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ES OF THE DAY

STEADY PROGRESS

The Intent news of British ap- proach to recovery comes from one of the most seriously "depressed" areas in the country. Ebbvale has not had any business for six years. Its citizens, formerly 'employed in the great steel mills and mines of the aren, have lived hopelessly on the dole for seventy-two montha or niore. Tradesmen have suffered almost as much as they, Their

As

HOLLYWOOD ROBS

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By A Special Film

Correspondent

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businesses have gradually dwindled THEN I left the Queen's pianissimo. to mere, pittances or, more often, W Theatre last night after Then, s show a loss, and the once thriving seeing the first of the new far-off thunder community, has steadily sunk into colour films I felt just as I did aquagmire of despair from which after seeing the best of the of there seemed no escape. Imagine early talking pictures. This artillery those pitifully destitute and heart- was a forward leap as big as heard, the tints SPE

PECIAL arrangements extend- broken workers, many of them ex- the talkies. Seven years ago decpened, be-

ed to the motorist going on perts at trades they spent years to one felt it would be impossible came

sonibre, home furlough for delivery in perfect, who had lost their employ to go back to the silent pictures. and were design- London and use at Home" and ment and Been their savings Now one feels it will be impossi subsequent re-delivery in Hong-vanish, who had spent the past six ble to go back to pictures with ed to suggest kong at above landed prices... years waiting for nothing but their out colour.

the shadow of Deferred terms-Repurchase- dole, whose families Ilved in

doom: a film, "Becky Sharp" Licence and Insurance arranged. poverty and fretful uncertainty. doesn't do justice to "Vanity Then the Suddenly the news bursts upon Fair." Hollywood has been less colour began to them. Richard Thomas and Com-kind to Thackeray than to quicken

in pany will re-open the steel mills Dickens. But, as a new experi- response to the and the mines! There will be im-ence I found it breath-taking. confusion and

Colour has swept over the

As dismay that fell movies in a full tide.

the fresh departure "Becky Sharp". Upon is much more satisfactory than dancers. In the "The Jazz Singer" and the other same way that carly experiments in talking pic- the orchestral tures.

Miriam Hopkins, who uchieves an entirely now. commentary in

triumph through Technicolor's and in "Becky Wagner E

Sharp".

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SATURDAY, Nov. 2, 1936.

CURRENCY TURMOIL Hongkong has passed through a hectic week in the exchange market, the repercussions of which have been felt as far afield as. London. The violent fluctuations in the sterling value of the dollar, with forward rates following the opposite trend to

market.

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mediate

work for hundreds. Eventually 10,000 will probably be employed. No wonder men wept for joy in Monmouthshire.

IS IT JUSTICE?

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be, did not hesitate at causing in- convenience to others. had disobeyed a court order."

And he

NO EXCUSE.

of excuse

F course, we have all seen Strauss is nearly

colour pictures before. always more supple and eloquent intelligence of the film pro- Hollywood has been experiment than the human voices, so I felt ducers. They will be hurd _put ing more or less hopefully with the pulsing colours conveyed the to it to find stories in which sequences in colour in many re- emotions of the actors in these colour is not simply, used as a cent films. But "Becky Sharp" scenes far more effectively than decoration, but can be employed is the first full-length picture to the snatches of talk, the sharp imaginatively, In

the wrong

at the

One day in September a posse of eight deputy sherifts crept to the house of John Crempa, a Polish- |born truck farmer in Scotch Plains, N. J They smashed a window, threw tear gas bombs into the little home, rushed to cover and waited for the family to come out. Then they fired. John Crempa be made entirely in the new cries, the sound effects, the hands it could easily become a was wounded, his wife killed. Was, medium, and the whole world gathering storm of cannon. first-class "bore. Crempa wanted for murder? No.

has been talking about it. It The long crescendo certainly It was startling to see Miriam Was he a fugitive from justice or a

will certainly change the face of played on the nerves of the Hopkins on the screen as she public enemy? No. Had Crempa when sound was introduced, a climax. The British officers in and a little heightened in colour- the industry. As happened audience. It rose to a fine really is, a blonde beauty, vivid become 籍

nuisance to anyone?whole range of new problems in their uniforms of scarlet and ing, and intensely "Southern." Yes. For eight years he had beenfilm-making is presented. gold and blue running pell-mėti Mr. Aldous Huxley suggested n thorn in the side of the Public Service Gas & Electric Company.

I forgot all the faults of the from the ball-room, the women that after the talkies might which wanted to run a power line story and the acting in the thrill in their brilliant gowns, were come the "smellies" and the over the truck farmer's small patch of the new experience. It was like the shining pieces in a "feelies." I hear that the film

a kaleidoscope that rather like hearing a full orches

child is magnates, in considering what DALMONTE TOTİ---Splendon Lo Sacro Faci-Lucia di Lammermoor that normally prevailing, have fused permission. Even after aing all the wanderful combina-

of land. Crempa stubbornly re-tra for the first time and realis shaking mudly.

they might do next to keep their It may be that a childish plea- vast public entertained, actually created. a panic locally, with court had awarded right of waytions of tone that could be pro- sure in these fluid colours run- experimented with films that disturbing effects on trade to the company generally. In the conditions proceedings he refused

In condemnation duced. The technical process ning into one another made me would appeal to the sense of the com- employed in a vast improvement xaggerate to myself the impor- smell. But the tests were not prevailing,

merchants have Fensation offered and kept up the over the garish two-colour ex tance of this new development. encouraging. It is odd, too, that found it virtually impossible to fight. lie short-circulled theperiments one

But it did really seem to have the technicians haven't yet been used to sec. MILIZA KORJUS-Invitation to the Waltz (Weber) No. C-2721 do business. If the slump in the electric lines, sometimes throwing This, picture has an astonishing the most wonderful possibilities able to master the art of mak-

The Little Ring (Chopin)

dollar were a mere reflection of entire communities into darkness. variety of hues ranging from both in making beautiful pat- ing three-dimensional pictures. For the time being Hollywood silver prices, the position could

terns und in heightening the Undoubtedly Crempa

ob-pearly grey to the most gorgeous emotions of a situation by an intends to rely on the new ap- stinate and, violently insistent on scarlet. be viewed with greater com-

artful assault on the senses. peal to colour to fend off the what he understood his rights to placency, inasmuch

The peak of splendour was

menace of television. It has 49 the

reached in the scenes | Colony's

appropriated the rainbow in the currency is based on that metal. But actually silver

Duchess of Richmond's ball at "BECKY SHARP" showed, hope that it will find a crock of Brussels on the night before

however, that there are gold where that rainbow ends. has remained-steady,-and-the-

Waterloo, which, thanks to dangers-in-this conquest-by-the- marked decline registered in the

Byron, Thackeray and Hardy, is film of a new dimension. If dollar's value during the week

the best-known ball in history. Hollywood runs riot with its is almost wholly attributable to

All of which affords no shadow In this sequence Reuben palette and brushes; and splashes BULLS AND INNERS speculative hammering of the surrounding an American citizen's colour with a cunning hand to except to show its resources, for eight armed men | Mamoulian, the producer, used colour about with no reason

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☐ ☐ Shanghai operators home, smoking out the occupants build up an emotional ellmax. then people will soon grow tired

From the Office Butts have been the biggest influence, with tear gas and then shooting to Here again, I had the curious of the novelty. with the result that, as

sense of following music, of We shall all have to accustom Eren people suffering from kill, asserts the Christian Science hearing Toscanini build up our eyes to these new splen-myopic aloofness can perceive the business man points out, the Monitor. The deputies claim self-

great Wagnerian climax with all the dours. A

many film-damage which Shanghal speculu Colony's currency has been at

defence. But no ovidence has

resources of his great orchestra. goers will not like the change, tors are doing to the Hongkong the.

been offered that mercy of outside specula-

Mrs. Crempa

but their protests will probably tors. Such

carried a position

weapon. Surely New js

be as unavailing as those that intolerable.

Jersey justice provides other ways These speculators

come down to detail. The were made when the pictures have been working on all man-

of arresting a man for contempt producer began the ball in began to talk. of court than by sending a small ner of rumours, mainly con-

army to bomb his home and shoot cerned with the possibility of down his family? Lately we've Sir Frederick Leith-Ross coming heard much talk of defending the to Hongkong and advising a Constitution. Wouldn't this be a measure of devaluation. Such good place to begin? That docu- rumours should be discounted. ment (Article 4 of the Bill of Rights) provides that: **The as there is no reason to believe right of the people to secure. In that they are based on any firm their persons, houses, papers and likelihood. But

effects, the fact

against unreasonable re- searches and seizuros, shall not mains that they do suffice to be violated." Will some of the cause a deal of injury to Hong- | Liberty League lawyers step up kong's currency.

The banks now and devote their great abilities have been doing their best to keep the market steady, but their efforts have been largely unavailing in view of the heavy pressure exerted by speculators who are in the market merely for the purpose of making money. There has been much talk of the local Government to pressure on the dollar, by munity, and possibly put a stop stabilising the dollar when it coming out with a reassuring reaches a satisfactory level, but statement dispelling the ru these reports should also be mours which have gained such taking with the proverbiul grain wide currency. It is held that or salt. In any case, whatever such a step would do more than the Government may have in market. Conditions, under the anything else to stendy the mind on this point would, very provalent depression, are bad naturally, not be divulged be enough already; they are being One point which is made infinitely worse by the made in business circles, how-speculative' hammering of the

market. If oxchange over, is worthy of consideration.

the by the Government, namely, to compose

Government could do anything that it could perform, a useful business

the altuation, the cominunity of the service to the commercial com- Colony would greatly rejoice.

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10 ending auch intolerable and fatal violations of Individual rights by agents of government? Is right of a big corporation to dis- this right leas important than the charge an employee for joining a union? Of course, there will be is the Constitution. no rich fees in it. But then, there

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very quiet, gentle colours cor- The new process will make responding to Juri orchestral some heavy demands on the

"Just because of a fow million fan letters she's beginning to think she's important.".

dollar.

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How easy it must be to transact business these days. For example, based on local exchange, the price mouse-traps this morning was $1.25-35-15-56-46-36-50 per dozen.

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People who deny the possibility of perpetual motion should watch the Hongkong dollar.

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It is rumoured that the Rifle Association may take over the Kowloon Golf Course. Magples Instead of eagles.

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Mussolini denies that he has any territorial ambitions in Africa out- side Ethiopia. And as far as she's concerned, all he wants to do is Caesar.

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Latest simile: As reckless as an Italian general who offers to fight Joo Louis.

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Any reports of the Italian cap. turo of Harar should be taken with a grain of, nesault.

Italian troops; exiled in Africa, have chosen "Romo, Sweet Rome" as their most popular song.

A phosphorescent keyhole - has been invented. This makes bur- glary too ridiculously easy1

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"New Neck Adornment", anys n nowspaper heading.. Arms, how- ever, still hold their own,