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The Charter for Husbands Bill Law is officially known as the Reform Miscellaneous. Frovi- sions) Bill It reduces a husband's responsibility for his wife's mis- deeds-

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HISTORICAL TRAVESTIES IN FILMS AND BOOKS

(By Rafael Sabatini)

title. When the Bill is discussedTETER Cuningham intro-in all her indecent glory, should in Committee in the House of duces his Life of Nell not have been submitted to the Lords he will propose to rename it Gwyn" with the reminder that same process of disinfection-

<of" the Law Reform Married Women Dr. Thomas Tenison preached We have seen that half-crazy

her funeral sermon; and he blue-stocking Christine

emerging from and Tortfessors) Billi

Itrusts that what so good a man Sweden

did not think an unfit subject similar alembic as an ideal of for a sermon will not be thought womanly grace and queenly heroine of a dignity. the an unfit subject for a book.

CONTROLLER OF £30,000,000

Club The Ends of the Earth save a dinner in London recently

in honour of Dr. Frederick Keppel In his turn Mr. Herbert. Wil-fromance not merely bearing no-

Gr

cor has supposed that it would relation to anything that is of the Dr. Keppel is president

not be considered an unfit sub-known of her, but which nothing circum- Carnerie Corporation and the ject for a film. Accordingly hejia her attributes controller of the greatest private has given us, without invented stances could render even re- philanthropic fund in the world embellishments of any material motely possible.

Ee is a former Dean of Colom significance, a straightforward We have seen Struensee, that gross voluptuary and unscrupu→ bia University, and an enthusias presentation of just so much of

With several Vell's story as will explicitly or ions opportunist, transmuted on. tic educationist. colleagues he has been touring the raplicitly, have informed Dr-the screen into a very perfect. gentle knight, of lofty idealism world in connection with the Tenison's sermon

the actress and shining honour, the pather We are shown Carnegie bequests.

The resources of the Carnegie evolved out of the orange-girltic, self-immolating victim of a great and noble love; while the- Corporation

approximately captivating Charles II by ber 530.000,000. Those of the Rocke vivacity, installed as the King's wretched Queen Matilda, who, second mistress. loyal, lively and chari-las a result of the courses into feller Foundation the largest philanthropic institution, tiable, and at the end we behold which he led her, came to share are £29.000.000. Dr. Keppel and her as a broken-hearted woman his downfall and disgrace, be jhis co-trustees have the spending denied access to the bedside of of an annual income of about her dying royal lover. £1.500.000. The major part of it

are

is speat on education.

Your Daily Smile!

break

The Warning

In the United States, how-i ever, the Board of Film Censors

comes an adorably winsome, in comparably gracious, and noble- minded lady.

Watered Down:

Few transactions in history. for the League of Decency, or hold more drama than the crafty both acting in concert, have dentrigues by which the Queen-

some of the. nations. and the others found by experience that

A man attended the funeral of a cided that what was a proper Mother encompassed the rain of FAIRBY-HALLIDAY-as Peace had been put in front On July 29, Nathaniel, eldest of Justice they had only to millionaire, and during Lae service subject for the sermon of a that disreputable pair. But son of J. Ellis Es 0.B.E threaten war or to make war inept as though his heart would future Archbishop of Canter- JP. and Mrs. Ellis of Hayes order to get what they wanted Middlesex, to Winifred Mary, War was still the time ratio: only daughter of Mr. and Mrs.jand even when it was not ac- George Fairby-Halliday of tually used as a weapon of po Tynemouth, Northumberland, icy the decision went by a cal-

culation of war-strength. England.

It

rine of Russia, this magnificent "What are you weeping for, Abie? bury is no proper subject for the gain, as in the case of Cathe- with an epilogue that will point}

some unintelligible slops to be- asked a friend. "He wasn't a relative screen until it has been fitted material is watered down into No, that's vy I'm-weeping, sob a moral and act as a stern war-poured out as a libation to the of yoursTM

ing to the potential kings' mis Gods of Respectability. tresses to be found among the

That, at least, in the light of

bed Abie

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Modern Lady was impossible that that should Hubby (to wife, who has just an-ladies of every film audience.

Now that we have been shown what has happened to "Yell go on indefinitely, for there was swered, telephone): "Who was

the light, we must be prepared Gwyn," is the assumption by Ja better chance of a fair settle-dear?"

WHey. "Our washerwoman. She'll to be accounted perverse if we which at present we explain be w hours late; she's having should still require a base pan- these ludicrous perversions and The China Mailment under the system of chaos

than under a League that work-trouble with her carburettor."

dering to Truth when the noble distortions, and the substitution aim of making history respect- by meaningless inanities of the Something in Common Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 30, 1935, ed on any other principle than

į“fict justitia, ruat coelum."

these instances history actually, Guide: "This castle has stood for able is so easily to be served by dramatic situations that Both in the proceedings be-

Not a stone has been Falsehood.

jsupplies. fore the Arbitration Commis-1600 years.

This light which we have been

Belligerent Pacifism

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in

sion, and in the early replies to touched nothing altered, nothing

{replaced." the League, Italy claimed the Visitor: "Um, they must have the vouchsafed is very illuminating. We may, of course, be at fault

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Piped

書

It dispels the false impression in our assumption. But we can which some of us may rashly hardly be at fault when, in this The changes in the personnel right to argue only on such same landlord we have."

have formed that several recent age of rumbas and cariocas and of the National Government in points as suited her own case. England seemed to be humdrum while other complaints made by

A Negro preacher was talking to mysteries of period-film produe the like, we discover a rich sub-- to the point of being negligible; Abyssinia should be ignored congregation but it is already clear that the The result of merely assessing Finally his sermon was finished, and/tion might be due to incompeject for laughter in the spec-

about salvation.

EUROPEAN FINED

Traffic Signal Ignored

tence

materiai

13 handling historical tacle of a censorship insisting, in the interest of public, morals, that history shall be made respectable.

“GOLDEN VOICE”:

GIRL

In Broadcast From London

slight alteration of balance in damages to one side or the other then he said, "Yow, Brother Smith, At this point an elderly man göt

Alleged Catherine. the direction of real representa-[for border forays would be to will you take up the collection

We have seen an allegedl tion of the live political forces leave Italy to deal with the only

"Parson, Ah thought you said salva- has made it something like a issue that is of general im-up and started for the door, saying, new team, and that when the portance - the claim by caution was free-free as the water we Catherine of Russia without a General Election comes in the quest and annexation or other drink

"Well, brother replied the prea single trait, gesture or circum Autumn there will really, be a form of control to abolish the

The real Catherine at the time! definite policy to vote about. A national sovereignty of Abyssin-cher, "salvation is free and water is stance by which that historical of the coup d'etat by which she witty French writer recently is, bring the disorderty border tree, but when we pipes it to you, you personage might be identified set out to describe the "typical" chiefs into order, abolisa slavas to pay fo' de pipin***

tumbled her husband, Peter III. from his throne was a ripe Frenchman, German, Russian,lery, and open the mineral and and so on. but when he came to agricultural wealth. The scope!

woman of three and thirty who the Englishman he confessed of the Council's discussion is

thoroughly knew her way-about the world She had then been) he was beaten, for the more at-therefore not a formal detaŭ at!- tempts he made the more he ap-all, but an assertion of the right!

seventeen years a wife and the peared to be giving a personal of the civilised nations as

Mr. D. F. Davis, of Hong Kongimistress, successively, of Salti- sketch of Mr. Stanley Baldwin whole to consider and devise a Whether we like the type or policy that will aim at increas-University, was this morning koff, Poniatowski and Gregory the British Post Office competition: with the B.B.C.. not, there is a great advantageing rather than diminishing the

the Central Magistracy for dis-dren, one of whom was certainly "Golden Voice" broadcast on Mon-

directed in having it in the position of mount of freedom in the world. fined $10 by Mr. W. Schofield at Orloff. She had borne two chil-to discover the gin with the

Yet this Dance Orchestra

by obeying a traffic signal at the Poniatowski's, and the other day, June 24. A satisfactory scheme must supreme authority."

One of the distinguishing deal with the whole problem.

Only the excitement of injunction of Queen's Road and probably Saltikoff's.

Miss Cain was first introduced marks of Mr. Baldwin's career.

was done to either lated to the screen as a playful at the microphone and particulars during which he has always spiring a mass movement of na Pokfulam Road on July 11. His resourceful, experienced, sensual Henry Hal

damage been content to take a back seat tional passion could have causar collided with a taxi, bat little woman of few scruples is trans-

vehicle. when he could not see a chanceled the Italian Press to jump to of controlling policy when he the conclusion that a general liquidated Mr. Lloyd George discussion must end unfavour- he had been in Parliament many jably to Italy; that argument is! Three cases of typhoid fever ty

the 48 hours years without becoming known a somewhat dangerous admis-were reported to the local Health

sion of a weak case. The League Authorities during to the generality of members

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is that when he does announce itself has been trying to im-ended Sunday.

a policy it is a policy for which prove the social conditions, and

ingenue, compounded of chasti

London

Miss Ethel Cair the winner "of

ty, simplicity, and wifely fideli-ere given of how she achieved success in the competition, which included 15,000 telephone opera- In order to supply her with a tors from all parts of the King- proper vis-a-vis the crapulous dom. She then announced each of degenerate Peter is transmo-the numbers to be played by the grified into a ravishingly ele B.B.C. Dance Orchestra during gant, romantic jeune premier its programme. And instead of the loathing in-

Miss Cain has been an operator

he is prepared to work and has so far only obtained a pro- make sacrifices. We now know mise that slavery may be ended itate the suppression of slave-spired in his wife by the repul-

sive original of whose sudden at the Victoria Telephone Ex that when he said, in his first within fifteen years. The other raiding, and the recent offer of speech as Prime Minister for causes in which the League has a grant of land to Abyssinia to death immediately after his change, London, for the past 10 ber of a local Dramatic Society at- ceivable that she was innocent study of elocation, and is a ment- the third time, that he intend-had much success have all been open the way for direct com- overthrow it is almost incon-ear She has made a special

Croydon ed to support vigorously the au-defeated by the lack of an ef merce thority of the League, he meant ficient police. Above all, one But there is no need at pre-we behold her spreading! coquettish allurement for the that he was tired of sacrificing would have thought that re-sent to foreindge the merits of all its principles to avoid challiance could be placed on a sym-the question. What the Brattractive substitute of whom lenging one of the big Powers pathetic understanding of a pro- tish Government has demanded she is enamoured. To round After years of patience and programme of referm from Great is that they shall be submitted matters off, Orloff, that beefy dence, he had recalled the poet's Britain, for in the last ten years to the League for consideration: animal of a lover, becomes

sighing Galahad adage that he either fears his there have been at least thirty that if the League fails to claim fate too much, or his deserta raids of some size into our ter- its proper jurisdiction it shall The powerful dramatic sitna- are small, who fears to put it ritory, either Kenys, Somali be dissolved in its present formtions of Catherine's coup d'etat mittee of the LC.C. have decid land, or the Sudan, and the re as a political organ for dealing must, of course, be whittieded that no memorial stone, to the touch to gain or lose it

cords show that an average of with major questions, and if it way to vanishing point since brass, or similar record

does make the demand, and is they cannot be handled by these of the institutions upon wh 1500

defed, then the question of tak paltry substitutes.

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