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... . COMING up from the Gold Coast last July a French planter from the Ivory Coast gave me his reserve tube of atabrin pills to hold down my malaria Then he came down with that fever himself. He was as big as a gorilla, with a narrow rim of black beard around his jaw, so that, when he imitated a chimpanzee Unh-Unh-unh hopping about the smoking-room he looked like one. He was celestially tight ...

... . By H. E. SYMONS. THERE is always the possibility that this passion for pooling things may die down before lubricating oil is pooled in the same manner as petrol. All we have got, so far, from the authorities is an assurance that the specified grades of lubricant will be avail able, even if the different brands cease to exist. The pooling of motor spirit has done no harm to the reputation ...

... . JUAREZ, the fine Warner Brothers First National Picture re-creating the tragic drama of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, is due at the Warner Theatre on November 17. BETTE DAVIS plays the part of the Empress Charlotte (Carloto in the film), who lost her reason after her husband's execution in 1H 67, and lived in her native Belgium till her death in 1927. Paul Muni plays Juarez, Brian J ...

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. IN The Sketch of Sept. 27 I recorded the capture by Mr. George W. Goldie of a record blue shark, weighing 126 lb., at King's Cross, Arran. The publicity in The Sketch and elsewhere has created a great deal of interest, and I hear from Mr. Goldie that a number of Glasgow anglers have approached him, and he has promised to take some of them over to Arran when the ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MISS CLAIRE LUCE FOR MAKING I.1GHT WORK OF CARRYING THIS OUTSIZE HANDBAG, AND NOT- LET TING LOOSE THE CAT OR WHATEVER IT CONTAINED The HON. MRS. DENYS LOWSON-- FOR PROVIDING THE CITY OF LONDON WITH THE YOUNGEST SHERIFF'S WIFE WITHIN LIVING MEMORY. MR. GENE AUTRY here seen icith MISS BILLIE BERNICE j for trying to CHECK- IN HIS HORSE AS WELL AS HIS HAT AT A BROADWAY ...

... Paulette Goddard in 44 The Women Imported by M.-G.-M. to be a woman among a hundred and thirty-five women collected for the film of Clare Boothe's play, Paulette Goddard makes a big break in a smallish part. The American Life bracketed her and Rosalind Russell as the two show-stealers from more seasoned colleagues Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford. She is cast as Miriam, the good-hearted chorus ...

... THE ARTIST IN WARTIME AN IMPRESSION BY C. CHATER OF (LEFT) A BRITISH BATTLESHIP LOCATING A GERMAN RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT AT NIGHT AND (RIGHT) A GERMAN JUNKERS JU. 87 'PLANE BROUGHT DOWN BY ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE BEHIND THE FRENCH LINES. The services of British artists have not as yet, as in the last war, been officially j called upon by the Government to supplement photography as a means of ...

... THERE'S A WEALTH OF ENTERTAINMENT IN A large number of the informative diagrammatic drawings, reproduced as panoramas, EACH MEASURING OVER THREE chiefly by that well-known artist G. H. Davis, which have FEET WIDE. They show British warship types a Battleship, a been published from time to time in THE ILLUSTRATED Cruiser, a Flotilla-Leader, a Submarine, and an Aircraft- LONDON NEWS, are now ...

... THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR: A DIARY OF THE WEEK'S EVENTS. German Activity in the West. BIG concentrations of German troops and aeroplanes and incessant movements of war material on the North German coast were reported on Oct. 26. The Italian wireless stated on Oct. 27 that there were 10 German divisions along the Dutch frontier, and 12 along the Swiss frontier from Basle to Lake Con- stance. On ...

... PIGEONS AS TRUSTED MESSENGERS AT THE FRONT (LEFT) RETURNING TO THE LOFT AND (RIGHT) EXAMINATION AFTER THE MISSION. The use of pigeons as speedy and trusted messengers dates far back into antiquity for example, the Persians and Greeks used them to fly back with the names of the winners of the OlyiVipic Games. The racing or homing pigeons employed in the British and French Army (our photographs ...

... The Women Filme Hollywood's Version of Clare Boothf Jungle Play is Coming to the Empi When war broke out, The Women was still playing to eager the Lyric, London. A week or two before, Hollywood had seen of M.-G.-M.'s wholly smart and yet fundamentally earthy el the Clare Boothe play (as a Hollywood critic described it ir enthusiastic and yet fundamentally incomprehensible way.) Ani Jane ...