G.B.S. TO U.S.A.~
This Is How To Make Films by
PAUL HOLT
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 27, 1938.
FLOOD DROWNS MAN IN
HIS OWN HOME
THIRTEEN PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN THE GALE AND STORMS WHICH SWEPT BRITAIN RECENTLY, FLOODING TOWNS, WRECKING BUILDINGS, HOLDING UP TRAINS AND BRING- ING DOWN THOUSANDS OF TELEPHONE LINES.
At Trehafod, between Pontypridd and Rhondda. David John Gooch, forty-six. miner, at River-row, rescued his three children and his bed-ridden wife when the liver Rhondda burst its banks. Then he got back into the house for scraps of food. Hours later lie was found drowned in the pantry.
Sitting up in bed, unable to sleep, old-age pensioner Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, eighty-six, heard the
flood
All this summer George live long enough to educate them, water burst through a laft, whil over the village. She
Bernard Shaw has been very ill.
Doctors put him to bed at Whitehall Court, W., in June. filled him up with meat juices much against his will (the trouble was anæmia), packed him off to Droitwich to get better.
but he was going to try.
Is
At that he trooped in to see
critics, who Bim, followed by the found it largely entertaining, who- her it was intended to be an educa- tion to the Americans or no,
End of the film Mr. Show said:
Don't alter
» scene."
Magnificent. One hundred per cent,
Mrs. Show was subtler. She said: "Now I know why it is the critics like my husband's plays so much."
IT'S A MEMORIAL TO G.B.S. Recently Mr. Shaw returned, brisk
The film is fine. It is a comedy as ever. Found what is known as a battery of cameras ranged on him of manners so fresh and vital in ncross the lounge of the Leicester-handling and attack that it makes square Cinema, said brightly, "You most American comedies look like want me to make a speech?" and marionette shows. promptly did so.
trailer
"very dear Ile nudressed his
"Sald they now friends in America," couldn't do anything about it but listen to him and see his film (the speech was supposed to be a to the film of "Pygmalion").
He said he had never, as the le went, been opposed to turning his
So long plays into films were made his way.
THIS IS ONLY THE FIRST What he wanted to do was to educate Americans in the way films
as they
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But it is more than flint. It is n memorial, preserved for all time, of
his prime. It i
t is a great dramatist
The dustman superbly wears corduroys and a shovel helmet. The poor kick their wives nightly a glass. The and sozzle gin at 2d. a
have never taken a bath. There are real Londonderry House diplomatic receptions for the upper classes, and the dustman talks about middle-class morality, seemingly Ignorant of the fact that council school education in the past twenty years has made the poor more moral
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collapsed, and us reintives reached her died from shock, David Gonch's brother Robert swam across his flooded kitchen to rescue lodger George Miller, azed seventy-two, who
trapped behind furniture. Miller's head was just visible. He was nearly uncon- scleus as David got to him.
Sering his wife pinned against the staircase in his home in the same street, Frederick: Foster swam to her and dragged her to safety.
WATER TO CEILING
Mrn. Foster said that when river water rushed in her four children, her seventy-six-year-old father and her! father-in-law had to fight their way upstairs.
In the lower rooms nearly to the ceiling.
water
roze
Another mother said: "It was MILY the most terrifying me of life. It seemed certain that scores would be drowned. Our men folk have been heroes. We owe our lives to them."
Rescue parties broke up furniture. bored holes in bedroom walls and carried out people trapped inside.
Doreen Jones. eleven, was alone with her little brother Geoffrey, "ked three, when the river flooded her She picked him River-street home. up in her arms, ran into her mother's back bedroom, just as water gushed
into her own room.
£7,000 DRESS BILL-Loretta Young will wear Kowna costing £7,500-ons of Hollywood's largest individual dress budgets-for her part ns Empress Eugenio in the flim "Bucz."
By evening the Boods were sub- siding and people went back to ikele wrecked homes for clothes and food Some tave lost their savings.
PINNED BY TREE CRASH
A big tree was blown across the engine of a 10 m.ph. irain at Fox'a Wood Tunnel, Brislington, Bristol. The driver pulled up within a few feet of the wreckage and no one was
hurt.
HORE-
BELISHA
CALLS IN POLICE
Mysterious damage to the property
should be made. They could try than any other section of the com-heln, dambered out through their Baker, aged afty-nine, of Meadowsulted in a day anti-night police pa- !
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planned to send them
start. and he Homic more.
"Pygmalion" for notably "Caesar and Cleopatra" and
The Devil's Disciple."
He didn't know
It is all so delightfully unreal that when Leslie Howard walks out on to the Panbankment and balls a taxi it is a shock that It Is not a growler. whether
he'd
Allan Parr, fifty-two, newsagent, of Arleyroad. Appleton, Warrington, to the ground Lanes, was pinned when a tree crashed at Appleton. As soon as the river wall broke te died from injuries at night.
of Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha has re- women and children, sercaming for A postman. Frederick Charles
trol at his farm-house home Onl windows, crawled barefooted along brook-street. Darking. was bicycl- Wimbledon Common, London. the slippery root tops, and huddled ing along the Reigate-load, Dorking together for warmth
shelter when he was involved in a collision against chimney stacks.
with a car and was killed.
Major 11. F. Courage, a member of the Royal Thomes Yacht Club, was drowned in Southampton Water during the gale while trying to an- ehor his eleven-ion sloop Fore.
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"Sabotage" of an electricity power plant and of the engine of his new motorcar is suspected and now every- body who approaches the house is under the supervision of a uniformed policeman.
The War Minister acquired Old Warren Farm and its nere of ground He became entangled in the feam Ledy Knudsen last June. He anchor chain and was pulled over-moved into the long, low, white- board.
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It took his only companion, Re- ginald Peters, nineteen, of St. John's- road, Ryde, Isle of Wight, forty-five minutes to get the body from the water.
The woman proprietor of a coffee- stall near Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, saved trains from running into a telegraph pole carrying a large num- ber of G.1.0. lines which felt across the LNER. main ne to Cam- bridge.
She raced to the station, where she arrived in a state of collapse to give the alarm. Trains were slopped.
A signal post was blown across the L.M.S. line near Armitage, Stafford- shire, cousing delay to two portions of the Irish mail-train and the Night Scot. The trains reached London nearly two hours late.
Undermined by flood water, holi of a house crashed into a mill dam
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Mr. Horc-Belisha reported the matter to the police, and officers | AZPAAN from V division were moved in to keep watch on all visitors calling at the house.
Soon afterwards the Minister's new car inexplicably developed engine trouble. Mechanics gave their ver- diet, and now the police, keeping watch in shifts, patrol the premises.
day and night.
Neighbours said that luce the polico watch there has been no further trouble with the lighting plant or the car.
Last June it was stated that the special police protection given to Mr.
A family of eight in the part of | Hore-Belisha was In no way associ- the house which remained intactj ated with parliamentary matters, but escaped injury.
that a detective had been detailed
Beds and other furniture fell into to attend the War Minister for purely the dum.
private reasons.
A Bre in the grate set kame clothing nearby alight, and neigh- bours quelled the outbreak wilh buckels of water.
Damage estimated at the
of pounds was done at Merseyside, Twenty cargo vessels were held up Ind
In the house were Mrs. Ann Gindy, at the entrance to the Mersey seventy-five, and two bables-one passenger steamers from Ireland and two years and the other six months. the Isle of Man had to remain in
Two sisters were slightly hurtshelter. when * chimney stack crashed through the roof of A house in Derby-rond, Fallowfield, Manchester, and wrecked a bedroom.
The stack missed Marion Critch- low. twenty-one, and Winifred, eighteen, by inches,
Marlon's bed was surrounded by nearly a ton of bricks. A chest of drawers was smashed to pieces.
MASONRY HITS TRAIN
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Masonry from a parapet of bridge spanning the railway line at Great Moor-sircel, Bollon, craslied on to a coach of train travelling from Southport to Nollon.
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The roof of the coach was damaged and windows were broken, but no one was injured.
Rivers were overflowing in North Yorkshire and South Durliam.
It is feared that a large number of cattle and stocp have been swept away by the flooding of the River Lune.
Houds near Lancaster were flooded
and a number of villages isolated.
A van was swept away in the swollen River Wear at St. John's Chapel, Weardale, Durham and had not been located.
The Great North Road
Jin- passable for two hours at Rossington Brige, near Doncaster, when an elm tree fell across It. All trafle had to be diverted.
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Lifeboats went to vessels in dis- trees off the coasts of many parts of the country.
Damaged beyond repair by the gale, Morecambe and Heysham's Fifty Fleetwood trawlers were held £30,000 autumn Illuminations have up in port owing to the gate. been abandoned a fortnight before the official finale.
The Corporation have dispatched hundreds of telegrams to transport operators cancelling trips. Nearly mile of luminations | inbleaux were wrecked on the North! Shore cliffs at Blackpool,
Mány. Brithi tourists returning to England from Paris, the Riviera, Switzerland and Kaly, were forced
to spend the night at Boulogne. Both morning and afternoon ser- vices
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More than 30,000 telephone sub- scribers throughout the country were Chimney stacks and more than affected by breakdowns.
1.500 telephone lines were down, and every street had with broken windows.
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