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ANGEL-WINGED AIMEE STILL DRAWS CROWDS
They Laugh (
At Her
Jokes
), Sing (
With
Bandy
:),
By TREVOR WIGNALL
Los Angeles, July 2,
HOLLYWOOD is only a few miles away, but as the
painted city of films is not a place to visit on the Sabbath I decided to let it wait until later.
'The air voyage of more than two thousand miles was such a success that when I have finished with California
I shall fly straight back to New York (2,750 miles).
The air liner arrived dead on, the minute, but my first dis- covery was that so many conven- tions are being held here that the main hotel was jammed.
Most of the inhabitants were out on the beaches, and there were said to be half a million at Supla Monica, twelve miles distant.
I
ller scrinon was illustrated willi atrange noise through loud- speakers, by the appearance of a small dog which Aimee took intoi her arms and hugged, by the warblings of a male quartet and by a series of tableaux vivants,
These latter reminded me of mys Small-boy days when I was lead- ing performer at Band of Hops en- tertainments.
My Sunday, therefore, was as quiet
Ainer looked youthful and lovely at it would have been in London.
with a black curtain to silhouette X picker of night. am ni much of
her form and with every light in the winners, but am still pretty good
She at choosing things to write about adding focused on her face.
between de great play with her stalwart Lust night I hesitated Shirley Temple's new picture "Wee, whom she called forward to kiss Willie Winkle" and Evangelist Aimee add to her words, Semple McPherson,
5,000 SAW HER
I chose Aimee.
The impression in America is that! Sister Aimee has had her day and that her influence has waned; that was hot borne out at the huge and ornate Angelus Temple.
The place was packed with five thousand and hunderds were iurn- ed away.
The rather andeurish tableaux, were intended to illustrate the spots in which good and had are destined.
Aimee spoke extempore and was never at a loss for a phrase. She Indicated when applause and "ament were desired, but through there was clapping hands and cheers,
all of
The most astonishing event of the evening was KI Honest-to- goodness wedding on. the stage with organ and bands all playing the Wedding March.
When Alice's co-preacher. Pled) B.Johnson, asked visitors to Cali-: fornia to declare themselves norej than half the congregation stood upjomision of Sister Algo made imagnificent
a entrance.
Flooded will Hurlight Hise marched down the Irugth of the church to roaring cheers wearing a beautiful white gown with drap ings to her arms so arranged that when her arms were extended they exactly resembled wings.
Aimee onleiated, and save for the the word "obey" the ceremony was practically identical. with that of the Church of England. MEXICAN BRIDE
The
The couple were Mexicans, bride was dressed in white and was, attended by bridesmaids; the bride- Kroom Wore a dinner jacket withi a white tle. No suprise was showni
the
Aimee gathering when
She carried an enormous bunch by of red roses and there were gar-ndly kissed both on the lips.
denias in bee vestments. On her boson was a vast cross,
Two-thirds uf the congregation were women, who were compelled to remove their hots When Aimee On either side of her were white- appeared. She says she will shortly robed angels. In front a brass band conduct another campaign in
orchestra Fing guitars und
terrifle trambone player..
#
She is a restless woman, and for
are not row young and
women, but middle-aged ive;
When I left the building 1 asked
policeman where I could find aj the three hours she was on the stage taxicab. He laughed loudly and ex- she was fussing with her Marcelled
that
taxicabs do not wait golden hair, fiddling with a miers-Plained
outsitle Angelus Temple as they phone or issuing loud orders to her never have fares. This was proved
many attendunts.
by the long line of tramcars, which
that inost of Aimee's Throughout the proceedings there suggests was as much premeditated comedy warshippers are lowly and ill-paid. und laughter as solemnity and for-¡ vent "umcos."
Almec continually cracked jokes,! the richest of which preceded one of the three collections. She asked the gathering the difference between Scol and a canoe. The appeared to be that a canoe can lip. AIMEE'S DOG
ROSWIT
Even during the one-hour sermoni Almce indulged mainly in anecdotes,
THEY BOTH PLAY FOR THE
· SCHOOL NÓW. IM SO PROUD |
OF THEM NURSE."
"You have every right to be, Mrs. Evans. I can see a
wanderful improvement since you took my advice about 'California Syrup of Figs.
To me her sermon and general fluttering about 'provided remark- alle entertainment, but the only proposal I care to make is that, she i Chould -stopped from singing,
Pay (
WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1987.
At Three
Collections
WHAT A HEADACHE FOR M. BLUM!-Tangled_political and financial affairs of France caused Fremler Leon Blum many a headache before he and his Cabinet resigned, recently. Here ho tells about 1 to Paul Faure, State Minister (back to camera), and Marx Dormoy, right. All three are in the new cabinet, with A. Blum as President of the Council of Ministers.
Back Into Fire After
Rescue
'Plane Blown
He Forgot To Bits
SIXTY-FIVE YEAR OLD
retired street sweeper Jolin Burton, of Preston, rescued a mother mud her two children from a blazing house recently forgal
Had
saved the children, and turned back into an upstairs room.
He heard shouts for him to return, slid almost uneanselaus down a ladder to safety. When he recovered he said, "I went back because the children's eries were ringing in my cars. I thought they were still there." Mrs. Brock, of Inghamstreet, Preston, and her children, aged five and three, were trapped in bedroom when their kitchen
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below became racing furnace,
*
Burlon, neighbour.
It
weni through the kitchen, up the
· stairs through smoke and flames, carried the three to the window, where two ollier men had placed a ladder.
IBIG CHANGES
Invariably she sang her own songs. the words of which were no better IN FUTURE
than her vales but I thank her for ja Sunday night the like of which had
never before been Included in experiences.
iny OF MEDICINE
Husbands Must Not Say 'My Baby'
W
XHEN a husband in Wimbledon Police Court referred to his baby Jas "my child," the chairman
THREE DIE
(By A Correspondent) Stanton Lang (Staffs),
June 30. LL that remains of a
new type
AL
Want War Minister
!
To Wear Kilt
London, July 1.
When Mr. Leslie Hore- Belisha (War Minister) ad- dressed the Annual confer. ence of the Scottish National Liberals, they want him to wear a kilt. Sir William Baird, Scottish Nat-Liberals Chairman said on Friday "There can be no excuse be- cause he has the Gordons and the Camerons in his charge as War Minister. If he cannot get a kilt, I will supply mine." Our Own Correspondent,
RECRUITING FOR
THE ARMY SERIOUS FALLING İ
OFF
THE PAY QUESTION
(By A Mary Correspondent) The serious falling oft of enlistment inta
the Regular Army Is the first problem that will engage the atten- tion of Mr. Hore-Belisha at the Wor Omce. In spite of the efforts of the last two years, the number of recruits Joinlog has failed to make good the wastage due to discharge on expira- tion of time. The gures for Cus ¡year are likely to be the worst for
many years.
Mr. Duit Cooper had a good dent of success in his campaign to draw attention to the needs of the Ter- ritorial Army. It is a fairly easy task to appeal to the patriolism of those in steady employment. 11 is not nearly so easy to attract men to a Service where conditions of pay are so low that a man drawing his allow- ance from the Public Assistance funds is a lot better off in the matter of money to spend.
Recruits for the Navy and the Air Foren can be obtained easily. Con ditions of life in these Services aud the prestite which attaches to being ta salfor or an airman may have some- thing to do with this, but the main al- traction is that in either of these ser- vices pay is much better than in the Army.
The reply of the Treasury to any the Army should be raised is that suggestion that the basic rate of pay 'R.A.F.the baste rate in the Navy and the Air Force would have to be raised at bomber plane that crashed the same time. This is a perfectly near here to-day are correct answer from the Treasury tattered bits strewn half mile round a pile wreckage.
viewpoint, and, indeed, is the only a one they can make. It is not, how- of ever, the basic rate of the soldier's
pay which needs altention.
NOTHING FOR SPECIALISTS All that remains to prove that
All that is necessary is that the three young I.A.F. men were soldier should be given the same killed in it were a bunch'of keys, [ facilities as in the Navy or the Air a penknife, and the Wight-sheets Force for obtaining extra pay for bearing the names of the erew on special efficiency. In the Navy and Air Force specialists of all kinds draw the flight.
pay for their special work. In the Young Sergeant-Pilot. ... Edward Army the specialist draws practically Moorhouse, who had just rises from nothing. His arm can be stir with badges denoting special qualiflentions the ranks to qualify for his wings without any apparent effect on his took the machine up from Bicester. weekly pay-sheet. Flying with him as observers to guin:
Tradesmen in the Army do, of experience were Alrcraftmen Sydney course, draw extra pay, but the num- Herbert William Coomber and Alfred ber of these ranks Is comparatively George Martin,
small.
FLAME SHOT UP
In the last Army Estimates the sol- dier was told that he could not be
-Sir Farquhar Buzzard Sir E. Farquhar Buzzard, Re- gius Professor of Medicine at Ox-i
As the bomber approached thin given a rise, but that the grievance ford University, recently hinted jsteepy village of 200 people, Mrs, of "stoppages," whereby his pay, at big changes in the organisn. Jack Lloyd, of Lythe Bank-cottages, small as it is, is reduced, would be removed. This promise hus not been heard the crescendo of its engines fulfilled.
The beneft to the soldier Iton and practice of medicine come over the hills by Ludlow.
by the time the complicated book- when he presented prizes at St. Thele roar became a popping keeping arrangements of the Army Thomas's Hospital Medical and spluttering. Then she heard have dune their work is very small
the clatter of her husband dropping School.
h milking buckris. Running to her door she glimpsed
"The old idea," he said, "of the duylor who knew all that there was wrong with the patient as soon as he entered the room is rather faded. "I think you will all agree that the day is past when any doctor can really work as an Isolated unit.
"BRIBERY OR CORRUPTION "
"It is quite true that at present a
(Mr. Edwin Trim) inter-doctor in practice, is probably able
"I could tell from what you saidrupted him.
that there must be toxin in their sys- tems. When children are cross and peevish and lose interest in their food and games, you can be practically sure it's an accumulation of poison- ous matter upsetting their insides. I've seen it so often! Just cleanse the system in a safe, natural way, chil- dren go ahead like wildûre,"
"But do be sure always to give them 'California Syrup of Figs. It's a natural fruity Jaxative which safely cleanses and purifies the bloodstream and creates a fine healthy appetite.
"Keep, on with the weekly dose of *California Syrup, of Figs, Mirs, Evans. It's a line taxative for young and old. As a matter of fact I use it myself and advise the whole family you to adopt it for
Be sure to get the genuine "Cali- fornia Surup of Figs"·
"California
Syrup of Fiqs"
'Haruki's Own' LAXATIVE
by hook or by croak, or by favour,
indeed.
The possible recruit is not impress- fed by the promise of better barracks in a few years' time, nor is the ques-
a huge, camouflaged airplane as įtion of foreign service the bugbear disappeared behind a bank,
A PLAIN ISSUE
it iu made out to be. The only real maiter of interest is pay, the amount "Then," she said to me lo-night, from the pay which can be allocated "there Wan an
explosion that to the help of the soldier's family and althe amount he has over for his seemed to rock the coltage and
Iamusements. great piece of fame shot up."
"Bits of the 'plane were silli flying through the alt," sald her husband to me. "When the am-
The issue before Mr, Hore-Belishu bulance arrived the men were told is a plain one. The Regular Army is that some people had been killed, necessary as "Keeper of the King's but there were no bodies Lo be Peace" all over the Empire. Unless moved." "I don't like the way you say or by bribery or corruption, to obtain
men can be attracted Into the Army In sufficient numbers to make good 'my child," said Mr. Trim, "Why must of the help he needs for his
Police, when they reached the wastage and bring the units up to don't you say 'our child." A baby patients, but that condition of things i spot, found scattered bits of the strength the whole of our army sys- is a joint affair, isn't 19"
unsatisfactory. ia
and certainly, phne. "hardly enough to make tem will break down. A complète re- perambulator," as one of them put organisation of the system will then
be the only remedy. Scraps of painted markings and Equipment without men is useless. tree branches, were identided from eclent man can earn reasonable figures, pieces of cloth blown into To reorganise army pay so that an the fight sheets as parts of one of wages as he does in the Navy and the the planes of No. 90 Bomber Squad- Air Force will undoubtedly be ́n blg| ron, Bicester,"
Dorks Maud Smith, young and uneconomie.
Edward of Thomas pretty wife
"I believe that the whole organisa- Smith, Wimbledon Corporation ein- tion of medical services on a much ployee. had complained to tlie
two greater scale than ever before is no magistrates that during her years' married life her husband only imminent, but absolutely neces- sary on all grounds--those of "He ordered me about the house efficiency and those of economy." and was cruci when he did not
treated her like a servant.
ke the meals I got him," she said. Mrs. Sinith applied for a separa-inc tlon, nileged .persistent cruelty, and said she was afraid of her husband.
TRY TO MAKE UP.
I did not treat her as a slave" Mi Smith said. "I respect my whe.".
Mr. Tri suggested that the two should try to make [p their differences.
"If he will change his ways I will go back to him," Mrs. Smith said.
Mr. Smith promised, the case was adjourned, and the two left court 1ogether,
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