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strain IM it would affect the nation's nerves,

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Until quite recently the idea of encores for films was thought unworkable, but now it has been tried out with complete success,

Many scenes, grave and gay, erowd to my memory:

Charles Laughton saying

In The Private Life of Henry VIL": "The things I do for Eng- land!"

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Sir Gap Standing, in “The Llves of a Bengal Lancer," saying: His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to make the posthumous award of the Victorin Cross to Lieutenant MacGregor. In uccord rith the custom of this repitent. I place this Cross upon the saddle of his horse."

Merle Oberon in Private Life of Henry VIII.," say- ing on the way to the scaffold: "What a lovely day."

Shirley Temple singing, "Oh My Goodners" in "The Poor Little Rich Girl"

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The Sisters in "Mr Derdla Goes to Town" saying of Gary Cooper, "He's surely pixilated.“ it."

Jean Harlowe Laying in Dinner at Eight": "I was reading a book, a nutty kind of book, and do you know, it said every profes- ston would be carried on by ma- chinery." And Marie Dressler res phing. "Ok, my dear. That nerd never worry pou."

Danielle Darrieux in "The Rage of Paris" saying: "I can took

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Norma Sheurer in "Idiot's Delight saying: "And that nice English boy: cơn see him in his neal uniform opposing the ad- tank with his little vance of pistol and the tank rolls on and all his fine body is "just a mess, but he dies happy because he thinks she is safe, but in an air raid she has died like a dog in a cellar."

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. Fred Astaire und Ginger Rogers singing and dancing the Cole Porter hit, "Night and Day," in "The Gay Divorce,"

Robert Donat in "Goodbye Mr. Chips" saying: "The Danube is bine only to the eyes of those

in love.

Mickey Rooney in "Love Finds Andy Hardy" complaining. "What do you think? First of all I had a car and no girl. Now I have no car and three girls."

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Joan Crawford in "Love

On the Run" saying: "I hear there are ghosts in Versailles. I want to meet Voltaire. I want to sea if he looks like George Arliss."

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Roscoe Karns asking. "What is Rembrandt doing now?" as he watched John Barrymore madly designing a stage setting in "Twentieth Century."

MEN AND THINGS ABROAD

MUSSO is losing

his GRIP

BY W. N. EWER

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IGNOR MUSSOLINI growing tired, is losing his grip on policy and on ad- ministration. is nitting back and letting his Heutenants do the job.

That had to come sooner or later. No man can go on for ever as the Duce has sluce the march on Rome in 1922. Whatever one thinks of his policy, one has to ad- mire the energy and driving power. of the man.

Year after year he Was not merely the end of the Govern- ment," but the Qovernment Rself --the " whnle works." He kept i tight hand on every Minister and every Ministry. He made every important decision personally. The details to which he himself at- tended were fanumerable, often even ridleulous.

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EW Men could have stood the strain so long.

Nol even Mussolini's

physique and vitality could stand it indefinitely, Now the strun beguis to tell,

I realised when I saw him last Jun2- vary in Rome thing this was a changed man from the Musolla I had seen at Stresa in 1935.

That siussolini was Kreut, fit, alert. A steel spring of a mun; bright-eyed. furd-muscled, capable, one guessed, of nny exertion a man of energy and de cisive will.

The Mussolint of last January wok, by comparison. flabby." He looked für more than four years older. The skin was not so clear, the jowl was surging The eyes beady rather than bright. The springy walk had become nemething of a waddle. One suspected eflori-perhaps even i corset,

It was the difference between a mun in hard training and other soft.

3 ninn e

All that I hear from Italy confirms the suspicion 1 hnd then.

It begins to be general talk that the

THIS

DIET

“Naw the strain begins to tell?

He

Dire these days is not, working-bot in the way that he used to work Is taking things easily. giving more time to pleasure.

Self-Indulgence would be perhaps a hurah tern. But in his days there is more time for enjoyment, less for work than before,

He spends more time at the Vil Torlonia, Just outside Rome, or ut his country place at Rocen delta Cam- inata far less time at his desk in the. Palazzo Veneziu

Mollers which really need his per- sonal attention have to wall for days,

TALK!

has been so į much all round." as the writer heard THE subject of diet

publicised in the Press of late a scornful doctor say recently.

years (and often with such con-Overloading the System

flicting opinions both from doctors

and layment that the ordinary per

Certainly as regards meat we do; son who wants rellable general in- consume far too much as h nation, formation is sometimes not a little and there is little chnace of our be puzzled to know what to make of it coming the A1 people we have talked all.

so much about while we go on load-

Some of the "food specialists" telling our systems from the cradle to the (often prematurely early) grove us we alt ought to cat little but na- with hyper-nitrogenous and uric acid ture foods, fruit and vegetables, and

forming proteins. drink huge quantities of certain

fluids, ignoring entirely the fact that To study the official returns of the no two people, their systems and re-growing figures of meat consump- quirements, are alike, and that one tion in these islands is enough lo man's meat is often enough literally make any decent physiologist's hair another's poison!

"Ent more meut!" "EAL more brend!" "Eat more fruit!" are the slogans we have so often seen, and the blunt fact is that the mass of our people "eat a darned sight too

GRIN AND BEAR IT

'oz lichte

MATINEE TODAY

MARIN FIRESS +80

By Lichty

"Estolla has been so disagreeable lately—always sticks up for 'anyone' } happen to talk about!"

stand on end,

Seriously it is contended that the meat eater is more vigorous and dis- case resistant. That is nonsense, In youth there may be a bigger produc- ton of brawn, but later its equally likely to mean carly heart strain and. kidney bother and neither of those states indicates an emulation of the Methuselah legend.

The real truth lies somewhere on these lines. Find out what sults best. Be as moderate in all things

១៩ dietary

possible. Masticate thoroughly and slowly. As middle- age comes on reduce diet somewhat and rest niways after a meal. Drink morning and evening, but as little; as possible with meals.

Let poultry, fish, milk, eggs, cereals, wholemeal, fruit and vegeta- ble replace most other things after Thirty or forty,

Between Meals

It is not a good thing to be nib- bling and nipping at all times and between regular meals. Many people never seem to think that their stomachs need a rest or a minute's holiday. That is a mistake, and to work them at high pressure continu-, ally means eventual dyspepsin at least, and chronic at that.

One hears a good deal about vita- mins to-day and the foods that con- tain them. One need not bother. Nature herself looks after that part of the business, and the less we trou- ble the better. A generous mixed; diet that we fancy and can digesti will give us the necessary vitamins without book study or the chewing of this and of that. -

As for the amount of food a man needs-It all depends on the Indivi dual constitution and its wants. To ask the docter how much meat or pudding, &c., a man should take per dem is rather ilke asking how often he should go to the cinema or pay his taxes.

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sometimes for weeks-a thing once unthinkable. And very many im- portant matters never havo his personal attention at all thing even more unthinkable in the oli days.

Clossip savs-though I cannot vouch for it-that he did not sce the final draft of the German- Italian Treaty until it had been algned.

He still makes speeches-though he has hinted that he is going to stop even this. Ile holds reviews. He goes on tour in the provinces. He talks now and again with bis Ministera. Ile prosides over occa- onal Cabinets and meetings of the Fascist Grand Council.

But he does not, as he used, con- trol everything nil the time. He is becoming a rather easy-going head of a Government which runs itself.

NOL Set merely a Sgure-hend, That would be a foolish exaggera- tion. He still has fts of the old energy and the old Aro. In the last resort It is his word always which is decisive. But he is no longer, as He was an all-time dictator.

Who are the mef, then, whom the Dictator, relaxing his own grip. allows to run Fascist Italy tu-day?

HERE are three of them. Galeazzo Clano, Achille Starace,

Dino Alferi.

These are the three men who minke policy to-day: the three men, say the Romans under their breath, who are turning Italy into a Ger- utan caluny.

In Tiranu, ofter the

Etalinzi avasion, portrults were distributed so That Altonikus might know and hon- our their new rulern.

A year or two ago there would have een only two. The King and the Duce But there were, in fact, four. The King, the Duce, Ulatio nel Starace!

Not Alderi. He is the least of the trlo. And his is an unobtrusive technique. The distribution was pre- sumably his job. And it is character- istle that he should efface himself.

He likes sulier methods of work, And his position is not yet quite well established. He needs to fatter the other two, for he depends on them.

Count Galeazzo Clano is only 35, ie would in all probability be still an un- distinguished member of the Italian Consular Service had he not chanced to marry Edda Mussolini, the Duce's thaughter and favourite child.

As it is, he la Europe's youngest For- eign Minister, and certainly believes himself to be the destined successor of his father-in-law as Head of the Government. Other people have other. idens.

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| ELF-CONFIDENT, arro-

gant, fond of galety and good living, he dresses

well, wears his uniform-cap jaunt- lly cocked on one alde, is swagger- ingly pleased with life and with Galeazzo Ciano.

tle Jus a greater and greater hold on the Duce who seems content to ca- dorse all that Clano toes and to kay whatever Ciano suggests.

His position therefore is strong. But in it there is one weakness which may be fatal. He is probably the most dis- liked man in Italy, and the dislike is intinged with respect.

Signor Achille Btarace, aged 10. is. In a key position. He has been for more than seven years Becretary-- General of the Fascist Party. For seven years before that he was Assistant- Secretary.

Bhort unimpressive, able. hard. working, intensely ambitious, he is complete control of the party machine, which mearis that he can make or break any party official, any govern3- ment official

He tasties decrees on his authority. He issues orders to officials behind the backs or over the heads of Ministers, And his orders are beyed. Only the Duce himself can control Blaraca. And the Duce, these days, does not trouble

Like Clano, Blaface has ideas about the succession. But they are not the same ideas, Blarnee's candidate for the- Duceship la-Stance.

flo and Ciano work together-and which each other, and intrigue against ach other for position when the time for the struggle for power shall come,

D

INO ALFIERI is the old- est (52) and the least of

the trio, I think he has

10 ambitions. He is Minister of Popular Culture-a post which used, more accurately, to be called of Propaganda." It aults him. He kes it. I think he is coritent with lệ: though ono nover knows.

Handsome, dapper, charming to the verge of suavity, he has the subtle mind and subtle methods of a Bologna-

ese lawyer,

His is a dincult job these days. Clano may frame polisies (or accept them ready made from Berlin), Star- ace may use the party machine to maintain theʻrégime against rumbling discontent. Alfieri itişt try to make both the regime and its polley popu..

far.

He has one great asset. The prestige of the Duce is still immense. So long as the three can work "under the banner of his dread renown.” they can secure assont if not enthusikari.

But the taak grows harder. And as the Duce'a formidable grasp relaxes, it will grow harder still. As Musso- lini fails the régime mușt weaken.

None of the three, none of the others, can be in summolini. Praciatra le based on a tremendous personality that already begins to weaken..