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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1930.

THE

MUSIC

DRAMA · FILMS.

CHINA MAIL.

MEDICAL QUACKS,

POLICE POWERS.

NEWS CINEMA,

NAMES OF "CURES" GIVEN.

WHY POLITENESS TO MURDERERS?

A MODIFICATION.

Is. AND 64. SEATS ONLY.

ELSIE JANIS LOSES BRITISH PICTURES.

MOTHER.

Woman Who Made Her Famous.

Hollywood, July 14. Mrs. Janla. Bierbower, mother und constant companion of Miss Elsie Janis, the actress, died at Hollywood to-day:

COMPANY'S TOTAL DEFICIT NOW £173,688

Formed in August, 1928,, British Talking Pictures made a loss of £153,481 in the period of Novem- ber 15, 1929. Since that date a profit of £1,793 has been made. The result is a deficit at April 7, 1930, including certain sums pay- able under the recent scheme of arrangement, of £179;688.

25,000 ARE LISTED.

was to

New York, August 14.

*London, July 24. The detalled history of more than London at length has a cinema 25,000 medical quacks, of every eouorandum which Mr. Clynes has just We are glad to see that the Mem- exclusively devoted to news plc-colvable type, are included in the circulated turos,

to the leading police New York City Health Depart-authorities will restore to the police On August 18 the Avenue Paviment "rogues gallery." compilation some part of the powers which were lion in Shaftesbury Avenue, W. of which was announced yesterday so rashly taken from them after the instituted the new policy. by Health Commissioner Wynne. Royal Commission on Police Pro

A vast section of the, public Each of the practitioners, manufaccedure had reported. Mother Janis was as-well known

looks upon the news-reel as the turers, peddlers or inventors has a in the world of the theatre as her

most interesting feature in the folder in which is included his com- aion's recommendations

The effect of the Royal Commis- daughter. She never left her.

In October last a fire occurred ordinary cinema programme? She was

her guide her guard. at the company's premises at

In plete biography, the nature of the paralyse the police. Their business New York the Embassy Theatre commodity with which he tricks the is to detect crime and to protect the and her coach, hor closest friend. Wembley and it became necessary bas successfully devoted its entire public, and his method of working. Innocent. They found themselves She sat in the wings and heard to submit a scheme of arrange entertainment for many months' to The gallery has just been com- virtually forbidden to question any every song. Or she would stand | ment. Thia, now adopted, pro- news-reels. there watching every dance. vides, inter alla, that the claims

piled by a staff which has devoted suspected person, even though that Elsie, who is now forty-twe, of all creditora as at January 21, gramme at the Avenue Pavilion The work was begun laat January hands were tied because certain or Under the new regime the pro- more than six months to the work person was not under arrest. Their was taken as a small child to a 1930 (except those under £25, will last for one hour only. New York theatre by her mother, which have, since been paid in will consist principally of pictures the suggestion of Commissioner anxious that extrame politeness It by the National Business Bureau at our politicians were intensels who obtained for her job by full, should be paid by ton in-turnished by British Movietone Wynne. The staff has been under should be shown to murderers and sheer persistence.

stalments of 2. per E, together News, and is the intention of the direction of Allan E. Backman, burglars. There was no necessity "Isn't she beautiful?" she said with a bonus of 2s, per . The the directors of the theatre to with Special Deputy HealthCom for the restrictions imposed. The 1o the manager. She said it so first instalment fell duo July maintain an up-to-the-day news missioner Edward F. Brown, who police had done their duty on the often that the manager had to 31 and provision was mada for its service.

made the original suggestion to Dr. whole very well. The innocent per payment.

In the programme there will wynne, acting as its adviser. The son had nothing to fear from them: Then, through all the years, For the information of the mother forced on her daugh-shareholders the directors have regularly a Mickey Mouse cartoon direct charge of Dr. S. Dana Hub-have

the also be short travel pictures, and completed files will be under the and in his interest no one should ter success. She signed all her issued * pro forma statement! will be shown.

obstructed them. They help daughter's contracts.

showing the position at April 7,

bard, chief of the division of legal him and protect him. The maximum price of admis-medicine of the Health Department. after giving effect to the scheme. sion to the news-reel theatre will mained single to please your This shows that the principal as- be 18.; most of the seats will be pealed to all authoritative organiza proved by the investigations of the The staff under Mr. Backman ap- British law has been strikingly The safety of the innocent under

set is a holding of £327.500 in Associated Sound Film Industries

tions having any of the informa committee which is dealing with tion sought, in making up the new which the local Health Department ransacked the records and searched had had contact afforded a begin- unable to find a modern example of everywhere-for evidence, It has been

The National Batter

an innocent man in Britain suffer.

agree.

"Is it true that you have re

mother?" Elsie Janis was asked whon she came here a year or

priced at 6d.

two ago to appear in "Clowns in and N.V. Kuchenmeister Inter- FIRST G.B.S. TALKIES] files. A long list of quacks with capital punishment. Though it has ;

Clover."

"No, mother is a good pal," she replied; "no party is complete unless she is there."

BESSIE LOVE.-Star, of "The Broadway Melody" an all talking-musical film, which is being screened at the Queen's Theatre to-day to' Saturday. Charles King and Anita Page are in the cast.

PADEREWSKI.

national Maatschappij voor Spre- kende Films.

The above sum is the amount due in respect of assets sold to those concerns and is 10 be satisfied by a £60,000 first mort- gage debenture, 60,000 preference shares of £1 each and 415,000 or- dinary of 10s. each of Associated

Sound Film Industries.

TALKIE-TALKIE.

Thus Beachcomber in the Dally Express:

It seems that there is a slump in talkies. But how is this possible?

If there is this slump, Doris-and It's hard to credit it, isn't it?- can ascribe it only to the general

PROPOSED ADAPTATION OF Ping.

TWO PLAYS.

Business Boreau also had an ing the death penalty. But the

extensive list of its own.

serious fact has to be faced that in Further information WA5 ob- Mr. Bernard Shaw's coy flirta-

the last two years, during which tained from the Food, Drug the restrictions on the police have tions with talkie producers in Brithe Department of Agriculture, the been perpetrated without the mur and Insecticide Administration of

been in operation, ten murders have tain and America have resulted in Fraud Bureau of the Postoffice Dederer having been convicted. The two definite propositions.

partment, the Federal Trade Com-

easier, and life unsafer. In certain

The first is that an adaptation (mission and the Bureau of Investi. Royal Commission. has made crime of "How He Lied to Her Hus-gation of the American Medical of these cases the police had a very duced by Cecil Lewis, in conjunc tand" should be made and pro- Association.

'The

good Idea who the criminals were. gallery, it was exTM Pictures, in the early autumn. tion with British International plained in the announcement, but, without the power to question

will not be availabi

the to It will be curious.

used

The second is that an adapta- tion of "Arms and the Man" should be produced, under the in tracing complaints led by vit direction of Basil Dean, by Aa-

tims of 'quacks, in preparing cases,

them, could not bring the guilt home...It—is-a-good-thing-thai-|- murderers are not in future to be

helped to defy the forces of law and

inability to appreciate really good, sociated Radio Pictures, a British against the violators of the inedical Justice.-Dally Mail.

snappy dialogue when it's blown at

you under high pressure through

one hundred per cent, efficient me- chanism.

Yeah, honey, like this:— Scene:

marble about climbing roses, and A moonlit terrace with

so on-gat me? She is discovered biting her nails. She is very easy on the eyes. He enters, walking on gravel....pop! pop! pop! pop!

He: "So you're still hare?" She: "Yeah!"* Hé: “Yeah?”

Eddie,

I

gonna getta

She: "Yeah! Oh, kehn't....I....”

He: "Mean ya divorrrrce, huh?"

She': "Oh, Eddie, na-a-a-a-al”'

RIVAL'S JEALOUSY OF SILVER huh?"

LOCKS.

Paris, July 12. Faderewski on vacation in Paris confided to an inquiring reporter that he is proud of but one thing In his lifetime, and that is not his skilful playing of the piano bat of his crop of hair.

The famous pianist came to France to consult one of the most famous specialists of Europe on phlebite, Dr. Choussaud, of Orleans who formerly treated Lord Curzon for that same all "ment.26

He: "Gonna getta what, then, She (desperately, and how!): "Gonna getta gat an'an shoot myself" (suddenly remembering the English accent) "and put an end to, this feathful tragedy of incom patibilitah!”

He (cynically, but remembering the accent, too):"Not realish?"

She: "Yeah!".

I mean, Doris, what's wrong with that?

And again:-I am afraid, Dorfs, that you and I will have our work cut out to stem this rumour about the talkie-slump.

We can only give another example of the first-class, artistic stuff we have heard, can we not?

"I have signed a contract with an American impresario for a six-month's tour of the United Yosemite valley; stones strown Scene: A canyon in the mighty States, can you cure me before about; a place where men and trees go," Paderewsklaaked Dr. Choussaud, who promised that in

15 days the musician would be

rid of his muscular pains.

On the fifteenth day, Paderew-. aki was caught by a rainstorm in a park, and to the surprise Of hia.companions ran for shelter without any Indication of his phlebite. During the remainder of the summer, Paderewski will visit in France and Switzerland, returning to Poland before sailing to fulfil his American engage hints.

In Light and Shadow.

"I admit I am proud of my allver hair," Paderewski told the United Press A

de

"My fellow-Pole Raoul Kolzalaki, a great pianist, who is my rival ta Chopin, has told his friends he is jealous of Paderew aki, but only because. I have hair. and he is bald. I play In full light, but poor. Raoul plays in shadows He puts only a dim lamp on his plano

Paderewski tells laughlogly of An incident which happened dur ing his visit in Paris He was playing Chopin's Nocturne on his own plano in his hotel room when the occupant of the next 100m pounded on his door, fe

When you get through running the scales can get to sleep It terrible, that noise, Palierswak!!! angered neighbour sale Press

famous

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Radio, Keith-Orpheum Company concern closely affliated with the and drug laws, and in all other

legitimate channels." of America.

"Individual crooks," the announce VOLCANOES IN CHILE Mr. Lewis, once

ment said, "their affiliations, if any, "Uncle Caractacus," is one of the with corporations, their aliases, the lately been original broadcasters, and has name of the article, medicine, nos-

chief producer of

trum, diet, exercise, cure, or what- plays for the B.B.C. He is a close ever they have for sale, are listed friend of Mr. Show, with whom separately. Their entire life hie- Ne occasionally shares a holiday tory, their schools, habits, methods near Stresa, on Lake Maggiore.

and the various cities or districts In

Mr. Dean is the director of the in which they have operated are screen version

It they have been arrested of 'John Gals- noted. worthy's. "Escape." Ho

or convicted, this is shown, together also directed the Paramount release, with the charges and the disposition

The Return of Sherlock Holmes," of their cases.."

POPULATION ALARMED BY THEIR ACTIVITY,

Several volcanoes in Southern Chile ara becoming active.

Outpourings of ashes and smoke, together with heavy rumblings, aro alarming the inhabitants and many have started to leave the affected districts for fear of a great volcanic

There is no information regard- "The completion of the no-called ing the remuneration likely to be 'Rogues' Gallery of the New York outburst. received by Mr. Shaw, but as he City Department of Health,” said} will undoubtedly insist on being Dr. Wynne, "undoubtedly is one of ductions it is probable that he has made in its drive to rid the city closely associated with both pro- the most important strides this city will take a considerable percent of the human vultures who prey on age of the booking receipts.

the well in addition to the alck and whom we rightly regard as one of the most dangerous of all health menaces. A

are straight. Enter he and she, riding. They dismount...alither! plop! slither! plop!

She sits down on a rock.... crackle! crackle!

She: "Oh, Elmer, kehn't ya hear that fairy music??

"With such a complete list wo should now be able to cope with a situation which has been growing more dangerous each year, especially since the quick and charlatan have been permitted to broadcast over the radio. We do not have much trouble A fly, drunk with the beanty of in ousting the illegal practitioner the scene, walks up a tree....plink, once we are convinced of hla colpa- plonk! h'p! plinki plonk! pptbility. All that is necessary is to He "There's no musle in matura the matter over to the Stata barrt but what ya put theirre, Board of Regents, which can revoko honey"

the licence of the guilty party, and She: "A-4-a-a-a-ow! Eimerrr!" if he attempts to practise here They kiss.. CRASHI Click) without a licence again he will be

Farrested."—NLY; Times,

WHAT A TUNEFUL TRIO

SIAM AND CHINA.

+ CHINESE ""SUBJECTED TO UNFAIR LAWS?

Nanking, August 15. That the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should bo requested to nego- tiate and conclude with the Siamese Government a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and to open Chinese cou sulates in Slam for the protection o the interests br Chiass instforala

ls urged by the Bhan

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