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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 11. 1921. 14 TO.DAY'S ARRANGEMENTS; YESTEKDAY'S WEATHER.

PRINCE'S THEATRE. TRILBY." Trilby deserves the long life that Miss Neilson-Terry and her company are contributing to give it. True, we are getting away from the age when Du Maurier's Punch drawings were as prominent a feature of the life of this country as our Albert Memorials, and if his Trilby dated as obviously as do his Mr. and Mrs. Ponsonby de Tompkins it could have no more than a faded interest.

But like a few other old men of this generation De Morgan or Watts Dunton for example he saved a great effort for the end of his life. There is plenty of wit in Trilby (Taffy's Dis lui que nous le verrons souffle d'abord for Tell him we'll see him Mowed first is as good dog French as any the army has produced) and so long as men are credulous, and prone to hope and fear much of such things as hypnotism, Svengali, conceived with the skill Du Maurier spent on him. will be a terrible fellow in the right hands. The balance of the play has shifted since Tree acted in it. Now it is Trilby herself who matters most.

One uoubts whether her ability to take top note before the curtain was what Du Maurier would have wished to depend on, but the change of emphasis is fair enough and does not wrcife the play. The audience thrills now over an intensely pathetic Trilby (who would be quite heartrending enough, even if she could not take a top note), whereas in the past it tised chiefly to shudder hefoTC a ghoulish and green-eyed Svengali. The change matters little. The spirit of the thing is there, and it would not be lost even if Du Maurier's stage Scotchman, the Laird, were made, in yet another version of it, to sing A Wee Deoeh and Doruis in one of the Latin Quarter scenes. It is first-rate melodrama, distinguished by a wit in writing that equalled its author's skill with the pencil, and the stage renderings of it, even where they stress its melodrama, have not destroyed its character.

Miss Terry grows more and more like her mother. One can see her playing Sweet Nell of Old Drury as to the manner born. Has she the gift to strike out for herself and for her audiences in pioneer work? One hopes so, for if that work is not done by those in whom the great tradition of acting is bred and bears fruit as amply as in Miss Terry if the new and hard part is not to be tackled by those, like her, who take acting as seriously as a candidate for the Indian Civil approaches his examinations we may well despair of drama, and resignedly await its eclipse by those who can posture and grimace notably for the moving pictures. Mr. Charles Garry has the tricks of Svengali very perfectly at command.

He is cringing and audacious, abject and triumphant, and always uncanny. The rest of the characters, as in all stage versions of Du Maurier's book, lose reality behind the footlights, and tend to become overemphasised as the typical ridiculous clergyman, the dear old English lady, and the like. But Jong practice has made the play run smoothly. Latin Quarter revels go without a hitch, and the machinery is well oiled from start to finsh. It should run a long time yet on these lines.

A. S. W. THE UNDISCOVERED AESTHETIC. That it remains undiscovered as yet is no shame, for kinematography has barely grown bpj-ond childhood, and her powers are not fully developed.

Shame, however, it is, and black shame, that the finer intelligences, the more perceptive critics, should ignore the need for discovery and allow this young art to mature unworthily for lack of sympathetic guidance. Fine work is being done every day in kinematography in production, in projection in all but criticism. The critics stand aloof they are unfriendly neutrals, and their persistent refusal to recognise merit, to suggest a path of development, and to winnow grain from chaff in moving photography has made progress unnecessarily difficult. The kinema has done bravely without the critics, but now the time for collaboration has come: an aesthetic must be found, potentiality must be estimated, and true genius recognised. What realm of experience can the raw materials of kinematography most perfectly What are the limits of achievement for this new art The instruments of the scenario-maker are borrowed on the one hand from drama and on the other from painting: his is the one art which can represent, actions successive through time and obiects adjacent in space, thereby confusing, more completely than the rhythmic school in painting or the descriptive school in music, Lessing's famous distinctions of the arts.

He can express in perfection the visible movement of drama and the transitory poses of painting, but intellectual movement he cannot express, nor visible stability. The problem plav," the tragedy, tho true eomedv, to all of which speech is essential, tho screen must leave to drama proper; its own field of unrivalled excellence is that of phvsical action, of human movement in moving natural surroundings. The old cowboy film was indeed not so far mistaken. The kinema, then, if it is to exploit its qualities to their utmost potentiality, must develop along one of two lines the expression of (li)is(ule or the expression of movement the ej.ii- of the ballet. The second is the less probable- development, until colour photo-graphv can be perfected, and a musical score "('onied simultaneously with the taking of tJie pictures, but the 'thought of its extra-ordinarv possibilities has remained with me vii idlv Vinep a certain blazing August after-ijoon in Brighton, when I drifted into the tool dirkness of "The Kegent," with four timusand nine hundred and ninety-nine others.

The picture "then showing" was-Douglas latest, The Mark of Zorro," and as 1 watched it, in the receptive laziness of a holiday mood, the undiscovered resthetic almo-t within reach. Mr. Fairbanks is much mote than an artist in movement; he -i ninuf lrlir--i hilt, it. watt thf sheer grace of his harlequin poises which struck me on that occasion. He ana Jime.

Nazirnova are perhaps the only screen actors who have reduced beauty of line to a fine art, and they are skilled enough to achieve it at times by the medium of the grotesque, in a i XI 11 niHiiiier strongly reminiscent or iM. isiagmiev anil the Russian Ballet. The more probable development, and perhaps the more virile, is in the direction of epic narrative; a pictorial representation, as it were, of the novel of adventure, based not upon character but upon incident. A reaction against the subjectivism and introspection of the present age may very well have created the demand for such an art, and British producers in particular have shown great acumen in reply. To what extent the exploitation of character-study will run alongside the development of the drama of incident it is difficult to prophesy; at present the number of kinema actors who can express subtleties of character through tho deadening medium of the sicut screen can be counted on the fingers of both hands.

First I would place John Barrymore, tho finest dual-role actor whom the kinema has ever produced, and with him. from America, the Mary Pick-ford of "Stella Maris," the late and ever-to-be-lamented Sydney Drew, and a few others; from England," Alma Taylor. These are (he genuine artists, the true masters of the wordless stage, who possess the power to transform its very wordlessness into a further projection of personality, in whose hands the episodic scenario becomes a human epic, full-blooded and'memorable. It is time that their work were rccornied and their n-eninc i ii i 10 general C. L.

AX ASSAULT WITIf SKRIOT'S '( CHARGE AGAINST A KERSAL MAN, A younj: man named William Hardini' of li.xlmrd Street, was charged before the Sal ford rates yesterday with inflicting grievous I'Odily harm upon Charles Lemon, who lives in OakJands Koad. Both these addresses are in 1 1 (n1nli "rtf li ioni l.nill K. 1 i i w.w.v nwn.r umu ii im- OiUIOrQ orpor.ition on what is known the Littleton iiv.iM wni-L 'IM11. It w.is that when the prisoner and hi; iMiMi-i nv uiuK Home on rsiiuruav night they miw the prosecutor loitering in front of 1. A I' Cl .1 in'ii'i- in luuiuiii cured ijn accused iissing inni wnat lie was doing there the com plamant moved away, and the prisoner and his brother went indoors.

Coming out again a lime tune auerwanis they saw the complainant at the spot where had previous!) been seen. The accused approached him ami telling him that he had lteen observed "prowl ing about." inquired if he lived in the district Resenting the interrogation, the comnlainnni was said to have struck at the prisoner but i. uiu inn mi iiiiii. it was aiiegeu mat tilt nilfTKid V.ll I II 1 11 ir tlm .1. umlaut wu complainant miller the chin, and in falling to the ground the man apparently hurt his head and became unconscious.

The" accused summoned an ambulance, in which he accompanied thp prosecutor to the Koyal Hospital. Later the prisoner was iaKen into custody, and when rhnrired. lie nTiitnrcrnnil Inspector Mitchell reported that that morn- week's remand was granted, the prisoner beinc CHATTO WINDUS THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN By W. Haslam Mills. Mr.

Haslam Mills graphically draws the history of this great newspaper, which earlier in the year celebrated its anniversary to the accompaniment of what must have been a world-wide chorus of congratulation. As an account of one of the great organs of opinion of the British race, this book will be of intense interest to many classes Mancunians, politicians, journalists, and, above all, the average citizen. With 9 Mustrations. Demy Svo. 6s.

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2.000.000 FORTUNE FROM DRAPERY. 700,000 DEATH DUTIES: 250,000 FOR CHARITIES. A fortune of nearly 2,000,000 (1,917,819. 7s. gross, with net personalty 1,855,397.

Is. lid.) has been left by Mr. Henry Greenwod Tetley, of 17, Avenue Road, Regent's Park, N.W., and of Alderbrook, Cranleigh, Surrey, formerly of The Hermitage, Bocking End, Braintree, Essex, chairman of Messrs. Courtaulds, Limited, crape and artificial silk manufacturers, lately president of the Silk Association of Great Britain and: Ireland, a native of Bradford, Yorkshire, and formerly with Messrs. Lister and who died August 21 last, aged 69 years.

Although he was known to be a rich man it was not generally believed, especially in view of the large sums which he had given away of recent years, that his fortune would have amounted to so large a figure. He states in his will that he had also made provision for his several children both by gift and by settlement. The duties on the property at this valuation will amount to more than 700,000. He left one -fifth of the residue of his -property to his wife and the National Provincial and Union Bank of England, Limited, to devote and apply the same for such patriotic purposes or objects and such charitable institution or institutions or charitable objects in the British Empire as they should in their absolute discretion select, and in such proportions as they should think proper. All bequests are free of duty, and, after allowing for the other bequests and the payment of duty, it would appear that the total value of the public benefactions mentioned in his will is about a quarter of a million pounds.

Mr. George Courtauld, of Cut Hedge, Gos-ficld, Halstead, Essex, a director of the same company, died on the 29th February, 1920, aged 90 years, leaving estate valued at 2,146,695 gross, with' net personalty 2,065,887. Of late years more than twenty of the millionaire estates alone have been left by members of the drapery and allied trades, the chief ot which were those of Mr. Charles Morrison, who left 10,936.666, and his sister Miss Ellen Morrison who left 3,000,000. sewing cotton manutacturers in the various members of the Coats, Brook, and Clark families, account for several of them, as do also ttie Eylands and the Morleys, while the manu facturing and distributing sides of the trade are represented in the fortunes of three millionaires of the Cook family of Cook, Son, and of St.

Paul's Churchvard. E.C.. and such house hold names as Sir John Maple. Peter Robinson, and William whitelev. Four members of the Coats family left millionaire fortunes within Jess man tnree years.

DEATH OP A CHILD. CORONER ON NEED FOR A CHANGE IN THE LAW. At an inquest yesterday at Hackney on the body of a newly-born male child found by a Lcadenhall Street shipbroker in his garden at Brookland Koad, Stamford HU1, Dr. John Richards, divisional police surgeon, said that tlicre was a cut in the cheek of the infant, a wound in the throat two and a half inches long, and two other smaller wounds in the neck Hie cuts had been made on a living child, and the wound in the throat was the cause of death. The witness could not say that the infant was completely born at the time of its deatli.

ur. lidwin smith, the coroner, said there was curious point of law in connection with this case. If that child was criminally miured during birth and died before it was completely born that was no murder or crime. The Attorney General in the House of Commons in 1878 stated that if in the course of birth a m.ilhcr, midwife, or any bystander deliberately inflicted any injury upon a child before it had au entirely separate existence not only had murder not been committed but there was no offence punishable under law. That was the law at the present time, a law which he thought the jurv would agree should be altered.

ihe jury found that the injuries had been mulcted by some person or persons unknown, but there was insufficient evidence to show that the infant was completely barn at the time of its death. A POLICEMAN'S BRAVERY. DROWNING MAN WHO PREVENTED HIS OWN RESCUE. A police constable's gallant action in diving into me Canal, fully dressed, in an attempt to rescue a drowning man was referred to at the Manchester County Police yesLerday, when the chairman of the Bench (Commander F. W.

Astbury. M.P.) pre sented Police Constable R. Stone with the Royal Humane society certificate. un July 24- btone heard cries coming from the Bridgewater Canal at Trafford Park, and on reaching the saw a man struggling in the water. He dived in.

and was immediately seized by the drowning man, who, in spite of me cmcer warning, Tetused to release his hold. Both men were in grave danger of losing their lives as the officer was so hampered that for a time he was unable to help himself. Finally he managed to struggle free, but was so exhausted that it took him all his time to reach the side and scramble out. The alarm was given, but the man he had tried to rescue had by this time disappeared, and was drowned. Commander Astbury warmly congratulated Stone on his- gallant action.

Which reflected great credit, said, on the police force. BELLA ONN A POISON SECOND HAND. AT THREE PEOPLE TAKEN ILL AFTER EATING RABBIT. Three people have had a narrow escape from poisoning by belladonna which was contained in the body of a rabbit stewed for dinner. The victims, Mr.

and Mrs. Cripps. of Oxted (Surrey), and their servant, Miss Sylvia Fleet, became ill ten minutes after partaking of the meat. The symptoms were a peculiar dryness of the mouth, stiffening of the limbs swelling of he eyes, and giddiness. A doctor was summoned, and at once diagnosed belladonna poisoning.

Under his treatment, the patients have now recovered. The doctor is of the opinion that the rabbit had eaten belladonna berries before being killed. Rabbits, it is said, can eat such berries without being affected. A terrier dog and cat belonging to Mr. Cripps ate some of the bones and sterw, and were affected by the poison in a less acute degree.

The remaining portions of the rabbit have been taken away for analysis. RATES AND TAXES IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, As a ratepayer in St. Ann's Ward I have received'Mr.

Batty's address, and in view of what be says am very much surprised at the backing of Liberal names given to him. First, because one never expected Liberals to back a candidate of the Middle Classes Union. Secondly, because the candidate's "supreme aim is a large and immediate reduc tion in the rates," without any indication as to the direction of that reduction whether on health, education, housing, 'or what. he specifically bars the land question, which has everything to do with rates, as I thought Liberals agreed. And, lastly, because he emphasises a reduction in rates, without 'the slightest reference to the enormously greater waste oi taxes in loreign enterprises, wmcn taxes might otherwise have greatly reduced the burden of the rates.

Yours, Alexander C. Wilson. 5, Cross Streee, Manchester. wtooer o. XAncasMre Cricket Club.

Rev. S. Proudfoot writes from the Vicarage. Pendleton Without in the least degree suggesting a criticism against the Executive of the Lancashire Cricket Club, I do wish they could arrange for an annual meeting of the members. Many cricket enthusiasts would be delighted if they could thus come, together, meet the Committee, and have given to them inner history of the great club.

They might also make' suggestions of value. CORRESPONDENCE. "THE PRIVATE BUILDER." To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, Will you kindly permit me to refer to the report in your issue of the 7th inst. of the proceedings at Liverpool connection with the half-yearly conference of the National Federation of House-builders? A statement is attributed tq me to the effect that the houses erected by the municipalities were really suitable for people higher up in the social scale.

My statement was that the more extravagant and costly tho houses the more difficult it becomes to accommodate the class intended to be housed, and all you succeed in doing is to cater for the class higher up in the social scale. The difference is impottant because of the inference in the statement attributed to me that I consider the poorer class should be housed in less desirable houses. The inference appears also in your editorial comments in the same issue on the subject of good design and decent, lay-out. wherein you assume that these virtues are only to be found in municipal schemes. If one received the same pleasurable impressions during a walk round the majority of our municipal housing schemes as one does whilst passing through, say, Port Sunlight or many privately developed estates, where almost at every step the attention is arrested to admire really artistic building, there might be some justification for your admiration of municipal design but I am afraid for one, do not subscribe to the view, neither do I believe that any cheap rubbish is good enough for the poorer classes.

If these people unfortunately cannot afford to pay for a beautiful home, surely you do not expect the builder to do sol If the State, in its endeavour to achieve this desirable object, and not being satisfied with the efforts of private enterprise, calls the tune, it should pay the piper; otherwise it might at least refrain from interference which does not produce artistic houses but merely adds to the cost of building and increases rents. Yours, J. B. HUTCHIKS. Commerce Court.

11, Lord Street, Liverpool, October 8. BISHOP MACINNES AND ZIONISM. To tie Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, I cannot permit Mr. Leak's letter to pass unchallenged.

He must be aware that Jew and Arab have lived for generations on terms of friendship, and that even now a considerable section of the Arabs has protested against the claim of the Arab delegation to speak in the name of Palestine. He also apparently has forgotten that so prominent an Arab newspaper as El-Carmel has openly admitted that the anti-Zionist agitation is at bottom a deliberate attempt to exploit the Zionist land purchases in the interests of the Effendis. It is a fact, not founded on vague hearsay but of public knowledge, that the failure of the hume Government to repudiate the anti-Zionist attitude of the early military administration of Palestine inspired the Arab leaders, like all Orientals, with the idea that to curry favour with the powers that be they must adopt the same attitude, with the result that the Frankenstein that has been evoked cannot now be so easily laid. Both Bishop Maclnnes and Mr. Leak argue as if the Jews were intruders in the land of their fathers.

I maintain that my co-religionists are as much entitled to their place in the sun as Arab, Turk, or Christian. The contention that the Zionists show no desire to work for the common good requires no refutation. The Jewish colonies are oases in a barren land, and the Zionists' schemes for improvement must inevitably redound to the good of the country at large. But who is responsible for the general desolation and misrule that have for centuries been the reproach of the Holy Land? Yours. B.

Salosion. Great Synagogue Chambers, Manchester, October 10. HAWKERS IN THE CITY STREETS To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, We have seen recently, both by your news and correspondence columns, that a movement is proceeding to secure extended facilities for the selling of. foodstuffs, and particularly fruit, in the streets of Manchester.

The matter is understood to be at the present moment before the Watch Committee, and one is sure that the Watch Committee will not accede to such a proposal without considering all its bearings on public health and public order. Is it good hygienics, for example, to expose a kind of food specially liable to deterioration to the dust of the streets? If all the stock- on one of those barrows is net disposed, of at the end of the day, where does it spend the night 1 What does this kind of trading cost the city in extra policing and cleansing? Does it im prove the appearance of tho city? Does it make more noise where there is already noise enough 1 There is a further aspect of the matter, to which attention lias already been called in your columns. It is said that this street trading performs a useful function in keeping prices down to the public. Why? How? Surely- one of the reasons must be that in the price at which it is sold nothing needs to be included for rent and nothing for rates. The shopkeeper, sometimes heavilv rented and always mercilessly rated, as entitled to object to And is it quite certain that stieet trading really does keep prices down Is it not true that the knowledge in the mind of the wholesaler that, he can disnose of Ktoek 1f nr.

hands to street sellers rather encourages him to Keep up prices io ine suouroan snopKeeper wno niusi oe away icuiu me marKet early in the morning? Yours, MANCHESTER RATEPAYER. October 10. THE KEY INDUSTRIES ACT. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian Sir, With the general views in your leader entitled Protection Makes a Bad Start have really nothing to do, but may I deprecate the sneer at the young men of the Board of Trade as unworthy of the Manchester Guardian Doubtless the Board of Trade employed experts in an advisory capacity; whilst the Referee will be appointed by the Lord Chancellor and not by the Treasury. The criticism as regards the Customs authori ties is inept.

The rule in regard to the first levying of a duty is laid down by Act of par liament namely, the Finance Act, and 'the DfiDartment is correctlv annlvinp- fha law. xne Manchester uuardian is usually so fair that I feel this attempt to belittle the Service must have been an oversight. After all the Service merely carries out the law, and aoes noi mane n. lours, Chables Watnet. Government Staff News Association, Parliament Mansions, Victoria Street, London, S.W.

1, October 6. Our correspondent takes a light-hearted allusion more seriously than was intended. According to those best Qualified to judge, the list of key industries sebeduled by the Board of Trade contains many articles which, so far from being key," are not British industries at all. To. attribute this- to official inexperience was the most charitable interpretation.

We must admit' to have followed the bill and not tha Act in referring to the Treasury appointment. Our criticism of the administration of the Act, which our correspondent calls inept," was based upon the reported summoning of an emergency meeting in protest by the London Chamber of Commerce. Ed. Guabd." ABROAD. The Congress of the Italian Socialist party opened at Milan yesterday.

The body of a man, wrapped in a blanket, has been found on the railway line near Dijou, having apparently been thrown from a passenger wain. Exchange. The greater part of the library of Dr. Wilhelm Bode, who was for many years the Curator of the Berlin Museum, is to be sold by auction on November 29. The sale will include many valuable catalogues and manuscripts.

The marriage of the Due de Crussol to Miss Evelyn Gordon took place at Uzes (Dept. Gard, France) yesterday morning. Numerous guests, including many English friends of the bride, attended the ceremony. Miss Gordon is the younger daughter of the Scottish-American millionaire Mr. John Gordon, of London and New York, while the bridegroom is the son of the Due d'TJzes, premier duke of Prance.

The gardener who was employed in the tearoom at the Printemps Stores. Paris, on the morning when the great shop caught fire is still reported missing, and now, what are thought to be the remains of the only victim ol" the catastrophe have been found. Firemen removing wreckage discovered on the sixth floor in the burned-out tearoom a fragment of skull and portions of also a'watch and penknife. MR. JAMES RICHARDSON'S RECITAL.

Mr. James Richardson, before embarking on his twenty-first annual Tecital at the Memorial Hall last night, begged the indulgence of his audience on account of an illness which would necessitate an operation later in the week, and which had only been postponed so that he might maintain the series of his recitals. Mr. Richardson was also unfortunate in that Miss Alice Shawcross, the vocalist of the concert, was, through a sudden illness, unable to appear. He was, however, in our judgment, exceedingly fortunate to have as his colleague in the concert Mr.

Frank Merrick, who played with him sonatas of Reger and Brahms, and a Ballade by Prokofiev hitherto unheard in Manchester. Mr. Merrick played with such refinement and security of style that the 'cellist might have beon a babe cradled on a blissful sea, whose every motion ministered to his happiness. That consideration for a colleague, in the scope and scale of expression, in the felicity of line, balance of tone, and undulation of rhythm, and all the rest of the niceties of the concertante style, could go so far or have such a happy influence on a player was beyond our experience. The "Ballade" is a maze of intricate and seemingly indeterminate melody.

One could not enough admire the dexterous interweaving and sliding in of the numerous melodic currents. Mr. Merrick's playing even took on an unusual animation from" these tine considerations of melodic and rhythmical balance. No work could have been more insinuatingly or more discreetly presented to the ear, "and though Mr. Richardson's playing was in its little virility rather flattered into expression than in itself eloquent, the result was a singular performance which could leave no doubt of the composer's genius.

The sonata by Brahms seemed less characteristic when treated in this fascinating but miniature style, though the charming minuet had an infinite grace. Mr. Richardson's solos included two of his own pieces, which were of a quiet expression but ingenious technique, and showed him a sensitive and tactful musician. S. L.

MR. E. STANLEY REDFERN. The Halle Orchestra has latterly been very unfortunate in the loss of its choice wind players, and the death of Mr. Needham, Mr.

Reynolds, and Mr. Paersch is now followed by that 'of Mr. E. Stanley Redfern, the. eminent flautist, who passed away yesterday at the Wallasey Cottage Hospital.

In Mr. De Jong and Mr. Needham the Man chester Halle Orchestra has before had flautists of the greatest skill, but Mr. Redfern had a refinement of style that was quite his own, and was something quite apart from mere dexterity on the instrument. Few things more ravishing could bo heard in music than the way in which Mr.

Redfern's flute melody floated away ficm the accompanying harp in a certain movement from Carmen," and just as we remember Mr. Needham. by tho brilliant badinage of a special -movement from Bach, so shall we lemember Mr. Redfern in the exquisite upward floating of Bizet's bright, yet tender, music. That a refined spirit has left us, and a gentle ness as lovely as the notes of this upward floating music, is known to every player who ever acted as his colleague.

The writer's last remembrance of him is at the Harlech Festival where, on a wonderful summer evening, after carefully ascending the hill he sat admiring a sunset of indescribable- beauty. He has gone West, as they say now, himself, and the slanting rays of the sun on that summer evening have in the memory a new solemnity. S. L. Born at Liverpool about 55 years aeo.

Mr- Redfern had a comprehensive and distinguished career. He was taught to play the instrument bv his father, Mr. E. B. Redfern, himself a pro- lessiunai liisiruuimikuiiM UL uuuiiv, aim gave his first solo in the St.

George's Hall, Liverpool, on his fourteeenth birthday. He became first flautist in most of the leading orchestras iu the country, including the Halle, the Liverpool Philharmonic, the Heecham, the Welsh Choral Union, and the Carl Rosa combinations-, while for several seasons immediately before the war he was principal flute player at the Royal Opera, Co vent Garden. Some years ago he toured America and Canada as flautist to a military band under he direction, of Mr. Dan Godfrey, and was commanded to play before the late President McKinley. He leaves a widow and a daughter.

ACCKIXGTON ENGINEERS IN THE CHANCERY COURT. A SETTLEMENT BY CONSENT. The trial of the action, brought by Messrs. C. Whittaker and engineers, Accring-ton.

aeainst Messrs. Thomas Whittaker and Sons. Canal Foundry, Church, which occupied the Lancashire Chancery Court for several days last week, was concluded on Saturday, when a settlement was arrived at The facts were that the plaintiffs began business in 1854-, and Mr. Thomas Whittaker, upon the conversion of the concern into a limited company, became managing director. In 1918 Mr.

Thomas Whittaker. with his two sons, who had also held positions in Messrs. C. Whit-taker's business, became purchasers of the-Canal Foundry at Church. It was alleged that the defendants, while in the service of the plaintiffs, caused plans and other things to be taken from the plaintiffs' works to their new works, and had described machines produced bv them as Wh'ttaker machines and WhuV taker nlant in a way which tended to confuse the plaintiffs' products with those of the defendants'.

Mr. Courthope Wilson. K.C., leading counsel for the defendants, said the evidence given by certain witnesses bad induced Mr. Thomas Whittaker to make further investigations. He then learned for the first time that some of his subordinates, with the best intention possibly, bad done things which could not be justified.

The parties consulted together, and afterwards Mr. Cunliffe, K.C. (Attorney General for the County Palatine), for the plaintiffs, said a settlement had been come to. in accordance with which the defendants would give certain undertakings and pay an agreed sum in respect of costs. The plaintiffs waived their claim for fl.imnwt.

Thev recognised, counsel sniH that Mr. Thomas Whittaker had taken a manly and straightforward course. New Maps. The Pacific Ocean (Edward Stanford, 4s. net) is a well-printed map showing, among ether features, the mandates conferred on the principal maritime nations by the League of Nations.

It should prove useful in following the decisions arrived at by the forthcoming Washington Conference. Folding maps i of South America, Africa, and Central and South Africa, issued by John Bartholomew and Son, Edinburgh (2s. 6cl. each net), are well I -i A ll.il liamca ill igitsrc ljtjc, AJJU 1U11U handy reference maps. The two latter Show clearly the new territories acquired by the various Powers under the mandates.

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No. 1 (Bach), That God doth Over 5,000 people visited the lntr Industrial Exhibition at the Citv If Saturday. One of the attractions is" a i machine at the "Manchester Guardiat: and the requests for names to be machine were more than the opera cope with. There was also a big dvn the Guardian's Royal Exchange Headers who were unable to obtain should write to the publisher and an be made to supply their needs. WESTMACOTTS' TONIC CHAMP.ot FINEST PICK-ME-UP BEVERAGE.

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Gd. per line. All such announcements must lis nemo and ad iress of the sender. postal orders may be sent payment. BIRTHS.

ARNOLD WILLLYMS On October 10. 1921 wood House, Higher and Mrs. AltXOLD WILLIAMS, dau-rhti M- HULME On the 8tli at 135," Clayton Bridge, to Mr. nd W. AKS I ill (ne'e Emmie Jones), a daiiEbter, MARSHALL On October Cl'-ni i Avenue, Morton, to Mr.

ami Mr. SHALL, a daughter. MOOHE. On the 8th Moiket pur'-, to Mr. and Mrs.

CLAUDE E. M00K, a MARRIAGES. CHADWICK GOMERSALL. On 3 Clement's Church, Unii.ton, by the I. Cooke, M.A., vicar, BOY.

elder of Mi O. II. CHADWICK. Un-ello Lodce. Ii.li.

Mr. ii.Un Southampton (formerly of Urmstoii), t. M.i,y eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ilnl- HALL.

New-holme. OueenV Kojd. DO.VALD Octnher 10, it Church, Nottingham, by the Rev. Livii; i KALI'H AUGUSTUS DONALD. M.m.

CONSTANCE ItAWSON, only daughter hl-nm- and the late Philip T.iubman TEAUE, HALLAM. On the 8th ut h-ii i-i. JOSEPH, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. U.

I.iiHK. Rushohue, Manchester, to EDITH, sei-im of Mr. and Mrs. T. HALLAM, of Peak lores, 1) tm eliire.

NEED-HAM PATTERSON On the 8th at Peter's, Hale by the Uev. J. Mills, THOMAS NKK1'-HAM, of i'lagg, Buxton, to MURIEL Oakwell, Halo. DEATHS. BEAUMONT.

On Saturday the 8th rfo.i:i House Nursing Home, Blackpool, JOHN BEAO10M. of 15, St. James's Road, Eh' tith Shore, latt. of Hitddersflpld, aged 78 years. Fur o3 yarn the employ of Messrs.

J. Hopkinson Limited, Uritinnia Works, Huddersflcld. Inifni.cr.t Blackpool Cemetery on Wednesday, October 12, 10 30 a.m. BENT. On the 8th at Ling-ard Lane Farm, Bi! bury, THOMAS BENT (late of Reddish Vale), ia In-77th year- Interment at Willow Grove C'traetert, Reddish, tlu's day (Tuesdav), at 3 30.

BRIDGE. On the 8th at Northvil, Fiiirhaven, JOHV BRIDGE, of Springhead, Oldham, iu Irs 84th jur. No flowers. CLA11KSON. On September 19, af.

Edmotit in, Altm CSonada, in hospital of heart failure, foliuwing: stvtte operation, JAMES aged 54, Lattice, Lowton, Edmonton, formerly of Lauihl on-forth, N. elder eon of the late Robert Hark-son. of the same place. COOP. On tlie 8th at 27, Gardner Ro.iJ.

wich, WILLIAM THOMAS, the belovi-l lnisWr.1 Ann COOP, in his 64th year (late of Willum' Clwp House, 12, Market Street, Manchester). Prestwich Pariah Chinch at two o'clock on Inquiries to Leach and Sons, Prestwich. Tel 17 Whitefleld. COWBURN. On October 6, jmddenly, MARGARET ASSE uibbuks, oi Adair House, Oakley Strrrt, LUeiiei, aged 81 years.

Interment Kensal Green this day fTuesdavV 12 30. OROSLAOT) On the 9th at his resiilrnce, Sewljn, Old uoiwyn, MILIEU, the beloved husband or Annie CROSLAND, in his 65th year (late of William Or land, Bredbury). interment at Colwjn Biv Cemetery to-morrow at twelve noon. No (Iohms. EWBANK.

On the 8th a 77, School Boad, Sj, EMILY HUGHES, the beloved wife of Chntopn-: EWBANK. Interment Brooklands Cemetery on M'ri-ncsdav. 2 30 p.m. GARNER (CHARLES). At Willow Bank, Irlam Boat i-lixton, CHARLES GARNER, his HUth year (U" with the Calico Printers' Association, Interment St.

Michael's, Flizton, on Wednesday, 12th in-'t-, 3 p.m. No flowers. GRUNDY On the 8th at 99, Dukinficld Bwil. Hyde, in his year, WILLIAM GKUNin, Interment at Stoclcixirt Borough Oaneterr, Welling" Road, Stockport, at 2 30 p.m. on Wednesday ths 12th inst.

Friends kindly accept this (the only intimation. HALL. On the 9th very suddenly, at KeidpA, unurcn noau, smithills, Bolton, UfcUKUE dearly loved husband of Annie Pearce HALL, in ti 49th year. Interment Heaton Cemetery on Wednn-dav. at 2 p.m.

HARTLEY. On the 10th LAURA ELIZABETH ine dearly, invalid daughter of tne ixi George HAItTLEY, Littleithorpe Hall, Ripnn, and Mn Hartley, Leckonby, Lymm. Interment Braoklan Cnmetery. Thursday. 30-.

HAYES. X)n the 9th at a nursing home in DuMb K'iiuwiug nn operation, UXUIDUK WJWZMl.liAii Trinity College. Dublin Salopian), aged 20 only child of Dr. and Mrs. W.

J. Haves, Green Bnt, Patricroft. Interment Kilteman Chtircb, v-DubD on Wednosdav. ni tirnlvi. HILLKIRK.

On the 8th at Seandia, Cowo. MHJ itunua, eiueat on of the late John HILLum- Hooley Lodge. Withincrton. JACKSON. On the 8th suddenly, at 12, Kensinj- ton Avenue, victoria Park, Manchester, EMZAaeift wife of Geo.

JACKSON. Interment at Southern CemetCrV at 2 n.m nn CTortnoorlnv 12111 in.lt. JACKSON. On the 9th inst at 54, Manley Boad, Wu7 jiuuge, mjji, w-ie ol tne lare aiattiiew javhuu--. in her 71st year.

Interment Ealing and Old Brew-ford Cemetery, Middlesex, on Fridav. Inquirie -H. Hesketh and Son. IO. Oirenrlush Street.

HC KENT. On September 30, at 4. Russian Drive, pool, aAKl ISABEL KENT, aged surviving daughter of the late Samuel and Miry (ne'e Johnson), of Prestwich and dqpton Bwj Interred at Wert Derby Cemetery October 5, lwj KOUYOUMDJIAN. On the 7th at 57, Albert Boa Southport. MANOUK KOCYOUMDJIAN, O.B.B., ta beloved hniband of Irma Kouyoumdjian, in year (late managing director of Sarkis Kouyoumaj.

Limited, Manchester). Service at the Annea Church. Manchester, at 11-30 a.m.; Xermttv Southern Cemetery at 12 30. p.m. this day (TutT Inquiries Meson.

Kendal, Milne and Co. LORD. On the 7th in nursing-home, Ata on-Mersey, MARGARET JNE, the beloved and mf affectionate 'wife of James Lawrence. LOBD, of field, Framingbarn Road, BrookUnds, aged ZS Interment on Wednesday, at Matioefc October 9, at 124, gS Lane, ChdrHonum-Hardy, Manchester, AiDW. MAOKIBSON, in bin 63rd year (tote wrtji Asatxaation.

the belovrf Jes.nie MaoMeaon. Interment at Lambbill Glasgow, on 12th intt. jm McQUAKE-On Thursday, Orfobertbe tjtb, Chest Road. Old Trafford, TW of tne Tate Amelia McQUADE, ot Chester. at Salfora JBoroogb Ctmtun-Weaste, on Jlondoy the 10th inst 1 RILEY.

At the on Li HARRY RILEY, of the Central Hotel, Bocbd. Slyeart. Interment at Bury Cemetery, at 2 BICHAHD the beloved AnniTOTBCOM. Service 9L October 12. at 1 30 p.m.

The Paddock, Shelf, ne" Halifax. The HclaU-e, ol the late Mr. desire to express thanks for the i sympathy and floral tribute OB Vie asam rged ktber; '-r In In -levin memory of -my h'i October 10, 1918. Fondly remejnbered -zrzz-rrrr Tha eatmot be jeaponOPIf ii rjoi oaea WT. rTvT'-; -rtmc -n-Trjmnwfi (From the Meteorological Office.) A shallow depression situated over the west and north of the Britisn lsies causeu cloud and local rain in the western half ot me kingdom yesterday.

East and South-east Eng land continued under the innuence oi me cvclone over central isurope, ana exiwr- very warm, fine, or fair weather, with lignt or moderate southerly winds. The rainfall was heavy locally in South-west England. Sunshine records were goou generally England except in the south Several stations in the East and South-east registered more than eight hours, wnne reuxsunvo uiu hours. The temperature rose above lOdeg. in manj parts of England, and exceeded 75deg.

locally in East and South England. At London (Kensington Palace) a maximum of 78deg was recorded, while 77deg. was reached at Southend and Torquay. The Lancashire coast had five to six hours sunshine yesterday, with a maximum shade temperature ot vu ai pool, and 72 at Southport. The North Wales coast nad six to seven temperatures at Rhyl 73, at Llandudno 70, and Aberystwyth 71.

FORECASTS FOR TO-DAY. The Meteorological Office issue the following forecasts for the twenty-tour nours enaing midnight to-night: SK and E. England, Eastern and Western Wind S.E., liftht; fair; ranc mist or fog ot night and early lnorninp; vrrj' warm. S.W. England and South Wales Light, variable, or easterly winds eome rain or fhowers, then fairer; risibility mainly good but some coast fog warm.

SJV. and N.E. England, Northern Midlands, Xorth Wales, and Isle of Man. Light, variable winds; cloudy: some showers, improving Inter; visibility fair; very warm. Further Outlook.

Probahlv continuing fair and rery warm in Bast and South-east England. Fairer ogain in other districts. YESTERDAY IN MANCHESTER. Manchester Whitworrh Park Meteorological Observatory, Monday, October 10. 9 p.m.

Fair to fine generallv: warm: light south-east wind. -Barometer rising. Shade Temperature 'lo-rinv. xor. To day.

Yt. 73 79 58 51 Drv bulb. 9 a.m. 63 7 69 0 Maximum Dry bulb, 9 p.m. 66-8 Minimum To-day.

Yesterday, 114 7-5 70 76 Solar maximum (black bulb) Rainfall (In inches) Sunshine (hours) Humidity (percentage) 9 a.m. 9 p.m. 114 72 82 84 Sun rises. Sets. Moon rts.

5 24 3 10 p.m 12 23 a.m. 5 22 3 33 p.m. 1 29 a.m. To-day 6 28 6 30 For every ten miles north of Manchester sunset is earlier hy li seconds. LAMP-TIME FOK VEHICLES TO-DAY 6 24 p.m.

MOTOR LAMPS FOR NUMBER PLATES 5 54 p.m. The law docs not require motorists to light alt their lamps half an hour before other vehicles are illuminated, but the lamp which shines on the number plate must bu lit at tne earner time stated A COUNTRY DIARY. October 10. In the orchard many red admirals tippled on the fallen and rotting apples, sipping from the bruised wounds excavated by wasp or slug. This fondness for apples is no new discovery; is it, a friend asks, the origin of the specific name atala'nta? That lady lost her race through apples, and the butterfly sometimes loses its life.

Manv insects have been un usually plentiful of late; swarming has been the order of the day. Atmids have taken win. distributing themselves, many finding a watery grave in responsive but unwilling eyes. Pillars or columns of gnats were noticed by some correspondents, dancing in the evening in nuwtial frenzy. Many caddis-flies, too, have been observed by a Congleton correspondent, who sends two for identification they come in- at nurht and buzz round the lights.

The larva of this big fly is-the aquatic" oaodis-worm, which shields itself from dansrer in cases formed of sTains of sand, bits of etick, tiny shells, or fragments "of weed, glued round a silken tule. These insects there are many species belong to the order Trichontera, hairy wings, often called a sub-order of the Neuroptera, a group which includes euch varied, forms as termites, dragon-flies, may-flies, and even wingless bird-lice. The fly which was sent, and which has constantly annoyed me by its efforts to commit suicide, is one of the largest of our caddis-flies, a species of Phrygairea. T. A.

C. 4 HEAT CAUSES BELGIAN TRAIN DERAILMENT. Brussels, Monday. Following a dislocation of the line brought about by the heat a train was derailed between Quievram and Mons at Thulin. The engine, the luggage van, and two carriages overturned.

Several persons were injured, but there were no killed. Exchange. OFFICER OF HIGH RANK AND THE VICTORY BOND CLUB. A PROPOSED SUGGESTION TO MR. BOTTOMLEY.

A request in connection with the Victory Bond Club was made to Mr. Graham Campbell at Bow Street Police Court yesterday by Mr. Harry Stewart-Moore, who said his client waa an officer holding a very high rank in the army, whose name he did not wish to divulge unless it was necessary. Mr. Stewart-Moore asked if.

in view of the exceptional circumstances, the magistrate could convey to ine uniei Magistrate, nefore whom the case of alleged criminal libel brought by Mr. Horatio Bottomley, M.P.. against Mr. Reuben Bigland would be heard, the suggestion -that Mt. isottomiey snouia De asked if he would undertake personal responsibility to refund the money being given time to do so and thus make County Court proceedings unnecessary.

His client. Mr. Stewart-Moore said, had threatened criminal proceedings against Mr. the so-called secretary of the club, and Mr. Bottomley in respect of a sum of money invested in the club, but he had had to go to Africa before the proceedings could be taken.

Advice had been given, he continued, to take the matter to the County Court, but it appeared to -him, with all respect, that proceedings in the County Court would prove absolutely futile. because Mr. Bottomley, with his -experience of the law, would have a multiple defence, with which he would no doubt succeed, and the.noor people who brought their actions would be lUVOlveu ill luruier Ajjemse. Mr. Campbell said he could not convey such a suggestion, the applicant could only make a request to.

lae oniei A further applicant, who said he had invested 39 in the Victory Bond Club since last June. was referred to the advice given that the matter should be taken to the County Court. ACCIDENT TO COLLIERY TRAIN. MEN INJURED IN OVERTURNED COACH. A nine-coach colliery train bringing men from Siddick to Maryport yesterday afternoon took the wrong points and.

ran towards the Solway Ironworks. The first coach was 'Overturned and the next four left the metals, -but the engine' at the front of the train the four coaches on the line. "The first coach was tun ana tne 'men inside sustained minor injuries and suffered from shock. ixone.oi wie. injuries was xeauy serious.

THEFT AT THE DOCKS. Pleading fruiltv at the Manchester Crmnfv Police Court yesterday to. stealing a kitbag cuuuuviug nuuoi james xiortn-coto (33), a ship's fireman, was sentenced to The kitbag was the property of a man named who a carpenter on t.h Grelstone. On October 4 he missed the perty. while UmF ship was lying at the cnester uocks, me prisoner was after, wards seen, taking it' away.

When anolron he at first denied stealing it, but later threw it to the ground and made off. He was caught uiier duoljj uic oaiu wucn cnargea art raitted the theft. SJLK UMBRELLAS BE-OOVE3SED FOB 59. ANY SIZE. THB "BTAKDABB." 13, MABKS3S BXBXEE.

VARIETY THEATRES. Palace Although it contains the name of no one of irreproachable ability, the programme at the Palace this week is about as representative a one as we could reasonably hope to enjoy. It lf, at least, of a sufficientlv charac teristic quality to provide us with an opportunity of forming a fairly just estimate of the peculiar nature of the music-hall's function. And whatever one's ultimate sense of the value of that function at this must be admitted at least: that it does seek to communicate the power to feel vividly emotions which ordinary life rarely excites, and which lie normally scarcely within the dawn of Our consciousness, only half apprehended, for want of an artist to reveal them to us. In this sense the legitimate theatre has perhaps a good deal to learn still from the music-hall.

George Formby, for example, expressed better perhaps than anyone of his time the characteristic qualities of our individual existence. Unhappily the music-hall is seldom at its best, and we find its proportion, which can be perfect, too frequently degenerate grotesque-ness sinking into mere distortion; savageness or rudeness into vulgarity; and variety into the most intolerable monotony. But if there are few who share Formby's genius for reconciling so intimately so many diverse characteristics there are still a good many in the music-hall to-day with the power of expressing, with per fect naturalness, one or other of them. There are a number at the Palace this week. The most pleasing is Miss Derra de Moroda, a beautiful little Greek danseuse, who gives us a completer and subtler suggestion of character, through the simple sense of rhythmic motion, than anyone we have seen for a long time.

Miss Edith Day and Mr. Pat Somerset are the principal people in the programme, and their completely efficient performance is approved by all whose taste is inclined to musical eomedv- But more interesting are Messrs. Stanley two Danish and Mr. Tom Edwards, the ventriloquist, who are remark able for the most perfectly ludicrous although distinctive association of opposing principles, an association in each case the rare quality of which the performers themselves are perhaps least c.inscious of. E.

J. W. Hippodrome. Quite the most amazing performance here this week is that of Bert Albert, who appears with Lalla Helbini in a sketch called The Butterfly and uie Cat." Like nearly all of its kindred the sketch has scant merit of its own, but it provides a glimpse of the bizarie in lighting and other stage effects and an opportunity for clever capers on all-fours and for the remarkable agility of the man who impersonates the cat. The programme has other attractive turns.

Miss Ruth Vincent, for example, brings a repertory which contains some good songs and others probably better known, and sings all very well; and Fyne and Hurley are sufficiently amusing in their bur lesque of a scene from a popular old melodrama to tickle most audiences. Then there is Charles Austin, with a new sketch entitled The Mug." The piece is by no means what it might be. for half the time the, "mug" is making of others. Perhaps the excuse is that audiences like this kind of thing, and that who pay the piper have a right to call the tune. However, with Mr.

Austin it is nut so much the stuff that matters as the manner in which it is manipulated, and yesterday's audiences gave him no reason to doubt his success. jj. Ardwick Empire. George Carney, in his comic song-scenes, easily heads the bill this week, and this without detraction from the merits of the Stavordale quintet, or the O'Gormun dancers and cross-talkers, or the Bluney aud Farrar interlude, which is not without the touch of freshness that makes such work welcome. George Carney's turns are in strong contrast, and the last of the three is the best.

Anything more unlike than his characters, relieved in their setting by his assistants, is hardly possible. He is a Scotsman from Bombay" in his earliest sketch one that will bear elaboration. In the second song Carney represents one who went out to the war and now finds he cannot get his old job back or a new one either. But it is in the final character of the Italian ice-cream vendor that he particularly shines. A good deal of close observation has gone to the making of' this living portrait.

There is a humorous tinge about it, but, as the house last night was not slow to acknowledge, it is the realism of the actinc to the last detail. W. L. VI TOXICA brand bererage. Insist on seeing the green label st Hotls, Club, c.

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