Sunday Express dated Sunday June 7th 1925
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Extremes of weather are nothing new but I notice that in
1925 there was no mention of Global Warming. Surely, though, in the good old
days all summers were sunny, all Christmases were white and it never rained on
Sundays.
19 year-old Nathan Leopold and 18 year-old Richard Loeb were
wealthy Law students who decided to commit the perfect murder by kidnapping the
14 year-old son of a local Chicago millionaire, killing him and then requesting
a ransom. They were caught despite their elaborate plans because Leopold lost
his rather unusual glasses close to where they disposed of the boy’s body and
the body had been found far quicker than they expected. They blamed each other
for the murder but at their trial they were both sentenced to life plus 99
years. A fellow prison inmate murdered Loeb in 1936. Leopold was released on
parole in 1944 and died in 1971.
Alfred Hitchcock’s film ‘Rope’ and ‘Compulsion’ starring
Orson Welles were both inspired by the case.
I’m not sure why the paper is calling the Quakers’ limited
support for artificial contraception ‘astonishing’. Is it because the Quakers
would be expected to be against contraception or is it that anyone could
possibly support contraception?
Pro-contraception campaigner Marie Stopes had opened
Britain’s first birth control clinic in 1921, which helped to make both the use
of, and the dissemination of information about, contraceptives acceptable.
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Anti-foreign (i.e. anti-Eurpoean) feelings had been
gathering strength and support in China in the early 1920’s until, in May 1925
a group of Chinese students were arrested in the British policed International
Settlement in Shanghai on their way to a funeral. On the day the students were
to be put on trial a large demonstration outside the British police station got
out of hand and 9 demonstrators were shot dead. Strikes and riots spread across
China for the next 6 months.
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Between the two World Wars Britain’s race courses were
plagued by gangsters, particularly the Sabini mob from North London, who
offered bookmakers and course owners ‘protection’ from trouble makers, who were
actually the gangs themselves. The 1938 Graham Greene novel and the subsequent
1947 film ‘Brighton Rock’ featured the gangs’ methods.
The
writer of this article, Edward Shortt, became the President of the British
Board of Film Censors in 1929 and managed to ban a record number of films for
sexual content during his ‘reign’. He’d probably have flogged film directors as
well if they’d let him.
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On June 4th 1925 the ambassadors of Great Britain, France,
Belgium, Italy, and Japan handed a note, detailing a series of German
Versailles Peace Treaty disarmament provision violations, to the German
Government The Allies demanded that Germany immediately fulfil all the
conditions, otherwise any withdrawal from the Allied occupied Ruhr District
would be further delayed.
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An example of Old Testament Christian justice in a supposed
civilized country. A truly horrific story.
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That’s what I keep telling my psychiatrist when
we’re not doing ‘I think I’m a pair of curtains’ – ‘Pull yourself together.’
jokes.
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In 1925 there was no UK Driving Test, no traffic lights, no
white lines in the middle of roads or at junctions, no minimum driving age, no
MOT tests on vehicles and a 20mph National speed limit that everyone ignored.
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The special effects on ‘The Lost World’ were by the pioneer
of stop-motion Willis H O’Brien who later mentored Ray Harryhausen who brought
to life the dinosaurs that failed to spoil Raquel Welch’s hair and make-up in
‘One Million Years BC’.
‘The Phantom of the Opera’ was a classic of the silent
cinema, based on the novel by Gaston Leroux.
This was long before Andrew Lloyd Webber got his grubby mits on it and turned
it into a musical.
Gloria Swanson starred in silent films, talkies and TV from
1914 or 1915 until her final appearance in ‘Airport 1975’. She also found time
to marry 6 times.
Beverly Bayne appeared in 158 films between 1913 and 1925.
She only made 3 films after ‘The Age of Innocence’, 2 in 1925 and ‘The Naked
City’ in 1948.
Michael Arlen created the character ‘The Falcon’ that
appeared in 13 films in the 1940’s.
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Now there’s a question that needs answering – ‘Does the girl
who is always knocking a ball about or riding something or killing something
necessarily make a healthy mother?’
Mr Page really has a downer on athletic
women. For a balanced view read John Betjeman’s poem ‘The Olympic
Girl’.
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Move over James Bond, Jason Bourne et al; Harry Marlow’s in
town.
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What an odd image for a 1920’s cigarette advert. He looks
more like a 1950’s juvenile delinquent who, when asked “What are you rebelling
against?’ replies ‘Whadda you got?’
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If you thought the previous image odd then this is plain
freaky. What’s the kid doing with a 1970’s Afro? Or is that one of the
‘eruptions’ that Germolene can cure?
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“By Gad, Sir! The blighter’s taken his jacket off! When I
was in Rangoon I was still in full dress uniform when it was so hot you could
fry an egg on the thigh of a sultry young servant girl. I remember a young..
well.. I err… enough of that! Pass the toddy juice!”
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