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HENRIK IBSEN.

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DRAMABIST'S DEBT TO

HIS WIFE.

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HOTEL EVIDENCE.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928.

BRITISH AVIATION.

GIANT MONOPLANE'S GREAT.

EST WING SPAN..

RECENT TRIALS.

JUDGES ON DOUBTFUL DIVORCE EVIDENCE, MECHANICAL CASES.

of Annie Feitelson,

A sentence of seven years' penal By Bergliot Ibsen, daughter- Mrs.

London, March 5. Sunday night, formerly the dull- H.M. King Alfonso in the course

Eyewitnesses of trials of the in-law of Henrik Ibsen, and Hewitt-read; Belsize-park, N.W, servitude was passed by the Lord est of the week in London, has be- of a conversation which he had had daughter of the Famous Nor-petitioned for a decree nisi for the Chief Justice (Lord Hewart) at the come one of the most attractive. with the French Ambassador some Air Ministry's giant all-metal wegian novelist, Bjornsterne dissolution of her marriage Old Bailey on Charles Jackson This la owing to the campaign of days before had not upheld the ar-monoplane "Inflexible," with, the Bjornson.

with Mr. Adolph Feitelson Palmer, 69, medical electrician, of the directors of the great West bitrary procedure followed by the world's, greatest wing span, 150

the groundi of Now that Henrik Ibsen's cen; on..

his Upper Brook-street, Mayfair, who End hotels to make bright what Spanish Administration in expro- feet, and a deadweight carrying The suit was un-

simultaneous capacity of 15 tons, say that the guilty of tenary is about to be celebrated, adultery.

for its priating, the previously was notorious feel a desire to say a few words defended, and evidence was given manslaughter of Mrs. Elsie Alles atmosphere of lonely boredom. compensation, and without even most vivid impression of its size about the woman who meant so by the petitioner and by Charles Goldsmith, 21, the wife of

a Some hotels have instituted proper valuation, the French oil was the spectacle of a man run- exceedingly much to him. He Arthur Eames, a floor waiter at former Paymaster-Commander in dinners at which table decorations companies, under the new Mono- ning down the broad back of the himself once said to me, I could the Grosvenor Hotel, and Mr- the Navy, of Gordon-square, W.C. are unusually attractive; others poly legislation. His Majesty ex-fuselage to check the rudder con- pressed the assurance that justice trols, as casually as a passenger never have done without her George Jenkins, the assistant Evidence was given at the trial give expensive souvenirs to the wo would be done to the companies in descending a ship's gangway.

manager.At the close of the that Mrs. Goldsmith, a greatness."

bride of men guests. The directors of the She was a gigantic personality. case Mr. Justice Bateson said: only ten weeks, feared motherhood. May Fair, Hotel have gone

question...

Among the innovations are The fear of man was not in her. "People go to hotels and stay the She died in the consulting-room at greater lengths in the case of this "Daily Telegraph's" Madrid corres-wheels, which are 71% feet high. It would now appear (says the brakes fitted to its landing Compromise was abhorrent to her night there with a woman, and Palmer's establishment on Novems Brighter Sunday movement, and pondent) that the Spanish ruler'a These pulled up the "Inflexible" nature. I have never known they say adultery has been com-

the within 800 feet of landing. firmer character. She was a curi mitted. In this case it was argu-ber 21. The defence was that she have instituted a series of first

un vigorous protests of Paris and Route via N. Zealand. ous mixture of self-confidence and ed that adultery must be inferred,

I have had ment, but the jury found that she usually. good dinner. Signor Washington, has not been without] The purposes for which the Air self-forgetfulness, on the one but I rather demur.

illegal Tito Schips, the tenor, sang some, influence on the Spanish Ministry proposes to employ the hand dictatorial and obstinate, on two cases recently where it has died as the result of an

from his

extensive repertoire Cabinet's attitude. Indeed, a slight machine remain a secret. the other quite devoid of vanity. been proved to my satisfaction operation.

According to the police, Palmer to a brilliant audience.

improvement in the situation is

Airship Services. She hated publicity and con-that the husband had gone to an

now reported. For General Primo! The Director of Civil Aviation sistently avoided making a show hotel and stayed the night with

do Rivera has promised that the (Sir Sefton Brancker) in an ad- of herself. It was enough for her a woman and yet had not com-

Central Valuation Commission will dress to the Institute of Trans- to know what she had been to mitted adultery. Petitioner has

net in a judicial spirit, and that the port to-day, said that the first re- her husband. That is the reason sent an hotel bill which might be

protests and submissions of the re- gular airship route would probably why the public know so little only a frame up," and I ought to

presentative of the foreign com- be to Canada, for which two air- about her and the influence she satisfy myself where there is

panies will be duly incorporated in ships, each carrying 100 passen- exerted over him.

only one incident like this."

the minutes of the Commission's gers, were now under 'construc- proceedings.

tion. They were likely to com- mence operations in 1928, and the route would be via the Azores. A service to Egypt might also be organised.

Though producing no literary Ultimately a decree nisi with work herself, she had a special feosts was granted.

gift for stimulating others. "And The President adjourned two what a splendid listener she was!petitions in which evidence was She possessed 21 ardent called from hotels to prove the enthusiasm which was enough to charges of adultery made. inspire any artist. What wonder- His lordship said he would not- ful tales she herself could tell! be a party to any mechanical pro- There was a fund of imagination ceedings if he was aware of it. in them which I shall never for-

get.

Sound Literary Judgment,

that

Josen hud a high opinion of her and politics. I recollect literary judgment, and read his sometimes during a discussion at plays to her act by act as he fin- table they would grow furious. ished them. To me he once said, And then, in the middle of the "She and Sigurd are the only per-worst tumult of emotions, you sons whose judgment. I value," could hear her say in the kindest And they were, in fact, the unly voice. "Please pass me the bread, with whom he spoke Ihsan," with which request he without reserve and for whom he complied with equal amiability. really cared.

But go sooner had this been done than the heated conversation was resumed.

persons

Even in her childhood she had a passion for books. I think she would have mnde a splendid

She often told me about the librarian. She and my inother time when they were young and were friends as children, and they had to live on very plain fare. used to sit on a sofa, back to back, When Ibsen wrote "Brand" while devouring novels. She was very staying at Aricia, they had no widely read, and often she called thing but dry bread and grapes Ibsen's attention to works he for supper. Their dinner she would not have become acquaint-cooked in a tavern, where she was ed with but for her.

allowed a corner of the kitchen At first he had no sympathy range. She was a splendid cook, with the emancipation of women, and he was so fond of the food she whereas she was all aflame with made that she had to cook for him enthusiasm, after having read till his death. Stuart Mill's "The Subjection of Women, and it was she who little by little converted him to the idea by her influence through the years. The result is already ap parent in "Pillars of Society," and with even greater plainness in "A Doll's House.".

In the poem "Tak" (Thanks), included, in his collected poems, he

"Brand" was posted, and now they waited in suspense for the answer from Gyldendal. "We had to wait for months" she said, "for Hegel was not sure that the play was good enough.”

intervention, coupled with went there for electrical treat-class concerta following an

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for some years had had a genuine business as a medical electrician among well-to-do people, but for the past fifteen or eighteen months he had been suspected of being a party to performing illegal opera-

ons.

It was noticeable, incidentally, that scarcely a single man had sur rendered to the old-fashioned idea that Sunday night 18 ал informal occasion. Hardly оде dinner jacket was to be seen. The women, too, were uncommonly well Mr. Percival Clarke said that dressed. Several of the gold in regard to Palmer's statement tissue jackets, the latest Mayfair

which the of had lived, he wished to draw his lordship's attention to the possi- bility of his thinking it a case where Palmer should upon to pay some part of the costa of the prosecution.

the

in way

fashion, were to be seen.

In the past the May Fair Hotel has engaged such distinguished artists as Kubelik, Pachmann, and be called Cortot.

in

Following upon this promise by the head of the Spanish Govern ment, the French and American companies are instructing their delegates, whom they had previous- ly withdrawn from the Valuation Commission, to participate onee more in its labours. This, how- ever, is on the understanding that General Prime de Rivera's assur- ance may be taken to cover the "in- dustrial value" of the expropriated establishments as going concerns. Some doubt still persists, however, as to whether Spanish offelaldom. will, in practice, be found to have adopted the

vlew, which differs so widely from Its previous: attitude.

aame

British Firms' Position.

So far as can be ascertained, the British companies similarly affect- ed are disinclined to allow their re- presentatives to take their seats on the Commission unless and until

they receive absolute assurances that the "industrial value" of the expropriated establishments will be

He added that the airships would not compete with the ship- ping services, but would useful supplement.

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reckoned in their right to compen sation. British diplomacy still re- frains from supporting British in-d terests by action as energetic as that employed by the Quai D'Orsay and the State Department in de- fence of their respective nationals.

On the other hand, gratification is expressed in both British diplo matic and business circles at the sympathetic manner in which M. Briand and the French Government have received the recent British representations on the subject of

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The average fe for the single performance has been £300 Shortly Mr. McCormack, the The Lord Chief Justice, passing American singer who was recent sentence, sald: "The officer wholly made a count by the Pope, will gave his evidence so fairly con- be heard at one of these "celebrity cerning you, meatloned certain concerts." In his case the fee is Industry and Frugality. suspicion that you had for £500. · Then the Storthing granted some time past been carrying The peculiar charm of these con- has expressed what she meant to him a poct's pension of 1,600 on the trade of abortion. I shall certs lies in their informality. the proposed French legislation | him, and two of its stanzas are kroner, and both he and she won-deliberately put out of may mind The audience can. alt at ease inscribed on her tombstone. He dered how on earth they were to suspicions and rumours of suspl their own little parties in comfort

In the ciom. It is right that I should able chairs at small tablea. showed it her smilingly, saying, spend all that money. "Do you know to whom this was course of time he made a modest direct my attention to the evidence written? Read the title back-fortune though rich, as people and to the evidence in this case convinces wards." Kat was the pet name thought he was, he never became. alone. That evidence he gave her when they were However, the making of this for-me that you were carrying on the

tune was not his work alone, she trade of abortion. It was as helped him by her industry and person carrying on that trade that frugality and the work of a life you were consulted by Mra. Gold- They first met at an evening time. Even up to his fiftieth year smith. It was as a person carrying party in her home at Dean Thore they always travelled third class. sen's. That same night he wrote He did not like it, but she had her a poem to her anying that if she way on this point. would accompany him through

young.

Love at First Sight.

When she grew older she suf- life, he might do great things in fered much from rheumatism, the world. While they were en-was often in great pain, and could raged, he sent her several poems, hardly walk. For fourteen long but they have not been preserved. ycars-she was tied to her apart

.But she She destroyed them shortly be-ment in Arbinsgate. fore her death, for she thought never complained, gave no sign of that "the relutions between us do her sufferings, and cut you short not concern anybody."

when you inquired about her

I

At that very time "Fru Inger health. Once, for instance, a Til Ostraat" was first produced at lady called who advised her to go Bergen. He said to her, "Now into the country, as she thought

ou are Eline, but one day you she needed a change of air. will be Fru Inger." Twanty years cannot help laughing when I 'ater the German edition of the think of the way she cut short lay was published and he made her good advice. For she answer- her a present of a copy which the ed with the greatest composure, sollowing dedication:

"I have in my time lived so much in the Alps, and have had so much fresh air there, that now I need no more."

To this book you have the sole

right of proprietorship. For you are indeed descended

It was a great grief to her that from the race of the Ostraats. He did not draw her portrait she could not go to Tosen's grave, in any of the figures he subse-I know she tried to go there one quently created, but he repeatedly day, but could not get down- used traits and phrases charac stairs for pain. To me she only teristic of her. Those who were said that no doubt she would go Intimate with her could casily re- there one day, but not until she cognise them in Lone Hessel, in went for good.

During his illness Ibsen lived in Nora, in Fru Alving.

She was very peculiar. For in-continual anxiety lest she should stance, on his seventieth birthday die first. He said, "If you die be- the theatre invited them to a gala fore me, I shall die five minutes performance, and she answered, [after." His last words to her "One box for my husband, and the night before he died were, one for myself. Ibsen must sit "How sweet and good you hope by himself." On the same occa-been to me?" sion

&

torchlight procession Two days before her death sho marched up in front of the house. said to me with difficulty, "When I can still see him going up to her we were young, many so-called with his little tripping gait, say-friends came to see Ibsen, but I ing, "Won't you come to the win- got rid of them." And, after a Now with me?" and hear her an-pause, "I was much abused for it, "wer, “No, you must stand there but I did not care; he had to have

peace for his work," alone."

Animated Discussions.

Once she said, “I have never lain ill in bed one single day, and

I have never in any place heard I will not die there either. I will "nch animated discussions as at die sitting or standing and she did The house of my parent-in-law. die sitting in her armchair, 78 a rule they were about liter-years old, and I lost my best

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understand that they incur grave risks themselves. The law must have regard to human life, even though the particular life in the

on that trade that you treated her, individual case may not be of the

consequence. In "Such persons undoubtedly sub-highest.

the

ject their patients or clients to public interest it is necessary that very grave risks, arid it is right you should go to penal servitude that all of them, wherever they for seven years, and pay the costs may be in this country, should of the prosecution."

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