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GREAT ARTIST BUT NO PROPAGANDIST
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(By PHYLLIS JUBY)
Charlie Chaplin is
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(By Nathan Straus)-
low-rental
in
Mr. Woodward has two chances,
decent of purposeless suffering, but be
THERE is a rivalry between value- cfers no solutions. He doesn't with Boswell and Flares, and of
Actual achievement to date even try to explain. We feel his the two Boswell is the better the peoples of English-homes. picture is too much a contempor-(colt.
speaking countries which is far
homes for ary scene to leave us with
no This in spite of Flares being a from the field of armaments is that seven projects in six
I mean à rivalry in cities, providing Hong Kong. Thursday, May 7, 1936, comfort, no suggestion that there full brother to the famous Ameri- and war.
might be some solution
can horse, Omaha, which has been the development of democratic about 12,000 persons, have been promo-undertaken by private limited- But perhaps it is in this simple sent to England to run for this institutions, and the
tion of the welfare of the com-dividend housing corporations, financed by low-interest Gor- presentation of situations that bis year's Ascot Gold Cup. genius lies. He will anger and Mrs. James Corrigan was fired mon man.
ambitions when she
Americans like to point with jernment funds. of irritate none; those who would sim- by Derby
Three Stages The General Chamber
Moreover, under legislation Commerce here is the mouth-ply laugh, laugh, those who would gave 7.100 guineas. for Technique pride to achievements in many man at the Doncaster yearling sales fields in which we believe we piece of the commercial com-ponder, ponder. The little
there are certain Division of the Public Works Imunity and as such any pro-identifies himself with his au-lin 1934, the top price that year. have led the way to progress enacted in 1935, the Housing
So completely does he do Technique did not run as a two- However, nouncements it has officially tojdience.
year-old. His debut at Lingfield milestones on the road toward Administration has initiated on which Great its account 57 housing schemes, make or business matters may this that he ties himself down to:
the no dialect but speaks only with Park last Friday has not excour-social justice be taken to represent
has now begun. When com- general opinion of business and the universal voice of gesture and aged American hopes of a Derby Britain can rightfully claim to on most of which construction
have reached long before us. the expression. And what joy it is to win. He then finished last. commercial interests in
For instance, there are the plete, within a year's time, they The third American owner in Colony. In his review of the see a silent film again. There are the annual general the sound effects, music, and an
step Practically every meeting of the Chamber on occasional spoken word. He has the Derby picture is Mr. Ralph abolition of slavery; the enact-will provide modern low-cost
Mr. Strass-tion, laws, to protect labourers colt Philadelphus. Monday the Chairman. the Hon. shown us what the cinema might Beaver Strassburger, with his ment of workmen's compensa- housing for 130,000 persons.
re-States goes through the same Mr. W. H. Bell. was able to be; he has made use of the modert burger owns Boethius, which was in hazardous occupations; and, social progress in the United
2x a back. make an optimistic forecast of technique, but only
beaten by only a head in the Lin-more recently, has come
cognition of the obligation of three stages. First, it is said the business future of the ground to his own artistry.
colnshire Handicap recently.
the State to provide decent to be contrary to the laws of or twe
Choice Of Heroine
1God and man. Then it is "an- Colony. based on one
housing for its inhabitants.
constitutional:" and finally it is His choice of a heroine is a particularly important factors.
. Use of State Aid The first of these is the man- surprise and a delight; no mere
You in Great Britain have accepted as natural, proper, and state of avernent of its currency by the characterless sentimentality. No
built with government aid since the only reasonable
Our housing PTC- Chinese Government, which, a wonder that this time, instead of Mr. Bell remarked, has been going off alone on the endless road
During a village concert "the stage the war more than 2,100.000 affairs.
and through out of screen, he goes in company gave way
the vac list fell dwellings in model, low-rental gramme is now in the "uncon- successfully carried
or housing estates. stitutional" stage.
Readers of the American for the last six months, show smiling, and looking for what may through. He was accompanied by a projects
During the same period we in ing no reason to suppose that turn up. Miss Paulette Goddard friend at the piano.
America have built fewer than news in your newspapers wit the management may not be is clever. amusing and lovely.
SNAPPY successfully continued. The There is plenty to laugh at, of
"Over the bridge for Morecambe 15.000 government-aided dwell-not have to be told of the rigi In fact, practically all dity with which our written next important point is
course Charlie twisting screws shouted the harassed porter as loadings.
of our achievements have been Constitution occasionally blocks in the tighter or stabilised
little pieces of ma-1y as he could.
A woman tapped him on the concentrated in the last two the path to needed reforms, or election of at least delays their enactment. Colony, more or less "pegged" chinery passing by on a belt, that
Great Difficulties in relation both to sterling and
moves faster at the whim of the shoulder.
"Which is the train for More years, since the
President Roosevelt. of an the experiment
Even though our housing the Chinese currency.
manager;
The unemployment crisis of there is the evidence of increas automatic feeding machine with cambe?" she asked.
"Over the bridge for Morecambe,"
the early 1930's, involving com-programme is approved by pub- ing cordiality in the business hygienic mouth wiper, which will
repeated the porter.
chest." a tin "But I've got
sheplete stagnation in the building lic opinion and is so framed as relations of Canton and Hong enable a man to be fed while he
industry, served to focus public to be constitutional, there are Kong. It has been stated over works and so eliminate the lunch expostulated.
have For instance, we hour: how it runs amok when it "Lady," said the norter. through attention on American slums, great difficulties not known to jand over again that close and
lenched teeth. "I don't care if you between cardial relationships
reached the has
have a brass back, copper legs, and American homes, and their fit-you.
If that single ownership, such as house human beings. leader simply by picking up a red for Morecambe!"
2 impetus to housing pro-a commonplace in England. trade for both parties.street flag which has fallen off a
In a report of the City of gramme bears fruit, the de This is so obvious as hardly
Borry. but
The minister had just married anpression will have left, in addi-Westminster for the year end- to need re-statement,
In the person af Charlie Chap to continues
be a there
Lain we live through fantasies elderly and rather dour Scot to ation to its great heritage of ing March 31, 1935, there are
woman considerably younger both communities section in
of ing estates, both of them built each of us have had in some formimself, and after the ceremony he lives wrecked and careers ruin- descriptions of two huge hous-
skating who cannot, or will not, recog-
remarked to the bridegroom, "welled one real contribution
on property belonging to duke. Land
is Equaly
acquisition obvious. ¡nise the
with fairylike grace along the I suppose you'll be going for a honey-
married life."
when simplified patent is the benefit which will edge of a precipice!
The bridegroom shook his head immensely morosely- be derived from the linking of
"Na, na," he said. "I dinna hold large tracts in one ownership the Colony by air to Europe; |
(Continued on Page 10) and when Mr. Bell said that "to the ordinary, business man it EXPLANATION OF clergymaan "A little trip somewhere wi gallivantin' aboot wi a strange are available.
currency
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TO-DAY'S CARTOON
Little Sure Shot"
NNIE OAKLEY, christened
seems impossible that two great lines like Imperial Airways and Fan-American Airways, which i in a short time will practically encircle the globe. should have their meeting places 35 miles apart." he was enunciating what
other many
Phoebe Anne Oakley "Mozee,! business besides
sense-was born on August 13, 1860, in a Ito be stupid and
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un-log cabin in Ohio. As soon as she less
It is anomaly.
hold a gun, doubtedly the business of the was old enough to
that she got a authorities to see to the forg-Annie found out
very great kick out of shooting the big ing of this link in the near future. The thing is not firearms her father kept around impossible, and whatever the the house, but her enthusiasm was difficulties in the way, they act diminished. She played with re- guns instead of dolls. Her should be tackled forthwith
cir- as a markswoman Mr. T. A. Mitchell, who fputation
when still very seconded the adoption of the culated fast and Report and Accounts, made a young, she was on the vaudeville good point when he pleaded for stage. Records of marksmanship !less - talk of the eternal were heaped upon her shoulders. "Depression." In truth every-She got a perfect score with 50 split a card in two body is heartily sick both of the live birds - word itself and of the state of sidewise at 30 paces burst 4,772 mind, which it indicates. Con-balls out of 5,000 in ten hours of tinual prating of the "Depres-continuous shooting shot a 934 sion" indicates the worst sort out of 1,000 and other records of defeatist attitude a meta- too numerous to mention.
Miss Oakley died on November phorical folding of the hands
at the age of 67. and waiting for some miracu-13, 1926. lous agency, rather than sus-
WHIST DRIVE AT K.C.C. tained individual effort, to lift business out of the slough of it has despond "into which
A very successful whist drive fallen Micawber-like attri-was held at the Kowloon "Cricket butes may argue the best form Club last night, when a very large under the of philosophical resignation, gathering assembled but they are extraordinarily direction of Messrs. C. J. Tacchi,. bad for business. What is T. Carr and I. 5. Smith. The wanted is energy, optimism and evening was voted one of the most hard work. The preliminaries, enjoyable this season, and it is as Mr. Bell pointed out, are hoped to make this form of enter In his tainment a regular feature of the there for the asking.
words: "Conditions are club's social programmmie.. own more favourable for a revival
of trade, and the depression Two cases of diphtheria were which has weighed so heavily reported as having occurred in the on us shows signs of lifting." Colony during the 24 hours ended
It is up to the business com-on Tuesday last. munity to do the rest.
"C'est
la guerre" and everything which of forgotten catchwords; they it connotes might most conveni-are seldorn of the slightest use ently be relegated to the limbo to anybody.
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