Cathedral School boy and son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Wilmer, late of Shanghai, has recently obtained a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and is also attending the BBC. for training in radio acting.
At the Canterbury Festival, King's School has usually produced one or two plays in which Mr, Laurence qne has taken a personal interest.
year or two ago he watched with interest the Junior School's production of Richard LI and remarked on those present.
Mason Ryosaku Noda of the Press Section of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces to China, at 7 o'clock yesterday morning left Nanking by express train for Shanghai. From Shanghai he will go to Tokyo and enter the Military Staff College. Since his arrival in China in March last year, Major Noda has composed many poems for gramophone records. Among them have been "From Hankow" and "From Nanking."
THE Shanghai Municipal Council health report for the week ending midnight, February 10, shows that the total number of deaths from all causes amongst the foreign and Chinese population in the Settlement were:—Foreigners 16 and Chinese 546. Deaths from notifiable di: eases were:—Foreigners Tuberculosis 3. Chinese, Tuberculosis 15; Typhoid Fever 1l; Diphtheria 3: Dysentery 3; Cerebrospinal Fever 2 and Beri-beri, Measles, Encephalitis Lethargica 1 each.
Tue health report of the French Municipality for the week ending February 10, shows that the total number of deaths from all causes amongst the foreign and Chinese population in the Concession were: Foreign 4 and Chinese 208. Deaths from notifiable diseases wer Foreigners, Cerebrospinal Meningitis 1. Chinese, Tuberculosis 18; Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers 7; Pneumonia 6; Beri-beri; Dysentery 2; Cerebrospinal Meningi is 2 and Typhus Fever, Schistosomiasis 1 each.
Mr, Julius Salmon, a managing-director of J. Lyons & Ca., the world famous firm of caterers died on January 10 at the age of 51. Mr. Salmon left school at the age of 15 to serve his apprenticeship with the firm. His father could have sent him to a university but thought that success lay in the early start to a career, Mr, Salmon leaves four sons; three of them are already working for J. Lyons & Ca, and one will leave school to serve the firm when he is 15 or 16 years of age.
"Sino-Japanese Military and Civilian Friendly Week" sponsored by the Bureau of Propaganda of the "Reformed Government" is being observed in Nanking this week. All Chinese theatres and other amusement houses have cut their fees in half in observance of the occasion. All the area under the jurisdiction of the Reformed Government, with ihe exception of the city of Nanking, will observe "Sino-Japanese Military and Civilian Friendly Week" next week Members and meetings of the "Reunion des Gastronomes" of the Frascati Restaurant, Oxford Street, London, are the subject of legacies in the will of Mr. James A. Stanley of Jersey, Channel Island. His bequests include "£10 each to the President of the Reunion for the purchase of Lo Forrestier champagne with which to drink the customary silent toast" the superintendent usually in charge of the monthly supper arrangements and the clerk who usually deals with the Reunions mail Mr. Stanley was formerly President of the Reunlon. the outstanding ability of Mr. Wilmer, who was playing a secondary part in this performance, At the following year's Festival, Mr. Wilmer, to whom this appreciation had been communicated, sought out Mr. Irving and asked his advice about taking up the stage as a career. Mr. Irving was encouraging, but advised the young man to follow the architectural career mapped out for him and think of the stage later. For once the voice of experience seems to have prevailed, Owing to the war, however, the architect's office closed down and Mr. Wilmer taking advantage of the opportunity to achieve his ambition and become an actor, again sought Mr. Irving's advice with the result that he entered for a scholarship offered yearly by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He was one of the successful ' candidates, passing with the highest merit out of all the competitors, and has at last realized a youthful ambition.
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