THE WORKMAN SATURDAY OCTOBER 20, 1928 PAGE SEVEN LUCKY STRIKE 16 for 10c. NAWANNN IN THE REPUBLIC Always fresh Quality Unsurpassable TRINIDAD NEWS United Artists Films The Prosperity Tailor VISIT OF CRISTOBAL REPRESENTATIVE CLEANER DYER Survey of Territory CENSORSHIP PROBLEMS DYEING, CLEANING PRESSING (From Weekly Guardian Sept. 15)
Mr. Walter Gould, General Manager of the United Artist Corparation at Cristobal, is on avisist to Trinidad in the interests of his principals and of his principals and of other concerns who desire to obtain first hand information about conditions here in relation to the motion picture business. He is also devoting attention to censorship problems as they affect United Artists pictures.
Mr. Gould told a representative of the TRINIDAD GUARDIAN that the object of his visit is to investigate the possibilities of Trinidad and the other islands of the Lesser Antilles, for which purpose he will make an extended tour north. have been commissioned by the four biggest motion picture producers in the United States, he said, who wish to find out how much this territory is worth from the distributors point of view. In a British colony the demand for British pictures is to be encouraged, but until a supply of good British pictures can be obtained the public here must be content to have American pictures shown to them. Producers in Great Britain have wonderful plans but to develop the motion picture business takes an immense amount of time and refused, and as an example of institution this Scholarship has the difficulties which we en been won 19 times by Queen counter, the picture Night of Royal and 12 times by St.
Love which was passed here Mary and in British Guiana, was stopped in Barbados.
United Artists pictures feature Fugitives in Open such famous stars as Mary PickBoat ford, Norma Talmage, Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and numerous DRIFT ON MATURA COAST others, Mr. Gould declared that no Mary Pickford film has been Arrested and Charged By No. 6, 19th Street Central Avenue banned during the past fifteen Police years in any country except PANAMA CITY Telephone 695 Trinidad.
Six Frenchmen and one Spaniard who are believed to be Island Scholarship fugitives from Cayenne were brought into the city on MonWON BY QUEEN ROYAL day by Lance Corporal Warner, OF THE HIGHEST ORDER STUDENT of Matura. The men, haggard and sore as the result of 14 Son of Mr. Maggillvray days exposure at sea in an open boat, staggered on shore at Saly.
Work Done While You Wait bia Bay, where they were held ST. MARY GAINS in custody by Warner on SunSCIENCE AWARD day. He took them to Sangre Grande by car and entrained on TRY US AND YOU LL BE SATISFIED The Island Scholarship win Monday for the city.
The men, one of whom can Alterations and Repairs at reasonable Prices ner this year is Macgillivray, Student of Queen Royal speak English, gave their names Ladies Garments carefully handled College, while the Science Schol Las Loius, Antonio Fernandez, ar is Solomon, St. Mary Francois Victor, Bonie FranCollege, according to a noftifi cois, Antoine, Maurice and REID Propietor cation from the Crown Agents Phernes. They said through an in London to the Government on interpreter that they embarked Tuesday.
at Surinam for Carupano. After The Island Scholar is the son they had been at sea for some mast of their little of Mr. Macgillivray, days the craft broke and they began to Crown Surveyor. In 1925 he pas The House of Marney, sed the Cambridge Junior Local drift despite their efforts to Daughter in Revolt shown in Port of Spain during seven subjects. In 1926 he secur four days they were without (both Examination with distinction in steer a course to Venezuela with the use of four small oars. For Empire Shopping Week. Chu ed the Cambridge School CertiChin Chow and Decameron ficate with distinction in three food and water and when at last Nights (exhibited here in the they drifted to the Matura coast subjects.
past three weeks. and Souththey were all exhausted. Solomon is the son of Why throw away your old, but no ern Love which was not pas. Mr. Solomon, Clerk atsed by the local censors.
tached to the Education Depart UNDESIRABLES EXPELLED doubt interesting, books when you We bought Southern Love ment. He also passed the Camcan haue them neatly bound at from Graham Wilcox Produc bridge Junior Local and the Dr. Percival Radway, a native tions in London, Mr. Gould Cambridge School Certificate Ex of Jamaica, who styles himself THE WORKMAN stated. It is one of three films aminations in 1925 and 1926, President and Founder of the which your censors have progaining distinction in three sub West Indian Soil Producing Asjects in the first.
sociation Colonising and TradNo. EAST 16 STREET hibited absolutely. The two Queen Royal College wins ing Company, and Mortimer other, both featuring Mary Pick the Island Scholarship for the Wolff, Secretary and Treasurer Opposite the Wesleyan Churh ford, are Sparrows and Love eighth time in the nine years 1920 of the Association, Light. The censors do not give 28, St. Mary having furnish Saturday last, by order of the దర త specific reasons why pictures are ed the winner in 1925. Since its (Continued on Page 8)
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were on Of twenty two films sent to Trinidad by United Artists Corporation in the past twelve months, according to Mr. Gould, five were British productions, viz