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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, ..1938.

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French High Command

Gon. Gamelin, Universally Esteemed and Joffre Strategist, Would Be Foch of This Decado

Paris.

Gen. Maurice Gustave Gamelin, 66-year-old chief of the general staff, is France's No. 1 candidate for generalissimo of Franco-British armies in the event of another war in which the two nations are allies.

This position would not only fall In August, 1914, Gamelin then a to him because he is considered the mujor, suggested to Joffre a retreat most experienced and brillant staff and a realignment of forces in co- officer of the two armies but pri- operation with the English.

His marily

because the French land plan was to constitute a new French forces would be obliged to carry army near Lille ready to fall on the brunt of land operations In an the enemy's right flank. Joffre did European war,

not execute the plan but on Aug. 25, His able colleagues, Vice Admiral when he decided to withdraw the left Francois Darlan, chief of the navy wing of the French from danger be general staff, and Gen. Joseph Vali- ordered Gamelin to draw up the

the air force, probably lemin, chief of

command. would

serve under British common- Joffre again called Gamelin when. ders because of the superiority of profiting by Von Ruck's error. he British naval and air power.

decided to throw Manoury's army of Smal, aristocratic Cen. Gamelin Paris into battle on the Marne. has the reputation of being one of Gamella is now credited with having the most remarkable officers produc- aligned the French forces in per- ed in the World War.

feet battle order,

ENJOYS UNANIMOUS ESTEEM November, 1914, Gamelin became Promoted lieutenant-colonel itt

This handsome, quiet spoken man chief of operations at general head- is one of the rare individuals in quarters and remained at that post

until January, 1910, French publle life who enjoys un-

when he amimous esteem and respect.

samed commander of the 2d brigade

chasseurs on the Somme.

of

was

Old members of the famous Al-cheiency as a line officer_equalled. pine Chasseurs regiment are agreed that of his staff career.

thal Gen. Gonelin was one of the

At 44 he commanded a full army moat remarkable if feared command division. His rescue of the besieged ers that crack regiment has ever had,

They relate stories of his horsh Harrison at Rachaya, Syria, in 1925,

placed him in the pubile eye,

Little is known of Gamelin's per- *sonal life,

treatment of his subordinates who showed themselve wanting in the selence of topography at which he

be sald His knowledge of the principal

iu

a master.

'DARLAN FOUGHT AT VERDUN campaigns and batties from the be Vice Admiral Darian, gained ginning of the French revolution to his reputation as commander of the end of the World War is sald to French naval batteries at Verdun, be encyclopaedic.

in the Oise and Champaign fronts and in Belgium during the World SUCCEEDED WEYGAND IN 1935 War. After the war he commanded Gamelin succeeded Gen. Maxine the French fotitia on the Rhine. He Weyland as chief of the army in the Far Eastern squadron.

was then appointed chief-of-staff of January, 1935, after having provel

He was a member of the French the London Naval

his qualities as Marshal Joseph delegation to Joffre's principal assistant during the Conferenter. His reputation as a first World War and later as commander rate organizer earned him the post in-chief of the French forces in of chief of the military cabinet at Syria where he crushed the Druse the navy department which he re- rebellion in 1925.

Gamelin was a Joffre protere in organized completely during his terin much the same manner that "Wey- of office. gand was a prolege of Foch,

It is generally acknowledged now

Darlan is credited with drawing up His

the recent navol programmes.

he drew up the plans which gave molto is that the fleet must be on war time basis at all times. Since

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France the decisive victory at the his appointment as chief-of-staff, the Arst battle of the. Marne, a victory fleets

undergone Intensive

have

which for many years was credited periods of open sea mancures. to Joltre.

Joffre frat noticed Gamelin when Gen. Joseph Vuillemin, 50, chief be completed his studies at the Ecole of the air force, earned his initial re- de Guerre in 1908 with the ranks of Pulation as a fer during the World captain. On leaving that school he W. He is responsible for the or- served under Joffre until 1016.

ganization of the French air force in Morocco.

госте

BORN IN PARIS

In 1933 he led 29 bombers on a taur of

French the Gamelin is a Parisian by birth and While the light was not spectacular possessions. a graduate of the Saint Cyr Infantry from the point of view of distance School. He received his first com- covered or speed, it was a clockike mission in 1803 and after three years performance devold of any serious with regiment in Algerin he re- accidents. During the war he single- furned to France to serve with the handedly saved a regiment of Tuni- #eographica corps. He was pramol- sians by attacking four German ed to captain in 1904,

planes.

Steamers

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FIRST planned five years ago,

faste Antoinette" has not been completed in Hollywood. It is the first picture in which Norma Shearer there seen with Turone Powder) has appeared since the death of her husband two years ago. Charles Laughton was to have played Louis XVI, but another English actor, Robert Morley, plays the role. A huge cast includes John Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, and Anita Louise. The director is W. S. Van Dyke, who made "The Thin Man."

At the Cinema-with P. L. Mannock

Gary's director

walks out

T

HERE have been re- works over a £250,000 nim now on the Holly wood floors-"The Lady and the Cowboy," with Cary Cooper, world-he-man No. 1, and Merle Oberon as stars.

After it had been under way for a fortnight, the director, William Wyler, walked out, and after n day's hold-up, was replaced by an- other director.

HS boss, Sam Goldwyn, after a show-down argument, gua- pended him. Wyler has explained his position.

"I made certain demands to be left alone while fiming the plcture, giving Goldwyn the alternative of letting me withdraw entirely. My request was not met, so I asked for my release. I asked for it before the picturo started, as there was no script."

When I met Wyler in London, he had, oddly enough, just been called

In to take over half-way through another picture, "Come and Get. It."

He is a brilliant French Jew, who de those outstanding pictures. Dodsworth" and "These Three,

was formerly husband of

By Paul F

HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier

PORCELAIN

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A

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They pay

Margaret Sullavan, him £10,000 & film.

Present hold-up may delay Merle Oberon's plans. She has to make two more before re- turning here to star in "Elizabeth of Austrin" for Kordu.

**

Scenes of a big colliery disaster are being made for "The Citadel" at Denham.

on

A replica of a South Wales mining village has been built in a mendow. Arc-lights heat. a crowd of 300 miners, women and children, clustered anxiously by the pit-head for news, and Robert Donat as the doctor, Edward Chapman, Rosalind Russell, Haidee Wright and Emlyn Williams are among the sturs at work in manufactured rain.

the

One of the studio cleaners, Joseph Norman, 30 years a Welsh miner, has been showing the actors how to wear their kit. Jack James, a Tonypandy schoolmaster, plays a colliery foreman.

NEW FILMS

Joy Of Living

STARS; Irene Dunne. Douglas Fair Banks, Jun. Farcical romance.

A and Ively, this yarn to kept afloat by the dauntless, cheery methods of the two principals. Miza Dunae with a song or two) plays slage star sponged on by her family. with freshness and subtlety; and young Dog. has never been better.

Gonded inte prosecuting him for Annoying her, she lo made his parole sponsor, and situations have a basis of good philosophy-that you must get some fun out of life now and again.

For me tho fim la marred by too much the hangover spirit. Miss Bunne gets deliberately drunk, and she is only one of many charming actresses lately seen in such a rôle, British audi. ences don't like to see nice American girls plastered," because nice British

First Aid for Fans

A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER-

Bodies in the bedroom, Edicard G. Robinson and a feverish frolic. YOU'RE A SWEETHEART.

Alice

Faye's contralto magnatism in a itvely backstage story with dilties. THREE COMRADES-Messrs. Taylor, Tone and Young and Margaret Sultavan in post-war Germany.

, ALF'S BUTTON AFLOAT.-The Crazy Gang in the Marines, dispensing sublime slapstick, ROMANCE FOR THREE. — Frank Morgan's maunderings in a moun- tain hotel.

i don't behave that way, There is far too much of the rowdy cockeyed spirit in these crazy romances.

North Sca

His brilliant half-hour picture, now with "You and Mỹ" at ho Carlton, has no actors, being played by the actual skipper and hands of trawler off the Orkneys.

It is in fact, a vivid litilo everyday drama of the perils of £lio deep, photo- graphed in mountainous seas at real risk, and revealing the modest courago and humour of fishermen, with an in- radio. sight into the valuable use of shore A magnificent documentary. One touch of fiction would have ruined it. My only carp is that the shots of heavy seas are cut too short; I had no time to get my optical sea-legs.

Thank EvanES STAR: Max Miller.

Broad farce.

you must exempt this rollicking offering from the general theory hat British films are too slow. No Hollywood comedy has ever surpassed the quick-ru tilalogue of Max Miller in a police-court scene where his

torrents of tak take charge of the

entire proceedings.

Blent.

Unquenchable Max lias now found his feet in fins, by patient experi This is by miles his best; a breezy tale of a racing tipster, whaso ready tongue gets him out of fix after 1x No need to detail the plot of a pawned watch and a crooked jockey. Finale la ludicrous horse-race.

Max's fertile chatter did not make ae chuckle all the time. More often I laughed right out loud.

L'Homme du Jour

STAR: Maurice Chevaller.

farce.

Musical,

ASI expected, M. Chevalier is com- pletely at home for the first tune on the screen. Made in Paris, the picture is piquant, charming comedy with songs. Maurice is, a stage clectrician aspiring to stardom, and near the end meets his professional self, with trick. camera aid. How different is this It sags in the middle, but has some from Hollywood's routine musicalat

very ingenious twists.

General Releases RANKS of Highlandern mowed dawn by sea-gangsters, headed by Fredric March under the Stars and 'Stripes-well, we Britishers can take it. Mr. March plays Latte. Louislaun pirate king of 1012, in The Buccaneer. His profile and agility, and Cecil de Mille'n spectacular Icast of sea-Ophits. bombardments, strategy and spooning anake fine entertainment....

This is almost the adventure picture of the year, with a fine favour of cut- lasses and gunpowder among the Bouthern swamps,

Best acting performance now current is that of Frieda Incacourt, an English1 giri who has not yet become a star.. The Trial of Portía Merrimon reveals her charm and power as a woman law- yer, defending a girl who has shot the father of her child. Strong fare, per fectly put over, and containing very good studies from Heather Angel. Neil Hamilton and Walter Abel.

John Boles, in She Married Au Artist, in the Viennese Luli Deste apposite him A temperamental mur- ringe splits, and the ending is Bur prisingly logical.

Star of the Week MAX MILLER, whose machine- gun wit shines in "Thank Evans," had a comedian father, joined a 'circus at 14, and once worked a milk round. Now drives

a Packard from Brighton; happily married; makes £200 a week in 'wariety alone; is a good boxer.

Film debut: 3-minute part in "The Good Companions.”

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