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NOTES FROM LONDON
TALKING
ABOUT..
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AYBE it is just the kind of unusual cricket which keeps me in the open air of a Saturday, but our particular village green secmią to attract unusual people as spectators.
And as players, tʊo.
There was one afternoon when Alfred Hitchcock caused what is known as a “rot" by bowling very Inst, but underarm, ah along the ground. He took no run, just stood and waited for the ball to be thrown back to him and. then hurled diwoncerling daisy- cutters
and We Showed Him Loen Currents
#terlar on terms which will be ted ou
nilion.
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1.,ASF week-end there were no morie director present, but fastend one world's most Ustinguished
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movie-camerafieis,
Wong Howe saw a cricket bat for the Dra time. Which is not surpris a sitter, thungha he comes from Holly Wed. Where Aubry anh runs a chicken tenni, lie in aden Claims
Huntry Che doesn't expect yuu to wall lam anything else was camera- man on The Thin Man and Vaya Villa," and is whole lot of other gent
Jimmy Won
JAMPHLAMAN
y be a mislead- Ing ph, Diniy doesn't turn Occasionally, he & hundie aby more books into a sort of telescope, elnngen abe Bilgi, or demazulu different make-up for Mar
f real job, though. Is coping with Aim players complexions and facial
tonyaterazzjon
There was one womun, he told use, who had a mode on tier chin.
They tried everything they could Think of to hide it up. Paint, powder and patches. But still it showed.
He
Then any had a brainware. painter the mole bright red, and te actress's Ujn dark brWI
Then he put in red ter in the The mole disappeared nad The Ups esme through my the ordinary Will.
The Eyes Have It
JIMMY is hoe "now, working for
Korda on a British picture. One of the netresses Bio will here to hoot has very pale blue eyes.
Somebody suggested that blue eyes were diffrant to photographa.
-They used to be," replied Jimmy. "but not ROW, We've Axed that. All we do is make up the eyelids a little darker than usual and hang up jurer of black cloth over the camera.
When we photograph in close-up. for instance, the black cloth a reflected by the actress' eyes and the water- ness disappears."
Jimmy
hick cloth klea.
thought
by Spike HUGHES
tions, finds them jobs. They swear by him. And Plrow's enemies and critics 30 dangerous political possibilities in such a system,
Just Fancy!
GERMANY, and Hamburg at that,
hardly seems the place for a meet- to discuss enjoy- ing of 20 antions ment."
As if that were not grim enough 1 itself. Use offcial tle is World Congress for Leisure Time and Recrea- tion." The delegates will discuss how people should spend their holidays. Five thousand girls will sing arid dance, I am told.
And so they are going to organic even the propien hoildpyn. Well...
Curtain..
SEE that among the topics to be
didemned in the week-end."
Which reminds me of a letter re- ceived in this country the other day from a German correspondent.
He wanted to know the address of the Headquarters of "The Week-end
Movement."
Obviously, siner the English week-end is so famous, it follows that there must. he movement
Bygones A
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Die that has just come lo adver Lives the sale of; among other things, objects knowu na" Bysone;"
Í sind zettainly go to this sade, for, I have bet the faintest iden what "Byrones" hight be,
very sensible, It probably has pedati nitaulut, but to me it con- Jures sup Bertie biddlus: for lots of spill mik w buried hatchets,
How-de-Do
THOUGH I have never been to one, I have always thought it rather a pily
that the End Theatriewi Garden Party is not put on for a "run"' of a week, then I might get to see it.
To-day's "do" in Regent's Park promises to be about as strenuous as usual, with at least one Jinnovation that ought to be developed.
This is a ten enclosure where well- known composers are going to play their own titles,
or the The P.&O. Banking|
The movies are full of ingenuities kels, which the audience nerez ZAMBOANGAmprenta und-which-nobody really
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Foreigts Exchange and General Banking Pooh-Bah Els tranced.
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(SWALD PIROW who is in Lon- on this week, is South Afrlen's coming strong man: his enemies any her comlag Fascist Dictator.
1 Aloister of Defence and Minister of Communtentions; and he, Hubs the two together.
Is dileult, they say, to get u Job on the South African railways to-day unless you have served for two years in. a Special Servicè Battalion.
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The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week' ended August 7, 1915.
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Henri Daumier, made this cartoon (now boing exhibited at the Leicester Calleries) more than 70 years ago: "L'Empire c'est la paix.”
An Olde English Hostelry" run by the cast of "Pride and Prejudice" offers a skhtie alley and jars of pol- pourri.
As In New York
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" na a
piny, was produced in New York before it appeared here. And in New York as in London Rex Whistler designed the sets.
Whistler lund a lot of fun in New York trying to find Regency furniture and knick-knacks in New York antique shops. The déftlers pat to hear of he search and turned up at the theatre with most remarkably collection of Chiu-nostiș of pood Regency Ten- To date 1000
Rex Whistler, a young man in bis thirties, is one of the must Independent, of stage designers. If he doesn't want 10 design for a new show he just k for a fabulous and impongibió sum.
If he dne want to do it, let really mind haw.little he gets.
That's how the lovely "Figaro" set- Units got to Sadler's Wella,
A Big Draw
Jul
for a well-known brewing firm. Whet It came to drawing the glasses of beer he was asked to stop.
There is one man attached to the Arm's advertising staf, whose one job in life is to draw these glasses of beer. He alone has the knack of providing just the right amount of froth.
And, I am told, he never draws any- thing else.
Service
EW thugs are more sadly funny than Germany's national dignifi cation. I renn the sort of thing that bring about the order that in futuro Berlin waters shall be addressed only as Herr Serviermeister" (Mr. Ser visigonster).
apart from the fact that "Servier" Is 18th century French-influenced Cler- man, and that the Germnus have a perfectly good word of their own for "serve" (which you may also know from its appearance In the present tense in the motto of the Princes of Wales, it is going to take a lot of doing to get the walters themselves to accept the new title,
AST the I met him he had funt Brighter Opera
discovered a man with a really odd
Whistler had been designing porters
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