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POWERFUL EMOTION .. MIGHTY DRAMA THE YEAR'S FINEST STORY BROUGHT TO THE SCREEN BY FIVE GREAT STARS!
John MILLS Martha SCOTT
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Richard CARLSON
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"'Era y'aro-curb the inflationary spiral. Catalogue tuppenco, exhibition froo."
Sear
London Express Service
-And it's so restful
to the feet!
CHARLES FOLEY goes to the
Fair
•
by hover-plane
Sitting On The Fence
By
.. Nathaniel
"Our aim is to create a happy country... So let us go forw ward together with courage and Tatution towards that happy country. Sir Stafford Crippa's Budget broadcast,
Gubbins
How dare you say such thing, Elmer? You know per- fectly well Momma never goes out with anybody but Foppa.
No kiddin? And I suppose Poppa neuer pors out with any 'AYBE
Remember hundred body but Momma? 2
that line in "Sweet and Low," years from now
Mom.
"When Dadda comes home to his babe in the nest****
M
A happy day will
dawn
When men will "What's income tax?"
nsk
And me and Cripps are gown When men wilt ask "What's in- earning
come tax Whent
no one'a money?"
And night and day will laugh
and play'
And live on milk and honey.
Maybe a thousand years from
now
Show's superman will reign A man who lives on little pills;
Ia little else but brain Who's never heard of income tax Who's never heard of money. Whose sex apil is almost nil
Who achts "What's milk?"
"What's honey!"
Sure I remember it, Elmer, Haven't I cung it to you often enough?
Often enough is right. Kinda funny about that line, "WIJEN In those dadda coure home." tullables dadītas 'always seemed to be out some place. Maybe those old timers who wrote the Hyrics knew rompn.
Right now your Pappa's work- ing lave at the office so he can buy you noo baseball bat for your birthday.
Yeah, And a noo mink coat for the stenographer, too, I guess, You can't fool me, Mom,
When your Poppa comes home I shall tell him what a naughty Hitle boy you've been.
place with 762 exhibits scatter-A thousand thousand years from tell him what a naughty title
ed throughout the fair,
Chancellor Adenauer proves in Milan that Germany has re- enverist all her skills, not least those of propaganda,
Where's ours?
ERMANY'S spiritual and pactile face is shown by Aling the official section with Holy Year: MILAN, Apr. 30. bus and twice na leaguerous, Flight. Progress will demand religions art for
reclines up aloft by the revolutionary changes not just her industrial revival is shown. AVE you ever he
Wine and Liquor Building end- in transport but also in architee- in the big illustrated entalogue dreamed you were lealy pping vermouth In ture, city laws and mental they gave me.
habits.
Britain, with 350 exhibi- jumping off a six- magenta balldress.
inoked for the ofeint tors, hus a catalogue, it is tuck- storey building?" my com-
the potted "Salubi, signorina," said the delegation from Britain, which ed away among panion inquired. "Now, pilot as we drew level with her hunks three or four types. Thers palms. you're about to do it. Ready? smile, and now let us make a is one.
tour." Go!"
The exhilaration of the hover four fades still more when we walk fluough The grandiose trade shows Of complding of Britain's nation, in search
as usual, tucked into ♫ top- contribution, only to discover it, floor-back,
Chun H was that I learned, We rose in the air, hung for a mament, then salled clean over after many years, that the pain- the edge of the roof. Again we its way of dealing with fairs,
and exhibitions stopped, suspended in mid-air festivals, over nothing, sitting absurdly not to walk, unt to ride, but to hover. We float down a main side by side.
of Industry, "Don't look down yet. Look axis, the Avenue
This year we have run to a and pause beside a long line sides rose three
of flags surmounting the Palace coal-of-arms in white plaster, a row of placards, and three of of the Nations.
potted palm.
round. On
the white, rectangular pavillions, the palaces and towers Europe's greatest trade fair.
In the bubble
ON the fourth side an exclled terrace of the building we hat the glass bubble Just left. In of our hover-plane cockpit we bobbed gently up and down.
10 frieze of people on the
invisher
to
Luckily. there Ig fi brighter side
the
Bri-
tish
picture.
Tho biggest success of the
Silan
one
Fair which
about
all
has got us talked over Europe, Is British.
to
ΠΟΥ
In ngea dark and dim No man or Superman may live;
No it, na her, no him, No living thing may walk the
earth
Nor fly, nor swim, nor crawl; The sky, the cea, the land may bo Chock full of sweet dam all.
So do not grudge that extra hour
Those taxes off your pay Each sacrifice brings nearer stili
The happy, for off day
When men will not pay income
tax
Or earn their daily bread or eal. nor drink, nor pinn, nor
thinke
Because they'll all be dead.
Hush A Bye Junior
An American doctor complaina that American children won't Isten to mother's Jubabies be-
not cause they're
up to date and realistic.
you don't go to sleep this minute, Elmer, I shall sing
Aue, gee, Mom. you a lullaby.
"Hush a bye Baby on the tree
By the time the fair ends tonight nearly a million people will have fought their way into Gliding alongside the glas walls we survey the displays of
Much of the narrow space is the exhibition, arranged by an
Arm, 42 nations
within. Something devoted to the B.B.C.; the only Independent British will have to be done about leaflet tells how the B.B.C., in show the only coloured TV at
of the British the fair. That's prestige. upper-floor privacy as the hover independent
Government, which
They have one set of cameras age goes on.
that when, after hover-visiting No
millions on overseas broadcasts. Indoors, another on the roof. So top,"
dazzling paradox. plane to And yourself in TV Ignore this Our dismal stand contrasts with focus, you may count on your a huge publicity build-up, on blushes being transmitted the ground floor for the New full colour to the crowds below. Germany, which has seized first
Soviet flag this year; Russia, unable to buy a space. of commanding importance, has refused to come.
I took out my pocket handker
Now we are over the oral chief. At once, from the ter-
Among the rainbow race, from the wide bouleverd gery. below, from windows all round, flower beds and summer furni. thousands, ture a gigantic Flat marine en- white dots were in lies ke stranded whale. erated. His- Here is a tall pavillon-going
ily I put the up-furs, perfumes, handker- and another-going down-
hief AY:
"Look, just as well he ceramies, motor-cycles, sports
goods, Says the pilot: that is something like a motor- ho parlour boat." bowl.
A
Koldish in
"Shall we go up?" We soared
If I'm still awake maybe I'll
boy HE'S been. Good-night,
Mom.
Good-night, Elmer, I'm ashamed of you.
I'm ashamed of both of you, Mom, But I can take . Have a mwell time, Mom,
Nightshirt blues
PEOPLE may laugh at the physlelan who said that men. ought to wear nightshirts b cause "the pyjama is helping to brink about the decadence of our good old institutions." But they should remember that the nightshirt, In fis prime, was a moet effective garment when worn by an angry father sur- prising his daughter with young man in the front parlour.
*
*
Let us reconstruct a front parlour scene at midnight in the year 1870,
Egbert: You knew,'Arabella, that I have never been insensiblo to your
charms. It is. Indeed, only with the utmost restraint that I can compel these eager
Italians, already poster-blind, the fair, you s ep out of your in, and I know the next arms, ever ready, nay, anxious,
:
plastics WHEN
100 feet or so, and hung in the The Guest House
sunshine over the Fair City
risen with 125,
-London Express Service)
FATHER
HE'LL GO
GENEVA.
RINCE BAUDOUIN, tall, thin,
Pen-haired, with horn-rimmed
glasses to aid his short-sightedness, re- members little of the country where he will one day, probably soon, be called on to reign.
irt
{00,
1
to embrace that frall and lovely All right, Elmer, if you're so form I see before me, to re-
main... art, what is 117 "Hual a bye Baby on the tree. top, while Bouma goes out with
pay to bebop,"
Arabella: Hist! But what in that? (A heavy footstep is heard on the stair. Arabella throws a beautifully-timed soon andi falls into Egbert's arms, Arabella's father, Old Man Grim-
Enter
completa with nightshirt,
SAYS 'GOosts, Dundreary whiskers and
When
candle. The drought from the
Baudouin was targetatt is blowing hard across his shooting in the grounds of his hairy legs, olving Egbert
intpression of father's mansion a telegraph boyfecting
0
Corn
callet with a cable for Leopold, waving in the breeze). The messenger stopped to watch Old Man Grimjaw (etaring Baudouin, who called him over hard at Egbert); Dastard! to try fils and at the target. Egbert (flushing); I beg your Three hours later they both pardon? remembered the telegram.
O Man Grimjaw: "Dastard,
say.
Heads down and contrite, 1 both went to Leopold to make
Egbert: Oh, I thought you
Crown Prince
Baudouin
within the greater city of Mila. Woes rear
A palt of giant under 115 as In all directions skyscrapers, ofces, and tlats seemed to have though in fright. They're made
are There was the of bronze. We over the Gothie fretwork of the cathe- Guest House, where business nest
excuses, Leopold's private said. dral, there the massive bulk of men arriving from the airport
secretary then had to go down Old Man Grimiaw (reising the Central Station. and look, by hover-plane may
By clothes the Scala Opera House, where while their
are being
to the post office to put the right foot): Silence, sir.
conduct, Margot Fonteyn danced last
pressed, enjoy
to Geneva's State-run blame on Prince Baudouin and your ungentlemanly
have outraged tho and It was in the leafy lanes of sent night.
shave
Get manicure, send the grounds of the royal palace college to mix with the sons of save the boy from getting the sir,
ality of this roof. sir, before I kick you out, a wire home. Lacken and the soft, sandy rch and poor who had made the sack. and buy and beach at Le Zoute, where as a educational grade,
(Hurried exit of Egbert.)
We circled slowly over the metropolis of industrial Italy, picking out the mighty Sforsroco fortress, the church of Santa Maria,
which glories In Leonardo's painting of the Last Supper Napoleon's Arc de
Triomphe.
the
the
Ae we go up we see, beyond
factory chimneys, emerald ricefields and village spires of Lombardy.
"Now to the thur." With the vane spinning over our heads the little propeller at the end of the long tall behind whiris us back over the 4000,000 square fect of the lairground.
Q
you
Now the telegraph boy and air, and never darken these
poct a present child he used to play with Mary Two armed Swiss detectives the heir to the Bulgian throne ours again, sir. to their wives. Liliane Baels, now the Countess before going de Rethy and his own slep. took him to college and brought are close friends,
forth to barter. | mother.
The Barler Secilon is some-
thing new again. Here common From exile in Germany with sense brings together the mon his father King Leopold, "under from Birmingham and the man
Jacques
By
ERNEST ASHWICK
Prince Baudouin adores his
to
his
Heart to heart chat
IT is incredible to me, dear, the protection of Hitler," Prince him back in Leopold's Buick.
that found
his classmates Rethy, and his step-brother, that you should have any from Spain or Egypt to play Baudouin went with his father The prince was not happy; he step-mother, the Countess de Alexandre Emmanuel, one commodity against another, to exile in Switzerland.
qualms about being a farmer's on the crazy checker.board of
now aged seven.
wife. To the rented mansion. Le avoided him and regarded him Prince
I think you are very as a pumpered outsider, Reposoir, on the shores of Lake
When Henri Spank and M. de fortunate, indeed, to be engaged quotas and trade agreements.
That busy octagon down there Geneva,
Professor
Baudouin appealed is the Wine Courtyard, with Pirenne,
plebiscite bath the king's personal father to remove the bodyguard thryver went to see Leopold to such a worthy young man.
asked Baudouin to return to You may his manners are un- buyers sampling the vintages of adviser, was called from Brussels and allow him to go to college after the first Europe.
to educate the prince.
on a bike like other boys. With Eelgium to falsh his education ecuth and that his clothes smell Games and pleasure outings much misgiving, Leopold agreed, there, to do his military service of pig's swill when he takes you Just on three years, I ain re-
Or can anyone drop in? A
na a Belgian The atmosphere for Baudouin
0.5 a were forbidden. Eight houre
to out of an evening. You should minded a hover-plane landed on word to the pilot; we bank, Horse Guards Parade and here, circle, alik over a space big swatting daily poon overtook the changed immediately. The col prepare himself for his futurs not be so particular, dear. An
gave described and neglect
kingdom. for the Arst time in aviation, I enough for table-tennis. No run, wart!
Baudouin replied: "When my "Baudruche,"
," which, translated, yas in an acroplane taking off no bounce. We step on to the Baudouin the educational stan- "Freat guy," and nicknamed him
root.
dard of boys his own age, and landing in the heart of a
of six nations Hover-planes
Then the big fest. For the means an airfield wind direction father and your king orders me city and on its very rooftops.
In French slang it to Belgium then I will go." Baudouin is waiting now. Suddenly We spun along are being shown at Milan. Ex-first time in his life Baudouin balloon.
a "ack of air," or a
-London Express Service) perts are meeting for the first sampled life outalde the closed means side the greatest the girl in
He was "dumb cluck." of Long
Congress Italy.
London World
Vertical iron gates of palaces.
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FRVENTILLIP
As
By Brule Bushmiller
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citizen, and
honest man with an unpleasant odour is better than a scented villain.
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