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SISYPHUS IN RED TIE
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The impulse thai sends the ringleaders on the political, warpath may be understandable. They may include leaven of honest funatics. but the master spirits usually have an eye solely to the main chance. They deliberately court the gamble with fate, even though history tells them how it will certainly end for themselves, - '
no
Unique in the history of musical productions, "Rainbow on the River," now at the Queen's Theatre starring Bobby Breen, has cach number keyed to the situations and to the mood of the characters. Each selection is un
ន, ព Integral part of the plot and furthes the action. "Rainbow on the River, theme song. in heard us, a
Hobby
But how can we explain the mad- Breen solo on
ness that obsesses their rank-and-fle three and again
UCCUS Upporters, who risk their lives with with the assistance of the famous Hall Johnson Choir.
no prospect of sharing adequately in "The Flower Song" is sung by the
the loaves and fishes? They, young lyric tenor
doubt, are the dupes of their leaders, in two scenes; once where he is selling flowers In
no doubt, dupes of their own ambl- the French Quarter of his native New
tions. Yet it seems strange that, Orleans, and Inter in New York. The
sentient mankind should so persist- enlly risk everything for nothing. of the song is for the boy to purpose ntirnct the attention of passers-by as THE ETERNAL TASK the cries his wares lyrically. Von
Flotow's hymn from "Siradella“ rendered by Bobby in a smell parish church. Franz
Schubert's "Ave Marta" is rendered by Bobby church, where he serves in the choir. The hunting melody strikes at the anguished heart of the
coloured mammy
who has suddenly learned the white bay is to be taken away from her, Kurt Neumann directed "Rainbow on the River" and the sup- porting east features May Robson, Charles Butterworth, Louise Benvers. Alan
Mowbray, Benitn Marilyn
Hume, Knowldon
and
Henry O'Neill.
"Anthony Adverse" "Anthony Adverse", now at the Majestle Theatre, is the inst word in mogalflrent screen entertainment,
It
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Pres. Hoover. Pres. Cleveland
Canal and Havana.
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Pres. Wilson
Pres. Monroe
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TO SEATTLE, VICTORIA "THE EXPRESS ROUTE"
IC-
mirror of History, all those
Viewed through the undistorting volutionary leaders, even when they have been honest and unselfish, look remarkably like so many up-to-date examples of Sisyphus, that avaricious Corinthian king whom the gods doomed. perpetually to sweat and toll at rolling a heavy stone to the hill- top, only to find it back again at the foot of the hill next morning.
This tragedy of abject futility is due to one fairly obvious fact. The modern Sisyphus in a red tie confusca material with spiritual affairs. He fails to realise that before remould- ding things nearer to the heart's heart's desire. desire it is vital to effect a change of
or onc
eight speaking parts and 2,500 bit ment,
Exchanging one form of govern- players and extras. Fredric March organisation, for another will achieve system of social has given the screen some wonderful le or portrayals in the past, but never has often proves a case of out of the fry- nothing. Indeed, it very he risen to the heights of dramatic ing-pan into the fire.
But if there fire as in the title role of this picture, could come a change of heart, e He is ably supported by Olivia
de Havilland, who came
cere uplife of human spirit and out- to screen pro-look, no revolution would be neces- minence with her work in "A Alid-sary. summer Night's Dream" and "Cap- Lain Blood. This is Miss de Havil The land's first great emotional role and she rises to it with true artistry. Others who figure prominently In- clude
Stem Duna, Edmund Gwenn and Claude Rains.
"The Garden of Allah"
the
our
ot
bmbitious architects of New Jerusalem are building their citadels on the wrong foundations and using wrong building materials. We have had a deal impassioned controversy over the League of Nations. But, if the world or even Western Europe were truly Christian, in constant and practical endeavour as well as outwarit pro- fession. Geneva would be a redun- doncy.
The motion that
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how many red or black-and-inn militiamen are worth sacrificing in a fight to settle who imposes precisely the same burdens? Is it worth while to battle to the last ditch in a cam- paign to change tax-collectors? WHAT MATTERS MOST
As the tattered pageant of recorded centuries unfolds Itself to my eyes, only one thing is truly worth fight- ing for, and that is human liberty and personal treedom,
Men and women must be able to call their lives as well as their souls their own without more dictation or duress than is necessary for the well- community in being of the whole cun
which they live.
some patent system of human organisation enable us to attain perfect happiness On earth is the most pathetic chimera that has ever bemused the minds of mankind.
A glorious feast of colour and romance awnits you at the King's Theatre where David O. Selznick's Technicolour production of, the im- mortal Robert Hitchens love story of the desert, "The Garden of Allth". is being shown, with Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer in the stellar roles, Words can't describe beauty or effectiveness of this second in dependent production of the young producer who last season so suspici- ously inaugurated Selznick Inter-
True human happiness comes not national Pictures with the charming even apart from that unassailable from without but from within, and, Midnight Mar.
12 "Little Lord Fauntleroy". The soft Midnight Mar. 20 colours of the genuine desert back-logic.
Sot uxlam, triple-proved by experience, Midnight Apt. Dgrounds adapt themselves perfectly
and faith, how far does Midnight Apr. 20
to colour and offer a striking contrast ves of people?
politles really touch the elemental Midnight May 7
to the vivid scenes in the Algerian Midnight May bazaur and the Ouled Nail dancing
girls. Easi? Rathbone plays
The main business of politics is Italian nobleman, Count Anteoni:
the economics, which means taxation, and inton: the latter hardly varies under any
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Governments, though they may cause much misery, can confer singularly littic Joy. And the greatest good that any Government can achieve for its people is to ensure tranquillity and pence,
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