THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1936
HOLLYWOOD IS LIKE OXFORD
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There is a good deal of simi- larity between the feverish way the undergraduate furnishes his rooms and the way the film-! star furnishes his home (ori gets an interior decorator to do it for him). Where an under- graduate will instal a cocktail- cabinet. 3 film-stir will lay down Я star-blue swimming bath. But the cliche is equally obligatory in both places.
An important film-star will also build a separate ping-pong
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I did not swim as masterfully as he, but
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I beat him at ping-pong Activities Split Up
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Just as legends cluster round certain fabulous Heads of Col- leges, a Jowett of Balliol, or ai Spooner of New College, legends cluster round such pro- duction-chiefs as a Darryl F. Zanuck of Fox, or a Sam Gold wyn of M.G.M. (which is the! mucous of a good story, to quote the last distinguished gentle. man). He must have meant Tnucleus."
Skirmishes At Melee During
Blackshirt Meeting
Police reservists were called to a Blackshirt open-air meeting at the junction of Cable-street and Dellow-street, Stepney, E.
2 dis last month following turbance. The meeting was abandoned.
There were several skirmishes between the police and the de- monstrators. One man was in- jured and was taken to hospital,
was removed while another Leman-street police-station.
to
DOCTOR'S CLAIM FAILS
Judgment For Hospital
QUESTION OF LENGTH OF NOTICE
Judgment w
the given in King's Bench Division last month for the Hampshire Joint Mental Hospitals Visiting Committee and their clerk, Mr. V. F. Barber.
They were sued by Dr. Hugh Charles McManus, Of King who Edward-avenue, Blackpool, claimed damages for alleged
But are you suggesting that ladies and gentlemen is so vast, wrongful dismissal from his posi- is spread abroad over the con- tion as medical officer at Park
the
it is preposterous to compare tinents by so colossal a machine Prewett Mental Hospital, near the mellow antiquity of Oxford Colleges with the gim-of publicity, that when you Basingstoke, Hampshire.
first meet them, you feel! Serjeant Sullivan, KC. for Dr- crack impermanence of the curiously saddened. It doesn't!- McManus, informed Mr. Justice
I can
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Hollywood studios?
of in- assure you, nothing could have matter how blase you think you Machaghten that because
are, it comes as something of a ness. Dr. McManus would be un- been less impermanent than the shock to see that Gary Cooper able to attend court for at least barge I saw wallowing in is just life-size, and Maureen four days. Dr. McManus had felt Hollywood tank, the barge on O'Sullivan is so tiny that you the strain of the case. which Marie Dressler function-
can wrap her up in a pocket! Mr. Justice Marnaughten: That ed so stalwartly as Tugboat handkerchief. Annie."
City Of Verona
means that the issue that was to But the disappointment įbe tried by this" jury cannot be passes. You get a sense of tried
And there is the city of exultation that Marlene Die Serjeant Sullivan: That is so. Verons Now I have often trich has spilled a little of her
Point Of Law been to the actual city of cocktail over your left sleeve, Verona in Italy, where Romeo just as Maggie Smith did at and Juliet loved each other so that party in St. John's Wood out that during the previous hear- tragically. I have also seen And if you beat Pani Muni ating a large number of issues in the papier-mache city of Verona ping-pong but I do not the case had been disposed of The
Mr. Justice Macnaghten pointed
on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer think it would be dignified to remaining issue (regarding notice) lot, where Norma Shearer and go on singing about that per-was subject to argument on a point Leslie Howard have just been formance.
of law, and he had refrained from Yes, the Hollywood I found expressing an opinion on the ques- woes in celluloid.
recording Romeo's and Juliet's
the jury would not arise.
to Dr. McManus the question for I can tell you that the Holly-was quite a lot like Oxford Ition If his opinion was adverse wood Verona looked a good also bears quite a strong like deal more real and old than the mess to the primitive jungle of real old thing. The doves Borneo, but I will not attempt saw dustered round the edge of to expound that similarity now. the papier-mache fountain had
ja great deal more sense of responsibility than the scraggy the fowls I heard wooing in cabbage-littered marble basins Erbe in of the Piazza delle
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Serjeant Sullivan: That would ¡be an end of the case.
and
The jury was discharged counsel proceeded to argue on the point of law regarding notice.
Justice In his judgment Hz.
Mc- Macnaghten said that Dr. Manus had sued a number of de- fendants for the purpose of ob- 2nd taining a variety of relief, the withdrawal of all his claims except that before the court was suficient in itself to show that his allegations were unfounded
Adequate Notice?
Verona.
There is one more similarity I would like to adduce. I remem- ¡ber before I went up to Oxford in what terrific awe I stood of the President of the Union, the
An agreement giving increases President of the University in pay totalling 2100,000 a year to Boat-Club and the various other 34,000 Civil Servants has been Regarding dismiss from the reached with the British Treasury post which he held from June 1 University mandarins.
The awe survived for a week and signed on their behalf by the 1923, to October 21, 1927, he was the or two, or a month or two, till 1 Civil Service Clerical Association paid three months' salary on actually set eyes on these
clerks, and is re-date that he left the hospital. The archangelic figures. The re- sult was at once disillusioning trospective from May 1 It pro-question now raised was-assum- and comforting. The worthy vides a maximum of 72s a week, ing that he was entitled to reason- the present 57s, able notice whether a period of gentlemen only had two eyes compared with apiece and five fingers on each for about 10,000 writing assist three months was adequate notice.
ants; an extended maximum of That was subject to a further McManus hand, like you and me
£350 for male clerks, as against question whether. Dr. 5357: and £262,
against was entitled to any notice at all
behalf It had been argued on It was like that in Hollywood,£253, for women clerks. The total but rather more so, I think affected by the latter change is of the defendant committee that the Lunacy Act, 1890, etapowered | The fame of those celluloid 24,000.
them to revoke at their pleasure the appointment of, and remove From office, any person in their em- ployment without assigning any reason for their action:....
Me: Justice Macnaghten thought
Like Jungle Of Borneo
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Private Trade More Efficient
The Co-operative Congress at,ed" Private traders were capable that that contention was well found. Newcastle last month carried of far more efficiency than co-led on the authorities and for that, con-reason Dr. McManng's dismissal resolution instructing the execu-operative societies, and, in tive committee to undertake an sequence, were "a menace to our claim failed.
The action was accordingly dis economic survey of the movement economy. etc., apply to ascertain -- its progress Mr. H. G. Wright (London), missed, with costs.
compared with private trade, to supporting the resolution," said indicate weakness in the organise that they had been told that capi- CHILDREN ELECTROCUTED tion, and suggest remedies. taliam was on its last legs. But #%-5%
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE CO
Moving the resolution, Mr. J. he contended, in recent years in Edward Carey, aged six, - of
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