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THURSDAY. DAILY HERALD APRIL IS. 1910. FOUR-HOUR FILM IS WORTH EVER SECOND OF THE TIME NEWS WITH A SMILE By T. M.

Palmer P. Daily Herald" Film Correspondent f) watch one film for nearly four hours sounds a feat 0 endurance; hut 1 ean only say that Gone With The Wind, many wats the most stupendous film yet is north it. yTjgaret Mitchell's novel of the Civil War and after is; th.in a movie emotional experi- 1 tOff pervnal triumph is for Vivien young English arircss. whose her Hollywood in the (rent rank of stars. Tjertthin? centres on the chsracten tis seitish baggage of the; a mercenary.

heartless Mtirt even anv.ii war's horrors, that! t0 sef-eti alter her third hushj, iff; her at the very end. 1 Perfect Bad Lot" I jfril supported by Clark Gable's Rhrtt' tjitr '-lie perfect Bad Lot with a streak. Olivia do HaviUands ex- Sue study saint and MllllTl Ona Monson courtesan. Harry Davenport bU.k mammy of jlrDartiel JjwoS AU uc emore. is.

STSSS" mAc car. through the blazing Finder rewarded" of rnc.her and her SAVED DOG Princesses Earn FROM PIT End Guests A KSjfi SB.WS&i many touches of fun. such as a down a disused colliery shaft at Great Park, have been to tea wltl Scgre cbas.ng a chicken in the ratn.Rugeley, Staffordshire, to rescue a Princess Elizabeth and Princess Scsrim camouflaging her brandy-breath dog. Margaret at Royal Lodge. mule-cologne, and Mr.

Gable The dog was unhurt, but It had a 1 The party was arranged a few days lnd 01 atUChCd to Us ncct When the Princesses visited the imakff nf the film open to-night, at The animal is believed to have been Royal school in the park, which the the Pikes. Ritz and Empire. down the shaft two or three days jchildren attend. Lost, BRIGHTER 'HOME-FRONT' MOVEMENT- 4L beautifully pleated, simply made with tape and hooks or rings gay new curtains in your road today. Isn't it Everywhere, gloomy blackout curtains are and bright new 'summery' materials taking Don't be the 'wet-blanket' in your road, your gayest curtains ever use a lining of dense ar.d, of course, make tbem up the modern way the curtain heading tighten the drawcords to the curtain in lovely pleats slip "Rufflette" 5 or rings into the tape pockets there, your gay are ready to hang! Aren't they a glorious you've still got perfect blackout when you need it! Get your "Rufflette" tape and hooks or rings at the shop where you buy your curtain material.

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end fm mil to Have We Cured Our Pro-Nazis? FASCISTS were demanding, not long ago, the right to march through London. It would be merely an act of justice If, to-day, they were compelled to do lunch-time. Londoners would love to get a sight of Hitler's friends. disclosures about the silly I strip-tease nonsense and my Insistence that something should be done about It had an even more rapid effect than I anticipated. It was on March 12 that I called up Reginald Stamp, chairman of the Entertainment.

Committee of the L.C.C., and urged him to act. A month and three days later the Lord Chamberlain summoned, with stamp's approval, a St. James's Palace conference of managers. At this, without opposition of any kind, all the theatre Interests pledged themselves to end the fatuous nonsense. 'T'HEN, the ticket-money to go to the Red Cross, we might arrange a public "Eat-yourwords" show.

There are many Tory M.P.s who, at this, would en- Joy a hearty meal. No, I will not now mention any names. I have a forgiving nature. This, though, 1 will any of Hillert former advocates care to put themselves right with the world, I will publish in this column their recantation. If anyone breaks this undertaking legal compulsion will be used.

have succeeded in clearing out the war-time indecencies to which you objected," Reginald Stamp told me yesterday. Managers like (irnrge Black have already sent out instrurtlons to their managers that "all the rough stuff is to go." )NE Tory M.P., a friend of mine i declared In 1933: If I may judge from my personal knowledge of Herr i JFTEN when, despondent about Hitler, peace and justice are the key- the complete failure ol British words of his policy." propaganda, I turn to the papers, I Does he still believe that? If not, when ge scraps of comfort, did he change his mind? told you how Noel Coward, it was I whispered, had at the British Embassy Paris a job so secret that people spoke of it with swe there is another, a Die- I Monday. I read. Noel Coward achard M.P. 'companied the Kents to the premiere of He.

in 1935. even when German re- I armament was well under way, said that his visits to Germany had given him the impression that there is almost no great Power with which we are less likely to become involved in war than Germany." For Freedom snatching a few off from important and secret jemployment, In a lounge suit and a nice bow tie." Yesterday. I read how. at the Gracie Fields concert at the Opera House, in Paris. Mr.

Noel Coward was presented to the French President in his box." So late as 1937. another Tory M.P. said to me: "I can't understand, Hannen, why you Socialists hate Hitler. I have Just come from Germany and seen his splendid work." With a bitter word. I silenced him.

much of it does he still believe? What particular act of cruelty made him anti-Nazi? I That is the sort of secret service that should see us through! i Noel should write a new Private Lives 'CHEEK'COST HER 2s. A WEEK VOW, how far can you trust the and the near- Britain? Norway had a rude awakening. Anyway, let us see a march of the a public recantation of the rest. I DECACSE wife was "cheeky" in court Cardiff's stipendiary magistrate. Mr.

Hugh Jones, K.C.. changed a decision yesterday. Edward George Chamberlain applied for a maintenance order to be reduced from 15s. to 12s. a week.

The application was granted. Chamberlain being ordered to pay 2s. a week off £9 arrears. My son will give it to him for shouted Mrs. Chamberlain as she left the court.

I Bring her back." said the magistrate. who then told her the summons for 'arrears would be adjourned indefinitely. 'T'HERE was the man I know who A wrote, Hitler has the soul of a poet." Well. Nero was a fiddler. But If he were a good fiddler, he seems to have been a very bad fireman.

AN American Just back from the States tells me that they can- not understand why the British can be so tolerant as to allow the JliXplOSlOll lllCJllirV Prime Minister to be interrupted MR YNNR M. Chief Inspector in his own Birmingham Town 0 Mines, is to hold an inquiry into the a Fascist shout of "We at Mossfield Mine. Longton. want peace! 'Staffordshire, which, on March 21, know how to deal with our pro- suited in the loss of 11 lives. Nazis at home." he said.

Edgar The inquiry will be held concurrently Hoover has run them to earth. You with the adjourned Inquest, which opens are a strange people." at Hartley on April 24. BOOK GUIDE IN BRIEF NOVELS Native Son, by Richard Wright (Gnllancz Bs. novel we have had from America for a very long time. Terrific story of a murderous, strangely Negro, tormented by the problems of his race.

It should have made America blush. Your local library or bookseller can ofler you nothing better. Paris Gazette, by Lion Fcuchtwangcr 9s from Hitler start their own anti-Nazi newspaper in Paris, and And they still have to light underground enemies. Plenty of excitement, including a grand kidnapping. but the story would have been better if cut by half.

The Devil in Green, by Gina Kaus (Nicholson and Watson, Bs. Women will love this strong drama involving the struggles of a simple man against his very jealous wife. Intelligently told by a woman who knows her Job. Bethel Meriday, by Sinclair Lewis (Jonathan Cape. 9s.

nice young girl thinks she ought to be a great actress, tries, and fails. Just that, but what a magnificent story the author makes of it. Insist on your library getting it for you. Kiss The Blood Off My Hands, by Gerald Butler (Nicholson and Watson, 7s. 6d.t.—lf you can work up any sympathy for a ham-fisted bully you will revel In this story of a thug.

who. chased by police into a girl's bedroom, keeps one arm round the girl's waist while using his free Ast to punch his way through to what Is meant to be a happy ending. Unnecessarily tough title and story-telling, but good J. V. THRILLERS Sad Cypress, by Agatha Christie (Collins Bs.

All you need to know here is that Agatha has triumphantly done it again. The same infernal ingenuity, the same devilish doublecrossing. the same old new twist, the same punch in the last pages. Be thankful she doesn't take to murder in real earnest. The Dance Band Mystery, by Ray Sonin Quality Press, 3s.

Here is a man who knows inside out the hectic world of the dance editor of The Melody brings it to surging life with the crack of a pistol that dropped the drummer dead as he played. A book you'll pick up a lot more quickly than you'll put down. Swing It, Drath, by Gavin Holt i Gollaucz, 7s. 6d.i As the Rhumbadors swung into the Anale ready for the crooner she was drinking poisoned brandy in her dressing-room. But the Joel Saber Inquiry Agency was behind the scenes, and soon it was pretty close behind the murderer.

Wilson and Some Others, by G. D. H. and M. Cole Collins 7s.

6d.i. Seven neat solutions uy Superintendent Wilson, with six assorted odds and ends ranging from the poison that wasn't meant to kill to the theft from the thief. The Case of the Plastic Man, by John Donovan iHodder and Stoughton, Bs. The professor vanished By way of compensation two plastic hands, a plastic foot and a plastie face were found lying about London Also two corpses. But the scientiAc policeman placed all the bits E.

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