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NOTES OF THE DAY
FILM FANDOM GROWS UP
A great concession has just been made to the film-going public by one of. Hollywood's leading per- sonalities. He admits that they may now be said to have grown up. Therefore it has been de-
cided by the intellectuals who cater for go much of the leisure of the British people that films in the future shall be more sophis ticated. There will be less labour ing of the obvious; audiences which appeared recently in "The will be given credit for
巋 littlo intelligence,
Sir Malcolm Campbell's opinion of the 1935 MIRACLE RIDE STUDEBAKER given in his articlo
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1935.
OF HAND
WAR
MACHINE
THE East Africa in HE position of the Italian analogous to that of our own country when operating in South Africa in the Boer War. The Italian plan is based on a short campaign ending before the next rains begin.
Supplies
been have
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NOW
AGAINST
two Italian and cumulated in the
East African colonies, sufficient "Altogether, I consider the New not treated 15 A Bolld mass
to make the force at least semi- Studebaker a very good car in of low-brown and nitwits. They independent over a period of any deed, Quiet at all speeds, very will even be encouraged to use large shipments through the smooth and easy to handle, quite their imaginations a little
Suez Canal. The strategy of fast on the level-70 m.p.h. is Many incidentals of the films that the campaign evolves from this well within its compass good used to be deemed essential to condition. Decisive results must on hills and with excellent acce- their
by comprehension
thebe obtained within a time limit leration on all gears. It im- presses me as being excellent groundlings will now be left out as whose ultimate end is the fall Thanka apparently of the rains in the early part of
TOW as to the Abyssinian the adaptability of the Boer It is a car that I think will appeal to the sedulous tuition of Holly-1936.
with the cunning of the Afridi. audiences have become
defence: It is idle to assume any close to a very wide section of British wood,
How long will it take the motorists.
quicker in the uptake. All this-is knowledge of the plans framed The mountains are the chief very comforting, even complimen- by the Italian Commander-in- ally of the 750,000 soldiers, of Italians to over-run the country
intellect lit Chief, a most able strategist whom one half are in the North, and establish control? in California has at last penetra- with a tactical reputation still They have European engineers It took Britain 14 years to
the to make. But his intentions and artillerists who know all recover ted the primeval gloom of
and administer the revealed by progressive that the Indian hills can teach Sudan. The Italian view is a British jungle. But, after all, are
action, and the little we have them. They have laid out de short campaign and a period of was it not the Hollywood magnates scen to date Indicates.a, brond fences in depth which are man- four years' occupation to set up ned by machine-guns. Hill- an effective administration. Briefly, the assumption is posted machine-guns are a great The calculation is optimistic. that his main attack is in the menace, since tanks cannot get
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MONDAY, Nov. 4, 1935.
A SIDELIGHT ON RESTRICTION
Owing to the agricultural de- pression in most countries to-
tary. The torch of
who themselves had become the alaves of mental obsolescence, blind- ly following certain conventional
lines of campaign while all the time their millions of patrons were wondering when it would dawn on
a change of method? The Burress
director
outline.
north from Eritrea, with મ holding movement in the south Italian Somaliland.
If
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The northern area round the capital is reported to be filled
The Very Idea!
school. "Wot's yer name?” ho was askel,
"Blimey! That ain't a nime—that's
them that the time had come for The slower movement in the with the pick of the Abyssinian smuth has the effect of tying infantry armed with modern. of various British films in which down a large part of the Abys- rifles, which are limited in num- the points are not heavily undersinian army against the threat ber, as also must the ammuni lined and the audience is given from that quarter and keeping tion be. But the individual NOTES & COMMENTS
a first-class eredit for perception certainly it. well away from the chance of Abyssinian is supports the theory. The film any quick junction to aid the marksman who does not waste
the north when ammunition, using one round on More Scraps From Eddie quoted above admits defence in
a certain mark always.
Kelly's Scrapbook proudly that he has not had a heavily pressed.
When Abyssinia is drawn holiday for seven years. Now, if he There are alternative uses from her prepared defences, the THE Cockney child had just started and his kind would shake off the for the force in the south. issue of prolonged reaistance slavery of the machine more fre- the northern advance on Addis will depend on the correct ase "Fred!" day, sums equivalent to many Iquently, and form new "contacts," Ababa is held up in mountain of these marksmen. If, because millions of pounds are being with a view to ascertaining what ous country, the southern force of the loss of prestige by re- what yer muvver sews yer pants paid in bonuses, subsidies and ordinary people think of
would press forward to afford trent, it is decided to use men in wiv their relief by a new thrust towards masses, then the Italian task other forms of assistance to efforts, the long overdue improve the capital.
will be the more easy, with big)
Isn't It So? agriculture. This point was ment in the generality of American
targets for their modern wea- DALMONTE TOTI-Splendon Le Sacre Faci-Lucia di Lammermoor stressed by Mr. Stanley Bruce, films might at last get under
pons. No. DB-1015.
is much better to High Commissioner for Aus-weigh. It
overrate than to underrate the tralia, in the course of a discus-
one's audience. intelligence of sion at the League of Nations
Hollywood's palicy of "safely first"
sion long ago.
MICHEL FLETA-Ay, Ay, Ay, (In Spanish) No. DB-1483
Dolores-Madrigale (Breton)
Spargi d'amoro pianto-Lucia di Lammermoor
JOSEPH HISLOP-Far Love Alono No. C-2729
The English Rosc
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A Sunday school teacher yesterday asked his class to write down a definition of a heathen.
He received the following reply from
"Heathens are people who don't
Eternal Why
Why do you paint your lips with
red,
Dear little girl of the curly head?. Why dab your checks with phastly
pink? Why smudge your eyelashes with And pluck your a
eyebrows to ex-
inter
tinction?
And achieve feminine distinction By going platinum? Why ape A futuristic nude in shape?" Why Hatten curves? Why dress
like dozena
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mothers, aunts, and
Why? Why? Why? Why? When,
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HERE is one other condition T
If, on the other hand, in the strategical field. The Italian army is divided into guerilla warfare is adopted, the one precious youngster rains might intervene before quarrel over religion!" halves by the neutral territories Assembly some few weeks ago: should have been down for revi. of British and French Somali- he conquest of the country, us distinct from mere occupation, when he asked whether it would
land, and as a whole has no could be made. centre. Assuming that the MILIZA KORJUS-Invitation to the Waltz (Weber) No. C-2721 not be possible that these mil-
Guerilla warfare is, I know, large force of, perhaps, 180,000 The Little Ring (Chopin)
lions might be better employed |A VICEROY'S WISE ADVICE is in the north an objective for second nature to the Ethiopian, in bringing about a greater
The system of democratic it will be to send a flank force and he will want it, raiding the communications consumption of products of the government abutt to be introduced towards the railway line and columns and land, thereby improving the into India-has found a sensible ad- form a centre which would con- like a modern De Wet. I recall
and the economic wealth of na-British Viceroy in that country. Troops of this northern flank
south, and so make a link-up. gentleman.
On balance it may be antici- tions. The discussion was on Lord Willingdon has been paint force arc already moving pated that, if the Abyssinians the allied problems of agricul- Ing out that only by working the through Aussa along the French do not fight in mass but pre-
under-reforms can Indians establish a frontier. tural depression and
serve their men and ammunition, nourishment of the people. It successful claim to their extension.
The southern connecting link, the Italians may not have com- was stated, during the debate. Beferring in the legislative Assem-moving near the British border, pleted their task within the
to recent Hind has not been reported, but this period of the dry season. that evidence existed to showsuslim disturbances of the public is natural,
as the distance is Moreover, guerilla tactics arej that by the increased consump- pence, Lord Willingdon said:greater and movement slower best in the absence of modern
Judes tion of certain foods, great im- "No system of parliamentary and determined by the advance artillery, the few modern On the exterior of the cathedral provement in national health government can be expected to of the southern force as a pro- Abyssinian guns being light at Aksum, the Holy City of Ethio- and efficiency could be achieved, work successfully and for thetection.
ones and anti-aircraft weapons. pia, are frescoes, one depicting the and in this connection the point benefit of the people as a whole The formation of a centrál One may anticipate a guerilla Last Supper. Twelve of the thir
teen characters in this representa. made that in the less de- without the existence of a spirit force
be ex- policy being adopted after some veloped countries, the great of accommodation and willingness pected to come from the north single defeat in mass. Reasons tion are black. The white man is
Judas Iscariot, masses are living on a bare sub- on the part of all sections to prefer at first, and the force may get for adopting it are prolonged the-wider-interests of the entire astride the railway line which residence, giving the Italians sistence level. Even in the most body polific to the narrower ones connects Addis Ababa with the the maximum of difficulties; the advanced nations, there is a
French seaport of Djibouti. The avoidance of presenting targets A teneler came across the follow- of their OWNL particular group." stratum of people unable to The advice is well timed. The railway line is important, if it for aerial bombing; and the ing while marking some recent class obtain adequate, nourishment. existing Indian legislature
can be secured undamaged, for chance of using the Abyssinian Papers: Sir John Orr, Director of the just refused to pass an emergency on the capital.
transport for a central attack horsemen.
Rowatt Institute, touching on bill giving to the new administrá-
An indication of policy is to! There is assumption in this, be found in the fact that the this point, claims that no fewer tion special powers for maintain-
A the French have railway Abyssinians have formed than twenty millions of the ing order in such circumstances as rights, and the two halves of the large cavalry force, estimated partment of the Kowloon hospital. British population are living on those which the Hindu-Muslim army might operate without at 70,000 men. They are natural His head was enveloped in bandages,
created. These powers, a centre as independent bodies. horsemen, a dict which is deficient in food riots
the live on
"Are you marrled ?" asked Duc. lo be in- This is unlikely, as the centre country, and are
Smalley. riflemen as value, and it is pertinent in this therefore, have had
"No." replied the man, "I've been well as swordsmen. Part of the run over." connection to bear in mind that troduced by British authority. It must be cleared. the State is involved in heavy conclusions adverse to
would be premature to draw any The current operations in the force is camelry carrying ifle)
the new north have taken the form of a and lance (native spear). expenditure in the treatment of system from the incident that has reconnaissance in force and the A force of this size could disense, including that due to occurred. It is nevertheless well sentimental capture of Adowa carry a raiding campaign in aid Sunday school yesterday with
distressing news that he had lost the bad feeding. Cheap food of the that. the implications of such
(which town is off the true of scattered infantry groups for penny given him for the collection. right kinda would undoubtedly, hüppening should be recognised attained in 1896. For some time Italian lines of communication that you have lost your penny," his route) to avenge the defeat sus-a long time and make the "But that is three Sundays running enable a lower expenditure on an early stage. It will be by the Italians can make use of dimcult to hold. Such a forceWell, I must win sooner or later,"
mother complained, the nation's health services. governing itself in smaller affairs their mechanised equipment, would raid for ammunition and Tommy replied. "Fred's luck can't Lord de la Warr. Parliamentúry that, India will establish its claim but as the advance goes on into rifles and supplies. Secretary to the Ministry of to control of those greater. Agriculture, has expressed
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Split up between bodies not) will fall to infantry afoot and
Moro Howlers. mule-curried light artillery. too big, these attacks could
Here is a selection of "howlers" doubts as to the wisdom of the supply, if carried too far, must
never be localised and there from the collection of a Lanarkshire The work, in short, will re- would always be the chance of a teacher: policy of restriction. Speaking result in general impoverish-| of restriction of imports by ment. The statements quoted, semble operations on the Indian massed charge at formed bodies
North-West Frontier, which
A connoisseur is a person who tariffs and quotas as a solution which could be supplemented by naturally will have been closely
stands outside a picture-palace. of the agricultural problems, he others of a like character, serve studied in relation to the phase
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They can live on one-half of the be of any ag tion of food, to the loss not only ing the agricultural industry.
The cobra a little donkey that But under modern conditions food needed för a European and
runa about the Himalayas. of the consumer but of the What is more, they point to the the troops will be supported by need no shelter. They can cover Gravity was discovered by Isnac farmer, as well. Bath on health need of a real national food heavy artillery firing from the long distances, on foot, horse, Newton. It is chielly noticeable In and on economic policy being devised and put in- back, areas and covered at all or camel, without undue fati- autumn, when the apples are failing grounds, he says, limitation of to operation.
times by aircraft.
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