1936-09-12 — Page 7

"The Church Is"

Un-Christian

Curate Drops Bombshell

it is to 66 AM fed up with the Church as

day. I believe the average man and woman is weary of its crazy ideas and superstitions. I am fed up because some- times the Church is so un-Christian."

This is what the Rev. Martin Tupper, curate- In-charge of St. James Church, Hatcham, London, S.E., Bald recently.

He dropped a bombshell among the parishioners by declaring from the pulpit:

"I'want you to forget 'I am a parson because most people to-day are fed up with parsons, We are tired of the leaders of the Church be cause they haven't the guts to stand up for Christ and because they have so often let Him down."

Mr. Tupper smiled when asked what was his plan for revitalisirig Christianity.

TIME FOR "REVOLUTION"

"I'm only a curate," he said. "My powers are very limited. But I do feel it is time some of the younger clergy revolted against the lack of lendership of the The truth of the matter is, we want a new concep- tion of Christianity. For too long we have been looking at the Christ of the stained-glass window, an effeminate figure with a halo round His head.

"I should like soon to start a marriage class where advice on the problems of marriage can be given to young couples. That is where the Church should start ! 11s campaign to-day."

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None of them knew what the "royal source” was. When royalty sells out, there is the same aura of secrecy that envelops an East End familly when hire-purchased radios are carted back to the shop windows.

WHISPERINGS

Christie purchasers had only hearsay to go by. A brief whispering that the jewels came "from reigning princes beyond the Alps." A sly sugges- tion that they were "crown jewels of the dynasty of | the Queen of Sheba." A rumour that they were the "last dwindling treasures of White Russian refu- Lees,"

Light poured through the glass panelling in the roof of the auction room. Gems of great price sparidled as they were sifted through the fingers of men to whom priceless objects are a stock-in-trade. The droning auctioneer monotonously tapped his. hammer, tapping away £10,000 in jewels at the rate of £50 per minute.

Spain's Navy In Peace, War

By A Naval Correspondent

1 Is surprising that so few units of the Spanish Navy have so far taken part in the Civil War.

The brunt of the naval warfare, consisting of sporadic bombardments" of positions on the coast and of patrolling the Straits of Gibraltar with the object of denying passage by sea to the troops of the Right from

The royal jewels went like hot cakes. A dinmond oval pendant, £35. A diamond, pearl and cobo eton emerald necklace, £400. A pale of antique epaulettes. £150. Ao oval emerald ring, £350.

To Christie's, world-famous auc- floneers, this was merely another. auction, another entalogue, another page of accounts.

To London it was more than that. With a flood of electric light and a while of cameras, a news-photo- grapher put the scene on celluloid, from which it will be relayed to thousands whose

"royal jewels" consist of an imitation diamond and a family heirloom necklace.

It was Christie's debut in the movies.

Morocco. has been carried on by the G.B.S. CONFESSES

battleship Jaime Primero, the cruisers Libertad and Miguel de Cervantes,

and half a dozen submarines of the WHY HE WAS NOT FAIR

"C" class.

TO SARAH BERNHARDT

Malvern, Aug, 20.

MA

Apart from these units, the Spanisli Navy contains a second battleship, the Espana, two brand new 10,000-ton cruisers armed with 0-inch guns, "could never, as a dramatle critic, three 6-inch gun cruisers, 17 des- be fair to Sarah Bernhardt. The real troyers, nine submarines, and a num-reason was that she was exactly like ber of torpedo-boats and auxillarles, my Aunt Georgina; but I could not

say this at the time

because my Aunt Among the auxiliaries is a seaplane Georgina was

alive!" carrier capable of currying 25 ́sea- This confession on

Bernard planes. It should, in the hands of Shaw's part was one of those happy the Government, prove a valuable surprises that Malvern plways has in ship for raiding the coustal strong store. It was the more surprising as holds of the forces of the Right. Mr. Shaw recently declared he was make another speech. None of these slips hus, however, never going to ma [ yet taken part in the war. One or

But, of course, no one believed that.

The Incitement was a two of the torpedo-boats und des-

a reference troyers have been mentioned in com- dress at the Winter

Ivor Brown in an nd- by made

Garden to muniques, but they do not appear to have played any part worthy of the Justice in critlelsm. Sir Barry Jack- had already wound up the pro- ceedings when Mr. Shaw rose un- The battleship Jaime. Primero is in announced, and treated a crowded the hands of the Government, but it audience to a quarter of an hour of

name.

BON

is doubtful whether she is of much delightful reminiscence.

BEST IN THE END

value. She was hit forward by a heavy shell during the recent bamh- ardment of the Ceuta forts. More- "When I was a dramatic critic," he over she is reported to have offered said, "people used to complain that surrender to General Franco, in re- I was unjust. My answer used al- turn for provisions and ammunition. ways to be, "Who am I that I should

SHORT OF FUEL

the actor.

be just?'

"To a critic" he averred. "justice is Most of the Government ships are impossible. All he can do is to let anid to be short of ammunition and people know the particular reason stores of all kinds, notably fuel. for his injustice. For instance, if he Naturally this does not apply in a has a personal dislike for an actor, he similar degree to the submarines, should say so. That is sure to put which have a for larger radius of the public in favour of nction compared with their fuel stow and is fairest in the end. age than have surface ships.

"My own reasons for Injustice were many.

One of them was that I soon The other battleship, the Espana, realised the need for making my is in Ferrol Ferrol is the principal criticisms readable and varied. Thus, dockyard port of Spain, and it is now when I wished to praise a certain in the hands of the Right. The actor's Hamlet, I had to balance this battleship, however, appears to be by going for his brother who played Immobilised, either through lack of the host. The brother's wife did stores or of crew.

not speak to me for a year."

criticism of the Inte Ian Forbes- Robertson's Ghost to Sir Johnston's Hamlet did not need to have the al- lusion explained to the

In the same port was a torpedo- Those who remembered Mr. Shaw's boat urut the modem 0-inch gun; cruiser, the Almirante Cervera, sister ship of the Libertad and Miguel de ¡Cervantes. Both these ships at Ferrol

have joined forces with the Right.

"Another reason for my injustice," Within the last three days the added Mr. Shaw, "was that I hap cruiser has paid a short visit to Vigo pened to arrive just when the in- in order to recruit men to bring her fluence of Ibsen was challenging the crew up to full complement. She is old-fashioned tradition of the 'well- now back at Ferrol, and it is expected made play, I had to do my best to that she will be used to further the smush that tradition--whatever, its enuse of the Right in the near future. value because I saw there would Of the other cruisers, the new B be no chance for my play if I didn't.

Can

and I had to do. na the politicians do.” fuch gun ships, Baleares and arlas, are said to be at Cartagena, asj *PYGMALION” REVIVED are also the small 6-inch gun cruisers, Republica and Mendez Nunez, a After the excitements of the after- number of destroyers, and a few sub- noon, the revival of "Pygmalion" at marines. The fact that these ships the Festival Theatre could not fall have not left harbour seems to in- to be something of an anti-climax, dicate that they are either so short in spite of the first appearance of men and supplies as to be im-Miss Wendy Hiller in Mrs. Patrick mobilised or that they are powerless Compbell's old part of Eliza Doolittle. to move without officers, alf of whom

The Tovival

was, none the less, an have joined the Right.

altogether cheery success and hod.an uproarious reception. Miss Wendy filler gives a brilliant performance. She It is probable that lack of crews in as the Bower-girl and just ns funny is more natural in, her Cockney

LACK OF CREWS

of

the true explanation. For some time over the new small-talk" as Mrs. the manning situation in the Spanish over Navy Has been so serious that only a Campbell was expletive and amall proportion of the fleet has been though without

sonality, kept in full commission,

A number of auxillaries and tor- The play

the

ell

august

remains

No

per-

an unburdened

these ships have not been reported as one contention, borrowed from the

need believe now-f arriving at Spanish ports it may 'be Shaw's supposed that they have joined Gen- late Pett Ridge, that North and South eral France, but are not being risked London talk with a different Le face of the greatly superior Gov ernment naval forces in the neigh bourhood, consisting of a battleship, Itwo cruisers, and six submarrines.

patrolling the Moroccan coast. Sirico (ménta • tritumph-of-trist vor---Mr.

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