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"Sir Gerald Du Maurier's Home: Dame Clara Butt's

Illness: Australia And Her Captains: General Wavell: The Unlucky Thirteen: Sale Of

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(Special Air-Mall Service) The two men always talked in Russian, for "A.. "P" is "But expert Russian scholat. He spent two years-1911 and 1912-in the building. family of a famous writer in Moscow to learn the language.

London, June 9. Cannon Hall, Hampstead Heath, which was the home for 18 years of the late SirGerald du Maurier, was sold at auction yesterday for £10,000. The name of the new Owr.er is not disclosed, but it is. He 13 a good-looking, Scot, of understood he is a member of the sturdy build and charming max- Stock Exchange. Mr. Cland F. God-ners: Although he ldst, an eye in dard, of Goddard and Smith, con- France, he hunts, goifs, shoots. ducted the sale in his firm's rooms | skis, and, ashes.

in King-street, St. James's, acting by direction of Lady du Maurier. Altogether he received ten bids, the first being of £7,500.

WHAT'S IN A NUMBER?"

I can add some more Thirteens for the benent of those superatl- tious people who; pointed out, that the Derby winner drew 13 the race.

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Built about 1710, Cannon Hall is a delightful old house, mellow Akad dignified, standing in * Windsor Lad was bought paved courtyard and with a garden years ago on July 13 he put of an acre. It is thus mentioned chase price was this undred in "The Annals of Hampstend." by the late Mr. Thos. J. Barratt:

corner of

At the north-east Cannon Place (formerly Hous's Bulidings), is a fine old Georgian red-brick house, which derives its name from certain pieces of can-

non placed inside and outside the premises, some of them figuring as others kerb posts in the roads. standing in the grounds. It is be- lieved that they were introduced by Sir James Cosmo Melvill, a former secretary of the East India Company, who lived at Canzon Hall for some years. Sir Nosh Thomas, Physician-in-Ordinary, to George III. occupied the house in 1780, but he was not associated with these pléces of AT- tillery. There is no information as to their origin in the title deeds. The cannons may have formed the armament of an Elizabethan war galleon."

DAME CLAKA BUTT Dame Clara Butt has been taken to Guy's Hospital. where she is to undergo an X-ray examination. It is expected that she will later go into a nursing home. Dame Clara returned to her home at North Stoke, Wallingford, Oxfor shire, last Friday, after being twelve months in Australia.

tralia. however, she became very ill, and when she left Sydney for England she was carried on a stretcher to the liner Strathaird.

NO DROPPING THE "PILOT Australia stands by her cricket captains.

gulness.

Yesterday's race was the thir teenth consecutive: Derby: „, which the Maharaja of Rajpipla had att tanded.

I do not know if the Maharaja intends to start a Thirteen Club

Lord Jersey's present intention 13 to pull down not only the ad- ditions, but the Queen Anne por tion" as well. He has commission- ed Sir Edwin Lutyens to brilld a small house in its place.

So far the pictures, furniture and books have realised £15,000.

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lighting.

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THE DERBY IN NO TIME You do not need to steal a day from your work to see the Derby nowadays.

A City friend yesterday did a full morning's work at his office.

He left in his car at 1.15 p.m. when all the crowds bad already arrived at Epsom,

He found the road almost empty and was in the stand before 2.30 p.m.

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Sherlock Holmes was shy in intro- ducing himself to Sir Arthur

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INHERITED TALENT Bhortly after midsummer, when Lord Duncannon, Lord Bess- borough's eldest son, will play Romeo to Miss Margaretta Scott's Jullet for the first time, the wea- ther should be better.

Lord Duncannon, who signed a contract with Mr. Sydney Carroll to take effect after he comes down for good from Trinity, Cambridge. should find his first part congenial.

He played In Canada opposite Miss Julia MacBrien, the daugh- ter of the chief of the Royal Cana- dian Mounted Police, under the

directing eye of his father, the Governor-General

His histrionic talent is inherited both from his father, who has a private theatre at Stansted Park, and from his French mother, who is equally keen.

In January last year she under-out, took some time to know— SOCIALISM IN THE SADDLE went an operation" for internal

I hear that Mr. Herbert Morrison, trouble at a nursing home at Men

leader of the Socialist L.C.C., has tone. The operation was success-

written for party headquarters his ful and Damé Clara made good

At Arst he mistook his name.. A own account of policy decisions. progress. During her visit to Aus-leaf exists from an early noté- taken since the March election, book-reproduced by Mr. Starrett It indicates that. London, the which the astonished eye be-world's greatest municipal organi- holds with dismay." Thereon issation, is to become a trial ground written "Sherinford Holmes"

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Economy is dismissed with a addition to Sherlock Holmes biblio-wave of the pen graphy has caught something of I learn from this account of the the great detective's methods of new control that the special reasoning is shown by his recon- Economy Committee has been struction of Holmes' bedroom scrapped. "Shylockisms have been

Since there was a blind, which reversed," says Mr. Morrison. Watson was once warned to leave

The party has countermanded alone, there was perforce a win the previous order to sell a site in now: it looked upon the street... Poynders-road, Clapham, and will "There was a bed and possibly a press forward house-building safe; and certainly there was a there. "despite the snobbish dis- This will be Woodfull's last tour mantel, which indicates, no doubt, approval of the genteel.* of England.

W, M. Woodful, to-morrow will be tossing in his eleventh con- secutive Anglo-Australian Test.

He is only the fourth captain Australia has used against Us since the War.

We have had seven, including instances of swapping horses in mid-stream.

Those who recall him in 1928 as ashy young man who battled his way into first-class cricket.. have seen a great development in his character and personality.

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Induction could not proceed more rigorously,

REALISED AMBITIONS Mr. Anton Dolin told the first- night audience at the Savoy that LORD JERSEY'S NEW HOUSE

he had three ambitions to dance The nine days sale of the in-with Mme. Karsavins, to be a "BABY" OF THE GENERALS terior furnishings of Lord Jersey's leader in the Diaghiler Ballet, and General A. P. Wavell who is house at Middleton Park, near before he was 30 to act in a play." being mentioned as the next Com-Bicester, ends recently. The pro Two he long Ago realised. "Pre- mandant of the Imperial Defence ceeds are to go towards the cost cipice" enables him to "complete" College, is the youngest major of pulling down the present house, the list with a month to spare. general in the Army. He was only which is much too large for Lord Yet Mr. Dolln did not look happy. 51, last month.

Jersey's, requirements. especially when making these confidences as he has another house, Osterley He cheered up wonderfully, how Park, also not far from London. ever, when, on Miss Kate Cutler

Middleton was originally a quite | proving unwilling to take a special. small, but very charming, Queen call, he carried her to the foot- Anne mansion. To this, about a lights in the best ballet style.

During one period of the war he was attached to Russian headquar- ters in the Caucasus where he was a great favourite of the Grand Duke Nicholas.

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