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NLIKE the little nigger boys, the number of women M.P.s increases, and now After the general election nine women were returned to Parlia- ment, but with the victory of the Socialist, Dr. Sum- merskill, who took her seat in the House recently, women have won three by elections since 1935.
It was in October 1918 that Mr. Herbert Samuel (now Lord WHIZ NON-EVAPORATING HY- Samuel) moved the resolution in the House that it was desirable to make it legal for women to be members of Parliament, and that resolution was passed by 274 votes to 25,
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player, even having partnered her schoolday girl friend Miss Megan Lloyd George Opposi tion Liberal M.P. for Anglesey
in tournaments.
When she has papers to read she puts on and takes off her spectacles in the most lawyer- like way. If It aasiats-I do not think it does--a parliamentary career she is a water diviner. So is Geoffrey Shakespeare, M.P. for Norwich, but then he is at the Admiralty.
Miss Cazalet is the only woman! who has any official position in this Government.
When She Talks Of War:
I have spent hours trying to
THE Duchess of Atholi, discover what exactly our women
Unionist member for M.P.s had doac. I found that Kinross and West Perth, and they had talked-ural talked in
now a back bencher, was at one many cases with authority-on time Parliamentary Secretary every conceivable subject. But, to the Board of Education, and honestly, I could not trace one sat on the front bench. major Act that had been passed She is no longer in the Gov- of which the women can rightly crament. but is one of its call themselves the prime
movers.
Lady Aster, who was the first woman M.P. to take her sent in the House, and has repre: sented the Sutton Division of Plymouth since 1919, is still the foremost woman member. [Actually a Sinn Fein woman, | Countess Markievicz, had been previously elected, but did not go to the House.)
severest critics, being very much. an aristocratic rebel. She is tall, thin, dark, with a lean face.
Her pets are at the moment Basque children, but it is terri- fying when this quiet woman talks of war, for she will recount the most
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Stop those Crazy Comedies
and
Give Us Films We
Can Believe
D
EAR Mrs. Brown,-
There will be no film
famine this year,
lurid detalls in the calmest way for a longer time than almost any other spenker.
The other women National Conservatives are Viscountess
A Chinese from
Lady Astor has become a Davidson (Hemel Hempstead). next year, any year or ever. EL war.
hostess for the Conservative Miss Florence Horsbrugh (Dun-I think you can be quite stricken town of the coast or
Party, entertaining at her Lon- dea), and Miss Irene Ward (Wall-aure about that. interior. where Japanese bom-don house in St. James's and her send-on-Tyne). bers or
sea raiders have very riverside home at Cliveden.
that
sum
of last week she will be more
Lady Davidson gained her seat
In
Says SETON MARGRAVE
only policy to run them for two and three weeks?
Colman.
You like Errol Flynn So round and round they go,
because you associate scare each other, and getting "The Charge of the Light Bri- chasing each other, trying to him with "Captain Blood" and
gade." You will welcome him in "The Adventures of Robin Hood.".
nowhere.
And the film most in demand for reissue to-day is Norma Shearer's "Smilin' Through."
You will recall some years ago the films of shady morals and shallow wit we called sophisti- cated comedies. Norma Shearer You make a grand point had made several of these films when you say film before she came to London,
Star-Making
And why?
What films at the moment are Of course, there has been so popular that cinemas like the considerably reduced the expre- She is always neatly dressed in a by-election last year when a lot of talk about a serious Stoll Picture Theatre are break- tation of life and made all in a black tailor-made suit with her husband was raised to peer-shortage of films, but then ing away from their one-week- business a precarious sort of a white collar, which shows up age, The mother of four child-
there always is. game, must have twenty dollars against the drab clothes worn ren, she is always well dressed,
combining her political life with Producers like to talk about it, Just "100 Men and a Girl," in his pocket or he will not be by the men of the House.
She is the most talkative fox-hunting and entertaining. since that sends up the prices received here. Officially he is
with Deanna Durbin, and "The member, keeping up a continual Miss Florence Horsbrugh is they get for their pictures. not [L refugee. This IN the conversation with Opposition the senior member for Dundee. Cinema-owners like to talk about Prisoner of Zenda," with Ronald effect of instructions issued by members, auch us Communist In 1936 she created a precedent it, since that sends producers the Hongkong authorities to the William Gallacher and Indepen- by being the first woman to move scurrying to make more pictures, Back To Reality police and disclosed to the Tele- dent Labour Maxton. Her the reply to the Address from and that sends the prices of pic-
on the opening of tures down. graph on Tuesday. The police usual comment is, "Go to Rus- the Throne are watching ships and trains sia." Perhaps after the events Parliament. and preventing Chinese without careful about telling members to the Scottish methylated spirits She has attacked Red Biddy, this unusual form of passport go to foreign countries.
concoction which was a menace entering the Colony. Those who
to the impoverished, and the Flies Her Own 'Plane
B.B.C. for attacking the Prime But you are quite right in be" Chater Road. lack it are simply to be shipped back to the places whence they
lieving that the film world is in THERE sits nearest to Minister. came-unless, of course, some!
Lady Astor Mrs. C. M. She is interested in jute, for dither. It is not exactly in a friend or relative comes forward Tate, who now represents the Dundee is the home of jute, jam, panic, but, as they say in Holly- and takes the responsibility of Frome division of Somerset- and journalists. I cannot trace wood, it has the jitters.
And so it should. In the past providing for them. Just why formerly having been M.P. for her having been interested in
Willesden West.
the latter two J.s. She has by few years it has Indeed asked the Government fixed upon $20 has not been disclosed. Presum- She was born in St. Helena far the best voice of the women for it.
that ably it is felt
but is no political exile, being members.
Miss Irene Ward knows more now in the thick of the fray. would provide food and lodging She flies her own acroplane, is about coal than any woman, and of a sort for a month and by that keen on gardening, and seems perhaps more than most M.Ps. time the emergency in China to talk chiefly on chickens, shops, Some believe that she is the best stars are not as likeable as they I told her then that she was might be over. Vain hope. and servants.
type of Conservative woman used to be. That is profoundly throwing away all the good will The Government, with all res-
she had ever earned, and I Another woman who attacts member, and ahe dues not waste true. pect, should not be planning a attention is Miss Thelma Cuza- an opportunity to raise the ques-
talked her into making "Smilin' Through." Her making that month ahead, but for a year at let, who has represented East tion of coal and miners.
So much for the Conserva- Simply because 50 many film was entirely my idea, and least in this connection. There Islington since 1931. She pre- tives. Now we come to Miss splendid stars have been torn it was a good idea oven if I say are a good many thousands of viously had considerable L.C.C. Chinese with $20 and there is experience and is now an aider- simply no room for them here man of the Country of London.
She combines music under present conditions. If they continue coming in their thousands all the anti-eviction legislation and rent control kong is the only one that occurs schemes that can be conceived to many thousands. One ven- "Megan of the Golden Voice." tures to predict that if the She uses her voice frequently will not make Hongkong any stream of refugees from China and often effectively. more comfortable residentially is not checked that many
Hunger-Marching There are three ways at least of those foreign residents who can tackling this problem. The will leave this Colony this sum- THE two Socialist women first, as the Telegraph has fre- mer rather than expose them- quently suggested, is to estab-selves to the dangers and dis- Ellen Wilkinson and Mrs. Agnes comforts which n wholesale Hardic. It will be with them lish refugee centres in the New flight in this direction unques that Dr. Summerskill will sit and Territories, possibly with the tionably entails. The twenty- vote. assistance of organised charities: dollar-passport scheme will keep Miss Ellen Wilkinson, al-nothing you can do about it.” would begin to like carly all the second is to close the fron-out a certain clement of unfor-though the smallest M.P., makes Coming from Samuel Gold- film stars again if films would tier altogether; the third might tunates the completely des- herself heard. She has by far wyn, that is very interesting. only return to human drama. well be in the direction of antitute for whom it was origin- the most biting tongue of any
There is really no reason for international appeal to Japan to be erected, and for whom many accusations against the Govern-
ally proposed that refugee camps member, and makes slashing Living Their Parts
delay in view of the tremendous respect certain refugee areas in will feel much sympathy, These ment.
of pictures such and about all Chinese cities, people have as much right to
"Hurricane," "In Old Chicago,” which would be marked sultably shelter here as any rich mer since she was five, and now, five Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, and "A Yank at Oxford." so that aircraft would not attack chant, who can probably well
Powell, There will be still less reason feet nothing," she thinks nothing Gracie Fields, William them mistakenly. These could afford to go elsewhere, probably of hunger-marching with unem- George Formby, Errol Flynn. when we see films like "Test. be supervised with foreign assis-lonving dependant employees to
her con- Have you realised ployed from Jarrow
that all Pilot," with Clark Gable, Myrna shift for themselves in many stituency, to tance and probably would receive instances in the town he may
London. There these players and others, like Loy, and Spencer Tracy, or. medical and financial aid from have abandoned. Some good are few things she likes more Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, "Marie Antoinette," with Norma abroad. If, as the Japanese may come of the regulation; for than careering off to fraternise Sonja Henic, and Deanna Dur- Shearer tales of real mon and appear to intend, Canton is to it will probably prevent the with down-trodden proletariats bin, are always themselves? continue to be a target for bomb. swelling of a beggar population on the Continent.
They are not so much acting Mrs. Agnea Hardie (Spring-as living their parts, and the The job of a flim is to present ing fleets, the population must which has been an increasing
nuisance for some time punt burn, Ginagow), widow of make up its mind either to risk But there must be better ways George Hardie, M.P., and sister-Cooper.
of reality. Our actor who does it best is Gary the romance
You want him to be film-makers should now romem- death und remain, or find some of dealing with this problem in-law of Keir Hardie, is the himself or, as you Bay, you ber this. They have been ga-ga sultable and secure sanctuary than by keeping the poor out of opposite. She speaks little and insist on his being in character, long enough. Incar at hand. At present Hong- this refuge.
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of Lloyd George, daughter away from their personalities it was of ex-Premier David and brother by the craze for crazy comedy.
To-day there are a lot of of Major Gwilym, who together I wish you could have been form Liberal Party. Recently, when Samuel Goldwyn was talking players who are appearing in a kind of independent with me the other day when people in Hollywood I would like to talk to all those excellent fa bard at an Eisteddfod at about star-making.
Caernarvon, she
crazy comedies and making туан called
Nobody in the world knows themselves ridiculous. *They more about star-making" thun are destroying their personali- Samuel Goldwyn, and this is ties all because they are unable what he said to me:
members
are Miss
She claima to have spoken j
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"Actors
and
to distinguish between what is actresses I real and what is rubbish.
A film industry which pub-. not interested in finding them. Anybody can be trained lishes the wonder of throwing to act. I took for personalities. tomatoes at an opera singer is that is given to you by fate, self.
"Personalities is something really throwing tomatoes at it-
If you do not have it, there is Mrs. Brown, I am sure you.
success AMONG the stars you
like best you name:
real women-of romance and reality.