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SUCCESS OF WAR DRAMAS.
The 1996 flm fashion for war pictures bida fair to give place in 1937 to a big number of aviation films, says the Daily Ma The Famous Players' Corporation of America have begun preparations for "Wings," a spectacle of war in the air, and pilots are being engaged for flying. Extensive plans for the production British air pictures have been in view for some time, and at least three British flying dramas will be produced during
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Great as was the recent success of the British pictures" Mons," "Mademoiselle from Armentières, The Lodger,' "Palaver," and "The Triumph of the Rat," these by no means represent the whole activity of London's film studios during the latter half of 1998.
THIEF IN PLUS FOURS.
JEWELLERY WORTH £1,000 GRABBED.
A thief dressed in plus-fours made a raid on the shop of Messrs. 1. Lurie & Co., Commercial-road, E., and escaped with jewellery worth more than £1,000.
The man, carrying a mallet, got of a tramway-car some distance from the. shop, and walked leisurely towards the window, which he smashed, making a large hole He then seized a tray of rings and other jewellery and jumped into a motor-car which was following slowly close to the kerb.
Mr. Lurie rushed out of the shop in pursuit and succeeded in catching hold of the back of the car, but was knocked
off into the road. The thieves then drove off at a good speed.
The thoroughare was almost, desorted and only about half a dozen people saw the raid. Some of them thought the thieves were film actors and were too stupefied to prevent them from escaping. The police are searching for a man In E.M.S. Tiger.”.
nearly six feet in beight with noticeably Mr. Maurice Elvey, whose "Mademoi-sharp features. He was smartly dressed selle from Armentières" was a revelation in plus fours and dark overcoat and wore of the competence and entertainment top well over his eyes.
Mr. Arthur Burton, commissionaire of ba expected from British film makers, is completing The Flag Lieutenant," for the Coliseum Kinema, which is almost. which the Admiralty allowed scenes to opposite the shop, told a Daily Mail be taken on board the battle cruiser reporter: Tiger.
Mr. Graham Cutis and his company, which includes Miss Flora le Breton, Mr. Carlyle Blackwell, Mr. Clifford Heather- ley, and Miss Márie Ault, have gone to Yarmouth to complete, on board an old railing vessel, the sea scenes" in an un- usual picture based on a Boyd Cable story.
Après la Guerre," a drama of the Armistice and afterwards, from a story by Mr. Charles McEvoy, of The Likes of Er fame, is announced by Gains borough Pictures, Ltd., to be followed & screen version of Easy Kroney!) Meanwhile the Gaumont Company are making oxtensive preparations for two more new British pictures-one called Sailors Don't Care," the other Roses in "Pienrdy."
Triumphs Abroad. * Madame Pompadour," With Miss Dorothy Gish in the title-rôle, will be the frez production in the new studios just completed at Elstree, Hertfordshire. As regards the foreign ventures of British Slms, in addition to the splendid success of Nell Gwyn" throughout the United States; news comes that The Rat," the Ivor Novello film which has recently penetrated American kinemas, has broken all records in Cleveland. Ohio. Ypres
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The man sauntered up to the window and made no attempt to hide the mallet. The blow be struck sounded as though a gun had been fired. In an instant he had grabbed two handfuls of jewellery and had jumped into the car. I saw the same man passing up and down past the shop on four different nights last week. Each time he entered a black car and was driven away but a yellow car was used in the raid.
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The most famous that haunts the build. ing is that of Guy, an almost prehistoric figure, supposedly about nine feet high, who flew the Dun Cow" and whost wife, Felice, kept house at Guy's Clift near by while he was away on his ven- tures.
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of the inhabited part of the castle to the other; that is to say, he traverses a dis- tance of about a quarter of a mile, start Chin Providents......... ing at Caesar's Tower and finishing at the Constructions Water Tower. A former Bailiff to the
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Da (now). Frances Countess of Warwick, the Lane Crawfords.......... mother of the present Earl, also relates Mackintosha....................... that when she was first married, and was Bingeres sleeping in lonely section of the house United Asbestos on the direct route, she heard the same Watuens (pid) footsteps, which were enormously mugni. Wm. Powalls....... fied, and as at that time all the carpets Telephones had been removed, the steps echoed from end to end of the building. The dogs in her rooms became panic-stricken and | cowered under the bed.
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at £397 145. In one of the letters wea a pearl necklace worth £300 which had not since been found.
Detective-Sergeant Peacock stated that, Basirc told him that when he took vaju ables which he could not convert very There were four cases in one day at easily he threw them down a drain on recent Old Bailey Sessions in which post his way home, and counsel suggested that men were sentenced for theft..
this was where the pearl necklace went.. In the first case Henry Masters, ́aged In a third cars it was stated that Percy 40, who had, for 18 months, been a post-Ernest Howitt, aged 40, employed at the Мад at the South-Western District East Central District Office, confessed he Office, and was stated to have stolea 95 bad taken a test picket containing two postal orders, was sent penal servituda | 21 notes and one 10. note. for three years.
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to four years' penal servitude for steal ing registered letters.
John Deans, aged 46, a postman, of It was stated that Basire was seen to North London, pleaded guilty to steal- cut open a bag, and admitted stealing 65ing letters and postal orders and was letters, the contents of which were valued sentenced to afteen months hard labour,