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LITERATURE.
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BOOKS for All
Bibles, Pocket Testaments, Prayer Books and Stationery. "
General Literature Presentation Books Children's Books a Speciality. THE BOOK & BIBLE DEPOT. Wyndham Street.
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TO BE WISER."
Popular Revue In A New Edition.
operator, Charles Duvasel, who is well known in Wardour Street.
He remained filming the avalanche until the entire panorama was blotted out by a blizzard of ice-dust. The views which he has secured are sufficiently awe-inspiring, but those which, for obvious reasons, he did That cheery revue, "Folly to not secure, must have been far more
impressive. How he secured plc That fine play, Bruno Frank's be Wiser" has come back to London sures from a vertical wall of ice "Twelve Thousand,"
some new features and anly he can explain, and nothing in William with
more sensational than the onset of Drake's admirable English version, (very) slightly amended tiile.
of fee und was revived at the Embassy Theatre The audience it the Plecadilly the thundering ocean. last night. It has been seen before on September 15 enjoyed it all-or snow that ended the climb has ever
been geen on the screen. In London, but its Hampstead pro-nearly all-vastly, though I should
The expedition then turned its duction ia none the less welcome on not be prepared personally to vouch attention to Jongsong, which, from that account. Its picture of a Gerthat any of the fresh items are bet-photographic point of view, is man Ducal Prince of 150 years ago, ter than the best that happily sur- even more impressive, as the march led the climbers round vast ice bargaining with a plenipotentiary vive from the first version.
structures which wind and storm In riotous vein, for instance, have carved into the semblance of of George III. for the supply of 12,000 of his male subjects to fight there is still nothing funnier than Gothic cathedrals and shapes of
Courtneldge's (for the fantasy that bale description. for 'England against America, is a Cicely
Mr. L. 3. Amery, M.P., who pro chapter of history written by a victim) agonising performances vides a sonorously eloquent com- man who is manifestly a thinker as with a razər In a "lady" barber's well as a dramatist. It held last saloon, or her astonishing exploits night's audience enthralled, and in the troupe of acrobate aptly de- there are passages in each of its eignated "Les Clug Citrons.""
fancy-dress acts which have, I-am sure, left its in the guise of a spectators thinking.
Lucrezia Bergin getting hilariously The fairness with which the his "squiffy" on port, the most brilliant torical English point of view is of our revue actresses-for that she given by the German author is one unquestionably is-is at her best, of the notable features of the play, while her inimitable serise of the an absurd moved the au- ludicrous finds play in and nothing more
But
GENTLEMEN'S AUTUMN HATS.dienco last night than the English-little ditty called "Milking Time
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man's vision of a world-wide Emin Switzerland." pire, with one law and one speech
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la luckless war. Alfred Sangster versatile partner, Nelson Keys, gave this passage with just the Miss Courtneldge, at the end of the 193, Des Voeux Rand C. Tel 27623.Į right quiet conviction. Indeed, his revue, is now heard in "The King's
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SHOES.
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Jack Buchanan For A·
New Film.
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MILLIONAIRE BUYS THREE DONKEYS.
Nobody Knows Why.
Jack Buchanan signed a contract || Mr. Dunean H. G. Rend, the millionaire banker, with Basil Dean on September 15 to American. play the leading role in a new film, will arrive in New York with
the Fun Mun Have," for Associat ed Radio Pictures,
The film will be the first to tako
Soven hunters;
Five foxhounds, and Three donkeys!
the floor at the new A.K.P. atudioning visit to England. Why? No- He bought them during a fly.
at Ealing Green. original, one by W. P. Lipscombe he merely chuckded when quer The story is an body but Mr. Read knows, and and R. J. Minney. No leading lady has yet been cast for the picture.
Que hundred and adventy work- men are busy preparing the studio for production this month.
tioned just before his departure from London.
The horses he bought in Ire land, the hounds at Melton Mow- bry. Nobody knows where he bought the donkeys!)
Ho intends. the moment he
lands to rush to Washington, and seek permission to import, four English red deer, a stag, and three hinds.
mentary on the film, and occasion ally excels even the professional comperes in the art of dramatic description, expresses the nature of the affair perfectly when he says
Mr. Rend. sailed in the same that the Himalayas are the nearest ship as his animals, so that he association to the Divine.
mystery of the| could be near them during their '8,000-mile voyage,
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whole performance rose perfectly to Navec," a sequel-by Dion Tither- its opportunities. So also didadge and Vivian Ellis-to, the very George Curzon's in the part of the popular "All the King's Homes," to tyrannical and debauched Grand which it provides a rhythmic coun- Duke. Looking like a wicked Count terpart (without counterpoint). But calves' Head & Feet in a Mozart opera, he gave his the new tune is not so happy as its Mutton Chop pollshed callousness the perfect model. touch of its period.
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very amusing, too, with the well- has shown us lately; and. Abraham intentioned assistance of numbers Sofner, as the equally plebelan and
of the audience, in a scene-rather innately democratic secretary of the too long drawn-out which, by Prince, who engineers the revolu-
means of an apparatus called "The tion against his tyrannical master, Blattnerphone," enables everyone! (made a kaunting figure of the man.
concerned to show what can happen Sheep's Head & Fect.... Perhaps one or two of the minor
to very meek human voices when parts were a little over-emphasised, recorded and reproduced for
but that will doubtless be toned down. Meanwhile we can congratu
sound film.
I must mention, also, a really late A. R. Whatmore upon an enjoy charming little ballet in which, with able and artistic production of a
drastic particularly drama of genuino
dignity.
H. M. W. In London Daily Tele-economy, the dancers, instead of re- sorting to shorter skirts, appear in graph.
paper dresses of the prettiest design Barbal and colours imaginable.-E. K. in Bream London Daily Telegraph
FILM JOTTINGS.
Paramount has bought Ernest Pascal's play, "The Marriage Bed," and plans it for Claudette Colbert and Fredric March. No director leet. Pascal doing adaptation. ·
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After exhaustive makeup and sound tests, Fredric March has been definitely docíded upon to play “Dr.j |Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" for ‹ Para- mount. John Barrymore did it in silence years ago. Miriam Hopkins Pair plays one of the feminine leads.
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an albu Tony Canzaneri, world's light-invited audience consisting chief- weight and junior welterweight|ly of. members
Parlin- champion, visited the Paramount ment, Government officials, the Hollywood studios the day after he Royal Geographical Society, and took Cecil (London) Payne down Alpine Club, and, possibly, Mr. the line.
Gandhi,
The film Illustrates the efforts of Maurice Chevaller will be the last year's international, expedition
Parrot Flab rollicking, swashbuckling D'Arta- to Kangchenjunga, which failed to Perch gan in "The Gay Musketeer," which reach. Its objective, but succeeded Paramount will adapt from the in climbing Jongsong, 24,300ft, Plaice Alexandre Dumas novel. Ernst the third highest, Himalayan peak, Pomfret, White. Lubitsch will direct. It will have though there is a doubt as to whe
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frawns tually ranks second among Hima Bay Nancy Carrail is returning, to layan ascents. Hollywood to co-star with Charka
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most reached the top of a great wall Skate ofico, 700ft) high," which "rung Shaimpe Snapper ractically all round the sainmit.
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