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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1928.

COWARD PLAY

IN PARIS.

BANNED ON THE ENGLISH STAGE:

LORD OXFORD'S" DEATH.

THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE.

Paris, Jan. 12.

The English Players made his tory last night when a fashionablo Anglo-American audience packed the Theatre Albert I. to witness Mr. Noel Coward's banned play, "This Was A Man."

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Disappointment awaited those expecting audacity and more than audacity, for they saw nothing to offend a Victorian maiden aunt of moderately open mind. It is al most impossible to understand why the. London censorsulp intervenca Disappointment Awaited Mr. Coward's admirers, too.

"This Was a Man" is a study in the eternal triangle. Its chief merit is the well-conceived character of a completely light, but other wise not abnormal woman, the wife adrift in the vacuity of empty fashionable society.

TRIBUTES FROM ALL

QUARTERS..

London, Feb. 15. The death of Lord Oxford and

Asquith has occurred.

Hope for the Earl of Oxford and Asquith's life was abandoned on Monday yet owing to the amazing constitution of the ex-Premier ho Hved till 6.50 this morning, whon he passed away peacefully amon his family at his home "The Wharf." Sutton Courtney, Berkshire. Lady Oxford watched at his bed- side each day and night.

The following quotation from the Parisian newspaper Excelsior inditates the esteem in which the Earl of Oxford and Asquith Is held in Franco:

Upon his shoulders fell the crushing responsibility for plung- ing the British Empire into the war. It was he who took the For momentous decision..... this act alone the French people should bow in respectful homage and gratitude before the tomb into which the Earl of Oxford and Asquith is now to be lowered, laden with years."-Reuter.

Moving Tributes.

London, Feb. 15, Miss Margaret Vaughan, ex-

The Earl of Oxford and Asquith quisitely gowned, played this part with an equally exquisite intel- died at 6.50 this morning at his gence, too rare on our stage. She Berkshire home. He was 75 years even gave an evanescent semblance old and is succeeded in title by of reality to Mr. Coward's quips his twelve year old grandson, and quirks. Mr. Edward Stirling, whose father, the Hon. Raymond the director of the English players, Asquith, eldest son of the late and Mr. Bernard Merefield, dis- statesman, was Killed In the early Lord Oxford's played judgment in the parts of the days of the war. two men, respectively husband and end was peaceful. On Monday e friend. But they were less happy. became gravely ill from acute What manly actors could be hapaypharyngitis and his family were as Mr. Coward's men, who are de-summoned, most of the members Tel. C. 1500 nuded of almost all manly character arriving before he lost conscious- ness, and all were with him at the istics?

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With his death Britain loses oné of her most distinguished states- Husband overhears evidence of men. He was universally respect his wife's infidelity, long, suspected, ed and loved. By intellect, charae- Friend, knowing it, determines to ter, and achievement he was un- rend wife a lesson, and invites her mistakably a very great man. In to dine alone at his flat. This is the early days he showed the qua- Act I. Act II: Friend duringlities of his mind at Oxford and dinner, wiled by a gramophone, falls afterwards at law. As a lawyer into wife's sunres. He becomes he quickly made a reputation and also lover. Act 1: Friend con- became Queen's Counsel in 1890, fesses to husband. Husband roars Four years carlor he entered Par with laughter (Mr. Stirling'a laugh|liament as a liberal, where he soon was glorious and infectious), an- distinguished himself and in 1892 noutices cheerfully to the pair that Mr. Gladstone recognised his quali he will let his wife divorce him, Lies by appointing him Home Se or, if she won't, will divorce her,cretary. In the next Liberal ad- and goes off to lunch with a lady ministration in 1905, he was Chan- waiting to flirt with him. Wife cellor of the Exchequer under Siz. and friend are left wondering what to do about it.

This subject, not very new, might be treated happily from Mr. Coward's peculiar point of view, but he has rendered it wholly dull by being merely flippant. It may be good to depict emply society, but not by being empty.

Mr. Coward's dialogue hardly helps his treatment. The thinness of the dinner party duet, barely saved from catastrophe by the audience's appetite for the serving of a most succulent meal, totally ruins what might have been a fine sceno at the end of it-wife's seduction of friend-for which Mies | Vaughan did her best.

Henry Campbell Bannerman, na whose death in 1908 he was chosen Premier. His. Premiership lasted eight years, ending in 1916, when he resigned and a Coalition Minis- try under Mr. Lloyd George was formed.

Ethics, Not Expediency.

Under his guidance, from 1908, the outbreak of the war Parliament placed upon statute book many far-reaching progressive measures. Domestic controversies were, how- ever, completely overshadowed by the war clouds that loomed ovar Eurove in the Summer of 1914. It was during those days of crisis that Lord Asquith showed the true qualities of his greatness, for his character and judgment under. went a strain as severe as that of

The Question, Why? The wittiest sentiment in the play is the husband's answer to his lady friend's request to see "n really nice simple play." "Then shan't have any difficulty in get- ting seats. There'll be plenty of of ethics. room,"

any man in the whole of history. He sequences of modern warfare be realised clearly the terrible con- tween great nations; and his da Wecisions were based, not upon questions of expediency, but I was the stand- point of national honour that Characters in the play constantly guided his judgment when ask apropos of anything and every Britain under his leadership, en- thing, "Why? I should like to tered the war to maintain her know why. We are left putting word to uphold the integrity of the same questions as to both the Belgium. title and the play.

POLICEMAN'S DEATH.

ALLEGED CONFESSION BY A

The bitter decision taken, his mind was set on measures for ulti- mate vietory. He made after the outbreak of war a speech defin- ing Britain's obligations which contained a passage that became household words, "We shall not sheath the sword which we have MEDICAL STUDENT, not lightly drawn ́until Belgium has regained all and more than all Arthur Jones, aged 31, described that she has sacrificed". He led, as a medical student, of Wrexham, in those early war years, a coun- who is alleged to have driven un try united in the face of the enemy, to Cloak-lane Police Station in a transcending all party issues and taxicab and to have said that he the debt the nation owes to him wished to give himself up for the for his calm and steady judgment murder of Police Constable Gut-can never be fully estimated. teridge, but afterwards to have While he was still Premier he denied any knowledge of the suffered sore bereavement by the murder, did not appear at the death of his brilliant son, Ray- Marision House when called upon mond, who was killed in action. (to answer a charge of wandering It was on December 6, 1916 that

while insane.

Lloyd George succeeded him in

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A medical certificate to the offect that Jones was not in a 'fit

A police constable said that the Premiership. Later he led the man was in the City of London Independent Liberals in the House Infirmary for observation. He of Commons. In 1925 he went was found wandering, and a dec- to the Upper House on accepting for certified that he was not "quite the Earldom of Oxford and As- right."

quith, and in the same year he was made a Knight of the Garter,,

Numerous Tributes. state of health to bị brought up at Moving tributes to the great court was produced.

The Magistrate (Sir Louis New-statesman have been made by ton)-Is this the case in which numerous colleagues and political the man was alleged to have given opponents. Lord Cecilwald, "The himself, up for murder?

********* | Earl of Oxford was a great and The Clerk-He is alleged to goo! man, ond in death has left have confessed to the murder of a gap which cannot be filled by Police Constable Gutteridge. any man live to-day. He never

The case was adjourned.

claimed for himself merit that be- The body of Pollee Constable longed to another, and indeed not Gutteridge, Essex County Polled, always merit that belonged to was found in the early morning himself, And so it sometimes of September 27 on a quiet road happened, specially during the near Stapleford Abbotts, with war that all the merits of his ad- bullet wounds In the head." ministration were attributed to

others and all the failures to him- Mr. Ramany Macdonald said: Lord Roading said::" "He was a self. But he never complained: "He was a great figure, and to those great man and a great gentleman There may be other men in great who have been long with him in with a fine and noble character, positions, who have been more ad- the House of Commons his pass having complete freedom from en- mired but I doubt if there have ing must 'causo very keen pang." mity, jealousy, pottiness and uli boen any who have been more lov- Mr. Clynes, the Labour Leader forms of self-seeking." od. The Earl of Oxford was ono said: "Ho was the most tolerant Mr. Lloyd George and Lord Groy

of the noblest and most gifted of mon to his opponents and a most are among the many others who' loyal and helpful leader and col-paid tributes to the late statesman. league to his friends.”y

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Jerusalem, Palestine. March 19th-April Ist.

London.

Amsterdam, Holland.

Missionaries' World Congress.

June 26th-July 7th. World's Dairy Congress.

July 28th-August 12th. Olympic Games.

Cambridge, England. July 14th-25th.

Munich, Bavaria.

Vienna, Austria.

Oslo, Norway.

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International Geographical Congress.

July 26th-August 31st Wagner and Mozart Festival

July.

Festival of German Singing Federation.

August.

International Congress of Historians.

August.

Amsterdam, Holland. International Physical Education Congress,

Budapest, Hungary.

Sydney, Australia.

Japan.

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International Congress in regard to illness arisin

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September 12th-17.

Eucharistic Congress.

November 7th or 8th

Coronation of His Majesty. The Emperor of Japan.‡

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