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TREVOR WIGNALL TELLS YOU HOW
Vie McLaglen, Made Rich
In U.S., Lives In Luxury
Whs
During the steel strike in America bc- often trouble there tween the strikers and the strike breakers and it became necessary to use the prisons in order to protect from attack those willing to work.
PASTOR TO GO
TO GAOL
THE Right Rev. Dr. Thomas M.
Johnstone, ex-Moderator of the and Church Irish Presbyterian Convener of the Church's Committee on Temperance, promised to go to prison for a speech critcising King's Bench Division Judges who had granted a quor licence.
-Is Homesick
By A CORRESPONDENT
Glendale (California), June 30. VICTOR MCLAGLEN looked all over the husky he
man of films when, yesterday, I answered his imperative summons to visit him at his lovely home. The only garment that adorned his massive brown body was a short pair of football pants.
Home is the wrong word to use to describe the £50,000 place he has built at the foot of the mountains. It is a combination of a castle, the Empire swimming. pool at Wembley, Richmond Horse Show, the Centre Court at Wimbledon, Newmarket stables, a big corner of the London Zoo, a huge flower garden in Kent and any training camp for boxers. McLaglen has been living at Turpin" Fairhaven for six years, and he factory, but the present prospect is has furnished his castle with that he will shortly be signed up for several, lenluding "Lawrence of English antiques.
Arabia."
was not altogether satis-
He is desperately anxious to play In the grounds are thoroughbred horses, cows, dogs, deer, kangaroos, in this, for during the war he was, pigs, captive birds, pleasants, and among other things, assistant pro- partridges, and a variety of strange vest-marshal of Bagdad. animals Whipsnade.
properly
belonging
to
One corner of the grounds is a show ring, with Jumps, where tour- naments are held. McLaglen's wife and fourteen year-old daughter are noted riders.
HIS 64FT. SON
The tennis courts and gymnasium are mainly used by Victor and his sixteen-year-old son, who is already Grt. 6ins, in height.
Light
One mile, away Victor also owns an open-air stadium holding 10.000 people, at which displays are given by the Victor McLaglen Light Horse, of which the movie star is colonel. Members of the Horse include sixty airmen. At fifty years of age McLaglen Is probably the attest mun of his years In the movie colony. When resting he spends practically all day out of and doors in a nearly nude state, constantly uses the gymnasium. His boxing is nearly as good as it was when he was a professional and met Jack Johnson.
Few know that when he was six. leen McLaglen was in the Lite Guards. To-day his patriotism is almost violent, and almost all his questions to me were whether Britain will be pulled Into the
shout European mess, and
the abdication and the Coronation.
Ils rooms are so entirely English that I thought I was back home, bui Gold his greatest possession is the statuette awarded to him--and this made him No. 1 lm actor of the work-for his performance in "The Informer."
а
SHIRLEY'S GENIUS There are no traces of his days ns He will con- Professional fighter.
tinue holiday-making for
few weeks, and will not sign up for new picture in Hellywood white there is a prospect of his getting back to England.
Is idea is to make a picture of the old National own with Sporting Club in Covent Garden
as the main theme, He mentioned that the casics!
worked
Sho
He has made a very large fortune leading lady with whom he has ever Shirley Temple, whose cut of films, but when showing me around the estate he reminded me genius in everything she undertakes When he was fined £100 by Lord
of the day about fourteen years ago a marvellous in one so young.
was more excited last Friday Justice Best in Ulster High Court when he leased a small flat at
meet examinations than about the preview for contempt of court and ordered Streatham, but could not induce the at hearing she had posted her school "if necessary to be lodged in prison hire-furnishing company, to
his wishes on the first instalment. of what is called her greatest alm.
It la mnde
possible this picture will make pald," he until the money was
This was soon after he had
than any other ever issued. asked, "Have I any right of appeal?"his first English picture, "Call of the more money throughout the Road," and was flat broke,
Twentieth Century Fox anticl- JUDGE'S 'NO'
pate reaping the largest amount yel McLaglen confessed that he was
No, said the judge. Then, sald Dr. Johnstone, he would go to gaol. His request to attend the ordination at his only son in a Leicester church next week was granted on his giving
to return to his word
Belfast afterwards and go
Immediately
straight to prison.
A clergyman tried to address the court. The judge declined to hear court broke up in him, and the disorder.
He has just finished making "Wee Willie Winkle with Shirley Temple, a preview of which last Friday night set up a new record for Hollywood.
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The
OF BRITAIN
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BY C. N.A.C. PLANE.
RECORD PASSENGER LIST ON NORTH-BOUND MACHINE
A record number of passengers Shanghai from
gers.
waa
almost doubled
It is noted that the full carrying capacity of the plane is 14 passen- The completo passenger list, which has constituted a record, le as fol- lows:
major points-withdrawal of foreign nationals from Spain and the condi- made the trip to ilonal grant of belligerent rights to Hongkong on the C.N.A.C. plane on the two sides In Spain should be Sunday morning, The previous far- the British Government devised this from here was six, but on Sunday, discussed. To overcome this difficulty, gest number carried on any one lar alternative method of procedure, this number
with eleven passengers, who were all whereby the Governments can give
bound for Shanghai. their views in writing. world
At the last moment three passen- Chairman's Sub-Committee, gers joined the plane, whilst a fourth, which is meeting at the Foreign Office who would have brought up the this afternoon, will be asked to number to a round dozan, postponed approve this document and to agree his trip to the next plane. to a date, preferably this week, by which all replies are to be received. In order to save time, the document was clrculated on Saturday night for the information of the 20 representa- tives on the Committee.
The British Government is desirous Mr. C. H. Fenner, Assistant Com- that no more time should be lost, missioner of Police, F.MS, Mr. K. particularly in view of the fact that w. Braly, American educationalist, the difficulty over the method of pro- Mr. Hugo Sandor, Czechoslovakian cedure has already cost a week. If business man, Mr. S. J. Hermas, and when general approval of the American merchant, Mr. R. de Vos,
British plan is forthcoming, the
Belgian, Mr. M. K. Mok, Chinese Government will then have authority merchant, Mr. D. A. Ramsay to put the scheme as a whole to the Mr. E. Kermode, both British, Mr. and two parties in Spain.
Mrs. L. M. McLaren, American air- The British plan was produced 10 tourists, and Mr. B. M. Yung, days ago so, there has already been Chinese
merchant. tline for the non-intervening Govern- Mr. and Mrs. L. M. McLaren, who ments to examine it fully. The ques-came from San Francisco via Manila tions in regard to it require the by Clipper planes, are making Governments to state plainly whether world tour exclusively by air. or not they agree to the relevant parts! and to the action which
He told me he did not want to take not enthusiastic about coloured films the role when it was offered him, se on he saw the Technicolor pleture he thought it too small. He accepted of the Coronation. Then, in his own words, he was "completely sold on it to
John Ford, piensc Director now he concedes that the part is one colour." He thinks this one of the finest pictures ever made, and is still of the best in his career.
To date he has made seventy Eoing to see it.
but his films, four this year, areatest ambition at the moment 1s to return to England to appear in more films.
"Dick Ifis last visit
INSKIP TELLS
10
make
OF CONSTANT
FOOD WATCH
DEFENCE MINISTER
SIR THOMAS
INSKIP
'LAWRENCE' ROLET
Like most others in these parts, he has been misinformed on the British film situation. Some. I have con- versed with were led to believe that every studio is closed, and that most companies are bankrupt.
I have been busy denying these bellefs, and have been able to supply evidence that British flims are still being produced. If McLaglen goes to England he hopes to take with him a director named Jimmy Hogan, whom he describes as great, but who must be unknown in vur country.
McLaglen speaks Arable fluently and has an Arab servant, with
entails.
is pointed out once again that the whom he keeps in practice. This plan stands or falls in its entirety.. knowledge makes it almost certain balanced whole. There is certainly
lic
will be asked to take one of the | principal parts in the Lawrence film,
He remains steadfast in his belief In the future of the British, film in-
dustry, but confesses he knows loo little of television to express an opin
made the first public statement recently on someon of the Government's plans for a "national emergency.”
He told more than a thousand strength by the end of July. City business men at Southern)
He was clearly astonished and Hitle incredulous when I told him that on the afternoon of the Corona- tion I watched the return of the procession on a set in the Daily Ex-
office.
Work on the 1030-37 Navy build- House, Cannon-street, the following programmes had been acceleral-press
ed and was weil advanced. ing details:-
The new battleships would be the The Navy: Vast resources of oil best protected yet built; cruisers and fuel have already been accumulated. destroyers would embody the highest been possible standard of efficiency in gun Industry: Decisions have taken to provide or to store up some armament permitted by treaty obli-
Taw gallons. of the most important of the materials required in the event of
An
The fact that the destroyer Hunter emergency. Considerable supdid not sink when she struck a mine plies, of essential commodities are now and was seriously damaged was a avallable.
tribute to workmanship and design. Food: Steps have been taken for
London's anti-aircraft dvision was Increasing food production in this being equipped as rapidly as possible, country. A consiani connern Every element necessary was 100 per the Cabinel in the position, con-cent.—except recruitment, whi irol, and distribution of food mp-less than fifty per cent. plies not only for the fighting
A pealing for recruits to this and forces but for the civil population. other units of national defence, Sir Government WORK WELL ADVANCED Thomas suid that the
of
which
was
Sir Thomas said that of 123 air was preparing plans whereby, a max- squadrons formed since rearmament imum number of Government posis began all but one would be to full would be offered to ex-service men.
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HEART IS HERE
He questioned me whether it was raining, and was more amazed than ever when I assured him that despite downpour it was quite casy to re- cognise the King and Queen and other people.
His sole remark was that Britain must be years ahead of America in television, which is true.
He was also astonished when I told Jim of the large number of newsreel theatres in London, and that I had nel seca one in America since I left New York,
McLagion thinks that the next ple- ture revolution will be created by colour, and that the day not for distant when black and white films. will be entirely scrapped,
He admits that he owes much to America and Hollywood for his pre- sent position, but he told me over and over again that his heart is still at home in England.
It will be strange if he is not back where he wants to be before many more weeks have passed,
the proposals constitute a
no weakening in the British view that recognition of belligerent rights in T-T. London the form visualised in the plan could Demand not become effective until the Non-T... Shanghai Intervention Committee had reached T.T. Singapore
T.I. the conclusion that arrangements for
Japan the withdrawal of foreign nationals T.. Indin were working satisfactorily and had TT. USA. made substantial progress-British T.T. Wireion.
VISITING PARIS
Toulouse, July 20
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