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1936.
KINGS "Legitimate" King Of Scotland
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STAN LAUREL OLIVER HARDY MORROW" in "THE BOHEMIAN GIRL"
QULLA'S
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And Her Matchless Caballero
DEATH OF CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM
"HER MATCHLESS CABALLERO”
SCOTTISH TRIBUTE
The death last month in Scot-! land of Cunninghame Graham, whom Andrew Long viewed as the legitimate King of Scotland. leaves that country definitely poorer. He was her matchless caballero, and though he loved to give modorn Scotland the rough edge of his tongue, his countrymen were proud of one) who so brilliantly revived in this commercial age the chival ric feelings of the past.
Probably outside The Clydeside area, where ha was known as M.C.M.splendid fire-brand, he meant Httio to the working classes. His appeal Picture
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rather to the educated, who could favour his magnificent prose and place his picturesque valour in its true setting. Probably, too, his later self-dedication to Scottish un Lionalism withdrew him further from
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. and knock
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HOWLING ST. PATRICKI IF IT AIN'T THIM TWODIVILS JIMMY AND PAT AGAIN! You can't keep two good Irish- in down...for jeugt And here they are...scrapping over skirt again... in Warner Broarious Hibernian blt.
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working-chiss politics, in which ha
emerged
a fighting force. The patriotic attitude le adopted during the war, when he spent ele- ven months in the Argentine buying horses for the Government, and his appearance as a Liberal candidate in the 1918 election, marked his sever. ance from the wilder polities of his prime:
Few official honours came to hi from
hia native lani. Scottish Nationalism and the P.E.N. Club delighted to honour him, but such a radio-active personality was not like. ly to moet oficial recognition. He belonged to the world rather than to Scotland. as his death in Buenos Aires fittingly symbolises
INTELLECTUAL REBEL
WILD DAYS IN THE ARGENTINE
By SIR W. BEACH THOMAS,
THE LATE MR. CUN NINGHAME GRAHAM.
Scotland's Mate hless Caballero,
No Crime To Kill Your
Mother-in-Law
-Cupyright
›LACK-CLAD rows of delegates quivered with laughter at the Assembly of the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches at Bristol this month.
Between chuckles they glanced | incredulously at the agenda.
It read-ons
Dr. T. Reaveley Glover, public ora-
tor of Cambridge. Subject: Spiritual values of the
Reformation.
WHAT A MAN SHOULD
Those who remember Cunning hame Graham, however slightly in his flaming days, or, at any rate, in days when is essentially rebellious spirit was hot within him, feel that they will never know his like again. The
world has changed too much to "are a little difficult to get on with WEAR
give such a character the old scope!
"Scholars," Dr. Glover had ob- served to his scholarly nudienes,
"Some of them hute inaccuracyj
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or lend zest to intellectual rebellion more than erime, yet, because In- A normal man's normal ward-
of his wort
The first time I met him, he was crime, it is no danger to the com-formal wear, is:-
accuracy is more dangerous thou robe, in addition to evening and bringing an article on a Spanish bull- fight to the offlers of the old "Saturnity if you kill your mother-in-
Review." The sentiments of this law."
of others which succeeded "it; were" reganied wi mich naughtier than they would be today, but the quality of what he wrote is inde pendent of times and fashions.
article
was resplendent with colour. It was full of life and vivid observation. there probably does not exist in literature so incisive and
That
perceptive an Insight Into the psycho- logy of this brutat exhibition and its sadistic nature.
THEY GASPED
Ministers gasped at this shock- tactic logic.
"One of the miracles in litera- ture is Authorised Version of the Bible," Dr. Glover went on.
"What", he asked this gathering of veteran, committee-members, "is the miracle?
"The miracle is a committee that wrote English-the only re- cord, 1 believe, of a committee producing anything that up- proxiniated to English."
One blue serge suit (double
breasted If you
Are reasonably slim and tall),
nel suit, striped One grey fan-
or plain,
One (at least) lounge suit for
town and office wear,
One tweed suit for country Wear (plus fours if you like them),
Bloodthirsty Dictator The last time I saw Cunninghame Graham he was looking up the Careers
of some South
Anierican leaders in a library in Madeira, One Assembly passed weighty resolut- of the last books he wrote was an tions on education and licensing historical
account
of that blood-reform; then filed out, still chuck- thirsty Paraguayan
dictater under ling. whom Paraguay Jost 80 ynst 21
trousers, Plaw in Dr. Glover's mother-in- percentage of its adult male popula: law tion that the population threatened tionary defines crime as a violation
argument. Webster's to disappear altogether.
Dic-
He resembled some of the Elizabe of public rights, but acids: "It may
dramatists in his delight in such also involve
than dre
1
violation of the
a subject. He is one of exactly two rights of an individual."
Britons whose names
Are familiar
to the inhabitants of South America,
whether they are in any sense liter-
One (at least paz of grey
One (at least) Double breasterl pair of white trousers.
reasonably tall."
So says Mr. H. I'. Price in "When Men Wore Muffs"-(Dent, 59.).
ary ur no. I do not know whether More Schools Will GROUP OF NUNS
of
ho as been done the honour having a railway station med nf ter him or whether this honour was reserved exclusively for W. H. Hud- son, but his memory will be preserved in the Argentine.
Among Rough Crowds'
"Adopt" Steamers
The successful experiment of "adopting" tramp steamers by four London schools is to be extended to the whole country,
A society has been formed to or- Kanise the scheme.
He died where he had most vitally lived. He ranched in the Argentine, and, like Hudson knew Uruguay
Scholars are placed in touch with and some parts of Paraguay Just as well. A great deal that he wrote officers of ships sailing to all parts might have been called like Hudson's of the world. early book, "The Purple Land."
The free roue
rough life, the open plain of an old settled country filled him
SUBSISTING ON
3d. A DAY Jerusalem, Apr. 30. How п community of nuns is living in Paleatine on an allowance of ten shillings a month for each nun Just over threepence a day-han benn
revented by Edward Keith- Roach, Northern Palestine.
District Commissioner for
The nuns, he told a meeting at the Scottish Horpies here, have on one pound of ten a month, and six- xinutely twopence a day for bread,
needs.
They
Greek
are Russian
nuns of the Orthodox Church who have been cut off from their sources of re- venue by Soviet authorities.
the site on hurachnek royally coloured with inderation, though his gift, of prace extra monthly for all other
This view of things. rhetorical and literary expression He was a marvellously racy talker, kept the indignation bright and good and to my memory his most purple humoured and throughout it all he patches were usually luspired by the was a patriot, especially a Scottish contrast of the stuffy conventions of patriot." our island civilization in its Victorian
His Spiritual Home
Before the war, raid Keith-Ronch, with the ways and ways of days thought
lie was even at one time a Liberal 20,000 to 30,000 Russian pilgrima of the Spaniard and thre Moor
Member of Parliament, but the re- the Russian Eccles'astical Misalon came annually to the Holy Land, and in Europe, America,, and bel in him converted his Liberalism Africa.
into Socialism of an advanced order,inta dout by the burden of caring for
Was prosperous. It was He
plunged runchied among
very rough but politics were not his game, crowds 50 years ago, If you dis-
Although emigrant Spain
its people during the war, and since missed the man, or quarrelled with perhaps his spiritual home, I used to from home-United Prean.
then has been cut off from all supplies the man he would as likely nu-not think that his spiritual admiration hide in the maize
crop and shoot went to the Moor and that whenever you as you rode pastas happened he wrote of the Moor he wrote with to an acquaintance who saved his even more than his wonted gusto and But his physical almost as much as life by lying on the offside of his distinction. His travels and adven-his intellectual vitailty compelled a horse and galloping hell for leather. tures and freedom of criticism gave wide public, in Britain. Even so, he was hit in a projecting him an individual reputation that it and rape'ally in South America to in Europe, part.
is hard to parallel in the annals of our regard him as the most pleturesque After such a life the conventions time.
figura and writer of his day.
WAH
He was almost a prose Byron.
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