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August 31, 1940.

ENTERTAINMENT SECTION

The Patterny of

FREEDOM

At moments such as these the thoughts of men and women should go back to the noble ulicrances of great men who have been faced with the onslaught of barbarians and savages and who have without fear faced them and given everything that they had to give for Freedom. ȚEVER was an anthology more perfectly timed in its date

of Freedom," and never, I think, was an Anthology more com. pletely satisfying.

From the days of Marathon to the Battle of France Free- dom has been the passion of all that part of mankind which deserves to be free, and

which has pre- ferred to be

dend rather that:

to be slaves. The nations,

the

states, the races which have be- dome alaves have deserved it. The

titles as The Free People. Patriotism and Service, The Oppressors' Wrong. Good Faith, Warfare and Warriors, Pence, and no ou

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nations which deserved Free- dom have always been, and always will be, free.

Sir Bruce has cast his net wide, as wide as one would expect of a man of his breadth and culture. He has collected treasures from the literature of Greece and Rome. Britain and France, and America. He has even been able to in- clude three extracts from German literature, two from Mommsen, and one, a terrible one, from Treitschke. "The Pattern of Freedom" is divid ed up into sections with such

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There

the Kreat passage from "Tristrami Sturdy, with

the contrast tween the achievements re the soldier and 2 desolation

which he leaves behind him. The passage which begins, "Because. brother Shandy, my blood flew out into the camp and my heart panted for war-was it a proof it could not ache for the distresses of war, too."

Abe Lincoln in Hongkong

BE, who was shot at the theatre, is getting his

own back..

AB

In this film you see him toting hogs, settin' around saying "Don't bother me" to all his well- meaning. friends who urge him to make some- thing of himself.

You see him trying to avoid the clutches of the determined Mary Todd, who became his wife, failing and vielding to her stern inspiration, which carries him to the White House and to the declaration of war against the slave States of the south.

And you hear him wisecracking. Abe was the real father of the modern wisecrack.

" But this film is not very humorous.

It is

a reverent, almost holy, record of the early life

and times of a great man.

It tells you the story of one of the very few great men in the history of the world who got great without any swag- Caesar wore a toga, Napoleon a corporal's coat.

ger,

These Colour Films

HEATH having headaches about their future in colour films. They wondering what colour will do to their popularity.

HOLLYWOOD Alm

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For colour has come to stay. All the big Hollywood studios are concentrating on it.

The introduction of talking films ruined many a silent film star over-night. Then it was the volce.

With colour films it is the texture of the skin. Almost the perfect skin is needed.

In black and white films they use a brownish liquid and powder for make-up. Plenty of it. It disguises all kinds of blemishes. For Techni- color it is grey, and there is not much of it.

UNDER the blue-green light the players took ghastly, But on the film the true skin tones are brought out.

Producers

are eagerly watching the box-office results of their 1940 colour films, led by "Gone With the Wind.” in which Vivien Leigh photo- graphs beautifully in colour.

First impressions have been that colour films are kinder to

Modern dictators wear riding boots but ride nothing more capricious than Abe Lincoln the man their consciences,

wore

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who made the world "democracy con- ridiculous stove-pipe sclous,"

showl hat, a nammyguat beard, and over his shoulders,

Canadian actor Raymond Marscy fellow. makes Lincoln

wry, inzy Sometimes, when his mouth twists, he'a sly too. He rolls the wisecracks round

like longue

marbles in 11 wooden bowl,

His Mary Todd Is the famous

Ocen stage actress Ruth Gordon, sionally she boks like Lewis Car rull's Red Queen, so shrewish nok is she.

brunettes than blondes. Clau- dette Colbert looks, exquisite ins "Drums A long Mohawk."

the

THEN Paramount, who have five colour films to show us this year. say that four out of their five stars who come out triumphantly in colour are brunettes.

The other one is a definite blonde, Madeleine Carroll, She confounds arguments, they add, by looking breath-taking- ly beautiful in de Millos "North-West Mounted Police." By contrast in the same pic- ture is dark-haired · Paulette Goddard, another colour suc-

CZAS.

WHAT about the red-

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It is remarkable achievement for Mr. Jaymond Massey imitate so convincingly a type of American as the young Abraham Lincoln of American legend.

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This flm shows more of Lin- coln's life than a recent film on the same subject, but the bucolic and provincial aspects of his inture are emphasized; Massey's detalled portrait of this rugged and extreme character is nowhere marred by any touch either of weakness or of exaggera- Lion.

keep in He even contrives to character his Impassioned delivery of one of Lincoln's most eminent speeches against slavery, a speech which makes a very opposite pro- test against all doctrines of racial discrimination, and no doubt has been included in this film because it does so,

-Queen's, Alhambra

Dutch Burgomaster

heads? Myrna Loy, for ex-Dutch Burgomaster

ample. And Ginger Rogers? And the new star, Lana will Turner? Colour, filma change your films stars quite considerably.

The new "fast" film has enabled the amount of studio light to be cut by half. Longer shots can be made and the make-up does not have to he freshened so often. Im- provements are marked you'll notice them in each new colour film. you see,

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Sacked By Nazis

He would not submit Reports from Holland state that the Germans have removed the burgomaster of The Hague from his like Burgomaster office, because. Max in the last war, he refused to submit to Nazi methods,

Two Dutch newspapers have been suspended for two weeks, because they "have syzlematically maintained an unfriendly attitude towards the German occupiers and have been un- able to cease their one-sided pro- paganda in favour of their friends."

SLANG IS OLDER THAN IT SOUNDS

ROM the time he joins the

Blighty" the soldier uses much stang Besides being very ex- pressive, most of his slang words and expressions are in- teresting in their origin.

When a soldier gets "nabb ed" for some misdemeanour he may ultimately find him- self in "clink.”

The "link" Is a seventeenth century underworld term for a certain notorious prison (burned down In 1780) in Southwork, where the prisoners were fettered with leg-Irons which. clinked at every movement.

Probably "dick." and Other words of the same sort, reached the army vla the lowly taverns frequented by the "swaddy" from swadkin, a sixteenth century un- derworld word for soldier) of that time, which were the haunts of the re'er-do-well and his associ- ates.

But

tury cant word for brandy. this Intenda took care that for brundly. But his Irlends took care that in these ocensions he wasn't "Jugged," "Jug" being short for the "stone jug.“ An early name for Newgate Prison.

The solder had his ethical code. If he could persuade himself that he didn't pinch thing someone else would, then he pinched it, or

to use his own expression, he

"kerounged" it.

ก variation of "scringe," an old North country word menning to glean or rummage about. Unfortunately the bluck- out of the present war has calarged

"wnhout," a term borrowed from the Novy in the days when signal messilges were taken down on states, "washout" being the order to cancel the message. The Army adopted it to obliterate the marks

the on targets after rife-range drill, but it soon became slang with the troops.

bad dinner A "washout" and unsatisfactory raid, a poor billet, occasionally even the colonel

was a "washout." One young officer reading a letter ex- claimed. "Dammit, my flancee's a washout!"

was

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"Tommy Atkins" was born to 1815, the year of Waterido, when

IN FLANDERS FIELDS NOW, from the land that holds our English dead,

Out of their Poppied graves they rise again, As they foresaw, “They, could not sleep," they said, If it should prove that they had died in vain. Bedaubed with innocent. blood, as they foretold, The foe returns. They sowed and did not reap. They rise to reap, and reap a thousand-fold, For these dead men have still their word to keep. ALFRED NOYES.

the scope of "scrounge" until it is almost undistinguished from lar-

ceny.

No doubt the soldier of the last war stilt retains memories of "chatting" himself when he was "crummy" or lichy with louse bites. Beggars and tramps had the same trouble, and as early as the fifteenth century "chat" was their word for louse, an abbreviation, of "chattels," that is, movable pro- perty, or in its original sense "liveruption of "bakshish," a present

stock." Cattle also is a related word.

When a soldier's luck was in he went got "Blighty leave" and home, or to be strictly correct, to England, Bilzhty being a corrup- tion of the Hindustani. "Belati,' meaning "a far country." Hence "England" to the British Army in India, who coined. It long before. 1914,

Maybe he celebrated his leave with a binge," a seventeenth cen

Anything free or extin WIE "buckshee, another reminder of our Indian Empire, being a, cor-.

or a gratuity. "Commandeered" is a Cape Dutch word and a legacy from the Boer War. The Hindus- tant "khush," signites "pleasant," hence cushy Job" and "cushy

billet."

When a man joins up to "do his bit" he is probably unaware that to "do one's bil" is d seventeenth century underworld expression, for serving a prison sentence.

Anything that was a fallure or that dissatisfied a soldier' was a

every soldier was provided with a "soldier's account book," issued by the War Office. A specimên form all completed, showing how, details. were to be filled in, necompanied the book, and where the man's required the hypothetical name "Thomas Aikina" or alternatively "Thomas Alkins X his mark" ap. peared, and continued to appear. until comparatively recent times,

Old soldiers never die, they “gó west,"

a postical phrase, with a distinctly sinister origin, for tho underworld of the sixteenth century coinod "gowest" to describe a condomned man's fast journey from Newgate Prison, westward, up Hol born Hill, to the gallows tree at: Tyburn, which stood where the

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The Infant Air Force of the last war had its own slong. An "ace" had to have at least five enemy aeroplanes to his account, "ace" being acquired from "As," popular French slang term for an airman whose name wús, cited in an "Ordre du Jour" as having bagged five enemy machines, Long before 1914 “As" was applied in the to an ultra-smart mon French cavalry servicé (an ace, of course, being the beat card in the suit.) And when our early anti- aircraft gunners failed to get their. quarry, they jocularly quoted the words of a current music. hall re- frain, "Archibald, certainly not!"-- hence "archie."

The soldier qualified anything and everything with bloody," a the mediaval abbreviation of popular oath "Ey our "Lady" In the seventeenth centurymen of refinement and culture adopted this word as an article: of scholarly adornment," but in the course of time it has lost caste." So when politic, the soldier, substituted Ita. euphemism "blinking," was the

as wo case when a smart

young staff ollicer.rode up to a party of per- spiring Infantrymen wearily tramp- Ing along in clouds of dust and in- quired. "Are you the West Riding?" "No, me lord," come a voice from the ranks, "We ain't We're the blinkin' Balls-walkin."

On another occasion on, outpost sentry challenged a mounted patrol' on a dark night "Hait!, who comes thore?" "12th blinking Lancers." ́n ́shout out of the darkness. Satle

fted, the sentry simply answered, "Pass twelf blinkin' Lancers. All's. well.

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