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SPOKE TO A JURYWOMAN.

JUDGE'S REBUKE.

"THERE HAS BEEN INTERFER. ENCE WITH JURIES."

A "Distracted" mother wha

spoke to inembers of a jury at the

Old Bailey was called before the Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.) Before the jury were, admitted to court Sir, Ernest referred to a

in which Aubyn Denhum

| Claro, 29, is charged. Calling up- the father of a boy concerned in the case, Sir Ernest said, "I hear 3ou have some complaint about someone," :

The Father replied that as he was leaving the court the previous day he saw Clare's mother speak ing to three members of the jury two women and a man-and he drew the attention of a police inspector to the incident.

The woman was called before the Recorder and said that she lived m Lancashire. She was allowed to write down her address,

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ARCHITECT'S ART IN A CINEMA.

SUBMARINE PALACE

ILLUSION.

London's most impressive "tomis ple of the talkies," the now

Victoria, which opered to the public

last month, has been praised by

any architects since its opening and there is general agreement that it is the most striking and significant addition yet made to the new and opulent art which has been called the #architecture. of entertain- inent."*

There are tave main features, that impress these expert visitors. The first is the hold suggestion of arrost od movement, of a building that would move if it could, conveyed by the projecting, horizontal lines of the theatre's exterior.

ball and

'ontered

WHY LONDONERS

ARE SLEEPY.

THIS "INDIAN SUMMER" IS TO BLAME.

London was visited by a strange complaint last month. All over London people are falling asleep, suddenly, irresistibly, in the middle

of the day, writes a correspondent

to Loudon paper.

It is not as if there were only odd cases here and there; the day- time sleepers are everywhere.

A man took the seat opposite me in the Tube. I noticed him parti cularly, because that was the hent should have snatched myself had I been quick enough.

The moment ho sat down his eyes cloned and he fell asleep.,

I had to move a few straps up at the next station, and then I saw two women asleep. Three seats away another was nodding..

4.

In the 'Bus.

In the bus a fuw minutes later two passengers seemed to have the greatest difficulty in keeping awako,

And even the conductor was net so sprightly as usual.

formation scene" that meets the The second is the sudden trans-

At the theatre in the evening a eve after one has passed through young couple who had entered the the

the stalls with the light of romaner in auditorium, where the architectural their eyes started up guiltily when scheme takes on, the aspect of and awakened them!

the first curtain fell. The applause und.r-sea palace, in which nothing Between the aeta I met a 门课作 has been onitted that could induce the visitor to believe that he is in had not seen for months. The the home of genius in entertainmal questions came. meat and recreation.

Genius

The Hecorder asked her if it were true that she addressed the three 'nfter the rining of The cotirt and the replied, not know really what I did say did not know they were members of the jury. I do not know anybody here.'

Sir Ernes.--Did you sprak toentertainment needs. any of the jury 1

"What Right Had You."

The woman replied that she did et speak to any of them in any improper way; but as they went through the door she asked what the result of the case would be,

Sir Ernest.-What right had you to speak to them at all! You will remain in court until the jury cone

back.

The Woman-I did not speak to them in that way; and I should not know them now if I saw them. Inspector Green said that at the rising of the court he saw the wo man in conversation with three members of the jury and told her

to refrain from speaking to them. She then let the court. He did

not hear what she said,

is the right word, be cause the New Victoria is something ore than a courageous effort to adapt, architectural resources

wh

Ideals of Yours.

to

:

He said: "I'm all right, old man, except that I get so sleepy all the time. Can't understand what's como over me."

Theu, to-day, I felt droway my- self. I went to my doctor.

The Weather.

"No," he said," "there, is no epidemic of encephalitis lethargien had attack of lazy liver. I have a about. London is suffering from a dozen patients complaining of it now. It is this weather."

"But we are having lovely wen ther,' I said, Indian summer and that sort of thing."

It embodies all the ideas and ideals gathered through many years of service to the cinema public by Mr. William Evans, the executive chief of the Gaumont-British Pio- tures Corporation, who has lavished this superb structure more thought and ingenuity than any similar building has ever received. me, but it is most unhealthy alt.

"So most people think," he told There is a spiritual side to every

the same. It is too changeable, usinese man's nature, and Mr.

If we had a cold spell lasting soveral Evans finds an outlet for a voin of idealism-which he never discusses days people's constitutions would in the olaboration of schemes that get attuned to it. If we had warm combine grandeur, beauty, and com-would be used to it.

weather for a reasonable time they fort in these cinema cathedrals,

which grow ever larger and more

impressive.

The public who will flock to the New Victoria and admire both its charm and its splendour should

nights and mornings, and hot, heavy "But We Bre having frosty daye, and livers don't like that sort of thing. They rebel and refuse to adjust themselves and go torpid.

The jury then returned to their know that it represents the fulf When they do that you go to sleep.

places, and the Recorder said that a serious matter had been brought to his notice. He asked if either of the jurors had anything to 'sny |about it.

A woman juror said that a wo- man came up to her very distract- cd. Sho did not know who she WAS. All she said was, "Oh dear

me, I am the mother." That was

mat of an ambition, cherished by Mr. Evans, who weeks no public and it her awarded. praise and will probably blush to

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all that happened. It seemed as if USES MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S the woman was going round say. ing she was the mother to every- one, not knowing who they were.

Fresh Jury Question. Mr. Phillips (defending) was asked by the Recorder if he would like the case reopened with a fresh jury.

Mr. Phillips replied that it bad Iconie as news to him. If all that

the woman said was

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The case was then proceeded with After an absence of two hours the jury returned a verdict of not guilty and Clare was discharged.

DISASTER RUMOURS

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The Abbo Gabriel Labort, of Nice, and a Doctor of Divinity of the University of Toulouse, visited London on a water diving mission. Through his Archbishop the receiv ed a special dispensation from the Pope allowing him to devote his time to water-divining, He has had no scientific training, but dur- ing his military, service in France he studied topography and meteoro- logy.

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traordinary spoed. Water was be- low Abbo Lambert was singularly. successful in finding water for the Country Club at Cannes, in which Lord Glengannor is interested, and he is in London at Lord Glencon- ner's invitation to arrange further work of this kind. Ho makes no charge for hin services, but some However, he declared, "never for timea arranges the erection of the the past hundred years had the pumping gear. Any profite from world to contend with such diff- those transactions are given to the otics as at prosent but the moral Church. The French Government forces are making for nu improve is shortly sanding him to' Algiers ment though, tint may be less ob-and Tunisia to find water, there, vique than the work of the destrus LAX COMME in France OWO

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