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"THE POWER OF LOVE”
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SCOTS HONOUR
SCOTT
CENTENARY OF GREAT WRITER
LOCAL FUNCTION
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1932.
rovenled, Scotland as a place where you would find the noblest idens and chivalry.
"I think," continued Lord Han- worth, "that he put a new bellef in Scotland in the minds of English people. Ho doflected all the fears that had existed before into an jontirely new channel."
BANK COMMISSION
DISPUTE WITH LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
London, Sopt. 21: The principal topic of conversa- ition in Stock Exchange circles to- the In similar strain Mr. George M. day is the announcement of Trevelyan writes. "Sir Walter Scott Stock Exchange Committee's pro- Over a hundred members and has been the means of bringing his posals that, while the banka" "re- guests of the Hongkong St country in the most comprehensive misiers" and clerks exclusively em- Androw's Society assembled at sonso into contact with the world at ployed by stockbroker may the Exchange Restaurant last large. It was only in the age ofceive fifty per cent. of commission night at the Sir Walter Scott cen- Scott that England discovered tenary dinner.
once and for all, that she was linked on all orders they place for clients, other agents shall not receive more In 1 particularly brilliant with a partner not inferior to her than thirty-three and one-third per address, Mr. W. Kay who was self."
cent. alven an ovation at the conclusion traced the history of the life of
Scott.
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One of Scott's greatest gifts was According to one newspaper, a power to create ordinary people. counter-proposal was made by a eight hundred Lawyer, sheriff, landed proprietor, meeting of some the friend of princes and nobles he mombere of the Stock Exchange was greatest as an author when that the banks should receive describing the characters and con-thirty-three and one-third per cent, versations of such childron of the and this has led the bank soil as Jeanie, Deans, Edie Ochil threaten retaliation.. intree, Meg Doils, Dandie Dinmont, Nanty Ewart etc. As John Buchan says:
After proposing the toast of His Majesty, the Chieftain of St. Andrew's Society, Mr. A. Stoven- Hon introduced the speaker.
The Toast to Scott.
gathering Addressing the an eloquent speech prior to pro- posing the toast to the memory of Sir Walter Scott, Mr. W. Kay dwelt at length with the history of Scott and concluded:
As Scotsmen we are dooply in his debt. More than any other ha helped to fuse Highlands and Low. lands and make Scotland a unity, He also produced in England and Scottish even on the Continent cult at a time when Scottish loyalty was not above suspicion. Who but Scott could have arrayed George IV in a kilt and what magic but his:
grand- could have caused the nephew of the Duke of Cumberland, the Butchor of Culloden, to propose the toast: The Chieftains and and Clans of Scotland!" It through Scott's romances that the tartan became Scotland's emblem
Was
to
A suggestion that the banks might open their own Stock Exchange is ridiculed, but it is pointed out "No other writer has done that it is possible the banks could quito the same thing for the create machinery whereby they poor. Many have expounded could themselves transact the very their pathos and their humours, considerable business they do at and some few have made them present in British Government lovable and significant, but Scott Bocurities through the Stock Ex- alone has lifted them to the sub-change-Reuter Special, lime. Through their mouths he proclaims his evangel. It is not I now nak you, gentlemen, to kings and captains who most drink to his Immortal Memory. eloquently preach love of country, Speaker Receives Ovation. but Edie Ochiltree, the boggar, Mr. Kay, at the conclusion of his who has no belongings but a blue addreas, was accorded an ün. gown and a wallet. It is not athusiastic ovation. In thanking queen or great lady who lays the speaker for his most able down the profoundest laws of speech, Mr. Stevenson anid: conduct, but Jeanie Deans, the peasant girl.
Worthy Life. He was buried, as he desired, in and the pipes her music. When he Dryburgh Abbey. His blographer visited Brussels after Waterloo and and son-in-law, Lockhart, sleeps at was welcomed by Wellington and, his feet and a few yards off lie the to his confusion, kissed by a mortal remains of Sir foreign general, a bevy of Russian Haig. In his sixty one strenuous Princesses arrayed themselves in years Scott got through a prodig- tartan specially in his honour.
Created a Nation.
"I think you will all agree that Mr. Kay has given us a treat, and an explanation Round and true of the life of Sir Walter Scott. I wish to express my hearty and and brilliant sincere thanks to Mr. Kay for his very interesting Douglas
After the toast of St. Andrew's handling of the subject." ious amount of work. The sword Society had been given, vocal was worn out by use, not by ruat,items were rendered by Messrs. R. and he had been faithful to his own M. Keown and J. D. Macdonald, and the Pipes, under Pipe Major "One crowded hour of glorious W. C. K. Mackie rendered the fol-
life
lowing Items: without a Is worth an age
name"
creed: QUILLAN. London: "You will pardon an
AXEDDIEQUILLAN.
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With SALLY STARR, FRANCES, UPTON, NORA LANE.
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LEPTONS.
KING GEORGE Y
Wood Pou Gros lex
First Set. Shores of Argyll: Macnab's March; Loudon's Bon- nie; Woods and Braes; Piper of Drummond; Back of Benachie.
The other day Lord Hanworth a gathering of Scots in Englishman's observations, but it has always seemed to me that Scott crented Scotland ns a nation.
He gloried in describing noble Sixty years after the efforts of the Young Pretender there were anxie- characters and heroic deeds, but
Second Set.-Lochleven Castle; tics. Those 60 years had been none of the deeds he records is no- slower in movement than our years bler than his own amazing effort Bugle Horn; Marquis of Huntly: to-day. The two nations were not and he portrays no character more Tail Taddle; Highland Laddie. cemented together, but the books of worthy of our respect and admira-The guests were played into din-
Iner with "Domhnull Dubh." Sir Walter Scott did that when they tion than himself.
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It Couldn't be True Yet they Tore my Baby from my. Arms-
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VOLCANO of LOVE!
Temptation smold- ered in her eyes. Peril in her kisses!
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Frances Deo,
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"YESTERDAY AT
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PRIMITIVE LOVE! Would you live like Evo if you found the right Adam! See how that question is answered in a
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