THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1935
Representatives of the British Legion were welcomed in Berlin by Reichsfuehrer Hitler last month. picture shows the Fuehrer conversing with Major Fetherstone-Godley.
PUBLIC HERO" ITALIAN
NO. 1
An Extraordinary Crime Film
NOW AT QUEEN'S THEATRE
(By PHYLLIS JUBY)
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LIGHTNING CHANGES
Professor W. Doorlay's Tropical
To-day's Short Story.
The Case Of
Bess Bernard
By Edna Roughley
"REVIOT →→ thought it 3, doctor's lips as he countered the
strange question. • Coming question
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as it did from Dr. Santhorpe, "One meets with queer cases.
the unexpectedness of it caught Makes you think.”
jhim · mawares. Words were
meat and drink to Treviot; a
"As for instance?"
"The case of Bess. Bernard.
question rarely caught him un-Ever heard the name?" prepared to answer readily, but “Seems vaguely familiar” The hesitated now.
The doctor nodded. "
- He and the doctor had been headlines two months ago." speaking of the influence prayer. Treviot whistled "What "the had upon certain types of indivi-devil are you getting at?*** duals: an impersonal discussion" Silence for a long three minutes casually introduced by Santhorpe.then the doctor spoke.. But the doctor lad turned the con~] Iversation into expectedly per sanal questions with his question
"Do you personally believe in prayer. Treviot?**
·TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Reversal" by Mary Ather- tan
Treviot blew a smoke ring ceiling- wards, watched through narrowed eves as the ring widened, dimmed. “My story goes back sixteen and faded into nothingness... Ho years One. morning a few answered at length, with reluctant minutes before three o'clock, the diffidence:
telephone rang. I had gone to bed I never believed in fairy at midnight and was in a heavy tales, either.". He looked curious įsleep, but woke instantly, and de- ily at the doctor. "What's your fore I lifted the receiver knew the
own belief?"
call had come from Mrs. Bernard's.
A half sunike played about the I had been attending her for some months and expected trouble whos
her hour came.
NEW VESSELS LAUNCHED
Fine Union Castle
Liner
"She had interested me from the very beginning; there was some- thing about Bess Bernard that at- tracted. She had one child, a two- year-old-old daughter, and at five | o'clock that morning I delivered her of twin sons a long and in- tricate business that nearly cost A message from Paris states
THREE NAVAL SHIPS the life of mother and children. that the impression prevails there
The woman's Indomitable will that the lengthy conversation Express Non-Stop Revue will oven.
London, To-day.
palled her through the most “in- Here is the most extraordinary which took place yesterday befor a short season at the King's
Yesterday saw the launch of tricate confinement it had been my crime film yet shown, the more as-ween M. Laval and Baron Aloisi Theatre on Wednesday next at 5.30 new vessels, mercantile and naval. lot to handle, she wanted to live. tonishing since it is based on ac-failed to bring the issued
Such fare as the Company from shipyards in England. Scot-and her joy in the children was as in America It has nearer solution. The Italian stand-offers has not been seen in China land and Ireland.
beautiful as it was 'pathetic caused a great deal of comment point, as outlined by Baron Aloisi, before; three minutes is the limit At Belfast the 25,000-ton Union *Her husband. had left her be- allowed for the duration of any Castle liner Stirling Castle was fore he knew of the coming child- wherever it has been shown, for is stated to be as follows:-
single item in a programme which launched at Messrs. Harland and children as it turned out to be proceeds with express speed Wolff's yard. The vessel, which he walked out of her life as un- costumes, scenery eta is intended for the South Africa concernedly as he walked out of necessary for the presentation of service, is 720 feet long and 83 the house. Bess Bernard did not the unique revue weigh several feet wide, and 5,000 tons larger know why. She did not suspect tons, and a band of highly skilled than the biggest existing ship in another woman, but rather in workers is necessary to effect the the company fleet,
compatibility that had jarred them lighting changes that the pro She is a motor-vessel of smart both Her husband's cool going gramme entails-a scene in a rail-appearance, with one low stream-bewildered her, she had not even way station in Europe becomes a lined funnel. a curved stem, and a suspected the breaking point. .⠀ lovely Tyrolese landscape in the cruiser stern. There will be ac- "She was compelled to leave the twinkling of an eye.
commodation for 300 first-class house where she had lived since her and 500 cabin class passengers. marriage, and sought rooms in an Two destroyers of the Ad-area crowded, but cheap by com- ed on the elaborate scale that has miralty 1933 programme, named parison. In one of the two meagre [become familiar through the "Greybound" and "Griffen," were rooms she rented her twin sons
medium of the cinema fl
launched at Vickers Armstrong's were born.
On the Clyde, Some of the "quick fire" num-works at Barrow.
it gives a very real and startling insight into the ingenuity of bath criminals and G-Men.. Gangster films of the past have put some sort of glamour into the lives of these men who live as enemies of the public; but here romance is taken out of crime. We see the prisons as they really are and follow of the lives of beyond the sensational headlines of the newspapers.
Purple Gang
criminals
"Italy must seek new possi bilities of expansion in view of the steady increase of her population. Since only a very few countries are open for European immigrants. Italy is turning to Abyssinia. where she possesses undis puted treaty rights. She must moreover be mindful of the security of her colonies in Somaliland .and Extres. which border on Abyssinia.
"Italy cannot be satisfied with economic expansion. She recognises the rights of other Powers in Abyssinia, but must insist on political gurantees. To this purpose. she has concentrated: 170.0007 troops in both colonies, and will not hesitate to back up her demands with these troops if the proposed peace- ful settlement should not af- ford her “required satisfac- tion The Italian Govern- ment is quite aware of the international dificulties caus- ed by its intentions, but points out that the measures taken have been dictated by vital interests.”
The
Elaborate Settings
Some of the settings are design-
"She was a reserved, refimed bers (as America describes them) Flotilla-leader Granville, embody-woman, having little in common last but half a minute, and almost ing a new development in boiler with her tawdry neighbours; as a before the last word has been equipment, was launched from the consequence she was unpopular, spoken, their successors have es-Scotstoun yard of Messrs., Yar-considered to be 'uppish. She was tablished possession of the stake: row-British Wireless Service.
it is with such celerity that the
The Public Hero No. 1 is he by whose efforts the Public Enemy No. 1 and his infamous "Purple Gang are eventually eliminated. than an exciting There is more and breath-taking story. Chester Morris as Jetf. in the role of the hero. falls in love with the sis ter of this terror of the country The girl is doing all she can to change persuade her brother to his mode of living and when she finds out that Jeff is actually a te man and out secret service
apture her brother she is horri fied. It is not an easy business: for Jeff either, but because he realises what his work means and because of the math he has taken to do all be can for the public good, he retain a sense of honour and duty that is refresh Icircles that France is no less de representative of the temperament
brother and seeks to help
realises in the end that Jeff done as he should and, does give up her lover.
Company presents a Tour round
the World".
Humour Included Humour is an important in- gredient of the general pot-pourri: but there is also an adequate pro- vision of those things which de light the eye as well as the ear. It is stressed in well-informed Dancing is promised in plenty-
to
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oddly, could talk freely to me. Mrs. Bernard once told me I was her only confidant.
sensitive of slights but.
"She" named the boys Lance, called Larry and Philip."
“Your own name," said Treviot,
and the doctor nodded.
"I appreciated it, too. Phil was delicate and difficult to rear, but
"The three children reached
sistence.
London, To-day. Larry thrived. Bess Bernard The London County Council is claimed that Larry was the living ing after the usual sentimental termined than England to maintain and artistry of many nationalities again arranging an extensive pro-image of his father. Since then, outlook we meet on the films. The the peace and respect for the obli-The music of many countries, vocal gramme of lectures and "Refresh-I have met the father and she was girl too, although she retains agations under the League Coven and instrumental, receives like in-er Classes" to enable teachers in right. The resemblance was re- feeling, of loyalty toward her ant, and that M. hard is doing terpretation. There is also a small the councilo schools to remarkable.
him, his utmost to find a solution acroup of Chinese who present abreast with educational develop
the special juggling. These are but a ments and widen their outlook on school age. Bess Bernard still has ceptable to both parties
few of the hundred or more items the literary and humanistic sub-existed in the two shabby rooms- not dispute.
that go to make up a programme, jects which make a background for it was nothing more than ex- for their teaching. During the
"When the girl had turned four- Antumn montes a number of dis- tinguished speakers will deliver teen years of age and the boys lectures, including Sir, William twelve, she first mentioned the Rothenstein. Mr. Eric Gil and prayer. The exact petition is Mr. Richard Sickert, among other known to me, but I know the working for the public good are who was 2000mpanied by the Amported from throughout the city artists: Mr. F. S. Smythe. leader/substance of it. Daily, she prayed, i held. It is just the film to see, bassador. Sir George Clerk, and the Perspiration streamed from of British Himalayan expedition ardently and fervently, with all the too, to get a really big thrillPermanent Under-Secretary for Streicher's face and many in the in 1931 and a member of the earnestness and simplicity of faith, Besides the outstanding perform-Foreign Affairs, Sir Robert Van audience, including Storm Troop Everest Expedition in 1933. Lord that she would be sent sufficient
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Stimulating Film
FIRM BRITISH FRONT The preparatory talks were con- It is stimulating to see a film tinued yesterday afternoon, when that shows us what actually is Laval conferred successively being done to eliminate crime and with the Abyssinian Minister. Mr. shows in what esteem the men Hawariate, and with Mr. Eden,
ance of Chester Morris and Jean sittart
Im
VIOLENT ATTACK ON JEWS
(Continued from Page 1)
No serious disorders were
re-
ers, fainted in the overcrowded Passfeld and Sir Dension money to enable her to move with the children to a sezside home. Arthur; there is. Limel Barry- "Sauerwein," writing
the hall-Beuter.
Roeser more, who plays the part of the Paris Soir, states that the British
The Secretary for India, Lord And whether right or wrong, she set a time limit the girl's eigh- old doctor in league with the standpoint, as presented by Mr. demands, whereby he would save Zetland, will give an address teenth birthday. criminals, and Lewis Stone who Eden on Wednesday, was very firm, his throne as well as his personal "India and the new constitution there were my other peti- plays the prison warder.
the British Minister having finally prestige, which would be at stake with the Chairman of the LCCtions and there, were
edly Regarding the rest of the pro-given his hearers to understand in the event of war
Lord Snell, presiding. The Earo gramme, it is worth noting that that if France could not see her NEGUS ENTERTAINS. PRESS pean situation will be discussed many-in Besa Ber the Queen's Theatre news ser way to co-operating with England A message from Addis Ababa in a series of lectures by the never heard of
prised when vice, Hearst's Metrotine, reaches in upholding the League Covenant states that foreign press corres, historian, Dr. G. P. Grooch.
special prayer, and the Colony well in advance of any England would be compelled to pondents were invited to tea by the British Wireless Service. other. It comes direct from New seek security, in bilateral pacts. Emperor in the new Imperial York to Hong Kong and thus the events screened are all of a com paratively recent date
MAN IN RESERVOIR
The body a man
· PRESSURE ON. NEGUS?. Palace yesterday afteri -"Sauerwein” expresses the In welcoming his opinion that France cannot ponsi Negua said he was delight bly renounce the British friendship so many foreign jou and acquiesce in destroying the bled in his capital, alt League of Nations but so ha ted the unfor
adds what if Italy insists on aged demands for politica
#about: 60; ound floating in a control in Abyssinia
identified as that of would be to compe George Eastland of Bourne combined
Powers to submit
Walk Hastings.
The Eurper
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