MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16042, 1 February 1923, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

PEACE PARLEY IN 28TH. SESSION

PARIS, Dec. 11.—L’lntransigeant suggests the establishment of a permanent headquarters for the , itinerant Allied Peace Conference, which, it points out, is now enjoying its 28th session since Versailles four years ago. Referring to the London Parley, it says “The Conference well merits a permanent place, away from jazz bands and formal dinners. It should please all the ambulatory personnel who, by this time, are becoming too familiar with the latest fox-trots, langorous melodies and palatial hotel dining rooms, where jewel-laden trans-Atlantic tourists pay well to sit near celebrities and plead for autographs. It is ironically suggested that some yet unadvertised European playground sacrifice its hotels ns Geneva did for the League of Nations.

MOSCOW’S NON-RUSSIAN THEATRES. LONDON, Dec. 26.^ —Whatever else may be said of the Soviet regime in Russia, it is apparently fostering the native regard for the stage. According to a list compiled for the trade delegation in this country, there were produced in Moscow on one night this month nine non-Russian plays and operas. Among the musical plays were “Carmen,” “The Marriage of Figaro,” “The Daughter of Madame Angot-.” The State Children’s Theatre staged “Mowgli,” while “A Thousand and One Nights” was performed at the Moscow Children’s Theatre. At the Theatre of the Revolution “La Nuit” was , the dramatic fare; at the Zon “Ofcdipus Rex” was shown, and at the Kamerny the play was “King Harlequin.” ;

NEW LIFE INSURANCE OYER

NINE BILLIONS

Nl‘iW YORK, • Dec. 7.—The American people are buying 9,300,000,000 dollars.’ worth of new life insurance this year, according to the reports of 158 companies, submitted at the 16th annual convention of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents here to-day. This is 600,000,000 dollars more than was bought in 1921, an increase regarded by leaders of the convention as reflecting improved business and economic conditions for the current vear.

The new life insurance tins year will show an increase of nearly 7 per cent, over the production of 1921, ai)d will place the total old line life insurance in force on American lives at the end of 1922 well beyond 50,000,000,000 dollars, according to a survey presented to the convention by Frank 11. Davis, second vice-president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York.

SCALING EVEREST A SIMPLE UNDERTAKING.

JUST PROJECT YOUR ASTRAL

BODY TO' PEAK, SUGGESTS GRAND LLAMA.

LONDON, Dec. s.—What the English heroes contended for when they decided to explore Mount Everest was not at first clear to the Grand Llama of Tibet, Sir Martin Clonway, M.P., told the Manchester Luncheon Club. The Grand Llama thought they must be looking for jewels and gold, but a man of intelligence explained that a "religious sect in England, the Alpine Olub, were devoted to mountains, and Everest, being the greatest mountain in the world, tliev wished to go there and investigate. The Grand Llama saw the reasonableness of the exploration, but said: “I have been to the top of Mount Everest. 1 separated my astral body from my physical body and I projected my astral body to the top. I can’t understand why these mountain enthusiasts don’t content themselves by climbing the mountain in that fashion.”

It. was explained, however, to the complete satisfaction of the Grand Llama, that the task of separating the astral body from the physical body was most imperfectly developed among Englishmen.