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Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 16, 1931.

Extrality Deadlock.

MADAME MARIE DESTI.

Isadora Duncan's Friend Dies in New York.

"FORTUNE FROM PERFUME;

Madame Marie Desti, the woman

"TUESDAY," JUNE 16, 1931.

LONDON WOMAN OF " it possible," asks Sir Arthur,

70,000 B.C.

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New Light on Man's Origin.

SIR A. KEITH'S THEORY.

|""for any type of humariity to oxist

In one part of the world through- cút such a long period of time and remain “unchanged? Mr. A. C. Hinton has found no evidence of the arrival of new, animal aporten by migration, during this long paried, but amplo evidence of local production of new species by

volutionary change.

A new theory of the devolopment

If this is true of the smaller who for years "mothered" the very of early man, which pushed back mammals, may it not also be true temperamental dancer Isadorb the date of the earliest known man? May hot the crude type Duncan, and was a faithful friend Londoner -- à

woman by some which existed at Piltdown, in Sus- to her in all her adversities, has 60,000 year and accords her a sex, Just died in New York, after a long unique place in the story of modern pleistocene period have become re- at the beginning of the illness.

European man, is outlined by. Sitfined into the modified type repre- Marie Desti was years ago, then she made a fortune out of a perfume now published (Williams and Når- idea..

gate, 21s. net). She "fitted perfumes to person-

The London skull, as it is known alities-made perfumes to fit the to archaeologists, was discovered. In wealthy women who flocked to 1925, and was dated by Professor WHY IS THE BIBLE THE BEST Paris for clothes and such things Elliot Smith, to the Aurignacian

on the stage Arthur Keith in "New Discoveries 3anted by the London type in mid-

left it and Relating to the Antiquity of Man pleistocene times?":

In those days. She had to study period-not later, that is, than

skull, which

SUDDEN BOOM.

SELLER?

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a woman closely to find out just 20,000 B.C. This the right sort of perfume for her. shows definitely female characteris-gregations, more and more Bibles While churches sigh for big con- She was "all the rage" for a tics, is now claimed by Sir Arthur are sold. saye The Star. time: she piled up money. Then Keith to belong to the end of the reason is one of the most puzzling

Chellean period (70,000 to 80,000 problems of bookland.

·

The

the war came.

Off went Marie Desti to be a B.C.), and to be a direct link be Red Cross nurse. Her perfume tween Piltdown and modern man-creased sale of Bibles, but why the

"There is no doubt about the in a claim which demands a complete demand has increased we

don't

days, were forgotten.

She met adora Duncan during reconsideration of the early history know," said Mr. W. A. Foyle, the the war. She took Isadora under] of man in Europe.

Charing Cross Road bookseller. her wing she put her fortune at "If I am right," Sir Arthur Keith "Nobody seems to know. Isadora's disposal-and Isadora stated to me recently says a Morn- only reason I can suggest is that ing Post correspondent, "the London the Bible is the best classic there

The

more than ever."

Foyle's firm

Two or three years ago, Mr. were sending old Bibles to be repulped. Even old Breeches" Bibles, printed in the 16th century, would bring only 108,

soon disposed of it.

She was a friend, a counsellor, skalf is the most important pre-is, and people are reading classic a housekeeper, a buffer between historic discovery of the last 15 Isadora and the world, during years-and one which must have a Isadora's travels in Europe and most disturbing effect on accepted America:

ideas. children When Isadora's two

"What Britain 'ean claim is that were drowned Marie Desti was her she has produced what is more like comforter, when. Isadora fell in ly to be the skull of a direct ances

"For a time. Mr. H.. G. Well'a love with Sergei Yessenin, the tor of modern man than any other Outline of History' seemed likely. Russian poet, Marie Desti was her skull previously discovered.

to overtake the Bible in popu, confidante; when the love story "The Piltdown type, we had con-larity," continued Mr. Foyle. The great labours exerted in Desti was again her comforter.

came to its unhappy ending Marincluded, had died out without leaving

issue, and the way was cleared for astonishing popularity, and is still "Mr. Wells' book has gained an the past by our highly paid Bri- She adopted Isadora's mode of giving ten of the Neanderthal type the next best seller after the tish Minister in Peking, however, dress her famous Greek costume undisputed away in the western part Bible, but in the inst twelve may not altogether be lost. Atand used to appear sometimes on of the Old

World from early months the Bible has shot ht some future time it may be pos-one time at the Bayreuth festival B.C.) until his extinction in the last second-hand copies of the cheaper

the stage;, until-ed the story goes pleistocene times (about 200,000 ahead.

To-day we even seall sible to take up the threads when Isadora was to perform in ice age. It was then that Nean-Bibles. where they have now been laid the Tannhauser dances, and sent thropic or modern man made his

"Recently, we sold 2,000 copies aside through no fault on the Marie Desti on instead so that she first appearance in Europe.

of a half-a-crown Bible, and order- herself might watch the effect of "Thus, the story of early man in ed another 1,000 copies in three part of the British Minister or of the dance from the audience. Europe wna becoming simple and months. The selections from the the British Foreign Office in

Mime, Wagner, Wagner's widow, straightforward. If I am right in Bible, specially arranged for chil London. Even then, however, it who was sitting watching with regarding the London woman as the dren, also became so popular that lovely direct descendant of Plltdown man, we published, a half-a-crown selee- will be no less imperative for the Marie Desti looked, growing very then our story becomes complicated tion of our own, and sold 5,000 in British Parliament to have the enthusiastic over. her beauty and once again, and the status of Pilt- fullest opportunity for study of grace. The temperamental Isadora down man himself must be recon.

"Schools, of course, take the and debate on the proposed ex ordered Marie Dasti off the stage,

flew into a rage at this praise, sidered.

great bulk of them, and students Site of Discovery. trality treaty before it is rati- and forbade her ever to appear in "It is a most extraordinary thing Bibles. But everyone, it seems, are among the biggest buyers of fied. British, subjects in China public as a dancer again..

that this skull should have been must have a Bible in the house, are entitled to know to what ex-

And Marlo never did. For the discovered in what is the oldest part "Old family Bibles, worthless a

of London.. tent their safety is being barter-rest of Isadora's life she looked of the City

The few years ago, bring £3 and £4 a ed by their diplomatic represen-

Thames Valley must have had part-time. Some years ago we cheerful- And when Isadora died Mariecular advantages for early manly gave away an old Bible to a tative and by their Foreign Office Desti became her biographer, in There was good hunting and fishing Cathedral library: to-day, a similar in London. If ever there was a "Isadora Duncan's End," a book in and perfect supplies of flints.

Breeches which she told 'something

copy is worth £100. case for open against secret Isadora's almost incredible life early men were influenced as were

"But I do not think that these Bibles bring from £10 to £50 each. diplomacy this matter of extra-story.

"When we buy up booka wa later settlers by the fact that Longenerally find at least one or two don is the lowest point at which the old Bibles among them, specially Thames can be forded. They moved if they are being cleared out of a about very little, and each tribe pro-house. I think the younger people exactly defined then discover they have not got a fishing and hunting rights more Bible and promptly get one:" closely preserved, than they are now. The nearest parallel to this dis- covery right in the City of London

lity in China is one, and no poli-]

Isadora; remarked

after her.

how

of

tical Party in Great Britain would MINISTER USES A WHISTLE. ever be forgiven, that betrayed M. Tardien's Scheme to Silence babin and noting

the Briton in China under the guise of a hypocritical gesture.

Opponents.

The spectacle of a famous

M. Andre Tardieu, the former

one month."

- GIRL'S SECRET FLIGHT,

If extrality, gradual or other- Some glimmering of sense wise, has to come, lot the Bri-French Minister light-heartedly is the finding of a Mousterian man seems. at long, last to have per-tish Foreign Office and the par-howing hearty blasts on a brand of about 40,000 years ago hear one that we is not far ahead A young woman who declares vaded the British Foreign Office. ticular Chinese regime with new-whistle in answer to the boos of the gates of Rome."

and catcalle of political opponents "Until the political conditions in whom it is negotiating put all provided a sensation at the Agri-states that Piltdown man had been shopping in neroplanes of the au- In his book, Sir Arthur Keith when women will be doing their China make it possible for a final their cards on the table long be cultural Exhibition which opened excluded from the ancestry of togyro type, landing perhaps on arrangement to be concluded it fore the hour for ratification ar at Toulouse recently.

modern man because of ape-like fea-to London to buy an autogyro and the roofs of shops, has just corro is not desirable that results so rives. Nothing less than that Prime Minister and now Minister tures in his jaw and teeth. far reached in the negotiations will satisfy the British in the of Agriculture, opened the exhibi-evolution before us," he writes, than 15,000 miles in it.

"With the evidence of parallel to make plans for a flight of more tion. for extrality, should be publish Orient!

She is Mias Elvinė Kalep, an and the presence of similar ape- Cries and boos greeted him out-like features, in the lower jaw of Estonian, who is well known in side the bullding and the catcalls Sinanthropus (Pekin Man) some

fying circles on the Continent. were renewed with increased of our objections to the ancestral "I have seen enough of the vigour inside by large groups of position of Piltdown man disappear she said to a reporter. "I am de world from trains and motor-cara," enthusiasts. M. Tardieu was not "We must take into account the

ed states the British Foreign Minister. Thus the work of the British Minister, in Peking. dur-

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"I want to prove, because of its so much waste of time and

it seems to me that the ancient pecial capabilities, that the auto money. Obviously

Ip-Tak-klu, an accountant of the extrality

As Socialist demonstratora fol- man of Sussex comes very near to gyro is, the machine of the future: Tak Lung fah stall,

the Western lowed him roand negotiations cannot be concluded Market, alleges in a report to the whistling and hoting, M. Tardieu in search of the early pleistocene

stands, being the ancestor we have beer for women."

· Miss Kalop declared that she in- with

a Chinese Government Police that two of his fokis, collect stood and faced them, threw away ancestor of the modern races of tended to devote two years to "in- that represents only part of the ed, by means of a forged chop, his cigarette, took off his hat, pre-mankind."

tensive" flying, "I have given up country. At the moment neither $552.50 from various-dealere.

duced a beautiful new whistle out

Fixing a Date.

my studio in Paris and 'deserted Nanking nor Canton can be con-

of his waistcoat pocket and blew. Much of Sir Arthur Keith's die-art for, a time," she said. "Fly Apparently, insano Lee Kam-shrill blast. Finally the oppost-cussion is concerned with the dating has gripped me." sidered. Both claim to be sau, norattan worker, jumped into tion retired hurt and M. Tardieu ing of the geological stratum in

She proposes to fly to the Far National Governments. An the harbour from Pier in Kow was allowed to complete his mis- which the London skull was found. East, but for the moment is keep agreement with one would doubt-loon yesterday in an alleged attempt alon undisturbed. "

The Thames Valley is marked by tien secret. "As I am able to de ing her route and actual destina- less be discredited by the other to commit suicide. He has been Later the demonstrations were a series of terraces representing Indecent haste has been observed observation.

removed to the Mental Hospital for renewed outside the building and successive upliftinge of the river my own repairs and as the auto- Sacialists seized chairs from a cafe bed, followed by successive erp have no cause to worry," she smil gyro can land anywhere, I ‘chhil in the past on the part of the

and threw them at the police alons. British Foreign Office in dealing Alleged to have been under the Mounted police then: dispersed the

The earliest of these terraces with affairs in China. It is re-influence of drink) a seaman, To demonstrators.

therefore, at the top" and the lat Fan (26), living at 895 Queen's freshing to see that it has now Road West, second, floor, fell into the 2,000 CHICKENS SENT BY AIR. dating of the London skull was est at the bottom. The original decided to hold its hand and harbour from Water Street yeater-

based on the supposition that "the stay-all further negotiations for day. He was rescued and removed Two thousand chickens were terrace in which it was found was extrality until the political situa- to the Government Civil Hospital: sent by air from Blackpool Aero- the lowest or 20-foot terrace, Na vpeye drame, Stanley Park to Croydon whereas Sir Arthur Keith shows tion in China la clearer than it

At the Marine Court this morn recently. They have been ordered that the opinion of geologiata is Today's dollar is worth 2/69%4 is at the moment. The best ing, before Commander Newill, for breading purposes by, the Rous overwhelmingly in favour of put thing that can be done is to await D.S.O., a Chinese sampan woman manian Government's Department ting the place of its discovery with the report of the British Minis- was fined 850 on a charge of trans of Agricultura) and were expected in the earlier or 60-foot terrace. A recrudescence of the troubler ter in China and gently and porting three women to a ship in to reach Bucharest two days later. But on the evidence of the skull which pecurred recently among the

barbour. She pleaded guilty, state o

Salone Sin Arthur Kbitli considers; railway employees at Canton re-/ gracefully place it in the archives Ing that she was not aware of the The forthcoming marriage is an that the London woman should be sulted in the stoppage of the Kew- at the British Foreign Office character of the woman.nounced of George Woodward, Civil Identified as a descendant of the loon-Canton railway service, yeater- until such time as the Chinese Bergeant, serving at Victoria jail, Piltdown man.. "The Pilldown day, Trains despatched from Kowa

close their ranks and shing contractor's matched

Chan Tal employed at the Wo

eth Blyth of 81, Morri- race," says Bir Arthur, "Ilved at loon were not permitted to return./u In son Hill.

the beginning of the first long in until late last night, but "In answer were with Jordan Road, was taken to the Kow

forester glacial of the pleistocene to a China Mail: repórter's Inquiry mant on Hospital yeater

ring →Six weeks' imprisonment was im2 period. ~~: The London-woman re- to-day, 9-Mrt: Winslow, ''general' through posed Wong Ful at the Kowloon prosants British humanity at the manager of the British Section, ich, became Pollesd to-day, for the theft of end of this period, to which a dura sald that the trouble · had been fillälde, at Kung &

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