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By Ernie
SO DAT'S YER NEW BOY?
HAW HA FRIEND MY AIN'T HE
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A. BIG FELLER---`I ·· GUESS I OUGHTA GIT A NEW GOIL FRIEND
TOO!
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SHMILLER,
Artist Has SECRET JAIL JOURNEY
Double FOR
Life
MALVERN,
BEST of the batch of the new
Malvern Festival plays up to now is "Old Master," an agreeably fantastle comedy by Alexander Knox, Canadian-born West-End actor.
Art-dealera are apparently terrible slincks, taking advantage of the pro- verbial poverty of genius to acquire outputs of masterpieces for a mengre retalning fee.
Exasperated at this, a pointer takes his own death, reuppets after a mock funeral and resumes painting under a new identity,
This idea is so obviously inspired by Arnold Bennett's "The Great Adventure" Jhat one of the charac ters hog at least the decency to admit
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Nor is this play to be compared
with its forerunner. Complications,
MRS.
THURSTON
Her Husband May
Try To See Her
LEWES (Sussex).
MRS. ELSIE THURSTON, twenty-one-year-old
wife of Stanley Thurston, Lewes jail-breaker. travelled in secret from Holloway Prison, London, to Lewes. She was brougrt before the magistrates on an adjourned charge of assisting her husband to escape from prison,
Since she was at Holloway, special police have guarded Mrs. Thurston in case her fugitive husband should try to reach her there.
On the other side of his cell were
Only prison offlelals in London and, sets of chess pieces however, provide plenty of good fun. police who escorted her made the There is a lively party in the coun- arrangements for her. Journey to photographs of himself at the wheel try, and there are great mysteries at Lewes.
hionable
Mrs
of six diferent sports cars. At workt with his party one day he showed The other convicts a one pound note and a len shilling note. He had made them overnight in his rell.
Thurston's ambition was to become
private view in Kailery.
Thurston's four-month-old baby, who has been with her in Here the artist, played with in-prison, travelled with her. sinuating humour by Allatair 9, She was in court only forces the dealer to take him up minutes. She was remanded again,;
few afresh under a new name.
Briskly written for the most part,
and returned to Holloway Immediate-a crack racing driver. Afler each aurcessful haul he bought a new the plece has well-known types and two tantalining curtains; one where
most-sports enr. country
Britain, showed coltage is about to be set and the other where the painter's daughter and the young man are ordered to strip and pese for a new plcture,
n
ly.
Thirty-year-old Thurston,
mon In
wanted
ability as an artist when a boy. Be- FAILED TO REGISTER fore he was twenty he was finishing
his education at a Borstal institution. Resident Goes on Holiday
He specialised in robbing hotels, and had it his possession hundreds
of keys of different makes and styles.
Without Telling Police
Acting is excellent, Ernest Thesiger makes patrlelan gure of the
'Norman Leslie Evans, of Blue Pool denler: the author plays a young
Road, was summoned before Mr. Many worders of Chelmsford Jail Forrest at Central Magistracy on American very engagingly: and Mar- have souvenirs of models that he Saturday for failing to report his Karet Withers, Norm Wooland, made in Alexander Sarner, Betty Marsden tures at airplanes made to scale, and address. Evans pleaded guilty, say
cell. They are minia-departure and notify his change of and Olive Milbourne fend sound fashioned from odd pieces of wooding he did not know he had to in- support.
he got from the prison kitchens, farm the Registration Office when he
BOASTED
went on holiday. From the bone handles of dis
Inspector McWalter said the
August 4 when notice was served on Evins to allend a medical examina- tion.
A fine of $10 on each summons was imposed.
Doctor Flies 4,500
Miles To Operate
October 2, 1939.
Bushmiller
HE THINKS HE'S SO CLEVERY
Actors Fight
YEAH!
Ralph Morgan, Screen Actors' Guild president, speaks at Holly- wood meeting, at which charges. of racketeering methods" were hurled at the Alilance of Theatri- cal Stage Employees. Adolphe Menjou and Laurence Tibbett, who also spoke, at right,
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