Reading Observer 02-1916

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toO tile
p1i1 to·4iDpty tl.iir boftIa, "kich _

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thea.trlcaJ. \ ~ulinesl, for Sir

t~~;~=~~~. happened
t? .ee me jm it +-d
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~goged me ~ ploy! the. part

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VIC'roRY ro.DA:YP_

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TI>4&y at Elm Park - . " . . &mt 1>0... Lond<?n
'ComIoin_ mOte" Will. pI&~ • .in<! deoP,ito the

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retory

,n,1I:e ( _ VIlla) .t _ _
riP:~ ~ SimmI. ~ at centre ronr&rd,
aDd l'te.I ~\(W""lIam) and J. vptoh (Tol>

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Latoo ole..... thit .........

;. _PaOOd .by _ _ _ that. be. Lu.",., ho..·
MII!Ir, we W:i.DriDg .. ..., · warm &ida. whJ:b: Will

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spot where postme~ never dehver
telephone calls have n4ver made
u~:w,J""m-' tmkle-binkJ&-aD,d tpen lome
cmd where all 18 pea~ I .and real
wlt.!-....,d. last but not lyst-wkere photographera
by la.w from t&k.ing p hotographs.
St. J.';e.'. I went on to plfY in Mr.
Jones' comedy, "The qgre," and
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.f,terw&rd. had the no....el exp,erience of
pa.rt.s in one night.
Tfu chance
,
1D thIS way. At the time IIwas play.
Ithe part of the Ron. MUriel, Pym. [tb. ultra·
modem yonng grand-daugbter who asto;tullbes her
gran~atber by diaplaymg 'Op-to-d&te knowledge
of t~6 House of Lords, and oonectlD~ her Peer
brorer, m Mr, Arnold Bennett's won_derful sue-.
ceSll, " .M ilestones," at the Royalty Thifatre.
Nr w In .. Milestones 'I I did not appear unti l the

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aDticip&ied. only the upeeted Happened.

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1894.

....:me.
hte<D-.
-me ...

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the lett

in addition to the
the ...~ Bob H."...
In t.l>eir tun.
doiDg their beat 110 put
u. e1e.e.B worthy of the best traditions or the olub
iBIo the Wd. In pol ~rly Horace Coo_ "
.. ~1, aDd, rflPl8mberiDa" tria excellent diap\aJI ~ in tho - . no m;"'Vlng. n¥d ~.
felt In Una direat.ion,
teDham),l

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-MatM' .I';~.r<

these. Hall' s
surest of health sal!egua"ds.
staves

the t<>no and re,Jst!••
of the system,
qnickly restores
strength aftor
cases of debility
Infloenza.v writes
"Hall's Wine wOlrk~woDd.:r.:·

Beauty" m "~eryw?ma.n" at
addItIOn to my own }J;a.rt at the

wil1mgly gl.... en,
that I should have ' pl~nty of
tune to pla.y "Bea.ut.y II at the Lane and a.rrlve
at Dea.n-etreet to take the pa.rt of the HOD. Mur1t!!i
Pym. , But unfortuno.tely time WAJ,.~II for no
woman
In the ordmary course o£ events It waa

Theatre,

CODl;Cnt WQS

expected tbat the thud .ct would end iiu,t before
ten o'clock , which would give me ample time to
get I" the Royalty and take Up my . R.rt ... tn.
grand-da.ughter In the last act, for WhlC ... the curtam lro.. J",t belor. 10.30.
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First Dlghte, however, are alwa.ys mva.rmUlY
a little longer: than other nights, and .. Eyerywoman" was no exceptton to the rule, 80 that,
as luck wtl'uld hll.ve It. in II Eve~oman
III

which I appeared \ as Beauty In tbe I first three
acts, and In the third die, at 10 17 I waa still
dymg on t he stage at Drury Lane mstead of beIng
in ",Y dre.ssmg-room at the Roya.lty. ' My understnd:r. moreover was aU dre!'l.sed and ready to go
on whcn I arrived a.t the thea.tre at 10 22, but at;
10 rn I was on the st.age. havmg charigc.d in five
mmutee. a.nd not having kept; th0 I c'I{rtam a.

TO-DAY'S TElltlI-

Appended &t"fJ the wms U oftlde.ll,. chosen:jleecIiDg, Orderly H. <JO;;p..; Corp!. J. Smith <>r

Heeond.

BOROUGH

Dn1r and 8eTgt.. G._Borle'!"; Gunner Weller, G.

Goodman and ~ H. P Sla.tter, J. Lofthouse,
J . WOOton /W.toalI). Pte. Compe, (WolsaII). Tpr.
S. <AMid, &11d Pt.&. T. St.e1'ens. Lubon: Sapper

other t b an the •
dangers .

a.nQ when Mr. Arthur Collins asked
VedroIine and Eadie to ' a.llow the to p la.y
of

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Febroary bljings nS ICI:tllgers

w~ it was seen

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act.,

In

BmTH EXPlSCIED.
At. rikk' b ack J'a.ck ilarith D: • prcba.bilib',
"'... gIl l.... a oeri.aiaty. Sergt. G . H orler ....,n
oecupy the left ibeclt position, wlille Ln exoeption.u,. -lIIPI half·bocl: \ine ,,;n be <ompooed of
G1mDer IWelIor, G. Goodmaa ..... GunDer Slatter.
~ iayOW'S the eft'orl8 of the Rbadt'Dg direotors, the forward hae will be very · u warm," for
J ol LotthotMo,- J. Wooton (Walsall), Pte. Campey
(WaIs&Il). 'I'><>oper ea..idy (Celti,) aDd Pte. Tom
et.e-reDS /EverSon) haTe &ll. p-mmiBed to play.
Campey [ia .. yery fine forw&rdJ woo.e coaJ-4COnDg
feat. ~ten to riYal those of Bloom&r. He has
~ lLeading on , preview oocaaiona this eeaeon
but t.biI; i.
!tat ap~e on El~ Park. Should\
Jaclt Smith be ",,""Ie i<> play Pte. Dulf (East St.ir·
lmgdUre) is the likely substitute. There is some
doubt about Weller, IO Wh1ch ' cue Pte. Griflr"SOn
,,;n be brought mtO the aid..
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very

tho.. real ~olidnY.j mil•• •fro~ anywbere

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warda can ~res..

me , so lmoch that., with "fUt.
few InI have been hard at work I ever since--so
fact, tbat lotnetimes I h~vF rewly longed

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if I ~y hllmb1y 8&y !IO, i'WM my fiI1li real
in comedy. and It helped 1me In imy

"",_UDity tJ,.am.. and ...100
000Mi0D.
~" aUboup
... ~ I.... cut OIl lzim.
the elen,ll
"orked .
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in Oscar Wilde'. nor popul...
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The Importance
Being

genius,

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all tltinp "'"'"
""., Pte.. Loobtt.

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lilly reaaon to ban nchance It ga.e ine ~ lfl&l'l\ ..

"" witjo -, , - ; then Ulo ," _ ...... wi~ .,.d
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11- ot.om"lh i& dlaordered.

came ~m,. W&1

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But hea.vens, what a TUsh it waa! It. was worse
than l bemg n. qtuck-cbange arh!lt. and althoQgh· of
courge I was a.wfully a.n;nOU9 to play t.he two
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parts If It were possIble for me to be , able to do
llOIID.!.Y.- Bef_ Hr. Eo lac:kaoD (in the
so, on th~ fil st Oight of " Everywoman)l I really
Mr. Jt{. H. F. Sulton nd Mr. A. G. West.
didn'lt thmk there was ml1ch " to >I the two houses
GIIA.1I.GlI 011' 'l'.HEI!'l' DISMISS~D.
a. night busmess.
In the first placet I fOWld It
Waltm Cbarleo Donchty. Pte.. In the l'lillfl"iaex verI tmng, ana LD the second, until I got used to
Illegiment, bill8ted In ZinlWMltreet.
It, I seemed to h ~ve to he dead for far too long to
Wltb st:.ealinc a purse oontUlWlg a
be pleasant.
Indeed, as I lay there dead .on
note, .. ten shlUing Treasury 'DOte
the itage a.t Drury Lane I remember offering up
beIongmg to EIIe~ Egby, 14, c...N>y··.t,o.t.t-:rh. a sl]ent pru.yer that I Dllght be saved from eatch~l"CIMCUtru:, w.iie of lh 1I.arry
inS a.. cold, for I felt tha.t, from toe a.udience'li
J&Iltaq 26th, &he went Ulto hEll:
pomt o£ view, a most Incongruous effect WOllie. be
front d<>or opoll. She had her pune
her
produced were I to sneeze "hlle I was supposed
ed. she Ja.id it down on the kitchen table.

t,he tw~, propost~(f bridges
and Reodmg under tbe p .....
Corpore.km Act, 1913, a.nd
W.bdal6; A.. Pugh &lid P . 1I&"k.. ; Pte. BraDdbe '.amed out at' Caver.
bam, B. ll. &"bo ('English International) 'Di
coot of the 1COnse .... ton aDd
,
not been proceoded WIth, aa
would not sanct!OD, under
GUnner Dyte--(,Astm Villa); J. Roe, Gunner
(Chelsea), Pte: But.r.her (Westl Bem), and 1 .
anT oapit&t ' expendlture
rr~ aDd Portanout.b)J The
connection ;Wlth these works.
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will be·
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same reuon the r&buildl~ of the AJbert
pe:ra..oee ~""QO .u.m1
Dl &~&llee.
Bndge J lWiDdsor, ~ the Stre&t.ley and GOrm&"
Bridge baa heeD postponed.
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~ CIiAJUTY.- .. l
DUring the ,.ear the Conservators ha.ve been In
An m:~iDr m6~lf: Wlll 1;a.ke plaoe
TOI?ed in litiga.tlon li n two ma~ters. In tM first
' - ' y at Elm P.&Tk. when - the Berb ,
~ COJlt.eilted & claim of a. publici right of way tor
entered and
.... ehicles ~ the t.owpa.th at Fast 'Molesey i and. In modiatelJ' afterwarda
Ttaupo~ Senioe will oppoee: the Borough Pobee. tIM IeCOnd they el&l~ exemption from rates in I' How'a t1le men?" (N,fe"",,,
in
the
.bouse).
The g~ will be more lrnktorotll than ~OUM.
of oert61ll property belongIng to them at
bother
I am
and taie jU8$ .. well in tbeee gloomy times. The ~~?Jf~r.WT.~'~Ck~.:.t!' In the former case the High into
til'
no~ of &be IIr'OOEIeda will go to .thfl Barb -V;I.:A.D.
was in f&TOUr of the Con!erva.tora. no l.eIt- abont
Pnoes of ..tn. ................ _ _ ,u . !. ';';.•,••:\..1_ 2~
the
h&ve lodged an appeal, aDd IU s~ miaaed her
- .~,J ~-U&V. ,,;n
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:tIri.OWcratio
half..,...,..".
TheIoUO_ ........
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tate 1;;;"th;;l5;;,;;;:;,,;;;;';;" 'f~~~ Court were unanlmO'Us mol'l1lDg puamg
lis... ~ 3 p.m., "ben it io hoped that tho trowd
~t will ~ wOrthy of the occision:.
When
tb6 IaZltioe of Ute '" Bobbies IJ in full ~ren haw
oeutd to ~ a ~ baad win pl'8'V6I1t
Ulm,.;.. from '->miDg tame.
All ,o,ada mould
I~ i<> Elm Park next W_al.
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AGRICULTURE IN JANUARY.
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Si:::n:
ron of

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provided the o1!icer'. report on
tioo is aa.tiefacto'ry.
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~pI--- ~-agaai" -.-~-,
~In:' u.ao.u. ... ~ 1rU 600 ~~.

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N.U.W.S.S. MATERNITY UNIT
FOR RUSSIA.
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'I'be Board of Agriculture bay. issued their nport
10. ·J ...n_ .
Generally th- .-..... - - . -~
v ............. "--I"
"The o.op ~ of lloord, m ~

""!.~~lYf149 hOual> ate.l"I

etou.t in

the hO\DIe about ltalf' an..haar,

left.

Be did not .eo ..

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"'"'.-Tho ....
. ,' '''''' diamiisedJ'

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on tile ogrioajmnl P<>Iitioa on 1a ,~; liato ...<0 .... -~.= or - . . . comp&\ed
TUESDAY.-Befon> ~. J. J. <J<>opeI' (in lite
~ ~ prtned mUd and open. aDd houIebo.t.o and ' 815
for t.he
i-,~~.':;':';;;" .I Mr. A.. H BuI~ Mr. W. H. Smith aDd
jug

_bes

fJUiHeclroGd:~tob&:medeinCiltn..n.. w tM

Lock, ton~!.hw_0III6e1·~~4for23}....., Th
in 1915, wbfl.t e nttm r In.ut~ waa,.."t"I,.U_
ere
eiotiad ~ JpWIh of ·t.Iie &n'IeaQ oaued by the wet --.
howe... er. an- iDCre8Se 111 th~ l:1tlmber of
.,......,...... w..; ~~
,. ! 0Ift"tatea. while &aIDe more launchei which p&id toll on p&IBDgi through the
'W'IMM
locka.
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~ m.~- l la.~W'" mid the ~, The river in all dtstrlete bu been grea\l7 uaed ~
~) '~waa~morei lltorm,., Nld W"Ofk wounded soldiers, ud from letters reeened trom
".. ,
hiiNle.red. Th6 eU:l,. IOwD. ..heat. the )!~ieaJ. Oflicera at the' v~a h~ltal~~ ln the
WJ/l"f well ~~here, while the J&te ....J2.,. I:"~"- Vall""" the reaf., qaietDesa a.pd eD]o;rment
rJ~.ti.U w~ aod more backwwd thao tbe
wounded men obtained duriug their tripe aD
ftrri ~ hu greaUy ~ted J,y the mild.
nyer pI"O~ Tery beC.e6oial to them.
wtllltber., and ~ ge.aenJly moab. mont """'actor;r
~ • JDoht,b ~o. I other autw:DJHOWIl cl'OpI are
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a1Io- health,.- a.od l aatiafllCto:ry I J'II!!Ileml1,.~ tltoogh
...... .... otiIl~.
Tbel-o _ _ i<> be Do
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of.

.UIU&Ily

of poooibIe

Would be

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obOain tbeh- _

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from &ol>
ordera e.riy for

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and it
get their aeed
time.
porioQ

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to

In Ute
of wet

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OH.A:BGB O'P BIGAMY.
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Beasie Ja.ne Dan~ of 10, BlagraYe
wife of Arthur~. w.II ~ With
marrying Tbomaa Edward JOIl8B at
Haot&. aD Febntvy 18th
to whom abe wu m~ 00
being then ali,e. Jones
and abetting her.-D.L
alleged ~ the female

a man namj!d ATtllur D&Dce
ODe child of the ma.rrl"'fe.
The
been billeted In tlte h.Ouee as ..
D.,.,. joiued the .....y the male
'I.a.;.,
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in the houee &Dd became ·fneDdly
No _her ohoald ano.. DOrY.... - - i<> g.,t ·pri...-" and they _ .. muried
• hand of her; if Iho cioet, worry ,.m mar O1Ilce.-rrlSOtl<lra ""'" ..tna..aed
the hcae.J-~d tol""lMllt her in ~ and
SCHOOL
\be, ,;:,:;~~;~i>~
William Eighteen, 244,
d
1~ t ()!' ~n days, for the
eobool
bia eon: Albert Victor, aged

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of

Mr.

a-g.

0fII00r of tIte

t<> be de.d.

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after th.t one gre.t . bock, things
qUlte well, and r 800n gQt mto the
wa..y 'of playing two entirely different parts In one
mght, which perhaps WiM not a.ltoge~her surpnsmg. foJ' to appea.r m t'Yo play! in one mght was
eveo lthen no new role for me, 90S I had .prevlou!'lly
played the leadmg parts 10 ,. Tho InconlStant
.r..over II and "The P 19~on," which were both In
the an.me bill at the Royaky.
I remember, by the way, meeting for the
time m my life in " EV~rYWoman .. Iat Drury
&,1 delicious type of old-tIme actor, :who, a~cordit,gJ
to his own story, had in the early sixties
a furore aU over the country in " Hamlet," U The
Mercpant of Venlce" land almost every C1.u&lC
that [has ever been pla.yed. In UEverywoman,"
howenr, hd bad nothing at aJl to do-except
t~. and was thus froe to discourse to aJ.l aad
IQDdfv who would hsten to him on tbose glonoue
da.y~(4 when he broughtl the house down as • Ham·
let ' at Manchester; CTeAted a not as '~Romeo' 10
Bumingham," etc, etc!
U But abo ....e aU I am an mist," he remarked
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f hi
If
aI
b I his
one ~gb t, spe.....
ltlg 0
mae as uen ,W Ie .

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worked out

ljste'l"ro-l'

"'==========,,*===""1=1='"'

.,u.I-p'~ly

yawn"'!.

"From

the moment I mad. 1I1Y first appear"""" on the

stage I alway. forgot everythinll but l"Y part. I
1M" my own persona.lty beh lDd me.
T am
• Hamlet' • Romeo; • Othello' or 'AoLhony.' The
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the.tie ~Ishes. t e au lence
sappears"Ye~, I've notiCed tha.t." m~rT1Jptedf one of. hiS
victuns, roUS1Dg hImself.
'You hi\o.... e notIced
what!" replied thiS Romeo who must have
on ~hed man's allotted span.
i'That t e
audi~ce d1sap;pears." ~id the lictim weanly,
dropp:lng Off to sleep onbe more.
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Of too l~ing pa.rts I have played ;oP to da.te.,
it
be ot mterest If I say that those I like best
have ~ .. CCClly" in "The Impprta.uce of Bemg
Ea:rneist," .. Violet Robmson." whicb I ~la.yed In
"Mat! and Superman" at tbe Crlt.enon, ond
.. Dom" m th<J.t wondedul1y successful Saroou

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The play presented. at tbe IC ounty The.a
thie
week is an English version of i' Dlp1cmac~ ," \:)y the
Fr
V t
Sa d
D ali
ench dramat.lSt, Ie orlen
.r ou
I e
It doe6 With the dISCOmfiture ()f UIl!lCrUP~US!J a. ...
man Sp1e8, the reVl ... aJ IS bouond to be J'fpu ar at
the present time, a.nd there have been lrge j audjence5 lot the 'County Theatre tblS week
Nf 006
who looreu a. atroagl1 dram&tu:., well co~str ~cted,
thrilling and I pathetlo pl!i,y should ml28 t~ ~por_
tu1uty still OpeD Of. vlslLmg- ~a.t. popula.r play ..
r.1....... l
house thIS week~nd. The p~ 15 .............,.ng I produced under t.he dm~ct'on of M T Chas' I }f~ona.
the stagmg ¥ing oopicd from that used a t
yDdham's~, where the play 'had a m :li O~
oessful ruo .
A. etrong compa.nYI bas been g ~ t.ogeLher-. Mis! Ethel Braoewell plays tho Nrt ot
])01'& With a cba.n:n that end&~ tbe ob.a.ra:c~.
r.: to
the I audlellCe Ifrom the first, &Dd sustalDS
IU*-"1. 1n her fortunes good and bad, t.hroull/'out

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Mr.

t.h:l

Re=c~. St. John
0 '9 0
In a c:&ptable m&nner,
the
~ rna
brother. Henry, 1.h.rough Wb06e Iexer~
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L--b' hn'

Juliau
part.

acto!"]" ~U8l.on 'l8 "''"'''"1> " ar, -u..,
ewellent. manner by :Mr. .A~e1
Mr. Walton WY;IJ.pe 15 properl~UD'
.&CJ'Upulous 8i6 lt be German spy, 'Baron Stem, d lJj
ably 886iated by MUIR Mane Riguold &5 the
yt..
tess ZlCka.. I Menuon IilbouJ.d .be made of MfIJM.
Jeanne Pi Ramon £01" the talenbed ,..3.1 1ft ,..\uch
5he ba.Qdle& tile part of the 'Marqwse de rwo-4ar es ,
.-nd to Mr. C. F Collins for hIS pift.Y1ug 11 the
role or Count Orloff, an extradited .Rus.sian. All
the other roles are well IDIIol..n:t~aed .

tiona I'
ha.ndled

1d.a.lla.lteU~
18

",viva.\",f '\ D'plomacy" at Wyndham'.. ADd of
!.h. three I nnb",tatInglv g,ve my vote t<> the

wronged horome .. Dora.r,t for the I simple nason
that ~t gi ••• an actress a chance 01 roall" otrong
act.in~, of runn~g over I the wholel gamut or the
emoti~B, especIally In the strong sceoa between
Pbippo ~~DIeD<le!iL Atti"'!~~ 1 the young h",hand and I",f..

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AnA::~<>: ~TaIo

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Committ<lo,
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"",BjRAng

at Bra" Court, c:l'OIII·roodo
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afI.or
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AD.IV ERT/S8.
IN THE

1I.PY IltraU"I'
Wor.xOI'J!

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G.D~ KJ:lnrKLJ.

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LlFEBDAT

WOR~

IN 1915. I

In ., «urvoe,- of the ~ of the
Lilehoat IMltatlOD in 1915 the
ber1....,. the p....xlent, ....... that
9f ' l'obruary 13th and OI8th the
launched ~ times. rsultiog m the
l1'Ve8; and on Nonmber ~lth aod
21 t launc.hea and ueemb1iea 011
!'"inR ~. [ Altogether \be
labnahed 440 times and 171 liYei were
yeaT.

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