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J. W. TAYLOR

By

HE soldier is really a wanderer on the faco of the earth, in contact with many strange and beautiful things," said Fiold-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, former Commander-in-Chief of Middle East and India Commands, when he opened the Army Art Society's 18th annual exhibition at the Imperial Instituto, London, recently.

And the Field-Marshal added that during his 45 years in the Army he had boon struck by the interest in art of all kinds, but chiefly In drawing and painting, shown by all ranks.

that This show certainly demonstrates Britain's "uniformed wanderera",' who are by profession trained and accurate observers, include a number of promising artists in battle- dress who can happily record in oil, water colours and oven wood, some of the strange and beautiful things they find in the out of the way places in which they serve..

There are 888 exhibits this year. Though the number of works submitted is considerably fower than in the past, their standard is notice- ably higher.

A BOMB STARTED THE

CIGARETTE HABIT

These Families

And These

Made Millions . .

By CHESTER

JEROME

أدا

Over the past Ten alone

Тиля £13,800,000

years been

While the British scene 18 naturally predominant, themos range also over many of the berritories 50 familiar to the Fighting Services. Hongkong, so much in the news today, is the subject of eight water-colours from Brigadiere A. C. Balille and J. C. T. Willis and Lt. Col. S. J. Driscåll.

left by four or five at the CUINGAPORE, Selangor, Penang, major tobacco people.

the Nanking River and temple But the Wills are the world roofs at Kandy are other Far beaters when it comes to And- | Eastern subjects. There are a Ing

in the gold Bakes

to- number of portraits of Indian from serving-men and ccenes

the sev

of the Indian continent from for-

Africa

Then, led by Wills and Gold It was colid Correrns, after

bacco. Flake. 13 surviving British its original Spanish owner, and

mixlur-Craven, Leaving out firms gied forces-amalgamat- sold its own

called after Lord Craved minor tanatty mesalers who iner L.A. members. c Su was born The Imperial so

have passed on. Jeaving their Talmero Company -80 percent who had first smokri it

few or score thousand Yapp was mildly intrigued few

15 well represented with Baron's machine and hundred thousand pounds, herefrom all points of the compart, decided to risk £1,000 to try is table of the estates left from Kongwa and Zanzibar In Koul It was the wisest over the past 40 years by

the east to Takoradi Beach, A Baron

member's of the Sierra, thin

few major

and the he ever did.

Leone village turned it Into milliou5 for

Yobe River in the west, and him.

from Table Mountain to a street Soon

in Harrar, the level crossing at Matruh £2.548.200 Amriya and Mersa

ค pylon. The portrait of a Beer- sheba boduin and a panorama of of the bring echoes Tiberias 1826 £1,903.183 Palestine operations. 1527 45,083.300

23. Моде £2.633.340 0.214,021

WADA

1*5021185

Justin Player, of Nottingham,

thy So did In #harekaman hipthers

FWD

lynasty

At 2.30, 5.30.

7.30 9.30

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nitess

1 Wils

106 from First

Overlen Hey W*** lines bu

Wills. He was born in Baletni shattered the tobacco 1761 and died there in 1820

heard of of an Egyptian gun at

the

anst

Anorwa

never even

bold.

clareda

Led by the Wills triumvirate diel the audacious then

Turning cut invaded unexported,

the charettes it live a penny | ¦ ¦ market, marching Shortly they were filing 20.- into the Duke strong 000.000 a day.

Player and right

Sir Frederick Wille 50 Z

Bon

WILA

Payson Will

1010

M: H O W

10011

Lars

Winterstoke

IPIL

Si Edward Canning

Wills

1021

Mr. H. Wils

1922

42.750,

and his

BACK IN A BLAZE OF GREATNESSI

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WESTERN

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THE SPITFIRE

DOROTHY

LAMOUR

Lalu Belle

co-starring GEORGE

MONTGOMERY

ALBERT DEKKER OTTO KRUGER GLENDA FARRELL - GRES MCCLURE A COLUMBIA PICTURE

TEMPTRESS

of David Belasco's celebrated

dromatic stoge

SUCCESS.

A BENEDICT BOSEAUS PRODUCTION

crew.

BOMB flung the Turkish

He deali snuff and pipe tobucen,

W 110

1) and

Botar

130

The tough Duke soon had enough, He capitulated--the only Lime he wan ever braten.

"I'll

were suun

using

Wills on their heels cigarette-making machines,

It was a trifling incident

H ( CaFried in a trifling campaign way

They expanded back in 1832, but it started the richest

stick to people in Bristol.

the US." hr real fortune, end "You can keep that enslaved the founders of the

your habit

too. really. Britain, the dynasty,

share the And we'll world

more and and mude

Henry Overjul world market."- millionaires than any other because 1.0.

11 had 18 children, and they all bore faithfully the stamp of The Wills--blue eyes, blond British hair,

wide heads, and high, round faces.

human idea.

it also started

dynasty whose

somebody's Hips

are 05

every day-

"W. D. and H. O. Wilis.**

The two brothers who rel ownexi these Dames never heard of the Turkish

even

bomb affair,

The pipelesa

ner'a

smoke.

They emplied

rather

the slightly

Money spinner

२०

£2,000,000 gift

OOD astured and unpreten.

thous

Baron became naturalised Briton in 1907, and his firm, Canteran, grew to e

£23,000,000 concem.

Mr- Finallton

Fellowes Frederick N 14

Will

Mr A. Douglas-

Hamilton

Sir George A. Wills Sir George V. A.

Will Dare Mary Monica

WHIS Cantain Ronald D.

C047.763

features prominently, 1927 €1,766.705 ITALY 1920 10.000.000 fron St. Peter's and the Vatican duwn to Messina in Bleily; there 1 £2,100,000

and a Is A Carinthian scene.

Tee- 1031 £204,000 inndreape of Akureyri in

land, where the British Forces. £31,032 | U 1031

spent three uncomfortable years 1940

433,250 World War Two. There, too, Wilts

the Old

of Athens, City 1040 £1,107,39 Mhes

Ashermen of the Shatt-el-Arab, Richeat at them all was Streamen o

Gibraltar from the nir, junk and craft al

Wiil

Mary

Vera

Baron

Kave away £2,000,- M Kathleen Rees- 000, but it kept rolling in this

are

the British Americon To ter than he could dispore of it, George A. Wills. Bt., who died low water, Bros.

Labio

and

he still had £5,000,000 in in 1928 at the ripe age of 74. assets when he died in 1920, aged 78.

Americans at

at Palm Sunday morning in Egypt, Tax Man's share or disposal squad, and corne

bomb

striking pointings of troops on

be a mistake fatigue duty, at a mud parado, the tobacco and halting by the wayside on a the only people march. who make millions from to-

The tax collectors do too.

Prices range from £00 for a miniature full-length portrait by

In the 1880's

bacco Company came habit

of cigarette being

Tobacco and Imperial scorned smoking caught on.

Duke put up the money joint- At the head of the firm then ly, and the new firm took over

of W. D.'s and I the export business of both. The elegant Yapp died only were three

Frederick, Ernest, It mushroomed 0,'a

and became three years ago, aged 84. He, pur it would tobacco another

money-spin- too, had given a million away, to consider and William.

Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen and still had £4,500,000 left tycoona An indication of their grow ner. Egyptian Eun-

became is that they all eventually

its chair- devised 2 makeshift ing influence

and Sir W- man, and when dled he left The 1wo Churchman bacco. gut knighthoods,

brothers, who threw in their notched a new peak in 21,300,000. liam

Duke eventually died in 1925 lots with Wills into Imperial Even in the days of mode-Fight-Lieut. Robin Fenwick to the gun- the family fortunes by becom

with so much money that he Tobacco, prospered likewise. powder out of the thin paper ing Lord Winterstoke.

couldn't count It-even though cartridges used for fling their

cool 10- Sir Willian Churchman. Bt., he'd given away a cannon, and

leaving to universities and died only Inst

year, 000,000

£1,000,000, and 1. over

threa charities. 1901 a great crisis entered

Once he gave away £8,000,- months later his brother, Lord £4,000,000 in death duties, on

It is the lives, enemy got

Anglo 600 in one sum.

hx Woodbridge, died leaving £1,- The

their Turkish hold of the idea, and English American tobacco war.

who has been 300,000. daughter Doris soldiers picked it up in the James "Buck"

the Duke,

tagged "Richets girl in American Crimean War.

tobacco king, had

world."

There was steam-rollered his way to vir-

one British firm tal monopoly of the trade th that stayed out of the Imperial

replaced it with tobacco-then Et the first of

ali cigarettes.

You enjoy

War opens

gho

the idea now but not nearly so much as the the US with ክዛ Tobacco Tobacco merger. Wills family. Their fortunea Trust. literally went up in smoke.

folk

Shy RECENTLY the light of news turned on them again with the publication of the will of Mrs Kathleen Mary Christian Hamilton Rees-Mogg, of Strat- ford-on-Avon.

Daughter of the late Frederick Wills. she £1,787,300.

Sir

emigrated

to

and

Some

rate tax, they collected £6000,000 out of Sir George's

Day personal

packet while he lived, and then shared another

his estate.

(London Express Service)

guinca version (unframed) of the Taj Mahal, and even come 15 shilling oil paintings.

the Art has no rank, and scope of the Bociety has rightly (Conilmed on Pare 5)

C.V.R. Thompson Reports

The American Scene

NEW YORK. ground work. Loyal Communists Heences).

Explained Kenneth

turer: "Women want their hus- bands around the house at week- ends instead of messing about an airport."

IT IS Business as Usual for are being sent to night school to Garafola, private plane manufac

America's Communists, learn to be walters. though 11 of their bosses, con- criminal conspirators, victed na now wear guol blue.

The Daily Worker came out as usual without editor John Gates, As usual, it attacked President

It

was ied by a man called Secking new felds to Con- Bernhard Baron, a rough dia

the Bri- mond with a quer, Duke invaded

generous tich market with the Inten happy heart who was born in the same as in Russia of French and Jewish tion of doing America.

parents in 1850.

New He'd The battle lasted 18 months, Duke started by buying up York, where he'd worked for week in a tobacco fac. Ordens, of Guines Gold fame. 185. a

tory in Liverpool.

and saved 10 out of He poured a fortune into every' pay. his campaign, flooded the One night he got an idea for machine. cheap cigarettes, country with

cigarette-making 1 left, invented cigarette cards of ac- So far cigareites had been There are hundreds more of a to help his sales, push made by hand.

took his idea-and ed free cigareties into tobacco- He family scattered nists'

hands and

the offered prototype machine-round around England. Millionaires bonusta to them.

American tobacco manufac-Truman as a Wall-street dupe, fairly spattered through The British replied in kind. turers, and one after another, and summoned its faithful unanimi- 23.000 readers to an allout fight They lopped prices to suleido with heart-breaking tovela, and offered riva. past 40 years some In the

ty, they turned it down. Even for freedom. dozen of the leading members bonuses.

the astute Duke. have left over £40,000,000.

Cigarettes were selling at But, they ure a shy dynasty. 3d. for 20. Shopkeepers were in manufac- You'll and few of their names offered

a share in Who's Who or the news turcze profits. but the prosta

cmigrated DARON

agalo papers, but you'll find them in vanished in the price war. Usta of donors to charity.

So did reservpa,

and dozens this time to England. He get someone in- the tradi- of smaller firms, went by the struggled to

the and

buffe terested, and H.O. board.

came just as regularly. have an

tho

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ROD-CAMERON ILONA MASSEY

"PLUNDERERS”. In Trucolor

Willa

They still follow llons of old W.D. Many of them still

interest ira the firm-several are on the present board--but

in privato life they

become

Many rebuffs

Their jobs will be to talk to customers in working-class cnfes and to listen to them in the night clubs.

CHOW BUSINESS: In his first radio appearance since his CHOPPING: I find that when row with Hollywood's Samuel David Niven an- the price is right, New York Goldwyn himself a retailers are now giving British nounced

appear- goods every chance to sell, even ing without the kind permis- In Union-square there were at the expense of American- sfan of Samuel Goldwyn.” the same agitators on same made goods. Take shoes. I spot- Marion Davies former beach- soap-boxes also attacking Pre- text a notice in the window of one house with 110 rooms, many of

of

intact from fa- them sident Truman as a Wall-street of New York's largest chain

Imported dupe, and summoning the falih-shoe shops. In large black letters, mous British mansions, 50 bath- ful 70,000 paid-up members to British shoes, "no longer too rich rooms, and 87 fire-places, is be- an all-out fight for freedom. for your blood," were offered at ing, turned into a Santa Monica

12th-street In the shabby offices of the Communist Party, $9.90 (£8 10s. 8d.). And in tiny hotel-ratos £15 a day for two,

letters at the bottom the display without mesls. temporarily run by Elizabeth

"Also American card added. style, $8.8 (£3 25. 10d).....

Grey with worry And then in Wardour-street Flynn, a typical campaign is be

flood

he found an elegant young ing planned, this time for a squires and church-wardens, THE tobacco tycoons-both man called William Yapp who of telegrams and letters of pro- tobacco emporium su test against Washington, "thought. and American- had a The family comes from Bris-British

exclusive they control." fol, and Bristol has had cause were going grey with worry. mootily.

even sell the new- But I am told that the first to thank them for their gen Only the man in the street wouldn't

fangled cigarettes.

steps have been taken for under Brosity.

was happy,

NANCY

DIGGIN' FOR FISHIN' WOIMS IS TOUGH WOIK

Inside Job

--SPECIALLY IN DIS HOT

SUN

IT'S NO USE- I CAN'T STAND

DIS SUN

;

By Ernie Bushmiller

HOTEL SWANK

POLITICS: Socialism will be the chief Republican issue in VIATION: Wives were blom next year's general (but not ed for the decline of privato presidential) election, says lead- flying in the US. (there is a ing Republican Senifter Robert

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