1932-08-26 — Page 21

WAILS FROM UNOFFICIAL "TEST" SELECTORS

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(Continued from Page 8.) "Tate should be another tainty. The inclusion of Brown is puzzling. As far as I remember we did not meet him at all in the last tour. He is an off spin bowler, and These are never H successful as leg breakers. He will certainly have to make them apin a lot on Australian wickets to be dangerous."

CLEM HILL'S OPINION. Clem II, the former South Aun. tralian Test captain, said that he would atill Include Hobbs

in the team. He agrees with Tim Wall about larwood. "He is un doubtedly the best fast bowler in England at the present time," he Haid.

f 1 were naming the team 1 should certainly pick Tate." he

said. "I can't see how he can be left out of the team,"

"Affic" Jarvis, the 72-year-old former Australian Eleven player, thinks that the ashes will remain in Australia. He said that

he thought Hobbs should be left in the team.

"Hin age should be no barrier," he said, "He may i A little slower

Dat the

than before,

selectors cannot leave him out iri he is willing to come, Tate and Larwood should certainly be in

the team, but 1 do not expect to see Chapman here.”

CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"

Continued from Pape 54 effort is good enough to entertain, providing one is tolerant. Stuart

Erwin has cultivated the knack of snatching the honours when playing secomiary roles. shared Freddy March's triumph in Strangers in Love, and in this film overshadows both Edmund Lowe and Claudette Colbert with a very clever piece of characteriza- tion. Upun his study as a harm- lega lunatic who imagines him- self to be Napoleon, intent upon preventing Wellington from pass. ing, and a few ingenious situa- tions. rest the main laughs of the film. Claudette Colbert not up to her usual standard, being guilty of overneting. Lowe, who has added polish to his work since his earlier films, is very entertaining. A film, the enjoyment of which, depends en tirely upon one's personal tastes.

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A WELCOME RETURN. "Pyou didn't see Robert, Mont- gomery in The Man in Pos- Session, when it made its original

at the appearance

Queen's still time to Theatre, there is rectify the error. The picture, is back again at the Star, and is one of the chief attractions the current programmes. story offers limitless opportunities. to Montgomery who makes the utmost of them, and ably support. ed by a strong cast, makes one of the best pictures of his career.

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21 YEARS AGO

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The rate of the dollar on de- mand was 1s. 9.

Mr. Robert Ho Tame presented oll paintings of Sir Henry Blake and Sir Matthew Nathan, former Governors, to Queen's College.

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"Australia Will be 'There." Some of the most stirring of the

his eyes for. After Mian Swanson and Samuel Goldwyn saw the play

It isn't merely working for a man many enthralling scenes In "Tell "Tell England" is Britain's greatest in New York, there was never any named Bell that makes girls fall England," the British screen master-achievement and should not be misa- question of getting anyone else for victims of "wrong-numberitin." Give piece which includes realistic memo-ed. It is now showing at the any girl a telephone long enough and rles of the Gallipoli campaign, are Queen's. the chances are that she will con- those which show the galiant part trive in some way to get a "wrong played by the Australian and New number" before it is taken from her. Zealand divisions on the Eastern

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