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HIS WILL FORGIVES DEBTS OF ACTRESSES, SINGERS

Music Lover's Gifts: Wine, Cigars, Piano

WHEN 82-year-old William Armine Bevan died in

February young actors, actresses, musicians and singers lost one of their best friends.

In his will, made in 1932 and published recently he has not forgotten them. One of the first clauses is: "I bequeath and release to artists, actors and actresses, all sums, whether for principal or interest, which at my death may be owing by them to me."

A famous silver vase one of the cherished possessions at his house in Bina Gardens, Kensington-he left to the Victoria Hospital for Childron, Chelsea, with enough money to endow a cot.

Open Door-- For Exit

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This vase, decorated with views of Elon, was presented to Charles Kean by fellow-Etonlons in 1002 #5 tilbute to the actor.

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He left all his orchestral munte and band parts to George Miller, baridmaster of the Grenadier Guards, and a concert grand plan to Ronal Timperley, organist of the Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street,

This friend Ben Davies, "the

The independence of China as a vital factor in world peace was the theme of the eleventh annual world famous tenor," he gave "all Richard Cobden Lecture

my cigars and also the contents of my cellar of wine, in the belief he livered to the Dunford House will appreciate these precious gifts Cobden Memorial Association at of God." Burlington House, Piccadilly, re- And to Mrs. Davies, four white cently by Dr. Wellington Koo,fures of musicians" in memory of Chinese Ambassador in Paris. many happy hours spent together and and China's representative to of her beautiful vefce when as Miss the League of Nations. The Clara Perry she gave such pleasure to thousands, and in further renom-

French candlesticks supported by

subject of his address was "The bance of the part she took in the Open Door Policy and World Erst performance In England in 1883 Peace," Lord Lytton presided. for Mastenel's opera 'Manon.'"

HOUSE FOR MAID

Dr. Koo sald that not only laz China's sovereignly been encroached To Eugene Goossens, tale conductor upon by Japan but inevitably with of the Carl Rosa Opern, and to Miss this encroachment agrant acts of lvy St. Helier, the actress, he gave contravention of the Open Door prin- [ £10 each. ciple had taken place. It seemed to His house and citrets are left on

be one of the objects of Japan's trust with legacies for his maid, polley in Chin, a country of 430,- Ellen Gamble. After other legacies] 089,000 people, to undermine and the residue of his £24,000 property destroy the principle of equal opis given to "Edith Gambler for life portunity which had proved for with remainder to the annuitants! nearly half a century stabilising mentioned in his will und, on the Influence the relations between death of the last of these: China and the Powers. The object sought was evidently the total elimi- nation from China of the rights and interests which other Powers had acquired under trenties and built up by a century of cureful Investment, couragous enterprise, and sustained

effort. The situation of European

Current short skirt styles suit those famous legs of Marlene Dietrich. She was attending the races at Hollywood Park track when this photograph was" take n.

Atlantic Airman On Feat Of The

Clipper

"half to the Bishop of London for

Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, He has already been in touch with such purposes as he may deter. mine; and half to il:c Bishop of Who 20 years ago, ns Lt. White Royal Acro Club and the Royal Swan and Brecon for alleviat-ten Brown, navigated the first terexted in the project.

Aeronnuttia! Society, and others in-

Ing distress among the necessitous 'plane across the Atlantic, suid "It seems strange," sald-Mr. Lyall, clergy of the diocese."

there should be A large Mr. Eugene Goossens described Mr. recently, of the Yankee Clipper's "that"

Bevan as "the best, most charming achievement in making the first memorial at Dover to the Frenchman who first flew the Channel and

and American commercial interests and most generous of men." breame more precarious every day. Whatever Assurances Japan hnd

"MAD ABOUT MUSIC" iven, the door was kept open not le must have been the greatest for the entry of foreign Interests but help young actors and mustelans ever hnd; often he paid for the tuition of those who could not afford it.

only for their exit.

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July 12, 1939.

EMPIRE NEWS

CANADA EXPECTS BUMPER CROP.

MONTREAL.

A bumper wheat crop is expected this year, according to reports to the Dominion Statistics Bureau from tho three Prairie Provinces.

The winter wheat prospect is the best for many years, and the outlook for the spring wheat crops le exceed- ingly good throughout Canada.

Weather conditions have been the best for years. There hos been plenty of moisture ahd continuing coolness, but grasshoppers, the whent Browers seventh plague, oro still a danger If a sudden heat wave should

come.

Yukon Survey-Over 40 geological and mapping parties, consising of 250 mlaing and other experts of the Canadian Mines Department, set out recently to survey the minerals and flora of the Yukon and North-West Territoriea and other unmapped Canadian regions. KENYA

COFFEE PROBLEM

NAIROBI.

The large district of Songhor, in the Kenya Highlands, which has been one of the coffee-growing areas for many years, in likely to abandon thai crop, except in the must favour- able areas.

The fallure of coffee as a paying crop is due to continued low prices, the cost of combating-disease, and labour shortage dimculties. These 'oro partially caused by the Govern ment's policy of developing cash crops in the nearest native reserve.

elected members of the Legisintive Courell and three Gov- ernment agricultural specialists have discussed with settlers the best means of developing Songhor afresh on a cattle and mixed farming basis. SOUTH AFRICA

RAYON DRESSES TO COST MORE

JOHANNESBURG. Importers calculate that the South African women's dress bill will be increased by £500,000 ns result of the higher duty on artificial slik dresses.

The new tariff alters the 15 per cent, ad valorem rate to a minimum of 2a, each on cheaper frocks, except where the old tariff yields a larger

sum

Importers may pelition the Finance Minister for amendment,

AUSTRALIA

LABOUR OPPOSES

REGISTRATION

SYDNEY.

is perturbing both the Minis- The compulsory National Register: Atlantie passenger nothing to mark the spot where two terial and Socialist parties. The fight: "At long last we can wel- Englishmen landed after the first Socialists are afraid of the political come the fulfilment of our initialAtinntle fight.

repercussion on trade unionists, "1 da not think liero are more fight."

There is continued advocacy of dis- · than half a dozen people who could obedience to the measure, even to the Sir Arthur made the first Atlantic point out the exact The Open Door polley could be

place where length of planning mass bonfires. effectively maintained only us long

"I saw him only a few days before fight in June, 1010, with Sir John Alcock and Brown touched down. Representatives of 19 Federal unions China remained independent and his death. He had an Iden, during Alcock, then Capt, Alcock, who was

"Since the wireless station went, at Melbourne fo-day recommended overelen an her territory. If Japan his last illness, of founding a school killed soon after. Both were knight- the place has lost its identity and that if any of their members should ever lay her hand on the of music for Belgians with me at its cd for the feat.

there is nothing to show where they imprisoned through refusing to regis- We had the creation of a coin-landed. I took iny whole of China and obtain control head. He was think.ng, I suppose,

bearings from ter, Industrial action should be taken of her immense man-power, her of the war and of my Belgian origin.mercial flight in mind when we made the mountain and other landmarks, to defeat the Act. grent possibilities as a market and "There was always a vast collec-our-crossing. Sir Arthur-said. and-could--point-tơ- the-very-spot her vast mineral and agriculturation of music in his house.

where the wheels touched." wealth, she would convert those ever song was called for, he had almost limitless and invaluable assols copy of t. He was mind

into formidable means and instru- | musle." nients of domination and conquest, and it would then be impossible to contemplate the prospect of per- manent peace In Aala or the world.

THE UNSATISFIED NATIONS

demand for, und

What-

"It is taken longer than we thought we predicted at the time about that n regular passenger service ||

would follow our fight in about five years--but the arrival of the Yankee Clipper is welcome for all that."

Police Reward

Citizens

WEBSTER GROVES, Mos

In a world where wkie industriali- sation made the

Police Chief Andrew MeDonnell "access to, raw materials very great says 60 per cent, of the arrests made and where certain countries had an by his department in this community extensive control of large territories. of 20,000 result from residents' tipā. the need for the system of the Open | He encourages the practice, he ex- Door was obvicus, and its extension, plains, and gives $10 to $25 rewards alven certain conditions, would, he for usable Information. believed, have a reassuring effect on: contemporary international relations.

Mr. Frank Lyal, the first man to sight Capi. Alcock and Lt. Whitten Brown when they reached the West Const of Ireland, recalled the scene and showed me faded photography be took of the Vickers-Vimy machine with her nose burled In boggy. ground at Clifden, co. Galway.

LANDING IN MARSH

This is Mr. Lyall's description of the landing of Clifden which helped

to make possible the scheduled Diglis,

At present the clamour for colonies Where force was worshipped as a and living space was reverberating supreme and sole arbiter in inter- "I was working at the Marconi with an ever-increasing persistence. national reintions, as in the case of station which Alcock and Brown had The lowering of tariffs and the the Japanese

against made their objective. When I went #ggression adoption of the Open Door policy China, do true basis of co-operation of duty at midnight I heard they might pave the way for the removal could be found.

were on their way and decided to of the present feeling of bliterness A vole of thanks was moved by fook out for them in the morning. and discontent on the part of un-Dr. Nicholus Murray Butler, Prinelpa! "I went out early and I was coming In advocating this of Columbia University, and seconded down the mountain side for breakfast satisfied nations, he relied upon the rule of reason by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick | when I saw a speck over the sca. and the prevalence of good faith, Field,

watched it grow steadily until the 'plane flew overhead and I could see the_occupants in the open cockpit.

German Larders Are Barer

MARRIAGE

A CASUALTY Orders posted in the R.E. Territorial orderly room at Guildford include the fol. lowing:

Marriages and Births Notification of either of the above should be given to company officer imme- diately after the casualty has occurred.

"That's the word the War Office prefers," an officer explained.

were

New Admiral Of The Fleet

The Admiralty announces that Ad- miral Sir Roger. Buckhouse, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., C.M.G., has been placed ou the retired list, as from June 28, for reasons of ill-health; and that the King has approved the grant, as an exceptional measure, of the rank of Admiral of the Fleet on the retired list to Admiral Sir Roger Backhouse, as from June 29, 1930,

The special promotion of Admiral Sir Roger Backhouse, after retire- inent, to Admiral of the Fleet on the retired list recalls the only occasion on which this has been done in the post-when Admiral the Marquess of Mliford Haven, better known to the Navy as Prince Louis of Batten- berg, was similarly promoted Just after the War. The casca are 121 some ways parallel. Both officers had been First Sea Lord and would, In ordinary circumstances, have been promoted to Admiral of the Flest in the next vacúncy.. Both were unt- A new transmitter, fool-proof from versally revered and looked up to in

New Radio At Scotland Yard

.LONDON.

"I was then on fairly firm ground outside interference by gansters, as the Navy; and both were obliged to at the foot of the mountain, which been installed in Scotland Yard's relinquish their high offices in cir- would have provided a good run in. Wickham radio station. The change cumstances which evoked nothing "I signalled to them to land near was made after police broadcasts had but regret and sympathy in the Ber- me, but they picked up helght and been jammed on several occasions vice. The Navy will greatly appre- went off in the direction of the when robberies were belor com- chate his Majesty's action in granting station. Here they landed on marshy mitted. ground and dug their 14ft. propellers Into the bog.

"Alcock told me later that he de-

GERMANY'S food situation becomes increasingly dés elded to innd nearer the stuliert flise

According to this, the butter allow ance in the big towns is now about V4lb. a week for each person. There is "no marigrine to speak of."

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perate, according to reports from ordinary German that from the air the bog looked like citizens.

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Recently the International Fedoration" of Commercial, Goerlag is there-but only because "After having a drink in the mess Clerical and Technical Employees the dark flour has been gus-bleached of the wireless station, the two air-

- process which used to be subject men went to fed but in less than RECORDS of the days when a girl spoiled her chances of mur published information received to heavy penalties for food adulteres an hour Alcock came down again. Av riage by learning mathematics and science are being compiled from non-manual workers in the ton.

complaining that he could not sleep. at Queen's College, Harley Street, the first publle school for girls. Reich.

Eggs are acarce. When they are

"They told me that they had had a nvailable, -housewives queue

for shocking tinc. Most of the way it them. On an average the issue I was very misty, and at times they very risky for a girl to attend

"Apparently it was considered, their lives in the pursuit of learning.

IN CRINOLINES two eggs a month for each person. cantó out of the mist to find them-

Girls crowded in their crinolines The coffee nilowance is about two selves very near the surface of the the school in the fifties and into cinssrooms to hear farsous, and 'sixties," Miss L. M. Dean, secre- often good-looking, professors from

subjects like evolution. use a proportion of whale fat.

unclent Geraians drunk nothing else. terrific. They showed very little of the

records, said.

Professors were almost the only "This" tho people are told, "s

TOBACCO WORSE healthy, nourishing and saves foreign:

effect of their flight, however, Alcock "Men were supposed not to like mep they saw, except fathers and Vegetables are scafee and cosily, was dressed in on ordinary blue clever girls as wives, Mathematles occasionally a brother or two, but exchange."

The quality of tobacco is steadily lounge suit with n grey cap, and were thought unsuitable for a wo- there were many romances, and at getting worse, while prices remain Brown in the old RÂF. uniform. man's developed brain, and science least one marringe between lescher

Smokeble dlgare mode of "Brown's Brat remarie to me was: was not quité respectable.”

and pupil. It sometimes happens that the foreign tobacco are a rarity.

"Well that's the start. I. suppose The school' started in March, 1843. Among fainous told girls' may be 'Orat grado ten butter" stimmers in

ninbow hues. The housewife who standard of quality is supplied only

Pure chocolate of a present-day they'll soon come over in dozens," with four pupils and by the end of mentioned Octavia Hill, Lady Trev,

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ounces a "head a week. It is acorn water.

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