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EDWARD G. ROBINSON LON MCALLISTER

The RED HOUSE

JUDITH ANDERSON: RORY CALHOUN ALLENE ROBERTS

JULIE LONDON ONA MUNSON - HARRY SHANNON-

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Godfather Philip

Princess Elizabeth,

too Busy with for wedding preparations, had to cancel her vidt with Lieutenant Mountbatten to Alor- aham in Watch, Kent, on November 3, where ho was godfather to the son al' Lord and

Lady Brabourne,

Hero is Lieutenant

Mountbatten with Lady

Labour

point

of view

ERNEST

THURTLE, M.P.

Dratourne and the TOW swift and sudden was

baby, who was chrise;

Laned Norton Louls

the Dalton fall Nothing

moro dramatic has hap-

Phillo by the Archened within my Parliamentary

bishop of Canterbury,

autsida ปาอ church. memory.

James's Palace,

After the ceremony A lapse of discretion born of good Lieut. Mountbatten nature, and completely devold of

·molored. back, to B1 any

unworthy molive, and the Cliancellor had to pay the inevitable and the Fences were penalty of the loss of his exalted married two days once. Eater in Westminster

There is immeme sympathy for Abbey..

the fallen Minister in the Labour ranks, but no feeling that his lapse should have ended otherwise.

Food cuts 'speakeasy minds'

are breeding

T

LONDON.

HE other night I was at an open-air meeting

in North London, enjoying exquisite plen- sure because the speaker was denouncing me and all my works.

by

PROHIBITION TURNED THE AMERICANS INTO A NATION OF LAWBREAKERS NOW BRITAIN IS ENDANGERED BY THE SCRAMBLE FOR FOOD

REBECCA

WEST

They therefore regarded Prohibition who knows the district like the back as a humbugging law, and broke it of his hand, said to me very solemn- themselves, and were tolerant to 15. "If legal sloughiering goes on at others who broke it, adding amuse the rate it is going on in the farms ment to tolerance if the lawbreaking round here, there will be no meat in

the country in a few years' time." was done in a dashing way.

But probably some restrictions could respect for law, it fostered criminals be relaxed with miraculous psy whose guilt presently became repul- chological effect. sve.

Not only did this lower their own

bracelet and a mink coat in order to

For it is recognised that the dis- cretion of the holder of his particu- lar office must be beyond even the breath of suspicion.

T

*

wide

on gap

the Treasury finance n holiday would never think MR. DALTON'S going will leave a of selling them if they stayed at Bench. home.

Moreover, as tho Treasury He had established himself as one wants those dollars chiefly to buy of the big men of the Government, food and clothing for the English,

and supporters and opponents alike works out at much the same thing could not help recognising his out-

IS an English person toes over to standing intellectual quality and his America and buys the food and the powers of exposition and debate. elcther directly, without any book- keeping.

It is to be feared that the real reason for this control is a confused feeling that it is unfair for some people to have diersond bracelets and mink coats when others have not, and to derive benefit from this good luck in these hard times.

But as a woman who has never owned either I find myself empty of all emotions except a desire that if one and the these women can at same time get a pleasant hollday and remove themselves from the national burden I wish them well, and a hope that, whatever happens, the number of Customs officials will de-

crease.

He was an angry little man who could not pronounce the letter R as he spoke of me as Webecca, a name I have not heard before save from the lips. of my grandchildren, of whom T'he was not one.

Finally he rose to his climax, in the sentence: "I want to say that Miss Webecca West's articles are twipe, twipe, twipe, fwom the gweatest twipe-shop in the Universe, Fleet-stweet.

Up to that point the audience had One

It is surely possible that some es- remained totally indifferent.

It is enraging to think of the num- Toni, the Italian bootlegger, was sential foods could be unrationed if ber of able-bodied men and women voice remarked, very handsomely, I thought, She is a good woman," but everybody's friend. because it was they were no longer subsidised. At

who are now wasting their time and and present nobody dare increase all the others present could not have

n steady

are being forced to work at an ex- atauslag cared less whether I was or not. But respectable relationship of a totally ration of a subsidised food because it hausting puce examining passengers when tripe was mentioned for

the legal sort. But Toni was so suc- increases the known gure of the on the great liners. Only a part of third time a girl standing near me cessful that his farmer friend subsidy. If we got more sugar than

han their labours is profitabic, we are allowed today the taxpayer sighed deeply and said to her com- Giovanat envied him and became a panion, in a voice hoarse with long- hijacker, banlit who waylaid would at once pay more subsidy. The more we cat of it, the worse for "I could do with some trive to Toni's trucks and stole the liquor. Ing. night."

excitement advertised the Chancellor of the Exchequer, so drink, and made countless Americans we find that we never eat any mare feel not only thirst, but an obsessive of it. emotional attachment to drink.

What Is The Law

E have, I suspect,

tionist food, complex in this enuntry.

In The Mind

THAT is what people are thinking THAT

of today: food. If I had doubt nd this before, I would have been I have convinced by many letters received during the last few weeks. which are full of passionate concern about food, which is not greed.

It is not exnetly hunger, ti is more

as if we were unhappily married to

our food.

All this

to have

TL Prohibi-

It is a bad thing, because it 16 go ing the same way towards illegality, A week or two nga I mentioned letter a case in which a family retrained from giving away milk, because (by understand, a Food Order now, partially superseded, though 1 have not found out when or how) it was illegal to do so.

One woman wrote me about the wartime pork ple exactly as if it were a husband whom she detested and could not leave.

She told herself that as long as she could buy a pork pie she need not fear hunger, just as some discon- tented wives tell themselves that at any rate their husbands keep them from being lonely. But she loathed It for its tastelessness, its breadiness its unconvincing colour, and, above all. Its unporkiness. Call yourself a men, she sold to it, in effect.

This is something that cannot be laughed out of court.

All over our country men who are working hard come home to meals which may be scientifically adequate, but which do not give them the variety which may be physiologi- cally

which is unnecessary but. psychologically necessary.

All over our country women stand in queues and are annoyed when they get to the counter by not get ting what they want, or getting too

little of it.

So you have now got the attitude regarding food which Prohibition 1 the United States produced repard- ROARING WITH THE VIVID, UNCONQUERABLE CHARACTERS that appalling tragedy.

drink. WHO BLASTED A MIGHTY PRAIRIE EMPIRE OUT OF BULLET- FRONTIERS! THRILLS UPON THRILLS!

Savage Saga of the Great Southwest!

with

WILLIAM

TEXAS

CLAIRE

GLENN

HOLDEN · TREVOR - FORD

George Bancroft Edgar Beckanan COLUMBIA PICTURE

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17

the

Gifts Of Nylons

There is speculation as to whether his present fall from offee means on Interruption of his political career or the end of it.

Labour will hope that it is on Interruption only, for his lapse was a venial one, and men of his gifts excessive not to be found in numbers.

are

SOME people are questioning the purpose of Mr Dalton's Budget, so fateful for himself.

into

Already assured of a substantial surplus next spring, he was not in nerd of new revenue.

The Chancellor's real object, I believe, was to shock the country the awareness of a greater economie breakers ahead.

It is common

that ground hitherto, in spite of many warnings, large numbers have refused to believe in the reality of the crisis. The Budget is an attempt to back

up Sir Stafford Cripps's efforts to convert these unbelievers.

Will the new Imposts succeed in this?

doubt it. On the whole they

and

A higher voltage was

of the rest, if these iners are

outgoing, the Customs officials are not sufficiently dramatic are stripping the English passengers spectacular to make the nation. sit Admittedly the removal of the of their assets that might be realisedup with a jerk.

tax For a treatment of stimulation by subsidy from these foods will mean for the benefit of the English an increase in their cost, which payers, insisting man shall not put hock would mean adjustment in wages, asunder Lady Jones and her tiara,necessary, but it would mean that people would and that Mrs Smith's mink coat shull know on what they were spending be forever England. If the liners are

If they were to

extracting are incoming they money; and have more of certain essential foods English passengers large sums na they might be willing to spend more duty on what should be considers Lords' vete leaves open the question of their money on them then on sheer gain to Great Britain, the gifts football pools or on the dog

their

If one essential food was brought of the ration there would be an as- tounding sense of victory in the peo- pie.

Food Subsidies

from

even

DASSAGE

Bill of the

of the second reading

to curtail

the

whether or not the Upper House will nake a fight against this measure.

from American friends.

In the chsc of

second and third- class

passengers this often inflicts

We shall probably not know real hardship. Certainly anybody who this

for some weeks, though the is bringing in hundreds or dozens of nylons for sale should be Government is wasting no time in be getting the proposal through the frustrated. But a woman who saved Commons. I had many letters from cories-

Up to

Bo and visit a daughter and

The debate was not as exciting has been pondents who were really ustonished

of dozen stockings should not pay expected. at my opinion that the family had UBSIDISING "food is an obsolete or been given a present of a couple and passionate as might have been

Obey the law

device which presupposes that duty on them because we are short

Apart from the question of the behaved reasonably.

-Ulmellness necessity and when one might do a kindness? they some people like to think that there of those stockings.

What is the exists a class known as "the poor," The feeling is unpleasant; the in- measure, there was no doubt that said. What nonsenset law?

who receive low wages and therefore dividual is being booted by his own from the democratie standpoint the cannot pay for what they need and country as it if were an enemy. Yet Government spokesmen, made have to carry their plates round to every Government should aim at effective case for it, freely availing the soup-kitchen, and that

these never letting the citizen feel separ-themselves of old Winstonian um- people are willing to keep up the ate from the State.

munition for this purpose. soup-kitchens.

This is, of course, a shocking at tilude. A great Invisible asset is the fact that we are a law-abiding peo- peu- ple. It is as good as money in pockets and a great deal better.

The United States is now econo- cally up, and we are down. But there is another method of accoun- tancy.

In a certain great and rich city in America a politician has taken over a ward, The election officer of his

ed before the inquest.

opponent in the spring election was knocked down and taken away in a car, and was later found drowned in a river. All the witnesses disappear- not that ward is Daily life in had its reasons. For some reason, happy, because the inhabitants have probably climatle, drinking is much no protection against murder, rob more of a temptation to Americons bery and blackmail. They could not than it is in England; the American buy for all their money the peace ale prevents people from realising which an equivalent group of people that they need rest, and

they take

enjoy in England at the present alcohol to diepel the depression arts- moment, but which they will lose if ing from a fatigue of which they are the respect for law decliries,

Prohibition Complex

unconscious.

While probably a larger proportion of Americans are total abstainers

So 'for as can make out the cost of subsidising foods

comes to head per year. per

I Irangine that few of us would not prefer to pay our share of the amount represent- ing those £8 in the higher price of unsubsidized food and

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

of tho

ол

rally and tombola. the general HOW consoling it is to read Miss Surplus Government Bicycles in

that "the earth's crust is cur December rise in prices which would be com prised in the adjustment made ytill, cooling."

All you would have to do would be What bliss to necessary by the removal of the sub-know that in these vile times mushroom-essence and give your to judge the weight of a packet of sidy. It would, for one thing, mean less expenditure

autograph. May I add that it is not machinery.

merely my official self which would rejoice at meeting you again?

Yours affectionately, T. Cleverley Grampound, Mayor.

'Moonshine

DEAR Mr Grampound,-! `lear I cannot be Miss Surplus Govern- ment Bicycles for you, as I had already promised Mrs Wigamore of

Please do not spoll ou

Yra truly,

on administrative somebody has his eye on the

earth's crust.

Nor is anybody likely to quarrel with such a pronouncement, although people still quarrel about very odd ET us simplify where we can in things in the case of the man

other Delds. I see no reason

who got up at a banquet and walked an Infernal whatsoever for the ban on taking out because the chairinan said that Jewellery and fur coats out of the the Gulf Stream was country. It an Englishwoman takes nuisance. a diamond bracelet and a minis coat Again, was there not an indignant Tuckleford to be the Tuckleford Fuel to another country, sells them, and

and woman who threw a siphon of toda Queen. lives on the proceeds till she returns, at Nanzen because he spoke disres- friendship by talking silly. she has for that perlod lifted the pectfully of the Equator? burden of her economic being off Slower than sound than Englishmen, it is true that

HE English group does not enjoy England, and has performed a bairla- drunkenness hai always been THE

that peace because it is special- lle net. threat to production and to Bolal ly mild and nice, but because it has order in the United States as it has

Axed in its nover been here. Many Americans certain civilised eas

head. If it loses them it will be as would have been glad to tackle the

bad as any other group, problem drastically, if it had not

this prohibition been for the catch about crime.

I am afraid of ecmplex. Respect For Law

Now, it is obviously impossible to PROHIBITION made drinking, not get rid of all controls, even those for getting drunk, a legat crine, which there is the strongest senti- But the overwhelming majority of mental case.

The other day a very wise man,, Amierleans did not feel that taking

a

.

a glass of whisky was a moral crime. 'corn-chandler In a market town,

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He never lived so dangerously-never loved so desperately

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Sluggo Comes to the Point

HERE YA ARE

FOLKS THE

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS- ON THE HEAD OF A PIN

cheese.

Mimale Slopcorner. Weight lifting

the

KNOW of no more courageous IT would be much more fun if the, No economist can put up any argu-

protest against speed for spoed's man in the Icopard skin, who has ment which shakes that simple sake than the founding of a coursing to perch the prima ballerina on his truth. The theory behind the ban is, club in Macclesfield, Every week an shoulder, were to groan and stagger I believe, that the Treasury would electric snail chasca (if I may be and heave as he lifted her, finally Uke to have the Englishwoman re-allowed the word in this connection) dropping her to show that she was

a rotten main in England and send the dia-

not a mere .cardboard figure, as mend bracelet and the mink coat Mimsic on her dignity!

Jugglers do with the cannon balls.

This little thought was suggested · abroad and have the dollar home, so that it has that much for-DEAR Miss Slopcorner,--When may by a picture of a dancer. holding, a elign currency at its disposal.

we of Sopping Overcote have the woman in the air, while the ballet- This is moonshine. Most of the pleasure of seeing you again? I sup- master. is evidently saying, "Throw women who would sell it diamond pore you would be too busy to ba her over there. Yes-In that corner."

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