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OF MICE

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Film: "Of Mice and Mon."

Star: Lon Chaney Jr., Burgess Meredith.. Critical temperature: 80.

MR. WILL HAYS'S purity office

has been busy on this film. The result is that all the earthy, bunk- house language which helped to dis- tinguish and bring to life John Stein- beck's magnificent play about a couple of Californian harvest-field hoboes has been eliminated.

Yet the picture's greatest tribute is that it remains as fine and imaginative a story

as ever,

"If I was alone," said George in the original script. "I could live so easy and so nice! And what have I got? I've got you, and you lose me nearly every job I get!"

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enjoy

That forgotten, one con Lennie Small is the man who stroke the soft, smooth hair of In a fright and to silence her, drama of this film I wouldn't

watching two pleasant, robust, and is George's tribulation; a great the country lassics.

he gently puts his oaf's hands on quarrel with that.

very American personalities. So befalls the greatest tragedy her neck. And the girl falls But though I like Mr. Chaney's Many will remember this story of mountain of a man, brutish in

fixed simpleton grin, wide as an the Sahara, It opens with a column strength, simple in mind. To. of all. They come in the end dead. gother, they are hunted from to a ranch where the daughter-

And George the faithful, see- open plano, I do wish he had of the French Foreign Legion arriving nt fort, and Anding the men they been born with bigger handa. have come to ranch to ranch, all because of in-law of the house runs for-

relleve dead, propped saken about the fields. Meet- ing none of it is any good any

All Lennie's charactor should up in the embrasures of the fort. Lennie.

ing Lennie in the barn one day more, and that Lennie

The camera switches back many she learns how he likes to pet much a nuisance to himself as be in the matt of hair on his

And Mr. years to explain this macabre situa soft things, and with country everybody else, as gently takes tree-trunk wrists..

stately English home, from which The tragic trouble with the simplicity invites him to stroke him out and shoots him behind Chaney looks as though he has ton, talting the picturegoer to a just walked out of the nearest three brothers run away to join the man is that he does not know her hair. the power of his own hands. He loves to pet chickens and

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rabbits and puppies, and, with But Lennic pets it too hard, all the innocence in the world, and the girl begins to scream.

SENTRIES OF

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THE SEA

By A Special Correspondent

the ear.

Is 18

Betty Field is the girl, Bur- chiropodist's shop. gess Meredith is George and Lon

Film: "Beau Geste." Chaney jun. is Lennie.

Star: Gary Cooper, Verdict: Better last time.

--Queen's, Alhambra, AN old friend appears in new

Legion.

Gary Cooper, Robert Preston, and Ray Milland play the three brothers, struggling manfully with the stin- upper-lip philosophy, and it is hardly their fault that they are overshadow- ed by Brian Donlevy as a sadistic sergeant.

Mr. Donlevy has been given a "fat" part, and he makes the most of it. William Wellman directed, with a

In the London production of the play Claire Luce was the frirl, and played her as a ranch- house half-wit; with her toes turned in. Miss Field's version guise in Beau Geste.

The best way to enjoy this is to Is a city slicker, bored with bar- ley and not being able to go to forget that Gary Cooper and Robert shrewd eye on all the dramatic possi- Preston never come within a mile bilities to be squeezed from the the pictures. And because it of appearing to be the young English- scorching sand, ruthless tribesmen, doesn't affect the poetry and men of P. C. Wren's tale.

und the whine of bullets.

WITH THE AUXILIARY PATROL, Aug. 25 BRITISH AIRCRAFT SERVE

Thousands of trawlers, manned by their peace-time crews of fishermen and flying the White Ensign, leave ports all round Britain at a certain time every evening to patrol the seas through the night hours. They are the Auxiliary Patrol, and, together with smaller fishing craft and launchies, form the inner line of sentries encircling Britain.

pierced the darkness far away.

FIVE

CONTINENTS

runs twice weekly in each

At the beginning of a resumption of the direct fights be- now

tween England and North America. direction, second year of war, the These nights, which are still going The connection from Sydney to The outer line consists of the and some time later search but route miles flown by British on, have a great practical value

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psychological Importance, Auckland which only began a few warships of the Royal Navy, the crew were not disturbed. Indeed, civil aircraft are 94 per cent., however, is, if anything, greater. months ago, has also been increased. patrolling far from our shores, the mate was far more concerned of what they were in peace

There is a wealth of evidence to The 1,500 miles of the Tasman Sea Of the two lines formed. by the about an RAF. aircraft.

w that the sight and story of an are now traversed three times every Moreover, u link between On another patrol an R.A.F. time.

unarmed flying-boat safely crossing week. Auxiliary Patrol one is held by the ocean-going

of machine used to swoop down low

With each swiftly-changing the Atlantic from the battlefield It Bangkok and Hongkong has been over, them "at 1.30 am, prompt,

self, not once but many times, has maintained by landplane twice a several hundred tons and the he said, and greetings were waved. phase of the conflict, the ser- kindled American imagination much week. other by the smaller craft nosing The crew missed him far more than vices of British Airways have in the same way as the Battle of the Thus on the "Horseshoe" alone,

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to be they worried about German machines, had

drastically re- Plate, the evacuation from Dunkirk,

and, more recently, the exploits of with its feeder services, no less than The work of the warships is well for these men, themselves stolidly organised.

However, despite the heavy calls the RAF-have-done-Every time 37,000 miles are being covered, on known, but the landsman hears little carrying out an heroic task," are un- stinted in their admiration for the at the devotion of the fishermen in men of the R.A.F.; to them the deeds made on civil pilots, crews and air- Claro, in her coat of camouflage, has average every week-by-British-air-- their dirty, sturdy trawlers who are

craft by the military authorities, and dropped down to La Guardia Alport, craft

Contact with the Continent of British confidence and playing such an important part in the of the airmen are the most important despite the closing of the Mediter she has given additional proof of British part of the war news.

Europe is also maintained regularly the air. defence of their island home.

So the night wore on. A destroyer runcan, over which the air highway strength in

by means of dying-boat and land- of Empire used to run, new routes Should the enemy in his ships ever raced past in the distance. Another

The "Horseshoa" Servico plane services to Lisbon These linka succeed in sneaking through the outer aircraft was heard. An important Introduced.

have been charted and new services

Meanwhile, the great distances of are at present much more frequent fines he would then face complete

couple of This reorganisation is continuing, the "Horseshoe route between Dur- than seemed possible a circle of patrolling trawlers, whose directional light, normally out by now, duty it would be to advise the shore went on for a short time, presumably

and further inter-Imperial links are ban and Sydney-the main Empiro months ago. defenders. Behind the trawlers there to guide a convoy or some warships. slanned. In September, 1040, British service now operating are being Both mall and passengers, chiefly remains the third and last line of in the distance was the dark outline Airways is still the only civil aviation covered with that regularity and lack

are still courlers of State and floating defenders with the same duty, of land, but in the trawler one seemed undertaking in the world to serve of incident which are the true records priority, are carried. Civil aircraft

to be alone.

of civil flying Not only are all these patrols in

Yet there was the certain know-

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The most important event of the service in the world, and has recent is a vital part of the war effort. istening, but they are also in contact were others patrolling as well To the summer, in this field, has been the ly been doubled in frequency, Tribute must be paid to the civil pilots and crews who are meeting with each other, challenging all landsman's eye, unused to the decep-

tions of size and space

at sea at night,

hazards of wartime flying with courage and endurance. While many These fishermen are the typical they were invisible when pointed out

of their fellows have gone to the "unknown warriors" of whom the by the watch, but, on the other hand,

R.A.F. to play their part in its Prime Minister has spoken, doing a the landamani saw many shapes-U- were aircraft, ships-that highly dangerous task with quiet boats,

glorious career of victory, as the never

mounting honours list of British Air- perseverance and nightly facing a never real. The watch was

ways stalt shows, these men have a fate which may never overtake them deceived by the visions!

less spectacular but none the less or yet may come suddenly at any

essential role, time.

comers.

An "Easy" Job

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There was much to talk about For should the enemy.come they have bul to do their duty as sentries during the patrol. Modest men and and then "face the music." To have shermen to the core, the been in trawler on a night patrol naturally regret that they can no is to have experienced something of longer fish. This job, some of them the way these communities afloat said, was easy compared with the keep watch with a thousand ears and work they did when out fishing. eyes beyond the shores of Britain. Generally, these conversations took

A Veteran of 1918

place over mugs of boiling tea. What

The night I went out wns termed about rationing, one inquired, and an "average" night. We had a crew found that the trawler had been to of 11 fishermen between the ages of Brest to assist in the evacuation of 23 and 50, half of whom had served our troops after the collopse of at sea in the last War, and our France. It was too late to save cars trawler was also a 1818 veteran. then and they had to be smashed, but The White Ensign was bright and there was time to save something clean. Its predecessor was in the that had been abandoned--pounds skipper's locker black with grime and pounds of tea.

and torn by German machine-gun These and a store of miscellaneous bullets. The wireless telephone uniforms left by the troops suved keeping our contact with the land were evidence of a chapter that bas was crackling as we went slowly out passed,

to take up our beat

Nothing more happened. Before

All night long the little trawler the patrol was finished one more ship alowly ploughed her way backwards was challenged in the dawn. Re- and forwards between two given turning to port we were escorted by a points, occasionally making, contact school of leaping porpoises. with another whose beat met hers. Someone thought he saw a mine Sometimes a signal flashed from but under the glasses it turned out Inshore-the inshore patrol asking to be a basket.

for the trawler's recognition signal, Soon the smaller craft of the in- In her turn the trawler dashed

patrol could be seen following

signals to passing craft. Thus, for ahore

example, at mid-night a ship was the trawler-It was now going full seen in the deceptive light of a thinly speed ahead for the first time.

Ashore people were awakening. velled moon on a soothingly rolling

the other sen. There was an

parts of Britain. other argument in the In

trawlers were coming

Perhaps wheelhouse was it a destroyer or.

me had exciting

experiences, ac a. Uner? It was found to be a little some tanker steaming Aisolitary course, and tione, or alarms. algmals were exchanged by a Whatever happened, no one who Intha carly morning came the has been with it could doubt for well-known found of "German" alra' second that in all circumstances”, the craft. The gunner was ordered to Auxiliary Patrol will be worthy, of stand by. The aircraft passed unseen, the fog it files..

ave continents.

FUNNY SIDE UP

"Let's

By Abner Dean

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get out and mingle with the crowd, dear

want to get mixed up in thinl

don't

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They are showing the flag' in no fower than 24 countries of the world, Imperial and neutral, Allied and friendly,

British civil aviation, therefore, enters the second year of war with confidence but not with.complacency. Much still remains to be done before Ils potential value in the war effort as a speedy means of transoprt and a weapon of propaganda, is fulfilled. But British Airways is alive to the Dossibulties. It is at the present time taking delivery of new aircraft, and plans are belig prepared for strengthening the links not only Inside the Empire but with neutral countries as well.

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