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"WHEN ONE IS SOMEBODY"

PIRANDELLO MOCKS

HIMSELF

Rome, Aug. 30.

Pirandello la at present putting: the finishing touches to a new play for presentation this autumn. It 1s called "When One is Somebody" and is already, spoken of as a mus- terpiece.

| MYSTERIES OF DEADLY BACTERIA

MORE CRUELTY IN ENGLAND?

On

SEVEN YEARS' WORK

AT BARTS

LEADING SOCIETIES

STATISTICS.

Figures which have been col- A woman's seven years' work tected by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animale of deadly luring the the investigation

past seven months bacteria is acknowledged in a re-

eem to ahow that cruelty to port issued by the Medical Renimals has increased, and make search Council.

erturbing reading alongside the This work was carried out in a

the National mall laboratory at St. Barthelo-recent Report of

Society for the Prevention of While outwardly another varia-mew's Hospital by the late Sir Cruelty to Childron, in which last tion on the old Pirandelllan theme Frederick Andrewes and Mrs.

rear was shown to be the worst of man's alter ego it is really the thel M. Christie.

or recorded cases since 1913. 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 as with autobiogra- phical faithfulness the struggle of a sout to realise its own. Identity, and he shows the tragic result of the judgment of an outside world which overrides the real epo of the Buther who dares to step out of the mould into which success has cast Thim.

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

Just as a Joke

FC-

In the second act the love of a young woman by renewing in him

acuse of youth inspires his bellion against his accepted literary reputation, and he writes an anony mous work that causes him to be hailed as long-sought leader of the new youthful school of thought and technique

So loud is the denunciatfon of youth and the public against him when it is discovered that he is really the old leader

The report, prepared by them, teals with their investigations nto the nature of a large group of

ufcrobes known as haemalytic streptococel, which are among the

lendliest enemies of humanity.

Seven years' unceasing toil by Sir Frederick and Mrs. Christie on the elusive qualities of these blood-destroying

bacteria

are

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The total number of prosecu- ons for cruelty to animals made by the R.S.P.C. from the beginning of this year till the end of July is 1,368, an increase of 10 per cent. on the number for the same period 'ast year.

Among the chlef items cruelty to horses predominate, and 628 'escribed the report. A pre-prosecutions were made. Cruelty to cattle numbered 40, to sheep fare state? that these microbes

14, pigs 35, fowls 66, ents 42, dogs discnnes

varjous Ay cause

20, and other animals 19. scarlet fever, erysipelas, p1 24-

There were 174 cases concerning monin, beurt disease and Repsis,

than fowls. and 306 and kill multitudes of people by birds other giving a fatal end to temporary cases come under the description

of "various." weakne38,"

Completing the Worl

was.

Grave Concern.

In the annual

The 16 per cent. increase, which "ollows on many years of steady For 30 years Sir Frederick wasnnual decline, is evenly distribut- in charge of the post-mortem ed among all classes of animals. examinations at St. Bartholo mew's, and Mrs. Christic Associated with him in his special

report of the studies of these microbes during N.S.P.C.A.. a summary of which was published a fortulght ago in the last years of his life.

When he died last February she in the Morning Post, the number his life's of recorded cases wns 3,645, the carried to completion work, finishing his papers and re-ighest since 1915, and compared search work. She stiff works in with the already awollen figure

or 1930-31 of 3,518, the pathological department at the

spital.

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Oct. th.

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work friend to the News-Chronicle "Rhe anrried out all his experiments for

"She has spent seven years eu-

When the fact that the increase was probably due to increasing eficiency in the society's work of is remembered, the stention Agures, in the words of the report, ontinue to give grave cause fur concern.

"We are not in a position to any whether a connexion exists be

was written just as a joke, attitude which loses him the love him. of the young woman, who consi- ders herself slighted and betrayed.deavouring to find out, under Sirween the increase we record and The third act shows the tragedy Frederick's direction, whether by the increase in cruelty to animals." of the pacification" of an author laboratory tests it is possible to an official of the N.S.P.C.C. told who is not allowed to be himself. discriminate between the different In Morning Post representative. In a symbolic scene in his study he forms of these bacteria.

A high offcial of, the R.S.P.C.A. The is shown to become nothing but a

report mentions the re- however, believed that there was Although memorial of his own former literary markable fact that "bacterin have a definite connexion.

He hardens in his intellec such inherent powers of adapta- the real causes cannot be declared Belf.. tual mould, and, dying, he is trans- tion to their chemical environ-with any certainty, it seems that formed in his chair into a stonement as to make it imposible, for nancial depregalon, which was al- statue of himself,

the present at least, to find any most equally severe early Inst Iti Jk

humorous ru foundation for a permanent year, is not the direct cause, grotesquely epilogue, Pirandello then shows

It is probably the general wave systematic classification." the mayor of a small town, thirty The very methods used to difcrime and lawlessness which is years afterwards, raking about among the monuments of an anti-riminate the different forms may, helieved to be sweeping over the quarian shop looking for a statue it is added, actually change the country now.

to grace the town square. He finds characters of the organisms. that of the petrified author with name inscribed, although no knows anything about him or his works as an author.

one

"eputation as the playwright ex- man's dual nature, stituted by that of a deceased local nonent of worthy. This, says Pirandello with Pirandello hna carved in this mas- Re- terpiece, symbolically, his cwn It is cheap, so the mayor buys tragle sarcasm, is real fume. it, has the name cancelled and sub-signing himself in despair to his monument in stone.

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