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She made him choose between her Love and the Game that kept her in ermine and fimousines, He wanted her madly. But that night came the Game that meant life or

death for his own Bro

ther, Did he, could he, make the sacrifice for Her? Come and See and Hear, and be Thrilled beyond words!

William

Powell

with.

Joan Arthur-Kay Francis and

Regis Toomey

STREET OF CHANCE"

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16, 1930.

SNAPSHOTS OF A MAN SENDING A TELEGRAM

By GLUYAS-WILLIAMS

GUYAS WILIAMS

STEAMS INTO TELEGRAPH・・ DARTS TO THE DEGK AND GFACE AT FIFTY MILES WITH ONE MOTION GRASPS AN HOUR

PENCIL ON CHAIN AND PAD OF BLANKS

FINDS PENCIL POINT 16 BROKEN

STALKS UP AND DOWN BE- HIND OTHER PEOPLE WRIT ING. TELEGRAMS TO SEE: WHO'LL BE THROUGH FIRST

STATIONS HIMSELF BEA HIND LARGE WOMAN. BEGINS TO SNAP FINGERS AND ONE OTHER SIGNS OF BOILING IMPATIENCE

LEAPS INTO HER PLACE

FRANTICALLY SEARCHES, POCHETS FOR PEN OR PENCIL

HALF HOUR LATER IS STILL AS SHE FINISHES, SEZES. THERE TRYING TO BOIL HER PENCIL, PUSHES. HIS HAT BACK, AND SETS TO WORK

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BOOKS and READERS

Murders, magic and love, are perhaps the three best ingredients for a novel whose function is to take the reader for. a. abort while out of everyday life into a world of romance, so that he or she for- gets, while reading, the worries and irritations that are disturbing peace

of mind.

In "DANGE's BRIGHT EYES" (Hodder & Stoughton 7/4) Sidney Ilorier has given us another admit able adventure story. There are all the best attractions, a lovely heroins in the direct danger, the reddest of "reds including among their number a flaming "vamp," a horrible malformity, and, of coarse, the brave and gallast hero, "A" couple of modern detectives and a rather charming crook complete the caste. If you like this type of story and like it efficiently done, you will enjoy "Danger's Bright Eyre" for it never has & tull

moment,

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MURDERS, MAGIC. AND LOVE.

so many lesser heroines have.com mitted for the edification of ser- vast girls. Every now and again Richmael Crompton seems to take herself in haud and imbue "Naomi, with real life for a page or two but one cannot but feel that having brought her heroine to the climax of her life, Miss Crompton wearied of her. Never-the-less if for the earlier chapters alone, this book is one to read. more than once, and it is written throughout in a cul tured English which is in itself a pleasure in these days of slipshod writing.

E.3.B.

THE HOODOO SHIP.

THE WANDERER, OF LIVERPOOL By

INTO TEN WORDS THE NEWS THAT HE HASN'T SEEN MR. GLAZ YET, AND "BUSINESS IS ROTTEN

10-7

THE SILVER SCREEN.

OUTDOOR SET FOR " ALL QUIET."

The largest outdoor set ever made. at Univeran City was built: for

All Quiet."--It represented-the- great German training barracks. The building was more than 300 feet in length and five storica in height at its peak. Hundreds of tons of gravel were used in making the parade ground covering, several Acres.

Among the unique props ”built for the picture was a German street car" of nu, antiquated typo, which ruus on its own power through the cobblestone streets of a village. Others were skeletons and dummies for the battlefront and graveyard. cenes, German Red Cross Wagons of the 1014 style, and an, old style.j open,. hors-drawn Victoria

For the seeds at a French village where three of Remarque's school- boy soldiers swim a canal to meet three French girls, Universal built a canal a half mile in length, 40 feet in width and 15 feet in depth, crossed by a stone bridge patrolled by sentries, and surrounded with kepttages and a villago settlement.

NOT DAMAGED."

A comedy number, sung and danced by Inez Courtney and George Corcaran is one of the high

romance with music, which comes on Sunday to the Queen's Theatre.

Sunday to th

While Lois Moran and Walter Byron have the featured rólce, this pair of fun makers gives the bead- liners a hot race for a large share

I thought he looked like a harlespots of Not Damaged," Fox- quin

I do not apologize Movietone for the comparison that came to my mind when I first saw the figuro in stripes standing at the top of the great grey stone stair- ense, against the dark-green gar. Jens with their ornaments of thyrsus and urn: If St. Francis of Assisi did not object to being called the Juggler of God, I do not seo why any reasonable. Swiss of the applause. gentleman should object to being In the story, Miss Courtnoy is a called the Harlequin of the Pope But as I watched him, and the pale-Jules girl at the Gilmore Depart light from can of Rome's stormy ment Store in New York City, in days striking his streaks of colour charge of the phonograph record as he turned and shifted the hand

counter. Corcoran, formerly in upon the halberd, something else stirred within me, to which I could gents' underwear, has been promot not as yet put a name.

WOMEN IN INDIA..

ed to stare detective and he is a riot in his efforts to appear mys- terious,

their song number, written by

Cliff Friend and Jimmie Monaco, By Professor J. J. Meyer. The Broadway Oriental Library is called "Nothing's Gonna Hold' London: Routledge and Sons Down, and offers the oppor Two vols NLA tunity for some superb clowning, an When "Mother India" appeared

"

many who were not simply pleasedportunity which is made the most- to be schocked at the magnitude off by Miss Courtney and her part- the motes in their brother's eyoner.

STREET OF CHANCE,"

realised that Ming Mayo had drawn Others in the cast include Robart, John Masefield. (Heinemann) attention to a subject of deep in-. Mr. Masefield tolls of the Wan Torest, but that the position of Ames, Rhoda Cross and Ernest derer, one of the most beautiful women in modern India could not Wood, alan well-known on the talk- vessels ever built, which was given without a knowledge of the gocal

be understood or justly criticiseiling screen. Jimmie Dale is, I gather; a a bad name. In her short life she history of India. The Broadway favourite character of Mr. Frank made but 10 voyagen, and on ench Oriental Library now seeks to help L. Packard's, At all events he some misfortune occurred. At her by giving us this study of "The introduces him-ready-made as it first setting out from Liverpiol in were, in "JIMMIE DALE AND THE 181 she was so beaten by a storm Sexual Life of Ancient, India," a

Anyone who has lived in New BLUE ENVELOPE MODE" (Hodder in the Irish Channel that her rig-sor Meyer's German work.

revised English edition of ProfesYork or who has visited the metro- & Stoughton 7/6). I have not read ging collapsed and killed her cap femoor Meyer's aim is to give a polis will quickly recognize the any of Jimmie's previous adventures tain, and she was brought back in so I cannot say how they compare tow to her port of sailing. It was

true and vivid account of the life sights and sounds along Broadway, with that of the blue envelope. then that Mr. Masefield first saw of woman in ancient India, based

her:

upon the immense mass of material especially in the Times Square dis

the two opics thetajet, wiren Street of Cliance" embedded in Mahabharata and the Ramayana." comes to the Central Theatre to- His method has been "to make a

`day". liberal use of the words of the opics."

you can aid the patience to read the first hundred pages, and suff

An image of such glory and cient intelligence to get their drift, heauty in desolation as I shall you will enjoy what thea developes never forget. Her broken spars into a sound adventure story with had been secured in the swifters of plenty of incident and excitement. the lower rigging. The rags of her The plot suffers somewhat from the mails fluttering" from her yards want of a heroine.Marie bas gleamed in the sun. I have acen got so near to matrimchy when we much beauty, but she was the most are introduced to her, that she has beautiful thing. She was so splen become nearly an uninteresting as | did, and so distrent. a respectably and happily married

woman.

"The Magic Makers" by Alan Sullivan (John Murray, 7/6) as decided originality. The scene is not an unfamiliar one, the unchart

ed wilds of Northern Canada, bút

stead of the usual bad men, "breeds" and mounted police. Mr. Sullivan has peopled it with a queer ribs of Huskies?"""drawn with a strength of line, which sug- gests, if not careful study, then a very sound imagination, for they have a reality not often found in the ordinary run of novels. How Sergeant MacTier went into the North to find a missing man, how he was forced to become the magic maker of a tribe of Esquimicaux, and how he found his man appar ently leading natarvitig and fero- cious wolf pack, makes thrilling rending; and ones you get well into "The Magia Makers it is hard to put the book down."

Mr. Masefield tells his story alternately in verse

and prose Thus be justifies his position na laureate

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Youth Cal

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Tho all the world is shakanj by a strange fury of hats, the storm full finds youth sasking youth and love. The polteah Ing humanity of this scone and others of contrasted with the. grim fierceness of theme, will carry right into the hands of these beardless boys solched from hearthstone, to fire siep

ERICH MARIA REMARQUE'S ören!” novel. Presented by CARL LAERMIS. A CARL LAEMALEATE," Production. Directed by LEWIS MILESTONE,

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Kick the lid

There is a news stand at the north corner of the Times Building which millions of persons have visited. It is a stand which sells papers from every city in the country,S This particular corner plays an im portant part in the picture, fer it

tion.

formerly a star reporter on the New York World.

"Although Frofessor Moyer bag, as far as possible, limited the scope of his inquiry to the evidento of the epics, even so his chief diff culty has been the quastity and diversity of the evidence with which he has to deal. In this the "tipoff spot" for gamblers strange and bewildering muscura wishing to gain information about he is an honest as well as a learn the night's big games.

Natural Davis, played by For: now the most beautiful shiped guido. So when we recull the William Powell, in a frequent

having wandered her ways world of Hoiner and contrast it Was come to her ending, to thrust with the Indian epic world we are visitor to the "spot," where a one-

through the billows no more,

struck at once, by the immense armed newsboy, played by Johnny No more to go thundering on under power and prominents which the Risso, gives him the inside informa to Mahsten Street of Chance" is based on latter gives first the long leaps from roller to Gandhi's predecessors, the miracle-a stirring story of big-time gain- roller, the sea-smiting leaps,

working ascetics, and secondly tohlers in the metropolis, which was Heaving her bows out, and sway.exual desire. Though we are not written by Oliver H. P. Garrett, yet in the world of oratio litera ing, and streaming a wake. The poem closes with Mr. Maseture, sox is already refined, elabo field's alarmation of beauty's in-rated, and emphasized to a degroo violability

which seems to presuppose more wealth and Leisure, or at least lear continuous activity, tran was urfderfoot or kept in the back- found in the Homenic world. We ground. The true epic world knew are reminded, too, that the Brah | nothing of purdsh ́or child ́mar. min, though a priest was not a riage, and woman is usually shown celibate but an hereditary priest. as taking the initiative in love. fence woman to him was not making. That may be only because primarily a temptation to be the poet's Imagination preferred shunned, a dangerous enemy to be to have it so. But Professor Meyer" restrained: from exercising, her: fuil scems to suggest that, at least in powers. On the contrary, woman | ancient India, man was listless and was as necosarry to the Brahmin energy cams from the women. as to the rest of the world, and There is no doubt that in the Inj the Brahmin was thoroughly cap-dian opio woman plays not only a' able of appreciating and quite more prominent but also willing to appreciate all that she active part than in Homer. No one had to offer. If in some respects dreams of telling her to keep in the woman suffered not a little from linckground, and the loom and the priestly greed-and selfishness, in distaff, and leave war to men, Mighty my paren but this is more. It is a real and the world seeme moving study of ono of the trage everywhere that it is hardly worth ed him to claim for woman treat has turned women into extremists dics of childhood. It is unfortunate while to travel.”

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In "NAOMI GODSTONE" - ("Hodder & Stoughton 7/8) Richmael Cromp ton has drawn a most interesting" picture of a child of deep feeling who longs for demonstrative, affec- tion from her mother and fails to get it. The story of the misutider. Ostood abild has been told over and

Herself in not there, being Beauty

Eternal, alive, She wandere the waters of thought,

past disasters. past hates, *.. Past the world's disapproval, across

the black mas of despair. And on, beyond anguish to havens of peace when she brings - Hope, Mercy and Courage, all gentle and beautiful things.

MR CHESTERTON IN ROME,

THE RESURRECTION OF ROME BY G. K. CHESTERTON (Hoppe "AND "STOUGHTON),

"My weakness as a traveller,"

that when Naomi reaches. When I first saw one of the maturity, her creator seems to Papal Guard (Mr. Chesterton says loose interest in her, and lets her in the course of his book) or, to indulge in the stock follies which be expot, one of the Swiss Guard,

more

nent worthy of ber importance in and never-failing wells of energy the web of life. This we must not in politics, he should road Kuntie think of ancient Indis as a society exhortation to her son not to bu in which women were trodden content with stalemate but to fight"

Continued at foot of next solumn,) on for la victoire intégrale.

aff of gloom with that ol! lough giving mirth maker EL BRENDEL who cavorts about. with adorable dames in the most refresh- ingly new ro- mantic comedy of the season

The

with

EL BRENDEL MARJORIE WHITE

KOEL FRAHOIS

FRANK

RICHARDSON

NEW

Movietone

FOLLIES

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