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NANCY

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Ernie

October 2, 1939.

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Artist Has SECRET JAIL JOURNEY Double FOR MRS. THURSTON

Life

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BEST of the batch of the new Malvern Festival plays up to now is "Old Master," agreeably fantastic comedy by Alexander Knox, Canadian-barn West-End actor.

Art-dealers are apparently terrible sharks, taking advantage of the pro- verblal poverty of gunlus to nequire outputs of masterpieces for a mengre' retaining ice.

Exasperated at this, a pointer fakins his own death, reappears after ni mock funeral and resumes painting under a new Identity,

This idea in so abviously inspired by Arnold Bennett's "The Greet Adventure" that one of the churne- ters has at least the decency to admit

it.

Nor this play to be compared

Her Husband May Try To See Her

LEWES (Sussex).

MRS. ELSIE THURSTON, twenty-one-year-old wife of Stanley Thurston, Lewes jail-breaker, travelled in secret from Holloway Prison, London, to Lewes. She was brougrt before the magistrates on an adjourned charge of assisting her husband to escape from prison.

Since she was at Holloway, special police have guarded Mrs. Thurston in case her fugitive husband should try to reach her there.

with its forerunner. Complications, ; Only prison officials in London and, sets of chess pieces however, provide plenty of good fun, police who escorted her made the

Lew

On the other side of his cell were

There is a lively party in the coun-arrangements for her journey to photographs of himself at the wheel try, and there are great mysteries at a private

jo A fashionable gallery.

view

Here the artist, played with in sinuating humour by Alistair Sim, forces the dealer, to take him up afresh under a new name.

Briskly written for the most part, the piece has well-known types and two tantalising curiains; one where country cottage is about to be set and the other where the painter's daughter and the young

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man are ordered to strip and pose for a new picture.

Thurston's Mrs.

four-month-old baby, who has been with her in prison, travelled with her.

of six different sports cars. At work with his party one day he showed the other convicts a one pound note and D ten shiling note. He had made them overnight in his cell.

Thurston's ambition was to become

She was in court only a few minutes. She was remanded again, and returned to Holloway immediate- crack racing driver. After ench successful haul he bought a new ly.

Thirty-year-old Thurston, most-sports.cor wanted mun In Britain, showed ability as an artist when a boy. Be- FAILED TO REGISTER fore he was twenty he was finishing

his education at a Borstal institution.

He specialised in robbing hotels, and had in his possession hundreds of keys of different makes and styles.

Many worders of Chelmsford Jail

Resident Goes on Holiday

Without Telling Police

Acting is excellent. Ernest Thesiger. makes patrician figure of the deater; the author pinys a young American very engagingly; and Mar- have souvenirs of models that he Saturday for falling to report Karet Withers, Norman Wooland, made in his cell. They are minia- Alexander Sarner, Betty Marsdentures of airplanes made to scale, and and Ollyo Milbourne lend sound fashioned from odd pieces of wood support,

he got from the prison kitchens.

BOASTED

Doctor Flies 4,500 Miles To Operate

From the bone handles of dis-

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Ralph Morgan, Screen Actors", Guild president, speaks at Holly- wood meeting, at which charges of "rackeltering methods" were hurled at the Alliance of Theatri- cal Stage Employees.. Adolphe Menjou and Lourence Tibbett, who also spoke, at right.

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TEN-YEAR OLD Frankie Sisman, of Cypress-road, Harrow, was trapped in a car which ran into the Thames at Walton recently. And when he was rescued he told a hospital nurse: "Oh! I could see fishes swimaning in and out of the car win- dows while I was down there.".

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