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Flesh and Blood Actors.

An attempt to organise au- diences may follow. The example of America is outstanding. Not only in New York bug in half a dozen provincial cities the Theatre

A TELL-TALE TOUCH. £10,000,000 SCHEME.

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A vast hire purchase "clearing There had been a big jewel rob-house," backed by resources totall bery. A wealthy foreign visitor'sng more than £10,000,000, is to be priceless gans disappeared from his formed in London. The object of hotel bedroom-only a ripped jewel the clearing house is to protect

ease remaining to tell the owner and

the detectives the sad story.

Watabing Parliament..

It is also intended to form a parliamentary committee to watch all legislation or Government ne

become essential, and it is hoped to be able to bring pressure to bear on firms whose business mathode are questionable.

The operations of the clearing tions affecting hire-purchase, house will safeguard dealers and. Hire-purchase has grown to such by establishing confidence in hrive vast proportions in recent years purchase, will also protect and that a central controlling body has assist the public.

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his customer's commitments under other re-purchase agreements.

Guild has brought into being a

Was the thief a man or a woman "group consciousness" to use Mr." Gilbert Miller's words-which has An expert or a mere amateur? benefited not only the Guild but There was not a clue to help the other managers who are presenting police. Servants were closely ques first-rate plays. Some months ago tioned. No, they saw no strangers Mr. Miller told me that he attri- in the hotel at the time of the rob-register and thus see the extent of bited some of the success of "Jourbers. They saw nobody leave ney's End," in America, to the the bedroom. Another baffling my-. organisation work done by the stery. Theatre Guild, although the Guild, of course, was not interested in that particular production.

When another manager was ask cd whether the talking" pictures kept people away, from the theatre he replid: "They make no differ ence. The sale of Rolls Royces is not affected by the sale of Morris cars. The reverse is probably the case. The talkies will create new playgoers, especially now that the same actors are appearing both on the screen and the stage. In the country, where the cinema has been the sole place of amusement, "peo- ple are discovering that actors can

What is more important atill, he will be able to find out whether Here come the men from Scotland the customer has faithfully carried out his obligations under earlier Yard. A keen-faced detective pro-hire-purchase agreements; for the duces a little box of grey powder. clearing house will be as position The jewels were taken from the top to obtain information from any of its members, and will pass "this" right-hand drawer of the dressing information on to the others. table? Yes. “.

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real flesh-and-blood actors, and this is evidenced by the growth in the number of cinema theatres that are presenting variety turns be- tween the talking films... The whole tendency is in that direction, pecially in the suburbs.

Tell-Tale Powder,

Preventing Leakage.

In order to prevent the trade Right Out comes that drawer. secrets of one firm becoming known The fine grey powder-a composite another firm all information tion of mercury and chalk-is dust will pass through the clearing ed lightly over the woodwork house, and the whole system will be around the handle and the lockar reliable and confidential as that Two puffs the surplus powder is of the clearing bouse of the great blown away. A solitary fingerprint banks." is revealed. The "Silent Terror " of the Yard has begun to operate.

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How a criminal may be identi; fied by means of a single finger print has been a problem which. has occupied some of the keenest brains at Scotland Yard for the past 20 years

Now, in a book called "Single Finger Prints," Chief-Inspector Battley, who is in charge of the Finger Print Bureau at Scotland es-Yard. reveals the secrets of his

system.

Sir Gerald du Maurier said re- cently that he was afraid the talkies would kill the provincial theatre entirely. They have certainly had disastrous effects on the touring companies, but, as the theatrical road shows have decreased in po- pularity so the repertory movement has gained headway and is now the important theatrical factor in many towns The same thing has happened in America, where out side New York and the big cities the little theatres provide the bulk of the speaking stage. It is better for the theatre as a whole. The Little Theatres of America and the repertory theatres here are magni- ficent training.

Here are a few stories related in the book which" reveal how deadly is the work done among the care- fully-kept finger-print files at the

Yard:

Already leading trade associa" tious and large retail distributors have come into the scheme, and a committee has been formed to put the proposals into operation.

A central clearing house will be set up in London forthwith and branches will follow later in pro- vincial cities. The clearing house register will begin with a list of more than a million names. Sup port is assured from

Firms who finance hire-pur- chase;

Motor-car agents; Furniture dealers (including most of the great multiple atores);

The great departmental stores; Gramophone, wireless, and

piano trade;

Domestic and office equipment: firms.

A burglar, apparently well aware of the risk of discovery by finger- prints, took the precaution of drop- An arbitration committee will be ping into a rainwater butt the set up to consider all questions pieces of window glass he had affecting hire-purchase, whether broken in making his entry. He between trader and trader or be had, however, underrated the in-tween customer and, trader. telligence of the local police, who, failing to account for the whole of the glass from the broken window, instituted a search for the missing fragments and found them.

They were carefully retrieved, dried and taken to the Finger-Print Bureau. Here several latent im pressions were developed, the marks having suffered very little from their immersion for many hours. grounds. They They were identified as those of p create new actors and fresh play local criminal, who, on this evi wrights and a better, standard of dence, was tried for the offence, found guilty and sentenced to a work is provided. Again, person-long term of imprisonment. ality counts, for the public sup parts not only the play. but the players.

Talkies and Variety.

uncom.

The carelessness and recklessness of criminale in repeating mistakes for which they have already suffer- ed is illustrated in the following. story.:m

In 1912 a finger-print left on a

person convicted in 1912.

GENERAL'S FALL OVER

CHAIR...

The talking pictures is a differ-window led to a man bring sen ent form of entertainment and not teaced to a term of penal servitude. a competitor to the theatre. The In the early part of 1929 an cinema is usually more comfortable epidemic of burglaries occurred in a Midland town. In no fewer than and certainly cheaper, and the or three of these cases finger prints dinary theatre manager is already were discovered They were subse realising that the buildings arequently identified as, those of the often old-fashioned and fortable. Many theatres will have to be rebuilt, and one of the re sults of the slump should be to reduce rents so that the price of theatre seats can be lowered. Far from being a competitor to the theatre, the talkie can be a valu- able adjunct from the purely busi ness point of view. There is less. risk attached to play production than there was twenty years ago, despite the enormous increase in costa, for a successful play is a valuable property, and the Lan-had fallen over a chair in his Jer ager who presents it usually shares the talking film rights with the author.

Variety's co-operation with the talkies hag boca"touched on; apart from that, reference to one of the professional papers shows that the single turn is coming back, Stare may be born, but they slee have to be nursed. The trayelling revue is inclined to submerge per sonality: at least, it only exploited one or two people, whereas the old type of music-hall had to fenture a half-dozen or more on its bill. An interesting development is the method of booking, the equivalent of Wirich 1s show. The same company of music ball artists go from town to town and give their individual turne

This is another attempt at or ganisation, and organisation is the chief need of the whole entertain ment business. The rest all fol.

MUTINY VETERAN'S DEATH

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A Grand Old Man of the Army! This description sums up the character of Major-General James Calder Stewart, the 90-year-old whose Indian Mutiny veteran, death was the subject of an inquest at Westminster last month.

It was stated that the General

myn Street chambers and broken a rib, but he did not say much about it."

A verdict of Accidental death ?? was recorded.:

Friend cf Lord Roberts.. At the age of 17 General Stewart entered the Bengal Army and was present at the relief of Lucknow. During the Franco-Prussian war ke served in the Prussian Red Cross, and was present at the surrender of Napoleon III

In spite of his age the General who had been a friend of Lord Roberts and of Kitchener, lived the life of a man half his years. He, never breakfasted in bed. After Attending to

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