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The Man Who Knew Too Much (Gaumont British) follows the formula of old Hollywood gangster pictures in its climactic scene which shows London's Wapping transformed into a shambles when the police bombard a gang of anarchists in their hideaway. Nonetheless, the picture can by no means be pigeonholed...
THE six stories composing this latest volume from the analytical pen of Somerset Maugham are laid largely in the Federated Malay States and the neigbouring lands. But, as one who knows Maugham's work might surmise, the exotic setting of the scenes has little to do with the essential qualities...
With ten miles of hose 300 London firemen fought a towering blaze in the dreary slum of Wapping last week while cordons of polite police kept 100,000 spectators at bay.
Fire-though beaten at last-did not exactly lose the fight. Poor though Wapping was, appraisers figured the property loss at "not less than one million pounds" ($4,860,000). Two thousand wretched Wappingites were burnt out of the tenements and hovels they called home.
Aged 64, Chief Constable Wensley has been on the Force for 42 years. He joined it as an ordinary "bobby." He has left his mark upon the Chinese dens of Limehouse. the anarchists' haunts and crime slums of Shoreditch, Hackney. Wapping. There he learned to be fearless while carrying no...