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CENTRAL

WOMAN'S DIARY IN

·DEATH MYSTERY.

THEATRE ENTRIES UNEXPLAINED AT

TO-DAY ONLY At 2:30, 5,10, 7 15 & 9.20 p.m.

THE SINNING LADY OF THE DOCTOR'S SECRET”— THE FIGHTING LADY IN. "MADAM X" AND NOW

The lough that turns Scandal to Praise and Love. The Talking Screen's newest and most daring story of a woman's wita pitted against men's Intrigues.

You loved her in "Ma- dame X-row thrill to

the brilliant acting of

Ruth Chatterton

"THE

LAUGHING LADY

A Paramount Pictur

Starting Sunday April 19.

You know this Nancy

The Devil's Holiday"

NANCY CARROLL *The Devil's Holiday

A Paramount Plativët

But!

Do you know this one?

up-to-the-

A new fiery,

minute

miss, who plays at lovo 1

COMING SOON

EVERY GIRL IN LOVE- EVERY LOVE LORN YOUTH EVERY MAN AND WOMAN

will want to see this startling revelation of the love intrigues of the beautiful ladies of the most romantic court of Europe.

BOUDOIR DIPLOMAT

with

Betty Compson Ian Keith Mary Duncan Jeanette Loff Lionel Belmore Lawrence Grant

The Spicy Affairs of A Master, Lover,

› IT'S A 1931 UNIVERSAL

SUPER-PRODUCTION......

Booking at Anderson's and the Theatre (Tel. 25720);

INQUEST.

HER LOVE DISAPPOINTMENT IN SOUTH AMERICA.

The riddle of the death of Kath- leen Margaret Doland, n. 31-year-old Southport shop assistant, who died

in a house nt Diarneli Road, Put- hey, S.W., was not solved at the inquest at Baitersen,

Al this, the third, hearing, the jury returned an open verdict.

The other has said that her daughter went to South America with the intention of getting mar ried. When she arrived there she discovered that the man was al-

She came ready married. distressed.

back

Dr. Bronte, the pathologist, told

the coroner that the woman's death

was due to outside interferenca.

い

Today Frederick Jones, a porter

at a Southport hotel, snid that, be met Miss Doland after she came back from South America last November. He had not known her before.

She told him she was. cnmming to Nee Bome London for a week 10 friends. He understood that she would return home the next day, and he arranged to meet her.

She wrote him several letters from Putney, and he wrote her a few in reply.

He declared that he knew nothing about her condition, and the letters helween them threw no light what ever on the tragedy. "I had not the slightest suspicion that any- thing was wrong," he added.

The coroner mentioned that in her diary Miss Doland had written on March 6, "A letter from Fred." He asked Jones if he knew her object in coming to London.

Jones: To see frienda. The coroner said that on March 4 there was the entry, "Up at Had breakfast in twelve o'clock.

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"Animal Crackers

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Dr. Bronto, recalled, said that the woman's death at 9.50 p.m. might have resulted from interfer ence some hours previously, but it was very unlikely to be 24 hours.

The coroner told the jury that there had been some discrepancies; in the evidence. There was a de- Snité statement in the diary that, if this was a criminal trial, would not be considered legal evidence. There was the entry "I told Mrs. Hamm everything," but Mrs. Haim said she knew nothing of it.

The entries in the diary left no doubt that the woman was going to find someone to terminate her

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The family had lived with the single object of keeping their im mense fortune intact, and now that the last one has gone their millions will probably be split up among charition.

For many yours the six sisters lived na virtual prisoners of their aruelly tyrannical dor bachelor brother John, who, forbade them to Marry or to leave his sight.

Brother's Edicts.

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He ordered that to the end of their lives they must!

Wear the trailing skirts and high necks fashionable In the six-

tion;

bed. Very cold. Wrote to Fred, Went to Fulham-everything O.K."

Not after the early Victorian Jones said that he could not ex-condition, but there was not sufli-

furniturs or appointments of the cient evidence to point a finger at ; house; - plain that entry.

any individual.

"Very Suspicious,"

Mrs. Eva Hamm, daughter of the landlady of the house in Dioracli Hoad, said that she was living apart from her husband, a chemist's nasistant. She had never acen. Miss Dola before until she came to the Miss Doland house for a room. said she had come to London on business, and she thought the woman was looking for a post.

PRISONER OF DEAD

BROTHER.

ELEVENTH HOUR NIGHT

CLUR VISIT.

New York. This city's strangest house, the old Woadel mansion on Fifth-avenue, has lost its mistress, Miss Ella Wendel, the last of six siters and heiress to £30,000,000, being found dead in bed.

She and Miss Doland went to Walham Green on a bus. They did not visit anyone, She could not explain an entry in Miss Since her last sister died a year Doland's diary on March 6 which, ago, Miss Wandel, who was 80, had the coroner said, rend, "Letter lived alone with a maid in this from Fred. Told Mrs. Hamm every-gloomy caily Victorian house, in thing. She has told me of some which nothing had been altered in one to do the triok. I am glad. decades.

Sho Went to Fulham with her. had supper with me and we came bak. Feeling better already."

Mira, Hamm said that the entry was very suspicious, but she had nothing to do with the writing of

it.

The Coroner: Did you tell her she could go out and see some ono1 You are on your oath, you know,

You say you did non tell her¡—No,

sir

No

You cannot explain that entry (——

Mr. Hamar said that after pur chasing some food for supper they went home. It had been their in tention to go to the pictures, but it was too cold.

Ten minutes before she died Miss Doland asked for a teapot and a

up and sauter. She was sitting in

front of the fire and did not seein ill. Suddenly she jumped up and said: "Oh, I feel funny."

Thinking she folt faint, Mrs. Hamm said she helped her on the bed, Miss Doland did not speak ~

The Coroner-You-heard-Dr.- Bronto say she died as the result of the use of an instrument. Can you throw any light on that at all.i.

The shuttered mansion, standing in the heart of a fashionable shop. ping district and dwarfed by sky scrapers, was a weird anachronism and aroused more curiosity than any other private residence in the city.

Not install a telephone or cloc. tric light or other new-fangled de- video;

The

Never encourage friendship; Enjoy no change except a sum- mar visit to his country house.

Two of them robelled, but one roturned penitently, the rooond marrying a professor and dying last year at the age of 87. others encrificed themselves to the brother's obsession, and even after his death, 15 years ago, religious- ly followed his stora edicts, which resembled those in the play "The Barretts of Wimpole Street."

Too Late to Discover Lito.

Two of them became mentally un- balanced as result of this repressed existence, and Ella, in her last lonely years, conducted the house as though her brother and sistors were still living their beds being made cach day.

As death closed about her she began to yearn for all she had miss od in life, and, a fortnight age she left her prison for a scores visit to She eat a Bioadway night club, at a table for an hour, a strange figure from the part in a rusty frock that had gone out of fashion

·50 years ago.

Death came to hor at tho mo- ront of her first attempt to dis- cover life.

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LAST

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QUEEN'S THEATRE. -

WHOOPEE."

Many an actor has been on th stage for twenty-five years, but fow metabers of the profession-have over equalled the record set up in twenty-five years of neting by Spencer Charters, vetoran Thespian,

MOVIELAND

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Cantor in Whoopee" the Samuel Goldwyn-Florenz Ziegfeld musical riot which comes to the Queen's Theatre on Sunday. In his "time

Mr. Charters has appeared in over WHAT about LOVE

600 sujiarato Fales,

This number has included his first great successes in Sovou Keys to Baldpate" and "It Pays to Advertise,' as well as the privilege of creating the world. famous role of the hired man in George M. Cohan's "The Tavern! with its memorable line that became part of the American language; What's all the shootin' for t Now, as Jerome Underwoods, the testy old millionaire of "Whoopee.” he has an opportunity to make use of all the fruits of his mellowed experience.

CENTRAL THEATRE.

"THE LAUGHING LADY."

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Besides being a well-known dire tor of Para nount New Show World productions, Victor Schertzinger is k composer of music.

ring

In The Laughing Lady" star- which Ruth Chatterton, Schertzinger directed, two of his Bongs, Delphine' and "Onc Kiss, will be heard as incidenta music in the picture.

Schertzinger's favourite instr ment is the violin bat he is equally at home at 1 piano. Between scenes at the Paramount Loos leland studio, whore this all-talk- ing picture was filmed, ho frequent- ly seated himself at the piano and aided, in arranging orchestratione for the musicians.

Schortringer's

beiter

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Among

44 Mar known compositions are chota," "Just an Old Love Song and many picture hit songs, in- cluding the musical score for Maurice Chevalier's picture, "The

rve Parade," which Ernst bitsch directed at Paramount's West Const studio. Supporting

"Tha Laughing dy

are many well-known stage And screen actors including Clive Brook, Dorothy. Hall, Hotty Bart- ley, Nat Pendleton, Hudiert Druce, Lillian B. Tonge, Raymund Wal- burn, Marguerite St. John, Nedda Harrigan, Dan Healy, Joe King. and Alice Hegeman. The picture is now showing at the Central Theatre for the last time to-day.

"THE DEVIL'S HOLIDAY."

Nancy Carroll, petite and charm- ing Irish colleen who captivated old and young with her comedienn parts in Sweetio"rnd" Honey?"! will be seen and heard in an entire- ly new type of screen portraya! she comes to the Central

when

PERFORMANCE Theatre to-morrow in "The Devil's

HAND

LAURA LA PLANTE

All

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HOLD YOUR

Talking

MAN

STAR

Holiday."

In this picture of modern life.in America's wheat-bolt, Mias Carroll is a gold-digging manicurist who works hand-in-hand with plotting ailesmen of farm implements in gutting over their deals with un- suspecting farmer prospects.

Much of the netion takes place in a big hotel, the zondezvous for wealthy farmers and tricky city folks.

Miss Carroll tries her bunco game on Phillips Holmes, son of the wheat king of that region, ani later regrets her shameful trickery when she discovers that he loves hor.

The play in charged with drama- lic dynamics and stirring emotion- al scenes. Miss Carroll, as the central, starring figure, has carry much of the highly explosive burden of acting How she does it stamps her as an eminent genius in this type of rôle.

Those who have been wanting to #00 Miss Carroll in a dashing emotional part will surely

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