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BRITISH FILMS.
REASONS FOR RESIGNATION "VAUDEVILLE" COMPLETED
ANNOUNCED,
AT ELSTREE,
MR. BALDWIN'S LETTER.
BOOK THAT HELPED CHAPLIN.
Was
I am very, very tired of Hatening Correspondence which passed
The British super-film "Moulin to the clarion voice of Eficiency on between Sir Burton 'Chadwick and Rouge," made by E. A. Dupont, the subject of home management; the Prime Minister on the occa- creator of "Vaudeville," when Organisation is mentioned Ision of the resignation by Sir finished after a whole night's le down and sleep (says Ursula Burton of the office or Parliamen-work in the British International Dowdall in a London publication). [tary Socretary to the Board of Studios at Elstree.
The final shots were taken in The thought of an Ordered Life Trade is now available for publica-
fills me with cold horror, I become tion. Writing to Mr. Baldwin on circumstances of absolute secrecy, morbid, I write imaginary adver- Jan. 3, Sir Burton gave two reasons and were the most spectacular tisements "Take a dose of Benight-for tondering his resignation. fever staged in this or any other ed Efficiency and make your life The first reason was that his country in Europe. Worth While. A few years ago 1 work as Deputy Master of the Com of a motor-car travelling along a They concerned the wrecking was a nervous wreck......" etc. pany of Master Mariners, recently
There is a scorn and fury above founded by a large and distinguish-road at high speed, and for this! the fury of a woman scorned, and ed group of the senior officers of purpose an actual full-size high- that is the bitterness which the the British Marchant Service, had way, complete with trees, tele efficient bear towards the inefficient, assumed such proportions that he graph poles and road signs, as However, my chief objection to the feared he might not be able to con- landscape, were set up in one of well as banks and hedges and Efficient is not their intolerance. tinue to.give undivided attention to but their morbid passion for inter-hi Board of Trade duties. ference based on the assumption that organisation is the heart of home management and indispen- nable. It is this which haa.moved me to make a few remarke on how the undomesticated "do."
Do All the Work.
Important Public Work In the second place, having other important public work to do, he felt it his duty to make room for younger man who, given his start
as an under-secretary at an earlier
the great halls at Elstree,
The car, driven by one of the stars of the film, M. Jean Bradin, was then launched upon its ad-
venture, an automatic cinema camera being attached to it.
Red Cross Men Ready. At a given moment the car be- age than he himself had reached came out of control, ran into the I have no servants. I have a (Sir Burton is 68), should prove to hedge and hit a telegraph pole, small child and a girl who lives be a source of strength to the Con-which it brought down across the with me. I do all the work, in-servative party in the future.
rond. The car turned a somer- cluding the washing of clothes and Replying on Jan. 5, the Prime gault and came to rest a wreck, the curtains, and lead a leisured life. Minister referred to the zeal and driver being hurled into the road. There must be plenty of other loyalty with which' for more than way. Red Cross men were stand- people who do the same, only they three years Sir Burton had per- ing by in the studio in case of dis do not seem to write about it, formed his exacting duties at the aster, but their services were not which is a pity.
Board of Trade. It was with great
Public-Spirited Offer.
and generous
"Your
People in general find happiness regret that he learned that Sir required, and the feat was duly
accomplished without mishap. to be fundamentally peace of mind, Burton wished to be freed from "Moulin Rouge," begun as far absence of worry. They write official work to devote his time to back as August, was at last com- about happiness, think of it and help in so establishing the position plete. Those who have seen some
the Company of talk of it, and then go home and of
Master of the film already prepared des- worry about it. More than half of Mariners that it might take its cribe it as establishing new stand- the other things they worry about rightful place in the life of the ards of cinematography. are of no real consequence at all. British nation.
The woman star of the film is Problems Solve Themselves.
Miss Olga Tchekova, who, it has There occurs, I think in one of
public-not yet been noted, is a niece of Conrad's books, this sentence: spirited offer to make room for a Tchekova, the great Russian "Good God! What's a tornado? younger man while you are still in author.
Authority for "The Circus." What chance has it against a human the prime of life," the Prime Minis- soul!" Yet there are thousands ofter added. "is team work of a very The next super-film at Elstree women who voluntarily lay their high order, and I feel confident that is "Champagne," by Mr. Walter souls in bondage to such frippery your action, appreciated as it is by Mycroft and directed by Mr. as beefsteaks, servant problems,me, will be no less appreciated by Alfred Hitchcock. This is again drainage systems and their hus- the Conservative party and by of spectacular dimensions. It will band's boots. Better a thousand British seamen, to whom you feel probably be followed by "Punch and Judy," which is based on the times that your husband should yourself bound by so many ties." walk barefooted to the City--if it Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Presi-story written specially for British comes to a question of either free-dent of the Board of Trade, writing International by Mr. Willson dom of mind or boots-than that to Sir Burton on Jan. 14, sald he Disher. you should be, so to speak, a slave understood his wish to devote him- to his boots. Roughly speaking, self to a work which was peculiarly work, "Clowns and Pantomime," one else which Mr. Charles Chaplin con- that is to say, speaking very his own and which no
could do, so well.
sulted as his authority when he roughly.
was preparing his film "The Circus," soon to be seen in Hong Kong.
Pip and a Complex. These problems when put in their true position, which is essen- tially a subordinate one, can be looked down upon instead of ap- |pearing, let us say, as an impene- trable cloud overhead, obscuring
NOT TO MARRY.
EARL OF BANDON & MISS CLIFTON.
The announcement has been made
It was Mr. Disher's standard
News in mail week was that Mr. Chaplin himself was to have been in London for the premiere of his film.
the sun and causing general de--that the marriage arranged be- DRUNKEN DRIVER. pression.
So when the Effelent tell me
how they are doing one thing at 7.30 a.m. and another at 8.15 and something else equally horrible at 9.0; how they wash on Monday and mind the baby on Wednesday and so on, urging organisation upon me, my reply to these slaves of routine la that home organisation gives me the pip and a complex, and, fur-
tween the Earl of Bandon, an Irish
peer, and Miss Marjory Sheila A WOMAN WHO DROVE WITH Clifton will not take place.
The engagement was announced j·. last June.
The fifth Earl of Bandon is 23.
He succeeded to the title in 1921. He has a twin brother.
The earl has played much Rugby football. While he was stationed
WHISKY.
For being drunk in charge of a Charlotte Mary Ball was fined motor-car at Littlehampton,
£30 and her licence suspended for three years.
She was also fined a further ther, that there are more ways of at Shotwick, as an officer attached £10 for dangerous driving and £2 killing a cat than by choking it to the aerodrome, he played with 99, 6d. costs. She pleaded
with cream.
Economy of Effort.
the Birkenhead Park Club..
He guilty.
has also won distinction as a sprinter,
Mr. Dell, for the police, said that the woman was seen in the
I personally get through an He had a very narrow escape High Street in charge of a large amount of work, in part by divid-from death in 1926. His aero-saloon car with a bottle of whisky ing large jobs into small ones (no plane, in which he was accompanied beside her. She had to be assist "weekly wash," but odd ten minutes by a mechanic, crashed into tele-ed to the police station, and a here and there, furniture if clean-phone wires when taking off and police surgeon certified her as ed daily takes under five minutes, nose-dived into a hedge. When the drunk.
of
brass ten, and paint, if done fre- aerodrome staff ran to the scene Mr. Wannop, for the woman, quently, under a quarter an they saw the earl and the mechanic said she had driven a car for 16 hour) in part by combining odd scrambling out practically unhurt, years without complaint. She jobs (washing up can be done while the earl's face being slightly cut.
was a newcomer to the town and cooking, a pudding made while a
Unusual Succession.
held an off-licence at Wandsworth kettle boils, etc.), and in part by He succeeded to the title in an for five years. There was constantly devising means of unusual way. The late Earl died at thing against her. economising effort.
the age of 74. His heir, his cou-
·
I think that housewifery, in sin. predeceased him, as did also order to be pleasant to the house-his heir's eldast son. The present wife and restful to the household, Earl succeeded as grandson of the should be less a matter of organisu-late Earl's cousin. tion and more of artistry. I would
The family seat is Castle Bor-
The Countess of Bandon, the
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Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong ment by some of the lives of saints widow of the fourth Earl, has a during March, according to from which the embryo housewife house in Princes-gardens, S.W. standard time of the 120th meridian might learn idealism and faith, by Misa Marjory Sheila Clifton, the east of Greenwich, is as follows:- the works of Henry Ford, from only daughter of Colonel Clifton, of Date. which she might learn how to Clifton Hall, Nottingham, belongs March economise effort, by a hand-book on to a county family whose history 2 paychology--for the handling of dates back eight hundred years. servants, a book on pictures for
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