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Will appear simultaneously in the Ring, Dancing and Performing Numerons Tumbling, Somersaulting and Pyramid Act.
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AMERICANS AND SEGRAVE.
SPEED IN 1908.
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The laconic and non-comunital comment of a New York newspaper on Major Segrave's reeen wonderful record at Daytona deserves notice An amazing speed, but-huh- hult. Apparently the strange cx-
"huh-huh " pression Americanismo for Well, what is The as anyhow ?^* Ansericans can- not be expected to express enthu- siasm about this remarkable fent of an Englishman. But it is more than likely that Ralph de Palma nad other speed wizards who ean- not think of sperd ontside America -will now disturb themselves..
to
NEW ROLE FOR LADY OXFORD.
ADVERTISEMENT WRITING.
AMERICAN FACE CREAM.
BRITISH TASTE TOO
$ SELECT.
U.S. HUMORIST ON ENGLISH FILMS.
WHY OUR PICTURES ARE NOT POPULAR.
I have discovered why it is that British films seldom achieve a general success all over the world. Your dramatic taste and your sense of humour are too specialised"
"The Tamoas Margot, Now Countess of Oxford and Asquith, has written with her own hand and m her own sparkling and minirtable style this article on a subject of universal interest to women.
This is the italicised announce meat to an autographed full-page for advertisement
face-cream which appears this month in one
This WAN the verdict of Mr. of the MONE popular American George Ade, the American luumo women's magazinen under the
riat, given while on holiday in heading. "Margot Asquith writes on Women's Instinct to Make Her London. He added: self Attractive."
A three-quarter length portrait of the Countess of Oxford and Asquithin an evening frock is in the centre of the page.
"Very Dignified.".
as a sindy," and photograph of her dressing talle, on which repose nimuerous TR of the advertised beauty_cream.
One corner of the page illus- trates a section of the drawing- room of her very dignified town Captain Campbell, previous hold-house at No. 44, Bedford-square, brilliant and er of the world's record for the London, where the
distinguished of London gather, ' kilometre and mile is stated to have
The testimonial is enhanced fur- issued
Major ther by a pen-sketch of the "qunint challenge J
Elizabethan barn on her country race at Segrave to etnúpete in a
estate
used by Lady Oxford Daytona Beach. The Champion, however, has declined to do any thing of the sort, because such a contest would be futile. The sue-
We have a known cessful attempt to break the records women who have more than made was carried out in a spirit of rep for their lack of features and general homeliness by the play of search, not merely for the kudos.
their expression, the grace of thei There is magic in the round figure carriage, or the beauty of their "200" If Campbell or any other complexion," Lady Oxford tells the women of the United States. "I racing driver succeeds in breaking Segrave's record he will not be sur rounded by that hale of daring and romance, because there is nothing --very-striking-be-the-attainment of a speed of 10 or even 940, after someone else has already passed the double century.
The person who Can cover the ground at three hundred miles an hour will be the next hero of the Butor-racing world.
Such a speed-which has incident- ally not yet been attained in the air is unlikely to be accomplished for at least a decade.
can only speak for anyæelf.
A dingy complexion will spoil the prettiest face in the world for
me.
f have used crenins for my skin more years than I can reme. her." she continues, mentioning the American product, and, though I have never been heautiful and f am not young. I have not a wrinkle in my forehead."
GIPSIES SPOIL PICNICS.
MOTORISTS FORCED TO DRIVE AWAY.
Gipais opened their picnic-raid- Undoubtedly the sals at Daying season yesterday, says the Daily
Ma of May 9th. Lona are infinitely better than any similar bench in Great Britain, for they are as hard as concrete and dead flat. There is also a straight stretch of 20 miles, so that there is plenty of room for a car to show its paces.
If Captain Campbell goes out to Daytona he will probably improve upon his last figures of something over 120 mph, but it will be sur
existing Pr if he beats the
The fever for monstrous spends does not appear to have been abated by the gruesome death of Parry Thomas, one of the world's speed news. He was travelling at a beg garly 150 m.p.h. when death over- took him; the eonsequences of a erash at 200 or more are almost beyond imagination.
Performed ten years ago-per- haps even five years ago-Segrave's wonderful achievement would have| been forgotten inside a week, 30- ply because the world was that inuich less a motoring world, writes the motoring correspondent of the London Brening News,
Ant
The summer-like weather hosts of motorists and others adven- turing into the heart of the country in the cool shade of the fresh green with dreams of enjoying luncheon leaves.
Gaily the white cloth wus sprend on the new grass, merrily were the hainpers unloaded, and the pic- nickers said how jolly it was to le quite alone in the peace of a per feet May day. Then the gipsies erase-and peace fler
The woods and dales of Surrey,
Sussex and Hampshire especially had their charms as Sabbath re- treats marred by bands of fortune M. telling gipsies.
Baid:-
Volley Of Oaths.
I have found the accret of Bri tish exclusivoners by sitting in your theatres and cinemas and watching the audiences and hear- ing them clap.
You wonder sometimes that American films go all over the world. It is beenuse Amerien re- cognises that 4 per cent. of the find gross reeripts on American! film is obtained outside the United States.
It is not surprising that some British audiences are displeased with much of our American film output. But it must be reaçi- bered that our films are made for world-wide distribution-for the little township in lowa, for the South Sea Islands, for Iceland and for the small provincial towns of all the European coon- tries.
We make our pictures not for the highly intellectual eritic of the West End of London, but for the multitudes of the world.
Highbrow Appeal,
You in England make good pic tures, you have your own pro- ducers, your own excellent direc tors, and very good actors.
But their appeat is frequently purely an English one, and I might almost Bay A highbrow our. The great mass of simple- minded workers the whole world over who share the same set of emotions and whose need for en tertainment 8 very similar in every country-these people are overlooked by you.
The specialised taste of the Bri- tiah audience is different from the cultivated likes and dislikes of the average Americau. I find that your audiences laugh at what we would call the wrong places in play or film. And where we would laugh you sit with wooden faces.
The same applies to the appre- ciation of serious as of humorous points. That is why many a sue- ccesful London play is often at failure in New York, and why New York winners sometimes run off the rails here.
ENGLISH CHANNEL
TUNNEL.
LE TROCQUER ON DETAILS
AND POSSIBILITIES.
A motorist who, owing to gipsies, M. Yves Le Trocquer, in a paper failed to find tranquillity, though on "The Chanel Tannel" read be he sought it in the open country beyond Blackwater, in Hampshire, fore the Institution of Structurat Engineers, Upper Belgrave Street, 5.3., said the usual capacity of the tunnel which could be maintaine throughout the year would be one hundred traius per day in each
Barely had we set out เ lunch under some teces when a gang of taalodorons gipsies ap- peared. They entirely surround ed us, and while the men rather insolently clamoured for tobacco the women tried to grab our direction, and these could carry hands so that they might "tell | 25,000,000 passengers and 8.000,000 our fortunes.'
The old cry of Cross iny band with silver, pretty gentleman!" ens raised, and it was followed by a volley of oaths when I and my friends insisted that we did not wieb to be troubled.
In the end we were compelled, to be rid of them, to repack our hampers and drive away.
is
now
tons of goods annually. This au- swered the objection that the tunnel would be inadequate for the needs
of traffic.
The great argument against the Channel Tunnel had always been n military one. It was feared that it could be utilized by an invading chemy. Not only would the entrance and the exit of both tunnels on the English coast bo under the range of all the forts and worships of Dover Harbour, but the power sta
it
At a
I should like now to look back a little way-Segrave himself would like us to look backward. Let us go back to 1913, when the late Percy Lambert first drove a car 100 miles inside 80 minutes. That was a big
four-inch job, you know, for engined ear She was only of 25.5 h.p. by R.A.C. rating, with four eylinders of 101.5 by 140 m.m., a mere voiturette, positively a "baby" arnong light cars, compared with Segrave's mammoth Sunbeam; but her driver and she did a very won- derful thing in crowding 100 miles of Brooklands into 60 minutes.
And now to Brooklands. When We must, however, go still fur- the track was built, in 1906-7, a dis- ther back, to 1908, when on Salt- tinguished engineer, who burn Sands Mr. (now Sir) Alger-General Sir Capet Holden, was re- non Lee Guinness was officially quested by Major E. Rodakowski tion which would supply the current tined to attain a speed of 121.6 Rivers (the first clerk of the course to the trains coming from France miles an hour with a nominally) at Weybridge, and the team to whom would be erected on the English 200 h.p. eight-cylindered, V-arrang the late Hugh of the track) to plot would be quite easy to prevent the
Locke King entrust coast, and reciprocally, and ed Darracq. By R.A.C. rating that had bore.
ed the building car was of 120 h.p. She
a banking curve which should be utilization of the tunnel by filling and stroke of 160 and 149 mm safe at 150 n.p.h. The curve was it with asphyxiating gases. her bore exceeding her stroke, as duly plotted and put into being certain point of the longitudinal was often the case in the early days Why 150 m.ph. Because in 1907 section of the tunnel a bend re- (and is still in motor-cycles' on that speed was reckoned the limit presenting the vertical section of gines); but to run at 1216 m.p.h. in Calculation of all available know- a bowl had been designed in order 1908 with a car built in 1906, by ledge suggested it as being the ulti-to provide a water-lock, so that in the way-wis very sensational in-
mate, and neither the science nor case of danger the tunnel could. deed.
the imagination of the calculators be filled with water from top to The fascinating thought to me, can be considered to have been de bottom over a length of about two then, is that even Segrave to-day, fective.
kilometres (approximately 1 mile) flushed with achievement, glowing We see now, however, that al-without being destroyed. with the antisfaction of beating the though Brooklands was safe for Lee
The traction would be electric, whole world in terrestrial speed, Guinness's old V-engined Darracq does not promise un anything much and Percy Lambert's Talbot, it and English and Continental trains above 20 m.p.h. He says, plainly would not be safe for Begrave's would have no difficulty in running enough, that ho does not think more Daytona Sunbeam. He dare not on either country's track. than that speed can be attained put his foot down even on the rail- estimated cost of the tunnel was 16 with a machine whose wheels will way straight, because a 1207 m.p.b. millions sterling. This estimate was remain in contact with the earth his car obviously travels at ap made before the war, but it was Accepting that, as we must, how proximately 34 miles per minute reasonable to take figures based on short a stage we have travelled or 300 feet per second! At euch normal period. The tunnel would aince 1908!
figures the mind boggles, refuses to be 20 kilometres in length and 50 The marvel, of course, is not that absorb them; but it is such figures metres below the bottom of the sen Segrave can profhise no greater which enable the man in the street, at its deepest point. The question speed than about 220," so much the man in the olub, the man in the whether it was possible to construct as that "Algie" Guinness should train to visualise Begrave's doings, a railway linking Dover and Calais have given us 121.6 m.p.k. so long
Major Segrave hay announced was no longer contested by geolo. The Channel Tunnel was ago,
that his huge car is destined for a gists. British MusGUAL
scientifically feasible.
(Continued on nest column).
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The
You've Never Seen
GoRlwyn Mayer
PIOTURK
TO-DAY ONLY
The Charleston Done
the way they do it in
MONTA BELL'S
PRODUCTION
with scenes dầ
Technicolor
PRETTY LADIES
HEY!
with ZAZU PITTS TOM MOORE LILYAN TASHMAN Added Attraction ANN PENNINGTON From the story "Hearts" by ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS Adapted by Allee DX G. Miller
EY HEY More dazzling beauties than you've ever seen before on the screen, doing the fascin ting new dance that has the whole wartd by the heels! You'll be thrilled by this colorful picture that brings gay Broadway to you The true ife story of the star of a girlie-girlic show, and of her struggle for happiness and love.
QUEEN'S
PAROLAH KUKOR
Flist L LASKY
THE
TOP THE
WORLD
FROM THE NOVEL OF ETHEL M.DELL
Dichere
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TO-DAY ONLY
2.30, 6.10 7.15, 8.20
AGEORGE
MELFORD
PRODUCTION
STAR
2.30 to 11.15 CONTINUOUS
WORLD
2.30, 6.15, 7.15, 8.15.
ANNA Q. NILSSON
and
NORMAN KERRY
in
LIVE GHOSTS