TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1929.
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AT WIMBLEDON
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London, Yesterday. All previous records have been exceeded by the number of applt- cations 'received by the All-Eng- land Lawn Tennis Club for seats at this year's Wimbledon cham pionship.
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ON RAPHAEL
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On London Bank, wire ............ 2/- Bank, on demand... 2/- 1/18 The results of a new technique in Bank, 80 days' sight. motion picture production will be Bank, 4 months' Bight 2/- 3%
montha' seen in “Street Angel," the success-Credits, 4 ful ́ Fox" 'Film, featuring "Janet
night ... Gaynor and Charles Farrell. It is Documentary 4 months'
· Melbourne, Yesterday. Father Fian emphasised that the use of a visual script instead sight
2/1 The Australian' cyclist, Lamb, Raphael was a really famous· man of a written onė. Harry Oliver,
On Paris has established a new world's re- as well as a popular palater. He technical assistant, concaived the On demand
... 1242 cord for motor-paced cycling, of was, sald the lecturer, a very for idea of making crayon sketches of Credits, 4 months' five miles in 4 minutes 37 seconds, tunate painter, for he was born at all-the Important dramatic episodes
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1817 being two seconds under the pre-a time when religious motives were In the story, showing not only the vious record held. by Blekemolens, still worthily handled, with dignity |type of sets required, but the loca- and understanding if no longer with ❘tion of the camera and the compoal- mystical fervour and penetration, | tion, or general effect of the scene. He was fortunate in the place of his birth which brought him into Hving touch with the gentle Umbrian school in the fair Umbrian
The demand for seats invariably-Reuter. 'exceeds the supply, but this year
It is estimated that the applicants' chances of success In the battle
for seats will be about seven to one against. Last year's applic ants had a four and a half to one chance.
GOLF
TIES IN CAPTAIN'S CUP COMPETITION
The following three players tied An exceptionally large number in the qualifying competition of of applications from abroad has the Captain's Cup, played at Fan- been receivel.-Eritlah Wirelessing over the week-end and will
play off: A. H. Ferguson
Service.
CLAUDE FALKINER
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He was fortunate in his acene; in addition to strengthen the disposition, which saved him the dramatic power of the sequence. storm and stress of a Michelangelo One of the best examples of the On demand and brought him to the Greek stand-results obtainable through this new point of the Golden Mean. He was method will be seen in the courtroom fortunate in the nature and the episode where Miss Gaynor is hall- .763-73 millieu of his employments-justed before the stern har of justled 796-73 timely to learn on all sides from for a minor infraction of the law. ..84-11-73 great masters and apply the lessons "Street Angel," which was
D. J. Glimore .....
Other scores were:- A. Piercy W. L. Dunbar
Thirty-two cards
Shanghal, Jan. 30. T. Monaghan Mr. C. Falkiner beat Mr. W. A. | E.. D. Matthews Fonnell at billiards last night in the T. S. Whyte-Smith Thirty Club, scoring 807 to Mr. Pennell's 500. The champion von reded 100, 30 that Mr. Pennell actually scored 100 points.
The match began shortly after 9 o'clock and at 10.10 p.m., both had made only four trips to the table. Mr. Pennell broke, whereupon Mr. Falkiner scored his highest break of the game, running to 268 before missing by a shade. Another break of 158, one of 179, a 56, and 108 completed the high runs. The win ner missed cleanly on his fifth visit to the table.
Opening u break during the middle of the game. Mr. Falkiner ran to 75, continually playing the losing hazard off the red, stopped for a moment and announced the
HORSE DAYS BEST
LORD BANBURY'S SIGH FOR CARRIAGE-AND-PAIR
TOO MUCH, HURRY NOW
Motor cars?
They may be all right for getting quickly from place to place on a long Jouney, but give me a horse and car rlagr.
-Lord Banbury.
They were quiot, leisurely days 50 years ago. Ten miles an hour was 'n very fast pace," pedestrian- ism was still safe, there were no blaring motor horns, and-
But let Lord Banbury of Southam, who, during a House of Lords dis- cussion of road dangers praised the days of horse locomotion, speak for himself.
He has driven-horses about Lon- don for some 60 years.
And he said to "The Evening News" one day:
"Give me a horse and carriage. I have got a car down at my coun- try place in Wiltshire, but I never drive it. I have never been in a London bus, and I don't suppose I ever shall now,"
Lord Banbury sat back in his chair and looked back over more than 60 years in London-he is 78. "Those were fine, restful, and safe days," he said, "those days in the seventies when motor-cars were unknown.
This Hurry "To-day we hurry along and have scarcely time to see anything.
"In the old days there was nothing finer than to see a pretty woman in a Victorlá drawn by a pair of good horses..
M Fremember that Queen Alexandru-then a Princess used to drive in the park in a Victoria drawn by a pair of magnificent horses, with a mounted policeman in front.
out.
to congenial tasks in which his own | directed by Frank Borzage, the man .92—18~=74 | distinctive sense of beauty wrought | who made "7th Heaven," comes to .84—.7—77 { perfect harmony: fortunate In the the Queen's Theatre to-morrow and .92—14–78 | hour of his death which allowed him will remain the feature attraction .89–1079 a measure of Incentive from until Saturday, ,89— 9==80 | Michelangelo but forbade him fur- taken thor parsult of the seductive "ter-
ribilita." Raphael belongs to class of happier Shelleya, Kentses and Chattertons, of more fortunate Massaclos and Giorgiones..
were
The Optional Pool was cancel led owing to insufficient entries.
ruling, had the boy spot the balls, and then continued until he had made 179,
69.
Mr. Pennell's highest break was
The champion who played a game of finesse, appeared to have complete control of all three balls at all times. is play was characterised by a great amount of "side" on the cue holi when playing the losing hazard strokes. Cannons usually brought him into favourable positions. His skill was such that on several occa- sfans he sank the red even though it was "frozen" to the cushion.
i "I drove a coach frequently.
"I recall once going to Ascot in my own coach and four in 2 hours and 32 minutes, with three changes of horses. good going in miles or so in two
"I
once drove
That was pretty those days--25 hours and a half. a coach from London to Portsmouth which was carrying passengera who paid for their seats as they did in the real old coaching days,
Speed.
This coach was expected to do 10 miles an hour, including stops, which Wag reckoned very fast travelling by rood—and it waJ.
"I don't suppose the average road speed in those days was more than about eight or perhaps nine as an hour.
"Well, times have changed. Last year I went to the meet of the Coaching Club in the same coach that I used 50 years ago.
"But it wasn't the same. There, were no motor-cars on the road 50 years ago. This time there were thousands, whisking past at a pace that made the smart pace of the coach of 50 years a mere crawl.
"And the noise!
"When I was a young man there was no hooting at night. Many of the carriages had rubber-tyred wheels, and these made scarcely any sound at all on the wood-paved roads.
Traffic Blocks Then "Of course, there were traffic blocks at cross-roads even then, but they were not like the traffic bioclas of to-day.
"It is the excessive speeds of to- day that cause all the trouble, and what is wanted is some mechanical limit on the speed at which an engine can drive a car,
"I know the motor-car interests. would be against that. But if not that, what are we going to do?"
Scott's Hotel, the oldest and.
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"It was a fine sight. There were largest
many such pleasant spectacles to be Islands, was recently burnt to the
seen then.
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The lantern slides made clear the Four characters-a dozen com. different stages in his career: his plcations, and a veritable hurricane indebtedness to the Umbrians for of fun-these are what make up the pensive sweetness and for the feel details of "Baby Mine," M.G.M.'s ing of light and air and space second hilarious picture for the then his rapid absorption of the comedy team Florentine qualities
of Karl Dane and of vigour, George K. Arthur who were origin- solidity, complicated rhythm in ally wafted, to fame on a gale of composition: then the sudden re- merriment in "Rookies" and now velation at Rome of
and the centre of a new storm of laughs breadth in vast compositions that to-day at the Queen's Theatre. might have tempted another man | "Baby Mine" is just one laugh after to frigid allegorical schemes; at another. Adapted from one of the all times a wonderful sensitiveness famous stage comedies, the screen for the value of newly observed version preserves all the original uchievements. Lastly, there is the fun-to which is added not only the instructive failure of his "school" Dane-Arthur combination of laugh. to carry on the spirit or the natural-makers, but also Charlotte Green- ness of the Stanze frescoes. Though the fame of Raphael is coupled usually with the Madonnas, his real power is best seen in those mural decorations where, apparently with such ense and satisfaction, he brought together Christianity and Renaissance, History and Symbol- ism, to-day and the long past yesterday. "His life was gentle and the elements so mixed in him" that Churchman, Philosopher, and through the artist's line and colour Politician seem to speak freely without disturbing his freedom and his fancy.
The Renaissance wrote his epitaph with a touch of truth in its epigrammatic turns:
"Rome, while he lived, great Parent
Feared 'neath his craft to lie Conquered, Now when he's dead She fears herself must die.".
wood, the lanky comedienne of "So Long Letty". and other noted stage comedies. The trio are re- sponsible for a solid hour of first class entertainment. The courtship of Dane und Miss Greenwood is excruciatingly funny, as are the varied episodes and complications over the stolen babibs in the re conciliation scenes. Louise Lor- raine, who plays the "straight" feminine lead as the giri Arthur is
ensemble of hilarity, while many courting, adds enormously to the other prominent screen names op- pear in the strong supporting, cast
The "London Gazette" states that Lt. H. H. Loudon (Iste temporary lieutenant, Highland Light Infantry), or 'conviction by the civil power, is deprived of his rank.
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Ace Hudkins (on right), known as the Nebraska wild, cat, de feating a Belgian boxer, Rene Do Vos, in a 10-rounds" bout which the 'refores stopped in the last round,
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