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£2,750,000 FOR

Gertrude Lawrence Speaks in Pulpit

New York.

GERTRUDE

LAW-

RENCE, glamorous British actress who has amused two continents by her sophisticated studies on the stage, has made a sin- cere plea for peace....from the pulpit.

Miss Lawrence, who is appear- ing in the Broadway play, "Susan and God," preached for 20 minutes to a large congregation in the Now York Temple Methodist Episcopal Church.

"Men want pence," Lawrence. "They want decency undi We have, accurity in their homes.

sald Miss

turned to religion in our hour of need.

"I feel there is a spiritual re- awakening among the people

everywhere.

"It is almost a revolt of the masses against the oppressive materialistic leadership of dictators.

WOMEN'S HOPE

"Religious plays, which could not have survived in the theatre during less hazardous times, ore now playing to steadily increasing audiences.

made been "People have deeply conscious of their need and they are on the move.

"When that movement reaches round the world, as it must, dangers will then fall back and men will once more be able to settle down! beside quiet streams and fish and think in peace.

"And we women will ralse happy ehlidren to be proud citizens and not soldiers."

Peer

Dutch Now A Briton

No

TOTICE has been given that Lord Reay, head of the Clan to the Mackay, is applying Home Secretary for naturalisa- tion.

Lord Reay, who is 32. is Dulch The by birth and upbringing. thirteenth Baron, he is descend- ed from a branch of the Mackey who settled in Holland many years ago and received the title of Baron Mackay of Ophemert. His father inherited the Scottish

tile, created in 1628. from a cousin.

Lord Reay, who is 6 fi, 0 in. In height, married in 1930 Charlotte Mary

Melrose, Scotland.

Younger.

of

Swing Has Come To Sway

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LLOYD GEORGE VISITS PARIS

DURING A RECENT VISIT to Paris to negotiate with French politicians, Mr. Lloyd George visited the Hotel des Invalides. The photo shows the white-haired palician standing in front of the show casc containing Napoleon's death-mask,

Too Much Drinking In

R. A. F. Says

CHARGE IS

REFUTED

M. P.

your admiration to him who keeps nind and body under control and it march utict stand at all times to blows."

Mr. Austin Hopkinson (Nnt., Mess- "Are Jey) interrupted him, asking: you

making any accusation that Al

the Force officers, particularly What is the British Air Force Juniors, are in any

way different strength? How does it com- from those in the other services or "It's from the civilian population? Uniess pare with the German?

what we are all thinking about," you to making a pump

sald

Mr.

Wedgwood

no good pretending-that is you repudiate absolutely the idea that words will go out to the world Benn at large as

gross and infamous

Estimates in the House of Corn- Force." mons recently.

(Socialist, Gorton) on the Air slander on the personnel of the Air

Overlook, please, that he at once moved to reduce the personnel of He did not the Air Force by 100. really mean it.

Mr. Garro-Jones replied that he had chosen his words carefully and could not be responsible if they were misrepresented.

CONSTANT WATCH Mr. Winston Churchill's comment that Mr. His whole speech showed that the was: "1 cun quite see

greatly Garro-Junes did nut intend to cast Socialist Party alarmed if the

Force. falling to keep up the power of the any slur on the plots of the Air But he gave such premin- that the Germanence to the topic in his speech that Hopkinson's thinks Mr. I cannot

at all out of place. was

be would

Government

were

force.

Mr. Benn said Air Force, now possibly twice the severity size of ours, had been handicapped having regard to the importance of in the past by a shortage of raw correcting the impression that there materials. Now he had a report that is any tendency to alcoholic abuse

metal were exported the RA.F. 152,000 tens of from Spain to Germany in January.

I have been able "AU I

certainly support Now, also, he sees a considerable would accession uf material from Austria.

that there is

line"

no ground

for

Lo learn View

any

general

TUESDAY, MAY TELEGRAPH,

1938.

AIR DEFENCE Gas-Proof Tubes, Masks, and

Evacuation Plans

Paris.

·MPORTANT measures to protect the population of Paris against air raids were decided on at a con- ference held at the Prime Minister's office recently. A credit of £1,250,000, to be found half by the State and half by the Department of the Seine, will be opened at once for the purchase of gas masks.

Another £1,500,000 will be spent in gas-proofing the Paris Underground railway system and in improving and extending bomb-proof cellars.

is

The Scine Department authorised to impos new local

funds.

Plans to evacuate 2,000,000 prople! from Parls within a week are now ready,

PEER,66,WEDS taxation to got the necessary

GIRL, 21, BY DECLARATION

These people will be sent into the provinces. Assembly centres and special train services are provided for and will be announced in case of emergency,

Lord Belhaven and Stenton,

CELLARS AS SHELTERS sixty-six-year-old Scottish peer,

Over 30,000 cellars which can be married by declaration a twenty-used as shelters are now registered in one-year-old girl he first met Paris. seven weeks ago on the French Riviera.

His bride was tall, fair Miss Shella d'Hauteville Pearson, daughter of Captain A. G. Pearson, D.S.O., of Knoll Farm, Aldington, Kent,

After the ceremony-in the library of Wishaw House, Lunarkshire, Lord Belhaven's home-they motored to Hamilton Sheriff Court to register the marriage.

Later a wedding service was con- ducted at the house by the Rev. D. C. Whitelaw in the presence of friends.

Miss Shells Holroyde, one of thei witnesses, said: "Lord Belhaven net Mentone Seven Miss Pearson at weeks ago on his way home from a trip to India."

Lord Belhaven's first wife died in 1935. llc has a son and a daughter.

Two European

Mysteries

Diplomats of Soviet extraction are two now the central figuren in mysteries (says Central News from

Paris).

A hospital in the suburbs, able to take 2,000 patients, has been equipped to deal only with gas patients in time of war and dressing stations are being provided on the outskirts of the city.

Juliana To

Visit East?

HOLLAND WOULD BE IN FAVOUR

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cept the invitation to visit Australia.

Canberra has not yet sent a formal invitation to Holland, but is inquiring of the possibilities of acceptanee through Whitehall.

M. Butenko, the Soviet Charge Semi-officially it is believed that d'Affaires at Bukharest, who is said the Dutch Government would be to have arrived at Rome, is now re-

Princess whether on ported from that city to have dis- favourable, but overything de- oppenred, and a mysterious hammer pends attack on Vlec-Admiral Skobilev, Juliana carries out her plan to

Attache former Soviet Naval

Stockholm, and Constantinople reported from Brussels.

ut

go to Batavia.

is

Lord Gowrie, the Governor-General will spend of the Commonwealth,

Admiral Skobiller was serving nine days in the Dutch East Indies, and he will invite Jonicheer A. W. Stockholm in 1930 when he was re- called to Moscow, failed to go, and Tarde van Starkenborgh Stachou- Governor-General, wer, the Dutch in default was sentenced to death.

Australia,

Recently, as he was leaving his lo return the visit to apartments in Brussels, a man rush-possible, with Princess Juliana.

ed up to him with a hammer. The Admiral fell to the ground badly fajured, but was able to call for help, and the man ran away.

The police, who suspect an attempt | tassusstration, are now seelding a

Lord Gowrie is to spend three days at Singapore, and he will then fly to England, staying for a short while in India on the way.

man, believed to be a Czech, in con-Finished With

nection with the affair.

On this subject Mr. Churchill special stigmatising of the linbits that quoted again Lord Baldwin's pledge prevail. There is no anxiety, no ut parity in first-line strength, re- ground for

t founding peating his view that the Govern aspersion.

Colonel Mulrhead replied: "1 have ment would still maintain this pledge If they could.

uften been asked by people in private The Government now drop "if every possible check is kept on the parity and speak in much more physical and mental capacity of the general sorms. In Mr. Churchill's

plats and it every possible step is view the House would never have taken to ensure that any possible de- been asked to accept a new standard terioration in morale or capacity is of comparison if a good case could noted." be made out on the old one,

He emphasised that under repuls- HITLER'S ADVICE

tions the Air Force medical officers Paris. Colonel Muirhead, the Under are instructed to maintain constant whereabouts. the tango Secretary for Air, said that the over-contnet with the pilots, not only at from Spain, the rhumba riding statement was made a fortwork but in their ordinary life, su from Cuba and the waltz from night ugo by Mr. Chamberlain, who that any sort of deterioration in Vienna, American jazz which promised that the British Air Force efielency can be noted at an early

would be "an effective instrument fer stage.

NEW DANCE HAS ENORMOUS VOGUE

COMPARED with

urnosn

only 'be

of squiry conducted by Eddie Bir. Garro-Junes (Soc. N. Ab Professor Was

He

that

an

the

same

Not Impressed

With regard to M. Butenko, it is stated that he will broadcast over At the moment, the Rome radio. nowever, he has apparently vanished into thin air, and no one knows his

All Women"

"I'm finished with women," said 59-years-old Mr. William Nicholls, Redear bachelor, as he walked out of the Assizu Court here ordered to pay £150 damages for breach of

correspondent. It was the second time he has paid! in tuese circumstances. A few years ago he settled out of court in an action

on brought by a relative; "pald like a nan," as lils counsel sald.

have had "The two experiences Milan, Italy.

with women have been costly, und I that I have Rambelli, 31, a can now

"Admittedly I was n bit indis-

He Thought He promise, writes a Was A Chicken

Amletomber, is re-learned my lesson," Mr. Nicholis told

me.

covering from a brain storm creet in this case. I bear no animo- which he attributed to frustrat-ity, and the whole thing is wiped

out as far as I am concerned." ed love.

Rambelli went to a fashionable restaurant and ordered a table for GIRL LEFT COURT seven. He said he was expecting six guests.

grand

"I want to show them n

Mr. Nicholls, retired newspaper proprietor, declined in court to make he wrote down a figure on a piece public his financial position. Instead,

of

paper.

time," he said, "First, bring me all the vegetables in the place.

Mystified, but enger to please, Miss Eva Willoughby, 27-years-old walters took him dishes of carrots, Redenr Sunday-school teacher who relery, lettuce and other vegetables.

"Now bring me big bowls of gela- brought the action, sat dabbing her tine and

salts as she listened to Mr. Nicholls bell! ordered onnnise dressing," Ram-eyes and using a bottle of smelling-

in the witness-box. These were brought.

Mr. Wedgwood Benn asked leave to has turned into swing, is the pre-our pureed that the House would withdraw the amendment, and the

He agreed ferred dance music for French

finite Bompletely satisfied by de-Vote was approved, Becking after-dark

of the two Air Forces, couples amusement in the country's but it was not in the public interest

to give hot spots.

Parilament criticised occasionul Foy, English maestro who is deen), a former pilot, once before in known as well on the continent excesses in alcohol and was bitterly

He made as in his own country, proves reproached.

Des Moines, Io. that those with a girl on the speech last night and got the same

Robert Taylor of the movies was arm like the Yankee music best treatment.

a good Add that the personnel of the just another student and when they go dancing.

Is incomparable but quoted Foy's Andings are based on re- from the report of a recent court-cellist when he aliended college, officer admitted according to Dr. Herman F. Brandt, quests made by dancers in swank martial

professor of psychology at Drake supper clubs in Paris, Deauville having four glasses of sherry before

University. and Cannes over a period of

two pints of beer during The screen's latest heart-throb was months. He has recorded them and

a glass of port, and a liqueur one of Brandt's students at Doane says that discerning dancers prefer brandy.

College

lege, Doane, Neb. to elay put if the tune lacks the He said that weakness for alcohot

"Taylor was a good cellist, playing riythmic swing of Hollywood or New applies to a small proportion of in the college string quartet," the officers, adding: "Unless it is care professor recalled. "He was an ex- York.

Foy, the swing-fully watched and kept under control cellent tennis player. He also re- According to time foxtrot taps all other dance tunes then in a certain percentage of cases ceived leading roles in drama."

Rambelll carefully spread the vege- the table. cloth. tables about on The actor's carriago and posture, in popularity with dance audiences it will affect the efficiency and nerve

Then he lifted the big bowls of gela- here whether they are all French or of the pilots."

his dress and his sincerity impressed The tango comes second,

according He wished it were less fashionable lo English,

acquaintances,

tine and mayonnaise and poured the contents over the vegetables. Final- with the waltz taking third place. to regard it as manly to carry large Brandt. And, the professor sald, The rhumba, which took the country quantiles of drink.

He quoted Taylor always felt he had not done a ly he stretched himself on the table, smeared mayonnaise on bis face and by storm a few years ago, is on the Hitler's advice to pilots: "It is not thing as well as he could have done

Give it. who is most to be admired. And with the perfection of short-

"Here is what the actor, when he wave radio Bota

the growingi and popularity of American sound pic-the 10 most popular American songs still was known as Arlington Brugh,

wrote in Brandt's yearbook: tures with European audiences, Foy in Europe during the lost year:

"To say the least your class in Say About "In It True What They. You're A sophomore psychology was very in- finds the latest New York or Holly-

I could have teresting. I with wood song hit is known over here Dixie," "Goody Goody," "Sweet

Your student and almost as soon as it is on Broadway. Sweetheart," The difference however, is that redio "Dipsy Doodle" "Trig udled it more.

song in the "There'a i Goldmine in the Sky" felend-Brugh. repetition of a now

The professor added that Taylor United States soon kills it while it "Ebbtide," "You Can't Stop Me From

students." longevity may span several years in Dreaming" and "That's Why the Lady always was popular with the women Europa. Foy lists the following asila A Tramp."

wane.

to

She left when Mr. Justice Wrottesley finished summing-up. and was standing outside, her handkerchief crumpled in her hand, when friends came out 20 minutes later to tell her the ver- dict.

um satisfied," she told me. "I caldi

"When my guests 'arrive please did not look for heavy damages. The carve me with care, as if I were a verdict has cleared my name among my friends, and that was the main money will be chicken."

By this time women in the restau- consideration. His

for the years I The Waltors some rant were shrieking. quleted the guests, assured Rambelll have lost."

"We shall look after her all right he would be carved as desired und telephoned police. To them, as they now," Interposed her mother, Mro. took him away, Rambelll nfd en Willoughby, who was one of the wit- "We wanted the verdict, not unfortunate love affair went to hlnesses.

the money, head.

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