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MAESTRO MICKY ROONEY—This young star, who has written 50 songs in the past few years, eight of them published, has now embarked on his most ambitious musical chore, the composing of a symphony. Mickey, whose, picture, "Judga Hardy and Son," is showing this week-end, is snapped playing the theme of the symphony for youngsters on a studio sot.

Still

Yes, believe it or not, there are still places where you can get away from it all. Pleasant places,

I mean,

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From

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MARC T. GREENE

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February 15, 1941.

FILMS

"DUST BE MY DESTINY," the Andy, with Lewis Stone as the under- story of a poverty-stricken boy hus- standing Judge Hardy and Fay Hol- band and his nineteen-year-old wife den as the mother. The cast includes running away from a murder they Ann Rutherford, Cecilia Parker and did not commit, sounds as grim as June Preisser.

the title. Well, it's not.

It's very real, human, heartening, film. If there is not much humour in It, there is a lot of the sweetness and the courage of youth,

It is now showing of the King's] Theatre,

Both Priscilla Land and John -Garfield, disarm you by acting on tiptoc from the moment their fresh young faecs look at one unollier on the screen. Both scum touchingly immature.

You will, remember the scene onl the dusty road. Dispirited, broke, frightened, and tired of thumbing their way from State to State, their Jove breaks into petulant recrimina- Hluns, and Priscilla leaves him.

They walk away from one another slowly, looking back secretly but too proud to give in. Little Priscilla halts a lorry. It hides her woe-be- gone figure, and you know she is get- ting a lift at last.

Young Garfield's eyes hold all the love and tragedy of Romeo. Then the lorry goes and Priscilla is still by the roadside.

But the boy remains bitter and un- believing because he once was Im- prisoned for a crime he didn't com- mit. So he refuses to give himself tipp.

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Priselli believes truth will win out. The mental struggle between them goes right through the film. You feel sympathy with them both, even though you know how the Alm will end, and thus It drpgs a little aff limes.

What they fear most catches up with them, but there, is a happy ending.

Good acting all round, especially from Alan Hale as the newspaper the editor and Henry Armetta lovable old restaurant keeper. A satisfying film.

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"JUDGE HARDY AND SON," now! showing at the Queen's la the eighth in this delightful series of studies of domestic Americans. The Hardys have earned a place in the affections of the cinema-going public, who will enjoy this one.

In this latest chapter, Mrs Hardy becomes gravely ill, and the nnxiety of the family are tenderly handled. Andy falls into a complicated intri- gue at the hands of three sirens, but his mother's lness teaches him some real values.

Mickey Rooney gives ones ngain n good account of himself as young

It All

was to include the making of taro patches, the renovation of houses, and so on.

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The islanders, everyone of whom is called Marsters, with a Polynesian first name, are to all

A Line on Hollywood

Judy Garland departing for a short stay in San Francisco... Ann Sothern arriving home from Now York 'with a collec- tion of hata to act her friends agog... Hedy Lamarr talking her nowly acquired Russian at the slightest provocation-just for fun, she says... Joan Craw- ford packing her bags for her return to Hollywood... Robert Taylor buying an airplane and hiring a pilot to teach him to fly it... Clark Gable making plans for a trip following the comple- tion of "Comrade X", ... Waiter Pidgeon seeing his daughter Edna off for New York. She is enrolling in an art school there ... Myrna Loy taking husband Arthur Hornblow home from the hospital.. Melvyn Doug- las putting in a garden at his How home in Carmel... Jeanette MacDonald adding a swimming pool to her Bel-Air place... Iun Hunter rushing back and forth between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios and the El Capitan Theatre where he is appearing in a series of Noel Coward playa

Frank Morgan boarding his craft Dolphin, for a fishing. trip into Mexican waters ... Anh Rutherford busy putting ruled borders around the bookshelves of her new home... Cecilla Parker picking grapes on her ranch in the Valley... Maureen O'Sullivan visiting in Halifax, N. S., for a week... Virginia Grey attempting to find a short cut to the studio from her home in the Valley Adrian post- poning his vacation trip to Taos to design new fuahions for "Ziegfeld Girl" and "Come Live With Me"... Lew Ayres "fram- ing Robert Young by substi- tuting a lizard under the cover of a dish, in place of a cooked steak... Douglas McPhail realiz- ing a cherished ambition by receiving his own portable dress- ing room... Jackie Cooper put- ting a fancy new red slop-light on his car.

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"But how are you going to get the £1,500 a year?"

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Reporter: Do you belieye in clubs for women?

Visiting celebrity:. Yes, if kindness fails..

An Aberdeen couple were cele- brating their son's birthday. When the husband arrived in the evening, he saw the cake. with He fourteen candles alight. looked very glum.

"Dinna' waste money like that," he said, "boil the kettle on them."

From A teacher's collection of howlers"A connoisseur is a man who stands outside « picture palace,"

A little girl was explaining to her younger brother that it was wrong to work on Sunday.

When two businessmen met, one said to the other: "I have They appear to have carried it made an addition to my staff to- -out-and-now-are-one-of-the-few--day--I-have-engaged a man at with pleasant people in

atoll communities in. the Pacific £1,500 a year to do all my worry-

ing for me." them, not bare stretches of sand in an empty sea or can- epic doings of a period in hurricane on one of the out- able to grow taro, a potato-like which more history has been lying reefs of this island. vegetable which is the food staple of many of the islands. nibal villages deep in malarial jungle or rocky made than in any past cen-There was but one survivor. Besides the, taro they have mountain-tops in the Andes. tury, with the exception of His name was William Mars- coconuts and bananas, a great Do not, however, let your 1914-18. The last they had ters, a petty officer of the variety of fish, including loba- ters, crabs and oysters, poultry hopes soar too high because known of the world's affairs wrecked ship. When he got and pigs. They are all in the I am not going to tell you was that Mussolini was get- ashore, barely alive, he best of health and it was noticed

ting ready how to reach these few re-

"avenge found the main island of the that the only islanders, old or maining abodes of tranqui-Adowa" and that somebody little group of atolls called young, whose teeth were not lity and content. Even if I named Landon was about to Palmerston-after a famous perfect were two who had made And although they are all des- did you would never agree challenge this fellow Roose- English navigator of the long stay in New Zealand. Pacific-inhabited by a hun-cendants of one man, there is no to the trouble and discom-velt.

dred or so people of the pure sign whatever of either physical fort and time the journeys

Polynesian strain. They had or mental degeneration. Only would involve. Yet only in Sounds all right, what? probably come here years occurred within five years.

three births had, however, that way would it be possi- ble any longer to escape the Four and a half years with- before from Samoa, five daily war news via news-out a link with the world. hundred miles to the north, paper and radio, acrimoni. Radio? Don't be silly! The or from Tonga, nearly as far ous debates on just what people of Palmerston Island to the south.

Now Marsters couldn't constitutes "aid short of hardly know what a radio is war," tragic tales of raids and don't care a rap. Or so have got away if he had appearances a very happy lot. and sinkings, ultimata by they say. For the master wanted to, but there is some They sing and dance overy night the "Tiare Toporo," reason to suppose he didn't except Sunday when they hold a Messrs. Matsuoka, Laval of and Hitler, motor-car which is herself quite a relie want to. Years later, when service, with hymns and

sermon by the patriarch, Teraia hoots, fireside chats and of other and happier days, a ship called there, he was Marsters. Their language is a states that the Palmers- discovered to have esta- strange patois, blended of Poly- crooning.

Yes, the road to away toners are quite satisfied as blished something in the nesian dialects and a kind of from it is long and

they are, and that when they nature of a small harem, mongrel English. learned of the latest achieve- Yes, he had five very comely Sea peoples lived before Euro They live largely as the South winding and getting longer ments of civilisation they Polynesian "wives", and his pean civilisation had, for better Where, then, does it fer- minate, and what is the were more satisfied than progeny were mounting in or worse, appeared. Normally they have been since William numbers. It is the descen- they wear little but the sarong, terminus like? Well, I can

Marsters- But that is dants of these who populate or waist-cloth, but they all have "best" clothes for donning tell you about one such ter- getting ahead of the story. Palmerston Island to-day, whenever a schooner arrives. minus for I have just heard well, then, the story of some three-score in num-The island is entirely free of from it. The message was Palmerston Island, which is bors.

both mosquitoes and flies, and among those sent from this situated in the southern

except for the danger of a hur- place to "civilisation" for

ricane at certain "seasons the Pacific, in about latitude Palmerston is a coral island, climate is ideal.

"Can you

mention any time when the first time in four and a 17.30 south, and longitude or rather, a small group of The islanders learned, some the prisoner showed signs of half years.

insanity?" asked the President of the 166 west, which brings it them. But it is "old" enough, what to their dismay, that the

court-martial, 1300 miles due west of geologically speaking, to have main reason for the visit of the

"Yes, sir," said the sergeant Four and a half years! Tahiti, and 200 from Niue vegetation. In 1936, at which chiefly for metercological pur-

sufficient soll for a good deal of “Tiare Toporo" was to set up-gloomilly. "He was paid half a crown

too much," When the South Seas trad the nearest inhabited isle-time the New Zealand Cook poses a radio. However, it is ing schooner "Tiare Toporo" is this..........

Islanda. Administration offered only to send out weather warn touched at Palmerston Is About the time of the com- to remove the inhabitants of.ings to vessels within the hur Lendon husband: "But why, is it land about four months ago, mencement of the American Palmerston to an jaland nearer ricans radius. and will probably so important for you to have a new civilisation and did take away.n.not interfere with the idyllic life. Well, I wie easily the

hat? the people there heard with Civil War, an English' sail- fow, those who stayed; decided of the descendants of William bewilderment about all the ing-ship was wrecked in a upon a "four-year-plan" which Marstera.

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"Well, policemen work on Sundays. Don't they go to heaven?"

she replied. "They don't "No," need policemen there."

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A temporary bridge over a small creek in the vicinity of Los Angeles carries the Interesting notice: "The bridge is unsafe. Only superintend- ents and foremen allowed to cross.”.

"Yes, we're practising the strictest economy," he said to his friend. "I've reduced

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"So you want to wed my daughter! Well, my answer depends on your Anancial situation."

That's a coincidence. My finan- cial position scemp to depend on your

answer."

Well?" "He handed it back!"

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