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FIRST TO SUCCEED

... r the Marquis of Clydesdale, with a foreword by Mr. John Buchan, and an account of the filming of the flight, by Mr. Geoffrey Barkas. They have described, not only those brief dramatic flights where no man had been before, but also the tedious months ...

Published: Tuesday 05 December 1933
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 140 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE REGAL

... a special interest to Leamingtonians, for it presents the glorious landing of the 29th Division at Suvla and Helles. Geoffrey Barkas, a co-director of the film, saw service with the division and took in both part operations. The cast is headed by Fay ...

Published: Friday 25 September 1931
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PERSONAL

... murderers over hundreds of miles of wilderness— man hunt that lasted eighteen months. 4 * The White Man’s Great War-Game,” Geoffrey Barkas, A Very Queer Farm/’ “The Road to Romance,” Abd-el-Krim’s Lieutenant,” and How I Became Indian Chief,” are also excellent ...

Published: Tuesday 01 February 1927
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 481 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CONSTRUCTING A TOWN AND CLEANSING TWENTY ACTORS

... studio, but lie had not she should be given two skirt.. been to South Africa; the exteriors there had been di ..cted by Geoffrey Barkas, One of the h 910114 instgnces of the natives having to be whose band of movie men photographed pandered to native scenes ...

Published: Friday 07 August 1936
Newspaper: Coventry Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1216 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MEN AND AFFAIRS. Sun Bathers Out!

... filming of the Gallipoli landing on the spot. I hear that he is due to leave for Malta next Wednesday morning with Captain Geoffrey Barkas to Join Commander Wilkinson. This officer, who comn►anded a destroyer at the Dardanelles, recently left the post of Naval ...

Published: Thursday 15 May 1930
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1052 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

23 WHEN BLACK “KING” CAME TO LONDON SOME STORIES BEHIND THE Do Know? SUNDAY MERCURY 10 March 1940 rjiHE cynic

... “Some of them started a song with quavering voices These were the remnants of the once mighty Matabele The director (Geoffrey Barkas) was worried what would his scenes be like without plenty of live young warriors ? He combed the 300 till only 80 remained ...

Published: Sunday 10 March 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1500 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

MOVIE MISCELLANY

... strong warriors, ship them to England, and use them as cannon-fodder. After much trouble7l;9e rumours were dispelled abd Geoffrey Barkas, who was in eharge of the elm unit soon became their mentor' and friend, 'earning the title The Man Who Drinks Trouble ...

Published: Saturday 11 September 1937
Newspaper: Coventry Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1287 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

TOWCESTER RACES

... course, the V Beach and Anzac Covc in that terrible April of 1915 are the central scenes. Anthony Asquith, assisted by Geoffrey Barkas, who I suspect did most of the work, directed the illus. There is a good deal that is new in it, and I found it interesting ...

Published: Thursday 02 April 1931
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1940 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE BIRMINGHAM POST TUESDAY OCTOBER 28 1952 REPORT TO THE PUBLIC of Law’s Tale By Lord Macmillan (Macmillan 21s) By

... centuries Though the climax of the period Sir Stanley covers in his brilliant survey Concealment The Camouflage Story By Geoffrey Barkas (Cassell 12s 6d) By P F Stewart How important and how’ misleading can be the titles of books! The Camouflage Story gives ...

Published: Tuesday 28 October 1952
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 6465 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

In Scotland

... actors. Sir Hodsrartili Williamson and hin Oster, Mew Arthur Moyeey-Thompeon, Mina Blanche Pane, Mr. any lawny, and Mr. Geoffrey Barka, wolf as Mies Fairfax and Mins Beckett, are all tahng part Yorkshire Manse Parties. Bee , Wit is entertaining a large ...

Published: Thursday 19 January 1905
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 712 | Page: 4 | Tags: none