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Corrupt Official Executed

MAGISTRATE IN LEAGUE WITH BANDITS

[From Our Own Correspondent]

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COMEDIE FRANCAISĖS TRIBUTE

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Kwangsi, To-day. The Comedie Francaise That the Provincial officials are memorated the death of King making a conscientious attempt to George in a particularly impres stamp out banditry is evidenced sive way. by the recent public execution of a former local official of one of the districts in the north-western part of Kwangsi Province.

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"Le Roi Dagobert" was being played After the curtain fell on the first act M. Denis d'Ines, the

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(By· KAREN HOLLIS) in"Modern Screen"

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The condemned man was a fort semainier at that State theatre.AT LAST, there is another;lie's invitation, only to find that A Chile Chin tuotteita leiar la to 1. considers mer chief magistrate of the Ngan-came before the footlights.

district, who

be chuckled over, and thousands of him the most flighty-minded and As the orchestra played the open- three years ago. During his terra ing bars of "God Save the King" youngsters who have grown up to post undependable person he of office as chief magistrate of the audience rose to its feet. movie-going age since four and knows But he'd go from here to the district he was in league with

one-half years ago, when his last Timbuctoo to spend five minutes Mr. J. S. Smith takes this opthe local bandits, with the result Then M. d'Ines said that he picture was shown, are having the with him- portunity of thanking the many

were permitted proposed to call for two minutes fan of discovering him for the Marion Davies thinks Charlie is friends for all the expressions of that the robbers

about unhindered, under silence as a mark of "respect et first time.

the perfect party guest Whez During that long lapse between you have once been entertained by those who were present at the

A visitor present says that dur-"City Lights" and "Modern Times," his untiring antics.

parties funeral of his dear wife.

Thus the brigands inaugurateding this there was not a single I've burst into guffaws at the most without him are a frost. A Holly- a literal reign of terror, victim-cough in the whole theatre unexpected and embarrassing mo-wood delicatessen owner, who is the ments, remembering a scene from one of his oldest friends, enjoys Hong Kong. Thursday, Mar. 12, 1936 ising every village of any impor-though the audience during

tance in the district of which performance gave plentiful indica-City Lights” I and a few mil-Charlie as a daily companion. He their protector was the chief exe-tions of suffering from the then lion others. It was one of those says he will sit silently munching subtle scenes that would take a rye bread and liverwurst for cutive. Not only was the former seasonable Parisian colds.

psychology professor to figure out hours, then go Out and prowl chief magistrate charged with

He swallowed a whistle, and from around the streets and along the [ther on, whenever making a sound most sordid waterfront, never say- would do him the most harm, heling a word. but obviously enjoy- "by hiccuped and the whistle blew. ing himself. E. G. Wells, who A lot of long-faced professors wrote "The Outline of History,"

The Guardsman's Moustache

laiding and abetting the robbers!

GREAT HARM DONE

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but he was also charged with mis- BROADCAST PROTESTS There is pleasure, if not very appropriating Government funds,

recent In a much proft to be had out of and on the strength of these two consideration of some of the charges he was put to death by Clapham and Dwyer, the radio conjectural "Ifs" of history: if the military officials. He was comedians, the remark was made: would have us believe that Chap and who has come from England an obscene bug had not remov-forced

story ground."lin is much more profound than to be Chaplin's house guest the "That fell upon march through to

into several months, admires him tre- ed Alexander the Great in the streets of the city and was led out Several listeners wrote protesting that They have put him prime of life: if Wellington had to the execution grounds, where against the use of a Scriptural college textbooks on the psycho-mendously because his unquench not won the battle of Waterloo he paid with his life for his many quotations in this way.

Įlogy of humour. Rears of learned able curiosity about things and so on. In this connection crimes.

and very dull interpretations of people has made him make up for Mr. Charles Brewer, assistant his pictures have been written, but his lack of schooling as a child by it is freely asserted that if Cle-

variety director of the B.B.C., has don't let that fool you. The actor reading everything he gets his opatra's nose had been a quar- The injustices and harm done written to Clapham and Dwyer who slips and gets his backstop hands on, and listening intently ter of an inch longer, the by officials of this type cannot be drawing their attention to the stuck in a pail of water just when to all the great men he meets. whole course of history might estimated because their power is B.B.C. rule which requests he is trying to make a dignified And he has met practically every have been changed. There are so widespread.

artists to keep their broadcasts impression belongs to us shouters great person alive in the also several instances in his-

Not only do some officials give free from any allusion to religion more than to the thinkers. to-day from diplomats to bull tory of noses and faces per-protection to bandit chieftians

There ought to be a law pro-fighters, from Professor Einstei forming prodigious feats of le-and their hordes of robbers but metaphors they also furnish them with arms gerdemain our

each to Peggy Hopkins Joyce. At their are a bit mixed, but everyone and ammunition, which the bri-

Chaplin picture at its very first request, incidentally. A Woman in Sacramento who showing. Then we could shout When I hear acquaintances talk- will understand what we mean.gands could not otherwise obtain, threw a flowerpot at her husband hit Consider the physiognomy of and without which they could a crooner. So there's a lot to be down all the wet blankets who trying about Charlie Chaplin, Helen, for example. Are we not not carry on their raids.

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ity that her's was the face that launched a thousand ships and. burnt the topless towers of: Ilium no inconsiderable feat. even in these degenerate days?

But it has remained for such i normally insignificant →→→ though, of course, too utterly chaste and elegant-thing as a guardsman's moustache to rock)

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want to get up on a soap-box and SCTESTI "He's not like that, he's like this." But everyone else feels "A man is captain of his soul even

Charlie Chaplin himself is all the same way, so you can't bear to-day," says a novelist. Perhaps things to all people. Stop any a thing for the noise we make. but he has to recognise a few majors, sve of his most intimate friends

If you will let me ramble on. colonels and a general or two.

(and you never saw a man who I'll tell you some of my most vivid has so many intimate friends from memories of meeting Chaplin. Be- To-day's Great Thought

here to Japan) and they will all fore anyone can get through an Some wives take to bridge natur-İtell you a different story. Mary introduction, he says. "But surely first we have met before.". Nine times ally, others take to bridge more than Pickford, who counts him they bring home.

jamong her friends, thinks he is out of ten, he has guessed right. the wisest and most dependable And does everyone get thrilled at man she ever enet. A famous that bit of kindly tact? Even if "Not all the wooden-headed drivers author, who has often gone from they have not met him before. New York to Hollywood at Char- (Continued On Page 10) than the Palace of Westminster i Five people were injured when are to be found on the golf links!” for the discussion of this epoch-running on the roadway; оде making matter? The place when walking on the roadway; reeks with history; its immem-three in collisions between orial stones have witnessed vehicles; and three when jumping many a fine scene of pageantryjon or of, a vehicle when and ceremonial; within its age motion.

Altogether 33 traffic accidents, the Mother of Parliaments to involving injuries to 12 people, during the week its foundations and provide awere reported

There schoolboys, holiday for that ended March 7.

*crc, august institution. And where however, no fatalities during the Said The Motorist better or more fitting, indeed, period.

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A PIGEON FEATHER

WEIGHS

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L. Ripley

OF A POOND

old walls grey-haired legisla- Four collisions between tors have laid down the wisdomjeles involved damage to property. of the ages, have pronounced

its judgments, have brought|TAKING “QUEEN MARY” DOWN dignity and honour to the

solemn business of govern-

ment

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THE CLYDE

the outward and vísî- London, To-da. -- Contrary to ble epitome of freedom. the earlier anticipations it is stated sanctity of democracy, the that one tide will be sufficient to rights of Kings and of com-take the new giant liner "Queen Mary" down the Clyde when she There are scoffers indeed, leaves her fitting-out station on we have heard some of them March 24. The builders of the who would wave aside the mat-liser have contributed £3,000 tʊ- ter of a guardsman's moustache wards the cost- of the additional as just another of those empty dredging which made possible the baubles, full of sound and fury, Ener's movements

on one tide- signifying nothing, which the British Wireless Service. English people make such a

fetish of. They would see in it to shave the upper lip, and nothing more than an outward there we are. Not so, we are form, a craven subservience, to told, with guardsmen that is, an outworn tradition. But guardsmen of the old, ripe they are wrong, of course.variety: not the modern up- There is much more to a guards start school, dead to all feelings man's moustache than that. It of proper pride. With us our bears the same significance, moustache, if any, scraggles and should be treated with the about with loose edges, so that same respect, as a judge's wig, sooner or later we remove the a fisherman's jersey or an arch-horrid thing and smile once deacon's gaiters. They are more. But with the young sanctified-symbols,expressing guardsman the growth-is-nar- at one and the same time the tured, the mess follows its dignity of office and the bur- freshly blooming glory with den of responsibility. They are loving ardour; and on that day, emblems of that high degree to that frabjous day, when it fin which it has pleased Providence ally passes the critical though to call the wearers. And so kindly appraisings of the Col. with the guardsman's mous onel and senior officers, a solemn tache. It is zo empty symbol, toast-bottoms up and no heel- easily acquired. Indeed, we taps is drunk to its success- are told that to attain its full ful and meritorious future! ripeness of hirsute glory career. A Keats once tossed needs unremitting care and a off a quite passable ode to a loving tenderness, withal reso-Grecian Urn. Where is the pre- lute discipline. When you and sent-day Keats who will do jus we decide to grow a moustache tice to that staggerer of Parlia- we are apt to approach the mat-ments, the guardsman's mous- ter with a sort of nonchalant tache, in glorious numbers, not negligence which makes a lisped and halting, but full of guardsman reel. "We just cease the eternal music of true poesy?"

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