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PURITAN PARSON

CLERGYMAN

OBJECTS TO

ALL DANCING

Lay-Reader Dismissed And Church Closed

DANCE HELD FOLLOWING WEDDING CELEBRATION

Feeling has been running high in the village of Withnell, "Lancashire. following the dis- missal by the vicar, the Rev. S. J. Archer. of the lay reader at St. Luke's mission church. Mr. D. Barker, and the closing of the church over a difference of opinion about dancing at a wedding-celebration.

Parishioners of St. Luke's have taken their stand with the lay reader and propose to inaugurate

2 branch of the unattached"

·Church of England with a separate

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1936

HEIRLOOM SOLD

SALE IN U.S. OF

RUBENS PICTURE

"FLYING CURATE” OPENS

RURAL CAMPAIGN -

Cockpit Of Plane As Pulpit

CAUSES LAWSUIT the Rev. CB Boulton, the ty

Value To Be Paid To Lonsdale Estate

PERMISSION OF TRUSTEES

NOT OBTAINED

A picture by Rubens, "The Holy Family," was mentioned recently in the High Court, London, before Mr. C. M. Pitman, KC, Official Refence.

Mr. St. John Field, K.C., for Vis count Ullswater and Mr. W. G. F.) ¡Cavendish-Bentinck. trustees of the Lonsdale estate, explained that, in an action brought by them lon March 2, against M. Knoedler and Co. Incorporated, claiming

an account of the proceeds.of the sale of the picture by them, they defendants submitted to judgment,

-

In his plane "Silver Wings,"

ing curate" of Warblington, Hants, last month began a TS- sion with a service at Chichester. Elis Arst service was held in Seld, where the machine was named by Viscountess Falkland. who hung a floral cross on the propelier.

conducted

Mr. Boulton, who the service from the cockpit of the plane, said that people were no longer tied to their homes now that the motor-car enabled

them to spend Sundays in the country or at the seaside.

To those people open-air ser- vices appealed very strongly, and it did not seem to him that there was any special need to go into a church to find God

FAIRBANKS JR. AS KNIFE "TARGET”

their Dolores Del Rio's Daily

Practice

church unless the vicar imme- The beauties of spring in the German Alps are amply displayed by the but without prejudice to -diately reinstates Mr. Barker and green meadows and villages shown in the above photograph of the Chiemsee right to contend that the sum for

region. reopens the mission church.

"Defiant Disloyalty"

This the vicar resolutely refused to do. and in an interview he etated: "I have definite views, and shown Mr. Barker should have loyalty to me by having held his peace or by assuring me that he mne. In- was in sympathy with

stead, Mr. Barker's attitude has 'been one of defiant disloyalty, and

NEW COLOUR FILM

which they were liable was limited to $2,500.

The Official Referee, therefore, was now' asked to decide the sam to be paid to the estate.

Defendants, Mr. Field added were an American firm of art

MR. C. B. COCHRAN TO dealers, and the picture was hand-

PRODUCE

because of that he was dismiss ENGLISH MUSIC-HALL CAVALCADE

ed."

Mr. Archer says a deputation told him that if news of the dis-

ed over to them to sell But, as it was an heirloom, it could not be soid without the approval of the

court.

HOW IT IS DONE -

Aliss Dolores del Rio, the at- tractive, Mexican film star, told recently what it feels like to hurt a knife into someone's back. Mr. Douglas Fairbanks, jun., provides the back.

"AC-

They are to appear in

now being made at the The trustees agreed to sell the Cused." picture for £2.500, but, soon after-Criterion studios at Worton Hall.

out that the The "bull's-eye" is a spot on Mr. Charles B. Cochran is to been actively concemed with the wards, it turned

He has flm medium. It is understood dealers, without the aproval of the Mr. Fairbank's back, which is pute became public his chance of make his first film.

some original ideas court, had sold it to some personicovered, beneath his coat,

with securing a better living would be signed a contract with Mr. Max that he has

unknown for a larger sum Schach, managing director of which he is eager to try out.

light, specially tempered steel spoiled.

13 2 The story is described

As the purchaser had taken the armour. Properly thrown' from a "This intimidation does not dis- the Capitol Film Corporation,

Switzerland, it could range of eight yards the knife hits in the least," said Mr.to produce the film, which will "cavalcade of the English music-picture to Archer. "The latest thing I hear be entirely in colour, in Sep-hall" Mr. Cochran has already not be recovered by the court, a small socket, in which it quivers

tember.

secured the services of some of Plaintiffs claimed the sum re-to give the effect of sticking in his is that they are going to starve me

This will be the first time that the famous music-hall stars of the jceived by the Knoedler company. back. out. How they are going to do it

Sent To Basle I don't know. If my living had to England's greatest showman has last decade. depend on money from those who

turb me

are causing the trouble I wouldj

have been in the workhouse long LONDON-PARIS

120."

All Dancing Wrong Mr. Archer, who contends "that he was within his rights In dis- missing the lay reader, believes that dancing is wrong in all cir-

cumstances..

AIR JOURNEY

CUT LARGELY

GATWICK AS RIVAL

TO CROYDON

FORTY-FIVE MINUTES SAVED

ON NEW ROUTE

The dispute was brought to al head following a wedding feast on the mission premises, when! some dancing took place. Mr. Bar- 'ker did not attended the wedding

Air travel between London and feast, but the vicar holds him res-

Paris has been speeded up by the ponsible for what occurred.

former opening at Gatwick, Surrey of Mr. T. S. Pringle, a secretary of the Parochial Church what is claimed to be the most up- Council, was instructed by the to-date airport in Europe.

There will be a saving on aver- parishioners to get in touch with the Archdeacon of the Blackburn age times of 45 minutes compared diocese with a view to asking the with Croydon, and 25 minutes com-

pared with Heston vicar to resign.

LIFE RISKED TO SAVE CAT AND KITTEN

Carried To Safety From⠀

Burning Oil Shop

John Humphreys, 26, of St. George's Square, S., risked his life to rescue a cat and its kit- ten from the oil shop of his em ployer, Mr. Charles Austin in Crown-court, Pall Mall, S.W.

Humphreys, after raising the alarm, found the cat and carried it to safety.

He returned to the shop and after groping about minutes found the kitten

for ten

NOTED WINCHESTER

FIGURE GONE

the film.

NOW ON SALE

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"I have practised hard for six "Mr. Cochran's Young Ladies" The art dealers, in reply to in- will also play a prominent part interrogatories, had disclosed that weeks," said Miss del Rio. "A full- they sold the picture to a Mr. Pant blooded Cherokee Indian has been firm hand Mr. Walter Forde, responsible Bottenweiser for £4,000, and that showing me how. A

and a steady eye are needed-be- for such British film successes as it had been forwarded to Basle.

lieve me. If I threw an inch widel "Rome Express," "Jack's the Boy"

of the armour the knife would stick into Mr. Fairbanks, and that Chicken

and "King of the Damned," will

direct, while Mr. Schach himself will supervise.

Capital Films- is the new com- pany responsible for Karl Grune's "The Marriage of Corbal."

PROMINENT GREEKS DEAD

TWO LAST MONTH

FORMER PREMIER AND LATE PRESIDENT OF SENATE

APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES

June 22, June

June 22, June *

1936 1918

1936 1918

Ch. CL

POULTRY.

BUTCHER MEAT..

Th. 43

Beef Sirloin

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SADALETS

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16 RATS SEEN IN CLASSROOM would be terrible. So I have to Capons, Small

be careful"

Miss del Rio had a wooden Duck board with a heart painted on it❘ Doves- put up in the sitting-room of her Eggs, Hen (cook- London hotel, and there she prac-

ing): ised knife-throwing at odd mo Eggs, Hen (fresh)

Fowls, Hainan

High Wycombe. Complaints have been made that rats run about an ele mentary school at Wooburn, near High Wycombe, frighten- ing the children and eatingents, as other people play darts.

their lunches,

A

Mr. G. J. Drewett, head- master of another school told the Wooburn Parish Council that he counted 16 to 20 rats in the main classroom when Five he visited the school. came ord from under his seat. The Council decided to write to the school managers.

Mr. F. R. Evershed, K. C., for)

MAN WHO FEARED GIPSY'S CURSE Paid Money To Avert Evil Eye

CARAVAN DWELLER CHARGED

Athens. The following approximate table Two, noted leaders of Greece shows how the savings are made: died last month-M. Tsaldaris, a Gatwick Croydon former Premier, and Gen. Paras- Victoria to

kevopoulos, former commander-in- aerodrome. Ohr 40min Obr 45min chief of the Greek army in Asia]

The gipsy's curse, the evil eye, Flying time. 1hr 35min 2hr 15min Minor and first President of the Le Bourget to

the defence, contended that the and the witch's influence were Paris

Ohr 40min Ohr 40min Senate.

Within less than four months trustees had waived their right to mentioned in a case at Cambridge Total .... 2hr 55 min 3hr 40min Greece has thus lost five of her sue for conversion and the defen-Assizes recently, when Rosanna dweller and Gatwick has the advantage of famous leaders. The others were: dants, therefore, were left as the Frice, being 20 miles near to Paris than

purchasers of the picture outright pedlar, was convicted of demand- for £2,500.

jing money and goods with men- Croydon. This saves 10 minutes

from Percy Bradshaw. 3 lof flying time. It is also in the

In any case, they were entitled Jaces unique position of having a new railway station actually adjoining. A walk through 120 yards of tunnel brings the traveller to his aeroplane.

Gen. Gondylis, the Royalist leader, died January 31 y

M. Venizelos, died in exile in Paris, March 18.

Prof. Demerdjis, Premier, died April 13.

a

Cara VREM

to deduct the expenses of the sale. grocer, of March, Cambridgeshire. The Official Referee held that and bound over for 12 months.

Mr. Bradshaw said that he be- there was: no binding agreement

M. Tsaldaris died from heart between the parties to sell the lieved in the witch's curse. He had failure. While he was returning picture for £2,500. Therefore, the known Price for about 12 months, More Trains

from a conference, his car collided defendants, when they sold it, did and during that time he had given without authority, and the her £50 because of his fear of the This rail access brings Gatwick with another, but he did not show 60

Once when Price called, nearer in time to London than any sign of shock. Shortly after trustees were entitled to the sum curse. Croydon, although it is 28 miles midnight he felt ill, and expired actually received.

Deducting the expenses of the policeman was concealed in the from the centre of the capital and in his wife's arms.

sale, the Official Referee, entered shop, and Mr. Bradshaw banded to Price. She said she would-call The Southern Railway has - CAMBRIDGE STUDENT'S FREAK judgment for the trustees for some marked notes and coins over

£3,966 148. 9d., with costs. stituted an augmented service to

Croydon only about half as far.

port.

en Monday for £20. The policeman arrested her.

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Tinsley Green station, which has A Cambridge undergraduate,

COMING EVENTS

Price denied threatening to put "Auntie Norton" Dead now been renamed Gatwick Air John Herbert Swannell, had been working hard for his tripos and

the curse on Bradshaw, and- said The first machine to leave was was in need of a holičay,

Motorist, at Willesden (summon-she did not know what a curse The death occurred at Winches a British Airways aeroplane. It{ So he started turning out streetfed for. speeding): The police was. She had bad about £10 from ter last month of Miss Elizabeth carried 11 passengers, nine of lamps in the street.

sounded the gong so often that Bradshaw, who paid her the money Norton, familiar to generations of them French, returning to Paris. He was fined 53 by the Cam-thought I was being followed by because she told him he would pro- Winchester boys as the proprie The first machine to arrive was bridge magistrates.

Jan ambulance.

sper in business. tress of a small general shop near the same company's "plane from

Mr. Justice Branson said that Indian Corn

Lettace for the sake of her nive children) Okras

the college. She was 85 years old. Malmo, Sweden, via Hamburg and

It was over 60 years ago that Amsterdam.

the shop was first opened, and Two "specials" took off laber

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June 6 by Viscount Swinton,

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be visible for 24 miles. It will As à taken of thanks for the Radish Lord Wigram, private secretary Secretary for Air

It is built at Cape Columbine, make "navigation safe on a coast help Surrey has given the dis-hubarb (French)

Turnips, Pont!

(Long) to the King, and Sir Kingsley British Airways, are now ran-Cape Province, and will have a which has, for generations; been tressed area of Jarrow-on-Type, a Wood, Minister of Health, are ning mine Continental services, to strength of 9,500,000 candle feared by sailors. Cost of instal-stone taken from the Jarrow Watercress

than three lation was about £16,000. :. Earish Church is to be incorporat- Vegetable Marrow among the well-known men who France, Holland, Germany and power. This is more would never visit Winchester Scandinavia. There are also fre- times, as powerful as the Darban Flashes will be one beam of led in the new Cathedral at Guild Water Lay Boot without paying their respects to quent services, depending on the Bluff Light, which at present is light every 15 seconds. There will ford. It will be built into the Tomatoes Auntie Norton.

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