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CABLED

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15,000-WORD FILM STORY

Here There and I

Everywhere.

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TELEPHONE EFFICIENCY

A remarkable instance of tele-

DEFENCE MINISTRY.

IN BRITAIN

ARGUMENTS FOR AND

AGAINST

phone-service efficiency is describ DEFENCE APPROPRIATIONS MUST

ed in a letter from America.

When King George died an Ens- lishman in New York who knows Professor Carlyle, the manager of

The 15,000-word outline of the Editor, and be accompanied by scenario has been the Writer's Name and Address

cabled from not necessarily for insertion, but Hollywood to the Gaumont-British as a guarantee of good faith.

Company.

A script was needed for Boris Karloff, the specialist in horrific art, who arrived last month. Two stories were dropped, one because of an outcry against horror films the E. P. ranch in Alberta, tried the other because it clashed with to ring him up.

Finding that the ranch, which an American production..

is very remote, was not on the John Balderston, the co-author | Hong Kont. Monday, March 16, 1936 of "Berbeley Square” and now a film writer, came to the studios (and mentioned that he had a story

in Hollywood which might do.

"Insurance" Policy was leaving

League of Nations Reform

Balderston

Mind."

Weds

BE PROPERLY HANDLED

(By Air Commodore L. E. 0. Charlton)

THE White Paper on national remaining three the false keel, or

THE telephone, it occurred to him that) defence is to be debated in bulge, or blister, is only presumed

He

there

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HOW TO NOURISH A SKIN THAT estly discussing its need of re-under consideration. Mr. Michael January 14, is by Yorkshire tradi fis a very satisfactory sum provid-ito be unsinkable, was sent to the

the professor might be in Calgary. Parliament this week. The Minis-to afford an adequate protection. ›

therefore asked the tele-terial statements on the subject

Disablement phone company to ring the Calary will be followed by the British joperator, 2,000 miles away, and public and the world outside with But disablement, the putting of for see if Mr. Carlyle could be found an interest not exceeded by those a ship out of action, is only a little Įdecisive utterances of July 1914 less serious than sinking during America the next day. It was de- Within a minute he was called which brought us into the Great the moment of emergency. Battle- It is not without significance jcided that his story should be semai

worthiness depends equally on wn- that while the League of Na-An outline of the story. "The Man back and told that Professor Carl-War.

iyle was on the line.

Our sense of security has at last damaged propellers, rudders, con- tions was in process of moving Who Changed His

been shaken, and we are going to denser systems, and that these are into its new Temple at Geneva cabled over.

put the matter right.

capable of being deranged by its friends in the House of It is not definitely decided that GIVE A DAY A DAD NAME

But are we? It is said that quite light bombs is indisputable. Lords should have been earn-Karloff will do this film, but it is

St. Hilary's Day, which fell on £300,000,000 is to be speat. That When the Ostfriedland, reputed vision last month.. Lord Ren-Balcon said:

tion the coldest in the year. led the allocation is IS FALLING INTO WRINKLES nell raised the question by ašk-

correct. bottom by an experimental bomb "Cabling the story was a sort of the Midlands the saint is given a There's the rub!" A salve, to be attack in, Chesapeake Bay in June, & FORROWS.

ing whether the Government insurance policy against our not grim alternative. There, they say, jeffective, must touch the spot. 1921, the condenser apparatus of were taking any steps in that having a suitable scenario for his day is either the coldest or the

Lord Stanhope. in Karloff. Delay in finding a story wettest of the year.

Is the Navy, for instance, to get the observer ship. a mile away, WHEN YOUR SKIN IS NATURALLY direction.

the lion's share as heretofore? Is was seriously damaged. HEALTHY IT WILL BE CLEAR & reply, said that they were not for a highly-paid actor after be

and had no intention at that had arrived would be expensive." doubt in keeping with St. Hilary's second

This climatic intensity is nofthe Army, as usual, to run a goodĮ Whether the expeditionary force. FINE & SMOOTH.

in time, of pressing forward with

the "appropriation can set sail or whether the feet own character. any scheme of reforra.

istakes?" Will the Air Force be out can or cannot falál its various Besides being Bishop

ot of luck again, and emplaced? All functions of preventing invasion, Poitiers, the saint was one of the three, we know, are to receive blockading an enemy coast, or most vigorous of the peripatetic huge increases. But will the bombardment. is, however, beside theologian-statesmen of the fourth amounts, on this occasion, be in the question in face of the fact proportion to the actualities of the that our supplies of food, fuel and It was largely due to his cham-situation?

munitions arrive by sea. pionship of orthodoxy, for which he battled as far afield as Asia Minor, that Arianism was defeat-

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His

speech was a variation on the LIKE GANGSTER

FILM

Young Girl's Story

To Police

POLICE SCEPTICAL

century.

old theme that when a hurri- cane is blowing, it is a bad time to start repairing one's TOOL. Nevertheless, the fact remains that when the hurricane dies down the urgency of repair is

Some Actualities

The Germasa sabmarine less felt and the work is too

pain at the height of its intensity ofter postponed.

What are the actualities of Bri-during the Great War brought 19 When these present storms are over the

ed in France. The title of "MostĮtish defence? Here are some. within six weeks of the end of our Dorothy Cox, aged 17, was re-Christian King," borne by French The whole of the British Isles, food supplies, and brought with t League clearly must sit in in-

manded, at Canterbury quest upon itself and earnestly court last month on a charge of

police monarchs, records this result: coast and inland, the capital and a pronouncement from Admiral

January 14 may now plead in all the cities, areas of heavy, meJellicoe that consider to what extent and by stealing jewellery and money to mitigation of its bad character dium and light industries, includ-tinue the war into 1919. In other what means the failures of the value of 123, the property that in function to which attention was of her employer, Mrs. Dorothy which the county saws which we self, are vulnerable to air attack defeat.

the Middle Ages-from ing shipyards, and the populace it words we were at the point of drawn in last month's debate!

Matthews, Manwood House, Can have quoted date-it cante are capable of remedy.

many That is a fact, and only a perman-

Another Menace terbury. Criticism was sharp. Lord

days nearer the turn of the year.jent mastery of the air can offset And now to the submarine is Rennell described the League

the danger.

added a menace from the air. Your Daily Smile ! Our army, considered as an ex-What chance have cargo

boats,

The Chief Constable, Mr. G. T. as an unworkable instrument Hall, said that when the facts

in which the main liability were reported to the police it ap

peared more like a story from a seems doomed to fall on Lord Ponsonby believed

film of the American gangster that "the Governments of Europe Ups realise that Article 16 is tm-

A message was received

that practicable" That is the arti Manwood House had been broken cle, be it observed, under which into by a man with a mask on sanctions are now being under his face. that the man demandel taken against Italy as a de-jewellery and money, and that he clared aggressor. Yet that they escaped in a car with £10 in notes have been undertaker at all and jewellery to the value of against a great Power is surely over £100. more remarkable than that Scotland Yard Told they have not been attended Police forces and Scotland Yard with complete success. The were notified of the alleged car League is badly crippled by Police officers went to the those who have left it, and it house, which was found to have. has never recovered from the been ranzacked from top to bot- United States' refusal to come tom, with drawers pulled out and in. That is a standing cause of clothing thrown about.

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its deficiencies, unless one goes The girl repeated the story: farther back still to the intense about the masked man and offer- self-interest which actuates ed to show where he had hidden States as it actuates indivi-the jewellery. From under duals. But that fault is deeply bash outside the house she pro- | engraved in human nature it-duced the missing articles. self, and the policies of Govern- Her story was not believed; and: ments are determined, at least eventually she produced 9 105. in democratic countries, by the from her clothing and admitted electors. Still, it would-be that the story was false.

Since counsel of despair to abandon her arrest she had threatened to the League on that account, for commit suicide. however inperfect its working

it is better than no League at all A World League without the United States, Germany, Japan and Brazil cannot fully justify its name. Whether the absent are likely to return it were foolish to prophesy. But at least every reasonable effort should be made to smooth their path.

EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

"The Man Of God"

YOR

Lord Rennell's concrete sug. 44 year's travellers. between

a

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Wichita

El Dorado, and gestion that each continent should have its own League

Kansas, have been attracted to the: Council, with Geneva as

statue-like figure of William at World Court

the side of the roadway. His pose to pronounce

still judgment when regional

and impressive, and with council has failed to reach a

flowing white hair and beard, the solution, is more attractive in highway patriarch is known theory than practical in appli “WIiam, the Man of God,” and by no other name. As far as is cation. The regional idea has broken down, where at one time know. he has no relatives, but his jit looked most hopeful, namely, many friends of the highway keep and clothing, and the limitation of air armaments him in food: among the Western Powers of other necessities of life. William's

Europe.

For Germany looks motto is: "God will take care of east as well as west, and that me." and be is perfectly satisfied brings in Russia, and Russia with ta

looks Far East, and that brings

in Japan But the League is "The British Government is not] young and war is old. We prepared," he said, "now or in must not expect too much. Yet the future, to take action under members will have to nerve the League in a matter which, themselves to play their part to while nominally collective, la in the fullest extent of their reality nothing of the sort" power if collective action is to That need not be further press- be made a reality. Lord Stan- ed. Recent and still more re- hope's "Teminder on this head cent facts are in the recollec- was very much to the point.Ition of all.

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All.

we could not con-

peditionary force and apart from with their BLONDES PREFERED

its main function as a garrison in against air attack?

paperthick hulls. *Blondes are the favourites with India and elsewhere, could never men, and therefore ret more fun be assembled in transports, let

Whether they are on the high out of life," says a film star.

seas nearing port, or unloading alone set sail, with an enemy Air alongside, it is all one. They are the fun of the fair.

Force in command of the situa-the prey of the bomber. And it Domestic Camer

tion. The ships would be. bomb-1 "Mamma, where do old motor-led to the bottom of the sea.

so happens that the submarine plays into the hands of the bomb- a 2070

And what of the feet? We knowing formation as a slow bowler "Some one Ends them, darling, and sells them to daddy."

from actual full-scale test, injplays for catches, the close group- +

American waters, that dreading of the convey necessary to Losing. Their Nerve

noughts of the Jutland era can be avert the torpedo providing, for A veterinary surgeon ways that sunk by near-misses alongside the aircraft, the

when they of such dreadnoughts we have opportunity.

fong-sought balls close their eyes. when they overcharge. charge. So do profileering trades:men

twelve out of fifteen, and of the (Continued On Page 10)

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