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"Four Sons," the 20th Century-Fox 6lm drama at the King's Theatre, has been hailed as one of the timely and great pictures of the year. Savoral of the featured players In the film are shown here and include: (1. to r.) Don Ameche, Eugenie Leontovich, George 'Ernest, Robert Low- ery, Alan Curtis and Mary Beth Hugher.
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FRENCH STAY AT HOME
PARIS IS "GAY" again with a gaiety impos-
ed and demanded by order of the Reich. The curfew
is lifted, the State theatres and cabarets are open. There is even champagne in Montmartre to those who can pay two guineas a bottle.
a foot
U.S. LABOUR'S MESSAGE TO BRITAIN
A heartening mes- sage characteristic of the labour view hos been sent
"Mr. Ernest Bevin, the Minister of Labour, by the Amalgamated. Clothing Workers, one of the largest labour. arganisations in the. United States. It says:
We of American labour will spare no- athing &to @give you whatever aid we can.
We our word ·
even... you have pledged your lives. Brothers, hold the fort of humanity, labour, and civilisation.
HOSPITAL HAS ITS OWN BOMBS
"EVERYTIME" LONDON'S
SIRENS SOUND TWO BOMBS ARE "DROPPED" IN WEST- MINSTER HOSPITAL.T
But they are life-saving bombs, containing six vital grammes of radium. They are lowered into the depths of a 50ft. well as soon as the "alert" is heard, and stay there in safety until the all-clear.
Paris is-gay again or so. the the only cars circulating are off- Germans would have the world cial vehicles, with great white believe. The true, sad picture of letters
high painted the capital was given by a new-on the windscreens showing to tral diplomat who loved the old which police or city service they Paris and has just left the new. belong.
"The first thing that strikes one," he said, "is the emptiness. "All petrol is being jealously
stored up of the streets. Apart, naturally,
for the lines of food from German military cars, and lorries which enter the city in the
The "radium patients are the these are now not so numerous, small hours of every morning.
"Every: half-hour or so along most regular the hospital has. the Grands Boulevards will lum- They attend daily, even in air ber a motor bus. It is an extra-raids. ordinary sight, for swaying high above the roots is a great tank which contains the coal gas, now
used to drive the buses.
"In the rush hours the boule- vards will be
Doep X-ray treatment also has to "stand by during raids, and certain treatment in radiation wards cannot be risked.
covered with swarms VICHY WAY
of cyclistsmen, women, and children...
One Meal A Day-
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THE Then there are cycle-cars DE GAULLE PARTISANS IN worked by two men which can FRANCE," CREATING A COURT carry a couple of passengers alOF SUMMARY JURISDICTION. little more comfortably. The Un- This court will: " derground Railway is running, and .: Determine its own procedure;
within: that takes a greater volume of Try the accused traffic,
hours of their being charged; Execute sentences, within "The Germans "enforce, police hours of conviction, traffic regulations very severely [". There will be no appeals.. with fines, and also such ridicu-|-· The court and its lous............ punishments – os making a are reminiscent of the French „transgressor • stand at the cross Revolution.
roads for three to four hours with- Murp out moving.
there is not work
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The Crowde: thet are, out in Love vethe streets/movo quickly, There It must be said that this is not -Is-no, laltering. They all seem as, nude a show, as in pre-war anxioua/tó, get to their homen days, but its à acenic effects and as quickly as possibile......
colour:are-as-bright as ever. There ****""The cafe terraces are not much are cabaret shows, such as that In use, except by German soldiers of Lucicone Boyer and also Leon and German civilian tourists. The Volterra's at the Lido: Frenchman when he goes to a cafe now prefers to sit inside.
"Paris Loves!
"In all, 10 theatres and music halls and 27 cabarets are open, {They all play to fair, audiences.
At the Opera and the then- ** tre there is a sprinkling of Ger- Anxious to maintain the im- man officere, but they are not pression that all is normal in the so much, visiblë at the cabarets. city and that Paris is bright and “But despite all this, the gaiety happy” under: the occupation, the seems somewhat forced, and the Germans have ordered Stato.then-majority of French people shun trés such as the Opera and the the theatres, the cabarets, and the Comedie-Francaisal to reopen." Montmartre drink resorts which Phillippe Gaubert, director of the are open until midnight....... Opern, " is preparing to produce la "I was glad," the diplomat re- "Marouf," and also "Aida" and marked, to get away from Paris, "Le Roi d'Ys while Serge Lifür and I found that all my colleagues. is preparing new versions of Leo had the same impression. Delibe's ballet "Sylvia,"
Paris is not gay It is very, "Sacho Quitry is giving, Flor- Į very end,”
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