1936-06-09 — Page 7

- LAUGHTON

IN PARIS

APPLAUDED ·

BY CRITICS

AND PUBLIC

Great Reception At Comedie Francaise

FIRST ENGLISHMAN TO PLAY AT HOME OF MOLIERE

An ultra-fashionable audience. including the President of the Re- poblic, rase in the Comedie Fran- caise. France's National Theatre. at 4 a.m. on May 9, and cheered Charles Laughton in the second act of Moliere's "Le Medecin. Mal- gre Lui."

Time and again the curtain rose and fell, but the applause went on while the first Englishman ever to -act on this classic stage smiled nervously, shaking his head

Fine Performance

The performance, however, was

a tour de force.

Laughton's acting had a kind of Anglo-Saxon

robustnes

and

humour which compared strangely ·

traditional the polished, with French acting.

He had a freeness of style which contrasted with the French mathe matical tradition.

As for accent, Laughton's wan strange mixture-very slightly English, and unidentifiable French) Provincial

It was his

intonation which

betrayed him a few times into

giving a curious twist to Moliere's

woman

F

Amelia Earhart (Mrs. Putnam) the only

to by solo the Atlantic and the Pacific. „ACTIONS

recently lectured Senate committee on the relative importance of pilots and aids to

flying.

THE CHINA MAIL, "TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1936

SAFETY OF FLYING

ONCE CHIEF FILM EXECUTIVE

lines, but that can be forgotten in Hoax That Cost Him

what will remain a memorable per- formance.

"

No Trace Of Fright

Although he said before his ap pearance that he was suffering

tortures from stage

fright.

he

His Position

JAMES V. BRYSON LEAVES ONLY £140 AT DEATH

Mr. James V. Bryson, for 10 showed no traces of nervousness years head of the Universal Pic- when he walked on to the stage.

SENATORS REBUKED

IMPORTANCE

OF BEACONS

HIGH PRICES

FOR ANCIENT

MANUSCRIPTS

Old Christmas Play Of 1553

“RESPUBLICA” BOUGHT FOR AMERICA AT £820

Although a 1450 manuscript en the advantages of sea-power. writ- ten by a militant Bishop of Chi chester fetched £310 (Maggs) at: Sotheby's recently, the honours of the sale were taken by an old Christmas play in manuscript. This play. "Respublics." was writ- ter in 1558, the year Mary Tudor came to the throne, and 11 years before Shakespeare was born,

This interlude" caused keen bidding, and in the end Mr. Rham,

SIAM WILL NOT RECOGNISE NUDIST SOCIETIES

No Registration Of Sunbathing Associations

Bangkok.

The Police have declined to alloır registration of the Sun- bathing Societies on the ground that the weather conditions in Siam ere not the same as in foreign countries. Moreover, sunbathing is deemed against Siamese custÒTAS,

The promoters are appealing cgainst this decision. They atate they hate a tentative membership of 1.700 persons anrious to participate in their sunbathing programme.

acting for Dr. Rosenbach, won it POPE'S NEW RULES

at £920. It is held that this play might have been written by Nicolas' Udall of "Ralph Roister Doïster" renown. Certain it is that it is the only known manuscript of a play clearly written from the Catholic standpoint in the religious controversy of the period.

The idea of the interlude is that Respublica (the realm of Eng

laid waste by land) has been Avarice, Flattery. Oppression and Insolence. In the end the Virtues have an innings and Nemesis calls the score.

FOR PILGRIMAGES

No Tourist Element

Vatican City..

On the Pope's instructions strict regulations have been issued for the reorganisation of pilgrimages to Rome and all important sanctuaries.

There has lately been a tendency for travel agencies to arrange pilgrimages of a semi-tourist

A century ago this and other character. This is now forbidden. rare manuscripts were bought for In future all Eoman Catholie pil- a very few pounds by Mr. Hudson grimages must be under the direct Gurney, of Norwich, but there was control of the ecclesiastical authori- a different tale to tell at Sotheby's, ties.

For example, the only known If laymen are employed to act manuscript (circa 1450) of the as guides they must be of re- Each pilgrimage three old Morality Plays, "Man-cognised piety. kind,” “Wisdom." and the "Castle must be accompanied by at least

of Perseverance." known to scho-one priest. The cost of travel and

lars as the "Macro Playa” (be-lodging must be reduced.

cause they belonged originally to Dr. Cox Macro, the Norfolk anti-

OVERRATED quary), realised £440 (Quaritch). In the play "Wisdom" there is a scene in which Lucifer. spying the

Pilots And Machines Rank Higher.

ture Corporation in England, left AMELIA EARHART'S STRIKING

Before his dismissal enly £140.

—

by Universal he was one of the most prominent figures in the Bri-

MONKEY HAS EXCITING DAY IN GENERAL STORE

TESTIMONY

audience, snatches up "a shrewde boy" and carries him off. This terrifying mo- was doubtless a ment in the old days."

YANKEE'S 22-DAY ATLANTIC TRIP

Comes Successfully Through Hurricane

New York-Mr. Gerard Lam-

Washington. Amelia Ear- WONDERS OF THE best's famous sloop, Tankee (228

DEEP

He first became known to the recently for giving the country Aquarium At. Coming lantic crossing in just over

(tish film industry, with a salary of hart-pioneer woman flier, took (nearly £8,000 a year.

a Senate committee to task

Elades Pursuers Till Evening

general public through hoax a wrong impression

the part designed to advertise "The Phan-jbeacons, radio and other airway, Territorial aids play in the safety of avia- Opera." A monkey

tom of the got into Mesra. John Little's store in Kuala Lum- officer was induced to provide astion. per early one Sunday morning itself by recently and amused throwing cigarette tins about the building. The presence of the visitor was discovered by the watchman, who quickly informed the manager of the stores. The members of the Fire Brigade joined in the chase but the man- key showed contempt for its pursuers. It was captured by the watchman and his friends in the evening.

military escort for the picture in "As I remember it" Mise Ear-

BUTTONHOLES FOR

KING'S BIRTHDAY

His Majesty Agrees To Proposal

Plans are being made for celebrating the King's birthday on June 23 by the general wear- ing of buttonholes.

King Edward, whose interest | în gardening is well known, is understood to have approved the idea, and the only difficulty is the creation of an organisation large enough to make the cele bration effective.

when

to hart observed, "there were no sids

a over the Atlantic, nor did I see

Exhibition

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People who get the most for their dollar in the market-places are those who keep an eye on the channel buoys. Day by day, they follow the advertisements to learn what and where to buy to the best advantage. Make this a habit. Study the advertisements, in the interest of shrewder buying.

The advertisers in this paper. have charted the channels of buy- ing for you: Keep to the course.

IF YOU ARE TOO BUSY TO WEITE HOME

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tons), which raced last summer Chicken at Cowes, arrived safely at Boston after completing her second At- Capons, Small Large days. The Yankee's east-bound Duck trip last spring

six days Doves shorter, but the western crossing. Eggi, Hen. (cook- due to prevailing winds, is always

ing) the belief that it was meant

considerably slower.

Eggs, Hen (fresh) assist recruiting. There was

Butterfly-fish and sea-horses Capt. Svea Eriksson reported

Fowls, Hainan storm of indignation

the any lights over the Pacific. There from the depths of the South At-jan uneventful trip, except during] trick was discovered, and the pic-was one beacon on the nonstop lantic and the Indian Ocean are the second week, when the yacht ture was banned.

flight from Los Angeles to Mexico among the latest marvels to bej encountered the same severe wea Pigeons, Canton When in 1933 Mr. Eryson was City, but pilots have to wire ahead secured for display is their living ther that disabled two large steam-

Turkeys, Cock dismissed he sued for wrongful to have it turned on"

South Africa's mighty ers in mid-Atlantic Life Blood Of Industry

Empire Exhibition.

Under reduced yawi rig, how- dismissal, but the High Court's

Saipe 1 Dr. J. Nanni, Director of the ever, the Yankee made

very Pheasant In a polite way, Miss Earhart verdict, with costs, went against Thim

accused the committee of listening celebrated East-London Deep-Sea satisfactory showing, although she qa An attempt to establish a hot too mach to the plea of large trans Aquarium, recently visited Johan-was able to make but little head- Partridge sausage service in London failed, port company officials that recent pesburg, as a result of which it is way till the violence of the gale and when he died last year, at the major air crashes have been due possible to indicate more clearly had spent itself. She made her Almonds age of 52, after an accident, he to the lack of adequate airway aids, how the miracle of reproducing best day's run 24 hours before she was back in the film trade as a "I hope the humble inventors. have the ocean floor in a city 6,000 feet) arrived at Boston, logging 270

had a chance to say a word about above sea level can be carried out nautical miles. distributor.

their dreams for the future, be-. Thousands of gallons of sea- The Yankee has gone to Law- cause to me they represent the life-water are to be specially brought ley's Yard to fit out for the 1936 blood of the industry" she said to the Eand and specially purified racing season.

£20,000 FOR LORD BADEN-POWELL

60 Years' Friendship

FIRST COMMANDING OFFICER

OF CHIEF SCOUT

state at

I hope you have talked to the by means of an electrically operat- pilots and operating personnel ed plant. Silvered-material-manu- hope you have dragged from their factured in a ripple-like pattern BILL TO PREVENT illuminated by AUCTION ABUSES musty laboratories the professors and cunningly ther ahead than many, so as to get constitute and engineers who are looking fur-changing lights from above, will

the ceiling of thei the whole scope of the problem. Aquarium, which is part of an

"I hope," she went on

"that elaborate lay-out "that will give aviation hasn't appeared before visitors the illusion of a walk on

the sea-floor. you as too grown-up an industry

A friendship of 60 years Kes and you realise that the criticisms behind bequests of

to and jealousies created before you £20,000 Lord Baden-Powell, the 79-year-{are the results of adolescence." UNIVERSITY GOLERS HURT The committee of the London old Chief Scout, and £5,000 to

Commending recent steps taken Gardens Society met to discuss Lady Baden-Powell,

ing the ide

Unqualified Experts'

Sir Reginald Clarry, Conserva- tive MP. for Newport, introdniced into the House of Commons re- cently a bill which is described by its backers as a measure to protect the public against mock auctions under the by the Bureau of Air Commerce Two Glasgow University gol- and malpractices by persons who, ways and means for popularis- will of Col. John Kinder Spilling, to increase the safety of planes fers, W. C. Alford, secretary of Derely by taking out a licence, are able to represent themselves · an of Windlesham, Surrey.

themselves. Miss Earhart said the University Golf Club, and W. auctioneers or house genta. Col. Spilling, who

in that even the development of a A. Chapman, of Hamilton, were

The bill is entitled "The Aue- March, aged 87, left £371,431. · plane that could be slowed down seriously injured when their car tioneers and House Agents (Pro- Lord Baden-Powell received the the air would mean an enormous skidded and overturned near Car-tection of Public Against Abuses). news at sea, between Durban and advance in safety.

noustie Last montă.

PLAN THAT "WENT BANG"

Thieves Who Scared Themselves

died

Cape Town, on the way to Eng-

Land.

The association between Col.

Spilling and Lord Baden-Powell Never Too Old For

began 60 years ago, when at the

lage of 19 the latter joined the

Would-be thieves entered the 13th Hussars: Col. Spilling was premises of the Express Dairy his commanding officer.

Women To Remarry.

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Shanghai W.C.

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Paraley Potato, sweet They put explosives under the served together in South Africa ing new dresses, waited recently dians saying he was desirous of Mr. T. Levy.

Japanese safe, attached a fuse, and light- India, and Afghanistan.

at the institution of the Plymp-obtaining a wife of at least - 70

American ed. It

Colonel Spilling lived the life of ton, Devon, Guardians in the hope from their institution. He added The explosion was much grea-ja recluse, and was rarely seen ex-that one of them would be selected that he was in fairly good health, the writer's name was not dis- ter than they had expected. It cept when he exercised his dogs on as a bride.

had a life interest in the cottage, closed the publicity resulted in scared them, and they ran off, the golf course near his house. Their hopes were in vain. The with garden and orchard attached, scores of letters being received Turnips, Panti giving up all idea of robbing in spite of his close friendship 16-year-old prospective bridgroom, in which he lived, and an income from prospective brides.

Widows Watercress *. the safe.

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mingham, Carlisle, Reading Sur Spisach By disbanded. not expert safe-breakers.

Mr. T. R. Lavers, an Army pen-j The letter was read, and though rey, and Buckinghamshire.

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