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SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1938

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ISTANBUL MAKES FILM HISTORY

Striking

Method of Livening

up Lifeless Pictures

I don't know whether you heard of it, but an unex- pected thrill was given a cinema audience at Istanbul the other day when a young man, becoming irritated by the failure of Tom Mix, the hero, to shoot his film enemies, jumped up and emptied his revolver into the screen, cry- ing: "This is how we shoot in Turkey."

In the ensuing panic and stampede to the exits n number of the audience were injured.

A REMARKABLY good idea

and a form of film criti- cism which has a great deal to commend it.

i was once at a theatre on Boat Race Night, and the aesthetic satis faction of seeing a very dull come- dian cop very ripe tomato on the Adam's apple has never quite dis- solved.

When everything looks black and I back all the horses that run fourth; when I arrive late at the office and everyone sidles up to me with white, panic-stricken face and says, "The biss has been looking for you! By crikey, you're for the electrie chair or sunething"

It then that

By

L. W. LOWER

rushed on to the stage and raked up everything edible,

There was a party that night. The orchestra was invited, of course, but they could only contribute the less heaveable articles such as vegetable marrows, pumpkins, and the like.

Enter, Grandad!

I think of the comedion collecting My grandfather (You're not go-

the tomato.

It bucks me up.

When I was in Istanbul there was no panle or stampede to the exits if someone saw fit to shoot the cars off the leading man. A litle mild ap- some slight delay plause, perhaps;

while they got another leading man. or patched up the old one, and the show went on. The Ice-cream boys used to go about during the interval selling ammunition,

A comedian once told me that he Was pelted with onions, tomatoes, empty chocolate potatoes, eggs. boxes, and a bunch of rhubarb which didn't quite reach him. The curtain cust and the whole was lowered

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

An Outdoor Exposure Guide

Taken against a white garden wall, with puppies on a bench. Exposure 1/25 second, stop 1.11 with folding camera.

WHAT kind of camera is yours?

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ing to rake that old reprobate up again, surely!)

My grandfather, said he, obstin- ately, used to be on the boards. That was in the days of Ellen Terry and Little Tich and Nellie Stewart. But you girls wouldn't remember that.

(Oh, go on with you! How old do you think I am?)

About twenty-two, No, I should say twenty-three, You have more

than a girl poise

of twenty-two. More savoury fare, to use a French expression.

You (Oh, somebody told you! mean thing, you knew all the time!) Shut up, and let me get on with my work. I don't know how I carry on with all these interruptions.

A fellow just rang up and, asked me.

Somebody-or- was Miss

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other. I told him that I was her but he could go and get work, as I was utterly sick of him. That's going to Lake some explaining. Foor Miss Whosis!

And you're using her typewriter. too! Ain't you ashamed of

your work.

My grandfather tells me that he used to be overwhelmed with invi- lations when he was an actor. Some of the audience were so considerale that they used. to beg him to -home-in-the-middle of his act

go

You don't get the same considera- tion these days

much.

As for me, I had to give up my slage career, partly because I was becoming bleached by the limelight and partly from. Injuries received and partly because there was по money in it. It will be seen that i was a man of many parts.

I wish this chap wouldn't keep on ringing me up and saying. "MINS Whatis?" I'm running skort of names to tell him.

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You had just given up your stage career, mainly in self-defence.

"Oh! Well, that was a lie. No ac- ever gives up his stage career.

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A Lay Sermon

By HUGH REDWOOD

OBSERVE that those whom

the

Jesus here decribes as "workers of iniquity" are not

On conscious evildoers. contrary, they are people who have been at the very gate of salvation.

These

men

and Women

acknowledge.

of

the sover- Workers of

eignty iniquity. Christ; more. LUKE, XI. 27. they claim liis personal acquaintance. He has spoken bas in their churches. Ite been present at their tables, as they, perhaps, have been present at Hls. "Lord, Lord."

unte they cry, "open But the Master of the House. they has shut the door.

and remember what He once said to them: "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter, but he that doeth the will of my Father."

US!"

Bre

People they say, are not nowadays "convicted of sin" as once they were. That is be- cause one simple, terrible truth Is not explaned to them. God's will is done through sanctified human channels. If we not yielded to Him on channels, then, whether we like to be fold it

not, we are serving the other alde (Matthew, x.. 30). Those leachers carry dire responsibility who, by falling to explain what sinis, make sinners instead of saints.

I have scen actors who have never Been a footlight for twenty y cara make such an impassioned speech that the barmaid has burst into tears and pleaded to someone to go for the police.

I get moods at times when the old Thespion in me lames up and will not be quenched,

(Will nothing quench it?) Well, It's awfully kind of you, old top. I don't mind if I do. I'm afraid cannot return your hospitality, however, I'm resting.

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I said to Vic Hugo only yesterday, "Now listen Vic..

And there, if you don't mind, we will leave me, bulging with sum- mones and final notices and no money.

sorry

been you.

Hal. The telephone! "I'm very has but Miss Whatsername run over by a train. Thank Good-bai!" I think I'd better Ket off the premises for a while. Adieu.

I've just come back to take a bow. "My dear, dear public: I thank you -What, rehearsals? Well, I must be off."

Anyhow here comes Miss Whosis. And there goes the telephone. Tally

fo! Let's get oula here.

TEST ANSWERS

Week-End Problems.

PROBLEM I.

THE HOCKEY TEA

Ten of the visiting team came to tea Six of these were old St Bul- leigh girls.

6, 5, 4, 1 For-

10, 9, 8,

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Mr. Sundow

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had given himself was not aware

that topical rhymes about Play- fair, which he quoted with so much amusement. had been presented the night before for the first time. His knowledge of them es- tablished, prima facie, that nine o'clock he had been in about the Metropolis.

Are You Sure?

An electrical unit. 2,--Captala.

3.-Elder.

4.—Sk}}{u}}-should be skilful.

5-A substance from a whale. 6.The ass.

Capricorn.

-A belt of the heavens.

D.--A doc.

10-Hathaway and Shakespeare. 11-A crocuille.

12.---A drug.

13.---Less oxygen than hydrogen.

14. The franc. 15-Caliper.

10.-Balaklava. 17.-Sand. 18-$15. 10.-Gluttony.

How good a detective are

you?

First of a new series called Minute Mysteries, because our hero, Professor Fordney, can solve them all in a minute dead. But you are clever if you can. This Minute Mystery is called The Anonymous Tips. Look out for the second one Next Wook

HE professor had little difficulty in following the dainty, high-heeled shoe-prints of a woman and the large heavy prints of a man through the soft earth at the side of the road down through á clearing and to the edge of a deep thicket.

Pushing his way into the underbrush he found the body of a middle-aged, attractive woman-strengled to death.

So the anonymous tip had been right, after all!

The contents of the woman's open. vanity bag were strewn about. A cigar band and two burned matches lay near her feet; her battered hat at some distance from the body. The left shoulder of her dress was torn.

Quietly Fordney stood looking at the body-"getting the picture."

"Yes. It must have been done that way," he said to himself as he followed the man's heavier footprints back to the road. He summoned an ambulance and had the

body removed to the morgue.

!!!!

Two hours later he was assisting the coroner, Dr. Johnson, in his examination.

Removing the woman's goloshes, shoes and stockings and impatiently flinging them aside the professor seemed most interested in a long deep bruise near the left knee.

He examined it closely as Dr. Johnson gave him an inquiring look.

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Apparently he quickly lost interest in it, however, as his, "How long had she been dend before I discovered her, doctor?" Sounded almost disinterested.

"Between eight and twelve hours," was the physician's reply.

"A puzzling affair, doctor," said the professor. "She wasn't murdered where I found her and a man and a woman are in- volved in her death."

HOW DID FORDNEY KNOW THIS?

Solution is upside down at the foot of Column Four.

Another Minute Mystery next Saturday

your wits on

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23-Cruiser.

24,--Poland, 25.-Australla.

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What one-letter words are there in English?

b. What common two-letter words are there?

What another words?

two-letter word read backwards forms

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The mplies to these questions are valuable clues. Decipher the following sentence, using pencil and paper. Each symbol represents a letter. Time allowed: Fifteen minutes. Solution in at the foot of Column

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A DOCTOR SOUNDS A WARNING TO SLIMMERS

Under the heading, “Slimming Drugs and Cataract," Dr. Hamil- ton E. Quick, hon, ophthalmic surgeon of the General and Eyo Hospital, Swansea, discusses in the British Medical Journal the loss of sight of a woman of 28.

None of the usual causes of entaract was present, and it was learned that for three years she had been taking a

a preparation for slimming purposes.

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"It is difficult to prove," adds Dr. Qulek, "that these cataracts are directly due to dinitrophenol products, but though the number of women taking them is very Inrge,

seems that the propor- Is 100 tion developing cataract

ent for mere coincidence. grent

prove

connection statistically one would have to show that in females of these age classes the proportion developing cataract was greater in those tok- ing these drugs than in the gen- eral population of obese females of these age classes,

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"Perhaps one should limit the classes to obese. females, and I do not know that such statistica are available.

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from apart

congenital, diabetic, or other severe generat disease and traumatic

cases, cataract in young women is very rare, and I think that most ophthalmologists would agree that when it occurs it is in poorly nourished, feeble, individuals, re- sembling those suffering from prolonged lactation, and not in a stout, buxom type ilke the pre- sent case.

"It is likely that more of these cases will occur in Britain, and it seems doubtful whether the use of preparations of the dini- trophenol type should be tinued."

WHAT IS VITAMIN 8,7

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C12 H17 ONS Br. 11 Br, 0,5 H20

To the chemist these letters are a blue print from which he can build any number of mole- cules of this valuable com- pound. Instead of extracting It from natural sources, he can. take the right number of aloma of carbon, hydrogen. охудел, nitrogen, aulphur and bromide, Just as a bricklayer takes bricks and builds out of them the right shaped magical box.

Deciphered

Solution to Test D in Column B Is: On a day of rest I do no work.