Miss Evelyn Laye's marriage to Mr. Frank Lawton is an event which will arouse much interest among London playgoers. Miss Lave is the artistic successor of Miss Lily Elsie who long reigned supreme on the musical comedy stage. Mr. Lawton is an actor who has proved himself more than a merely competent por trayer of adolescence, although "his rst jump into real prominence came from his remarkably restrained and inimitable rendering of the title-role in Mr, John yan Druten's highly-controversial play "Young Woodley." So admirably did Mr. Lawton strike the Balance between realism and artist tie delicacy in that part that his temporary absence from the cast during the run of the play was found to be Intolerable and he was peremptorily recalled. Since then, on the stage Jand, later, on the, ims, he has proved his worth. Miss Laye's rst /appearance was in 1915 when she play-, ed in "Mr. Wu" at Brighton, She was a most satisfying Sonia in Miss Eisie's "old part in the "Merry Widow" in 1923 and her own creation of Lih in "Lilac Time" established her ascendancy. New York remembers her in the lead of "Bitter Sweet"—and act of reciprocity for, the other side of the Atlantic, Miss Peggy Wood was delighting London in the same part, Shanghai will sharily have the opportunity of seeing Miss Lave in "Princess Charm-jing" and "Evensong"—two of her latest films, It recently enjoyed Mr.
performance in "Over the the Galsworthian film-pronaval activities which have ranged from the construction of submarines and their transportation secretly in parts across Siberia from the west fo heavy fortifications of Rusky Island, which commands Vladivostok Harbour. These small vessels should be extremely useful along the coast of the Maritime Province in. the absence of large naval units which strategic and political conditions in the Pacific Ocean at present forbid, and there should be no difficulty arising from the fact mentioned in the telegram, that Vladivostok is at Present ice-bound, Giant icebreakfers keep the harbour open even in the worst freeze and, besides, there are numerous parts of the' coast where they can be accommodated. Linked with the construction of these ships is the recent report that the Soviet authorities had reached agreement. with Italy for the exchange of Russian all for Italian naval products.
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