, is at present keeping out of polities, at least three to one. Old City Another very successful young men have said that thirty or forty barrister is Mr. Donald Somervell years ago they were unable to He practises chiefly in the Com-enter their offices in the morning mercial Court.

until the rats had been cleared

Power of is and Death. out. Now that the sewers and There can i positions of drains of the City have had so greater dignit than that of a much attention, the brown rats King's' Bench ddge.. He has the have been greatly reduced in power of life and death, imposing numbers." robes of office, and, after the toil

of the Bar, comparative ease.

On

elreult he is treated with the cerc-put first by experienced lawyers. mony usually accorded to royalty, Patience is the essential Ingredient is the first man in the county, and to the judicial temperament. Few the bells of many a pleasant cir can guess the strain of listening to cuit town

ring to announce the the same sort of witnesses, and the opening

of his assize. All this very same counsel conducting the helps to compensate for the Anan same sort of cases year in and year clal sacrifice which many prominent out; and it would seem that robust "leaders" make when they go on the health were almost essential to en- Bench. In the eighteenth century, sure patience. when 25,000 was fixed na a judge's salary, it was a princely one, but ful advocate who makes the best with the decrease in the value of judge. Lord Blackbarn bad only money and present income tax It is an Insignificant practice, and would, it is said, gladly have ac

'It is not always the most success-

not so generous.

What are the qualities most to cepted a County Court Judgeship; be treasured in a judge? I do not yet he became one of the greatest, think brilliance or eloquence or wit if not the greatest, of judges of or even profound learning would beʻ Victorian timen.

elderly woman still holds whips for Covent Garden drivers who are, away eating or drinking.

The Cab Runner.

I remember the old cab run- ner, who would keep pace with any cab for great distances if there was luggage to be dis- charged. And there was the en by himself, now almost gone. I am told that only one of the. old toll-bar, men still remains- at Dulwich and that the itiner- ant glaziers, who carried glass on their backs and went round looking for trouble, have gone the way of the Dodo.

There were jovial-looking hot- potato men in my London, hearty potmen who carried beer to business places. I have looked for them in vain. There used to be apple women selling on City pavements, given their pitches as relatives, I believe, of employees of the City Corporation. 1 have not found one of them.

The old horse fireman, a pic-

He insisted that no uneasiness need be felt if nothing was heard of his fortunes for two whole years, or even more.

His line was to strike north from Cuynba, in the province of Matto Grosso, to the headwaters of the River Xingu, and on reaching the

11th parallel of south latitude to tarn across more than 1,000 miles of unknown country to the Atlan

tie.

Out of Reach of Whites.. Almost from the start his expedi- tion had to hope to live solely on the country, although this is, in part, of more or less desert charac- ier, Further on, it would have to muke contact with the wildest of Indian tribes, out of reach of white FOCES

Since Colonel Fawceit more than two years ago left the extreme range of effective Brazilian author- ity at Bakairi post all has been dark.

No mission of search could at tempt to follow him far beyond that point, for if the party that he led could not penetrate and push through, much less can anyone else, The only thing to do will be prospect in various directions, just so far as is consistent with reason ably prospects of safe retorn, and gather from natives such inforina tion of what is beyond as may be procurable.

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2,500-YEAR-OLD HOUSE INTACT.

The Mizpah expedition of the Pacific School of Religion, under the direction of Professor William Bade, which is investigating the site of the city of Tel-ei-Nisbh, seven miles north of Jerusalem, hus made some highly important dis- coveries.

An exceptionally fine, well- preserved Israelite house of the seventh century B.C. has been dis-

closed, including the street en-

trance, several rooms, a large stone

basin, the bread trough, and a pri- vate cistern behind the house. A large four-handled earthenware pot, containing the remains of food, was found still embedded in the ashes of the fire-place, left there when the inhabitants 2,500 years ago.

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departed

How many people know what syzygymania is?

to

There is at least one man in London who could tell them all about it-Mr. R. F. Thomson, an Acting Deputy Commissioner of the Western Pacific, stationed at Faisi, in the Solomon Islands. Mr. Thomson's forbears went Australia from Scotland in 1840 and he is making is first visit to England. At Fulsi he is one of about 40 white people, half of whom are women, among 1,000 or more Melanesians. His duties keep him in constant contact with the native, and that is how he has come to learn so much about what he calls syzygymania.

turesque. figure in many frenzied dash, a. disappeared. One looks in vain for the leather aproned station official who handed out footwarmers from his little trolly,

There are

no horse-shoeing smiths in your streets. Your silk hat polishing shops of the old City that I used to krow eeem to have gone, and so, ton, I suppose, have the quaint cli men who wielded the irons. Does anyone see the door-step girl....... the girl who tours for work-in these days?

The old characters have gone, taking most of the charm of Lon- don with them.

At the periods of high tides and full moons, the natives are

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Really the moon's attraction has nothing to do with the lapse of mental balance, but to make the time definite one we can take the period of the moon's syzygy and call the mental state of the natives syzygymania. The earth at this period has a dis- tinct tilt, and it is only my theory, but nevertheless it may be true,| that certain glands of these people,may be upset which may have a reaction on the brain.

Syzygymania is not the only curious habit of the natives of the Solomon Islands. They have the curious belief that if they are suffering from an ailment they can get rid of it by calling their dogs by the name of the illness. Mr. Thomson said:

When I first went to Faisi and was engaged in registering dogs I was struck by the frequency of the name Maola, but it was ex- plained to me that Tia Maola meant stomach ache, Tohi Maola | headache, and Lua Maola pain in the neck.

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