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Then {ber?.

suddenly.

all ridiculous situations! Had it! disas not been such an appalling

**Jabe would have laughed herself

How it happened she never But to her it was the end of knew. Perhaps there was a slight everything!ya

ber That

|| unevenness of the step: perhaps It was not only that she had The charges for drunkenness she caught her foot in the trailing made a fool of herself, but worked out at 7.587 per 1,000 of them of her dress. Whatever beautiful play was spoilt. the population of London in the cause, she stumbed ...hrch-last scene, over which she had worked and wearied, had been 1910. Last year they were only ed... tried to save herself ... 2066 per 1,000 2426 police staggered ungracefully down the made an absurdity. She could not rere assaulted by prisoners in remaining steps, and fell in a heap so on could not say those 1910; in 1934 there were only at the bottom. Jimmy, seeing her delicate, graceful lines, after such trip. had rushed forward to estchan anticlimax. 2 It seemed that her, but had succeeded only in the only thing to do was to zing colliding with her, so that he, too, down the curtain and slink away She dared not] If some types of lawlessness lost his balance, and they fall toto oblivion.-.. have decreased, the constant gether.

look at Athol, He, of course, was stream of social legislation, be- Picture it. If you can! jlaughing, too. And who could Butoh: how she

638.

Social Legislation

-

Jeanette

sides throwing entirely fresh Jimny and Jeanette seated side by blame him? work upon the police constable inside on the floor of the stage, with writhed at the thought! - the streets, has necessarily. -legs a sprawl, and a trail of artiJimmy was speaking now, im jvolved a "considerable increase ficial Bowers adorning Jiminy's provising to give her time to re-

herself...

old Good in the administrative · staff at head. I. Small wonder that the cover

"She must not let him: PENINSULA & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY headquarters. 1910 saw the first audience roared with hysterical Jimmy

effects of the Children Act laughter

j-down. She waited for her cue, Swearing under his breath, and, when it came, spoke without STEAMERS (1908) and the Licensing Consoli

[dation Act (1910). In the en-Jimmy scrambled to his feet and a tremor. 1suing years have come Shops helped her up. They stood a me-

It was all over, Acts. Firearms Acts, farther ment together, waiting for the sat in the dressing-room still in Children Acts and Licensing audience to quieten down. But as her make-up. All about her, was j Acts, and above all a spate of fret there was no sign of return- flurry of girls dressing and chat- They had tried to cheer Traffic Acts.

ing composure. Wave after wave tering. "It can readily be imagined,” of mirth rolled up and burst over her up, but without success. - the Commissioner of Police re-the two on the stage. Jeanette No words of theirs could atter the ported in 1869, "that out of 3-was one scorching blush of shame fact that her play had become al 500.000 people all more or less from head to foot.... Jimmy,thing for laughter. AD the beauty interested in the police a consi-she saw, was scarlet.

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steps?

Hard luck for

of her, Of course ``."but it was funny!... I{

langhed till I cried."

Perhaps she exaggerated.

But

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cation has enabled almost all of taken full

She was morbidly self- effect the Forcement & them to write.

should. for the first time in its conscious. The exaltation that she

now made her! history, consist from top to bat had felt before tom of men who have made the misery more acute by contrast.

They told her that Athol was police service their profession

She shiver-

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designed for the needs of 1890, rare of the Force; new district One by one the rest went" and SAILINGS is no longer adequate for the sports grounds have been opened, left here Jimmy came pre-

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"NAUGHTY MARIETTAT ever, and in 1934 there were 21,- 573 identifications from finger-

ORIENTAL THEATRE

The script of the play lay on the table where the prompter had left prints, about double the figures

She remembered that it Drama, romance, thrills, and it.. of 1910. Altogether, there are now over 500,000 sets of prints in the gorgeous music of Victor Her-was the only complete copy she

had. She went over and picked it sented itself to her. Suppose re-write It Jeanette, you must. he cabinets of Scotland Yard.

greatest operetta, are blended in Naughty Marietta. The leaves fell apart in her she let that creeping flame have its It is too good to be lost The year 1910 saw the super-

"Oh, Athol

what's the session of police rowing boats by which is showing at the Oriental hands; sentences leapt out at her way who would care?

striking her bruised con- Not Athol He had gone

good?*** 10 motor-boats on the Thames Theatre to-day.

she supposed, with the She stood up. Her arm was In the same year the use of pedal

The photoplay is based on the sciousness like so many blows of a laugh

they might laugh throbbing now; she felt week and bicycles by police on duty was

Victor Herbert masterpiece. The whip bringing back to her others dramatic side of the adventure, with horrible vividness the catas-They would not laugh at her much sick. authorised and was regarded as thrills and perils of the period is trophe and all that it meant.

“I must go home," she said. a valuable asset for greater mo-

Her sleeve was well alight: now; He slid a supporting arm around Fbility.

The Force boasted four stressed as a thundering back-She could not bear! She felt a

She there was a smell of burning cloth.her. motor-cars and eight motor des ground for the glamorous, music, sudden hatred of the play.

Such song hits as "Ah, Sweet Mycrewed it up in her hands and She took a deep breath ... Sud-

"The car is waiting. But patch vans.

stery of Life," "I'm Falling in ung it aside. It fell in the denly she heard Athol's voice: Telephones Substituted

Love with Someone Tramp corner beside the little grate that Jeanette are you there?” During that year telephones Tramp, Tramp

Italian was half full of papers.

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This

The

her hands.

that nearly all police stations support Jeanette MacDonald and and dropped it into the grate... were by then connected with the Nelson Eddy are Frank Morgan Fate, in the person of Jimmy, public telephone exchange. as Governor D'Annard and Elsa perhaps, or the caretaker, had seen a box of Today we have the telephone Lanchester, as Madame O'Annard to it that there was

matches handy. With cold, box system, a highly developed

stiff fingers she struck a match and motor transport organisation, "NIGHT LIFE OF THE GODS”- wireless, and even the use, when

MAJESTIC ?

applied it to a wisp of paper. THEATRE

She knelt beside the fire, watching required, of an autogiro. These are all developments of the past

is a fantastic, though as if fascinated, while the papers crackled and flazed .. The play few years, made in conjunction highly amusing story of a 17,000 22nd Aug" Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama

with a complete revision of the who has the power to turn people began to crinkle and blacken. 8,000 22nd Ang Amoy, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka

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When, after a wild party, this Jeanette clenched 5th Sept. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama

The same period has seen 7,000 5th Sept. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe Osaka & closer fusion of the C.ID. and strange man finds himself in a Why did it hurt so

Yokohama.

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5th Sept. Amoy, Shai Moji, Kobe & Osaka large-scale maps as an aid to the the statues back into people they It was only 15,000 19th Sept. Shanghai, Kobe, & Yokohama, bet

1000 19th Sept. Amoy Shai, Moji, Kobe & Oasis study of the incidence of crime are supposed to repr ent, the the play she 2,000

1st Oct. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, and accidents, the conversions of fm realy begins.

Shan But she could statistics into a live force, the non has a promine part

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years

she done it

A of fame caught at the licking hungrily

little cry saatched

LONDON "WOMAN DIES IN 1015T: YEAR

West

oldest resident, The

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as if the

wildly

"Athol!"

What does it matter?" she leant him, hiding her face in his, shoulder. Her voice shook with weariness and misery,

"Oh, Athol

I wish I were

ned

dead

At that moment the whore of her sleeve burst into fames. She screamed "again.

door. Its lock was old and

"Athol Athof quick!" She heard him fumbling at the

1. If had caught he could a't turn it. For a mument dex: Įstared death

Then Athol burst #Jeane

He held her close.

My Jeanette

of you!

"Prood

"Of you “Don't, Athol

I'm so proud

of me!"

and your play--

it! I feel such a fool!

can't bears

I know." He did not pretend to miszinderstand “It was beast- ly for you and for me!"

you 2

suppose I didn't feel badly as you? Why

when you lov

mean that you

always hav

But I didn't know.

when you fel anghe

done.

And

wouldn't have cared