THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1930.
A DESPOT'S PLUNDER
Fight for Sultan's £300,000,000 Will
LIKE ARABIAN NIGHTS
Harem Favourites and Princes in Poverty
HUGE OIL INTERESTS
THE
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DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS IN "THE TAMING OF THE SHREW"
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Douglas Fairbanks has done a service to the English drama.
He has made Shakespeare live again in the minds of ordinary people A ́story which reads like pages from the Arabian Nights, of a to whom the plays were often prosaic and difficult forms of en-
President Doumergue has signed five-years' light by the 13 children and nine surviving widows of tertainment requiring thought and a Bill to be submitted to Parlia Abdul the Damned, the notorious Sultan of Turkey who was deposed concentration. The average man ment by the Tardieu. Government and woman who attend a theatri- asking for a supplementary credit in 1909, for a share of his £300,000,000 estate is now revealed.
cal or film performance do not as of 3,800,000,000 francs (£26,000,- Greece is reported to be prepared to pay them £10,000,000, and rule wish to think; they wish 000) for a further five years forti- they now hope to get £200,000,000 from Mesopotamia.
The claimants are:---
Prince Abdul Kadir and Princess Nuimee, the children of his second favourite, Bidar, who is dead;
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to be entertained. And Fairbanks,fication programme. According to in his film production of the a British United Press correspon "Taming of the Shrew." now show dent the total cost will dave amount- Prince Selim, Prince Ahmed and Princess Zelie, and theiring at the Queen's Theatre, has led to nearly 5,000,000,000 francs (
created a work of art which re- (£40,000,000). mother Bedrifelek, Abdul's favourite wife;
tains all the beauty and all the
Public Opinion essential ideas of Shakespeare with- The majority of public opinion out making them appear dull. Of feels that the security of the coun- Princess Naile, Prince Nourreddin, Princess Aiche, Prince course. Shakespeare is never, can try against invasion by Germany or never be, dull, but to very many Italy will be increased by this belt The General Abid. Princess Refie, Princess Chadie and Prince Ardurrahim: people Shakespeare finishes with of fortifications.
Fatima, Behidje, Mouchfika, Nadjie, Suzighiur, Emsali-the class or the lecture room, and Stuff is of opinion that had such a is only a glorious memory which system been available in 1914, the nour, and Peiveste, the Sultan's other wives and their respec- they are afraid to drag into con War would not have lasted the
length of time it did. tive mothers; and
Prince Bourhanneddin and his mother, the tenth of the)
Sultan's wives.
The Sultan was reputed to be the richest man in the world. reigned 33 years as an all-powerful Orientul despot, and died prison in 1918.
RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD
Abdul, is the course of his long reign over the Ottoman Empire, ae. quired by "gifts" and other moans from his "devoted subjects" im- mense wealth and great estates.
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sciousness.
In this version of the The technical reasons for the vast Bard's immortal comedy, brought project are explained at some length to the screen for the first time in in the text of the Bill before the the history of motion pictures by Chamber.
Mary Pickford and Douglas "Regardless of whatever opinion Fairbanks, most of the essential we may have concerning the manner dialogue, comedy and striking of future warfare, we are agreed situation has been left Intact upon the necessity of preventing an throughout the production. This invading army from obtaining our mineral resources was accomplished by Sam Taylor, control of
means of communication the man who directed "Taming of our part, of Abdul Hamid's private the Shrew and, before that, along the frontier during the early
"Coquette," which established days of the Invasion," it is stated. Miss Pickford as one of the great- est emotional actresses the screen has ever seen.
estate,
£200,000,000 Oilfields Once the settlement is made with Greece, the claims in respect of When he was deposed by the the properties in Palestine, Syrin. Young Turks in 1909, his private Iraq, and the Mosul oilfields will fortune, which was then estimated be proceeded with. The value of at £8,000,000, and his estates, which the property in Iraq alone, consist brought him a revenue of about ing as it does of oil lands, has been £3,000,000 a year, were confiscated. estimated at £200,000,000.
That property included: Lands in Thessaly, Greece: Almost half the province
Salonica;
of
A large portion of Macedonia; Extensive holdings in Syria, Meso-
potamia, Palestine, and Cyp-
rus;
The island of Tassos, where ถ
It is essential that the troops engaged in holding the frontier In case of an invasion abould, find a defensive organisation · based on dug-outs and batteries, ready to halt the enemy.
Human Productio Taylor succeeded in retaining all the humanness which charac-
Need For Haste terises Shakespeare's works, and "This should be accomplished in yet enhanced the scope of the time of peace, and the Government play through the medium of the feels that the work should be The arrangement between the camera.
hastened so that a powerful defen- Sultan's heirs and the Ægenn The story is laid in Padua, and sive system will be ready before the Trust is that the latter shall re-relates the experience of a young declining birthrate is reflected in ceive 30 per cent of the value of man who sets out to win a girl, the number of conscripts to be call all properties recovered.
who is famous for a temper soled to the colours."
DROP IN SUGAR
Anglo-German group is deveDecrease of 74,000 Tons loping the zine deposits; and
The Mosul oilfields.
Post-war treaties compelled "Turkey to hand over to Greece cer- tain territories which were onco the Sultan's private property. The Mosul ollfields were dealt with by apportionment to companies which included the Royal Dutch Shell, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, as well as the French Government.
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most amusing comedy situations The original plans of defence on; that the screen can offer.
the frontiers have been changed to Critics who have seen the "Tam-adapt the fortifications to the new It is officially stated that up to ing of the Shrew", ball it as an mechanised warfare of the future. the present 1,751.000 tons of achievement in sound recording, Included in the plans of fortifica- have been ground, adethanks to the innovations supplied tions is the construction of marrow crease of 74,000 as compared with by David Forrest, who was res-gauge railways running toward the
To-day-Dinner Dances at long the corresponding period of last ponsible for the microphone work frontiers. Even if one la seized Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.
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by the enemy others will still be 8.30 pm,“
Today Dinner Dance at Repulse This Sam Tayler production available to carry troops, guns, Washington, Yesterday.
offers wonderful scenic beauty as munitions, and to evacuate the civil Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Fancy The Senate has increased the well as an absorbing story. The population.
To-morrow S.P.C.A. tariff on Cuban raw sugar to two distinguished cast includes a num The Treaty of Lausanne of 1923,
The huge undertaking has to be Dress Ball, Peninsula Hotel, 8. p.m. cents per lb., and has rejected her
March 8Old Bedfordian Dinner, however, provided that the proper the proposal of direct bounty to Edwin Maxwell, AS
of Broadway celebrities, carried out without Interference, in
Baptista; the economic peace of the frontier's Hong Kong Club' 8 p.m. ty of Turkish nationals was to be domestie sugar growers and manu-Dorothy Jordan, 88 the beautiful States, all of whom are highly in- respected by the various countries. which took over parts of the Otto-cturers.-Reuter's American Ser-mild-mannered Bianca; Geoffrey dustrial. man Empire, and it is this which has led to the developments which are now being disclosed.
50,000 Title Deeds Abdul Hamid's heirs have always protested that the confiscation of the Sultan's property was illegal, and in their efforts to establish their contention they enlisted the ald of British and American finan ciers.
vice.
The British Position
Rugby, Yesterday. Viscount Elibank, Conservative, in the House of Lords, urged the publication of the report of the Commission which inquired into the
Wardwell, as Hortenslo; Joseph Cawthorn, as Gremio, and funny
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A Special Overture
Foreign Labour
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The labour shortage in France has compelled the Government to resort to foreign labour. Consider able care is to be taken in the selection of the workmen, since
March 14-Volunteer
Battery Dinner, Headquarters.
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March 21-Institution of En- gineers and Shipbuilders, Dinner, 8.80 p.m.
Theatre,
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March 21-Dance, Peak Club.
Entertainments To-day Queen's Theatre, A new departure: In the policy they must necessarily obtain aTaming of the Shrew." condition of the West Indies sugar of the Queen's Treatro manage knowledge of the defence works. Tb-day Star industry. He complained that the ment (and we hops it will be con- The choice will be made from na-"Caught in the Fog." Chancellor of the Exchequer would tinued) is the appearance this tions with whomi- France is least To-day World not state his policy on this question. week of the Theatre Orchestra, likely to fight. They will be con-"The Winning Daughter (Chinese First the Anglo-Hellenic Financei Lord Passfield, Secretary for the spcially argumented for the occa-stantly moved to different areas, so Picture); at 2.80 and 7.15 p.m. Corporation was formed, and then Colonies, said that he was unable to sion, on the stage--instead of be-that they will never obtain a "Love" at 5.15 and 9.20. p.m. the Valideh Trust, Ltd. More re reveal the secrets of the Chancellor's Ing concealed. "It is an admirable thorough knowledge of the fortifica-To-day Majestic Theatre; cently these companies have been budget. He could say nothing innovation. The members of the tions they are to bulld. ANAAN ?The Heart of a Follies Girl".. taken over by the gean Trust, about the policy of the Government orchestra, seated before an artis- According to present intentione, To-day-Helena May Institute
France Concert, 5.30pm. Lid, of Westminster, and it is this on this question, save to repeat the tie background of gold draped Roumanians will be used.
March 22, 28, 26 (matinee), 27, company which has achieved auc- assurance that so long as the tax on curtains, are given the opportun recently negotiated a labour treaty
sagar remained there would be noty to show their skill, and play with Roumania by which 10,000 28, and 29.-A.B.C—“And So Ta abolition of the preference.
an overture in a most' Anished Roumanian labourers were to be Bed," Theatre Royal.. He yielded to none in his estimate manner, which is followed by brought to France.
March 8-St.John Ambulance
icesa.
Its task, however, has been diff- calt, and it was only after securing
the good offices of a French jurist
of world-wide repute that the differences between the heirs wore composed and a common demand made for recognition.
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of the gravity of the situation in violin. and a 'cello solo (La Geographically-Roumania is not Brigade Concert (St, Joseph's all the sugar producing colonies. Cygne). The applause which follikely to go to war with France, College Division), at St. Joseph's Lord Peasfleld pointed out that lowed their performance on Wed- and the friendly and military con- College Hall, 7.30 p.m.. the overproduction of sugar nesday, ahould encourage both Mr. nections between the two nations is throughout the world amounted to Bakalelnikoff, the able conductor, well-known.")+ For five years the negotiational between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 and the management in this splen- have been in progress. Immense tona. The difficulties of the West and enterprise loun sums have been expended; in Indian planters were, therefore, In addition to the "Taming of searching for records of the not only due to apprehenalon about the Shrew," an interesting Fox Sultan's properties, and a collection British preference being withdrawn Movietone News real is shown, of nearly 50,000 title deeds has when the Chancellor made his and a colour-tone revue with the budget statement on April 14. The latest songs and dances. Ir. In addition the trust has had to position was auch that it might not find a monthly sum of about £1,000 be within the power of the Govern Neal, who has a rich baritone to enable some of the imperial | ment to find a remedy. heira to live.
boen secured.
Guillotine for Callous
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Lammerts. Auction To-morrow-At Sallor's Home, voice, gives a delightful rendering With a joke on his lips an 18-West Point, household furniture,
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of "The Trumpeter" supported by year-old youth, Joseph Ughetto, was at 10:30 am and 2,80 p.m. Men and women brought up in -There was no hope of persuading chorus, dressed in the uniform guillotined at Dignes for the spectively. the Oriental luxury and splendour the Chancellor to ridge the of the Foreign Legion. The en-murder of five people at Valensoip,
tertainment at the
Meetings
Queen's Paris. His accomplice, named To-day Hong Kong Football of the Yildiz Kiosk, the Sultans enormous gap between the world entre this week is the best that Mucha, aged 17, escaped the capital Referee's Association Meeting, 6,50 palace in Constantinople, and wait. price of sugar and the cost of pro ed upon by slaves to whom their duction in the West Indies and has yet been offered to the local penalty because of his age. They p.m.
public.
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any assistance which might be Following the death of their Impracticable to enable the West perial father and the confiscation Indian planters to reduce the costs of his estates these 22 people; who of production, but there seemed to were the heirs to properties worth be little possibility of reducing conta £300,000,000, were scattered over as to enable them to produce at the Europe and Asia.
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