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JOHN BARRYMORE, of the American theatre's royal family, edged the war off New York's front pages to-day after the most amazing night the great profile evér staged.

REASON NO. 1 was that Burry- more, the great tragedian, made his first Broadway appearance for many years-and his performance was more Like a three-ring clrcus.

He hardly over kept to his script, and he sent audience and actors into convulsions by reciting without warn- ing the whole eighteen stanzag of "The Owl and the Pussycat."

When he was playing a dramatic scene, with his hands shaking, he suddenly turned to the audience and sald in a hoarse whisper: "Sorry! I thought I was Lionel."

REASON No. 2 was that a member of the audience, dressed as Hamlet, jumped on the stage during the cur- tain speech and declaimed a soliloquy, beside the embarrassed Barrymore.

In fall later this devotee of Shakes- Bert Freeman-ex~ peare-name, plained that ho was an unemployed actor who had always wanted to play Hamlet. He thought his action would get him the job,

REASON No. 3 was a scene be- tween eighteen-year-old Diana Blythe Barrymore, Jolin's daughter by his marriage with the novelist Michael Strange, and Elaine Barrie, John's estranged wife.

Barrymore tind his daughter went to one of New York's night clubs to colebrate. Mrs. Barrymore was at the next table,

ELAINE AND JOHN

She asked the band to play, "I Love You To-night."

She waited for two hours, then TRESSES STOLEN

AS SHE SLEPT.

sent a note 10 the band asking| them to play "I love you to-night,'

and joined her husband.

For an hour Miss Barrymore

A burglar who broke into the home glowered at her stop-mother, but of Mrs. Bessie May Hennegan in sto saw it was useless. Sho went Charleston, Virginia, USA, cut off her long braids of hair while she was asleep.

home.

REASON No. 1-Towards dawn fifty-seven-year-old Barrymore kiss ed bla wife, aged twenty-two, in front of a battery of cameras.

Mrs. Hennegan was extremely proud of, her tresses, which extended below her knees,

Ifer husband, who reported the in- Barrymore fled a separation suit eldent to the police, said he thought against Elaine Barrie, his fourth he and his wife had been drugged wife, but dropped it Iart November, and that the burglar was someone Elaine aued for divorce in 1937, "who had it in for us.".

*AFTER striking a drifting mine off the south-east coast of England, the Dutch coasting vossal Nora was caught by a drift of the tide and smashed her way cloan through a nearby pior, loaving a gap of nearly a hundred yards between the shore and the now isolated sea end of the picr. The boat came to rost The on her side on the beach (above), where she now lics. boat had previously been saved from sinking by a salvage tug. and "hor" crow, it is bollavad, rescued by another vessel which was in the vicinity at the time of the explosion.

Father Cycles

300 Miles to Save His 34-oz. Baby

BRISTOL.

WHEN Betty Gooch was born at Bidminster Down, on the fringe of the city, she weighed only 34oz. The nurse wrapped the baby in a blanket and rushed her in a taxicab to a maternity home five miles away for special treatment.

But the mother, 22-year-old Mrs. Madeline Gooch, was too ill to go with the child-one of the smallest born? in the country for some months. So every night for 30 days while the life of his daughter hung in the balance Mr. Percy Gooch cycled to the home through the black-out with two bottles of mother's milk.

He cycled 300 miles with the

bottles and the milk was given Found Three

to the baby through a fountain

pen filler,

Now Betty, aged five weeks, Dead and You

weighs 2lb, 12207.

"Perfectly Healthy"

When I saw Mr. and Mrs. Gooch

at their home they showed me a woollen garment eight inches long

Beast Note

A HUSBAND coming home

which a grandmother has knitted, from work found his wife and eald a correspondent. "Betty will two children dead on a bed. A wear it to-morrow when we bring rubber tube had been brought her home," said Mr. Gooch,

"At the hospital they say he is through a hole in the floor from a perfectly healthy baby. She has a gas pipe in the kitchen below. Thriven in an electric blanket and my. At the Inquest at Derby verdicta wife has been visiting her for four were recorded that the woman, 'Mrs, hours a day this week."

Agnes Margaret Hadfield (28), of Street, murdered tho Iwo and added: "While I was cycling I carried children, Clifford, aged six,

Mr. Gooch, who is a bricklayer. Eley

the milk in two medicine boilles Cynthia, nged two, and then com

wrapped in flannel and tucked in my mitted suicide while the balance of prekets."

her mind was disturbed.

[The normal weight of a child at birth is between seven and eight pounds.]

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The coroner, Mr. A. N. Whiston, read a note left by Mrs, Hadfield any- "I am not sorry I have done this. You drove me to it with your ways. You can go to your woman. I shall haunt

may the Lord you beast, forgive

The husband Frederick Hadsaid, in he witness-box, mid that there was no truth in the allegation.

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have been in bed.

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