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Movies
Doings of Stars
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Virginia Weldler, who has Formby, the Lancashire come. been acclaimed for her acting in dian; Robert. Donat, Gracie such pictures as "The Philadel- Fielda, Arthur Askeý (radio phin Story" and "All This And comedian), Lucan and McShane comedians), Charles Heaven Too," has started danc (Irish ing and singing lessons with the Laughton, Will Hay, Conrad possibility of a musical role Veidt, Gordon Harker and An-
na Neagle.
soon.'
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are
After "The Invisible Man" und
filmgoers Vir "The Invisible Ray"
now to be treated to a picture en- tied "The Invisible Woman" from
The start of her new lessons satisfied an old ambition. ginia's mother was a Continen- tal opera and concert star, and her three brothers are members of an orchestra. Yet Virginia never has done any serious sing- ing or dancing in her more than 30 screen roles.
Frank Borzage will direct Jeanette MacDonald in "Smilin' Through," when that film goes before the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer cameras.
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Shirley Temple's long-awaited return to the screen will ma- terialise shortly when she joins "Babes On Broadway." Arthur Freed will produce with Busby Berkeley as director.
"Stop This Way," starring the Marx Brothers, has gone into
production under the direction
Universal.
Virginia Bruce plays the title role and is supported by John (Profile) Barrymore and John. Howard.
Virginia, a model girl, answers the advertisement of EL scientist, Julin Barrymore, who wishes a subject for hla invisibility test. The results are humorous rather thun "horine."
Henry Fonda is to star in "A Yonk in the R.A.F
The Howards of Virginia
frequently. She is fuller in quality and depth here than she was in "Our Town."
Grant, however; does not come
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ZBW, 355 metros (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles)
Beethoven Symphony No. 1jding of the Painted Doll (Brown).
In C Major, Op. 21
Radio Programme Broadcast by 23W on Frequency of 845 kc's.
10,00 London ·Holay--"Tap- pidrome."
11.00 Dance, Minto. 12.00 midnight; Close Down
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second.
12.15 p.. Short Service of Inter-Deanna Durbin Relay From
ression.
12.30 Film Selections,
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King's Theatre
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1.01 Lon Green at the Plano, Melodies of the Month-No. R. Melodies of the Month-No, 20,
1.13 Brian
And I per second. Lawrance
Orchestra.
1.30 Router nnd Rugby Press and Announcements.
1.45 A Noel Coward Programine.
2.15 Close.Down.
5.45 p.m. Indian Programme.
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Bervice from the Union Church.
10.30-11.30 am. Relay of Morning 12.15 p.m. A Grieg Programme, 1.00 Local Time Signal.- 1.01 Primo Scala's Accordeon Band. 1.22 Special Relay from the Klug's.
0.30 Closing Local Stock Quota-Theatre of Deanna. Durbin singing
tious
Thank you America" and "There'll
0.32 Beethoven-Symphony No. always be an England" (by courtesy
in C Major, Op. 21.
The B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini,
7.00 London Relay-The Nows.
of the King's Theatre).
1.30
Reuter and Rugby Press and Announcements.
1.46 p.m. Songs by Oscar Natzke
7.15 London Relay-"Questions of (Roma). wage Blacksmith (Long-
the Hour."
The
7.80 London Relay Special Bread- follow-Weiss) Samson (Handel). 'cast to the British Forces in the Far
1.35 Stravinsky-Patroushka Bal- East.
11.00
Local Time Signal and An-
nouncements.
Ict
Symphony Orchestra con-
ducted by Albert Coates.
2.30 Close Down.
5.45 Indian, Programme. 7.00 London Relay The News
Relay "Questions
8.02 Light Orchestral Programme, 8.30 Tumes of Not-So-Long-Aro. Charlle Kunz Plane Medley No. R. 2-Old Favourites-Evergreens of 7.15 Juzz (No. Laugh, Cluwn, Laugh of the Hon (flm "Follow your
Star'); Sweet 7.30
Band Music with Jeebies 1 Dennis Nobin (Haritone). Wonder Where My Baby is To- 8.00 Local Time Signal and An- Night? Makin' Whoopco (Mmnouncement
Sue,
"Whoopeo"); Fox-Trot Medley. 9.00 London Relay The and News Commentary.
9.16 Sea Songs and Shanties, 9.30 Local Sport Results, 9.33 Waltzes. Waitzes of the
News
World-Potpourri (arr. Robrecht)..Orchestra Mascotte; Lysistratu (Lincke) .....Orchestra Mascotte.
Laid in the 1770 period of united with his family after David Selznick is trying to acquire the American colonies, "The the tribulation of war. the rights of "The Lodger", lost made Howards of Virginia,"_now Hitler would be puzzled at by Alfred Hitchcock, twelve years
Just You; Heeble new showing at the King's Thea- this story, which shows the through as well. He is still a ap. Ilitch would direct the
tre, deals less with the birth Boston Harbour tea jettison- great, big chap, natural and hu- version with Joan Fontaine,
Sylvia Ashley, widow of Doug of the Stars and Stripes ing, Patrick Henry's "Give man, and you feel as though you Fairbanks, Senior, was tested for a than with the social snob- me liberty or give me death,", but the role seems to call for have known him all your life, part in the new Joan Crawford fim,
beries that it did much to and the defeat of colonial a more serious player. "A Woman's Face."
tyranny by Washington. It is not his fault; blame it on Sixteen-year-old Georgiana Young Sweep away. launched her own Abm curcer in Uppishness is centred in Few, however, would regard the fact that Hollywood is go- Hollywood without revealing that the the gouty, pompous rigidity keynote of freedom is exactly shortage of leading men.
an astonishing the play as anti-British; for its ing through was the kid slater Loretta Young. Without confiding in of Sir Cedric Hardwicke, what split the two peoples in Sir Cedric Hardwicke's im- her family, Georgiana reported for an whose sister, Martha Scott, 1776 and unites them in 1941. personation of an embittered interview at RKO Radio for a
A hint or two of spectacular and haughty aristocrat is magni. in "No, No, Nanette." She pleked a weds a breezy Virginia
Alan Marshal and highly competitive test for her first algnment, but came through with farmer in the person of battles is saved from spurious ficent; fying colours when Producer-Direc- Cary Grant-loud, always gedies and privations, and the there's a young kid, in a small glory by emphasis on war's tra- Richard Carlson are good and McClelland Burelay selected her and bellowing like a bull, gauche, acting is generally on a satisfac part, named Phil Taylor. Watch Britain's ten most popular two other girls from a group of 46 domestic and rebellious. tory plane.
him; he is splendid. Alm stars in 1940, according beauties who tried out for roles as
The picture is adapted from part involved.
He joins the fighting solutely top-notch performance the novel, "The Tree of Liberty," to a census of 4,500 cinema artists models. The managers made by "Motion Pie considerable dialogue and several colonics, finds his sons on as the girl. You love her al by Elizabeth Page.
comedy scenes with Anna Neagle and the same side, and is re- ways; you feel sorry for her ture Herald," were George Richard Carlson.
of Charles "Chuck" Reisner,
Tony Martin, who has just com; pleted a role in "Ziegfeld Girl." Virginia Grey, Virginia O'Brien, Margaret Dumont and Charles Holland will support the Marx Brothers.
Who
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of screen
a part
for Herbert Wilcox and famed artist
Are They? JEHOVAH'S
Fated To Persecution
Martha Scott hands in an ab-
WITNESSES
What Do
They Teach?
The Ghost Breakers
When, years ago, D: W. Grif- fith made "One Exciting Night," The started à cycle of fHms which
has never censed.
The ingredients are familiar. One haunted castle, house, or what have you, one scared negro, one hero partially frightened, one heroine who puts on a bold front, two or three red her
Editor's Note:-The following claim, teach the traditions of heavenly hosts and the Satanic nesses that they have no earthly ring villains and, of course, one article by "Bible Student" from men in place of the truths of hosts, and which will take place leader, but that Christ alone is very very bad man. Mix to- a recent issue of the "Evening the Kingdom.
in the near future, Satan's their lender, made the following gether with alarms and excur Dispatch," Edinburgh. may be
carthly organisation will perish. statement amidst great apsions, ghosts, pseudo-ghosts and of interest_to_those_who_are_in
plause:
knights-in-armour-and-you-have- want of information regarding They are hated by Satan and ings of the peoples of earth can battling against the religious pular concoction.
“(5)~That the relief and bless-
"Britain alone stands firm, a well tried and apparently-po- the sect calling
themselves all Satan's agencies, who per- come only by and through totalitarian combine in her fight Jehovah's Witnesses and of their secute them and say all manner Jehovah's kingdom under Christ, for the rights of a free people. Breakers" now at the Queen's Of its type "The Ghost activities, to which much pub- of evil against them falsely. which has now begun. That the Britain has licity has of late been drawn. That is why they do not bother Lord's next great net is the de- Jehovah's Witnesses, and be-good.
been kind to and Alhambra, is definitely to contradict the false allega struction of Satan's organisation cause of that kindness shown it tions now being made against and the establishment of righte- may be expected that Almighty Canary" you will appreciate the If you like "The Cat and the them. Instead of being discour-ousness in the earth, and that God will show some special thrills and humour in this one. MA
ANY readers of the aged by such misrepresentations, under the Kingdom the peuple favour to Britain in her hour Evening Dispatch must they are encouraged by the fur- of goodwill that survive Arm- of terrible distress.""" be asking the above ques- book, the Bible, is true. They divine mandate to "fill the earth" The Right To Fight
ther evidence that their text- ageddon shall carry out the tions, and also wondering know that their leader, Jesus, with a righteous race. why Jehovah's Witnesses are was crucified for telling the being so much featured in truth; and they also know that Hitler's Victims the Press at the present his followers must also undergo
Bob Hope is in great fettle as a radio gossiper who, through a series of misunderstandings, |gets transported in a trunk to Cuba with a beautiful girl who has inherited a haunted castle off the shore of this romantic island,
Paulette Goddard does not dis-
In conclusion, Jehovah's Wit- nesses are enjoined, not to try to dissuade anyone from taking up time. As a keen student of persecution, must be unwept, the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Individual witnesses may take In a recent leaflet issued by arms in defence of his country. unhonoured, and unsung by the the Bible, let me endeavour world, and, above all, will be per- Society, which acts as pub- the view that their personal appoint the eyes as the heroine to give as accurately as pos- secuted by the nominal Chur- lisher for Jehovah's Witnesses covenant to carry out Jehovah's and both Richard Carlson as a sible a short summary that ches, just as Christ was.
throughout the earth, the follow- work of witnessing at this time "bad" mun and Paul Lukas as ing statements appear!- may be of some assistance to Their doctrine, which they
may preclude them from taking a presumably "bad" man, help readers, particularly those claim to be based solely on Scrip know they are fighting against left entirely to the individual to
"The British people to-day up carnal weapons, but that is considerably.
The scared negro is well who have read the Church ture, may be
summarised the most wicked and iniquitous decide. thus:-
played by Willie Best. of Scotland leaflet dealing
combine of enemies ever organ- As regards those who have not. with this subject.
(1) That Jehovah's organisa- ised to destroy freedom and true entered into such a covenant, Jehovah's Witnesses do not tion is Theocracy called Zion, Christianity in the earth. Bri- Jehovah's Witnesses feel that it and that Christ Jesus is the tain alone stands firm, battling is quite natural for such to battle claim to be a sect or a religious Chief Officer thereof, and is the against the religious and totall- against the evil things. They organisation. They claim to be rightful King of the world; that tarian combined enemies in her do not criticise them for this in in the class of faithful men re- the anointed and faithful follow. fight for the rights of a free any way, but they know that the ferred to in the eleventh chapter". ers of Christ are children of people. From the days of the number of people who will have is to inform the people of God's Zion, and are his witnesses, Magna Charta to this day Bri- the courage to enter the coven- purpose to establish a righteous whose duty and privilege it is to tain has developed into a strong- ant, bringing, as it must, scorn government on the earth, and in testify to the supremacy of hold of liberty, preservers of the and persecution and misropro-
Jehovah, declare his
freedom of conscience, ments to warn the people of the toward mankind as expressed in champions for the open Bible the that it cannot affect the issue. impending disaster upon the of the Kingdom before all who
the Bible and to bear the fruits: Word of Almighty God."
It is simply a fact that in Ger "Since 1933 Hitler has stamp- many it was much easier for a nations:
ed out the Christian work of witness to "heil Hitler" and go will hear. Their only claim is to be truc
Jehovah's Witnesses in Ger- with the crowd than to refuse Christians, and hence there is (2) That Satan's rule on earth many. He has imprisoned, mal- to do so and languish in concen- nothing modern about their is about to end, and the Lord treated, and killed many of these tration camp or be shot. origin. They take their stand Jesus Christ has been placed by faithful servants of the Most However angry one may feel.
of Hebrews, whose main purpose
obedience to God's command-
purposes
and sentation in its train, is so small
on Isaiah 48: 12, which states, Jehovah upon His throne of High God because of their stand with conscientious objectors "Ye are my witnesses, saith authority, has ousted Satan from for the open Bible and for God's and there is no use hiding the Jehovah, that I am God." heaven and is proceeding to the Kingdom. To-day over six thou- fact that in this struggle against Josus Christ is the chief wit- establishment of God's kingdom Band Jehovah's Witnesses lan evil most people do feel angry ness of Jehovah, and all true on earth.
guish in Hitler's concentration with them-one cannot truth- Christiana right down the ages
camps." have been or are Jehovah's Wit. Satan's Final Fling
fully maintain that Jehovah's "Strange as it may seem, Hit Witnesses who take their stand messes. They obey evory law of (3) That Satan has been given ler engaged in a crusade for the as objectors in Germany aro the land that is not in conflict his notice to quit and is "shoot re-establishment of the Holy cowards. It takes great cour with God's law. They do no in- ing the house down," using wick jury to anyone. They have od mon such as Hitler, Mussolini, nothing against individuals be- Stalin, and others as his earthly caues of their religion, but in order to bring out the truth, they
accomplices."
Roman Empire."
tagé, both physical and moral, to Before an American audience bo a true Christian in any totall- of 45,000 of Jehovah's Witnessda tarian country to-day, it is also on Sunday, July 28, 1940, Judge, true that even in this country Rutherford, who is the St Paul it is much harder to be a
cannot avoid exposing the errors (4) That at Armageddon of the present day, but who con- Jehovah's Witness than not t
religious systems which they which is a battle between the tinually tells Jehovah's Witba
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