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French High Command

Gon. Gamolin, Universally Estoomed and Joffre Strategist, Would Bo Foch of This Decade

Paris.

"Gon.-Maurice Gustavo 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,

to

This position would not only full

In August, 1014, 'Gamelin then a him because he is considered the major, pugnested to Joffre a retreat most experienced und brilliant staff and a realignment of forces in .co- officer of the two armies but prl- operation with the English.

Ilia marily

because the French land plan was to constitute a new French forces would be obliged to carry army near Lille ready to fail on the brunt of land operations in an the enemy's right flank.. Joffre did not execute the plan but on Aug. 25, European war.

Hb able colleagues, Vice Admiral when he decided to withdraw the left Francols Darian, chiet of the navy wing of the French from danger he general staff, and Gen. Joseph Vull- ordered Gumetin to draw up the lemin, chief of the air force, probably d would

serve under Britain'

comman- Joffre again called Gamelin when, ders because of the superiority of British naval and air power.

decky Von Kuck's error, he

to throw Monoury'n army of Spall, aristocratic Gen. Gamelin Paris into battle on the Marne. has the reputation of being one of Gamelin is now credited with having the most remarkable officers produc- aligned the French forces in per- ed in the World War.

feet battle order.

Promoted lleutenant-colonel In ENJOYS UNANIMOUS ESTEEM November,

1014, Gamelin became of operations at general hend- until Jan named

This handsome, quiet spoken man

one of the rare individuals inter and remained at that post January, 1910, when he was commander of the 2d brigade His of chasseurs on the Somme.

officer equalled a line

French public life who enjoys un- amimous esteem and respect.

Old members of the famous Aleficiency as pine Chasseurs regiment are agreed tha

that oils staff I career.

At 44 he commanded å full army

that Gen. Gamelin was one of the most remarkable if feared command- ers that crack regiment has ever had division. His rescue of the besieged relate stories of his harsh artisan at Rachoy, Syria, In 1925,

placed him in the public eye.

Little known of Gamélin's per- sonal life.

They treatment of his subordinates who showed themselves wanting in the science of topography of which he

to be a master.

DARLAN FOUGHT AT VERDUN

His knowledge of the principal campaigns and battles from the be Vice Adiniral Darlan, 57, gained ginning of the French revolution to his reputation

commander

ان

the end of the Work War is said to French naval batteries at Verdun, be encyclopaedic.

The

in the Olse and Champaign fronts and in Belgium during the World SUCCEEDED WEYGAND IN 1935 War. After the war he commanded

the French fatilia on

Rhine. He Gamelin succeeded Gen. Maxine

was then appointed chief-of-staff of Weygand as chief of the army In

the Far

squadron. January, 1835, after. huving proved

He was a

member of the French bis qualities 05 Marshal Joseph delegation 10

London Naval the Joffre's principal assistant during the Conference. 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- rébellion in offer protege in gonized completely during his term

1923.

Gamelin was a

much the same manner that Wey- Gand was a protege of Foch,

of oilce.

Darlan is credited with drawing ap the recent naval programmes. His

It is generally acknowledged now motto is that the fleet must be on he drew up the plans which gave war Ume basis at all times. Since France the decisive victory at the his appointment as chief-of-staff, the first battle of the Marne, a victor fleets have undergone intensive

which for many years was credited periods of open sea

10 Joffre,

Joffre first noticed Gamelin when

mangeures.

Gen. Joseph Vulliemin, 50, chief

he completed his studies at the Ecale of the air force, earned his initial re-

de Guerre in 1908 with the reputation as a flier during the World

captain.

War

On leaving that school he ganization of the French air force He Is responsible for the or- in Morocco.

1 served under Joffre until 1910,

BORN IN PARIS

In 1933 he led 28 bombers on a tour of the French possessions. Gamelin is a Parisian by birth and While the flight was not spectacular 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 clocklike mission in 1893 and after three years performance devoid of any serious with a regiment in Algeria he re- accidents. During the war he single- turned to, France to serve with the handedly saved a regiment of Turi- geographica corps. He was promot- slans by attacking four German ed to captain in 1994.

planes.

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FIRST planned Ave years ago, "Marie Antoinette" has now been completed in Hollywood. It is the first picture in which Norma Shearer there seen with Turone Power) 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 Autta Louise. The director Is W. S. Van Dyke, who made "The Thin Man."

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1938.

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

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"I mado certain demands to be left alone while filming the picture, giving Goldwyn the alternative of My letting me withdraw entirely. request was not met, so I asked for my release. I asked for it before the picture 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 made those outstanding pictures, "Dodsworth" and "These Three,' and was formerly husband

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

**

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

A-replica of a South Wales mining village has been built in a meadow. Arc-lights beat on 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. Haider Wright and Emlyn Williams are among the stars at work in the manufactured rain.

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NEW FILMS Joy Of Living

STARS: Lue Dimac, Douglas Fair

banks. Jun, Farcical romance.

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Goaded into prosecuting him for annoying her, she is made his parole sponsor, and altuations have a basis of good philosophy-that you must get same fun out of life now and.ngnin.

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First Aid for Fans

A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER.- Bodies in the bedroom, Edward G. Robinson and a favertin frolic. YOU'RE A SWEETHEART, — Alice

Fape's controllo magnellam in irely backstage story with difties. THREE COMRADES.—Messrs. Taylor, Four and Young and Margaret Sullavan 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.

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

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radio. A magnificent documentary. One touch of fiction would have ruined 1. My only carp in that the shots of heavy seas are cut too short; I had.no time to get my optical sca-legs.

Thank Evans

STAR:

-

Max Miller. Broad farce..

You must exempt this rollicking

offering from the general theory that British films are too slow, No Hollywood comedy has ever surpassed the quick-fire digue of Max Miller

it a police-court acche, where his torrents of talk 'take charge of, the

entire proceedings.

Unquenchable Max has now found his feet in aims, by patient experi inent. This is by miles his best; a breezy, tale of a racing Upster, whose ready tongue gets him out of fix after flx No need to detail the plot of a pawned watch and a crooked fockey. Finale is a ludicrous horse-race.

Max's fertile chaiter did not rinks me chuckle all the time. More often I laughed right out loud.

L'Homme du Jour

STAR: Maurice Chevaller.

farce.

Musical

SI experled, M. Chevaller is com Apletely at home for the first time on the screen. Made in Paris, the picture

is piquant, charming comedy with nong Maurice is a stags electrician nspiring to stardom, and near the end meets his professional self, with trick camera atd. How different is this from Hollywood's routión musicals! It sagn in the middle, but has some very ingenious twists.

General Releases

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down by rea-gangsters, headed by Fredric March under the Stars and Stripen-well, we Britishers can take it. Mr. March plays Latte, LouisiñuA pirate king of 1812, in The Buccaneer. His profile and agility, and Cecil de Afille's spectacular feast of sea-fights. bombardments, strategy and spooning make tine entertainment.

This is almost the adventure picture of the year, with a fine flavour of cut- inses and

gunpowder among Southern awaraps.

the

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

John Boles, in She married an Artist, has the Viennese Luli Deste opposite him A temperamental mar- riage splits, and the ending 1 sur- 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 Packard from `Brighton; is happily married; makes £200 a week in variety alone; is a good boxer.

Film debut: 3-minute part in

"The Good Companions.”

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