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Journey's Beginning?

There is no nonsense about Stoss- trupp 1917 (Shock Troops 1917), the long-awaited Hitlerian wor film, which has just been exhibited in "Berlin. It is not one of those war Bims which are brutal only to be kind and find themselves hailed as brilliant peace propaganda.

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1934,

AMERICA'S WOMAN

DIPLOMAT

HON. MRS. BRYAN REVIEWS

FIRST YEAR

A HONG KONG INCIDENT

RECALLED

(By Tom Clarke.)

Stosstrupp 1917 was produced by:

COMMITTEE appointed by countries which had given full poll- Aryafilms, a company which ob- the British Foreign Office is tidal emancipation to her sex-such viously has the right stuff in . All now considering the question of as Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. the resources of the array were used admitting women to the diploma- She had unconsciously been

to reconstruct, the epic of the tic and consular services. As nominating her own post. In a few Somme, and a vast acreage of waste there is likely to be controversy weeks she was invited to go to land near Munich was devastated on the subject in the near future Copenhagen as Minister. several times over.

took the opportunity of a re- The widow diplomat crossed the An elegeant audience received the cent stay in Copenhagen to make seas with her family. The Copen- film's premiere with hysterical

my first acquaintance with a hagen humorous annual, telescoping enthusiasm.

"woman diplomat." -

the ideas of her entourage of young Brilliant photography, plenty of She is the Hon. Mrs. Ruth Bryan people with that of her formal visit martial music, and the invariable Owen. For nearly a year she has to the court into a daring but by no success of all attacks launched on been the American Minister to means unfriendly cartoon, showed the cneiny's lines combine to give Denmark. She is more readily ac- the Minister riding to Court in the the film popular appeal. There is a cessible than many men diplomats, royal coach with a crowd of youngs- noticeable absence of all those un- but perhaps an incident of more ters. There was even a perambula- pleasant details' which might react than a quarter of a century ago in tor on the roof of the coach. She unfavourably in the box offices. Hong Kong gave me an advantage. and the Danes laughed together One morning at breakfast there over the picture, the original of was a new face at a tiny table in which hangs framed in the Lega-

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£50,000 Flotsam

The £50,000 worth of ambergris, the hotel the very commanding tion.

of affairs. He was said to have been discovered on face of a man

"Not A Matter Of Sex" the shore near

San Francisco, William Jennings Bryan, leader of

Her children are now back in the United States Democratic United States-all except her 13- must be the most valuable find of the

Party, on tour in the Far East. He years-old daughter who is at school this kind yet made.

me to sit down in England, at Roedeni. Ambergris is a solid wax-like very kindly asked substance. It is found in the in- and talk with him over the break-

fast table. testines of sperm whales,

Mrs. Bryan

is Owell his fact that all people in Copenhagen daughter. Her father is still her speak highly of her. She is entire-

Its value comes from its use as a fixative for delicate scents. ·

It is

A

"Madame le Ministre" now looks back over. her year's trial. It is a

The biggest "catch" of ambergris hero, and to one who had known himly at home in her post. The China Mail Beyond the fact that on account previously recorded was made by long ago she gave quick and warm The British committee investigat-

lof their usually remarkable Norwegian fishermen in Austra-welcome. His portrait looks on hering the question of

women in strength they have seldom beenian, waters.

at work at her office desk her diplomacy has, it is understood, Hong Kong, Thursday, April 26, 1934 physically ill-treated, little

From one whale they took am-father's desk.

large taken much interest in Mrs. Bryan gard seems to have been paid for bergris weighing nearly 9001. It mahogany one

that he used as Owen's work in Copenhagen. Those their needs as human beings. was worth £27,000.

Secretary of State in the Cabinet of who are presenting the

case for Their education and spiritual

President Wilson. As member of welfare, at least as

in diplomacy have sought 2 separute

Congress from Florida she worked her opinions and experiences with body, have not formed part of

at this desk in her Washington view to assisting the committee In the concern of any State or, coun-

office, and brought it to the beautits investigations and conclusions.

Tom Thumb And His Rights.

Your Daily Smile.

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SCOTLAND

ful Legation house at Kastelsvej,

knew she was an innovation.

Women

Our fireside chat showed that to

away from the city of Copenhagen, Mrs. Bryan Owen diplomacy is no to give her inspiration in the new matter of sex. Apart from expert and difficult work in which ahe knowledge, the qualities needed for diplomacy are very much the same She is certainly the daughter, of qualities us are needed for the her father.. She has his eyes, deep smootit running of a family, thinks grey-blue, that look through, not at this mother of four and grand- "U. S. to stop exports of Scotch." you. Her head, with its grey-white mother of three. Patience, Sim- hair, is noble, as his. She has hisplicity, Firmness. Most "Billy dis- silver valce, with the low but putea," in homes sald the penetrating pitch that is the gift of affairs, yield to the application of

say orators.

these principles of common sense. That is how "Madame le Ministre"

A new complication has been try; unless perhaps in Hungary Height of Pessimism added to the minorities problem the dwarfs, who appear to know! by the manifesto of 261 dwarfs their own minds, have enjoyed "It'd be much better for most in Hungary, whose leader is 30 superior advantages, Ten thou people if they'd never been born." inches high, and every inch a sand is, however, a surprising says Gloomy Guy, "but that never man. The necessity for com-total, and at the normal rate of seems to be anybody's luck" bination has spread down to the increase will raise the population lesser members of the body poli-to a formidable figure in a very tic, and so even the Thumbs are brief space of time. Whereas up. Having banded together in singly dwarfs have often been an

defence union, they are de-object of amusement, massed to-suli Another Version manding, says the report, that gether they present a problem the purity of their race be pre-for really serious consideration.

"Are things slow?" served by a law forbidding mar-Obviously-though it has hardly Hollywood star. "I should ringe between dwarfs and other been acknowledged-they deserve they are. Why, I can't see persons; that consideration be to be treated as of equal civic where my next husband's coming. had for their comfort, though stature, at least, with ordinary from." underlings, by the provision of humans, and in sympathy with! "houses with a minimum height their movement towards self-a8- of silne "feet at a proportionately sertion one hopes that the very

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SURE THING.

yet

Makes Own Uniform She wore the "uniform" she has sees it. made her own; a simple black gown

as well

us in

Happiness? Is she happy as a

reduced cost"; and that tailors be moderate demands of Hungarian putation that she really starts to casiona "Madame 10 Ministre" her staff? She laughed at the ques-

It's when a woman loses her

get a reputation.

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OLD SAYING DE-BUNKED

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and a pearl necklace. Her two girl lonely pioneer in what is tradition- "attaches" wear simple black tailor-ally a man's post? Is she entirely reed frocks also. For ceremonial oc-jat case with the men members of

and wears

answered affirmatively, a black velvet frock with lon

what adding-and

is probably silver braided sleeves of her own

at case design-just little distinctive more important-they are

.

A

required to keep a supply of dwarfdom will be conceded. The ready-made clothes suitable for little folk have, after all, been their needs. Furthermore, with subject to most of the difficulties irresistible logic, they claim that and dangers which Gulliver en- as beings who occupy only half countered in Brobdingnag, and No one has discovered how two touch to match the uniforms of her and contented with the situation"

alao." the space of full-grown people in the world, from this point of can live as cheaply as one; on the male colleagues.

Mrs. Bryan Owen plays a big We sat round a log fire blazing trains, trams, cinemas, and then-view, must at times have seemed other hand, one can always live tres, they are entitled to a re-ja very unfeeling place, Add to as expensively as two.

merrily in a red-brick fireplace and part in the social life of Copen- mission of half the usual charges. this that, as the Brobdingmagiun,j

had tes and toast and apple cakes, hagen. She le a warden at the The "upper ten", accustomed to appeared to Gulliver, our defects

She spoke of her connections with English church. She is no aggres- Jaive feminist, but in our talks made England. She led view dwarfdom in Olympian de--if not our shortcomings-are tachment, will regard these magnified in the vision of the

room vigorous measures with dismay. manikin, and that his contempt When they understand further for superior people must at times that the little people of the be intense. We can hardly hope)

estimated world,

to number to wear the semblance of gods 10,000, propose holding an Inter-after centuries of neglect for the No man is ever so that he room. Light caught the face of the national Lilliputian Congress in lower creatures. To be compell-can't feel worse when some one dead officer. 1935, they will envisage the day ed to live in a house many times tells him he looks ill.. when Little Britain, some too large for him, corresponding-

Or

me across

the

Elephants, we are told, Bever

to look at the gold-framed it clear that she is a firm believer forget. But a woman would look photograph of a major in our Sap- principle that women should not a fool married to an elephant.

'post' by pers. A row of war medals hung be debarred from any below. This was obviously the reason of their sex.

(Continued on Page 3) ancred corner of this very feminine

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other portion of the world's ter-lyraughty and inconvenient, and Salemn Thought. ritory, must be set apart for the to wear garments never designed sole use of the militant midgets. to fit, would try the patience of If only I had £500 I shouldn't,' Such possibilities, for the mo- the most saintly human. May ment, may dwarf all others. Yet Tom Thumb attain to comfort, these are no crotchets of the along with the status and dignity minims. They mark a signifi-jin the world to which he has cant stage in human evolution, never yet been admitted. and deserve to be taken quite thoughtfully by all who lay An Eccentric World.

hydrogen

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"He was my husband. I was an Englishwoman once, by marriage."

After his death she became an |American again in 1928, She de- cided to follow in her father's poli- tical foot-steps. As a child of six she had been allowed to sit along- which combine with side him in Congress at Washing-

The Rev. N. V. Halward, who oxygen to form water. The com-ton. She would, become, like him.

presided at an "At Home" of the mon or garden hydrogen has a "silver-tongued orator."

There was a contest over her Street Sleepers' Shelter Society heavy-weight brother, who turns up about once in 35,000, times, and can election to Congress in 1928. The held last evening at the Cathe claim to civilised feeling. The

expressed thanks history of the dwarfs has been

then combine with oxygen to form law provides that in order to bedral Hall, simple, though in the realm of we have for envying our immediately different in many physical and been "for at least

Among the many reasons which a "heavy water," which is apparent-eligible for Congress one must have to all who had helped towards seven years an making the effort the success it fancy they have numbered ancestors is the last security of chemical properties from ordinary American citizen." She was, after had been, although they had only among their society. some

very science. The large scale universe water and less nourishing to some all, American born, although, she been able to scratch the surface

of a big problem. Cupid and Peter Pan, to both of clans notoriously incomprehensible. conjure up celebrated personages, including has been made by the mathemati- forms of life. Imagination can had been naturalised in 1925. In

a pretty scientific the end the Elections Committee of Miss R. Mow Fung, Secretary whom our debt is Incalculable.

Lord Rutherford, who has done as thriller," with a criminal who uses Congress; seated her as Member of the Society, stated that the total In old mythologies they had the much as most men to disturb ideas this stuff that looks like water and from Florida. Her colleagues took number of sleepers who used the compensation for bodily dis-

ta safeguard her Shelter during the four months: abilly of supernatural powers, once fixed, spoke recently upon a probably tastes like water to polson measures but actually the impishness yan

and particularly galling his funocent victim. Fortunately it eligibility to the White House. and fourteen days It was open was

un, is difficult to concentrate, and, still I did not ask if "Madame la 16,372. confined to appearance, Dwarfs, revelation of science, All of like the Jewish race. have been even those who had never held a more fortunately, there is no proof Ministre" had ambitions for the Miss Alkine, reporting on the the sport of circumstance. test-tube, were aware of at least one that it is disadvantageous to man-White House. She is young yet volunteer side of the scheme, said (There, of course, the analogy chemical formuls. We knew that kind. Every day, Indeed, we are on the right side of 50-although there were 144 names on the list. They had commenced with 50 and ends.) Produced by a freak of water was 120-two atoms of drinking minute quantitios of it in she is a grandmother, nature, they have existed from hydrogen to one of oxygen, and that our ordinary liquids, and absorbing Following President Roosevelt's the numbers had increased as 'the', the beginnings as the grotesques water was a uniform substance, so it from the moist air. "Heavy election Mrs. Bryan Owen was ask-work became known. My M or servants of their more fortun-jsimple that science used It as a water is but one more example of ed to give her opinion as to coun- Mr. Li Ho Tung preceded the ately developed brethren, and constant measure for density and the intransigence of the physical trios whore women might be accounts which showed' that 'a have latterly been exploited on a temperature and a dozen other world to our old rules, an instance employed in diplomatic or consular balance of $8,460,11 had resulted large scale by circus proprietors properties. Now we know better of eccentricity science will teach us posts Her view was that it would from the Workings, subscriptions and other professional showmen. There ara, at least two kinds of to tolerate,

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