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

15

in

WILD GIRL LEADS JORNNY ON WILD CHASE through death-infested jungle!

COLUMBIA PIE za partema

JOHNNY

WEISSMULLER

a. Jungle Jim

CAPTIVE GIRL

Bastar BRABBE- Ale LHDEST Rich VALLIN

With

The fame

or the Scouan by Carroll Youngsfased upon

ang Tandures Syndicate newspaper fuiturs

Ded by

BENTL

Fraked by LAM KATIMAN

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66SOULS IN PAWN

ALSO

Pathe Pictures Lid Prezen

Counter blast

Man of Science or Menace to Society?

Opening To-morrow: "CINDERELLA"

SHOWING

TO-DAY

MAJESTIC

AIR-CONDITIONED

TWO GIRLS Model for festival MERMAID ONE STAYS SECRET

,

Miranda has lost her tail --she gets legs

Miranda the Mermaid, sculptor, now on Australian but without her tall, is to citizen living in London.

rather dull.

be the centre-piece of a He told mc* "I think that with fish talls arg fountain in the South Bank mermaids Festival Gardens. Instead of a tail she has beautiful lega-with fine instead of feet.

Her creator Fleischmann,

"Why should not a beauti- have nice legs? still swim with

is Mr

Arthur Czechoslovak

ful mermaid Sho can Ana on her feet.

INTEREST IN NEW AIRSHIP

the

to

Miranda balances on a turtle. "1 hope Londoners will like her," says her creator.

to

BOYS

Where Did the Leaves Go?

Knarf and Hanid Decided to Find Out--

By MAX TRELL

HE wind blew through the

THE

elm tree and away went a great crowd of leaves, flutter- Ing through the at like buge When tho brown butterflies.

died down, they wind

on the gro3. settled for it to blow by grass.

ngain. across

**A2 Icast that la how I

"The Anished mermold three Ashes water sprays above imagine a mermaid, although

actually beare 110 marked her. I have never seen one."

left Prague when it Mr Fleischmann .either resemblance

girl,"

In 1830 after Hitler had annexed It took three

aid Mr Fleischmann. months

the Sudetenland, and emigrated model Miranda-and her legs

acted nis a "They really

to Australia. -in clny.

guide. The face had to combine. beauty with the Two models posed for the feminine

characteristics of a sen crenture, 10-year-old Joyce Taylor,

The Anal result is a face lives at o plano student, who

students hostel, and which is rather dah-like." Holborn

Miranda Hea balancing on commercinl 18-year-old

shell of a turtle. From who

keeping her the in

the mouths of the turile and

United States aviation ex-j artist, perts are studying plans for name secret.

a safe nirship evolved by a

retired British engineer. He

is Mr W. N. Alcock, of Dum-!

buck Crescent, Dumbarton.

has

For many years Mr Alcock i

been convinced that the only

to achieve safc, way cheap. and really comfortable air travel was to reintroduce the airship. Friends

crazy, R-101

Wos

a

TODAY'S SHIPS

FASTER, BIGGER

he told him

the They palated to

Ships are getting bigger and faster, and there disaster and fallure of

are more of them, but the "atom ship" may not Graf Zeppelins

lighter-than-air be seen for many years.

the German

no proof that

craft were no good.

Не

Although the Navy have

have

had special training in But Mr Alcock kept going...

they can patiently checked reports

who want to help shipbuilders and findings of every recorded a gas turbine-powered ves radiography so that

sel, serious techincal prob- use X-ray apparatus to examine airship mishap.

His conclusion? Although lems must be solved before welding.

conventional airship was this type of propulsion can strong as a whole, its individ- have the advantage over work is being carried

the

ual parts were weak.

GLASS 'SKIN'

Now he bas designed an air- thinks has which he ship none of the early fallings.

Ho ship,"

the normal oil engine.

This is stated in the annual of Lloyd's Register of report Shipping.

increase

FIVE MPH MORE

the

most notable "pneuma- The calls it the

been in the tanker because its construction in size has

Ten years ago, is on the lines of a pneumatic class. tyre and is designed, he says, standard oil carrier was 12,000 tons deadweight. Today, tankers to stand as much strain.

Able to touch down on land of 30,000 tons are being built.

will or sea, the "pneumaship" have an outer skin of specinily- proofed glass bre fabric, a material as strong, as steel.

Running from stem to stern and dispensing with the com- plicated arrangement of struis and spars, will be a systern of pneumatic tubes.

Says the inventor: "In col-

Speeds of most cargo liners 16 knots-equa? to a five miles an hour increase. are now 16 to

now 1,000 more There are

More non-marine inspection out by work and Lloyd's. The steel air-conditioning of plant of the will be concert hall Festival Biven a Lloyd's certificate.

PILOT NEVER

HAD AN ACCIDENT

years After 33

as

did, up

went They the lawn,

oll

waiting

And

they flew dancing

across the

FACTORS the meadow and

then

over

tho

garden, over the brook, He came to London in 1948, and is now working in a May-the hill and far away. fair studio.

Knart and Hanid, He says:

do hope Lon-

with Shadows.

the turned- doners will like my mermald-about

names, sat on, the gar- and her legn."

den wall, watching the leaves fly by.

-(London Express Service)

M188 JOYCE TAYLOR A guide more than a model

YEAR'S FIRST

BIG JOB FOR CLYDE

peacefully Lying anchor off the Tail Bank in the Clyde

at

of the is the

"Where are they all going,

Hanid?" Knart said at last.

"Away," answered Hanid. "Away? Away where?"

Marlin blow and some leaves fluttered down.

Knart and Hanid could see Mr Merlin the Magician, sitting on the ground with his back the trunk of the tree,

"I don't know, Just away, against

Just away wherever the wind smiling up to them und waving

takes them."

"Let's nsk Mr Merlin

Magician. He knows

sald

this

Knnt.

his fingers. "Here we ROP" the they heard him saying. Then flute to his lips every he raised the

Hanld

and blew

we-ooo-oot The wind came blowing the branches of the

sensibic .was n

idea, so they both went to find through Mr Merlin. They found him olm! allting, with his legs

crossed Knarf

On all sides of them.

937 and Hanid swinging back

under him like a tallor, blow leaves ing a tiny flute made out of forth, then

the and

letting go with

Both Swinging

hollow straw. Strangely little squeals of excitement. enough, he was sitting under the very elm tree from which the leaves were blowing.

"Howdy, howdy,"

Knart and Hand were both:

swinging now. foster and

greeted faster. "I'm letting gol" Knart

Mir Merlin the Magician, as cried. he

Then

Over

stopped blowing his dute "So am Il" cried Hanid, to nod and smile at Knart and

away they both went, Honid

curious with (and by

fluttering the crowd of the wind stopped leaves all around them. coincidence

garden, blowing the Instant Mr Merlin the

blowing his flute!) stopped

over the running brook, over "I'm glad to see you both, the wide meadow they flow.

"Good-byel What can I do for you today?"

We'd like to know," Knar! chirped started to say, "where"

"You'd

lawn. over the

Pleasant trip!"

the sparrows and the

soon!""" "Come robins.

back 1oc to know where cried the chipmunks and the Blackie Becile, and the leaves are blowing to?

1 squirrels.

Glive the Snail, and Blinky tont it, my boy?" Mr Merlin chuckled.

Mole and Willy Toad all look- "Come ed up

and shouted:

NOTE ON FLUTE

controversial 20,000 ton Knart and Hand sald at back again! Come back!” Cunard liner Samaria, which once that that was exactly it. They were flying over

between caused friction Clydeside and Merseyside a ship repair workers.

The liner has gone to the river to be restored to her former

the

then leaves the

the

You Slowly Khart and Hand and

other leaves floated on the grassy slope of

said

now. On the other side "Weoo,"

Mr Merlin, hill

and Hanid could see blowing a note on his dute, and Knarf

or three the Great Woods. And just as stopping (two

wind had as the fluttered suddenly off suddenly

up, it now died down. tree as L puff at wind blown

"row let's see. blewl): ships affont than In 1039, re-pilot, Captain Frederick V.

of six-("Shorty") Clark, 60 years luxury standards, despite pro- presenting an increase

old on January 1, has re- tests from Merseyside that they want to know where the leaves all the teen million tons.

"prior Pan-American have

right to the work go? The best way to find out is down

to become a couple of leaves the hill, just before the woods. was built there. America has the largest ton-tired from

because che

"Is this the end of the trip, lision with ground or water, annge, but much of it is in re- Airways' pilots' roll.

The Samaria the biggest yourselves... hus by far the serve, and Britain pneumaship will yield to

And before Kuart or Hand Hanid?" Knart was whispering. In all his flying career, reconversion job to go to

the wind puffed by blow, ease away and assume the largest merchant flect in

Clark "Shorty"

has never Clyde since her sister-ship, the had time to say anything, they The

and all the leaves treat-all its original form. Liko a active employment.

at once found themselves again, un accident, Scythia, received that a been involved in

up, dancing, whirling, bicycle tyre hitting Д pat- The report discloses

the and recently at New York's Lament last year, and the work is becoming broad and thin, with sprang

down...down men number of Lloyd's staf

both

arma raised over their spinning keep over 2,000 hole."

Guardia Airport, he was re-expected to

until anally there they from an award

heads, holding on to something hil ceiving

the workers of Brown's, Clydebank,

busy for the next four months which they instantly recognised were, deep in the quiet woods American Safety Council.

Since he became a U.S. Navy feet to regain her luxury lines.

She is the last of the Cunard 13 a branch of the elm tree. where all the other leaves be- already Last and fore them were hundreds were Clark 1917, Captain pilot in

And all asleep.

all. there they 22,000

As a transposes and carried thousands of other leaves, has recorded

flying

way, stayed, for there was the end hours in his log-book. It is over 250,000

more than that he has

down, of the trip! estimated

Blown during the war. more than 3,000,000 miles.

He is one of the world's most experienced air skippers, and one of the oldest (I not the oldest) at the controls of a commercial airplane.

121

A British Crossword Puzzle

120

27

AT 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

31

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Walt Disney cap-

Lures every stir-

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Color By

Walt Disney's

PRESENTATION OF

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TECHNICOLOR

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WITH BOBBY DRISCOLL ROBERT HENTON-BASIL SYDNEY

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NEXT CHANGE

!

Bichón y 100 tale Pichard, let.

Alan LADD

ACROSS

3 Incito

*

Anger

B Neglect to perform

9 Breach of rules

10 Child

Childish 12 Tongue 15 Scent

18 Arrest

10 Dance

21 Foreigner

22 TAX

23 Unseemly display

20 Gasp

20

20 Shelter

30 Cheat

31 Bathing-ploce

32 Extreme suffering

Donna REED

33 Ditch

in "BEYOND GLORY”

1

DOWN

Imposture

2 Repeat

4 Introduction

5 Part

6 Express disapproval

Fa lure

9

11 Fetters

13 Have confidence

14 Discover

14 Discov

16 Representative

17 Twin!

18 Symbol

20 Ordinary

22 Vegetable

24 Criminal

25 Shrewd

27 Eager

20 Walked

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD. - Across: 1 Dapper, 7 Blot, 15 Erin, 18 Lode, 9 Phial, 10 Basin, 11 Over, 13 Insensible,

25 Yorns, 20 Fuse, 21 19 Impatience, 22 Slap, 24 Alter, Wallet. Down 2 Alias, 3 Pylon 4 Rabbit, 5 Obsolete, a Hone, 10 Mar- 8 Liver, 12 Range, 13 Idles, 14 Exempted, 17 Dials, row, 20 Idyll, 21 Norve, 23 Laud

FERD NAND

*

Dog-gone

IN 1914-18 WAR

Joining the American Navy in 1908, he became an air arm pilot in the 1914-18 war, flying in France.

Looking

the liner salled There

hanging in the same 180,000 passengers

around them. "We intend to turn her into an almost entirely new ship," Cunard official said in Glasgow,

The vessel

he said, would return to the Liverpool-Quebec run on June 14 and later sail from Southampton.

The reconditioning job will Involve new Icatures. These will

Y includo cluema available to both Best-class and tourist passengers, public rooms and remodelled cabins,

На joined Pan-American She will bring the total ton- Airway in 1920 and was one nage of the fleet reconditioned of a small group of pilots, since 1945 to more than 300,000. including

Colonel Charles

Lindbergh, who carried out an LONDON CADET

the Caribbean

air survey of arca in 1920 and 1930.

ing

Captain Clark has been fy-PARATROOPERS

tween South America.

be-

for years on routes

Boys of a Kennington Army the United States and cadet battery may get a behind- the-scenes view this summer åt an airborne exercise. Plans are being worked out for them to Army accompany

parachutista selves, will not make jumps. They

one of the few belong to cadet units in London linked

A Woman Shows in aircraft. But the boys, them

The Navy

Certain circles at Plymouth with an airborne TA unit.

The lads are thrilled at the naval headquarters are chuck-

den"

Saya Captain J.K. Bartlett, commanding ecer. "They their

ling over a cocktail-shaker in-

The cut-glass top had become already receive all the normal

wedged in the mouth, Parachute training,

eldent

firmly

and the

owner brought it to course, the jump," Mount Wise, fully confident in

officers

strong In the

Dozens tried, but even the

strongest failed.

Various and semi-scientific

except, of

GOLD IN COAL

CELLAR

artifices, including heated oils, Mrs Nellie Cox, of Bishop's proved unavailing, and a tech- Stortford, found a small packege nician took the thaker

home in her coal collar. At first she

to work upon it. He did so all was afraid to touch it, as she the evening, til finally his wife thought it was a mine-blasting

opened it charge. Then she took over.

found 30 gold coins. Next morning she handed her and husband the shaker top and the Twenty-five of the coins were result minted in Victoria's reign; four stopper, separately, the of an old-fashioned bath of bear the head of George IV, vinegar.

and one is a Willam IV coin.

By Mik

Rupert's Autumn Primrose-22

wali.

Ruper examines the hole in the "That's all right for lock," he thinks, "but it's 100 small for mt. I could never wriggle through Ch, dear, is this end of my chase? Then he How disappointing." notices that the stonework is partly covered with thick ivy, "I could climb that easily," he murmurs."

wonder if it would matter it looked over the top." He ties up his paper bag with string from his pocket and hangs it from his shoul det before starting. The ivy is old and its branches are very strong, so Rupert has no trouble at all, and in a few minutes he is peering down into a strange and beautiful garden full of flowers.

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