THE NEW COMMONS
Y this time next year the now House of Com- mona will be completed. There is still a little atone- work to be done on the out- nide, but the roof is finished, the scaffolding on the inside is down, and the carved-oak -ceiling is finished and in
place.
Work in well up to schedule," says Mr Charles Key, Minister of Works. "It should be ready
efore November 1950.**
The central chamber of the new House will be a replica of the old House, except that the north and south galleries will be chluiged, two new Hươts 144 he time added, and for the first there will be suites and offices above the debating chamber.
Better acoustics, new amall- fying systems and fluorescent fighting will be new features, Panelling will be in light onk, blenched grey to tone with the green leather benches,
EMPIRE TIMBER
Oaks 250 years old have bren felted to provide note of the timber.
The Empire has
mach of the wood
walnut will provide
of the chamber
contributed
Australian
The for
making gift of the new table and Australian timber will ge make the new Speaker's
chair
Five-ton blocks of pale cream. Aloric frean The uld Roman queries at Clipsham, Rulland have bech visellest aru ratved for the new House This 14 te amme stone lust went to le Buckingham Palner.
Minter
and Canterbury.
York Ely
and Prinsborough Cafedrain It is reckoned to last 1,000 years
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COOL HEADS, WARM FEET! between many hem, nuush or
By the time the roof in up, mystery, and swing, senti about 110,000 Puter Tent of
menfadets cr slapstick for his weekly bedsworth' feel of Porthand of escapism.
Chipolam stranic shipped to the 50,000 cubi stone
will have been Common wall
Ventilation Cut aix
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House has takes3 buste thann
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cloud of Are and radio-netiyilv billowing into the sky; n bare minole to the havoc it enused
roshiton
fixler, #1 is not a film about the A-bombs, which is only one practical example of the use of atomie energy.
por tuse palaces and computed by tectures, to Army enuity and Imitless
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New The getal patelic at the Marley, showiɔe cuirea of the {V'•4iLL,
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artinfeels and builders to ricanes in an
More sanguine when putting forward their plans than his
brun subsequently found to be Justifies by The actual facts."
However when the House
pointed
of Comurons was destroyed by fire e 1834 was promised in the new {J}10* six years, but look 27 years in build.
-(London Ezywem Service!
SATUR
apreraft with
Ith hard Widmanik in "Slattery's
Ize chased by fiuriscane," mtaizy prehistoric antals through an impenetrable jungle
"Minhis Young Joe **
10
He let me death deall out a variety of refusements. with
original sticky briefing one wading in a concrete mixer.
Up to a few weeks agh only. Fur to this plant, carefree
BEWARE ACTORS
Question: Which is the more dangerous, a hooded cobra or an Brior?
Answer:
And of An actor. anyone is inclined to argue the point, I'd like following as evidence
10
submit the
of
by
BILLY
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Not New Film
Ja
is not
Mace no m. Iwo years ago with the help at the adve trophyouts in Britain by
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Caumont-British Instructional but for scientitie and educa tional purposes, it received the at the in- Gold Medal award! V
FI Festival at ternational
FAST Venire
and your tal award from the British Film Academy.
Three copies were bought by the Army Kinema Corporation fourteen months ago, and are to be found in A K,C, #lm libraries
"Not unless you were there," Sand Eleanor. "Salvatore bit
Colleges and courses.
lance of the Film Organisation
stomle
Deliberately unsensetional in Treatment, "
reveals with retenlife accuracy the long and slow process of experimentallon and surmise. the amazing in- patience, which began with John Dalton's
fable of themie and In view of the vitul ampor- weight in a Manchester laborg- 140 years ago, and then via subject, the Hosk W
14 decided
the lute lay, the Curies, ke H available to all men ard Rutherford. Sir John and women who are anxious to Cockeroft (who with Dr Walton knew something of the history first spilt the atom in 1932) to and development of the greatest the present day, and outlines wonder of this any other age, the compllented apparatus which -kuterademies boll : its achieve was rvolved bit by bit, and by
itsmplications for trial und error. marsal and Brent and evid
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coume be un-
pete,ous to say that it did not
Heavy Going
rape the box-office specialists MUCH of it is explained with thi The keral was highly diagrams, a few equations topwal It is only a short while and plans, and interviews with crept with the the Inte Lord Rutherford (which that Bevlet ho gave in 1037), Professor O. R. possession of the Frisch, the brilliant
Britain's new physicist, Who worked
new Britate
Birmingham at Liverpool and
selcntists
native ter the sh shcement Russia was in atomic bomb
Cell Defence Force is due to start
atomic ex-
The ts.
Atoile can
Austrian
fur
ATK
with the Ameri- at Los Alamos
and and
Cock-
plosions
Commission has just professor Einstel Energy
that it is about to auaminced
,000 onl spend another £107,000,0 the expansion of atomic plant,
The Physica Department Liverpool University, whi
which has
War
himself, soldier of World
One
now
Direc
Energy
of the Atomiz Research Establishment ai Har- well. Sir John emphasises
played a leading role in atomic point of which one is apt to lose research, han just moved into sight, that experiment and effort nussive concrete building which to make atomle energy useful to well house synchre yelotron our everyday life is going on
particles
empable at producing
with an energy of 100,000,000 electronvolts.
The A-Bomb [EVÉRTHELESS, the decision
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pace.
London audiences are finding It heavy going. Apart from the intricacy of the theme, this is partly due to the fact that the film was designed to be shown in five parts and that a layman's
to present to the general brain can hardly be expeeled to pubite a serious documentary on master so many facts in so short
vital theme remains a coura- a time without a single break..
geous and prais: worthy act.
But it should be seen and the
For the cheap sensation effort made, fur It does provide
of
of
his missus across the face with fish and kept bellowing until
opportunity the
on thu beach came seeker, brought
up on gum- a wonderful the cop
him to shut chewing gangsters and synthetic getting some understanding running and told
will be disappointed
and fascinating mysterious the sadism, 41] But that was only
with
"Atomle Physics." It activity which might command A couple of days beginning.
devotes but one or two shots our rutn or, if sunity prevails, later the actor walked up to Mr
to the bomb
and eventually handed him
exploding
yleld incalculable the delicatessen counter to get Padulla and
sending its deadly mushroom material benefits. Eleanor. "As a matter of fact, dollar. everybody's friendly unice you Het away from New York."
Is that so?"
"Would 1 said. you like to know what the 'Unfurtunately. afternoon we would go shop friendly old dam was saying it until I got home." ping for weekend vittles at about you in her mother tongue? the not-so-super market run I know, because
Á
DIPPY decade ngo, Eleanor and I spent a
af
New Deal. Jersey, and every Friday
Bummer
by Salvatore Padulla, three-bellied Sicilian who,
learned n lite bad alian as a kid on the East Side."
to hear the year-rounders tell it, was the stingiest me?" man between. Sandy Hook and Cape May.
One afternoon, while Eleanor was assembling the makings for
measure,
ц
"I gave your missus ver yesterday, nhd she gave me back
much," a dollar 100
he cald. I didn't notice
to
Tojo's Slapper Now
As Sane As Ever
1
WELL, that was on Wednes- W day." said
By RUTHERFORD POATS Eleanor, "and "What did she say about
on Thursday when I went to Mrs Padulla was
On May 3, 1940, as the in- I told him and, for good the store,
shiner you couldn't D Shumei Okawa, notorious
military tribunal of Japanese ternational propagandist added few
cm- sporting a
the thin, 01- cover with a fingerbowl."
aggression who cheated Allled sessions opened, bellishments of my oWIL
entered the 1 Spencer doesn't let up."justice by slapping Hideki Tojo year-old Okawa Thanks," said the hel-up
I said, "the old geezer is liable on the head "One question: Ta
first day of prisoners' deckel wearing what thesplan,
kill his wife."
the Tokyo war
crimes trials looked
pair of like a worn a cold buffet, I went to the fish her husband a stingy as every-
doctors of pyjamas, Court proceedings counter in
"I wouldn't worry about "and then convinced of half quest
one says he is?"
said Eleanor. "While I was in his insanity, is in circulation were going along in a dignified dozen flounders "fresh off the "Stingler," I said.
Okawa, sealed manner, when morning's run," and there I, met "Excellent," said Spencer. "I the store this morning, the per- again.
directly behind Tojo, reached actor named Seymour recently saw a play in which a former walked in and bought a
and slapped had rented a tightwad's wife got her come- pound of weakfigh
several times the beach for uppance, and I think I can fix usual, Mrs Padulla kept smiling terature and has completed, the former premier
it so Mrs Padulla never again at him in English and cussing frst Japanese translation of the an lits bald head.
The Koran. Italian. Then, Mohammedan speaks ill of a pold-up member him out in
suddenly, as it she had thought work will be published by early of Actors' Equity..........
an
Spencer, who
bungalow on
the season.
:
HE was inspecting a brace
of lobsters and, out of tho
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Okawa is busy
turning out forward
the
Both American and Japanese
week-end 2 tallana?"
she asked English. "The Character of the' nsylum, .
of some thing, she stopped December and will be followed doctors pronounced him insane muttering.
by a book he now is writing in and he was confined in a locul
where, he romained corner of my rar, I heard the THE following
You speak Italian?". Japanese People."
throughout the trial. Tokyo that he Maria, storekeeper's wife,
-fazoola,' said the Eleonor was busting with
reported newspapers Okowa, whose carcer still is was muttering to herself in. Hallan: news when she met me at the actor, and I don't think he ever
□ "remarkable making a read
in line better his shrouded
· his in mystery, lives, recovery”, shortly after quietly in n small "Look-who wants fresh lob- slation.
suburban former
were life..... sters! All winter he spends his "Your actor friend certainly
"Do you think old dune has horse, cleared of all the charges aenienced last November. with Mrs Padulla, money in the city, then in the got even
which sent seven down here, she said. "He went to the fish learned her lesson?" summer he comes
Eleanor.
"I'm sure of it."
of his co- I naked
puls an à fancy shirt and ex- counter the next day, bought A 93 cents worth of cherrystones, pects everybody to jump.
"By the way" Bald, "which shark should bite off both his and paid for them with a dollar
bill. Then he stuck the nickel do you thlik ja more dangerous,
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When Gen. defendants to the gallows and 18.
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MacArthur granted amnesty to
"Class. "A" all untried Okawa Was the only re- crimes suspects shortly after presentative of the powerful Toto was executed, Okawa be-
planned lines. Ane," said the change in his packet, and on an actor or a hooded cobra Sapanese secret societies among come a res man. Within a few
"Asle the way out handed the pro- Eleanor. "But while we're on Mrs Padulla," sald
co-defendonis. ToJo's
He was weeks he was pronounced, sanoj "Your wife gave me twenty the subject, I think we ought to named by the Allied prosecution and released from the hospital. drive the white races out of into insanity allowed him the then, in Italian, "May the jelly ought to warn bar to be more some night, Otherwise, he might gandist behind the stheme to
think we were snubbing
Asia
and set up Japanese rule opportunity to perfect his and get mad at uz”.
over "the foundation of the knowledge of the Arable world."
Vie (Continued on page 18) - 3
"Wrap 'em up." actor..
"Thank you," said the old prietor a quarter. lady as she handed Spencer his
"Came "nguin,” change.
And cents too much," he said. "You invite. Mr Spencer. to dinner as the chief, unofficial propasilently-ilmed lapto
careful. Imaging
what hap
Ianid.
fah eat his yes out."
That's a friendly old dame," "I
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