Novel by Warwick Comedy Company Player Tue Buioce or Distances, By Ella Serymscur. Philip Allan & "Ca.
ne Te will be revealing no secret to many Shanghai people to say that the author of "The Bridge of Distanees," Ella Serymsour, is none other than Mrs. Thorpe Mayne, or Miss Joan Mayne as she was named when appearing in Shanghai with the Warwick Comedy Company in 1921. At that time Mrs. Mayne had "just completed "The Perfect World," many copies of which have since been sold in Shanghai, and was taking notes for this "novel which has just appeared. The dedication of the book repeats the tribute to the happy-hearted people of China which Mrs. Mayne so often expressed while here. She has in. scribed the book "To my hispa tle token of gratitude for his loving help, and in memory of the happy time we spent in the flowery
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