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has led them to equip a number of University libraries with Italian rooms, filled with the best literary productions of Italy, magnificently printed and bound. This led the French publisher to propose the creation, in ten of the leading universities, of French library rooms, to be stocked with fine French books and ornamented with the autographed portraits of one hundred leading representatives of the French intellectual movement, from Maurras to Dullin. A taste for reading is a national characteristic of the United States, M. Champion found. In trains, the subways, automobiles, boats, and in the streets people read books, while libraries are very numerous and stocked with magnificence. M. CHAMPION “MOVIE” COWBOYS HOLD REAL DUEL UNIVERSITY CITY, California.—One of the few things that could really surprise the “movie” colonies of the West Coast happened when two “movie” cowboys “shot it out” with pistols. George Emerson was seriously injured and George Wonderful received a minor wound. Their friends explain that they had been enemies since they worked as real cowboys fifteen years ago, in Texas. They shot almost at the same moment when they met before the door of a gambling house in the Street set up for the filming of Western pictures. Blue-coated policemen and an ambulance brought an unaccustomed finish to the drama. PARIS DISCUSSES COST OF LIVING Has the cost of living really declined in Paris and if it has not, why not? In considerable detail, but substantially to this effect, M. Morain, Prefect of Police, this morning put the question to the Municipal Commission on Prices. The outcome was the Commission decided to draw up a table comparing the Wholesale and retail prices of foodstuffs from October 1, 1926, to Mardi 1, 1927, and also showing the rise and fall of the franc. The President of the Epicerie Française astonished the Commission when he claimed that a list of articles which have decreased in price shows distinctly that imported foodstuffs are cheaper while native French products are at the same level, or higher. SOVIET OFFICIALS TRIED FOR OPPRESSIVE ACTS RICA.—The Chief Communist official of the Kirghiz district,
Western pictures. Blue-coated policemen and an ambulance brought an unaccustomed finish to the drama. PARIS DISCUSSES COST OF LIVING Has the cost of living really declined in Paris and if it has not, why not? In considerable detail, but substantially to this effect, M. Morain, Prefect of Police, this morning put the question to the Municipal Commission on Prices. The outcome was the Commission decided to draw up a table comparing the Wholesale and retail prices of foodstuffs from October 1, 1926, to Mardi 1, 1927, and also showing the rise and fall of the franc. The President of the Epicerie Française astonished the Commission when he claimed that a list of articles which have decreased in price shows distinctly that imported foodstuffs are cheaper while native French products are at the same level, or higher. SOVIET OFFICIALS TRIED FOR OPPRESSIVE ACTS RICA.—The Chief Communist official of the Kirghiz district, Babaklianow, has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment and his assistant, Khudaikulov, has been imprisoned for seven years, following their trial at Pishpek. They were charged with bribery, plundering the poor and acts of violence. Babakhanov was accused of committing one murder and hiring assassins to kill a second person. BRITISH COLONY IN PARIS REV. HODGSON LEAVES PARIS Assistant Chaplain of St. George’s Church Takes Living in London. The Rev. John Hodgson, Assistant Chaplain of St. George’s Church, Rue Auguste-Vacquerie, will leave the church about May 1 to take the living of St. Augustine’s, Highgate, London. The Rev. Mr. Hodgson will have been sixteen months with the church in Paris on May 1. WINTER EVENING SOCIETY A lecture on Persian life and customs will be given this evening, under the auspices of the Winter Evening Society, by Colonel Grey, at the Salle Jouffroy, 70, Rue Jouffroy, at 8.45. Colonel Grey will tell of what he learned during twenty years of study and residence in Persia. IN THE QUARTER The neighborhood playhouses of the Left Bank are burgeoning with new bills. The Vaugirard Theatre is offering “Faust,” beginning tonight, with several artistes from the Opéra appearing in the production. Along the
BRITISH COLONY IN PARIS REV. HODGSON LEAVES PARIS Assistant Chaplain of St. George’s Church Takes Living in London. The Rev. John Hodgson, Assistant Chaplain of St. George’s Church, Rue Auguste-Vacquerie, will leave the church about May 1 to take the living of St. Augustine’s, Highgate, London. The Rev. Mr. Hodgson will have been sixteen months with the church in Paris on May 1. WINTER EVENING SOCIETY A lecture on Persian life and customs will be given this evening, under the auspices of the Winter Evening Society, by Colonel Grey, at the Salle Jouffroy, 70, Rue Jouffroy, at 8.45. Colonel Grey will tell of what he learned during twenty years of study and residence in Persia. IN THE QUARTER The neighborhood playhouses of the Left Bank are burgeoning with new bills. The Vaugirard Theatre is offering “Faust,” beginning tonight, with several artistes from the Opéra appearing in the production. Along the Rue de la Gaieté, which is consecrated to the muse of Comedy, there are nearly half a dozen cinémas and two or three variety théâtres, all of which appear to be doing heavy business. The most famous of the Rue de la Gaieté playhouses is, of course, Bobino, the old original Bobino, which now displays an exciting program consisting of jongleurs from Japan, acrobats, singers, comédiens bouffes, and the supermendain Tompson, champion du monde du saut. We deprived ourselves of seeing the world champion of the leap because the last time—and the first—that we patronized Bobino our head was the object which stopped the flight of a crêpe, warm and moist, that was being hurled from one urchin to another. Things like that are likely to happen at Bobino. In fact, the audience is a large part of the show, an audience that expresses its feelings rather too freely for the comfort of those who are not accustomed to such spontaneity. Yesterday afternoon the Rue de la Gaieté, if not the Grand Boulevards, exhibited something of the old Carnival spirit. Duly conducted infant duchesses, Marie-Antoinettes, Columbines and Pierrots were threading their way through the crowds. There was a plentiful display
original Bobino, which now displays an exciting program consisting of jongleurs from Japan, acrobats, singers, comédiens bouffes, and the supermendain Tompson, champion du monde du saut. We deprived ourselves of seeing the world champion of the leap because the last time—and the first—that we patronized Bobino our head was the object which stopped the flight of a crêpe, warm and moist, that was being hurled from one urchin to another. Things like that are likely to happen at Bobino. In fact, the audience is a large part of the show, an audience that expresses its feelings rather too freely for the comfort of those who are not accustomed to such spontaneity. Yesterday afternoon the Rue de la Gaieté, if not the Grand Boulevards, exhibited something of the old Carnival spirit. Duly conducted infant duchesses, Marie-Antoinettes, Columbines and Pierrots were threading their way through the crowds. There was a plentiful display of chapeaux à plumes. The crêpe merchants were turning out their product in large quantités at fifty centimes each, all shops were open and a lively spirit reigned despite the showers. E. P. B. Phillips, who has been in The Quarter all winter, has taken a studio in the Rue Denfert-Rochereau, where he will continue his interesting experiments in color photography. Mrs. Phillips has recently left for Tunis, where the Phillips lived for many years, for a brief trip. Robert Kohl, the Swiss painter, caused a howl to go up at a certain costume party in Montparnasse on Mardi Gras when he appeared as a boyish imitation of a sailor in the Swiss Navy. When Switzerland starts floating her hôtels, thus building up a merchant marine, Kohl, it is expected, will be appointed Commander of the Fleet. The American dancer Katherine Edson has gone to Vienna where she will probably take part in the Beethoven Festival to be held there this spring. Later she will go to Germany and dance in Berlin and other cities. From Nice, Mrs. Ethel Moorhead, editor of This Quarter, telegraphs that the Paris Times erred when it announced that the forthcoming third number of This
Denfert-Rochereau, where he will continue his interesting experiments in color photography. Mrs. Phillips has recently left for Tunis, where the Phillips lived for many years, for a brief trip. Robert Kohl, the Swiss painter, caused a howl to go up at a certain costume party in Montparnasse on Mardi Gras when he appeared as a boyish imitation of a sailor in the Swiss Navy. When Switzerland starts floating her hôtels, thus building up a merchant marine, Kohl, it is expected, will be appointed Commander of the Fleet. The American dancer Katherine Edson has gone to Vienna where she will probably take part in the Beethoven Festival to be held there this spring. Later she will go to Germany and dance in Berlin and other cities. From Nice, Mrs. Ethel Moorhead, editor of This Quarter, telegraphs that the Paris Times erred when it announced that the forthcoming third number of This Quarter had been delayed because of shortness of funds. Miss Moorhead explains that an advance notice concerning the publication had been misquoted, but that “a refund is due from the United States Government to the literary executors of Ernest Walsh, war veteran and late editor of This Quarter.” ALPINE VILLAGE FIRE CHAMBERY (Savoie), Wednesday. —Fourteen houses have been destroyed by fire at Jarsy, in the canton of Châtelard. Nine were occupied. HYERES THE GOLF HOTEL HYERES IS UNIVERSALLY KNOWN THE SPORTING CENTRE OF THE RIVIERA 200 ROOMS. 100 BATHROOMS. RESTAURANT. ORCHESTRA Sole Proprietors of the Famous Hyères Golf Links, (18 holes). 4 Lawn Tennis Courts. 6 Croquet Lawns. Apply to: L. G. ROSSI GNOLI, Managing Director. GENOA GENOA Runningwater In every room. Superior first-class Hôtel. Quiet position outside left central station. OPPOSITE CENTRAL STATION Caterers of dining and restaurant service of S.S. Giulio Cesare to America and S.S. Esperia to Egypt. BOOKS. EDWARD W. TITUS 4, rue Delambre, Montparnasse, PARIS Current English and American Books Unusual Books First Editions CIRCULATING LIBRARY of NEW BOOKS BOOKSELLER & PUBLISHER Tel.; Fleurus 71-05 BANKING. PARIS LONDON NEW YORK BANKERS TRUST COMPANY PARIS OFFICE 3 PLACE VENDÔME Smith certified Captain Hume-Spry as insane, having
FIRE CHAMBERY (Savoie), Wednesday. —Fourteen houses have been destroyed by fire at Jarsy, in the canton of Châtelard. Nine were occupied. HYERES THE GOLF HOTEL HYERES IS UNIVERSALLY KNOWN THE SPORTING CENTRE OF THE RIVIERA 200 ROOMS. 100 BATHROOMS. RESTAURANT. ORCHESTRA Sole Proprietors of the Famous Hyères Golf Links, (18 holes). 4 Lawn Tennis Courts. 6 Croquet Lawns. Apply to: L. G. ROSSI GNOLI, Managing Director. GENOA GENOA Runningwater In every room. Superior first-class Hôtel. Quiet position outside left central station. OPPOSITE CENTRAL STATION Caterers of dining and restaurant service of S.S. Giulio Cesare to America and S.S. Esperia to Egypt. BOOKS. EDWARD W. TITUS 4, rue Delambre, Montparnasse, PARIS Current English and American Books Unusual Books First Editions CIRCULATING LIBRARY of NEW BOOKS BOOKSELLER & PUBLISHER Tel.; Fleurus 71-05 BANKING. PARIS LONDON NEW YORK BANKERS TRUST COMPANY PARIS OFFICE 3 PLACE VENDÔME Smith certified Captain Hume-Spry as insane, having seen him at an officers’ hospital. A few days later Dr. Watson also certified him as of sound mind. The grounds on which Dr. Smith’s recommendation was made were alleged delusions on the part of the patient, to the effect that the medical officer in charge of the hospital was visiting Mrs. Hume-Spry, his wife. Captain Hume-Spry claims that the belief in his wife's unfaithfulness was no delusion. She wrote to him, confessing that a medical officer had visited her. Captain Hume-Spry was put in an asylum, but he escaped after nine months. Three doctors certified him as sane. A case in which a man was not sent quickly enough to an asylum was referred to at an inquest at Nuneaton, in Warwickshire. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned in the case of a miner and his wife. A doctor admitted that he had attended the man for melancholia. The man was disproportionately jealous of his wife. The doctor considered sending him to an asylum but deferred signing a certificate. A General Election? A question that is engrossing the interest of Parliamentary circles at the moment is that of the possibility of a general election in
visiting Mrs. Hume-Spry, his wife. Captain Hume-Spry claims that the belief in his wife's unfaithfulness was no delusion. She wrote to him, confessing that a medical officer had visited her. Captain Hume-Spry was put in an asylum, but he escaped after nine months. Three doctors certified him as sane. A case in which a man was not sent quickly enough to an asylum was referred to at an inquest at Nuneaton, in Warwickshire. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned in the case of a miner and his wife. A doctor admitted that he had attended the man for melancholia. The man was disproportionately jealous of his wife. The doctor considered sending him to an asylum but deferred signing a certificate. A General Election? A question that is engrossing the interest of Parliamentary circles at the moment is that of the possibility of a general election in 1928. Normally, there would be no election until the following year, but in view of the continually widening differences between certain members of the Cabinet and the main body of the Government Party, an early election is probable. In any case, the next general election should be one of the most sensational for many years. With all three parties seriously divided, it would take a superman to forecast the result at this stage. The Prime Minister and Sir Austen Chamberlain continue in a moderate attitude with regard to China and the Soviets. Other members of the Cabinet are opposed to this, as is also an appreciable section of the party. Mr. Baldwin has failed to deal with the Bill enfranchising women at the same age as men. The Chancellor has not realized the economies that he promised—another point that irritates some Conservatives who hold seats on this issue. Possibly it is this fact that is pushing Mr. Churchill to consider further taxes on wine and silk, though whether this will please Conservatives is an open question. At the moment, the deficit on the national revenue seems to be decreasing, but not to an extent that will affect the position of
most sensational for many years. With all three parties seriously divided, it would take a superman to forecast the result at this stage. The Prime Minister and Sir Austen Chamberlain continue in a moderate attitude with regard to China and the Soviets. Other members of the Cabinet are opposed to this, as is also an appreciable section of the party. Mr. Baldwin has failed to deal with the Bill enfranchising women at the same age as men. The Chancellor has not realized the economies that he promised—another point that irritates some Conservatives who hold seats on this issue. Possibly it is this fact that is pushing Mr. Churchill to consider further taxes on wine and silk, though whether this will please Conservatives is an open question. At the moment, the deficit on the national revenue seems to be decreasing, but not to an extent that will affect the position of the Chancellor. Whether Mr. Lloyd George can rebuild the Liberal Party in time for a general election seems a question that will be answered by the doubts cast on the origin of his election fund. The divided party will have a difficult time to maintain its present numerical standing so long as such definitions as “A moribund party supported by the price of peerages” are applicable by its opponents. The Reds of the Socialist Party may outnumber the moderates and Mr. MacDonald may lose the leadership. Woman M.F.H. Killed. An inquest is being held today on the body of Mrs. Fernie, for six years Master of the hunt that bears her name in Rutlandshire. Her mutilated body was found on the railway line at Woodhall Spa, in Lincolnshire. It is presumed that she was knocked down by a train when returning from a cinema. The epidemic of influenza has almost disappeared in the South of England, but in the North it is still raging. While there were eighty-one deaths in London last week —a marked decrease— in other large towns and cities in the country there were 1023 —a definite increase. A Comedy of Languages. A swarthy, foreign-looking seaman was
long as such definitions as “A moribund party supported by the price of peerages” are applicable by its opponents. The Reds of the Socialist Party may outnumber the moderates and Mr. MacDonald may lose the leadership. Woman M.F.H. Killed. An inquest is being held today on the body of Mrs. Fernie, for six years Master of the hunt that bears her name in Rutlandshire. Her mutilated body was found on the railway line at Woodhall Spa, in Lincolnshire. It is presumed that she was knocked down by a train when returning from a cinema. The epidemic of influenza has almost disappeared in the South of England, but in the North it is still raging. While there were eighty-one deaths in London last week —a marked decrease— in other large towns and cities in the country there were 1023 —a definite increase. A Comedy of Languages. A swarthy, foreign-looking seaman was charged at Liverpool Police Court with having stolen a piece of bacon from a ship. An interpreter tried talking to the man in French, but received no answer. Italian was tried, but the man returned only a blank stare. Spanish was next decided upon, but the man only seemed bored. A Portuguese interpreter was then sent for, but without result. One of the magistrates then said: “What are we to do now? I suppose I had better ask him. ‘Do you speak English?’” The Prisoner... ‘Yes, sir.” He was fined 10s. LONDON THEATRES PALLADIUM near OXFORD CIRCUS CHARLES GULLIVER presents THE APACHE DOROTHY WARD, SHAUN CERVILLI ADRIENNE BRUNE and GARY BRISSON Twice Daily 2.-10 and 8 p.m. New York, February 20. Walking around Manhattan Island is an athletic feat a young man recently undertook. This attracted considerable attention. Walking has become a curiosity, “About forty years ago William Cummings, Frederick Cummings and myself walked around Manhattan Island unaccompanied by an automobile,” writes A. K. Stiger. “Instead of being hailed as heroes we were treated to showers of pebbles from the roofs of tenements.” Pedestrians were not heroes in those days. A Connecticut legislator wants to compel pedestrians to carry a
A Portuguese interpreter was then sent for, but without result. One of the magistrates then said: “What are we to do now? I suppose I had better ask him. ‘Do you speak English?’” The Prisoner... ‘Yes, sir.” He was fined 10s. LONDON THEATRES PALLADIUM near OXFORD CIRCUS CHARLES GULLIVER presents THE APACHE DOROTHY WARD, SHAUN CERVILLI ADRIENNE BRUNE and GARY BRISSON Twice Daily 2.-10 and 8 p.m. New York, February 20. Walking around Manhattan Island is an athletic feat a young man recently undertook. This attracted considerable attention. Walking has become a curiosity, “About forty years ago William Cummings, Frederick Cummings and myself walked around Manhattan Island unaccompanied by an automobile,” writes A. K. Stiger. “Instead of being hailed as heroes we were treated to showers of pebbles from the roofs of tenements.” Pedestrians were not heroes in those days. A Connecticut legislator wants to compel pedestrians to carry a light visible at least 50 ft. when walking on the highway between sunset and sunrise. He has the pedestrians’ own safety in mind. Another Connecticut Bill would reduce pedestrians to keeping to the left-hand side of the road when walking at night. A California inventor has taken to Sacramento a device the installation of which, on all automobiles he would have compulsory, It is an identification disk to be fastened to the front bumper. The disk is automatically dropped when a pedestrian is hit. All he has to do is pick up himself and the disk and bring to the nearest policeman or lawyer with the damaging card of his aggressor. New Jersey is considering a proposal that the ridge-top road in the South Mountain Reservation be prohibited to motorists and made safe for walkers and horse-back riders. “South Mountain Reservation is the last stand of primeval nature in Essex County easily available to hundreds of thousands of its residents,” declares the New York Times. It is a bird refuge; it is a wild woodland; it is a valley and riders' paradise. The proposal to make it a preserve for both pedestrians and vehicles is unique. It has merit. If
device the installation of which, on all automobiles he would have compulsory, It is an identification disk to be fastened to the front bumper. The disk is automatically dropped when a pedestrian is hit. All he has to do is pick up himself and the disk and bring to the nearest policeman or lawyer with the damaging card of his aggressor. New Jersey is considering a proposal that the ridge-top road in the South Mountain Reservation be prohibited to motorists and made safe for walkers and horse-back riders. “South Mountain Reservation is the last stand of primeval nature in Essex County easily available to hundreds of thousands of its residents,” declares the New York Times. It is a bird refuge; it is a wild woodland; it is a valley and riders' paradise. The proposal to make it a preserve for both pedestrians and vehicles is unique. It has merit. If New Jersey will do this thing, she will be first to take a step that every state must consider soon in this Machine Age. New York is trying a radical plan for the preservation and protection of pedestrians. The new traffic regulations that went into effect on the first of the year give pedestrians the right of way at crossings where no police or traffic control system is operating. Vehicles must slow down -— even stop if necessary — so that pedestrians may pass. At unprotected corners, those who walk have the right of way over those who drive. Any one struck down while crossing the street now has the satisfaction of knowing that the motorist violated the traffic regulations. Incidentally, New York's new traffic regulations define a vehicle as “every conveyance used for the transportation of people or merchandise except a baby carriage.” This is perhaps in recognition of the well-known speed at which modern youth travels and in realization of the fact that ordinary speed laws cannot be applied to the rising generation. If New York's City fathers think that the baby carriage is not as effective a vehicle as the automobile, they might consult Mrs. Ralph McGlover.