Another form of extortion is practised by liveried attendants who offer to reserve a cab, of course for 4 consideration, and come into competition with spectators who themselves look out for cabs. These attendants will calmly tell you, when you have your hand on the door, that the cab is "reserved" (which is of course a lie) but that you can have it for ten franes. Not innly is the Parisian playgoer ox-posed to all these annoyances but} he is liable to be parked in rows of seats set much too closely together, so that he cannot stretch pains in the knees if he happens to be troubled with rheumatism, The ventilation is always defcetive, In some of the older theatres the stuffiness is unbearable and the small exits make one wonder would happen in the event of panic. The only thing that always good is the acting.
Paris managers seem to think that this covers a multitude of sins, and that the public will stand any amount of Miscomfort for the sake of a first-rate performance on the stage. Perhaps they are right. The patrons grumble occasionally but never resort to the only eff remedy. which is to go on st and refuse to enter a theatre which clings to the bad old ways, Official Crossed in Love Who would have thought that British acting Consul-General could) be crossed in love? Mr. Reginald Lee, who held this office at Marseilles, has now been missing for over a month and is supposed to have drowned himself in despair at the prospect of losing the object of his affections. They young woman in question is a Swiss of humble Sin, named Tax Bucher. Shes and is employed a3 nurse: ju, ving at Saint Véran (Gard).
Avcording to a statement she] made -to the ~magistrate "who" is gating theaffait, she made
when she was his mother's maid. He-wanted to.marry her, but was feonvinced that his people. would! Inever "consent, on account of "the difference. in' social' standing. She Jeventually "told him that "she "had waited long enough ard that "he must either marry her or break off their friendship. "He: telephoned to liber-on June £2, arid she closed: the conversation "by hanging up the Although she had refused to seo him, he was waiting outside her employer's house at Saint Véran 3 next day. She remained indoors and made no sign. Next day she yeeeived'a letter from him," asking her to meet him. She again re fused, adding that she-had already sacrificed "part of her life to-him and could not continue. He wrote again, urging her to wait a month longer, so as to give him a chance of finding some way out of the diffeulty. He added that life without her would be meaningless t9 dim.
Mr. Lee was Inst seen at Mar-! soiles railway station on. the evening of July 5, fall directions have failed to reveal trace of him. of Es Birthplace Simultaneously with celebrations, on French battleficlis, of the anniversary of the entry of Great Britain into the war, a much earlier period of Anglo-French relations was evoked at Lo Bee-Hallouin, in the department of the Cure, which forms part of Normandy. 'At the suggestion of Canon' Livett and other English clergymen, a tablet was placed on the wall of the abbey tower, recording the fact that this an Anciert establishment was virtually the birthplace of the Church of England.
Founded in 1033 by the feudal! lord of Hallouin, the abbey numbered the learned Lanfrane among its monks, and his teaching became sy celebrated that in little more than thirty years the abbey was the chief intellectual centre of the Latin world. Lanfrane and another stic, Anselm, also from either accompanied Wil-iam of Normandy on his expedition to England in 1066 or followed soon-as he had established himself. Lanfrane was made archbishop of Canterbury and set to work to reform the Saxon Church. He put down simony and established discipline in the monasteries and celibacy among the clergy.
William had such confidence in Lanfrane's good sense that, he left ull power in the archbishop's hands: whenever he himself had to go and Took after Ins interests in Normandy. Lanfrane and his sue cessor Anselm, who were both] canonized, may be to have brought England into line with the rest of Christianity. As Mr. Tudor art, one of the. English speakers} at the unveiling of the tablet, remarked, the Norman conquest was immense advantage England, which might otherwise waited a great deal for the benefits of eivilizati
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