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NOTES OF THE DAY ROSITA FORBES asks

U.S. NAVY ORDERS

The proposal to order the return of the United States Floot to Atlantle waters' goes officially un- oxplained, for no-one pays

any

attention to the reason given. Political significance will doubtless

IS THERE A GREAT

WOMAN?

The Very Idea!

"CELLULOID'S" REVIEWS A NEW FILM AT "RUO EMOR”

"BUBSY" is the fifth pic-

ture made by M

F course, there are outstand-most beautiful In the world, I

ing personalities one meets lunched with the Mayor of a Fred Wobble, of the Peak,

any

or desirable, history? It is possible that two going to haul it free-to the Fan." Other films in the

have done so. That first ia a faite she had chosen.

"Why do they like her so much?" roigning queen and the second a revolutionary and a patriot the I asked, expecting to hear that she a ferry-tale, to the childlike torms are synonymous East of the was

peasants. Balkans now in exile.

same genre, of varying artis- tic merit, have been "Ickie Girlic," from the Kowloon studio of Mr. Woppledon-Broun, and the Mid Level half-recler, "L. Love 'Oo," which was produced under the joint direction of Mr.

be attached to the move and it is them in the slums and in country Rumanian country town. His peo oney to infer that the United States villages as well as in the limelight pla were going to give the queen since the purchase of his stone for another new camera, the "Homovie has put bohind her the idea that cast upon patases and politice-but timber and

woman made Hans Andersen castle. They were Hving intervention in Far Eastern affairs has might be necessary Chiang Kai-shek seems to bo play Ing into Japan's hands, or is ai leged to be so doing, and in these circumstances, and at the present time, there is little that the United States or any other country can do about it. Whether there is any connexion with the recent tendency of China'a policy to accept the "Inovitable" and the movement of the American Fleet, it is, of course, Impossible to say with any cer- tainty. But a relaxation of ten sion in the Pacific should result.

LOCARNO OBLIGATION

.ed.

TRADE COMPETITION

A fow years ago, if one spoke

Ministers.

in

The Mayor looked at me as if I

had questioned the divinity of at- other Mary. "Because she is so good," he said.

THE SPIRIT OF LADY OXFORD.

Lady Oxford has the aume gift of filling a room. When she goes out of a door, she leaves a definite blank. No younger woman. Is so vigorous and direct. She has her own convictions and no time for other people's opinions. She Is. a critic who will not brook criticism, but Titulesco's appreciation of Queen Marle, "Apres tout, c'est ello a rouanto" might be altered to fit Lady Oxford, for she is the domi- nant figure wherever she goes "C'est elle, l'esprit,"

Years ago, dining at Giedollo,

and. Mrs. Glubb.・・

about Bolshevism to the ordinary Dutchman, ho was apt to reply, "You'll never get the red flag in a

The star of "Buboy" is again the producer's talented three-year-old country where anyone can walk close up to the palace windows and

Eric, the support being, in the see the Queen bewing in one of

hande of Mias Ah Fat (omah) and them." Recently, when Socialist

Foggles (Airedale). One might riots threatened, that same Queen,

have wished for a more impressive warned to withdraw from her front

cast as regards size. It will be window, put on the equivalent of a

recalled by local cinema-goors, - Victorian bonnet and, in an open

who attended the premiere of Captain Eden has repeated Mr. carriage, drove slowly through the

"Ickie Girllo" in a body that, in Baldwin's grave words on the burn crowds. They cheered her to the

the opus in qucation, there were Ing problem of Europe, Britain's skies, and she took their appinune

no less than 27 featured players, position in the event, of a conflict. It is just so well that emphasis as calmly as the protests of her

including the veteran mime Mrs. Glubb, son. (aged 87), Rov. should be given to British obliga- Willeming is the Victoris of

Smither and his Sidesmen, and the tions under the Locarno. Treatice, for while there has been less Holland. She keeps a firm hand on

Peak Hotel Cocktail Girls--a win- alarmist talk recently, nothing that the reins fer country is her

some and altogether refined bovy. But to one'e muttons! The gave rise to anxieties has altered house, and she is so gol a house-

Initial acquenco of "Bubsy-in- one lota, Captain Eden put the keeper that nobody is aware of position quite plainly. Ambition her difficulties; yet just as Victoria a hunting-castle of the Emperor corporating a delicious pastiche or adventure will not draw Britain became a symbol of empire, so her Franz-Josef, an hour's drive from of the "Ruo Emoh" laws, in which Budapest, I was impressed by the shadows cast by the props and into Continental rivalries, but our Dutch counterpart,, who has no responsibility ns n Great Power interest in society and who con- the courage and the dignity of washing next door are handled with. inslets that we do not ignore them. siders herself extravagant if a Madame Horthy, wife of the dexterous reticence and an ox- Hungarian President, She had quisite and sure sense of sub Our engagements are limited, but Royal visit forces her to order a

wore a grey Jective values-reveals Master grey hair and she dressca, is, Buch commitments as we have made couple of new

drosu. She sat very still and she Eric striking the slumbering are absolute. We have given our herself, Holland.

seamed always to be listening. Poggles on the head with a toy word and shall not reckon the

"What is she waiting for?" I train. All is instant action,, re- price. That should be sufficient for A WOMAN

asked a young officer. "The sound calling, in some sense, the spirit- any who may doubt British read- OF TURKEY.

of a shot." "What d'you mean?" ed offects achieved by the Russian iness to fulfil Locarno. And as a The young Turkish girl, Khalida "She adores her husband and his Eisenstein in his epic allent certainty it is the best guarantee Khanoum Edib, who became Mus-ilfe is always being attempted by "Potemkin." Poggles gyrates in. that our services will not be need-tapha Kemal's first Minister of Bolshevik agents." In the draw agony; Miss Al Fat rushes for- Education, is the only other Ing-room Madame Horthy moved ward, casting aaldo her sowing. woman who has openly influenced from group to group, smiling en route; Eric, greatly daring, INFLATION DEMAND

the fate of a nation. Khalida was She left each one more animated, polsos his toy for another blow..

One gets here, in an acuta de Signs of healtancy in the up-

The National Government is not the only woman member of the and, when a shot came from a ward trend of business in the likely to surrender to Lancashire's revolutionary Committee of Union keeper, perhaps, or a trespasser in gree, the atmosphere of brooding growing demand for an embargo and Progress, which overthrew the the woods full of boar and deer suspense, of fateful waiting, which United States have aroused against Japanese goods. Ent it is Turkish Sultanate. She narrowly only her colour left her. I've never to be found in the more thought- renewed demand for extreme in doubtful whether they can con- escaped arrest, first by Abdul seen anything more splendid than ful foreign films, and notably in fintionary measures. No new tinue to avoid taking any action Hamid and later by the Allice. the way she went on talking, with

works were screened in Hongkong, from time to time, in place of the duce the promised increase in thot Japan is selling goods at an at the head of a price level, but the discussion of economic profit to herself, but the battalion, and when the Grecks markable personality in Nadejdo valgarisms and ineptitudes of

driven out of Smyrna Stancioff, now Lady Muir, "the Hollywood! '. depreciation of the yon and other were

Poggles, as has been said; la in governmental inflationary mea factors are undoubtedly making of and Kemal was congratulating stormy petrel of the Balkans," a sures, such as the issue of fiat her intensive competition a menace himself on having freed his coun-brilliant writer and student of imminent peril of another blow; money, to meet government ex-

to the industrial stability of a good try, she turned on the Dictator politics who was nicknamed "The his teeth are bared in the manner. penditures, creates uneasiness many countries beside England, and told him "Turkey will never be International Kid" by the late of one whose patienc le at an end; which tends to defeat the pro- although England, through Lanca free while her women are velled." Lord Bryce at the Peace Confer- the devoted amah Is rushing to Khalida, addressing rovolution once. She was secretary to the the rescue of her reckless charge- gramme of recovery. A construc- shire, is being the hardest hit.. tive monetary policy for the next The situation is bad enough when gry meetings in an attic overlook murdered Stamboliski, a great when the action comes to a and a grent Prime dramatically sudden end, One British goods are being undersold ing a back street in Constan- patriot few months would consist in the British colonies, but when Jepantinople, with her face uncovered, Minister, and site was one of the understands that at this stage the encouragement of the expansion penetrates to the domestic mariect was the first to protest against the first women diplomats, but she re-operator full over the instrument of credit at a rate somewhat in addition, the time has como for vall, and it was her example and

nounced Geneva and the inner in his excitement.

The star acted with his custom- her influence, not greater than the rate of expan- protective action.

Mustapha

efrcio of international affairs for a

ary naturalism, and Poggles' pro Kemal's edict, which made it sion of production. It is in this

possible for her countrywomen to delightful Scotsman with whom, invided a sincere if somewhat ove

a castic prodigiously comfortable, emotional study. By comparison, manner alone that a strong up- JOURNALISTIC "TIME-LAG"

discard it. ward trend in prices may be

against a decor of grouse, she Mias Ah Fat's interpretation was In an address recently, G.B.S.

ontertains everyone Interesting in | gauche,, stiff, amateurish. "Bub fostered; a trend which may be tool occasion gently to chide the

Europe.

sy," a Fred Wobble production, kept-within-control--when-the

Another great-Bulgarian-is was screened-for the first time in press on its "time-ing." In: ecan- desired level has once been atomic terminology time-ing exists Among the personalities who by Madame Lyappchev, wife of the the dining-room at "Ruo Emoh" tained. In reality, the remark- before retail prices can catch up reason of position and quality are ex-Prime Minister, who prides on Sunday night, immediately able recovery since March, per- with wholcanje prices. A time-lag called "great" Queen Marie of himself on being a pensant Sho after the Vicar had been got rid haps the greatest reversal in prevents wages from following the Rumania undoubtedly has a place organised and runs during a 12- of. trend in the history of the upward trend of prices. Mr. Shaw She adores being a queen and hour day an SOS society, United States, has been financed

was thinking of the alleged inabili ty of the press to keep up with him says 50. She loves the opportunity where the unemployed may apply it gives of making effect, but, by a more rapid turnover, or in- in recognizing the permanence or in spite of her exotic surroundings Personally to her for help.

evanescence of political movemento. her leopard skins and lapis lazuli, The criticism was hardly fair. No-her trains and veils and cricifixos, body could be expected to look at she can make her enemies laugh events with the eye of history, with her not at her. because history can be written.only with the help of perspective. It

legislation is necessary to pro-at all. It may be perfectly, true Escaping to Anatolin she fought her eyes on the door.

Turkish Bulgaria has produced a re-

THEY ADORE

HER.

is

those of Pabst. Would that such

Suggestions, to Worms that May Be Caught in Apples. Don't admit anything. Stand

A great lady with an even more creased velocity, of the fund already available and by the

illustrious name did the same sort upon your constitutional rights.. funds which have come out of

of work in Paris. I remember a Get in touch with a good lawyer hoarding in response to the

little old woman in black, very and build up a defence that will growth in confidence. A price

While I was still hypnotised by quiet and simple, pushing her enable you to secure an acquittal, Any one of these should get you recovery is essential to the auc- is true, ns Mr. Shaw says, that the 4 her charm, her gaiety, her impul- ¡ way through a crowd to ask if I cess of the NRA. A

:

designed to achieve higher slowly the fact of the Russian re her hands, which must be the prices was announced as an volution. Here the charge of time. intregral part of the plan of lagging may be sustained. The recovery. Industry cannot sup- reason is that this is a series of port considerably increased revolutions not yet finished. Such costs if prices do not keep pace. social fermont must "settle" before The policles of the NRA one can pass judgment. agricultural control, "buy now",

STATESMANSHIP and public works-cannot be successful if undertaken in op- The main determinant of his position to the general monetary tory is, of course, statesmanship, polley. This was shown by the and this is ati Imponderable.. Many experience of: 1930. Yet the of the movements which have lately present period of healtancy has come to the fore are the result of a drifting attitude. If an eco- made many groups in the United nomic federation had been created States feel that there has not along the Danube, for instance, been a sufficient rise in prices. would we to-day have had the pro- They are demanding violent in-blem of Austria? Statesmen are flation and suggesting drastic arbiters who can change the drift remedies; this discussion has just as easily as they allowed it to get. under way. Certain events tended to undermine the confid-show that there are journalists ence which was almost re│who, far from suffering from time- cstablished. Under more normal ing, have auch n ganse of responsi financial conditions the measures bility that they have taken time by which have been taken by the the forelock. The inclusion of monetary authority on one or For Eastern problems in the agen- two occasions in the last year da of the Washington conference and a half, would have been of 1921 may be traced to the journalistic vigour with which the adequate. The apparent failure dangerous situation in the Pacific of business, to respond to the was brought to the notice of the classical treatment of cheap chancellories. This illustration is

money has been due to the fact that this remedy was not tried

but one of many which show the reverse of time-lag. Perhaps, in-

until the banking machinery of dood, the gift which Mr. Shaw claims uniquely for himself may the United States has been be traceable to his 'prentice daya aeriously cripled and confidence in journalismi

gravely disturbed.To the extent

that the banking machinery in

not working smoothly, propor- in accord with normal banking tionately stronger methode must

be employed by the central practice so that when a set monetary authority. It is of price level has once been achieved prices may be main- supreme importance, however, that such measures should be tained at that level and further of a reasonable character and inflation prevented.

(Continued on Page 4.)

she sends me real sweet birthday cards just to let

me know that she's keeping track."

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it.

2 Contend that you entered the apple in self-defence, having good reason to believe that If you did not attack it, the apple would have attacked you.

8 Dony you were anywhere near the apple, and produce halfga dozen witnesses who will swear, you were aleoping in an ear of forn at the time of your alleged. trespassing.

Plead that you were 'out of work and merely crawlod into the apple for shelter during the night: and overslept the next morning.

5 Explain that you were in the apple only in the capacity df_an unofficial observer while other worms were eating it. Refuse to 'squeal on the otharsán

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