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"GEN- TLEMEN OF THE PRESS
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WALTER HUSTON
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"GENTLEMEN
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ALSO
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2 Parts Sound Comedy
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Noah's Lark"
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NEXT CHANGE THURSDAY, SEPT. 4
All-Talking-Singing-Dancing-Technicolor
Hal Skelly & Nancy Carroll
IN
"THE DANCE OF LIFE'
From the Stage-hit "BURLESQUE” A Paramount Super-Production.
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TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
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(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
BROADCAST BY 2.B.W. ON
335 METRES.
SHORT COMEDY BY STUDIO
PLAYERS."
1.30 p.in. Weather report.. 6 to 7 p.m.-Chirese programme. 7 p.m.-European programme of
Vietor records selected and supplied by Messrs. Tsang Fook.
It Must Be You Waltz and The Free and Easy-The High Hat- ters.
The Women in the Shoe-Fox
Trot and Only Love is Real The High Hatters. With You-Fox Trat and There's Danger in Your Eyes Cherie, Waring's Pennsylvanians, Alone in the Rain Fox Trot "and Molly Waltz, Ted Fionto and his orchestra,
Lonesome Little Doll-Fox: Trot
and Dream Lover-Waltz, Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orch. My Sweetheart Serenade-Fox Trot and Sharing-Fox Trot, Entry of the Gladiators (au rendeau) and Circus Echoes (Alexander), Ringling Broa
and Bernum's Band.
From the Studio. Mr. F. Gonzales (Violin Soloist)- Serenade Espagnole Chemin- ade, Kreisler, and, Spanish Dance, Granados-Kreisler. When the King Went Forth to War (Koenemann) and The Prophet (Korsakow), Feodor Chalispin, Bass.
My Love Parade and Nobody's Using It Now, Maurice Cheva- lier, Baritone March of the Grenadiers and -Dream Lover, Jeanette Mac
donald, Soprano, You've Got That Thing and Paria Stay the Same, Meurice Cheva lier, "Baritone. Gems from Sunny Side Up " and Gems from "The Lore Parada Victor Light Opera Co.
10.30 p.m.--Close down..
ROCKING HORSE DANCE.
INTRODUCTION OF THE
"MID-WAY RHYTHM."
The new dance for next winter, demonstrated at the Portman Rooma, Baker-street, London, by the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, is the Mid-Way Rhy th
Ita time, for variety's sake, lies half-way between two steady fav. aurities of the ordinary dancing public--the quickstep and the slow Foxtrot.
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For You and You, You Alone, John Boles, Tenor with Orch. Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin),
Jesse Crawford, Organ,, From the Rhine to the Danube, Medley (Rhode), Gerhard Hoff man's Orchestra. Romance (Leslie) and After a
It has a walk and a glide, like Million Dreams (Leslie), Johned by a step called "the rock," in any slow foxtrot, and is complicat- Boles, Tenor. Eva-Waltz (Lehar) and Carmen and forwards like a rocking horse. which the dancers sway backwards Sylva-Waltz (Ivanovici), Nat
Mina Josephine Bradley, who de Shikret and his orchestra, I Fell You Near Me (Hanley) and monstrated the dance with her A Pair of Blue Eyes (Kennel), Partner, did not wear a long dress," and ber skirt was divided at the John McCormack, Tenor.
side for greater dancing freedom.
Fidelio Overtore (Beethoven), Berlin State Opera Orchestra. Hakone Hachiri and Otoaan to Boya, Josie Fujiwara with Piano.
If this mid-way rhythms" is really adopted by the dancing pub lic, its rocking tendencies will baye to be modified, or else long skirts Molly on the Shore (Grainger) will have to be kilted to the knee and Shepherd's Hey (Grain-for the performance. The rocking ger), Royal Opera Orchestra. and the long skirts will not be
GUYAS WILLÄNSI
OXFORD ESPERANTO
CONGRESS.
1,900 DELEGATES FROM ALL PARTS OF WORLD.
The Esperanto Congress, which was opened with a civic reception at Oxford last month, was attended by 1,200 delegates, coming from every part of the world. Many
THE SILVER SCREEN.
GENTLEMEN OF THE QUEEN'S
PRESS,"
Those who saw "Gentlemen of the Press at its opening perform- ance at the Central Theatre last might will talk about it for days.
Newspaper life as it is lived is the theme of this drama. Walteri Huston, the star, handles the diff cult part of a veteran tewspaper- man, torn between the fascination of his work and his family ties, with admirable fullness. A splen díu cast carries variety of human characterizations with stirring effect. There are laughs rippling through the story and pathos at moments and all the time there is the sense of living which only great art in writing, directing and acting could bring to the screen.?
Charles Ruggles, the well-known. stage comedian, translates, a minor part into an outstanding role. He is naturally funny and yet pathetic- ally weak. Everyone laughs at him; everyone pities him and every one understands him. His charac terization is an evening's entertain. ment all by itself. Betty Lawford does some wonderful work as the daughter and Katharine Francis, another Broadway favourite, is charming and competent.
Taken all-together, "Gentlemen of the Press" is truly great enter tainment; it reveals the real pos sibilities of the screen." It is a picture that everyone who wants to see the finest and best in moving pictures with dialogue should see.
FILM STAR'S FIGHT.
MARY NOLAN NOT DRUG ADDICT.
Tilstarred Mary Nolan, known
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WARNER BAXTER CATHERINE DALE OWEN
HEDDA HOPPER ALBERT CONTI- Presented by WILLIAM FOX
FOX NEWSREEL
CARS CRASH
WORLD
throughout the United States as IN 500 MILE RACE shopkeepers and clerks in the city have been learning Esperanto dur "the girl who lived down her past," ing the past few months in readiness hopes that the latest chapter of her for the congress, and at the con- misfortunes has been closed by a gresa beadquarters in the Town Hall a special post office, bank, and
recent decision of the Government railway booking office were staffed agents to drop the charge against by Esperanto-speaking clerks.
her of being a drug addict. A considerable number of waitIn the hospital in New York. resses from the cafés have also been. attending the classes, and have, in most cases made such good progress that they were quite competent to serve the Esperantist visitors, Ong remarkable case of linguistic enter prise was that of a 16-year-old Ox- ford schoolboy who in the last three.
where she is being treated for ex- told the narcotics inspector that she cessive aunburn, the film actreas
was the victim of a plot to black- mail her under a threat to destroy her reputation. Two former nurses swore affidavits that for two weeką
THE
CHINESE DRAMA
months has taught himself. Esper-Pastory of drug calcing, but, the The CHANGING
anto witout a teacher so successfully an orgy of that he was enrolled as an inter- inspector, after examining her: proter to the congress.
wrote across the search warrants,
She is not a narcotie' addict.”
All the speeches at the congress were in Esperanto, except that of the Mayor, made in welcoming which Alderman Carter, on behalf
the congress. The sermon and lessons at Sunday's service in the University church were in the inter- national language,and the congress programme included a performance of "Charley's Aunt" and a talking film, both in Esperanto.
EUROPEAN PRISON
TORTURE.
GERMAN VICTIM IN JUGO- SLAVIA.
By means of constant publicity and every sort of moral pressure the Jugo-Slav authorities have at laat been forced to admit the tor- ture of Isolde Reiter, who is one of the leaders of the German
mission made very grudgingly.
The Rose of Tralee (Glover) and able to exist together without disority in Jugo-Slavia. The ad-
Ireland, Mother Ireland (Lough- | astery borough), John McCormack,
Tenor.
An official Jugo-Slav communiqué refers to tendencious" accounts
Trumph at 16.
the start of her carrer. At the age
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AGE
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At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.20.
Bad luck has dogged her since
of 16 she won meteoric success in the Ziegfeld Follies under the name of Imogene Wilson. This triumph wad ruined by her association with Frank Tinney, the comedian. professional future of Tinney and (Interpreter at All Performances) herself appeared to have been blast- ed, but, under her own name of Mary Robertson, she sought work in Europe. Her gifts made her a star in German films, and an American producer recommended her for an engagement in Hollywood,
Changing her name again to Mary Nolan, it was not until she was ac- claimed a star at Hollywood that she was recognised as the former Imogene Wilson.
WIFE AND FILM VAMP.
BOYCOTT PROPOSAL.
The Berlin film actress, Frau
La Traviata Core Dei Mattadori ISSUE OF PAPAL COINS TO of the affair, but at least it admits Marlene Dietrich, whose acting
and Coro Delle Zingarette (Verdi), Metropolitan Opera Chorus.
I Remember You from Some
where and Blue is the Night, James Melton, Tenor,
9 p.m.-Weather report, time and
local news." ..... Zampa Overture (Herold), Con- -tinental Symphony Orchestra.
From the Studio,
BE RESUMED,
APPEARANCE IN DECEMBER.
-It has been decided after a lapse of 60 years to issue a new Fapal coinage. The new coins will be eight in number and will have the same fineness and value as the cor- responding Italian coins. Two will be of bronze and will be worth Mr. F. Gonzalez (Violin Soloist), and 10 centesimi, respectively
accompanist, Mr. C. Dudley There will be two other coins in Bartlett (1) Melody, by Charles-nickel,worth 20 and 50 centesimi G. Dawes and (2) Caprice and three silver coins worth resp Viennois, F. Kreisler.
tively 1,6, and 10 lira. In addition Tosen-Potpourri (Puccini), Marek there will be a gold piece of 100
Weber and his orchestra.
lire. The coms will bear on the observe the Pope's effigy and on the reverse his coat of arma, or
From the Studio,
that the police exceeded their duties (a rather mild expression for equals, and almost eclipses, that of the bastinadoing of the lady until talking film, "The Blue Angel," Emil Jaanings in Germany's, great she fainted from loss of blood), and has become a central figure" in a declares that the responsible offi- Hollywood scandal, which was cials have been dismissed, without echoed in Berlin last month. saying whether they have received other jobs.
Frau Dietrich, who immediatel received an offer of a Hollywood Isolde Reiter's mee is not an engagement after her brilliant suc isolated one. It came light only ass, plays the part of a completely because she was particularly pour immoral vamp" in this pictura su ageous in demanding redress, and perfectly that the wife of the pro- because she had German public ducer, Joseph von Sternberg, has opinion behind her. But for those apparently had no difficulty in per take action, or who have no lind Association of America that the who are either too much afraid to sunding--the powerful Women's of backing there is no redress. newcomer to Holywood has been The Jugo Slay Government then instrumental in alienating her hus- blandly deny everything. The tor- hand's affections from ber, ture of prisoners is a common prac In consequence, it is suggested tice in Jugo-Slavis, Hungary, and
that Marlene Dietrich's pictures should be boycotted by all right- thinking people
The Studio Players will present, cise sacred subjects: as was the several other European countries; "The House Agent." Charge earlier days of the Popal coinage and would certainly stop if every tera Jack Weston of Weston, The coins will be truck by the case received the same attention as Weston and Weston House Italian Mint and will be issued in
cal student; Mrs. Woodhouse, Lady Client. Scene: The office of Weston, Weston and Weston Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna Overture Suppe), Vienna Philharmonie Orch.
convention between the Vatican City and the Italian Government, each State will allow the currency of the other to circulate in to territory The Vatican City has, however, given an undertakings that (Continued at foot of nem column)
Isolde Reiter's.
the total value of the bronze, nickel, and silver coinage issued by it in any one year will exceed 1,000,000 lire (£10,780). This convention is to remain in force for a period of 10 years.
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BEBE DANIELS
IN
A Kiss
Ina Taxi
A Paramount Picture
Marlene Dietrich's own conten- tions thatishe is, ingacent of szyja, ty Ther softenders to freq divorce petition against his wife,
At present Marlede Dietrich is filming under von Sternberg in Mexico, where a picture entitled Morocco' is being shot, and where her male partners are TO-DAY ONLY at 5.80 & 9.20 Adolphe Menjou and Gary Cooper.l