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LATE MISS ROSE EDOUIN.

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Here; with portraits of Dr. W. G A link with the distant past in matters Grace, showing his huge black board and theatrical was snapped by the death, at great brown forearms, and of J. B. Hobbs, Harrogate, on August 24th. of Misa Rosa looking rather too old, is a little hook" Edouin, who made her first appearance which will sppeal to all sorts and con-

on the stage as long ago as 1831, and who ta ditions of cricketers You can entry it played with Phelps at Sadler's Wells in in your cricket-bag, and bring it out when the Bfties. Miss Rose Edouin was born train holds up the game, nud conversation, at Brighton) in 1844, one of six brothera punctuated caries the climate, be and sisters, all of whom showed a mark- comes wearisome. It is a wondrously ined predilection for the stage, and one clusive collection. Nyren- sort of rustic of whom, Willie Edouin, was destined to Sir Thomas Browne-bats first, so to became famous: The eldest, brother, speak, and. scores merrily with his in-Charles, was a clever musician and mortal description of ale

"barley-good teacher, and under his direction the corn, such as would put the souls of children

comic practised principally three butchers into our weaver. Ale that scenes for pantomimes. As a rule Joba would flare like turnentino-genuine boni Edouin was harlequin, Eliza columbine, face. -This immortal viaod (for it was Rose clown, and Willie pantaloon. They more than Equer) was vended at twopence formed a "marionetts troupe," with Rose per pint.". Having honoured the greatest | still as clown and singing "Hot Codlins," of all writers on the greatest of all games, and appeared first at the Adelaide let us take a few excerpts at random, Gallery, and then at the Linwood Gallery after the manner of little John Horner, which then occupied the site where the who stuck in a thumb and took out Empire now stands. The troupe travelled plum. Egad: The first is a plum the provinces as the "Living Marionet nothing less than Mr. Plum" Warnier's [tes." under the management of Harwood Compliment to the most heroic Lawler of Cooper, but the venture was not ulti- them all: With a wonderfully serene mutely successful, and the family had to temperament, and the heart of a lion, taking his day in and day out. Richard-ren's parts for a year or two, and when Rose Edouin continued" to play child.

san deserves to rank as the greatest fast she was only it years of age made a bowler the world has ever seen." Would great success as Puck in "A Midsummer we could look upon his like again: If Night's Drenin," at Sadler's Wells, with Phelps. In 1939 the father of the family only we could put a second Richardsonerme home from Australia and took his and another Lockwood into the field,'we¦ebildren back with him. They opened count wait with equanimity the coming then travelled all over Victoria, playing at the Theatre "Royal, Melbourne, and invasion of young super-men from down in many a nining camp. They journeyed ander. Next we change upon the Editor's in their own wagon, built to carry the description of the old village cricket-field, wardrobe in the body, with seats in front where the happiest hours of his boyhood and at the back for the family. It was were spent. From its green expanse drawn by three horses, and bore on the we could see the hills covered with birch aide in large letters the 'hanouncement: and fir-trees, and along one side of the The Celebrate: Edouin Family, in fick the River Charnet gurgled and bah-Farve, Comedy, and Burlesque Willie bled over its stony bed. How the birds Sang on those bright apring mornings when we practised at the nets! What a symphony of glad colour and sound was all around us!"

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Edouin played the clown, made the pan- tomime shoes for the whole family, atid manufactured his own properties and tricks, as well his clown's dress. Hose Edouin became very popular and remain- Following this, in our sport of Sortes ed in Australia for thirty-six years, playing Virgilianae, the late John Shuter tells

a variety of parts in every line of busi the story of the "Tamplight Match"-theness, including Beatrice, Portia, Juliet (at Surrey Yorkshire match at the Oval

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THE DIRECTORY

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∙1926.

FOR CHINA.

JAPAN

INDOCHINA, SIAM, STEKST SETTLEMENTS; MALAY STATER

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SIXTY-FOURTH ANNUAL

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THE DIRECTORY overs the notable evanta, porte and sitios of the Far East, frota Netherlands India to Siberis, in which Europeana rosiile.

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Mr. G. B. Lewis, a well-known manager, known arm of Day and Martin, which is The youths at cricks did play

and with him she went to India and the being wound up voluntarily, after a very. Throughout the merry day

How long it had existed Far East, in the first English company long career. and the proceeds to describe a ganie to tour in those lands. She returned to

cannot tell. we

But we know that which is obviously the aboriginal form England in 1503 and appeared at the Sam Weller

using Day and of cricket (Old English crie or crye-Strand Theatre under the management of Martin's blacking on Mr.

Jingle's crooked stick). And here is a good pre-her brother Willic. She then went back boots when Mr. Pickwick first made his seription, to be varied to suit the case,

to Australia and was not seen in London acquaintance at the White Hart in the Antang for stopping the bore who prates about again till 1900. I 1813 she had the part Borough. We know, too, that before the his personal achievements. When he he of Mira Candour in Tree's revival of "The Pickwick

Papers" appeared, Mr. gibs: Once, when I was howling" School for Scandal," and as recently as Charles Day, the founder of the firm, you break in with the polite query: 1920 she played. Mrs. Putter in Paddy, had died, leaving what was then the Were you captain?" Then there is the Next Best Thing, at the Savoy large fortune of £400,000, a quarter of K. S. Ranjitsinhji's Eight Itules for During the seventy years Rose Edoain which he bequeathed for the relief of Fieldsmen," which ought to be writ large was on the stage, she played well over those who, like himself, were blind, and put up in every club pavilion Here 1,000 parts, including very many Shakes

And the firm has another claim on the they are:

pearean characters, à record hard to admirers of Dickens, for it absorbed the Always back up the man who is re-beat. She played Romeo several times, still older business of Jonathan Warren, ceiving that hal at the wicket, when it and Hamlet in 1595, a part she studied in whose "crazy, break-down, old house;

thrown in, but not too close. Always try for a catch, however imposan exact appreciation of every "word.

for two years to obtain sa far as possible abutting on the river and swarming with rats," at old Hungerford Stairs, where sible it may seem.

About a year ago, she went to live at the District Railway Station at Char

Tokyo Always be on the look-out and ready, Horregates with Mrs. Carrick, who, as a ing-cross now stands Dickens himself Tokohama to start.

child, accompanied her on her Australian worked as

Kobe... and of 11. lu David, Run at top speed, but not rashly, the

Copperfield he describes the youthful Shimonoseki Kyoto, moment the ball is hit..

Omka hero's sad days at Murdstone and Grinby's, in Blackfriars, where he had. "Devilish good hit; would have been to wash bottles and paste labels on them. But Murdstone and" Grinby were in the Obey your captain "cheerfully and out of any ordinary ground." promptly.

"This infernal hat don't drive a little wine trade. Dickens's own childish ex- perience was still less romantic, for, Never he slack about taking up the hit." We have very little good cricket under the management of his cousin by exact position assigned to you; never verse, so I am surprised to find the an- marriage, James Lammert, he earned six move about in an aimless, fidgety manner. thologist has left out Francis Thompson's or seven shillings a week by doing the These he the Eight Commandments of sad, gind praise of "My Horny and My bumblest work in the blacking ware Fielding If they were not too long to Barlow long ago, and D. LA. Jephson's house, which was afterwards quote, I should like to add G. S. Foster's lay of the Last Over" (or "Keep Youred from Hungerford Stairs to the invaluable hints to the man who conducts, Eye on the Clock), and the ingenious corner of Chandos-street and Bedford- a fielding practice hat-in-hand. Club F. J. Cochrane's ballad of the man aides should give ten minutes to fielding that snicketh the length ball. In con:treet, Covent Garden practice before every match. It would clusion, then, I quote the the last-named be worth, the terrible cost of having to poet's lines of a green limbo for all good turn up ten minutes too early, instead cricketers when finally given out by Fate's of ten minutes too late, which is the uplifted hand fashion, apparently, in suburban cricket circles. A selection of remarks to be used when given out have been compiled by William Sapte. On being caught, you have the choice of the following observa tions:

se both banifs whenever possible. Lo not get nervous if you make a mis

take.

"I'll swear it was a hump-ball, if I never speak again"

I never went within a yard of it! Your heard it. Why, that was man chop ping wood in the next field." q

"I never get let off by any chance "Haven't been missed this year."

First ball I've lifted off the ground

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tour.

When Time of all our flannelled hosts

Leaves only the renown, Our cracks, perhaps, may join the ghosts That roam on Windmill Down, tu? Where shadowy" crowds will watch the

strife,

And cheer the deeds of wonder

"Achieved by giants whom in life

A century kept asunder.,

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the pots of paste-blacking, first with a **My work," he says was to cover piece of oil paper, and then with a piece of bluo-paper to tie them round with a string, and then, to clip the paper close and neat all, round, until it looked ne smart as a pot of ointment from an apothecary's shop." He hated the task so much, we are toll, that in after years he would never revisit Hungerford Stairs, and. for long he could not bear to pass along Chandos-street. None the less Warren's is remembered with in- terest by the zealous Dickensian, and the

It is indeed a cricket-bag book! Pack name of Day and Martin's, apart from

it up next time you are off to a match their long and honourable commercial away the little volume will nestle down career, always had a certain literary quite comfortably with the old practice flavour because of this indirect connec for two seasons. Caught last week, was ball, the worn batting gloves, and the tion with the great novelist, Other, “in- It Given out caught, another thing, my boy, moan; quite pegged and bound veteran bats.-E. B. genicus" authors of Blacking for Shoes, as Steele phrases it in the Cricket: A Little Book for Lovers of Spectator, hail preceded them, and others follow them; but their departure Samuel J. Locker. Simpkin, Marshall makes a gap in our mental picture of in od. nát.

the London that we have known.

I shall chuck cricket no more luck than

Oshorn,

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