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SCREENED JOTTINGS

Short Shots. Robert Young has been added to the cast of ‘ The Emperor’s Candlesticks.’ • * « ♦ Ramon Novarro will make three pictures for Republic, starting with ‘ She Didn’t Want a Sheik.’ • , •' • • Melvyn Douglas is Grace Moore’s new leading man for ‘ The Sound of Your Voice,’ starting any day now. Norma Talmadgo has become a story scout of David O. Selznick. **• # • Jean Arthur, threatens to retire for six months after finishing her present picture, ‘Easy,Living.’ •- • * • Jack Hulbert is rehearsing for ‘ The Playboy,’ ’to be produced by Marcel Heilman at Denham for London Films. • • * * ‘Moonlight and Shadows,’ the song ■which Dorothy Lamoiir introduced in her first Paramount picture, ‘ The Jungle Princess,’ has had a sale of more than 250,000 copies, and retains its first place position in America as a bestseller for 1937.

Madeleine Carroll and E’rancis Lo derer are co-starred in ‘ Lovers on Parole,’ which Elliott Nugent began directing last week.

Anna Sten is being given a third personality by Grand National for ‘ Love Me Again.’ It’s a musical, and Anna will sing Schertzinger songs.

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hope to persuade Norma Shearer to star in a modern comedy called ‘Turn Over,’ by Norman Krasna, who wrote ‘ Fury.’ This would follow * Pride and Prejudice.’

Thomas Mitchell, character player, has written the. screen play for, ‘ Life Begins With Love,’ now in' production with Jean Parker, Douglass Montgomery, and Edith Fellowes in the leads.

%V/UWWWWAVW«V.S Taterstudio politics: Robert Benchley, who works for the "shorts” department at M.-G.-M., was borrowed for two weeks for M.-G.-M.’s fulllength picture, ‘ Broadway Melody of 1937,’ to enact the part oi~ a producer. Bob finished his assignment in one day, hut that doesn’t stop the "shorts” department from collecting the full -t;to weeks’ salary. This is as complicated as Mr Benchley’s forthcoming short, ‘ How to Figure Income Tax.’ Cecil Kellaway, star of ‘lt Isn’t Hone,’ and at the moment playing in the Gladys Moncrieff musical revivals at Dunedin, was heard to state from station 2ZB the Other evening that he personally preferred the screen to the stage, l and ■ considers his best achievement to date was the part he played in the successful Australian comedy ‘ It Isn’t Done.’ He leaves for Hollywood at the conclusion of the New Zealand tour to take up his new nosition with h.k.o: Dix’s Papilloma. When an ordinary person, afflicted wich a corn and a small bank account, goes to his doctor for treatment, the medico tells his patient to drop into the drug store and buy sixpence worth of corn salve. But when a screen star has •a similar ailment, the corn attains high rating—it is elevated to a stellar status—it becomes a “ papilloma.” ’t/cnard Dix, Columbia star of ‘ Devil’s Playground,’ coming on Friday to the Strand,' recently received a doctor’s bill after cure of foot treatment. The bill was extremely heavy. Dix was puzzled by the statement. It referred to a “ papilloma.” " I thought the doctor must have got my case mixed up with somebody else’s,” grinned Dix. " I’d had a kind of had callous taken off my foot. It was an old stirrup callous. I dug out the dictionary and looked up tho word. I found that ‘ papilloma ’ is a fancy and expensive medical word for. ‘ corn.’ ” • • • * Pastor Turns Actor. Gordon Hart, who plays an army officer in ‘ Land TJeyond the Law,’ starring Dick Foran, and coming to the F r ’day, was a m mister in Walla Walla. Washington, before becoming an actor. He gave up his pulpit after his wife died several years ago, and has xnadg..rapid progress, jn- his.

new • art. He is under contract to Warner.. Bros. ‘Land Beyond the Law ’ is a lively tale dealing with the pioneer days of the .territory of New Mexico, when it was described as a land beyond all Jaw by General Lew Wallace, who was its first Governor. This, by the way, is the same General Wallace who later won fame and' fortune by-writing ‘ Ben Hur.’ Foran is shown as a brave, though rather wild, young cowboy, who after a while gives up his bad companions, becomes a sheriff, and is one of Wallace’s most trusted aides in cleaning,up the territory. Linda Perry, is, the pretty young settler’s, daughter .for whom' Dick fares forth on hard-riding, fast-shooting exploits. Joseph- King impersonates the great General Wallace.

Colin Tapley for Singapore. .Colin Tapley, : Paramount contract player, and Clyde E. Elliott, famed for camera exploits in jungle and animal film productions, left Hollywood with a technical crew bn ‘May 20 for a 'sixmonth sojourn in l the' country 400 miles north of Singapore, -filming Paramount’s jungle drama, ‘ Booloo.’ Carl Berger, Elliott’s associate on two' film production :trips, is in charge of the crew, .which will handle technical and camera details of the production. Ten tons :of supplies and equipment was shipped from Hollywood before Tapley, Elliott, and.their associates left for the Malayan jungle. Tapley, a' Dnnedinite, will be the only white man in, the cast of ‘ Booloo,’ the other players being selected from natives living near the location. ‘Booloo,’ from a native word meaning " fur and feathers,” will not be an animal picture, but a drama of human: accomplishment filmed, from a story written by Walter Post. ♦ * •' * Collegiate “ Flivver ” Returns From the Past. Robert Taylor’s past came back to him in the form of a collegiate flivver! For a scene in ‘ Small Town Girl,” at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by W’illiam Wellman, Taylor and Janet Gaynor were called upon to take a ride

in a 1930 flivver. Taylor mentioned to Miss Gaynor when they first entered the car, that it resembled the first auto he ever owned. It was white he was attending college in Pomona. Then he let out a yell. “ It’s my very own car!” he exclaimed. He recognised it by a Pomona College emblem that he had had inlaid in the dashboard during his senior year of college. ‘ Small Town Girl ’ is now. at tho Mayfair. * * Seeking Local Colour for Great Love Story. Fifty-four models, each worked out in perfect proportion and augmented by more than 200 drawings, were created in preparation for the magnificent sets built for ‘'Romeo and Juliet.’ An entire building-was required • tohouse the models and draw-

ings. Included in the miniature, exteriors and interiors were the famous cathedrals of San Zeno and Piazza, the feudal castle and gardens of the Capulets, Juliet’s balcony, the ballroom of the Capulets, the plague village, and the sycamore grove overlooking Verona and Juliet’s tomb. Two thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine scale photographs were fitted into" a mosaic to complete a pictorial map of Verona for the construction of the massive settings in ‘ Romeo and Juliet.’ Two years of research went into the designing of the 1,250 costumes created by Oliver Messel and Adrian. Many of the costumes were reproduced from figures in the paintings of old masters of the Renaissance period. Norma Shearer’s coiffure was taken from ‘ The Annunciation ’ by

Fra Angelico. The costume, which she wears ■ during her marriage; to Romeo: is a duplicate of the dress worn in the painting, ‘ A Betrothal,’ by Michel de--Verona. '• ■■- Camera. ...crews spent four months in Verona photographing the. historical medieval and Renaissance structures for .reproduction. Two thousand extras were transformed into knights, armed retainers, heralds, friars, pilgrims, ballad-mongers, merchants,. peasants, 'and beggars for the cathedral- square scene, considered to bo- among the most spectacular scenes ever created for a motion picture. A crew of 46 electricians were required to give the balcony scene the effect of being bathed in moonlight. The duelling scenes were six months in pre-. paration. They were arranged by Fred Cavens, graduate of the noted Belgian Fencing Normal School of Brussels. In--eluded in the sequences were the battle between the followers of the House of Capulet and the House of Montague, for which 400 extras were Naught the line art of swordsmanship; the duel between Basil Rathbono and John Barrymore; the avenging of Barrymore’s death by Leslie Howard; and the duel between Howard and Ralph Forbes. An entire orchestra of fifteenth century instruments was assembled for the ballroom scene by Henry Stothart, who adapted the musical score of the picture. Among the ancient instruments

used in the orchestra were the virginal, the viola di gamba, tho lute, the serpent, tho lyre, and bells. One hundred thousand questions were asked and answered by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer research department in preparation for the filming. The sets for ’ Romeo and Juliet ’ were the most elaborate ever constructed at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. The market place scenes covered eight acres. The balcony and ballroom scenes were tho largest ever built. Tho balcony , scene occupied every inch of the largest sound stage in the world, covering 52,000 square feet of floor space.

Murder Mystery Film. While romances and comedies and Westerns and melodramas have waxed and- waned in screen popularity,, one

class of film offering seems to have retained a, steady following from the early days of motion pictures. Detective films have followed ' detective fiction in attracting a huge army of admirers. Tho first “ feature ” picture over made, ‘d im Great Train Robbery,’ which was almost one reel Jong and a tremendous sensation in its day, comes into the detective classification. The coming of talking pictures seems to have furnished a big stimulus to the “ cops and robbers” offerings. _ The various series 'of ■ detective pictures around one central character, beginning with the Philo Vance stories and the Charlie Chan tales, have further added to the popularity of this typo of film, along with the solo efforts of ono or two Sherlock Holmes pictures and the famous Nick Charles of ‘ The Thin Man.’ Crowing steadily, too, are the pictures featuring Stuart Palmer’s noted detective characters, Inspector Oscar Piper and his feminine assistant, Hildegarde Mithers. Four films with this noted duo solving mysteries, ‘ Penguin Pool Murder, ‘ Murder on the Blackboard,’ ‘ Murder on a Honeymoon,’ and ‘ Murder on a Bridle Path,’ have firmly established the swaggering Oscar and the ackl-tongiied Hildegarde among f\c favourites of the mystery fans. 11.K.0. Radio will present the fifth offering in the series, ‘ The Plot Thickens,’ with James .Gleason again portraying tho role of the inspector opposite a new Hildegarde, Zasu Pitts, at the Grand on Wednesday. Famed Choir in Film. jSt., Luke’s Choristers, America’s contribution to the great hoys’ choirs of the world, is having its fame broadcast through the medium of the motion picture screen. Tho famous choir appears with Grace Moore, Columbia’s noted singing star, in her current picture, ‘ When You’re In Love,’ coming to tho Empire. Under tho direction of its organiser, this choir of 50 hoys’ voices recorded several numbers with Miss Moore for an important song festival sequence in which they also appear photographically. The chorister group, which includes 35 boy sopranos and 15 - older hoys, have mastered capolla singing, and their repertory includes many,other such numbers from Palestrina to modern Russia. While the choir has appeared in other pictures, it has its ’ biggest opportunity with Miss Moore in the Colunibia production. Robert Riskin, famed author of ‘lt Happened One Night ’ and ‘ Mr Deeds Goes To Town,’ wrote the screen play of ‘ When You’re In Love,’ and also directed. Gary Grant is featured opposite Miss Moore. *.* * * Baby Eleanor Powell. Eleanor Pow.eil .has a miniature dancing facsimile in ‘ Born to Dance,’ coming to the Empire shortly. Four-

year-old Juanita Quigley, who lias been nicknamed “Baby Eleanor Powell ” because of -her, tan dancing ability, was cast in the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical hit to appear with’ Miss Powell in a dance routine., Juanita • plays . the ; daughter of Una Merkel and Sid Silvers, and sings some of the songs written for the extrava-. ganza. by Cole Porter. The baby actress, besides singing and , dancing,is able to speak French, German!, and Spanish. She has appeared previously; in eight pictures. * * * # Youthful Darling of Paris. Olympe Bradna, 15-year-old darling of Paris theatregoers imported to Hollywood! from the ‘ Folies Bergere ’ and now appearing with Gary Cooper, George Raft, and Frances Dee in Paramount’s ‘ Souls at Sea,’ has announced her intention of becoming a citizen of the United States of America. Her parents, old-time French vaudevillians, both have their first American citizenship papers, but Olympe, has not yet reached her majority. “In my heart,’’ Olympe explains, “ France always will be my native land, but I hope that America always will be my home. I have been so much happier here. I want to make this my country, too.” Born between afternoon and evening performances at the Olympic Theatre in Paris —whence her first name —Olympe made her theatrical debut in her parents’ act at the age of 18 months and became a performer in her own right at eight years. As a specialty dancer in the French version of ‘ Hit the Deck ’ she was christened “ the smallest sailor in France,” a title that still clings to her there. As a small child she went into the movies and became her country’s Shirley Temple. At 14 she was a star in the French Follies. Her winning of the part opposite Raft in ‘ Souls at Sea ’ came as a surprise to the whole film colony.

‘ Fire Over England.’ AH the enchantment that was England in the days of Queen Elizabeth and tho splendour that was Spain in the same period are brought to the screen by Erich Pommer in the Alexander Korda-London Film production, ‘ Fire Over England.’ ‘ Fire Over England ’ is reported to bo one of tho greatest spectacular dramas ever to come from a film studio, thundering with the crack of sails in the wind, the clash of steel on steel, the pounding of hearts of courageous men who fared forth into battle for tho nation they loved in Elizabeth’s ships on oceans aflame w.ith hundreds of burning ves-

scls. A loading overseas critic thus doscribes'tho film : “ England has never made a better historical romance than this, and America has producer! few to equal it. Vast and spectacular in scope, sweeping in action, and more true to fact than is customary, it is still human and l intimate entertainment in its pz-e----sentatiou of an appealing love story and of the character of England’s greatest Queen, Elizabeth. In adapting the story from A. E. W. Mason’s novel, the spotlight has been focused more on Elizabeth, who becomes the pivot for all the pageantry, plotting, swashbuckling, and romance. Flora Robson’s portrayal of the Queen is magnificent. She is Elizabeth as most people must have imagined her . . . regal, splendid, and courageous in the councils of her people, keeping the hotheads in check, turning _ away the wrath of Spain with wily answers . . . every inch a ruler, but still a woman, jealous of youth and beauty, vain and dictatorial, though generous and sympathetic enough when the mood takes her, or, more important, when it fits her policy.” Vivien Leigh, England’s new star, and Lawrence Olivier give outstanding performances in the romantic roles assigned them. ‘ Fire Over England ’ opens at the Regent on Friday next, July 30. • * * Gerrard’s Latest, Gene Gerrard, whose right name is Eugene O’Sullivan, was born in Clapham, London, England, on August 31, 1892. His parents were non-profes-sionals, but Gene decided to go o.n the stag© at a very early age. He toured tho world) as an actor, and when the Great War broke out served at the Italian front! After the war he formed his own show with Gertrude Lawrence and met with great success. He has appeared since in many. West End musical comedies, including ‘ Katja, tho Dancer,’ ‘ Lucky Girl,’ ‘ New Moon,’ ‘Rose Marie,’ and ‘Little Tommy Tucker.’ When film production started to become the thing in England he decided to try his luck there, and he made his first film in 1912 fon the old Hepworth company. Again ho entered films in 1931 with the 8.1. P. Company, appearing in ‘ Let’s Love and Laugh ’ and ‘My Wife’s Family.’ He subsequently _ took on direction as well as. lead in comedy films, one of his' first jobs as director being ‘ Out of the Blue ’ in 1932. Other films in which he has made himself popular are ‘ Brother Alfred I ,’ ‘Lucky Girl,’ ‘ Let Me Explain, Dear,’ and ‘ Leave It To Me.’ His latest film is ‘Where’s Sally,’ coming on Friday to tho Octagon, which he mad© for Warner Bros. It is a, rollicking farcical comedy, played at a merry pace by an attractive team'of English radio, stage, and screen favourites, including Claud Hulbert, Renee Gadd, and Reginald Purcell.

Gold Pan to Silver Sheet. The most -exciting thing do happen in Kernville,-California, since gold was discovered there about 80 years ago, was the advent of 1 the movie folk filming Universafs ‘ The Mighty Treve,’ the picture featuring Noah Beery, juu.', and Barbara Read, which comes on Friday to the Strand. The general store,' established in ■ 1851, still has goods on its shelves which came around the Horn; other stock that_ travelled across the continent in pt’airie schooners. Among the relics of the Golden Age were a spinning wheel, -a warming pan for .heating bods on-winter nights, a bullet mould, and ’a pair of baby shoes. The latter articles had been carried across ■ the’ Isthmus of Panama on mule back, to transfer them from one ship to another. Kernville, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, swirled into new activity, particularly when all the townsfolk were given extra roles in the picture. The single, thoroughfare was thronged with everyone who could walk, hobble, hop, or skip. Everyone was in the movies—and with a vengeance. They made the most of their day in the sun—or the sun-are lights. When Saturday night arrived, the regular weekly dance was called off so that the citizens could continue their movio acting. It took, the townspeople almost a century to advance from the gold-mining pan to the silver sheet. Prominent in the supporting cast are Alma Kruger, Hobart Cavanaugh, and Samuel S. Hinds. The role of the dog is played by Tuffy. The movie is based on Albert Payson Tcrhune’s novel ‘ Treve,’ which was popular as a book, and'in. magazine form. The story relates the adventures of a young fellow, Noah, who sets out 'to mako his way in life. He meets a charming girl, Barbara Read, and romance hovers in the air. But so does the girl’s uncle. Ho has an uncontrollable fear of dogs, and when he sees Noah’s dog around his house, he orders Noah and the animal off his ranch. Barbara uses clever diplomacy in overcoming ;tho obstacle to her happiness. The climax of the picture is reached when other ranch owners' accuse the dog of killing their sheep. They want to execute, him, but are prevented from doing so by a surprise development in the drama.

The Film’s the Thing. “ Tho brightest star on Broadway Is an unknown until he or she has done a picture.” So says Fay Bainter, Broadway luminary, who makes her screen debut as Katharine Hepburn’s sister in R.K.C. Radio’s ‘ Quality Street.’ “ Picture players have a world audi-

Storming in epic sweep over half the world, as the last slaver sails, on its desperate voyage, * Slave Ship ’ gives tho screen a now claimant for the title of mightiest of all the sea sagas. Twentieth Century-Fox’s spectacular production of ‘ Slave Ship ’ co-stars Warner Baxter and Wallace Beery, in a talo of the slave-trading era, with Elizabeth Allan and Mickey Rooney among those on tho boatj as, with decks reddened by mutiny, it roams the seas on' its final fury-racked voyage. In the. most colourful role of a colourful career, Warner Baxter plays Captain Jim Lovett, romantic scourge of two seas, who defies the navies of the world, is betrayed by a shipmate, and lights at last for love in the greatest sea adventure of them all.

New Starring Team. Madeleine Carroll, recently seen in ‘ On the Avenue,’ and Francis Ledcrer, Columbia’s noted contract player, will shortly appear as a new starring team in a film entitled ‘ Thanks for Nothing,’ to go into immediate production. Miss Carroll received her early theatrical training on tho English stage. After a number of successful appearances in London she accepted an offer to appear in a British picture. Her success was instantaneous, and she transferred her allegiance to tho screen. Three ; seasons ago she went to tho TJ.S.A. arid made her American debut and immediately soared to stardom. Francis Lederer appeared prominently in a number of stage and screen produo-' tions on the Continent before going toj Hollywood. He created a sensation on Broadway with his first stage appear-.-ance, and his screen career has been’, equally auspicious. Among his recent:, film appearances have been ‘ Pursuit of: Happiness,’ ‘One Rainy Afternoon;’; and 1 My American Wife.’ • ♦ .* * . ■ ■

Forty Years a Stage Star. Distinguished actor of tho international theatre for 40 'years, Maurice Moscovitch, who only now is beginning

a screen career, disclosed recently that he might well qualify as conductor of an ‘ I Knew Them When ’ column concerning screen folk, if he so wished. Moscovitch, currently _ playing a featured character role with Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi in Paramount’s ‘ Make Way for To-morrow,’ has had a number of to-day’s screen personalities as supporting players in his various companies during two decades on the English stage. His path has crossed the paths of many others during world tours, in the course of which ne has played in four, languages and has appeared, in addition to his New York and London . engagements,, in_ Russia, Germany, France, South America, Australia, New Zealand, and many other countries. Herbert Marshall, Moscpvitch recalled, was his first Antonio in his initial production of ‘ The Merchant of Venice ’ in London. The two renewed acquaintance recently at the Paramount studios, -where Marshall is engaged in rehearsals for his forthcoming appearance opposite Marlene Dietrich in the Ernst Lubitsch production, ‘ Angel.’ Basil Rath bone likewise played with Moscovtieh in ‘ The Merchant of Venice ’ on the London stage. He was first to appear in the role of Bassanio. Claude Bains, who came into screen prominence as a result of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur production for Paramount, ‘Crime Without Passion,’ played with him in London in ‘ The Government Inspector,’ a translation from a Russian classic. •'* • • Famed Rope Trick, . Ken Maynard, starred in Columbia’s outdoor drama, ‘ Fugitive Sheriff,’ coming on Friday to the Strand, spent nine years in perfecting a single rope stunt. Ken’s trick is to rope five running horses with one lariat. No other cowboy has yet been able to do the trick successfully. « * * ♦ They Treat 'Em Rough in the Movies! In her debut film, ‘ I Dream Too Much,’ Lily Pons played leap-frog in a public park, fed fish to a trained seal, and sang while riding on a merry-go-round. In her song-and-laugh musical comedy, coming shortly to the State, ‘ That Girl from Paris,’ costarring Gene Raymond and Jack Oakie, her experiences surpass even these in oddity. Departing from the reserve of an opera diva, la Pons helps Gene Raymond change an automobile tyre; is suspended from Jack Oakie’s belt out of a tenth story window, and is hauled right back through that window like a bag of salt; dances through an entire afternoon with four partners. Raymond, Oakie, Miseha Auer, and Frank Jenks, each of the dancers in-

traducing his own particular variety ot “ hot-cha ’’ steps, while she trudges with her tiny feet in a size L} shoe! Miss Pons is alwo wondering where the movies will have her singing next. Until she entered tho films, the petite French star performed on the opera and concert stage, or before radio microphones. In ‘ 1 Dream Too Much ’ she sang while whirling on a merry-go-round, in a Paris cafe, and on_ a musical comedy stage. ‘ That Girl from Paris ’ provides equally novel backgrounds for her , vocal artistry. She sings in an inn courtyard, in a. New Jersey roadhouse, from an opera house stage, and reaches a climax that rivals tho merry-go-hound experience by trilling merrily-while piloting an automobile at reckless speed.

‘ Jungle Jim’ Coming. 0 ‘ Jungle Jim/; that uiiusually popular newspaper feature strip,., is to bp seen soon in Dunedin as a ' motion picture. As a newspaper ■ feature In, America it is read by millions every day, and it is, beard weekly by other millions over the air. Universal s serialisation of Ales Raymond’s adventure cartoon has been booked for the Strand and Mayfair, and is to commence on. Saturday afternoon nest. ‘ Jungle Jim ’ is said to rival the same artist's ‘ Flash Gordon.’ The story, told in 12 instalments, deals with the exploits and battles of two safaris which penetrate Africa’s _ dense jungle in search of an American girl, raised in the wilds and worshipped by the natives as a goddess, who has inherited a huge fortune in : America. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, seeks to find the girl to help her to claim her fortune. .The other expedition seeks'-to put her out of 1 the \yay'So'’-that its leaders may claim the’money themselves. . The plot makes for a film play packed with ad--venture, danger, and fast action. Grant Withers, the star of numerous pictures, plays the title role. The girl —Joan,, the lion Goddess—is played by Betty Jane Rhodes,-lovely young radio star, who is winning equal success ou the screen. . They are supported by an exceptional cast, which includes such important names ns Raymond Hatton, as Malay Mike; Evelyn Brent, at • Shanghai Lil; Bryant . Washburn, Prank Mayo,- J. P. M'Gowan, Charles Murphy, Henry Btandon, Claude King, Paul Sutton, and A 1 Bridge. ••• • ' A Film Within a Film, . While a Chinese dragon writhes its way across the stage, blood drips from » theatre box in San Franciscos Chinatown, and thus murder finds its “unique, setting in Metfo-Goldwyn-Mayer’s mystery thriller, ‘ Mad Holiday,’ -which opens at the St. James shortly, with. Edmund Lowe and Elissa Laudi in the leading Teles. The “movie within a movie ” angle of the picture centres upon Edmund Lowe appearing as a Hollywood star who.

sick at being typed in mystery parts, walks off the set and takes the fateful coastwise steamer voyage. -Miss Bandi, playing the author of the picture out of which he has ‘ walked, also embarks on the steamer, determined to bring- the actor back at any cost, even to devising a make-believe murder. When the hoaxed .murder turns out unexpectedly to be a real one the complications, begin,.

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Evening Star, Issue 22709, 24 July 1937, Page 5

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SCREENED JOTTINGS Evening Star, Issue 22709, 24 July 1937, Page 5

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