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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1946, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page t Winnipeg free press saturday december 7, 1946 Priestley s latest Bright Day by j. B. Priestley this film was to express i 368 pp., Toronto Macmillan. N this his latest and perhaps Best novel since the Good or. Priestley succeeds threefold in his depiction of the genesis of a Man s viewpoint realistic picture of two periods of time and healthy criticism of the movie today. The tale is told by Gregory , a Cool and cynical englishman who is a successful Middle aged movie script writer sent by his film producer to the Royal Ocean note at Tia Lorna where the food is Dull and most of the people Are waiting for death he sets to work assiduously at the script of the lady hits bitter and hopeless feel ing about world conditions. I was to be a whisper in the dark to fifty million people telling them to expect nothing from such a. World As this but the worst imploring them not to be fooled he accidentally recognizes Ai elderly couple whom he knew in his youth and because of them he begins to i Anise. From Here on the Story veers Back and fort from his Rich and crowded year of youth spent in brutal Desfor to his present bored and cynical life As a movie script writer. Or. Priestley whose characterizations Are alive and vital sue Igloo for the night by mrs. Tom Manning Long journeys by dog team nights in Snow igloos cold wet. Hunger and were the everyday experiences of this Canadian girl and her explorer husband during two and one half years exploration of Baffin Island. In Arctic desert the most important Book which has appeared for some time is Igloo for the night we have waited Long for a Book of this Innis in the Canadian historical review. Illustrated with photographs the University of Toronto press Trade orders s. .1. Reginald Saunders co. Ltd. As rollicking a tale As has appeared in Many a Day has sufficient heart throb and action to Delight a wide Circle of t a masterly analysis of scottish life and Montreal Gazette Toronto daily Star t Toronto Globe mail Jan Wesson s great new historical scottish novel the Border lord All Canada is thrilling to this great romantic novel of Stuart Days in Scotland in which the Earl of Bothwell a Man born to War and wench and War again and Anne most delightful heroine who Ever inhabited a Book live out their love and marriage against a background of Border intrigue and rebellion. At All Book stores ambassador books limited 12 Richmond St. East Toronto Cess fully tells of the Young life of Gregory Dawson which was filled with youth s dreams life s eagerness Romance and the emotional that come with age. At that time people made their own fun instead of having it concocted for them by film and radio experts news papers printed Little carefully written essays walks through on books the Woods and the gaiety at Christmas or any other time was t forced arid the labor party was growing up. Of course there were the Alington whose magical influence upon Gregory enhanced his life in this Small West Riding Community Bridget who was Al Way excited about something and had Green eyes Eva the smiling downy Golden one Anc dark Biro wed Joan. Among Annj others who hold your undivided attention Are the nixes or. Ackworth Jock or. Alington and Ben. What Gregory finds to be the cause of his unhappiness is the fact that he is not living As he did then that following the last War the magic in his life had been swept away by bitterness and cynicism and he realizes now that life without magic soon be gins to finally when Al seems dark and worthless or Priestley gives his hero a new purpose in life and he appropriately ends his novel. Told with a flair for character and description a clash of York Shire humor and a Pinch of Dick ens Bright Day retains or Priestley s place among the highly esteemed contemporary novelists. . First class uneasy Spring by Robert Mol Ley up Macmillin Toronto. T ight novels that Are As Well written As uneasy Spring Are far and few Between. Too often they show the experienced but singularly uninspired hand of an author who has turned out so Many successes that he can do the thing with charts. The plots move along Ori. Well oiled wheels and the characters behave just As they should. Or Molloy is different. He has a Fine style and he is Able to color any number of Clever he has chosen As his hemp the Story of Hdward staf Ord a widower of six months. Stafford has two children to bring up and the almost unanimous viewpoint is that he should find u self a suitable wife to help him with the Job. But Stafford who is 46, in to so sure he wants things hat Way. And struggles against the idea. But complicating things Are an attractive girl of 28, who would be a poor Choice in the eyes of most people and Mary Oliver who would be an Ideal one in the eyes of All. How Stafford meets the problem makes for an engaging. Thoroughly enjoyable Story of new York life. First class Reading. A. M. It with touches. Wide Appeal letters to the editor Russia s technique draws criticism to the has called for worldwide disarmament. Russia insists particularly Ibn Elim nation of the atomic bomb As a weapon of War. In seems about to accept the russian proposals As genuine. The great farce enters another leading the world for while the lands of Russia s rulers drip blood blood of russians Slaught ered in purges the blood of Chin Ese slaughtered by Chinesie communist armies. There is no secret about Russia s International tech Nique for developing class War. It is wide open. We need to lift our Ostrich Heads out of the Sand. The leaves of the tree were but surely the danger did not justify that. If the Metal shortage was the reason surely a substitute could have been found in other materials. I Hope action will be taken for 1947 to hav More Protection for pedestrians by having two licence plates on motor vehicles and in full vision. Citizen. Winnipeg. Article on Choice of delegates flayed to the your novem Ber 13 Issue k. M. H. Bemoans the sex and qualifications of the Canadian Enesco delegates. If All men had the Powers of reasoning k. M. H. It would be fitting 1 or the Healing of the indeed to criticize or. Mackenzie King for his. Male Choice. But we read in revelation the tree is the tree of and he showed me a pure River of water of life Clear As Crystal proceeding out of the throne of god and of the Lamb. In the midst of the Street of it and on either Side of the River was there the tree of life which bore twelve fruits and yielded her fruit every month and the leaves of the tree were for the Healing of the a one of these Healing leaves is recorded in genesis Whoso shed Deth Man s blood by Man shall his blood be shed for in the image of god made he the enforcement of that Law has sent the nazi gangsters to the Gallows. Its enforcement against the russian dictators is Long Over due. In must find Means of destroying communism at its source. In must find Means of destroying at its source the Savage Power be Hind Franco. The leaves of the tree were for the Healing of the Carthage Delenda David Ross. 544 Broad Street Regina sask. Against surrendering pedestrians rights to the is grilling to a certain Small minority of our citizens that Winnipeg pedestrians still have rights. For some there has been a plot to build up a myth that Winnipeg is famous far and wide for the casualness of its pedestrians. And another de vice has been tried. Just Call them names and they will be in a panic and forget All about their rights. Call them Jay walkers and hey will give you the whole Road or a race now they Are talking with in creasing boldness about pedestrian control they Are even giving it a color of virtue by making it eem a Concession to us. They will give us some lights All to ourselves. Such magnanimity the pedestrians of Winnipeg Are As Alert and careful As those of any City. And they show a certain Ood sense in refusing to. Be cheated out of their rights in the face of hard names. I Admire the Independence of our pedestrians who refuse to submit to this pro posed dictatorship of the motor due respects to the Many kind and considerate Notor its. It has been ruled by Cana Dian courts that a pedestrian has a right on any part of the Street and we Are fools if we surrender hat right. To surrender t would be easy enough but to regain it would be a most difficult matter. Daddies Are accused of playing with the child s toys All Christmas Detour edited by Lieut. . I sometimes think that coun Wood 183 up. Toronto the Mac i Cilious Are actuated by the toy Millan. Company in Canada. Instinct when they set out to mul that is fortunately not the Case. The nomination of or. Victor Dore is inappropriate it seems because he was superintendent of Educa Tion for the province which is the most backward so far As element Ary education is what a criterion perhaps the superintendents of our penitentiaries should be blamed for the erratic tendencies of their flocks. I have a High opinion of women As women. Many of them Cal led upon to take Over what Many backward people still consider men s jobs do so very aptly. But since men cannot As yet take Over what Many backward people still consider women s jobs per haps it would be better if k. M. H. Would encourage them to carry on. The . Is certainly Wor thy of our moral and financial support. It May interest k. M. H. To find out to whom most of the . Overseas scholarships Are awarded. What prompted k. M. H. To display such such Broa mind Edness and such logic is obviously not what this article would Lead us to believe. And so ,1 suggest that in All fairness to those Many backward people a who still associate sincerity and object Ivene is with newspaper articles the True reason behind All this flare up might have been mentioned. L. Paquin. Dauphin. Man. Need for parity in freight rates to the far As i Ca make out from the daily week and farm papers the West is unit in its opposition to the suggestion of upping freight rates o Canadian railways. Maybe this is the Momen to Point out that As far Back a the summer of 1935, in the Cours of a letter to the free press dealing with this same theme the Long haul freight Burde carried by the Reader quoted the statement o the c. P. R. President sir e Ward Beatty at the annual Mee ing in Montreal so peril of this company depends upon the Prosperity of agriculture am therefore of Western Canad from which territory about 60 be cent of its freight earnings a normally doubtless the ratio on the National lines would be som Whei at the same level if so her maybe is another instance of the need for As Between the thinly populated West and the More populous Industrial East the freight. Rate pressure is obvious oven to a Layman 60 per cent of the nation s Freigh earnings Are built on the tonnage inbound and of 3 per cent of the Canadian Popup Tion Prairie Bort Toronto ont. Holds Church Chimes should be stopped to the intimate i your Issue of nov. 19 that no on has lodged a complaint with the chief sanitary inspector concern ing the noisy pealing of West Minster Church Bells or Carillon what sanitation has to do wit Bells is beyond me. It is a Matte for the police. A Constable is Quick to interpret a parking or Speed ing bylaw or other bylaws and i doubly Quick in giving a Ticke or issuing a summons. The Nois bylaw should be no exception. The Racket caused by these Bell a volume that few me a who served in the armed for Ces will want to miss it con Ains More than one has. A High o expect in one Book and Ilia s even More important the mater Ial is extremely readable. 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In some cities pedestrians May be object enough to submit. In Winnipeg we Are not. Rev w. M. C. Turney. Winnipeg. Sees need to educate citizens on walking to hives letter1 on Winnipeg traffic covered the situation fairly Well but Here Are a few Points missed. We need traffic lights at notre Dame East and at Lombard Street East of main. Both Are dangerous Cross Ings. The bus Stop on main opposite Wilson s furniture creates a dangerous traffic men Ace and also a bottleneck for All traffic would suggest the matter of a change be taken up by the City As soon As possible. And too pedestrians need to be educated to the fact that we should always walk to our right in so doing we Speed up walking time and save a lot of unpleasant crossing bumping Etc. When Sev eral friends Are together could they not arrange to in pairs not Strung out All across the Side walk like a solid Wall. And when stopping to Converse it would be easy to step to the Side of the Street or Over against the build Ings. A Little education on walking regulations would give our City a better regulated traffic. If we could become interested in tray life of our policemen would be much easier. Mrs. James Best. Winnipeg. Fob two licence plates to the the licence plates on motor vehicles were reduced to one plate on the rear the pedestrian s safety was reduced by fifty per cent. Many times one sees a truck or car with the licence plate plasterer with grease or mud tucked away under the vehicle making the number unrecognizable. This plate number is the Only Protection the pedestrian has against the Reck less Driver and taking away the front number was something never could understand., we know it Cut the Cost of the plates by fifty per cent to the government Herbeim by bin Cou Trhlin text by . The Best of the Bing cough Lin army cartoons Many of them still Bright in the memory of the overseas fraternity plus some Brand new episodes have been corralled in this first full scale edition of Herbie. 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