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There will be bitter opposition to the move made by the Society of West End Theatre Managers, who are appealing far the right to open the London theatres on Sundaya.
A short Bill in Parliament is all that is necessary," said Mr. Walter Payne, the chairman of the society, when he pointed out the anomaly of the cinemas being allow ed to open on Sundays while theatres were compelled to remain
shut.
The extent of the opposition that sach Bill would meet in Parlia It is ment is not understood. significant that Sir Alfred Butt, the only theatre manager who is also an P., is one of the man- agers who expresses doubt as to the wisdom of opening on Sundays The rank-and-file of the actors and actresses are opposed to per- larming regularly on Sundays, and the orchesteras and stage hands, who have powerful unions, have also to be considered.
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AND PLAYS.
plenty of bass drum and cymbals, and remember rer not writing for the Queen's Hall. I want yer to keep one eye on the audience and the other on the selection to be played by the restaurant banda.' Such a tirade (and how often has a similar one been made!) would immediately strangle at its birth any persoanlty, any originality, or any artistic ideals I have already stated that I want nothing from America; and I will go further and say that when I do buy my seas for a so-called English comie opera production. I do not expect to hear music in jazr-time, a libretto full of Americanisms, or lyrics that are on the level of 'Yes,
have
For bananas '! Heaven's sake let us strike out a line for ourselves, as we did in the past. Some years ago we had composers, such as Sidney Jones, Howard Talbot, Cosdia Stuart and others of the same calibre, who were at all events British
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"Film Society audiences are supposed to be highbrows, but they are the worst-mannered audiences know," says a London critic. They invariably come in late, and then spend most of the time talk.
I had to stand up to see most of the first, film, because every one in front of me was standing up too. Things, too, were not improved by the mobility of attendants armed with painfully dazzling lights.”
The horrora of "Before Mid. thrillerby Shirland night" a
Little
Quin, produced at the Theatre in London recently, were lightened by occasional outbursts of incredulous laughter. Otherwise the story of a vivisector who ab ducts people, gives them malignant diseases, paralyses them with a blue ray, cuts out their tongues, and commits other unspeakable atroci- ties in the name of science would have been unbearable. It was, of course, the British Navy that came to the rescue, aided by four. Beau Gestes, at whom I wanted to shout "Stout fellowS!" " The Monster" came from America." "Before Mid- night shows that when we really try England can write plays quite as badly.
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Miss Mary Leigh, the musical comedy and revue actress, Was married at Hampstead Parish Church recently to Sir William 'Gray, of Egglestone Hall, Darling- ton. Plans for the wedding had been kept secret, and many of Miss Leigh's closest friends were aware that it was taking place, Only a handful of people witnessed the ceremony, Sir William first met his bride two years ago when she was playing on "Tip Toes од tour. She is twenty-four years of age, and he is ten years older. Miss Leigh took the part of Kitty, the artist's model, in "The Song of the Sea at His Majesty's Theatre last autumn. Her greatest success was as one of the twins in "I will never play in talkies.
"Betty in Mayfair." Miss Leigh They are ruining the motion pie had intended to tour Australis this Lure art," declared Mr. Charles spring, but her marriage has Chaplin in an interview.
changed her plans, and she has re- Mr. Chaplin said that he did notnounced the stage for ever, like to see other people in talking films, and was rather tired of dis- cussing the subject. He added that be believed the production of talk- ing films had already taken a great deal of the art out of motion pie- tures, and although he has no idea what will be the future of such pro- ductions, he hopes that they will prove to be merely a fad.
"I am longing to hear and to see a genuine British comic opera again, and I honestly believe that there are thousands of others who have the same desire." This state inent was made by Sir Landon Rauald, the principal of the Guild-ing. ball School of Music. ** I want to listen to a libretto that is up to date, witty, and has charm, Sir Landon said. "I want to hear lyrics that are bumorous, that are topical, and that contain at least a grain of sentiment without being septimental; and, above all, I want to listen to music which can and does appeal to the music lover, as well as the man in the street. Emphatically I do not want one apte of jazz I do not want noise; and I do not waat bustle. In other words, I do not want one single American device, phrase, or custom. This does not mean that I am not going with the times' or that I am old-fashioned. I am just full of regrets that in the year 1900 have not got a modern Gilbert and Sullivan. We can boast of having extremely brilliant playwrights, both young and old, and there are at least a half-dozen talented composers living in our uridst who could and would turn oat really excellent comic opera if they were given a free hand.
By the expression. 'a free hand I mean that when
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"Dialogue pictures melodious: they are merely tinny," said Mr. Chaplin. "They bring out all the crudities. Silent films permit audiences to place their own interpretations on every act and gesture, and it is the test of the actor to put over his meaning with these. That is cut out in
Any knowledge of the proposed merger between the United Artista corporation, and Warner Brothers, which was announced as a likeli hood by Mr. Schenck, president of United Artists, was denied by Mr. Chaplin..
Mr. Joseph M. Schenck, vice- president and chairman of the board of directors of the United announced Artists Corporation, that his board was planning the organisation of "United Artists Consolidated, Incorporated," link- ing up both the subsidiary organi- ations and individual holidings at present under the banner of the United Artists' Corporation.
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TRAGEDY One of the most astonishing mo- tives for murder in the history of WOMAN DISPENSER'S MIS the American courts was offered by
the prosecution at Memphis, Ten-manager turns round and aaya to CALCULATION,
nessee, when Henry W. Johnson stood on trial for his life, charged young feltar-my-lad, none of yer with killing Miss Gertrude Fisher, high falutin stuff. Just as much a stenographer, aged twenty-four, syncopation as you can get in, and and. wounding Edward Marmon, her companion, merely because he objected to "firting parties, near his home.
POISON DRUG.
The dramatic disclosure that a mistake by a woman dispenser cost the lives of three children was made at the resumed inquest at Wembley on Charles Thorpe, aged ten, and his brothers Leslie, aged seven, and John, aged ive, whose home was at Charterhouse Avenue, Sudbury.
The brothers were treated for ring-worm, etc., at the out-patients department of St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, Leicester Square, W.C. The two older boys were taken ill on the following night and died within an hour, John, the youngeas, Hospital two days later,
died
Miss Fisher and Mr. Marmon-- both strangers to Mr. Johnson- were seated in Mr. Marmon's pack- ed motor-car when, it was alleged by the prosecuting counsel, Mr. Johnson shot them with a rifle.
The judge at the trial, which has caused considerable excitement all over Tennessee, declared in his sum ming-up that there was not suffi cient evidence against Johnson, and instructed the jury to find him not guilty.
in Westminster Johnson has been accordingly ac
quitted.
The evidence at the trial was. Dr. G. Cohen, the coroner, open- ed the inquest on March 18 and ad-, purely circumstantial, and includ journed it for inquiries to be made.ed the testimony of a male witness The jury returned a verdict that that he had been fired on in similar the children died from poisoning ae- circumstances.
cidentally administered. They add Other witnesses described John- ed rider that there should be a son's attitude towards courting better system in St. John's Hos- couples and how he went about with pital to check the weights and mea- a rifle.
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Other Patients
Dr. Spencer Scovell,
of
St. asked: Was it during the mathe- John's Hospital, Leicester: Square, matical calculation that you went said that she had given the drug wrong? concerned to other children. It was
Mias Tedham: Yes.
The Coroner worked out with
I intend to use sound recom- paniment in my future releases, but I will never play in a "talk.'"
THE WOMAN'S CORNER.
These Children
Of Ours.
OUTSIDE INTERESTS,
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one of the recognised treatments for Miss Tedbam what the calculation ringworm. So much weight of drug should have been, then, turning to "A good deal has been said in was given for so much weight of
the jury, he said: "It is a system recent years about the mother's child.
The coroner, dealing with the where, if a mistake is made, if a right to a life of her own outside
decimal is moved one point to the of the home.
making up of the drug, asked if it would not have been better if there had been some metric weights.
Yes, I suppose it would have been better" was the reply.
Dr. Scovel!, replying to another question, said that she gave the correct amount assuming the solu- tion was of the strength she expect ed it to be.
Beyond a double.
right it multiplies it by ten, and most women to-day feel that it
if it is moved one point to the left would be quite impossible for them it minimises it by ten. It it a mea to be good mothers without the surement that is easy to confuse. spur and impetus of same worth- Miss Tedham said that during this while contacts outside the home. calculation she calculated wrongly The wonder is that so many of these women do not realize the child, too, and mistook the position of a
needs a life of his own, as much as decimal point."
bis mother.
Dr. Cohen, addressing the jury. Mr. Lambert, for the parents: said that Dr. Scovell had carried What steps did you take to see that out her responsibilities correctly. carefully The vital point here was that a dose the weights had been given to you?-It was written down ten times too great was in the in their books when they came in. bottle. It is always done most carefully,
the
You attribute Mr. Lambert: these fatailities entirely to medicinot-Yes.
Dr. Bronte, the pathologist, whe made pat-murtem examination of the children, said that death was consistent with poisoning from thalium acetate.
Registered Chemist, Miss Eleanor May Tedham, a re- gistered chemist and dispenser at St. John's Hospital since 1027, said that she qualified in 1926.
The Coroner: Did you know thalium was a poisonous drug!
Misa Tedham: I did not know it Was very poisonous,
She produced the original pre- aeription.
The problem is so close to all of 11s that our perspective becoraes a bit warped. We can't see the wood Perhaps it because of the trees. would help matters, if we should pause once in a while in struggle to give our families the best homes in the world, to ask ourselves, "Just what is a good home?"
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prunes greatly improves the flavour, A MODERN WOMAN SPEAKS and-surprisingly enough-lessens
the quantity of sugar required.
Mix mustard with vinegar if you
HER MIND.
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if you like keeping your mustard
fresh.
firm,
having their own style cramped that they accuse women of talk. ing too much
I have come to the conclusion Vinegar added to the water in which fish is being boiled not only that the reason men are so fond of whitens the flesh, but also keeps it saying that women talk more than
they do, is because it cramps"their" own style. A cracked egg slipped into boiling
Men like so well to air their own water to which a little vinegar has views and propound their wisdom been added will cook without fur that it irritates them to have any ther trouble.
precious minutes stolen by their. A cloth wring out in vinegar and wives, mothers and sisters for con- used to wrap round cheese will keep versation which temporarily sil the cheese from going either dry or ences male members of the family. mouldy.
As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised it, taking the words Instead of throwing sway those used by men in complaining of rusty curtain rings and hooks, cover woman's volubility and laying them
Mathematical Error. "That has happened," he said,
them with water and vinegar, end to end, you would find that they owing to a combination of two or
little soaps, and boil for a few encircled the globe more easily than three things. This is a Continental
minutes. Fish them out, polish hot all the words spoken by women
similarly arranged. with a dry cloth, and marvel to see drug, and the measurements have
The impatience of a man listen- A good home, perhaps, we will all
This same rule is true of the re- how they are restored! been used in the metric system.
ing to his wife discourse on the new The conversions which took place agree, is a place where the various
Paint brushes which are very bad neighbours; her latest hat, and the are mathematical conversations be members of the family End support, lationship of younger and older tween apothecary's weight and comfort, affection and stimulation. children. In one family there were may be made fit for use again. trouble it is to keep a servant these decimal or metric weight. A mis. Now, can this ideal atmosphere be two little boys, and a sister who Heat vinegar to boiling point, allow days is more often than not due to take was made during these con- created if mother and children stay was younger, They were spirited, the brush to simmer in it for half the fact that every moment she con versions. Miss Tedham misplaced close at home living only upon each energetie children, difficult to rear an hour, and wash well in strong tinues speaking is one moment lost
in a modern fat. The boys were soap suds. The brush will then be to him for conversation. a decimal point, and in doing so the others' thoughts and ideas, or can
this ideal home best be made a continually tormenting their little as good as ever-but beware of the dose was increased tenfold.
he wishes she would stop so that he reality by giving everyone of them sister. The mother found it neces- brush with hairs glued in!
Warm vinegar takes stains, beat can chat about the stock market, some outside interests, some vital sary to constantly intervene as the contacts with the world beyond boys poked and pinched and teased marks and other disfigurations out the Masonic club luncheon, he snaps
the little girl. Finally she decided their door?
Dr. Cohen asked Miss Tedham if she had made up this drug before, and she replied that she had, and that on each occasion she had made it up correctly.
Dr. Cohen, again turning to the jury, said that the result had been The Coroner, having read it, said terrible in the fact that those three it demanded a mathematical calca children died. What was import lition between the metric and the aut for the jury to consider was apothecary system of weights. He how easy it was for a mistake to be
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Instead of admitting frankly that
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women are all alike. Gab, gub, all When mother and child each has to send the boys away to a nursery of mahogany. Rub well; it is an out some auch remark as "Oh, you Lacquer tables, now sa fashion day long. Doesn't your jaw ever outside interests, they are more apt school. This move changed the excellcat polish into the bargain.
got tired? to appreciate each other when they boys' attitude entirely. Sister seem- come back to their own roof tree. ed very interesting and attractiveable, are treated in the same way Mother becomes a little more of s to them when they got home in the The vinegar cleans, but in this case novelty-a treat, and so does the afternoon. As the same time, they clouds the surface. Polish with & were learning at school the value speck of paraffin applied in light child.".
(Oontinued on next Oolumn). of friendship with other children.energetic circles.
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