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eign Affairs. Three years later, when Lord Snowden resigned the office of Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Eden succeeded him, on the understanding that he was to take a special interest in League probably the handsom- of Nations affairs. est man in the House of ister for the League of Nations, One year later he became Min- Commons, but weary with and so destiny had ruled that the strain of the last few the League was to assume a weeks, Anthony Eden rose dominating part in his life.
When he became Foreign Sec- in the House at the end of question-time recently to retary, at the end of 1935, his attachment to League ideas and We assist you in this connection make "a personal state; policies continued, and tinctured without any trouble or complica- ment."
his whole approach to the pro- fion to yourself
For over two years it had been blems of the world.
He was, of course, e famillar to you at home and subsequently customary when one had writ- in Hongkong.
ten "Mr. Anthony Eden" to add figure at Geneva in the days "Foreign
When when "Sanctions" against Abys- Secretary." Mr. Eden spoke on this occasion sinia were running their unfor- it was to explain why he was tunate course, and when Britain' Foreign Secretary no longer, was striving, vainly, to get the world to follow her disarmament. why he resigned,
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FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1938.
CINEMA PROGRESS
BY temperament, as well
By Lichty
HERE
Dalien Penince tyndscuts, Jan.,
"I really can't remember whether I'm 27 or 28--just to be on the safe side, I'll put down 21."
Stop these out-of-date prison sentences, declared a Chairman of Homeside Quarter Sessions
A
Month in Gaol
as because, no doubt, of It was from that particular his experience, Mr. Eden was an ardent League of Nations man. sent below the gangway on the When the League perished he Government side of the House, still placed his hopes in a re- reserved by custom for these formed League. sad occasions, that he said his
If his methods were mistaken say.
his loyalties and enthusiasms Even though the House rang are everywhere acknowledged. with a momentous and exciting Ardent, studious, intense, he ACCORDING to the comment debate on foreign affairs and worked strenuously, from the of the Lord Chief Justice in the Cabinet crisia, young Mr. day when Mr. Baldwin brought a recent case, the liberty of the Eden-he is 40-was the drama- him to the front bench and gave subject is our most priceless tic figure of the hour.
him his chance of statesmanship possession." The history of the cinema is
He had taken a drastic step for the world ideals he held. the history of a struggle on the at a time when more of the lime- His manner and words, often part of its progressive and en-light played on him than is en- nervous and worried, were the joyed by one politician in a
mirrors of his mind. lightened administrators for an
hundred, when his career must It is odd that he began his rise improved expression and social have seemed enviable to every under Sir Austen Chamberlain and educational value in film young man in the land.
His rise has been swift and under the Premiership
and that his set-back takes place At least, that entertainment.
almost sensational since that Austen's brother. day in 1923, when he entered the House as Conservative M.P. for Warwick and Leamington."
is what the intelligentsia of the art-industry has often pro- claimed, and which Mr. Will H. Hays, President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distribu-At Geneva tors of America, endeavours to demonstrate in his annual report
came
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Bui enforce the Money Payments Act, and "humanise" the prisons as much as you like, there would still remain the fundamental question of how to remove the causes which con- spire to incarcerate men and women in prison, with all its consequential pains and penalties, when other forms of punishment should be adequate.
One of the causes, in my view, is the narrow restrictions placed upon the Justices who every year, in their 1,000 courts, deal with three-quarters of a million offerders.
They may place a denfendant un probation, but if they think the case warrants some penalty, they are con- In this country until 100 years ago fined to the alternatives-fine or gaol, there were 220 offences punishable
But in all successive reforms no new
method of punishment, apart from fining and gooling, has been devised.
NTHONY EDEN is al- HIS first chance
ways working. when Sir Austen Cham- learnt German out of a A Inilure to pay the amount of the of 1938. Confronting this im-berlain, then Foreign Secretary, pulse has been the demand of appointed him his parliamentary grammar book while shav-ne imposed renders the defendant private secretary in 1926. There ing, and one of the chief imprisonment, according to that scale. pure commercialism. Commer-
began an association with the reasons for his success in life
It is true that the Money Payments with death; but, save for one or two cialism, say critics such as C. A. Foreign Office which, in the has been that when he
Act, 1035, is designed to prevent an crimes, that has been abolished, and so have the trendmill and the picking Lejeune, Paul Rotha, Meyer opinion of many, went on too Parliamentary Private Secretary offender from going to prison merely Levin, George G. Nathan, and long for Mr. Eden's good, in the he learnt all about his immediate because he is unable to pay the fine. of oakum.
that it became too boss's job.
But the fact that during the first the former well known com- sense
'The average P.P.S. is inclined year of its operation 11,023 persons mentator, Cedric Belfrage, has specialised.
In 1931 young Mr. Eden be- to take it easy, regarding the went to gaol for making default in been the successful enemy of
came Under-Secretary for For job as more or less honotary. paying fines or other sums ordered the more artistic and educa-
Even as a boy of eight Mr. Eden to be paid clearly indicates that the Act has not achieved ils purpose. was sufficiently interested in (The figures are for 1936: those for tional elements of the cinema. They and Mr. Will Hays and his ally speaking their efforts may politics to cover a big map of 1937 are not yet available.) collaborators have long accused claim to have helped the film! Great Britain with little blue
Mollycoddling Laws the producers of pandering to industry through a very trying flags showing the Conservative
constituencies.
Mr. Edon has a curious habit NDEED, there arc the commercial requirements of period of adolescence, and to
justices who have openly declared their dis film-making at the expense of have given to it a new apprecia-of running his fingers through
ahia black hair, rumpling it like of what they have described as its social responsibilities, saying tion of its potentialitics as
the more summary method at one that instead of fulfilling an medium for artistic, educational slightly, and of wriggling his "mollycoddling laws." They prefer foot when he sits down on a me generally practised, and yet by LUCKY DOG !
educational purpose, they have and social expression.
sofa.
no means ended, of: "Forty shillings HEALTHY DESPITE THE TROPI-stimulated in the public a desire Particularly striking has been He also has an odd habit of or one month-next case."
Lord Newton introduced a Bill for CAL HEAT. ALWAYS FULL OF
The imprisonment is not for the the purpose lately, but the Lords a demand for cheap and the advance made by the news-counting the fingers of his left and ENERGY AND GOOD SPIRITS THRIVES UNDER ALL CONDI. emotional entertainment, the reel. Though often tinged with hand with his right hand as in lawbreaiding; for that the defendant
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TR. DUMMETT, the Metropoilton magistrate, holds the view regard to motoring offences, that "the only way in which I can see that it [the "ghastly slaughter and moiming of people"] can be stopped is by passing a law to permit magistrates to confiscate cars."
He would revive the old law of teadands, or fortelts, which persisted from the days of Moses, and which censed in this country in 1840,
Prison
Ane. The new oilence is that failure In America an offender sentenced, and the punishment is out of all say, tu 28 days, is allowed to do FOF HIS FITNESS? JUST SENSIBLE | ful.
He has a very good-looking proportion to that offence. And it the "time" at week-ends, and so avold FEEDING. A REGULAR DIET OF This accusation longer bringing before the public in a wife and two sons, Simon and is so illogical, unjust, and out-of-date. loss of wages. There are those who SPRATT'S THE BISCUITS THAT holds the sting of, say, five years vivid manner
and Nicholas. When I last saw him
To one man, a short "stretch" favour the introduction of that system
in this country. ARE LIKED BEST BY ALL DOGS—
The cinema industry has events of the world. It has to speak to, Mr. Eden was very means nothing; indeed, I have known ago.
Others have suggested concentra- THAT MEAN HEALTH AND LONG taken itself to task, partly be-stimulated a greater demand for anxious that Simon should have many men ask for it. But to others
it means however short-a life-long tion camps, State farms, or similar of a real educational a straight bat. cause it found that while in "shorts"
Mr. Eden himself is a great stigma, social degradation and ostra places, to which, without the cramping cism, loss of employment; and to his and degrading conditions of gaols, room-pacer, and keen on gang wife and family, in addition to shar- suitable offenders may be sent for series, competition with the theatre value such as the "Nature's and wireless, it could not afford Wonders"
ster films. I sometimes see him ing those consequences, hardship, short periods. the "Romance to try and fool the public with Fish",
of at our "local" cinema, the Regal, want, privation.
authorities deplore short tu According low, productions which had no ap- Radium", the "Popular Science sitting in the front row of the
magistrates sentences. They say, in effect: "If the "Happy Hour dress circle. He also is a fan of should ascertain the means of the you send offenders to prison, send peal beyond those of an immedi-Series".
defendant, and relate the fine to them, them for such a length of time that
we can do them some good." ate emotional reaction, but more Series" and other such films. Arinabella, the French actress.
He might have got his Boats In how many courts is this done? because the Government of Insistently prodded by Mr. Huya at Eton, but joined up at the age
New Punishmeht
Should Never Be There the United States, as head of a and his organisation (as well as of 17 with the King's Royal Rifle Distributing Agents, Hongkong
and became Brigade country producing by far the by an increasing public demand) Corps,
men were received into prisons. major proportion of films for producers have shown a willing- Major at the absurd age of 21. A HOME OFFICE memorandum re-
cords the fact that some of those 1936, 41,000 men and 5,300 wo- to feature subject-matter He went to Oxford, but pass- who have gone to prison would not of this large army there were thou- world consumption, realised that ness SENSYA Now the industry had to be purified of definite social value. What is cd quite unnoticed there except have suffered the fate "If the liability sands who should never have gone
if it was not to spread moral doubly important, in almost by his tutors, Professor Mar- had been better adjusted to their there w
case these pictures have gollouth and Professor Dew-resources." degeneracy throughout the every
hurst. Thanks to them and real civilised world. The producers become "box office hits". The application, he got a First in the example that Cezanne gave stitute the problem now under con- us a hatred of worldly things sideration. It is those who are kicked, as one expected them to increasing artistry of the cine-Oriental languages.
absurdly whether, practical or scheming: ordered
disproportionate do. They accused Mr. Will ma is revealed by Waiter Disney
and his cartoons and Silly Turning Point
a hatred of prejudice, a hatred of guol sentences because they fail to Hays and his organisation of Symphonies, now given its high-
HE and I were exact con-honours and flattery; a hatred of pay their fines, or who are given short sentences by way of punish- being an expression of Fasciam, est expression through "Snow
temporaries, but I never commerce and hypocrisy ment. These are the people who are They protested that interfering White and the Seven Dwarfs" knew he was "up" until he had Cezanne embodies all that," said being forced to endure an imprison- ment that does neliher them nor the "amateurs" would bring ruin to
He never joined Mr. Eden. Mr. Will Hays claims in his "gone down." the cinema. Of course they latest report that the cinema is the Union, never joined a club, The turning-point in his car community anything but harm.
Is it beyond the wit of man to have been proved wrong. Mr. realising its finest qualities and played tennis only, but acquired eer was one summer's day in Hays and his colleagues are pro-potentialities,, and it is no empty a great admiration for Cezanno. 1931. He was dabbling with a devise means of dealing with these In fact, he read a paper about water colour on the Yorkshire thousands in a way which, while forming a penalty for deliberate con- bably not the most popular claim. The industry has a long
traventions the law, or wilful de- people in America, just as the way to go before it attains its the French painter to some un- moors.
He recolved a letter from Mr. foult paying a fine, would noL full status as
an artistic and dergraduate society or other. British Board of Censors would educational medium, but in the Not long ago he lent it to me, Baldwin telling him to come hot-involve the evil results of a prison, scarcely win a popularity con- meantime one can and satisfac-and it throws an interesting foot to London. He did so, and
found the post of Under-Secre-|| test in England, But each has tion in the knowledge that it is light on Mr. Eden himself. accomplished a great deal of progressing along the right To live entirely for his art; tary of State for Foreign Affairs
to renounce all else that was awaiting him. good for the cinema; and gener- lines.-S.A.G.
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