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LAST MADONNA FOUND

Raphael Painting From The Urala.

AIR

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According to the Society of When a process of refuelling in Cultural Relations with Foreign the air recently developed at Farn- Countries" Prof. Grabar, Head borough is adopted for commer- of the State Pictorial Renovation cial purposes, it will be possible Works, has returned to Moscow for passenger aeroplanes to dy in from-Nishai-Tagil in the Urals, 2,000 miles stages.

bringing with him what is claime

ed to be the original Raphael machine in flight took in a supply Some time ago an American painting of the long-miss Ma-1

donna del Popolo". The picture of fuel through a pipe line let was painted by Raphael by the down from another machine. command of the Pope Julas 11. More recently experiments in re- who placed it in the church of fuelling in the air have been car. "Santo. Maria del Popolo atried out by the Royal Aircraft Rome together with the famous Establishment at Franborough, portrait of the Pope by Raphael, It was found that the operatiun which is now in Florence. of coupling the two machines and The Madonna" remained in that of transferring the fuel was easily church until 1591, when it came accomplished. late into the possession of Cardinel Sfondrato, who showed it in 1595 distance air passengers will have In the future, therefore, long to an agent of the Emperor Ru-the monotony of their journey dolph 11, and the latter reported broken when one of the dying o his master. Soon afterwards fuel tanks, tearing along close. he celebrated picture disappear-overhead, lets down a pipe and ed, and nothing was known about feeds the express with petrol it until the middle of the 18th while travelling at over 100 m.ph. century. In 1741, the picture was Arrangements could be made for discovered in the vestry-room of mails for intermediate stations to the Casa Santa di Loretto, since taken of and landed by the tank when it became known in literat-machine..

ure under the title of "Madonna

di Loretto". At the end of the 18th century, the picture dis- appeared from Luretto, and was since given up us lost.

It now transpires that the Raphael painting WON held throughout the 18th century by

BACHELOR PRINCE.

the Damidov family at their home Another Crop Of Rumours.

in Nizhni-Tagil in the Urals.

It

is not possible now to establish

the precise date on which it

cause

Rumours of the Prince

of

was brought to the Urals, but Wales' marriage prospect are it may safely be surmised that reviving automatically with the in the 40's it Was already wind-up of the South American hanging in the apart tour, says a London message. ments occupied by the famous The only indication that to-day's beauty of the time of Nicholas 1 reports are no more true than the Marchioness Aurora Karlovaa were the same reports years ago, Damidov-San-Donato, in the is that the Frince seems to enjoy Damidov home in the Urals. his freedom from matrimony with

The discovery of the vanished greater zest. Raphael painting will no doubt

Continental princesses and D great Bersation among European and American American heiresses are among the art experts. Prof. Grabar has now crop of possibilities but it is already begun the investigation generally expected that when the of the history, and the analysis of English girl; perhaps of higher Prince marries he will choose an the technique of the Raphael rank than Lady Elizabeth Bowes- painting, while the State Works will be engaged on its renovation. Lyon, daughter of the Earl of Strathmore. The continental field is limited owing to politics and differences in religion-for the British Queen is always a Protestant. Also the old-fashion- ed type of state-arranged mar- riage is unpopular in England since the war.

GREATER TOKYO.

Recent Census and Future Plans.

The National Census taken on October 1 places the population

The Prince is 31 years old, and the fact that most princes marry younger is worrying many older. inclined to gossip.

of Tokyo city at 2,080,000, a de-y women in England who are, crease of nearly 110,000 from the population of the capital before the disaster of 1923,

The suburbs show a remarkable increase, the total population, in- clusive of Hachioji city and the other eight suburban districts. being put at 2,475,000.

RUSSIAN FILMS.

To Be Shown Abread.

This is not inclusive of the population of the Ogasawara is- lands which are under the control of the Tokyo prefectural governor. Exclusive of the Ogasawara is-

Moscow, October 12.-Italian lands, the figures show an in-

and American cinema firms are crease of 955,000 over the pre-ducers for the exportation of negotiating with Russian pro- quake population.

Sixteen suburban towns have a

Soviet films, for which there is a population of more than 50,000 growing demand abroad. Among They are Shinagawa, Oi. Yods the films to be shortly sent to bashi, Yoyohata, Nakano, Hirst-Italy, Germany, America and suka, Oji, Takinogawa, Nippori. Automobile race"

France are: "The Cross-Country Mikawashima, Senju. Adzuma,

The Moslem Kameido and the three mention-

Woman, Lena Goldfields", etc. ed above.

The Red Star" cinema com- Under the greater Tokyo planspany has released a scientific film the City of Tokyo will have a just completed, entitled

"Re- population nearly equalling that juvenation".

of London, the largest city in the

The film is the result of three years work under world, according to claims made the guidance of leading scientific

at the City Office,

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