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THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1935. 19 GUY'S CLIFF MILL, WARWICK. dCourt Circular. CAREER OF DAME MADGE KENDAL. HUEY LONG AND AFTER.

Autumn Felts Smart Hat with Feather mount in black and brown. Autumn Coats Coats of Character with Furs of Aathcity by'Debenhams Wills anb Requests. SCOT'S FORTUNE OF 245,000. ON THE STAGE AT SIX. PLAYING OPHELIA AT SIXTEEN.

HER VIEWS ON MODERN WOMEN. Dame Madge Kendal, whose death is announced in another page, was one" of the famous actresses of the Victorian era. Born at Grimsby on March 1.5, 1849, she was the youngest of a amiiy of twenty-two. Both her parents were members of the theatrical profession, and when she made her appearance as a child actress her eldest brother, Tom Robertson, the famous dramatist, was already married. She was about six when she made her first appearances at the old Marylebone Theatre in The Orphan ot the Frozen Sea and "The Struggle for Gold.

From then onwards there were few gaps In her stage appearances. At the age ot sixteen she took the parts of Ophelia and Desdemona, but the proudest moment in her early career was when, at short notice, she was called on to rMav Larlv Macbeth to the Macbeth of Phelps. Another promising young actress at this time was Ellen Terry, and the two met for the first time in A Midsummer iNigm jjream. Madge tiobertson was one of the singing fairies, whilst Ellen rerry, wno was one year ner senior, was acting tne part 01 Titami HER MARRIAGE. In 1869 ahe married William H.

Kendal the actor and manager, whom she first met at the Haymarket. She stated that she only obtained her father's consent to th- marriage on the condition that she and her husband were always to act together This condition was faithfully observed. ana it was not until 1917, when Mr. Kendal died, that the happy partnership was broken. She was associated with her husband in many theatrical enterprises, and so famous did "The Kendals become that their appearance at any particular theatre always ensured a good house.

During the period her husband was in partnership with John Hare at the St. James's Theatre she enhanced a reputation already great, and when in 1889 she paid her first visit to America her fame was assured. She went on adding to her laurels until 1908, when she retired at the conclusion of her engagement at the Coronet Theatre as Madame Armieres in ine House ol Clay." FREEDOM OF GRIMSBY. She was rrii.de a Dame Commander of tne Order of the British Empire in 1926, and in 1932 she received the freeHnm nf Grimsby, the first woman tn ho honoured. Hamp MnrlDo TTanlal A V.

rt-f mivlam uinmon I in expressing them. She disliked women iitKiiuuig hi aiAiceu waen tney were sixty, abhorred short hair, smoking, and hnrt skirts mnciHnraH trial Q4VlatAn prived girls of half" their charm, and hi-Mi rrhf i nrrnt iLn. 41 i men they had no longer need for their REOPENING CONCERT AT BRIGHTON. BEECH AM AND MOZART. (From Our Special Correspondent.) The reopening at Brighton yesterday of the famous Dome, pillarless now, with an added balcony and an inner roof, and vastly improved in its acoustics, was a municipal event of some consequence.

As a cultural event, it mav be des cribed as projecting a certain hall in Kensington to the sea. This is retrogressive, for though Brighton is but an nour Irom Liondon, yet the Albert Hall is no distance at all. Hastings and Folkestone and Bournemouth have done better in achieving individuality and in maintaining a musical ale of their own. The opening concert, given bv the Lon don Philharmonic Orchestra, under Sir 1 nomas Beecham, was auspicious enough, The conductor was in a brilliant, restless. almost irresponsible mood.

His reading of Mozart's Flat Symphony (K. 543), in particular, had not the consistency and concentration it would have had in a genuinely cosmopolitan surrounding. Yet many things, Delius's Summer Night on the River and Berlioz's Carnaval Romain overture above all. had certain unique qualities of intuition and rhythm. In the evening, Schubert's sixth sym phony in was played.

Eva Turner was the soloist, and' sang an aria from Der Freischiitz with splendid directness and eloquence. THE PRINCE OF WALES. BUDAPEST. Saturday. The Prince of Wales this afternoon drove from his hotel in Budapest to Godollo, the beautiful royal hunting castle near Budapest, wnere he and his party were received by the Regent Admiral Horthy.

Later they went shoot ing in the woods round the castle the Prince accounting for twelve of the total bag of sixty partridges. To-morrow' the Prince will receive in audience the leader of the Hungarian Front Fighters. General Count Takach- Tolvay, who received representatives of the British Legion a few weeks ago. Count Tolvay will present an address to the Prince, in which he will stress the necessity for co-operation of all ex-Service men in the world in the cause of Peace. Reuter.

CRUISES TO SOUTH AMERICA. Although an enormous amount of British capital is invested in Brazil and the Argentine, the beauties of these countries are little known to the British travelling public. To encourage more people to go there the Blue Star Line will run special cruises which will cost little more than a 30-day cruise to the Mediterranean. An interesting booklet has been prepared, and can be obtained free on application to the Company at 3, Lower Regent-street, S.W, CRISIS VICTIMS' NEW LEADER. RADIO PRIEST AND MR.

ROOSEVELT. WILL HE BLOW HOT OR COLD? MR. HULL'S PEACE MOVE. From Our Own Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Saturday. The assassination of Huey P.

Long has cleared the American scene of a Fascist dictator who was the sharpest thorn in President Roosevelt's side, and who threatened eventually to try to extend his dominion in the Creole State of Louisiana to the entire Union. How Long came to be a satrap is a chapter in the social metamorphosis of the deep South. In this respect the King-fish was the product of the Civil War. It is often said that the class really freed by the Civil War was the Southern middle class among the white population. Till then th planter aristocracy had ruled like feudal barons.

The war reduced their fortunes and broke their spirit. Gradually the middle class became landlords with the old settler families. But they were too backward and too conscious of their place to assert leadership. Out of the depression in the 'seventies came the first bid. It reached its apogee in this depression, which affected most of all the single-crop economy of the South, and in Huey Long.

COUNTRY v. CITY. No march on Baton Rouge, the State capitol. took the egregious Long to dictatorship. I recall an officious foreigner telling the Kingfish in the hospitality of his Washington apartment how Mussolini and Hitler did it." Long waved him aside, and said, They are foreigners.

I believe in the American constitution. None who knew him could think of him as anything but an American phenomenon. In his fight for the Governorship when ne first became a Louisianian boss he led a forgotten countryside against an entrenched city machine. On his victory he simply set up his own machine, reinforced i'. with a more ruthless gangsterism, and rode roughshod over all opposition.

CIRCUS SHOWMANSHIP. Long wider appeal to what Theodore Roosevelt used to call the lunatic fringe came in great part from his circus showmanship. It was almost impossible to get into the Senate when Huey was due to speak. He dominated the assembly in voice, in repartee, in sheer gall. To the radio and the Press he owed a great debt for extending his stage to the whole nation.

Both were always open to him. Everything he did was good copy." His last act in New York was to wire for a New Orleans bar-tender to come to New York by air to demonstrate to the abysmal New Yorkers exactly how a New Orleans gin fizz should be mixed. He was preparing more good copy on his death. The proofs had just been completed of a book picturing himself in the White House with Rockefeller and Mellon helping him to put his share-the-wealth scheme into practice. No buffoonery in modern times can have made so much impression as a serious contribution to statesmanship.

THREATENED INQUIRY. Mr. Roosevelt, as a middle-of-the-roader, has always feared the Left more than the Right. He regarded Huey as a Leftist. The President sought to undermine the Kingfish with his wealth taxes When the dictator died, a plan of campaign had been hatched further to ofTset his influence.

It was to start with a Congressional investigation into the constitutionality of Long's rule. It is difficult to imagine how the Kingfish could have been dethroned by such an inquiry. The constitution requires the States to maintain a republican form of Government. Under Long, however, this is what Louisiana had, even though all democratic forms had disappeared. The move revealed the anxiety as to Long's ultimate influence.

RIVAL COMING UP. With Long's passing the figure of his great rival for the allegiance of the victims of the depression, Father Coughlin, looms more portentously. The radio priest alternately blows hot and cold in his attitude toward Roosevelt. Two weeks ago he was very cold. The man who pleaded three years ago for Roosevelt's election on the slogan, Roosevelt or Ruin," found the President's policies too Communistic and the President himself a tricky politician full of Tugwellian stuff.

A tour had convinced him that Mr. Roosevelt would be defeated. This week Coughlin, on Invitation, joined the processinn to the President's country estate at Hvde Park, where, according to the President, they had a nice social visit." Whether the President brought the radio priest back to camp will soon be known. The broadcasting season Is about to begin, and in a Tetter just received by his seven or eight million adherents. Coughlin heralds another series of his Ciceronian orations, asking his followers to join in a week of preparatory prayer.

ABYSSINIA MOVES. On the foreign front. Secretary Hull still keeps faith with the causes which he has so much at heart the Kellogg Pact and equality of treatment in trade relations. Tied as he is by the neutrality legislation, he has again invoked the peace pledge in the Italo-Ethiopian dispute, the object being to strengthen Sir Samuel Hoare's peace effort. More and more one detects a moral support going out Britain.

Ethiopia's response has takertthe form of two broadcasts by Haile Selassie presenting anew the Ethiopianase to the American people. BALMORAL CASTLE, Saturday. The Lady Patricia Ramsay and the Sir Hew Dalrymple have left the fe, and the Rev. A. Nevile has arrived.

Lady Constance Butler and I. a i. -Commander and Mrs. Du Gme i the honour of dining with, the King i. Queen this evening.

C. D. Gilmour, Lieutenant D. A'. C.

Rose, and Second Lieutenant C. Young, of the King's Guard of Honour of the 2nd Battalion the Black Royal Highland Regiment), n-id Mrs. Giltnour also had the honour t. being invited. The Prince of Wales has given his to the Graphic Arts Fancy Press Ball, which is to take place at Dorchester on Wednesday, Novem-Ivr 13.

in aid of the Printers' Pensions. Lady Emsley Carr, deputy chairman, v. Lady (Gomer). Berry, will be At a me on Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Queen Aiine's-mansions, S.W.I, to all those i -ng the Ball their support.

The Duke of York having agreed to accept the Presidency of King's College Hospital, the Duke of Connaught. who has held the post of President for nearly thirty-two years, is resigning in favour. The Duke of Kent will be present at the annual dinner of the Latin-American Society on November 27. The Crown Prince of Italy is thirty-one to-day The Duke and Duchess of Portland will return to 3, Grosvenor-square from Scotland towards the end of October. Violet Duchess of Rutland will return to 34, Chapel-street, Belgrave-sqLiare to-morrow from Plas Newydd, Anglesey.

The Earl and Countess of Derbv, who at present staying at Gullane, East l.i'-.h:an, will return to Derbv House, S'. rat ford-place, on the 30th inst. The Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava is acting as chairman of the Primrose League Ball." to be held on November 6 at Grosvenor House. Mrs. Stanley Baldwin is President.

Lord Ebbi-sham is Chancellor. Sir Julian Cahn is Hon. Treasurer, and the Countess of Jersey, Lady Firth and Mrs. Gordon Moore are Vice-Chairmen The Marquess and Marchioness of Exeter are expected to return England from Canada early in October. Sir Percival Marling, and Lady Marling will arrive at Stanley Park.

Stroud, Gloucestershire, on Friday from abroad. Lady Juliet Duff will return to 15. Chester-street, at the end of the week from Paris. Admiral Sir Reginald Hall will arrive in England to-day from Canada. Lady Bertha Dawkins will return to town on-Tuesday from West Wittering.

Sussex. The annual bridge toumamen in connection with the Red Cross Ball will be held on Tuesday, November 19. at 144, Piccadilly, by kindness of Viscount and Viscountess Allendale. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Salmond and Miss Joyce Salmond will arrive in London to-day from Germany. The Marquess and Marchioness of Zetland are remaining in residence at Aske, Richmond, Yorkshire.

until October. Lord Tweedsmuir. the Governor-General Designate of Canada, will be the guest of honour at a farewell luncheon to be given at the Hotel Victoria on the 26th inst. bv the Roval Empire Society. Admiral Sir William Goodenough will be in the chair.

The Marquess of Linlithgow will return to 29. Chesham-place from Hopetoun House on Tuesday. Sir Herbert and Lady Daw are holding a reception to-morrow at the Dorchester from 4.30 to 7 p.m. in celebration of their golden wedding. THE CHARGE for ANNOUNCEMENTS of BIRTHS MARRIAGES, and DEATHS laulhenti-ccled by name and permanent address of the lendpn.

is ONE GUINEA or three tinea or less end IVE SHILLINGS for each additional line. The charge for IN MEMORIAM NOTICES Is TWELVE SHILLINGS and SIXPENCE for three lines or less and THREE SHILLINGS and for every addiltonat line. Reality in Travel An eminent psychologist declared recently that unless the mental health of the next genera cion is superior to that of this generation civilization will resolve itself into an elaborate and unceasing escape from reality. Modern life, he added, is replete with opportunities for escape from chewing gum to morphia, from dancing to ocean cruises. We may well consider this in its bearing on our holiday and travel habits.

Do the idle or merely glamorous phases of travel, the holiday abandoned wholly to pleasure, suffice A discerning consensus I would, we think, answer No i Reality Tours to South Africa during this Winter, are therefore planned to provide leisure, enjoyment and rest, in a sunshine environment, and also to bring the traveller into contact with the peoples and places, wonders and beauty, resources and problems and, not least, the vast romance and inspiration of Africa, which arc living realities stirring inro splendid activity. Our complete programme of Reality Tours" will be forwarded gratis on request to The Director, south African Ciovernment 1 ravel Bureau, South Africa House, Trafalgar Square, London, W.C.2, and the leading Tourist Agencies. BELGIAN ROYAL MOURNING. KING LEOPOLD AND BRUSSELS EXHIBITION. (From Our Own Correspondent.) BRUSSELS, Saturday.

At the express wish of King Leopold, mourning for the late Queen Astrid has been lifted within the Brussels Exhibition. The King, in fact, considers that the exhibition has an important bearing on economic revival, that it is not only of national, but also of international importance and he is anxious that nothing should stand in the way of its continued success. Up till now. 15,000,000 visitors have been registered at the Brussels World Fair, which will remain open to the public ur.til November 3. King Leopold has approved the suggested issue of a mourning stamp bearing Queen Astrid's effigy.

If possible, the new stamp will be ready for sale on November 1, All Saints Day. and will be sold until the beginning of January. It will bear a small surtax for the benefit of the Oeuvre contre Tuberculose. one of the many charities in which the Queen was interested. ETON'S NEW RECORD.

CHANGES IN THE COMING HALF. (By Our Oivn Correspondent.) WINDSOR Saturday. Christmas half will start at Eton College on Wednesday with the record number of 1,160 boys. Just over 100 boys left at the end of last half, and there will be 113 new boys. There will be twelve new assistant masters, while Mr.

A. K. Wickham will take over the House formerly presided over by Mr. J. F.

Grace, and Mr. W. R. Colquhoun will move into Mr. G.

W. Headlam's old House. Lower boys and boys in the Fifth Form who did not attend the O.T.C. camp will return to Eton on Wednesday. Boys in the Fifth Form who attended camp and Reports of Yesterday's Weddings are on page 25.

Sixth Form boys who did not attend camo come back on Thursday, and members of the Sixth Form who attend camp will return on Friday. Long leave will be from Saturday, November 9, to Monday, November 11, and School will go down for the Christmas holidays on December 18, re-openinE on January 22. An important addition is being made to the science school and to the library, and work has commencel on clearing the site for the new House, which will be the largest in Eton and is to be built in Eton Wick Road on the site of the old Fives Courts and" Mustians, the House formerly occupied by Mr. H. K.

Marsden. Mustians and the Fives Courts are now being demolished. NINTH-CENTURY URN. FOR ASHES OF DR. DENMAN ROSS.

A Chinese burial urn, eleven hundred years old, was taken to Golders Green Crematorium yesterday to receive the remains of Dr. Denman Waldo Ross, the American art collector, who was eminent as a writer, artist, and public benefactor, and whose death occurred at the age of eighty-two, in Loo ft on on Wednesday. The ashes will be conveyed to America, and a memorial service will be held at Harvard University, where Dr. Ross was lecturer on the theorv of desien The urn was the gift of a firm of dealers in Chinese antiques who were personal friends of Dr. Ross.

Many of Dr. Ross munificent gilts of Daintines drawings, ceramics, and bronzes to American museums, and particularly the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, of which he was a trustee, are of priceless value and world-wide repute. Presentations to the Earl of MacDuff In celebration of his coming-of-aize he was twenty-one on August 9 will be made at a garden party given by Prince and Princess Arthur ot Connaugnt at Mar Jodge on Tues day. RAILWAY OFFICIAL'S 885ooo. Sir Hugh Reid, C.B.E..

LL.D., M.I.C.E.. of Belmont, Springburn, Glasgow, chairman and managing director of the North British Locomotive Company. and a Brigadier of the Royal Company of Archers (the King's Bodyguard for Scotland), left personal estate of the value of 246.075, of which 244,905 is in Great Britain. Mr. Charles Geoffrey Satterthwaite.

of Cross Hill, Torrisholme, near More-cambe, retired railway official, son of the late Canon Satterthwaite, left estate of the gross value of 87,938, with net personalty 82,408. He bequeathed 25.000. his residence, and a cottage to his friend Aileen Beatrice Clifford Ruddy, and his household effects to her for life, and the residue of the property upon trust for his sister Gertrude Mary Charlotte Satterthwaite for life, with remainder to his nieces and nephew Dr. Foden Wilson, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of The Wood, Shrewsbury-road Birkenhead, father of Mr. Clyde T.

Wilson, a Metropolitan magistrate, left estate of the gross value of 30,528, with net personalty 29.208. Dr. Joseph Shardlow, M.B., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.. of Trentvale, Holland-road. Sussex, a bachelor, left estate of the gross value of 31,969, with net personalty 27.967.

He left 3.000 to Miss Grace Edith Blott. of the Sussex Maternity and Women's Hospital. Miss Mary Sophia Tillyer Blunt, of York-avenue. Hove. Sussex, left estate of the grof-r value of 17,230.

with net personalty 15.634. Other wills proved yesterday include: Value Mr. Wllloughby Chirlea Warden, of Alexandra Hotel. Hyde Park Corner, a director of Morris Warden and of Mitchell-street. Glasgow Ipersonal estate) 80,154 Mr.

Ceorge Ralph Richardson, of Llndum. Melbury-road. Jesmond Park. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, bar-rister-at-law, a director of Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wlgham Richardson.

son of the late John Wlgham Richardson -(net personalty 73,9041 77,409 Mr. George Elmet 8mlth, of Kint-bury, Preston-road, WestcllfT-on-Sea. Essex, retired master stevedore; met personalty 41,1521 Mr. Charles Alfred Ruble, of is. Wlndletham gardens.

Brighton, retired corn merchant (net Der- sonally 41.121) 43.239 Mr. William Owen Butler, Ar Brook- neld. Belbroughton, Worcestershire, formerly of The Worcestershire Brine Baths Hotel. Droltwich, man. aging director of Mitchells and Butler.

The Birmingham Brewery Company met personalty 20,260) 38.944 Mr. Thomas Alien, of Hyde Farm, njjjiey. ourrey, larmer met personalty 32.6051 32.872 Mr. Robert Conban, of 30. Hertford- anve, wauasey.

unesnire. retired tailor (net personalty 31.029 Mr. Mark Tallby. of 85, Harborne- roaa. CdgbaEton, Birmingham, retired veterinary surgeon tnet personalty 13.576) 26.140 Mr.

Alfred WatKlns, of Harley-court. Hereford, senior partner In the Imperial Flour Mills, Hereford, and a well known archaeologist (net personalty 21,897) 24.74$ Mr. William Puddephat, of Weir House, Chesham, Bucks, miller I net personalty 10.098) 19,010 Alfred Fdward Halg, King's Own Scottish Borderers, of Oak -grove. Bishopstoke. Southampton (net personalty 15,386 GREEK PRESIDENT AND THE PLEBISCITE.

PREMIER'S ASSURANCES. ATHENS, Saturday. Arrangements for the plebiscite to decide whether the monarchy shall be re stored in Greece were discussed to-day In an interview between the Prime Minister, M. Tsaldaris, and the President of the Republic, M. Zaimls.

M. Tsaldaris explained to M. Zaimis, it is announced, his views on the situation, and assured him that the Government desired to secure during the plebiscite all the conditions necessary for a correct expression of the popular will. The President expressed satisfaction at (he assurances furnished. According to the newspapers.

President Zaimis made no allusion to the possibility of his resignation. The Impression given by the interview is that nothing has been decided in advance on the subject, and that he will await the result of the plebiscite. Reuter. With JL(Uxurious Fox Collars On Left A. nen rough bouctttte cloth navy, black and nigger.

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