1937-08-07 — Page 5

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ACTRESS BENOUNCES "IMMODESTY" OF THE OXFORD GROUP

Group

Grosvenor

Frank

Rawlings, the tern and Western

honour of that was in their conce

Oxford desty

luncheon at "In Europe," she said, "modesty

recently

Dr.only refers to

founder and "In Japan the human body

leader of the Group Movement,-in-considered to be important troduced her as one of the lead-important enough to be the subject,

ing actresses

s of works of art and its exposare, whether accidental or not, is un- selfconscious. They have no con- ventional idea of takedness.

But, instead of praise of the movement, came a slashing attack "I consider a public fession, such as we have heard at this meet- ing" said Miss Rawlings "to be physic exhibitionism, with sensual satisfact

combined

British Reserve “A Sing

"They believed that the most sacred part of the human being is "It is to me as shocking-shock the soul. It should be guarded with ing in the Victorian sense as in-secrecy and modesty. decent and indelicate as if someone took all his clothes in the middle of Piccadilly circus.

"I want to make a plea for mo- desty."*

Mis Rawlings continued that she had lived in the East in her youth ands was cin: Japan until she was fourteen years old.

East And West

She had learned that there was one great difference between Eas-

EVADING JURY

SERVICE

"Failing In Duty To

Country"

Mr. Justice Greaves Lord, in re- fusing at Glamorgan Assizes at Swansea the request of two men and a woman to be excussed from jury service, delivered a warning to those who try to evade such service.

"The Japanese know three things should be sacred a garden, love and a man's own soul.”

Previously, such well-known - peɔ- ple as Brigadier-General C. R. P. Winser; Aldersman W. J. Locke, a former Lord Mayor of Newcastle, Mr. Freeman Wills Crofts, the novelist, Mr. Augku Reid, and the Bishop of Rangoon, had told how the Oxford Group had changed their lives.

Mr. Austin, Reid declared: “ carious reserve which is particu ly British is a sin

Brigadier General Winser said that in training horses his men and he had "quiet times and listened to God in the stables..

ARMY OFFICER'S SUICIDE

Effect Of Overwork

The view that an inferiority Com- Medical certificates were put in plex led to the suicide-of-a by the applicants, but the judge Army officer was expressed by the suggested, after reading the corres coroner, Kit, E.-F. Hadow, at an-m- pondence, that it appeared to show quest at Dunchurch, near Rugby.

Here

a desire not to serve rather than disability.

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