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1940.
MY FAVORITE WIFE
Film: "My Favourite Wife."
Stars: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Gail Patrick, Ran dolph Scott.
Verdict: Popular Favourite.
---Queen's Alhambra
DOWN QUILTS MY Favourite Wife is convulsing from start
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to finish. The bewildering situations which befall frantic Cary Grant as he attempts to keep his wives apart while he investigates his first spouse's island sojourn with a he-man scientist are a source of the most original comedy in a long time..
Ellen Arden (Irene Dunne), supposedly shipwrecked seven years ago, comes home on the very day that her husband, Nick (Cary Grant) and his bride, Bianca (Gail Patrick), start for Yosemite on their honeymoon.
Eilon greets her mother-in: Film: "Oh, Johnny!" law (Ann Shoemaker) and her Stars: Tom Brown, Paggu two children, Chinch (Mary Lou Moran.
Harrington) and Tim (Scotty Verdict: Pleasant little inter Beckett), and then flies to the lude. honeymoon hotel.
-King's _____
She meets Nick privately, who is flabbergasted. After several futile This is the bright little story attempts to tell Bianca about Ellen of a girl (an heiress of course) he puts his bride into the car and
drive
they
home, where they and El. who ran away from home, and
introduces as met a lorry driver.
Ien whom hi mmily. ·
tel
Cary Grant, Irene Dunne and Gail Patrick are throo of the four people who got mixed up in "My Favourite Wife", when a wife comes home after seven years.
Verdict: An old pattern hand- led well.
but Dr. Milland wanted the stuff to save the life of that lady who is al- ways turned on, to play the gesslpp- ing and disapproving neighbour,
Film: Untamed. Stars: Ray Milland, Patricia Morrison. a friend of the
Everything might have worked out
-King's Nick again tries to
Verdict: Gosh, how it snows! So ho left the nurse crying over That
evening.
interrupted by an Insur nicely if a set of gangsters had not
the stove and went off into the cold, Bianca.
-Queen's, Alhambra both The once-go-blonde Joan Ben- adjuster
who wishes to reclaim interfered by kidnapping ance
cold snow to get the sulphanllamide the money
paid Nick on Ellen's heiress and lorry driver.
nett stays brunetter in "The
The eternal snows and the from Moose Jaw it snowed and the For the rest of the flim, escapes, House Across the Bay". LIX- policy, and meanwhile casually
It snowed and eternal operation are the theme neighbour lay dying,
in and Nurse forms Nick that Stephen Burkett wisecracks, car crashes got mixed up (Randolph Scott),
handsome with lover'a interludes and lover's George Raft, as Joan'a too-smart of this inspissated piece. Morrison went after scientist, was Ellen's lone companion quarrels,
on
the doctor in husband, gets ten-yents stretch in
Dr. Milland is wanted in the sur- the cold, cold snow, and Nurse Mor- that Pacific Islan
Island on which she
The nim letroduces (or re-Intro- Alcatraz for Incomo-tax evasion, due gery, but the surgery is in the Arctic ricon's husband went out with a gun, It showed so much that when the was marooned for seven years..
ick, seriously disturbed, locates duces) the renovated song "Oh, to his double-crossing lawyer friend, Circle, and though it contains Holly-
Lloyd Nolan.
wood's most glamorous nurse, it three of them caught up with one tells Nick that there Johnny!"
another they were too cold to do Burkett who was nothing
between him and Ellen, The climax shows how two or Lovely Joan is lonely, but loyal, contains no sulphanilamide.
finds it easy to repulse Mr. I prefer my surgeries that way, anything much about anything. and that he would like to marry her dinary people, helped by freworks She
and electrical gadgets, can outwit Nolan, but dificult not to be at- Bianca, still the kissless bride, con- even the toughest of tough gangsters, tracted to Mr. Walter Pidgeon. sults n psychoanalyst.
Just as Nick is about to explain Film: "The House Across the about Ellen, newspapermen arrivo for
further details regarding Nick's Bay."
wives! The reporters mistake Blanen
for Ellen.
Ellen, in turn, exposes Binnea os
Stars: Joan Bonnett, George
a gold-digger, that sort of thing Raft, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Pid- keeps happening all through the Alm,
geon.
So fealous Mr. Nolan spills the beans to Mr. Rafta highly. Goobbel ised version of the facts,
Raft escapes, intending to murder Joan, finds out the truth, and bumps Mr. Nolan of instead.
Then, being Mr. Raft, he has to die, with a bullet through his fore head.
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To-day he has some Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd. hard things to say about evacuation dis- crimination.
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Enough of this unpleasant subject. was the dastardly mass murder life's journey will undoubtedly prove at sea of nearly 100 children. to be a sorry and tragic cholco.
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mur "Klamel. such is the Kingdom of Heaven."
Referring to the need for It is such fiendich blows as these,
overy person to do his or her however, which steel-harden every man and woman of the British Recc. To come nearer home-and by duty, what about the War They serve to create. the determinn home, I refer to this out-of-the- Fund?
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British; Chinese British; Indian shall be eradicated the foul forces by no means the least of which is which have set out to extinguish the question of evacuation, Britian, have not yet parted with a freedom, love and justice.
strikes this particular problem,
discrimination, Yes! very cent in the interest of their own or their adopted country, the Cause the moment does not interest for the perpetrators on the ground unpleasant language,
origiani Idea of the compuls them, no cause ever will, and more- that "they know not what they do."
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Ascending
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To Civilization
Civilisation and Liberty, by Ramsay Muir. London: Jonathan Cape.
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Christian
rise
the ntative e
DERHAPS it is not altogether He gives full value to the influence Ages as centres of creative, thought. true that it is easier to the universities in the Middle destroy than to create. In spite That thought, it would have been of the resistance of sluggish worth explaining, although obscured ness, ambition greed, cruelty, by scholasticism and metaphysical
doctrines. and ignorance, during the last pedantry, was based upon Chri 3,000 years, civilisation and Mr. Muir passes in review the liberty have grown from seeds great events in the developments of into strong plants and have re- political and civil liberty in Europe
and especially in
the of Parliament and At this moment, when they are in system, the esta fused to be exterminated.
the long history of their emergence revival of learning, the struggle be- grave danger, it is worth while to common law and the trial by jury, accompany Mr. Romsay Mulr over the invention of printing and the and travail, and to watch the ap- tween Kings and Parliament which proach to a period of great promise ended la, the
the
of yesterday, before ment and the supremacy of period
turns
from England to civilisation was again threatened by
a new thing in human State should what was false within the brutal and the Declaration of Independenco
history that disappeared from human society.and. renetionary element which has never it was a
a proclamation of bf its history n to-day is embodied in the Nazi chouse as the motto of the first chap
ter tyranny.
speaks universal human rights" and Mr. Muir considers that human of the American Constitution as "n society at its start was totalitarian" monument of political wisdom,
stagnant, unprogressive, repressive which, in spite of the checks and sbell of unalterable custom."
deadlock, has never broken down, of Individuality, encased in a hard balances that might have led to
It is from this
low condition that humanity has been
striving to emerge
throughout the
period of growth in civilisation.
BOOKS
Parlia
government orica
He insists that Britain. and the United States, In spite of their dif ference in con-"
stitution and social
texture inherited the same experi-
In the earliest days only a few once and the same ideas, to which human societies, under the inspira- are due so much that they still have. tion of exceptional men who insisted in common. on think
gradual
in being-free to hire there own. It is possible to distinguish made progress away from barbarism between political freedom, with It was a slow proctviduality cunt which Mr. Muir's book is mainly Without though the one is always implicit
of renkoning surely will come. Heed the time. Many obeyed the com- their membership of the Empire af- not the blackness of the horizon, but mand, believing that by so doing
they
were co-operating with Bri- I would like to see hundreds of
small donations. of mu rather work and wait for the down-tain. To be suddenly
I would like to see, those who can of brightness which will follow.
He is no light
the utmost, of their ability. power was restrained."
To break away from reverie and Diet is great, but Casily afford it, unloose their purse-
came
Of
Shackles. by which its creative concerned, and social freedom,
face the grim reality is necessary it too grent in the interest of one's ring to tinutan and woman looks liberty there. could arise no civilisa- in the other. we are to play our part effectively country. That is what many
of us os a forward to the benefits of Victory, Hion: and wherever liberty was sup. But he fully recognises how much thought. It naturally Japan's New Pact
shock therefore to discover after we but will all be able to say that they pressed civilisation waned. Recently, Japan has entered lato had sent our loved ones away, that helped toward that victory?
JOHN BLUNT a pact with Germany and Italy, countless women remained.
AXIS MENACES OLDEST ALLY
PORTUGAL
HITLER'S
MAY BE NEXT BID
the nineteenth century owes to the
Mr. Muir traces to the ancient growth of the humanitarian attitude. world three of the fundamental and the conception of social justice ideas which are essential to If Great Britain, has avoided the growing pains of democracy more civilisation. AMA
successfully than other European The first of these found its fullest countries, that is partly because she expression in Greece-the Idea of has had longor experience, and pack liberty, civic and intellectual. The ly because social justice second we owe to the Romans-the lugged so far behind. kea of the reign of law. The third-
of civilisation. progress
accepting the reign of
ace
has
not
was given to the world by the Jews, European dehocracy was severely. who spread the doctrines of Chris strained by the economic revolution tianity and proclaimed the equal before it was strongly established value of all men in the sight of and its failures have discredited the before, it was fairly Godde
experiments. stroke Christianity had
had tested. B
law, Mr. Muir, for the totalitarian assault HITLER'S next blow will be at Portugal, through Spain. That is the considered given all that was needed for, the This is one reason, recognised by view of a distinguished Briton recently returned from a visit to En's oldest ally to Cheant the things that on liberty and all that liberty in- For years Nazi propaganda has been endeavouring to wean Portugal away from are Caesar), it indorsed the Greek valves on civilisation lwell
"And now the campaign has rened its height, doctrine of freedom (subject to the Perhaps he might have emphasised
low! divina!
and with its doctrines more than he has done that see-saw her profound pro-British leaning.
been warned of of love, mercy, charity, and toleration which is apparent in all human pro their strong-maní President, they will; Nazis. These Bow Afied" riking
the periods of reaction at al added the fea quality, the possibility he told me.
tion of Senating with advance, though not yield an inchadalaman sa
In Spain, and prospect of ado intolerable the conception of "From Insidious underground Same Old Tactica
SpankWordination of
have made headway against the Work the Nazis have reached al-
Unfortunately, Portugal alone is ultimate. most open attack in their propa. in no positon to resist himed in Portugal-with diregard for query, the bane of the ancient the long run? the forces of ugh In
had the Spain's alleged pympathy vasion, especially
When Mr. Muir says that the Mr. Muir writes with knowledge Every loophole
got rid of slavery and authoniy,In spite of an un
attribute the datinguished style he has succeeded
fort;
ganda work. At all events it backing of Franco Spain. bears the same stamp as the The Army numbers, about 10,000 detract from the yar
*men, but I not equipped to meet and considerable cheats. Ald on ho now familiar system practised in the Nazi biltzkriep, thailand the dimoultion which Britain would deliverance not mainly to econo in marshaling the relevant facts with
Presumably Britalnunder Article have in coming to avatugal al countries already "conquered"
10% of the
Idea behind the plan. by Germany
rulai her klodges to help of old one of cirritun unrest in the sa jonce again, would be agairimta
All to samo lies will have uphill struggle: Portugal te star pro-Brílish," and under: Dr" ßsi
“League: Cóvenant
Famous families in Portugal have country and order by Sonin to march ibson made the special targets of the to restore ordan
1809, but also to the fact skill and judgment, and in producing
was absolutely in a book of enthralling interest
those who wish to look above the the essential Battle in the present struggle, foc
albert and civilization?
doctrines of Christendom.