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CONFLICT!
A woman of fire against a man of steel...sharing dan- ger and love with- out thought for the. dawn, they could not postpone! Alexander Korda presents
Marlene DIETRICH ROBERT DONAT
knight without armor
From the novel by JAMES HILTON •
Author of "Läst Borizën “
NEXT CHANGE COLUMBIA
7.18-9.30
Directed by
JACQUES FEYDER
London Fiy
Released thrú Vallel Artists
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“RACKETEERS IN EXILE” with George Bancroft-Evelyn Venable Wynne Gibson
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A GREAT COMEDY WITH NEW FUNNY CAMERA TRICKS! Two gay spooks teach a timid soul the whoopee facts of life, it's a riot when they go on the loose.
THE SURPRISE LAUGH HIT WITH AMAZING PHOTOGRAPHY!
HAL ROACH *presents . -CONSTANCE
Metro-
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SICTURE
CARY
BENNETT GRANT.
OPPER
Directed by Norman Z. MCLEOD
Roland YOUNG - Bulie BURKE
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ALAN MOWBRAY EUGENI PALLETTE
`THE CHINA MAIL, JANJARY 15, 1938.
QUICKER TO GO ROUND LONDON
Car's 12 M.P.H. In Trip Across
SPEED SURVEY FOR MOTORISTS
It is quicker for a motorist to drive round London than across it. He can expect to traverse the North Circular road, 223⁄4 miles long, in 58 minutes, while it will take him 40 minutes to travel the 12 1⁄2 miles. across London.
This is revealed by a detailed in- de- vestigation> of London traffic lays undertaken on behalf of Sir Sir Edwin Charles Bressey and Lutyens, whose scheme for the re- planning of London highways is to of be submitted to the Minister Transport. Some of the results of the invesigation are published in the Road Fund report for 1936-37. A 16 h.p. six-cylinder police car was driven continuously between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. for a week over four routes, three passing through the heart of the city and the fourth along the North Circular-road.
WOMAN SHOT IN LONDON HOTEL FORMER NURSE TO POLISH PRINCE
PAWNED JEWELLERY
TO COME HOME
An Englishwoman who was for several years nurse and housekeep- er to Prince Michael Radziwill of Poland was found shot dead in her bed at the Park Royal Hotel, Lein- ster-gardens, Hyde Park.
She was identified as Miss Mary Josephine Atkinson, aged 49.
The tragedy was discovered by a maid. Death was due to a bullet wound in the head, and there was a revolver at the side of the bed. The police view is that the wound was self-inflicted.
No shots were heard in the hotel and none of the gests was aware of the tragedy,
Miss Atkinson went to Poland in 1929 and was employed as nurse and housekeeper by Prince Michael. Later she became manager of the Prince's estate at Antonin, in Wes- tern Poland.
Permit Not Extended
Last summer the Polish authori- ties refused to extend her permit to stay in the country and Miss At- kinson went to Danzig. From there she returned to England.
Average speeds were carefully checked. Between Ludgate-circus and Commercial-road it was 5.85 miles an hour, on one journey the pace dropping to 3% m.p.h., and and Trafal- between Euston-road
While in Danzig and after-her gar-square down Tottenham Court-return to this country she corre road the average, was 7.7 m.p.h.
Considerate Drivers
The
sponded with the Prince, asking him to use his influence to secure a new permit for her.
A friend of Miss Atkinson said, that when he telephoned her at the hotel she was in bed with influenza,
"I am feeling terribly depressed,” she said to him, adding, “I am sick of life."
On the North Circular-road the speed averaged 231⁄2 m.p.h. car, it is stated, was driven by a professional chauffeur at a pace that normally corresponding to adopted by cautious and consider ate drivers.
Aeroplanes and aerial photo- He said that he first met her for Sir when he visited Prince Michael's have been used graphs Charles Bressey's survey, parti-estate in Poland in October, 1936. devoted to He met her again in London early
re-last month. the changes to be caused by building Thames bridges, new "Miss Atkinson told me that she housing estates, the Green Belt, had had to pawn her jewellery to slum clearances, growth of new in-return to England,” he added. “She dustries, and the possibility of more said that she was penniless, but new that she was owed about £2,000 by riverside embankments and bridges and tunnels. Progress is re- a debtor abroad. ported everywhere in making the
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"She was trying to institute an
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pedestrian guard rails installed at British Foreign Office and the Po 500 sites, 2,400 new pedestrian crossings laid down, bringing the total to 27,000, and traffic lights în- stalled at 188 junctions.
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lish Embassy here on the subject.” Prince Michael's Marriage Prince Michael Radziwill, who is 67, has been described as a mit- has twice been - Motor taxation in 1936 yielded lionaire. He
He is engaged to £32,320,043, of which the Treasury divorced.
to Mme. Cuhestow, a took £5,185,186, and the Road Fund married,
The
Road divorced Jewish woman from received £27,427,000.
lish Galicia, whose age is given as Fund paid £21,000,000 in grants.
31. The marriage was to have taken place on November 6, but there was last-minute hitch.
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Most of the men were on Christ mas leave, and there was no parade, but the Royal salute was given the battalion guard as the Danish flag was hoisted.
Court proceedings to stop the marriage have been instituted by members of the Radziwill family, which is one of the oldest and most. aristocratic in Poland, and is link- with the Imperial Houses of Habsburg and Hohenzollern.
ed
machine-gun,
His Majesty visited the sergeants mess, where he and the officers with him had sherry with the sergeant- major. He lunched in the officera"
mess.
Before leaving he invested Lt.
Dean Col. Hamilton and Lt. Col. With Major Gen. Sir John Ken with the insignia of Commande
the Order of the Dannebrog. nedy, colonel of the regime LE Col FHamilton, the com-jor G. R. Howe and Major EH manding officer, King Christian in-Allen were each made Chevalier of spected the quarters.' He watched a the Order, and R.S.M. Ransley and squad of supplementary reservists|R.QM.S. Ricketts received the modal being instructed in the new light of the Order.