1931-07-13 — Page 7

MONDAY, JULY 13, 1931.

MARIE CORELLI'S HOME

Books Sealed "with A Prayer.

EVERYTHING THE SAME.

If Marie Corelli, who died in Christ I commend this work and all 1924, came back from the grave and work I may ever do or have done. walked into her four-hundred-year--Ave Marie." old house she would find the place exactly as it was on the day of her death.

The great woman novelist's house in the bustling High Street of Shakespeare's "Town" is one of Britain's most, beautiful homes of yesterday (writes a Daily Express correspondent),

one.

Marie Corelll's old peix-ne was great animal lover-are nearly all I saw two-the last remain- ng pair, a tame dove Popsie, and Ariel, a shaggy old Shetland pony who lost his mate Puck a couple of years ago.

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Perfect Picture.

THE

WISECRACKS OF WHOOPEE “QUEEN."

She Could Chase Al Capone Out of U.S.!

HER PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.

Here are a few sidelights on Texas Guinan, America's night club "queen," who recently re- turned to America in a huff after being refused permission to land in Britain or France.

CHINA MAIL.

SHIPPING "RING" MENACE:

Manufacturers} Protest

Government.

SERIOUS CHARGE.

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"NO TIME FOR INERTIA.”

Major Bibby on the Shipping.. Outlook.

The Worcestershire, the latest | and largest of the Bibby Line of "British ships are carrying Bri-motor vessels, has just completed tish gooda to New Zealand at a her first ten weeks' trip to Egypt, freight rate 50 to 125 per cent. Colombo, Rangoon, and the Straits higher than British ships are Settlements, carrying American goods from She is slightly larger than her New York to the dame market."! sister ships, having accommoda- "The world's made up of just

This serious charge is contained tion for 186 passengers, and is de two kinds of people the takers in a memorandum which has been lightfully roomy, light, and airy. and the took. I take 'em!" sent to Mr. William Graham, Pre- All her cabins, which are one and Ariel spends the twilight of his "Never give a sucker a break;sident of the Board of Trade, by two berth only, with the exception days in the beautiful meadow sur- it's a waste of time!".

a large group of important manu- of three of four intended for rounding Marie Corelli's house-un- "There are only two kinds of facturers.

family use, have portholes oparing approachable to all except the dead suckers those that know they It is the first step in, the war on to the aides of the vessel, and novelist's house-hold staff who still are and those that don't." The which has broken out between the all passenger accommodation is remain at the house.

first likes being a sucker; the industrialists of Britain and the above the main deck. Miss Vyver led me to the latticed other is so dumb he wouldn't be shipping conferences-or "rings": Major Bibby, Chairman of the door leading from the drawing-lieve he's a sucker if you proved-who are blamed for blocking the Line, speaking at a luncheon given room. "Could you and anywhere af it to him!"

expansion of our export trade. on board, referred to the bad time more perfect picture of British These are typical examples of

Factory Prices.

through which the shipping. trade beauty than this?" she said gestati Texas Guinan's philosophy, couch- "What are we going to do?" the is now passing, and stated that it cally.

ed in her own language (writes export sales manager of a large was necessary to get rid of the un American in the Daily Ex-group of companies said to the inertia that prevented people from press).

Daily Express. "Our products are trying new things and

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Sightseers flock to Stratford by the thousands every week of the Summer season, yet few who pass the ivy-coverud Elizabethan house where Marie Corelli found repose, solitude, and inspiration for her work guess the hidden gem of old British beauty which is contained in the dead novelist's house.

Miss Bertha Vyver was Marie Corelli's lifelong friend. She came Into the novelist's life when Marie I looked out, seemingly for milles, Corelli was a child. She was her, along an avenue of poplar trees and devoted companion during the whole rhododendron bushes, many of thera In thirty years of acquaint-equal, if not superior, to the methods shipowners must do their time the novelist was at Stratford- planted by Marie Corelli's own ance with Tex I have known her American article. Our price at part and provide services that on-Avon, and now she has consec-hand-out through a four-hundred- to invent, on the spur of the mo the factory is competitive. were regular, punctual, and effi rated the remainder of her life to

ment, dozens of pungent aphor "Yet when we deliver in the cient at the lowest possible rates. keeping Marle Corelli's home exact-

isms which subsequently have Dominion market we find that the lyn it was in the novelist's life.

become part and parcel of the foreign manufacturer has an over- lime.

litany of America's underworld, whelming advantage over us in his

Even Will Rogers-acclaimed lower freight rates, as the, twentieth century. Mark "Both products, mind you, have Twain has not coined a greater been transported in British chips. number of original wisecraks Why is there this unfair dis-

"crimination?" than Texas.

it was this faithful friend herself who was my guide when I visited Maric Corelli's home, She came to greet me with an old-world grace and 'chynity na 1 stood waiting on the mat which has the word "Wel-

surface.

"Everything is as it was when i

year old archway of stone with a double sundial on its roof.

There was beauty, peace and so- litude in Marie Corelli's old-world garden-the garden which gave the novelist inspiration for some of her moat beautiful' chapters.

There was an old garden seat in a rase bower. It was Marie Corelli's favourite garden seat where she sat

nings planning her novels.

dow looking out on to the garden. The window was wide open to let in the fresh morning air. It was Marie Coreill's bedroom-the room where she died.

Is disturbed," said Marie Corelli's tank. lifelong friend.

Old Oak Armchair. Then she led me through the house, I looked at the dining-room. There was Marie Corelli's old oak armchair-the chair she alway used at the head of the table. There were flowers on the table freshly gathered from the garden.

Miss Vyver led me to a glass case and showed me original manuscripts of Murle Corelli's works which she carefully preserved. Then she let me into a secret of the great nove

Fresh Flowers,

Every morning Marie Carelli's maid enters the room to dust the things on the dressing table Freshly gathered flowers are put on the table. It is the only room where no stranger ever enters-it

Retort to a "Star.”

...

DREDGE'S EXCITING VOYAGE.

Severe Buffeting on Voyage to Melbourne.

When `n

I recall a night several years 'The "ease of an agricultural; come" stamped out boldly on its for hours in the cool Summer eve- ago at the Guinan night club mower was cited. The machine when I had the privilege of be-sold for $14. The freight rates The seat was freshly painted-ing one of a little party which in- from the United Kingdom to New When her rudder chains parted. Marie Corelli was alive-nothing the faithful Bertha's springtime cluded such brilliant wits as Net Zealand was £3 higher than it was and the dyname-room was flooded Goodwin, Wilson Mizner, and from New York to the same port. by a heavy sea, the crew of the looked up at a little lattice win-Willie Collier. Nat was teasing The result was that in 1929 New dredge Sir George Lloyd, which Tex about being a sure thing Zealand bought 3,500 mowers, of arrived at Williamstown (Mel- gambler, ending with a point which only 250 were British and bourne) from Bombay, had an ex- blank accusation that she would the remainder largely American.

citing experience. The voyage never take a chance.

Buying Britishi,

was made in moderate seas until Me? Take a chance?". Tex Another striking instance, has the AustraHan Bight was reached, shot back with assumed fetocity. been cited, in which British con reports the Argua. Here the ves "Listen, you little red-headed cerns are competing with foreign sel was buffeted severely, and shrimp! I'll jump off the top of manufacturers for the order of when the rudder chains parted the Woolworth building and land two wil engines for Buenos Aires.she began to drift. The engineers

The Argentiniana who in a bottle of ink!"

have were able to repair the damage, hitherto used German machines however, although they were Another night David Warfield, for the work required, are now an-greatly handicapped by the heavy is the most sacred room in the then the greatest box-office at-xious to buy in the British mar-rolling of the vessel. house in the faithfal Bertha's eyes, traction in the United States, and ket, largely as a result of the wave swamped the dynamo-room Every time Marie Corelli ended 1 peeped into Marie Corelli's starring in his greatest success, good will created by the visit of the dynamo was put out of action, `a book she uttered a prayer. "Pco-study. There were the books on

"The Music Master," dropped in the Prince of Wales.

and the crew was forced to work The British manufacturers have waist deep. in water at times, and nie any Marie Corelli had no re- the table the last volumes she at Guinan's. ligion," said Miss Vyver, "Look at used-just as they were the last Instantly Tex spotted him she discovered, however, that there is in darkness. this:" She held up the last page time she sat at her table writing.

strode over to his table and loud-}" serious discrepancy between The Sir George Lloyd is a suc-. of the 'Sorrows of Satan,' which had |

A bowl of lilies stood on a table ly demanded that he get up on shipment from Britain to the Ar- tion cutter dredge which was come back to Marie Corelli from the in the ante-room of Marle Corell's the dance floor and do his old-gentine and from the Continent built in 1921 by Simons and Co., printers with its secret unprobed, study-they were the first lilles of time act of the Jewish collar but-The difference is more than £260 Renfrew, and has been engaged in and it might have remained an un- the year from the great novellat's ton pedlar the low comedy on the two machines. This prac-reclamation work in the Back Bay, solved riddle for all time had not beautiful garden, and every morn turu which twenty-five years tically rules out the possibility of Bombay, for several years.

She Misa. Vyver gained the key.

The ing from now onwards until the Sum- earlier had started him on the the United Kingdom securing the was bought by the Commissioners last page of the novel was gummed mer ends the rooms which 'Marie road to fame.

of the Melbourne Harbour Trust to another piece of paper, and Miss Corolli made sacred for ever in the "My dear Texas," protested Repeated attempts have been for £32,500, Her original cost Vyver steamed this page one day eyes of this faithful old friend will Warfield in his most impressive made by British manufacturers to was £400,000, which included pipe- and read this prayer in Marie be perfumed with the scent of the manner, "I am amazed at you get the shipping firms operating lines and pontoons,

from Corelli's hand writing-

flowers from her beautiful old-world Don't you realise that I'm a great

Britain to consider their gross register of 1,142 tons, and "To Thee, O God, and my Saviour' garden.

star? Why, every night case. Officials of the various an overall length of 250 ft. The make hundreds of men

and companies have been interviewed. main section pipe has a diameter women weep!"

The facts have been put strongly of 45 in., and a capacity of 2,000 "She resents the servility to her "So can an onion," Tex retort- from the manufacturers' point of cubic yards an hour. husband that most marriages imply ed.

list's life.

DIVORCE IS A REVOLT.

Love Is Not Guarded

by Marriage. JUDGE'S OPINION.

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harems.

order.

view.

Conference Reply.

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She has &

NOVEL WAR MEMORIAL.

It consists of the shattered, trail

a servility which in many (Ameri-In-the-dozen years during The-result-is-said-a-promin can) homes la no better than it was which Texas has been running cnt manufacturer, "that we are a thousand years ago in Asiatic night clubs in New York she has told that the matter must be plac

Woman's Triumph.

never failed to greet every pa-ed before the conference,

A war memorial of an unusual tron-in person — her salutstion "Now, the conference, a group character was unveiled at Fresh- 'goes by sucker

as out and frees herself, first he never varying. It is "Hello, gether by agreement, have to use men or of Wight, in honour of gether by an agreement, have no the men of the Fifth Hants Howit divorce and then by profitable oc Tex makes no bones about it legal business address. We are zer Battery, Royal Field Arillery, cupation.

In business hours she is all busi- unable to write to them. We can Territorials, who played an heroic Listen to Judge Bartlett, of Reno, divorce is the hanner of woman's nothing to her.

"Society's wide acceptance of ness; friendship as such means not interview them. They are as part in the defence of Kut." the paradise of divorce, where mar triumph over martial' slavery;

She puts her elusive as they are powerful, for riage knots are now being untied

Inbel on you as you enter and if they have the last word in the or one of the batter's guna which at the rate of eighty a day:

If she is well-informed, emotion you are in any doubt about the question of freight rates. was blown up by them before the "More than ever before in my life upon ultimate marital happiness will have to admit she is right- ally controlled, and determined accuracy of her appraisal, you

surrender of the town. The trail; I believe in love between man and she will try more than one man if when you get your bill!

"We usually hear, later on, in still bearing the name of the bat- language of no uncertain charactery, was discovered amongst some "Marriage alone will not achieve her first husband does not work out.

ter, thats the conference has con- rubbish in the streets of Kut about "She will not burden herself with Actually Texás belongs to an eldered our application without a year ago by a former member of "Children are not necessary to it failure in one anion dampen her which produced Walt Whitman alteration in the rates."

children. And she will not let her other age, the pioneer days seeing any reason for making an the battery, Flight-Lieutenant'] "Passion is only a fraction of it clean and self-respecting ardour Joaquin Miller, and Bret Harte other point which the manufactur- About twenty survivors of the Ernest Drudge, who shipped It "Like the magic spark of life, love for a second. Many women thus She is as blasphemous as they ers attack in the policy of British Kut defence were present at the

The deferred rebate" la an home... is both a mystery and a vital force.

"Our clumsy artifices of marriage that is only one stop short of pure of the conventions,

achieve a progressive monogamy were and quite as intolerant shipping companies. Shippers are ceremony, which was performed by and divorce pertain as little to its

polygamy."

In her time she has lived nequired to pay 5 per cent, on the Colonel H. G Thomson, D.8.0. Thus the new American philoso rough a life as any of Jack Lon-amount of the freight plus. 2s. 6d. who was in command of the battery. pertain to the mighty trunk abova Phy of marriage appears to combine don's fictional characters-an charge. Gogh.

aton, which is called a "primage All the advantages of polygamy entertainer in mining camps from Judge Bartlett, as he is still without any of the advantages of Colorado to the Klondike months, but i cancelled it the accept any terms shipping firms called, was for many years judge of Mormonism.It is polgamy with Before the war she tried her shipper sends goods, by any line wish to laffct. Reno Court where, divorce is grant/out any of the disadvantages of hands at motion pictures nots forming part of the confer The 'system of deferred, rebates')

woman....

or guard it.

· strength and beauty as do the woods. that grow beneath the towering oak

them.

ad more quickly than in most parts out a life contract. I

Mormonismi: It is polygamy with

of the world, except Russia,

Servility, Resented.TERS

He makes the declaration just quoted at the end of a new book, "Men, Women and Conflict," which hase the sub-title "An Intimate Study, of Love, Marriage, and Di- vorced for

Pioneer Days.

This sum is returnable after sixtee

ambition being to become the excep female Bill Hart. As a two The manufacturers claim that British companies, sailing from 18 illegal in the United States. gun cowgirl she starred in this Is designated as a progressive New York are not allowed to make several Western films, but even means of binding export firms to this charge

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Inscription fin fargo) letters are nearly 400 signatures of friends However, that there has licen but Al

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