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Close Down, Talk From The Studio Z. E, K, Programme 5-8 p.m. European Programme. 5-7 pm. A Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden (by courtesy of the Management).

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tations, London and New York Stock and Commodity Quota- tions. 7.08-7.33 p.m. Light Opera.

Vocal Gems--Iolanthe (Gilbert and Sullivan)...Çolumbia Light Opera Company. Selection-Tom Jones (German) "...Regimental Band of HM

Grenadier Guards,

Vocal Gems Jolly Roger....Light

Opera Company. 7.33-7.50 p.m. Two Chopin Bal-

lads played by Alfred Cortat.

1. Ballade in A Flat Major.

(Op. 47).

2. Ballade in F Minor, (Op.

52).

7.50-8 p.m. From the Studio. -

An Address on "The Street Sleep- ers Shelter Society" by the Hon. Dr. R. H, Kotewall,

8 p.m. Local Time and Weather

Report.

BIG AIR MAIL

DEVELOPMENTS

Cheaper Empire Flat Rates

(Special Air Mall Service).

London, Nov, 15. Inting to speed would come 'more Cheaper air mails for the Em-appropriately from them." pire on Saturday, and an extension of air mail services in this country. were announced last night by the Postmaster-General, Sir Kingsley

Wood.

Flat rates are to be substituted on Saturday for the present vary ing postage charges to Empire destinations reached by the exist- ing services of Imperial Airways. The new rate will be:

air

The magnificent performances in the England-Australia'

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HOLLYWOOD'S FAILURE

:

Realities Of Life Not Presented

BY DOROTHY ARZNER

(Director at the Samuel Goldwyn Production "NANA" the present attraction at the King's Theatre ),

Hollywood has been a fool about. pretty pictures. It's been crazy

about beauty.

It has idealized

life. Softly diffused lights, mist- hung images of urpassing love- be less, girls 200 beautiful to alive, men consciously handsome, with virile, charming, romantic,

(or maybe, real).. an imaginary Northern multitude of adoring females in are in Holly- their wake-these Rhodesia,

wood's chemistry.

homes that" are Bets re-create

of the in examples dazzling terior decorator's art, Girls wear clothes that, even in the modest scale of a shopgirl's living, naively suggest Chanel or Schiaparelli. |

They never get away from the alk If air transmission is desired be-

underwear feeling or the nail po- Among the questions put to Sir yond Karachi, over the Karachi-lish effect. The screen hasn't dis- Kingsley at the end of his state- Bombay-Madras atr route, there covered t t people actually drive

four or five year old automobiles. ment was: "Is the speeding up of ❘ will be an extra fee of 2d per letter. 'planes involved in the scheme?” The South African authorities, “I would prefer," he replied, "not | Sir Kingsley said, had already in- to Fay anything about faster timated their intention of fixing a 'planes. We are co-operating with | flat rate of sd a joz on a the Air Ministry, and anything re- addressed to this country.

The chief advantage in the new rates will be for correspondence to

Malaya and South Africa, where the present charges, 1s. and 10d.

respectively, are reduced to Ed.

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Non at the Machine Tool and En- The Duke Of Kent

gineering Exhibition, which was Olympia, occasioned opened at much surprise among industria- Lists, the more so since there were present on the invitation of the ΟΙ organisers a large

number

So far potential foreign buyers. 8.03-8.15 p.m. From the Studio.

could be gathered only two An Address on "The Street Sleep Scottish Arms had taken space in ers Shelter Society by the what is the largest display of Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall. (Chi-machine tools ever staged in this mese).

or any other country. The mis- 8.15-10.30 p.m. Chinese

sion is the more apparent when Concert.

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to Olympia to make a selection between British and

Scottish foreign goods. facturers

two with

exceptions have left England to sustain this country's claim upon foreign pat- ronage.

Chinese Studio 9.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins, London, 1 p.m.. Stdek and Com- modity Quotations:

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"Carmen"-Prelude to Act 1 (Bi-.

·zet..

"Carmen"-Entr'acte. Act. 4 (B1- zet)...Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leo- pold 'Stokowski.

Aria- "Tristan and Isolde", Act. 3.- Isolde's Love Song (Wag- per).......Nanny Larsen Todsen (Boprano).

manu-

MILITARY TOMBOLA

Sixty Three Prize Winners At the Military Charity Tombola held at the Garrison Lecture Hall

In Edinburgh

"NANA" which I had the hor our to direct for Samuel Goldwyn 19 the "Introductory American screen vehicle of Anna Sten, has a richly atmospheric period for its setting. It is the gaslit Parls of 1870, excited, decadent and over- fed Paris had just become "La Vle Lumiere."" Her newly-laid boulevards were the talk of the world, "the great Opera was fresh delight. The streets were gay with the songs of their music" the wit and halls, bright with

charm of the day, in this setting

fri the life of the Paris boulevards. Nana lived and had her being.

изготал- The screen-play is an

of her ticized account.

rise and fall. In her costumes and in the, (Special Air Mail Service)

living' screen that serves as her Edinburgh, Nov. 15.

background, her career is to be The Duke of Kent represented seen, first as the street brat. then the King at the Armistice cere-

the grabbing little careerist, and monies in Edinburgh. Accompanion to her budding success in the ed by Lady Haig, Sir Ian Hamilton, demi-monde of the music-halls, to Lord Rosebery, Lord Airlie, and

ber opulence as the greatest cour- Lord Haddington, he marched at tesan of her time. the head of the British Legion This, to us working on the Unit- parade to the Stone of Rememed Artists lot, was an opportunity brance in High Street. Here the for the "naturalism" that 'Zola large parade, which included spoke about, the finished produc- women wearing the medals of tion is we believe, and we think Gead husbands and 500s, Was you will agree.

a natural and Joined by blinded and disabled. humán picture. men. After the observance of the Motion pictures have been tak Silence the Rev. Dr., Harry Miller ing on the universal language of conducted a short service, and.on the dialogue writer. It is good, behalf of the King the Duke laid a | but it is too calculated, too pre- wreath of popples on the stone. cise in its dramatic effect. It In the course of an address Dr." gets farther and farther AWAY Miller said that there stood in | from the simple. unaffected memory before them the strong speech of living people. upright figure of Lord Halg, serene Beauty can't be shrill and that day above the petty criticism'| hysterical and

the dramatic all of lesser men, and leading them time. There must be arid periods. still as head of the Legion to the for catching breath, for a change' care of the living who had suffered of pace. Grays are needed to set through the War.

off the bright glint of Hollywood's Later the Duke laid a wreath at cramatic Christmas tree the War Memorial Shrine atments. For any ore get tired of Edinburgh Castle, and in the too much rainbow. afternoon be visited the Scottish National Institution for blinded men and the Field of Remem brance in Princes Street Gardens.

orna-

Vocal: Duet "IP Trovatore❞—

Miserere (Verdi)...Mavis Ben-on Saturday night, 63 people won

prizes. nett (Soprano) and John The following is a complete lat

of the winners:-P. Lockorish, W yule, Mrs. Beeston, G. M. Hobson, S. B. Henderson, W. Dyer, A., Re- well, J. Bale, W. Denne, J. Roberts, G. Clarke, S. Reed, F. Johnson, W. Brazier, W. Hollis, P. Bowerman, where he appealed for more sup-nation, the promotion of unity a. M. Banas, R. Shaw, R. Smith, port of organizations for succour among all classes, and a consecra- "Great tion of comradeship by devotion to C. Viccars. A. Welham, D. Omens, ing the war disabled,

soldier," the widow, and the orphan child. In life he practised" the Needs of Survivors

ideals he inspired" and embodied in He attended the Festival of Re- the Legion's constitution. These membrance at the "Usher Hall, are: A sense of loyalty to State and

Turner (Tenor). Aria-"La Boheme"-Your tiny hand is Frozen (Puccini). Heddle Nash (Tenor).." 8.54-9.10 p.m. A Violin Recital by

Fritz Kreisler. P

Fi

1. Rondina (fn a theme by Beethoven) (Kreisler).

2. Fair Rosemary (Schin Rosemarin) (Kreisler).

3. Humoreske, Op. 101, No. 7

(Dvorak),

4. Caprice Viennois (Kreis-

ler). 9.10-9.30 pm. Light Orchestral..

Henry Vill Dances (Edward Ger- man). New Symphony Orches

tra

Reminiscences of Grieg

Urbach)....Marek Weber and His Orchestra. Raindrops-Pizzicati for Strings

(de la Riviere).

•

G. M. Barraclough, W. Wittzoes, Britain and the Empire," he said, mutual service and helpfulness."

Mrs. Miller, H. Swain, H. Turner, J. Keal, W. O'Brien, G. Lewis, 8. Millard, C. Green, H. Mitchell, R.

"have not forgotten that the wel- fare of the survivors is a debt we

owe of those who died. Much re

In Glasgow

In Glasgow there was a great:

Newman, Mrs. Coward, G. Stokes. mains to be done and more might gathering at the Cenotaph in be attempted, but, our record George Square, which was attended

C. Blake, G. M. Suffolk, 6. Cherry,

German Folk "Bong Programme Forecast (Germ..

Eur.)

8. Dyer, J. Turner, A. Allan, Atands high among other nations by representatives of the Navy Whittaker, J. Grimith, D. Walter, T. in the extent and scope of the pro- Army, Air Force, ex-Servicemen's O'Brien, Mchegan, T. James, C. vision made for the care of those organizations, and public bodies. Carter, W. Kirkland. F. Hebburn, who suffered from active service in Lord Provost Bwan laid a wreath (aw. Baylett, J. Gosling, A. Garsell, the War; and Scotland is not be on the Stone of Bacrifice in the A Field, E. Scott, J. Melegen, J. hind in this important work. The name of the citizens and after the needs of those who fought in the Silence had been observed a psalmx Johns, W. Snell and C. Kirisham.

War are greater now than" ever.”: was sung and prayer was offered Thanking those who had assisted up by the Very Rev. Dr. Lauchlan in the collection and administration Maclean Watt, late: Minister or of the various funds, the Duke Glasgow Cathedral, The Cam- mentioned the Press and the B.B.C.eronians (Scottish Rides) held for their influential support and, their annual service of remem- 9.15 p.m. About Winter and above all, the public for their brance in the Cathedral in the

Christmas

generous response. "I am glad to afternoon Hildegard Hennecke (Alto).And." he continued, "that the Karlheinz Taubert (Piano).. benefits of the Prince of Wales's 9.45 pm. News in English on Pension Fund have been extended Dia and in Dutch on Din to Scotland, and that my brother's 10 pm Popular Orchestra Music. appeal on behalf of the unemploy- 11:00 pm. Sports Review:

ed has been so well met by the 11.15 p.m. News in German on Dja active co-operation of the British Legion in Scotland, with the com- mittees on community service in unemployment "eviden

A Fairy Ballet. (White)... Bourne~,

eBourne mouth Municipal Orchestra conducted by Sir Dan Godfrey. 9.30 D... Reuter Press Barletins. London 1 p.m. Stock and Com- modliy Quotations. ** 9.35 10 pm. Variety.

Piano Duet-Nymph Errant

Selection...Carroll Gibbons and John W. Green, Instrumental In the Heart of

Hawall

Hawaiian Smiles....Hawaiian Guitara, R Bongs Brave Hearts

Near and yet so Far...Evelyn Laye (Boprano),

Piano Solos-Plano Show Mem-

orles”.... Turner Layton.

19 pin Close Down..

BERLIN PROGRAMME

9:00 pm. Dia, Din' Announce-

ient" (Germ. "EL)

and Din

11:30 pm. Concerta from German

Masters:

Plano Concerto in E flat ma jor by L von Beethoven. Elly Ney

12.15 am-News in English on Djs

and in Dutch on Din

Foor Porter!

As the guest was leaving, the hotel he slipped a shilling into the hall-porter's hand.

"Here's something to drink my health with," he said."

The porter grimaced. In'a tribute to Lord Haig, hesa

Thank you, sir," he said, “but This great soldier in life received if I remember rightly you gave me. and kept the unswerving loyalty dve shillings last year for the same.

of his men. In death his "name" thing.“

is held in high reward, owing to "That's right," smiled the guest,

12:30 a Close down Dja Din his self-sacrifice and his untiring "but this year my health is ber-

(Germ., Eng)

work on behalf of the disabled