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PINOCCHIO
Walt Disney gives us a Treat
Film: "PINOCCIBO,”. Verdict: A sheer delight.
Star: Walt Diancy,
PINOCCHIO is a riot of imagination
and a feast of delight. Pinocchio ́is
so good that perhaps one may criticise it.
he
Like everything else, Walt Dimoy changes. Once was concerned with beauty, a queer ethereal delicacy that came strangely, in a cartoon. Thero are none, of the weird Arthur Rackham effects of "The Old MHI" in "Pinocchio." There are no graceful little guzelics and bunny-rabbits and twittering birds and soft countrysides of an artist's make-belief.
Instead, there is eccentricity and whimsical vulgarity and absurdity and 'sensationalism.
• Walt Disney is perfectly entitled to give us these things if he prefers them. He puts the touch of genius ou everything he does.
The old man who makes clocks is human. The lttle cricket in a charming little person. Pinocchio, the marionette, is an ordinary little boy. The interior of the body of the whole is biblical in its Imaginativeness.
The story of it, like much of Mr. Disney's work, based on an old fairy tale, tells of the little wooden puppet who became alive in answer to his maker's longing for a son.
He was given a conscience in the person of Mr. Cricket, and the Good Fairy promised that if he showed himself brave and good he would become a real boy instead of a wooden little boy.
Hia conzelense rescued him from the stage, and from a sort of Coney Istand where good little boys were lured only to be turned into don- keys, and finally escorted him to the bottom of the sea, where he rès- cues the old craftinm-and his goldfish and his cai--from tummy of the whale.
the
I'm glad he saved the cat. The cat is quite the nicest little person Walt Disney has given us, and the drawing of his movements when' he hangs from the open window und scrambles back on to the win- dow sill is the most life-like and delicious thing in the whole dellei- ous picture.
STAMP NOTES
Salvador, has honoured Sir Row- land H and the centenary of the postage stamp with a set of three stamps. The design, common to all three, stamps, shows a bust plc- ture of Sir Rowland Hill at the left side, with a seascape to the right. At the upper right hand is the coat-of-arms of Salvador, and In the center top the incription. "Primer Centenario de la Inven- 'cion del Sello Postal 1840-1940,"
Directly Imposed on the gure of Sir Rowinnd 15111 Is the Inscrip- tlon, "Sir Rowland H, Inventor dol Sello Postal." The values and colours of the stamps include the 8 centavos blue and black for ordin- ary postal use, and the 30c. light brown. and black, and the 60c brown-rec..and black, for airmail usa. The stamps were printed by Wright Bank Note Company of Philadelphia, Penna...
Recent Now lisuos Argentina-A 16c. alamp has been issued In cemmemoration of the 50th anniversary of the founding The of the Pan American Union. design is reported to be allegorical and the colour blue.
Belgium-A special slamp bear- Ing the portrait of the young Prince of Liege was sold Is aid of the Queen Elizabeth Charities, and o second slamɔ was used on parcels Bent to mobiilsed soldiers. These alamps were released just before Germany invaded Belgium, so may become rarities.
United States During March and April several more of the Famous American series were released, as follows:
First Day Balı
30 Purple-Charles W. Ellot, Cain-
bridge, Mara, "Maret 28,
Je Blue-Frances E. Willard, Evanston,
lil, March 23.
100 Brown-Booker
Washington,
Ruskogee - Inaŭtuto, Ala, April 7.
Belentists
ic Green-John
James Audubon,
· Francia-ville, La. April 8
ze Red-Dr. Crawford W. Long Jeffer-
son, Ga. April dag.
de Purple-Luther Burbank,
Ros, CATLE, April 15,990
Santa
Bo Blue-Dr. Walter Reed, Washing-
ten, D. C., April 1977,
100 Browns-Jane Addank, Chicago, IL..
Apr1 30.
I think Mr. Disney,
must
have been going to the flims.
I recognised the German clock- maker, the "Dead End Kids," the good fairy, the eun- ning fox, from my ordinary rounds.
Stay away from the films, Mr. Dianey, but thanks all the váme.
FILM: "Another Thin Man." STARS: William Powell, Myma
Loy. VERDICT:
How to be happy though married.
Of course, you can simply any "I like William Powell and
Myrna Loy in Man' comedies. see the film."
those "Thin I'm going to
Which relieves you of the duty of going any further with this, But you have just that minute lo spare, pause and consider this Alm as a perfect springboard to take off on an argument which re- muins, for all the fuss that's going an on the Continent, the big erl
crisis of our age CAR VERSUS BABY. Candidly, do you think that Mr. and Mrs. Nick Charice, in their career of
and wisecracking. crime Аска
have had tinte to and drink, stop and have a baby? I do not. I think Mrs. Charles, the women who made marriage manageable for us all by that first, never to be forgotten, "Thin Man" comedy, is carrying the plump brut för a friend. She stems devoted to t but I get the Impression she can never remember where she put it daws
And, anyway, I object to Williom Powell and Myrna Loy loving babies all over
WHAT'S ON
TO-DAY
QUEEN'S AND ALHAMBRA: "Another Thin Man" MAJESTIC: "Tower of London" KING'S: "Under Pup"
ORIENTAL: "Gold Diggers of
1933"
TO-MORROW ORIENTAL: "Captain Fury" KING'S: "Hotel for Women" · MAJESTIC: "The Old Maid” QUEEN'S AND ALHAMBRA:
"Another Thin Man"
FILM: "Captain Fury." STARS: Brian Aherne, Victor
McLaglen. VERDICT: Roystering.
AUSTRALIA in the days when it was a convenient place for the reception of British convicts is the background for this film.
This is a roystering tale, full of the simple entertainment virtues. the excitement of hard riding and feree fighting, and the laughter of villain sent seeing a deep-dyed
sprawling the screen. The
way I liked them, they had made n bliss of wedlock by sidestepping all responsibilities. But there
ere the baby is, and Im
must say lie
he is ine specimen of sangfroid ond
bortdum. He yuwns at pistol
shots. And he is not allowed to interfere with the plot, which con- lains two-illings, three-bottles-of- whisky
and Beven clear clues
which I rejected Instantly. Mr. Powell takes no notice of the brat at sit all. When he isn't drinking, he hugs a giant panda toy, which looks rather like him.
This third one is as good as the others and it's better than most comedy thrillers.
It is two and a half years since we saw. Wallam Powell, but it seems like yesterday.
the mud.
It is about an Irishman who
arrives us one of a band of con- victs and is sent to work with a wealthy landowner. The land- owner is a polsonous creature with o lust for cruelty towards both settlers and convicts. In the Irish convict they find their Robin Hood,
May 25, 1940.
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George Zucco plays the land- awner, feily cruel, and June Lang the heroine.
FILM:
STARS:
"Hotel For Women."
Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Elsa Max- well. VERDICT: Beauty, brains, Petty
girls.
THE Sherington, in New York, was an hotel especially
for women.
The seventeen floors are packed with lovely girls who come to New York, have three rousing years as mannequins and
photographic models, and if they haven't got their rich guy by that time-well, back they go!
The only girl who don't enter Into the gold-digging game is that amazing old New York celebrity, Elja Maxwell,, who has a head full of wisdom; wrate the whole show and acts in It!
Linda Done!
arnell who turns
up from a place called Syracuse to marry her man, anda the feeling is only hatí mútual, and falls into the photographic modelling game simply because-she-happens to be the most beautiful
within three thousand miles.
This is a thoroughly bright plc-
turo.
thing
FILM: "Tower of London." STARS: Basil Rathbone, Boris
Karloff. VERDICT: Plots aplenty.
THIS is a historical drama
reudy to lead them in a a swift cam-nid in the period between-1471-
polgn
against oppression.
Brian Aherne, tall, handsome, and amiable, makes a very person- able Robin Hood, and he makes a very pretty job of the flowery dialogue with which
the part, in keeping with its Irish origin, has
Every
8bit been decorated, entertaining is Victor M'Lagien, felling men with great zest and dis- playing a sense of comedy which is neat in comparison with his mountainous appearance.
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and 1485 when the Duke of Gloucester plotted to achieve the throne of England.
Creditable period atmosphere and Court settings provide a back- ground for the spaciously staged succession of plottings and in- frigues, the highlights of which are the murders of the Prince of Wales, King Henry VI, Duke of Clarence and Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower of London.
DID YOU WONDER?
Why Iron Gets Red When It Is Heated?
All substances, whether solld, liquid, or gaseous, are considered- to be made up of a large num- ber of minute particles known as molecules. A molecule is the small- est particle that can have all the properties of the substance of which "It" part.
The molecules of all substances ure constantly in motion. If they ever stopped moving, the tempera- ture of the substance would then be absoluto zero (273 Centigrade below zero).
The temperature of a substance; depends on the motion of its inole- eules. The more rapid and viòlent. the motion, the higher the tem- perature. Also, when any two sub- stances of different temperatures, which do not act chemically on each other, are brought together; Uie
hotler
one will lose lient to the cooler
er one until both are the bind temperature.
When
a-rod of fron is held over a flame, heat from the flame be- gina to raise the temperature of the bar by increasing the speed of motion of the molecules of iron. The movement of the molecule, Hives rise to waves of thermal ra-
diations, much is the vibrating
ufties of a bell give rise to sound
waves,
When the bar is merely warm, the thermal radiations sent out produce a sensation of heat when they strike a body which ab- sorbs them. They do not produce because the a semnation of light, waves are longer than those of red light, the longest waves of visible light.
However, as the bar gets hotter, the motion of the molecules, be- comes more rapid and the thermal radiations nre of shorter wave- length. When the wavelength of the thermal relations becomes as short as the wavelength of red light, the iron begins to glow a dull red, because the movement of the beated molecules of iron sends for radiation which produce a sensation
well as a light
sensation of hent.
el
The hotter the iron becomes, the more brightly it will glow. This Alving off light by substances of high temperatures is the basis for the use of glowing hot flaments of wire. In the familiar electric light bulbs.
"INANITY ̄ ̄ FARE
Dorothy Sayers Can build a mare's Nost Best.
NAZIS ACCUSE AMERICA OF STARTING THE WAR
A WHITE BOOK was issued in Berlin on March 28, to show that America-and particularly Presl- dent Roosevelt-played a large port in bringing about the war.
The White Book consists of docu- ments which, the Nazis allege, were found in Warsaw, in the archives of the Polish Foreign Office,
Every
attempt was made in Ber Un, when the book was issued, to focus American attention on it. American Journalists in the capital were summoned to the Wilhelms- trasse to receive
Conal Importans of "excep-
The documents purport be, in the main, confidential reports by the Polish Ambassadors in Wa shington, London and Paris, and the Polish Minister in Stockholm. With the documents are what are claimed to be photostats (photographle re- productions) of the original docu-
merits.
With Great Vehomenca
Documents alleged by the Nazis to have been found in the Polish Foreign Office archives in Warsaw, and published in Berila as a White Book; accuse America' of having helped to bring about the tvar. Publication of the documents has aroused anger throughout the United States, where the allegations are dismissed as profit-
less propaganda.
have given Count Potocki the im- pression that President Roosevelt had laid down "an exact definition of the United States standpoint in the existing European crisis."
Mr. Bullitt, the alleged report continues, was given general "direc- tives" for his guidance:
"First, stimulation of foreign Policy
under the leadership of Pre- sident Roosevelt, who sharply and unequivocably condemns the Totall- tarian States.
"Second. United States war pre- parations on sea, land, and air will be realised at an increased tempo, and will cost the colossal sum of $1,250,000,000.
Third, It is the firm opinion of the President that Great Britain and France musi end every policy of compromise with the totalitarian States. They should not enter into any discussions with them for the purpose of territorial changes.
"Fourth-a-moral-assurance-that- the United States would desert its policy of isolation and was ready, in the event of war, to take an ac- tive part on the side of Great Bri- toin
and France. The United Stales was ready to place its entire financial and war. material re- sources at their disposal."
One of the documents is said to be a report sent to Warsaw by the Polish Ambassador in Washington, Count Jerzy Potocki. The report concerns a "conversation" which the Count had with Mr. William C. Bul- lkt, American Ambassador to France, in November, 1938,
The "document" states: "le ex- pressed himself regarding Gemany and Illler with tho greatest vehemence and strong hatred. He mentioned that only force at the end of a war could halt Gemuany's mad expansion in future. Upon my. question as to how he pictured the coming of war, Mr. Bullitt declared that above all the United States, France and England must em tre- mendously in order to show Gerdescribed unCommercial Attaché man power, the Bat."?
In a later interview-in January, 1939 Mr. Bullitt is supposed to
Would: See Prime Minister
Another document. In the White. Book is alleged to be a report sent to Warsaw by M. Jan Wezelaki,
at the Polish Embassy in London. This gives an alleged conversation with the American, Ambassador In
London, Mr. Kennedy, who is re- ported as saying on June 16, 1939, that the Poles were the only people in Eastern Europe upon whose urmaments and military worth one could count with absolute certainty, adding that he would see the Prime Minister and Lord Halifax, and would insist on the necessity of helping Poland. Immediately with cash."
Incited by Propaganda
Another report by Count Potockt is alleged to assert that hatred in the United States of all forms of Fascium is growing, and is being incited by Jewish propaganda which controls the wireless, Press, films and magazines almost com pletely. Then it is uald
"President Roosevelt was
the
Arst to give expression to this hat- red for Fascism. Ho thereby pur-
on the other hand a ghost had to be invented which would jabber about an attack by totalitarian States on the United States, The Munich pact came in very handy for
Mr. Roosevelt in that connec- tion. He represented it as a capitulation by France and Great Britain to pugnacious German mill- tartam,"
Count Potocki is represented further as expressing the opinion that the Jews were using Mr. Roosevelt to bring about a world
war,
According to American press re- ports, President Roosevelt is not disturbed by these "revelations." ile suggested to newspaper, men that all propaganda emanating from Europe should be taken with a grain of salt-better, with tw grain of salt. Mr. Cordell full, Secretary of State, has issued a formal statement declaring that he Kave not the slightest credence to the Berlin White Book. "Dony Emphatically
"The statements alleged," said Mr. Hull, "have not at any time
sued a twofold object. Eirat he represented-the-thoughts-or-policy-
of the American Government. T may say most emphatically that neither I nor any of my associates. in the Department of. State have ever heard of such conversations as those alleged.”
•
wanted to distract the attention of the American public from dunculi and. complicated domestle problems, especially between capital
pod labour. Secondly, by conjuring up a war psychosis and conjuring up danger in Europe, he wanted tu It now remains for the Nazis to persuade the An
American peoplu to
• prove that there is any, trulhat all accept America's enormous pre-in, their extraordinary allegations, paredness programme which goes beyond the needs of defence.
“Mr. Roosevelt soon succeeded in creating Interest in his foreign policy. The way chosen was quite. simple: on the one hand the dan- ger of war hanging over the world
had to be sat in a acord cleverly; on account of Chancellor · Hitler
The general opinion in America fá that the book is a weak attempt, to discredli President Roosevelt, and at the same time to cause Ameri- cana to change their attitude-lo- wards the Allies--just to prove that there is no truth in the alloga- tion that America is, siding with the Allies.
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