NEWS BY MAIL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11384, 9 December 1930, Page 7

NEWS BY MAIL

MASCULINITY NEEDED,

GAME OF POLITICS

• LONDON, Nov. 18. ‘‘‘Women are not enough at -tho ■‘rough stuff’; therefore, they; are useless in politics”, is tho decision of the Nationalist Socialist party in Denmark. “They lack tho brutality necessary to do anything effective.” Consequently, the party aims at excluding women from public life altogether. • ’ : There is worse than that;' Their participation in politics haS demoralised the men,' who are becoming more and more( effeminate. The only remedy is to east out the women.

WORKMAN'S- LUCKY FINE

£7OO WORTH OF RINGS IN.TIN

A cigarette tin containing 02 diamond and platinum rings has been found by William El)', of Dawson Street, Skipton, a labourer employed on a road improvement scheme at Snaygill, near Shipton, England. “I was working with a pick about two feet below the surface of the road excavating an old wall/’ said. Ely‘ recently, “and the point of the pick struck an old cigarette tin. '‘l opened it and found inside 32 rings, 30 of which were set with diamonds and two were of patinuin. “I took the box home and handed it to my .son, who works at a local jeweller’s, 'and had' the rings valued. “The value of £7OO was placed on them, but another valuation assesses tho value of £IOOO. ' 1 have handed tho box' and rings'over to the police.” A theory is that the rings are tho proceeds of a robbery. They were wrapped in ui paper on which the. date 1925 appears.

NEW AERIAL HORROR

LOUD-SPEAKERS IN THE SKY

Before loiig you may hear a giant voice addressing you from the skj.

It will- be one of ibe new voice-pro-ducing aeroplanes which are being developed to broodcast regular messages und announcements as they fly at a high altitude over any popular resort or city. ' ■ -' ■ One such airplane broadcasting station, now in design, will embody a battery of eight loud-speakers and other intricate mechanism, and will be driven by a couple, of the powerful Rolls-Royce aero engines developed from the Schneider Trophy racers A special device will exclude engine and other extraneous noises: In some Teccnt experiments the voice of an operator speaking into the microphone in- the cabin of an aeroplajiC" was magnified several million times and then directed earths ward. The result was that spectators on the earth below could heat the words distinctly, although they were being spoken from a height of dOOO feet above their heads. THE HOLLYWOOD MIND Mr Thomas Dfurke, author of “Limcliouse Nights,” has not been to Hollywood, but he has collected from those who have some delightful stories of “Howlers” committed by adult film people who remain ninnies in spite of their fame as producers and stars. The stories appear in a recent issue of the “News-Chronicle,” and they include a delightful one about Australia. The management of one of the great film companies - invited a number o> Australian exhibitors, with whom they did business to come to Hollywood at their expense and spend a week in the studios. A mail was detailed to show them round the studios and explain the process to them. As they went round the studios the -“boss” of the company followed, incognito, at a distance 1o watch flic effect.' At the end of the morning he sent for the guide and asked “Where did we invite these guests from?” “Australia.” “Australia? Australia? llow long it take ’em to get hero ” “Three weeks,” “Three weeks? -Say, they learnt English pretty good in three weeks.' That story is' true ,aiul its hero is one of the kings of films. CAT LOOKS AT.DEAN During Sunday afternoon service at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London recently a golden-colured cat appeared suddenly when a hymn was being sung. It walked between the ranks oi the people to the chancel steps, and then, startled by a particularly loud burst of music from the organ, it sat down and hold its head sideways, r.s if listening. . When the music ceased it resumed its walk and after eluding a verger leaped on to the base of tlie marble pulpit and peered intently through the chancel rails at Dean Inge. •Finally (says the “Daily Mail”), with a glance at the choir, it trotted calmly past the people, again, and vanished into the shadows. A NEW LEXUJGY TK AIN Marked advances toward the comfort of first-class travellers on English railway trains have now brought about a standard claimed to be higher than any other place in the world. The latest development is the inauguration by the London aml NorthEastern Kailway, of a “luxury train from London to -Scotland. The new train is described by the London correspondent of the Christian Science •Monitor.'’ It- is yiovided with individual bedrooms,' six ipr seven to a carriage, ouch room ha * ing running hot and cold water and other appurtenances equal to those- found® in the best hotels. There are the usual attendants, hairdressers, ladies’ maids, manicurists, stewards and so on. Also bat.lirooms, a library, and a new and improved observation carriage add to the comfortThe coaches are dust prooi, with an arrangement by which the’ air is kept fresh and at any required temperature. The carriages are provided with heavy carpets, which have a thick rubber underside, intended to offset whatever jarring may result from the high speed.