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Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1930, Page 1

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HAUL OF FURS

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 27. Motor bandits, believed to have come frdm London, carried out a carefully timed raid on a furrier’s shop in London road, Portsmouth, at 4 a.m. today. The bandit car stopped in front of the furrier’s shop just after a policeman had passed. The thieves kept the engine running, smashed a window and lifted out more than 30 model figures with fur coats. The coats were taken off and the thieves drove away leaving the stripped models in tire street. The stolen furs are valued at about £7OO.

TOO MUCH WINKING BERLIN, Nov. 27. Frauiien Xenia Desni, a film actress popular in Germany, lias remarkably line and eloquent eyes, and is accustomed to make full use of them in her pictures. She was deeply aggrieved when she was dismissed on the ground that she “winked and blinked’’ too much, and is suing her employers, the Nero Film Company, for £550 arrears of salary and compensation. She alleges that the real reason for her dismissal was the desire to make an opening for another actress. The Nero Company maintain that she was discharged solely because she made exaggerated play with h er eyes. The Court, faced with this difficult problem, decided to refer' the matter to a film expert, who is to see' the strip and to report whether in his opinion Fraulein Desni’s “winks and blinks exceeded the normal.