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LONDON AND ITS AMUSEMENTS.
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TALKIES AND THE THEATRE.
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THE PLAY STILL HOLDS SWAY: PLEA FOR MORE
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The questions most frequently The same remark applies to the when the theatre in London is bet heard nowadays are "What is cinema theatre. "All Quiet on the ter organised. We are still recover- wrong with the theatre ?" and "Are Western Front" has been mentioning from the war period, and the few thousand the talking pictures a strong com- ed. "The Love Farade," an ex-speculator with a petitor ?':
cellent example of a spectacular pounds and a single play to pre- There is a wave of pessimism in musica film, ran for several sent. He is often not a man of the theatre at all, and he plays London, at the moment, and these months at the Carlton.
because he. an exorbitant rent and a score of similar questions
takes the theatre for a few weeks' are being asked. There is always
tenaney. Half the theatres of Lon- | GRAND HOTEL DES ́WAGONS, something wrong with the theatro
Theatres With a Polley. You cannot be pessimistic when you think of Journey's End,"
and throughout the ages people which has been acted all over the don can be leased for a month or so by almost anyone who comes world, and was still making along with a cheque for the rent.
have asked what it in. That a elump in play-going exists in cer.
tain quarters is true, but this is Profit when it was withdrawn from In the long run it would pay the
proprietors to keep the theatre em- pty, but unfortunately it is not and sub-lessees (sometimes six deep) the real proprietors but the lessees
who have the letting.
An Edgar Wallace Theatre.
the, Prince of Wales' Theatre. On the other hand, Mr. Sherriff's so- cond play, "Badger's Green," which followed a fortnight ago, failed to take much more money in its first week than "Journey's End" took in a single night's perform ance. Mr. Maurice Browne has
It is fortunate that the men of been frick about the whole thing, the theatre are coming back to take and the takings were doubled last charge. Mr. Gilbert Miller is re instituting a sound policy at the week. The play bad an excellent St. James with Mr. Herbert Ma reception and good notices. One shall and Miss Edna Best as the explanation is that women are not star actors, and it is likely that in interested in cricket. Another the autumn he will again take per- and more likely one is that the sanal charge of the Lyric. A few public was told with extraordin..doors away, at the Globe, Mr. ary persistence that "Badger's Maurice Browne, who has had no Green" was not another "Jour- luck this year, is to present a de- ney's End. As if it could have finite series of plays, and at the Queen's Bir Barry Jackson is like- been 1
ly to carry on the tradition of The apple Cart" with Mr. Cedric Hardwicke as the star attraction. Sir Gerald du Maurier and Miss.
usually the case in July and August, when people take their pleasures out of doors: This year it is more acute owing chiefly to the fact that there are fewer Americans in London: The finen- cial crash on Wall Street is being felt in Shaftesbury-avenne and the Strand. Last week, however, there
decided Was 2
improvement throughout the West End. A first rate "talkie" like "All Quiet on the Western Front" is being ex hibited both at the Alhambra and the Regal Cinema, and drawing crowded houses four times a day. If you inquire at the box-office of either of these theatres the man-
At the same time it has probably agers would reply that they have had a decided effect on the book. no time to think about a slump.
ings People get used to seeing a Mr. Charles Cochran was asked certain wort of play at a theatre, West-End theatre. He replied, either in Shakespeare or in the Is there one I know nothing Aldwych farces is the thing that about a slump. It was during pays. Except in a few theatres to the interval at a first night and a day there is a lack of the organies messenger appeared with the "retion that existed in the days of turns at the Loudofi Pavilion and Irving, Tree, Wyndham, and Al- His Majesty's He showed the exander. People knew exactly the figures: The 1930 Revue had kind of entertainment they would taken over 2650, and Bitterned at the Lyceum, His Majesty's,
There is to be an Edgar Wallace Sweet" CATO that evening. After the Criterion, the St. James', the Theatre in New York. There & year's run
The First Mrs Adelphi, or the Savoy. To-day should also be one in London. The Fraser" is playing to full houses the same thing applies to the best thing that could happen would every night at the Haymarket, and market-which is the outstanding there is not much cause for com- example of a finely managed thea-be that Sir Gerald du Maurier, Mr. Ainley, Miss. Tempest, Mr. plaint at the St. Martin's, where tre, with a definite policy that ex- Mr. Neil Grant's comedy. "Petti tends throughout the building; the Hulbert, Mr. Jack Buchanan, Mr. coat Influence," has settled down London Pavilion, which Mr. Coch Hardwicke, Miss Edith Evans, and the other outstanding stage £gures AS an emphatic auccess, or at ran has made into the premier re- Wyndham's, where Mr. Wallace's vue theatre of the world; the could be identified with definite "On the Spot" is being played, or Aldwych, the St. Martin's, the theatre, and to some extent with at half a dozen other theatres.
Ambassadors, Drury Lane, and the permanent companies. The ten- Goiety since Mr. Laddie Cliff took dency is in this direction, and it over. These are the successful where it exists there is little talk theatres to-day. There are others, of bad business. of course, and there will be more
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Diary of Coming Events.
To 15) (August 5.) Theatre:
"Nix
on
Dames."
World Theatre: "Westward' Ho," Part 3 (Chinese film).
Central Theatre: Charming Sinners."
Majestic Theatre: "Three "Bia-
ners."
Green Island Cement Co., Extra ordinary General Meeting, 11.30
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Star Theatre: Side Show of Life and Acrobatic and Classical Tennis:-Mixed Doubles: Becreio Dancing by Rowina and Dandolo.. University T.O
Central Theatre: "Charming Water Polo:-1st Div.: 0.B.O. v. Singera
R.A. 2nd Diz, Somersets v. "Tillie's Fukien Club.
Majestic Theatre: Punctured Romance."
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Dinner Dance: Hong Kong Hotel, 9.30 p.m.
Tides: High; 7.03 .m. and 10.04 p.m.; Low, 12.01 am. and 241 pm.
"Hollywood
Thursday. (August 7.) Queen's Theatre: Tidea: High, e11 am. and 9.22 Revue." p.m. Low, 2.01 p.m.
World Theatre: Shakedown- and "Virgin Queen.
"Holl
Central Theatre:
ood Curves."..
(August 6.) Queen's Theatre: Bevue"
World Theatre: "Westward Ho, Part 3 (Chinese 'Film).
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Star Theatre: Side Show" of Life and Acrobatic and Classical Daneing by Rowing and Dandolo.
Majestic Theatre: ners."?
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Tides: High, 7.51 a.m. and 10.32 P.m.; Low, 12:58 a.m. and a le p.m. Friday, (August 8.) Queen's Theatre: Home,"
Harmony
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Star Theatre: "Fighting Love.": Central Theatre: Curves
Majestic Theatre: "Three Bin-
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Aranal, Meeting, H.K. Football Club (Messra. Jardine, Matheson's Boardroom, 3.30. p.m.).
Promenade Concert at Volunteer Headquartere, 9.30 p.m.
Water Polo:lat Dir Chinose Athletic Ass Royal Navy, end?
Dangorous Forsity.
Three Bin
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