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IN SHORE THAN ING MISS YOU CAN FEEL THE
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SE ESTAR ARREY TOTTER-CYD CHARISSE-BARRY SULITAN
OPENS TO-MORROW
SHOWING
TO-DAY
Ben Hur
PARIS.
a Capital news solman from M. M. MacCOLL
A
Paris.
S a starry eyed filmgoer of the dear, dead days when D. W. Griffith was a promising youngstór, I treasure as one of my most stirring memories "Ben Hur," the multi-million dollar silent opic..
!
Its crescendo was a chariot race, of which it could have been said-if at that
of time anyone had heard
the
jet
propulsion-that horses were jet-propelled.
Handsome as the dawn in 'nli this was sinuous, flashing-eyed Ramon Novarro, man
men.
among
SEDA
changes horses
·RAMON NOVARRO—as he toas in the roaring "Ben Hur days.
*
ed Mr Alexis Pavlov, -Am- maculately groomed in the best capitalist tradition gave a party the other night.
Guests were dismayed at the modesty of the fare. One of them described the sandwiches as "the sort of snack you would export at the Volodrome d'Hiver" (Paris's Earl's Court). There was no caviar.
Unkindest
of all. cul guests become aware that there was an inner sanctum reserved exclusively for the party faith- ful.
A gastronomie Iron Curtain," murmured one of the outcasts.
High life
the
THE legal "confrontmont" of "How far away it all seems," the year-which takes place says Ramon, refusing
in the chambers of a. senior cigarette. "I am on my way to
Judge in I Paris court-room The other day in Paris I talk Lourdes.
My mind aped back to those soon-brings face to face the ed with Ramon, now a quiet, greying man in his fiftles. silently thundering hooves all brunette Countos de la Roche- foucauld and the blonde Coun- "I have no intention of en- those long years, 1 canters tess de Marliave, bearers of two
ho monastery," sald, lops seemed more like canters
of France's greatest names. M-G-M's Big Technicolor Production!tering a
When the
do Countess a helpful life today. "Opo can live
On his way to a life of neigh- "THAT FÖRSYTE WOMAN" without going into a monastery.
"When return to America bourly helpfulness, Ramon was Rochefoucauld came back from Errol FLYNN - Graar GARSON
from this trip I shall leave staying at Claridges. Hollywood for ever and retire to my ranch."
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He spoke wistfully of "Ben Hur," The Student Prince," Farts the hot society wer
IN
grow depressingly cold whas and "Mata Hari," in which he played opposite Grota Garbo. the Russian Ambassador, beard-
A LAST PARTY for Miss dougLAS
The Marquess of Blandford and retiring American Ambassador's daughter, Sharman Douglas. Suld Miss Douglas: "It's my last public party in England.”"
(London Express Service).
A
British
Crossword
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14
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27
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Puzzle
32
ACROSS
DOWN
2 Incursion
3 Specimen
4 Ignorant.
5 Distant
4 Reduce to nahez
8 Measure of land 9 Stul
10 Of sweet dispositions
-11 Foreign coin
12 Catch
14 Speak Imperfectly
17 Approached grüidually
19 Active
22 Wages list
20 Sword
27-Fortry
-za ministerial counceli
20 Vivildo
30 Kapant
31 Arbiter
22: Bimmer
6 Interiod
7 Material
13 File
13 Ill-favoured
15 Stumbler
18 Kibertine
13 Aver
20 Renovates
21 Quiet
23 Astonishi
25 Bula.
25 Metric mcZZUTO
• TUESDAY'S. CROSSWORD Acrow 1 Expire, & Stock, 8 Acute, 9-Roilah, 10. Ont, 11 Heron, 12 Cite, 18 Plors, 18 Modest; 18 Atoned, 20 flakon, 22 Dené, 23 Minin, 25 Sprat, 28 Caress, 27 Todity Actor;:29. Tenant, Dewi T'Enriches) 2 Palatial 2 Raat, Echelonga: Slooped, 8. Tabnis, theur 14 mósfera, 13 Somers set, 18-monitor, 17 Deflati; 15 (Toranjo, 21 Alps, 24 Made??*
FERDINAND
a terrible sojourn in Nazi war- time concentration camps she found that the family': Jewels, worth at least £100,000, had: vanished.
Her husband, who might have hidden diem, was dead-killed by the Germans.
Then came a tip from a follow ex-inmate,DE a prison camp Police, accompanied by the Counters de la Rochefoucauld, broke into the Parla flat of the Countess de Marliave, who is
·
famous as a horsewoman. There they found some missing Jowel lery. But the Countess de Mar- Have has her answer, She says the gems were given to her as a present by the Count de la Rochefoucauld, a close friend.
Paris society is terrifically ex- elted about the trial.
MY ENTRY for the week's
A Lesson From Mr. Punch
-He Told the Shadows All About Trees
By MAX TRELL
award for the most insufferable MR PUNCH was giving Knarf character is: A young man in a
and Hanld a lesson in the Montparnasse restaurant who, names of the different kinds of having ordered his Airedale to trees. As they walked down the be fed with a huge and expen road Mr Punch kept polating sive beef steak, then asked for and saying (as the COSO might a napkin to wipe the lips.
be);
"This is
Noses
ERDINAND AUBRY is a
dark, gaunt, intense man of about 40 who runs one of the most successful beauty shops in
is an elm, my deara! And that very large and band- some tree is an onk! Here is maple Vander is a birch! And there, by the side of the brook, is a weeping willow!"
"You know the names of all. the trees, don't you, Mr Punch?” To prove a brand-new toch Hanid said after they had sat nique to his own satisfaction, he down under the shade of a wide- has just "re-posed" himself. The spreading button-ball tree to rent
boasted.
enteil the use of knives or tinuing their stroll. treatment does not, says Aubry, for a few moments before con- know all the names, Punch scalpels. It is done with bam- boo brushes,
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have given myself brand new now," he says, peoled off the old outer covering ko. .a tiny overcoat and-poufl one just there was the acw like a baby's."
Soon women will be able, as
he puts it, "to cast oft their old skins and discover the fresh Babyness nestling beneath.""
-(London Express Service)
Vatican View Of Tito's Offer To Release Prelate
Mr C. L. Sulzberger's recent interview for the New York Times with Mgr Stepinac in Zagreb prison is the subject of an unsigned comment in Osservatore Romano, which may be taken as the official Vatican view.
Mr Punch Hit his pipe and
Mr Punch patted Kaarf ad- smalled. "Yes, my dear, I know the names of all the trees. I miringly on the shoulder. "You're learned them all from my Grand- a sma
smart boy. couldn't guesRG
I father Punchiniello. He was the what it was at all. But it was a all right. Cras smartcet and kindeat man I ever amp-post
Funchinello called Grandfather know. And he was very good at Lamo-Fost Tree. Then he making puzzles, too. He made Puzzles about trees."
Wanted to Know
Kharf and Hanld immediately wanted to know what kind
of puzzles old Grandfather Punch intello could have made about
trees,
described another kind of curious tree that
he sald grow on almost overy busy street corner in Ho said this tree was more stump. It had no brunches at all.
the top. it Instead, at
had two lights, one red, and the other green. They kept flashing off and lar on. And when the red light flash.
ali ed on,
the automobiles Mr Punch smiled again, stopped. And when the groc "Well," he said, "one day as I light flashed on, all the automo- WIS walking to town with biles started going nzain.” Grandfather Punchinlello bo turned to me and chuckled. Punch, we have learned the names of lots of trees, haven't we?'
"We have indeed, Grand father, I answered. I mean, I
'And
have You knew them already,
you think, my boy; that you know the name of al of course I do!' I sald boast
the trees now?'
fully."
Mr Punch turned to Kharf and Hanid. That was my mistake, comments, however, that the Grandfather Punchiniello hated sentence and imprisonment of boasting. Ho decided to show Mgr. Stepinac are part of that I knew mich less about perfidious persecution intended trees than I thought I did. So
Traffic Light
"That wasn't a tree either, Mr Punch!" said Hanid. "That was a frdfle light signal!"
"Correct!" said Me Punch "Grandfather Punchinello called it a Traffic Light Singal Tree. I quidn't guess it. Then he de scribed
a third kind of tree. He
said this one was really made ex
"I know!" Knart cried, “It was a Telephone Polo Tree!"
wood. It was very tall, and very straight. But it had no leaves and Or rather, at the no branches. The commentator eug-
very tip-top It had long wire- branches which stretched out on gests that Mr Sulzberger
both sides until they reached tried stresses Mgr Stepinac's re
other trees just like itself. ferences to the Pope as the to destroy Roman Catholicism in sa said: "Punch, there's my very best to guess the name sole arbiter of his fate, al. Yugoslavia.
curious tree in town that I wish of it but you would tell me the name of though it had been known "The intention is to show up I deccribe to you what it looks here for at least eighteen the Roman Catholic Church as like, It's пл Iron tree. It the enemy of the Yugoslav peo- months that Mgr Stepinac ple, guilty of crimes against Exows quite tall and..." would be released provided humanity and the nation, and in "An iron
tree!" Kaarf and he was not reinstated as the person of the Archbishop of Hanid exclaimed it astonish sitting on the It Zagreb,
bench of Archbishop of Zagreb. is also well known that the that the whole Catholic Church
the accused, it was intended ent Vatican refused these con- should be on trial This is just
what happened
Cantinal ditions.
Mindszenty's trial"
Osservatore Romano does not seek to deny these ducts. It
Ships' Bells
Useful
On Land
It
Again Mr Punch dodded. Them he winked. "But then,” he went on, I played a trick on Grand- father Punchinlello, I sald I knew a strange kind of tree, too. said it always stood in front of **That's exactly what I said to a certain shop. It was short and Grandfather Punchiniello!" said stubby. It had red and white
Punch. Mr
he stripes that kept timing round But assured me that the tree was and round. I naked
ed Grandfather The newspaper refers to "Tito's made of fron. It grew quite if he knew the name of it. clemency towards Mgr. Stepi- tall, he said, and it had only one you know?" Mr Funch suddenly nae as possibly being propitious branch up near the top. From asked Kaart and Hanid, But this to his person "but not altering this one branch hung a light" time they couldn't guess. H'mon Kwarf sald: "That wasn't a It was a Barber Folo Tree!" anything I the anti-Catholic campaign and oppression con- tree. That was a lamp-post!” tinue as they now do in Yugo- slavia."!
com
The writer goes on to com- plain of Yugoslav press ment on the recent Polish agree- ment between Church and State, and of articles in the Zagreb paper Vjesnik on October 29 and All over the world belle 31, which it says are "a blas
phemous description of all Holy from old Scottish ships are Years and of the Dogma of the performing useful func- Assumption: tions. Many hang
on
churches and summon con-
gregations to worship, and
to this list has been added His Boxing
the bell of the old Scottish
coasting-passenger steamer
City of London. It will peni
in future from Aberdeen's Stockethill Church... ́....
The
most
remote
Fortune
Figures of boxers' shares of Scottish receipts are not made public, church to have a maritime bell but in the boxing world £00,- ——it came from the. wrecked 000 is commonly talked about! Greenock ship, Janet Cowan as the fortune made by Bruce was the old kirk on St. Kilda. Woodcock.
ho laughed.
Rupert's Climbing Adventure-33
Do
Rupert and the rwo Guides listen to us!" suggests 'Pauline.
"That inteoily for`s, long; time, but can would be awful. We might never hear he sound.
find him," says Rupert, He 'It's all very odde
... We whispers Rupert.
determines to screw, up his courage can't call out to Diogo. Those and get nearer, asking the bendite may be asleep and wi Gulder to keep him-in sight, he i koighing wine fimam "A" Or they - goes out into the open and edges hin; may have talen Blogs away while -- way gingerly towards the; cave.
But initia cat-heat no voices. You wen up, da the bit signalling
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED":
Iona cathedral also had a ship's H total share from big SIDE GLANCES
Bell at one time..
At Port St John's, South Africa, the bell of an old, Scot- tinh freighter, Clan Gordon, rings the curfew.
hotel
A Uruguayan Montevideo BILETIONIS
to
to
fights, it is thought,.... probably amounts £100,000. This has been subject to tax, management fees (which likely to have absorbed, about
£20,000) and to training near living expenses. guests of the
to meals with the hell
To most people who do not wrecked Glasgow steamer-Bel- follow boxing closely, Wack foun; and not so long ago the Gardner, the winner of the re- bell of the wrecked Dundee cent big ight, is almost un- barque Newfield, performed a known. He is a chick fuc similar service for a boarding-mer from Market Harborough, House at Peterborough, Victoria, and at 24 is five years younger Australia.
than Woodcock.
Well known' at the Melbourne cricket ground is the bell of the old ship Lysander. It is to be hoped it does not have to ring a requiem for the MCC at the end of their tour, v
G
Well Done!
He is comparatively new to professiofial", boxing her much to learn about the selence of the game butyus ha showed,,bu „És „learning fast........
By Galbraith
FO-DAY