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-ask...... MICHAEL

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player, even having partnered her schoolday girl friend Miss tion Liberal M.P. for Anglesey Megan Lloyd George Opposi

in tournaments.

When she has papers to read she puts on and takes off her spectacles in the most lawyer- like way. If it assists-I do not think it does-a parliamentary career she is a water diviner. So M.P. is Geoffrey Shakespeare, for Norwich, but then he is at the Admiralty.

Miss Cazalet is the only woman who has any official position in this Government.

When She Talks Of War

1 have spent hours trying to

THE Duchess of Athall, discover what exactly our women

Unionist member for M.P.s had done. I found that Kinross and West Perth, and they had talked--and talked in now a back bencher, was at one many cases with authority time Parliamentary Secretary every conceivable subject. But, to the Board of Education, and honestly, I could not trace one sat on the front bench. major Act that had been passed of which the women can rightly call themselves thu prime

movers.

Lady Astor, who was the first woman M.P. to take her seat

She is no longer in the Gov- ін one of its ernment, but

everest critics, being very much an aristocratic rebel. She is tall, thin, dark, with a lean face.

Her pets are at the moment

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"and my now boy friend-ke's manager of a five and ten cent store an' can get me a discount on anything in the store!"

Stop those Crazy Comedies and

Give Us Films We Can Believe In

DE

EAR Mrs. Brown,-

There will be no film

famine this year,

Says SETON MARGRAVE

in the House, and has repre- Basque children, but it is terri- Rented the Sutton Division of fying when this quiet woman Plymouth since 1919, is still talks of war, for she will recount the foremost woman member. the most furid details in the [Actually a Sinn Fein woman, calmest way for a longer time Countess Markievicz, had been than almost any other speaker. previously elected, but did not The other women National Viscountess go to the House.]

Conservatives are

next year, any year or ever. Lady Astor has become a Davidson (Hemel Hempstead),

can be quite A Chinese from ft

War-hostess

for the Conservative Miss Florence Horsbrugh (Dun-I think you stricken town of the coast or Party, entertaining at her Lon- dee), and Miss Irene Ward (Wall-sure about that. Interior, where Japanese bom-don house in St. James's and her send-on-Tyne).

Of course, there has been so popular that cinemas like the Lady Davidson gained her, seat bers or sen raiders have very riverside home at Cliveden. considerably reduced the expec- She is always neatly dressed in a by-election last year when a lot of talk about a serious Stoll Picture Theatre are break- tation of life and made all in a black tailor-made suit with her husband was raised to peer-shortage of films, but then ing away from their one-week-

sort of a white collar, which shows up nge.

business a precarious

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Parliament.

So round and round they go,

What films at the moment are

only policy to run them for two and three weeks?

because you associate

The mother of four child-

there always is.

Producers like to talk about it, .

Just "100 Men and a Girl," game, must have twenty dollars against the drab clothes worn ren, she is always weil dressed, combining her political life with

since that sends up the prices

with Deanna Durbin, and "The in his pocket or he will not be by the men of the House.

She is the most talkative fox-hunting and entertaining. received here. Officially he is member, keeping up a continual Miss Florence Horsbrugh is they get for their pictures.

Prisoner of Zenda," with Ronald not refugee. This is the conversation with Opposition the senior member for Dundee. Cinema-owners like to talk about

Colman. sends producers effect of instructions issued by members, such as Communist In 1936 she created a precedent it, since that the Hongkong authorities to the William Gallacher and Indepen- by being the first woman to move scurrying to make more pictures, Back To Reality

Maxton. Her the reply to the Address from and that sends the prices of pic- police and disclosed to the Tele-dent Labour

on the opening of tures down.

You like Errol Flynn graph on Tuesday. The police usual comment is, "Go to Rus- the Throne

sis." Perhaps after the events are watching ships and trains

She has attacked Red Biddy, and preventing Chinese without of lust week she will be more

careful about telling members to the Scottish methylated spirits chasing each other, trying to him with "Captain Blood" and this unusual form of passport go to foreign countries.

concoction which was a menace scare each other, and getting "The Charge of the Light Bri-

nowhere.

gade." You will welcome him to the impoverished, and the entering the Colony. Those who

Flies Her Own 'Plane

B.B.C. for attacking the Prime But you are quite right in be- in "The Adventures of Robin lack it are simply to be shipped

lieving that the film world is in Hood." back to the places whence they

THERE sits nearest to Minister. came-unless, of course, some

Lady Astor Mrs. C. M. She is interested in jute, for a dither. It is not exactly in a Tate, who now represents the Dundee is the home of jute, jam, panic, but, as they say in Holly- And so it should. In the past Frome division of Somerset and journalists. I cannot trace wood, it has the jitters. formerly having been M.P. for her having been interested in

the latter two J.s. She has by few years it has indeed asked Willesden West.

She was born in St. Helena far the best voice of the women for it.

Star-Making but is no political exile, being members.

Miss Irene Ward knows more now in the thick of the fray.

And the film most in demand for reissue today is Norma. Shearer's "Smilin' Through."

years You will recall some ago the films of shady morals and shallow wit we called sophisti- cated comedies. Norma Shearer

| friend or relative comes forward and takes the responsibility of providing for them. Just why the Government fixed upon $20 has not been disclosed. Presum- ably it is felt that that would provide food and lodging She flies her own neroplane, is about coal than any woman, and of a sort for a month and by that keen on gardening, and seems perhaps more than moat M.Ps. time the emergency in China to talk chiefly on chickens, shops, Some believe that she is the best stars are not as likeable as they

type of Conservative woman used to be. That is profoundly throwing away all the good will might be

over.

sum

Vain hope. and servants.

You make a grand point had made several of these-films.

when you

say film before she came to London.

I told her then that she was

And why?

T

she had ever

earned, and. I

talked her into making "Smilin' The Government, with all res- Another woman who attacts member, and she does not waste truc.

Through." Her making that pect, should not be planning a attention is Miss Thelma Caza- an opportunity to raise the ques-

Simply because HO for the Conserva- So much

many film was entirely my idea, and month ahead, but for a year at let, who has represented East tion of coal and miners.

come to Miss splendid stars have been torn it was a good idea even if I say least in this connection. There Islington since 1981. She pre- tives. Now we

personalities it as shouldn't. are a good many thousands of viously had considerable LC.C. Megan Lloyd George, daughter away from their Chinese with $20 and there is experience and is now an alder- simply no room for them here man of the Country of London.

She combines music with under present conditions. If

they continue coming in their sport, being a proficient tennis Liberni Party. Recently, when Samuel Goldwyn was talking players who are appearing in

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Voice,"

To-day therò are a lot of of ex-Premier David and brother by the craze for crazy comedy. of Major Gwilym, who together I wish you could have been

people in Hollywood I would like: form a kind of independent with me the other day when to talk to all those excellent

bard at an Eisteddfod at about star-making.

making crazy comedics and

They was called Caernarvon, she thousands all the anti-eviction

Nobody in the world knows themselves ridiculous. rent

control kong is the only one that occursMegan of the Golden and legislation

more about star-making than are destroying their personali- to many thousands. One ven-

She uses her voice frequently Samuel Goldwyn, and this is ties all because they are unable schemes that can be conceived

tures to predlet that if the

what he said to me:

to distinguish between what is. will not make Hongkong any stream of refugees from China and often effectively. more comfortable residentially is not checked that many of

Hunger-Marching "Actors and actressce--I real and what is rubbish. There are three ways at least of those foreign residents who can

am not interested in finding A film industry which pub- The will leave this Colony this sum- THE two Socialist women them. Anybody can be trained lishes the wonder of throwing tackling this problem.

members aro Mies to act I took for personalities. tomatoes at an opera singer is. Brst, as the Telegraph has fre-mer rather than expose them- quently suggested, is to estab-selves to the dangers and die- Ellen Wilkinson and Mra. Agnes

wholesale Hardie. It will be with them "Personalities is something really throwing tomatoes at it- lish refugee centres in the New flight in this direction unques- that Dr. Summerskill will sit and that is given to you by fate. self.

If you do not have it, there is Mrs. Brown, I am sure you: Territories, possibly with the tionably entails. The twenty- voto.

would begin to like nearly all Wilkinson, Rl-nothing you can do about it." assistance of organised charities; dollar-passport scheme will keep

Coming from Sarnuel Gold- film stars again if films would the second is to close the fron-out a certain element of unfor-though the smallest M.P., makes

only return to human drama. tier altogether; the third might tunates the completely des- herself heard. She has by far wyn, that is very interesting.

There is really no reason for well be in the direction of antitute--for whom it was origin- the most biting tongue of any

ally proposed that refugee camps member, and makes alashing Living Their Parts

delay in view of the tremendous international appeal to Japan to be erected, and for whom many accusations against the Govern-

success of pictures such as respect certain refugee areas in will feel much sympathy. These ment. and about all Chinese cities, people have as much right to She claims to have spoken which would be marked suitably shelter here as any rich mer since she was five, and now, five Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, and "A Yank at Oxford.” so that aircraft would not attack chant, who can probably wely feet nothing," she thinks nothing George Formby, Errol Flynn. thom mistakenly. These could afford to go elsewhere, probably of hunger-marching with unem-

comforts which

Miss

Ellen

leaving dependant employees to ployed from Jarrow her con-

AMONG the stars you "Hurricane," "In Old Chicago,"

like best you name:

Gracie Fields, William Powell,

There will be still Icas reason when we see films like "Test: Have you realised that all Pilot," with Clark Gable, Myrna be supervised with foreign assis-shift for themselves in many stituency, to London. There these players and others, ko Loy, and Spencer Tracy, or tance and probably would receive instances in the town- he may are few things, she likes more Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, "Marie Antoinette," with Norma medical and financial aid from have abandoned. Some good than carcering off to fraternise Sonja Henic, and Deanna Dur- Shearer tales of real men and abroad. If, as the Japanese may come of the regulation; for appear to intend, Canton is to it will probably prevent the with down-trodden proletariats bin, are, always themselves? continue to be a target for bomb-welling of a beggar population on the Continent.

Mra, Agnes Hardie (Spring-as living their parts, and the the romance of reality. Our ing fleets, the population must which has been an increasing

Glasgow), widow time past.burn, nuisance for some make up its mind alther to risk But there must be better ways George Hardie, M.P., and sister-Cooper. You want him to be film-makers should now remem- bor this. They have been ga-ga you say, you death and remain, or find some of dealing with this problem in-law of Kelr Hardie, is the himself or, Bo Ruitable and secure sanctuary than by keeping the poor out of opposite. She speaks little and insist on his being in character. long enough. near at hand. At present Hong-'this refuge. “

(Continued on Pope 5.1

They are not so much acting

of actor who does it beat la Gary

real women-of romance and. reality.

The job of a film is to present

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