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Hall:

Queen Enjoys Variety Performance:

Duchess of York at the

Ghosts at Doullens Town Hall: Tudor Again For King's Christ- mas Card Lady Dickens and Pickwick Club: Marshal Balbo Lord Mayor's Coach:

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THE QUEEN AT A MATINEE

London. November & " Nobody enjoys a good variety performance more than the Queen. It was obvious at the "Frienda-of the Poor matinee at the Hippod rome that her preserice was some- thing more than the gracious recognition of a most deserving. cause.

TRADE

Mr. Bruce's Plea For Resolute Policy

London, Nov. 28.

The High Commissioner «for Australia the Hon. Stanley Bruce, speaking in London to-day.ex- pressed the viếw that a strong re- solute policy of Imperial co-öpers-: tion was at present a paramount necessity,

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He said that a start towards" such a policy was made at Ottawa, His complaint was that Ottawa

has

been treated a an isolated incident and not as the laying of a foundation upon which would be built a great structure of inter- imperial trade,

VALUABLE HOME MARKET Britain, with her relatively large

card-a' picture of the Henry VII. Chapel, Westminster Abbey.is the son of Mr. HAK Gribble, the architect of Brampton Oratory.

He himself apha time contem-population, had a valuable home plated an arch ectural career; but market, great supplies of capital She later he decides that painting was and unrivalled experience.

had, however, no great resources. | his true spe

The Dominions and the dependent Empire had the resources, but not the home markets, the capital or the experience.

His Work

In numerolo are his TO is Miserabler ful Company

since appeared bitions, Seascapes studies, and he to the Worship- Shipwrights.

Mr. Nelson Keys, directing his shadowy alter-ego in a film, was clearly a favourite in the Royal box. But during. Mr. Stanley Holloway's famous Lancashire. re- Seldom citations the Queen laughed unres- ' behind mai trainedly."

hers, autho together m did at the Exhibition Wach House.

His technique is admirable. The immortal Ban who dropped his musket before Waterpo, is now succeeded by one Joe Muggeridge, who hobnobbed with Natson at Trafalgar. The formula shows no signs of wearing thin.

AN INFORMAL VISIT.

There was a marked absence of ANKET CORNER rufung athe, pächers of York's visit to the Queen's Hall on Thursday, on the occasion, of the Philharmonic. Concert,

With a woman' friend she sat in the middle of the stalls. At the conclusion of, the performance she left by the stalls gangway with the rest of the audience.

In the crush & young woman dashed past her, almost knocking her down.

A space had been kept clear for her car at the door, but this was

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the “crí books

Y OCCASION. the major forces: literature-publis- and critics-meet h harmony as they Inday "Limes" Book at Grosvenor

the opening of the Sunderland House

re not usually ex-

With a policy of financial and economic co-operation, the British nation could face the difficult con- ditions of the next few years' with confidence.

"He suggested co-opting & smal group of the best men available," who, divorced from all other In- terests and activities, could devote the whole of their time to para- mount imperial problems.-British Wireless,

belt optimism, but DIARY OF LOCAL

general feeling that

Its Affected

| doubt as to the flip the exhibition would give to the trade this sutun

The speeches at lunch were a model of brevity. Both those of Lord Camrose (who presided), and of the Earl of Iddesleigh, who proposed the host's health, took together less than half a minute.

LADY DICKENS' INTEREST. Lady Dickens, the 84 years old wife of Bir Henry Dickens, found the only overt algn of any special especial interest in a first edition

attention,

THE FLYING POLICEMAN,

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If policemen are to be fitted with wings, Flight Et Lloyd-Williams, who is leaving the R. A.F. to become a chief inspector at Scotland Yard, may be regarded as well qualified to discharge the duties entailed. Mr. Lloyd Williams can claim varied service not merely in the air but in administrative capa- cities.

He left a Yeomanry regiment in 1915 in order to enter the R.FC. and two years later "in Palestine had gained the Milltary Cross, to which he was awarded a bar söme time later.

Most of his service has been in the Middle East (he is at present an adjutant at Amman), but he has also passed through a course at the Staff College, in addition to being for a time at Halton,

As a member at one time of No. 70 Squadron in Irak, and in subse quent work, he has had fairly considerable experience of aerial police work of the kind accepted by the R.A.F. In Irak and else where as a normal duty.

GHOSTS AT DOULLENS,

At Doullens Town Hall next Saturday Lady Milner unveils the bust of her husband which she has presented to the town, tow

of the "Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club," dated 1836-37. which is one of the treasures of the exhibition.

Of the several hundred "points" that go to make up a prefect copy only four are missing-and those small ones,

Lady Dickens observed that this was one of the few Dickens relics not in the possession of the family.

A RETIREMENT.

The retirement of Lord Ebbisham from the post of treasurer to the Conservative party. severs a long and very intimate association with the affairs of the party.

During the last General Election Lord Ebbisham, still best remem- bered in the House of Commons as Sir Rowland Blades, kept the Anancial star of the party working at fever pitch to restore a badly- depleted war chest.

Since then he has continued his efforts, though, I hear, without that degree of success which he would have wished to see, -LORD EBBISHAM'S SUCCESSOR.

His successor Lord Green zood Canadian, formerly Liberal, and Chief Secretary for Ireland, has a big heart, and a voice to match. He also has an extensive and in- timate acquaintance with big business,"

•Lord Greenwood should make a It will stand in the room where first-rate treasurer-he has to live the historic conference sat which up to a tradition most aply built led to Marshal Foch being entrust-up by Lord Younger and others ed with Allied supreme command. but his post will be no sinecure.

Only two of those who attended Political parties, like armies, that fateful meeting on March, 28. fight on their bellies, and the Con 1918, survive to-day. One of them.servative commissariat is not over- Marshal Petain, will be present well provisioned at the present at the simple unvelling ceremony. time.. The other. is M. Poincare,

Lord Milner, Lord Hag, Bir Henry Wilson, M. Clemenceau, and M. Loucher, who completed the gathering, have all passed beyond the bourne. Your

EVENTS

TO-DAY

(November 30)· (X-Moon, 13th Day) Anniversaries and Holidays. St. Andrew American Thanksgiving Day.

Exhibitions-Etchings, by Mr. Luguiens, The Jade Tree, Kowloon, Cultured Pearls, by. Mr. Kodaka, Messrs. Komor and Komor; Jewel- lery, J. Ullmann and Co., Chater Road.

Meetings-Theosophical Society, 6 p.m.; Annual, Grand Hotel des Wagons-Lits, Ltd., Regd. Office, Ex- change Building, (2nd floor), 12.15. (p.m.

of Miscellaneous. Laying Wreaths at the Cenotaph, 11 a.m.; Whist Drive, Civil Service Cricket Club, 8.45 p.m.; Entries close for Colony's Open Contract Bridge Tournament, &, Des Voeux Road,

p.m.

Theatres

King's:-"The Rebel." Queen's:-Money for Nothing." Central:-The Conquerors." Oriental: The White Gold

Dragon." (Chinese Picture) WorldThe Struggle.' (Chinese Picture). Majestic:-"Night After Night." Star:-"South Sea Rose."

Dance

St.

Andrew's Ball, Peninsula Hotel, 9 p.m.

Principal Mails. Inward from Europe via Suea by Carthage; from America by Em prese of Asia.

Sports Auction Bridge.Entries close for apen Tournament, p.m.

Billiards.-Steel Coulson League, Garrison Sergeants' Mess v. Palace. Club; Royal Engineers v. G. and P. O's Club; Royal Artilley v. St. Patrick's.

Hockey.-St. Andrew's v. Central British; Fifth Battery, H.K.S.R.A. v. Medway.

Sunrise.-6.46°

Am. Sunset.-3.38 Tides.-High at 8.57 and 20.21; Low at 1.2 and 13.99.

.. FOR THE BAGSHOT LODGE,

The Duke of Connaught has 'con- sented to have his portrait paint- ed in the full masonic-regalia of Grand Master: The picture is to be a presentation by the artist, Mr. Donald Wood, to the Bagshot Lodge of Freemasons.

FAMOUS OXFORD - DIGS,” Sir Edwin Lutyens, a friend... In Oxford tells me, has been com- missioned to rebuild 'one of the most celebrated lodging houses

The artist's portrait of the late On Saturday Lady. Milner will be there as the new headquarters of

My Marquis of Normanby was hung on accompanied from England by Birthe Society of Jesus, Feliz Ready, Quartermaster-Gen The Jesuits at present have a the line at the Paris Salon last eral to the Forces, while it is home in "The Giler." Campion year, t expected that elther Marshal Petain Hall, of which Father Martin

MARSH

MARSHAL BALBO.

or Gen Gouraud will represent D'Arcy, the popular, Farm-street Marshal Balbo's transference. France:

preacher, recently became the Master,

THE KING'S CHRISTMAS CARD. The new Campion Hall will be built on the site or Micklem Hall, Mr Bernard F. Gribble, who, in Brewer-street. The older part,

from the command of the Italian Air Force-largely of his own-cres- tion-to & colonial Governorship will not have come as a surprise to students of recent events in

Consued on Rage

has had the honour of furnishing which contains some magnificent Italy, and of

the design for the King's Christmas oak panelling, will be preserved.

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