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NOVEMBER 13, 1850.

BROADWAY

SPER CLARK "CALLY IN ON LONDON: SHIITI

ROXY

AIR-CONDITIONED

A COMMAND

Theatre

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

FAR EAST PICTURES PRESENTS

THE LITTLE CAESAR' OF GAMBLING

his

Yes, even the watch-strap sustains the motif life...acos-and dice:

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HOURS PASSED THE WEDDING

STARRING

MISS PAI KWANG

A CHINESE PICTURE WITH MANDARIN dialogui.

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ENGLUSH SUB-TITLE-FILM

More than 6A, PRE DOIT DE TIME) the buiktine

The Clark Clutch-joy shooting dice

By H. L. McNALLY

LONDON. HISKY'S fascinatin' gambling's fascinat in' hotel's fascinat in with all three together why life's just fascinatin'.

It's the top, it's the Desert Inn. It's £1,400,000. It's Wilbur Clark

Wilbur "Little Caesar they know him in Las Vegas, Nevada U.S.A-introduced him- self to London with a flash of his 5-carat blue-white diamond ring and a wave of his watch wristlet of platinum links.

These

arc self – designed— showing in enamel the four ares and the six and five of dice,

Five foot seven 11 stono llb. AMAÞ-12.30, 2.30, clad in bottle-groen gabardine. Wilbur Clark looked out over the first visit to city"My

fifth-floor Europe" from his sulto in Grosvenor House,

LIBERTY 07.30 &

9.30 p.m.

THE BIGGEST ENTERTAINMENT OF THE YEAR!

“INTERNATIONAL

BURLESQUE”

Sleeperette

ADDED TO

The inn Desert Inn, 400 miles from Ho is his creation. Reno, in president.

It has everything a super holiday camp could have,..plus legal gambling-roulette,

DOUBLE DECKED at no extra charge

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Now-Pan American double- decked Clippers are mor luxurious than ever-with the added comfort of Sleeperottel These foam-cushion chair lounges give you twice as much leg room...stretch way out to full bed-length... have curtains for privacyl No extra charge for Slooper-" ette comfort. Full-size berths free of charge to Honolulu -from there to the U. S. A.

bertha are only 310 extra.

cheminds for poker, dice throw- ing, sol-machines, "le. I've got a hundred thosk I'vn zeen women play on thous till they'd bilateration "thelf": inger-and what-have-you tel Imagine, a Butin camp---"BRT, who's Billy Butlin I Deyer heard of him?”-num by' M. Kiz. and you have some idea of Desert Inn

Think for a moment in dollars nearly three to a 2 and let Wilbur take the 'stund.

"I have 300 rooms," he said.. "Prices from five dollark up to 45. Dinner three and tialf about.

"We gross 70,000 a month in the dining room on food, but it cost us 100,000. Floor showe cost up to 20,000 a week but then we have the tops of cater- tulnment,

"Gambling pays for it all.' Dead straight, it shows us in the clear."

The dice

Wilbur murmurod about "00 locks on our doors, ham and egga and hors d'oeuvres, at all hours of the day. “Then he went oxi to talk of his early days. Success story. Local boy makes good, Jolson story of hotels.

Kinda quick rise from his birth 41 years ago, in Koysport, Hlinois (pop then 800)--"Just about as many people as I em- Kinda ploy now in my hotel."

quick from dish-washing right up to croupier, then gambling miloon owner"No I'm not a gambling king" and hotel magoste.

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Wilbur'a a man you can't stop He produced a pair of plastic dico"You can ace there's no lead in them"--and then one of his miniature roulette tables.

The wifo

Then he talked of the 125,000 dollarsons of his tables lost a

few worka ago to alone stranger" who made 28 straight. passes with the dico-"Did he roll dem bones?' It WAS 3 10,000,000 to one chance, said. the perinutators,

Wilbur has a private life and Pity Anne a charming wife.

SIDE GLANCES

THE four aces

on

the dlx and the they're five of dico — all

Wilbur Mr Clark's self-designed platinum watch-strap, -

$ Edwards can't tell you about her

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London Expectă Service

AGED PETAIN NEAR DEATH

By Robert Ahier

ILE DYEU. FEEBLE old man of 94 sita today in a white-washed cell listening for the sixth consecutive year to the autumn surf pounding this bleak island with a sound like the, rumble of distant gups.

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The cannonade of the Atlantic is louder now than the pulse of the old man who lles most of the day on a simple army cot, dreaming of the days when he was the hero of his country and symbol of its power.

Henri Philippo Patain, fol of France as the "hero of Verdun" and a, symbol of disgrace as the traitor of Vici in World War II, has moved to his winter quarters in the grim old was the price of Flerre-Levee fortress. This collaboration with the Nazis,

During the summer, he had been allowed to live on a floor below, away from the glare of the sun which lashed the sunken, courte yard of the fortress.

SUMMER EASIER

Thus, the summer had been easier than the others ho had known sinca ho was condemned in November, 1946; to serve out a sentence for life in prison,

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The old Marshal, who is still the "grand old man of France", to many of his fellow countrymen, seems to know despite his falling memory that his days are numbered.

Each Sunday morning, a Catholic priest and two doctors visit him in his tiny apartment In the fortress.

After the doctors have chocked his respira- tion, blood pressure and pulse, the priest performa Masa

in the dork dining room, using the table as an altar.

On a recent Sunday, Petain told the three men as they came into his room: "Two of you have come for my body, and one for my soul, There is nothing else I really need."

Living conditions for the aged Marshal havo improved gradually under the growing pressure of public opinion. He now has two military nurses and two Catholic nung to care for him.

Loneliest Island To Be Developed

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)'

Far away in the southern waters of the Atlan

African and South tic, midway between the vast American continents, lies the little island of Tristan Da Cunha, one of the smallest British

They cook his meals on A Emall stove and are in atten- dance 24 hours a day.

ht

number of

guarda around the fortress has been

reduced from almost 100 to 30, and only one stands now at the entrance. of the fortress, with a machine-gun.

DAILY VISITS

His wife, Madame Eugente Hardlon Petain, who la 20 years his junior and whom he married when he was 64, still

miles long, and nine and a half milemer visits him every day at tho

it rises

only 100 feet above the ocean surface, a tiny outpost of civilisation, a challenge to the surrounding mighty

waters.

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prison. A familiar figure on this tiny island, 15 miles off the coast of France, she ves in a little hotel near by, and drives a battered old car to the prison each morning. For its population of 280, canning plant will be erected

tell sold, "Each day him what is going on in the se plain, but so chic grey suit. whose only link with the and operated on the island.

outside is the tiny radio sta- SHIPPING SERVICE world, and he was very much interested in the Korean war, No fandangos, Just so,

met Toni in 1941 in a cock- tion, life is indeed primi-

The crawfish will be caught When things looked blackest tall Bar in San Diego," said tive. Until recent years by the local fishermen around for the United Nations forces Wilbury was just visiting my there was no doctor on the Tristan, as well as by the fish he told me, I am surprised at sister when I fell in with island, all medical duties cry vessel operating near the the American setback, but I

being carried out by a mis adjacent uninhabited island of am confident they will do bet

The vessel

ter later on'." sionary.

make the necessary Voyages Occasionally, Petain opens between Tristan and Capetown fargo cupboard in his bedroom Now the island boasts its which will, in turn, establish a and gazes allently on his Mar own medical officer, but so regular shipping service to the shal's uniform with the seven sturdy are the inhabitants island,

stars shining thereda that seldom is he called

Wilbur," she said.

Sho's fascinatin', too,

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velopment Company, which He does not know whether upon for any serious cases.. bus undertaken tho initial he will be buried in his uni- To caro for their frugal work of Investigation, will form when he dies, or in a pcedé, the islanders ralee now be reorganised, and the plain sult of civilian clothes cattle, of which there are about additional finance, estimated at symbol of le

250 on the island, and sheep, about £130,000, will be found which outnumber them in the by the

of

told

Nobody on the stand

the Marshal that the Colonial Development French Government

ratio of four to one, beside Corporation. numerous small flocks poultry.

GROWN TIRED

In recent years the popula tion of the island has diminish ed as first one, and ther; an~|| other of the young man, have grown tired of the humdrum

bas

already

brought over a a huge col which has been put in a sma room next to his winter que

SOUVENIR FOR ters, It lies walling for

A MINER

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One of Mr Winston Chur- chill's, cigars, half smoked, will

Marshal's sentence to, be Do pléted;-United Press,

existence and set forth to shortly be...going across the GUN TO earn a living elsewhere, Atlantic as 8 souvenir present

to a Canadian miner.daten Maati Monate a

The setting-up, of a South African ashery group a couple.

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of years back did something to with Mrs Churchill in the no- arrest

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By Mik

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