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DAILY - CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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vessal 21-Part of the foot 22-A golf term |44-To observe 45-To deal with wax-23-Produces effect |46-A measure of weight 24-A three-spot card
(pl)
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28-Game-fish of 3. E. DOCRA
United States and West Indies 80-A river of B. Caro
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(The solution of the above éross-word puzzle soill appear in to-morrow's sisue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
Jupr,, Georgs, Durres, and Benes Adores In
the Queen" Theatre; October 3 and 5.
THE
CHINA MAIL,
ROMANCE & TERRORS OF BRIDEWELL
Torturing Women a Public Entertainment
ROGUES WHO EXPLOITED THE PLAGUE
A Man With Three Hats
HEALTH
WEEK"
COLONY SHOULD RE PLASTERED. WITH PROPAGANDA
BOARD AND ITS CRITICS
He said that it was not desirable
Routine mattors dealt with at yes- terday afternoon's meeting of the Romance is inevitably associated with the palace bullt by Sanitary. Board, included reference by
the President to. Henry VIII. for the reception of the Emperor Charles V., which regarding the authorisation to certain minuto, by himself
housed King Hal and Catherine of Aragon during the divorce pro Sanitary Inspectars to enter promises and inspect and seize unwholesome ceedings and was handed over by Edward VI. to the City of London food in accordance with the Public for its vagrants, petty offenders, prostitutes, and homeless children. Health and Buildings' Ordinance. Such was the origin of Bridewell Hospital, which received nearly that all inspectors should have the pow three thousand "wandering soldiers, Cavalier prisoners, and other er to enter premises at any time of the Jay or night, and it was proposed vagrants" during the first three years of the Civil War, was partially that this power should be given to the destroyed by the Great Fire, besieged during the Gordon Riots, and and three first class inspectors. The Chief Inspector, six senior Inspectors, became the Alma Mater of some of the "first families, in Virginia." other inspectors would have power to In its Hall the body of one of, man, and on his death had locked enter premises between 6 a.m. and 6 Its Governors, Sir Edmund Berry the corpse in a room and disappear p.m. Godfrey, whose supposed mure; they were similarly punished.posal was carried.
The M.O.H. seconded and the pro- derers Titus Oates hounded to the
"Health Week" Proposed senfold, lay in state. Pepys was A famous addity among Bride- Speaking on the question of a pro- also a Governor, but sadly negleet-woll inmates was "Old Simon," who posed "Health Week," Mr. Carrie said ed his duties, except when a ban was frequently convicted for beg-the Chinese Y.M.C.A. had organised quet was connected with them! ging, wearing filthy rags, clouted}"Health Weeks" In previous years and Higgs, its surgeon,, was one of the shoes, numerous brass rings on his proposed do so again. It was medical heroes of the Great Plague. fingers, and three hata, perched one thought that the Sanitary Board might Famous names are plentiful in above the other on his head.
wish to express its view and there- "Bridewell, Hospital" (The Bodley Bridewell was also & school for fore the suggustion had been brought Head, 218,), by the Rev. E. G. apprentices, learning to be glovers, Director of Medical and Sanitary Ser- to the notice of members. The Hon. O'Donoghue, a masterly survey of silk-weavers, and pin-makers. Some vices had put in a memorandum com.. its history, rich in portraits recon had been aalved from the streets, piled by the Medical Officer for Schools structed by patient study of its some sent from the Sessions, some in which it was suggested that work nominated by charitable Governors. in the schools was the most important In their blue doublets and white part of a "Health Week." hats, they became the terror of the The President said be agreed with streets,
that view and said his personal opin- Apprentices disappeared from ion was that they should concentrate Bridewell in 1827, its prisons were on that. If the Board had any sug- closed 1855, and its sole surviv-gestions to make he would be pleased ing relic is King Edward's School to receive them. Against the names of auch in at Witley, where unfortunate lads the court-books monotonously oc- are given a chance to become use cars the laconic formula-ful citizens-Graham Brooks, Ini "punished "and set to work." | John O' London's weekly. Punishment, of course, meant the lash-laid on with spirit by an unsentimental brute of a hemp man-and it was carried out in
court-books.
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"Notorious- Varleta" Bridewell Hospital was not the Bridewell of Hogarth's "Harlot's Prpgress," which was in Tothill Fields, but it housed many similar unfortunates and other "notorious varlets":
ROUND THE CINEMAS
a small room. hung with black, In the presence of the Governors. When the chairman considered that justice had been duly done to the back of the prisoner (male or female), he brought down his gavel smartly on the table.... After receiving their deserts in public, they were sent downstairs to beat hemp or gather up raga and waste-paper, or to scour out the City ditches. People flocked from far and wide. journeyed from the provinces, to enjoy these spectacles:-
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“MAN, WOMAN, AND WIFE" AT
QUEEN'S
A DRAMATIC PICTURE.
The Hon. Mr. Braga suggested that "Health Week" should be even wider
in scope and that money should be spent as no price was too high to en sure public health.
A Late Stage
posal was to hold a "Health Week! It was pointed out that the pro-
from October 6 to 12 and that at such
a late stage it was not much use mak. ing suggestions,
Dr. Fawcett said that pnless it was well organised it would be of littla practical use, Nothing could be done One of the screen's most drama-a thing likes that months and months in a week. They ought to prepare for tie pietures is to be seen Queen's Theatre to-day. The pic-plastered with propaganda material, at the before. The whole Colony should be ture is "Man, Woman and Wife," and that kind of thing.
Universal production, starring Dr. Koch observed that a "Health Norman Kerry and featuring Pau- Week" needed lengthy preparation. line Starke,
Mr. Wong Kwong-tin said he had underworld of New York as back-therefore
tising the battle front and the not seen the minute referred to and Was in ignorance of the grounds, the film narrates
matter.. 1 It was one of the sights of London to witness the whipping around five persons. The happi-
The President then suggested that tremendous romance centring the discussion might be deferred. of prostitutes and petty, criminaleness of each is so wound up in the that the Board had been severely criti- The Hon. Mr. Braga pointed out in this room-publicity was sup-fate of the others that great drama cised for the length of time it took to posed to stimulate reformation-tic interest and suspense result. reach decisions. and suggested that in but the Court was often incom-The ending shows fearlessness, of this matter the sooner a decisioni was moded by the jostling cynical "movie" custom on the part of made the better. crowds which flocked on Wednes- Director Edward Laemmle, when Mr. Wong Kwong-tin said he was day or Friday mornings to the the picture closes in a realistic not prepared to say one thing er an- performance, and in 1677 it was climax that is said to be one of the other until he had seen the sle ordered that a balustraded gal-most unusual eyer screened. lery should-be put up in the "Man, Woman and Wife" is not
court-room for the public. 1 Diabolical Punishments Curiouely, it was. no ploua re- former, but that witty old roué Ned- Ward, editor of the "London Spy," who first dengunced the public flog- ging of half-stripped, women by men. It was not abolished, how ever, until 1791.
Punishments were diabolical in the seventeenth century. Richard Bowyer, slanderer of Archbishop Laut, was exhibited thrice in the pillory, to which his ears were nail- ed, branded on the face, and flog- ged, before botng clapped into Bridewell for life. Worse still was the torture of "James Nayler, described by an eye-witness as fol-
lowe
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an ordinary type of picture, accord- ing to Laemmle, who said:
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The matter was thon, deferred until the next meeting.
The National Trust acquired: 11
and
" attempted to depict truthfully new properties during 1928-29, and the story of a man whose every additions were made at Ashridge, buffet by life reneted on a number of Stonehenge, Balt Head, other parsons. "The situations are Thurstaston Heath, Cheshire. different from those generally en- countered in motion picture, tried to make the players respond to them, in a way what was suitable to the story. Kerry and Miss Starke both gave me unusual portrayals. As a matter of fact the entire cast did exceptional work......
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"LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH"
Lon Chaney, the famous screen star, appears at the Star Theatre in "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" one of the typical Chaney pictures which is
sure to attract.
This day I went to see Nayler's The story deals with the passiona tongue bored through, and him and the human side of a circus marked in the forehead. He put clown, whose business it is to out his tongue very willingly but amuse. Chaney show that behind) shrinked a little when the fron the make-up there la a being, not came on his forehead. He was only capable of love, but of that pale when he came out of the higher quality sacrifice. Chaney pillory, but high-coloured after as Tito, one of two strolling. tongue-boring. He was bound players, adopts Simonetta, a walf with a cord by both arms to the whom he learns to love as a child. pillory. Rich, the mad merchant, The paternal love, however, turns set up over the pillory an inscrip into the passion of a lover. Tito tionThis is the King of the adores Simonetta. When he die Jewa" and tried to suck the fire covers that the girl has given her from the branded forehead. heart to a nobleman, he steps out Nayler embraced his excon- of the way.
tloners, and behaved very hand- On the eve of Simonetta's somely and patiently.
A Blasphemous Crime Naylor's blasphemous crime was heinous Declaring himself the Son of Man, he had grown the hair and beard of the conventional pic tures of Christ, and had parodied the Palm Sunday procesalon, entér- ing Glastonbury on an ass sur rounded by deluded women shriek log Hosanna!" and casting their garments and flowers in his path. It took Parliament eleven days to debate his punishment, Cromwell alone saving his life. Three years later he was released from Bride well, a penitent and broken. creature, only to dle by the way
wedding," she learns of Tito's love for her and she tries to conyface him that she loves him, but Tito knows it is a sacrifice she is mak ing and at the rehearsal that night | he falls to his death from a tight rope The Bittle children who had gone to see the clown, laugh to see him "pretending" to be dead, but Tito has made the greatest of all sacrifice, clown though he la
"ARABIAN LOVE"
Gilbert At The Majestic Theatre.
John Gilbert has the major
side abortly afterwards play in William For a fim: "Arah
Love," showing at the Majsetic Thex- tre to-day only.
As an Arab Sheik in the huge Sahara Desert Olbert gires a good Love Affair cause Gilbert to kil impression of his talent on the screen Adolpho Menjou French Officer of the Army and run to the desert, only to meet the dead man's wife, to whom he explains the whole demeanour,
The court books reven? how ark- fully criminals exploited, the ghast ly epidemics of the plague. Bartho lomew Symonds had pretended to bave three plague sores on his body, and, by putting nuts in his mouth, had created the impression that the plague had thickened his speech, thus moving passers-by to charity; he was flogged and Jnear Barbara La Marr plays the part of corated in Bridewell, with the head shiek's daughter in this in description of his roguers on his teresting fim.N breast For the sake of thirty MGM News, Screen Snapshots and shillings, George and Agnes Stura Hal Fosch ComedyPutting Fanta ton had secreted a plague-stricken" on Philips”—are featured in addition,
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