Contrast with this the new flats hrcerroomed, with' ball bathroom ight are being but in Bloomebury, don't forget @ bleaching lemon based cream for throat and neck because of the sallow-making eect of fur collars; a hand lotion, used always after washing, ina necessity, not @ luxury. a re: ce epaeat and kitchen at £162=2177; and one-roomed, with kitehinette (this means something you can just put your head into) and bathroom' £102. "The one room measures 14h, Gins x Ott. Sins, with an alcove Just big enough to hold a bed, 'There does not appear to be an inch where you can "put anything away" as the saying is, and I picture the inhabitant wearing' one set of garments till they wear out, and then hurling them out of the window. The three: roomed flat, "which Includes a. respectable silting room and quite a decent hall, is obviously the. better bargain, But the whole block is a fair sample of the heavy charge for ent that the middle-classes have. face. I may add that, before the war, in a good quarter of Westminster, considerably. belter accommodation could be obtained than the £102 flat, at only three-quarters of that sum, Nonaganerian Dies Lady Irving, whose death ounced to-day at the great age of 91,. was married to the famous Sit Henry 64 years ago. He oled in 1905." She was a Miss O'Call laughter of a distinguished and Bengal years, then she and Irving parted. Tt would be idle and unkind now to inquire whose was the fault. She the should never 'Left she gave all her tim bringing up of her two boys. and Laurence, the former intended for the bar, the latter for matic Service, As, of cours known, both' went on the stage; where H.B. might well have distinguished himself (he played rather a notable Hamlet at the Adelphi, 1906, T think) had he not. died, shortly after the war. "Laurence was drowned in 1914, when the Em: ress of Ireland went down in the Laurence River, trying to save his wife. For many years Lady Laurence lived with one faithful companion at Folkestone, otherwise alone. She never forgot her former love for her husband, and every year fon the anniversary of his death she had a bunch of red roses placed on hhis grave in Westminster Abbey, Golden Jubilee While one's thoughts are moving in a theatrical atmosphere, it Is interesting to mention that wonderful lady Miss Marie Tempest reaches her king- golden jubilee on the stage next May 30. On that evening in 1885 she made her debut at the Comedy the Theatre as Fiametta in "Boccaccio."
tle later she saved the operetta dorothy," then on the verge of collapse, and gave to it and to herself a fame that she at least has never ost. There can be few if any parallels to such a career, pat-Hcularly when we take into account Miss Tempest's never clouded popularity.
Inquiring Judge "Who is Connie Gilchrist" asked "Where the Tithe Rent Commission, when a representative of the Wessex. Agri cultural "Defence Association came before him. Probably the Chairman was really more ignorant than the judge, who, outside his court, knew the theatrical celebrities of the day as well as, if not better than, most
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