The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1921, Page 17

ipa Strolls Through Famous !is- trict With Thonias Burke Author of ‘“Limehous: Nights.” By Charlie Chaplin. (This is the nineteenth instalment of Cl Chaplin's oten story of Ris European tour. In the previous tnstatment he told o} dinner at the Gerrick Club with J. M. Barrie @nd other celebrities.) HERD is a big luncheon party on among my friends and I am told that a party has been @rranged to go through the Lime- house district with Thomas Burke, who wrote “Limehouse Nights.” L resent it exceedingly and refuse to @o with a crowd to meet Burke. Trevolt against the constant crowd- ing. I hate crowds. London and its experiences are unstrung. I must see Burke and go with him alone. He is the one man who sees London through the same kind of glasses as myself. I am told that Burie wili be disappointing be- gause he is so silent, but I do not believe that [ will be disappointed in him. Robinson tells the crowd of my feclings and how much 1 have \Planned on this night alone with Burke, and the party is called off. We telephone Burke and I make an ‘engagement to meet him at his shome that evening at 10 o'clock. ‘We are to spend the night together in Limehouse. What a prospect! CALLS ON BURKE AT HOME. That night I was at Thomas Burke's ahead of time. The pros- ect of a night spent in the Lime- jouse district with the author of “Limehouse Nights” was as allur- ing as Christmas morning to a child. rke is 60 different from what [ expected. “Limehouse Nights” had Jed me to look for some one physi- cally, as well as mentally, bis, though I had always pictured him @s mild-mannered and tremend- ously human and sympathetic. that Burke looks tired, and it is hard to think that this little man with the thin, peaked face and sensitive fea- tures is the same one who has dlazed into literature such ele- mental lusts, passions and emotions as characterize his short stories. His tired-looking, sensitive eyes at first seem rather severe and i serious, but suddenly I am aware ‘of something keen, } @winkfing in them. His wife has arrived, A very young lady of great harm, who makes you feel *. Stantly her artistic pf “even in ordinary conversation, q OFF ON ADVENTURE BENT, Shortly after his wife comes in Burke and I leave, I fecling very much the tourist in the hands of the supercity guide. “What, where—anything particu- lar that T want to see?” I have nothing to suggest except that we ramble along with nothing deliberate in view. T feel that this pleases him, for a light of interest comes into his eyes, chasing one of responsibility, We are just going to stroll along. We stroll along toward Stepney. There is a greenish mist hanging about everything and we seem to be in a labyrinth of narrow alley- ways, now turning into streets and ) then ‘merging into squares. IN A MYSTIC WORLD. There is a tang of the east in the air and I am tinglingly aware of gomething vital, living, moving, in this murky atmosphere that is more quick and in- capabilities intense even for the occasional dim light that py out into the soft gloom from dows and storcrooms or pal lights that gleam corners. \ Here is of God's fashioning, wh I uns hand in hand with death, where poetry sings in withered Mongolian hearts, even as knives are buried in snow- white breasts and swarthy necks. Hore hearts are broken casually but fat the same time there comes just us often to this lotus land the pity, terror and wonder of first love, and who shall eay which is predomi- pant? Behind each of those tiny garret windows lurks life, life in its most elemental costume, There is no time, thought or preparation for anything but the elemental pas- sions, and songs of jo’, hope and laughter are written into each ex- istence, even as the killings go on, ely, swiftly. PuGn’ the other side of the etreet there is stepping a little lady whoso cheap cotton clothes are cut with Parisian cunning, and as we cross and pass her we discern- beauty, enhanced many fold by youth and vitality, but hardened with prema- ture knowledge. I can't help but think of little Gracie Goodnight, the Uttle lady who resented the touch of a “Chink,” so much so that she filled the fire extinguishers in his lace with oil, and when he was rapped in the blazing building, calmly and with a baby smile upon her face, poured the contents of the extinguisher over him and his fur- niture. There is the Queen's Theatre. bringing forward a mental picture of little Gina of Chinatown, who felling on me and I am nervous and | I notice even as we are introduced j Charlie(haplin's own story of his» -__TripAbroad/_ *“ ADVENTURING” IN LIMEHOUSE | { Horlick’s The ORIGINAL Malted Milk Jo ‘The “Food- Drink” for All Ages. Quick Fountains, Ask for HORLICK'S, Lunch at Home, Office,end neighbor obtrusion. of another book that he has ready octet Nines laa cald, SERGT. YORK NOW OWNS All the Money to Clear Place Do- Alvin C, York 1s to-day owner 410-acre farm in his home county a grateful people gave to him because of his heroism in the World War. York ‘had to go heavily in debt and was in a |bad way financially when The New York World and the Nashville Banner came to his ald. totalled $25,000, delivered to him as soon as formalities are over. Christmas present to him, have done sar Avoid Imitationsé Substitutes: PH! THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1921, oi ; “Code practice” lawyer, | from Island, | gation. ls Thrilled by Sights That Him Weitd Scenes in Burke’s Stories Remind of business agent HETTRICK’S FRIENDS SEEK HIS PAROLE of Practice” Serving Indeterminate Sentence on Island. « | Friends of John T, Hettrick, “code Of farm of Richard Heim at Ten-Mile Run, day to be planning to ask his parole the penitentiary on Blackwell's where he is serving an inde-| ¢, pol terminate term of six months to three} 1, is understood another years on a charge out of the Lockwood committee investi- | Samuel Untermyer, counsel to| the Lockwood committee, not heard of the move to free Hettrick was convicted last February, along with William HH. Chapman, former | Plumbers’ Union, parole a few weeks ago. JERSEY STATE POLICE Dae yt A MAKE FIRST RUM CATCH ‘ Heim js held on a charge of carry! ealed weapons, a revolver and co} —- knife having been found on him by t | pate Lawyer Is} Stambie on StUil and 10 Barrels of PT niskoy wan discovered while t Whiskey While Searching Fi | SOMERVILLE, N. J. dence of another kind, Dec, 2Te—Ten | ihe iiquor was for his | barrels of whiskey and a still, from the use —— HENRY LORD SCHOOL FALL RIVER, Mass. Dec. 27. eo Lord Grammar School was tot: Hetrayen by. fire inst wight, ental fa loss estimated at $300,000, One man was slightly injured when part the south wall collapsed, BURNS. qT were understood to-|i-anklin Township, were brought to the all yesterday, follow- selzure by members this locality, truckload of jomerset County ing the first Hau f the new S of conspiracy growing | said he had Hettric Going to Carlsbad? If you cannot go, Carlsbad is coming to you. The genuine imported Carlsbad of the Journeymen| who was released on) Chapman's ———- salary of $15 a week has been paid by | Salt can be had again at every Drug’ st 1 a panic the fir ht- n while he was in prison and} i 0 n+ Ghee MUAIAROS OL THU PINGTOUEE: OF reinstated in his old Job, but Store. It is Nature's Remedy for Co ‘on the stage, |resigned when Mr. Untermyer’ threat- | stipation, Liver and Kidney diseases, gs on the stage: lened to put him on trial next month on Little Gi ght the whole ‘eet in her joy- Little Gina, | another { ner f ous dancing delight. nt TWO HURT 1) AUTO COLLISION, Rheumatism, etc. Insist on the genuine, take no substitute. t 14 had lived, laughed and | Jack Noaak, twenty-three, of No. 368) loved, and who met death with & | jackson Avenue, Long Island City. and | Carlsbad Product Co. wht) 9 ty Jacob Roffman, forty, of No. 211 113th Vite HOE s Street, Long Island City, were. injured! Agents Her the robust of the slums. People act. more quickly here than in Lambeth. And suddenly we are back where we started. In a car we go to Huxton—the old Britan- when "a collision with an Manhattan Bakery Company | auto-truck they were riding in was in{ Avenue and 79th Street to-d: ttended and 90 West St., New York automobile at Second | They | CLL LL ULLAL ID LALLA LLL LLL DALLA labs t hom nia Huxton—I, rather reluctantly. OFF TO SHADWELL. ‘There is a glaring moving picture | palace. What a pity! I resent its | We go along toward the East Indian docks—to Shadwell, and I am feeling creepy with the horror | of his stories of Shadwell. I could hear a child screaming behind a shuttered window and T wondered and imagined, but we did not step anywhere. . long with just an | ‘om him, all that | ry to make his point. To | | Road and Highgate, Beth- Spitalfields, Ratcliffe, Soho, Nottingdale and Camdencown. And through it all I have the feeling that things trivial, porten- tous, beautiful, sordid, ‘cringing, glorious, simple, epochal, hatofi lovable things, are happening be- hind closed doors. I people all those shacks with girls, boys, murders, shrieks, life, beauty. | As we go back to Highgate we talk of life in the world outside this | adventurous Utopia, He tells me that he has never been outside of London, not even to Paris. Th very curious to me, but it doesa’t seem so as he says it. He tells me and of a play that he is working on for early production. We talked until 8 in the morning and I went back to my hotel with the same sort of feeling that I had at twelve when I sat up all night reading Steven- son's “Treasure Island.” (Continued to-morrow.) Coprright, 1921. By the McClure Newspaper Syndicate, All rights reserved, FARM FREE FROM DEBT mated by Public. 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