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AMAZING DRAMA I-

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A startling story of love sad, revenge with the master of wierd, disgalvas in his strangest rola 1-

THE UNKNOWN

LON CHANEY

Against the sinister shadow of the underworld this sensational drams of love and revenge is played, and through it stalks the deformed cireus performer, a terrifying role just made for Chanor!

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With

NORMAN KERRY

JOAN

CRAWFORD

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-Thé Daughter of the Famous Magician Ching Ling Foo

MISS CHEE TOY

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When people read the other day of a great new theatre for London,

A General Post Office notification, to be called the Dominion, with a issued on Saturday, gives the fol- seating capacity of over 2,600, ther lowing particulars with regard asked themselves, bearing in mind.

to unclaimed correspondence, etc.. all the theatres we have and the waiting at the Post Office, and difficulty of finding successful plays also unclaimed radio telegrams at for the whole of them, whether there the Radio Telegraph Office, Gov- is really a need for it. Sir Alfred

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there

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CENSURE ON A MOTOR CYCLIST.

MARRIED "MAN WHO" LOST HIS HEAD."

"If the girl had been a dog, he could not have behaved worse," said Mr. G. E. Bouskell, the South Leicestershire coroner, referring to Pierce Albert Humphries of Wed- dington, Nuneaton, a motor-cyclist, who was severely censured by a Hinckley jury for having left his girl pillion passenger to die on the roadside after she had fallen from bis machine.

The inquest was on Doris Geary, aged 22, of Orton-squary, Hinckley, who was found dying just outside Hinckley at 11 o'clock at might.

Dorothy May Nowell, of Hinck- loy, said tho and Doris Geary got into conversation with Humphries and another man in the White Bear Ina. Hinckley, and then went for a ride on the back of the men's motor-cycles.

Joseph Clifford Williams, a car penter, of Nuneaton, with whom Mias Nowell was riding, said he W children.

marriedman with four

Dr. J. H. Donnell, of Hinckley, said death was due to laceration of the brain. He did not think im mediate attention after the accident would have saved the girl's life.

Went Home.

Poste Rastante Correspondence. G. Adair, Madam Balisoni, Dr. CA P. Bell, George Black, B. A Boning. Rev. and ara C. R. "In my opinion," he says,

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L L Fuz, E. J. Cattelin, J. all kinds, and particularly for bis Grafton, Mrs. F. W. Grows, A. M. musical shows. Post-war conditions Goodman, Gartierrez Noms & Co., in the theatre, however, are such J. Haywood, S. L. Horrobin, Miss C. Jensen e/o H. T. Jensen Eli that it is impossible to present big Lilly & Co.), Mr. and Mrs. M. M. musical plays in pre-war theatres, Kolliner, W. Killeek, R. Kitain, with few exceptions, and make them B. Krivoss, M. C. Lui, R. A. Lan commercially successful, on accounting, Rev. G. W. Lewis, Victor Levy, J. Lizarraga, Geo.8. of the enormous increase in the cost, L. Mayol, Mr. of everything appertaining to the Mons. Mitchell, National Mutual Life Asa of Aust., Ltd.; J. A. Ogden, H. Pampanga, S. Pam Describing the accident, he said "I am confident, too, that there panga, M. A. Soler, P. Schule, that when approaching Hinckley, is a very large number of people Walter Smith, Prof. J. W. Nhis machine wobbled, throwing the who

easily afford the Smith, L. Stansfield, R. Thomson, girl off. His speed was 13 miles an Mr. and Mrs. Turner (c/o Mr. T. hour. He stopped, turned back, minimum prices which musical at. M. Turner, J. LA M. Thesing and found the girl lying on the tractions produced in the West-End H. W. Welman, Wun Sun, Mrs. S. road. He caught her by the arms under existing conditions are obliged K. Waterman, Miss E. A. Wright. and tried to get her to speak."

R. D. Wolcott (Associatee Press G. to charge. These reasons have America), B. Zipper. largely influenced the directions of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Ltd., and "Moss. Empires, Ltd., to build the Dominion Theatre.

theatre.

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A Magnificent Sits. This theatre, situated in the heart of the West End-a magai ficent site, where Meux's brewery once stood, at the corner of Oxford street and Tottenham Court-road, with direct access by tube and 'bus with all parts of London-will have a perfect seating capacity of over 2,800, thus enabling spectacular musical plays to be produced there ona. most favish scale.

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Konyane fortably seat 1,200, the Royal circle 398, the grand circle 372, and the upper circle 680.

"A novel and unique feature of

From

Pierce Albert Humphries, the man with whom Doris Geary rode, aid he was a married man with

one child.

Mr. Bouskell: What then?-Be ing a married man I lost my bead. I got on my machine and went home.

Mr. Bouskell: You left that poor girl alone in the gutter unconscious; you treated her a great deal worse than people treat dogs!

Humphries replied that he did not think the girl was seriously hurt, and, further replying, said he did not make a practice of tak- ing strange girls for rides.

Questioned by the foreman, he said that if he had been a single man he would have stuck to the girl and helped to get her to hospital.

Mr. Bouskell said he could ant understand the mentality of the man who did such a thing as Hum. phries had done.

The jury returned a "verdict: of Accidental Death, and stated that the motor-cyclist deserved severe.

censure.

Mr Bouskell, addressing Hum his, id that he did not think Cholon anything bo said to him would have Cholon. the slightest effect. To say any Toronto Ontario. thing to a person who could leave

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CHARLEY'S AUNT rical enterprises, Mr. R H Gilles-am perfectly certain that the legiti pia, managing director of Moss mate drama will continue to thrive Special Songs, Dances & Marie Empires, and I have decided to and prospera good entertaining form the United Producting, Cor-

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In substance, it is a comprehen-their number. As a matter of fact, sivo pooling scheme, which both London has many fewer theatres Mr. Gillespie and I feel should not than New York. After all, there only bo for the benefit of the share can never be enough theatres for holders of the various companies, successes, while there are always too

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NEW TURKISH DANCE.

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*ZEIBEK.” W

BUDAPEST

girls school in Smyrna, he called In the help of the pedagogue, Selig Sirry Boy, to modernise it for general use.

was origin The new dance, which was ated by the Zeibeks (an old Tur- kish race inhabiting the mountains Dear Bmyrna, who performed it. The Délibab (« Mirage."), a with knives and daggers and pistols, to the music of shepherdu journal of the dance, writes a new Turkish dance, the pipes), has been transformed to "Zeibek," has been introduced by symbolise the earth (the man) turn- Kemal Pasha to Turkish society ating round the sun (the woman), the Tokatlion Palace at Pers. It and the dance ends after five is stated that last summer Kemal figures by the gentleman embracing Pasha expressed his disapproval of his partner. It is stated that the the modern European dances which two daughters of Salim Birry Bey are being adopted at the Turkish will start on a tour of Europe with pleasure resorts, and remembering the object of studying Western that he had seen the Zeibek per-dancing and bringing old Turkish formed some years before at dances up to date.