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CENTRAL THEATRE EParamount's Sound Pictures R

TO-DAY, at 2,30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.

Money or Your Wife!

She made him choose between her Love, and the Game that kept her la ermine and limousines, 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 Sec and Hear and be Thrilled beyond words!

William

Powell

with

Joan Arthur-Kay Francis

and

Regis Toomey

*STREET OF CHANCE"

a Paramount Picture,

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COMING

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IN

Innocents. of Paris'

SOON

JOHN

BOLES,

CAPTAIN GUARD

Bookings at Anderson and the Theatre (Tel. 25720).

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THE FAMILY ALBUM—A GLASS OF WATER

S READY FOR BID WIFE ASKS WOULD, HE BRING HER A GLASS OF WATER BEFORE HE TURNS OFF THE LIGHT

GOES DOWN TO KITCHEN AND FILLS GLASS AT FAUCET THERE

OUYAS WILLIAMS

60ES INTO BATH-ROOM. FINDS ONE OF THE CHIL- DREN HAS MADE OFF WITH THE GLASS

"RETURNS UPSTAIRS, WILT FRED HAVING MEANWHILE GONE TO BED TURNING OUT HALL LIGHTS, TRIPS OVER CHAIR SPILLING WATER

-By GLUYAS WILLIAMS-

DESCENDS DOWNSTAIRS AND GETS : ANOTHER.. GLASS FROM THE PAN- TRY

TURNS ON ALL LIGHTS 'AND REFIUS GLASS

IN BATHROOM --- T

(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.)

MURMURINGS OF WAR.

THE WORLD'S NEED OF LIBERALISM.

Mr. Kingsley Griffith, M.P., pre- siding at the second international conference of Young Liberal. So- cloties, which was opened at the National Liberal Club, said that it was a most dangerous error for nations to attempt to achieve pros perity not only in isolation from the rest of the world, but in opposition to it.

BOES UP TO BATHROOM TO FILL IT. FINDS, WILL- FRED IN BATHROOM. WITH DOOR LOCKED

CARRIES GLASS OF VIN- TER IN TO WIFE WHO "HAS GONE SOUND 'A-

SLEEP FOR THE NIGHT'

THE SILVER SCREEN.

"STREET OF, CHANCE.!

The Central Theatre is offering exciting entertainment all this week with William Powell's first star ring-picture,: "Street of Chanes.'' With a plot that awing along t rapid pnec, n. theme that is ro freshingly different, a supporting enst that is excellent, and above all, with the auave-mannered and smooth voiced Powell dominating at every moment, this film lifts the emotions of the beholder to thrilling hrights. J

It is a tale of big city gambling! The lives of those who live by their | winnings at the poker tables of the

metropolis are held up to the mirror ↓ of reality. But if Powell is shown to be in sinister character in, tho téle of" Natural" Davis, the big gest gambler of them all, he is nevertheless portrayed as a kindly, human person in the moment when the big test comes.

"ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT.”

After the completion of the many battle scenes included in "All Quiet nu the Western Front," how show- ing at the Queen's Theatre, Uni. versal officials made a careful check of the value of the first aid hospital unit that accompanied the company

GENERAL'S WIFE'S DRESS DIPLOMATIC ACTION on all its locations.

BILL.

WHEN IS A HUSBAND

LIABLE?

A husband's liability for his wife's dress bill was argued in the King's Bench Division recently be fere Justices Swift and Acton,

Miss Patricia Cleary, trading as "We, as Liberais, believe that Sonia Bloor, had claimed £33 from civilisation cannot be saved in this General Talbot Lennox and his manner. It cannot be saved in in wife for dresses supplied to Mrs. stalments, but must be saved in a whole.

Lennox. Westminster County It is quite obvious that there Court judge had decided that the aro murmurings of war now. It is dresses referred to were not a a dangerous situations and we ows it to civilisation to realise that just necessity for which the husband ne it was a erime in time of war was Ciable and he adjourned the to desert the field of battle, so it case against Mrs. Lennox. is now a crime for a nation to do sert the field of ponce which has to be maintained at all costs,"

Mr. Aloo Glassey, M.P., moved a resolution deploring:--

The growth in so many coun- trich of a narrow.and intolerant

nationalism which finds expres sion in the raising of tariff bar

riers and the maintenance of pro- vocative armaments.

Miss Cleary recently apported on the ground that the judge was wrong in holding that the wife had not pledged her husband's credit.

Mr. Justice Swift (to. Mr. A. How can the tradesman know that Cairns, counsel for Miss Cleary) he is giving credit exclusively to a married woman? Have you over The Conference,'

"the resoli heard of a married woman, living tion went on, "observes with with her husband, who went to a alarm the widespread tendency tradesman and said: "I want a to abandon democracy for dicta-dress and, mind you, I want it torship; it protests against in- to go down to my account and not justics to political, racial, and my husband's" religious minorities, and pledges itself to strive unceasingly for the restoration of Liberalism.".

The resolution was carried with

enthusiasm,

Thirteen nations are associated with the conference.

TO-DAY

Mr. Cairns: It has not happen- ed to me. (Laughter.)

Mr. Justice Swift: If by simply sing into the witness box and awearing that he had. forbidden his wife to pledge his credit a hus band could defeat claims froni tradesmen for goods supplied, un- fortunate tradesmen would rise up iu horror. Who could. imagine the seone if, when the suburban house wife went to the bakers for two

| At 2.30, 5:20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.|| loaves of broad, the tradesmen ask

od her "Has your husband givon yon permission to pledge his credit ?"

The Picture of the Century ! Radio Picture's Glorification In Song, Colour, and Splendour of

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with

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AT THE

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Giving judgment, Mr. Justice Swift said that at the County Court Miss Cleary and her book keeper said they looked to the wife for payment. In the circum stances there was evidence that eredit had been, given exclusively 10 the wife,

OVER WAR FILM.

·BERLIN DISLIKES SCENES OF "ZEPP" ATTACKS.

According to a report prepared by Dr. William P. Hutchins, who was in charge of the 'hospital unit, approximately 3,094 cans were treated during the cloven weeks of production when large groups of

tras were engaged. Of this num- ber there was not a single serious case. The figures indicated that

Berlin. The film, "Hell's An- gele," which is now being shown in London; is likely, according to the John Hallor, who was employed by Berlin Press, soon to be the sub the company to give first aid treat ject of diplomatic representationsment, handled 46 cases daily. the British Government, on the lesions to dislocations and frac by the German Foreign Office to These gases ranged from simple ground that it is anti-Clerman intures. It so happed that there were showing a Zeppelin attack on. Lon-only three cases of dislocation and tendency, particularly in the scenes don

Fractures and these were of a minor The German Embassy in London nature. Most of the cases treated has supplied the Foreign Office in Berlin with information about the were slight abrasions and burns. film.

Soldiers, occasionally were struck The well-known German pro-by flying objects or sustained slight ducer, Herr E. A. Dupont, who has made several films in England, describes Hell's Angels AS one of the most anti-German films ever made very fine from a tact or conscience. technical standpoint, but without

"It Glorifies, Germany."! Mr. Charles A: Neade, the Lon do representative of Mr. Howard Hughes, who produced the Gim, said that the message from Berlin was the first intimation that the Germans wore taking any excep tion to its production.

It is the first we have heard of it," he said. We have never been approached by anyone sug- gesting that the film is anti-Ger

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It is a war picture, and it is similar to many other war pictures.

injuries in barbwira entanglements. Despite the fact that moro pow- der and dynamite were used in the picturcization of Remarque's D

tonishing book than had ever boon used in filming any previous war picture, not a single person was killed and nonc seriously injured.

POCKET RADIO FOR

POLICE.

EAR-PIECE HIDDEN IN 'HELMET.

QUEEN'S

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.00, 4.30, 7.00 & 0.30.

NOTE THE TIMES!

Youth.Calls

to Youth

Tho all the world is shaken i by a strange fury of,hato, the storm full finds youth sacking youth, and love. The refresh ing humanity of this scene and offers of contrasted with that grim Barceness of thome, will carry right into the hearts of these beardlessboyssnatched. from hearthstone to frostep.

ERICH MARIA REMARQUES noval. Prasshted by CARL LKEMMI

A CARL LAEMALE "Production. Directed by LEWIS MILESTONE,

ALL QUIET

ON

THE

WESTERN FRONT

NOTE THE SHOW TIMES I

-COMING SHORTLY-

· A pocket wireless set carried by An Inside Story

In fact, I do not think that it is every policeman on his beat, by so critical of the Germans as some which he may be wained of the of the others, because in a great activities of car, bandits, is the sub. many ways, it glorifies the actions ject of secret experiments being of the Germans during the war..

Mr. Hughes spent a fortune ou carried out at Brighton under the the production of "Hell's Angels." direction of the Chief Constable, Several lives were lost in the pro-

duction, because of the daring feats Mr. Charles Griffin which the actors had to perform in The set, which has been compress the scenes of serial warfare, in-ed into the smallest possible space, buzzer and a cuding the bringing down of a incorporates a Zeppelit in flames.

small ear-placa through which signala in Morso cody are audible.

The "buzzer is carried in the ear-piocó concealed in his helmet,

The appeal was dismissed with SCANTILY CLAD ACTRESSES policeman's breast pocket, and the

costa V

"LETHAL CHAMBER FOR

IDIOTS."

CHIEF CONSTABLE'S WARNING.

No matter where the constable wireless may be on his. beat, a signal sout out from headquarters may be picked up......

Eight-mile Radius.

A letter from the Chief Constablo of Newcastle regarding the "grow. DRAGON COMMUNITY, SAYS sufficiently clad to appear on the Heavy, but experts are tackling the ing tendency to permit females in- At present the apparatus is too DOCTOR,

stage and sereen" and complaining problem of reducing the size and that some comedians rely on sheer weight. ร่า

As regards idiots, I cannot see vulgarity was read at a meeting

any other alternative but the of the northern branch of the It is hoped to make the set. effec lethal chamber."

***Cinematograph Exhibitors Ative over a radius of eight miles. Dr. E. G. L. Golfe, a Kingston scciation in Newcastle recently. Signals, up to the present, have The Chief Constable; writing on

been transmitted successfully up to physician, made this statement last month after listening to an address behalf of the Witch, Committee, about half a mile only. at the annual meeting of the King-suggested the desirability of excis ston Central Aid Society on the ing cortain script and films, work among mental deficients in Surrey.

Mr. A. V. Adams, of Blackhill, said that Gims shown carried the Censor's certificate; and the Bil posters Association declined to ex hibit undesirablo posters.

Details of a formidable wireless net to spread over the whole. country to deal particularly with car bandits will be discussed at a secret conference of police chiefs in London this month.

Bailing Criminal.

"It seems to me," he added, that such people should not be a drag on the community, and it is

Mr. F. W. Morrison, of Dunston, best that vo should face that 'and- that they should be put in a lethal asserted that many posters sent out A scheme will be considered by chamber after due precautions had to advertise films wore not de which every police station in, the been taken.

sirable for public exhibition, but country can receive and transmit "There should be court of exhibitors acted as second censor messages, with Scotland Yard ns appeal and some recognised autho- and exercised a wise discretion, the principal broadcasting station. rities to decide what should be done both in regard to the matter, ap..

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don and other large contres, ther is being spent, and it is waste of done that but the Chief Constable the mobile fores now being estab An enormous amount of money their hoardings. They had allan hozok erosted round. Lon- money and energy to keep them could be assured that they would fished, it is hoped to set up alive. Thers also should be storili- do ro atill more strictly in view of of communication which will baffle sation for other defectives.":

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