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THE SILVER SCREEN. GANG OF WOMEN THIEVES. FIRST CENTURY ARSENAL.
CHARLIE AND "TALKIES."
MENJOU IN A MURDER MYSTERY.
SEVEN SENT TO GAOL FOR SHOPLIFTING.
MOTOR CAR CAPTURE.
ROMAN FINDS IN CAERLEON.
BARRACKS FOR 400 MĖN.
NEWPORT, Mon., August 18th. Seven London women-all with
Excavations of the fortress of the police records against them-were Roman Legion, at Caerleon," Mon. found guilty at Southend of shop-mouthshire, near the site of the amphitheatre given to the nation by lifting.
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Charlie Chaplin has his own idea regarding the talking film. To him, as one might anticipate, the talking
to a The Daily Mail, are yielding im- film is tantamount to an abomina- They pleaded "Guilty ** tion, sound being something that charge of being concerned together portant and interesting results. never ought to have been connected in stealing a quantity of goods In the Presgfield the investiga with animated shadows. He be-valued at £16, 13s. 2d, from Messrs. tion of the fortress defence has now lieves that it kills the pantomimic Ashley Russell. Ltd., drapers, of been practically completed The Hamlet Court Road, Westcliff-on-work here has confirmed the theory art of the screen, that it will stag Sea..
previously formed that the ditch nate cinematic story-telling and re- With the exception of a woman and clay bank that formed the sult in little more than a poor med Haley, they were all sen- primary defences of the fortress were constructed' in 73 A.D., and tenced to six months' imprisonment.
were strengthened with the masalve carbon copy of a play.
Haley was sentenced to three.
stone rampart in 100 A.D.
With regard to the soft, timber Katian Mining Admin....65/- rom. logs found underlying the clay Langia (combined).Th. 9 sel. | bank at regular intervals, it has now
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Chaplin illustrates his point con- vincingly by saying that a silent love scene in which the eyes tell all that is necessary is beatifully poetic, while the whole effect is shattered by the shadow of the man or the girl saying, "I love you."
They elected to be dealt with summarily, and ali seven of thera sat in front of the dock: The articles from the shop were arrayed clong the front of the Bench, be tween the witness-box and the mingistrates.
Policeman's Watch On Shop. · Police Constable Abbott describ ed how he drove out in plain clothes on his motor-cycle and saw a motor car standing in Burdett Avenue, Westcliff-on-Sea. The seven women were in the car, which was driven to a spot near Messrs. Russell's shop. They all got out, and went into the shop. The car was then driven of ints another road. While the car was standing, four of the women went up to it and placed something inside, and between them they pulled over the hood. ually four of the women were ni- tested in Hamlet Court Road, and the other three in another road
Event
A Night Of Mystery." Mr. Adolphe Menjou, locking un- usually debonair even for him; as A French officer, is the star of "A Night of Mystery." As one might expect from a film based on a play by Victorien Sardou, it has one of those plots, now out of fashion, which are so neatly and almost mechanically constructed that it is quite a pleasure to see the bits all itting into place at the end and the denouement coming with the smart.click of a mouse-trap.
The hero is in love; but he had. Detective Sergeant Croom said in consequence of a message received loved before, a woman now mar- ried; who demands, the return of from Scotland Yard he and other her letters. Mr. Menjou, his swing-officers kept observation on all roads ing cloak held up over his aquiline leading into the town: features, climbs her balcony, re- turns them is escaping again and tumbles on the scene of a murder.
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The murderer coolly points out that Mr. Menjou reveals what he knows about the crime, he, the criminal, will reveal what he knows about Mr. Menjou and his midnight trips into married women's rooms. So Mr. Menjou holds his peace. But the brother of, his financée is arrested. tried, donvicted of the crime.
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Murder Confession.
What should à man of honour do t Naturally, confess the erime him self. This he does, and by the happiest, most unlikely, but most convincing twist on the part of the story-writer- all comes well. Ravul Paoli as the peasant murderer is excellent.
Many of the pictures in which Mr. Menjou has appeared of late have really been unworthy of him. This one is not. His part gives him the fullest opportunities for displaying that screen person- ality which on his own admision is what film stars give to the world | in place of histrionic genius. His varied repertory of expressive glances-cynical, affectionate; grim, self-congratulatory-is given fuller play than ever.
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The Big Killing." There is something about both Mr. Wallace Beery and Mr. Ray- mond Hatton which is at once sym- pathetic and funny.
Berry is big and clumsy and looks infinitely well-intentioned and aimpie. Hatton is smaller and apryer, but really just as liable to spoil his best effects with some bit of butter-fingered work. The two of them together are ludicrous and likeable.
"The Big Killing," is as absurdly exciting and as funny as one could wish. The two partners are torn from the comparative ease and safety of the country fairs in which they perform as sharpshooters, to the excitements and perils of family- feuds in wild hill-country.
A Family Of Strong Silent Men. Neither of them can shoot within yards of any target, save by 'ne- cident, or if they happen to be aiming at something else. But they are hired to help one family of strong silent men wipe out another even grimmer family of sons of the
soil.
Under the impression, that they have been hired to shoot dogs, the absurd pair (dressed up in costumes which waver between the cowboy and the gold-miner) saunter out to earn the money they have been promised:
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where the car.stood.
Another message was received and he and other officers went to where Police Constable Abbott was He saw all keeping observation. the women with the exception of Taylor and Guest enter the shop.
Detective Inspector Whiffen said when he opened the car and saw the things on the floor he remarked, "Oh." Mrs. Jones said, "You don't want to say Oh' the stuff. You have got us. are all straight up I will give you no trouble." Later Mrs. Jones
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said, We are all guilty. You have got all the stuff. We only went into one shop. You will find all from one shop."
Bottie In The Car.
Mrs. Jones interposed saying, "I said all the women had been drink- ing. We saw that the sale was on, she added. and that tempt ed us. We were all under the in- fluence of drink.”
Inspector Whiffen agreed that the women had all been drinking, und that there was an empty beer bottle on the floor of the ear.
Superintendent Crockford gave details of the women's records as follows:
Mrs. Taylor (43): Three months' hard labour in April, 1993:, four months in May, 1925. Bath for shop lifting. Several other convic
tions.
Mrs. Guest (44): Eighteen months bard labour for larceny in September, 1992; six months for shop lifting in May, 1923. Twenty" Duc other convictions..
Mra. Patterson (40): Fined £5 and two guineas costs for assault in September, 1998. Two months' hard labour for larcency in May 1928. Nine other convictions.
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Mrs. Wilson (52): Bound over for twelve months in May, 1927, for shoplifting. Discharged under the Probation of Offenders' Act in May this year for shoplifting. Twelve other convictions. She was suffer ing from some internal complaint, and that, said the Superintendent, probably accounted for the binding
over.
Mrs. Jones (40): Twelve months for shoplifting in 1025; six months for shoplifting in 1926. Seven other
convictions.
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In one of the larger rooms of the rampart building the base of the massive water tank constructed of slabs of freestone has been found.
Barracks.
Within the defences further im- Fortant work has been done on the lie of four barracks buildings which were partially cleared last year. Each of these is 250ft. long and was intended for the accommoda- tion of a company of 100 men under command of a centurion,
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In the school field excavations have brought to light parts of two large buildings lying on each side of a street that crowed the fortress laterally and marked off the central division of the fortress from the rearward,
In addition to the structural re- mairs described, a wealth of smaller finds has been made, including up- wards of 120 coins, numerous iron javelins, bronze sword trappings, catapults and sling stones, ginss, | and much pottery.
These together with the known character of the site and the structural evidence already recover- bed, abundantly strengthen the view that Caerleon, as well as being the most important available Roman military site in Britain to-day, ranks with the great legionary fortresses of the Continent.
BABIES IN A BOX,
CHARGE AGAINST ROMFORD WOMAN.
MAN WHO DID "NOT KNOW WHAT WAS INSIDE!
ROMFORD, Essex, Aug. 17th. The woman known as Ellen May Knights was again before the Rom- ford (Essex) Bench on charges in connection with the babies in the box" case.
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She was arrested following the finding of mummified bodies of babies in box which, it was Haley Bound over as a suspect alleged, she left behind at a house" in Manor Road, Romford, and sub- ed person in 1927. Haley, said the Superintendent, was the only unsequently a body of more recent married woman amongst them"
Mrs Hescott (30): Bound over in March, 1992, for larceny and again in March, 1927, as a suspect-
ed person...
The Chairman (Mr. J. H. Hay woon) congratulated the police on their capture,
COCKTAILS AND DAGGERS.
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Making Fun Of The Enemy, The situation itself is funny, and excellent advantage has been made of it. Beery, looking through the
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Box Always Locked. Mr. Gay said Knights was single woman, aged between 30 and birth was found in a suitcase at 35, and was brought up at Brent. Cottons, a house in London Road, wood by her grandmother until 1020. She lived with an uncle until, Romford,
Knights had previously been 1924, and during that time made charged with concealing the birth the acquaintance of a man named of the child found at Cottons, and Knights, with whom she had been she was now also charged with con- associated almost ever since. After cealing the births of the four child-leaving Brentwood she had lived at ren whose remains were found in Ongar and Romford.
Mr. Alfred Straight, of Brent- the box.
Mr. A. W. Gay, on behalf of the wood, an uncle of the woman, said Public Prosecutor, said that but her proper name was Ellen. May for the difficulty in obtaining much Nash. evidence regarding the condition of the bodies, the charge might have been a graver one. The prosecution was going to call Sir Bernard Spils bury, the pathologist.
to say.
Other witnesses stated that she had lived at Greenstead Road, Ongar, She, always kept the black box locked up. She was known there as Miss Straight.
Mr. Percy Edwin Knights, of The prosecution alleged, said Mr. Gay, that the body found in a Greenstead Road, Ongar, who was suitcase at Cottons belonged to cautioned, said he had visited the Knights, and was born about last woman during week-ends, but they December. Bir Bernard Spilsburg were not married. He recognised would say that it was capable of the black box which, he said, was maintaining life, but whether it always kept locked, and he did not survived its birth it was impossible know what was inside,
Detective-Inspector Crockford said With regard to the bodies in the that after the woman was remand- box, Bir. Bernard would tell themed a week ago she volunteered the that they were completely mummif- following statement1 would ed, and that it was impossible to like to tell you that the eldest ebild say when they were placed in the in the box would be about seven box, and whether they had survived years old. I did not know that The hearing was adjourned for a their birth. They were all certainly there were four in the box.
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