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Modernising The Army

GALLERY OF WORD PICTURES

DAME LAURA KNIGHT'S LIFE STORY

agere," was read at Old-street his own among the war leaders in VIVID NARRATIVE OF FAILURES Police-court last month.

the affections of the British pu-

Thomas Ware, of. Treadway-¡blic. street, Hackney-road, was

His character as a fighting ad-| moned for unlawfully and malici-miral became crystallised in a ously publishing defamatory libelsphase now hardly less a classic concerning William Frederick an Wellington's "Up, Guards, Newstead, of Hexham-road. S.E, and at 'em! and upon Percy Rockliff, Den- shire-place, Eastbourne

Mr. Newstead is secretary of the society. Rocklit was secretary from until 1982, and since 1932

the

present

This was

AND TRIUMPHS

(By Eric F. Stowell)

first Dame Laurs Knight, the

"Evi before I could speak or woman RA. for 167 years, who walk. I drew," she writes: the canvas in vivid wise, widowed mother. in the

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his remark to Sir Erale Chatfield at Jutland, when has set down on

home. had has painted her biggest subject. prophesied for her artist's Mr. two of his battle-cruisers had colour so much of the world's life, humble Nottingham

She has done a canvas in pen and career. A lad named Harold 1892 been blown up and the loss of

ink, setting forth her own like Knight used to play football in the has third was reported:--

There must be something wrong with just the same downright schoolyard next to Laura John- with our ships, Chatfield strokes and splashes of radiance in con's playground. It is to Hernid Turn two points to port [this]

Knight as her husband that the the pages of a book.

It title "Oil Paint and, Grease book is dedicated. is, nearer the enemy.]

Paint" (Ivor Nicholson and Wat- THE ADJECTIVE

în

been a member of the committee. Army Mr. C. M. Picciotta, prosecuting, In introducing the Estimates last month the Secre said that the New Tabernacle tary of State for War repeated Sick and Provident Society, which what had already been stated in was attached to the New Taber- This accompanying memorandum nacle Church, was founded

ss to the formation of a mech-1892. Ware joined it in 1912. On anised mobile division and the July 21, 1931, the committee con- speedy introduction of anti-tank sidered it in the society's interests guns and anti-tank rides; but it that Ware should no longer coa was very interesting to hear the tinue his membership.

news of somewhat unexpected the formation of three new tank battalions in addition to

of

Series Of Libels "Subsequently, and at not

to

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Neither ruddy" nor “damned"

the epithets usually quoted

Lord Beatty used another ad- is. I believe, correct. jective which is not

uncommon

Fellow Students. They were fellow-students

at

son, published last month, 21s.)-- links the artist with those subjects Nottingham School of Art, and he which have brought her fame,

But though her brush has made helped her when, after the mo ther's death, she set up her first articulate and visible the back-

af sea-or, indeed. on shore-stage existence of dancers, clowns studio. She was desperately poor. prize from South Kensington was in. and was introduced into the dia- and tumblers-though, to use her The gold medal which came as a

cepted in Circus as Circus. for good and all" and her husband

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Surprising to look back upon from present heights. But London

villagers.

Staithes,

the frequent intervals. Ware has sigri-logue of stage drawing-rooms by/own phrase. "I became Circus, oc sold forthwith for £5.10s. conversion of 'some the fied his displeasure by a series of Mr. Bernard Shaw.

At the same time, sailors pointgrumbled: "It was just the same was far off in those days. Laura cavalry regiments into light tank libels," said Mr. Picciotto.

Mr. Picciotto said that part of out a weak spot in the story, on with the ballet"-the autobiogJohnson went north from Notting- units. While the country can-

the which Sir Emle Chatfield hiphy gives a wider view of her ham during 13 years, to the York- not dispense with infantry en-the document addressed

self, so far as is known, has al-terests and achievements.

shire coast, village. of tirely, any move in the direction Congregational Union read:

It is a characteristic book, doze **The New Tabernacle, Old-ways been silent of increasing its mobility and

Lord Beatty, would not have in phrases of lively colour, with where her career really began as artist. tensely observant fiercely fire-power is all to the good. In street, seems to exist solely for the

religious given the order to alter course to spirited etchings of people and this connection it is important purpose of providing a that the battalions of the pre-trademark to the hundred and one Capt Chatfield, as he then was, events. Some of her descriptive curious. insatiable in sketching the

of societies that emanate from there, but to his flag-lieptenant. Lpassages-beach stone at the wreck

"Many of the pictures actually sent tank brigade, some

Cmdr. Seymour then held that of a coble: delirium in a nursing painted at Newlyn were derived from which are equipped with tanks including usury."

He died some years home during an air raid. fire at rudy and experience at Staithes." to be леп, аге by no means

There followed a reference to position.

wentjago.

the circus-are true verbal trans-! In April, 1903, the Academy supplied with tanks of the latest Mr. Rockliff, and the letter

lations of all that on canvas leaps hung her first picture, "Mother type before the year is over, on:

and Child" (done at Staithes). It to the ere. "To be expelled legally because The Expeditionary Force is thus

sold for $20. That summer she being brought into a state to a member has arrived at an age

She paints 3 portrait with the 2nd Harold Knight, busy with por- fulfil the demands which, as Mr. by which he becomes a liability for

were married, Duff Cooper explained at the which he has paid in for, shows "So you're an actor, eh?" the stout same economy of line: Pavlova's trait commissions,

but: clergy has man snorted at his new train com- beginning of his speech, are to what depth the

"Harold and I did not intend to set It may brought civilisation down to, and anion. "Well, I'm a banker, and I bow in a paragraph, the august

[up house... likely to be made on it.

To be free to go where la vignette of G. B. S. being mowe wished was our desire” be expected. if it operates on the empty churches prove it. Rock-haven't been in a theatre for tea grace of Elles Terry in a of church-years,” the continent, to act in co-liff and his

"That's nothing," replied the actor. delled at Malvern. So her stories] There was a phase when money a bank in are as sketches spilt from a port was so short that they incon- operation with allies in defence mongers has indeed brought to "I haven't been near

last the folio Lutyens at Academy sequently parted with their of collective security, and it the New Tabernacle a Biblical re-twenty years."

Iuncheon table starting a drawing) half-crown to a tramp on the must therefore be equipped so buke. A den of thieves,

con-Yorkshire moors: that it will arrive promptly and

He carefully locked the roll-top his notebook which she

"Both of us were working too hard strike immediately on arrival. "Steps will be taken to inform

desk before putting it in his suitcase (tinues, the picture taking shape as

We had On the mechanical side Mr. Mr. Angus Watson. Dr. Norwood and leaving the office.-Short Story the notebook passes to and fro to think about money. Duff Cooper had a good account and other prominent members of

Fortunately, it was an expanding Whimsical Walker clowning it input by fast enough to pay for the

"Humbug" Of Clergy

Your Daily Smile!

Outdid Him

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Flexible

From The Portfoño

page,

to give, but things are far from the Congregational movement of suitcase he had brought with him. full regalia in the Finchley-road; cases and carriage to send our pic-

well in the matter of men.

The "doggerel," headed "Ode to Congregational Minister" ran:

daily "Give us this day bread.

our

I

*

even Whitby.

"Help Rocklif rob the poor in offence to send threatening letter was Nottingham. She was also en

Have you any idea who's doing Staithes, and Newlyn-and

"Sure! The income-tax collector." (perhaps London.

"Hypocritical humbug

of the

... By this cankerous institution

her drive to Investiture at Buck-res up to the Royal Academy.... On the Saturday before varnishing Blackmail the end of the year the Regular Shoreditch ..."

"I've been getting threatening let-ingham Palace with an emergency day our tickets came; we were both In the same post was * Army, at its present intake, will

ters through the mail; isn't there a pair of white gloves, one at which hung."

letter enclosing a loan.” be 10,000 below strength, while

law against that?"

has split.

"Circus" she They came to the Academy on Before she was the Territorial Army is already

"There certainly is," replied the

Easter Monday trip from 140.000 short. The Secretary of

friend. In fact, it is a very serions State for War appealed to mem-

(Continued On Page 10) ers of Parliament for construc-Ineed. jtive suggestions to stimulate re-

cruiting. An appeal to the clergy ranks would no doubt inform "A bird of prey indeed for him where the shoe at present gain. pinches The most hopeful Ipoint he could make was the growing popularity of the educa tion centres, more than three quarters of whose trainees find work as soon as they leave the Service. In regard to the Ter- ritorials, Mr. Duff Cooper put on

"You shun the thing that's right "A ghoul that rohs the dead, "And steals the widow's mite." Mr. Picciotto mentioned that there was a letter addressed Mr. J. B. Hohman, Liberal didate at the Parliamentary elec- Bethnal North-East tion for

ja white sheet. Discouragement Green.

had come from headquarters. As a result the men had felt that they were not wanted. A

to

Can-

Monstrous Accusations Though Mr. Newstead was not beginning of reform has been mentioned by name in the alleged made, in increased bounties and libel upon him, said Mr. Picciotto, -what is even more important he was, as secretary, the person

in the concession of the long- desired marriage allowances with the alleged libel.

whose name would be

connected

of

The monstrous secusations.

This is a thoroughly wise move. Ware were invented and untrue

New Industries For

Special Areas

from start to finish.

Mr. A. E. Robinson, defending. submitted that the summons & in respect of Mr. Newstead must fail.

Yet another form has been Mr. F. Q. Langley, the magis- dismissed the SUITITIONS

given to the Public Utility So-trate,

ciety, the compromise devised against Ware in respect of

Mr.

by Great Britain between pri- Newstead The remaining case

vate enterprise and Socialism. was adjourned..

Particulars were recently pub-

lished of the first Trading £1,600 NECKLACE MISSING

Estates to be set up in special

areas. One will operate on the

A pearl necklace worth £1,600

disappeared

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neces-

of

established in South Wales, will factories lie all the draw its capital from the Special sitics and conveniences Areas Fund, but will be wholly modern manufacture - roads! autonomous in its administra and railways, tam, gas and Most of these tion. If, as is hoped, private electricity. Jenterprise can carry out its plan facilities are already available in of setting up another trading the depressed areas, together, of estate near Port Talbot, it will course, with a supply of highly be possible to compare, the pub-skilled labour. Yet such, as Dr. lic and the private approach to Burgin pointed out recently, is ja new method of industrial, the attraction of the huge

development.

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