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"WHEN ONE IS SOMEBODY”

PIRANDELLO MÓCKS

HIMSELF

Rome, Aug. 30.

MYSTERIES OF DEADLY BACTERIA

SEVEN YEARS' WORK

AT BARTS

A woman's soven years' work the investigation of deadly bacteria is acknowledged in a re-

on

MORE CRUELTY IN ENGLAND?

LEADING SOCIETIES'

STATISTICS.

Figures which have beon col- lected by the Royal Society for the Pirandello is at present pulting į

Prevention of Cruelty to Animals the finishing touches to a new play

turing the past seven months for prasentation this autumn. It

to show that cruelty to is called "When Ore in Somebody" Port Issued by the Medical Reanimals has increased, and malte erturbing reading alongside the and is already spoken of as a mnaearch Council. terpiece.

Prevention of

This work was.carried out in a

¿

small laboratory at St. Barthole While outwardly another varia-mew's Hospital by the late Sir tion on the old Pirandollian theme Frederick Andrewca and Mrs. of man's alter ego it is really the Ethel M. Christie, playwright's own heartery of de- spair-because Pirandello reveals in his plot, with grim irony, the Impossibility of escaping from what the public expects.

He traces is with autobiogra- phical faithfulness the struggle of a soul to realise its own identity, and he shows the tragic result of the judgment of an outside world which overrides the real eye of the author who dares to step out of the mould into which success has cast him.

The first act shows an author at the full maturity of his powera, honoured, and already placed by paulle opinion in a literary niche despite the author's own allent con- hin viction that the evolution of aspirations has not yet been com- pleted.

Just as a Joke

The report, prepared by them,

recent Report of the National Society for Cruelty to Children, in which last

the

year was shown to be the worst for recorded cases since 1913.

The total number of prosecu

deals with their Investigations fons for cruelty to animals made

nto the nature of a large group of neroben known no haemalytic streptococci, which are among the leadliest enemies of humanity,

Soven years' unceasing toll by Sir Frederick and Mrs. Christie on the clusive qualities of these blood-destroying

Are

by the R.S.P.C. from the beginning of this year till the end of July is 1,368, an Increase of 16 per cent. on the number for the same period 'ast year.

Among the chief items cruelty bacteria

to horses predominate, and 628 scribed in the report. A pre-prosecutions were made. Cruelty face states that these microbes to cattle numbered 40, to sheep cause diseases us various ns34, piga 36, fowls 66, cats 42, dogs scarlet fever, erysipelnu, pneu-20, and other animals 19.

There were 174 cases concerning moniu, heart disease and sopsis,

than fowls, and 306 and kill multitudes of people "bybirds other

Cuaca come under the description giving a fatal end to temporary

of "various," weakness."

in

+

In the second act the love of a young woman by renewing in him sense of youth inspires his re- bellion against his accepted literary reputation, and he writes an anony- mous work that causes him to be hailed as long-sought lender of the new youthful school of thought and technique.

Completing the Work.

was

Grave Concern.

The 10 per cent. increase, which 'ollows on many years of stendy For 30 years Sir Frederick wasnnual decline, is evenly distribut- charge of the post-mortem ed among all classes of animals. examinations at St. Bartholo mew's, and Mrs. Christie

In the annual report of the associated with him in his special studies of these mierobes during | V.S.P.C.A., n summary of which was published a fortnight ugo In the last years of his life.

When he died last February she in the Morning Post, the number carried to completion his life's of recorded cases was 3.645, the work, finishing his papers and re-ighest since 1915, and compared search work, She still works in with the already swollen gure the pathological department at the

So loud is the denunclatlon ofospital, youth and the public against him when it is discovered that he is

Important Results.

friend to the News-Chronicle "she arried out all his experiments for him.

"She has spent seven years en- deavouring to find out, under Sir Frederick's direction, whether by laboratory tests it is possible to discriminate between the different forms of these bacteria.

"or 1930-91 of 3,518.

:When the fact that the increnso was probably due to increasing efficiency in the society's work of remembered, the 'etection is

gures, in the words of the report, ontinue to give grave cause for concern.

"We are not in a position to say whether a connexion exists be- tween the increase wo record and the increase in cruelty to animals." on offelal of the N.S.P.C.C. told à Morning Post representative.

really the old-feador of the old "Although she does not hold a school that ho takce refuge medicul qualification." sald in saying that his new work was written just s u joke, nn attitude which loses him the love of the young woman, who consi- ders herself slighted and betrayed, The third act shows the tragedy of the "pacification" of an author who is not allowed to be himself, In a symbolic aceno in his study he

A high oleial of the R.S.P.C.A. la ahown to become nothing but a

The report mentions the re however, believed that there was memorial of his own former literary markable fact that "bacteria buve definite connexion. Although self. He burdens in his intellec-such inherent powers of adapta-the real causes cannot be declared tual mould, ond, dying, he is trans-tion to their chemical environvith any certainty, it seems that formed in his chair into a stonement as to make it impossible, for statue of himself.

the present at least, to find any

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赫 grotesquely humorolla firm foundation for a permanent epilogue, Pirandello then

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