2 j ' Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, May 21, 1954


Tour of Clitheroe District Farms AREA


RU ird Chief Leads


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su ita b l e f o r I ITH I


FARM CARTS W— OR WITHOUT BRAKES


STRETCHING across ithejR ^ tryside in a huge networ electricityi to remote farms| time. Farmers who once im] of hurricane ianmps now h: and the cattie milked by el machines.!


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chairman of the North ^Vesth ern Electricity Board, told a Press Conference at Clltheroe, on Tuesday; that seven but of 10 farms In ithe area had beeii Connected to the electricity supply, and; by the end of the year he hoped to see the figures change to eight out of ten. “We are spending an| other £475,000 on rural works this year,” ;he said. '<


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shown the! various uses of electricity ion poultry and dairy farms. He pointed out a recently completed scheme, Involving the erection of 15 miles of overhead cables over the' moors between Holden and Slaldburn, which tool: electricity to more .than 4( farms hitherto lit by oil lamps


Clltheroe area by newspaper representa.tlves who were


! Sir Joseph led a tour of the


party was Mr. G. W. Roberts Slddows Poultry Farm, Cllth­ eroe.


First farm visited by the RECORD ORDERS


■years and hds a countrywide connection. He has been awarded the Lancashire Ceri- ficate


Accredited poultry for the last five years. He produces 4.000 day-old chicks every week from ipld-December to the end. of M^y, and this year has received more orders than could be accepted.


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hens and 'two 12,000 eig Incubators. ; |


^ His equipment Includes a battery house holding 530


Hall Farm, Whalley, is a pro- > ducer-retaller| with a T.T.' attested herd of Ayrshire cows, 24 of which are at pres­ ent producing!some 70 gallons! of milk per day. The visitors were shown 1 his all-elec.trlc dairy and the use of such equipment ajs a steaming chest, In which it Is possible to sterilise alll milking utensils and bottles In one operation, and a bottle-washing machine which ensures the highest degree of cleainllness.


Mr. J. Wood, of Wlswell


Impc tant part in the farm­ ing r,:e of trie district is . the Milk /larketliig Board’s grass­ drying centre! at Mltton-road, Whalley, which was also visited. Established six'years age, this Centre "serves the whole of North Lancashire,; including the Fylde district. The Milk Marketing Board undertake to but the grass for the farmer, ti*ansport it .to the centre, dry a|nd bale it, and return It to the farmer at a Charge'of £18 per ton.


Plsylng a,*n Increasingly FIRsij BATCH


I Last year, more than 1,100! 'tons of good quality dried grass were prjocessed.


dried this year was on May 10th, and it Is hoped to keep the whole i of the plant running for 24 hours a day until the end of September.


The first batch iof grass


1 'Another local farm to make 'full use of electricity Is Laneside Pwm, Sawley,! which, managed iby Mr. R. Woodcock for Messrs. ;jj and S. Hin-dley, Ltd., covers ■350 acres and lias a herd of more than 130 pedigree British Prieslans and jihree stock bulls.


iTbe herd :pvcrage Is 1,000


■gallons per covi per annum, and ;at -the present: time 45. cows are 'producing 170 gallons per day.


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! i The newspapermen were told that in 1951 a| thre^-bay Dutch; barn was converted to,make it suitable for bam hay drying,


'and, last year lapproxlmately 60 tons of ■ bam-dried , hay were produced, with ah average protein content of 14 per cent. Seventeen tons of oats were: also dried in the bam. I t is! believed ithat these oats were the; first to be harvested in this area j


for more than a quarter of a^ century. Electricity, however, Is per­


had It installed, like John arid George Towler; of Bashall Town; FarmJ which stands alone;on .the!Bashall Eaves— Waddington ijoad,


haps 1 most I appreciated by those ;Who, only recently have


WELCOljlE POWER


fied for about 12 months, and the power has been welcomed, for It; makes! work easier and more pleasant,.


The' farm has been electri­ .! ,


(Formerly TAYLORS, LOWERGATE) gS ral Haulage


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,he addressed the newspaper- imen, at a-luncheon at the Moofcrick Inn, Waddington.


! forward in that the Govern- : ment of .the day had said that i they must take their place In ;the queue for the ■ allocation i of capital.,


1' Nationally, farms had been


; supplies at the rate of about 10.000 per annum. This com­ pared with 4,000 In 1938.


connected ‘ with electricity


In the No. 5 Sub-Area, the rate of connection was now


taking electricity .to farms and replying to .criticism, which had been made In the Press, Sir Joseph said that carrying electricity not only to farms but to rural premises of all kinds was not an easy job. , , Obstacles had also been, put


Explaining the difficulties of


authority is ,not always met with such a welcome as that afforded a t ' Bashall Town, however, as was: explained by (Sir Joseph Hallsworth, when


The work of the electricity


Mr. Roberts has been In the day-old chick business for 20


going ahead a t ' 200 lier annum.


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side. A balanced load was .absolutely necessary, because it was only by balancing; the load that they could pay their way.


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chairman said, “ Over the next five years, British elec­ tricity plans to spe;nd £50,000,000 to take electricity to 60,000 more farms and at least 260,000 houses In rural areas. In the five years 1958 to 1963, another £50,000,000 will be spent, so that 85 jper cent, of the farms throughout the country will have electric­ ity by 1963. The remaining 15 per cent. Includes Isolated premises.”


the | FURTHER SUM !


of £30,000,000 would be re­ quired for additional generat­ ing plant and the main trans­ mission system.


£100,090,000 required over the next ten years, a further sum


In addition to t 'he


task which was In the national Interest. They all wanted to see the countryside kept as beautiful as It could be, and they wanted people who worked on the land .to see that they were, not forgotten, and that they were bringing to them some of the advan­


at a gallop, we are at least proceeding at a curtailed pace, which Is as fast as we are


allowed to travel,” he con, eluded.


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Man Gaoled For Clitheroe Offence


/p iw o sentences, of six , months Imprisonment, to


run concurrently, were passed at Preston Tritermedlate Ses­ sions on Tuesday on William Gordon Palllster (36),. des­ cribed as a fitter, formerly of Moor End, Clltheroe, but now residing with his wife and four children in a caravan' at Stratford-on-Avon,


i Palllster pleaded guilty j to obtaining credits of £45 18s. 6d. and £13.18s. from .Walts Ltd., of Castle-street, Cllth­ eroe, without disclosing that he was ;an undischarged bankrupt. ,


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Crabtree, Clltheroe, said that Palllster had lately . b^en working as a civil engineer] at' Stratford-on-Avon and was earning £16 a week. He had previous convictions, and 'jvas cashiered from the army In 1942.


Detective! Constable James I


had every' prospect of being able to pay for the services |he had ordered Walts to do for him, but some busybody told his employers of his previous


apologised to the Court for Palllster’s Inon-surrender at the April Sessions, and said that was due to a misunder­ standing about the date. ..'At the time of the offences, said Mr. Lord, j Palllster was I in good employment In the Clitheroe ; district, earning from £20 to £30 a week, and


convictions; and so he lost his work. His wife became 111 and he had to stay at home to look after their four children.


b pay the; debts at 7s. 6d. a week but this was refused. It had never been, his Intention to avoid peyment.


i In January last, he offered


1 The Chairman (Mr. A. lE. Jalland, Q.C.) said that when


,! Mr. J. H. Lord, defending,'


tages enjoyed by the town dweller, “ If we are not proceeding


Rural electrification was a


thinking only in .terms of how we can serve the national Interests;” said Sir Joseph'. C om m e n t i n g on the national '. programme,


“We, as a public body, are


demands fOr more houses, riot only in the rural areas but also In the urban areas, which also had to be supplied with electricity. Industrial ,and urban electrification must go on side by side with the work of electrifying the country­


r The Government could not emain Insensible ' to the ■ | ,


Electricity Bo NEW POWER SCHEMES IN THE ™ er


bblesdale and Howland coun- k, power lines have brought nd homesteads for the first Iked their cattle by the light ve sriippons lit by electricity trically-operated m i l k i n g


Romantic sbiORY OF THREE


of th I linked


trong The


RIO of romantic v griettes c LOVES”


ktories-here. each h!ave a romantic flavour, 11 with


oontrastpg undertones Of drama and humour. The' first episode l)as Jahjes Mason as a theatrical impresario in love with:a famous ballerina, played' by (Moira ^ h e a r p r , who ' finds


ejornek qha r n affair 1 Rome, j


;trapeze'!


the silver trophy awarded to Captain G; L. wathon. who was placed first in the British Horse Society's! one-day event at Gisburn on Saturday.


hundreds see


GlSBi)RN TESTS IN i ; HORSEMANSHIP


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to compete at Basle, Switzer­ land, in the autumn, igave added importance to the com­ prehensive tests In horseman­ ship carried out by the British Horse Society and held at Glsburne Park, near Clltheroe, on Saturday. Hundreds of people gathered to watCh a full day’s programme held in the parklands surrounding the riome of Mr. J. B. Hindley, captain of the British team at the 1952 Olympic Games In Helsinki,


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Captain'G. L. Wathen, of the- Cheshire Forest Hunt, riding Stathcona, a grey gelding, second in dressage, prominent .in show jumping and re­ sponsible for a brilliant cross- countlY 'ride which earned 9.6 plus riiarks the only bonus points to be awarded.


entries for a programme whlcri included searching tests In dressage (a-trial of school­ ing and riianners), show jump­ ing, and a cross country run with severe hazards in typical hunting country. First place was 'won by


There were twenty-five


the verdict, by three points, over Miss Margaret Hough, of Farnworth, who recently made equestrian history by becoming the first woman rider to win the premier horse trials at Badminton.


bayonare, Bambl, Miss Hough was an easy first in dressage, did well; in the show jumping, but could not match the winner’s cross-country per­ formance.


Riding her nine-year-old GERMAN’S SUCCESS


A German girl, Miss' S. Nehrjng; took third place in the combined test and was adjudged the best novice. She was riding . Miss S. Fitzroy’s Belfry, from the Braham Moor Hunt. Another woman rider, Miss M. S. Harms- Cooke, of Ledbury, was fourth on Kilteel, and also ■ took second place among the novices.


rider, Mr, J. N. D. Birtwistle, Rlmlngton, on Delagyle. Mr. Birtwistle was amang five entrants from the Pendle Forest and Craven Harriers Hunt, who captured the first three places In. the show- jumping section and acquitted themselves very creditably in other sections of the combined event. ..Mr. Birtwistle was second In


Fifth award went to a local


Mr. J. R. Hindley, of Glsburne Park', Mr, A. Halghton (sec­ retary), Mr. H. Birtwistle and


The event was organised by


Mr. J. A. Leavey. Mr. Nell W- Gardiner was the British Horse Society’s steward, and- the local stewards were Messrs. H. Hindley and W Heaton and Colonel J. M. Robinson.. The judges were Brigadier T. F. Kavanagh, Major P. Borwlck and Mr'; R. Hanson.


ie was before the local Mag- strates, Palllster made ' a tatement ! which was very llfferent froiri the one now naide on 'his behalf.


Chatb^rn Parish


Council Officers CO U N C I L L O R E. . lA. V .PARKINSON was re-elect­ ed ; chairman of Chatbilrn Parish Council at the annual meeting held In the Village Hall on Monday night. Mr. A.


Hustwalte was appointed vice- chairman 'and' Mr. A. T.' Bradshaw ;wlll continue as secretary. Mr. J. S. Cowell was appointed represntatlve to the school managers, and Miss G. C. Freemari, Mr. E. Frankland and Mr. A.; T. Bradshaw, rep­ resentatives to the Lancashire Parish Councils’ Association. ; The meeting- decided that new gates which have been erected at' the entrance ito Chatburn’s playing field at Kenyon Croft will be formally opened at :a ceremony to be rieid on Jurie 25th. 1 At the same time, two plaques placed at the playing field entrance will be unveiled by Colonel; J; F. M.,Robinson and Miss G.;C. Freeman. I


, 25 YEARS AGO


run, completed In well under the seven' minutes allowed, tha;t gave Captain Wathen


It was this cross-country


fpHE search for hofses and riders for the British !team


Mrs. Henry Birtwistle presents


Historic iWhalley Estate Gop Under The Hammk


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'pHE property! of the late Mr. Robin Greenwood, and


one of the largest privately- owned estates 'in Ribblesdale, the ! Clerk Hill Estate at \Vhalley came under the auc­ tioneer’s hammer on Tuesday at the Starkie Arms! Hotel, Clitheroe. |


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Courto and Clubhouse site, Portfleld Farm; two large woods on Wlswell Moor, Wiswell Moor iHouses Farm,' Wlswell Quarry and; three cottages..


offered as a whole and with­ drawn at £23,000, It was split into I ten lots, including' the Clerk Hill Hall' Lower Clerk Hill Farm, the Whalley Golf


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ciation with the history of the district, and the first reference tO' it appears to have been madejln 1276, when It was! called SnelLshon. |


The estate has a long asso­


dissolution of Whalley' Abbey the estate was granted by .the Dean ;to Ughtred, the Abbey Clerk, ifrom whom the present' name teas perhaps derived.


It is thought' that at the


Edward VI the! property was described as “ Clerkhyll alias Snelson” when jit was sold to John 'Crombroke, In whose family It remained for more than a century.


Whalley family! and, In June, 1871, It passed to Mr. Solomon Longworth, grandfather of the present owners.


La.ter it was ! sold .to the SALE IN LOTS


for sale In lots on Tuesday, the' wood*»on. Wlswell ' Moor, known':as S p r i n g Wood, was jsold f o r £3,500. Covering 44 acres, the: wood contains nearly I 54.000 cubic feet of, timber. Another small wood, known as Castle Wood, of four acres' and 9,6()0 cubic feet of timber, was sold for' £600. .


When the estate was offered


and Wlswell Quarry, included In one lot, were sold for £1,850. •


Wlswell Moor Houses Farm, : ■ j!


with vacant possession, were sold for £1,635, £680 and £.650 respectively.


Three separate! cottages, all


Francis w. Done, a member of: Messrs; Jacksori^-Stopps and Staff; Leeds, ■


! Clerk HIU Hall was with­ drawn lat £3,250, Lower Clerk Hill Farm and Portfleld Farm. Cottage and electricity sub­ station! site were both wlth- drawniat £5,550. ' The I Whalley Golf Course and cottage, and the Whalley Golf Clubhouse site were withdrawn at £'250. ■The j auctlone'ir was Mr.


the showrjumping section to Mr. A. B. M. Orr, of Preston, riding Mr. I. Orr’s Kingfisher,- a bay gelding.


W.E.A. Rally


'from Clltiheroe attended the N6 r t h - Ea s t


MEMBERS of Educational


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trip Workers’ Association


and 'Whalley


Lancashire area iW.E.A. spring rally ’ held at Wllpshlre' on Saturday. .


representing the v a r i o u s branches In East Lancashire, were present to 'hear an address by Mr. !R. "Ruddock, extra-mural lecturer of! Man­ chester University.


A total of about 80 people,


PEEPS INTO THE PAST so] YEARS AGO


Extracts from our issue of May 24th, 1929.


I'pHE question of the sale of -*•! houses recently complet­ ed ; for the Corporation In Ohritbum-road was discussed at the May meeting of Cllth­ eroe Town Council. The Finance and General . Pur­ poses- Sub-Committee re­ commended that one,of the conditions of the sale' of Corporation houses should be :;hat! the purchaser should not re-sell for A period' of three' years from the, date of his purchase, except at such a price and on such conditions


as might be approved-by the Corporation. Tlhe sub-com- mlttee’s recommeridatlon was accepted.


ried! for so many years by Mr, Sam Green at the head of St. Mary’s School procession, was vformally- presented by Mr. Green to the school.


Tlie marshal’s stave, car­


dale; Sheep Dog Trials Society, sheep dog, trials were held in the Castle Grounds on Whit- Moriday. • Entries, at 104, constituted a record.


Promo'ied by the Rlbbles-


week elected members of the : Lancashire Foritball Asso­ ciation.


ffLITHE'ROE Park-road I Football Club were this


TTnnf.htJll n i i iK mora tViIc , ' 'iplles.' ■ - .


the last 24 years, Mr. Joseph Bennett, of Mo o r - l a n e , Cllthefoe; has retired. His dally round, which he covered twice -a day by cycle, was nearly; 18 miles} and during his term as postman he cycled I approximately 125,000


Postman at Pendleton for i


held a public inquiry at Downham into the causes of the quarrel between the Vicar and his parlshoners.


The,; Bishop of Manchester


■ 'What Is , to become of Clltheroe! Football Club now? Yesterday was a bad day for tjhe premier club of the town,- bringing with it; a refusal of an application' to be re­ admitted Irito the Lancashire Combination. There is now nothing for It but to join a body of lesser Importance.


I 1 5 3 ? Packed with facts about The Immortal Tramp


KIDNAPPED IN LONDON! IS HE if COljllMUNlST? I MILLIONAIRE AT ^8!


WAS HE JOAN BARRY’S LOVER? InthisSmiayts


NEW S X U I IM V E


Extracts from our issue of 1 ;May-20th, 1904. ’


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IVEE/CS FILME


volving' Farley' Granger ;and ieslie C'aron, and lastly! romance with aistrongly dramatic flavour, with -Kirk Douglas, as a firaous artiste whose lallirig


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riourage partner,'


is revived' b y |h ^ ;n ew Pier Angeli.


‘‘ Scandal At Scourle’i; re­


unites 'Walter Pidgeon arid Greer Garson,': whose screen ! partneri diip hak- produced many l ichly-


human'lfilms and none Warmer or mord tender than this story of smalj-town intolerance :n the Canadian 'township of! siourie. Mr. Pidgeon arid Misk Garson are - a j highly-respected local couple .whose action in;|ad6ptmg an orplian, 'girls’ touches off ;a nasty cjjntroversy' in 'which the


'real issue's are often obscuied riy religious prejudice and' political greed. 'Mr. Pidgeon’s opponents try to 'use 'the girl (o pfeveri}; his re-election to the local authority, and other action is threatened before :ihe girl herself, charm- ingly played by Donna Corcoran,, intervenes on 'behalf of! j her foster-parents. Agnes Moorhead


heads a' strong supporting.' and Technicolor, shows, off setting.


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PALliADIUM the tradit|oriai . Western fotpiula.


A new twist to


IS supplied by ‘‘Woman They Almost ILynched,” in-which two wpmen (fight the pl-incipall gun d u e l , j; The protagonists! afe Audrey iTotter, wife of a n^criori- ojis renegade leader, and Joan Leslie, the sister of, her ex-fiance. The resriilt is a decisive'wli for good, as represented,: by j the attractive Miss Leslie, in ; a ■Western(which packs,a geperous quota of; guri play and actipri in • itk storj'! of. the American ■War. 'The title refers to Ltolie, sijspected 'of being a federate (spy, whose fetid Totter is resolved; in


surprise! jclimax. Brian ' Doilevy as the ranegade leader and John Run-d, all Army ofiOceriSeiil to bping him to justice .fight their own battle with equal deternina-


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“ keeping up with' the Jbnis's.”- Dennis ; I O’Keefe' ' and' :jutJi' Hussey . head a , talented(',caitabii. this


shows, .the danger inherent. Iri that ■


as 'the hbsband an-d wife -wh/ise marital


Miss Hussey’s


engaging -doniei{ic jbliss


ambition to ..emu. is shattered| Fann Withdrawn


iQ T R AND R ID G E [FARM; ^ Slaldbiim, offered for sale by auction at the Station Hotel-on Tuesday, teas , with­ drawn at" £2,250. The'auc­ tioneer ;was Mr. T. Sllverwood,' of Clltheroe,’ In conjunction with mP. J. H. Swln'glehursl,' of Boltofa-by-Bo'wland. i Solid-, tors - for the vendors wqre Messrs. Last and Reddlhough of Bradford.


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!“ Xhe ; Lady ' :.Wpnts;' Alink’l -■.■ insidious': doctrine 1! bf


coipe^v late her 'neighbour by.acqmring .


Civil Miss Con- ,teith I the


cast the


iome


“ compendium”! filri in whiih separate stories to form one balanced,; entei tainirig whole.


pgages th e a tten tio n ... (Grand); a polisnecl example n


in “ THE j jg neatly


a| mink coat. In lyir. O'Keefe’s r e' resources, , the only possible solu­ tion is to raise the. minks at 'pome, which is pkeoii J(liss Hussey attempts even then it proves ffensive. For Miss Hussey’s new- Mund charges nearly cause a avorce;' hot to mention more light - h e a r t e d complications which should keep you laughing.


the light of e | s t r i c t e d


isely what to do. But to he ex-


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t tie. of |one of thd tunes in Gentlenien Prefer blondes.” It


KING LANE Gi ' j


' Pripnh” is .the


'' also the theme 1 qf a light- earted essay .in goldpiigging by


'cplored musical frolic between New .York and Paris. Gold- digger-in-jchief is Misk Monroe, a showgirl jwith a cashlegister for aj-heart who accepts -the marriage proposal I of a mlllidnaire son Tommy. (Noonan. They plan a


two of the screen’s uore spec­ tacularly' attractive leading ladies, Jane Russell arid Marilyn Monroe, (whose shapkly charms provide 'the basis of a Techni-


■ryedding jin Paris, but at the last minute Mr. Noonan ji prevented from, making the trip 'by his ffther. -(yho has n o t ' failed to imtice Miss Monroe’s interest in 'the family bank balances. In-


akes Miss and their a luxury


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ataonds are a r l ’s .


Best


^ a d . Miss Monroe 'Russell j with her, adventures on board liner . taking - them include .f a delicious , -with Charles Coburn,! owner of a dlamon-d' mine, who quickly appeals ■ to Miss.| Monroe's firiancial; instinct. Other com­ plications include a stolen tiara, and an amiable detective planted on board by Miss Monroe's pros­ pective jfatherrin-law. Mountie^f, - both girls


get their men, providing some lavish musical nunlibers and plenty of romantic coipedy in the process.


Like the eventually


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can “,'whodunits,” National Night” is a murder! mystery which' pays, closer attention to characterisa­ tion than is usual in films of this type. - The most nqtable ex­ ample, perhaps, is Nigel Patrick’s portrayal of the owner of a Grand National winner who is suspected of a murder (committed on'the 4ight-of the big race. Mr. Patrick’s troubles spring chiefiy from a selfish, faithless wife, played by Moira Lister, who is. found murdered in a Liverpool street, | All the evidence poinfs to ! Mr. Patrick as the logical -suspect, j but there is plenty of suspense before the real culprit IS found. • "


WHAtLEY the C( stream


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o n s t a n t of Ameri- “ G r a n d compelling


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b;y ! owes much' of its sucqess to the '.exploitation of a single idea,


;ron)ancq and' 'drariia, . .deftly served by a well-knowri cast! It


’!Golden Arrow” |is a neat British j 'h i e n d . ofj comedy,


for


tells the story of a .)ovely girl, played by. Paula Valeriska, who, during a journey from [London to Paris


it


travellers her.


gets To Richard. Murdoch, is j an


an American object


of! and a


day-dreamihg - about a


three •male officer adventure,' Pierre Aumont. gay French­


suspicion to I Jean


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