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A ROOM OF TEARS.

RAILWAY STATION

PROBLEMS.

Within earshot of the laughter, of departing holiday-makers on Waterloo Station, S.E., is a lofty room in which, perhaps, more tears are shed than in almost any other place in London.

It is called the Inquiry Office, But it might well be called the Humanity Bureau, so many and varied are the problems of life discussed there.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1927.

"IN MY YOUNGER

DAYS."

THE STAGE AS IT USED TO BE.

Customs and manuers change rapidly in theatre land, and those with the stage and its ways in days who were intimately acquainted gone by experience an indescribable der with the now. There are 80 melancholy in comparing the old or- many changes nowadays, writes the oldest living English actor, Mr. C. W. Somerset, in a Home paper. The other day, when an officialful ambition found its way into When I was a young man, youth- was describing to a Daily Mail re- porter some of the tragedies dis-stage circles in a far more rough cussed in the room during the last and ready manner than la custom- weeks, five tiny children entered, of a provincial theatre, and taking ary now. Writing to the manager four boys and one girl. Beneath. their arms were little parcels of of recommendation or otherwise, care to eaclose a photograph by way bread and margarine, on their

an applicant considered himself breasts were cards inscribed

fortunate were he even granted 'an "Fresh Air Fund," and tears raced interview. When he arrived in down their cheeks.

the manager's office little time was

"We have lost the others," whis- pered one to the clork who stooped

ed

wasted.

towards him. "Where for?" ask-Oh, well, we'll see what can be "Been on the stage before? No? the clerk. "Loughton, re- done with you. Eighteen shillings plied the boy.

a week, and find your own tights and shoes--and get a sword-most And important-get a sword." that was that.

Loughton is in Essex, and is served by Liverpool-street Sth- tion; and these tiny tots were too small to cross the City alone. So

the clerk rang up the Fresh Air Fund headquarters and ex- plained.

Breaking the News. In any case they have lost the train, said the Fresh Air Fund official, and there ensued a little private talk as to how such terrible news could be broken to the little

ones.

In the end they were told that it was a rainy day, and that if they would go away like good children a nice gentleman would call for then another time on a really fine

day.

They left with more coppers than they had possessed when they arrived, but with the tears still flowing.

A month or two ago a tired, bedraggled woman" entered, а baby in her arms, and holding by the hand another little girl.

I want the next brain to India, please," she said.

Did she know where India was? No. Or how long it would take to get there? No. Where was her luggage She pointed to a parcel.

She was to join her husband, an artilleryman, in India. The Artillery Records Office was tele- phoned, and the officials there ex- plained that a cabin had been re- served for the woman and her babies and that the ship had sail- ed with the cabin empty. She confessed that she did not know what the army papers sent her were about, and thought she had caly to arrive with her parcel and her babies and ask for a train to India.

I

A few days previously a woman entered, sobbing. She had run Away with another man, leaving her husband and three little chil- dren at Portsmouth. And now the man had left her, all in a few days.

The officials rang up

a shop near the husbands house and got into conversation with him, and after a long argument he gave his final terms. An official turned to

**Your woman.

husband saya he will have you back on one condition," he said, "and that is that you let him give you a sound thrashing when you return." They did not have to wait long for her reply. She delightedly accepted the offer.

the

the would-be actor had secured his Similar methods held good after

start. In those days he was just told to act-not taught. The pro- ducer had not arrived. On he went und did his best. Bad? Of course he was, very bad, probably. Miss- ed his first line? Oh, never mind someone spoke it for him, the long suffering stage manager as like as yet audiences were just as enthus- not from behind the fireplace. And instic then as they are to-day.

Youthful talent discovered to its

chagrin that it must concentrate on many varied and often undignified parts in seeking recognition. Per- haps after six exciting nights of the legitimate with some all-import- ant star-now on his way to the next town, thank goodness-came a week of straight melodrama by way of a refreshing change. In the first act the beginner would be a yokel, imbibing imaginary liquor from a payter pot, and portraying fear at the innkeeper's ghost story; in the second a detective sent from London, and the ghost himself, may- be, at the end of the play.

Simple Make Up.

"Make up" da now understood was then. unknown. A knob of white chalk, and a hare's foot were the actor's beautifiers. I recollect vividly the sensation caused when. grease paint first appeared.

Herr Bandman, self-styled "the great," introduced it into this coun- try when playing at Norwich. Не marched on to the boards as Ham- let, but what a different Hamlet from the one to which we were ac- customed-youthful and handsome beyond belief. "What is it?" everyone asked. "German grense paint," somebody discovered.. Oh, the rush for German grease paint, and the struggle to get it on and off-if you could get it at all.

are

In my young days plays were usually written with four or five changes of scene in each act. It was only in London that sets stood. If mistakes were made in the hurry of shifting, and the drawing-room calling figured in the middle of the racecourse on Derby Day nobody did more than pass a facetious re mark. The play was the thing. brought about in the brief span of

Yes, astonishing changes

a man's life, and the actors of days gone by would hardly recognise mo- dern, "effects" for the crude imple- ments with which they were fami- liar. The rain-box is gone-the thunder-sheet is no more. The lightning flash no longer depends upon the ligapodium pot, and the weird sisters are weird now only by concession of the electric light, BRITISH HOSTESSES' RUSE. and not by that of the red-green fire, with its smoke and smell. And Hostesses, not only in London few modern actors wear their hair but also in many other parts of long once the prevailing fashion." the country, are trying to outwit

FOILING THE SPOON SNATCHERS.

In one matter, however, the stage

the activities of "spoon-snatchers," has not changed,

These are persons of both sexes

Now, as in the

who would be indignant at the past, by hard work alone may an suggestion that they deliberately actor win to fame.

make a practice of stealing spoons and other small pieces of cutlery belonging to those whose hospita- lity they accept, but who never- theless have acquired the habit of "souvenir-gathering."

Because of the losses of silver which they have suffered, many hostesses are now hiring cheap plate for use at parties to which guests who are not personally known to them have been invited.

*Garden-p."

en, especially, are on which "зpoon- snatchers' find it easy to indulge

[j occasions

in their strange hobby.

. Missing Cups and Saucers.

At one buch function held in

London recently the familiar guests were surprised at the:

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troubles are concerned, so why use hitherto had always been died at old-fashioned griping pills, salts similar affairs at the same place. or oil, when Pinkettes, the dainty The hostess explained to them little laxatives, do all that is need- privately that at the last party ed. As gently as nature Pinkettes she had given nearly a dozen of dispel constipation, stimulate the the spoons had disappeared!

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