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April 1, 1940.
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AS Air Raid Precautions have
now become a permanent part of the Colony's defences, eo also must they now have their permanent place in every home,
To women this will seem a very grim necessity, but it has become just as important as is regular fire drill, or boat drill in liners. There may never be any necessity to put into practice the lessons learnt, but
so long as
there is any "but" prepara- tions to avoid disaster and Injury must be made.
The question of A.R.P. in the home becomes almost entirely n woman's affair. The main effort of preporation and adaptation will fall upon her shoulders, as will the question of how the family exche quer can be stretched to include these necessary preparations.
So here are certain points which she must consider carefully: where 1o the greatest dangers, what pro- tection may be hnd against them and how such protection can be provided,
High-explosive bombs are, as they have always been, the most formidable weapon which could be used against us from the air, and added to them we now have
Incendiary bombs and possibly
KAS,
So, if it is possible, a refuge against high explosive must be pre- pared for the family.
Women with winmon sense will prefer a refuge within the bounds of the home. They will realise the dangers to which they, and their family might be exposed by leaving cover when an air raid warning has been given.
Such a refuge in the home is possible if the house is solidly con- structed, if the walls of the house incasure at least 134in. In thick- ness, and if there is a cellar or basement sufficiently large to per commodate the whole family. And when counting the numbers who will want to use the room, pets must not be forgotten. Apart from any personal feeling on the subject, these might become a danger to the family if allowed to roam during or immediately after an air raid In which go had been used.
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BUT the ownership of such a
room is not enough; it must be prepared-the walls must bo strengthened by means of sand-bags filled with earth or, proferably, sand, or boxes of earth.
The windows must be protected, the celling must be shored up so as to be able to bear the weight of the house should it collapse, and the
whole room must be prepared to exclude the possible entry of gas,
way.
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by Mrs. G. ATKINSON GRIN AND BEAR IT
HOUSE
WIVES AND
A.R.P
ments. Here steel has certainly come Into Its own. These sieci shellers can be erected with ease, and if sunit sumciently in the ground and covered with earth con be made into qulle un'altractive aldition to the garden by planting on them rock or climbing plants.
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THEN there is yet another type of shelter which must be considered-the trench type.
In the outskirts particularly this kind of refuge will be practical and popular. Here again the camou
age of a rock garden can be used but If this type of shelter is to be built it must be considered serious- ly. Accidents are very lable to occur when such trenches are built in an amateur way. Technical ad- vice should be obtained before they are started.
The trench must be lined to pre- vent the sides from falling, in, drains must be provided, and thought must be given to proper framing, reinforcement, and many other points. If a trench shelter is to be permanent and thoroughly satisfactory it should be concrete lined. This will ensure that it does not collapse or fill with water. There are several types to choose from, and the
"egg" shaped New trenchi ning sheet will make this work easier to carry out.
tion
But the provision and prepara- of a household refuge is not all. The housewife must also con- sider the question of what articles and stores
she must provide for the shelter,
ever be used. A should first-aid box is really a necessity in every household, and particularly so should we ever be involved in another crisis.
* M TINNED food, toys
and
In protecting the walls by
games for the children, means of sandbags it is as well to
mattresses or chairs, ruga, remember that greater protection perhaps a gramophone or will be obtained If partition wireless, books, sanitary uten- walls are strengthened in thissils, etc., should-all-be-borne As regards the whoring for the in mind. ceiling, it is wise to obtain technical advice as to the strength of shoring necessary, Steel, as well as wood, can be used for this purpose and, if the Anance question is satisfac- tory, even more protection can be obtained by means of steel sheeting above as a protection against fire.
Doubtless there are numbers of The same applies to all lights hetgeholds who will prefer to make throughout the house. It must not their own arrangements as regards be forgotten also that the electric shelter, and in these days it is not light might fall in an emergency. a dificult matter to find a type of Such a possibility might: "cause refuge which will 1 oil require punte, no-portable battery-operated
If the refuge is in the house there will probably be electric light, but we mwl not forget the danger of unshaded lights, and there should be some kind of dark shade which will throw the laht down and yet prevent the possibility of its show ing in any way outside.
1940 IS YEAR
COULD you find in all his.
tory a year of greater wonders than 1940-early as it still is?
Already it has recorded a dis- astrous carthquake, the greatest cold spell for a century, and the worst snowfall,
This Leap Year is anyhow re- markable since Lent fell three days off the earliest possible date. That cannot happen again
this century.
England made the year more remarkable still with the earliest coming of Summer Thine,
Three wars have raged, and ench of them has gone so wildly against overything ever expected or cal- culated that either, by itself, would make 1940 immortal in the history of man,
Que has hung fire for six months is no war ever did before. In on- other, a people of three millions hekl off a people of 150 millions for so long that, Finland will live for all time as the proof, in the great Age of Dictators, that free man. will always be equal to ten lives. The war in Chino, ex- pected to last a hundred days, in to-day 1,000 days vid.
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NEARLY three hundred years
ago Dryden wrote * poem which he called "The Year of Wonders ... Annus Mirabilis.“ He was thinking of the great year, 1000, when Л London already' stricken by the worst (and the last) of its great plagues was lald
lamps should also be provided.
Where it is not possible to pro- vido a refuge within the bounds of the home, there is much which the house wife can do to protect her home.
Incendiary bombs may be used, and if, when the fire-fighting ser- vices enter the house to put out some small fire caused by such a bomb, they find Improvised fire- fighting materials already provides, their work is going to be made much easier and quicker.
IT is possible for every home
to have such equipment, containers of earth or sand, shovels fitted with long handles, and rakes, also con- tainers already filled with water and placed on each floor of the house-all this is pos- sible if it is prepared before- hand; it could not be done at the last moment.
A form of air raid drili might be inaugurated in every home, duties delegated beforehand to avoid con- fusion and panic.
There should be a proper routine arranged for
for leaving the house if this is necessary. A little thought and organisation along these lines would well repay any woman res- ponsible for a household. As I said before, it may never be necessary, but, if the emergency docs arise, let it And us well prepared in the small things which matter so much as well as those which are arranged for us.
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ENTERTAINMENTS
STRIP TEASE
300
by STAGE DOOR
IS
SINGER
YEAR'S FIRST FILM STAR
FIRST new star of 1940 is
Mary Martin. Mary made her Broadway name in one night singing "My Heart Be- longs to Daddy." She sang it as a strip-tease number, ended up wrapped in a big fur coat.
It is not surprising, therefore; thint Hollywood should wrap her slim legs, her slender hlps in the voluminous fashions of 1800 for her starring role, "The Great Victor Herbert." She wears the frills, furbelows, ospreys,
bustles and billows of that coy era without showing a sign of wanting to shed a thing,
This fortunate young woman possesses, in addition to her own talents, a strong faciat resem- blance to Claudette Colbert.--The- chubby cheeks, the eyes, the look of arch surprise, even the bang. And also the cute cornerake volce of Jean Arthur.
While to herself she hugs a little bubble of good humour.
So pleased are her employers with her that they simply can't make up their minds whether to star her next in Clare Boothe's satire on "Gone With The Wind" called "Kiss the Boys Goodbye"
ALREADY OF WONDERS
In runs by a fire so mighty that we still talk of it as the Great Fire.
It was no wonder that the com- ing of that year was proclaimed by a comet.
But the greatest wonder of ls Year of Wonders was that the starved and neglected Navy. of Britain fought the combined flects of France, Denmark and Holland, and beat the lot.
We became mistress of the seas for the first time, a place we have Intag on to ever since.
So 1000 was a year of wonders, but was it the year of wonders?
WHAT about 1703, for instance,
when Daniel Defoe, the author of "Robinson Crusoe," stood in the pillory and the worst storm ever just rolled up leaden roofs like Turkey carpets.
We were at war that year. It
vas the first of a war that ob- atinately refused to begin on the Westem Front, no that the Duke of Marlborough was constrained to polut out that "If you have a mind to speedy end of the war you mual do something for it.”
That war produced one revolu- tion in France and another in Hungary.
AND there was 1740, of the hard
winter when the frost Janted nine weeks and they lived in, tents on the frozen Thames, where they roasted sheep and called it, Lapland
inutton.
Britain went to war that year, afler twenty-five years of peace, when, Frederick the Grent became King of Prussia, and started by falling treacherously upon-Aus- trin.
And 1700. That was a year of many wonders.
A new reign began, destined to last for sixty years, and there never were so many victories. We conquered India and we conquered Canuda.
THAT year, too, began with a
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comet which appeared to the naked eye like Jupiter in fog," and followed it up with a frost that cut 100 ships from their moorings along our consts,
And 1048 was a Wonder Year. There was n portent too--a sea serpent, solemnly vouched for by. the captain and officers of H.M.S. Daedalus whọ saw it for twenty
There Wis
revolution A
in France, a revolution, in Austrin,
mninutes.
civil war in Hungary, twenty re- volutions In Germany and ten in
Italy.
The Pope, the Emperor of Aus- tria and the King of Prussin, and the last King of France кого chased out of their capitals. The Charlista gathered at Kennington to march on London.
And gold was found In Coll- fornia.
this
Amazing - years all. Yet 1940 bids fair to beat the fot.
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WHAT'S ON
KING'S: "The Old Maid." MAJESTIC: "The Real Glory." QUEEN'S AND ALHAMBRA:
"Balalaika,"
ORIENTAL: Crusoe."
unir.
Robinson
for which they have paid £10,- 000), or whother to put her in the next Bing Crosby, "Mlumi."
If I were Miss Colbert, I know where I'd put her.
· RRIVAL of Miss Martin on the scene proves conclusively u theory I have long held—that most “lovely women come from the State of Texas. I give you Ginger Rogers, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Ann Sheridan to be getting on with,
ON second thoughts, I'll take
Misa Turner back for a minute. I'd like to congratulate her on her marriage. to my favourite swing maestro, Artie Shaw. I hope she'll coox him to start playing again.
And I hope she goes on with her dancing. If Mary Martin makes Claudette Colbert mad, Luna Tur- ner is the girl to drive Ginger. Rogers to heavy dramatic parts.
Which reminds me to report that Miss Rogers is shortly to partner Ronald Colman in "Good Luck, adapted from a Sacha Guitry play. It's a far, far better thing she does.
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JAMMERSMITH Film Produc- tions earn spotlight for their Announcement titat Tilly of Bloomsbury" will be followed by a film dealing with the "Altmark" Incident. Mrs. Elizabeth Hiscott, managing director,
approached the Admiralty and the M. of I. for the necessary
beenles, and it has al-
decided that Lesile ready Biscott shall direct, Bernard Brown Will handle coneras, and that Andrew Mazzei, John Dennis and Fred
engaged.ison will also be
by the
way,
is now in its fourth and final week at Riverside, everything going well despite a short absence last week on the part of Jean Gille, "fa" victim.
EORGE BRENT will co-star wiur-Merie Oberon in "The Constant Nymph" for Warner Bros. They were teamed for the first time in "We Shall Not Meet Again," which is now completed.
"This Man Reuter" is the title of the picture Warners are being on the history of the Reuters News Agency, in which that famous news organisation is giving world-wide co-operation. Edward G. Robin- Kou, who has Just Anished "Dr. Erlich's Magic Bullet," will star.
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Anu Sheridan are listed for top- billing in "Torrid Zone," which takes the floor soon; while Jeffrey Lynn has been assigned a principal
role in "All This and Heaven Too," eo-starring Bette Davis and Char- les Boyer. Virginia Weidler hus been borrowed from M.-G.-M. for the role of Boyer's daughter in this picture.
of
667 THE Bat," one the most gripping mystery dramas ever produced on the American stage, has been announced as the first almplay to be made by Globe Pro- ductions, Inc., the $1,000,000 Cor- poration recently organised by James Roosevelt, Hollywood's lat- est independent producer. Roland Kibbee is now, at work on a screen treatment.
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EORGE RAFT met Norma Shearer at the New York Falr Just summer. They saw the Aquacade, did the parachute jump together..
George thought it was fun, being around with the screen's first lady, bought a ticket on the boat so that he could cross to Europe with her.
They did Paris, Cannes together, and when the war broke out they stood in the queue together, wait- ing for the first American ship to
take them home.
The friendship wasn't just one of those holiday things.
Metro are wanting to borrow Georgle from the brothers Warner. They'll put him in with Shearer in a remake of "Free Soul."
She'll play the part again; he'll have the role that made Clark Gable's name. He'll play gangster.
Spotting The Rank
COMMANDER
The title of Commander dates from 1874, when it was laid down that no officer shotild command a sixth rate (the mallest type of ship in the Navy) unless he had passed the examination for Mins- ter at Trinity House. The title was first Commander and Man- fer, and later Master and Com- mander. Then it became simply Commander.
Not until 1827 were Comman- ders also employed in the post of executive officer, or second- In-command, of bigger ships, In the flagship of one of the prin elpal fleets to-day iliere may be as many as eight Commanders. One of these, referred to as "ile Cemmander," is of course e executive officer, responsible for the organisation and discipline of the 'ship.
Another Is the navigating officer; and tito' remaining · xlx are on the staff of the Commas- der-in-Chick (wylose flag is car. ried in the ship).
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