1938-10-27 — Page 3

G.B.S. TO U.S.A.-

This Is How To Make Films

by

PAUL HOLT

All this summer George Bernard Shaw has been very; ill.

Doctors put him to bed at Whitehall Court, W., in June, Alled him up with ment juicen much against his will (the trouble was anemia), packed him off to Droitwich to get better.

ve long enough to educate them, At that he trooper in to see his film, followed by the crliles, who found it largely entertaining, who- ther it was intended to be an educa- tion to the Americans or no.

but he was going to try,

Shaw

said:

End the flim Mr.

of "Magnificent. One indred per cent. Don't alter a scene."

like

Mrs. Show was subtler. She aald: "Now I know why it in the critics

my husband's plays so much." IT'S A MEMORIAL TO G.B.S. Recently Mr. Shaw returned, brisk

The Alni In Ane. It is a comedy as ever. Found whot is known on a battery of cameras ranged on him of manners so fresh and vital In neross the lounge of the Leicester-handling and attack that makes square Cinema, sald brightly, "You most American comedies look like want me to make a speech?" and marionette shows. promptly did so.

He addressed his "very dear friends in America." Sald they now couldn't do anything about but listen to him and are his film (the speech was supposed to be a traller to the film of "Pygmalion").

But it is more than that. It is u memorial, preserved for all time, of great dramatist In his prime. It la all superbly 1912.

have There

The dustman wears corduroys and a shovel helmet. The poor kick their wives nightly and suzzle gin at 2d. a glass. The

ve never taken a bath. He said he had never, as the lee are real Londonderry House went, heen opposed to turning his plays into Aims. So long as they diplomintle receptions for the upper classes, and the dustman talks about middle-class morality, seemingly ignorant of the fact that council school education in the past twenty years has made the poor more moral than any other section of the com-: munity.

were made his way.

THIS IS ONLY THE FIRST What he wanted to do was to eduente Americans in the way films should be made. They could try "Pygmalion" for start, and he planned to send them some more, It is all so delightfully unreal that notably "Cesar und Cleopatra" and when Leslie Howard walks out on to "The Devil's Disciple."

the Embankment and hails a taxi it He didn't know whether he'di is a shock that it is not a growler.

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GREAT

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1938.

FLOOD DROWNS MAN IN

HIS OWN HOME

THIRTEEN PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN THE GALE AND STORMS WHICH SWEPT BRITAIN RECENTLY, FLOODING TOWNS, WRECKING BUILDINGS, HOLDING UP TRAINS AND BRING- ING DOWN THOUSANDS OF TELEPHONE LINES.

At Trehafad, between Pontypridd and Rhondda, David John Gooch, forty-six, miner, of River-row, rescued his three children and his bed-ridden wife when the River Rhondda borst its banks. Then ho got back into the house for scraps of food. flours later he was found drowned in the pantry,

Sitting up in bed, unable to sleep, old-age pensione, Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, eighty-six. heard the fuck water burst through a 15ft, wall over the village, She collapsed, and as relatives reached her died from shock.

David Gooch's brother Robert swam across lis Booded kitchen to rescue lodger George Millier, aged seventy-two, who was trapped behind furniture. Miller's head was Just visible. He was nearly uncon- scious as David got to him.

Seeing his wife pinned against the staircase in his

and dragged her to safety.

home in the same street, Frederick Foster swam to her

WATER TO CEILING

Mrs. Foster aald that when river water rushed in her four children, her seventy-six-year-old father and her father-in-law had to fight their way upstairs.

In the lower rooms water

nearly to the celling.

Tose

Another mother sald: "It was the most terrifying time of my life. It seemed certals that scores would be drowned. Our men folk have been heroes. We owe our lives to them."

WAR

Rescue partles broke up furniture, bored holes in bedroom walls and carried out people trapped inside.

Doreen Jones, eleven. alone with her little brother Geoffrey, aged three, when the river flooded her River-street home. She pleked him up in her arms, ran into her mother's back bedroom, just as water gushed

into her own room.

£7,600 DRESS BILL-Loretta Young will wear gowns costing £7,000-one of Hollywood's_largest Individual dress budgets-for her part as Empress Eugenio in the fim"8uer,"

By evening the foods were sub- siding and people went back to their wrecked homes for clothes and food. Some have lost their savings.

.PINNED BY TREE CRASH

A big tree was blown across the engine of a 40 m.p.b. train at Fox's Wood Tunnel, Brislington, Bristol, The driver pulled up within a few fect of the wreckage and no one was

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Allan Parr. fifty-two, newsagent, of Arleyroad, Appleton, Warrington, Lanes, was pinned to the ground when a tree crashed at Appleton. As soon as the river wall broke He died from injuries at night,

Mysterious damage to the property women and children, screaming for

of Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha has re- A postman, Frederick Charles help, clambered out through their Baker, aged Bfty-nine, of Mendow-suited in a day and night police pa windows, crawled barefooted along brook-street, Dorking, was bleyel Wimbledon Common, London,

trol at his form-house hoine the slippery roof tops, and huddleding along the Reigate-road. Dorking together for warmth shelter when he was involved in a collision plant and of the engine of his new "Sabotage" of an electricity power against chimney stacks,

with a car and was killed.

Major 11. F. Courage, a member body who apprenches the house is fmotorcar is suspected and now every- of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, under the supervision of a uniformed was drowned In Southampton Water

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He became entangled in the anchor chain and was pulled over- board.

The War Minister acquired Old Warren Farm and its nere of ground from Lady Knudsen last June. He moved into the long. low, white- washed building in search of seclu-

It took his only companion, Re-ston and quiet. Kinuld Peters, nineteen, of St. John's- road, Hyde, Isle of Wight, forty-five minutes to get the body, from the water,

The woman proprietor of n coffee stall near Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. saved trains from running into a telegraph pole carrying a large num→ ber of G.PO. lines which fell across The L.N.E.R. main inc to Cam- bridge.

She raced to the station. where she arrived in a state of collapse to give the alarm. Trains were stopped,

A signal post was blown across the L.M.S. line near Armitage, Stafford- shire, causing delay to two portions of the Irish mail train and the Night Scot, The trains reached London nearly two hours Inte.

Undermined by flood water, half of a house crashed into a mill dom at Rocup, Lancashire.

A family of eight in the part of the house which remained intact escaped injury.

Beds and other furniture fell into

the dan.

A fire in the grate sel some clothing nearby alight, and neigh- bours quelled the outbreak with buckels of water.

EXPERTS CALLED IN Seclusion he found in the old farm, set in the most remote part of the

the common. Then came

Inter- ference with the power unit. Ex- perts were called in

Mr. Hore-Bellsha reported the matter to the polier, and officers from V division were moved in to keep watch on all visitors calling at the house.

Soon afterwards the Minister's new car inexplicably developed engine trouble. Mechanics gave their ver watch in shifts, patrol the premises dict, and now the polite, keeping day and night."

Neighbours said that since the police watch there has been по further trouble with the ghing plant or the car.

Last June it was stated that the special police protection given to Mr. Hore-Belisha was in no way asseci- ated with parliamentary matters, but that a detective had been detailed to attend the War Minister for purely private reasons,

Damage estimated at the

of pounds was done at Merseyside. Twenty cargo vessels were held up

In the house were Mrs. Ane Giady, at the entrance to the Mersey and seventy-five, and two babies--one passenger steamers from Ireland and two years and the other six months. the Isle of Man had to remain in

Two sisters were slightly hurt shelter.

when Π chhaney stack crushed Rivers were overflowing in North through the roof of 1 house in Yorkshire and South Durham. Derby-road, Fallowfield, Manchester,

and wrecked a bedroom.

Winifred,

The stack missed Marion Critch- low, twenty-one, and eighteen, by inches. Marion's bed was surrounded by nearly a ton of bricks. A chest of drawers was smashed to pleces.

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MASONRY HITS TRAIN Masonry from a parapet of bridge spanning the railway line at Great Moor-street, Bolton. crashed on to a coach of a Train travelling from Southport to

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The roof of the coach was damaged and windows were broken, but no one was injured.

It is feared that a large number of cattle and sheep' have been swept away by the flooding of the River Lunc

and a number of villages isolated.

Roads near Loncaster were flooded

A van was swept away In the swollen River Wear at St. John's Chapel, Weardale, Durham and had not been located.

passable for two hours at Rossington The Great North Read was Im-

Brdge, near Doncaster, when an elm tree fell across it. All traffe had to be diverted.

CHANNEL SERVICE OFF Lifeboats went to vessels in dis- tress off the coasts of many parts of the country.

Damaged beyond repair by the gale, Morecambe and Heysham's Fifly Fleetwood trawlers were held £30,000 autumn illuminations have up in port owing to the gate. been abandoned a fortnight before | the official finale.

The Corporation have dispatched hundreds of telegrams to transport operators cancelling trips,

Nearly n mile of illuminations! tableaux were wrecked on the North Shore cifts at Blackpool,

Chimney stacks and more 1,500 telephone lines were down, and every street had with broken windows.

DRINK

Many British tourists returning to England from Paris, the Riviera, Switzerland and Italy, were forced to spend the night at Boulogne. Both morning and afternoon ser- vices from Falkestone were can- celled.

More than 50,000 telephone sub- scribers throughout the country were than affected by breakdowns. blown The Air Ministry forecast that the shops storm was likely to continue for zome

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