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"YOUNG. DESIRE" AT THE SOVIET WHEAT OPERA.

QUEEN'S

Mory Nolan takes the part of Helen Herbert, a dancing girl in 4 cheap carnival in ""Young Do site" which will be on at the Queen's Theatre till tomorrow...

Holen wearics of her drab life

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INSUFFICIENT TO DEPRESS THE MARKET.

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NEWS IN BRIEF.

Are we developing a business voire quite distinct from our usun! way of speaking to our friends? Mr. F. G. Blandford, who is con- ducting a series of lectures at the Cambridge Summer School on the subject of English pronunciation thinks we are. "The impersonal ac

Washington, Sept. 25-Follow cent which wo use in our daily and leaves the show. Then she meetsing conferences with Becretary of business is adopted, I think, as a Bobby Spencer (played by William Agriculture Hyde and with numer-means of self-protection," he said, Janney) who falls in love with herous other goverment officials, Mr. The bank clerk is afraid to fol and insists on helping her. He in Silas Strawn and other representa: his emotions got beyond the grille, stalls her in an apartment and begs tives of the Chicago Board of and the telephone girl does not. her to marry him, but Holen, re- Trade to day expressed the opinion want to give subscribers the im SIRI see the Rev. Mr. Koop,membering her past, hesitates, that Russian selling short had not prostion that she is at all familiar in his sermon last Sunday, describes

Quite like a woman, she cannot caused dopression of Chicago whoat or flirtatious, The idea is, I

think, to make the voice as mechani monogany as "the highest social

bring herself to tell Bobby about prices.:

cal as ovorything is in business, The alleged Soviet sales achievement of the human race."

it, but Blackie (Ralf Harolde), who is the boss of the carnival, tells 7.500,000 bushels were not, in the and to treat it only as another cog Bobby that Helen, is his dame," opinion of the investigators, sufi- in the machinery of commerce. Bobby throws him out of the apart ciont to effect, the equilibrium of the ment and then turns on Helen but market-Mr Strawn and bis aa- his love overcomes his rage and lysociates also pointed out that there declares that he will marry her the is evidence that the Russians are now buying wheat and helping to next day.

steady prices. ··

That is surely a bail order! But he goes further, and claims that. monogamy is a Christian principle, Does Mr. Koop mean that mona. gamy originated in and with Chris-" tinnity? He seems to make that implication, but surely the principle of one man one wife hatedates the Christian religion 1 ·

Mr. Koop compares, the position of women in darkest Africa with the generous attitude now shown them by the Church of England, He omitted to any, however, that until comparatively recent years the attitude of that Church, toward women was-in viest of the general atandard of civilisation existing in the country-mere cowardly and contemptible than that of an un- tutored savage.-Yours, etc.,

CURIOUS, -

Hong Kong, Sept. 30.

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It is at this point that Helen realizes how much she cares for Mr. Strawn, a Chicago lawyer, 'him, and she also scos at the same is best known in China for his tires that it would mean ruin for work ne United States delegate to Bobby, if she falls in with his plans, the special conference on Chinese She returns to the show but Bobby customs tariffs. Recently he came follows her. Her companiona, how-to the fore in Chicago and ever, hide her from him and after throughout the United States with a chat with Bobby's father, Helen his plan for stabilizing Chicago's realizes everything must be ended. desparate city finances by aid of Shen then volunteers to make the r. comraittee of substantial citizens. baloon ascent and leaps to her

death..

Timber. Dumping In Finland. Helsingfors, Sept. 25.-A senza Realism in Redemption."

tion was aroused here by the con- Several months before the script tinued buying by Swedish dealers of Redemption," John Gilbert's of very large amounts of Soviet Russian wood and lumber which now all-talking. vehicle coming on

started already in the middle of Friday to the Queen's Theatro was last month and caused a very con- written, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer siderable fall in the prices attain research staff was hard, at work in-rd at the Finnish wood auctions, vestigating the background of the the last ones being as much as from 30 to 40 per cent, below thos famous Tolstoi play for its picturiza-of last year.

It is reported that a aingle tion

Since there are

several Greek Swedish tow-boat brought 100,000 Church ceremonics in the story.b.m, of Russian wood from Lenin baptism, a wedding and the requiem grad through: Finnish waters to these had to be looked up i in Sweden with similar transports minute detail.

"The research work in connec. going still on and being expected tion with the Moscow gypsies was particularly interesting, Baid Nathalie Bucknall, Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer research expert, în 'e recent interview. In America wo have

to follow.

Battle sports in Erduce and Bel gium will be filmed this summer

Great interest was taken in tho question of Sunday golf at the an- ubl meeting of the Pwllheli golf last month. Mr. D. T. Croighton proposed that steps be taken to Provide greater facilities for Visl- tors in the form of Sunday golf, Such facilities, he said, wore al- lowed in England and Scotland ás well as by the principal golf clubs in North Wales, and as a large number of members resided in the great industrial citio, it was not fair to bar them from playing golf during the wook-ends. He added that Sunday golf would attract a large number of golfers to the dis trict. The president said the com mitteo, would take steps to call an extraordinary meeting of the mem bors to decide the matter...

In Bucharest a society called "The Union of Divorced Women" has recently boon formed here. â large number of divorced women of all class has already enrolled. The union will give its members legal asistance, ent up schools of instruction for them, and send ro- presentatives to visit husbands with

a view to reconciliation. The society will also found a home for separated women and their children. who are without means. Branch. uniong will be formed in the pro- vinces of Jassy, Plocati and Thoren- burg.

a totally different conception of the by kameramen of the Ontario life of the gypsies. Here they are Government Motion Picture Bure nomads, always on the move. In au. The scenes will be used in Moscow there are many old gypay educational reels for release to all

The telegraph boy and his red familios providing amusement for sections of Ontario. "Shots" will

push-bicycle in England are in the patrons of the smart cafes and be taken whether the Canadian they are an essential part of the Corps took a prominent part in danger. There is a proposal to re- the World War. While in France Place him by a man on a motor- night life.

and Belgium photographs of the selo. The G.. P. O, is experiment- Canadian burial ground, will be ing. Already a number of London and Glasgow residents have been. taken. It is believed that the startled by the delivery of an ur showing of these films will land a.

Twenty-eight countries, which include nearly all the European nations, the United States, and great impetus to the Canadian Sont telegram by motor-cycle, at Legion pilgrimage to France in 1923, night, long after the usual latest Japan, etc., have sent representa which will coincide with the unveil-hour, for the delivery of telegrams. tives to the Fifth International Air Congress at The Hague. The ing of the Canadian war memorial And at Bournemouth, tolegrams sending of experts on aeronautics on Vimy Ridge.

CLEARANCES,

September 30,

by these countries will afford A helpful and important occasion for cooperative study of the latest die coveries, and accomplishments in this particular field of human zo- tivity. Many papers on technical Chip Shing, for Canton. subjects are to be road, concern-Cremor, for Amey.

ng the Intest developments and Dorry, for Canton.. improvements in airplane and en- General Metzinger, for Saigos. gine construction. Among the sub- Haining, for Swatow. lects are the application of Kucichow, for Swatow. Diesel engines for airplanes, a sub Lushan Maru, for Shanghai.

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