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The New Holbein Portrait: Henry VIII. And His Menagerie: A Seven-Centuries Old Ceremony: Tetrazzini's Farewell Tour: The Artist And The Micro-

phone: England's Theatre-Goers: Sir. A. Chamberlain Looks At The Past

London, Oct. 25. THE SNOW LEOPARD I looked in again yesterday at the Spink Gallery, St. James's-street, to have another look at the Holbein portrait of Henry VIII. When I arrived a conference of experts was in progress,"

'Dr. Paul Ganz was the centre of the group. He is a small, sharp- featured man, with a

It was odd to hear the famous prima donna imitate the songs off these creaturas. She said that, while she keeps up her singing practice, it is not necessary after a certain age for a singer of long experience to do so more than two or three times a week. "Her au- diences need not expect her to sing either "Home, Sweet Home" or

"Good-bye, for she regards

THE LEAGUE

CRITICISED

Now Absurd Says Sig. Mussolini

now

Rome, November 15. The League of ` Nationa・ which started with good principles has become absurb with the withdrawal of several of the greater Powers and the fact that the nation" which first thought of it did not belong to it, said Sig. Mussolini when addressing the Council of Corporations.

No mention was made to the Four Power' Pact, but everybody had it in mind. Without politi-:: cal unity Europe is being overtak en." Japan was advancing, and her silk experts were creeping i everywhere and capitalism was "of an old model and out of date--

Reuter,

penetrating eye, and a delightful the one as sacred to Paul, DIARY OF LOCAL

sense of humour.

STRANGE FUR. He told me that he

was quite certain that the portrait was by Holbein and then immediately asked, "Did you hear about the snow leopard"

bates the word "good-bye."

“Talking about the towns she will visit on her tour, Mine, Tetrazzini Edinburgh best, Manchester is all said that outside London she loved right," she added kindly, but I

am afraid of the smoke of its fac- "Well," said be, without giving that the air will be exceptionally tories" It is therefore to be hoped me time to answer, as he hurried clear on November 5 From Eng into St. James'-street, at first land Mme. Teraminí sets off on a were all puzzled by the peculiar world tour, in the course of which character of the white fur of the he will for the first time it King's collar

EVENTS

TO-DAY.

"(NOVEMBER." 16)-~ (IX-Moon, 29th Day) Land Once, Ping Shan. 11 am

Auctions Sale of Crown Landa, Lammert's Sale of one Morris Ox- ford 3/4 Coupe with Dickey Beat, 14/15 h.p. Sales Room 3pm.

"Clearly it was not ermine or any South Africa, Australia, and Now Household Furniture, Sales Room,

other skin known to us through studying Tudor portraits I had the curiosity to consult a zoologist. in Switzerland, who told me it once that it was made of a skin from the underside of a leopard.

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BOERTHING 18. HAND

In the matter of speed the will has a bit in hand that has never been employed on her regular runs. But for all that her ad- mirers will have to wait a while KING HENRY'S MENAGERIE

before a sister ship will be avail- "Not entirely satisfied," continuable on the Southampton-Quebec ed Dr. Ganz, I went on Sunday to route. the Natural History Museum South Kensington, where I was informed that the fur was that of a snow leopard.”.

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I gather that Mr. Beatty went into the whole question while he was here and decided that the company must wait another couple of years before building a new Em- press.

DEMORALISING MICROPHONE.

Dr. Ganz added that he remem- bered having read in contemporary literature that Henry had at Hamp. ton Court Palace a private men- A friend who recently, delivered agarie, one or more of whose in- his first broadcast talk told me of mantes belonged to this rare species. the curious sensations he experi-

Ha promised to hunt up the re-enced when it was over ference at leisure, if only for the sake of amusement.

FORGOTTEN ESTATES The City Corporation carries on a very old custom to-morrow when it presents a bundle of faggots, a few horse-shoes, and sixty-one nails to the King's Remembrancer. "quit-rent for certain lands held from the Crown.

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"For twenty minutes," he said, "you read from your manuscript. You come to the end. You say the traditional 'Good night."

And then come the anti-climax. You realise that you have been alone all the time,

The microphone, your only pre- vious link with the world, is now dumb. There is no means of tell-

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"In fact," concluded my friend, rose from my chair in the most demoralised frame of mind im- aginable."

The faggote, and the bill-hooking whether the talk has gone

across or bot. and hatchet attached, thereto, "re- present a piece of land known as The Moore," in Shropshire; while the horsesbosa and the nails are in respect of "The Farge," in the parish of St. Clement Dance, on which the Knight Templars of old held their tournaments.

The ceremony of presentation is at least 700 years old, but, oddly enough, no one now knows exactly where the Moors" or "the Forge"

was situated.

A SLEEPER JUBILEE When the Duke of York, who has besa suffering from a chill, return- ed from Scotland the other night,

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London, Oct. 18. Londoners are not good theatre- goers. Indeed, if one goes by the statistics which have just been Tides-High at 8.25 and 20.05; compiled by the Duchess Theatre, Low-at. 2.00 and 18.45. where "Eight Bells" is having a successful run, they are definitely bad.

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with a preference for matinees, Marlborough-the

Suburban dwellers come first. These are Mr. Winston Churchill's two Liographies oddly different

Great ·Glen- and Friday and Saturday even-eral and Mrs. Virginia Woolf's ings. Then come the Home Coun- biography of "Flush" Mrs. Brown- he probably did not know that he ties (Wednesdays and Saturdays). ing's spoilt sparifel! Other good was celebrating the "diamond jubilee" of the sleeping cars between England and the North,

There was only one of these cars. in October, 1873. It ran between London and Glasgow, performing the journey each way three times a week..

Sleeping accommodation was pro- vided for our females and sight males," as the official report says, and an extra fare of ten shillings was charged.

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rank third. Australians and New "God and the Astronomers," "The The Dominions and Colonies books in demand are Dean Inge's Zealanders in London are the se of Katherine' Mansfield,” by greatest theatre addicts,

Ruth Mantz and J. Middleton Mur- fourth. The Londonera has a pre-ivmg and The Intelligent London proper only comes ry, Obsert Burdett's The Art of ference, apparently, for Tuesday Man's Review of Europe To-day," and dislikes Saturdays,

by G. D. H. and M, Cole,

COMPARATIVE STATISTICS The method of taking the cen as was to insert & leaflet in the programme asking patrons to fill

GOVERNOR OF CYPRUS

that the King has appointed Sir The Colonial Office announces

MADAME TETRAZZINI'S FAREWELLS Mme. Luiss Tetrazzini, who is starting her farewell tour of Britain with a concert at Reading to- morrow night, was in excellent health and spirite when she received a number of guests at her hotel this afternoon She talked about her coming retirement about her Ita lian home, where he will contine to keep open house to the young artists who seek her help in perfect ing their singing, and about her many pets, including the nightin Anstens confessed that some the West African natives; He, su

of his earliest recollections were tered the Nigerian service in 1904,

in the name of the town or the Herbert Richmond Palmer, KG. suburb whence they come. Eighty M.G., to be Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief of Cyprus, in suce per cent, I gather, did so.

cession to Bir Reginald “ Edward Stubbs, GOM.G

gales that haunt her garden. She is proud of the celebrated parrot that imitates her cadenzas and that reaches higher notes than she can do. One of her many Pekingeses, she declared, Biso has a singing

SIR AUSTEN'S MEMORIES Sir Austen Chamberlain yester- Sir Herbert Palmer has held the day recalled some of the many appointment of Governor and asociations his family has had Commander-in-Chief of the co with the Carpentera Company, lony of Gambia since 1930. Pre- when Bir Eric Drummond was previously he was Ideutenant Gover sented with the freedom of the nor of the Northern Provinces of Company Nigeria. He has spent most of his His great uncle, Stanton Pres- life in Nigeria, and is acknow- son was Master in 1875-6 and ledged to be one of the foremost Clerk from 1878 to 1902

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