Second Empire Reminiscences: thoughts thus exposed before a vulgar and sentimental public, or else they thought the whole play was a libel on their usual conduct.
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Presumably it is the latter. The average public schoolboy of to-day quite cynical and cold-blooded in his love-affaire, There are very few romantic "Young Woodleys" about to-day and they are not appreciated by their own school fellows, Broadcast Music for Parks The London County Council is shortly to make a very interesting experiment in connection with the Eroadeasting of band music to the! various parks in its area. It iz Proposed to instal microphones ai central points, to pick up music from selected bandstands and thes> will be linked up to loud-speakers, la the various parks, lone of them will be whenever a band is playing clsewhere. By this means, a very high Paris, June "Three events in one day have served to remind Republican Paris fof the Second Empire, In the mcrnrequiem service was held in the Invalides chapel to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the Prince Imperial. In the afternoon, the Prince's bust Carpeaux was taken from the Champ de Mars mortuary chapel added to the collection of japoleonie relies in the museum at Malmaison, In. the evening, a new play by M. Regis Gignoux, called Castiglione," eentreing onCountess Castiglione, the woman who wielded so much influence in the Paris of the late fifties, was produced at the Comédie des Champs Elysees. band music will be lable everywhere at a very cost and London parks will possess another amenity.
There will no doubt be gamblers, who will say there is too much noise already in the parks and tha: this potted music will frighten aw: the birds and encroach on the sil meditations of lovers, but presumably the great majority will record a whole-berted and vulgar enthusiasm, Countess Castiglione was not only' a very beautiful but also an excep-Conally clever woman. Italian by birth, and distantly related to Count Cavour, the statesman who did so much to make Italy a united king. Gem, she was selected by him and sent to Paris with the object of winning Napoleon III over to the side of Victor Emmanuel, Cavour was a very good judge of human nature, and his choice of the coun-
Too Many Admirals A certain amount has been heard. ly about the surplus Lieutenant-'Commanders in the Navy as.a resi of the favourable terms offered to them to retire before the end of their time, but about the surplus Acmirals there is a discreet silences.
Admirals do not like to be described as surplus, while Lieatenant-Com:
[tess was a complete success. She was held in high esteem by many, distinguished Frenchmen of her time long after she had ceased +0) have any influence on Napoleon III. Altogether, she was a very remark: fable character, and it is a pity the play does not succeed in doing justice to her. Instead of a drama inringing her into bold relief, it. is a collection of episodes, leaving her manders' likes are not considered. diplomatic activities to be takin Yet the problem of the surplus) fur granted, and revealing no glimp-Admirals does. exis xe of the means by which she drew Out of the fifty Rear-Admirals|Napoleon ILL into her net, She is on the active list to-day, not played by Mime. Ganna Waiska with lore than 20 are usefully employed. skill and intelligence, but hardly. The remainder are either domg|with the genius required by such nothing or undergoing short courses of instruction in the latest technical developments. The it is that they are all compa young and brilliant men who di tinguished themselves during the War as Captains and Commanders, They remain hopefully on the list, locking the way to promotion fo: the Captains below them, some of whom have waited 12 years for their step to lag rank. No one can blame them, They have had to work hard enough to get where they have ant the prospect of retired pay is not witing. It all seems such a terrible view of the quality of the: men. ' Yet it is dificult to suggest. any solution and it would be a brave Board of Admiralty indeed that decided to reduce the establishment of Admirals by one-half, Telephoning to the World part,
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