Entertainment in Shanghai this past
duction of "Lysistrata" and the A. week centred around the 1 A. 7. pro-\c." production of "Rookery Neok, There were scores of dinner parties receding both plays. Last night Mr. fand Birs. Tony Ricketts were hosts at inner before going on to the play in which Mrs. Ricketts has a small part Many were the dinners which preceded the opening performance of FLysistrata" On Tuesday. Mme. [Chiang Kai~shek and Mme. LIH. Kung, Sir Frederick and Lady Leith Ross and Dr. and Mrs. F.C. Yea were among the guests. Mr. P. T. Chen, Mr, F. 8. Gibbings had another party-and Mr. Denzil and Mr. Cecil Ezra were hosts at dinner before the play. Princess Ottoboni took another party to the theatre after dinner at the Cathay Hotel. is the third female Dysart to inherit the title, the family having been Jovershadowed by tragedy with the Jdeath of eldest sons, sometimes by violence, for over a century. And it looks as if the title will lack a male holder for some time yet, for the Countess is 40 and her three children are_all girls, The late Earl succeeded his grandfather who died in a garret in JNorfolk Street, Strand, in 1878. He was a first-class miser, who contrived {by will that his grandson. then only 19, should not become master of the Jgreat wealth he left for 21 years. At
into full possession of large estates age of 40, when the Earl entered in England and New Zealand, and £2,000,000—ne had become blind! Bui with the courage that many blind men can show, he entered into every interest, public and private, that he could. He was passionately devoted to music, especially that of Wagner, about whom he was believed know every book that had been written, "He was a very. public. spirited man, and gave the site of [Leicester Abbey, where Cardinal [Wolsey is buried, to be made a public garden.
Ancient Documents Display The exhibition of ancient docu-Iments now being held by the British [Records. Association is of extra~ Jordinary" interest for the intimate light it throws on. the lives of our ancestors. The "show piece" is a flong scroll covered with quaint little Jagures, which begins with Adam and. Eve and traces the descent from them of King Henry IIT via Noah land William the Conqueror.
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