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ALBERT

FRENCH PASTRY COOK

22, Queen's Road, Central

is making his name better known every day by his French Cooking, done exclu- sively with fresh butter.

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The amateur gourmet" fond of "Marseille's Bouillabaise" "Escargots rie Bourgogue" and all other famous French dishes can go to "Albert" with confidence.

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DINNERS TO ORDER

Tiffine and Dinners served from 10-30 a.m.

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by

Fronch Cakes and French Chocolates made Albert" himself.

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"Us used to cook as many as | 30 geose, and now us doesn't do nothing to it. It do bo dying out. 'Tos pily, but there "tos."

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1925.

BRITISH FILMS.

SUPER-HOLLYWOOD

PLANNED.

London, Nov. 3.--As part of a campaign to produce motion pic- ture films in England to compete with American pictures the now- ly organized British National Picturos, Ltd., to-day announced plans to build studios, near Lon- don.

The old man spoke of his own town and his own fair, but the words are true of all such old customs throughout the country, Hays a Times contributor. Faire, The chairman of the board of revels, amusements, that dato directors, of the new company is from earliest times are no longer, Mr. George T. Eaton, a rotired} as is said on all sides," what they Australian cattle dealer. Tho were.". The spirit of modernity managing director, Mr. J. D. has crept into them and, with Williams, is the only American, the elements of decay.

connected with the company. The West Country, once so All the other officials are British prolific of fairs, is no exception: and the capital is ontiroly British. Lumbpio Fair, Gooseberrypie The company's productions will Fair, Pearpio Fair, are forgotten feature British stars and produce or have simmerod down into a British plays. sordid little array of booths and sideshows. Even the names are, in many cases, gone.

Mr. Eaton announced that he is financing the company to the extent of £50,000 (almost $250,000). which sum, ho said, would assuro the building of the first studio. Stock will be sold to the public later.

No one now remembers, the old "Jan's Vair" and "Joan's Vair," of Tavistock, and, before long" Gersey Vair," into which the two have long been merged. The company's plans include | will also he forgotten. In past the purchase of 100 aeres, on years droves of geose invaded the which eight studios are to be town on the second Tuesday in centralized for the use of inde- (Octabor, to be sold and slain in pendent producers, this being their hundreds for Joan's holiday part of a scheme to encourage | the following day. Early in the and assise British productions. morning, sheep and rough The studios are to be larger than moorland eattle and shaggy those in Hollywood or any other ponies flocked down the steep of the American motion picture bills into the town. Toll, which contres. Mr. Eaton said he ex-) until 1738 wont to ewelt. the pected the first studios to be com- schoolmaster's purse, was paid at pleted within three months and the gates, and the monks exacted the first picture to be finished a toll of their own, swearing within four or five months. every merrymaker not to curse or cheat, to lie or steal during the fair.

Speaking at a luncheon to-day, Mr. Williams said there was a tremendous demand, in the The civil authorities, sceptical United States for English films, even in those days, instituted which could be made cheaper. special courts to deal with those than in America. He said he, who forgot their oaths. "Pie hoped to distribute the company's Powder," "Dustyfoot was the films through 11,000 independent! name of these tribunals, which theatre proprietors in the United administered swift justice to States, who are eager to show dusty-footed perlars, vagabonds, foreign films as drawing cards. and other wanderers from town: While the company itself will to town, from fair to fair, with no engage only English stars, other other possession in the land than producers leasing its studios will the dust which covered their be permitted to use foreign shocs.

principals.

Those were the days of opon house, before there word inns enough, to sheltor all comers, and householders were warned against harbouring any stranger: for more than one night, on pain of being held responsible for his acts. The hospitable monastery was filled to overflowing, and even those who wore obliged to sleep in the open among the booths always had their full of ale and their share of the bird that was

too much for one and not enough for two."

THE HAND OF CHANGE. All that is changed now,

NEW LEHAR OPERETTA.

"PAGANINI" SCORES TRIUMPH AT PREMIERE.

Paganini" Franz Lehar's new operetta, scored a triumph at its premiere to-night and was en- thusiastically hailed as having elevated the composer of The. As Merry Widow" to the rank of roats and means of communica-master of grand opera. tion generally improved, ather' "Paganaini "Is not grand opera times and means for sale and in its entirety, for it contains the purchase were found, and new traditional Lehar waltzes and forms of amusement became bright Lehar tunes--not without But the popular, drawing away from the an occasional dull one. old, simple fun class after class work offers more serious effort and fifling the young people with than Lehar has ever written and ai intolerant distaste for the represents the climax of slowly amusements of their grand-deepening growth.

The hero of the score is the At Goosey Vair goose is no great violinist, who, fortunately longer eaten. No toll, material for the illusion of the piece, does or spiritual, is demanded from not have to play on the stage. the hundreds who pour into the The heroine is Princess Anna town by aharabane, car, and Elise of Imeca, sistor of Napo train Cattle are driven up to the leon, who falls in love with the market-place now and no longer violinist in the face of her tied to the eburchyard wall, and brother's warning.

fathers.

the farmers are mostly wise men It is only when the fickle fiddler of the world, though hore and flirts with some one else, that she there, like strangers from another agrees he ought to be arrested. country, stand little groups But just as this is going to take of ontloraen and shepherds place Paganini begins this fam Гродн the heart of theous Witch Daner." Napoleon's | moor-men with quaint hats, emissary entore to lead him velveteen breeches, and full-away, but the bowitched princess" skirted cons of a bygone fashion; conducts her lover to safely. men whose hair is long and This Massage is skillfully busby and whose brillinat, arranged in that on a darkened Canaccustomed ey en survey stage Paganini's head alone is Seebe with 21 slightly visible, surrounded by the ballet. quizzical, wholly detached air of The operetta, ends with Pag- interest.

anini's departure for Paris, where The cheap-jacks draw large he was to become the world's erowds, tickle as water, who will favourite, and the prince is left turn from one to other of these unhappily behind. hope-merchants, seeking always sune new thing

"Paganini is Lehar's twenty- fifth operetta and to-night's pre- A little farther up the street a

miero was in the nature of an Salvation Army band plays ovation for him. Hu was called with a few yards of where before the curtain repeatedly Punch und Judy are attracting after the second act.

large crowds, among them 2

young farmor who, as the drama;

eloves, romarks:--

und "There iddn't near so many "Wonnorfnt what small things'll people come now." nose little minds, bain't it?" It is the same everywhere; In In another part of the town is 20 years' time we shall probably the fair proper. Roundabouts, look upon these remains of old { gondolas, flip-flaps, awings, chair-jjellity as being us out of date us |o-planes fahades of the monks are toll-gates and pillions. From all the vun o' the vair!" the opposite angle, we shall feci keep up a blure of noise, and, as for them all the incredulous night falls, their lamps and fliros wonder which must be expori- make the whole fair-ground look enced by the ghosts of the old like a miniature tophot among monks whose unseon sandalled the shadowed houses.

foot patter silently among the

at But on all sides are to be heard morrymaking crowds the two coinmonta:--

relics of their old

Поовоу "Vair bain't what it used to bo" to-day.

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