Show HUME HOME TALENT 1 NOT Englishmen Stand No Show to Share in the Offered for Prizes for International Flying Plying Competition NEW TELEPHONE CABLE ACROSS THE CHANNEL Army Pageant Lasting From June 2 to July 2 to Be One of the th Great Show Features In London L don on ROMANCE IN A WORKHOUSE Special Cable to m London April 15 l ICA A determined ef of effort fort sort Is to xo IK bO made to remove tho re ro reproach that England El l nd has few tew flying men me Lord Montagu of ot Beaulieu chairman ol 01 o the aviation committee of oC the Royal Ae Aeo o club meeting m to be held at Bourne Bournemouth mouth next July has issued an appeal fr for a special fund for the tho encourage encouragement ment of oC British competitors Here Ht re is the tile position he said Bald to me meI I 1 At Bournemouth will be offered in prizes for international International international flying competitions 1 it is certain cert that foreign oem com competitors p will sweep the board so there I 1 little inducement to the British in and flyer fIer to t compete compote He Is la generally a man with little money who annot cannot afford aCCord to compete If he stands no chance banco i of ot making m good his ax ex pauses ve e What I want to see therefore Is a arr prize rr rAze ze fund Cund for British aviators I 1 propose pro propose pose vose that this be devoted to a sub substantial stan prize prise for Cor the British compi competitors compilers tors lers flying on a machine and anda a still larger prise for foi 01 the competitor using an machine Ten years ago ao I 1 was laughed at for Cor formy forwe my enthusiasm over motorcars Today we lead the world So o I 1 hope we may yet do h d the same in flying machines New Channel Cable One ne me calm day in May Hay a steamer with 2 I miles of ot telephone cable oil board will start from Dover and will proceed very cry slowly across the channel to Cape Capet t Cris ns Nez Thus will be laid a new ink between England and France v lien will mark the beginning of oC an ani i in the cross c annel telephone service one ne of the principal officials at the general gln ral postoffice says that two to new newt t C bles each containing four tour wires will Vill L laid ISid ofle by br the British government a ad d the other by the French govern t r ent The object of oC the new link ha he raid Eald is to make conversations possible o tween towns in the midlands and In Int Inti t ti t north and Paris Parts and the towns in Int Inthe Ue the t e north of France and also alao to re relieve reeve lieve leve eve the present congestion on the thet I t j line Une Theoretically Bir Birr BirI r I ingham Liverpool Manchester null Hull Hulland nulland and other towns are on the phone to tot tote t te e French rench towns but when It comes come cometo to practice we find it is very ery difficult I t i e 0 heard eard at all Cardiff Card has the greatest success with Paris calls and a good deal of ot busl bust ress Is transacted over oer the phone by fouth Uth Wales coal exporters It Is hoped this year to establish audible n communication with towns as asI I r north as York and probably as the thes s 11 improves with Newcastle and ills Mis Ellen Terrys tour in America 1 F not to be of the farewell order the tile i tress declared yesterday I am ani sift J j I V going to visit those places I have haven en n before and the people know me mem m rH it and deliver deUer informal little lectures discourses I call them themon on Shakes t pare eare she told me The tour will not tilt rt until next October and the ar arT arr r T have not yet been com corn t J All AU I can tell you is that I Continued on Page Eight HOME HOMEi TALENT NOT WINNERS i d from Page One Onel l sTal 7 all aH discourse on on Shakespeare plays and ands andall acting generally ii nd d Shakespeare s eull all of ot course recite extracts from Mose Tose Shakespeare plays plas In which I t hate han acted There will be no no costumes r T I scenery or lantern slides or any anything an thing of that sort only myself In plaine plain e et clothes to talk about Shakes Shakespeare peare for f r an hour and a quarter Workhouse Romance Quite tl a pleasant little romance comes foni f om Lewisham and one which shows t at ut t eren e en the th stone walls of or the work se do not a Ii prison make when live lwe wants to find a way wa beyond the lers tine one of till the of ot the Lewisham rhOU t is s an tn d n old woman named THabet r F abet i FT F r t and it has just lust come comet t i the tiE of the guardians that Ott si 11 i is about to make a Ii second matri with an old sweetheart Ti Tt 1 the lear leaf de ok id ui days Ss of long ago tJ U i ir Wr s and each pach took an ani i PT Pr pl robbed robbe d the man manc maner er c f is w 1 nil I the lie of ot her hus hue L nl 1 After her husbands death some somer somers rs r ago Mrs Irs Forest became an inT Inc in T c T v e of the Lewisham workhouse By B Bt Byc 1 t r c marriage she had two children a al it aI l 1 I c and a girl and they thE have boll boti tl p Hd Fd a credit to hEr lier The law boy is in int t r f army ar uy and tie lie has lias hway so far as Bf 1 r s T has hilS allowed him hint contributed t t f arts his mothers maintenance Th Tit g r is in servi ri e and an she ate he too to 10 II helped and on her day out has always alwa s visited her mother If It their days out coincided mother and daughter spent it together The only thing that Interfered with this arrange arrangement arrangement arrangement ment was Mrs Forests accidental meet meeting meetIng meeting ing with her old admirer for then her day out was spent in his company They are to be married at Christ church For Forest Forest est Hill where the elderly bridegroom lives He lIe is a plasterer by trade and works at Southend and It is there they the intend to start housekeeping together Mrs Irs Forest has received the congratulations congratulations congratulations of the off officers leers of the work worl workhouse workhouse house and the live woman inmates t She is Isdell delighted dell with the prospect of again hav hay hayI l I ig tg a home of her own on and declares that she ahe feels years younger since this lit little little little tle affair of ot too the heart was Vas settled se She Is s a g woman a little HUto ever 80 00 a and with apparently many man years of life before her Coming Corning Army Pageant Everything except the filling of a num number number number ber of parts is now new ready for the start starting startIng starting ing oY oT the rehearsals of ot the great gr t arm pageant which will succeed the church pageant in the grounds of the Bishop of or palace this year and which will ill last from June to July Jul 2 The pageant according to authorized details which have Just been issued will willbe willbe willbe be divided into three parts part The first will willbe willbe willbe be a historical prelude showing the evolution evo evolution evolution lution of the weapons of ancient inhabitants InhabItants of these islands from ages to the Roman Invasion The second will consist of ot ten historic epi ept episodes episodes from A D to 1045 showing thI th effect of various tactics and weapons in celebrated fights The third will tell Stories Stori s of the Regiments In Famous Fights and will wil present the ti f most cherished cher cherished cherIshed traditions tr of our most famous regi regiments regiments ments A e of o the tooth and nail era ea eta when iho rho th only w weapons wore were hands feet teft teth ti t eth th claws aws heads butting I tones stones or thumping and throw throwing r ng sticks I and wooden or bone bose clubs will be the tM opening of the prelude This scene Will take tako the spectator back very near the dim times of our The next step nearer to the age of cordite and Maxim will illustrate the period of or orthe the ax the hammer the javelin and the bow articles of warfare The use of shot shott is next shown by a representation of the battle of ot Muir In Scotland in 1322 and again in inthe Inthe the next scene which is a reproduction of ot the Battle of ot Crecy where the value of shot against attacking cavalry was was shown This will be e a great scene the battle being reproduced with the great greatest greatest greatest est historical accuracy The heavy French cavalry will be shown riding through their allies the Genoese cross bowmen only to be b hopelessly hop routed be before before before fore they reach the English B lines The battle of Agincourt will show the value of the use of lineIn in attack against The episode of ot Henry V knight knighting knighting ing InS David Gram and the four other Welshmen who saved him when he was struck down will be a 0 feature of ot this tableau Age of Firearms Firearms make their first appearance in the th next act which is put on in two acts The first will show Queen Quean Eliza Kliza Elizabeth beth reviewing the London volunteers of Greenwich and being petitioned By the lord mayor to send the whole force torce to told tid ld Id the Dutch against the Spaniards and I the second will show how London arque und under r Thomas Morgan drove rove off tho the Spaniards in front of the defenses of Flushing The last scene In this section will present the battle of ot Naseby Kasaby and th they thao charge of Cromwell and his Ironsides The iho he chronology will be carried on inthe In Inthe Inthe the next nett part which will open with a of the great rent part of the British Infantry played In the battle of ot Linden The last appearance of oL an En English English English glish king in battle will be presented next with George II at the battle of Dettingen A dramatic incident in this will be the line fight for tor and the loss lose and recovery of ot th the standard of ot the Third hussars by Trooper Brown The tragic battle of ot Corunna and the death of Sir John Moore will come next in five scenes which Include a vivid rep representation of a French officer Inter Interrupting Interrupting interrupting a Spanish dance and being stabbed and robbed of his dispatches and of the Individual deeds of ot two privates of the regiment In the battle of ot Baros Barossa a which is the th next presenta presentation tion the Royal Irish take a prominent part The last Jast scene sene will be the storming of ot Badajoz which secured Wellington the Portuguese frontier and enabled him to start on his march to Madrid o c |