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Assyrian notables in the Mosul "IT'S GREAT TO BE ALIVE,”—

KING'S THEATRE. Vilayet united and actually signed a petition to the League of Nations,

the The dercest price-cutting "war" forwarding it secretly to me in Lon- "it's Great To Be Alive," don for presentation through the new Fox musical comedy now in the history of the North Atlantic] British Government here.

showing, at the King's Theatre, passenger shipping trade is threat Under the rules and regulations features, Raul Houllen, idol of the ened within two months unless a of the League it is possible for a South American stage and screen, compromise can be reached between person descended from a national who has the stellar role, and is sur the principal companies affected. minority of a mandated country, rounded by a large group of per-· though not a resident in that coun- formers that include all of the try, to make his own petition on most beautiful women of the Holly- their behalf. Thus it was that.

wood film colony. dwelling safely in London, 1

The story concerns itself with able to take unrestricted action; and

the strange situation of one in September, 1930, my personal

solitary male in a world of mil- petition

received by the

liona of, women. All men but this League.

It is not necessary to

one are wiped off the globe, and go into details of the two years' negotiations the conjectura about the last man The with the League. Suffice it to say on earth" becomes a reality. that before Irak was admitted as a fact that this one man happens to member, her Government had to be a popular aviator, who has give very stringent guarantees for been cast away on a desert Island, le said to contribute heavily to the welfare of her minoritică.

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Several companies have al•{ ready intimated that they will re- sign from the North Atlantle Passenger Conference at the end of next month. This breakwaY would enable them to charge what fares they liked.

The trouble has been caused be- cause new cabin-class vessels, such

the magnificently appointed White Star liners Georgic and Britanulc, and the U.S. Iiner Man- hattan, are competing at cheap rates with older "first-class” vessels.

Eight shipping companies, repre aenting thirty of the world's largest the hilarity. Left Without Country

passenger-carrying liners, are con The supporting cast is headed by cerned in the dispute. Most of them But-and here comes the snag-Gloria Stuart, Edna May Oliver are willing that there shall be a re- these guarantees only affect those and Herbert Mundin, and includes classification of chips. minorities who are nationals of the Joan March, Dorothy Burgess, This would Incan that country, and do not cover the Assy Emma Dunn, Edward Van Sloan "luxury" cabin-class steamer would

In other words, everyone and Robert Greig {rians.

have to charge rates more in keep- else has been legislated for,

More than one hundred of Holly-ing with their magnificence. the Assyrians deliberately excluded' -not, of course, with the willing Wood's most gorgeous girls take consent of the League, who did not part in the production. realise their position, so cleverly had

and

it been masked by interested parties.

What, then, is the position of the MAIL REVIEW

Assyrians to-day? There they are PEG O MY HEART,”—QUEEN'S -60,000 ex-Ottoman subjects, · not]

nationals of Irak-still atranded in

the Mosul Vilayet, and without country, lands, churches or schools,

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The United States Lines, however, refuse to agree to any such reclasal- Scation. At the moment they are skimming the cream from the North Atlantic passenger tråde.

If the conference becomes dis- rupted, then "nothing but chaos can result. The companies in. Jose volved will be certain to thousands of pounds in an effort to undercut each other.

All the Irish whimsey of the and now without faith in the Bri-famous stage play has been deftly

DAMAGE TO TRADE Lish, whom they served for 14 years captured in the making of the new with unstinted loyalty. They are Marlon Davies starring vehicle,' Tremendous damage to the ship- literally at the mercy of the very "Feg O' My Heart," which is now ping industry and its allled indus- Arabs whom they fought against showing at the Queen's Theatre, trics must follow if passenger during the Great War, and whose The charm of the little Celtic freight rates are uneconomic, but, so subsequent insurrections they were lass we knew so well in the theatre far there is no sign of any spirit) employed by the mandatory Power when Laurette Taylor.played in it of compromise among the companies

involved. to put down.

has been carefully retained by Instead of being settled in a com- Miss Davies in her splendid per- pact mass and retaining some mea-formance

sure

At present it is possible to book first-class accommodation in a 20,000

tons cabin-class liner for £37-108,

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of autonomy under their Onslow Stevens, who will be re- Patriarch, as was the declared wish membered for his performance in cabin-class vessel costs £30, but the of the League, they have been.es Once in a Lifetime," is the lead-amo passage in a liner classified as tablished in scattered villages, so tng man in the film.

["first class" costs £54 10s. that even tribal control is impossible, Robert Leonard directed tha and among Kurdish villagera, who picture, from J. Hartley Manners' retain their old-time tribal feuds memorable plav. and remember that the Assyrians were used time and again by the British High Commissioner against them, their villages und homes.

The New Exodus

The story moves with straight- forward clarity and departs only in trafing Incidents from the or- iginal theme. The dialogue is

"CHOSTS AND “JOSSERS

(Continued from Page 7.)

Pipps, standing on the stone

| sprightly, especially when apoken bench, was busy writing with al Instead of the ordinary care of in the infectious brogue adopted stump of indelibls pencil on one of humanity being taken not to settle for the characterisation by Miss the few patches of discoloured these mountaineers in lowland Davies.

plaster that were still undefaced by plains, many of the villages allotted Included in the cast are J. Iscrawls. to them are in malarial districts, Farrell MacDonald, Juliette where the children who survive are ton, Irene Browne, Tyrell stérile and growing up without hops| Allan Mowbray, Doris of progeny.

Robert Grieg and others.

"NO OTHER WOMAN'

CENTRAL THEATRE

Comp-

"I'm writing our names,” he said, Davis"and the places that did us in.” Lloyd. Oliver Philips Philips

Coronel

Alexander Irvinge Black

*. Gallipoli

William Frederick Woolley

Mesopotamia

If this has been possible while (under a Christian mandale, what]

treatment might they expect from MAIL REVIEW the unrestrained Arabs, who regard them as interlopers and racial

"And a precious lot that will ¡nnemies? • ́· The British can no

mean to anyone who reads it," said, longer interfere in the internal ad-

Woolley. : "Come on, you fellows, ministration of the country. There- "No Other Woman," now show-lot's be going. The rain has nearly fore it is necessary for the Assy-ing at the Central Theatre, in a stopped and Gander's Folly strikes rlana to act for themselves;

powerful drama presenting the love me cold.” N

Thus, the oldest Christian people, triangle in a new theme. The pic- They stood for a moment in the our ally in peace and war, has been ture offers unusual entertainment stone archway. Below them in the driven to Exodus from an ex-man- and is superbly acted by Irene hollows a haze still hung over the dated territory.

Dunne, Gwill Andre and Charles dark green of the August woods. Rickford.

From the close-cropped turf in front|| Irene Dunne is seen as the wife of them rose the clean smell of rain- of a steel worker (Charles Bick-soaked earth, English earth Half ford) and helps him to achieve the sky was dating blue. Only to success. Prosperity, however, leads the west the Indigo clouds marked him into trouble with another wo- the passage of the storm, and man and he deserta bis wife. They against them shone the white plume are finally re-united, on the verge of smoke of the Welsh express, a of divorce proceedings, by the for- it charged the passes of the hilla, giving love of the wife.

"And there's the sex!” cried Pipps. "Good Old England! And, now for ham and eggs and bucketa | [of tea. With any luck we shall have

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