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Thrilling battle scenes, exciting clashes and breathtaking cnvarly charges feature the new Warner Bros. film masterpiece, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," which is now playing at the King's Theatre with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, the lovers of "Captain Blood," reaching new heights in the stellar roles. Above is a bit of action showing how tribesmen scales the gorri- son walls.
It Was a Blunder to Take All
German
R HOUSE OF LORDS recently discussed the question of extend- Ing the mandate system to the Colon-
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-Lord Crewe
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"I am not," he added, "proposing to from that that it would be possible transfer to Germany any territory atto restore these possessions to all." The colonies where he contem- many, plated an extension of the mandate "If those responsible for the Trenty system were those Inhabited by popu- of Versailles had been thinking lations of primitive culture.
little less of revenge and rather more of the future of the world I do not think it would have been done." debate would have would be to de- Lord Lloyd said the only effect the
opinion abroad, expectolly in France.
Lord Noel-Buxton opened the debate by moving:
That
this House, realising the Lord Lugard moved an amendment dangers that may arise in applying to to eliminate the proposal to place cer- Colonial possessions a policy which tain colonies under the mandate sys- excludes other States from participatem while supporting the principle of tion on equal terms in the advantages equal participation in economic Bd- of Colonial development and trade, vantages. calls upon the Government to cansutt with
the Governments of the Dominions and of other Colonial Powers with a view to the application of the Mandate System to suitable cases to British and other Colonies and to the revision of the Convention Lord Arnold blamed the Ottawa of St. Germain (1919) in such a way
put up tariffs as to extend its operation."
against Japan and had antagonised that country against us. "It may well be," he said, "that the historian of the fatore will say that the Olawa Agreement was the beginning of the end of the British Empire."
This policy, he said, had been dofinitely adopted by the Labour Party Without it any attempt to secure world peace was incomplete.
"If we keep the colonies as a closed preserve the continued) we are head- ing for war."
He said he did not believe that the British people were prepared to render their sovereignty
sur over their Colonies and he felt certain
that France and other colonial Powers would not.
Agreement,
which
The Marquis of Crewe, leader of the Liberal peers, said he had never con- shall cealed his opinion that the complete not stripping of Germany of her colonial can-empire by the Treaty of Versailles
was a political blunder,
To say to other nations, "You not have colonies, and you shall even trade freely with ours" flicted with the principle of noblesse oblige.
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The Earl of Plymouth (Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs), said that any proposal to alter the status of the peoples in our African colonies would be very strongly resented by them.
If effect were given to the open door policy
suggested by Lord Nocl-Bux- time to give fiscal economy to any
I would be impossible ton
ali colonial dependencies...
for
So far as the altitude of the Dominions and foreign Governments Government would have diffeully in is concerned, he thought the Brilish
We share Lord Noel-Buxton's ideals, getting them to accept the proposals. he said, but we doub! the value of the specific proposals which he has pul forward for attaining them.
The motion was withdrawn.
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London", the brilliant new Twentieth Century-Fox hit which opens at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres to- day. Ablaze with action, vivid with pageantry and vital with drama, this Alory of a love that changed the des- tiny of an Empire unites in swiftly kaleidoscope the account of the founding of England's thrilling sca power, and the establishment of the world's most exciting and extra- ordinary institution. Freddla Bartho lomew and Madeleine Carroll are starred in the exceptional cast, which features Sir Guy Standing and the new romantic. sensation, TyroD Power, C. Aubrey Smith and Vir- ginia Field.
Darryl F. Zanuck selected Henry King to direct "Lloyds of London," with Kenneth Macgowan as associate producer. The screen play by Ernest Pascut and Walter Ferris was adapted from an original story by Curtis Kenyon.
"The Charge of the Light Brigade."
The thundering hoofs that dashed across the pages of history-to be immortalised by the unforgettable poem of Lord Tennyson-cound again through Warner Bros.' stupen dous screen version "The Charge of the Light Brigade," which comes to the King's Theatre to-day, with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in the featured roles. Tennyson's verse denis only with the famous charge of the Light Brigade against the Russian artillery on the heights of Balaclava during the Crimean on action which forms only the terrifle climax of the film story that is replete with thrills from start to finish, and presents a glamoroUS romance in which two brothers are rivals for the love of a beautiful girl. Errol Flynn has the role of n young English Army officer stationed in India, who is betrothed to the daughter of his superior
officer. During his
his frontier,
younger brother steals the love of his sweet- heart and finally appraises him of the fact. It is not until the eve of is departure to the Crimean War that his fanece za role played by Olivia de Havilland-tells him of her love
for his brother and her fear
be that the latter will kliled. His Ife wrecked, the young officer pro- mises that his brother shall not be submitted to danger, and leaves for the Crimea, with only the thought of vengeance against Surat Khan-who has been responsible for the massacre of British men, women and children. Others in the distinguished cast are sungursnica cast are Pairie Knowles, Henry Stephenson Nigel Bruce, Donald Cris Hunt Niven, C. Hen
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Lumsden Hare, Walter Holbrook, Princess Balgum, Charles Sedgwick, Scotty Beckett, George Regas, Colin Kenny, Gordon Hart and Helen San- barn. Michael Curtiz directed.
"A Woman Rebels"
Tempestuous. Katharine Hepburn rattles the dry bones of an archaic social order as an intensely human heroine, with Herbert Marshall a sympathetle foll and comfort in her ordcal of menaced romance that comes to the screen under the title of "A Woman Rebels", now Star Theatre. Their photoplay is heralded us an emotional drama which gives both stars unusual scope for heart appeal. This new offering is especially calculated to give Miss Hepburn's following view of her in a heart-warming role com- parable to her "Allee Adams." Its range of emotion is from the pathetic to the dynamic, with flashes of bright "A Woman Rebels" has a comedy, picturesque and realistle English set- ting, comprising country estates and such London environments as streets, drawing rooms and Tussaud's famous waxworks. Hund- Madame reds of special costumes were created for
Miss Hepburn und her feminine support by Walter Plunkett, studio stylist.
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