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HE SACRIFICED VICTORY.

that his daughter might find happiness with the man she lovedī JOSEPH M. SCHENCK presents

GEORGE ARLISS

In the DARRYL F. ZANUCK production

THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD

with DRIS KARLOF LORESTA YOUNG ROBERT YOUNG Released thre UNITED ARTISTS

"☛ TO-MORROW, FRIDAY, SATURDAY ● Mirth, Roviance and Md Adventure in a Story of Modern Love!

MYRNA LOY FRANCHOT TONE in

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SHE MARRIED AN ARTIST

SIR H. WOOD'S 50 YEARS OF MUSIC

Once Earned 42s A Week

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1938-PAGE

STANLEY FILM·

COSTS £500,000

Already 3 Years In The Making

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Preparations are heipz.com: pleted In-Hollywood for per- haps the most costly plcture Sir Henry Wood's autoblography.

ever" made. except "Ben Hur," "My Life of Music," published re-

This is the Twentieth Century- cently ((Gollancz, 7s Bd), is the Fox production, Stanley and Liv-| record of prodigious career. Hengstone." Darryl Zanuck expects has known everyone in the world of music for 50 years, and every- one, or, nearly. appears in his pages. But among all the out standing men of a great period

none was more remarkable himself for driving power.

that it will cost £500.000, says a Home correspondent.

This

Work on the film has already been going on three years. includes a safari of 300 men into the than

wilds of Tanganyika which cost £60,000. In addition I am Informed. £20,000 has been spent Nikisch--whom Sir Henry ranks on research, the writing of the above all other conductors once story and the transport of a town told him that he did more work of the Masai tribesmen to, Holly- In a month than he. Niklsch, did wood. in a year. The feats of energy recorded in this book touch the miraculous...

t

on

of

For one of the scenes 10,000 no- tives of Tanganyika assembled-} said to be the largest gathering of natives permitted by the British Government.

The African scenes were filmed by Mrs. Martin Johnson in an at-

adventure mosphere of

which might have been invented for the screen. First: Philip Whitmarsh who had arranged to meet Mrs. Johnson at Kisimm, did not arrive.

The year 1911 was typical the middle part of Sir Henry's career. It

began with New Year's Day concert: then

"There were 29 Sunday after noon concerts: 38 of various artists and of certain provincial societies: G1 Promenade concerts.

A search for, his 'plane revealed 12 symphony concerts. That makes a total of 140 concerts: In addition wreckage on a mountain side, and there were the festivals at Sheffield Mr. Whitmarsh and his wife were and Norwich; also the Empire presumed to be dead. It turned" Festival at the Crystal Palace. at out that he had pancaked his which I directed four of the sixthe occupants of the 'plane was in- landing so skilfully that neither of the London

jured.

45s. A WEEK

Ar extraordinary bit of news concerts, as well as to-day is the fact that a foreign Music Festival. Besides....... I actress. In her first Hollywood pic-directed some 40 chorus rehear- ture, has not been asked to run sals in the provinces." the gamut of despair. terror, dis- Illusionment. Joy, wistfulness, and passion in rapid succession, and top the whole thing off with a languid flutter of the eyelashes.

The player who has been for tunate enough to avold all this la Lull Deste, the Viennese actress, who makes her American debut in the charming romantic comedy "She Married An Artist," which is showing to-day at the King's Theatre.'

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

..TO-DAY ANNIVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYS,

St. Andrew's Day. AUCTIONS Leasehold Property, at Lammert's Sales Room, 2 Con- naught Road Central, noon. CINEMAS. (See Column 3 of this

Page). DANCES ----Cheero Club Dance, 8.30

p.m. LECTURES-Anti-Cas (in English)

The young man set out on his [adult career as conductor to the Rousby Grand English Arthur Opera Company at two guineas a week. Musicians' services were

ago amazingly cheap 50 years and even after. When the Queen's Hall Promenade concerts were an established Institution. Sir Henry tells us that Her leading man is John Botes,

"Newman' was who is easily one of the screen's run all these musical enter- most engaging actors. Together: prise at Queen's Hall because, the they cavort through a gay story of rank and fle of the orchestra

at Hongkong Chinese Women's famous French designer who received only 45s a week for six

Club. 22 Wyndham Street, 11.30 comes to America to look up New Promenade concerts and three

am First Aid, for Government York's most renowned commercial rehearsals, a guirien for one sym-

servants, at St. John Ambulance artist, who paid, rather close at phony concert and rehearsal, and

Hqrs., 8 D.m tention to her in Parts, five years half a guinea for a Sunday after-MAILS-(See Page 16), before.

noon or evening "concert (with-MEETINGS. —

2

PERSONAL

SECRETARY

Queen's Theatre,

able

to

out rehearsal......He put down the rent of the hall during the Promenade season at £120 R week."

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But there were great public fa- "Personal Secretary," which is vourites who gained as much being shown to-day at the they do now; and we read that brings back Newman engaged Faderewski for and sweet Joy Hodges. last

in 1,000 guineas for a recital, БЕСТ

still there was "Merry-Go-Round of 1938.**

£200 propt for "The "story concerns a news-the agent.

B

paper feud between Joy as an Elgar's, says Sir Henry, is "the enterprising columnist and "key-loveliest concerto ever written for

1

Hongkong Sunday School Assen. in Kowloon Union Church or Hall, 5.45 p.m.. Annural, of Subscribing Members ol Helena May Institute, 10:30 A17, followed by Auction of Maga- zines: General Committee Mtg., at S. and 8. Home, 5.30 p.m.: Kowloon Union Church Women's Guild. 10 a.m. MISCELLANEOUS.-Y.M.C.A. De- bate "That the Modern Press Misleads the Public," 9 p.m... MOON-First quarter, 11.59 am

X Moon, 9th Day,

hole" wizard. William Gargan, the violin," and Dvorak's is the | RELIGIOUS.--Consecration of the who take over a murder case and nest

of all tello concertos.

through their Ingenious plotting Here is an oblter-dictum:

and counter-plotting save an in- nocent widow from execution and

that

"Teachers of singing generally bring the real killer to Justice. deem it wise to say they teach the

Andy Devine,

Ruth

method-whatever Donnelly Italian and Florence Roberts

If it is the modern combine may mean. sincerity with humour and add Italian yelling then heaven to the many complex situations. their pupila!"

CROSSWORD

NO. 171

ACROSS

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bap (7)

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14 Knock (3)

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monies. (5)

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help

Rev. C B. R. Sargent as Assistant Bishop in Fukien, at St. John's Cathedral, 5.30 p.m.

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Jeers at (B)

Bolution No. 128 EOLUTION Across: 1, Paces, 5, Bowls, 8, Polka. 9, Tenor. 10, Badge, 21 Pipes (5) Miss Dorothy Hale. the film ac-11. Eagle. 12, Bwore, 15, Siset, 18, 25 Healed (5) tress, whose screen appearances in- Wed. 20 Gamble, 21, Indigo. 22, Tag. 20 Ship's

- pole (4). cluded a part in "Catherine the 24, Lying. 27, Share. 30, Ratio. 1, Great," was killed recently in a fall Lingo. 32. Round. 33, Sever. 3427 Lament (5) from an hotel window in New Curds. 35, Yeld. Down: 1. Paths. 28 Bird (5)

2. Canto. 3. Spree. 4, Plague. 6,30 Finish (3) Babes 6, Wedge. 7, Spent, 13, 32 Chance (6) According to the police she may weary. 14. Robin. 16, Laden: 17, 33 Wandered have fallen while trying to open Eager. 18, Wet: 19. Dig. 23, Active.

(7):** the window after returning to her 24, Lilac, 25. Inner. 28. Gross, 27, 134 Confusion (8 16th-floor room in the early morn Sarty. 28, Azure. 29, Ended.

York.

Ing.

Miss Hale, who was born in Pitts-Manville, now Princess Bernadotte

burg, Pasadena, in 1805, was mar of Sweden.

ried twice. Her arst husband was

Mr. T. Gaillard Thomas, with Gardner Hale, an American path- whom she maintained a salon in ter, who led the revival of fresco Paris.

mural art in Paris, In 1927, He.

...

While working at sculpturing, was killed in a motor accident in she shared a studio with Estelle California in 1931.

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35 Chooses

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After a divorce she married. Mr.

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