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April 26, 1941.

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Edison

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Foreign Correspondent

All Alfred Hitchcock's flims That his daughter Carol (La-

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Arizona

Yes, a thriller of the best, have quick startability. Five raine Day) is entangled in this with a mounting and terrific in- minutes after "Foreign Corres- plot and rapidly falling in love terest, a very able cast, big cf- pondent". has started we with McCrea;

fects, and the true-to-life detail know:-

That a violent clash is im- which always makes a Hitchcock Thant Huntley Haverstock

film arresting.. (Joel McCrea), Ar erican war mitent between Fisher on the one hand and Van Meer, the correspondent, is in London newsman, and the girl on the tor has lost none of his cunning. The ponderous British direc- sleuthing a big peace treaty other. plot. Europe is clattering over

His witty strokes of character- the edge to war;

Such is the set-up. It is com- vian-his powerful atmosphere as in the beaming, baffled Lat- That a Dutch statesman, Van plicated. It is not always casy and ticking suspense, what Meer, is behind the peace offen- to follow. It dashes from Lon- master he is of the human sive and risking torture and don to Amsterdam, twists and A little while back Mickey death from his war-mongering coils through a maze of spying that rours through life.

"Arizona," which is now comedy and in human drama enemica;

shooting, double-crossing, kid-

showing at the King's, is a Rooney gave us. a pretty

That a strange Mr Fisher napping, and murder to the picture of young Thomas (Herbert Marshall) is mixed up climax of the Clipper (with however, is pure Hollywood The action takes place in story of pioneering America. The plane crash at the end, Alva Edison, Public Inven- in a racket calling itself an in- nearly the whole cast on board) any director could have done it the middle of the 19th cen- tor Number One (as they ternational peace society. It is crashing in the Atlantic when but it is brilliantly carried tury in Tucson, which was say these days) in his strug cover for plotting, intrigue, hit by the guns of a German out.

and war-making; gling youth.

the Man

Now Spencer Tracy takes over the story and stamps his personality on "Edison

the Man." The picture is showing at the Queen's and Alhambra.

Man is right. It is a one- man picture. Mr Tracy, magnificently made-up and in character as Edison the old man, can't resist being Tracy the young man, while he is inventing the phono- graph and electric light.

Never mind that. This is a good picture, and you will en- joy your Spencer mucking about with lamp filaments far better than you did when he was specially colour-lit on his way up the North-West passage.

Edison was such a whole of a guy and Tracy is such a good screen actor that this film could hardly go wrong. The dramatic moments belong to the drama of real life.

The final speech, with its plea for humanity and character is a counter-weight to science, is Edison's own last public pro- nouncement put into Tracy's mouth.

So, just as Edison gave you the gramophone, and helped to perfect the talking picture for your entertainment, here he is still entertaining you.

It is only fair to say that Rita Johnson, as Mrs Edison, Lynne Overman and Felix Bressart as- sist in making this human chunk of entertainment. But it is still મ oneman show: Edison or Tracy take your choice.

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1940'S FOREMOST STARS

George J. Schaefer, president of RKO Radio Pictures, left, with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award winners Ginger Rogers and James Stewart, at the Academy Award dinner, at which Miss Rogers was awarded an "Oscar" for the best feminine performance of the season, that of the white-collar girl in "Kitty Foyle." Stewart won a similar award for his role in "Philadelphia Story."

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then nothing but a collec- Joel McCren is goodish as the tion of adobe huts. war correspondent, but George Jean Arthur plays, the Sanders, as a brother newsman, part of Phoebe Titus, the gives a better performance..

first American woman set- Laraine Day is a girl with a tler of the place-a frontier delicate, porcelain profile, plenty hellcat with plenty of acting ability, and a pretty

of "hammy" part.

courage, spirit and vision. She falls in love with a wan- The film is due soon at the dering adventurer, William Lee Theatre.

Holden, who, however, rides on to California. After a

Kitty Foyle eries of adventures, during

Easily the greatest of RKO which she sets up a frontier Radio's pictures for the season, Supply train and meets with "Kitty Foyle" is coming to the trouble from competitors, King's Theatre on Thursday, who do not even baulk at Muy 1.

setting Indians at her, she For her performance in this is at last reunited with her film the star, Ginger Rogers, lover who rides back to help was awarded the trophy of the

Academy of Motion Picture Arts her with California infan- and Sciences,

try.

The film is faithfully adapted from Despite its length, the film is the novel by Christopher Morley, and exciting entertainment, though deals with the life and loves of a interest is slowed down at many white collar girl in a big city. There points by an imperfect scenario. are millions of such girls in our mo- The settings are in the category dern workaday

day world: they tap type-

writers in offices from nine to five, of the spectacular, the producers mainly considered as a business fix having gone to the extent of con- ture, as a complement to the machines, structing an entire city of the they manipuinte. Some more glamor period, complete to the last de- ous or more designing-rise quickly tail.

out of the humdrum existence, but

This miniature city has been

with presented to the State of Ari-

for the rest the years are merely a succession of different bosses correspondence to dictate.

zona.

Kitty Foyle is un average steno- Warren William, as a rene- grapher, but she has n zest for. gade whose lawless activities living. Into her drab life enters bring him into open conflict with romance, such as enters the life of

Phoebe Titus, has one of the nillion others like her. How she strongest roles of his career. reacts to the different men with whom she comes into contact is told The cast of 4,000 includes Por- with insight and understanding. ter Hall, Regis Toomey and Paul Dennis Morgan and James Craig Harvey, But Jean Arthur do- are the leading male players. The minates the picture, and to her pleture was directed by Sam Wood, one of Hollywood's-most-dependable- Jargely goes-the-credit-of-mak-

ing the picture enjoyable.

and imaginative veterans.

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The word "Maru" is synonym- The oldest authentic record in OUS with Japanese merchant Japanese history in connection ships. In fact, the word "Maru" with the application of the term has been

with "Maru" to a ship was during associated Japanese navigation history as the Muromati Era, or about far back as memory is able to 1400 A.D., when the ships of recall and its true meaning has Yosimoti, the fourth Asikagu been lost in the mists of anti- Shogun, bore such names 11S quity.

Gosyo Maru, and Goza Maru. Many different views as to the In advancing this explanation Frank word's origin and the base of its K. Bell, General Passenger Agent of the United derivation are held. The literal the N. Y. K. Line in or dictionary translation of the yosi attempted to subjugate Korea, States, said that in 1591, when Hide- Japanese character "maru" he gave orders for the feudal lords) technically denotes a circle or throughout the country to build large ring, when used as a noun, and vessels. Hideyosi himself

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According to an old legend, in au- In still older days "Maru" cient China, about 4,050 years ago, during the reign of the Emperor was frequently affixed to the Huang-il, a fair messenger from names of princes, and in this heaven called Hakudo Maru was sent connection would seem to have down to Lord Tukas-izu and fought had an effectionate meaning; it him the art of shipbuilding. Since also was applied to especially nained with the suffix "Maru" in ■ de- good sword blades and denoted ferend to the shipbuilding instructor. something precious and highly A Japanese legendary source

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