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"Smilin' Through"
"It's A Long,
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A STORY so. BEAUTIFUL... IT HAD TO BE SET
TO MUSICI ...The glorious voice of JeanetfoMacDonald gives new meaning to this great- est of all love storlosť
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JEANETTE
BRIAN
MacDONALD AHERNE
Smilin' Through
Long Trail IN BRILLIANT TECHNICOLOR
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With Thine Eye Gene RAYMOND - Ian HUNTER
--many morat
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She's up to her lips in love again..!
Because
of Hion
STANLEY RIDGES DONALD MEEK HELEN BRODERICK
Screenplay by Edmund Beloin⚫ Original Story by Edmund Beloin and Sig Herzig
Directed by RICHARD WALLACE • Produced by FELIX JACKSON
Assocale Producer Howard Chrislio
NEXT CHANGE THIS YEAR'S BIG DRAMA!
BONDAGE
NEW WARNER
WORUND GWENN
JANIS FAIGE
MUSIC BY ERIC WOFGANG •
starring ELEANOR
PARKE
PAUL
HENREID
ALEXIS
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Summer in London: inaldo tho Prize Bloom tent at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Microphones Don't Make Singers
By ROBERT RICHARDS
United Press Staff Correspondent
ETTING, the girl who think
Imitate her."
first started "knocking them ing nothing but attempting to dead" back in the 1920's, says she believes the old times were easier un singers. Sho's glad lovely although that she hit the Big Time in from behind her teeth, which always
1927-and not 1947.
Ruth, who sell looks young and sho's in her late forilca, rald her own. voice camo
has given her an advantage many singers.
over
They didn't have the micro- phone then," she explained. A voice teacher told то that "You simply had to stand and because of this my vocal always
deliver. Not too many people leaped out of the audience just ahead of the instruments in the could do that, especially in orchestra. Falks could always hear
large theatre. It cut the com- me," she said.
petition. Nowadays, with the the inike, all the, girls have :same volume.
:
"And we were individualists the We didn't want to be like each other Helen Morgan sat on top of her plano пук Bang. She
wonderful. WIN Well, I let Helen love that. I didn't try to copy her. Neither did others. But now if one good singing style appears, it seems to me, all the other girls Jump on the bandwagon.
the's "Take Jo Stafford. I think very good. So do her competitors.
FOR FOUR DAYS THIS PAGE WILL PROBE A
POST-WAR GRUMBLE
Nothing
in Life for You?
YOU THINK NOT? VERY WELL-JUST. READ ON
There is a challenge here for the restless--- a new horizon for those who feel there is a brake on ambition. RALPH CHAMPION met these five men who know the worth of enterprise.
The man with a boat
The man with a mine
Williams Next morning IONEL suam."
hurried off to the Coul Commis- WIL LIAMS is a claim to 21 atres. Then he laid out
Huth made her first big hit in 1927 In the Zielfeld Follles, She earned between US$150,000 and US$200,- 000 a year and made such songs as "Shine. On Harvest Moon" and Ten Cents a Dance" popular.
Ten years ago she decided to re- re. Married to Myrl Alderman, her accompanist of many years,' she settled down on an eight-nere farm in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Then last spring she returned to the bright lights for three weeks at the Copacabana in New York. Recently she opened her "Ruth Etting Show" on the radio.
"Just couldn't stay away," she confessed. "When I went into a theatre and heard the orchestra warming up it was just too much for
me,"
BY THE
WAY
soners with £100 to register his by Beachcomber
business-a
market
huve
THE question has naturally
arisen: "How about a
.for
miner. He £200 on second-hand trams, rails. has a wife, and pit props. three children-and a cottage at
A few weeks later Lionel Wil-fight between Stan Trivett and Tryman, Mon.
Not an easy lams, colllery owner, opened hisne Baksi?" I learn, indirect- thing for a miner to hecome a
for his coally, that Baksi does not take coalowner, but that is what this assured at a local gas works.. Trivett seriously, Nobody, does.
5-year-old enthusiast has done.
If he had wanted to play safe That is the whole reason He has found. adventure Willams could
continued his startling list of victories.
Trivett's next fight is with Dan UNDER THE GROUND.
Els one-man plt. With a weekly Tremendo, the Giggleswick Whirl- output of 20 tons he would have wind, Tremendo is a giant of six Lionel stened to local gossip, made a good living and his scam foot five, and weighs, when stripped studled old maps. Each afternoon,
would have lasted
by Customs men, eighteen stone nine. He is so fat that only fighters with after eight hours underground, he
Be saw the
the longest reach can hit anything went prospecting on the are hill-
but his belly. And that is like hit- side near his home-seeking hidden more quickly,
ling the Great Wall of China with a treasure
heither mallet, Well, Stan packs two the novels
"black then enll diamonds,"
fellme,
to more coal has four now
way Ho working full-time, and hopes 10 Install con-cutting zither-mallets, machinery to exhaust the seams Then one day in June last year- even greater speed. after months of searching -Williams
Williams found his adventure burst Into his cottage and shouted to at little cost, ulmest on his dodr his wife: "Dorls, I have found the step.
The man who bought a lorry
The first year he drove IF mining is not your choice another firm.
of a career listen to the vic- London to Southend, to Brighton to his "toast rack" up and down from tory of "The Guv." He found Harlings, to Margate.. -1-R-S-T-Rother-to-the quay-and-210, his adventure ON-THE-ROAD,-
meet $16. sometimes $25 Peter credited to his sales account. Irwin Clark, who found
adventure ON THE SEA.
Clark, aged 29, wanted to join
the R.A.F.. A car crash robbed him of a leg, part use of an arm and his chance to fly.
So Peter, who had never been to sea before, became a fisher-
man.
In the Old Bell and Standard inns at picturesque Rye, Sussex, he learned from local boatmen where the wrecks were lying in the bay. They told him where to expect mines--and fish, ·
were
Soon Clark, decided to take another risk and add to his fleet, despite the alarming price rises under which £250 boats became worth £1,000. still more additions.
Then,
By 1945 One Man in a Boat had become A busincas--the Rye Bay Trawler Co.
There were, breakdowns.
Sore
How to solve the
housing problem
THE SUREestion that women should be called up again is one way of solving the housing problem. If the
fathers, mothers, grandmothers, 25%
and uncles are out at work all the children aither at school or work, and the babies in a communal nursery, there will
bo no further torian survival. But what about the need of home life. that absurd Vic- cals und 'dogs? They hust be na- tionalised-and-moved-to-
Communul Animal Centres. The Government "The Guv." known to outsiders days he would not curn enough to but not his staff, as Mr Robert Mars- pay for his petrol. Often he would could casily take over a few hotels or country houses for them. Con- den, is the driving force behind the work all night on repairs to be ready
&cription of animals would ba £100.000 Venture Transport (Hen- for 9 m. trip to the sea.
strongly resisted, writes my ferret don) Ltd., which owns 48 vehicles.
correspondent, Coriolanus 11, He won Lap One that summer. With nationalisation threatening to tane down part business, what does he do?
of his charabane But, with winter, there were no trips Unexpected answer
He
to the ara; no work for the "toast arders some more vehicles and pre- rack." He took another chance and pares to extend within the limits of bought an old lorry. With this he hauled ten tons of coal dally and eamed enough by spring to buy a
the Act,
He works 15 hours a day Just us secund coach. he did back in 1924, when he found- ed his business with one £400 charabanc.
The capital
his boyhood friend, Chris Bate-
That year he was joined by wages he saved
man, aged 29, with a Viking beard-just demobilised.
They had good weeks; they had bad. Difficulties mounted— . and were surmounted.
Then, in a £150 open boat, bought with his savings, he be Because they could not get came a fisherman the hard way. their marine engines repaired He discovered the pain salt casily they opened their own water can cause to unaccus- workshop. That was the start tomed hands; the discomfort of of their second business---- trawling in rough een.
Strand Motors.
Once he went overboard with Clark and Bateman found his trawl. But he also landed their adventure without much fish. Day after day his craft money and without travelling chugged up the winding River: Tar.
That's how he started. The rest was just hard work, and the will to came from tips and get something out of life in exchange
while driving for for what he was puiting In.
ERE is a story that has pleased me greatly. The Mayor of # French town was being conducted round New York. When he was shown the view from the top of the and asked Empire State Building what he thought of it, he sold, "It reminds me of sex." "Why?" asked
the astonished umetals. Every- thing." said the Frenchman wistfully,
"reminds me of sex."
The man and the atom Fuct
HIRTY. travel magazines fired his ambition. THI
THREE They told how a party of Mexican catliemen found sumples of the YEAR-OLD
treasure and lost their lives in the Leonard earch. Larkin, of Winnington-road, Enfield, Middlesex, is a Atomic Age.
From old maps, scientific papers
man of the and the musty archives in London museums; Larkin has drawn up his route to Destination X.
of
Lesnard, who is married and has Experts have tried in vain to three children, hus sold up his home dismuruge him. His is certainly the and is off to Mexico on the trail of most speculative piece of enterprise pitchblendethe mala orc
reported here, uranium, wanted by every nation But it is the element of chance, hamessed to the spirit of adventure; interested in atomic research.
His acut is booked on, a New York: which makes all these ordinary ur liner; he is sinking his last £700 people feck: There 15 something in In the venture. Reports in old life FOR ME,
TOMORROW: Bernard Wicksteed answers the people "who think adventure can only hoppen somewhere a long way off."
NANCY
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HA-HA-HA- THAT BOY
ISN'T FISHING---
By Ernie Buskmiller
IT LOOKS MORE.
LIKE THAT FISH IS BOYING
Sawing away at its toll.
(Gossip column.) NLY scarcity of firewood cun ex- cuse this act of vandalism," said
a lending critic, but a double saw for the 'cello is rather overdoing it." When Scampi sawed his violin
in half,
It made the lowbrows in the
audience laugh;
The highbrows, hating this itt-
mannered din,
Cried, "Woodnian, woodman,
spare that violin!"
Frodnose: Did they not search him before he came on the stage? Myself: Yes. Under by-law.387. But he carried the saw openly, and. said it was a new kind of bow. The offelals were satisfied.
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