MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 September 1927, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

ART GALLERY GIFT RUGBY, Sept. 5. The well-known art patron, Sir Joseph Duveen, has offered to complete the modern foreign gallery at Millbank, which was opened 'last year by King George, by having built an additional gallery for modern foreign sculpture. His offer has been accepted by the Treasury and by the trustees of the Tate Gallery. The building will- shortly be begun on a vacant site behind the present galleries.

The building the King opened last year was also erected through the generosity of Sir Joseph Duveen. It consists of four large galleries on the main floor, three of which are devoted to modern foreign works and one to works by Sargent. Five galleries in the basement are particularly suitable for water-colours and drawings. TESTS FOR CRIMINALS. CHICAGO, August 28. City authorities here are subjecting known gangsters and gunmen to sanity tests, and several have been sent to curative institutions as a result. Such leading characters in the underworld as “Dingbat” Oberta and “Big Jim” Saltis, however, have baulked the authorities by hiring their own psychiatrists. When they were taken to the municipal psychopathic laboratories they presented certificates of sanity, and were released. Dr Gilbert Pond, who is examiner for the authorities, declares that many criminals lack normal emotions, and, as a consequence, are unable to associate ideas. . M.P. DEFENDS BEER. LONDON, August 28. Jack Jones, Labour M.P. for Silvertown, an industrial suburb, has taken up the cudgels for beer. “It is time,” he declares, “that the teetotal as well as the other fanatics in the Labour movement were put in their places. It is time these people who preach against beer be made to drink a pint. I would pay for it just to see if there was the. least chance of making them human. The Baldwin Government needs beer badly, and the man needing it most is ‘Jicks,’ the Home Secretary. lam convinced if he had one pint he would ask for another and would be just as human as the rest of us. But a man with the Nonconformist conscience and a bee in his bonnet about beer cannot be expected to hold sane views about anything. If beer is not the backbone of the British nation it at least helps to support the backbones of those who are obliged to bend them continuously during an eight-hours’ day.” FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA. LONDON,. August 28. This mysterious advertisement appeared in the personal column of “The 'rimes” to-day: “Australian flight; opportunity for wealthy lady or gentleman to see the world; British pilot; excellent prospects assured.” The advertisement has no connection with the flight which Captain Lancaster, accompanied by Mrs Keith Miller, proposes to attempt about the middle of September. “LEG SHOWS.” - LONDON, August 28. The Mayor of Ilford (Essex) objected to an alderman’s proposal, that cross seats should be fitted in the London tramcars to prevent the embarrassment of bashful gentlemen sitting opposite short-skirted girls. “Leg shows,” the Mayor declared, were a great attraction on the trams, which were a heavy burden on the taxpayers. POPPY DAY RECEIPTS. RUGBY, Sept. 5. Earl Haig states that the record sum of £435,000 was collected by the sale of poppies on Poppy Day last year. Since the day was instituted in 1921, £1,749,000 has been raised on behalf of ex-servicemen’s charities. Last year’s figure represented an increase of £40,000 on the previous year and the response of the public has steadily grown every year. The administrative expenses were less than 5 per cent.

LONG HAIR AT PREMIUM. LONDON, August 28. Fair-haired, blue-eyed Joan Clarkson who was recently chosen as one of the most beautiful women in England, and whom C. B. Cochran describes as the most beautiful woman on the stage with long hair, has contracted with Cochran that she will not bob, shingle, Eton crop, or in any way cut her hair, or her salary will be halved. Joan says that she is often envious

of short-haired girls when she sees attractive examples. She 'also experiences difficulty In obtaining hats. “The advantage of long hair,” she says, “is one can appear in a dozen coiffures suiting various gowns and modes. Mr Cochran says: “I must -have one beautiful head of hair in my revues. 1 am tired of the monotony of modern modes.”