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Fought Nine Duels

To Prove His

Courage

Henri Bernstein, greatest living-French dramatist, has written many plays, all brilliant success. His great. est play will never be written. It is the story of his life.

Take this for a plot: A proud, sensitive young Jew is conscripted into the army just, when the morbid frenzy of the Dreyfus case has reached its height. He is taunted with his nationality, bullied, ostracised. Superiors de- |light in giving him the most repulsive jobs.

He tries to endure the soul-breaking torment until within four months of his release. Then something breaks. Almost on the edge of suicide, he runs away.

Past Buried

No One To Know

Years later the Jew slowly makes a name as playwright. The past. la buried, dend. Nobody will know that he was "wanted" as a deserter,

He becomes the darling of Paris On the night of -

his greatest triumph, the first night of a brillant play,

a ghost rises among the audience, Enemies have dis- covered the secret of his conscript days.

Whitelipped.

"Deserter!" "Coward!" they scream at him. Leaflets pour down among the startled audience, ielling in lurid colours the story of his shame

the playwright watches his world' crumble,

The theatre empties, the show is abandoned. He is crushed.

Then from the ashes he rises and with swift, dráma- tic strokes rebuilds his life. He admits his shame. He faces death a dozen times to show his courage. He re- joins the army to prove his mettle. He comes through fire to new triumphs; no longer the darling of Paris, but something more—its master.

That is the plot of Bernstein's life-play. He will! never write the piny because, though he holds the mir- For to humanity, its frailty and its grandeur, he connot hold a mirror to himself.

When he Arst began as a playwright Bernstein pro- claimed his faith in plays that were passionately Jewish. The first, produced when the anti-semitle rancour of the Dreytus case had scarcely died, sent half. Paris in a

rager

PROCLAIMED his faith

He wrule another, equally clear in Its proclamation of faith. This time he was heard in impressed silence. Then Bernstein turned to the lighter side, to come- dies and sophistiented romances that made Paris laugh. He became a leading figure of the French stage, a per-

sonality.

"His valet bonsted that he had 147 pairs of trousers. He wore patent yellow boots, plastered his hair with brillantine, and carried an exquisite cane.

The blow fell in 1911, on the first night of his play, front box and

"Apres Mol." Leon Daudet, leader of the French Royal

72 “Too Old” To

Drive A Taxi

"Is there, no age Umit?”. naked Mt. Paul Bennett, the West Lon- don magistrate, recently, when he fold a 22-year-old taxi driver that ho ought not to be driving a püblio vechicle in London.

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The driver's solicitor belloved some drivers were 80, They all underwent severo medi- cal tests from time to lime.

The driver, Henry Benjamin, of Niton Street, Fulham, was fined 23 for driving without duo caro 'and attention, and his Ilcence was

endorsed.

Bride Not Jilted

Says Vicar Referring to a wedding-which did not take place as arranged at St. Michael's Church, Wood Green, on a recent Saturday, the vicar, the Rev. F. E. Jones, said: "There is no question of the bride being filled. The facts are that the

bridegroom collapsed in the street and was taken to hospital, where he was asleep for several hours.

"They are to be married within a few days."

When the bridegroom, Mr. Alfred Brown, of Topham Square, Totten- ham, had falled to appear, Miss Mar- jorie Perrott, the 22-year-old bride, returned to her home at Stirling Road, Wood Green, but guests at the church waited three hours.

There was a happy reunion at the bride's home recently.

Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus pins the Navy Cross on Licut. Arthur F. Anders, hero of the Panay disaster, aboard the ists and anti-Jew, locked himself in a

U.S.5. Mississippi in Los Angeles Harbour, Callt. When scattered his henchmen about the theatre.

At Daudet's signal they wrecked the performance, the U.S. gunboat Panay was bombed and machine-gunned and nearly wrecked. the theatre. "Descrter!" they by Japanese planes in China, Lieut. Anders stuck by his Howled. "Shoot him!" "Coward!" They let loose pige-ship to the end despite serious wounds of the throat and ens, and dogs and cats, and mice, to add to the confu-. sion.

Night after night they rloted in the theatre and outside, and in the end Bernstein had to withdraw his play.

Suddenly he turned on Daudet and his three chief henchmen, chal- lenging them each to a duel.

Bernstein faced the three minor charnelers with sword or pistol,. whichever they chose, fought them and beat them.

When he was asked to choose his weapons against Daudet, Bernstein replied

savagely: "Pistols and swords."

"PISTOLS AND SWORDS"

Fearing the two men might over- step

the bounds of "honourable" duelling, the seconds loaded their revolvers with blank shot.

The duellista threw the revolvers away and sprang at each other with swords, until Daudet reeled back, the blade of Bernstein's sword sticking through his arm.

So the playwright vindicated his courage and Paris took him again to her bosom.

But when anybody Impugned his courage or his honour, he demanded

duel. Henri Bernstein has mellowed in latter years. He takes life easily now, writing little, helping young authors much.

these

hands.

Tom Mix Thinks Wild

West Films Are

Not What They Were

Tom Mix, quick-shooting cowboy hero of the silent films days, had to fight his way through hundreds of admirers who greeted him when he arrived at Paddington on the boat train from Plymouth.

His horse, Tony II, in the horse-box before he found Tony II, which most immediately behind the engine, was closely resembles the original horse. his first thought, and he raced through the crowds to lend the horse out. Be- When he was last here, in 1925, he fore he got there a smart boy at 12, Tude Tony 1, down the gang-plank from his father, secured hla who had heard all about Tom Mix and in London. But Tony II nuzzled auto-his nose into Tom Mix's thick black graph.

balt, and Tom said, "It would be a shame to try out my horse in your: London traffic. I've heard about it." So Tony II, was taken off in horse-bax, and Tom Mix swung him- self into a London taxicab and drove off to his hotel.

The clever boy put a piece of car- bon-paper in between the pages of his autograph-book; then he said to Tom Mix, "Tll be able to trade this carbon copy for a Robert Taylor and half a dozen others."

But there is only one thing that Tom Mix smiled the smile which In 400 silent flims, he has broken can still rouse him to white hot made him famous in 400 silent films, his ribs 23 times; his arms, & times; anger; an attack upon his courage and sweeping his silver white sombre-legs, 4 times; and has had 158 stitches or integrity.

ro from his head, he said; "I'm mighty put in wounds on his body-but he

For such a reason last May, at glad to see that you young Engilshers reached his hotel quite unscathed in the age of sixty-two, he fought and know all about me. I'm mighty the London taxi, won a duel with a director of the flattered"

Comedie Francaise. It WOB his Asked what it felt like to be in

|England he "It's

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