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The

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MELODY LINGERS ON

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JOHN HALLIDAY - MONA DARRIE HELEN WESTIEY LAURA HOPE CREWES WILLIAM HARRIGAN-DAVID SCOTT WALTER KINGSFORD FERDINAND GOTTSCHALK

EDWARD SMALL prod: A Reliance Picture

Directed by David Burton Folosed thru United Artist

SPEED

WENDY BARRIE JAMES STEWART

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Whon Charile stops out.

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His honeymoon is

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MARY BOLAND CHARLIE RÜGGLES Early to Red

A Paramount Picture with Quarga Borbjer. Doll Patrick Directed by Norman Mcleod Robert McWads

Adelirious duchess

on the loasa maels

a juava Casanova'

of the Casinos ....... and that's how

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A pleture packed with vigorous action and brawling laughter! The cast Includes TATRICA ELLIS. ALLEN JENKINS. DOROTHY HOBART CAVANAUGH;"ROBERT BARRAT.

JAMES

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1936.

Woman With Nothing to ALHAMBRA

do a

ATLANTIC SAIL IN BARREL TO START SOON

Tub to Have Radio, Mast, Canvas, Plenty of Storage Space

Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 10. A Buffalo veteran is going to spend his bonus money by taking a leisurely yachting trip across the Atlantic Ocean in a barrel.

Admiral and crew of the barrel when it slips into the sea off Battery Park in New York City late this Ernest Blegazski, month will be former deep sen diver and graduate of the United States Navy's torpedo school

at Newport, R. 1. Biegazaki's tub will be of the finest construction possible and will have

radio,

a keel, a sail and food and A marine water in large quantities. engineer is supervising, construction of the barrel.

"I'm going to take a short anil to Cleveland before I ship her duwn to the ocean, just to see if the leaks," said the veteran, "There is nothing like a good shakedown cruise before you put a ship in commission.“

LLO

NIAGARA EPISODE RECALLED

The company building the barrel for Biegazski several years constructed the eask in which George

Buffalo cook L. Stathakia,

philosopher went over Ningara Falls, The cask was airtight and provided

with

oxygen tanke. When they lifted

Stathakim out! of the cask after a score of hours

"Social

Menace"

40 NATIONS TO

DISCUSS HER

IS the woman with "nothing to do" a social menace?

She was discussed as such by 1,000 experts from 40 countries last month at the International Congress of so-

cial workers.

Prominent among them was Mlle. Alice Masaryk, daughter of the recently retired President of Czecho- Slovakia and sister of the present Czecho-Slovakian Minister in London, Mons. J. Masaryk.

"Even in the smallest and most labour-saving of flats' there is a full day's creative work for any woman," she said.

These are the five duties of the woman flat-dweller according to Mile. Masaryk:

To keep in good physical condl- tlon by an hour's walking. physical culture.

To keep herself attractive;

or

"MOST PERFECT

AIRPLANE

To make the flat charming with GUN IN WORLD”

the right choice of colours and furnishings and fresh flowers;

To plan out the evening and for her week-end programmes formily

To greet husband and children on their return home in a mood ready for play.

For the first time in history,' she added, the average woman now has cultivate those the opportunity to qualities which hitherto were assu- cinted only with "Indies."

"GUARDIAN OF THE HEARTH”

"By intelligent reading of fim, theatre and gramophone criticism and talk with her filends, she must be able to chouse the right type of

entertainment for her family.

"All this means a great dent of

hard work, but she should rejoice in

Paris, Aug. 1. THE French Government to- day justified their action in to Russin plans of passing on

the most perfect airplane gun in the world.”·

The matter was raised in the Chamber by M. de Kerillis, who nsk- ed why these plans had been given

Soviet to the

Government when France could have had a monopoly of them.

Great Britain and Czechoslovakia, he said, hui asked for a model of the millimetres airplane gun and French

the Soviet had requested a model of the 23 millimetres type which was the most perfect gun of its type in exist ence, capable of fring 800 shots a minute. The gun now most in use

spem bumping around the Jagged it because it makes her queen of the fired only 400,

little

ttle kingdom which is her home." once more become Until women

The

rocks at the foot of the cataract, he was dend. The cask itself was un"guardians of the hearth," Mile.

is dry injured and is inside as when it was placed in the water. Stathakis Masaryk belleves, there will be no have lived through it all had solution of the world economic situa- might have

flore conference was opened by he not disregarded the plens et friends to take additional oxygen.

Bicgazski's barrel will be different. the Lord Mayor of London at the The spil will be 6 feet wide at the Guildhall. A preliminary special session was held at Bedford College Lon. bottom and 5 feet wide, at the It will be 9 feet high and attached to at which M. Thelin, of the Inter- national Labour Office, spoke on re- a hollow 20-feet steel mast which may cent changes in social work through- be used as a ventilator when heavy out the world. seas, force the navigator to close his hatch and go below.

BARREL IS ROOMY The barrel itself will be 0 feet long and G feet, 8 Inches in diameter, There will be plenty of room for Blegazski to lie down and pull the ropes that control the sail without sticking his head outside the barrel.

In good weather the navigator will open the hatch and sail his barrel like a catboat. To keep the barrel

there will be attached

just

600land-keet on the sidel

He said

Hatch,

opposite the will take enough food] with him to last 60 days:

Biegazski hopes to make money by permitting inquisitive Europeans to view the barrel upon its arrival on using the other side. He said he

all of his bonus money to construct the barrel.

He also plans to capitalize by endorsing foods which he will eat en route.

"I'm married

and I have two children," Bicgazaki said. "I've had tough luck in business and I need education."- money for the kids'

| United Prrax.

Prominent among the 40 German delegates was Frau Gertrud Scholz- Klink, head of the National Socialist womanhood. A plump blonde in the middle thirties, she has been des- cribed as the "perfect Nazi woman," and is an advocate of the "back to the kitchen" movement for German

wonnen.

|

SHAVE YEOMEN

THEIR BEARDS

90 OF THE 100 MEN

NOW CLEAN-SHAVEN

“ANNOYANCE" IN CIVILIAN DRESS

!

ASSISTANCE PACTS

M. Cot, the Air Minister, declared that it was impossible to abstain from industrial collaboration with coun- trles with whom France had pacts of mutual assistance.

'He took full responsibility for tils action, emphasising that there was no question of military alliance with Russia, but only a pact of which everybody knew.

Com- M. Keriilis moved that a mission be appointed to inquire into the subject, but M. Cot made the matter one of confidence in the Government and the motion was re- fected by 403 voles to 162-Central Netus.

TURKEY BEGINS TO REARM THE STRAITS

Istanbul, Aug. 1. Turkey is already beginning to refortify the Dardanelles,

This follows the signing Montreaux Convention.

of the

The convention, with 2 protocol that Turkey can remilitarise the s Straits immediately, was adopted in Its final text at a public meeting of the conference.

Following are the main points:-

The freedom of commercial navl gation is assured in time of peace About 90 of the 100 men of the

and war, Turkey being neutral.

Non-Black Sea Powers have the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of

right freely in time of peace to send warships, up to an aggregate the Guard have avalled themselves of

the Black the King's permission to shave their

tonnage of 30,000 into Beards had been compulsory faces.

Sea. This tonnage is limited to far 35 years, since the accession of

light surface vessels and a maxi- Edward VII.

mum of 15,000 tons at a time.

When next the Bodyguard appears oa parade it is expected that practi-

MOSCOW TO BE ally all will be beardless.

REBUILT

Drastic Eviction Degree

£30 COMPENSATION

Moscow, Aug. 1. A HARSH eviction decree is-

sued by the Soviet Govern- ment releases the city soviets of Moscow, Leningrad and Kieff- European Russin's three over- crowded capitals -from the obligation to provide alternative housing for those whose living quarters are to be pulled down as a result of a grandiose urban planning scheme.

Citizens thus evicted will be given only two months' notice and pald an "Indemnity" equivalent to £30 per person In Moscow and £25 in Leningrad and Kien. There is not one room which can be purchased legally in Moscow. City, although a small one might be obtained fillcity for not less. Dan the equivalent of

£300,

now go

At first there was some hesitancy, for custom dies hard. But as first one and then another began to shave, the others were ready, to follow. The truth is that the, men did not fito their beards,

Sergt. Major A. Lockyer, of the Bodyguard, and formerly of the Ist Royal Dragoon Guards, confessed: "We spend comparatively le of our time in uniform, and when we appeared in civilian dress our beards were frequently, a source of annoy-

ance to us.

In time of war only non-belli. gerent States can benefit by the previous claume.

Black Sea Powers (Russia, Bul- garla, Rumania) have the same pri- vileges, but Soviet Russia can send out or bring in a battleship accom panied by no more than two de stroyera

car.

No submarines or aircraft riers may pass through the Straits, except new submarines being de- And livered to Black Sea States. those sent out for overhaul.

NATHAN 90. HOWLOO

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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW MEN RISKING THEIR LIVES FOR GLORY. THEY'LL TRY ANTTHING ONCE OR TWICE-

IF THEY LIVE!

Five-mile-c-minute dx- citement with thw“ tent. pilots--the bravest man-m and women--is the worldf.

DEVIL'S SQUADRON

steering RICHARD'

DIX

WILA

KAREN HORLEY LLOYD NOLAN

Shirley Ross Billy Burred

Directed by

Erle C. Kanton

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

SUNDAY

JACK OAKIE & SALLY EILERS in Thoir latest comedy drama hit.

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THE STORY OF A MAN OF PEACE WHO ̈ ̈ ̈ - NEARLY BECAME A PIECE OF MAN.

GAINSBOROUGH PICTURE.

✪ SUNDAY, MONDAY & TUESDAY DICK POWELL RUBY KEELER in

"COLLEEN

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TO-DAY &

WITHOUT SLEEP | TO

FOR 19 YEARS WORLD SEARCH FOR *A CURE

FOR 19 years Carol Grane, a 40- year-old Rumanian, has been travelling the world trying to find someone or something that will send him to sleep.

Now he has gone to London, wondering whether doctors and surgeons can give him sleep.

"Nineteen years without aloep," he said quietly Just think of it trouble

"Since the war-when the

began, after I had been knocked

Sergt.-Major Lockyer, before and, after shaving off his beard. "The Englishman will not believe that a fellow-Englishman of middle-first age wears, a beard. We were always being mistaken for foreigners.

Those evicted are advised to build themselves shacks outside the city, but the poorest shack coals 10 times "I have been taken for a French

Kusalan, ก

a - French the Indemnities offered. Moscow's gendarme,

Itallan ond an reconstruction, which has hitherto Cabinet Minister, "An excellent example of the work been delayed by the need to build officer.' The Hongkong Automobile A850-

Although Sergi.-Major Lockyer alternative housing, will ciation handbook for 1030-37

which can be done on the all-purpose aliced, and a vast number of old had his beard for 11 years, he said just been issued to members. It contains a list of members, detalls llnotypo machine is a calendar for houses to the centre wil be demolish that he felt very little different

without it,

took it off gradually," he said. of the service offered by the Asso-1936-37 issued by Linotype and ed This year about 7,000,000 squara diation, trafle regulations, benefits of

sheets feet of floor space became available The night the order came out uffilation, for those touring by car Machinery, Ltd. The large abroad, and hints on detecting car show the big letterpress and figures in now tenements In Moscow, but clipped it short. The next day

this only means 70.000 rooms each trimmed it down still further, trouble, as well as several-mapa of the Colony, showing the roads avall (up to 144-point) which can be cast 100 feet by 10 feet. Those are not finally I took it right off

There may be a fow who will cling on this machine.

enough to meet the city's annual In Crease of population without-count- to the beard for one, perhaps, Guard and abiteljed for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCYing those whose houses were pulled Ben White, who is nearly 85, and has

worn his beard for, 43 years. and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria down.

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curo

over the world seeking a

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

TO-MORROW MAJESTIC

THREE LIVE GHOSTS

with RICHARD ARLEN BERYL MERCER CLAUDE ALLISTER CHARLES MORLUONTON CECILIA' PARK ER DUDLEY DIGDES

ALSO

ON THE STAGE

AT ALL PERFORMANCES

"At Munich they worker Intensively "THE GRUBEL

on my case. All they could do in the end was to offer me 59,000 for my

I died." head when

after

M. Grane was asked how he felt

years of sleepless nights, "Strangely enough," he answered,

"I can work as hard as anyone for a fow hours if I wash in cold water first thing in the morning.

"Doctors have advised me not to tako too much physical exercise, They tell me to sleep on a hard bed. Then on a soft bed.

But it's all the same. I can't

sleep,"

TROUPE"

in Their Lafest

Dances.

* Meco Goldozer Høyse mirum

SUNDAY:- "LAST DAYS OF POMPEII”