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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY

SAINT JOAN."

GOLD DUST FROM GUNS.

GANDHI AND BOLSHEVISM.

·Invitation to Russia Refused.

London Revival.

Bornard Shaw's play "Saint!

has boon rovived in Joan"

The London, at the Regent. following critique is from the pen of Mr. Hubert Griffith in the

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Doscribing the early days of at Berlin, Krestinsky, has boon asked by the Minister for Foreign Affairs to give an official wolcorne scone in "Baint Joan" is the

A properly called the,...

and to profit by tho boat in the play. The entry of the Hand, the author writes:- tho shy, awkward possant girl

among into the feudal castle, so "foy" was offered. I took samples in to him, ( country people say) in her the presence of the owners. It situation to undertake Bolshevik his followers." Krestinsky, Mr undorstands. piritual raptness, so tombsyish was rich. I had a strange in-propagandist activitice tuition that something

Gandhi further and forceful as a living por- nonality-this, one fools, is wrong. That night I went down picture of Saint Joan as she with one of my party to tho was to invite him to Russia, and really might have appeared to the place wo had sampled, and with was also authorised to provide propagandist literaturo among equire of Vaucouleure. It recon-sharp picks cut a good bit of the subsidy for the publication of cilos the two opposites in the reef and took fresh samples. the oppressed peoples of Asta; and to found, for the purposes of character: Mr. Shaw in his They contained no gold.

I left the templing propositione Oriental Club and Secretariat, preface, sano and shrewd

a puree in the naine of Gandhi, country girl of extraordinary alone, and discovered inter on strength of mind and hardihood that the proprietors used to go for students who are of his ideas, of body.

Sho was vory into the drive with shotguns and

faco. In the Finally, three Hindus would bo flro into tho. O born boss

which enlisted in a propaganda work." capable: the H. K, Telegraph."

"I have not," says Mr. Gandhi, Anatole Franco's "Joan is made cartridges gold dust,

the penetrated into the cracks and the slightest desire to visit those of nothing but pootry

used in place came forth from the eternal Grovices, was fairyland of tho woods and of shot. Where panning is being great countries (Germany and the fountains; sho was the broath done beware of oigaretto amok.Russia). I am consolous of the stand has not yet been fully of that great thought that mado a ing; the ashion dropping into the fact that the truth for which I rose of fire bloom above the doors pan may contain gold dust.”

Buying claims was the biggest vindicated. My work in India is of the churchos; tho was the

In Buch circumstances offspring of the ecstasy and tears possible gamble, and vast fort-still in the experimental stage. of a whole people. She is mould-unes were picked up by the lucky foreign adventure on my part od out of poetry, like the ones.. out of daw." Joan must have baon both to have boon what sho

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I have no The Rand was then a very tempt to uno mo for violent pur-

might poses is bound to fail.

I know In that splendid first scene

ong dosblato region;

mothods. Mr. Shaw has kept to his own definition, and has included An-travel a hundred miles without ouret atole Franco's as well. And Miss seeing a tree. One could at that diplomacy save that of truth. Thorndike, taking her perfor-time (1886) have bought farms have no weapon but non-violence. mance all in all, its small failings of 10,000 acres and more for £200 may unconsciously be led astray with its large virtuos, seems to apioco. And through those in- for a while, but not for all time. do more in imaginative interpret hospitable areas ran the greatest, I have, therefore, well-defined may be used. Attempts have been ation of the part than any other bode of gold-bearing conglomor limitations, within which alone I English actress could come near,atos in the world."

Sir Lionel was one of four Re-made before now to use me un- The playing of the first sceno is'

form loadors in Johannesburg lawfully more than once. They unforgettable.

who wore sontenced to death for havo failed aach time, so far as I "I am not yet ignorant of what And now, having soon "Saint participation in the Jameson am award, Joan" once, and then having read Raid of 1895. There was, of it several times, and then having course, never any fear that they exactly Bolshovism is.

is basod

violonce on soon it again, I wish to state that would be oxoouted (in the end know that in so I think it less than Mr. Shaw's thoy wore released on paying a denial of God it rapets me. I do not believe in short, vio- greatest play, bolow" Man and fine a £25,000 each), but thero

Those chance of their heing lout cuts Superman," below "Mothuselah" was -perhaps below "Heartbreak lynched by the incensed burghers. Houso." This ін no

savere For that reason a guard of 50 of Bolshovik friends who are best- owing their attention on mo disparagemont, for I think "Man the Staats Artillerie was pro- should realise that, however much I may sympathise with, and and Superman" the greatest play vided at the prison.

admiro, worthy motives, I am an of the modern theatre.

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MISSING LINK ". DISCOVERED.

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comparative "A friend of ours visited the

the noblest of dautees. Thero is, advantages Mr. Shaw started out State Attorney and pointed out violent methods, even to sorve with in writing "Mon and that as all the other Reformers therefore, really, no meeting Superman" and "Saint Joan." were out op ball he might at least ground between the school of In "Man and Suportiman" he was allow us to leave on bail for a

violence and myself. doaling with two invented wook-end. Ho consented, upon obaracters-Tanner, intellectual

the understanding that the mat- and Arebrand, arch-enthusiast, prig; Ann, a satire at its fiercesttor was to be kept privato and on modern woman, a satire that upon our plodging ourselves not

Another Fossil Skull. to take part in politics. In due strips her in the end of every-course we wero escorted by our

London, Feb. 4-What the thing except her one redeeming 50 mounted guards to Pretoria quality, hor vitality-and for Station. There wo bado them a nowspapers feature and. describo these two people he writes so friendly au revoir. We returned, as a most important scientific magnificent a final scone that all according to agreement, on the discovery has been made by the familar definitions, "comedy," Monday, and, lo and behold, the Taungs, in Bechuanaland, "tragody," "classic," or "roman.

rand University, who has found tic," fail away and cosso to have gallant 50 were drawn up to Professor Dart, of Witwaters fossilised skull buried in A kind of royal escort, and significance. It is drama itself, escort us back again (" without qualification.

suro way of keeping our wook-limestone at a depth of 50 foot. ond visit private!" humorously The skull, it is declared, repro- Bonts something midway be- concludes Sir Lionel.

tween man and the great apes, Professor Dart adds that the loose pseudo-scientific expression | missing link "most nearly do scribes the skull's former owner. It is believed that this is a far finer specimen than the Broken Hill or Java akulle of pro-historio man.

THE WORLD'S LOVE. Then considor the material of "Saint Joan," herself a character

that the entire world is in love CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S MOTHER.

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with from the moment it first reade about her. Handlod-by different minds, Schillar at his most romantic, Anatole France at his most aceptical, the school history books at thoir baldost, sho still comes off a creature authorities have decided that, of infinito dignity and purity Chaplin's old and ailing mother, Taunge skull was not that of a and courage-drama in herself who came with him from England buman being, but of a much more at its highest. How could Mr. two years ago, cannot remain in intelligent being than the gorilla Shaw, with 1 bis sensitivoness, the States, and must be deported. or chimpanzao. He was unable write a play about Joan of Arc It seems that sho is subject to to talk but his brain had advanced that had not moments that touch- mild mental weakness and thus, in the direction required by sym- ad our hearts? Of course he according to the America immi-bolism and epesch. Ho is there- lawa, forbiddon to fore to be regarded not as an could not. He has moved us pro-gration foundly. In certain presagos become resident in the coun-apoliko man but as a manlike the wonderful first scone-he has try, lest sho. should become ape. Scientists in London dsolare

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A child op zoo the and at a time when the solema opilogue. relevance of the epilogue, its play is drawing to its close. necessity to the play. But why the Withallits extraordinary super- tho particular handling of the Boial attractiveness, with all the epilogue-tho Dauphin's rattle, deep and fino things of its bent the modern English clergyman,moments, I put "Saint Joan" far the second rats comedy that below the crowning point of Mr.

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