London, Jan. 7.
M. Paul Van Zeeland, former Premier of Belgium, arrived at 11 Downing Street at noon to-day to discuss with Mr, Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, the report oh his ecent economic mission. He remained to lutich. It is likely that M. Van Zeeland will see other British Philip Charles Pack A powerful drama of the New York slums, combining all the poverty and disease associated with such districts, plus a tense story of human interest, was revealed in "Dead End," shown dt the Metropol Thestre yesterday. The story dealt with the evils of the slums, where crime festers from youth to adulthood, where necessity drives young boys along the inglorious road to crime. The mainstay of the story were the little gamins, portrayed the same boys who played to houses on the stage in New York. These youths represented in detail the problem which is facing the heads of the Police in America, They were the very spit of the forgotten youth of America, later to be remembered in most tragic circumstances. The example of what happens to one of those same kids, who took naturally to crime, was very Paleverly woven into the story of the Present generation, though practically unheeded by them. Mr. Joel McCrea acted with understanding, as did Miss Sylvia Sidney. They introduced the love interest without the sentimental romance so popular ory the screen of to-day. Theirs was a mutual understanding born of the need of each other im facing the problemational struggles of the poor. Mr. Humphrey Bogart was the same despicable gangster, and the scene in which he met his mother is one long to be remembered, so vividly was it enacted. Under the direction of Mr, Geddes, the background was authentic, and a real insight into the conditions extent in such a district was realized. But eclipsing all this, the acting of those little boys made that film, into a powerfully tense story, which should not be missed under any circumstances.
The shorts consisted of a mediocre newsreel, and "Don Donald," a Silly Symphony in Technicolour, another of those extremely clever productions of Walt Disney.—rr.w.
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