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After the production of "Little. Women" 'Sam sent for his literary sxecutive.

"Reuben," he said, "Little Women" is a swell picture. Chase this Lout- sa Alcott woman. Maybe she can write us some more stuff.”

MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1934..

BAD MANNERS, PAST

AND PRESENT

SHEER RUDENESS IS RARE TO-DAY

EXAMPLES FROM HISTORY

(By The Duchess Of Sermoneta.)

I am always hearing how bad↑ Sarah Marlborough was another modern" manners are. Constantly duchess whose rudeness spared

she was in one of her ungovern.

I am told that in old times man. neither Queen nor commoner when ners were much better than they able rages)

Instead of saying that Miss Alcott had died in 1888, Reuben replied are now. flowerily that she had sailed for the Styx some time ago.

Queen Anne, having forgotten

I have heard this said in many her gloves, told her lady-in-wait-

Mr. Goldwyn's face registered languages in various countries orling, Abigail Hill-the duchess's

Europe. |disappointment and disapproval.

cousin to fetch them from the next room where she remembered But I must confess that I have having left them on the table. So

"That's the worst of these writ

ing guys," he said. “As soon as they makes a success, they goes and met with very little sheer rudeness records Mr. Bonamy Dobree, bio-

In my life. When I did mat it, the graphed of the duchess. buys a yacht."

Lexperience left me so bewilder that] Abigail found the Duchess

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An English Inventor

of

I realised at once how uncommon Marlborough seated at the table it was And the worst: instances engaged in reading a letter and Mr. Henry Ford's statement that that came my way were really mild wearing the gloves; she had evi- ja fortune awaited the man who compared with some that I have dently put them on by mistake. could invent a new method of wind-read about. On the whole we, Abigail, in a submissive tone, ing watches has brought an interest-have learned to restrain our tem-pointed this out to her. ing revelation.

pers-at least in public-in a way)

Brutal Rudeness.

An Englishman, the late Lawrence that seems to have been quite un-) Phillips, was the Inventor of the known to certain of our ancestors. "Ah!" exclaimed Sarah," have I keyless watch, which even before To me it is a personal satisfac-put on anything that has touched Mr. Ford's time revolutionised tions to find that the manners of the adious hands of that disagree- watch-making.

duchesses have not deteriorated injable woman?"" Then, pulling them Phillips was born in Bloomsbury the last two hundred years, judg-off,, she threw them on the floor, In 1842. He was educated at Dr.jing by the way the Duchess of exclaiming with violence: "Tako Pinches' school, where he had as Queensberry behaved to George II. them away!" schoolfellows Sir Henry Irving and Lord Hervey is my authority Here, The door was ajar and Queen Sir Edward Clarke.

"One Gay, a noet," as he de- Anne heard every word. The DEATH

jed; and it rather looks as though iced to a watchmaker in Clerken-cess with the Beggar's Opera, but destroy the friendship between the At the age of 14 he was appren-scribes him, had a prodigious suc- curious point is that this did not Oxford will never quite get to well, and four years later he invent-when he wished to produce two women. CHỦNG.Đ Tuesday, April 17,

the point of taking America toled the rocking-bar movement for second part of that work he found 1984, at her home. Shanghai,

The Marquise de Sevigne wrote- Roza Maria da Costa Chung, her heart-unless, of course, winding watches and produced the it banned by the Duke of Grafton, to her daughter an account of

then Lord Chamberlain, as it con-fashionable funeral in Paris and first keyless watch. ayed 29 years.

America becomes a "lost cause' 19

Phillips did not patent his inzen-tained caricatures of many well-described a passage of arms that All depends upon President tion, and although for 20 years he known people, including Sir Robert occurred in the church between Roosevelt. Into Mr. Cross's fur-(continued to manufacture keyless Walpole in the character of a high-two smart ladies. Mme. ther strictures of the Oxford watches, foreign competition even-waymah.

Choiseul passed in front of me. tually made the business

Gay decided to print the play by de Bonnelle, who loudly made ap Group Movement it is not

the munerative.

private subscription and mean-

offensive remark about her. anmental invective. The Duchess of

gleefully: "La Choiseul turned Queensberry, counting on her post-round: 'Heel Hee! Hee! Heel tion and beauty for immunity, said she, laughing under La Bon- threw herself into helping the aelle's nose like Harlequin, that is scheme: With reckless

imper-how one

answers lunatical' tinence "she caine into the Queen's passed on her way."

The China Mail

Hong Kong, Monday, April 23 1934.

Oxford And Her Movements.

It is difficult to reconcile old saying that "Oxford is home of lost causes" with

unre-

do

purpose here to enter. Oxford Watch-making was only one facet while Improved it by some supple- The queen of letter writers pens

2

and'

As an instance of brutal rude-

lends her name, quite unprotest-of Phillips's genius. He was

astronomer, an antiquary, and ingly until such a disclaimer as

writer- of distinction. (this is made, and continues to be

* ** indifferent to the things that are

Exclusive Islanders the done under her name. Mr. Cross

One of the Galapagos group, A1-japartment and went round the the hastens to assure us, however, bemarle Island, is inhabited by drawing-room, and made even theness among smaller fry, let me her that the modern student is in-three separate communities who King's servants contribute to the quote poor Fanny Burney's record

the present-day university gen- the Student Christian Movement. not run into double figures.

other. The total population does had forbid being recited:" 89 Keeper of the Robes to Queen

writes the shocked Lord Hervey. crally. The stronghold of con- The honour of studentdom

Charlotte. She suffered from de- JB The communities are composed as | servatism, into which ideas and saved. Yet to the outsider it is follows:

The Fury Of Woman

licite eyes and was constantly bul-

ideals were

"movements" and the attitude of terested in religion, especially hold no communication with each printing of a thing, which the King of her sufferings when, second

have such phenomena as "Ox- and art, one would only have to

other man

a woman

be

ber

we arrived in town, and in the

I-A pair of hermits. The man When George II. found out what led by her senior, Mrs. Schwellen- supposed to pene peculiar that the Group Move-is called Dr. Ritter, the woman Dore, all this whispering in corners was/berg, a fierce lady from Hanover. trate only when they had been ment has not obtained a greater Wear no clothes. Live on the pro-about the storm burst, and he des

"I had a terrible journey to tried and had failed elsewhere, hold on Oxford-unless, again, duce of their garden.

Stanhope to the Dr. Ritter Patched Mr.

town, Mrs. 'Schwellenberg finding a verbal message

it expedient to have the glass: is actually one of the most pro-she is biding her time. If one writes for the "Atlantic Monthly." duchess with gressive institutions in the wanted to-day to find what

2-A trio of hermits: a German that she was no longer to appear down on my side, whence there called Philipsen,

called at Court. Then the lady fairly let blew in a sharp wind which world. If a thing can be said to young England thought of mo- Baroness Wagner (sald to

herself go, and scribbled the fol-30 painfully attacked my eyes that have originated at Oxford, its dern questions and problems, to French, but a cuection of the lowing tempestuous reply, in which they were inflamed even before success is assured, and so we discover its attitude towards life Richard Wagner family), and an-her fury got the better of evening I grew so l I could not

literary style:-

Feb. 27th, 1728. go to Chelsea," writes Fanny in The Duchess of Queensberry her diary. Next day a Mr. de Luc. is surprised and wel! pleased who was in the coach with them. tried to help Fanny by putting that the King hath given her so agreeable a command as to stay up the glass, but Mrs. S. "raged

quite tremendously." from Court, where abe

"Put down that glass.” never came for diversion, but to bestow a great civility on the

(Continued on Page 3) King and Queen, she hopes by this is, that the King will see as- such an unprecedented order, as; few as he wishes at his Court, particularly such as dare to

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8-Another brace of hermits, with

cent" becoming famous or no-numerable societies which make The Philipsen party hold the Alt-i torious when in fact their con-work so impossible at the great-

ters in contempt, regarding them as poseurs, nection with the university or est of universities and existence part, can find nothing kind to say The Ritters, for their the town is merely putative. One so breathlessly entertaining. The fof the Philipsens, whom they decry never hears of things being rech-most iconoclastic

of modern as interlopers. ristened "Oxford" when they poets and painters have societies have failed of effect under other all to themselves, in which each names, and have at last found new work of theirs is discussed Read This To Your Wife. the traditional refuge. It is now and before which occasionally According to an author, there recognised that Oxford leads in they consent solemnly to read or are two kinds of women many matters. She gave us the display their productions. Tractarian Movement, with its latest political far-reaching consequences, and theories find a sympathetic audi-

"JUST A MINUTE, DEAR" lately she has been credited with tory, and it is safe to say that A fashion expert thinks that wo- yet another religious revival, the if any person wished to start a men dress more smartly nowadays. "Group Movement,"

All the society for the consideration of just as long as ever.

But most husbands, have to wait more astonishing is it, then, to nothing in particular, he would be reminded from the authorits have ample support among the Our (Down On Their) Upper tive lips of the Rev. L. B. Cross, undergraduates, Oxford is full;

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think or speak the truth. I dare Eddie Credited With

Six Children.

New York.

not do otherwise, and ought not nor could have imagined that it would not have been the very highest compliment that I could possibly pay the King to en- Eddie Cantor, the eye-rolling deavour to support truth and in-jeomedian of “Whoopee" ・ and “The nocence in his home, particular-Kid from Spain," is a family' man. ly when the King and Queen both But he is a stickier for accuracy. told me that they had not read Here is his letter to the Editor of Mr. Gay's play. I have certain-the (New York) Literary Digest:- ly done right then, to stand by

"Sir: my own words rather than his "You should

see my mail-all Grace of Craften's, who hath due to the fact that on page 30 nelther made use of truth, Judg.) of your December 9 issue: you ment or honour, through this credited me with six daughters. whole affair, either for himself "When I loft home this morn- or his friends.

ing there were still five. If there Is a sixth It was born In your columns.

C. Queensberry, Mr. Stanhope, after humbly beg ging the duchess's, pardon for being so rash as to offer any [advice, implored that the answer he had to carry should be less

“Don't encourage me!

(Signed) EDDIE 'CANTOR."

-Bouter.

Chaplain of Jesus College and of movements and organisations, families are on the verge of bank- Vice-Principal of Ripon Hall, who buzzing with them, and getting ruptcy," declares a French obser has recently made a pronounce along, in theory, at a terribly ver. ment on the matter, that the fast rate. The groves of Aca- movement was not an Oxford deme are no longer sequestered University organisation, but and retired, quiet refuges in sonality." arose in America, and was "de-which grave and black-gowned cidedly American in its ideas and scholars may walk in silent con-Overheard In The City, methods." Furthermore, “It had templation, homes for Laputan "Two years ago we became part-roughly. Upon which the choleric nothing to do with the "univer-philosophers, but a scarcely di-the experience."

aers-I bad the money and he had beauty wrote another letter so much the worge, that the poor man sity, and was a kind of revival-visible part of the great world,"And now he has the money and sadly took the first and delivered morning broadcasts at Norwich, Ism, plus American boost." The into which incursions, are made you have the experience?" name, we learn, was bestowed by by any clement at all. Oxford South Africans upon a group of is very much alive, and mover, if

"The world is very, very hard," students visiting there. So are not with the times, then often says a writer. So I've discovered our cherished beliefs demolish-before them.

in the garden lately,

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