LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1931, Page 6

LATE CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN SCENES. • NEW ENGLISH PICTURE. LONDON, April 30. Miss Mary Hinton (Mrs Pitt-Rivers) will find her first important foie on the West End stage when she will share with Miss Nancy Price, founder of the People’s, Theatre, parts in “Bushfire. ’ “It it too bad,” said Miss Hinton, smiling, “I have to play the part of a London woman who joins her husband on a backhlocks farm. She loathes Australia, whereas 1 simply love it. “Nobody in the company knows anything about Australia. I am coaching them, assisted by my hooks and Hevsen’s paintings and Leason’s drawings, showing them what gum trees and bush folk look like.”

Miss Hinton first went on the reper. tory stage in Sydney. She has since played 'professionally :in (the English provinces, and in minor roles at West End theatres.

The High Commissioner, Sir Granville Ryrie, and other Australians are to attend the opening of “Bushfire.”

GHASTLY SLAYINGS. HORROR IN SAN DIEGO. SAN DIEGO, May 1. Three brutal murders, in which the victims were a girl and two women have sent a wave of horror through San Diego. The police in each case admit that the murderer covered his tracks so carefully that they have no clues to the solution of the crimes. On Thursday evening, Ella Bibbens was found strangled with a towel. She lay across her bed, and the towel was still bound tightly round her neck. There had evidently been a terrific struggle, for the entire apartment was blood-spattered, the bouse ransacked, and the owman’s jewels were stolen. Detectives had previously been harassed with the murders of Virginia Brooks, a schoolgirl, whose body was found in a vacant lot in the suburbs, and of Louise Tcubor, a pretty 21-year, old teacher, whose nude body was found hanging from a tree. Slie had been killed with an axe.

DREYFUS FILM. AUSTRALIAN WIDOW’S PART. LONDON. May 1. The Australian, Madame Maggie Oakcy, the widow of the brilliant French advocate, Maitre Lahori, who defended Colonel Dreyfus, has been invited to view the talking film, “Dreyfus,” shortly to he screened in Australia. Madame Oakcy was formerly married to the famous pianist, Path maun. She is one of the few person*; intimately connected with the Dreyfus alflair still living. Between intervals of concert work she is preparing a hook from notes left by her husband, Maitre Lahori. She recalls that his tel low-barristers shunned him, liis briefs were cancelled, and his income fell £2OOO within a year.

“As I was going to Court during the Dreyfus trial I touud my husband lying in the street, shot in the spine. Tinantipathy towards Dreyfus was so great that no one responded to my appeals to get a doctor. I was forced to run half a mile myself. M.v husband lived long enough to see Colonel Dreyius acquitted,” she added.

DIRE STRAITS. SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY. LONDON. May 1. The shipbuilding employers met representatives of the shipyard trade unions at a preliminary conference to dis. cuss the dire straits of the shipbuilding industry. The chairman, Mr A. L. Ayrc, pointed out that orders obtained by British yards for the first quarter of the year were lower than in any quarter since the advent of steel ships. Fifty-two per cent, of shipyard workers were unemployed. Twenty-five yards had closed down and others were expected to follow shortly. Warship work given to private yards was one-tenth of the pre-war figure. The United States, Fiance, and Italy were assisting national yards to construct tonnage -brmerly obtain in Britain.

FILMS ON SUNDAY. ancient LAW AT HOME. LONDON. May 1. Decause the regulations forbid the screening of films before 6 p.m. on Sundays, the King's physician, Lord Dawson, was obliged to cancel at the eleventh hour a lecture on blood circulation, illustrated with scientific films, which would have occupied 15 minutes. It was arranged that he should address the Post-War Brotherhood at Lambeth Mission Church. where the prince of Wales exhibited a film taken by himself, on a Sunday afternoon a few months ago. Lord Dawson criticised the ‘'Sib'.y antiquated rule,’’ allowing the exhimyion of magic lantern pictures on Sunday afternoons, hut not films. lie forecast the time, not far distant, when the cinema would play a part in church worship.

BARRED BY PARLIAMENT. SHOULD A JOURNALIST TELL ? LONDON, May 1. 'J’lii' executive committee of the Council of the Institute of Journalists passed a ,resolution strongly supporting Mr J. A. Alexander, “The Melbourne Herald’s” special representative at Canberra, in his refusal to disclose the source of his information concerning the “secret” cables that passed between the Prime Minister j Mr J. HSeullin. and the former Treasurer, Mr J. A. Lyons. while the former was in England last year. Mr Alexander was excluded from the Press Gallery at Canberra by order of the Speaker. It expressed tlie belief that such a disclosure would have been a grave violation of the recognised ethics of the journalistic profession.