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MISS ISHBEL MACDONALD. NOW HOSTESS AT 10, DOWNING STREET.
When Mr. Ramsay MacDonald moves into 10 Downing Street an the Prime Minister of Great! Britain for the second time, his chival daughter, Miss Ishbel, once more assumed the stifficult position of hostess In the rambling, old house provided by the government for its chief minister. She thus again becomes the most con
the spicuous young Woman in kingdom, except for members of The Royal Family.
Five yours ago, when her father Guddenly was calles! to the past of Prime Minister, she was a girl of 20, ladying domestic and sorial! science at King's College, London, with a view to fitting hefself for social welfare-wark in which she always has been deeply interested, The hearts of English women weat out to the young girl who was forced into such a prominent place, with co little warning: Me. Marlonak! l a widewer, but his daughter showed à, poise' and a knowledge which was little exc prefed in one so young.
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At that time, the wife of a well kawn old party politician., and, Bergelf
sorial leader. ent wrote to the girl, affering to help kor chose her frocks and to pive her come prints in Coil etiquette, as she was rare to be presented at the next Court held by Their Majest
Miss Ishbel's reply
sweet and final:
was short,
Thank Vent very much, but I haye already rhnson, my PHWIC and think 1 shall know how 15
behave at Court.“
Refere the family moved in, shoems where her father, could get visited No. 10 and was shown away from the cures of state. over the plane by Mrs. Baldwin,
wife of the retiring: Premier. -
No. 10 is very old and is a hard place in which to keep huse, hes Tapro kitchens cause of its very
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She herself was elected to the London County Connell for the The family's own sitting room Poplar division and takes a very was very plafaly furnished-greactive part in its debates.
One of the must charming in per un the walls, two writing disky, # few hintz covered cidents in her popular life or bairs. There was only one pic-jeurred when her father, as Prime turd on the wall--a frakied photo-Minister, was entertained by the and it many staircases, The graph of a seat in Lincoln's fun Press Club. It also happened to vernment suimplies mird of the fur.
The the time she was celebrating niture, the cooking alensis, the Field, inscribed:
"This seat has been plazed here her coming of age. The club sent
of Margaret Mar-era silver ink stand Inserited: plied by the tenant. Miss Tahenald, who spent her life in help-m the Landon Press Club never loud house for her father at our others. She took no rest forte fslibel with love in her twenty-
Grat birthday." deinar god," their simule home in. Hamostraal.
The picture was significant. J They had a Senffish housplante" | who has been with the family for was symindle of the great love the many years. In fel, aho sa peialist lender bears for the Altair, the Premier's eldest son, memory of his dead wife and the prew porto manhood, and rareç¿qual worship the children have and rottle slown for himself; she for her. saw the other yan. Malcolm, drew
broom and brushes, but the glass and china and the linen arr 200-1
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memory
On another side were the piquant words:
"Say what you like, but be careful what you write."
200TH ANNIVERSARY.
LESSING'S SERVICES TO THE THEATRE.
The year 1729 brought ag a gift to Germany and to the civilized world one of its most distinguished sons and apostles of culture, the poet and critic, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. There is full justifica- tion for the celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth; but the poet who wrote "Minna von Barnhelm," "Emilia Galotti" and "Nathan" has no need of artificiul resuscitation by means of such festivities, for the poet's works and the thinker's spirit are still alive and active at the present day and hua give proof of a real¦ immortality,
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For, if it was possible, for, example, to give a performance not long ago of the tragedy "Emilia and Galotti in modern dress modern surroundings, with com- pleje succes and without the affectation evident in many other modernizatlans, this provides con- vincing proof of how uncon- stiainedly the spirit of Lessing adapts itself to our times what an unspent and active effect Is still capable of producing. Lessings dramas are by no means laged by the modern theatre as a purely pious .cult of i civilization, but from the curtain knowledge that, apart from their literary-historical and classica! value, it is, above all. a question: ef plays, potent on the stage, full e theatrical effect and certain of applause, and possessing an un- rearing and ever fresh power to: create an impression,
Theatrien! Pruetice.
In the same way, it is not anle the art historian or the art theorist but also the modern slage manager! and actor of theatrical critic wha 'tarus to Lassing's "Hamburgische Bramiturgie" in order to learn!
practice from the theatrical practice of others. For Lessing's bernation as theatrical critic at founded "National the newly Theatre" In Hamburg had render- it pogable for him to offer his
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Jacqueline and Jen-
melle Thompson, twin
isters, aged scren)
born at Westcliffe,
Essex, and have fired
fn Hong Kong and
Ching for five years,
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.
BONNIE TWINS
-and the
reasons!
Their mother is justly proud
of such bounic girls, and she pays high tribute to two worthy British products--
Gibb's Dentifrice
and
Ovaltine
which she is fully con- vinced has cach, in its particular sphere, achieved, wouders for Jacqueline and Jeanette.
Recently interviewed, their inother, Mrs. B. Thompson stated:- "The twins have never failed to brush their teeth morning and night with Gibb's Den- tifrice from the age of 14 years. They have never had toothache and to this day have not lost a single tooth. They look strong and peari like.".
"When they were two years of age, on the voyage out from England, they commenced having Ovaltine, and ever since they have had it for breakfast, at 11 o'clock, and for supper, and they have never grown tired
of it."
Ovaltine has been the foundation of the children's growth, health and happiness. They have not had a day's illness since they have been
out East."
MOTHERS
TWO IDEALS TWO REASONS-
WHAT ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN? HEALTH and HAPPINESS -GIBB'S DENTIFRICE and OVALTINE
real people. Lessing was also the mentally acute differentia-portraying exemplary characters main tion of the arts of painting and and types of noble-mindedness and indeed one of the first dramatists There are still a number of
poetry in "Laocoon," prove that infirmness of character, in order in Germany to foster the domestic for fistance in people who can convince them-]
this case the sphere of the thinker that they may convey a moral drama, as Miss Ishlal Beither smokes, elves that Bacon
was really the
i intinutely connected with that lesson in an acceptable form.his "Miss Sara Sampsun," In
"Nathan" is the typical portrait of which the action is laid in Englis un to graduate fegm Oxford and drinks or dances. The Royal author of Shakespeare's plays, Importint Ines of guidance for af the pock.'
His constant support in his life the wise and noble man, "Pullotas" middle-class society, because the this time himself be elected to Family had her and her father as and among them in Mr. Alfred the theatre specialist, based on
and creative work is his dis-le the herole youth who sacrifices spectator can only really actively voluntarily Parliament, and she also looked | Easter guests at Windsor Castle Mudle, who has just written a actual experience.
Dut of sympathize with what may possible Lessing has, however, not only tinguished and noble mental at himself after the three daughters of the and afterwards the Queen describ-book mivancing the philosopher's | house Misses Ishbel, Joan and fed her as a charming girl. claims to the laurels of the poet. won well-deserved fame as one of titude, his straightforward and patriotizm, Tellhelm, in "Minna happen in his own surroundings. in the highly polished dialogue
Sheita
Since she left No. 1 in 1924, and This is the title of his book: the dramatists and dramaturgists frank manner of thinking as a von Burnhelm," gives his honour Five years ago Miss Ishibel was returned in Hampstead, Ishbel has The Self-camed William Shake- with the greatest, theatrical ex-man, which from the outset helps higher place than happiness in and rigid construction the youngest holes in the his-led a busy, happy life. She finish-speare, the Prince of Wales, born perience but also as a distinguish to gain our sympathy for the poet. love, "Emilia Galott goes to her dramas Lessing clearly followed legitimate but unacknowledged: critic, a brilliant stylist, an The best portrait of Lessing, now death in order to preserve her the architectural rigidity of form tury of No. 10. Although nowed her studies, travelled
Son of H. M. Queen Elizabeth and undaunted champion of the truth in the National Gallery at Berlin, chastity from the despotic power of the elassient school of the nearly 25, she still is the youngest her father in the United States in the Earl of Leicester: Baptised and a guide of popujar sentiment, is by his contemporary, the painter of the prince which presses hard French theatre. Is this way he was the first to give to the German hostess in English history. The 1927 and, in Canada in 1928. She in the false name of Franeis conscious of his responsibility. Tischbein, and the frank, facial upon "her.
drama the severe inclpline, and list time she was a success from showed herself a fluent speaker Bacon, Philosopher, Dramatist, The so-called "Letters an Litera expression with the flashing in-
But in spite of this, Lessing's therewith the firm foundation the start. To the old oflleinl housejin jublic while helping both her Post and Arch-Martyr, whereafter ture" and the profound philoso- trepid eyes reveal the courageous,
are not mere charactors
per which it had previously above all the Eduen- straightforward, proud man. she surreeded in impurting an at father and brother campaign for named Viscount St. Albans." phical work
This at least is downright.
on of the Human Race," but In the drama he is fond of sonifications of virtues but re-required, phere of home, to some of the Parliament,
with
on
Real People.
of his
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All-England Lawn Tennis Championship: Austin-Hunter Match. One of the most interesting matches on the Centre Court at Wimbledon was that in which H. M. Austin, the young English player, beat F.
T. Hunter, the American, by three Bets to one. Austin is seen on the left of our picture. He was later defeated, in the semi-final, by Borotra, the French player. (Times copyright.)
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