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IN SHANGHAI GABY DESLYS' WILL THEATRE

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BLAZING WHILE AUDIENCE WATCHES TALKIE FILM

STRANGE OUTBREAK

While hundreds of Shanghai's theatre-going public were enjoying

PEARLS ATTRACT CLAIMANTS FROM MANY PARTS

TEN ALLEGED MOTHERS.

FAMOUS SCIENCE INSTRUMENTS

USED BY PIONEERS: REMARK- ABLE SIMPLICITY

UNIQUE COLLECTION

Paris, December ́8.

The spread of dry rot has necès- Her old mother, the municipality sitated the reconstruction of the the talkic "The Coconuts" at the and poor of Marseilles, a certain auditorium of the Royal Institution, Capital Theatre on Sunday night Navratil family of Hungary, and a London. During the period of up last, the Shanghai Fire Brigade was dozen other claimants to relation-heaval the famous collection of busily engaged in putting out a fire ship around the world are going to scientific instruments invented by in the central heating plant a few contest, within the next few ita great directors has been moved feet away from them, and it was months, the great fortune of pearls to the Sclence Museum at South not until the show ended, a few arid property left by the late Gaby Kensington, where an minutes after 11 p.m., that any of Deslys, of the variety atage. It is was opened by Sir William Bragg exhibition the audience knew anything was 10 years since Gaby Deslys died This collection is probably the most happening.

and was buried at Marseilles, but marvellous of its kind in the world. Two machines from Central the fortune which she amassed basit contains the simple coil with Station answered the call about 10 never been distributed. In her which Faraday discovered electro- p.m., and found that flames had will, the left a few mementoes to magnetic Induction-the discovery broken out in a room just above the her American dancing partner, from which electrical engineering basement in which the boilers and Harry Pilcer, a fixed income to her developed. There are the original furnaces of the plant, which serves mother, and the rest to the city and miners' safety lamps made by Davy, the whole Shahmoon Building, are the poor of Marseilles.

and Dewar's original "thermos" situated. The flue comes up from

Gaby's mother contested the will asks. Nothing could be more the basement and goes through this especially that part which gave her fastructive than the simplicity of room, and part of the dressing palatial villa to the city. The these frat inventions and the de- rooms above. Two of its sides mother wanted that as a roof over monstration of the genius's power touch the sides of the ground floor her own head until her death, but of obtaining profound results from room at one corner, and it was the courts appear determined to simple devices. [between the side of the flue and the carry out the dancer's will to the

side of the room wall that the fire letter, was creeping slowly up.

la a small stream of water. A few Upon her death, the collars were

In a short address, Sir William The great strings of pearls have explained how Faraday was inspir

d by the belief that relations As soon as it was realised that long ago been broken up. Gaby existed betwean seemingly unre- overy thing WAS not right, tho was reputed to have the Anest lated phenomens, and how this watchman on the premises aummon- Pearls in the world, and they were inspiration is shown by the names ed the Fire Brigade and at the same the envy of many crowned heads. of the relations he discovered, such time ordered the fires in the furnaces She spent years in patiently colas electro-magnetic induction, mag- below to be drawn. The firemen lecting her necklaces and collars, hate-optica, electro-chemical equi commenced operations by breaking her admirers spending vast sums valents, and so on. Throughout his in through the edge of the flue to offer her, each one, a single life Faraday tried to discover ex- where it touches a wall, and pouring /pearl of the rarest colour and sixa-berimental evidence of a connection' minutes later they cut through into cut up. To each of her best friends between gravity and other natural the chamber of the fluo itself, but she willed a poori, several of them forces. His last experiment was found that this helped them not at going to Pilcer, for whom she al-would he have thought of Einstein's concerned with this problem. What ways had great admiration. Most What was actually on

of the pearls rapidly found their prediction of the bending of light fire was some woodwork between the flue and way into the markets of Paris andy gravity and his successful dis- during the walls of the room, but how it London and the Deslys necklaces Covery of this effect caught on fire, in spite of careful are to-day scattered around the eclipses of the sun and in observa

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Mystery of Origin fire proved very awkward for the thing mysterious about the origin

There has always been Brigade, as it was hard to get at of the French dancer, and since and actually very little water was her death poured on it at the start. Added to around the world have claimed re-) families! this was the knowledge that slow lationship. There are at least ten amouldering might carry on possibly women who claim to be the mother to all the floors above, and also that of the dancer, although there is an audience, at the time in no no doubt in the minds of the court immediate danger, was thoroughly that Gaby's family name was Caire enjoying a film in the theatre. and that Madame Caire, now living There was no need to give them any in Marseilles, is her mother. The alarm whatsoever, but just wait Navratil family of Hungary havo until they came out before making a banded together and seat a repre thorough examination of the part of sentative to Paris to bring suit for The theatre near the flue, and so the a share of the pearls and fortune. Brigade just possessed its soul in The family argue that the dancer's patience.

real name was Hedvig Navratil and A turn-table escape from Central that she was born in Halvan, Station stood by while the firemen Hungary, and started her dancing were slowly knocking pieces out of career in the Balkans, with her tho wall of the flue, ready to lay first great success at Lemberg, In London P.O. lines of hose to upper etoreys should Gallicia All the evidence they occasion arise. Few people resident have to offer is a postcard, post- In the building knew that anything marked Lemberg, on which some- was amiss, and it was amusing to one whom they claim was Gaby observe a grey-headed gentleman Deslys wrote:"Your loving who came down in the lift from the daughter." residential flats above. He walked Harry Pilcer will be called to out of the lift, opened the door on the Marseilles court to testiky, but to the street, and stood there for there is little doubt in his mind what is probably his customary few that the Hungarian, like other seconde to sniff, the air and draw on families, has no claim. "Like all his gloves; suddenly, however, his great artists, Gaby was bothered jaw dropped and he stood still, rigid by impostors," Pilcer told the with surprise to see fire engines United Press. "I recall that at standing in the street.

Vienne, on one of our tours, & Shortly before midnight, two woman, evidently demented, rushed hours after the Brigade started on the stage and insisted that she work, the seat of the fire was located was Gaby's sister. I never heard and efforts were concentrated upon her speak of the Navratils, and it this spot, below the floor of wash-aeems strange that, 10 years after room of the theatre dressing rooms. her death, her supposed family Progress was slow, as firemen had to should suddenly show some interest wield heavy sledge hammers to in her."-United Press. break up the concrete floor before

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