WAILS FROM UNOFFICIAL "TEST" SELECTORS
(Continued from Page 8
cer-
"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 howler, and These are never successful as leg breakers, will certainly have to make them spin a lot on Australian wickets to be dangerous."
As
He
CLEM HILL'S OPINION. Clem Hill, the former South Aus- tralian Test captain, said that he would still include, Hobbs in the team. He agrees with Tim Will about Larwood. "The is un- doubtedly the best Cast bowler in England at the present time," he said,
"I were naming the team 1 should certainly pick Tate." hel said. "I can't see how he can be Teft out of the team."
"Allie" Jarvis, the 72-year-old former Australian Eleven player. thinks that the ashes will remain in Australia. He
that said
he thought Hobbs should we left In the team.
"His ng sitould be no ferier,“ he said.
slower than befor
title
the
selectors cannot have him out if he is willing to rome. Tate and Larwood should certainly be in
the team, but I do not expect to sev Chapman here.”
CINEMA "SHOTS" AND
“SEQUENCES"
Continued from Page 5.1
elfort is goud, enough to entertain. providing one is tolerant, Stuart Erwin has cultivated, the knuck of snatching the honours when playing secondary roles. ile share Freddy March's triumph in Strangers in Lare, and in this film vershadows both Edmund Lowe and Claudette Collwrt with a very elever piece of characterisa- tion. Upon his study as a harm- less lanatic who inugines 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 overacting. htt 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,
I'
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anong
the current programmes.- A neat story offers limitless opportunities to Montgomery who makes the utmost of them, ant ably support- ed by a strong east, makes one of the best pictures of his career,
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CINEMA SCREENINGS. phone." That's all right," snapped Lowe in true Quirt brevity, “But you danwa always get the wrong number You wicked pe six tires!"
"Australia Will be There." Some of the most stirring of the It isn't merely working for a man many enthralling scenes in "Tell mined Bell that makes girls fall England," the British screen master victims of "wrong-numberitis." Give piece which includes realistic memo. ed. It is now showing at the Douglas role of the mysterious young Bay girl a telephone long enough and ries of the Gallipoli campaign, are Queen's. the chances are that she will con- those which show the gallant part Irive in some way to get a "wrong played by the Australian and New number" before it is taken from her. Zealand divisions
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hero who tenches the heroine what "Lovers Courageous",
the passion of love can du to her on the Eastern
alnging. Robert Montgomery and Mndge
Beniden getting Douglas into pic Evans The picket bonty and cutters np every boy and
play the kind of romance tures, Mr. Belasco also unwittingly story of a glorieus abduction, which preach the shore with their Irad of "Lovers Courageous," a new Metro him in "To-night or Never" In Miss girl dream of in provided him with a wife by casting is now showing at the King's Thea- sturdy warriors, who cheerily join in Goldwyn-Mayer offering which tre, culls for Claudette Colbert to hit the chorus of "Australia will
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On New York production there played telephone. The "French doll" crack- Turkish firing, which bursts forth
Helen Gabagan, the brilliant actress ed the famous "Sergeant Quirt" over immediately the boats near the shore, author, Frederick Lonsdale, the story the play, after success
Penned by the distinguished British who was returning to the stage in the craniun 'several times before the "Aussies" sweep up the cliffs un-
in "Young oung Of the Saclote Internationale de Walken off the sat after the final "Coo-ees" and a front line is firmly ery, strangely enough to see this de- Miss Gahagan and Mr. Dougins had (Opferr
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Claudette purred apo-ostablished. Thursday's official quotation in Eddic, that I had to
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