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LETTERS FROM

EVE

So glad you won last night dear. You really deserve to have some luck with your bridge for you have been out of it lately. I am enclosing $3.50 instead of $4, because you did want to pay 'your half-share in that ticket in the big sweep. didn't you dear. Wasn't it too bad that our number didn't come up! Bungho says that we must move out of this house, because the rats really are a nuisance and have chewed a hole out of his tails. Personally, I think it was cock- roaches. Are you really keen about the weekly tennis four? I don't mind either way, but possibly we can manage to get rid of the last member! She would become somewhat boring so regularly, wouldn't she? It was sweet of you to send the sweet peas. What a lovely garden you have, and ours such a wilderness! What a pity the winter is really over, for I have so enjoyed those hikes, and since wearing Cordon's shoes have never once worried about rough walking. They are a boon,

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London, Mar. 4. Throo now British films are to be seen in London this week--and of those undoubtedly the best is "Abdul the Damned" at the Regal. In spite of its title and the no less. lurid decoration which covers the front of the cinema, this film is a sober and mainly satisfactory at- tempt to interpret the character of Abdul Hamid. But it fails in its lnterpretation because its pro- ducera distrust their ability Amake politica popular. Because of this uncertainty, the picture wavers between being a psychological study and a melodrama of intrigue. The continual shifting of Interest lessens suspense and makes tho Alm fall into the general rut in one important respect. it is, and it soems, too long. But for this, It is an extremely worth-while pro- duction. Several of the actors are too studied in their gesture and speech, but a certain florid form- ality does not come amiss in a film of Turkish history, and any over- | acting by Fritz Kortner, the star, is more than made up for by Nils Asther, as the Pasha whose loyalty Is turned to betrayal. The Darleh

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Who Named Lime House

And Why?

PEPYS PROBABLY

·KNEW ANSWER

SOME LITTLE KNOWN FACTS

To modern minds the same of Limohouse no more suggests # limokin than Wallsend cont sug- gests the end of the Roman Wall, It suggests, first, certain political speeches which raised the suggca- tion that the name ought to be changed to Slimehouse, and, second- ly, the drondfül book, ""Limehouse Nights," with which Mr. Thomas Barko first deilghted a shuddering world some twenty years ago. Others, who know their Dickens, may remember how in "Our Mutual Friend" Rogue Riderhood "dwelt deep and dark in Limehouse Hola"

the very spot in those days for such a villain; and even Shakes- peare had a hit at the much-abused place when he nude the Porter in King Henry VIII. bracket the limbs of Limehouse" for rowdiness with "the tribulation of Tower HIIL"

But Limehouse has gentler and

mere honourable associations; and

star has, indeed, been so well con-1A and mix, with about cupful piece of nows to be found in 1

trolled by the German director that one only wishes the British pro- ducers had allowed a really goot political film to be made. Abdul the Damned" comca an near to being one that one thinks of similar films made outside England, and the contrast is saddening.

BEET AND POTATO PIE MAKE a cupful good white sauce, cooked beetroot cut in dice. Line another

column revivos them. the sides of a greased fireproof dish Stow, the antiquary, wanted to with potato puree, put in the boot make out that the name came from mixture, and cover with more puree there; but no one believes that now. 2 "hurst, or grove, of lime-trees of potato. Sprinkle with grated cheese and small dots of butter On October 19, 1661, Pepys and others went by couch to and bake in a quick oven

tili Romo brown.

Captain Marahe's, at Limehouse, "to a house that hath been their in- cestors' for this 250 years, close by have travelled in their time. But to the place (they went, by the the lime-house, which gives ita name The previous work of Mr. Free-obviously it would be impossible, tuway, to see about a dock for the ander might also make one and restrict the players to Scottish herring busses to le up in); and when one considera Brewster's artists. Had the speech really the names of Limekiln dock and of Millions at the Leicester Square presented the language of a rimekiln Hill (now part of Three Theatre. This American Director would have disappeared The dia- that what put the limo in Lime- mole Highland village, clarity Calt Street) may be held to prove mado "Flying down to Rio," but

logue was intelligible and there is little of that streamlined

that

“BREWSTER'S MILLIONS"

to

tree.

other

gaiety about his first British film, moant much. Katherine Hepburn use was a limeklin, not a lime- There is, instead, a great deal of never had a part better atted those rather aimless high spirits sonality. Little Billy Watson is the name rouses einlater sugges her definite and striking per- Limehouse Causewny--once moro which are held to produce jollity. excellent as Mical Daw. Andy Lions-shared with Home They lead the hero into many Clyde touches once or twice upon streets in the London of the ducks, situations in which he is swamp-farce, but we were always glad to the London of the wandering sea ed, a fact which fa surprising con- sidering that he is Jack Buchanan. encounter his pawky humour, of men of ail nations, and of those who But the big scenes of this film are the fim. A well-acted plcture.

which there is barely sufficient in prey upon them; the mysterious dance spectacles in which the stor doce, not dance. It is therefore,

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

region of which Mr. Burke, in his milder mood, has written that you At the Empire, we not surprising that he does not "Sequoia." Inflalte patience has and the sen and the sea's wonderers, have can feel in the darkness the port produce as much effect as usual, gone to the making of this though all his effects are the same. exquisitely beautiful fim. It must and "the spirit that troubled the alr The lim, however, suffers from not be thought of as just a Nature But there is always a danger of around the waters of Babylon." what should be an asset. It has a study, though praise of this napect treating the East End of London good idea. The story of a man comes lavishly to the lips. Extra-ns Chicago complains that she is who has to spend a small fortune ordinarily clever photography, a treated by too much English in order to inherit a larger would telling human story, a thrill or two, opinion, which takes heed only of provide admirable material. for a and the strangest of love stories the violent and the sinister and Clair or a Capra. It would be ap- the life-long devotion of a puma neglects the good and the beautiful preciated-in-Czech-ur-Viennese and deer. It is unbelievably good. Limehouse has a church with a studios. In English studios it is The humans play second fiddle. to

I Closeness but not warmth. regarded as wit. Wit must be the creature of the forest, Jean tower that is "a landmark known 10 Take the advantage to *show

"Io all seas and all ports"-a tower turned into humour; that must be Parker is well cant.

enmity. diagulsed and so "Brewster's Mil-surrender ourselves to the illusion who designed this and other East

We need to on to which Nicholaa Hawksmoor, 11 About a hundred and fifty liona" emerges as another musical of the aim and its love of and End churches in the reign of Queen 12 The end of 32

employ this retiring Individual. film with more dancers but with devation to Pan lese tuneful music than usual,

Anne, put the very same pinnacles 13 He sounds rather young for such as he had put in his new building 14 we nearly all prefer it to woe,

underground work, at All Soula College, Oxford-and

The week's third British Glm is A reminder that the old inferior days of native production are not yet over. "In Town To-Night" consists of a series of mediocre radio turns indifferently Introduced by a dance band conductor. It may be socn.at the Capitol.

"RUMBA"

Across

no doubt the lime for the mortar, 17 No matter what he may say, you can either take money from him, came from Limehouse.

or give it to him.

18 A wise counsellor of mankind Limehouse has also a fine Town

and rugged eminence. than one hostel 19 A going out.

"Rumba" at the Plaza reveals George Raft at his best. Hore again is the generous spectacle of rhythm and melody, the graceful Hall, and more and ungraceful movements modern dancing, This romance of in life both to sengoing men and 25 Proposition.

of which has made all the difference 21 Tap when you've found it. an expert dancing dago with the to boys in training for the sea. 26 Flora's vital companion. daughter of a millionaire, has a "THE LITTLE MINISTER" Rensuous, latgerous fascination, not Marshe and his ancestral house. 30 The people of Zanzibar,

But it is well to remember Captain 27 An integral part of a pergola,

therefore indispensable. "The Little Minister" at.

quite healthy, but strangely en-Some who go East for the first time 31 Might I describe it as the passe the tieing. Carole Lombard's manner- Tivoli, is grandly satisfying, and ed grace and polished charm, her as there are of days when these 82 When I Join spa eccuplers they

are amazed to find so many traces

partout means of locomation? Another triumph for that woally sophisticated ease, well-governed were "residential quarters." On a tomboy Katherine Hepburn. Her passion, polse and bearing, mako little further acquaintance they de-i

become rather keen. direction is admirable. Period her a subject of a painter. Nor light in picking out the houses, of and atmosphere have been well muat you miss the second feature the eighteenth century or earlier, realised. The very fine all-round at the Plaza, "The Lemon Drop which preserve the memory of a cast acts well. In the matter of Kid." dialect it could not be claimed that smart wisecracking crookery and old homes. Of Popiar, of Stepney, It is an odd contrast of way of life now crowded out of ita the people in the play talk as they infantile sentiment, but it enables of Deptford-of-Rotherhithe, this is do-in-rural Scotland. The ear de Lee Tracy to rattle agreeably certainly true; and, though Lime- tects a range of accents. The in-through with the aid of Baby house was but a hamlet of Stepney, -` habitants of this Thrums must Leroy to a sugary conclusion, it must not be dented its dignity.

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