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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,

FEBRUARY 8, 1934.

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London Air-Mail Letter

Father Of The Thames: A New York Financier: Grounds For Divorce: Cam- bridge's University Library: Dickens' Documents: Signor Mussolini

Special Air-Mail Service)

London, January 17. FONTANNIANA

time

I cannot remember the when

of theatrical stars such magnitude were in as, close con-

Miss as are junction

Lynn Fontanne and

Elisabeth Miss Bergner, who are playing in ad- joining theatre in Shaftesbury- avenue.

י

a com- While Miss Bergner is plete newcomer, Miss Fontanne has had her share of the hopes and disappointments of the Lon- don stage. She began by walking on in Drury Lane pantomime.

Though she played a number of

London-and SO parts in

en 17 My Alfred Lunt chanted Lady's Dress" that he sought her out and married her-she had to "go to America to achieve, full re-

cognition.

visited Moundsmere Manor, BKO Mr. Buckley's home near Basing- stoke, to admire the treasures

Mr. Buckley later showed me a rare piece which the Queen had to him after he had presented made her a gift from his collec tion.

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DIVORCE FOR THE RICH ONLY

I see that 695 undefended pitl- divorce have been set tion for

hearing in the 14371 down for which opens to-day.

There has been 50 much criticism of our present divorce laws that the sweeping reforms of the nineteenth century have been surprisingly overlooked.

In fact, until the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857, which set up the Divorce Court, divorce was a and extremely laborious, costly

The injured

rare

procedure.

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There she went right to the top-spouse had arst to obtain a de- Ecclesiastical Courts, of the theatrical tree. "Reunion cree in the

in Vienna' seems certain to es- which corresponded to the modern tablish her at similar heights on separation and did not entitle the this side. Unless one had her own spouses to re-marry. word for it in "Who's Who in the Theatre," no one would credit the fact that sbe will be 52 on her next birthday.

SAFER TO STAND

A good story of Signor Mussolini, though possibly apocryphal, was told in one of the London Em- bassles the other day.

Delayed in a roadside village for

two hours more than

by the breakdown of his motor car, he was persuaded to visit the local

cinema.

Throughout я Turid triangle drama he sat without evincing the slightest interest.

When the news bulletin de- picted him on the screen and the audience rose with shouts of "Viva il Duce"

and "Viva Mussolini," he naturally remained seated,

Then came a gentle tap on his shoulder, and His neighbour whis- pered. " quite agree with you, iny friend, but It is safer stand."

He had then to bring an action for damages against the co-res- pondent, and finally he had to obtain a private Act of Parla- ment..

It is obvious that such a pro- cedure was a luxury, available only Between 1715 and to the rich 1775 only sixty such divorces, were obtained, while between 1775 and 1800 there were but seventy-four. DAVID LAMAR'S LURID CAREER of David Lamar, The death whose real name is believed to have been Lewis, Levy or Frank- enstein, removes one of the most picturesque "financiers who ever became notorious in New York.

With his diamond-studded walking stick, silk hat and braid- ed frock-coat, he first appeared on the Wall Street scene at the be- He lost ginning of the century,

no time, in organising sensational raids against The United States to Steel Corporation and other pro-

minent Companies.

He won the soubriquet, the "Woll "POSTERITY PAPERS""'

after de- Among the nation's most tanta- of Wall Street," soon lising possessions are the "poster-priving Henry Hart, the president of a leading railroad company, or ity papers" in sealed

nearly a million pounds. the British Museum...

packets in

J. Pierpont Morgan, senior, char- acterised him as vermin at the time when his champagne suppers. coach and four, and daring coups were becoming famous. IMPERSONATIONS AT CAPITOL. persuaded 3 Middle once

He

The Dickens documents are now to be available, but it must be galling for the historian to reflect upon the other valuable papers which will be guarded jealously by the Muscum until the dates ap- pointed by the depositors.

The important Gladstone papers West senator to deliver a violent "are reserved until 1948 or until the attack in the Senate on the United. death of the present Lord Glad-States Steel Corporation, and ar- stone. Lord

more ranged himself to sell steel short Morley and,

the

The same day. lately Mr. Philip Guedalla have heavily consulted them, but one" may feel senator was warned at the last threw his speech sure that their interest is by no minute.

away. means exhausted.

Most of the other sealed MSS. are letters written by, to, or about people who are still living. They will not be published during the Ufetimes of the persons concern- ed. Among them are a substan- tial proportion of Sir Henry Gamp- bell-Bannerman's papers. MR. CHURCHILL'S UNCENSORED

TALK

The B.B.C. announcement that

broadcast Mr. Churchill's *morrow is to be uncensored marks:

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a victory scored after a battle of

correspondence.

and

Lamar frequently impersonated politicians at Washington, and is his seat in said to have taken Congress disguised as a represen tative. He was imprisoned in 1913, and never regained his cld daring.

He fled to Mexico when indicted for conspiring to sabotage man- tions during the war,, and served his last term in prison last summer for defrauding a restaurant.

LORD DESBOROUGH AND THE THAMES water

Whenever

a

shortage

I gather that it was Brst sug-threatens, Lord Desborough comes gested by the B.B.C. that the talks into the news. should be censored.

some

discussion

He is almost the father of the Thames.

Apart from his being chairman vigorously of the Thames Conservancy Board since its foundation in 1910, his

the river they achievements on

legion. He has rowed on it, hav- two Oxford eights, ing been in punted on it, and, indeed, twice sunk in it.

But both Mr. Wells, the Erst

in the series, speaker

And Mr. Churchill protested against this restriction.

After gained their point, and the cen- sorship condition was waived.

It is curious that, while the poll- ticians in this "Whither Britain? series are understood to be an- paid, the other speakers will re- ceive a fee.

It is stated that Mr. Wells re- neighbour- ceived a fee in the hood of £100 for his excellent talk last Tuesday..

WHAT CAMBRIDGE THINKS Cambridge, which returns to work to-day, will find the tower of the new University Library building nearly complete.

Opinion among the 'dons of one

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