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ONE.

The past week has seen a change in the fortunes of the war in China. The Northern advance has been stemmed on the banks of the Yangtze River, where the Nationalists, despite the absence of Chiang Kai-shek, are making a deter- mined stand. The Northerners, for their part, are very.con- fident, and look forward to soon being in Shanghai again, with their chief, Marshal Chang Teo-lin, as virtual ruler of China. Kwangtung and Kwangsi, of course, would not come under his dominance.

The full series of events leading up to the Nationalists' dramatic stand against a superior and victorious force is told. in this week's "Overland Mail.”

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MUSIC

NEW GIRL SINGER.

"NATURALISING" U.S. OPERA.

DRAMA

"MOVIES" IN GERMANY.

FILMS.

PRINCE POSES.

I MUST BE OFF.”.

Just before noon on July 15 the Prince of Wales drove to Pathé Freres, in Wardour-street, in order to take part in one of the episodes of the film "Remembrance" which the British Legion is producing for re- lease on Armistice Day.

Interesting afdelights on the Ger-Come on and FIRE AWAY....... man reaction to motion pictures, in- digenous and foreign, are given by The announcement that another the Berlin. correspondent of the American girl is under contract"Times" in a recent review, The with the pre-eminent Metropolitan German, he says, is apt to take his Opera House to sing leading roles politics to the pictures. "An En

lish audience." his article pro coeds, "would be inclined to wel- come with a pleasure unclouded by political arriere pensee the spec tacle of, the big, ugly bully of a policeman being suitably knocked on the head by the down-trodden, but still handsome, son of the people. the film version of Hauptmann'a "Weavers," recently produced Berlin, half the audience, cheered because it disapproved of authority and reaction, and the other half hissed because it disapproved of re- valution.

only promises musical New York a summer of clamour that may exceed that Talley's announcement less than two years ago.

Until her debut next autumn,

attending Marion

It is the story of three British heroes "broke in our wars," their vicissitudes, ending in the help they receive through the famous Haig Fund, in which the Prince has shown such immense personal In-

when the New York critics will when, however, this happened interest In the last nine years.

have their first go at her, Ethel Aves is a storm-centre only of human interest, for her story is unquestionably dramatic ane. One may not ethically discuss yet the quality of Miss Aves's dramatic soprano voice, but that she has passed the. trying audition of the musical court and won her con tract at all makes her a public figure.

Like Miss Talley, Miss Aves comes from the West-not the wide open spaces of the interior, but from the quite civilised little city of Galveston, Texas. She is 27 years old, attractive, apparently devoid of the proverbial operatic temporament, thoroughly Ameri-

can.

His share in the picture is to sit in in his room at York House, St. James's, and assist the work of the Legion.

An exact replica of that room was made in Pathe's studio, and when the Prince entered it he was perfcct- ly at home.

Paint No. 5.

The Prince had to have his face

"This political view of the films

He sat down before his desk and has been fostered by the controver- sies over the production of Russian submitted to the expert Instructions ren of Mr. George King, the author of "revolutionary" films, which

eati- "Remembrance," and Mr. Bert dered an unbiased, aesthetic mate of for example, "The Cruiser Wynne, the Legion director. Potemkin, aimost impossible in Ger- many, and by Nationalist' pictures, such as Fridericus Rex' and 'Bis- marek. (One may contrast the re- cent popularity in Austria of films depicting the pre-war glories of the Austrian Court and army which de- lighted Viennese audiences mainly because the cavalry officers, their horses, their mistresses, and their uniforms were all so pretty.)

in

She comes of a minister's family. Her father, an Episcopal lan restor now dead, said to her when she suggested several years ago that her voice might lead to a "It is natural that this habit of public career: "I would sooner see expecting political tendencies you dead here at my feet than ap-films, combined with the acute na pearing before footlights."

tional sensitiveness to ridicule. should have led Germany to regard with suspicion and indignation films of supposedly "anti-German" character in foreign countries. Even Charlie Chaplin is widely sup- posed to be absorbed in iniquitous antl-German propaganda, on the strength, apparently, of 'Shoulder Arms.

Sister's Help.

And so she came to New York seven years ago. She had a sister there in social settlement work. But for that sister she could not have borne the expense of study- ing, for never a remittance came from home. Nearly three years ago she first sang professionally.

The furore over American-born singers in the Metrópolitan Grand Opera Company began some three or four years ago when Mr. William A. Brady, the theatrical producer, declared before a New York busi- ness men's club that to qualify for the Metropolitan one's name must end with "ach, oft, ell, or etti." Forthwith there began a demand to "naturalise" the Metropolitan. Gatti-Casazza, the impresario, and Otto Kahn, the financler and chair man of the Metropolitan board of directors, promptly denied any pre- judice against American voices, protesting that really decided sym- pathy had been shown toward

those born in America,

Miss Ethel Avea's professional name will be Ethel Dreda.

GIRL PIANIST OF 4.

Dorothy Johnson, the four-years- old daughter of a music teacher, has astounded the staff of the Chicago Musical College.

During a scholarship competi- tion while the judges were conceal- ed behind a curtain so that they were unable to identify the con- testants, Dorothy sat at the piano and played Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, following it with, Bach's Prelude in C-major.

When she appeared to receive the prize the judges declared that she presented "the most remarkable case of imitative talent in their experience."

Dorothy's mother said she had given her daughter little instruc- tion; the girl had picked up about 80 compositions by simply hearing them.

HEIFETZ INJURES FINGER.

Heifetz Injured a finger in Melbourne, a few days ago and carried out his recital that even- ing in, occasionally, a good deal

powdered and smeared with paint, like any film star.

The paint is professionally known as Grease Paint No. 5. Mr. King: applied it profusely and when he: had finished, the Prince's face was as yellow as a chrysanthemum.

He looked at himself in a mirror

and said, "This is terrible."

"No, sir," said Mr. King "you looki splendid; you now have the perfect photographie face."

"Come on," laughed the Prince, "and fire away."

So the camera men hurried

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with their work while the Prince took a sheet of note-paper and wrote a letter to Earl Haig congratulating him on the success of Poppy Day would be even greater as the years and expressing the hope that it

went by.

He talked of film work in the States, remarking that money and climate were the chief causes American success in the plcture

of

There was a merry laugh, and then the paint was removed, and the face, rather sore (as the Prince observed), was freely powdered.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

This cross-word puzzle has been made by an experi but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

TO

62

13

14

15.

B

25

27

28

1448

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HORIZONTAL

1-A small particle of

wood

7-The center

SA place for baking 10-Made grimy

14-To sip

18-Conjunction 17-A chart

10-Fixed limit of time. 20-A simpleton 22-Destiny

23-Employ

24-Sentenced to sternal

punishment 28-Conjunction

meaning "and not"

27-Part of a bout 29-A word uzad au the name of a thing. 21-Hotela

29-A quantity of

medicine

S2-A boy

$5-Delicata

38-An intoxicating

drink

(2)

26

THE INTERNATIONAL, SYNSICATE.

HORIZONTAL (Cont) |40-Levsi

41-A loud prolonged

sound, I

43-Banidaz

49-Performed

| 43-Preposition |47-Amémative answer |48-Labelled

| 82-Ornamental börder

63-A Great Lake / 64-To produce

VERTICAL

-То ивер 2-Plunder

-A limb 4-Bay's name

(familiar) -Alwaya

G-A. color 1-Toila

| 11-8pace

12-A matal

13-A Roman

philosopher

32

VERTICAL (COL) 14-Tripped

| 15–Sat, in 'authority- over others 17-Polit

18-Pleasing scents 26-Not real (compare-

tiva dagros). 21-One who makes a

Ican

|24-A emnti depression

[20–An entrance

|28-An article

|30-Pronoun

24-Gready

36-A narrow place 37-Native of Denmark

33-Employed

44-Awalt

48-Baucy

45-A ap

49-Profix msaning

"with"

(50-A bevorsga

[55-To coase living

SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

Biart out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. Å letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horisontally or vertically or both

(The solution of the nhove cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

Before he left, Ear! Haig was told that everything in the studio was British, and at this he express ed appreciation.

An official campaign was started to achieve the withdrawal of such films. The German Ambassador to the United States protested to the American Government. German world. diplomatic and consular represen. "I'm afraid," he said, "we tatives protested likewise wherever haven't too much of either over here "anti-German" films appeared, and just now." regularly reported progress" to the German Foreign Office. Pro- tests were also made to the Polish Government against the showing in Warsaw of "The Four Horsemen of

"I must be off," he said looking different angles, but this did not Afterwards, how- the Apocalypse. However, the at his watch. "I'm lunching with perturb him.

success my brother at the Guildhall."

ever, he remarked that he could still campaign met with small

"see" the lights in front of his eyes, Then the Association of German

Lord Hatg and His Film Face. although they were now turned off. Kinema Proprietors was induced to make all business relations with week and thoroughly enjoyed the the scene from three angles simul- pass a resolution threatening to

Earl Haig was "shot" during mail Several feet of film were taken of Germany impossible for foreign experience. The "shooting" took taneously, in order to ensure it be firms responsible for "anti-German"

place in the Pathé Freres studios, Ing a success, and the best longth films unless such films were with- where the famous soldier went to will be incorporated in the actual drawn by June 1 of this year. The take part in the British Legion film, aim which will be released for firm of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was "Remembrance."

public exhibition in October. named. The same firm had already The Prince of Wales previously received a request from the Central visited the studio, in order to be Organisation of the German Film Aimed while writing a letter to Earl Industry to withdraw the film "Mare Halg. The latter attended there in Nostrum" (being shown at that time order to read the Prince's letter and in France) on the ground that it reply to it. was a mischievous film of the kind One of the most interesting things which the International Film Con- which resulted from his first ex- gress in Paris last year had unani-perience as a film actor was that mously agreed ought not to be pro- the Earl learnt from Mr. Bert duced. The German Film Industry Wynne, the producer, that he has a hoped that the Americans, although "Alm face." they had not taken part in the Con- His lordship's features proved to Kress, would be none the less anxi- be so good from the camera man's ous to avoid causing bad blood point of view, that it was not neces among nations.

sary for him to use grease-paint. "Unfortunately," the "Times" All he had to do'was to have his face writer goes on, "the movement to- powdered because of the intensity wards the general abolition of such of the lights which, were thrown alms thus led by the German film in- upon him. dustry, the German Foreign Office, The "set" in which the Earl act. and the German Kinema. Proprie ed was a reproduction of his study. tors' Association, is hampered, and When he entered he had to seat him- even given an air of insincerity by self at his desk, and then wait while the continued exhibition in Ger- the lights were traind upon him and many of films strongly directed the three cameras focussed.

Ger. against Poland. These the

After this had been done, Mr. mans defend, rather naively, It'ap | Wynne shouted, "Lights |pears, by drawing a line of demarcameras-gol" This was

cation between prop ganda films| Haig's cue, and, like a thoroughly and "Hotz" films--“Hetz” being a well-trained film actor, he began at word signifying a goading, an in the proper moment to sort the cor- flammatory incitement. It is, says respondence set out on hia maho- the writer quoted, a dublous disgany desk. Finding the Prince's tinction.

of pain. While he was about to noon there was improvement, but get out of a motor car on the pre-if he played the strain might be Helfets decided to vious evening the first finger of infurious. his left hand caught in a book. keep his engagement, but on the It began to swell and as treatment doctor's orders did not touch his That did not bring relieve the violinist violin before the concert.. thought a bone might have been day, it is stated was the first for broken. The X-ray showed there years on which she had not prac was "no need for fear. Heifetz tised. Heifetz had his finger baked then had his finger "baked" by the rain the next day and one more electrical process. By the after treatment was given for safety.

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and Earl

letter, he opened it and read it with great interest. He then picked up his pen, drew a sheet of notepaper from a stand at his side, and wrote

letter in reply.

It all sounds very simple, but the whole thing took about 20 minutes, and Eari Haig was greatly interest- ed to find how much careful atten- tion has to be given to detail if a film is to be "shot" successfully.

While the scene was being taken, Earl Halg had lights totalling over a quarter of a million candle-power turned on him from a dozen or more

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