The Archive · 1931

SEVEN KEYS BALDPATE

Tue cast hi Youn Bana Section included matches with the Mary Norton BAT. Club and" the Portugese Mrs. Rhodes Ladies Club on their courts in the Recreation Ground, and a suecessful season had been concluded with an "American tournament. The Hockey Section reported enthusias-tie support from their members and two teams, the "Amazons" and the "Atlantas,* had played the nine achedujed" matches, the former Producer ry Drysdale) standing second in tke League and For a writer of popular thrillers the latter fifth. iam Hallowell Magee, Novelist, The Social Service Board, whose has a surprisingly well-developed aims are to help British women and sense of humour. He refuses to take children in need of sympathy. and himself "seriously; s0, corfronted—temporary assistance, gave a. sum-fon the strength of a wager—by the mary. of the cases helped during: task of writing a story within 24 the year, which numbered altoge-hours in a hill-top bungalow out of ther" twenty-six. Christmas. gifts the season, he elaborately pulls his had also been sent to the hospitals own leg. Each of the characters and the usual Dollar Stall had: been dancing out of the seven keys of held at the Bazaar. The Hospital the typewriter, which he operates Aid Section also does a great deal "elf," provides a key to. the of good and during 1990 forty-one mysterious plot set in the deserted meetings were held at which 6,658 house. William H. Magee wins the articles were made by the members bet, as the caretaker, umpire a fu aid of the hospitals. ounces to the challenger on the Following the reading of the {elephone, In the process "Mr. various reports, the members for Magee makes his puppets perform the new Exec: mittee were a lively tur Jeinicg their elected. Those st ranks himself, is reasonable enough to err at a critical moment and, yet, faithful enough to his creed finally to emerge as the victorious hero, Mrs. W. Lyle, Mrs. A. Michael, Mrs. amid a shadowy set of crooks.

J.D, Shotter, Mrs. J. 8. Whitney, Nirs, LIV, Wilkinson, The new eanditates_ G. P. James, Mrs, mandate, Sirs, W. C. Smith

Taylor, Mrs. N, Viloudaki, Mes.

G. Sutcliffe, Mrs) C.

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