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HERE, THERE

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EVERYWHERE

Marine to Magante. That restless

dynamic and American entertainment magnate, Samuel L. Rothafel, who has just opened his latest talkie theatre in the new Rockefeller Radio City, began his extraordinary career as an American marine.

He was in China during the Boxer rebellion, and after Beven

ja narrow room behind his bar

SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1933.

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BATTLE IN RURAL IRELAND

POLITICS IN DREAMING VILLAGES

COSGRAVE v. DE VALERA

(By Pamela Hinkson.)

Dublin. under the oratory

of a forcible

years' service up and down the These villages lie in the very young man with a Northern accent, world was discharged in 1907. heart of 18th century Ireland, ai who was out against Cumann na

The ex-marine then becanie 1

country of stories and tradition and nGaedheal even mure than he was bar-tender in Pennsylvania, and in great dignified houses which have for Labour, telling his people to give

a quiet dreaming air these days, as their second vote for Fianna Fail. opened his first moving-picture though the tide of life had passed He gave a good list of Mr. de theatre.. His screen was a bed-!

Valera's "gifts" to the people. Mr. sheet. His audience sat on chairs

To the south and north are the de Valera has undoubtedly scored in borrowed from an undertaker.

fat pastures of Kildare and Meath, his Labour allies, who have con- Now "Roxy," as he is known to the richness of whith the Irish vinced a good many of the people millions of New Yorkers, directs kings knew and the Normans of the that he is the poor man's friend, the largest entertainment concern Pale later, the cattle-growing coun-jeven though they have nothing in the world.

Your Daily Smile.

them by.

įtry which more than any other is tangible to, show for his benefits.

affected by the economic war. But Oratory had been bad on the this, too, is the country of ruined Cumann na nGaedheal lorry, with a mills, and in the shadow of these few genteel, ineffectual speakers. mills and in the greyness of dreams The crowd-all the young men You Know What Boys Are. The vicar was paying a visit to of the past we have had our election drifted to the Labour meeting. Then there stood up on the other lorry the homes of his poorer parishion-meetings.

We went down to the village in the old ers, and in the house of a certain'

type of Irishman, black- the haired going grey, ruddy-checked, costermonger he asked many ques- the dark after dinner to hear tions about the family.

candidate of the Centre Party which with a rich brogue. «plendid vitality. is led by Mr. MacDermot. The can- a fine sense of humour. He was a A very grubby, but very cheer-didate was the owner of one

of farmer's son brought up on a farm ful, little lad attracted the kindly those stately houses, young, good- The air was suddenly warm. le cleric's attention, and he asked him looking, an ex-cavalry officer, a good lilled it with farming talk. his name.

jemployer with a good and popular. He knew all about cattle and fairs "Reginald d'Arcy Smif, sir," re-tandlord tradition behind him, a and markets and the needs of plied the lad, with a grin.

The vicar turned to the boy's father.

"Whatever did you give him a

***Cos I want 'im ter be a boxer,"

to be by the "Made in Germany" name like that for?" brand; and since the days of Josephi Chamberlain she has been returned the parent, “an' wiv Hong Kong. Saturday, Mar. 18, 1933-a progressive city, claiming to name like that he'll get a bit

make good the boast that what practice at school." Birminghan: thinks to-day, Eng-

"Buy British.”

than

prohibitive,

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HIS PROBLEM.

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offensive,"

It is very.

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B

o'

Waiting His Turn.

first-class rider. All such things to farmers. His jokes were a farmer's (appeal to the old Ireland. They ap--jokes—"a bounty soon to the hen to peal to the new Ireland, but not to lay egye, and a tax accordingly." the extent of winning political sup- Such talk in this country was like port.

life beginning again, and this man of the country and the land made I saw him waiting his turn to the Labour leader, with his lowns- speak, sitting in a corner of the man's speech and figures of money lorry in the Mickering light of the and wages, seem cold and starved, lamps blown by a soft west wind. I A woman did appear, and not a had last seen him riding at a cold young woman She was point-to-point, waiting for the start fierce, wearing the Trish speaker's er's signal. One situation was badge which is often the sign of the strangely reminiscent of the other. fanatic, and she spat furious ques- Beyonds the lights about the lorry 'tions at the speaker, who answered

the

"diversion."

and

over

Trish

desire

old and

himself. lle

land will think to-morrow. Some The Happy Ending Modernised. of those fervent souls who have So they got divorced, and lived Britain has of late been notably not forgotten Chamberlain's work happily ever afterwards. active in the matter of seeking would doubtless claim that for markets, a form of enterprise Ottawa has in some measure most necessary to-day, whether fulfilled that claim. not merelyį FORTUNE TELLER reading the street was in darkness, except her good-humouredly. on the part of the community or for England, but for the whole man's pain. You heaof when one of the buses that belong. We druve un to Celbridge, which the individual. At first sight it Empire. Quite recently, too, the money coming to you,

to the new Ireland passed slowly, must possess the targest ruined mill might appear that the most na-Birmingham City Council decid- MAN: Yes, I kane that already. We are too poor in our village,¦ in Ireland. ghostly palace of a tural, if not the only natural, ed that "no article or manufac-I'm a dentist, What I would like where mest of the men are un place which faers you as you drive. method of doing this must be bytured materials produced or to know is huc to make my patients employed, to make much of a show into the town, indescribable in its adventuring in foreign fields, manufactured in any place other pay "3.

with the Shannon Scheme.

sad, grey dignity. We met a herd where Britain goods are not so than the British Isles, India, or

The people are mostly Fianna Fall of bullocks on the way, naware of well known as they might be. British dominions beyond the sea,, True.

and the crowd was small, Ireland their importance in this election, Yet the home market itself has should be supplied by a contrac- "Spring-cleating

has been s sated with election but spared for the moment at least vast possibilities unexplored, for tor without the authority of the mates a headline.

meetings lately that they have ceus- the horror of the road to Dublin and Britain has many purchasers in committee concerned."

This re

ed to be an amusement. Or perhaps the cattle chip. whom the habits of a lifetime solution, though precautionary! An II Wind-

the grimmess of life is curing even Against such a background have bred almost total indiffer-rather

has

insatiable

fur must have delighted an artist we An educationist says he sympa ence to the appeal "Buy British." aroused considerable discussion, thises with modern youth who are

listened to our next rator, the Not that either field is being some critics claiming that it up against a stone wall. neglected. Of initiative taken, either gues too far or nor far, it keeps the repair garages busy. abroad, the latest example was enough. On the face of it, there' afforded last September, when an is nothing improper about it

BRITAIN'S NEW RECORD. unusually comprehensive exhibi- when one remembers that the ex-| tion of British products was open-penditure dealt with is from the

Saying it with fliers ed by the Prince of Wales-call-public purse, not illogical ed at times "our best commercial sphere for the exercise

Saving Words, of na- traveller"-in Copenhagen. As ational preferences. The matter They say the new for economy direct result of that display and of influencing a myriad private so great in Hollywood that the Yesmen now content themselves its attendant activities, British purses is plainly a very different firms reported very satisfactory thing, especially in a community with just nodding. business and acceptance of many in which it is possible for a firm large orders from Danish buyers, convicted of illegally blending In addition, the Danish State batter to plead, as was done at railways placed orders for coal Ealing last month, that the pub- with various English and Scot-lie was indifferent whether the tish firms. It is only by such butter was Australian or Russian, fruits that the holding of indus- so long as it got its money's chop down that tree if he lived to- sympathetic. A little group of men was listening, too, beyond its long trial exhibitions can be justified, worth. No doubt the words "or day. If judged by their own book-British" might with equal glib- keeping tests alone, they never ness have been added, had the "pay" in the strictly literal sense. case seemed to demand it. There But they draw money in many was a time when these easy- half-concealed ways, and most of going conditions mattered little, all through the stimulus they and traces of their influence still give to buying and selling. This remain. But, with the world as is the main expectation of those it is now, a more circumspect the intensity of light in who promote them. It is gratify-attitude is not merely desirable meter for photographers that re ing to record that expectations but imperative.

The appeal of gisters the exact exposure to give were realised in the case of the British industry to British people negatives when pictures are taken British Industries Fair first reis not couched in any mendicunt automatically. cently held at Birmingham. This tone, but it does deserve some-

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This representative of the Centre Cosgrave candidate At Joust

Party spoke well and logically, represented the Catholic business Everything he had to say was wise class, und be spoke of poverty, of clear. He himself employs unemployment, of employment from a hundred nie!, but a few the business man's point of view. months more of Mr. de Valera's rule! He is a man Pepresenting a class and he will not be able to employ which Ireland can as ill afford to one. He spoke as a farmer, a man lase as that other class from the big fighting for his own existence, for houses. No; rather she can afford his home and everything he cared less well to lose these His voice for. That is what everything who and the things he had to any woke is opposing the alliance of Mr. de that street which, half in sunlight, Valera and Labour which is going to half in grey shadow, seemed asleep muan Socialism, even if it does not with dreams of the past. One had ,quarrel with the Church, is fighting an iden that the great

house the gates of which showed at the end for new.

of the street, with its noble mem- Jories and tradition in Irish history,

THE BROKERS' SONG. That Kaf-fir-Boom-De-Ap!

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BY GEORGE, YES. George Washington wouldn't i

He'd use it for his aerial.

Facts You Did Not Know,

Two photoelectric cells measure

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A new

White Army.

The crowd was, on the whole,

who had appeared from nawhere and stood behind the police tight have been members of the Army Comrades' Association-the "White; Army" which has declared its deter- mination to safeguard the right of free speech--but they

not needed.

were

juvenues and quiet fields.

NEW RESTAURANT FOR COLONY.

Variety Motto For "Excelsior,"

One noticed, as one notices gen-

There The opening of the new Excelsior rally, an absence of women. are always children of both sexes Restaurant at 22. Des Voeux Road making a little crowd long before Central opposite the Government the meeting begins, and shouting, Radio Office will take place shortly. "Up de Valera!" The Irish chil-Mr. A. Eddy, late Manager of the

Fair was primarily designed to thing more than blank indiffer- To enable motorcycle racers to [dren's small heads must be bewilder- Hotel Royal Palm in Havana, Cuba, challenge the excessive laissez ence. It asks,' and is justified in get away on even terme un Eng-led with politica. A baby voice and formerly connected with lurge faire" mentality already mention-asking, for first choice so long lishman has invented a device that shouted sleepily "Up de Valera" hotels in France and Egypt, is in ed, to drive home the conviction as other things are at least supports the rear wheels of their from a lit cottage as we went home. charge of the operations. that the slogan "Buy British" is equal, and on such grounds it has machlues on rollers until the start- But Ireland is the one country in Besides English food, the restaur- no mérely sentimental appeal, no reason to fear comparisonļing signal is given.

the world where women are not ant will specialise in Russian dishes but a commensense injunction to with all possible rivals. It may

"news,” and are apparently content which are no little known in the obtain the best value possible. well be that a'new era of great

is

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a high

delicious Indian dishes, like Curry, There have been no women speak-jetc., on ita dully menu. lers at these country meetings, ánd Variety is the motto of the Ex-

An Ohio inventor has developed not to be news. The young women Colony and a famous Russian Chef A shop-front which totals some revival is about to open. If the

an internal combustion engine that are with de Valera and his party in will be in charge of the cuisine. twenty miles has the proving of desired success attends the ex-used the carbon monoxide develop putting up the only women who are For those who like Indian cooking that for its purpose. No one traction of oil from coal, that inled in the frat act of cylinders to going up on their own merits and the Excelsior Restaurant will have could cavil at the choice of the itself will reopen a book of operate a second set that is larger not as their husband's widows, place chosen. The provinces prosperity now closed. British than the first. count for much more in England industry is ready for this, and than they do in France, and in for other reopenings also. It is those provinces

Birmingham not content merely to wait. The. By subjecting lumber alternate-the orators, when they have not used celsior Restaurant and the highest the address "Electors," have ad-ambillon of the entire staff will be yields rank to none. The appeal to "Buy British" hasly to hot, dry air under normal dressed the crowd as "Gentlemen to make variety a fact. city situated almost at particular local significance just pressure and then the geographical heart of now when preparations are un-vacuum a Swedish expert has de-simply, as though there were not an the country, and quite liter- der way for the Empire Fair to veloped a method for thoroughly ether half of the electorate and of ally at its Industrial heart, be held at the Peninsula Hotel jacksoning it in from 12 to 20 hours. The young women were caught for} the centre of a district which If, as seems probable, the Fair ever becomes more active as in-meets with the success that at- Enlarged on October 1-to in at the church gate meetings which golfer, may cost him the night of dustry continues to creep south-tended the initial Empire Fair clude 82 villages

and towns, began at the very moment the his left eye. He teed up a .22 ward. Birmingham has held her last year, the Colony will have Tokyo

fla population church doors opened. In the first calibre cartridge and swang at it own, no more injured by the made its contribution to the from 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 and be village I went to, Labour and Cos- with a midiron. The cartridge ex- latent sneer in the word "Brum- movement for expansion of Bri- came the largest industrial centre grave's party, were speaking against ploded and the bullet tore through magem" than German trade used tish Trade within the Empire,

in Japan.

each other and Labour doing better his face and eye-Reuter.

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creation.

a few minutes at least on- Sunday

DANGEROUS GOLF

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