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GREEN HELL

Film: Green Hell.

Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Joan

Bennett, George Sanders. Verdict: Jungle melodrama.

-King's.

"GREEN HELL” is fare of a type that has proved generally popular, so for its blending of sex drama with suspenseful action of the full-blooded type.

There is the spectacle of a woman fol- lowing her husband into the jungle only to learn of his death and bigamy, recovering from which she is the cause of rivalry be tween a trio of the expedition.

The film concerns an expedition's pene- tration of the jungle, discovery of an an- cient temple of sun-god worshippers, the looting of its treasures and avenging war- fare of the natives to whom it had belonged.

Dr. Loren and Keith Brandon set out on a jungle expedition for Inca treasure with an Englishman, Forrester, Brandon's friend Scott, Tez Morgan a rancher, young

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Graham on his first adventure and David Joan Bennett starts out with one husband in "Groon Hell" almost collects others on the way. Richardson, quict and mysterious. equaring the hidden temple

strike

camp

But Douglas Fair-

Dis- Douglas Fairbanks, Jnr., is his tails of Traitor Spy. This is a grecable, but Henry Brewster re- featured in the revue "A TRIP TO greenble helf Keith Brandon. topical in, and while

one cannot fuses consent until Jet tas sved a HADES". they

Bennett Stephanie. Alan take it but Joun

too seriously-or do pics thousand dollars which he promises

At the head of this Company will Hale is Dr. Loren; Join Howard mund their enemies nctually ex- to double.

be Chang. "Miracle Man", who since Richardson is killed by a convincing reprobate as Scott, Vin- perience all these things at the one Jeff and Edno in league with MB. Iving New York, has appeared poisoned-arrow.

coat Price amusing as Tex Morgan, gasp?one has to admit that the Brewster plan to raise the money with his Company in many countries and George Sanders maakes a super- film combines all the thrills of the quick time, not knowing that Henry's including South America, Portugal, Shortly after his death his bly satirical Englistumat as Forren oldest Wild Western, and some that funds are practically nil,

South Africa, New Zealand, Austra Cowboy Joe would have shied at. Mrs. Brewster pawns a valuable in, India and Malaya. wife Stephanle arrives with a ter

The principal parts are taken by bracelet without telling Henry who fiver, is nursed back to health

Traitor Spy. Film:

Bruce Cabot, Tamara Desnl, and promptly gets hold of the copy and The original production was played tu learn of Richardson's death

hardly Labarr. It

seems is mistaken for a thief when trying at the Roxy Theatre, New York, and and to discover, through an- Stars: Bruce Cabot, necessary to expound the story of to pawn it.

many of the Broadway grin who Traitor Spy," for

It follows the opened letters, of the existence

Mr. Brewster becomes aware of appeared in the New York produc- wellknown patter of the stolen blue of an undivorced wife.

Tamara Denni.

prints and the gory passage of events the situation, and when Henry passes tion are coming to Hongkong to play Good blood and that ensue until they are regained, a worthless cheque in behalf of Jell at the Queen's Theatre.

Prominent among the American the wrong-doers are brought to book to proposed business assortate, his wife working behind scenes manages and right triumphs. But the Alm to save him from ultimate disgrace artists are Jeanna and Beth Claire,

brilliant dancers. lacks nothing in the trimmings of which he continually fears. spydum.

Leon Errol, in the role of Henry

With an original musical score by Brewster, is

by Dennis Ernesto Lectiona, the orchestra will supported O'Keefe as Jeff Thompson, Adele be under the baton of Jimmie Lucas.

Brandon falls in love with her tnut is jealous of the attentions Verdict:

of Forrester and Scot. Al though planning to send Step-

hanic back, the native porters

thunder.

-Alhambra.

Mortu

Film: Pop Always Pays.

ENTERTAINMENT SECTION Stars: Leon Errol, Dennis Pearce as daughter Ednn and Mat- The scenery has been specially de

disappear and Brandon decides MURDER most foul, men who to take her back himself.

O'Keefe.

link and allde in darkest Verdict: Family comedy. villainy, blue prints, detectives

-Queen's.

There is a little self-sacrificing an all alden but Stephanie doen not go and police cordons, shooting af- back and lives with them through a frays, iniquitous "dives," codes.

jorie Gateson as his sympathetic yet signed by Silvo Berniejo of New lesson-teaching wife. Walter

Cal- York. leit has occasional opportunities for comedy an a neighbour and Tom Kennedy as a brokers' man.

Stage Show For Queen's

Altogether there are twenty eight scenes, climaxing with the presenta- tion of an old Chinese legend, "THE LEGEND OF PRINCESS SAN LI TAY" On the mystery side of the show we are promised the appear- ance of ghosts and spooks, It is sald Arriving in Hongkong almost im- that these fantastic Ogures actually the theatre among the When Jeff Thompson oska to inediately will be a Company of appear in the end, form the delectable de- marry Edna Brewster, her mother is Ainertean and Oriental Stare to be audience.

EON Errol's personality and stege by enraged natives in which invisible ink, and all the other ability to clown are distinct Graham dies, Forrester shoots him- wtf and the others are saved by the concomitants of a spy film, in- assets of this entertainment. aick-of-time arrival of A friendly cluding a glorious holocaust at

trite,

THE FIFTH ARM OF

GERMANY

German propaganda did not start with Hitler. Bismarck's "reptile press" rendered notorious service to

The Filth Arm, by Wickham Steed. Lon. the Irun Chancellor after 1866, and

don

Constable. Dn.

the editing of the Ems telegram la

BRITAIN 1 SEE HER IN HER OLD AGE-BUT YOUNG AND STILL DARING TO BELIEVE IN HER POWER OF ENDURANCE WITH STRENGTH STILL EQUAL TO THE TIME EMERSON

What England Means to Me

mainly concerned with counteracting By J. B. Priestley decayed, HERE is a treatment of Ger- and overthrowing Nazi propaganda.

man propaganda and how

World War.

Nari

dealing with

propagands,

Stood

rightly

Among the practical suggestions

י

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to pieces. We seem them sleepy, since the herole days of Greece has had such a sweet, just and altogether unworthy the world

vast guardians of so

It will be a black treasure buyish muster. LONDON. house.

day for the human race when scien~-. THAT is the value of British That is nearly always the view of lite blackguards, conspirators, churls to supplant to counteract it by a writer he offers are the setting up of a W life and character to world the German, who is perpetually ir. und

ritated by thought that these stack him..... fully qualified to speak because Thinking General Staff for the elvilleation? To answer this but still arrogant islanders, whose

(Incidentally. could there be # of his varied experience as a strategy of ideas. This should con- question I will look at Britain grasp is obviously so loose, should journalist and as a leading mem sist of five to seven competent men, from outside, and make the command even yet more wealth, description of the Nazis than "eclen- would be following bold generalisation power, and respect than the mem. fc blackguards, conspirators, churls bor of "Crewe House," the or- not public officials, whe

We hod

to find 50 access to official in-about the world's attitude to bers of his own disciplined, indus- and fanatics?") It would be easy,

trious, and self-sacrificing Reich.

space enough, ganisation responsible for Bri- allowed free

passages like this from the words of tish propaganda during the formation and act as co-ordinator ward her. The world's fools

the wise about Britain. Now what of specialist information from the

admire Britain: ita clever

and Anglophobes is it about the British scene Among Ministry of Information, the Allies, knaves scorn her; and its wise

An explanation are all the clever knaves, who character that calls forth such culo- men love her. Mr. Steed showa clearly that pro- clc. pamanda works slowly, and that to

the nearest yawning British It has long been observed with Dealing with the methods to be of these three different points find it easy enough to outwit kles? be effective it must have a definite objective. "It took three and a halt adopted, the author Indicates that of view will take us a long way.

interested in his lawn tennis such as some gigantle conalet be successful propaganda will have to toward understanding Britain's official, who is apparently more astonishment that national crises

tween capital and Iabour-that years before Ailled propaganda took speak a language the enemy under- peculiar character and worth.

than in his would mean anger and riot and the offensive as the instrument of a stands a language in keeping with

The fools who, admire Britain are and his golf

any other country clear polley in the last war; and it his different mental habits and back- usually rich fools. They see this work, and so soon develop a bloodshed in

seem to pass off quite easily and was President Wilson's 14 Polo's ground-and that there must be a country as the carthly paradise of sharp contempt for Britain.

peacefully in Britain. which gave the ideal for which clear indication as to how the Ger- the idle splendid rich, who have here

Her day, they prophesy, is done. peoples

on the enemy side had been man problem will be solved when their racing stabies, their yachts,

victory is attained.

their grouse moors, their country I! does not occur to them, chiefly

I THINK I have critlelsed te in Mr. Steed advo-houses, in which is discovered in because they have that kind of

which is too smart to Britain as often and as sharply_as cates a lasting and ancient smooth tradition of pleasant cleverness

writer. But contemporary demill-time-killing.existence.

learn anything profound, that such any controlled

always felt tarisation of Ger- The second-generation rich, near- prophecles have been made before nevertheless I have many, military ly over the world, have nearly and with equal certainty by clever strongly, that that life could only be

removal

always

adopted English outward men who were suddenly dismayed reformed, so to speak, on its own of Prussian control habits and tricks. They do not mind to find the sleepy old lion trans- basis, that in its acceptance of and formed into a great roaring beast, permeation by great moral, or per- £13 Anglophiles, being regarded of the Rhine, though, as a rule, they know next eager for a fight to a finish. (It is haps even religious, values, it was

to allow

ment then societies dominated by out, a hundred years ago.) genuine English thought.

Fascist or Communist theories, that appreciate clearly Hitler's aims and Germany to get away with the table to nothing about the English people significant that Emerson pointed this already at a higher stage of develop

of the stab in the back," and ex-]*

"Punch Isn't ancient, and has known so much It is one thing for the Germans to posure in German press and radio of hy regard London as the most. There is an old joke here about Britain, perhaps because it is anal

the abominations of Nazi concentra magnificent and satisfying of all the periodical Funch.

be. Punch security, is the most advanced la- the nover was." In the samo way, boratory of political and civic ex- propaganda, but It is quite another Czecks, Poles, etc.

world. It is the existence of so Britain is not as good as it used to periment in the world. ing for British statesmen, politi-

Europe has changed considerably many of these feather-headed per be, and Britain never was.

I do not believe that the United cians, and writers to lend so ready

But the world's wise men love. an car to that propaganda as to con- since these words were written, sons that has given English life a frm the rulers of Germany in their Flanders and France have been over-false. appearance of luxury and de- Britain. For example, I think It States or any other democracy, has gain from imitating cadence.

anything conceded that Britain. These two .great demo- self-deception.

Thess. Anglophiles produce the will generally be

Bantayans, the Spanish cracies cannot travel on exnetly the But fow would disagree with his Anglophobes, and as these people George The reproduction of the correspon- conclusion that we shall need a have more Intelligence and energy philosopher who taught in America same road. But I do held that what dence between Lord Rothermore and higher than materialist Inspiration to they have also far more influence, and has since settled in Home, is & is individual and unique in Britain the author and the reports of the win our fight for the future of They see what we take very little Brst-class specimen of the interna is so precious to good men every-

tional wise man.

And nobody has where in the world that It Britain Bothermera Princesa "Hohenlohe- civilisation itself.”

trouble to hide, what indeed we al- most faunt, and that is the huge list written more eloquently and en- could no longer go her own way, if Waldenberg lawsult, as well as the

thusiastically

the about

British her ancient liberties were exting rollcence with which the British It is also doubtful whether there is of faults and weaknesses.

uished, it would be as it a great press dealt with this sensational case, any need to restate the ideal which They notice, our people's love of character than he has matte fateresting reading for anyone President Wilson laid down in his case, and distaste, at normal times, "He carries his English weather in Bght were put out and men who who would study the relations of the Point No. "What we scelt is the for hard work; our complacency, his heart wherever he goes, and it had never set foot. In this island press and press lords to European reign of law based on a consent of our mobbery, our lack of respect for becomes a cool spot in the desert, and would still feel that their own way foreign policy during the post-1918 the governed and sustained by the intellect. In their eyes the huge a steady and anne oracle among all to the good life were now darker

Empire is always ready to fall to the deliriums of mankind. Never and more dangerous. Itaporganised opinion of mankind." perfod

emphasises at the

part

that no small of its success resulted from many под-

Germany places

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