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THE ACTION'S TOUGH! THE LOVE IS ROUGH!
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THE BEST-LOVED
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HE old
Ttoque, lady in the daughter's strength. "A girl
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moves among thom.
It is hard to believe that Queen Mary is in her eightieth year.
Since last autumn, she has visited several exhibi- tions (ranging from Orien- tal ceramies to architec- ture). She has heard Gigli 7.15 & 9.15 P.M. sing at Covent Garden, and seen Vivien Leigh in "The Skin of Our Teeth." She has attended the gala pre- mieres of more than one film, and been to the movies in a suburban cinema:
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`LOVE'S NO GAMBLE.....THE WAY SHE PLAYS!
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Lady Luck
JAMES GLEASON
DON RICE - HARRY DAVENPORT
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"Afire with the happiness
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THE
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Alexandre Dumas' probes strange:
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Starring
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RUTH WARRICK
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"to learn obedience and attend her lessons and to grow, with out many parties and late hours, which take the freshness of girlhood away."
'opidemic.
during an influenza Princesa May went into seclu- sion, and lived in the South of France for some months.
On her return, however, it became known that she was
often with Prince George, now hoir-presumptive to the throne. Eventually, in 1893, the engage- ment was announced.
As Duchess
as Princess of York and later
of the heir-presumptive had to, fit into a pattern
of life far- more rigid than before.
George V spoke of her when he addressed his first Privy Council after, the Coronation in 1910. "I have in my dear wife one who will be a constant help-
May Teck grew up shy and carnesi, but with a compelling beauty of her own.. There was not time to pine for more meet."
The Queen Mother, who celebrates hor 80th birthday today, is still one of the most active women in the Empire. At right is a picture of Her Majesty taken recently when she attended the premiere of "School for Secrets" at the Odeon in London. This tribute to a great lady and
a very human personality is by
CHARLES WINTOUR
parties, even if they were miss
Right faithfully did the
ed, For about this time, Queen stand by him during his
Princess May became aware of long, and at times anxious, sonally knitting over 100
of her governesses.
In addition she has the severe gaps in her educa- reign. carried out several other tion left after the best efforts public engagements, includ- ing a two-hour visit to the Tower of London.
IF few people of Queen Mary's age would attempt such an Active programme, certainly none would be able to fulfil it with such unflagging interest and unfailing dignity of bear- ing.
It is strange to recall that, as a girl, the health of young "May Teck" gave considerable
concern to her family.
One of these, ጊ Alsatian known
several years.
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
HE Eugenies Society
TH
and the London County Council between them have, psychologi- cally speaking, spilt a tubful.
Here are pomo, words from a sur- vey recently published: "Of the variance exhibited by measurements of the hypothetical factor underlying ail cognitive testa, ono hulf at the very least is nttributable to nature as distinct from nurture." And a Iendier writer, commenting on this goblet of spuddergrass, says: "He is probably conservative in his view." My advice to all who feel the Berce worm of paychology gnawing at their vitals is to go on measuring hypothe- tical factors until the cows come. home and trample the whole thing into the byre.
More progressive thought
the
It is more important that healthy (especially the young) ahould be kept well than that the desperately sick should have C miserable existence prolonged by a few months.
HOPE the Ministry of Health will appreciate this support, especially us it comes from a B.Sc.
Whales at pasture
T having been decided that whale- meat is as delicious as beef, I hope the Ministry of Agriculture, in their capacity as the Ministry of Fisheries, wi sco that our farmers breed whales Instead of cattle, thus utilising flooded land, and giving employment to those how-ali longshoremen. But note that a cook, in an unguarded
must soak it in vinegar water.
scarves for the officers of her regiment, the Queen's Own. THE nation remembers her
There was hardly a cottager volatile work for the sick and Madame wounded during the first world in the neighbourhood of Bad- Bricka, helped the Princess to war, her devoted nursing at the minton whom she did not visit, moment, has said that if your bit of undertake a long courso of bedside of George V., and the without notice and without roust whale tastes of cod-liver oil you study, in which she read steadi- unparalleled dignity and good ceremony. And in her spare ly for six hours a day for sense with which she faced the time, such as it was, she work. In passing
Abdication crisis. During darked in the woods, wielding a HAV
JAVING watched an America f The future Queen paid such days her courage and steadfast
m more closely than usual I to the conclusion that attention to the blue books on bearing gave comfort to all who double-handed saw, with one of have come
her four devoted despatch 'American flims are execrable, not sweated labour in the London were troubled.
riders at the other end. slums that years later her
merely because the stories are stupid, but because the people in knowledge of social conditions
them do not act. They ser certain through a number of motions, and utter astonished the wives of Socialist
stock phrases, always in the same Ministers.
way. Watch any American film. You will know what is going to be said, and how it will be said. I belleve
In the second world war she made the West Country her
particular province. She visited TO-DAY Queen Mary is the
most loved numberless war factories, stop markable woman in Britain.
and most re- IN 1891, at the age of 24, the ping to give lifts to GIs, land
Princess became engaged to girls and factory hands along Surely If any public servant The vivacious and talented Prince Edward, the Duke of the way. She led her own deserves some relaxation, it is Duchess of Teck laid down a Clarence. Tragedy followed. working party which produced that great lady and very human strict regime to conserve her Within a month the Duke died 432 articles for the troops, per- personality.
Japan's secret societies are breaking
【APAN'S dangerous secret
societies are astir again.
out again
BY RICHARD HUGHES
Nazi
neur
Emperor of the
the honourable birth of the Party at Munich.... In the future there will be a great wor Officially dissolved on sur- roughly sets the same pretty pat- tack on Kikunum! to their loyalty States and Britain. The Tenno will between "tussia--and--the-United render by MacArthur decree, tern for these three societies.
to "the Master" and to their wor- again reign they promptly went under- It has already been responsible ship of the Emperor and Japan, world." ground, clutching much of their for two attempted knife assassina. They carried "Greater East Asia" The strength of these bodies. secret funds.
tions. The Identity of the two in- badges and their society's cultural
and other similar secret societies tended victimis lustructive.
motto, they festified, was: Strong which still remain plotting under- One, was Katsumi Kikanumi, the bodies produce strong thoughts." ground-lies in their ineradicable tough, able Red boss of the Congress The police thoughtfully locked and essentially Japanese fanaticism, of Industrial Organisations, Japan's them up and investigated
Master their hidden financial resources strongest and most aggressive union Maki-san'a organisation more totalling millions of yen, their easily federation (1,000,000 members). He thoroughly,
maintained tyranny over the real- was stabbed by two young
thuga
their They could not determine its ne- mented Japanese people and who interviewed him in an attempt tual strength but they learned that appeal to vindictive Army
omeers. to dissuado him strike,
many members were former. Army The influence can be seen behind officers, that the Party published strike-breaking and anti-iabour leading Alm propaganda sheet which blackmall- activity and they have a ready-made
and that enemy awaiting them in the fledg
with ling but equally resolute Japanese
In seclusion, they bided their time, distributed their yen among headmen of each society, contacted and enrolled unem ployed young officers as they were discharged from the army, conducted secret meetings, or-
from calling
ganised an underground cadre, The other was linked up with Japan's respec director, who had prepared a docu- ed unwilling adverberating
Already some of them aro rc-
(thut lovely Javanese word) murderous young Army oficera sentatives had their ideological dia-
Dow
war.
secret
table and long-accepted crime mentary picture, "The Tragedy of one committee,
the Em- ring and exploited to the full Japan," which involved the Oriental's traditional weak-peror with the common war gulit of the local gang boss as a vigilante Communist Party.
"protection" money corps, extorted the Japanese people.
from local shopkeepers. ness for secret societies.
Maki-san unsuccessfully ran for
Most significantly, they have all the Diet at the last elections--on the whipped up the old "allegiance to emerging into the open, applying Tho thugs surrendered .as Liberal ticket. He was drinking the Holy Emperor!" battle-cry, with gulle and impudence for reels- "patriots" to the Japanese police in sake the Japanese Liberal Party's which was the main-spring of their tration as "political" or "cultural" the best prewar tradition of the headquarters when his two repre terrorism before and during the bodies,
who, as members of the notorious cussion with Kikanumi.
Occupation counter-intelligence The following bodies,
ex- Black Dragon society, arrogantly An ex-Communist named Gaku officers are watching these plaratively feeling their way back boasted
for the Sano leads the Advance Guard of societies closely, but while they re- responsibility Into the open, can be named definite- Assassination of liberal or anti-war the Democratic League. Il frankly main underground their ramifica-
Becks
to Japanese im- return un resurgent, let nationalistic Japanese statesmen.
tions are hidden and elusive, Japanese secret societies of the
two knifemen who seriously perialism in Asto.
when they emerge arrests worst prewar brand, avowedly con- wounded Kikariuml brought with Sano-san, in a recent encyclical, examinations leave the bamed im- temptuous of
of the strange new con- them
police headquarters to
a declared: "All people are equal um pression of merely lopping off cept of Democracy which the great strong, smooth individual who gave der the Emperor and all people in tentacles of an octopus whore cvit
people are be his name as mass of the Japanese cognise and claimed to be the president of the der the Emperor."
Yasutoshi Maki and Asia should be treated equally un- heart, body and
remain mennee wilderedly Becking to
sceret and unscathed. understand:
Ellie of the New Masses.
As the Tokyo dally, the
Asahi Maki-san explained that the Elite
Shimbun, editorialised with mixed was a properly registered "cultural" A Japanese newspaper exposed metaphor but crystal-clear
mean- soclely. He had been refused per the Kokumin-to, or People's Party, Ang:
"How will the Allied powers mission by the Japatiese Govern, it is demonstrably the old, dissolved regard this germ of Fascism which The Kokumin-to, or People's ment to register as a "political" terrorist organisation, the East Asia shows among our people as secret Party (no relation to the People's society. He was angry about that League,
societies after the democratic Party In the Dlet).
refusal.
Characteristic pubite comment by volution was started one and a half The history and record of the The knifemen called him "the ita leaders: "We must make this Elite of the New Masses
The Shin-el Taishuto, or "Ellte of the New Massés Party."
The Advance Guard of the De mocratic League.
NANCY
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and
the
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there is a list of phrases, with the accompanying gestures, In American studio.
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