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2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

"REACHING FOR THE MOON."

Edward Evoratt Horian, who plays an important and sparkling comedy rôle in Douglas Fairbanks' Iniest picture "Renching For The Moon," with Bele Daniels, show

ROMANCE OF THE ing at the Queen's, is a native of

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Brooklyn, New York.

His first professional engagement

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was with travelling company presenting "The Mikado; but his real start was given him by Lonle Mann with whom he remained ac varal years. fg, stage manager and sunporting playar."-

In 1010 he made his first ap: pearance in California, and has

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WILL ROGERS

A Connecticut

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The Programme will be as follows:- 2.80 p.m. "Charlie Chan Carries On 8.10 pm. "Dishonored"

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7.15 “Vagabond King "

p.m. 9.30 p.m. "Don't Bet On Woman

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Booking at the Theatre.

Brothers; "Once a Gentle FROM HOSPITAL TO

"man" A James "Cruze production, and "Holiday," maile by Pathé.

"Reaching For The Moon, "whie opened at the Queen's Theatre pos

226-MILE RACE:

With his face heavily bandaged,

he set a pace which, outstripped the

| rest of the field. Colleating records as he went, taking no head of the

terday, given. Horto a splendid AND THEN BACK TO BED hazards which already had caused

comedy rule. It was directed by Edmund Goulding for United Ar tists, with Bebe Daniels playing apposite Douglas Fairbanks...

"ONE ROMANTIC NIGHT

AGAIN.

GREAT TRIUMPH FOR AN INVALID.

Lillian Gish is through playing

The history of road racing is isophisticated heroines in motion pictures. Neither will she essay rich in the matter of daring epi furthor screen churneterizations sodea, but never has a race been that call for parsuit of canary birds around bushes, the wringing of hands and the crying of glycerine

to:Lry.

The slender United Artists star, whose first talking picture, "Ont

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hiza disaster, ho blazed a trail which tiok him to victory.

It was not until the third, lap. of the six which constituted the

race that he took the lead. In the firat two-circuits,two young sales men, E. N. Lea and A. L. Hodgson, were hand of him, but Pirie bent

won in more herois fashion than orde for, the course at over

71 m.p.h. to assume the leadership. Head-Firat Into Wall, was the Junior Grand Prix over the mountain course, ai. Douglas, Isle of Man.

It was contested over a distance of 226 miles by forty-one riders, whose machines were restricted to

cubic capacity of 350 cubic cen timetres,

Romantic Night," comes to the Queen's Theatre ucxt Sunday, pro ven in this, her first picture in two years, that she is through kiss ing doves and love birds on the D. J. Pirie, young" London screen and is now definitely settled architect, last year's winner, re- on a new career of forceful, mo-tained the trophy, at an average speed of nearly seventy miles an dern roles.

hour...

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In "One Romantic Night" which Paul L. Stoin directed, the star plays the role which Eve Lo Gal lienne trented in the first American presentation of Ference Molnar's play "The Swan" in New York. In the supporting cast with the star are Rod La Rocque, Conrad Nagel Mario Dressler, O. P. Hey fie, Albert Conti, Edgar Norton, Billie Bennett, Phillippe de Lacy and. Dyrón" Sage:

KING'S THEATRE.

So much for cold facts. The manner of Pirie's triumph was Astounding.

Face Heavily Bandaged. During practice Pirie crashca badly and was taken to hospital. It did not seem possible that he could take part in the race. He had not qualified because he had not completed the accessary number of practice laps.",

He got up from his hospital bed and astonished the officials by turn- ing up for final, practice. He ac complished the two lapa which were A CONNECTICUT YANKEE."

necessary to qualify, neid went back. to hospital. There he was admo. Will Rogers, the famous American wished for his reckless disregard of stage and streen humourist, has tho norsible consequences of racing, without

doubt caught the true in his condition, hut, though he spirit of his illustrious compatriot, was chided, he wre also admired," Mark Twain

the pieturisation and this morning he was given per

And how he raced!

of the latter's classic extravaganza, mission by the doctor to race.

reason

A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur," which for some the producers have seen fit to change to "A Conpectient Yankon."! Whatever the name, however, the picture is splendid vehicle for Rogers peculiar wit and the audiences at the King's Theatre, yesterday were kept continuously convulsed at the adventures of this typical 20th century Yankee in a 5th century environment.

A Connecticut Yankee should not be missed by all those who en joy a good wholesome laugh.

IRISH MASKED-RAIDS.

FARMHOUSE KORBED AND DANCE STOPPED.

Belfast, Sept. 11. Two parties of maaked men carried out raide in the Ulster counties of the Irish Free State tordry

Three armed men raided the farmhouse of Matthew Nulty Drum barry, Denn, Co. Cavan, and got away with considerable sum of money. They imprisoned the houss keeper in a stable and then sear ched the house, one of them keep ing guard over the owner in his bed While a dance was in progress in Aghabog, Co. Monaghan, masked men entered the building, ejected. the dancers, bolped themselves to the refreshments about to ho sorved and destroyed the furniture):

laving, dose se he began to slinke of his pursuers who in the hectic chase which followed crashed all round the course. They fell at Quarter Bridge, at Ballacraine, on the fairpin bend, at Rausey, and at the sinister milestone, a grue some signal which is painted red to amplify the warning, which it

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One after another the riders set off in pursuit of the flying Pirie, and one after another they fell.. J. B. WHITE, a Cambridge under- graduate, overshot Quarter Bridge in his too reckless haate, and went head-frat into the

granite wall. His crash helmet anved him, and he was only alightly injured

Harrow, crashed H. E NEWMAN, of

at that same spot, and, keen to proceed, was stopped by the doc tor on duty at the bridge because he was in no state to race on. H. J. WHEELER, of the Royal Air Foret, overshooting the corner, at the bungalow, rode straight into the hotel before he could stop J. C. WILKINSON got into a dread- ful speed wobble on Bray Rill. slid along the road for thirty yards, and eame to rest, within 'inchies of a granite wall. der

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Collapse at Finish.

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But Pirie never faltered until the end. He hold the lead from the time he first grined it, and dashed over the linea winner by nearly five minutes.

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Then he collapsed utterly. It was as though the great urge which had maintained his physical strength had with its departure left Pirie nothing on which to rely, for having stopped his machine he fell

was there and then taken back to into the arms of the officials, and

hospital in not ambulante. The will to win had supported the physical incapacity of an injured hero, and taken him to victory.

'Inter, in an interview, he said:

I must have gone round the cours from force of habit. For the last thirty or forty miles ny brain seemed in a maze. I had bouts of dizziness and at times I could not see the road properly."-

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Never has a race been won so amazingly. A man had left hos pital, had need for over, three hours, and had collapsed anil goze back to hospital triumphantly de fending a trophy which was his. It was heroic and perhaps a little fool- hardy. But young Pirio stands among the heroes of motor cycling, and his great ride is a fins example to British boyhood of pluck and fortitude.

SAFE ANÆSTHETICS.

FOUR DEATHS IN 21,000 CASES..

The rarity of deaths, under juntesthetics was commented on at the inquest nt Poplar on Fanuy Solomans, aged 20, of Westworth street, Stepney, who died during an operation, at the London Jowish Hospital

Dr. Thomas Banner, anesthetist at the hospital, said that he had examined the woman before giving the anesthetic -and-found-nothing.

wrong,

had given 21,000 anestheti and had had only four

deaths:

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Recording a verdict of death by mieadventure, the deputy-coroner, Dr. P. B. Skeels, said that Dr." Bonner had had wonderful Ford Deatlis, under anesthetics were exceedingly remote, and those which did occur only seemed to prove the rule low safe anesthetics

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