THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 23, 1938
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SNOB-WOMEN PESTS ARE
PUT IN A SCREEN PILLORY
Frank Capra, who made “Mr. Deeds” and “Lost Horizon,” has done it again! His latest film, “You Can't Take It With You," is a superb comedy- drama which pillories feminine snobbery and shows that happiness means more than riches.
"You Can't Take It With You" is a story of the
SITTING ON attempt of an unscrupulous millionaire (Edwin
THE FENCE!
Shall I, shan't I? Swing Easy, New York 'chaser, couldn't make his mind up in this jumping con- test at Washington Inter-American Horse Show. So this is how the camera caught him sitting up on the cross-bars he'd knocked down and looking like a piece of statuary.
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30s. A WEEK, LEFT £1,335
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Arnold) to acquire the home of a lovable crank (Lionel Barrymore).
The screen has yet to show crazier family than the one presid- ed over by Mr. Barrymore,
with pretty Jean Arthur as the one sane ́ person.
She shows her sense by falling in love with the son of the rapa- cious business magnate (James Stewart) and the fun and plications begins when his mother finds out.
com-
WILL FIGHT SECRETS ACT
The National Union of Journal- ists, the National Council for Civil Liberties, and other organisations are to co-operate in a campaign of publicity and agitation until the Government has amended the··· Official Secrets Acts and given an undertaking that the freedom, of the Press will be safeguarded.
Meanwhile a deputation will ́urge on the Premier the necessity
for amending the Acts.
This was decided at a London conference.
It is his social-climbing, snobbish mother (Mary Forbes) who causes A man who rarely earned more Cinderella to spurn Prince Char- than 30s. a week as a farm worker ming before a suprising and ex- left a will showing that he had tremely amusing climax proves saved £1,335 and bought three that love conquers all and that houses.
riches cannot purchase contentment. He was John Jones, of Pontar- Never has Lionel Barrymore dawe-road, Clydach, Swansea. He done such fine work as his por- died aged ninety-two after having trayal of the likeable eccentric CITY OFFICÉS ‘A DÍSGRACE?” been retired for years.
whose kindly, philosophic outlook The beginnings of that four figure will were pennies dropped in a little money-box-and some ad- vice his father gave him when, aged ten, he started to earn living.
"Save hard,..
son, houses," said his father.
and
8,000 PLAYERS
Her titian hair was famous in Chelsea when she was an artist's model. Now Bobby Barrett's left the studio for the stage. She's one of the lovelies in "Folies Superbes” at the London Casino..
But as you see here- Bobby still makes a perfect picture,
WILLING TO LOSE MONEY
After-working his way up from brick-layer to £250,000 property of on life eventually humanises the Many Birmingham offices buried owner, Mr. L. F. Richardson, millionaire and his snobbish wife. away in old dwelling-houses and East Close, Middleton, near Bognor Jean Arthur's love scenes with approached by slum alleyways Regis, is to devote his time to pro- James Stewart are a model to all would have been a disgrace in the viding entertainment for people a young modern romantica.
time of Charles Dickens, declares living in the small market towns The comedy high-light of a pic- Miss E. Morris, secretary of the of Sussex, Surrey and Kent.
out buy ture which....... teems.... with happy Birmingham Branch of the As- Mr. Richardson is seeking
human touches is a screamingly sociation of Women Clerks and towns which have no cinemas, be- funny court scene which only a Secretaries, who is heading a cam- cause the big companies refuse to Capra could inspire and handle. paign for better working conditions build on the grounds that such a
A brilliant piece of screencraft among office girls.
venture would be unprofitable. and delightful entertainment for
"How can workers keep pace Contending that everyone should all.
with modern business in offices be able to get their entertainment, which are so much behind the he will build about thirty cinemas time" she asks.
England has one industrial town where 8,000, men play football every Saturday. That was men- tioned by Mr. H. A. Cole, of the Physical Training Council at the Public Health Services Congress in London, yesterday,
Over 720 teams—so one town's health standard is second to none.
BABY BORN IN A POLICE
STATION
as
Acting
emergency "mid- wives," Police-Sergeant William Ro- botham and P.-C. George Percival, Brom- married members of West wich police, with the aid of the sergeant's wife, used a police sta- tion as a temporary maternity hos- pital.
They were on duty in the station at Greets Green, when, about mid- night, a young expectant mother, Mrs. Lily Darby,, widow, of Carral Bank, Albion, West Bromwich, staggered into the office and asked take her to for an ambulance to hospital.
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Realising that the birth was im- minent, Sergeant Robotham · called his wife from their house next to'
Mrs. the police station.
Darby was made comfortable on the floor in front of the fire with a bed of Minutes capes and overcoata later a sturdy baby was born.
LAW FINDS AN
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£12,000 to £30,000 and seating from
in such towns, each costing
500 to 750 people..
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ASS WITH SENSE "WOOLLEN" JUMPERS
OF HUMOUR
The law and an ass with a sense of humour came, în contact at Marylebone Police Court.
The R.S.P.C.A. accused Fre- derick Carre, circus proprietor, of Store-street, W.C., of cruelty to an ass by unreasonably goading 'it în a yard.
THE ASS, IT WAS EXPLAIN- ED, FOUR TIMES CHASED CARRE` OUT OF THE RING IN WHICH HE WAS TRAINING IT, WITH ITS TEETH BARED.
Mr. Ivan Snell, the magistrato, was told it was part of the show. He dismissed the summons,
THE ASS, HE SAID, HAD A SOME SENSE OF HUMOUR. ANIMALS UNDOUBTEDLY HAD AND EXPRESSED IT IN THIS WAY.
Mr. Gordon Jones, prosecuting, told how R.S.P.C.A. Inspectors hid in the yard after “obtaining admission with the aid of an un- brella” on finding the gates closed. He said Carre was using a ́goad plece of wire 1in. long on the end of a whip."^
·Carre's explanation:
It wasn't a gond. THE PIECE OF WIRE WAS SPIKE TOʻ ATTACH TO A CARROT!
MADE OF MILK
The first is now being built at Arundel.
DONT WANT SONS
Thousands of jumpers and pull- TO BE MILKSOPS overs that will soon be taking shape in British homes are likely, scien- tists say, to be made of-skimmed milk.
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Fearing their sons will grow up into "milksops," Nottingham thers want to stop women teaching them after they are eight
"Milk" wool-the lay public can hardly tell it from sheep's wool years old.
Parents' views on the point have is now being made in Holland.
been tested with a plebiscite in a And a party of Dutch experts
arrived in Nottingham specially selected district. all ready to work the miracles Only forty-nine parents wanted
have
there. They are planning to start
their sons to be taught by women-
Yet a factory that will use the milk of 2,623 wanted men teachers. English cows.
2,500 Nottingham boys over eight Their process is so perfect that years of age are still being taught
by women in the area. it is expected to create as big a stir as the discovery how to make artificial silk out of wood pulp.
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CAKE KILLS BABY
HIS DEFENCE
BLIND
PARSUN
“I did not think my first mar- John Hibbert, aged twenty-one ringe was legal as the ceremony months, son of Alfred Edward Hib was performed by a blind parson," bert, labourer, of Handelstreet, said Charles Joseph Rice, of Tiver- Liverpool, was choked by a piece of ton-road, Bournbrooke, Birming- cake which lodged in his throat, It ham, sent for trial on a bigamy was stated at the Liverpool inquest. charge at Norwich.