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...route from Mother Britain to this outpost of Empire last week was a sailing vessel, the Royal Mail Cap Pilar, with a cargo desperately desired by its inhabitants. The rats, reported the master of a British freighter which put in at lonely Tristan da Cunha last August, had got completely out of control of the island's single mongoose, were devouring all crops, even beginning to eat the Bibles of which Tristanites own five to a family. Last week the Cap Pilar was gallantly sailing to the rescue with twelve alley cats...
...frozen Arctic outpost is Hammerfest, but a thriving fishing village of 3,300 persons. Because the Gulf Stream curls across the Atlantic to flick the top tip of Scandinavia, Hammerfest's temperature is warm in summer, rarely gets below freezing even in midwinter, when there is no sun for nearly three months. In the summer, when the sun never sets from May 13 to July 29, remaining visible for 18 hours daily until autumn, there is a busy trade in fish, reindeer, eiderdown, fox pelts, whale oil. Occasionally a cruise ship on the way to bleak North Cape...
...Fine Arts-"Maria Chapadelaine," P. M. 1.30, 3.45, 5.50, 7.55, 10.00. Loew's Orpheum-"I live My Life," A. M. 11.20; P. M., 1.30, 4.20, 7.10, 10.00. Loew's State-"I Live My Life," A. M. 11.20; P. M., 2.05, 4.50, 7.35, 10.20. Metropolitan-"The last Outpost." A. M. 11.17; P. M., 2.02, 4,47, 7.49, 10.34. Modern-"Dr. Socrates." A. M. 10.50; P. M., 1.55, 5.05, 8.15. "The Dark Angel" A. M., 9.00; P. M., 12.05, 8.15, 6.20, 9.30. Paramount-"The Payoff." A. M. 9.15, 11.48; P. M., 2.20, 4.52, 7.24. "Ship, Cafe...
Metropolitan--"The Last Outpost...
...World War in its Sudanese and Kurdish aspects serves as background in "The Last Outpost" for a touching love problem. It apparently wasn't much of a war anyhow: a few people do get killed, but they are mostly the enemy and it's all done with a smile. How Cary Grant happened to want to marry Gertrude Michael, his nurse in a Cairo hospital, is not made clear--apparently he was just born that way. He did nevertheless; but the situation was complicated by the reappearance of her long lost husband, who really wasn't such a bad fellow...