JOAN CRAWFORD

Evening Star, Issue 22353, 1 June 1936, Page 16

JOAN CRAWFORD

COMING TO EMPIRE ON FRIDAY The charming personality of Joan Crawford and the manly bearing of Brian Aherue as her leading man ensure the popularity of the film ‘ 1 Live My Life,’ which, is coining to the Empire on Friday. ‘ Forsaking All Others,’ • No More Ladies,’ and ‘ Chained ’ have firmly established Miss Crawford as a first-class player of comedy drama. Brian Aherne’s performance in ‘ The I Constant Nymph’ left little to bo dej sired, and to repeat his success would ■ be enough to give him a place in the top flight of screen players. The story touches on the contrast between the town and the country, the sophisticate and the unsophisticate. As the favoured Kay Bentley Joan Crawford comes upon Brian Aherno, an inwardly-inclined archaeologist digging contentedly on the shores of an isle in the Mediterranean. He is repulsed by her obvious wealth and good lot, but deluded into thinking her secretary to her wealthy father and not his daughter, ho follows her eagerly to New York. The course of true love has many amusing deviations before the striking climax of the story.

The Italian Consul for Now Zealand forwards the following statement:—By the Note of May the Italian Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs has informed the Secretary-General of the League of Nations that the Italian Government was aware that for sometime agents were working in Egypt in order to invalidate the declaration made by some members of the Egyptian Medical Mission in Ethiopia regarding the atrocities perpetrated by the Abyssinian troops against Italian prisoners. Those agents tried to get the members who signed the declaration to retract their statement—threatening them with accusations of falsehood and dishonesty, and further tried to obtain from them contradictory denials. However, not loss than 20_ members of the abovementioned mission have confirmed by declaration the information given of the cruelties to which Italian prisoners have been submitted. A copy of their declaration has been scut to Geneva.