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March 21, 1940.

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MOTORING

FILMS Don't Have by "Stage Door" These Winter

LILLIPUT LAND

FILM: "Gulliver's Travels".

STARS: Fleischer's cartoons.

VERDICT: Jolly good fun

"Gulliver's Travels" opens on Saturday at the Queen's and Alhambra. It will be enjoyed by nearly everybody; but when you go to see this second full- length colour cartoon, a marvel of fancy, ingenui- ty and patience, you

should put "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" as far as possible out of your minds.

who gave R

Fleischer, "Pop Eye" and "Betty Boop" works in a different mood from Diency. His effects are broader and his extrava- gances have not the same de- licacy. He deals in panto- mime characters. Personal reaction must decide which are the virtues and which the. weaknesses.

RELEASES

TO-MORROW ORIENTAL: "First Love" KING'S: "The Gorilla" QUEEN'S AND ALHAMBRA: "Hemeinber the Night"

MAJESTIC: "Naughty but Nlee"

SATURDAY

KING'S: "Mr. Smilih Gors, to Washington"

MAJESTIC: "Naughty but Nice" QUEEN'S AND "ALHAMBRA "Gulliver's Travels"

ORIENTAL "First Love"

SUNDAY

QUEEN'S AND ALHAMBRA: "Gulliver's Travels"

ORIENTAL: "Geronimo” KING'S: "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"

MAJESTIC: "Golden Bay"

FILM: "The Gorllia". STARS: The Ritz Brothers. VERDICT: Uproarious.

THIS well-known mystery subject has been brought back to the screen as a vehicle for the Ritz Brothers in the capu- city of detectives.

It is a mixture of "thriller" mys- tery and crazy fooling.

The mixture is successful and should provide good entertain-i

Whatever your view, this picture is a gorgeously-clevermont. nchievement.

The basis of the story is that part of Dean Swift's tale which deals with Lemuel Gulliver's ex- periences among the tiny people. in Lilliput. It happens that Gab- by, the town-crier who is not quite a Dopey, but whose appeal Is somewhat similar, is an inven tion of the cartoonist, but in the main the ideas are those origin- ated by Denn Swift.

The fun begins when Gabby stumbles upon the sleeping Gull- ver, lying on the beach after his struggle ashore from the wreck.

There is a convincing strength and springiness in the figure of Gulliver and the prince and prin- cess appear to have been made deliberately doll-like.

The musical background in pleasant. "It's a Happy Happy Day" is one of the Jingles which will dwell in the memory,

RADIO

The Ritz Brothers are excellent as usual. Special mention must be made of Patsy Kelly's performance

She 1 terrified maidservant. comes across with occasional good sardonic lines.

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FILM: First Love", STAR: Deanna Durbin. VERDICT: Good Deanna Enter-

tainment.

A romantic comedy-drama. The film deals with the ad- ventures of a neglected young orphan girl who, with the help of the servants, attends a ball given by a wealthy young boy with whom she has her first love affair.

It is a whimsical modern version of the Cinderella theme treated with delicacy and Insight, The Aim is bound up In comedy ad- venture.

Deanna Durbin is again enchant- Ing as the orphan.

"First Love" is delightful cater- tairment.

Sneak, Snitch And Snook, The

Spics Of Lilliput- land

FILM: "Mr. Smith Goes To Wash-

iupton".

STARS:

James Stewart, Jean

Arthur. VERDICT: Capra's Beat.

EVEN if you don't know much about American politics you will like this film, pro- duced by Frank Capra, who "Mr. for Was responsible .Deeds".

Mr. Smith portrayed by James Stewart is an idealisile young man, sent to the Senate from his state in the belief that he will be an easy going supporter of a political rang. The fim deplets the gradual but which awaits those rude awakening who planned to exploit him.

James Stewart and Jean 'Arthur, as his secretary, are immense; and Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Eugene Palletle and Harry Cory act with polish.

Car Troubles

YOUR car's purpose to serve at a moment's notice is defeated

if you

have to churn away at the starter motor every morn- ing before the car can be got under way.

In winter no-car should be left for hours in the open. I have heard drivers say that if a car will run all day through rain or snow it should atand any outdoor treatment.

They go further and say they have parked their cars outside in win- ter for years and have always got them to go. Their motoring costs per mile would be the best answer to this.

The extra hours of darkness take heavy toll of the battery in the wlater months. Why Increase these demands by leaving your cars parked with ghia for hours at a time?

Make the most of your garage whether it is a private or a public one. Every shilling spent on a night's shelter is more than a shilling Kaved. And the warmer and more weather-proof the garage, the more trouble and expense will be avoided in the long run."

A roof is essential, and at lenst one end of the garage should be- closed to avoid through draughts. These en cause more trouble than

whole week in the open.

Freezing of radiator water need never occur to-day. Excellent anti- freeze solutions and garage lamps and heaters are to be had, while w old rug OF other windproof covering for the radiator should always be handy in the car.

many

The thinner winter oils which science has produced have ridderi the owner-driver of much of the old-time terror of starting up.

Whether the engine will fire or not depends on

things. Above all, the mixture of petrol In relation to the atmos- and air In phere temperature must be cor- reci. Nature demands this and will brook no compromise. That is why car makers have recently given such close attention to chokes

Ad

starting auxillary carburettors. Every mechanical part of the car should be in good working order if you are to enjoy the real advan- lages of winter motoring.

Far too many jobs are left un- done on the exeuse that the car is soon to be exchanged and the value of repairs will be lost. I

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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By Lichty

"Will you please tell me, Osbort Truffle, what THEY have to do with our honeymoon movici?”

Lord Haw-Haw Is Several People

over the whole

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says: first that the British would laugh at About Mr. Churchill he BEFORE the war began, the British Fritsche who is, in fact, a German

listener's favourite comic was speaking announcer of Berlin radio "This somewhat dissipated and very his speakers on the radio. But when undoubtedly Arthur Askey. But now and nothing like Haw-Haw whatever. extravagant old man become one of they did laugh, the ustute Goebbels I shall not add another name to the British Ministers-not because of didn't mind. He knows that the many Englishmen consider that the best laugh on the air is to be got by the list; for the fact is that Haw-his profleiency in the arts of false- English will always listen for a switching on the German radio pro- How is not one person, but several. hood, but for the more important laugh.

At least two different voices-similar reason that he is a close friend of in English. paganda

The inventor of the name given to but distinct-broadenst in English on Barney Baruch. the, new favourite was Jonah Bar- the wavelengths of Colorme. Ham-

"In order that this Jewish inter-THEY repeat items heard on the German radio, The Items are na rington, radio columnist of the Dally burg and Zeesen.

might establish

funny as they are obvious lles. But They are neither English nor Scot-national financier Express. The words "Lord Haw- Haw" were first printed on Septem-tish volces. They make errors like complete control ber 18, 1030. Departing from their pronouncing "catastrophe" as "catas-policy of the British Cabinet it was aw-Haw's stories" get about and really might not be something in one usual custom, other papers adopted a conf" and saying "on the Cabinet necessary Umt a new position should some people begin to wonder if there

be held by 'nome gentleman more

or two of them. Many, for instance, nickname coined by a rival. It was for in the Cabinet."

were Behind the voices are those who Jewish than the Jew himself.

ere half-convinced that something so appropriate.

write the "copy." They are preity What is the point of it all? It's had happened to the Aric Royal. A certainly efferent people from these often self-contradictory, It has in-small minority are always only too cluded allegations of a food-shortage willing to believe that "International IN ble book "A Complete Biography who read 14.

There can be no doubt that Haw-in Britain which listeners know is capitalists" have driven Britain Into of Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen" (Hutchinson, 58.), Mr. Barrington flaw is a synthetic character, several tot true. It declares at one and the

So the Haw-How propoganda is is sturving women and children and cunning. It does not appeal to rea- mentions the newspaper attempts to persons. How many It is hard to say suine time that the British blockado

but probably about Ave. identity him.

Consider, for a mement, Haw that it is ineffective. Many of the "Five different identities

claims are so fantastic that it seems that is a weapon which can be handled only by our aldebut worka unshakable evidence." he Haw's material,

"Drilish people, ask your Govern- at times as though Haw-How is merely by repetition. Goebbels and his henchmen know that if enough writes, (1) A well-known British

is the Ark Royait parodying himself. spy; (2) an ex-member of Oswald ment-Where

It would be a mistake to suppose mud is thrown, some of it will stick. Mosley's staff; (3) a thirty-year-old They will tell you that she is still German named Hoffman, who has an afloat, We can tell you that she is that Dr. Goebbels does not realise And Haw-How a Germany's Number

this. He may not have realised, at One Mud-thrower. English wife; (4) a Princo; (5) Hans at the bottom of the sea..

given

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war

challenge such a view, but the vital fact is that the car should not be used at all if any com- ponent is faulty. Have

the from ro nonsense

not windscreen wiper. If it is fully effective have it righted at once which leads me to the sub- Ject of snow and lee,;

or 50

Ice formation on the windscreen can be counteracted by fitting one of the useful defrosting devices now produced by accessory firms.

Meanwhile, if you are caught without one, try raising the off- side half of the bonnet and keeping it open au

Inch with a matchbox or duster so that warm air can flow from the

on to the windscreen, cuelne It ma be that you have given

may up motoring until the spring and your car stands idle in the garage. I hope you have not left it as it was when you last switched off the engine.

The simplest plan is to make une job of storage immediately after the final run while the oll in the engine. gearbox and back axle is still warm. This should be drained off and the drain plugs replaced before they are mislaid. Then jack up the whole air, tak- ing the weight off the tyres and ns much as possible off the springs. Solid blocks of wood at the four corners of the chassis frame will give safe support.

While on the job, slip off the wheels and remove the tyres, rid- ding them of all signs of oil and grease, and winding strips of paper around them.

Don't forget the battery. If it is faulty, now is the time to have it Otherwise. repaired and stored. have it put either on "periodle" or "trickle" charge.

Brain-teasers

Here is the answer to last week's No. 1 Teaser.

1. Lay out six coins to form a

cross as below. Rearrange the coins

so that there are

four in the vertl- cal limbs and four in the horl- zontal.

Answer will be found in next week's issue.

SOLUTIONS TO THE FOL- LOWING TEASERS WILL BE FOUND UPSIDE DOWN BE- LOW.

2. What are the dates of H.M. King George VI's

(a) accession to the Throne, (b) birthday.

3. Charlie Chaplin was born in:

(a) New York, (b) Melbourne, (c) London, (d) Chicago,

4. What poison did Socrates drink. when he was sentenced to death?

6. How many gases are there in the air we breathe?

6. If you had some latakin, it would interest you as:

Ulmery, Sopron's Conft

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