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Reports to hand concerning the piracy aboard the a.s. "Tean" differ little from those of other piratical attacks in recent times except in regard to the audacity displayed by the freebooters. The

TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1928,

£50,000 NECKLACE. MR. LESLIE STUART.

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POSTAL SORTER'S THEFT IN PARIS.

SHREWD POLICE WORK

The 030,000 pearl. necklace

COMPOSER OF MUSICAL. COMEDIES & POPULAR SONGS:

AUTHOR OF "FLORODORA,”

fact that the ship was actually which disappeared in the post on and other musical comedies and of

WRINKLES TO KEEP OFF WRINKLES.'

women

February 24 between London and Paris, and has been the subject of a £10,000 reward, has been dis- covered by the French police and

Its thlef arrested,

Post."

cars to Paris with

Mr. Leslie Stuart, the well-- known composer of "Florodora”.

many popular songs, died recent-- ly at Richmond at the age of 62

His real name was Thomas A...

Barrett, "Leslie Stuart having been assumed as a theatrical

Subsequently Mr. Stuart turn- ed his attention to musical

of

March 8 poser, narrates the "Morning

Post."

some of his favourite tunes, and it was clear, from the rapturous welcome he received, that the public had by no means forgotten their old favourite.

taken out of Hoihow by the pir- ates is a circumstance which has, so far as we recollect, never been The equalled or attempted.

The history of the necklace is as name. second plece of cool cheek is re- follows: Two months ago a rich, He was born in Southport in vealed in the police report pub English woman obtained on ap- 1866, started his musical career lished in another column. This proval from Mesara, Cartier's Lon-as an organist, and oficiated as states that after leaving Holhow don house a necklace consisting of such at the Roman Catholic and having struck a course for 57 cream rose pearls, weighing in Cathedral in Salford from 1881 to Swatow, the pirates changed their | all 669 grammes, and the biggest 1888. Later on he came to Lon- minds and had the course altered of them alone 39 grammes. The don, where he first attracted at- for Aberdeen, where, they ex-price was £32,000. Besides the tention by writing coon songs for. plained, they desired to pick up pearls the string was enriched by Mr. Eugene Stratton. Some of some fishing boats! For bare-

a platinum clasp, set with seven these possessed considerable merit faced effrontery this would be diamonds, the largest being of

in their own way, and even" to- hard to beat.. The satisfactory three carats.

day many people will think with feature of the affair was that the

The lady

pleasure of "The Coon Drum lawless gang's intentions were, în

Major," the "Lily Laguna," and and decided that Little Dolly Daydream." the necklace the main, frustrated, thanks to she would not purchase it. Conse the timely appearance of a British man of war and a Customs cruis-quently she gave it back to Mesars er.. This goes to show that the Cartier's head house in Paris and comedy, and in 1899 "Florodora" Navy's watch on the pirate fair they returned it to London.

perhaps the most successful of his is still being maintained, which is Ordinarily when jewels are ex-efforts in this form, was produced very assuring. We learn as we ported from France they are taken at the Lyric Theatre. This is write that the efforts of the arm-to a special office, their value is de-principally remembered to-day by ed party which was landed from clared and the packages are given the concerted number. "Tell Me, H.M.S. "Somme" were abortive. treatment' apart from the regular | Pretty Madame," probably one of However, both those connected post. In this case, however, it was the most charming tunes that. with the destroyer and the pre-merely a question of returning to ever appeared in musical comedy; ventative cruiser deserve all com- London a necklace brought thence. it may be heard in jazz bands even mendation for their promptitude So the £50,000 necklace was put to this day, suitably adapted to in giving chase and effecting the up in a common registered parcel, modern needs. None other of his rescue of the pirates' victims.

bearing the number 264, and post-musical comedies can be said to ed at the nearest post office. At have achieved the success BEAUTIES OF PAST. the same time Cartier's London "Florodora," but in nearly all of shop was advised of the deapatch. them can be found one of those characteristically long and rather When nothing arrived anxiety

vague tunes typical of the com- began to be felt, and on complaint was lodged with the Referring to the death of police in Paris. These were able

'Soldiers of the Queen." It is quite impossible that demon- Elizabeth, Marchioness of to establish that a package number

During the south African War strations such as that in which Ormonde, a contemporary speaks 264 had been transported to Eng- he wrote a patriotic song, "The of her as, belonging to a genera-land and been delivered. M. Char- Soldiers of the Queen," which en- the banner-bearer in question tion of fameus beauties such as pentier, the police commissary joyed an immense success of the took so prominent a part can be we are not likely to see again for went to London and saw the ad-time, though it was by no means allowed in this Colony; and insult many years. This comment is dressce of No. 264. He was a one of his best efforts. A year is added to injury to our adminis capable of several interpretations; captain in the British Army who or so ago Mr. Stuart, made his re- Overland China Mail.tration when we have to listen to time alone can show whether our and No. 264 registered parcel Miss May Leslie Stuart, at many for instance, it may mean that knew nothing about the pearts appearance with his daughter, auch an

absurd remark as was present-day girls will be as merely contained printed matter, variety theatres, both here and made by the accused when ar- beautiful in maturity as the narrates the London: "Morning in America, in arrangements of rested to the effect that the de- Fashion in dress is no more capri- of a less hustling age.

monstration

In His Pocket. not "anticious than fashion in beauty; the British" but "anti-Japanese." latter is the unconscious inter-

M. Charpentier thus acquired Chinese of accused's sort must preter of the prevailing spirit of the certainty that the number of

the age."His form was of the the parcel containing the necklace Though the success of be taught that demonstrations of manliest beauty" might be had been changed. In Paris once "Florodera" was so great as to any kind against any class or sec-changed to "her" when women again he wormed out that the cap eclipse everything else that he did tion of Ilong Kong's population are have achieved such wonders in tain's parcel of printed matter had for the stage, Leslie Stuart's po-

athletics. against the British quite as much

never been registered. What had pularity as a composer for musi- Our grandmothers • admired

happened then was clear. The cal comedy continued practically as against the luckless persons sloping shoulders, willowy specially marked out to be molest-figures, and delicately moulded number of the registered packet unabated until the opening of the had been transferred, while in the Great War. Among his other and rounded arms. None of these ed; and it is the business of the is possible for the gymnast and post office, to another parcel itself successes were The Silver Slip- British authorities to deal effec-player of

unregistered, and the necklace in per" at the Lyric, in which Miss.. strenuous games.

Florence Smithson made her first: tually with any person who dis-Where health is concerned this its box never effectively posted at

London appearance; "The School- generation scores, and that is all, although handed in at the post girl," at the Prince of Wales, in putes that point.

most important. I have known

which Mias Edna May appeared; The accused was carrying a personally of many women who A young postal sorter nam- "The Belle of Mayfair," at the banner upon which were inscribed ruined their health by tight lac-ed Seberac arrested and, Vaudeville, Vin which, Miss

being adroitly "characters of an anti-Japanese ing and of others who died of it; on

questioned, Phyllis Dare made one of her ear yes, and even one man.

confcesed. Sobbing bitterly, he liest successes; and "Havana" and nature"-doubtless of Д very

related how the Fashion in Beauty.

registered "Peggy," both at the Gaiety. parcel had come before him, MOFFAT-On May 20, at the unflattering kind and, worse still,

Fashion in beauty applies not its and crushed in. Seeing that it of "Jazz," during and after the After the arrival of the vogue Victoria Nursing Home, the crowd attracted were shout-only to the form but the face.

was despatched from and to a Shanghai, to Dora, wife of ing “Attack the Japanese." Such The looks of some women whose

war, most of Leslie Stuart's grace- James Moffat, a daughter.

famous jeweller's shop, he assam-ful and fluent melodies fell for a conduct is of course intolerable in beauty was extolled in their day ed that it contained a jewel, and time into disfavour, and the mar

still strike us with delight. I Ja Britisk Colony, for the author-never tired of admiring the ex- thereupon without looking further, ket for any new scores from him Happily, ities very properly never will perquisite features, beautiful eyes

unstuck the registered number and seemed to be closed. stuck it on the nearest unregister-audiences of all kinds have re- mit such outrageous proceedings and perfect complexion of a namesake immortalised by

ed parcel handy, putting the Car-cently reawakened to a sense of. GILLESPIE The interment of the by any section of the population. Raeburn. On the other hand, a tier box into his pocket.

his value, and the probability is ashes of the late Suma Gilles-As-the Magistrate said: "It must relative depicted by Chalons, once

Two days later, to his horror, he that several compositions he pie, wife of Captain T. C. be remembered that in a British a fashionable portrait painter, realised that he had stolen the seemed to have laboured over in Gillespie, took place at the

Colony every person of whatever only showed me a woman with a famous necklace and could not vain during the past few years: Bubbling -Well Cemetery,

nationality is entitled to the same thuse over her face, yet she was of giving it to a priest in confes-long.

charming figure. I could not en- possibly dispose of it. He thought will come into their own before Shanghai, on May 22, 1928.

It is significant that, almost. protection as a British subject. reckoned one of the beauties of sign, so that the priest might give The law will not tolerate any in- the Regency. She passed out of it in turn to the police, but feared in the hour of his death, the terference with foreigners living this world before I popped in, but complications and hid the neck usually staid and undemonstra here whose only desire is peace daughter, whom I did see, puzzled

eight pages of rapture about her lace

tive Coliseum audience, literally

fully to pursue their lawful me equally. When I knew her she Seberac's pocket,

The police found the necklace in stood up in their places and cheer-

ed his "Lily of Laguna," which, avocations." The Magistrate did was beloved, but not for her

found a place in the programme. looks,

given before Queen Souriya' on: well to remind the accused that

two separate occasions in the hill. In all Leslie Stuart's music Hong Kong, Tuesday, May 23, 1928. his action might also have led to

The so-called "Keepsake" faces In the Don district of Russia the effect of his Roman Catholic even more serious consequences of the first half of the nineteenth the local Soviet has forbidden the upbringing is apparent. Many of We are, howeven, very glad to century, published in daintily got courts to allow lawyers to defend his melodies are based on chants, note that his Worship tempered up gilt-edged. books containing any clients unless they are insane and "Tell me pretty maiden" was- justice with mercy and, at the poems of the Byronic type, had or minors, or in special cases in originally composed on the organ.

time, indicated 'a broad- their attractions, yet probably which the court appoints the they would be rejected as "too defence, The sentence passed at the mindedness that will appeal to milk and watery" by present-day Magistracy yesterday upon the every thoughtful Briton here, downrightness. How horrified Charles Bitchener, aged 32, Chinese arrested for carrying a when he promised to commute the those adorers of the "Keemakes" employed by the Hampstead Council banner, upon which were inscrib-remainder of the sentence in British Columbia. Praising its through touching. an electric cable would have been at a letter from Electricity Department, was killed ed characters of an anti-Japanese certain circumstances. It is possi-girls, a young man adds "The at an underground sub-station and nature, has met with the whole ble that the "unemployed scalatest American craze for the sum receiving a 2,000-volts shock. hearted approval of the com-mar" who acted as "bannerman mer is an exceedingly short skirt and stockings 'rilled down below munity, including responsible is little more than an illiterate, un- the knees, and the knees rouged; Chinese, who are very properly able to understand the political can you imagine the effect? I am I have seen unwrinkled sking with just as ready as we are to de- significance and danger of such used to it now."

a bloom at 80. Those innocerit Vapours? Those sheltered dears were wily enough to know nounce any absurd and more or demonstrations in which he en- darlings would have melted into that in the long run complexions less futile propaganda on the gaged and leas able to read the space at the notion. Yet rather buit en cosmetics must pay the part of their ignorant fellow inscription on his banner. If such rouged knees than too much price, that, used much, they can The acting Chief be the case, obviously the sen from prudery, but caution. The looks worse than a woman paint rouge on young faces, say I, not not be discontinued, and nothing Magistrate, Lieut. Cobnel F.tance might properly be beauties of Lady Ormonde's youth ing her face to hide the ravages 1. What is the name Eaves, D.S.O.. did well la sending computed, but meantime it is kept their complexions of time. Lady Ormonde belonged as an op an elephant f the accused to prison for nine perfectly just; and it is to be

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