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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.

| ACTOR'S NOSE CUT.

EYES BLACKED IN REALISTIC STAGE FIGHT,

STOLL THEATRES.

'SIR OSWALD'S ALLIANCE SCHEMES.

world, proposes, after consulting a number of large holders in the group of companies of which he is chairman, to form a holding com- pany to acquire the existing shares. Shareholders are asked to consent to the exchange of shares for those of the new holding company.

"SIX STOKERS.”

“WHO OWN THE BLOOMIN” EARTH:"

[By Elmer L. Greensfelder.] Now I have a rough idea of what it must have felt like to sit through a command perform- ance of the burning of Rome with Incidental music and effects by Nero. Laat Thursday night (in mall week) was suitably hot, the quarters were cramped, the audi- ence smart but apprehensive, the The pro- The proposed capitalization of the entertainment exotic.

duction, we were advised, was new company la £2,190,000 in "Constructive:"

meant 2,090,000 Ordinary and 100,000 the taking of a poor little play

which Management abares, all of $1 each. by the scruff of its neck and Jazz- It is proposed that 1,989,390 Ordin- ary shares should be issued as fullying the nonsense out of it. Not that the nonsense showed any paid in exchange for the shares of disposition to hang back. the following companies:

Every morning (вкуs the

Bir Oswald Stoll, in view of the Daily Mail" to hand) after break-recent changes in the entertainment fast two men go into a London theatre and for an hour or so solemnly hit each other over the head with bottles, throw logs of wood and a chair at each other, hurt a barrel across the stage and-generally just stop short of murder.

two actors, Mr. They are Robert Haslam and Mr. Dennis Wyndham, engaged in rehearsing a savage fight in which they are to take part in "The Phantom Fear," a new mystery play which is to be produced at His Majesty's Theatre.

The fight occurs in a derelict ship, and is one of a series of thrills.

Coliseum Syndicate. Alhambra Company. Hackney and Shepherd's-bush Empire Palaces.

Manchester Hippodrome and Ard- wick Empire.

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Leicester Palace Theatre.. St. Augustine's-parade

Mr. Wyndham has, it is stated, already received two black eyes and a cut nose during the fierce rehearsals; and recently Mr. Vernon Sylvaine, who is one ofdrome, Bristol. the authors of the play, said that he himself is black and blue with bruises acquired in showing the actors concerned in the fight scene how he wants it done.

OBERAMMERGAU.

"PASSION PLAY" TOWN ISOLATED.

Munich, The people of Ober- ammergau, the Bavarian village which is famous for its Passion

perience recently.

On a dizzy rafter above our heads stood Mr. Peter Godfrey in faultless evening dress, accom panied by a lady (one of a flight of angels) approximately clad in green Américan cloth, with talc wings, and other celestial what- note, Having been rudely amack- Hippo-ed into motion, this angel assumed

Stoll Picture Production. Chatham Empire Theatre of Varieties.

The holders of Ordinary shares in Stoll Picture Theatre would receive. one fully-paid Ordinary share of $1 In the new company for every two 58. Ordinary shares,

the doleful postures of jazz while the Six indistinguishable Stokers roared out symbolical platitudes on the stage below, assisted or impeded by every form of racket known to the lawless nursery.

A foreword explained that the play was "a political satire,” a theatrical squib, an international lampoon, a

dramatisation of When the deal is completed it is diplomatic absurdities--all bullt intended to lasue to Sir Oswald about a story of six bloomin' Stoll 68,000 Ordinary, shares of £1 stokers who, like certain six each in respect of his interest in a Great Fowers at the Outbreak.of valuable site in Liverpool and a Peace, wanted to divide the world lease owned by him of the Tyne between them, but didn't know Theatre, Newcastle. The 100,000 how." All this it was, and more. Management shares would be issued Such points as the untutored as fully paid to Sir Oswald Stoll dialogue might have failed to

Sole Agents: W. R. LOXLEY & CO., Hong Kong. Play, had a most alarming ex-in respect of one half of the leaped make clear to an audience of ere-

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

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

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A thunderstorm brought tor- rential rain and the little river Line, which flows through the village, quickly became a roaring torrent and overflowed its banks.

Fart of the village was flooded and the bridges over the river were destroyed by the trunks of trees which were hurled against them like battering rams by the water.

A great quantity of debris and many tree trunks were swept by the river to the electricity works, and for an hour the place was in darkness. The work of clearing away the obstructions and of pumping the water from the cellars and the lower rooms of houses had to be begun by torch- light.

No lives have been lost, but the people of Oberammergau are poor, and the damage done to their homes and the village by the flood is a serious matter for them.

It is estimated that the first year's profit should be sufficient to provide approximately 64 per cent. on the whole Ordinary share capital.

share capital of each of two theating, were rubbed in by, magic- tres-Chiswick Empire and Wood lantern mottoes, the hiccups of a tipay cinematograph, lift bells Green Empire.

and megaphones, search-lights, abrupt black-outs and some good loud gunpowder. True, Mr. God- frey had warned us from his rafter that it was all a joke; but that didn't prevent one from wishing that his hilarious ingen- uity had been exercised on fun- nier material.-H. H. in the Lon- in sport trade and armaments, don "Observer." but we still aroused the admira- tion of our neighbours whenever the air, sixteen mops of curls keep a troupe of girls from Lancashire time, by vibrating to the move- performs the danses anglaisca" ment. How drill-sergeants must abroad.

"JACKSON'S' 16 GIRLS

British supremacy may be lost

sigh for Mr. Jackson's power Alfred Jackson's 18 Girls have when the sixteen girls do the come to the Alhambra (Bays a splits together, or fall one against London, paper to hand), after the other in turn until the whole winning ateadfast popularity on line lies flat; and yet the trick the Continent. This is not to be which takes our fancy most is the wondered at. They give us our far simpler one of shuffling feet fill of the pleasure to be found into imitate a train, while thirty- perfect uniformity of movement. two slender arms push backwards While their toes alternately tap and forwards in imitation of pis- and stage and describe circlds in tons.

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Start 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. A letter belongs la oach white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically

both

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

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