QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 P.M. Sequel to 'UNION PACIFIC' and 'THE PLAINSMANP
Paramount presents
ALAN LADD
In His First Westerns Adventura I ́
ROBERT PRESTON BRENDA MARSHALL DONALD CRISP
Whispering SMITH
Color by
TECHNICOLOR
LIBERTY TAIPING
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As
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(LIBERTY)
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(TAI PINC)
Films Fights. Inc. Froson's
TECHNICOLORE
DANCING PIRATE
with CHARLES COLLINS FRANK MORGAN • STEFF DUNA. Directed by Lloyd Corrigen. Designed in color by Robert Edmond Jones Produced by John Speaks. Executive producer Marian, C. Copper.
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TO-MORROW
LIBERTY
"THE GREAT MR. NOBODY" A Warner Bros. Picture
Starring: Eddie ALBERT
Oooooh
what sho'll
do to you
Betty
Lyrics and Mus
LINS BORN PHOBICH HOLLANDER
GRABLE
2 all with balan
DONT #KIT TE DO
Douglas
Joan LESLIE
FAIRBANKS, Jr.
OPENING SHORTLY
At The
ROXE
LASTHEATREILE,
Causeway Bay
THE MOST MODERN DE LUXE CINEMA
WATCH FOR THE OPENING DATE
Cesar
ROMERO
the pypty who exotike? af
ATTENTION!
REPEAT AFTER ME:
"IF THERE IS TO BE ANY WAR, I'LL BE ON RUSSIA'S SIDE”
HEY, YOU BOURGEOIS CRYPTOS FROM BRITAIN ! LATE AGAIN! LINE UP! WHERE DO YOU THINK. YOU ARE THE
LIBERAL PARTY?
Lady
TOEING THE LINE
TOCHATT
World Copnright
DUTT
Eve Perrick EXAMINES THE CARES OF AN HEIRESS MAKING DO ON AN INCOME CUT FROM £500 TO £86 A WEEK
Louis had money troubles before
S
OMEHOW and so aurprisingly in
the story of "the richest girl in England," Edwina Cynthia Annette
Counteas Mountbatten- Ashley, now there have been money troubles before.
She is promoting a Private Bill to get permission to tap her private fortune, But even back in 1926-five years after the death of her grandfather, Sir Ernest Cassel, who left her the bulk of his £6,000,000-Lady Louis was fighting in the courts for relief against the will.
It gave her London's most luxurious home-Brook House in Park-lanc-but it also provided that rates, taxes, and cer- tain other expenses should be paid by her.
Even in those days
it just could not be done. So the fabulous treasure house WA8
She
INDIA AND GLAMOUN AGAIN: The Maharajak of Bikaner garlands the Countess
made the
sold the paintings whirligig
and priceless collec- .tors' picces auctioned.
Brook House
were
social
whirligig much gayer
price of the round-trip fare in a small cabin-class liner to Bom-
became a bay.
block of flats with the young marriage of the season in 1922. All this, of course, led to the Mountbattens living in a The Prince of Wales was best Reuted-off two-floored pent- man. King George V. and house at the top..
Queen Mary guests.
The
were
trousseau was
honoured
But that came later, dur- ing the restless 'thirties, remarkable for not having
chiefly "a when Lady Louis was Lon- single piece of imitation lace" don society's most famous among the staggering pile of hostess between tiger- lingerie and d'oylies. hunts with Indian mahara-
jahs and round-the-world
After the wedding the Mount- her battens-between naval engage-
THE EARL'S ARMS -on either side a lion double queued and crowned....
bedrooms. seven bathrooms, and the children's wing, com- plete with schoolroom.
William Hickey
To
that
add to his other active Clubs has revealed complishments-wiso suspected "agents" from Trans- and otherwise-SIIt port House are still 'Initrating." Tories are worried that So- HARTLEY SHAWCROSS cialists will hear news of tactics has become London's (Bri- and campaign plans. tain's?) best after-dinner They don't want a repetition of what happened not long ago speaker.
He has spoken at five fune- when MI T. TROTT, the asso
clation secretary, discovered tions in the past 21 days. Each
speech was a model of what a that, in South Wales district, good late-night speech should be-witty, Informative, and
brief.
Mark you, there is not much competition in this speelallsed fold. For, oh! so many aro apt to use 20 words where three will do-thus turning the best planned banquet into agony.
Take a typical dinner in Lon-
*COMERKINTIVE CLUB
the chairman of the local Con- servative Club was also branch chairman of the local Socialist Party.
don recently. On the list of OFF with the Motley: On
were four
people
speakers known for their skill in the use the editorial board of HARLE of words-BERMIONE GIN. QUIN, Journal of the Atomic GOLD
playwright NOEL Energy Research Establishment,
LANGLEY. singer PARRY S WING COMMANDER
JONES, and SIR ALEXANDER HENRY ARNOLD, KORDA.
What qualifications
has ha
the
They started at five minutes got for using the sub-editorial post nine. With the help of blue pencil? Plenty. He is those who introduced them, atomie project's Chief Security they were still at it at 11-and Officer.
+
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former American fier with the R.A.F., former assistant to AVERELL HARRIMAN on the men and European Recovery Programme, all over the room women were nodding-miser- is back in London again—this able and punch-drunk Into time in a business suit.
His name is GEORGE BIJUR their empty
Brandy port and
and he has been talking here. glasses.
But what doos Sir Hartley on American sales psychology.
"You can sell old boots to the do?
lle rises (as he did at the folks back home," he says, “If when the private lift, automati- Press Club) and punches into you run only tease them into enlly emtrolled by the butler his audience right away with a thinking they are getting some- when he walked to a special Joke When I came to Town thing special."
4
The only bitch in the care- fully planned oysters champagne Party occurred
and
spot in the reception holl, jam- med. The guests had a
two
out.
OSCAR
example!
story
"Pen, Pencil selling fut
100
for Books, "I found I tonight." he says, hours' extension to their nightd forgotten my black tie. So WILDE'S
- und Poison," was rang ap ANEURIN BEVAN but apparently he doesn't use copies a week in the US. un- liem." Pause for a laugh. Then til a firm published a new edi- and my wife suggested I should try tion, changed the title to "Story SYDNEY STANLEY." Another of a Notorious Criminal" laugh. "But I rang him at six jumped the sales to 100 a day.
'They different numbers, and he way busy at all of them."
Then there was the fushion world to be entered for, Lady Louise gave a party to launch the season's collections; another to the organisers of a "Jewels of Empire" tableau, in which ladies of the title portrayed the various gems.
the did
same
to
Art
of
simply by chang-
Betery," '
all
Atrove
of
After that, the rest is easy. He has set the mood. He uses ing the title to "How to Argue it to put over his points swiftly, Logically." Biggest success
GAUTIER'S and conelsely.
came from Then another story: "When famous "Golden Fleece" which Lady Diana Cooper, for ex-
Was daughter
christened appeared as "The Quest for a ample, was the leader of Dia-inst week I got a telegram. It Blonde Mistress." Sales went up. monds, and Lady Louise's step-rald: HEARTIEST CONGRA from four to 1,000 a day. mother, Mrs Wilfred Ashley,TULATIONS. MAY YOU LIVE headed the Emerald group,
IT
my
TO SEE YOUR GREAT T
seems that BAM COSTA There was the welfare side to FROM YOUR OLD ENEMY is pretty, cour about the radio AND GREAT ADMIRER.' The critics' ancers at his week-end. be looked after. She headed
was. R successful. commilices for dockland settle- man who sent 11? Sydney Stan- ralds on other B.B.C, shows. He ments, country hospitals, exley again, of course. I hear he thought it
did 50 certainly Servicemen's welfare 1550- hes made a will, and when he stunt-and clations. All of them meant dies he is leaving me all his
You now and people' tuning. dance organising, cocktail party debts."
to
programmes not on their receptions, fund raising. With Finis. And applause-sincere
list of regular favourites. a liberal hand she lent heroppinuse.
Why? houses.
THE
many listeners.
in
"Just in case Sum drops la."
If a comedian
he's got something.
Costa
would
can do that. House of Commans More recently Princess Eliza has the disease, too,
be hesitant. Edin- beth and the. Duke of burgh used Broadlands for their Here is a Tory M.P. throw-
his honeymoon, as did the Mounting a dictionary at the House though, about. a programme of
where
fow 0
words simple
own. (Suggested title. "WAS. THERE SOMETHING?") "No," battens for theirs.
would serve. What MR JOHN he said. "It would be too much. BOYD CARPENTER (Kings-
Her personal friends Included ton) wants to say in that part of a weekly headache working. royalty und im stars. Signed of the District Railway is over. out a script." Spain and Douglas Fairbanks how he says it: shared_mantelpiece_space.
photographs of King Alfonso of crowded at rush hours. This is IN THOSE
UNIFORM
was the
more war
on the
drab,.
"Hon. Members who have the
__but___ oh-so-expensive misfortune to travel regularly bare,
and Gtling-rooms behind Piccadilly District Raliway,
bo the voices of tailors could particularly on its central por heard in argument and anger.
know that travelling con- ditions in the rush hours
tion,
are
trips with whoever of soments that took the couple to all those first nights, film pre- I anything else that changed onderably above capacity and DUKE
alght-club openings. the style of living. The best-and injury
kill.
the:
A remark at a dinner sight before (chief guest, THE.
OF EDINBURGH) to health suffered brought into the open a rivalry the Mediterranean and the Für mleres,
£500-a-week, as leaders Among those Coward characters dressed
Lady twice daily In London by mil- between two atreels for the title at Britain's most exclusivo be-- Easi-settled down
Ferhaps the people referred to in the Louis became London County llons of people proceeding of the smart set.
qulte the right columns in chummy quotes as President of the St John Ambu-
spoke tailor.. "Boodles" this settled in not WIN
Lady
So-and-So, lance Brigade and wore Lord "Bonge" Such-and-Such, uniform becomingly. money problem to surmount. word.
Earlier there
There was
ok! 19 year Edwina Ashley, a tall, fair-
W
SOCIETY
and the rest of the Bright
Young Things-the Mountbat- tens were more than society leaders.
to
to
the
and fro is a very serious factor indeed."
Witness the production of only we make his civilian
AIR GEORGE DINES, a guest at the dinner, apoke glowingly of the Duke's clothes -- undi AFTER
who years of being there were many there
Dines, the Tallors of Parties at Biarritz gave place
thentre's most-feared thought to salvage campaigns at Black-the
aunt, haired blue-eyed girl in the
THE LORD SAVILEROW, made them.
Now comes a frigid rebuttal. pool, pep talks al Newcastle-malden English
Edward TH so many premises manner.
Waste-CHAMBERLAIN has blossomed and a Save
from HAWES AND CURTIS of on-Tyne
from grace the Pork-lane estab-
STREET: "Mr Dines. as the censor who hardly ever They were sectety. Thus, VII's god-daughter, living
DOVER appeal launched paper
naval Seifridge's shop window.
says "No." lavishly, entertaining kings lishment, a country house near
makes the Duke's uniforms. and princes as her grand- Chichester (and later on Broad- "Lady Louis Mountbatten la n lands, at Romsey, Hants), one leading figure at social func-
"DARK OF THE MOON." Its suits. We did the whole of his tlons. She is an accomplished father's hostess-but, apart on the West Coast of Ireland, a
As wife of the Supreme
South-dialogue is as rough as salted wardrobe for his wedding. We Its chief scene is a re- have just made him some new from £100
few Pork. year dress vills in the South of France, dancer, drives her own motor..
meating, dono in swing weeds. And when guests ad- vival or- allowance, without a penny apart from yachting headquar- car, and is greatly interested Aliled Commander of
and shooting lodges in in yachting, motor-boating, and east Asia there were a social whirligig social get-togethers to be to call her own.
season-existence was for from polo. The
moves less cheerfully without ganised and hostessed in Colom. I time, at which a preacher gives mired the tails the Duke was the dinner they ba, but they were comparatively one of his flock advice that you wearing at
won't find in the Bible.
were admiring our work." simple affairs.
A midwife is prominent
Gongi
For the next character at one point, singing a song beginning:-
were an apple, hanging "I wish
on a tree.
11
ROMANCE
ters
static.
In
her."
Lady Louls was very busy.
When the Park-lane mansion
It took the Indian Viceregal The London "season" outgrew was Lord the limits of week and month gave place to the penthouse the
appointment to bring back the THEN there
colour and splendour of high- Louis, the handsome and became her personal aura. mode of entertaining took on a juzz-age note. Eighty feet up. the Mountbattens proudly priced living-but during that young cousin to whom the
over their year it was the Eastern princes When she left for Deauville, showed 300 people Prince of Wales had intro- duced her during Regatta the Riviera, or a camping launt new abode which they rented who paid most of the entertain-
3rt the Arabian
battens famed hospitality. or Mexican at £4,200 a year-at a lavish ing bills, and outdid the Mount- Week at Cowes, halfway deserts ("in search of the simple house-warming.
fe" but accompanied by per- sonal maid and 30 plecs of baggage) the season ended.
take a bite of me," "So a man would come along and
Passed without a cut.
CHECK
round......
The proud craftsmen of the Tailoring Belt have another reason to be embarrassed over
ihat dinner.
For these professionals, who- pride themselves on knowing Want to Wear for Every Occa- up on members alon, turned up half in dinner-
The in- So now it's Malla again--on
vilntions said: "Evening dress Doors between three of the £50 a week. News from the of the Association of Conserva- Jackets half in tolls.
disclosed that "tho five reception-rooms slid back. Island
*Some call it Copious-from with decorations." to form the largest private ball. Countess runs her home in the
The guests same simple manner in which the Latin meaning (roughly) a *Her лame was in the social room in London. ly minded aunt lent Edwina the columns dally. There were did the tour of the eighteen Earl Mountbatten runs his ship." flow of verblage.
round the world in India walting for her to join him.
It was not litigation or the House of Lords that came to the rescue that time. A romantical-
But, gentlemen, decorations: are worn only with tails.
Walls ABEL...
19h, make sa v
That LADY IN ERMINE
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