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Limits Of Patience

Hollywood declares war

on

-by-

the

PAUL HOLT

Nazis

and licked his lips around fool-long Russian cigarettes.

Out of uniform Edward G. Robin- son was generally the Federal man

The

Truth About Alcazar

HIS is the true story of the

Talege of the Alcazar.

It has nothing in common with romantic and false logenda writ- ten by men who were never in Toledo during the siego; and were able to gather their "Tacta" only from rebel propagandists.

This is what happened..

Franco rose against legitimate and Charles Slekford the big boy in Government of Spain-to which he the back room.

had sworn an oath of loyalty-on "Confessions

a Nazi Spy" is not, July 18, 1830. Four days later tie as you will note, a uniform drama. Government gained control of the. But Edward G. Robinson is there as mutineers fled into the Alcazar, the city of Toledo; and the disloyal the cop. And Henry Vietor (the gent with the scar) and Paul Lukas mediaeval fortress which dominates de- from constant usage. They are car-

'toon characters.

ably represent the Herren van Stro- the city. First batch of these new villains beim and von Seiffertitz

you clared war on Nazi Ger-

In their fight they kidnapped and Gustav von comes to life in a film just completed remember

Selffertitz? took na hostages for their safety many.

by the brothers Warner, called Such a delicately evil nose. And some 230 women and children. These "Confessions of a Nazi Spy." The such a flame!

250 were the wives, slaters and chil- The film is fees and robbers and dren of men who were loyal to the There are two offensives him was made behind guarded doors,

Government.

HOLLYWOOD has

body was allowed in or out without

in preparation this summer, almost like a Garbo photoplay. No- nothing more.

One la a direct frontal attack, a special pass, and the cast walked IT is not the only one. In using shock methods propaganda, around in an embarrassing gloom of The other is more subtle, embodying anonymity.

(I only know of one sight mere Hitler and the Duke of Windsor both helpless than an actor not allowed --M. puki £11,000 for Remar- to use his name. That would be a German-Jewish refugees. The Alm novel "Heroes, tale of

the full meaning of the word Herr

hate-encirclement.

Once Inside the Alcazar the rebels telephoned to the Government com- mander, and told him what they had

lonc.

Such was the first "brave" act of

the making or in the og there are "Concentration Camp" and "Hell, America."

And yesterday

the legendary Cadets of the Alcazar que's new

For legendary they indeed were. will have Spencer Offensive No. 1 is rowdy and tortoise on its back.)

Tracy, Robert The garrison of the Alcazar, in vulgar snarling. Nazis become des- The firm is just an old plece of Taylor, Margaret Sullayan. They fact, conslated of 1,100 men. Nearly

700 were

the huted Civil Guarda; pollers of womanhood. Their faces hokum.

though they might offer there were nearly 300 Phalangists The Clutching Hand has a sound are scarred; their heuds are bullet swastika branded on it. That is the more genuine technique. cropped; their cars are barely anthro- only difference. Essentially Holly- pold.

wood has been making this picture Their light-Atting clothes bulge since the days of the Perils of Pauline,

With uniform and without. with suggestions of rubber trun.. chcons. Their finger-tips are spatu- With uniform Erich von Strohelm knuckles knobbly was the villain. He wore a monocle

late

and their

YOUTH'S DAY

THOSE who were wont to call well of the cool, dusky staircase,

HANCING to glance down thes

four grimy little hands come Intol view, sliding cautiously along the still grimler handrail.

do B0

worst.

This, Mr. Churchill belieyes, is the most dangerous crisis on which we have ret entered. The signs which foreboded the attack on

Something strangely weird in this studled, meticulous stealthiness held the attention.

Then round the bend followed the owners of the sensitive, fleshless, bony little paws.

A

by Norah Whitestone

And, of course, Lionel Barrymore and there were about 100 men of the is getting ready to be the old editor Foreign Legion. In addition there in Sinclair Lewis's fine 'anti-dictator were some 100 women and children, fantasy. "It Can't Happen Here." of whom 250 were the unfortunate

Those Alms inay be good, but I

kidnapped...

fear for them. I do not believe that Such was the selling for as sordid the cinema pubile will accept direct a gangster story as the world has propuganda. It makes them hot and seen. embarrassed. Because, for some ren-

son a psychologist could explain to

you, the pretty escape tales and boy-

meets-girlies of the screen ure real For law-breakers who shelter be- to audiences; but the semblance ofhind the skirts of women and the reality that is the secret of pro- bodies of little children we have paganda is false.

Yet nothing but contempt.

upon these inch, who, on a larger and

HE second Hollywood offen-bloodier scale, were guilty of the sive is the one that will satne reprehensible cowardice, ad- succeed. It takes no notice miration has been poured out in full Nazism. It simply glorifies de-

mocracy,

of

measure.

At no time were they in grave The leader of this movement which danger. For more than a month they I believe to be on honest one, is play- were subjected to nothing but rifle wright Robert Sherwood, tail, fire. They were neither shelled nor slow - speaking bombed; although the Government mournful-looking,

troops knew that they had but to Canadian.

employ such methods to achieve a speedy surrender,

tions.

more

Mr. Winston Churchill a mere alarmist will hesitate to to-day is warnings have too often been impressively Justified by the event; and he may be sure to-day that his very grave estimate of the present international situn-

Two young girls crept up, utterly symmetry of misshapen, bandled legs tion will not be airily dismissed. silent, tousled black heads bent, the which add further to the grotesque

of another Anatic In the great war he fought in bare feet searching; toes curling like malformation He had predicted for Europe "the antennae af some murmmoth in- people. Truly, the Chinese people France in kits. Ever since he has been an earnest bellever in den

But they knew also that their troubled and tormented summer." sect. And, just as silently as they, have their compensations.

Ah Shiu has had a good day. mocracy. He wrote "Idiot's Delight" I watched. and had hidden his fellow-

Arriving at the flat door, a whis- rampageous, pugnacious, -to show what he thinks of war. He pluginent would mean the im | countrymen to be prepared for the pered word was mumbled, a search-disciplined, devil-a-care little egotist then wrote "Abe Lincoln in Illinois medinte massacre of their own rela- ing Hille hand passed caressingly is he. He has opened the tyre valve to show what he thinks of peace.

The play is now a Broadway hit, lives that even

So great was the fear for their

when. after over the name-plate, skimmed the of the schoolmaster's car; thrown lls;

dinner at the cool; attacked a school-but he is taking it off all stages in than a month, artillery was brought door handle.

who July to send the company to Holly- Into action, nothing greater than a Seemingly satisfied, $1 hideous fellow; scratched the teacher

any was loosed from a Intervened; torn his breeches, and wood, led by itaymond Massey, to iin. gun was used; and it was turned stringed Addle.

Jarrived home half-an-hour late. make a film. Doing that, he'll lose

upon nothing but the outbuildings,of Hnd I not perceived the prelude to

He is, of course according to the £20,000, but he thinks that time is

the fortress. the play, I should almost certainly tenets of his beringed, bejewelled, short.

I was talking to Sherwood recently. Czechoslovakia he sees plain again have bounced hastily to the door in indolen: Mumma-far too young to

sald: "I want to put the his shortcomings, and to He -to-day, with only this difference violent execration of the perpetrators realize

punish an only son would border story of Abe Lincoln on the screens of the nerve-shattering discord.

In the Government barracks. ns that Polard is now the appointed However, the pussing of a small upon heresy, lese majeste, habeas of the world,, so that his words enn

tell the peoples of the world before many photographs of the kidnapped victim.,

coln into the fumbling little hand had corpus or worse.

should women and children os could be an identical effect as would have So Mamma languidly follows In the is too late. If America If-the-reading-of-the-omena-la had a cascade of furious Indignation, footsteps of the lady mother of un-lose democracy, that would be the collected were posted up for all to correct, it means that our Mother-Further, the giver had the solace of other spoiled product of the mistaken-greatest-tragedy-this-world-has-ever see; and underneath was written-Be- careful; they are our women and our who, when seen," the gently uttered little word of polley of appeasement

I put great store by this film. II│children.” land may at no distant date be thanks, the timid smile, the futter asked how she had dealt with her! is success throughout the world,

It was not until nearly the end of called on to fulfil her newly undering of the eyelids over the useless, recalcitrant offspring replied: "Oh,

1 was

very strict. I said Johnt then the screen will come into action the slege, not until the rebels had eightless, pitiful eyes. taken obligation to resist such an Then down the handrail went the John and several other very severe to become a potent factor in the great refused to allow the women

propaganda game the nations are children to depart, that Government. aggression as... would, in Mr.guiding gliding hands; quietly and things."

now playing. silently into the teeming, dirty streetj

But if it should fall Churchill's words, “lei loose upon side by side the self-suMelent pair!THÈ torrid afternoon

and glares upon the eye-torturo Gary Cooper and the people who

outer the greater part of mankind im-departed. •

towers.. *****ing beach, driving all but the most sell you your films are apt to think measurable catastrophe and tribu-

FTEN have I been told, and more foolhardy into the welcome shade of of Abe Lincoln not as the world's

Not even a priest who went in, greatest democracy, but as an oldish lation."

often have read, that what is hut and tent and kiosk.

mans with a pimple and a nannygoat under the white flag, to beg for the termed "indiscriminate charity" is A cheerful clatter of tea-cups; It is a grim and ghastly prospect worse than useless. Perhaps so. table# are spread, and the long. card) then we must go back to van freedom of the women and children, Stroheim and his hollow cigareites could obtain anything but a blank. Indeed, but it is necessary to face possible benefit or otherwise which free sprawl in deep content.

All the same, Irrespective of the tanned limbs of the happy and care and the eating of codes in emergen-refusal from the rebel blackmailers,

cles.

PLEASE Turn To Pago 5. it with constant mind, for might accrue to the.

M

Incapacitated Along the burning shore plods a nothing is more certain than that recipients, the passing of the coin bent, tired, perspiring youth; the secured for the donor a certain shifting, unfriendly zond mokes Mr. Churchill is right when he amount of satisfaction. Find it been double toll of the arduous journey.

To counteract the weight of the reminds us that we shall, not withheld, uneasy questioning would escape from our dangers by recoil. have plagued my day-or what was fond upon his aching back he must

left of it.

of necessity adopt that painful arute ing from them, but only by adopt denned "indiscriminate charity" is developed body. His head mustine Carefully analysed, the much con-bend and forward curve of his un- ing a strong and resolute, attitude, more often than not an act of selfish-held well in advance of the plodding

It is deeply distressing to reflectness, soothing to the troubled spirit feet in order to progress at all.

of the donor.

on all that is within the world's

C

sun

blazes)

the the

stand upon her own undeveloped, "Ice Cream!

Is he himself ever refreshed with

than be.

•

A travesty of youth! From waist upwards his posture Is reach for human heiterment to-day. ALMOST F Soon she could grotesque attitude of the deformed.

'Mo Ple!" and is to be jeopardised by this

spindly ttle legs, Mel Met found a

the confection which so threatened plunge at one rinn's great, lumpy, shapeless baby firmly a portion

attached to her unformed little back; overburdens his (should be) growing bidding into the unknown. An op-baby's fat round legs dangled help-frame and which he so patiently dis- portunity is indeed given to mankindlessly upon her skinny hips, his im- tributes to the cheerful, unburdened to rollicking. sun- which will not recur perhaps for mense hairless hend lolling helplessly merrymakers,

more fortunate backs, seemingly in momentary dan-tanned youngsters centuries, but in the face of theger of painful disunion.

Every day and all day in the torrid challenge to all that is most worth heat must Mel Mel's all nourished rue ttle fellow sits tailor-wise having a the world, we cannot frame support this clinging mass of thwart the dirty pavement; in finch.

baby brother. Nor does it enter her the crook of his knees a fitter of untidy little bend to demur, to envy|Almsy strips of thinnest wood, rolls' her babyless comperes.

of dark blue paper, evil-smelling able, as unavoidable as the pains and

She accepts her hard lot as Inevit-paste.

Not yel ve years old, his tiny cramps of an unformed frame in Its angers are, amazingly adept at the desperate attempts to develop as job. nature intended.

Intent and absorbed he is, un- How she ever contrives-119 she childlike concentration upon the typient straight-backed Chinese mal-upple little hands fly about their will contrive-io Hrow into the round, young, face, and the clever den of enviable carriage is one of task. The tiny fragments assembled, Nature's benevolent mereles and one the little boxes are laid in tidy liner of her deepest mysterica. Nor will to dry--and mother arrives with tresh baby develop the outrageous dis supplies of raw material for her busy

www.brood.

It is of the irony of this tragic situation that our failure should be not to convince the world of our pacific temper and purpose, but to convince it that we are ready to fight in fulfilment of our obligations, and in defence of what we hold dear.

The illusion that we are not to be reckoned with seriously is sedulous-

This little chap can turn out nearly

ly spread through Europe by those same counsel than that of Dra hundred boxes a day, and who wish others to believe it, if | Goebbels, he would know for cer- entire family, working from dawn they do not believe it themselves.

tain that the British nation was till sleepy eyes can no longer ace their way, manages to provide at ever-more in earnest, never_morienst the wherewithal to sustain this of one mind; and never nearer to arduous existence. Matches the limit of its patience.

cheop!

That the British mood and mettle should be so misunderstood is per-

are

and

(it has

sappers began to attack the fortress in earnest; but even then, they con- fined their attenilen to the

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Dr. 1910 by Unitek Vintner Kračienės, Ina

Lichter

“Must you cavesdrop? .. How would you like somebody contin- usfly listening on your line—is it anything interesting?"