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THE GOOD EARTH"
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PAUL MUNI and LUISE RAINER
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Super Production!"
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Jean
POWELL ARTHUR
THE Ex-Mrs Bradfords
With JAMES GLEASON, BRIC BLORE, ROBERT ARMSTRONG, Life Law, Brant Michall, Erin O'Delon- Mesra, Ralsk 'Morgan,
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OUR RELATIONS
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KING'S:
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Kowloon
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"Ex-Mrs. Bradford” MAJESTIC:
"Penitentiary"
KING'S:
Coming
"Man-Proof"
QUEEN'S:
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ORIENTAL:
"The Garden" Of Allah"
"Hawaii Calls"
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China"
STAR:
"Our Relations"
MAJESTIC
"The Good Earth"
CINEMA
WELSH TONGUE TWISTERS TELL QUAINT MEANING ON ROAD SIGNS
The action of Wrexham District Rural Council in adopting English names for certain new thoroughfares in the Ruabon area has shown up another aspect of the language question in Wales.
The Welsh people want to preserve their language and to retain a Welsh atmosphere in the villages of Waies. And most tourists would, in theory at all events, like each country to retain as unspoil- ed as possible its national characteristics,
1t
But travellers seeking the vil- lages of "Llanfihangel-y-pennant"
BRILLIANT BOY or "Penrhyndeudraeth" naturally
VIOLINIST
Yossef Hassid's 'London Debut
A violin recital by a young boy of exceptional, attain- ments WAS given recently at 45, Park-lane (by courtesy of Sir Philip Sassoon) In aid of Reu Shemen, the Palestinian training centre for refugee children from Central and Eastern Europe.
feel slightly embarrassed compelled to ask the way.
when
Even the popular resorts ei Llandudno and Pwllhell are most likely to be pronounced as "Landudno" and "Pehelie." instead of the Welsh "thafar- didno" and "pooth-belley."
How would you go about asking for a hotel in Cefndu Street or a restaurant 11 Ynys-y-maegyn | Road? But it 19 argued that
these
names can be translated into good English and still retain much of their original charm.
For instance if Ynys-y-maegyn be split into its component parts it becomes "ynys". meaning an "island" in English. "" repre-
Yossef Hasslid. who has been senting "of the" and "maen" a studying for some time in London. "stone," white "gwyn" indicates
Is the happy possessor of all, the "white." . Instead of "Ynys-y- natural gifts that a violinist can maegyn Road," destre.
therefore, the street sign would read #White Stone Island Road," Orto be
Road"
His tone has instinctive warmth literal-"Island of the White Stone his left hand is already equal to any trick of technique, and he
In Welsh aber" has the old j can afford to
take Sarasate's Scottish meaning of "at the mouth "Zapateado" at a speed that for of," as indicated in "Aberdeen," - average players would inevitably that is "At the mouth of the River spell disaster.
Dee."
| MARY ELLIS MARRIED Mary Ellis, the American born actress who has been appearing in the West End. was married at Cax ton Hall register office recently to.esonant. Mr. Jock Muir Stewart Roberts, a Scottish woollen inanufacturer
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Young Hassid is the master of (Cwm" means "valley" in Welsh a staccato which may have beer and "Moel" a mole or bare hill. quailed but has surely never been After spending a few weeks in surpassed-clean, sharp, quick and Wales one 3001 recognizes and may become able to Pro- This he uses with consummate semblance to their usual sound. nounce these words with some rc- judgment. in strict and precise But the popular beginning "lan rhythm when necessary and also
to a place name still baffles'
at the right time, with a perfectly people who have lived for years in controlled rubato. This special Wales. factilty found the right scope in
Miss Ellis, who met her husband about six months ago, begins re- hearsals shortly for the leading role in Erie Maschwitz's new play. "Bird on the Wing." which is to be stazed in London, in the Elgar's "La Capricieuse," which in autumn.
his impeccable interpretation ac Mr. Roberts is her fourth nus-quired new and most captivating hand. Her former husbands were rare
Mr. L. A. Bernheimer, 'Mr. Edwin
Ivor Newton accompanied, Riv- Knops and Mr. Basil Bydnicy," the ing the young violinist tactful actor She was born in 1899.
suppor
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19 Feminine
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American Secretary of State
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Island are the main bust-
ness districts
of New York located?
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small articles 43 Bronze In
Roman antiquity
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married
Gudrun
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wrote "furgen"?
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continent
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for God
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temporary use
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and Ruhr are tributaries of what river?
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existence
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TOMORROW
STAMPS WORTH £500,000
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Noted Collection To Be Sold
The famous stamp collection of the late Mr T. W. Hall is to be sold. The collection, which is arranged in over 500 volumes. has a catalogue value estimated at £500,000.
Mr Hall, who was a well-known Smithfield solicitor, occupied a unique position in British philately as a collector and, as a judge, and for a number of years he was pre- sident of the Royal Philatelic 80- ciety.
The disposal of the collection, the most important that has be. come available for some years, is being entrusted to two well-known London experts.
Mr Robson Lowe will make ar rangements for the Empire coun-- tries and Messrs Befi. Pemberton the foreign countries.
The Hall collection is notable for its size and for some of the trea- sures it, contains. Including por tions of other famous collections Twenty years ago Mr Hall paid £18,500 for the "Hansburg" stamps. a portion of which "acquired from him by King George V.
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