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Dunstan Times, Issue 3137, 2 October 1922, Page 7

While engaged in a flood scene for a film play lately, Miss Flora le Briton, one of the actresses, narrowly escaped being drowned at Beaulieu. Georges Carpentier, who is also engaged m tho play, plunged into the water and helped in the rescue of Miss le Briton. Tho scene was being directed by Mr Stuart Blackton, when a coach in which Miss le Briton was riding in the water became unmanageable, owing to the torrential onrush of water released by the opening of the lock of Beaulieu Lake. The actress' peril caused a. panic among a great crowd of people watching the film scenes. Carpentier caught the sinking coach, and with) life savers carried the unconscious actress to the care of two physicians. Miss Mary Clare, another actress, was also rescued. Dr Anna Hochfelder, a Democratic candidate in Brooklyn for the United! States Senate, says that if elected she will seek to have the marriage law amended in such a, way that any young woman seeking a marriage licence will have to show that she is "skilled in. some trade or occupation whereby she will be able to provide for herself and her children." Dr Hochfelder, says a despatch to the New York Herald's Paris edition, atao proposes that tho man in the case must certify that he is capable of providing for himself and his wife, and that for at least three months before application for the licence he has been in a "lawful and gainful employment." The Pincian garden in Rome which, beside the beauty of its vegetation, is also an open air gallery of priceless sculptures and busts erected to the memory of nearly every great Italian since tho time of Dante, has just been embellished by another work of art; a bronze monument to Enrico Toti, the most popular hero of Italy during the world conflict. It is aid that Toil, the young Roman Bersaghere. was the only one legged man that fought in the war. Toti's statue, which was made by the well known sculptor Arturo Dazzi, represents him in his last heroic act, hurling his crutch at the enemy with great violence just before dying ot a wound received in the heart. Ihe King, military and political authorities as well as military attaches ot all embassies and legations in Pome were present at the inauguration of the monument. , 1 • M 1 Freshly cut flowers gathered in Holland in the early morning are being taken to England by air and sold m London soon after noon. Now it is proposed that aeroplanes shall bring flowers from the South of France, flying by night, and delivering them in London in the early morning.