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The latest addition to the County Cotes the Editor, and be accompanied by tem, at a lecture he gave at Wig-Court judges, Mr. Digby the Writer's Name and Address more Hall, W., recently, that hereedy, who has just been appoint- not necessarily for insertion, but was unable to deal with more thaned to the Oxford Cirent, is no
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His answers cleared up some successful silks in side-issues of his dietary. Thus, Court, Mr. Cotes-Preedy studied T is the policy of the cinema to volutionary activity are he said that home-made sweets medicine. At one time he was a might be eaten in moderation, and house surgeon that "I wouldn't say it was entire Hospital.
His experience furnished him!y import treated. When some wood and the nation at large has courageous soui dares such a thing, sneered at such narrowness: there books. many Hong Kong, Friday, Dec. 4, 1936. ly necessary to avoid smoked sal-
with material for
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pamphlets and articles on medico-hands and the U.S. Hays Office, it is imposing the same restrictions He condemned drinking with legal subjects.
is 80 innocuous as to be of little upon itself. "It Can't Happen meals, but conceded that a thirsty In the past journalism has been value. "Black Fury" of a season Here" was abandoned because it diner might have a few sipe of a second string to Mr.
ago started out to be a vigorous could not be released in Europe. Grave constitutional issues water He hesitated to recom-Preedy's professional bow.
mines and it emerged, after spirit-prepared making the project one for American showing are indeed involved in the unimsend fasting to any who had not has also found time to cultivate Chronicle of conditions in the coal but even if a budget should be
musical talents.
the impositions happy dispute which has arisen done it before.
It is believed that there is noted protests from the mining people, feasible between the King and his Min- isters with regard to His Maj-
any other bolder of judicial office as a lukewarm drama dependent only, knowing
upon ficticious elements. "Fury." that were placed on the original dealing with mob paychology and script, it is doubtful that the jesty's reported intention to
In his lecture Dr. Hay said that with published compositions American divorce instead of regarding disease as his credit.
brutality, was a braver effort, but theme of the book would be car- marry an
Fritz Lang had to be very careful ried intact to the screen, Samuel a plain That is intentionally
something that was just too
Goldwyn is preparing "Murder in statement of the facts in plain bad, we should realise, long be-KING'S No. 1 JOCKEY
not to offend anyone.
It is the fear of offence coupled! Massachusetts," but so many re- language. The matter has gone fore it recognisably appeared. The choice of 21-year-old John too far now to be either gloss-that the body
W35 undergoing Crouch as the King's first jockey with a pretty general ignorance strictions have been placed on it for next season is a reversion to of conditions outside the boy- that there may be some difficulty ed over by polite dismissal or
causes in recognising the picture play's : Edwardian precedent. evasion of the issues which
Herbert Jones, who was a bril- must squarely be faced. Hither-
Fatigue A Warning
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to we have refrained from giv-ables and fruits," he said, "areant No. 1 jockey for King Ed/Hollywood to tread lightly. Tou, connection with the original.
War Bulletins
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meets-girl "We should eat frecly of veget-
the screen is designed to appeal must avoid con- the flood of milk can be taken freely with
to all and thus
The way things are going, it will ing currency to
most people find 75ward VII, began in that position
when ever younger than Crouch.
troversy and it lives in constanti rumours, insinuations and allithem, But the other loathsome publicity per cent. of their diet in acid- He owed this, it is believed. to dread of being regarded as an un-lbe necessary for every newspaper influence. Youthful anxious to keep abreast of the wholesome subject has forming foods, such as meat, eggs, the fact that as a stable lad he with which the
crime has been attributed to pic-times to publish a daily cokum of proved singularly successful in been invested in America--and fish and cheese.”
from Hollywood. indeed, nearer home than that.
Exercise was a help, but it handling the great but uneven-tem-tures but the Hays Office, greatly war bulletins
concerned, conducted an investi-From the battle scarred fields of can be We have been guided in this should be exercise taken for plea-pered Persimmon.
and Paradise the following 2 When Joe Childs retired as
gation a fer seasons ago policy by considerations of good
could not find a single instance in reported: aste as much as by simple resure rather than prescribed exer-
cises one did not care for and veteran of 32 in December last
which a juvenile crime was in- George Raft has been taken off luctance to offer a comment un-which might rain the body if they year, Fox, another veteran
Owing to il something definite emerged.
left fatigue behind. Fatigue was chosen as his succESSOT. That something definite is now
never occupied the position of the was a pretty heavy whitewash but his refusal to appear in "You and
it was largely true. public property. It appears that warring that the alkaline reser-King George's death, however, he spired by a motion picture. That salary by Paramount because of Janet Gaynor may not sign His Majesty has expressed
King's first jockey. wish to enter into marriage with an American lady who has twice figured in divorce cases in her own country and Eng- land. The Prime Minister, as' the the proper spokesman of
ve was shrinking.
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nation, has, in a private audi- ence of His Majesty, intimated
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that any such misalliance would Circumnavigator gravely prejudice certain con- stitutional issues. And there
the matter for the moment rests.
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This fear permeats strange re again with Twentieth Century- cesses in producers' minds. An ex-Fox They want her to take less ample at hand is "The McKinley than the $4,000 a week she has Mistress--"I wonder who broke Case" at Twentieth Century-Fox been receiving for several years
which has been divested of al its, and she seems disinclined.
Simone Simon has staged an- this plate in two pieces?"
Maid "You can be sure it wasn't original theme. When the yarn me; when I break a plate I break it was conceived it was to have dealt] other rebellion at Fox and has with the detective work surround-been removed from "The White ing the apprehension of the assas Hunter;" "illness" was the rea- sin of President McKinley; as it son giver but temperament is i anow standa as "Living Dangerous-more accurate description, accord- y" all political angles have been ing to those on the lot. Loretta abandoned and the film is to con-Young. Rochelle Hudson and Alice Faye are all reported at logger. ern itself with events leading u to the Spanish-American war, a heads with the studio, Miss Young
having refused to appear safe enough subject in anybody's
"Lloyds of London.”
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"It's raining cats and dogs outside" "I know--I just stepped into 1poodle."
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A Talkie
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“BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L. Ripley
vis Lancaster "I hear that the Hollywood pro ber of people who will feel, and and Peel sounds to a winter har-ducers are threatening to move to be prepared to support in prin-bour of King William Land and Florida. ciple, the theory that the King thence along the coast to Bering Adolf Henrik should be allowed to make his Strait, 1903-1906. personal choice in such a per- Lindstron, of Hammerfest, Nor- sonal affair. But the whole way, who is 71 years to-day, was a He also sailed question of the ethics of the cook on the Gjoa.
the seven seas De & mariner and that, for national and imperial around the Horn up to the West reasons, the King's choice of a Coast of the American Continent.. consort is not only a personal while the Gjos now stands as a matter. The constitutional monument to herself and crew in position of the King is based on the Golden Gate Park in San Fran the theory that he is a servant cisco, Lindstrom, the only man to the American of the State as well as its figure-circumnavigate
resides in Oslo, head; that in any such connec-Continent, stil tion as this, when the principles Norway.
of the State contest with the
private principles of the King,
there is no question that His
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Majesty's private wishes must the great body of the nation;| be subordinated to those of his but a sine qua non would have people. It is unthinkable that to be that the lady concern vi the King will deliberately, open-was of unblemished reputation There is ly, unashamedly flout the ex-and antecedents. pressed opinion of his millions a limit to which an affectionate of subjects that any such mar-people will view the personal a sovereign riage as he contemplates would shortcomings of cut right across the loyalty and and excuse them on the score of his people that even a King is primarily devotedness throughout the length and a person; and so long as they breadth of his empire. The do not affect his constitutional point is not whether the lady privileges and the rights and concerned is or is not a most interests of the empire as estimable person, but whether whole they will be generally she can ever be held fit to take winked at and good-humored the place of the Queen of Eng-ly tolerated. The King might, land. The King, by his mar-feeling that his personal pre- with riage, would not merely be wed-dilections do not accord ding a wife, but also a Queen, the duties as a sovereign, quite There is little doubt that an easily abdicate the high res- American divorces would not bejponsibilities to which he has persona gruta with by far the been born and called, and con- larger majority of His Majes-tinue to live in future as some-) ty's subjects. The honour of thing which he most definitely Queendom is something more is not now a private person, than an empty title or right in the fullest sense of that his conferred merely by the unad-term: entitled to follow : orned process of marriage. The own bent in affairs of the heart nation would resent the bes-or of anything else. But that tragedy for the More towal of this honour on any wo would be a man whom they felt was not nation and the empire. constitutionally fitted to take than that: it would be a per- her appointed place as Queen sonal tragedy for His Majesty by birth, upbringing and gen-himself. It would be far too eral antecedents. A divorcee, high a price to pay for a love- American or otherwise, would match even if it did not par ipso facto appear to be an m take of the elements of an in- desirable person, in this sense. fatuation. Fiz Majesty's loyal In these freer and more tole subjects will pray that he may rant times almost any choice be delivered from the tremen- jamong his noble or common dous folly of forcing the issue subjects would be welcomed by to irrevocable decision.
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