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THE PRINCE AT OXFORD

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Arrival By Air To Open Hospital

'SURPRISE VISIT TO

UNEMPLOYED

(Special Air-Mall Service)

Oxsono, July 9. "The Prince of Wales broke away from his schedule to pay a surprise visit to the unemployed man's club at Oxford to-day, when he formally opened the Wingfield-Morris Or thopedic Hospital, rebuilt by the generous, gift of £70,000 from Sir William Morris.

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Before he decided to go to the club the Prince had addressed representatives of the unemployed assembled in the Oxfordshire. sentation) County Ha, where he saw the work done by the men during the winter months.

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At the club the men looked up from their occupations and pastimes to see the Prince entering the door, and rather awkwardly, at first they stood up. The Prince at once" put them at their ease and was soon talking to them freely, expressing ing his interest in the work they were doing and his sympathy at their plight. "His Royal Highness flew from Helvedere to Port Meadow in his

'plane, new cabin

which piloted by Flight Lt. Fielden. He Was received by the Duke of Marl borough (Lord Lieutenant of the county), Sir William Morris, and Sir Montagu Burrows.

WAS

A Dream Come True. Following a short introductory speech by Sir Montagu Burrows, Sir William Morris asked the Prince formally to open the hospital. A dedication service had

conducted previously been:

by Bishop Shaw. Archdeacon Oxford.

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The Prince said: "I am very glad to accept Sir William Morris's invitation to open this latest, and most up-to-date hospital for or thopaedic healing in Great Britain. What has already been done in the treatment of crippled children gives hope of still further improve- ment in the future,

Not often have the dreams and hopes of a committee materialised in one afternoon, but through the generosity of Sir William Morris, this dream has been made to come) true.

"It is difficult to express appreciation of the wonderful generosity of Sir William Morris, but his name will be for ever as-ociated with this centre of healing, which I now have great pleasure in opening."

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THREE BRITISH PICTURES

"TIMES" OPINION OF

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HELL

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London, July

For the first time for some months there is a week in which the changes of London einema programmes are equally divided between America and this country The films from the British studios are Britannia of Billings- gate, based on the play of the same time, with Miss Violet Loraine and Mr. Gordon Harker in the leading parts; It's a Boy, adapted from the well-known farce recently seen in London; and Loyalties, a screen version of Glasworthy's.. play, directed by Mr.. Basil Dean. The American films are Christopher Strong, based on Mr. Gilbert Frankau's novel; Hell Below, a picture of the submarine warfare; and The Kid's Last Fight.

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but be cannot devise any contrast as effective as that made in the stage version by the prime matron of Mr. Sydney Howard. Mr. Bardon may fail here, but me in his presenta tion of a brisk Lancashire lad clamouring for recognition as the bridegroom's son. Nor is the film wholly dependent on these two come- dians. Mr. Horton's slow-witted- ness, Mr. Alfred Drayton's quick temper, Mr. Robertson Hare's so- lemnity, Mr. J. H. Roberts's un trouess are genuinely amusing.

Christopher Strong. Sir Chris. topher Strong is cautions, married and a politician who must be care ful of his reputation; Lady Cya. thia Daryngton is maiden and rash; and this film, based upon a novel by Mr. Gilbert Frankau and directed by Miss Dorothy Anzner, (Re-is a story of their relationship; telling how they abstained, how they yielded and how, when their love threatened the loves of others, Lady

and there is such diversified charm Cynthia killed herself in aeroplane while breaking the als Miss Heather Thatcher, Mis titude record. The English aris Helen. Haye and Miss Wendy Bar- (Purcha-tocracy of the principal characters rie can give

fiercely conflicts with the accents of several of the players who represent them, and, when omphasizing the theme that courage is stronger than death; the film lapses often into slack emotionalism. Apart from this, the tale is well and sim ply told. Mr. Colin Clive playing his part without extravagance and Miss Katharine Hepburn giving a clear, though not very subtle out line, of Lady Cynthia's mind.

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"The standard of village life 18 naturally depressed in these days. and it is desirable it should be Way to Tackle Unemployment, raised. Much has been done, but Speaking afterwards to a large there is still scope for invective "audience in the County Hall, the minds to improve village life.

Prince said he was delighted to should like to thank you personally

appeal bear such encouraging reports of for supporting my the activities among the unemloyed eighteen months ago to help the in the city and county.

unemployed."

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"Rural areas," he said, "are apt Later the Prince motored to Port to be overlooked, but the only way Meadow, where he joined his to deal with the whole question of aeroplane, leaving Oxford about unemployment is to refer to be 4.45.

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The kid's Last Fight. There is a great deal of lively incident to em- bellish this account of the gradual regeneration of a rather selfish and cynical boxer. It was not until he had had many startling adventures that he was willing not only to fight that dangerous and disagreeable heavy-weight King Cobra, but even to allow himself to be arrested as a murderer in order that he might find the money to pay off the mort- Britannia of Billingsgate.-As the gage on a home for crippled child. heroine of the play of this naine ren. Having accidentally killed a Miss Violet Loraine would have reporter who was about to publish been exquisitely miscast. The gifts the fact that he had no mother al- that have made her a queen of revue though he had advertised himself as are precisely those. which the port having one, he would certainly have is supposed to lack hanged if his trainer's corpse had "Britannia" (ao called because not been mistaken for his she is, without knowing it, a bit of But, as it was, he was able to fly the England that goes on for ever) into the country and take refuge in takes part in a film and, "simply by the home for crippled childers. being herself, she achieves the re There he would have been safe. if it sounding success denied to her film. had not been for his noble action struck daughter. If she possessed and if he had not been forced by the voice and the stage presence of the ferocity of King Cobra to ex- Miss Loraine her success would bepose his identity and show that he inevitable and the whole point of was left-handed, or, to use the more the piece would be lost. No less familiar term, southpaw. suitable part, then, could have been Douglas Fairbanks, jun, acts with chosen for Miss Loraine's film spirit and vigour, and the whole début. But her producers have re film, though perhaps not as instruc trieved their mistake by turning the tive as it is meant to be, is often play into

an extravaganza, and brisk and entertaining. Miss Loraine's triumph is inevit able. She has not been asked to EMPIRE suggest the pathos of the woman's discovery that her unex-

Hell Below. A naval historian pectedly enormous earnings are seeing this film for the first time ruining her family. She has only would be surprised to find American to be a duck and comically to submarines and cruisers engaged pursue her unruly, ducklings, slap: during the War in a series of ping sense into the girl who has actions in the Mediterranean. The hurled herself at the head of a fim de frank propaganda for the decorous film star, heading her on United States Navy, which helped off the dangerous dirt track, but in to make it, but it has merit enough the event madly cheering him on to as an entertainment to excuse the victory, and keeping a discreet eye liberties which it takes with his- on the harmlessly ridiculous figure tory. The producer (Mr. Jack Con which Mr. Gordon Harker makes way) has been determined to thrill of the fish porter. One cannot help his audiences with spectacles of regretting that the name of a play naval disasters, and because of his well suited to serious treatment on great technical accomplishment the the film should have been taken in intensity of our thrills depende not vain, but who can dislike an ez-on the risks taken to arrange them, travaganza which brings back the but on the skill with which the Violet Loraine of War-time revue, disasters have been placed in, the singing with all her old flamboyant narrative. The chief episodes, those grace songs which seem trying their of a submarine destroying three hardest to capture the lilt" of "It craisers, being chased by a fourth, you were the only girl in the and being damaged by depth world"?

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charges are excellently photograph ed, though this cannot be said of the pictures depicting the blocking. of a Uboat base. Almost through- It's

out the film the action is grim and Boy-This farce, exhibits

powerful. The cones in the sub- Mr. Leslie Henson at his drollest. marine, for instance, when she sinks It needs no further justification, and cannot rise because of a failure and perhaps that is as well, for in of the pumps, are so realistic that any case its complications would the restarting of the mended pumps baffe analysis Some may think comes as a great relief. The pic that it never improves upon its ture is lightened by the humour of opening scenes, which show Mr Mr. Jimmy Durante and Mr. Henson and Mr. Edward Everett Eugene Pallette. The officers of the Hurton at bachelor dinner submarine are played by Mr. Wal- party on the eve of a wedding, tip-ter Huston and Mr. Robert Mont- sily uncertain whether they are at gomery." tanding a regimental reunion or a directors' meeting. Their, homeward tackings and their dire awakening

on the wedding morning (how stale Seventeen officers and 142 men the matter, how fresh the manner!) (eight European and 134 nativen). keep the farce at boiling point, | have been committed for trial în Afterwards ite temperature is vari. Batavia in connection with the able. Still, some connoisseura --of mutiny in the Dutch battleship De absurdity may prefer Mr. Henom Zeven Provincien in February, The as a lady novelist, a role in which officers are committed on various he is not so much like a lady or a charges, but especially for not novelist as eelf-righteous turtle acting as they should have done at on high heels Mr. Albert Burdon the time when the ship was taken sino dresses up as a lady novelist over by the mutineers.

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BATHING

COSTUMES,

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LONG TIES from $1.75.

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