1939-07-22 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 22, 1989.

40,000 COPY ROYAL DRESS

Women in almost every city' and town in Britain are now wear- ing dresses on the model of one the Duchess of Gloucester bought at the British Industries Fair.

Manufacturers estimate that 40,000 such dresses have been sold.

MARRIED BY CROOK

Young couples in the parish of St. John's, in the East End of Lon- don, married by Frank Ellis during his fourteen months' mesquerade as surate there, are worried to-day. Some are expecting babies,

They are asking whether they are really married, or if they should wed again.

Some have hurried to church for advice.

These brides and bridegrooms, like all other members of St. John's, were successfully duped by the handsome young ex-sculleryman, who tricked a Bishop into giving him a curacy.

Mr. and Mrs. Yems, of Ellis-street, E.1, who were married by Ellis less than a year ago, are not at all wor- ried by the deception.

"It doesn't matter a bit to me and my wife," Mr. Yems told a reporter. "So far as we are con- cerned, were married, and that's that. We have our marriage lines."

Most surprised and shocked was Mr. John Bull, of the mission centre attached to the church.

"Mr. Ellis was the idol of every- body around here," he said. The childern especially liked him.

*His sermons were the best I ever heard."

A fiery orator, Ellis threw all his charm and presonality into his role of priest.

He told people to live honest lives. Yet at the London Sessions he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for obtaining £3 by means of a forged Post Office withdrawal form.

In the court it was revealed that he was an impostor. It was stated he had never been ordained, and had no claims to his religious titles.

QUEEN MARY IN THE "SHILLINGS”

Queen Mary sat in the "shillings" when she went to the pictures to see a colour film of the royal tour,

Sitting a few rows from the front, and propped forward in her seat by a cushion, she laughed aloud at several incidents In the film, which lasted for an hour.

A reporter sat behind the royal party and noticed that Queen Mary hardly addressed her com- panions-Princess · Helena Vic- toria and Princess Maric Louise. She was too engrossed in the film.

She followed every little detail closely, and when the King's speech from Canada was recorded she leaned forward to catch each word.

The cinema was the Monseigneur News Theatre, Piccadilly. Her visit was a surprise.

"Now talk, double-crosser,” commands Jimmy Cagney, holding a menacing_revolver in Humphrey Bogart's ribs. The scene is from "Angels With Dirty Faces," the Warner Brothers' drama at the - King's Theatre.

“A SPLENDID FİLM” After the show she stood up for "God Save the King," thanked the manager, Phillip Hobbs, and

Out in. Piccadilly lunch-hour | Traffic was held up, and it Was said: "It was a splendid film. 1 crowds swarmed round the royal some time before the car could have enjoyed every minute of it." car to get a glimpse of her Majesty. | move.

GRAND M-G-M REVIVAL WEEK

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SLIPER PICTURES

FOR EXHIBITION ONE DAY EACH!

STARTS SUNDAY, JULY 23rd, 1939.

AGAIN

YOUR OLD FAVOURITES!

SUN. 23rd JULY "REMEO AND JULIET"

TUES. 25th JULY "NAUGHTY

MARIETTA"

SEE THOSE YOU

PREVIOUSLY MISSED!

MON. 24th JULY "THE GOOD EARTH"

WED. 26th JULY

“VIVA

VILLA"

SUBMARINE PLANS NOT HELD UP BY DISASTERS

London, July 10, Despite catastrophes like that of the Thetis, the British Navy is speeding up its programme of sub- marine construction, the naval correspondent of the Daily Express stated this morning.

New units will be placed in ac- tive service before schedule. Six submarines will be completed by the end of the year, while seven will be ready for duty in 1940.-

ndent stressed that

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is purusing its pro- gramme of construction- waiting for an improvement ~ safety devices.

THUR. 27th JULY "OUR RELATIONS”

SAT. 29th JULY

"CAMILLE

-FRI, 28th JULY "GIRL of the GOLDEN WEST”