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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1936
SILLY SEASON PEACE AND WAR IN
IS HERE!.
Strange Monster
Of The Sea
SEEN BY TWO EX.MPS
·
Norwich
FILMLAND
POSSIBILITIES OF INFLUENCE
APPEAL MADE TO PRODUCERS
believes.
an attack on
KISS AND A KNIFE
Man's Trivial Wound In The Throat
of
Marie Goulding, aged Brescot-road, St Helens, was bound over for 12 months at St. Helens last month, on a charge of wounding her foamer sweet- heart, Horace Cyril Bate, a clerk. It was stated that Bate, after deciding to "inish with" the girl, visited her home. When they embraced said good night, she and kissed him, and he felt a knife against his throat. wound was a trivial one.
The
CUSTODY OF BOY PRINCE
Court Hearing In Camera
MONACO RULER'S GRANDSON
Prince Pierre of Monaco sat in a cleared court at the Law Courts last month, listening to the argu- ment of counsel on an application concerning the custody of his 12- year-old son, Prince Rainier.
cases,
the case was heard in camera.
Too Monaco"
As soon as the case "Monaco.v.
WILS
Afidavit Received Late
A mysterious creature, describ ed as eing like a bop snake,” hasi been seen in the sea off the Nor
Washington folk coast at Eccles. It is said to
The application, which was, for have moved through the water at
Films can be made an influence for peace, if the public de-,
an injunction came before Mr. an astonishing speed.
Among those who saw it were mands it. Albert Benham, organiser and director of the motion-
Justice Buckmill, sitting as a vaca- Mr. H. E. Witard, a former Lord picture division of the National Council for Prevention of War,
shows bow war will ravage the tion judge. At the request of Mayor of Norwich; Mr. Charles Ammon. former Parliamentary
Before he came to Washington, to distinguish between news and world, while peace can create won both parties, under usual Chancery
ders nestly beyond human Division practice in such Secretary to the Admiralty, and
imagination.
Public Must Act
called Mr. R. FOR 3 PEG RAZORS his wife and two daughters; and Mr. Benham spent a number of propaganda and to let the pro- Mr. A. G. Gossling, formerly M.P. Years in Hollywood actually engaged ducer know be understands the
"Professional Soldier"
Williams, KC.. for for the Yardley Division of Birm-in the production of pictures. Now difference. He believes that the reel companies have been
Prince Louis, the plaintiff, applied ingham and now living at Eccles. he devotes full time to conducting news
The creature looked like a huge campaign to get movie-goers in-watching their step more carefully much violence to make it whole Vaughan
"Transatlantic Tunnel" - Sows for the case to be heard in camera, said Mr. Witard. "Its terested in letting the producers recently and as a result there is some screen fare.
imaginary Prince Louis, who is ruler of anake," action in swimming was wormlike. know that they don't want to see less war-scare propaganda shewn
on the screen now than there was seeds of fear of an
Asiatic enemy.
the Principality of Monaco, is the It was at least a mile out to sea war glorified on the screen.
He a year ago.
Whether wittingly or not, Mrs grandfather of Prince Rainier. Censorship is not his aim and was swimming parallel to the
Franklin D. Roosevelt bas aided Exis daughter, Princess Charlotte, Attack On League Protested coast. Its speed was terrific-90 merely wants producers to become is not an aware of the widespread peace to 100 miles an hour
National Conference on the Cause marriage was dissolved in 1953. sentiment in the country, so that "Formerly one of the news reel in the council's campaign. At the married Prince Pierre, but their exaggerated estimate."----
American films that find their way producers used a militaristic and Care of War bere last winter, This case bas already created Humps And Carres Mr. Ammon said, "I definitely to the far corners of the earth will scenic background of battleships, she told of receiving a letter from some publicity," said Mr. Vaughan
marching soldiers, tanks and aero-
person who wanted something Williams. “An infant is concern- saw something moving along at a reflect it.
planes behind the introductory
done about films which stir upled in it, and if the custody of the great pace about half a mile out
Taking Of Glamor
title. Peace-lovers protested. Now distrust between nations. "The child is to be discussed it is much the boy and his to sea. It was moving with an
Surprisingly successful results the scenes depict various aspects Government can do nothing about better both for undulating motion and I could see hungs and curves above the sar-have to be attained in the com-of civil life with only one flash of such things," Mrs. Roosevelt said. sister that it should be done in
men. Last summer The only people who can do any-[camera.” paratively brief time the Council's marching face of the water.
"Mr. Witard and Mr. Gossling campaign has been pushed by newsreel contained saw it first and drew my attention means of a bimonthly bulletin in the League of Nations Protests thing are the people who see it in
thing will disappear." aunounced that to it. My wife and daughters saw which Mr. Benham reviews pic rolled in. The president. of the the theatre. If they protest, the it, too. I thought perhaps ittures, rews reels and animated company might be a very big conger-eel. cartoons from the standpoint of sequence favourable to the League) "We watched it for a short time war and peace. His comments are would immediately be issued,
Bere is how Mr. Benham lines! at a great speed circulated through charches, par- as it moved parallel to the coast. Then itlent teacher groups, the YWCA up some of the recent pictures turned suddenly out to sea and we the Women's Christian Temper-into which the theme of war and
Union, the American Asso-peace enters: lost sight of it."
ciation of University Women and "Fury"-An admirable preach- other peace-promoting groups. ment against mass hysteria and
A motor-car belonging to Major Mr. Wynn Party opposed an ad- Mr. Benham does not advocate mob violence.
*Sons o Guns"-Beneath its E. J. Shearer, of The Fairway, St. joumament, and asked cutting all battle films. He merely asks that the clowning exterior carries a worth Margaret's Bay, Dover, was dash-reason might be given when the ther Justice Buck-ill White Island Passes To glamour that has surrounded war while thought, and is an excellent ed to pieces when it fell about Court was in camera
for generations be dispensed with satire on the whole useless busi-250ft. over the cliff near the Dover
directed that the court, which was Patrol Memorial. Aucklander
War pictures that depict horrors ness of war.
Mrs. Shearer had been out driv-crowded, should be cleared. Only "Under Two Flags"-Is decided- ly militaristic and outmoded, poring, and on returning home, left the interested parties were allowed traying poup and ceremony of the car in the drive of the house to remain.
Recently Prince Rainier and his She stopped the engine and went dying en the field of battle.
the house. Shortly after-father were stopped by officials at *Things to Come"-War is the into
about to villain in this story. No race of wards she heard the car moving Folkstone as they were people is made the enemy. Warland ran out just in time to see it board a steamer for Boulogne. It is an unseen monster that devours going backwards down the drive is understood they were prevented Court on a Fligh road of terror. and through the garden gate. It from leaving "It goes back to the days when everything in its
the grass verge and order. "I do not intend to develop the vaudeville trooper who saw his Yet "Things to Come" does not ran across
would propagandise by showing scenes over the cliff edge.
No one was in the car and there island commercially," said Mr. act wasn't going over. Buttle, "but I like the idea of own-suddenly pick up an American flag of war horrors and then advocate
more armaments as the method was no one about on the beach at ing a volcano. Tenders were call-and wave it to get the audience to
for achieving peace. Rather, it the time. ed for the purchase of the Island cheer" Mr. Benham says. and my tender, was accepted." He To illustrate. he compares two declined to reveal the price.
HELP US TO HELP THEM.
1937
HONG KONG
DIRECTORY
NOW BEING COMPILED
Business Houses, secre- taries of Clubs or Asso- ciations etc., are re- quested to return the forms containing full particulars as soon as possible.
New firms, clubs of as- sociations are requested to apply for the neces sary forms which will be sent on application.
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Now's
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it/
MAN BUYS A VOLCANO
ance
scenes
from
as they
and bitter consequences really are make
the best sort of TENDER ACCEPTED.
argument for world peace, he says Auckland: An Auckland share. but too many producers drag in 2 broker is the owner of a volcanic militaristic background just to island. He is Mr. R. Buttle, who give audiences a thrill. has bought White, Island from White Island Products Limited! (in liquidation).
Interesting History
Shallowness Fails
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of
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-
3
STRANGE MISHAP AT DOVER Runaway Car Falls Over Cliff
Shark Island" dealing with New Soviet Gold Field
every war,
Government Play-Acting
WES
"The The
Dover.
Said Richer Than Alaska
White Island, which is the cen-life of Samuel Mudd, who tre of great thermal activity, is in injustly implicated with the Lin- the Bay of Plenty and has had an coin assasination, and a much less
called, picture interesting history. In 1914 profound number of men on the island lost Leathernecks Have Landed."
Moscow.A new placer gold, to have drags and excavators their lives in a major eruption, former. he said, portrays faith- and the island was visited at in-fully the disastrous effect of mob field of great wealth, which, a working in the new field. Thr tervals to determine the changes violence and intolerance that crops competent authority states, is most modern mining equipment is while the "richer than Alaska," is now being now being produced by a great in the landscape made by the ther-out after
later attempts unsuccessfully to developed in the desolate virgis factory at Irkutsk and its younger mal activity.
During the past two years the The island was bought in 1926 stir the audience by the US. territory of Eastern Siberiz, about|but larger brother, at Krasnoyarsk by the White Island Products, Marines rescue of an oil com-1100 miles north of the little town
of Okhotsk, on the fringe of the Soviet Union has made big strides mechanisation of the in the Limited, which established an ex-pany's property in the Far East.
Okhotsk Sea
Siberian gold felds, which ex- tensive plant there for the work-
It is learned that 60,000 men are plains the startling increase in ing of sulphur and large deposits
The Council condemns the type already working under two well-Soviet gold production. of towgrade guano, but the com-
Mr of picture with an Army or Navy known engineers, Medvedeff and Soviet Russia has been steadily pany went into liquidatica. Buttle has bought the buildings setting where equipment and per- Berzin, of the Soviet Goid Trust. increasing its gold production, erected on the island, but the sonnel is furnished by the Govern-
Supplies and equipment hitherto and this year it expects to lead the machinery has been purchased by ment without charge. Cited are
such pictures as "Flirtation Walk," reached the region with delays world with an output of around the $600,000,000, which would set a other interests.
"Here and difficulty that recall "Devil Dogs of the Air,"
are new world record. Comes the Navy," "Hell Divers," stories of old Klondike, but
Annapolis Farewell," "Suicide now beginning to flow more easily Thus Moscow is able to pay for Fleet" and "Shipmates Forever."via the new North Baikal railroad many supplies with which to carry QUALITY PRINTING Labour unione have joined in the from Irkutsk to the Okhotsk Sea, oat its industrial, and military
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protest that such pictures deprive which road is virtually completed, plans. This fact has been causing not only actors of jobs, but also and up the River Kolma from the much concern to potential enemy carpenters, set-builders, costumers northern coast, which is regularly countries, which fear that Russia's visited by icebreakers convoying rising buying power will give her and other technicians.
the power to increase the most In regard to news reels, Mr. freighters. Benham merely wants the public Next year the Russians expect modern arms of war.
Mr. Wynn Parry, K.C., who ap- peared for Prince Pierre, the de- fendant, supported the application for a hearing in camera.
Before the court was cleared Mr. Vaughan Williams asked for an adjournment. He said that an affidavit had been handed to his client at 10.30 the previous night, and there had been no time to consider it.
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