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MONDAY, MAY 15, 1933.

KING'S

THEATRE

COMMENCING

SUNDAY

21ST MAY

JACK

HULBERT

&

CICELY

LITERARY NOTES

WHEN DEATH COMES] CLOSE.

Viscountess Rhondda's Striking Book.

"THIS WAS MY WORLD.”

London.

to her

position.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Jealousy In High Politics

Joseph Chamberlain The "Cheesemonger"

HIS

DIRTY"

Bons

The means of ascent were

TRANSACTION

life.

WAS

:

FAREWELL DINNER TO NAPOLEON'S

MR. G. F. TAYLOR. Officer In Charge Of Lighthouses.

INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS- AND SHIPBUILDERS.

Mr. G. F. Taylor, Officer in Charge

gold

PRIVATE

LIBRARY

Britisher's Gift To France.

6,000 VOLUMES

NEW HARBOUR FOR PALESTINE

British Engineering Triumph.

Haifa.

It is now reckoned, thanks to British engineering enterprise.......... that one of the finest harbours in the Eastern Mediterranean An English millionaire, Mr. It is the new harbour here, built will be completed this Autumn.

Berlin,

or

&

of Lighthouses, Hong Kong, who is There is some strong stuff in

leaving the Colony on retirement, "This Was My World" (Macmillan, 10/6)

by the sa. Carthage on Mar 20, was Jaffe, is reported by a local news to accommodate more than in which Viscountess

last night presented with a

paper to have bought the private Rhondda, the daughter of the first

wrist watch and a cheque, by Mr. G. Library of Napoleon for pre-time. The work is being carried score of large vessels at the same Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller)

Joseph Chamberlain was the ful, dishonourable and shameful Tully, President of the Institute of sentation to the French nation. out entirely under British loo towards the end of the World War, first man to emerge from the periods in British history. How Engineers and. Shipbuilders, on be The library, which consists of

tradesman-middle class into the Gladstone ever survived them is a half of the members.

6,000 volumes, suddenly appear- recounts her experiences.

gineering and technical super mystery. He certainly never re- The presentation took place at a after it had lain unheard of for mony has been fixed for a day in

ed for sale in a German bookshop; limelight of the world of politics.covered his old popularity or

vision. She has been imprisoned 25 A

AB-smoking concert, held at the Insti-years in the possession of the October

The grand inauguration cere Suffragette, she was picked up for

Peel, Gladstone and Mr. Bald-cendancy. Any other, man would. dead after the sinking of the win were all the of their have been driven out of public tate under the Chairmanship of Mr. family of Napoleon's Austrian

fathers, the sell of whose achieve- Lusitania-and she refers

P. T. Farrell, About one hundred wife, Marie Louise.

Up to the end of last year, Chamberlain the junior members attended to farewell Mr. up for sale by one of the Aus-on constructing the new harbour. It was put about £1,000,000 had been spent marriage as "as uncomfortable life ment went with them into the member of that Ministry, in which Taylor.

trian Archdukues. For the last! sentence."

ground, and who sent their boys he held a subordinate post. Still

Mr. Tulley, in making the presen-continuous efforts to sell the transit sheds are now being few years the firm has made ed from the sea and two huge A large area has been reclaim- Lady Rhondda stated that the to Eton and Harrow, Christ he must take his share of respon-tation referred to Mr. Taylor's eo- Ibrary, having resolved to break task her father undertook as Food Church or Trinity.

sibility with the rest; and, though journ of 32 years in the Colony, and it up and sell it by separate Controller In 1917 killed him A

Chamberlain he may not have been as lazy as to the services rendered by him to volumes if no purchaser could be willing to subscribe the sum

erected.-Reuter doctor warned him that his heart rose directly from the manufac-Granville or Hartington, he was the Institute, in the positions of found for the whole. could not stand the strain of hard ture of screws and the Birming-active in the dirtiest transaction Vice-President, Chairman, and Vice-The work-but he insisted on working ham Town Council to the second

of the Irish policy,

Chairman mentioning his enthusiasm through the Ambassador in Ber- and recently

French government;

fever a substantial portion of it. at enormous pressure.

Mr. Jaffe, who is 90 years old, highest position "He refused to touch his ration

in the State,

Parnell's Letter.

for wireless, he described him aslin, began to take an interest in dalmond wedding, is said to have The historian of the future will the pioneer of broadcasting in the library and many French bought it for France. The celebrated his of sugar," she recalls. "We never Three years after his death Mr. hardly believe his eyes when he knew till it was too late that a man Lloyd George rose from a lower reads that Parnell was imprisoned Mr. Taylor in thanking the mem- be bought by the nation.

the Colony. with a bad heart, who was working rung of the ladder to a higher for "marching through rapine to!ers of the Institute for the mark Jibrary was then transferred to valuable autographs and notes people demanded that it should Library, which consists mostly at full pitch, needed, according to

the dismemberment of the Empire" of appreciation they had shown French and an attempt made to in the Emperor's hand. Parts of The of historical works, contain many medical theory, his quota of sugar. From Monday to Friday he ate no

(Gladstone's words), and that, him, stated that he had always en-collect the money needed to buy it accompanied him on his cam- meat at all,,..

in after a few weeks' imprisonment, deavoured to give of his utmost int both cases the same, are always he was released on the writing of the service of the Institute, and ow-out avall.

But all appeals were with-paigns to Egypt and Russia "Every day the official bag from the sume-attacks upon establish a letter promising, if released, to the Food Ministry arrived and be

ing to the co-operation of other

There was no one Reuter. would go through all the papers it

led institutions and the possessors¡der and robbery.

use his influence to put down mur-members had been enabled to at- contained. Often he was so tired of wealth and privilege. The doc-incredulity will deepen into dis- He denied the rumour that he in-

The historian's tain good results. that he dropped asleep as be trine of ransom was echoed with gust when he learns that the let tended to return to the Colony, but

Iter In question, known

stated that he would settle down in Kilmainham Treaty, was drafted England. Referring to his position Her father was with her on board Limehouse. the Lusitania when that ship was Joseph Chamberlain entered the with Parnell's child dying in the that he had obtained much pleasures by Parnell and the cuckold O'Shea, as billiards handicapper, he stated struck by a German torpedo. She House of Commons at a by-election adjoining room, at the houss at when occupying this position, and gives grim and vivid impressions of her experience.

jia 1876, about three weeks before carried on a game of Box and Cox.

Eltham where Parnell and O'Shea had made many friends. When she reached the deck a

Disraeli left it for "another For Chamberlain's share in stream

place." It is amusing to speculate complicity with of steerage

passengers how Disraeli, if he had remained transactions we must refer the these revolting their way to a boat.

"They were white-faced and ter-The two men were antipodean inclusions.

with the Brummagem Robespierre- which he may draw his own con- rifled; I think they were shrieking," outlook and temperament, and in she records, "there was no kind of

The "unco guid" believed that order-the strongest got there first,

their reactions.

the pious Gladstone knew nothing the weak were pushed aside."

of the relations between Parnell and Mrs. O'Shea. Twenty years Victoria the afterwards Professor J. H. Mor just then. Even at that moment Faery Queen, and in describing gan,

K.C., death would have seemed better her first Council "in a palace in O'Shea's book, in which she states referred to Mrs. than to make part of that terror garden," and her receipt of the that Gladstone knew all along the balance the Budget and deal with A Bill, granting emergency pow ers to the Belgian Government to customary kiss, spoke of "that soft nature of Parnell's relations with the financial situation was to-day hand which might inspire trouba-herself, to which Lord Morley re- passed by the Chamber by 90 vetes Cours and guerdon knights." Mr. plied: "I dare say he did. Mr. G. Chamberlain, in describing the was a man of the world. He knew to 82, after a 29-hour sitting. fought to come up. I was terrified same ceremony by 3 batch of that in politics you have to take

read..

Lusitania Wreck Echo.

filial piety from Newcastle

to

д the

or

COURTNEIDGE rushed up from below and fought where he was, would have dealt reader to Mr. Garvin's pages, from

IN

"JACK'S

THE

BOY"

THE PRIME

MINISTER

OF MIRTH

IN BRILLIANT

COMEDY.

A DELUGE OF

WIT AND

LAUGHTER

DAILY MAIL..

A Gainsborough Picture Released by

The British Film Distribution Co., Ltd., Hồng Kong.

She had to turn away. "It was

Seeing Red.

not safe to look at horrible things Disraeli called

infected crowd."

She went down with the ship.

was sucked right down with her.

"

It was very dark, nearly black. I

of being caught on some part of the Privy Councillors, writes, "and men as you ship and kept down. That was the

then

a small fat red hand was that. worst moment of terror, the only thrust quickly under each of our noses and respectfully mumbled by ua."

mament of acute terror, that knew.

Taken As Dead.

Clutching

was then," writes

I

find them." That's

When Ireland. "Sizzled." This was the cuff, and kiss period of Ireland's misgovernment,

I don't believe Queen Victoria's First, a half-hearted attempt to hands were red. It was Joe Cham-put down murder and treason by

Lord Beaconsfield was childish-

SEW

(1), followed by a Land Bill by:

a bit of board, she berlain who saw red, or perhaps it the law, denounced as coercion managed to survive that awal was the reflection of his necktle. tragedy. Terrible scenes were be- ing enacted round her. Bitter cold! gripped her.

But she was not real-calling the Mayor of Birmingham of Indulgence was shown to the ly annoyed by Lady Bradford's which, at the expense of England

and Scotland, some exceptional acti ly afraid.

"When death in as close as he tady-love, "I went this morning to the space to follow the detalls of a great man, and wrote to his thriftless Irish tenant. I have not Lady Rhondda, the House of Commons, and "the sharp agony of fear is not Mr. Chamberlain, who looked and kept Ireland sizzling for five years. there; the thing is too overwhelm- spoke like a cheese-monger." This Nor do I admit that the simul- the chicanery and intrigue which, ing and stunning for that."

She was picked up by a boat and Chamberlain was handsome and and Redistribution, Bill was Chum- was ill-natured, for at that time? taneous passing of the Franchiso taken on board the Bluebell. They! thought she was dead. Sailors, was a trifle provincial, and that he the House of Lords. Exactly the spruce. It is true his dandylam,berlain's and Dilke's triumph over however, applied artificial respira-wora elastic-side boots, make-up contrary was the truth. tion and she recovered,

When landed from the Bluebell at the aged Dizzy deigned to be. This first period of Chamber- ties, etc. Could it have been that Queenstown Harbour, she saw at jealous? It is the end of the gangway-her lovers."

öld lain's. career closes with thể father-Reuter,

tragedy of Gordon, Chamberlain's conduct was heartless and brutal Chamberlain's career is divided grace." There was Gordon dying. in regard to this "Indelible dis- into three phases.

daily like a rat in a hole in the (1) There was the Jacobinical desert, and Chamberlain the while phase, from 1880 to 1885, when he too busy with his Shipping Bill was fighting the Whigs, Gladstone, and manoeuvring for position in

VICKI BAUM'S NEW BOOK.

a foible

"A Dangerous Man."

Irritating Character In and Hartington, hacking his way the contest with the Lords, to do

"Martin's Summer.”

to the front, and when he was more than make a passing re- regarded by the majority of his ference or two in his letters to It is a pity that Martin Hell In terror, as a dangerous man." of Corden'e desertion on the countrymen with dislike and Dike and Morley as to the effect Miss Vicki Baum's book is so These were the days of partner electors. It is too much. frritating.

He has so many charms-a per half-hearted republicaniam, of

ship with his evil gentus Dilke, of The Life of Joseph Chamber- fect physique, youth, good looksThoy toil not neither do they that the whole female population in and such like rubbish. of Frauensee, a lake town in they

Austrian Tyrol succumbs on sight. (2) There was the phase of Im

A penniless young engineer, he perialism, when, being disencum- tries to earn money during the bered of Dilke, and becoming, criti holiday season by teaching swim cal-shall we may jealous?-of in susceptibility to women and champion of the Union with mings by ALAM Borley, he stood forth as the This general inability to manage Ireland, and later as the coadjutor This affairs, business or other, with at Rhodes in the Boer War. This

lain. By J. L Garvin Vol. L (1856 1885) .. Chamberlain and Democracy, (Macmillan, 21s,)

HORRORS, TERRORS AND QUAKES,

To make the far creep and the

even a modicum of sense make one phase lasted from 1880 to Lord hair, stand on end is the object of impatient of his misfortunes. Salisbury's retirement In 1902, Messrs. Philip Allan in adding to

On the whole, sympathy is with during which he was only half their Craeß Series

the prospective father-in-law, who trusted by the Moderate Tories.

as if Martinis congenital (3) There was the final apogee

Idiot

hot Tariff Reform, when he had an

Apart from this "Martin's Bum- enthusiastic following, scattered. mer" (Geoffrey Blas, 78. Ed.) con- amongst all parties, and now, like ligh tains dàlightful character sketch

layposthumatın glory.

of odd people such as Miss Bauma

non can drag en successfully

latest "three volumes

„Terrois Mengand -should: ers: who ide

orders, the and their

angw, the

ars between 1880 and, outcome nong the most disgrace- ties of dabbling. In

ppasibili

occulte

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