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GREAT BONE-SETTER.

FILM COMBINE.

BATTLES FOR MANIPULATIVE| BRITISH FOOTING FOR U.S.

SURGERY.

SIR HERBERT BARKER.

"Sir Herbert Burker's volume of

FIRMA.

FUSION OF INTERESTS.

MOTHER AND SON.

BOTH FOUND SHOT IN BEDROOM.

FATHER'S DISCOVERY. Rumours of all kinds, especially borough Gardens, Golders Green, Mr. R. B. Blair, of 37, Gains- reminiscences, Leaves from My as regards amalgamations be- N.W., a retired Army officer, found Life, is concerned chiefly with the tween film companies, story of his fight for professional

are his wife lying unconscious across recognition of manipulative sur- seething in Wardour Street, the the doorway of their son's bedroom gery as a valuable method of heal- London cinema trade centre.

with a bullet wound through her Hard on the news of the Gau-head. ing.

Sir Herbert won that fight in nont British Corporation's new

He rushed into the room and the teeth of an opposition which at trading arrangement with the Ufa found the son Alan, aged 15%1⁄2, also first caused the public a great deal Co. of Germany and of Gains, unconscious. He had apparently of amusement, but which, at oborough Pictures joining Gau- been shot through the head while later peridd, when the ease of Dr.mont British Corporation comes

asleep. Axham was under consideration, the announcement of an "agree-

Mrs. Blair, who was 48 years aroaked an outburst of indigna- ment" between the Standard Film old, died a few hours later at the tion of a very widespread charac-Co., of which Lord Beaverbrook is. chairman, and Lord Ashfield, In his book, Leaves from My Life Sir William Jury, Mr. Holt, and (Hutchinson, 21n,), Sir Herbert Mr. W. Evans are directors, and Barker, the famous manipulative the United Artists Theatres surgeon, tells not only of his Circuit Incorporated, and Loews methods, his cases, and his struggle Incorporated (both of New York) for recognition, but of the fight for the formation of a company for manipulative surgery Itself.. for production and exhibition of

"Human nature," he says in his filma in Great Britain, book, "even in highly scientific society, does not change very much

ter."

United Artists Circuit and Loews Incorporated control cir-

from age to age, and the man who cuits of cinemas in the United ventures to leave the beaten track or to undertake investigations in the hinterland surgery or any

States belonging to the American film producing concerns United other science will find that con- Artists (to which Chaplin, Fair- servative minds and vested in-banks, and Mary Pickford belong) terests will view him with dis and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. favour, oppose him, malign him. It is supposed that the arrange- ment has been arrived at with a and, if possible, break him.

"I was not the first, and I amview to providing Allied Artists fully aware that I shall not be the (as the United Artists branch last victim of orthodoxy in circles known in this country) and Acientific, theological, or artistic. Metro-Goldwyn with films for "My own indictment against the quota" under the British Cine- General Medical Counell," writes Sir Herbert, "has been an unvary-matograph Films Bill. It is also ing one. That indictment is that suggested that British films dis- they have utterly and completely tributed by Allied Artists and failed to fulfil their duty-so far as Metro-Goldwyn in this country to manipulative surgery is concern-fulfil their "quota" obligations as હવે,

renters will find their way to "They penulised the one broad- United Artists and Metro- minded, courageous member of the Goldwyn circuits of theatres in faculty who ventured to study the United States.

sional dishonour.

One Grent Obstacle.

these methods and to approve of Another explanation of the pre- then. They actually allowed him sent "arrangement" is insisted to die under the signs of profes-upon in other film circles in Lon- don. As reported recently a "So far from securing the train- fusion of interests is regarded as ing of the medical profession in imminent between the biggest what every surgeok admits to be a circuit of cinemas in this country most valuable department, manipu- and one or more American film- Iative surgery, the faculty in the producing companies. past has been the one insurmount-i able obstacle to the aprend of a pracical knowledge of its 'methods among the rank and xeons."

THE CHINA MAIL,

M.P'S UPROAR.

ALSACE MEMBER SHOUTED DOWN.

FRENCH FRACAS.

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Paris, caused such a scene of violence in An Alsatian Communist deputy the Chamber as has not been seen since M. Poincaré took off in year.

WHAT PEOPLE LIKE.

•WATCHING OTHERS DO THINGS.

A "HORRID SUSPICION.”

...:

DEBTS

SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1928.

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The story of the dissipation of i No long ago I spent the day at fortune within two years: hy an experta in Bobbing, cars and their inner workings 1sed during the public examination ing. Brooklanda. My ignorance of heir to about £260,000 was discles-Shingling and War- abysmal The dust, the petrol at St. Albans Bankruptcy Court of fumes, the over-powering noise, Geoffrey Basil Herbert Mundy, aged

CAMPBELL MOORE - M. Hueber, the German-speaking soon reduced me to a state of 23, of Koabbeh, Kenton, Harrow, 19, Queen's Road C. Communist, deputy for Strasbourg, semi-exhaustion. Yet I enjoyed formerly residing with his father went to the tribune with a writ.. that day. I was happy in a kind at Raleigh Houso, Barnstaple, ten statement which he began to of dazed way,

Devon. read. It was ao violent that an I believe that there is some- The legacy came to him on hial uproar began at once and loyal thing in the modern temperament coming of age in April 1925 under Alsatian deputies gathered round that demands vast crowds and the will of his grandfather, Mr. in front of the tribune, hurling in- stupendous noise, that enjoys Steel Works, Sheffield. His state- John Henry Andrew, of the Toledo being deafened and hustled and ment of affairs showed liabilities pushed.

Brooklands and Hendon satisfy very completely this strange and rather morbid taste.

Left to right, front row, Mlle. Renee Claudel: Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the United States, and Mme. Claudel. Back row, Mile. Marie Antoinette Claudel, Henri Claudel and Mlle. Reine Claudel photographed on the steps of the French Embassy in Washington just after the Ambassador's family arrived for the winter season In Washington, Both Milo. Marie Antoinette and Mile. Reine are very popular in the society of their country, and will make their debut to Washington society of their country, and will make their debut to Washington society this winter.

New End Hospital, Hampstead, and the son soon afterwards, both without having regained conscious- They are nesя.

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sults at the speaker, whose voice could scarcely be heard.

All the members of the Cham- ber except those of the Extreine Left showed their anger by slam- ming their desks and trying to shout down the Communist,

M. Poincaré rose after a few

minutes and there was a temporary calm, during which he was heard to say: "You are not even an ad- vocate of Home Rule for Alance, M. Hueber. You want Alsace to go back to Germany. You are the Blueber who tried to smuggle for bidden German newspapers into Alsace."

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£12,235 128., 9., assets £7,039 38. 6d., including an estimated surplus of £7,000 from a previous bank- ruptey last May, leaving a defi- How our eighteenth-century ciency of £5,196 98. Sd. ancestors, for instance, would Mundy said that after he came have shuddered at the imperial into the legacy he left Barnstaple nightmare, Wembley, with its for a flat in London and began to blaring loud-speakers, intermin- found himself in

spend money freely, He soon

financial diff

able sights, and mammoth enter-culties and had to resort to money- tainments. Yet we curious landera. One of them took pro- mederns took pleasure in it and ceedings against him, and a receiv visited it again and again.

ing order was made on May 18 last. £25,000 Gift To Father. The popularity of the Derby, Wimbledon, the Cup Tie needs no Up to that time he had received explanations. All three events between £80,000 and £90,000 of the appeal to the sporting instinct legacy. As to the remainder, some that has been inherent in mankind of the shares had not been nego-

had tiable. He

given about since time immorial. The Olym-£25,000 to his father and had set- pic games of ancient Greece, the tled on himself £25,500. That set- mediaeval tournaments, our tlement had been annulled by his modern race meetings, the same bankruptcy. The remaining £30,- popular demand created them all, 000 of £40,000 he had spent in vari- call it what you like the gamous ways.

bling spirit, desire for excite- He had done some gambling and ment, or just the exquisite plea- had lost money on horse races and sure of standing by at ease watch-card playing. There was an Item ing other people exert them-which was attributed to loaves at of £750 in his deficiency account

card playing.

selves.

When last summer a wonder- Asked where the bulk of his for- ful collection of Flemish tune had gone, Mundy said he did primitives was brought to Bur- not know; he could only say he had lington House, certain artistic spent it, adding, "It is my own authorities cast gloomy doubts money and one is entitled to amuse on the possibility of the exhibition oneself."

He said that motor-cars had been being a general success. "The public doesn't care for art," they he owned seven, of which two were one of his hobbies. At one time

racing cars.

Baid.

A Company Venture.

People, contrary to their prog- nostications, flocked in their thousands to the exhibition. And it was not the cultured world ested in the formation of Air Taxis, In December 1926 he was inter- alone, but men and women of Limited, at Stag-lane aerodrome, every class, who clustered round Edgware. He was made a director and rhapsodised over the delicious at a salary of $100 a year and had. Flemish madonnas and saints. 2,010 shares. The share certifi- So it seems that even in this cates were now in the hands of the

trustee in bankruptcy. mechanical and material age:

Beauty Itself doth of itself

persuade

The eyes of men without an

orator.

He had obtained in loans

from

various money-lenders £2,650, for which he had undertaken to repay £10,150.

Mundy agreed that living at a rate of about £100 a week might possibly be extravagance, but he did not think it was, seeing that he had been in the habit of living pre- viously at the rate of from £80,000 to £40,000 a year.

The examination was adjourned.

Wider Market Needed. Not the least significant re- file of sur-grouping within the industry is the projected move on the part of "It is impossible," comments the the Cinematograph Exhibitors' "Times," "when reading the long Association's members, who in- as Sir Herbert Barker tells it, not cinema proprietors. and painful story of Dr. Axham, clude the majority of British to deplore the stupidity of those considering the creation of a film-

Mr. and Mrs. Blair had been who failed to restore that physician to the Register. Had Dr. Axham's booking circuit which would hire living in Gainsborough Gardens name been registered on the day films co-operatively for hundreds for about two years. They came of his death it would have been of cinemas at a time. This is re- from Dunblane, near Stirling,

Sometimes I have a horrible possible to forgive and forget with garded as a move against the ac- when Mr. Blair retired from the n good conselence.

quisition of cinemas, or an inter-Army. The son attended a local

suspicion that no one really knows "Forgetfulness and even forgive-est in cinemas in this country by County school.

what the publie likes, least of all neas may come in time, but the American film-producing com- A neighbour said, "Mrs. Blair

the public itself. It is as unac anembers of the General Medical panies or their subsidiaries. was a pleasant woman, rather re-

countable as a bird, darting at Council would be ill-advised to

British film producers mean- ticent, and did not gossip with

random here and there. A mur- think that the public has dismiss-while, though promised a larger anyone. I think she had a son in

mur goes round: Have you seen ed Dr. Axham from te mind, share of British screens

the Army and a daughter either a

'Ben-Hur?'" "Have you read nurse or training to be one.”

Jew Suss"?". "No, Ought I to WATER SUPPLY. a very large number of laymen a they have had, are far from

Husband's Story.

M. Hueber refused to leave the have?" The rumour spreads feeling that the General Medical happy. Their home market is

Mr. Blair, the husband of the tribune, in spite of the orders of like wildfire, and so "Jew Susa" Council lacks, to some extent, the still insufficient, it appears, to dead woman, said. to a reporter: the President of the Chamber, and leaps through its editions, and quality of mercy. Sir Herbert make it possible to produce films

My wife has suffered from the uproar broke out again. Barker's book is not likely to of quality in numbers on a profit-nervous trouble for the past two

"Ben-Hur" remains for months at "Go back to Germany, you mitigate that feeling."

able basis. They are still in com- years. Recently she suffered from hound" was the least violent of the Tivoli, for all the world like a As to his first case Sir Herbert petition with American film pro-fits of depression.

the interruptions from the Centre real live play.Magdalen. King- tells how, when aged 18, on a voy-ducers who get their production Shortly before seven o'clock this and Right benches, while even the Hall in the "Royal Magazine." age to Canada, a passenger fell costs back in the United States morning she woke and left the bed- Radical-Socialist deputies shouted and disloented his elbow.

and derive big profits from a room, and soon after I heard a Hueber down. ship's surgeons failed to give re- lets and see what he could do. are casting about for a wider Then there was a second report, lief, and Sir Herbert was allowed world market. British producers noise like a pistol shot and I got up to see what was the matter. foreign market.

and as I went out of the bedroom I found my wife lying on the floor streaming from her Mr. George Lancaster, of Mans- with blood

There exists still in the minds of

The

The author Bays:--

"Trusting to an instinctive guid- ance and using my common sense,

than

I executed what I deemed to be held, who is aged 100, has a sister head.

the necessary hold and leverage, living more than 90 years old and

I noticed a pencilled note lying the possession of the police.

and in a trice something "gave, and seven of his eight sons and daugh- on the floor, and it is now in the arm resumed its normal shape. ters are alive.

My

first professional operation

was successfully accomplished."

Woman Patients.

We like, too, the story of one of

his early, woman patients as told by Sir Herbert-

"She came to me limping heavily with two sticks. Without an an- esthetic I reduced the derange- ment; the patient was Immediately able to walk normally, and left my house carrying her sticks under her arm.

"On arriving home she told her medical man, what had happened. He was furious. So you have been to that quack?' he said. The lady then bared her uninjured knee, and the doctor carefully examined it. "The kuce is not a bit better,' he said. 'Barker has simply made you think it is better.'

""But, doctor, it was the other knee you treated, and here it' is; would you like to examine it?"

This is book of reminiscences that is interesting, not only be cause of the author, but also on account of the fact that the things he tells grip the attention On their merits as incidents in the history of our own day as most of us know it. Many famous men and women who as patients could only be cured by Sir Herbert Barker's methods flit through- the | pages with their interesting ex perlencos.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges £3,000 as an' anony-¡ mous contribution towards the cost: of the war from "A Jersey Man by birth and descent."

The Town Council of Walsall, where Flight-Lieut. Webster, the Schneider Trophy winner was born, has been informed by the Air Min- fstry that it will not be possible to exhibit the winning machine wir Walsalle

PROMIGHTED

GREIN FÉLA

The Clanging Bell,

Alsace!" Hueber shouted, and for ing that no

"Imperialist France has lied to

word of Hucber's

a few moments it appeared as if speech would appear in the official the Centre deputies, would rush the records. tribune and throw the speaker out.

. The Communist finished his Communista rallied round the foot speech, not more than three or four of the tribune to his support, and words of which had been audible the President, clanging his bell, in the Press gallery, amid a storm tried to restore order by announc- of boos and hisses.

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