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GLEAMS FROM THE UNSEEN.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

Her colour changed and she who dreams of going along (an

the gradually took on

fee: unknown road in the country and tures of his father, using approaches a building in a field; the same gestures and even ja pessant from the house comes asking for and smoking a cigar | to meet him and leada bim up to a thing this woman never did in [n loft. Two months after, he goes her ordinary condition. She ad-to ́s dust, recognises the dusty dressed Tong as if she were his road, the field, the farm, the out- actual father and discussed his houses, the peasant and a bed business and affairs and gavel whose extraordinary height bad him advice about matters which impressed him in the dream Tong thought were only known Everything was exactly the to himself and which were same as in the dream, except, and certainly not known to this wo this is a very peculiar touch, that

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A lady I met some years ago told me she had no belief in Spiritualism, but that she had come to a mutual agreement with a gentleman she was engaged to that the one who died first should try to signal to the other from the next world. He died before they

She then came to barself, knowing bis way from the dream, would be married, but long after but all present who remembered he pushed past the peasant and wards, when she was not think his father were quite satisfied preceded him upstairs instead, as ing of the old arrangement, she that "the man bare come back." in the dream of following the was startled by a resounding blow

I take this from "Dicken's peasant. It would seem from this on the front door of the house, London," by F. Milton that the visions of seers And and though the servant was sent Dickens happened to walk past dreamers are not fixed and irrevoc to the door she could find no-one | Gad's Hill with W.H. Wills and able but are liable to change with there. This was repeated three told him his father used to say circumstances. times with the name result, and that if he (Dickens) ever grew up then the lady remembered and felt assured that her lover had kept

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The Man From Toronto." brought back the packet to the did and hope to pass next sum shop in Aldgate where he had mer there."

The Courtneidge-Holloway bought the slides, the salesman

Company of London Of course, some will say this thought he was crazy,as he saw was mere chance coincidence. opened their Hongkong season the parcel had not been opened Well, if they are satisfied with Saturday night, in the Theatre and therefore thought there could that explanation, we must leave Royal, with that very amusing be nothing to be developed. them there. but I much prefer to piece, The Man from Toronto," When, however, the pictures ap believe, with Sir Oliver Lodge, There was a fair-sized audience peared, not only he but all the that life is not haphazard" and several of whom, incidentally, people in the shop were greatly that it was not by chance coincid-had the bad manners to arrive astonished when he told them once that Dickens got the only after the play had commenced. what had happened. Lasked house he wanted, but that it was We trust it was merely the fact Miss Devis if she were a believer by the dietinterposition of of there being congter attractions She said she didn't quite know. unseen friends and powers watch that prevented a much bigger She had been very sceptical and ing over him and his life. All

"house materialising. for on disinclined to give up so many of my own small experiences go to:

their merits the company deserve her evenings to sittings with her confirm me in this belief, but as to have every sest filled at each parents and old Mr. Husk, but to them I will speak later.

performance. one night at a sitting, when she A friend of mine in Yokohama The plot of Saturday night's was feeling extra rebellious, she was told by a Japanese lady who piece, which has been such a suddenly received a violent blowie clairvoyant that he would success at Home, is probably not in the back. It was in the dark leave Japan soon and go home to known to those out here who but she was quite sure either of

a new position, that his wife have been out of touch with her parents could or would have would like the change, but that matters theatrical. A wealthy struck her so forcibly and Mr.be would bare preferred to have and elderly Canadian, whilst on a Husk was then quite too old and remained in Japan. He had no sea voyage to Britain, meats feeble for such a performance. grounds for expecting such and .falls deeply in love So she said she hardly knew what change, but one day he received with a young, and very charming she believed.

a telegram which resulted in his English widow, but bis courtship My sister, at the time of her returning to London to live, and, fails. He dies not long after- husband's death at sea, saw an as he was told, his wife was words, and leaves three quarters appearance of him in her house delighted, but he was not. of a million sterling, which is to at Aberdeen which was so natural

go to a nephew on condition that that she had actually addressed

he succeeds where his uncle him before she realised that he

failed. This cephew. Fergus could not be there. Shortly after

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from wards, she received the news cf the Douglas S.3. Company, was, Toronto," and the adventures he his death, which must have oc as a young man, in an opiuta has at Teignmouth before be curred about the time she had schooner running to Hongkong aucceeds in winning the love of this vision. But it was no dream. from

which was the widow whom he imagines" as she was wide awake and may-attacked by pirates in the is her maid Perkins, as the lady ing about the house when she Lyeemoon Pass, who were, only has disguised herself 85 saw her husband.

driver off after a band-to-band domestic servant before he fight on deck. Later on, he arrives go to fill three acts full received a letter from his mother of incident and humour. For a A friend, Miss Kuhn, saw a in which she described the whole brief spell in the first act we have vision in the Dresden Opera affair as she had seen it in a Mrs. Hubbard, a lady with a face House of her cousin floating above dream at the time. I was told (whose photograph serves the the beads of the performers on this by those to whom Captain useful purpose later of being the stage, when, as it afterwards Ashton showed the letter on ita passed off as that of the widow), appeared, he was dying in snotter arrival and was assured that the and her "fat-headed" daughter. town in Germany. Another dates agreed.

The widow's idle young cousin, friend, Mr. Conrad Mendham, | On my way home in 1918, I Bobby Gilmour, her cacle by usual somewhat lengthy wait. who is far from a believer, never read a book by a doctor in Yoko- marriage and legal adviser, Possibly, however, we have to theless admits he'is puzzled, for, hama who told a story of a lady. Mr.

Priestly, her maid thank the absence of change of in spite of bie prejudices, be was whose husband was the master of Martha, and Fergus Win-scene for this; but in any case it led by Mrs. Mendham into attend a ship that was once long overdue bush's two sisters, Ruth and served as a lesson to those local Stevenson's Story Filmed. ing a seance with Mr. Husk and at Yokohama. At last this lady Ada, are other essential char theatregoers who seem to include he is forced to admit that what was persuaded by her amah to actors in the play.

That a story by Robert Louis a stroll about the town and two Stevenson should have bean fash- took place on

that occasion consult the Priest of a Temple, Miss Leslie Graham as the or three thirst-quenchere during ioned lato a moving picture that be cannot explain by any natural who told her that her husband charming widow, Mrs. Calthorpe, an interval as part of the pro- will assuredly rank as one of the means, although he is him was quite safe and would return was perfect, and upheld the claim gramme of their enjoyment of a big saccesses of the screen be- self an amateur conjurer. Colin safety to Japan, also that thoi by the directors of the company play. That they return late, only longs to the natural order of their way to the seance, Mrs. vessel has been blown clear back that the parts in each presenta matters to the artists and the events. The author of "Treasure Meadham bad bought some to Hongkong, and it would ba ation are given to those capable of unfortunate section of the Island." "Kidnapped" and the sweets for her children, and al considerable time before she could filling them suitably. The same audience who have not wandered rest of his wonderfully dramatic though the room was in complete see her husband again. Eventual-can be said, in fact, of all the cast. so far afield. darkness and the sweats in Mrs. ly the ship did arrive safely, Mr. George Zucco, who took the Mendham's muff, this fact was having been driven back to Hong part of Fergus Wimbush,gave ap is the thrilling American "crook" The piece to be given to-night shouted out by the alleged spirit kong and refitted there. When I excellent portrayal, and there was play." The Bat." of John King in atentorian tones returned to Japan, I was lunching never a hint of straining for effect,

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Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was a anique contribution to the imperishable literature of the world, and those who see the screen version of it that is being shown at the Coronet to-day! will agree that of all his writinge this tale is possibly the best adapted for the cinema.

far beyond the strength of any with Mr. and Mrs. Williams, of such as might have been discerni- earthly voice. The sweets were Kobe,

related this ble with a less accomplished actor. then removed from the muff, the story,

that Mr. W.; Hudd acted the part of rustling of the paper being clear-wished I could find someone Bobby Gilmour as the author no ly heard, and a sweet was then to corroborate it. "I can do that," doubt intended it to be, and his popped into the mouth of each said Mr. Williams, as the lady was altogether a fine character- person present sitting around the was my mother and I remember isation of the type. The came table and in complate darkness. the circumstances quite well. Of with Miss Enid Revill Reads, who Mendham kept bis mouth shut course it was a coincidence that I as Ada Wimbush was the Co-

The compact plot of the novel, until something that he said felt spoke to about the only person in lonial "flapper" to the life. Misa

its frank employment of the like monkey's fingers touched all Japan who could corroborate Florence Le Clercq as Ruth

supernatural, the breadth and bim under the chin and a voice this story, but the person who can Wimbush and Mies Dorothy Flet-

engrossing power of its theme, the said "Come, come, open your believe that I did so just by cher as Martha, also acted splen- with the correct letters, and you momente

dread fascination of its dark mouth." A bust of some person chance; taust have a very curious didly, the latter being most will find a word square of six impressiveness of its terrible and the truth- and also appeared lit up by its own ly constructed mind.

effective in the episode where she words. The word in the second lesson, give it dramatic values light, as there was no light in the Since I noted down the fore- breaks out crying As Mr. room."

cast of my brother Arthur's will Priestly, the harassed

Cross line will read the same as that utilise every resource of film adviser, An Entranced Amah.

by Madam Voyer, I see that she Mr. Fred Morgan had a difficals the second word from top to art, and, happily for the screen, it told consultant that he would portrayal to manage, but accom-

bottom, etc. The words "meagre has fallen to Mr. John Barrymore, My dear old friend and partner, come into a sum of money during pilshed his part with full merit. and "esteem" are formed already. America's foremost tragic actor, Tong Lai-chush, told me that the second woek of the following Miss Dora Hargreaves and Miss Saturday's answer; f

to play the dual role of the onco at his house at Macao at math. He had come to town to May Rogers gave creditable re-bills bad one $50 bill, three $2 own creating.

The man who had 858 in six scientist and the Nemesis of his mealtime, when he and all his raise money on a reversion, but presentations as Mra. Hubbard bilis, and two. $1 bills. He kept family and servants were present after this information he decided and Minnie Hubbard respectively, the $50 bill for himself. He was eating at several tables, an old to wait, and on the 13th, of, the

It might be added that the then able to divide the remaining amah, who had called on them month the death occurred of the company has some very good money (83) equally between his and was eating with the ser-gentleman on on whom this scenery and the comparatively two friends, by giving one two $2 vante, suddenly became en reversion depended.

short intervals between acte, mills, and the other one $2 bill and Then there is the well-known while it caught soms people two $1 bills. tranded and called the attention of everyone present to herself. story of an Italian fencing master "napping," "was a relief from the a

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