New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1926, Page 15

MESSIMY, NOT MALVY, WAS FRENCHMAN WHO WAS INVOLVED WITH MATA HARI l conveying to the Germans the secret of the construction of entente tanks ‘nnd faced the firing squad on the parade grounds at Vincennes, Durlng a recent debate in the sen- Former Minister of War Admits That It Was He Who Was Vamped by |ato on the financial bitl . Malvy, | who was minister of the interior, was bitterly castigated by his opponents, presumably in connection with the Mata Harl case. In the midst of a i bitter retort he fainted on the ros- Later Faced Firing trom, «Later he retired from- the uad as German Spy. | cablnet and M. Briand in order to - | fght his enemles, | General Messimy In his letter says he does not remember the exact of who was the war-time minister, terms of the letters he sent to Mata his nage beginning with M and end- | Hari, ing with Y that wrote gallant epistles | “I never had foresight enough to to Mata Harl, the mystic danscuse, make copies of notes of that sort who was executed in October, 1917, | when it came upon me to for esplonage, has, mow apparently them,” the general declared. “But been completely solved. | certainly those letters were most gal- For many years the enemles of 'lant, because in writing them I re- Louls Malky, then minister of the In- | proached myself tge being too docile terior, had implicated him, but now before the counsels of prudenc Adolphe Messimy, minister of war, | reenact stupidly the story of admits that it was he who, Intrlgued Madame Potiphar afd her servant. Ly the beautiful dancer spy, wrote “Let this adventure serve as n the letters which the girl cherished 'lesson to young deputies of minis- untll they were taken from her by | terial timber whom beautiful women the authorities when she was arrest- | pursue with a nees which they ed. | suspect somewhat confusedly, TLet It was believed by some that the ' deputles heware leaving in ladies’ senale, sitting as a high court, which Tands both their overcoats and their convicted Malvy of having communi- letters which might serve as poizoncd catlon with the enemy and exiled | weapons for the reporters of him to Spain, knew the authorship 'tion Francaise of the future, be of the letters, but other persons de- in last analysis it was to th, clared that they did.not figure in the filled paper that the whole perfidious rt's decision against him, | campaign aimed linking up M. Mal- The letter of General Messimy, s name with that of the celebrated was written at the request of Mm spy can bhe traced.” Hevering, a noted soclalist writer, who in some way had learned that | he was the author of the notes to | Mystic Dancer Who . Parls, April 20 (I)—The mystery send | e 10 |4 ¢ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1026, |GREAT GOD BROWN, by Eugene O'Nelll, s In this play O'Nelll turns boldly |tror: the externals of his dramatie . |material to the hidden meaning of it; turning so boldly, in fact, that {he masks his characte the false face ! thelr worldly pre- tenge and ugfsks them for the sly, lurking tragedies of their souls. Ihis ds @ daring convention to Impose up a play, b it is brilliant ly justifigd by some of the most polgnant moments in the theater. Literary Reyiew. AML SC1E: AND e XPIL Gib- L Here Is a fat book tellfng |about conjuring fricks, how them, how to make the nece fons. The chapters on “F nts with Light' and “Optic | Musion” are. singularly good. I ary Book Review, 701- fo do “GLEN 18 MI and “THE | LIFTING”, by John Brandar | The hero of the first play is old | a peasant who resists the to dispossess him of his . When the schemes to oust him fills through, the old man plays on lis bagpipes his favorite tune “The glen is mine.” The second play tells of the rescue of a condemned man from the gallows, by & comrado ho was really guilty man There is @ robust humor in scene in which resencr and e irgue heatedly about the mann “of lifting,"” and the poignant, tra- dy in death scene of the reseues, Review, 822- the th Book rOOD AND HEALTH, and V. G. Plinimér, This little book is a welcome relief from the usual expositions on dict vhich are so often colored hy the by R H. , actually in | all | publication and “just hecadse they |earnings from his journalistic work. were not meant for the publie eye, | Tt is a detailed narrative of his ad- | they reflect, bhetter than most of his |ventures, Baturdoy Review, 810.H15 journal work, his many-sidedness and vivacity,” Read “When Vol. talre Came to Heaven™ and you will | Und your dwn evidence, Tt is witty shrewd, provocative and utterly de- lightful. Whyt is %Art? Art and Pleasuge, Taughter, On Irreconcil Whles,——these are of the other vssays which glve to the volume fts varfety, riehness and savor, There s ' man within the covers of on Life.” Literary Pook R 524-C PEACOCKE AND PAGODAS, by Paul Edmonds, The peacock fs the cmblgn of | Burman and the p its typical sight. The title expresses tha book which gathers up an English travel cr's Impressions of the country and its people whom he deseribes as “perha the happlest and most contented in the world” Booklist 915,92-Fdb NOVELSR FIELDING, by Aurelian Digeon, Here i3 a careful and illuminat- ing study of INelding by a scholar to whom, clearly, the task hasgbe )o* of love ns well as technical inte . He has a great enthusialem tor Fielding, and a touych of mi slonary al the unction ofithe ex- plorer who feels that he is rescuing groatness ont of the past for the profit of the present. Of the man L1gelding he speaks only relation to his work as novelist. four immortal novel; re analyzed in de- fail. Three speclal peints are em: {phasize« in the conrse of the study: ielding's great skill in const tion, gained largely from his e: perience as a playwright; wistent role of anti-Richardsonian and his essential characte is | IPor Edward lis per- ! LATER DAYS by Willlam H. Davies Later Days may be regarded as a sequel to The Autgbigraphy of n Super Tramp but Js moxp in th racter of a book of unintegrated essays than a segment of an auto blography, It is the expression of a unique personality, The purely lMterary exasperates Davies, Ho dwells with fond recollections on his tramp days in America, when D troit Fatty, Saginaw Slim and Har- lem Baldy were hig buddies and he swaggered through the country: homas, Edward Gar nett and Bernard Shaw he expre the highest csteem because they friended him before h d been® taken ugen a serious way, Iph Hodg discuss prize him and be same tobacco spicy, mn bee he could d dogs with smoked the Later Days is a frank hing unpretentious volur of recollections, more than cssay, les than Literary Digest memoir 92.D28L b oo BAYONETS “Thomason, FIX by @ John W, Captain Thomason was one of th vounger officers in the first battalion of the fifth regiment, U, 8. marines He was a comma during engagements in Belleau wood in the Forest of Villers Cotterets, Vie . 8t Mihiel and others, It is of *scenes from these pluces that Captain Thomason's exceedingly well ilustrated book is m; . With his drawings he has recreated In ever to remembered way certain aspects and feelings of men went through those day here for the first time has the spirit of modern combat been put into ple- an and for | dfr of a company | who | Perhaps | I LIKE TO REMEMBER by W, P, Rid Prophecy as to the wuccess or fall. nre of almost any glven book is a dublous matter, but certain volumes uppear each season about which it is relatively safe to forecast the use to which they will be put. There can little doubt about the niche lkely be Nlled by these garrulous rominiscences. Mr. Ridge went to London in the §0's knew authors ana clubs and theaters and journalists ind eollected a great fund of anec- dotes. This material he presents, tied looscly together on the what attenuated string of his ggnial personality, Times—02-R4281 so1pe- Phenes for Taxicah But Fire Department Answers Hartford, April 20 (A — prospec taxicab “fares’ last night telephone tor what they supposed to he number of a taxicab company when they recelved an Two carly opera the e ————————— T asked that a car be sent "rmnlnf Commerce at 5 o'clook yes': re away" 8 147 Sheldon street, Thelr | day afternoon, With the exceplion dignity was not a little impaired | of the addition of Attorney M, D, and their composure considerably | Saxe fo the executive commiti e disturbed when thefr call was an- | the officers elected are the sumne swered with a great clanging of | ns last year, bells and blowing of slrens as| Tho officers elocted were: Prole Squad A of the fire department | dent, Edward M. Pratt; first vice pulled up in front of the door. The | president, Robert C. Vance; second arrival of a red instead of a yellow | vice president, Mrs, How rd Pur- carrlage was belleved to have been gons; treasurer, John C. Loomis; caused by the resemblance of fire gocretary, James E. O'Brlen: oxe headquarters’ tolephone number ecutive committee, H, C. Jackson, and the taxicab company's, Morrls D, Saxe, George P. Bpemr | and James E. O'Brien; representn« tive on community chest, George | Spear; finance committee, Hairy C. Brown, chairman; W. C. French, Mrs. Gardner C., Weld, B, ¥, Gaft- ney and Rev, Raymond J, Clabby. The following were elected to 1he board of control for five years; I I King, M. D, Saxe, B. F. Gaftney ind H, Hodg Reports of the past year wore and the as JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT i ELECTS OLD OFFICERS Attorney M. D, Saxe Is New Meme- ber of Exceutive Committee— ctivities of the read by the divee. stant director Reports for Year Liled, annn, fing of the Junior ement undation New —— HEAD HERALD CLASSIFIED ADs A Hickey-Freeman suit has the happy knack of looking in perfect style and good taste and good condition-—when an ordinary suit would be about ready for the discard. —a lover of ¢ ness as opposed to all conventions and hypocrisies. Outlook. §23-1°46 peculiar idiosyncrasies of tho "authom; for it is a plain statement of | the results of the most recent work | on vitamins and such matters, and of thefr practical hearing on our life. Particularly useful lists of foods rich and poor mins. 1t is pleasantly and clearly written, Spectator, 618.2-P71 mple hum tures, His account of the attacks at | Solssons on the 18th of July is as | good a piece of description of that dramatic scene at any yet written. Sat. Rov.—040. 48-T: At vour Library Mata Harl. In his letter the former | war minister sald: Text of Note | “Madame: You ask me to bear | wilness to clear up an enigma and | soften a sadness. You think this |has a testimony may contribute to lessen | torest, the hateful vehemence of adversaries | Heries; and they i prise that 1 have not sought to dis- |bout a pate the doubt existing over the 1°C'S: relations I may have had with Mata | *©% Of the Harl.” [B B After thanking Mma, Severing for | Mmus? the courteousness of her request for | future. light and paying tribute to her | Vernon Lee—Proicus; or the “courageous campaign in the press oL intclligence tor righting wrongs,” General Mes. | B M. Lidiell simy adds: | future of war, ) “What in truth makes this recti- | I G#®Crookshank—Mongol in our |has a begulling way of introdue: fication quite delicate 8 ot the ifi- | _mids! 136,76-C'83 culty of an avowal. It is even the | D+ A W. Russcll—What I Believe. contrary. You recall to me that the | ) 504-RO1L French always have been most fn- | M'S. Dora B. Russcil-—Hypa or dulgent for the faults which brought | Woman and knowledge. = 306-R01 Francis 1 and the Bearnals (meaning |11 1" Stokes—Perseus; or of Henry 1V) a good part of their popu- | Cr2KONS g 308-8tL6 larity. Robert . Trevelyan—Thanyris; Sl gnow is there & future for T'renchmen, but ‘perhaps Irench women, are even more dévoid of alt tolerance and all amenity for the man who seeks to escape flattering | advances, tempting and dircet, of a | woman, above all if she is famous / and beautiful, Vamped by Harl “Nevertheless, that is the true story of my relations with Mata Hari: During many months fourteen years ago ghe, by all means of se- duction which she knew how to em- L4 o0a 1o G play in dncomparable fashion, |ciarmany has the tried to acquire the right to call her- o ioeared in the selt my mistress, 1 found her charm- | ya fron ore of I ing, but full of mystery and Just as | .q n Lorraine, St6el is the king of enticing as she was disquieting. 156 industrial ahd steel is ¥ad the Impudence not to tell her made fram coal and iron ore jointly. that, but to write it to her." Germany owns the conl and Franee Mata Harl was declared by some the iron ore. He analyzes the to be Dutch. 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