"The Queen of Croatia, one of those convenient operatic
Balham royalties...."--_Liverpool Daily Post_.
Won't Tooting be jealous!
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"To one who has been long enough away from the centre of
things almost to forget what it is like, a walk along Pall
Mall yesterday brought some curious reflections. From the
Circus to Hyde Park Corner not a single luxurious private
motor-car or horse-drawn carriage was to be seen. It was
not the Pall Mall of old days."--_Evening Paper_.
No, it seems to have been much more like Piccadilly.
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[Illustration: _Troop-ship Officer_. "ANYTHING I CAN DO FOR YOU, SIR?"
_Enterprising American_. "I GUESS SO. I'M THE CINEMATOGRAPH OPERATOR
WHO'S GOING TO TAKE A FILM THE FIRST TIME YOU'RE TORPEDOED, AND
I'VE GOT A LETTER FROM YOUR FOLKS INSTRUCTING YOU TO GIVE ME EVERY
FACILITY."]
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