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WE

E all, I suppose, take ourselves seriously at certain times-birth, mar- riage and death, for in- stance and if we don't stand up for ourselves as

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WHAT I тепл. I sup- pose, is that the difference is be tween those who themselves see as irretrievably comic and the

others who ser

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The gist of the plot in this ono con- cerns Robert Ful- ton and his offorts to aunch his If amous

steamboat.

Before that event. place, takes you are apt to be too

Some people have revealed them-on.. selves

generous to the point of If you do care for him he will de- self-furgetfulness, others as pomp- 1ght you. He writes beautifully, ous, fouthy, and self-Important. On and the atmosphere of quiet coloured This dvislott 1 make no comment sillness, that he creates is all his exhausted to care. except to suggest that it is the pomp- own. He can write about liimself ous, self-important querulous ones with humour, and he does not ex- who will suffer most severely during pert you to think him inportant. the next few months. Bomba

are But he is important-more so than quite restardless of titles.

most of his famous contemporaries.

However, Alice Faye and Fred Mae Murry gamely see Richard

In any week, all delightfully Lastly there is licetor Bolitho on Green (Fulton) through to the 66 Adventure In

un-self-pompous.

last reel, 'so maybe you can too.

The title is a bit misleading,

his experiences in Americn. How MY three non-pompous writers many weary English men and wo- are D. L. Murray, author of Tale of men have ventured on this, and how Three Cities (Hodder and Stoughton, unsatisfactory most of them are! 10s, fd): Forrest Reid, author of But Bolitho, because he has humour since the picture skips lightly Private Road (Tuber und Füber, 109, and can laugh at himself, is most Od.); and Hector Bolitho, author of refreshing.

Jover the interesting aspects of America Expects (Fyre and Spottis- This is, I think, a little book very little old New York. Most of

woodle, fis.).

well worth reading at this moment,

I recommend Mr. Murray's long for it is filled with good sense and the background is the water-front Baroque novel In company with tells some at least of the truth. I Michael Sadleir's Fanny by Gaslight will, I hope, be widely bought and and Philip Lindsay's Pudding Lane read,

is the three best romantle escapist novels to be published recently, Mr. Murray's novel really will take you out of yourself.

It is story of London, Parks and Rome at the period of the Third Napolean and it ends with Sedan and the Paris Commune. It Is per- haps a novel of background rather than character, as historical novels for the most part are. Its great merit is its verve and spirit. The atmosphere never interferes with the action; its creation is a fabric of minute detail most cunningly inter- woven.

How different is Forrest Reid from D. L. Murray! Private Road is the second volume of this autobiography, His literary reputation has always been a "clique" one. He has had for years faithful and devoted fol- lowers, of whom I rezkan myself one, but his work has always been so subtly quiet, honest and unobtru sive that you have to listen and

Guide

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New

TO.DAY KING'S: "Littio, Old York."

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Wizard of Oz,”

ORIENTAL *An English- man's Homie."

MAJESTIC: "."

TO-MORROW QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Adventure in Diamonds."

le."

ORIENTAL: "Kld Nightinga-

MAJESTIC: "He married his

Wife."

KING'S: "Lutle Old New York."

Diamonds"

-Queen's, Alhambra George Brent appears in 23-

other of the week's films.

Adventures in Diamonds, and he has another corner of the Bri-

acetion, principally the inn kept by tish Empire for background,

South Africa.

Irish lassie Alice Fayė.

Fred MacMurray's her sweetheart, though she really loves Mr. Robert Fulton Greene. However, that gen- tlemon's interests are in his steam boat and Brenda Joyee, the 'niece of

ls financial broker,

Andy Devine comes into the pro- ceedings with a role of ferry-bant man: Henry Stephenson is Brenda's uncle; and Ward Bond and Ben Carter have supporting roles,

Historically, the picture is interest- ing breatise of its story of the first steam-boat and because of the many celebrated names which are brought in. Directed by Henry King.

It is about a young officer who sees. a pretty lady, foolishly wagers that he will make friends with her--and finds himself whirled into a stream of adventures among policemen and diamond thieves.

The excitement is heightened by the fact that the heroine remains by his side most of the time, and by doubts about whether she is on the side of the police or the thieves.

Brent's

makes elsy Hippancy excellent comic relief for the dark doings, but for good measure there is Nigel Bruce, as the man in charge of the investigation of the theft of dia-

Bruce's monds.

amiable stolidity would be an asset in any film.

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"Shipyard Sally" was the film in which Gracie Fields

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"Wish Luck."

Its

one of the Alms which makes villus more menacing by giving them seemingly excellent manners,

The clanning voice and engaging hides a very nasty temperament,

mile of Cecil Kellaway, for example,

Wizard of Oz

-Queen's, Alhambra It is to the credit of Holly- wood that it can afford to deploy a whole army of dwarfs for the illustration of single incident in a simple fairy story. *

The rest of the spectacle is equally lavish; there are extraordinary vistas of artifelal scenery, inany anuslug cinema, tricks and devices of the witches who fly in a very nutural fashion, puffs of scarlet smoke, and a horse which changes

colour from brilliant purple 20 orange.

In fact the ingenuous fairy story from which the Dim is adapted, the wanders story of a lttle girl who

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in strange country in the company of stranger creatures to look for a wizard who will send her home, is

by the quite overlaid on

fantastic

the

Isa Miranda, glamorous lines id down so clearly by Mar- lene Dietrich, plays heroine, and there are some good "bit" ports among the villains. In fact, this is colour photography,

elaboration of the setting.

The film is a triumph of technical dexterity and espectully of skill in

Revealing Pen Portraits of the men behind Hitler

EAMS have been written

R about Naridem, but author

TWELVE NAZI APOSTLES

For

killed.

Oswald Dutch has produced one of the most fascinating series of

of of the scintillating intellect, presence

marchers were Nazi biographies yet put be-

was he whc. on May 2, 1933, had abolished all free trade nind, and is never embarrassed, and Streicher was arrested and impri- tween two covers. His recent unions in Germany.

though he is un-Aryan in appearance soned, like Huier. in Landsberg ly published Hitler's Twelve A fariner's son, born on February there is no truth, says Dutch, in the Fortress, and was rewarded by his Apostles (Arnold, 103, 68.) 15, 1800, he studied chemistry until rumour that he is of Jewish origin. Fuehrer in due time.

In his telsure he busies himselt throws the characters of the men

His wife, Magda, divorced wife of war broke out, when he volunteered

waler-colour's--- Guenther Quandi, wealthy Cerman with painting in for active service. In 1917 he got who guide the German destiny to the air torre, was twice shot manufacturer, was adopted by a "landscapes after the style of a into high relief,

down and was eventually taken Jewish family named Friedlander, schoolboy and obscene pictures after Rudolf Hess, Adolf's Deputy prisoner by the French.

but is herself of pure Aryun blood. the style of on adolescent," "The Brown Mouse," as he is He had been badly wounded In

In recent years she has had a none Dr. Wilhelm Frick. Stirrup Holder calied by Nazis, started his career as the leg. Surgeons wonted to om-

too happy time with her amorous Hitler's Arst bodyguard, rose to be putate, but Ley refused. Six times

husband, whose affairs with young come his doorkeeper and private he was operated on the leg was

girls have been innumerable. Recretory because of his dog-like de- saved, and in 1920 he left France votion to Hitler.

and got a job as chemist in the

A strong, brawling offlcer of some Wiesdorf chemical works. Dozris book-learning but little originality of of times he was arrested for diceds mind, he "Is only base when ordered of violence, for he was a fanatleni to be so by Hitler, for in himself anti-Jew, in 1932 he was sentenced Hess is one of the few inborn decent when he almost throttled Otto Wels, induced the infamous party, therely Social Democrat Leader, bread. to intamous actions by bad beer bottle over another man's head. company." In a beer-house brawl and was imprisoned again. he was once cracked over the skull The greatest aonker in the Nazl with a beer mug, and still bears a Party, he can usually be found in scar, on which no hair will grow. the ale houre from which the loudest Born In Alexandria, Egypt, on laughter issues. "When Ley is April 28, 1886, he is the son of Fritz urgently wanted all that is necessary โร a merchant to produce him is to ring up his from Frankenland. Invourite from

taverns. The saying is His

deep mother come that when he is

In from a family of Dr. Ley can bargain more forcefully Swigg farmers, and use more striking (in the true After an excellent sense of the word) nrguments" than education in Ger- when he is sober, which is apparent- many, he volun- ly a rare occurrence. teered for the Dr. Josef Goebbels, Mephisto

army in 1914, was

wounded at Ver-

dun, and at war's

end was in the

German Air Force:

In 1917 on the Western Front he first met Hiller. He was conducting relief transport to the front when he met a dispatch rider attached to the command Lance-Corporal Adolf Hitler. Six years later they were Imprisoned together in Landsberg Fortress where Hitler wrote Mein Kampf.

his cups.

As a young man

of twenty-five

Goebbels olned

born on

the Reds marched in after the re- volution. His wife was III, and Rosenberg tried in vain to get em- ployment as an architect.

Then he mel Dietrich Eckart, one ог Hitler's Journalist friends. "Have you any use for a fighter against Jerusa- lem?" he asked Eckart.

Soon he joined up with the Hit-

ler clrcle, and in 1921 was helped In his purchase of the vituperative

present at

the

" Adolf Hitler, Austrian paper- Voelkischer Brobachter, now the of- hunger's assistant and corporal of the ficial party organ. last world war is to-day President Rosenberg was "He la hated, this Mephisto of the und Chancellor of the Great Ger- Munich putsch of 1923, but fled when party, one marked by the Almighty man Reich, then he must thank Dr. the troops opened fire. Later he be- with a club foot, of whom one inust Wilhelm Frick, a dry German police came a naturalised German citizen. beware. Over-clever, over-subtle, hard as steel, merciless, hardwork official, for his post.”

Says blographer Dutch: "Rosen- ing, calculating-bu! weighed-up and But for him the Fuehrer would berg is to be counted on us the despised and isolated: that is Goeb- never have become a German citizen, person in the party most powerfully All the provin. Governments had endowed intellectually, and at the Julius Strelcher, Jow-Baiter Ne, 1 refused to groot bim naturalisation, same time as father-confessor HI- This bald, evil-looking specimen but in 1830 Wilhelm Frick ebliged. Her and Grand Inquisitor to the whole of Nazisin, editor of the scurrilous

movement." weekly newspaper, Der Stuermer, Directly he became the first Na- was once a school teacher in Nurem tonal Socialist Minister in the Reich,

bels."

berg

1

Hermann Goering, Menaco

It is said that he was jilted Frick, as Minister for Home Affairs Son of a German colonial amcor by his girl friend in favour of a in Thuringli, tried to give Hitler an Jew.

official post so that he would auto- who saw service in East Africa,

"Hopeless Hermann" This explanation sounds plausible, matically become a German,

was born ne for Streicher is known us an un- Premier Baum of Thuringia re- Karlsruhe in 1893. In the autumn scrupulous woman chaser ond a fused, but while he was away Frick of 1914 he was laid up with rheuma- violent Don Juan. He is also pos- appointed Hitler to be commissar of tism at the military hospital in Mulhausen, but hobbled out and re- sessed of an urge to display in most the gendarmerie. numbers of the Stuermer cases of

ported at Stenay Aerodrome, near This was the second time Frick Darmstadt. race shame and the sexual demeanours of Aryan girls in mest had violated his code. On the night of the Munich putch, when he was a Intimate and disturbing detail.

mis..

In

"I beg to report that I should like "He repeatedly causes Aryan girls local police official, Frick had in to join the air force with my friend the party. He was or women who have been friendly structed the men under his own com- Loerzer," said First Lieutenant Goer-

October with Jews or half-Jews to parade the mand not to fire on the Hitler puts. Ing. 20, 1007. His fa- sireels with largo sandwich-boards chists, nor to use any force,

A year later he took his pilot's ther was of work- bearing the words 'I (then follows Ing-class stock; his her full name) have given myself to sentenced to fifteen months impri- of 1014-18's greatest air aces.

For that crime he was arrested and ticket, and became one of the war mother's family (here appears the man's full name), sonment for treason and breach of 1915 he was severely wounded on kopt B Emithy

Jewish hog.

next duty. He spent only five months the Somme, but by March They sont

Kis Intimate friends declare that behind the bars, was released in year was back in the air again and he sometimes works naked at his desk. His offlee affairs would not April, 1024, on probation, and next had camed the order Pour le Merile bear investigation and he has had month was elected to the Reichstag, for shooting down twenty enemy air- craft, mostly British. After the various interludes with the wives of

death of famed Commander von

their weakling offspring, who had a deform-

ed foot and a warped body, to be, His worship of Hitler is such that educated in a religious school, then he now even uses the same diction to university.

as his master when he speaks.. In He tried his hand at journalism

fact, writes Cowald Dutch, "Hess is with disappointing results, unl at best only aʼmimle and not a real drifted into the Nazi Party almost by leader,"

Rccident. He was then no Jew later. ev. Jailer of Workers Dr. Ley,

In 1926 he founded the weekly Der. On June 8, 1933, the Seventeenth Angrig (stli! his personal organ) ord International Labour Conference was eventually blossomed into propágon. In session in the great hall at do Minister of the Reich. Geneva when Dr. Robart Ley entered His mind is keen, as steel, cold and the cry went up "Jaller of tile and calculating. His considerable German Workers!"

wit is mostly satirical. He has a

Alfred Rosenberg. Theorist

other party members for, says Dutch, Author of the designation "Third Richthofen, Goering became captain "he is not Instidious in his choice of Reich" and theorist of the Nazi of the chaser squadron, and had Women."

Party. He was born a Russian on thirty-six victorles, to his credit at money. He inade Nuremberg the January 12, 1893, when his home war's end. centre of the Nazi Party. There the town of Tallinn (then known as annual congress is held.

Roval and now capital of Estonia) enced a nervous breakdown and had While on service he had experi- Born in 1885 he, 100, fought in was ruled over by the Teats. France. with a machine-gun pinteon

taken tomorphla. Now it helped and finished up na a lieutenant of As a youth he joined a German him to forget his disappointment and Teserve. At the Munich putsch in students' club, became Interested in exasperation. He went to Sweden, 1923 Streicher joined Hitler and his Indian mysticism and' anti-Bol- where he almost starved, worked as marchers. The police fired. Sixteen slicvism, but hopped to Munich when Turn to Page 9, Fourth Column

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