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IN THE GRIP

HEROIN.

OF

"Devil in the Disguise of a Doctor."

MAJOR'S CONFESSIONS.

Loudon, August 28. A remarkable drama of a man

1928, and then a great tragedy came great life. It was one into my

I loved was worry. The woman taken at a moment's notice into a London nursing home and under-

went a severe operation.

"Then they gave me heroin in that nursing home to keep me going This time I met the devil disguised In the shape of a doctor. He is a parasite of a noble and honourable

profession. I say, that I did not

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symptoms and signs of the depriva- tion of the drug started.

"I was shaking like a leaf. I was in a cold swent. I had to give the wheel to the chauffeur. I could drive no further.

"I was going off my head. I went to a cafe in Leicester Square, and the first person I saw Starkie.

WA5

Dr.

"I told Dr. Starkie how it was with me, and he went out, coming

ROUND THE CINEMAS

CAREER OF CHARLES FARRELL.

YACHTING HIS HOBBY.

Charles Farrell, co-featured with Janet Gaynor in "Bunny Side Up," Fox Movietone original musical comedy by B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson; has reverted to type.

Descended from a long line of seafaring ancestors, Farrell finds his principal recreation in sailing his 45-foot-yawl, "The Flying. Cloud," up and down the Pacific Coast when he's not hard at work on a picture.

Farrell was born and raised at Cape Cod and, as a youth, spent much of his time in cat-boats, skimming about the Atlantic near his home. He made up his mind to some day own a sailing boat, and "The Flying Cloud" is his dream come true. It is named after the tamous old clipper ship, The Flying Cloud of Boston.

All of Farrell's mother's people were seafarers, her grandfather be- ing a famous Gloucester skipper.

Farrell sailed in the Santa Bar- bara Regatta this year, competing against some of the boat yawla on the Pacific Coast, and acquitted him- self handsomely.

"FREE AND EASY."

Though visitors are sometimes, though very rarely, allowed on sound stages while talking pictures are made, it is only during dramatic scenes. When a comedienne works, visitors are absolutely taboo.

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-Bennett keeps 36 girls in training at the Paramount studios at all times. Most of them are just out of high school. A few have spent one or two years at college. All have had from one to four years training in various schools of the dance be- fore becoming members of the chorus. Of thesa thirty-six. girls, and eighteen 18

blondes are brunettes. Bennett says that he had to do some careful selecting to secure that balance, as blondes far outnumber brunettes among the chorines.

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Bennett demands that his chorus. girls be about five feet, four inches WING HING CO. in height and weigh from 105 to 115 pounds, and, in mäklug his selection from girla who meet these require menta, ho looks first at their teeth. "The smile is all important in chorus girl," explains the director.

Bennett's chorus girls will be seen in brilliant array in "Paramount on Parade," which is now showing at the Central Theatre where they ap- pear with many of the stars on the Paramount roster, Nancy Carroll, Maurice Chavalier, Charles (Buddy) Rogers, Harry Green and others.

"QUALITY STREET."

Conrad Nagel and Marion Davies are featured as the leading parti- cipants In M-G-M's picture "Quality Street," which is the attraction at the Star Theatre to-day for the last time at 5.30 and 9.20 p.m.

Adapted from the famous play by Sir James M... Barrie, "Quality Street" has lost none of its sign ficance on the screen, and Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel interpret the familiar roles of Phoebe Trossel and Dr. Valentine Brown, respective, Helen ly, to a marked perfection. Jerome Eddy, Flora Finch, Margaret Seddon, Marcelle Corday and Kate! Prince are featured in the cast.

A Prizma colour, and a Krazy Kat cartoon complete, the pro- gramme.

The reason for this is that when a dramatic scene ja being filmed, it is not difficult to keep the spectators quiet. But with a comedy, it's different. For instance, Trixie Fri- ganza, at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer AVIATION COURSES. studios, had several "takes" apolled when a visitor could not restrain a laugh during the making of a scene in "Free and Easy," which will be shown shortly at the Queen's. Of.

with Mies course, it recorded Friganza's lines.

AN INNOVATION AT WISCONSIN UNIVERSITY.

A fall-time programme of instruc- tion in zeronautics will soon be offered by the extension division of

Involuntary laughs are almost im- possible to control, so in the M-G-M all-talking, all-star comedy, nane but the University of Wisconsin.

This announcement was made re- the stage crew, used to the accrecently by Dean Chester D. Snell. through rehearsals, were allowed in the sound enclosure.

PARAMOUNT ON PÁRADE.”

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"Hollywood's chorus girls are home-girls," says David Bennett, dance director of the Paramount. studio, who handled the army of beautiful chorines for Paramount's all-star festival, "Paramount on

Bennett explains Parade."

girls' youth, Hollywood, chorus

the

Insistent demand for such train- ing has brought about the appoint- ment of Mr. Clinton D. Case as assistant professor in charge of aeronautics instruction and the listing of several courses on the sub- ject.

General airport service, as well as aeroplane instruction, will be stress- The work will ed in the courses. be taken up through regular class work in local communities over the State. The courses are listed as

gines."

who declared himself to be "the realise how far I was going down-back a quarter of an hour later with beauty and hard-working ambition "aeronautics" and "aeroplane en-!

most vicious drug addict of modern times," who told of years of vain 'fighting against the vice, and of "the devil in the disguise of a doctor" and who was eventually denounced as an impostor~was en- acted at Maidenhead Police Court yesterday.

The man was "Major Geoffrey Bradford Wilmer, of Mill House, Hurley, Berkshire, and he was sen- tenced to six months' imprisonment on each of six charges under the Dangerous Drugs Act. All the sen. tences are to run concurrently.

Mr. Selton Cohen stated the case for the Director of Public Prosecutions, and aald Wilmer had received heroin from chemists on prescriptions made up by Dr. Starkle, of London, whose name had been removed from the Medical Register in 1922.

hill with this drug.

"For money or its kind he started giving me prescriptions. Wherever- I went that doctor came, too, and all the time for money or its kind he gave ma prescriptions.

"Night after night that doctor came to me and gave me an injection of heroin, and I found after about a

fortnight that this injection, which I had given me at eleven o'clock, and used to keep me asleep until four or Aive or six o'clock in the morning, did not now last longer than till two or three in the morning.

"So the doctor used to come and give me another Injection at three o'clock. Then

a tube of heroin of four to six

by the fact that they are still in grains.. I took an injection, and re- their school years, living at home with their mothers who have train- turned physically normal,

ed them for motion picture careers from an carly age.

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Visit to Scotland Yard "Then my game of make-belleve really started. I went to Scotland- yard and asked to see the inspector

The average age of the Hollywood chorus girl is eighteen, according to in charge of the case against the Bennett. They have been raised in doctor. I told the inspector that I the home of pictures. Many of careers since their early had gone to Starkie to arrange a them have had ambitions toward cure. I told him, Starkie had said, screen

Certainly, my boy, but in the childhood. meantime you must not give it úp immediately. It would be dan gerous."

* "The inspector did not seem to said. notice, and take much I bought my own

'Give it up, my boy, give it up.' I thought I had covered myself."

hypodermic syringe."

"I did not realise where it was lending me. Far from it. I just thought I could stop this thing."

Like a mon In a certain play, Wilmer sald, he thought, "This is the last time."

Mr. S.. Cohen said that the total amount of heroin procured by "It is the last time," he remarked, Wilmer from prescriptions signed by "after every injection, but still you

Here Wilmer. sighed heavily; and paced up and down the' small dock, before resuming.

He then told how he took the pre- scriptions to the chemist, who was reassured by Dr. Starkle.

Dealing with his visit to France

Dr. Starkle from July 18 to October, go on. That went on until Febru-he said that four days after he get 1929, amounted approximately to. ary, and in February, the woman I there he read of the case against

858 1-3rd grains, or 2,150, tablets.

"That," he said, "works out at something over twenty-three tablets a day."

Then Wilmer told his remarkable story. He explained that early in 1927 he had to have a serious opera tion on his left leg in a nursing home in London.

am talking about was again taken Starkle." away at a moment's notice and operated or.

"For, aix days and six nights she lay unconscious...... I sat in that room waiting for the endle "The woman got better, we went away, and the doctor came too, and still he went on giving me prescrip tions, He knew how it was with Between Life and Death. "That was the first time in my me. He knew how far I was going life that I was given the drug called and I did not. It was always the heroin," he said. "I was then being last time. Always I said, "This is attended by a bacteriologist. the last time. We will just finish The culminating point of my off this tube and no more. That is suffering came in March, 1928, when what you say until the stuff has got

I got double septic bronchial you.

"I fled to Monaco, he went on "and there fell ill. For three and a half months I lay under treatment, and all that time I was having beroin to relieve my sufferings.

"Near the End."

"I am ashamed to tell you I began taking heroin again. I was pretty near the end when I was porsuaded to return to this country under another name and place myself in the hands of the greatest drug specialist in Europe.

the most intolerant, fractious, damnable patient he has ever had."

was cured of heroin, but I was

pneumonia. For many days I lay Meeting With Doctor, Chief Inspector Prothero was then between life and death,

You are terrifed that your drug "I was kept alive purely and simply, by the drug heroin, supplies will be cut off, and from "Herpin, besides being a soothing that moment you are a man no

longer. drug, is a great stimulant, and it is The man becomes aly and crafty. a fact that neither man nor woman who was in my state could have cannot look people in the face, and lived for a long time. But I dige, becomes a llar, appointed

ody on that cooBo it went on and on.

I removed then down to this part Aflett the nursing home of the world. The doctor came, too

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doctor been

called, Wilmer, he said, had told him that he had been an officer in with the honorary rank of captain. the Essex Regiment, and had retired "In 1917, the Inspector said,

overseas In January, 1918.

Wilmer Joined the army being sent March, 1918, he was transferred to the Royal Engineers, and was de- mobilised in January, 1919.

He was not wounded in the war. He was retired as a sapper,and holds no hoborary rank 28 an officer, He has represented himself as Major Major Wilmer. He le

Mr. Case was to have begun work on September 1 and will have his offices in Madison, Wisconsin.

A native of Racine he has had extensive experience in aeroplane manufacturing plants and as a pilot at the Great Lakes and Hampton Roads naval stations. He goes to been recently on duty at the naval Machaon from Florida, where he has

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