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PENNY-IN-SLOT "SOUNDIES"
Some-
After the talkies—"Soundies." thing new in entertainment has come from America.
∙IT
T is the penny-in-the-alot motion picture
sound cabinet, the Panoram.
It is being put on the market by Jimmy Roosevelt, són of the President, and the Chicago slot machine Mills Brothers,
BACK TO THE FIRST FILMS
The Panoram is really the old, original iden of mo- tion picture presentation, brought up-to-date In 16mm. three-minute, swift-action Alms, with full sound effects, all contained in a cabinet not much larger than one which might house a full-size radio set. The machine is started by the insertion into the slot of an American dino (about Gd), or the equivalent in other coinage.
It is intended to supply short, cheap, snappy en- tertainment in night clubs, restaurants, saloons, big shops, and so on.
The pletures are thrown on to a small mirror by a projector contained Inside the machine, and reflected from that to a larger semi-transparent screen, 17 inches by 23, which alone is visible to the audience.
The synchronising sound track is linked up with the working Alm. The sound can be regulated to superimpose itself over even the noise of a large num-
·ber of people in conversation, yet without the blasting effecia so often experienced in certain moilon-pletüre houses.
COMPLETELY FOOLPROOF
One of the drawbacks as it is now is that the payer of the dime has no cholce, and has to take what is there and in the rotation in which it is joined up in the Alm. There are no real top line motion picture per- formers in any of the pictures so far, But all these
·drawbacks can be changed in the course of lime,
The machines cost about £175 in the United States, are self-operating and declared to be completely foolproof. Jimmy Roosevelt expects to be able to place one of his "soundles" in almost every night club in America.
But there is no danger that It will be a rival to the cinema.
In The Blitzkrieg
Sleep In
|HAKESPEARE was pretty
SHAKE
lyrical about sleep, but if he had been alive to-day, and had experienced some of Lon- don's Blitzkrieg, he would cer- tainly have written a whole play on the subject.
When i think of how only a few weeks ago I used deliberately to stay up when I could have been usleep. I shudder! And now the aubject has taken the place of the weather in the citizen's small talk. No one says "What fright- ful weather," on meeting a friend. Instead you hear "Well, I had nearly five hours sleep last night. How orc you getting on?" you've managed to hearty seven hours, you feel al- most guilty, though undoubtedly refreshed.
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Keeping up Appearances
It's WE
E can stand it, of course.
amazing how adaptable the human body is. Beside, the thought that we are making Hitler and Co. gnnah their teeth is worth the hours of sleep we are losing. But I discovered that sleeplessness was beginning to make a difference to my looks, and a good many other women have innde the same com plaint. My skin began to look a bit muddy, I had more Ines round my eyes than were there before the battle began, and my hair was untractable and limp. So I took steps.
My first step consisted of a small dose of salts every morning before breakfast, to clear the system : of the effects of sleeping in an under- ground shelter with the minimum of oxygen. My second was 10 trent my skin to a cleansing pack -you can get quite good and in- expensive ones at any chemist, with, full Instructions, and flin "affect is, to make your face fee) nil fresh and now. It's worth doing
By Victoria Chappelle
the park treatment twice a week." Next, I've substituted for my usual night cleansing cream a nourishing cream, which is patied well into the skin, specially under the eyes. Eyes nearly always first begin to show the effects of lack of sleep and plenty of worry, so give them a little encouragement by laying on the closed Itds pada soaked in eye lotion when you are thorough- ly relaxed in bed. 1 give them ten minutes of this, then remove the pads, and go to sleep or try
to..
Hair Drill
My hair nearly sent ine mind. It
went into what my mother used to call "rnis talla." So, be- fore I washed it last time, I gave it a good feed of oil (oliver or almond of will do), massaging. it well into the roots by pressing my Angers on the scalp and rotating round and round and back and tha forth, with my elbows on dressing table and my finger tips doing the work. To start from the hair line and work towards the crown is the best way, and special- ly to carry the massage down the back of the neck, where the nerves ATC. When I had washed my hair, I gave it a tonle-another quite inexpensive purchase-using a pad of cotton wool and applying i down partings all over my head. What with the tonle and the mas- sage, my head was soon tingling and the sense of well-being was extraordinarily pleasant as the blood Won stimulated through the tissues.
to flow
When I do brush drill, I work upwards until the hair almost
slands, on end-that's what does it good. What's more, I read while I do it, so that it becomes automatic instead of boring.
Most of all I enjoy my hot bath, with lots of salts in i-or a little ammonia, falling salts-so that the pores of the skin are deeply cleans- ed. I've invested in a nice scrubby brush. When I've thoroughly soaped myself, I scrub the lather well in; and then after a plunge under the water, scrub it out. I've always believed that hot baths. should be a ritual, but never havo I enjoyed one, so much as after p night.in a shelter with bombs and gun-Bre crashing all round the. After a good rub with # toarse towel, I feel as though I could knock down a bus--or a Messer- schmitt.
Ritual of Rest
IT sounds a lot of trouble, but it's
not really too much to secure the fine, invigorating effect. Worth the trouble, too, is to prepare your- self for rest at night. Quite a number of women seem to sleep in their clothes, which I think is fatal to the hope of rest. It is im-. portant to take off all your day gurments, especially corsets and shoes, and either wear or get ready to slip, into a light, warm wrap. The siren suits we heard so much about at the beginning of the war are Arşi-class, because the trouser- ed legs keep you really warm. Have a pair of warm light slippers rendy as well. You can put your day clothes in a neat pilo so that you can grab them if you have to evacuato suddenly.
For myself, I go to bed really early-about 7 or 8 p.m. so that I have a sporting chance of rest be- fore anything starts—and I begin early in the morning to get things dane. I fake a hot nightcap, read little, and then suttle down. I find that if I can manage to get to sleep before the gunfire begins, can usually alay asleep for quite a while. But oh, how I yearn for my qulei Hittle cofinie in the vil- lagel
Coastal Look-Out
Invasion dangers may have diminished--but the vigil around Britain's shores must never be relaxed. What that constant watch entails is vividly described here by
F. G. H. Salusbury
VERY nervo in his body
EVER
is as finely stretched as the E string of a violin. His eyes have been straining into the darkness until they seem to be mounted on yard-long stalks.
On his alertness, his judg- ment, depends, in a large measure, the efficiency of the const defence battery of which he is a look-out man.
It is a dirty night, and he is cold, despite his extra clothing for there is nothing between him and the wind which, whips in from the sea, He dare not relax, nor snuggle momentarily into corner. He dare not lean for a second against a wall. That' way lies the terrible danger of sleep which is on you before you can bat an eyelid.
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"Oh, my," he sings over and over to himself, in an echo of the last-war song, "I don't want to die, I want to go home."
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And the wind which is in a devilish mood, seems to pull his eyes two yards farther out and snap them back again. ****
Hell! What's that patch? Out there! Just off the head- land! It's a bont, it's an E-bont. No! Get away with you, it's nothing! It's just a box drifting; any fool could tell that.
After France
UNTIL last May the const defences of Britain were con- centrated on ports and all that they imply, with the Army and the Royal Navy working in the closest co- operation.
Rather luxurious work it was, too, in the estimation of other soldiers and those civi- lians who saw nothing but the trim brick and stone'exteriors of the fortifications and their satellite buildings.
Then came tlie disaster in France, and, with it, the very lively threat of invasion..
Our coast defences became un- usually and unfamiliarly impor-
expanded tant. They
with # rapkity and to an extent which are not public property.
The last shred of luxury-It was Always Actitious-was ripped from their functions.
The co-operation with the Royal Navy continues as before. The ports are guarded before. But there are now, In addition, long stretches of coast which would pro- vide an invader, with an unpleasant surprisi
is where the coast defence batteries-receiving less publicly, possibly, than even the A.A. bat- terics had in their lonely days- hold the first land line, and can never slocken in their task. Their guns, as is well known, are heavy, medium and light.
The heavies would engage bat- tleships at long range, and give a convoy its first welcome.
Searchlights
The mediums are for much the same purpose at shorter range. The light guns are designed for small, fast-moving targets attack- Ing the immediate neighbourhood.
Ail are
alded by searchlights, either a particularly illumina-
kind-as in a beam-or of general nature-a sort of imitation daylight to give the battery com
ting ·
mander a choice of targets,
Speed is the essence of the const defence contract, and speed which admits of no mistake, There can be no fallures, no faise alarms.
There must be always enough men-awake,-and-on-the-hop-to-f
-fire- the guns for a few minutes. More, who must be close at hand to carry on, are allowed to sleep, but they must sleep fully dressed and pre- pared.
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The rest may be off duty, and, theory, have one complete night's sleep in three. In practice it is more often ond in four.
A Weird Game
THESE gunners do not have much limelight, but no other branch of the Service can provide itter men -the weight of shell and cartridge which must be manhandled in ac- tion is backbreaking.
They have little fun and games. I know of the one battery on on Island.
The
men's whole exercise is in n weird. of follow-my- game leader under and over guns, beds and the machinery,
So If, as I have heard, the Army is now knilting comforts for civi- lians in air raids, treasure any sock you may get from a coast defence gunner. He will have put all his modest, lonely rout into it.
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