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Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1931, Page 5

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SCHOOLBOYS’ TONGUES

PROFANITY DEPLORED

LONDON, May 28

“Public: schoolboys admittedly u se language worse than one wishes to hear,” Rev. Cyril Aliugton, headmaster of Eton College, told the Parents’ Association. “You would be legitimately shocked to discover the way many talk. Their language has become worse since the war, hut it does not follow that their characters arc- affected.

“Boys, who are most conventional, use the words conventional at the moment. not meaning any harm. People mistakenly believe that hoys are hoys They are their parents' sons, and show most of their parents’ vices. “Clear types among schoolboys are most rare, and therefore public schools do not supply material for the novelist. (I'he public school novel aims at an impossibility, and is impossible from start to finish.” DOMINION’S FAULT. E:\IPJHE SETTLEMENT FAILURE. LONDON, May 23.

In the House of Commons the Secretary for the Dominions, Air J. H. Thomas, informed Captain Peter MacDonald (Con., Isle of Wight) that £435,060 out of an estimate of £780,01)0 had been expended in 1930 under the Empire Settlement Act. “The Dominions found themselves unable to carry out their agreement,” he added, “and we cannot tell them to stick to their bargain, ft wouldn’t be policy in such circumstances to contemplate new schemes.”

SECOND WIFE. LILY LANGTRY’S WIDOWER. LONDON, May 28. Sir Hugo de Bathe, whose first wife, the famous actress and beauty, Idly Langtry (“The Jersey Lily”), died in 1929, recently arrived in Yence in the Alpes Afaritimes (France) and presented to his friends a charming lady as his second wife. She was .formerly Aline. Henius and was horn in .Denmark. Sir Hugo, who is 59, disclosed that he had married her at Ajaccio, and was returning to Corsica, where he had bought property. BRUNETTES BETTER. CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S VIEWS. LONDON, May 28. Despite Anita Loos’ declaration that “Gentlemen prefer blondes,” Charlie Chaplin, the film comedian, is launching a crusade against them on behalf of brunettes. His “Joan of Arc” is a, Rumanian beauty, Floriselle Constantinesoo,-. whom lie has chosen as the star for his next film “to uphold the rights of brunettes the world over.” Rhapsodical Press descriptions are published by Aldlle. Comstantinesco, whom Chaplin seems to consider the peer of the dark lady of Shakespeare’s sonnets.

They do not differentiate her from hundreds of other olive-skinned film stars, except that she has pink earlobes and studies political science at Paris University.

When she first flashed across Chaplin’s vision in Berlin he exclaimed: “You are tho type T have visualised but could not find in Hollywood. T here are millions of' people who prefer brunettes to blondes. J call on you to uphold the right of the dark girl in the cinema world.”

This accolade Paris hails as the first hot in the coming battle between blondes and brunettes.

PRINCE'S CAR SMASH

TAKEN TO POLICE STATION

LONDON. May 28

Prin c e Erik of Denmark, who was driving a saloon car from Paris, with his daughter and his millionaire wife (whose grandfather was a Canadian lumber king), collided with a Danish detective’s car, and completely wrecked it.

The Prince’s ear threw the. occupants of the other • cal' to the road, dashed against a big milestone, hurled it into the air, and felled a large tree. The car was damaged, but the occupants were not. hurt. The detective, whose mother wrs taken to hospital with concussion, took Prince Erik to the police station, fl nd alleged that the Prince had ignored his turning signal. P>'ince Erik denied that the signal was given. NIGHT QUEENS. YANKEE TO PE BANNED. LONDON, May 28. London is no place for night club queens. Mrs Meyrick, tire be-st known of them all, who was released from prison at the beginning of the year, has been resentecieed to seven months’ imprisonment for selling unlicensed liquor at the notorious “43 Chib.” Evidence given by the police was that pools of champagne oil the floor had been poured by guests fearing a raid. The Home Office has issued a ban on “Texas’’ Guinan, New York's “Whoopee Queen.’’ who is reported to have sailed for Europe by the liner Paris. She Will not he allowed to land in England upsetting her plans to ride, white horse down the Strand as a Lady Godira act to show Mayfair real “Whoopee.”

HOOVER’S SPIRIT. NEW YORK, May 28. “We cannot legislate ourselves out of the depression, but we can and will work ourselves out,” declared President Hoover when declining to call an extra session of Congress. Air Hoover added that though it had been suggested that such a session would speed up a business recovery, he knew of nothing which would so disturb proceedings in the economic situation.” Air Charles Schwab, presiding at a meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute, announced his view that business had definitely turned for the better.

Air James Farrell, president of the T'nited States Steel Corporation, threw a bomb at the same gathering by accusing some of . the “so-called big newspaper headline companies” of failing to maintain the standard of wages.

‘•lt is /a .shame.” he exclaimed, “that when some of us are trying to maintain wages others a-te cutting them, oven when affording only three days a week employment. I am not giving names because I do not wi.sK to embarrass you but I think it is a pretty cheap sort of business.”