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HAVE YOU A

FRIEND INSIDE

YOUR CAMERA ?

Fin

Ir's like putting a friend into your camera to load it with Kodak Film. When the light wasn't very good' When the it tries hard not to say "I told you so." exposure was twice as long as it ought to have been the film doesn't give up trying, and present a black frown- ing negative. It does 'it's best for you, six good deeds in one day sometimes. You can always count on it. is as unfailing as friendship, and as ready to make

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but be sure you always ask for the

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Kodak Film in the Yellow Box

Its uniformity and dependability is an assurance of getting satisfactory pictures.

It is so easy to take 'snaps with a Kodak- and Kodak Films.

Ask a Kodak dealer for the booklet giving full particulars of the Kodak, the Cine-Kodak and Kodak Films, and learn, just how simple and delightful taking pictures is.

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MISS DEL RIO

- DISGUISED.

VISIT TO LONDON'S UNDERWORLD.

AMONG THE CHINESE.

Miss Dolores del Rio, the Mexi- can film star during her visit to London went to the East End in search of underworld types. She wished to study them to gain know. ledge for a film in which she will play and which will be written round the East End.

A 94-YEARS-OLD BANKER.

ESTATE OF £2,768,868.

£1,000,000 TREASURY WIND- FALL

The estate of Mr. James Walker died on July 31st at the age of 94, Oxley, a retired Leeds banker, who has been sworn at £2,788,368, in cluding £300,000 in War Loan.

The death duties to be paid on this sum will be at the raic of 40 per cent, which means a windfall

of more than £1,000,000 for the Treasury.

Miss del Rio, so that she should Mr. Oxley was senior partner in not be recognised, bought special the old-established Leeds bank of William Williams. Brown and clothes, consisting of a plain frock, Company, and was personally re- wool stockings, shoes, and a clochesponsible for most of the details in connection with its transfer to hat all in black.

Lloyds Bank in 1000, in which year he completed 50 years' activity in banking. He was for many years a director of the Midland Railway Company.

She first visited Pennyfelde, Poplar, E., and entered with a Daily Mail reporter a public-house frequented by Chinese and white women. The landlord is a black

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The bar was hung with Chinese lanterns and nearly all the men were Chinese. Miss del Rio was particularly interested in a group of five Chinese and three attractive young. white women

who drinking together at a table.

were

"Gee, I don't like that, some- how," said Miss del Rio.

Temple Visit.

"

Mr. Oxley left a son. Mr. Heary Oxley, who is a bachelor, and three daughters, Mrs. Margaret Pryde Mrs R. E. Shepperd and Miss Oxley, who are to receive £100,000

There are numerous local charit- able bequests and legacies for old servants. The residue of the estate

is left to the son..

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Treasury Windfalls.

of

The receipts from death duties in 1927-29 were £77,310,000, and Mr. Churchill in his Budget speech this She went on to the only Chinese year, said, "I cannot expect that in temple in London. It is in a side 1928 death duties will repeat the street and is frequented by Chinese, exceptional advance they made in who say their prayers before the 1997.

'The street Fle shrine of Confuciua.

estimated & vield was thronged with white women $72,000,000, but present indications and children and Chinese, who apare that this will be exceeded, for peared greatly interested in the estates or which death duties will siim figure in black, despite her be paid during the present year in attempt to avoid recognition.

Approximate

Duty.

£4,000,000

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Miss del Rio also visited Chinese restaurant and kitchen. She said, I have always wanted to see the underworld of "London. I have seen the slums of Mexico City but this is the first I have visited in Europe. How happy the people look in spite of their poverty and surroundings.

what "I have never known poverty is. But I am intensely in- terested in it and like playing the parts of poor girls of the under- world."

SIR HARRY LAUDER'S REMINISCENCES.

HIS EARLY STRUGGLES AND AFTER.

clude:-

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Sir George Wills:

(£10,000,000) Viscount Hambleden:

(£2,500,000)...... Mr. Stephen Cliff: (£1,326,001) The Duke of Newenstle:

(£1,000,000)

Mr. Edwin Tate: (£810,957)

Mr. Geo. Blezard: (£545,690)

1,000,000

*473,000

250,000

230,000

'13-1,000

CINEMA NEWS.

AT THE QUEEN'S TO-DAY."

Adapted from the novel "Leather- face," by Baroness Orery and directed by Fred Niblo who direct- ed "Ben Hur," "Two Lovers," a magnificent production starring Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky, will be shown at the Queen's Theatre from to-day to Saturday.

Two Lavers "is thrilling romance based upon the exploits of tector of William, Prince of Orange, the mysterious leather-masked pro-

and the forced marriage of Donna Leonora de Vargas, niece of the Duke of Azar, to Mark Van Rycke, son of the High Bailiff of Ghent, Elinor Glyn's New Comedy. Ritzy with Betty Bronson in type of role will be a new shown at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday and Monday next. Elinor Glyn, the authoress of " It," which was seen here a short while ago. has produced another success. The adventures of a snobbing young society woman who declares that no one less than a Duke shall be her husband, make an amusing picture. Among those prominently cast with the "Peter Pan" girl, are James Hall. William Austin, and Joan Standing.

"The Road To Romance." The Road to Romance," with Ramon Novarro, the hero of Ben Hur" in the leading role, is show ing at the Star from to-day to Saturday. The story based upon the novel by Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Heuffer is an exciting tale. of adventure with pirates and bue- cancers in the days of the Spanish main. Ramon Novarro appears as a young Spanish Caballero who goes seeking adventure. A charm- ing romance is contributed by Mar- celine Day. Among others who have important parts to play are, Roy D'Arcy, perhaps the most polished "villain" of the screen, Otto Mattiesen and Jules Cowles.

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ACCIDENT MAKES A CRIMINAL.

CHANGE OF CHARACTER.

Thaina Best Gibson Mackenzie,. aged 38, independent, of Cartvale-. road, Glasgow, was charged on ra mand at Bow-street before Mr. Fry with obtaining money by a worthless cheque.

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BARONESS ORCZY'S THRILLING ROMANCE

RONALD

COLMAN BANKY

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VILMA

IN TWO LOVERS

of Flanders in the 16th Century, presenting

The Screen's two most famous lovers in their last picture together!

UNITED ARTISTS

PICTURE

ADAPTED FROM THE NOVEL “LEATHERFACE" AND PRODUCED

BY FRED NIBLO, FAMOUS DIRECTOR OF ""BRI-HUR."

AT THE

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TO-DAY TO SATURDAY

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.

Advance Booking For Dress Circle Dally From 11 AM.-

GREAT stage play as a still greater film -a vivid story of two man who

fought over their loves from North China to the battlefields of France 1.

VICTOR MOLAGLEN, DOLORES DEL RIO

IN

What Price Glory

AT THE is

There are also the estates of Sir David Tule, whose fortune estimated at £93,000,000, Lord Back land, and Mr. W. H. Coats.

A JUDGE'S SYMPATHY.-

Det.-Bergt. Vincent Baid he understood that Mackenzie had escaped from a mental home. When arrested he said, "I don't know what have been doing. My head is so bad." He had been stay- ing at the Waldorf Hotel, Kings- way, where he incurred & bill of £13.

Many stories have been told of HUSBAND BOUND OVER ON family in Glasgow, but they refus

Sir Harry Lauder's love of the 'bawbees." Some of them were invented by himself, others were broadcast, as he states, by his paid publicity staff.

Now, however, the truth is dis closed by Sir Harry Lauder himself in his reminiscences, which are pub- lished under the title of perhaps his most famous song. Roamin' in

the Gloamin'."

WOUNDING - CHARGE!

At the Central Criminal Court, London, last month, before Mr. Justice Humphreys, Charles Hodges Gilkes, 42, electrician, pleaded Guilty to unlawfully wounding his wife and to attempting to com- mit suicide. Mr. Justice Hum phreys, bound the defendant over in his own recognizances in £10 to "come "ap för judgment if called upon, and he was discharged. Mr. II., Brooks appeared for the de-

"AL 6rst I resented these stories," he states, "then I tolerated them; afterwards I began to invent them myself, and encouraged other peo-fendant. ple to invent them. They made up a battery of the very finest freo advertisements any stage person ality could have wished for Yes, all the Harry Lauder stories' that have winged their way round the globe during the prathirty years have only had the effect of putting more siller in my pouch."

He belonged to a very good

ed to have anything more to do with him. Since 1924 he had been

sentenced several times for cheque

frauds.

The medical officer of Brixton

Prison said that Mackenzie was quite normal until 1923, when he fractured his skull. Since then he

had

1 äuffered from form of epilepsy which led to a marked change of character. One felt very sorry for him. There would be some hope for him if he could be induced to give up drink.

Mackenzie said that he came to London in connection with an up- MH. D. Roome, prosecuting, pointment at the India Offee, for said the defendant had been em which he had been recommended. ployed for 5 years by the Post Mr. Fry passed a sentence of six Office and bore in excellent charac-months' imprisonment without hard ter

labour, and said he hoped that at the end of that period Mackenzie would be cured of his craving for intoxicants.

A police officer said the defen- dant's wife refused to give evidence against him at the police court.

Mr." Brooks, addressing Mr. Jus Yet, the fact remains that some

tice Humphreys on behalf of the of the most fascinating reading in defendant, said there were a num the book and every page almost ber of mitigating circumstances in has its reference to money matters the case with regard to the home -is concerned with the money he is life which had been led by the ac making and the money his wife was cused. While he was serving in the saving.

War the defendant's wife took up Every detail of how much he with a man. For some time the de- earned in those early struggles fendant's wife promised to reform, when at the age of 13 he had to be and the defendant gave ber every the bread-winner of the large chance. Then she took up with aa- fatherless family, is set down with other man. She had since become loving care. And so on, right acquainted with a third man, and through his gradual rise to success the defendant's patience then came upon success, until we come to a

to an end. The defendant did not passage such as this.

want to separate from his wife, of whom, he was fond. He came home intending to make a last attempt to patch matters up. He went into bis wife's room and asked her to talk matters over. She refused to do that, and then flew into a temper and said she was going out of the house. He thereupon took his pocket-knife out and inflicted the wound. It was a sudden, unpre- meditated act.

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ONLY A PRIVATE FIRE.

WHY A SOVIET BRIGADE

STAYED AWAY.

The official Pravda (August 28th) is alarmed at the dangerous mig- interpretation placed by the people on the Soviet fight against the pri- vate trader. It cites as a case in point the following incident:

There. Was

holiday in Tavtimanovo; the bazaar was lively, the people were enjoying themselves, and the authorities were strutting along proudly. Suddenly the watch at a nearby factory sounded the fire alarm.

The Bre brigade were getting ready when they were told to stop where they were. The factory

run by private business man. Why should Soviet fre brigade put out a fire on a pri- vately owned undertaking? And thus the fire brigade continued their merrymaking, and even the attempts to put out the fire made by strangers and peasants were

factory frustrated: The destroyed.

Success And Revenge. He had made a "hit" at his first appearance in London, and in the excitemeat of the success he had signed up with a number of agents which limited him to comparative ly low salaries for several years, during which time he was playing to exceptionally crowded houses.

My London_managers," he states, were delighted. But not one of them thought of coming to Mr. Justice Humphreys said cases mo and saying: Lauder, old man, were often referred to as sad,"but you're the biggest gold nine we've this was an utterly pathetic story. struck for years, and I, for one, The defendant was as decent and don't think it fair that you should respectable a citizen as any man in only be getting £7 or £8 a turn. Court or out of it. He (Mr. Justice I propose to scrap your existing Humphreys) was favourably im- contract and pay you a hundred pressed by the tone of the defen-

It appears that the last stages of He was determined to have his dant's letters in which he tried all the fire were accompanied by the revenge. Years after, when a Lon- he could to find excuses for his laughter of the crowd and by all don manager implored him to ae- wife. It was the right and mannly kinds of derisave shouts. But this cept a contract, he replied that he thing to do." He would not send the "demonstration against private defendant to prison. There was enterprise" cont the State dearly. would come for £400 a week.

every reason to suppose that the de- The factory was insured with the fendant would be re-employed in the State Insurance Department and public service, and he would there the private owner received all the fore bind him over in his own-re-money.

The poor man had a heart attack on learning my terms. Could I not come down in price to a reasonable sum) - Yes,' said I,

was

I'll come down to £4501 And if cognizances in £10 to come up for The Pravda concludes its article be doesn't accept that I'll come judgment if called upon. He hoped against "the fools of Tavtimanovo"? down to £500. Ask him if he re- that Gilkes's future life would be by likening them to the passenger -members-refusing-me-on-extes happier-than-his-past few years had

pound twenty years ago The been. contract at £400 came along inside an hour."

The defendant entered into the recognizances and was discharged.

on the burning bant who consoled a nervous fellow-passenger by say. ing: "Why worry, the boat is not yours!!

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