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fice next Margh, has no omilal Mr. Louis B. Mayer, at a lunch-bme in the Tower.. ean in London yesterday, paid an cloquent tribute to the late Marie Dressler, one of the greatest stars

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7.08 to 7.30 p.m.-

Victor Herbert Melodies Selection--The Fortune Teller

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and proved by her bank book that | she had as much money as she te- quired. A brave and lovely WO- man."

"Though Mr. Mayer did not refer (Czardas).

to the subject, the loss of a great Orchestra-Kiss Me Again (Mlle.

star like Miss Dressler naturally Modiste) (Herbert) Vicar involves the company a heavy Salon Group. "

loss. Ordinarily she made two pic Orchestra-March of the Toys tures a year, and their gross re

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Victor Concert Orchestra.

Selection--"Babes in Toyland"

-Victor Light Opera Co. Selection "Sweethearts" Vic-

tor Light Opera Co. 7.30 to 7.45 pm-

A Violin Reclial_by_Mischa.

Elman

1. Minuet in G. No. 2 (Beet-

hoven).

2. Berenade in G Major, Op. 30,

No. 2 (Arensky).

3. Le Coq D'Or-Hymn to the Sun (Rimsky-Korsakow).

4. Thais Meditation (Masse

net).

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7.45 to 8 p.m.-In a Fairy Realm Sulte (Albert. W. Ketelbey). Albert W. Ketelbey's Concert Orchestra.

1. The Moonlit - Glade.

2.

3.

The Queen Fairy Dances. The Ghomes March.

3 p.m: Local time and weather

report.

8.03 to 8.30 p.m.

Variety

Song-Love's Last Word is Spok- en-Gracie Fields (Comme · dienne).

Plano Solo-One Minute to One

-Rale da Costa. Vocal, Duet Over

Else's Shoulder..

Somebody

Vocal Duet The Little Dutch Mill-Derickson and Brown. Waltz-Ich schenk mein Herz nur einem Mann ("The D11- barry.")

Fox Trot-Wer weint heut aus Liebe Tranen-Barnabas von Getży and his Orchestra. Song-The Very Thought of You. Song--A Place in Your Heart.

Sam Caslow (Tenor).'

8.30 to 8.40 p.m.-A Relay from Daventry (should reception prove satisfactory),

可 "An eye-witness account of this morning's play in the last Test match by Howard Mar- shall" Relayed from the Oval London.

840 to 9 p.m.-

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Band Music Overture The Jolly Robbers (Suppe).The B.B.O Wireless Military Band,

Faust Frolics (arr. Debroy Born- ers)Debroy Somers Band.. Reminiscences of Scotland (arr. Godfrey) The Band of HM. Coldstream Guards,

9 to 9.20 p.m-Excepts from "The Yeomen of the Guard” (GII- bert and Sullivan)".

Overture. Light Opera Orches

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When Malden Loves, She Bits and

Bighs. Nelle Briercle (Con- tralto).

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DIFFERENT "OPERATION" Rear-Admi. A. F. B. Carpenter, who has just been appointed Vice- Admiral on the Retired List, used TERMS:-Cash on Delivery. to tell an amusing story of how his wife heard the first news of the famous Zeebrugge raid, for which he won bis V.C.

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Celebrates Birthday In Paris

of

Shanghai, Aug. 34.

ENVOYS TO CANADA

Memories of Zeebrugge are also revived by the news that Sir Roger Keyes, M.P., is to be one of the Gov. One hundred and twenty of the ernment's official representatives

A prophet may be without hon- world's most famous scholars are at the Jacques Cartier celebrations

our in his own land, but in these scheduled to take part in the in Canada,

days, no artist is utterly forgot- It was Admiral Keyes who per- international geographers, con-

ten in the city of her birth. Yes- greas which is opening, here Ca sonally planned and supervised the August 23. "France will be repre- double rald on Zeebrugge and Osterday, Madame Emma Eames was; celebrating her 67th birthday. in" Paris, and in Shanghai, where she was born into the American com- mnity

on August 13, 1887, the. daughter

American parents here, those with long memories recalled that the Foreign Settle- ment in Shanghai gave to the world one of its greatest opera singers. Mme. Eames is the daughter of an American attorney who was practising law here in the International Mixed Court, and shortly after her birth, re- turned with his family to Boston where he was able to give bla daughter the musical education ternationally renowned destined to make her a figure In- од the operatic stage.

strong deputation tend on St. George's Day, 1818. numbering sixty scientists to be! Sir Roger is well fitted by ex- followed by England and Ger perience for the kind of ceremonial many with fifty each. The Soviet duties which his mission to Canada explorer. Professor Schmidt of, will involve, for he is something of Chelyuskin will head the Soviet A diplomat as well as a sailor. As delegation. The President of a young man he served as Naval the International Union of Photo- Attache in Vienna, Rome, Athens, graphers, Professor Baumann and Constantinople. has arrived from New York.- Traniccean' Kuo Min.

PROGRAMME

1. Rondo from First Concerto in C (Beethoven), (Accompani- ed on the Second Piano by Harry Ore).

2. First Movement of Fantasia in

Q (Schumann). - 3. Humoresque. in

maninoff).

(Hích.

10.05 to 10.30 p.m.-

Light Orchestra Programme Bolero (Ravel).Boston" 8ym

phony Orchestra. Gymnopedie No. 1 (Erik Satie).-- Boston Symphony Orchestra. A Hunt in the Black Forest

(Voelker).

In a 'Clock Store (Orth)-Victor

Concert Orchestra.

news.

10.30 p.m.-Renter Press Bulletins;

Rugby mid-day Press further London stock and com- modity quotations, followed by New York opening quotations. 10.40 p.m-Close down.

BERLIN PROGRAMME

9 pm. "Dia Announcement (Ger-

man, English)

German Folk Song Preview of Programme (German.

Engilsh) 9.15 pm. Chamber Music, Hanna Smid (Violin), Fritz v. d. Heyde (Cello), Karlheinz Taubert (Piano)

9.46 p.m. Latest News (English) 18 p.m., Rose Bloom in August One Hour of Entertainment Manuscript: Friedrich Nebauer

tion: Poet and Actor discuss) their Work

Tower Warders. Under Orders. pm, Latest News (German)

Henry Millidge and Chorus.11.15 p.m.. Intellectual Co-opera When our Gallant Norman Foes -Dorothy GH and Chorus. (a) Alas! "I Wayer to and Fre! -Nellie Briercliffe, Walter Glynne and Peter Dawson. (b) Is Life a Boon? Derek

Oldham (Tenor).

11.30 p.m. Entertaining Concert 11:45 pm. Latest News (English) 12, midnight. Dia Bign Off (Ger-

man, English). **** DAVENTRY PROGRAMME 2

9.20 to 9.30 pm-Operatica (Fam-7pm. Time Signal froin Big Ben

—our Operatio Melodies) Carri

Squire)The J. H. Squize Celeste Octette.. 9.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins,

London 1 p.m. Stock and Com-8:30 modity quotations. 9:35 to 10.05 pm.

From the

the Studio A Pianoforte Recital by Miss

Barbara Balean.

The Whitby Municfost Orches tra, directed by, Frank Gomez. 8 pm, Time Bignal from Green

wich Arr organ recital. pm, English v. Australia: To- day's play in the Fifth Cricket

Test Match 8.40-9.30 p.m. The Ididland Studio Orchestra, directed by Frank Cantella vocalist, from a Birmingham studio.

With him to Canada goes Mr. H. A. L Fisher, the Warden of New College, who will never be at a loss for a speech on either formal or.in- formal occasions.

THE POPE'S HOLIDAY··

holiday, since he was raised to the Though the Fope has not had a

Papacy twelve years ago his visit to Castel Gandolfo is clearly to be a change of scene rather than a Cessation of work.

The beautiful summer residence on the shores of the Alban Lake has been considerably molernised But it is full of memories of the last Pontic who used it,' Plus IX.

First she sang in chairs and concerts before she made her de- but in the Paris Grand Opera, proving that, for her, at least "13". was a lucky number, for she made ber Arst appearance at the age of 13 as "Jullet" in the Grande Opera de Paris on March 13, 1889. She married Mr. Julian story in 1891, and became the wife of the famous opera star, M. Emilio de Gogorba in 1911,

The Pope will doubtless use Plo Nono's modest suite, consisting of study, bed-room, dressing-room and private chapel. These rooms have been left just as they were when

To-day, the sole prima donna, Pius IX last occupied them in 1889. whom Shanghai may boast, is an There still stands in the studyofficer in the French Academy the inlaid writing-table on which the famous Fope signed the. Dogma of the Immaculate Conception.

Castel Gandolfo, standing on s hill above the lake, is a seventeenth century stronghold, much altered. and added to.

and has sung in opera in London and throughout the United States. She has lived in Paris since 1923:

by Sir Charles Walker in his book, It formerly belonged to the Savel-Thirty-six Years at the Admiral- family, but was bought by the ty," which appears to-doy. Holy See. Urban VIIL, Alexander VII, and Clement XIII. in turn made alterations and extensions to the property

The present Pope, who has up-to- date ideas on what a home should be, began the modernisation of Cas- tel Gandolfo soon after he ceased to be the voluntary prisoner of the Vatican" in 1929.

Alterations have been going on practically ever since. The most recent changes included a number of additional bathrooms.

THE FIRST AERIAL POST

When "Jackle" Fisher was just over 60 years of age he was-over- hauled by a doctor, who told him that his vitality was so great that he ought to have been twins.

This pleased Fisher Immensely; and he repeated the doctor's re- mark to a subordinate at the Ad- miralty.

What a mercy, siz, it isn't so,” was the reply "Can you imagine. two of you in the Navy?"

Bir Charles Walker served in the Admiralty secretariat during the most critical period in the modern history of the Navy, a period that A Large number of my readers witnessed the creation of the appear to possess examples of the Grand Fleet to counter the German letters ond postcards carried by the menace and the subsequent reduc- first aeral post in 1911 to which Ition of that mighty force to skele referred recently,

~ ton' dimensionis in the interests of Of course, as I pointel out at the econozaz. time, some of these may be worth several pounds. But the value of each individual example depends on its size, colour and condition.

Generally speaking, the range is from 25 to 48 or 59,"

Poor Btatistics

An average, use of four hours a day for radio neta in roparted byz An investigator, who most patent ly didn't investgate in our neigh-

A PISHER ANECDOTE-

There are several good anecdotes of the late Lord. Hisher -recounted. :bourhood.