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Counter blast
Man of Science
TO-MORROW
AT THE
or Menace to Society?
LIBERTY “HATTER'S CASTLE"
Robert NEWTON
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James MASON
•
Deborah KERR Emlyn WILLIAMS
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE
ALSO: "LADY TAKES A BATH"
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Upon his return to New York from Europe, artist Salvador Dall announced that he was getting away from surrealism. To prove his point, he is shown adding a few recognisable touches to drawings on the wall in the children's playroom aboard the
French liner Liberte. (Acme),
Loch Ness Mines Theory Debunked
collector of monster lore have debunked the latest claim that the famed Loch Noas monitor was only a string of British sea mines.
The Admiralty and a Scottish
Gordon H'landers Star In Film "Rare Edition"
In a hundred years or more from film connoisseur will be able to see the
now the few rare
films which take pride of place in the National Film Library's collection. One of them shows the Gordon Highlanders leaving for the Boer War in 1900; another is of Queen Victoria's funeral in 1901.
some
The Library, containing, starring Hedy Lamarr, which over 5,000 films to date, is created such stir in the world's controlled by the British Press because her husband ob- jected to a sequence showing Film Institute and is her running unclothed beside housed at Aston Clinton, in મૈં pool and caused Buckinghamshire. Although sequences to be destroyed,
Over 50,000 recla--about the Institute has not been
50,000,000 feet-of Alm arc able to shelve a copy of stored away. The average time every film made, it is to show gradually building up a minutes, 00 that over 11 collection destined to pro-months of solid continuous viewing would be vide an official and authen-picture
necessary to see all the films tic record of changing life in the library. and times.
one reel is about 10
The public are very welcome Some of them reach the in- to the genezal service made stitute through the executors of available by the Institute, but the wils of film enthusiasts. not to the actual films, Thero Unfortunately, many others is always some deterioration seem unaware of the existence cach time an old lm is run of the Institute, and are allow-through a
projector. A copy ing rare films in their posses will inst 25 to 50 years, then sion to remain to nọ good pur- {will_bogin to disintegrate, and months become tise- pose in come dusty atile.
Oldest pictures in the library less
Institute's the "moving snapshots
curator mado by Louis Lumiere in "turns OVE" all the Aims 1895, and shown in London the every so often to test for de- following year. They include terioration with n chemical the feeding of a baby, the process. A duplicate is made of demolition of a wall, a game the entire film showing sigus of cards and a man watering a of wear and lear and fled garden, and their
showing away in place of the old copy,
ENG
lasts eight minutes.
The Alm "The Third Mon"
in three
The
Ju there as representative of ESCAPE CAMP
postwar black market activities,
So is "Odette," to give a back- ground to the Second World
War.
IDEA
The attractive piece of in- NO FAIRBANKS
terior decoration in the form of The collection is not merely a 10ft high illuminated water-i confined to good OT classic fall, which is a feature of Lon- Churchill Club, has alms. Bad films on interesting don's now subjects arc included for an interesting history. academical and technical rea- Six years ago a young Au
tralian Ayer, Wilton Todd, was cons.
No copy is held of any of grappling with improvised pro- the senior
Douglas Fairbanks' perties for a musical at Stalag films made before the existence Luft III, the "Wooden Horse
in Germany, he of the Institute, although it la escape cump
nooded
waterfall, and tried the experiment of running 16 mm. copies somewhere in water over empty milk tins fi But they also
which to! Britain,
ibrary
ted with old light bulbs. the bellef of a people are trying to trace. subscribe to
Todd, who is now a successful are hoping, too, that a architect and designer in Lon- group of naval officers that the They undulating movements
the copy may be willed
to the don, developed the idea at the Loch Ness waters were caused collection.
club. Green-coloured water by mines, planted during World
they falls over a series of ultra-vio- War I.
a private let bulbs into a 20-gallon tank, ad en which pumps it back to the top of "Extase," of the fall,"
Neither the Admiralty mile-long lake near Inver-thought nor J. W. McKillop of In-ness, Scotland.
verness deny that monster in Loch Ness,
a narrow
would assert
a sen there is
the depths of 23-
or
refused
TO
The anti-monster Navy men)
that there are a few
the
More especially look forward to collecter's donation
copy to original
Masks Told the mines bobbed in the
.
Meet Germ War
The U.S. Government is developing special masks and detecting devices to protect civilians against germ warfare."
taln sir cams disturbed the
waters of the lake.
An Admiralty spokesman said mines were planted in the lake in 1918 and that they were the oscillating type that bob to the surface when the waters are disturbed.
But he said the mines could not have held their oscillating qualities more than five years. When they are five years old" they sink
and stay sunk, regardless at disturbances in the water, the spokesman said. the theory McKillop said Cmdr. Frank R. Philbrook, a U.S. Navy doctor, and Mark advanced by the Naval officers Hollis, assistant U.S. Surgeon was "very interesting." General, made separate "But it won't do," he added speeches at the 78th convention "The mines were planted only of the American Pubile Health Association.
in 1910, and the stories of a monster
Ness in Loch back at least 50 years before
Philbrook said the anti-genn that." masks being developed would also protect against war gases.
He sald the Government planned to distribute the masks in areas most likely to come under attack.
ex-
While deploring "many
and aggerated
sensational statements" concerning germ Philbrook warned that "the potentialles
warfare,
biological warfare
sidered great" although
hould not
date
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119
The Language Grows
do
A British Crossword Puzzle
24
New York.
124
con- Funk and Wagnalls'
be considered supplement lists about 150 destruction new words that are in cur- comparable to atomic warfare" rent use but whose future
moares of
mass
He emphasised the need for is doubtful.
a means of detecting the pre-
sence of germs or chemicals
Among them are: atomshiks...
ACROSS
B
Careless.
B Get away.
• Point out.
11. Gifted.
cant into the air, water, or advocate of atomic warfare, ap 12 Devastation.
food by an enemy.
buch quick detection, he said,
Without piled
the masks would be useless.
Hollla said the Army
by the Soviet newspaper
13 Scout. Pravda 10 certain American statesmen and military men;18 Loathes. Che-EN
Feet potato cocktail 19 Smear. ulayam --- sweet
mical Corms has developed snacks developed by the U.S.22 Inhabitant. such a detecting device which
is now boing tested by US. Public Health Service..
Agriculture Dept.; beafenke the
display
of manly pulchritude, Hike a barrel chest.
24 Example. 25 Disinclined.
of the world's Brink one million, in hu- 20 Accumulated wealth,
It
13 one smallest known Alters, consist-
a tissue-thin membrane morous allusion to the
ing of a
of secret material about
size of a large com.
Brink
10
DOWN
1 Landing-pler.
2 Graduated measure,
3 Vegetable.
4 Loaned. 5 Settled.
ODITIM
6 Gap:
7 Chaperon
10 First appearance.
14 Bird.
43
15 Credit.
10 Devotee.
17 Chase.
20 Gay
21 Sheer.
22 Knocks.
23 Blemish.
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD - Across; 9 Subpoena, 7
robbery in Boston; butterlegger the one who tries to palm off Attic, 8 Iterates, 10 Orator, 13 Repines, 15 Alds, 17 Meddies,
He said it was the first de-olcomargarine as butter; ear-18 Auditor, 20 Read, 21 Reprove, 20 Needed, 27 Together, 28 vice which could effectively ownes a prospect for radlo ad-Inure, 29 Cheerful. Down: 1 Manor, 2 Strap, 3 Selon, 4 Pore, collect bacteria and even cervertising; grabbit a hoarder; 4 Entall, & Assess, 9 Tremor, 11 Revue, 12 Timid, 14 Serene, air selevator-automatic self-sery-15 Adore, 10 Delve, 18 Arctic, 19 Dangle, 22 Peril, 23 Odour,
viruses from
fain larger And water samples.
FERDINAND
Lice elevator..
24 Edges, 25 Sur.
Now Deal
By Mik
MAGAZINE
Chirpie Reported a Fight
→Clothes on the Line Were Punching Each Other----
By MAX TRELL TATYBELLE finished washing
K
the clothes Then she
brought her basket outside and hung the wet clothes one by one
on
they Une holding cach
separate piece of clothes tight to the line with two and sometimes three or even four clothespins. Then the waddled off, smiling- fox she was a very old lady und aho was quito glad that the washing was done und hung out to dry,
"The sun an' the wind'll do the rest of the work," she mur- mured to herself.
clothes.
It was perhaps an hour Inter. "Stop fighting,” Hanid said to the. that Chirple Sparrow flow down to the windowsill and called out loudly for Knarf and Hanid, the two shadows with the turned- about names. They ran to the window at once.
Two Shirts
"There's a fight going
on!"
kicked higher! The dremCo pulled harder!
The handker- chiefs waved moro furiously! The aprons and the shoot and the pillow cases danced fasteri "Ohl What can we do!" Hamid asked Knart.
At that moment a
terrible
said Chirple. "Two shirts are punching each other! A pair of overalls and a pair of stockings thing happened! Or perhaps It. are kicking everybody around wasn't as terrible as it coemed them! You'd better go out and just when it happened. do something before things get wore!"
"Where is this fight going on?" Hanid asked in alarm.
"On the clothes line!" Then Chirple flow off, Knarf and Hanid darted outside and rushed around 09 Inst as the
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Punched Each Othor
Tho two. fighting shirts punched each other so hard that they popped off their clothespins. and went flying of like two kites, still waving their arms.
the pair of overalls.
Thon
wind (for the wind really was kicked itself off the line and blowing) until they reached the went Bying after the shirts, clothes lipo.
taking great leaps and hops in Chirpicas they saw instantly the air. The pair of siockings was right! A most wonderful went flying after the overalls,
and strange light was going on! or rather they went running. But it was more than just the after them!
two shirts punching each other, Then the three dresses went and the pair of overalls and the waltzing off, high over the tree pair of
опо
of stockings kicking every topa! The handkerchiefs went
around them. There were fluttering off in all directions other things happening. Three
HANS like gigantic butterbies! dresses the end of the line were trying to pull themselves
The aprons went! The sheets. off the line and fly away A and the pillow-cases went sall- dozen handkerchiefs were wav- ing behind them, higher and ing furiously, as though they higher. were at a railway station waving good-bye to somebody train!.
on a
And in the middle of the line three aprons were dancing round and round two sheets and a pli- low-casel
"It's the wind!" cried Knart, "The wind is causing all the trouble!"*
Poor Katybello! When she came out a little while later to see how her clothes were drying,. she found the clothes line empty except for a pair of pajamas and a nightgown who were too sleepy to do anything but just. hang in the sun and sway in the breeze.
But there was no way to malce As for the pair of overalls and the wind stop blowing.
the stocking and the two bat Then Hanid spoke to the ling chirts, Katybelle, found things On the
clothes line. them all lying quielly (and quite "Please don't jump around to muddy) at the bottom of a ditch much! Shirts! Overalls Stock- The sheets and the pillow-cases. ings! Stop fighting!"
were resting on a fence The But none of the clothes on the handkerchiefs were all stuck on. line paid any attention to Hanid a blackberry bush. And as for at all
the three aprons, they were all. The shirts punched harder, on the kitchen steps, waiting pa-- The overalls and the stockingu tlently to get in and cook dinner,
Rupert's Autumn Primrose-19
The old Professor makes Rupert promise that if he does find any autumn primroses he will bring him some. My garden contains most things, but those would be new to me," he smiles. Then the little bear says good-bye, and, deciding that it is too late to search further, he got home. As he is getting into
bed he gets another idea. " say mummy." be calis, "that Fair only open for one more day, and tomorrow is my last chance of find ing, primroses, so may I take sand- wiches and spend the whole day, exploring those wood?" Mrs. Bear pauses. "Are you save you. can find your way out again?" The asks.
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SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
cara, 1990 BT NEA Bernor, nel T, 31 HEL, U, V, PAT, OFF:
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