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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1931.

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

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THE CHINA

MAIL.

MUSIC DRAMA FILMS

THEATRE'S BID

FAVOUR.

FOR

Opposition to Sunday Opening Bill.

TALKIE COMPETITION.

days working week is secured for one has the everybody,

money to do it and while, therefore, I am hopeful with in the West End I feel more appre- regard to the future of the theatre hension with regard to provincial

GRAMOPHONE ROMANCE.

1507 version of Moszkovski's etude ACTRESS BURNED TO

in G flat.

Both artists brightened when gramophone records made last year: of the same music were played.

The occasion

was a luncheon at

DEATH.

Costume in Flames in Dressing-Room,

the Savoy Hotel, where the chair-

Dawson and Mr. Mark Hamburg be- of Harrison Road; Leicester, has man and officials of the Gramophone Company entertained Mr. Poter

Mrs. May Mann, aged twenty-one, fore they act out on their Austra

died in hospital from extensive burns received at a fire at the Nottingham Empire.

lian tour.

is until I was twenty years of age,

"I was an ironworker in Austra-

Adelaide," said Mr. Dawson.

ficate at the School of Mines in

A Raw Australion,

Mr. Mann and Mrs. Kathleen

tingham, were appearing In "Carnival Time.”

They were in their dressing-room "A year of two later I came to between the shows at 8.45 when England, a raw Australian, and took Mrs. Mann's costume suddenly cheap rooms at Kennington. I burst in flames,

Theatres Showing Vitality. Still the theatres are not relying upon Sunday opening for their pros- perity. They are beginning to show theatres. real vitality. There are signs of a Still the fight is very keen, and realisation that the old-fashioned the talkies no longer have their own type of piece is no longer a draw. way. If it did not cost so much There is wholesale experimentation: to run a theatre, than I think this and took a master plumber's certi-Dorrie, aged twenty-one, of Not- If a piece does not draw at once off form of entertainment would hare | The London Theatres are making

it comes. Mr. Edgar Wallace has better outlook than it has. Perhaps a desperate bid for publie favour in had five dramatic failures alone in, we may come to popularise drama competition with the talkies.

the last few months but he has made on cheap mass lines. the first place, there is now before plenty of money on his successes, the country the Government Bill The moment there is a flop in the providing for a modification of the box office receipts, he puts up the!

bought a morning suit, a top hat, Mra. Dorrie went to her assist- Cochran notices. Mr.

does the

and brown boots. Dressed in these, ance and was helped by Miss Hilary, Sunday opening regulations. It

His Cochran Revue 1931 is. leuts the theatres and music halls same.

I went off to see Sir Charles Sant- White, another member of the com- clean out.

ley. He played for me while I sang.pany. Mr. Clynes, the Home dead, after about three weeks of it.

All three received burne. Secretary, was in favour of their in. Yet, there have been enormous suc- Singer Hears His Voice He was a terrible pianist!

Mrs. Dorrie is still detained in "Yes, my boy, you have a very hospital. clusion but the bulk of the Cabinet, cesses. Mr. Oswald Stoll closed the

of 24 Years Ago. good voice, but you headed by Mr. Arthur Henderson, Coliseum so far as nusiç hall enter-

are a rough Their screams had attracted at- was concerned and re-

diamond,' he said. who is a Wesleyan lay preacher of tainment

tendants, who extinguished the Two famous artistes, a singer and "Santley obtained me my first flames with buckets of water before very strong sabbatarian views, ob- opened it for what is really glorified! jected. Consequently Sunday open-musical comedy, the particular pro- a pianist, were recently confronted touring engagement, in the west of the arrival of the fire brigado. Few ing is only now to be permitted on duction being "White Horse Inn" with gramophone records of their England, with Mme. Albani's con- people knew anything about the firo

It cost work made twenty-four years ago.cert party." loval veto lines to the following adapted from the German.

and no part of the building was £40,000 to remodel the theatre and Mr. Peter Dawson pulled A Mr. Mark Hamburg spoke of the damaged. produce the piece, as it was given in | conical face when he heard his 1907, Gramophone Company's historic Germany, and such was its success self-sing "Asleep in the Deep" to piano which they used years ago for the remarkable thing about it was that the libraries at once took the accompaniment of a buzzing recording purposes.

that the worse the piano became the £60,000 worth of seals for the next needle. Mr. Mark Hambourg sigh-! "For years this unfortunate plano more the recorded sound improv

forms of diversion:

(a) musical-entertainments;

b) cinematograph entertain

ments;

(e) exhibitions of animals or of three months. The play itself does ed deeply when he listened to his' got worse and worss," he said, “buted?""

inanimate objects;

not count. but there are remarkable scenes of stage illusion, which give) ****

(d) debate.

sure,

Anomalies of the Bill.

a magnificent epitome of Tyro- tean life. After the curtain fell the¦ audience cherred everybody · con- '

who come to London therefore can- not afford to miss this particular spectacular production that is if they can get in.

without

remorse.

HONG

Beaf Birtoin

Buhock's Brains .....

Tongue, fresh

The last named is a concession to the labour Party rank and file.cerned for fifteen minutes. Those They always hold political meetings on a Sunday, and to cover the ex penses, they are only now permitted to make a collection at the door. Under the Bid as it stands they will

New dramatists are coming to the be able to sell a certain number of front. Writing under the name of reserved seats, which will be a very

C. L. Anthony a girl who is a buyer much more businesslike proceeding of toys in Messrs. Heals' establish- Nobody else wants political meet-ment in Tottenham Court has pro- ings on a Sunday, but evidently the duced "Autumn Crocss" which is a Government thought that there was sentimental comedy with a Tyrolean a chance of log-rolling for them-setting-in fnet at least three if not selves in what is a non-party mea: four plays nowadays have to do with

The proposal with respect to the Tyrol. Axain it is a great suc-| the exhibition of animals takes invers, but the dramatist is for the the Zoo and also presumably al moment sticking to her job. Not a museums, admission to which is

week passes without four to five new really covered by the law ns it

plays; if they draw at once they atands. Musical entertainments em-continue. If not, they

are with- brace everything from a concert of draw

Miss the ordinary type to an oratorio Marie Tempest has produced a With regard to cinema perform-comedy entitled "Five Farthings" ances, these really constitute the by A. R. Rawlinson, with a Riviera raison d'etre for the bill. Although setting, in which she takes the part under the law they are now illegal, of middic aged adventuress and any infermer cun intervene who has to keep 1 which has not recently been the

romantic case-it is felt that their position has

just returned from Africa. is so anomalous that there is real Miss Tempest is a great artist but need to regularise it. Hence the very much question whether she Bi, which is just now likely to

ever gets a play with paying quali- meet with n violent, controversy and ties. Miss Agatha Christie, the which seens frankly to please no-novelist, is now apparently devoting Fig's Chillinge body. All the Sabbatarians

are her attention to the theatre. Her against it. All the theatres and Black Coffee" is a detective story music halls are against it on the of the normal type, but not out- ground that in logic and in justice standing, and I am just a little in- they should be based on an equal clined to believe that the public are, footing with the cinemas. They tired of detective stories. I even etaim that human production is as think they have had enough of much entitled to consideration as Shaw. St. Joan has just been re- mechanical production. Any num-vived with Miss Sybil Thorndike in ber of people do not like the local the chief part, but though she is a veto idea in the bill. Thus under great actress I am not sure that she

Fat or Lard it you will have cinemas open in tile ideal Joan. On the other Sheep's Head & Feet London and closed in Middlesex-as hand,

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(The solution of the above" crossword puzzle will appear in

to-morrow's issue along wită a new cross-oord puzzle.)

now public houses on the north side of Oxford Street close at 10.30 and on the south side at 11. In West minster, they close at 11, and in Chelsea at 10.30-here again you walk across the street at 10.30 to get a later drink at a public house of play and least of all compose the Carp which is open till 11. Anyway, the music. As a matter of fact, there Catfish theatres have got a tough job to get is the usual violent controversy with Codfab into the bill and I very much doubt respect to British vs. American Crabs also more than doubtful whether the

The BBC. is ac- Dab Bill will get through at all. In that cused of lending itself to the song Dace case, everybody will go on law-

plugging of American products, yet Dog Fish breaking as they do now. Anyway when you come

to analyze the Eels, Conger

logue; it is a genial satire upon; hunting and upon Chelsea Bohemianism. The fact that it has Burbel.... had no imitators up to the present Bream

is an indication that there are not Canton Fresh Water K many people that can write this sort

whether they will succeed. I am music. Allegations of "song plug Cuttle Fish

ging" all the air.

com- Frogs

Garoupa

It seems to be absurd that everybody charges, you find that the com- can flock into the country on Sunday plaints are based upon the fact that for golf, and other recreations the less important British there were 50,000 cars an hour re-

posers are resentful that the B.B.C. turning one Sunday to London indosa not plug their compositions in the south-western district-whereas stead of the American. They ob- the people who cannot afford to get ject apparently not to song plugging Into the country ure obliged to walk peruse, but to the song plugging of Halibut about the streets. The Government the competitive article. Meantime Labrus Bill, it is trae, permits all garages the public gladly takes what it can Loneh

and refreshment places to remain

get.

Gudgeon Herrings

Lobsters

open anywhere, and they employ The only theatres which cannot Mackerel thousands more people than ever the make any headway are those in the Monk Fish theatres could under any circum- provinces. These are

being wired Mullet stances if asked to work on Sunday. for talkies all over the place. Those raters Moreover, under the Bill the six theatres which are regarded as No. Parrot Pish

1 for tourist company purposes Perch

both ends meet, Pika manage to make but the No. 2 class do not make

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION,

Plaice

enough money to modernise their Pomfret, White theatres, which therefore fall to ht Pomfret, Black

Prawna tract the public. It was recently pointed out that in Bath for in Ray

Rock Fish stance, which ought to be a good

Roach theatro-going district, a very fair company could only do £127 in a week, This usually divided either on the 50-50 basis or on the 45-55 between the company and the owner of the theatre, and no one it Soles will be seen will get fat on the pro- Tench ceeds. Most of the provincial thea,

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