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Rosemary Lane,
star of Warner Bros. Pictures, appearing In "Four Daughters"
Gracie Owns "Castle In The Air
DREAM HOME NEVER FINISHED
Prefers Isle Of Capri
Na hill top over-
ON
looking Hollywood is a crumbling, derelict castle. It belongs to Gracie Fields; it is her "castle in the air."
There is a curious his- tory about this castle- that-was-to-be.
Just after the Great War the site on the hilltop was sold by a real estate agent, named Long- ley to Chester Franklin, the film director.
1: was Franklin who conceived the dea of building a castle on the were carved eyvie, Hardis
from the hillside itself to make thei castle walls. I was tedious, expen- Nave labour.
In six months Chester Frank- In had spent £4,400 on his project. Then he decided that I was costing him too much he gave Instructions that work on the castle should be abandoned.
The years later the site and the beginnings of the castle were sold to Jack Melermott, Hollywood erint-writer. He ordered the work to begin again. hut soon he, tou found that the plan was too ambi 1.
"ENRAPTURED"
Was
Then Gracie Fields visited Holly- wood. She saw the castle, liked it. and inunediately inade on offer for and it. The bid
accepted. twentieth-century castle-unfinished,
Gracie Fields Was
enrapture i with the castle," the estate agent said "She had great ideas about what she wanted to do with t An Aus- trian architect, who had designed and built castles in Europe, drew up plans for # ognißrent, three-storey, many-towered mansion.
her
"Then
changed Gracle inlod and went back to London. The Hollywood castle-in-the-air vanished. Instead. Gracie's Aus- trian architect built her another dream home her mansion on the Isle of Capri."
But the agent said, Hollywood is! still hoping that Gracle will return to Bnish her hill-top castle.
Cow Victim of Bright Lights
UFS
British policeman can roar as loud as he wishes at traßlic offenders on Landon highways. He carries a portable tout-speak- Jug set, to glve safely ilps to drivers, in new "Safety First" cam- palen.
Mother Seeks Stranger
A
Her Son Saved
MOTHER has just learned, 24 years after her son's death in the war, that an unknown ex- soldier still lays a wreath on her boy's grave "in memory of the bravest man I ever knew."
The mother is Mrs. Alice Dunsmuir, of Cragg Cottage, Callander, Perth. She lost her husband and her two sons in the war.
Baby Talk Goes With A 'Swing'
DE
E ITTY FITTIES FAM AND DEY FAM UNTIL DEY FAW A
TARK!"
The story of the heroism of Alistair, the elder boy, who was u lieutenant in the 2nd Cameron Highlanders, has come to Mrs. Dunsmuir in a letter from1 Scotsman, Mr. Laurence Brook, who keeps a flower shop in Ypres.
!!
A stranger wasked into Mr. Brook's This is a line out of "Three Little
some time tuge and said: " Fishra," first of the new baby-talk shop kengs which are sweeping America want you to make up a wreath i
memory of the bravest man I ever and drifting into Britain.
remembrance of him."
Translation: "The little fishes swam knew. I thank God every night in
and they swam until
| shark."
they saw ⇓
Saxle Dowell, fat U.S. dance band comic and lyrle writer, has cashed
That
KILLED SOON AFTER
man. he
sald, was Lieut.
In on the fashion for nursery songs Dunsmuir, killed at Ypres on Febru- like "A-Tisket. A-Tasket" and "Stop ary 20, 1915.
Beating Round the Mulberry Bush.' One night, the stranger went on. He made an old American nursery a large number of officers and men song. "Down In De Meddy." even were in a house near some water at crazier by turning it into baby-talk, Ypres. adding new verses and swinging it.
EMPIRE
NEWS
CENSUS AGREEMENT IN AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE.
After a four-day cumference be- 1wer Mr. R. G. Menzies. Common-
Minister, wealth Print
the and Federni Labour Advisory Committee, the National Register dispute has been settled.
The compulsory man power census opened on July 1, but the Council i of the Trade Unions, against the advice of Mr. Curtin and other So- political leaders, continued fo ente a Davis
of the register. The Labour representatives al the Conference agreed to recommend the raising of the boycott. The closing date of the census was to be extended for fortnight to permit the Unions to ratily the rettlement.
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The Prime Minister agreed
Opposition to grant facilities to the move amendments to the provisions of the National Hegister Act, without Government support for promising
such amendments.
the
The chief points 0323 which Unions denunded reassurance weret No rompulsory foreign service, pro-] tection for conscientious objectors, no Industrial conserption in
ment factories,
Aller the
Govern-
Mr.
Ponference Menzies gave assurances on all these points.
NEW ZEALAND
BANKS TO CONTROL IMPORT TRADE
AUCKLAND.
For the purpose of straightening but the Dominion's overseas trade tangle resulting from the issue of import licences
of lank in excess credits, the Reserve and Trading
have Banks taken complete charge? of the trade position. They are re- quiring importers to estimate their demands for overseas furds during the next 12 months.
Merchants point out the Meullies of anticipating orders over an ex- tended period. is considered that the Hernsing system operated by the Customs Department will be longer necessary. KENYA
NAVAL SEAPLANES OVER LAMU
MOMBASA,
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Seaplanes from the British cruisers Jave Gloucester and Manchester made several flights over Mombasa and further afield. For the first! tise in its experience Isolated Linu seen a staplane alight on the water in Lamu Bay.
has
Lainu is the nearest town of any Importance to the Abyssinian fron- lier. The inhabitants, while realis ing that there are no strategic or in- why their town dustrial reasons wh should be bombed from the air, were pleased to see that British planes are available for their defence.
The Governor, Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, who has been recuperating at Lamu, accom- witnessed the arrival: of the sea- planes, and subsequently welcomed the nirmen.
The enemy were sending over SANTA ROSA, Cal.
You can sing fairly Inteligibly: high-explosive shells, and one landed panted by Lady Brooke-Popham, Even a cow can become a victim of the lure of the bright lights. "Down in the meadow in a little bitty close to the house without going off. Young Dunsmuir at once rushed Peter Proskoroakoff, ranches, to ex-pool." Or you can make it: "Down
In A ITTY BITTY out, picked up the shell, ran across hibit the fine paints of his pet cow In de meddy
the field with it in his arms, and Belty, had her stall draped with POO."
The lure of the electric lights,
And so on. all de way troo, dust threw it into the water..
"Dunsmuir that night saved us all Sheike dat: bright lights attracted Betty.
certain
added death,"
ale one. The effect was the same as the death chair.
Perhaps 'oo'll dust love dese noo from
stranger. ongs, or maybe 'co'il dust feel 'Ick.
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Lamu is populated-almost entirely by Arabs, descendants of the Arab overlords who ruled the East African thecust.
INDIA
It was a few days after this thut ¡Lieut. Dunsmuir was killed.
her.
UNITED PROVINCES
ARRESTS
CALCUTTA.
Mr. Brook was unable to discover the stranger's name, but he gol Mrs. Dunsmuir's name from the Wor Graves Commission and wrote to The police of the United Provinces drive Intensive making an She is now anxuns to trace the against revolutionaries, among whom Istranger, "bechuse I want to find it is reported that there has been
out more about my son's last days," unusual activity lately.
Raids were carried out in Gorakh
she said.
arc
I think this man may be an ofpur, Azamgarh, Ghazipur, Gonds and THI THE HIGH COUNCIL OF THE SALVATION ARMY icer of the Argyll and Sutherland Benares and a large number of in- Highlanders because I know my boy criminating documents were seized, WENT INTO SECRET CONCLAVE AT THE CON-was close to that regiment just be-A number of persons were arrested. GRESS HALL, LINSCOTT-ROAD, CLAPTON, E., RE-fore he was killed, CENTLY. ALL DOORS WERE LOCKED AND BAR-
RED. A HUNDRED ARMY OFFICERS PATROLLED Mother Glad Son
THE GROUNDS.
Nominally, the Council are meeting for one purpose only-to Has Wed Shop-Girl elect a leader in succession to General Eva Booth, who retires at MR Howard Patrick Morley,
the age of 73 at the end of October.
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One faction are resolutely opposed to any change which violates thei principie laid down in the Founda- complete tion Deed that full and authority shall General.
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The police recovered paper bear- ing the names of 19 members of the Revolutionary Party of India; also seven signed pledges.
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aged 23, Eton-educated Nine Navy captains were appoint- l rear-admirals recently, They Once the General is elected, the cousin of Lord Hollenden, mar- Actually the 51 of them, from all,
were: parts of the world, are meeting to Council are dissolved, and can exert ried the 19-years-old daughter!
3. Q. P. Vivian, specialist Tr decide whether the Salvation Army. no authority,
of a boot repairer in a Somerset navigation, navigator to the Special with assets of £20,000,000, and or-
Service Squadron which circled the Runisations in 85 countries. shall Members of the Council may, how-village church recently.
world in 1023-24. "I'm glad he did" his mother, remain an autoerncy, or whether the ever, put questions at the meeting to
Edre K, Beddom-Whetham, recent. constitution shall be changed so that candidates for the afce of General. Mrs. Charles Morley, said. ly relinquished post of Captain of the Army can be governed on more Those who want a more democratle| "My son's bride, Miss Lily Levan- the Dockyard Deputy Superintendent constitution intend to vote only for tic Strange, is a splendid type of and King's Harbourmaster at Chat- The issue will precipitate a clash candidates who will pledge them girl, a good deal better than many ham; was awarded D.S.O), for ser-
girls from his own division of life,vices against hostile destroyers between two powerful rival fac-selves to support the change.
who think of nothing but cocktail the Belgian coast.
John G. Grace, was torpedo officer tions in the High Council.
Once the new General is elected parties.
ELAY declaration he or she
"It is quite untrue to suggest that of battle-cruisers Australia and Hood 2117 have made to the Council cannot I refused my consent to the mar- during the war.
Colin Canulie served for many ziake. be held to be legally binding.
"Whatever my husband's attitude care in submarines; was formerly are may be, they have my full approval." Director, Tactical Division, at the opposed to any change content that Miss Strange's father has-a boot-Admiralty,
Arthur L. 84, G. Lyster command- a more democratic constitution would repairing busincas in Bath. She
pircraft-carrier Glorious in the The other are just as determined not be valid in law.
worked until recently in a Both
Mediterranean: was formerly Direc- that there should be changes in the
drapery store.
lor of Training and Staff Duties constitution so that the new General
The bridegroom's father, Mr. Division, Admiralty.
3. W. & command Charles Morley, associated with should be the mere Agure-head of
Dorling has Just re- A report that a section of the High
of the evangelical work of the Army, council have, even threatened legal the firm of I. and R. Morley, the
Royal and 'that all actual administrative
and glove manufacturers. Sovereign; was a wireless officer dur- action in the event of the election of hosiery D should be vested in
the control
a new Generol pledged to measures He is secretary of the Royal College "Cabinet" of the High Council.
Charles F. Harris was Director of of "reform" was denied to me to-day of County of London. by a spokesman of the Salvation He was not present at the wed-the Naval Air Division for two and
ding. Army,
The wedding was a double one at Harold M: Burrough is a gunnery The position is extraordinary be
"The Council are not meeting in the village church of Croscombe, specialist. He was in command of the High Council have no
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In 1936 8th Destroyer Flotilla power to make any change in the any spirit of bitterness or discord," near Shepton Mallet. Somerset. constitution of the Army. The sole he said. It is true that there are second couple were Miss Strange's and evacuated refugees from North THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. function of the Council, who were differences of opinion, but these will brother, Mr. F. C. Strange, an efec-Spain. given legdi status under the Salva- be settled in an atmosphere of good trician, and Miss Rose Horler, the
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