LLOYDS OF LONDON

Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 22

LLOYDS OF LONDON

TYRONE POWER STARRED Against a background of adventure and intrigue of 120 years ago, with the Battle of Trafalgar as its climax, a great love story is told in ‘ Lloyd’s of London,’ which is now oeing screened at the The inner of the most and exciting business organisation in the world, Lloyd’s of London, the father of modern insurance and the forerunner of world-wide news agencies, is also described in the film. Tyrone Power, as Jonathan, advances rapidly _to an important position in the growing organisation. . With the telegraph not yet invented, Lloyd’s is severely handicapped by inefficient communications until Tyrone establishes a semaphore system across the English Channel, utilising powerful telescopes and the arms of two huge windmills. During the ensuing years the bell of Lloyd’s tolls out the news of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon, all of it being “telegraphed” by _ Tyrone's svstem. From France, disguised as a French cure, Tyrone Power sends the

news that Napoleon has ordered the arrest of all Englishmen within the French borders. At an inn he meets Madeleine Carroll, as Elizabeth, an English girl, whom he saves from arrest and smuggles out of the country. They fall in love, but the girl disappears when they are safe in England. Included in the supporting programme is a Laurel and Hardy comedy and an issue of the ‘ March of .Time.’