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NOTES OF THE DA ROSITA FORBES asks

U.S. NAVY ORDERS

The proposal to order the return of the United States Flect to Atlantic waters goes officially un- oxplained, for no-one paysany attention to the reason given. Political significance will doubtless

IS THERE A GREAT

WOMAN?

F course, thoro are outstand most beautiful in the world, I

be attached to the move and it is them in the alums and in country Bumanlan country town. His peo- easy to infer that the United Statesvillages as well as in the limelight plo were going to give the queen has put behind her the idea that cast upon palaces and politics--but timber and stone for another

made Anderpen castle. They Intervention In Far Eastorn afTatre history it is possible, that two going to haul i fremt the

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han any

"Why do they like her so much?" was a fairy-tale to the childlike

peasants.

The Mayor looked at me as if had questioned the divinity of an- other Mary. "Because she is go good," ho salil.

LADY OXFORD. THE SPIRIT OF

Wilhemina is the Victoria of Holland. She keeps a firm hand on the reins. Her country is her house, and she is so good a house-

Years ago, dining at Godollo keeper that nobody, la aware of her difficulties; yet just as Victorian hunting-castle of the Emperor became a symbol of empire, so her Franz-Josef, an hour's drive from was impressed by Butch counterpart, who has no Budapest, interest in society and who con- the courage and the dignity of

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dresses, is, in grey hair and sho

The Very Idea!

“CELLULOIDY'S" : NEVIEWS A NEW FILM AT "RUO EMOW"

"BUBSY" is the fifth pic- ture made by Mr.. Fred Wobble, of the Peak, since the purchase of his new camera, the "Homovie Fan." Other films in the

same genre, of varying artis- tic merit, have been "Ickie Girlie," from the Kowloon studio of Mr. Woppledon-Broun, and the Mid Level half-reeler, "I Love '00," which was produced and Mre, Glubb, under the joint direction of Mr.

But to one's muttons! The initial sequence of "Bubsy"-in- corporating a delicious pastiche of the "Ruo Emoh" lawn, in which the shadows cast by the props and washing next door are handled with

Chiang Kai-shek seems to be play-have done so. That first to alto she had chosen. ing into Japan's hands, or is al-relgning queen and the second a leged to be so doing, and in. these revolutionary and a patriot the I asked, expecting to hear that aho circumstances, and at the present terms are synonymous East of the time, there is little that the United Balkans--now in exilo.

A few years ago, if one spoke States or any other country can do' about it. Whether there is any about Bolshevism to the ordinary connexion with the recent tendency Dutchman, he was apt to reply,

The star of "Bubsy" lo again the of China's policy to accept the "You'll never get the red flag in a

producer's talented throw-year-old "Inovitablo" and the movement of country where anyone can walk

Eric, tho, support being in the the American Fleet, it is, of course, clone up to the palace windows and

hands of Miss Ah Fat (amah) and Impossible to any with any cer-see the Queen bewing in one of tainty. But, a relaxation of ten them." Recently, when Socialist Lady, Oxford has the same gift Foggles (Airedale). One might riots threatened, that same Queen, of filling. a room. When she goes have wished for a more impressive sion In the Pacific should result.

warned to withdraw from her front out of a door, she leaves a definite cast as regarda size. It will be window, put on the equivalent of a blank. No younger woman is 80 recailed by local cinema-goers, LOCARNO OBLIGATION

Victorian bonnet and, in an open vigorous and direct. She has her who attended the premiere of Captain Eden has repeated Mr. carriago, drove slowly through the own convictions and no time for "fekle Girllo" in a body that, In Baldwin's grave words on the burn-crowds. They cheered her to the other people's opinions. She is a the opus in question, there were ing problem of Europe, Britain's skies, and sho took their applause critic who will not brook criticiem, no lesa than 27 featured players, position in the event of a conflict. as calmly as the protests of her but Titulesco's appreciation of including the veteran mimo Mrs. Queen Maric, "Apres tout, c'est ello Glubb, sen. (aged 87), Rev. ||It is just as well that emphasis inisters.

should be given to British obliga-

la royauto" might be altered to fit Smither and his Sidesmen, and the tions under the Locarno Treaties,

Lady Oxford, for she is the dami-Peak Hotel Cocktail Girls a win- for while there has been less

nant figure wherever she goes some and altogether refined bovy. nlarmist talk recently; nothing that

"C'est ello, l'esprit." gave rise to anxieties has altered one lota. Captain Eden put tho position quite plainly. Ambition or adventure will not draw Britain into Continental rivalries, but our rosponsibility as a Great Power insists that we do not ignore them.. Biders herself extravagant if a Madame Horthy, wife of the dexterous reticonce and an ex- Master wore a grey Jective values-reveals Our engagements are limited, but / Royal visit forcca her to order a Hungarian President. She had quisite and sure senso of sub- dress. She sat very still and she Eric striking the slumbering seemed always to be listening. such commitments as we have made couple of new

Poggles on the head with a toy. are absolute. We have given our herself, Bolland.

"What Is she waiting for?" train. All is instant action, re- word and shall not reckon the

A WOMAN

asked a young officer. The sound price. That should be sufficient for OF TURKEY.

of a shot." "What d'you mean? calling, in some sense, the spirit- eid effects achieved by the Russian any who may doubt British read-

The young Turkish girl, Khalida "She adores her husband and hle Eisenstein in his epic allent iness to full Locarno, And as a certainty it is the best guarantee Khanoum Edib, who became Mus-life is always being attempted by "Potemkin." Poggles gyrates in that our services will not be need-tapha Kemal's first Minister of Bolshevik agents." In the draw agony; Miss Ah Fat rushes for- Education, is the only other Ing-room Madame Hortky moved ward, casting aside her sowing

group, smiling. woman who has openly influenced from group to

en route; Eric, greatly daring, INFLATION DEMAND

the fate of a nation. Khalida was She left each one more animated, poises his toy for another blow. the only woman member of the and, when a shot came-from a

Ono gets here, in an acuto de- The National Government is not revolutionary Committee of Union keeper, perhaps, or a trespasser in Signs of hesitancy in the up-

Buspense, of fateful waiting, walch ward trend of business in the likely to surrender to Lancashire's and Progress, which overthrew the the woods full of boar and deer gree, the atmosphere of brooding United States have aroused growing demand for an embargo Turkish Sultanate. She narrowly only her colour left her. I've never is to be found in the more thought- against Japanese goods. But it is escaped arreat, first by Abdul seen anything more splendid than ful foreign films, and notably in renewed demand for extreme in-doubtful whether they can con- Hamid and later by the Allies. the way she went on talking, with those of Pabst. Would that such works were acrooned in Hongkong. flationary measures. No new tinue to avoid taking any action Escaping to Anatolia she fought her eyes on the door.

Bulgaria has produced a re- from time to time, in place of the legislation is necessary to pro- at .. It may be perfectly true at the head duce the promised increase in that Japan is selling goods at an battalion, and when the Greeks markable personality: in Nadejda vulgarisms and ineptitudes of

of driven out Smyrna Stancioff, now Lady Muir,, "the Hollywood!

Poggles, as has been sald, is in price level, but the discussion of economic pront to herself, but thewera governmental inflationary mea depreciation of the you and other and Kemal was congratulating stormy petrel of the Balkans," a sures, such as the issue of fint factors are undoubtedly making of himself on having freed hia coun-brilliant writer and student of imminent peril of another blow:- her intensive competition a menaco try, she turned on the Dictator politics who was nicknamed "The his teeth are bared in the manner money, to meet government ex-to the industrial stability of a good and told him "Turkey will never be International Kid" by the late of one whose patienc is at an end; penditures, creates uneasiness many countries beatde England, free while her women are veiled." Lord Bryce at the Peace Confer- the devoted amah is rushing to which tends to defeat the pro- although England, through Lanca- Khalido, addressing revolution-ence. Sho was secretary to the the rescue of her reckless charge- gramme of recovery. A construc- shire, is being the hardest hit. ary meetings in an attic overlook murdered Stamboliski, a great when the action comes to

Д great Prime dramatically sudden end. One tive monetary policy for the noxt The situation is bad enough when ing a back street In Constan- patriot and

operator fell over the Instrument. few months would consist in the British goods are being underaold tinople, with her face uncovered, Minister, and she was one of the understands that at this stage the encouragement of the expansion in British colonies, but when Japan was the first to protest against the rat women diplomats, but she ro of credit at a rate somewhat penetrates to the domestic market veil, and it was her example and nounced Genova and the inner in his exeltement.

not Mustapha in addition, the time has come for her, influence, greater than the rate of expan-protective action...

Kemal's edict, which made it sircle of international affairs for a sion of production. It is in this

possible for her countrywomen to delightful Scotsman with whom, in a castle prodigiously comfortable, discard it. manner-alone that a strong up-JOURNALISTIC ""TIME-LAG"

against a decor of grouse, the entertains everyone interesting in ward trend in prices may be

Europe. fostered; a trend which-may be In an address recently, G.B.S. THEY ADORE

· ដ Another great Bulgarian was screened for the first time in kept within control when the took occasion gently to chido the HER.

Among the personalities who by Madame Tyappchev, wife of the the dining-room at "Ruo Emoh" desired level has once been at press on its time-lag." In econ-

reason of position and quality are ex-Prime Minister, who prides on Sunday night, immediately tained. In reality, the remark-omic terminology time-lag exists able recovery since March, per- before retail prices can catch up called "great." Queen Marie of himself on being a peasant. She after the Vicar had been got rid

with wholcesto prices. A time-lag

an hour day. haps the greatest reversal in prevents wages from following the Rumania undoubtedly has a place.

She loves the opportunity where the unemployed may apply trend in the history of the upward trend of prices. Ms. Shaw She "adores" being a queen and organised and runa during a 12-of United States, has been financed was thinking of the alleged inabili- say so. by a more rapid turnover, or in-ty of the press to keep up with him it gives of making an effect, but, personally to her for help. creased velocity, of the fund In recognizing the permanence or in spite of her exotic surroundings avanescence of political her leopard skins and lapis lazuli, already available and by the There was italy ravemente her trains and vells and cricifixes, funda which have come out of body could be expected to look at she can make her enemica laugh hoarding in response to the evants with the eye of history, with her not at her.

While I was still hypnotised by growth in confidence. A price because history can be written only recovery is essential to the suc- with the help of perspective. It her charm, her galety, her impul- ceas of the NRA. A programme is true, as Mr. Shaw says, that the sive hospitality at Sinaia, and by designed to achieve higher world press is accepting very her hands, which

slowly the fact of the Russlan re- prices was announced as intregral part of the plan of volution. Here the charge of time- lagging may be sustained. The recovery. Industry 'cannot sup reason is that this is a series of port considerably increased revolutions not yet finished. Such costs if prices do not keep pace. social forment must "settle" before

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and public works-cannot be STATESMANSHIP successful if undertaken in op- The main determinant of His position to the general monetary tory is, of course, statcomsanship, policy. This was shown by the and this is an imponderable. Many experience of 1930. Yet the of the movements which have lately present period of hesitancy has come to the fore are the result of made many groups in the United a drifting attitude. If States feel that there has not nomic federation had been created along the Danube, for instance, been a sufficient risc in prices. would we to-day have had the pro- They, are demanding violent in- biom of Austria? Statesmen are flation and suggesting drastic arbiters who can change the drift remedies; this discussion has just as easily as they allowed it to events tended to undermine the confld get under way. Certain ence which was almost re-show that there are journalists established. Under more normal who, far from suffering from time- financial conditions the measureslag, havo such a sense of responsi which have been taken by the bility that they have taken time by the forelock. The Inclusion of monetary authority on one or Far Eastern problems in the agen two occasions in the last year dn of the Washington conference and a half, would have been of 1921 may be traced to the adeguate. The apparent failure journalistic vigour with which the of business to respond to the dangerous situation in the Pacific. classical treatment of cheap was brought to the notice of the money has been due to the fact chancelleries. This illustration is reverse of time-lag. Perhaps, In- that this remedy was not tried but one of many which show the until the banking machinery of sed, the gift which Mr. Shaw the United States has been claims uniquely for himself may seriously cripled and confidence be traceable to his 'prentice days gravely disturbed.To the extent In journalism!

that the banking machinery is not working smoothly, propor tionately stronger methods must be employed by the contral monotary authority. It is of supreme importance, however, that such measures should be of a reasonable character and

in accord with normal banking practice so that when a sat price level has once boen achieved prices may be main- tained at that level and further inflation prevented.

of

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must be the

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A groat lady with an even more

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The star acted with his custom- ary naturalism, and Poggles pre- vided a sincere if somewhat over- emotional study. By comparison. Mias Ah Fat's interpretation was gauche, stiff, amateurish. "Bub- By," a Fred Wobble production;

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Suggestions to Worms that May Be Caught in Apples.

Stand Don't admit anything.

illustrious name did the same sort upon your constitutional rights. little old woman in black, very and build up a defonce that will of work in Paris. 1 remember a Get in touch with a good lawyer quiet and simple, pushing ber enable you to secure an acquittal. Any one of these should get you way through a crowd to ask if I could lecture for her soldiers.

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"Look, she sends me real aweet birthday cards just to let

me know that she's keeping track.

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1 Insist that you have always Buffered an apple complex. Toll how you couldn't get near an apple without experiencing & quoer, irresponsible desire to crawl into

2 Contend that you entered the apple in self-defence, having good reason to believe that if you did not attack it, the apple would have attacked you..

8 Deny you were anywhere near". the apple, and produce half. a dozen witnesses who will swear you were sleeping in an ear of ́ Forn at the time of your alleged trespassing.

4 Plead that you were out of work and merely crawled into the apple for shelter during the night and overslept the next morning,

6' Explain that you were in the apple only in the capacity of an unofficial observer while other worms wore eating it. Refuse to squeal on the others...

MORE SLIPS THAT PASS When the jurors who wanted to bo excused to-day rose to present their excusea, they were told to approach the 10onth one by one and their statements were given in un-" dertonca to the Judge, Keněticky. Nowe..

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