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7.15
5.15 p.m., p.m.,
p.m. & 9.15 pm POSITIVELY LAST PERFORMANCES.
"
A Picture Which Everybody Should Sec.
FIRST NATIONAL PICTURES.
LEWIS STONE
PRESENT
WALLACE BEERY
!
IN
JANE NOVAK ROBERT GORDON
THE ROSARY
An Adaptation of Edward Rose's "Panibus.
Play of the Same Nanc
BUSTER
ALSO
ΚΕΑΤΟΝ.
IN...
“ELECTRIC HOUSE
His Funniest Comedy to Date in 2-Parts.
SHOWING HERE TO-MORROW. "RUPERT OF HENTZAU
The Sequel to
“THE PRISONER OF ZENDA.”
WORLD THEATRE.
TO-DAY TILL SATURDAY, 5.15 p.m. & 9.15 p.m.
ZUROPE'S MOST CELEBRATED SCREEN STAR
MIA MAY
IM
"THE PRICE SHE PAID "
(ADAPTED FROM E. RAJDA'S FAMOUS STAGE PLAY "THE BRIDE'S CONFESSION“ IN EIGHT REELS),
IT IS ONE OF THE GREATEST PICTURES IN WHICH THE FASCINATING ACTRESS EVER APPEARED. NEVER HAS A PICTURE BEEN MADE WITH A GREATER SPIRITUAL AND DRAMATIC APPEAL. WHEN YOU SEE IT YOU'LL KNOW WHAT A DRAMATIC MASTERPIECE MEANS.
WITH- SPECIAL MUSIC AT ORDINARY PRICES. COMING.
COMING.
A GREAT LOVE STORY BASED ON THE IMMORTAL POEM
“THE BAREFOOT BOY
WITH AN ALL-STAR CAST INCLUDING JOHN BOWERS. MARJORIE DAW AND OTHERS
JACK
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ON BEING PERSUADED.
THE ART OF SALESMANSHIP.
It is not easy nowadays to turn over the pages of half a
"discovering a re-
HEY
up at random withou journals picked ference to what, remarkably called "the art of salesmanah he it has its non- art, it appears is taught, it demies,
professors, ita earnestly devoted pupils It has too, a philosophy ander
ying it's commercial "praction--a philosphy concerning, wh
which the wise mich of the counter dispute with the acrimony of scholars. To ordinary members of the public, who
who buy more often than they All this They cannot fail to realize that they are the raw material of this widespread art. They are to the graduate in salesman- what clay is to the sculptor the beach. Their or Band to the child on purses contain the rewards of profciency; their minda yield to the presum ol scientiae persuasion. They are, in short and it is a humiliating discovery-by no means the independent, self-controlled individuals they
they have imagined them. selves to be, but on the contrary, mem
bers at a thermob who drift 10 through glass beneath the smile of. commissionaires, are subjecteil to awift analysis by bowing psychologists in frocks coats, are passed on by them to junior scientists who courteously minister to thair acquisitive weaknesses, and are foal! ly permitted to escape, through the sune
ass doors and beneath the same amiles, bearing with them sua gigantic parcels which originally they had no in- testion of
of purchasing, but which now appear to them as an armful of urgent needs miraculously satisfied:
glass
of
op-
A DATE
TO REMEMBER.
Pro-THURSDAY, 2ND APRIL, 1925.
The existence of this persuasive art adds an extravagant peril to the streets. If any doubt it, then recall-an advertisement, recently published in our own.columns, in which a "giant in statuze
for and personality" asked porturity to carn a thousand pounds a year. Apart from his portions, he had bat obe
ion for anid, "sell anything." remunerativ employment he could,
Is there not al amennace in this positivossible in
most What mont?
resistance
he
the timid purchaser
ser who, having set out to buy a pince of ribbon and a kitten. may well come bome with a hemp hawser and a
And there are purchasers
matite utter & fate
who
13
one
GRAND CONCERT
IN AID OF
MISSIONS TO SEAMEN.
Place
Time
Theatre Royal.
&15 pm. Prompt.
Hope or Curiosity
I think sometimes the word "curiosity" is just another name for "hope.”
You might fancy that it was curiosity that made you smoke your first Kensitas—no, sir, it was really hope, the hope that you would find Kensitas a really good cigarette, better than the kind you had been smoking
But it is a fact, sir, that after you smoked that first Kensitas and experienced the cool, rare old blend of prime Virginia you continued to smoke Kensitas, because you found that Kensitas ace
u good as really good cigarettes
'can be."
Kensitas
Hanufacturers:
the preferred cigarette
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- South China, 1 QUEEN'S BUILDINGS, Tairphane: Crotzai 63%
"Obtainable at · Lane, Crawford,
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Cobečo Scien, and all high-cinsi Tobacconista,
At 95 cents
"per tiz of 50
almost as inconvenient Like the com-
officer
of. Conrad's manding stories they are of such a nature that The Band of the East Surreys will they are made
Perform the following Delightful morally and almost physically uncomfortable by the mere
Programmie- thoug ght of having to
to beat down a lie." If they are told, be a giant in
Pay that they 1-RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES...Walkürenritt) want Botnething that the giant has to dispose of, they find it
it easier to buy that BALLET MUSIC... The Shoo to argue and lese embarrassing to sur-
than to recape.
if the teller 1-OVERTURE....Tannhauser... Wagner
Wagner
Ansell
Wealth of AO MODERATO)
Lenderndise is bought every day :
in Eng
Tchaikovsky lard for no better reason than that the purchaser, unable to find a ready answer 5-ALLEGRETTO SCHERZASDC. Sth Symphony
Besthoven to smooth persuasions, would rather suffer then be rude For the giants of the SureScenes Neapolitane...... Massenat counter are gentle giants. In the old -SELECTION_The MartyroiAntioch...Bullican days, crude insistence could be calc 'AUX, CLAIBIAUX answered by brief refusal; now courtesy
must have its response in courtesy: The-Toxe Pozx.inlandis irus. giant has & splendid indiarrence to
......Becker Sibelista
Bowes-Smith and Mr. D. M. Richards will assist
the commersial side of his art; he wishes In addition Mr. and Mrs. A. M. madam to admire, he says, got to bar: he has an air of enjoying infuitely her criticism, her conversation, and her com- pany. Lest she should think herself flattered; he dares sometimes to contradict. lest she should imagine that her band is being forced, he ventures even
to disaunde ber from buying some object
that has momentarily attracted her Little by little he
be creates what
pro-
the
fessora of his art call “an atmosphere
good will"
of
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A
ed woman can breathe it and escape. purchase, she feels, is the only graceful end to a conversation so charming. When
is gone, the giant nods and says: could have sold her anything, and she came in only to look round" She.
on the way home, is wondering, not why
she was persuaded, but why she enjoyed
ît:
16. There is in truth something of magie
in it, and effective magician will al- ways be worth their thousand pounds a year.-Times
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Acemintants are astonished at the in- crease, which is not, it is said, propor tionate to the increase in business.
One cause is said to be that paper money or gold is no longer the real cur- rency of business. Credit is quing the wheels of industry...
Basiness to-day is one big welter of figures," an accountant told a reporter. The smallest business has its banking account and the smallest payment is by cheque. Directors are no longer satisfied with simple balance-sheets, but require aralyses of every item. Ia. some, busi- nesses Eix different machines will record what used to be contained in one easily handled book.
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TIGER
ROSE
Experienced Cinemagoers
are aware that whenever a big stage success has been transferred bodily to the screen with the original cast, a delightful picture has resulted. One has to recall "Potash and Perlmutter,” “Way · Down East," "Disraeli” to realise the truth of this. "Tiger Rose" is one more triumphant vindication of the rule that a good play, well cast always makes a good picture.
TO-DAY 'Will SATURDAY
at 2:30 p.m., 5.15
7.15
p.1.
& 9.15
p.m.
THE CORONET
STAR
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· KOWLOON.
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3-PERFORMANCES ONLY-3 THEATRICAL ENTERPRISES (Maurice E. Benson v. Alec Ross)
Present
MADELINE ROSSITER'S COMPANY
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The only show that is sure of a welcome everywhere. FRIDAY, April 3rd, at 9.15 p.m.
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SATURDAY, April 4th at 9.15
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Presenting the most popular Items in the Company's Repertoira, SUNDAY, April 5th, at 9.15 p.m.
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