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"The Law's A Hass"
aking another step towards obtain. been worse.
The facts are
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VILLAIN'S 190 DEATHS
WORLD'S LOVELIEST
WOMEN
NATIONAL CLAIMS BY ALL RACES
PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS WHICH ARE SPECIALLY VALUED
PEOPL
(By Charles Carter)
Bose
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2
ing what in her own judgment is Miss Edwina Booth, who played her own just-if not at the moment the White Goddess in "Trader
EOPLE, of all nations believe their fortunate possessor. But lawful-due. Austrin, it was sug Horn," was exposed so long to the
that their own women are the negro races, who have lived gested, was to be annexed by African sun, with no covering but the most beautiful in the world as the stunted denizens of thick Hong Kong, Saturday, June 6, 1936-tial stories were circulated abouted some obscure disease.
Germany at once, and circumstan-a leopard skin, that she contract- Tall and fair Saxons, oval-faced, forests, can year in vain to pos- dark-eyed Italians. red-haired sess these ir equal measure with the gathering of troops in the bor
Irish colleens, sloe-eyed Orientals the Zulus of the towns. It pow appears that
wide. Ever since she has lain in aand dusky Hawaiians--they all re-plateaux of Africa or the brown there was no solid foundation toejdark room. The best specialists ceive the first rates of their own South Sea Lalanders, who Far more facile pens (or, in and the Gennan Press are
these rumours. and Herr Hitler of England and America bave people.
very been unable to cure her.
spend their days bathing the these days, should it be type angry about them.
But what would a visitor from whole year round. writers?) than ours have com- it is quite true that the Pressing film-acting can be.
Few people realise how exact Mars, with an unprejudiced eye, mented on the peculiar con may easily do a great deal of harm day standards of realism are
Present-think if he came here during the
Happy Islanders These happy istanders of the cepts, in some instances, of to the cause of international good-high that players are expected to al beauty contests in which Miss which help them in
10lcourse of one of those internation- South have many advantages English case law.
There is a will by giving too essy credence undertake the most arduous roles England. Miss France, Miss Ameri-claim they possess to be regarded the strong great deal to be said for the and publicata to suspicions. But, British system of basing law on on the whole. British editors and as a matter of course.
ca and Miss Japan and the rest, as the world's most beautiful race. Clark Gable, for instance, preccdents, but that it works correspondents use their liberty and
was meet to compete for the title of They are the tallest race, and their rather curiously in some cases discretion in a highly responsible drenched for hours with waves Miss World?
during the making of "Mutiny of
figures are beautifully proportion- cannot be denied. Indeed, the and worthy manner.
You can put yourself in his place ed. whole value of Mr. Herbert's
Many Excuses
the Bounty"-in which one man when you visit the cinema. As "Misleading Cases" is that they In this particular instance, they was actually killed.
you sit back in a comfortable seat where their beauty stands or falls.
To many women the so often disclose the futility of may have erred, but in view of the
there passes before you a pareant It is too long or it is too short. applying legal decisions of other facts, plenty of excuses may be
of beauty from every corner of It has no bridge or it is arched days to these more complicated made for their error.
the world. There may be crowd like a camel's hump. It has times. The point is well made,
In bla previous picture, The scenes "shot" or location during sharp narrow point or it is scb. it will be remembered, in his (a) that Herr Hitler's declared am-
bition includes the absorption Call of the Wild." be had been the filming of a "Trader
Horn" it is thin and bony or it is thick scathing expose of the laws of
of Austria ín the German frozen among the snows of the or a South Seas film, or they may and fat. Rarely is it just right. libel and slander, as contained
Rockies the nearest available be educational films giving glimp- In the West, where the tradi- in that entertaining action in that when a question of right equivalent to Alaska.
ses of the lives of people in far- tion of the classical Greek type of which His Majesty's Judicial
arises between him and another
That is the penalty of being a off lands. Committee
beauty dies hard, we prefer a re- of
country, he prefers to decide it. the House of
by a unilateral judgment of his hero. Villains, of whom a shoti Complex Of Qualities gularity of features with a nose Lords fail, by the unfortunate!
own rather than by submitting at somebody's back is all that is circumstance of the Lord Chief
You can have the same difficult possessing the happy mean of all the issue to third party arbitra-expected in trying circumstances, task of choosing which of the na-those characteristics. Justice suddenly dying of
fare rather better-until the last tions of the world produces
the The second of these facts was of) apoplexy and thus being pre-
But stroke it up or stroke reel
greatest beauty as I used to have down, pull, and twist it, take up vented from giving his casting course clearly illuminated by his vote, to decide whether "Jones coup d'etat March 7. without Then they must be prepared to when I collected cigarette
carda boxing or Rugby football to get and it broken and reset, whatever you is an ass" spoken into a grame-pressing any opinion on his moral suffer death in every manner that of the peoples of all lands,
the Rhine resourceful script writers can in-tried to decide which of them I do will not affect the fact that phone record. can be classed as right to remilitarise libel or slander. Probably the lat or even on the legal question vent. One Rollywood villain has would visit frst.
the shape of your nose was settled point in actual life will never had already ben broken by the killed in 190 of them.
whether or not the Locarno Pact played in 221 pictures, and been, be settled: but it is interesting Franco-Soviet Pact. to consider what would happen that no one can ever know where if it ever did arise. Similiarly he stands with a man who, instead we seem to remember a recent of seeking wisfaction for his grie House of Lords decision which vances by t prescribed way to promises a rare mix-up some which he is committed by his own;
If you live in a cold, dry coun- ¡day. (It should be remember-praise, judges his own case for
try a long and thin nose causes ed that that tribunal is the only hanself and acts at once with fine peaches to open."
are innumerable com-the air you breathe to pass into secular authority in this wide moral fervour upon his own unaid.
binations of these qualities-the your lungs in a this, carrow and imperfect world
ingredients out of which whose ed judgment.
nature stream, so that it has a good Not Fery dicta take on the character of
fashions its supreme confection chance of being warmed on Little Joan acknowledged gift a beautiful woman. Which of the way, absolute infallibility). As far There is every reason to believe, from her Aunt Josephine: as we can recollect Their Lord- therefore, that at any moment this "Thank you for your present. I've national recipes we think the best ships decided that, for legal pur- unreliable dictator may once more always wanted pincushion.
depends upon our taste, what is moist forests there is no need for certain is that it is not possible for the air to get warmed up. poses, an unborn child was not take the law into his own hands not very much." a person. But the whole con-and in contempt of the League of
the individual woman to alter her can spread about freely, and the ception of the crime of abortion Nations and all other law seize
racial type, for its seeds lie hid-broad nose is the result. When in English law is based upon the He was afraid to take such action country are like the bass drum." Austria ly an act of violence.
"Some of the political questions den deep down in the history of you look at the keen nose of the now being windily debated about the mankind. theory that it is. To a layman
Prairie Indian and the flat stubby the decisions appear to
in 1934 at the time of the Austrian
Beauty of figure and grace of organ of the Negro you will on- fict; it will be interesting to
Nazi rising because Italy's troops "After you listen to both sides of movement contribute greatly to derstand the reason. were then to prevent success. it you haven't heard much." see what happens when both
the appeal of the woman who is (Continued on Page 10) Today he is very much stronger, parties to a dispute quote the Italy is aged in her own illegal applicable decisions and Their alventur, and the League of Lordships have to decide Xations is suffering severe if we whether, and in which instance, my hope only temporary-reverses they have been wrong- And in her struggle with Italy. this in itself will raise legal Apparently, however, Germany consequences which may well be is not willing at the moment to revolutionary. The present take a step which would definitely theory is that Their Lordships alienate the British sympathy that are never wrong, and never she is cultivating. have been wrong. If appelant can quote a vious ruling
a
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It is obvious!
Unreliable Dictator
This feminine beauty is a com-for you thousands of years ago plex of many different qualities when your ancestors decided to Physical form., regularity of fea-live in the dry, cold plains of ture, the quality of the skin and Mongolia or the thick moist forests its colour, the hair, personality of Africa. all go in varying proportions to with make up the indefinable thing.
Your Daily Smile!
Mother Needs It "Dear, dear, you musn't play daddy's razor!"
"Why?" "Because mother has a
pre- a hass." One may perhaps not matter altogether agree with that of law, as handed down forceful dictum, but there cer- by the Judicial Committee of tainly appear to be good the House of Lords, the case grounds for suggesting that must be decided in his favour, antiquated, out of date laws, since any decision by that clearly inapplicable in present august body is irrevocable, conditions, should not require absolute and infallible. If an individual Act of Parliament then, they should admit that for the repeal of each before Homer has nodded and that one being consigned to the limbo of of their decisions is open to re-the past. There is obviously vision, a cherised precedent will scope for revision by a proper- have gone by the board.
ly constituted authority of all..
And in that case it will pos- such anachronisms in English sibly be allowable to revise law. We believe it is still pos some other legal judgments sible, under an old statute, for which seem to have outlived persons witnessing a football their day.
A King's Bench match to be fined anything up Divisional Court last month, for to £10 for a misdemeanour in instance, interpreted a section so doing. Certain rights of of the Road Traffic Act of 1930. Lords of the Manor-however It decided that a taxicab whose applicable they were in mediae- Dassengers share a fare is no val days-would, if enforced longer a taxicab but an "express now, cause an outery. Only carriage" requiring its appro-recently the whole conception of priate road-service licence. tithe has been the subject of This being the law, it is clearly a Royal Commission. The broken by a taxi-driver who House of Lords would lose none invites passengers to a sports of their authority if, for once, meeting, for instance, to ride they freely admitted that together and pay a flat rate per decision handed down in say head. And to enforce the law 1482 does not necessarily apply to its logical conclusions and to present conditions, and prosecute in every case would therefore need not hold authori- require an army of policemen, ty as a legal precedent. Mr. ready to come up whenever they Justice Wool, it will be remem- saw two or more persons get-bered, frequently, amid sneezes, ting out of a taxi and satisfy expressed the same opinion. themselves that only one of Whether Their Lordships could them paid the whole fare. bring themselves to do so, how-
A most estimable person is re-ever, is another matter; and ported to have remarked on a there, one supposes, it must famous occasion that "the law's rest for the moment.
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