The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
ENGLISH BELLIES TAKE HAIR CURE
 IN RETIREMENT
Paris Has Decreed That Cultures Must Replace.
 BObbed Hair

! LONDON, July 2e.(By As sociated Pfess,)- Many society girls have announced their intention of cutting out the Good Wood racing and the Cowes regatta week from their pro grams and are refusing invitations for autumn country house parties. They say they. are going in for rest cures at some quiet and secluded retreats in order to get ready for the dancing sea son. But it is whispered, however, that the real reason for the temporary retire meht is to undergo the hair cure" } :, These girls sometimes ago fell. vic tins to the shingling craze and now that Paris decrees long hair again the London butterflies. must fall into line, The difficulty, however. is in letting the hair grow again. They say it's ''so hofrid and struggling" before 1t becomes real long. So they've prevailed upon: mother to take them right away to some quiet place where the tresses can be grown back in peace and without, the remarks from rude friends. s }
 They expect to return for the winter season. with approved Parisian cultures which; fashion says, must cover large portion. of the neck.
 Pageant Of The .Empire
 A1.wembley stadium will be given over next week for the, pageant of the em- pire. Its purpose, according, to. Colonial Secretary J. H. Thomas, is 'to show in pageant the whole moving tale of our achieeSS1ents. to light the torches of the future at She glowing heart of the past
 More than 5000 amateurs of all classes of British life are working hard in their spare lime to reproduce the great episodes which marked Brit aims progress down the ages.
 Dukes and peers, noble knights and big city finapcieFs turn up at rehearsal and exchange their Bond street regalia for stained skins and the unfashionable attire of Maori chieftains who will par ticipate in the war and peace dances which feat re the show.
 1.-The British treasury. has advanced f100,000 to make the pageant success. More than 25 miles of cloth have been purchased to clcthe participants and 10000 square yards of canvass have been painted scenery. .A thousand doves. 50 donkeys, 72 nonqeys, eight camels. three bears and seven elephants will be utilized in scenes representing times from the date Cabot sailed from Bristol to New Foundland to the pres ent day, 4. ...J -..e < x :. s.~ Planned For Longevity .,.'
 Even in the highlands of Scotland, where old men and women are supposed to abound, old age beyond the five score point is a ting to chronicle. When recently the seventh member of the Clan MacG Guilhvray, now living, reached that advanced age, the clan declared a holiday and held one. of it's gatherings on Culloden Moor where, in 1746, their forefathers' were defeated with Bonnie Prince Charlie when he made his last stand against the English.
 The clansmen from hills and gIens near Inverness gathered to celebrate the event with bagpipes, games and the dance, in which the centenarians participated. This is the first time in, the clans annals that the figure sevsn has been reached, although three times before there have been six contemporary centenaFians about the MacGuillivray hearth. In another eight months the record may be- beaten again, when an. other clansmafi will be eligible to join his seven relatives. The clan has about 30 members who have passed their eighty fifth biSthday. ~ Won't Commemorate Byron
 :. Bishop Ryle, dean of Westminster Abbey, has created a storm in certain circles by deciding, with the unanimous support of the Abbey chapter, that no tablet may be created in the poets cor ner commemorating Lord Byron. Al though an abbey burial was refused Byron because, of official disapproval of his private life, group of influential public men and women of letters has been urging that this year, in commemo- rating the centenary of the poets death, a, niche be given him in the abbey.
 The dean of Westminster in an- nouncing his adverse decision said he did not shirk the main issue and de- clared "that the man who outraged the laws of our Divine Lord and whose treatment of women violated the Chris tian principles of purity and honor, should not be commemorated in West minister Abbey
 The petition that Byron be accorded a tablet in the abbey was signed among others by the Earl of Balfour, Herbert Asquith, Lloyd George, Edmund ,Gosse, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Frederick Kenyon and Laurence Bin yon.
 Worlds Finest Chimes
 The finest, largest and best peal bells in the world will soon be in the posses sion of John D. Rockefeller and ring ing from the Park Avenue Baptist church in New York. These 53 bells. the. largest when complete, will be pack ed in crates and shipped to the United States. These chimes are already the envy of the famous Belgian priest, Josef Denyn, who recently visited the Croydon foundry and tried several of the bells. :. y- .--.
 "They are wonderful and marvellous and all. of the same tone,3 he said. But he added, with a touch of pride and love of his own chimes, they are not the bells of Malines."'
 The director of the Croydon foundry said that undoubtedly MT. Rockefeller would have the most wonderful collec- tion of chimes in the world. Only a few years ago, he said, we discovered how to make bells in tune to themselves and in tune to each other and this pro- tection of tone has made beautiful what was at times distressfully ugly. These bells of MT. Rockefeller's will be per feet"
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