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No One Willing to Undertake Operatio..
New York, May 2.
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
5-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 7-10.30 pim. European Pro
gramme.
7.03-7.17 p.m
The completed $200,000,000 sec Sakuntala-Overture (Goldmark),
Victor Symphony Orchestra (22385-8).
8 p.m.-Local Time.. 7.17-8.08 p.m.-Variety. Vocal Duet-
Katle, Keep Your Feet on the
Ground,
Alleen Stanley and Billy Murray.
Joel McCrea and Eugene Pallette are brunette while Allan Dienhart has hair streaked with gray. For "SECRETS OF A SECRETARY" photograph purposes gray hair is tion of the $800,000,000 subway
the same as blond",
system constructed by New York do when But as to what gentlemen really City stands. Idle to-day except for suddenly prefer; Paramount leaves it an a few work trains running through
open question in "Girls
About It, with nobody willing to undertake Town". It is a picture that revesle In most instances, such bereft
the activities to two super-diggers, ladies have been known to plunge portrayed by Miss Francis and Miss right into the workaday world and Tashman. The brunette falls in make commercial successes out of love with a handsome young man lives, that ence had been ordained and the blond helps her to effect
an innocent and apparently dur-Eighth Avenue Line from Washing-Chorus mainly for squanderous activities. able romance.
ton Heights to Fulton Street in order that the builders might. test "Secrets of a Secretary" has to
the efficiency of the mechanical devices, but the subway has not yet
the operation of it under the 5-cent fare contract offered by the municipal government.
For several months trains of cara have been running up and down the
Joel McCres plays the role of do with the activities of just such the leading man. Others in the girl-Helen Blake-played by cast are Eugene Pallette, Allan Claudette Colbert at the King's Dinehart, George Barbier, Ander-collected a single fare, in spite of the fact that cars, equipment and son Lawler, Lucile Webster Gleason roadbed are ready for operatib. Theatre to-day.
"PRIVATE LIVES"
Vocal Duet-
Oh! Baby What a Night,
Organ Solo
Billy Murray and Walter Scanlon (22040).
Hallelujah! .. .The Revellers. Vocal Duet-
Sometimes I'm Happy,
Louise Groddy and Charles King (20609), Where the Shy Little Violets Grow, When Summer is Gone,
Jesse Crawford (21876) Song--
Wait Til You See "Ma Cherie", Louise,
Maurice Chevalier, Baritone (21918).
Meanwhile, straphangers continue to crowd the existing subways, and an army of idle men are awaiting the jobs which the official opening to traffic on the new subway would Chorus provide for them.
In an effort to attract bidders, the board of transportation of the city extended its offer by virtually
Inter-
Valencia, The Blue Room,
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Entertainments. To-day- Kingi Thestre; "Secrets of a Secretary."
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The Revellers (20082). Į a.m.
Meetings.
Organ Solo-
Why Can't You? Little Pal,
June 4-Annual meeting of share- Jesse Crawford (21951). holders of Peak Tramways Co., Ltd., at Hong Kong Hotel, 11.30 Dream Mother,
Song--
A Garden in the Rain,
Gene Austin, Tenor (21918). 8.08-8.35 p.m.-Operatic.
Walkure-Brunnhilde's Battle Cry
(Wagner), Walkure Brunnhilde's Appeal to
Wotan (Wagner),
Maria Jeritza (Soprano) (7288).
a.In).
Lammerts' Auction. June 2-At Sales Room, household furniture, 2.30 p.m.
SMUGGLING MADE EASY
In this story the heroine is even and Robert McWade. more than ordinarily burdened. She has acquired a husband who turns out to be a worthless fortune-hun- ter, who, as soon as he sees their money going, goes himself, desert- The screen version of "Private ing the much-embittered girl,
Lives," Noel Coward'a smart comedy But she gets employment as a which delighted Manhattan social secretary for a wealthy family audience during the past theatri- with whom she had once been on cal season, is now being warmly re- a par socially. The father and ceived at the Queen's Theatre. guaranteeing that the operator's mother of the family treat her with Norma Shearer and Robert Mont-fee would be paid before any other the respect that her earlier status gomery are co-starred in the pro- charges were made against the in their stratum demanded. But duction in the roles played in the transit system, thus giving the their young daughter Sylvia is just Broadway version by Noel Coward company which complies with the a trifle'snooty.
and Gertrude
Pro- terms the same preferred status as Lawrence. When the British Lord who is minent supporting roles are filled is now enjoyed by the two com-Song- coming to marry this young woman by Reginald Denny, Uns Merkel, panies operating other subway lines here the Brooklyn Manhattan arrives, he falls in love with Clau-Jean Hersholt and George Davis. dette. Meanwhile Sylvin has been This delicious farce, which de-Transit Company and the
almost as much for its borough Rapid Transit Company, carrying on a dangerous affair pends
the 'board seeks | with Claudette's renegade husband. humour on its amusing dialogue and Falling in this,
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in "Gentleman of the Preas".
George Metaxa, Paramount's
newest importation from the Lon- don stage, plays the part of the villainous husband.
Herbert Marshali, a favourite on
Song-
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spective husbands and spoused vard in the Borough of Queens. These are by no means restrict-The ultimate plans call for another ed to verbal battle and as a co-subway in Sixth Avenue as a part sequence movie patrons will be of the municipal Inc, and trains treated to the unusual sight of
from Queensboro will use the Shith
Broadway where he recently finish-viewing Miss Shearer and Mont Avenue route part way down led a part in "To-morrow and To-Romery wrestling with each other, to Eighth Street, from which point Violin Solo-
morrow," playa the part of the and hitting each other over
Bringing Up Father,
British nobleman who Baves
the head with Victoria records.
Indias Lament (Dvorak-Kreisler), Slavonic Dance No. 8 (Dvorak-Kreisler),
the Miss
the two subways will converge and be an
some eight-track line for
Song-
day for Claudette in the closing Merkel and Denny, likewise, are distance further down town.
scenes of the play.
Other stars in the production are Berton Churchill, publisher in the newspaper play "Five Star Final" on Broadway and Mary Boland who just finished a successful long run as the star of "The Vinegar Tree" hilarious Broadway comedy,
1.
"GIRLS ABOUT TOWN."
given opportunities at the gentle art of hurling crockery as well as the most appalling epithets. The whole thing is done in the engaging (Continued from previous Column.) satirical vein for which Noel Co-
ward is famous.
a mythical kingdom somewhere in Central Europe--where no one chewa gumi
Fritz Kreisler (7225).
1
So We'll Go No More A-Raving
(White). Love, Could I Only Tell Thre
(Capel) Derek Oldham (Tenor)
(D1428). Plano Solo-
The Flatterer (Chaminade), Scarf Dance (Chaminade),
Guitar Solo---
Prelude and Allemande (Bach),
Andres Segovia (7176). .9.15-9.45 p.m. From the Studio
LRA
Hana Barth (20346),
The production was directed by Sidney Franklin who has achieved
They do eat while talking, how.. a unique success in transposing
ever, as the American etiquette stage plays to the screen, his last condemns talking with one's mouth
Alfred success having been the
full is unknown there. Con- Fontanne hit, "The sequently Sherman was able to use
a man who could speak fairly clear-A Pianoforte Recital by Madame ly while eating a sausage with one Kathleen hand and drinking a schooner of 18.M. beer with the other!
Motion picture cameramen are Lunt-Lynn not gentlemen. They prefer Guardsman."
brunettes.
"THE ROYAL BED.”
Chappelle,
Programme.
1. Romance (Schumann).
2. (a) Scherzo and Trio (Schubert), (b) Adagio from Sonata Pathe-
tique (Beethoven).
3. Clair de Lune (Debussy).
Rococo (Palmgren),
5. Foem (MacDowell).
8. Demande et Reponse (Coleridge
Taylor). 9.45-10,25 p.m.-Musical Comedy.
(Monckton),
Light, Opera Co. (C2015), Dorothy Selection (Cellier),
The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards (C2228).
Magistrate Comments on
Coast Watch
This only shows how easy smug- gling is," said Mr. H. C. A. Bing- ley, the magistrate, when at Maryle- bone he heard more about smug-
on
Three men were remanded various charges alleging smuggling 2,399 lb. of tobacco into the country.
It was stated they used The, Cat | to bring the tobacco from Ant- werp. The boat was beached at a lonely part of the Isle of Wight and the tobacco brought to London in a motor-lorry. A. fourth man, Franklin or Lesser, for whom warrant has been issued, is not yet in custody,
Arthur Joseph Bartley, a coastal preventive man, said he went aboard The Cat and found Evans and Franklin. They said they had come from Southampton.
Magistrate: Did you examine the part where they were sleeping and saw nothing arousing any sus- picion. I took their word that they had only come from Hastings.
Mr. R. L. Fisk (prosecuting) ex- plained that it was not Bartley's duty to examine the vessel unless he was told that It came from foreign porta.
Magistrate: It only shows how very easy amuggling is then.
NEW TYPE OF CAMOUFLAGE
Invented in France
Paris, May 10,
Brunettes are far easier to photo- graph than blondes, in the opinion of Ernest Haller, genius of the
A girl, who was a candidate for motion-picture camera, who photo- Once the girl who could smile lady-in-waiting to Nance O'Neil graphed "Girls About Town", through her tears was all the style and Mary Astor, Queen' and Prin- which comes to the King's Theatre in silent films. In these days of cess respectively in "The Royal on Sunday next.
the talkies, it's the lassie who can Bed," had a charming smile and a "The difficulty in photographing talk distinctly while chewing her charming voice. But Sherman discovered she couldn't smile and blondes such as Lilyan Tashman, is gum that counts! that they offer little contrast to the So says Lowell Sherman, Radio) use her "good" volee at the same
A French Heutenant who served camera. Light hair, light eyes, light Pictures' actor and director, who time so she was transferred to an-
through the World War, has just skin, all blend into one another if was director of and actor in "The other part. A sound recordist The Quaker Girl-Vocal Gems
damonstrated the advantages of his the cameraman doesn't know his Royal Bed," a scintillating and told her she should cultivate the
new camouflage invention whereby. business", Haller said. "Artistic lavishly staged version of the Ro-art of speaking pleasantly, while
In a short time, a pedestrian or lighting, however, can be made to bert E. Sherwood play, appearing on smiling, so she spends days on the
soldier can be transformed into a separate these light tones with a Friday at the Queen's Theatre. set, between scenes, practising!
shock of grain, heap of leaves, a striking result.
Likewise, the man who can makej "Players in talking pictures Les Cloches de Carneville
(Flanquette),
bunch of newspapers, tree stump or "Kay Francis is a splendid photo-himself understood while chewing must not lose clearness of voice
what not while walking. His name graphic subject. Her hair is dark a cigar or a plug of tobacco has a when twisting their faces," Sher-
is Georges Felix, and his invention and when high-lighted is unusually neat little trick that is worth while man points out. "I think we shall The Land of Smiles-Selection
(Lebar), beautiful.
in the talkies. Some of the best see less of the moré grotesque face- Symphony Orchestra (C2227), consists of a kind of a net that "Men are easy to photograph ex-comedians are expert at that. twisting of the silent pictures now, 10.30 p.m. Close Down. weighs less than a pound and when cept those who insist on wearing In "The Royal Bed,” Sherman had because few players can speak pro- All records in the above Euro- not used for camouflage purposes are to watch out for the gum-chewers,perly and indulge in facial gymnas-pean programmes are kindly sup-can be employed in numerous other no make-up. Very few men blond In "Girls About Town," however. The locale of the story is tics at the same time.""
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