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NOTES OF THE DAY THE THEATRE AND THE The Very Idea!

** 'FRISCO"

An American render takes ex- ception, in the interests of journal- istie accuracy, to the employment of Frisco as an abbreviated form of San Francisco, He points out that by its use we are, in record- Ing the Incidents of the general strike, doing an injustlee, perhaps unwittingly, to little village ramed Frisco situato

CINEMA

DIFFERING DOMAINS OF THE DRAMATIC

By "SENTINEL"

HITHER AND DITHER

By George (Contributed).

As there still seems to be

some doubt 08 whether walkers should be fined for not observing traffic regulations under the new Road Traffle Bill, we wonder if the Home Govern- would mind very are prettily much if we butted in with a

full-length kiss at a pointHEN the Cinema first became culminates in a in the United States remote from popular, and "picture palaces" (What is the record length in lineal the Beeno of the Pacific

count sprang up on every side, many pro-fect, I wonder?) there is a general trouble, and asks, somewhat jaunti-photic playgoers declared it would tendency to closing-up in the dimly The way of a ly, whether we happen to have over be the death of the theatre. Nothing lighted auditorium. beard of San Francisco. Yes, we of the sort leppened, and these inan with a maid and, what is even

pessimists ceased from prophesying. more wonderful, the way of that ment

with that man, have some hazy Idea of having en|with one or two exceptions, however mink!

countered that name-place recently for I well remember the warning presented in abundant variety. | useful suggestion?

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SLAVERY ABOLITION

tures, combinations

the theatre and slons of cineman: "I

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BLAME THE B.B.C.

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reteran first-nighter: "When but we are sorry that we cannot or a

There is no reason why the film track down that little village to you can hour as well as see the Hero which he refers. For his informa-nes and heroes of the screen, all the play should not always he a mild and

The war between walkers and tion, however, we might add that old habitations of the true dramamelliduous pulse-quickener. The pic- there is yet another place in the will have to close down." And when ture-palace (certainly it is palatial in motorists is almost as bitter and States named Frisco. It is situat the "taltics" arrived, the Jeremiads comparison with the British pub, primitive as the war between. ed in Utah. We are one with our were revived with redoubled force, which could so easily be made lato men and women. American friend in realising that in spite of the anguish at first in comfortable club) is a boon to the

There are two schools of thought Frisco is not the correct name of flicted on English cars by the parrot pour young lovers of huge modern eltles. But too often the Inudable volees of American layers.

the question. One belleves the Pacific port. But unhappily

love-interest of the film degenerates there are occasions when, by reason Yet the theatre Aurvived this into the crudest form of "sex interest that all motorists are devils and of space considerations, notably in alarming innovation, even when some which is to me (n faithful thentre.all walkers are angels. The other headings and placards, long names thing approaching that "excellem goer, but also a n-lover in a quiet believes that all motorists are what is even angela and all walkers devils. It have to give way to abbreviations. thing in women" was introduced and way) repulsive and San Francisco happens to be one we could listen to a Hollywood pro- more painful, boresume in the ex-depends on whether you are driv

with Mr. Gilberting a car or dodging one. of them. Even our kindly critic duction without feeling like the Etna treme. I join would not soriously suggest that boy who had to wear cotton gloves or Frankau in disliking the more fleshly the listener to snails crawling up a reductiveness of the film haraine nty intelligent reader is likely to window-pane. What whs stranger which is now coming into fashlan

We are inclined to the theory be misled by the employment of still, fur-sighted theatre managera

that most of them are neither began to mispect that in the end the- the term "Frisco,"

The theatre and the cinema each angels nor devils, but just plain cinema would be beneficial to their has its special role, its specific maila- idiots. business. They How that it had tlons. It would be interesting to created a huge new public, to be trace the influence of each

Therefore, when framing new numbered by millions, for a crude manners and habits of the day. No- It is of historical interest, at`s

form of dramatic entertainment, a body, despite the intensive study of regulations, the obvious thing is A mental moment when the centenary of the proportion of whom would eventually fila heroines made by innumerable to invite the aid of

more complete kind of young girls, is so foolish as to imitate specialist who will certify the lot, abolition of slavery is being cele require brated in London, to recall that the characterisation. For the actors in their methods of vamping. In such walkers and motorists, and leave first organized opposition in Great film are at best but flimsy cren matters a single pepular personage of the country safe for sane loafers of a shadowy the theatre may be more influential who hate walking and driving and Britain to the slave trade was be gun by the Quakers early in the shape and the ghost of a volce. How than all of them put together, he merely want to eat, sleep, drink,

ever vivid the imagination of the cause she can be seen in the desh and lounge about. 18th century. In 1789, aix years spectator, they can never give him Yet the dress and coiffure of the latter after the close of the American War the sense of flesh-and-blood reality are

deliberately often

knitated. Garbo hath no man," to of Independence, the parliamentary that is imparted by the presence of "Grenter

quote the saying of a famous Ameri- campaign for the abolition of living actors on an actual stage.

can critic with which I absolutely Yes, and the amah has also burst slavery was opened by William

Said an observant child who had agrer, but the Garbo bob sometimes into poetry, which proven it. For Wilberforce and Thomas Fowell Buxton. It needed a hard-fought been thinking over her first impres adopted by business girls is almost right in the middle of this thrice of the always a blunder. Even the reigning blessed hot spell she heard some- struggle

of 44 years, however,

something man-milliners take hints from before abolition was eventually tragic happens to a real person on cinema, and I shouldn't be surprised thing on the wireless about a secured. The first European coup-ja real stage, But if something far the already enlarged hats, which possibility of snow at Shanghai. Cause for satisfaction is to be try to make a definite stand in worse bappens in a picture, I enn will make Lord's at Eton. . Harrow

The chier limita- look like a field of poppies, should Whereupon her young heart be found in the fact that the con-

favour of abolition was Denmark, only if a little."

reach the diniensions of gan to throb, and, sticking her in 1792. In 1807 Great Britain tion of the cinema was thus humor- strive to ference called to consider re-passed a law forbidding the trade aly indicated. It cannot give us Anna Neagle's cartwheel in "Nell tongue out and waggling the tip of It, she produced the following, vision of the working úgreement in slaves. The final stage in the character of such substance that we Gwynn," now in the making.

are supremely concerned with their

same being included here in ex- The truly wonderful in respect of the Kowloon-Canton | parliamentary struggle to secure coffialons.

In a completely organised! State change for one blue jumper, slight- complete abolition of slavery in the

photography (in which an artist can from which Heaven defend ust) they moth-nibbled, and a basin of Railway has been able to reach British Empire was begun in 1921, express his intentions) enables the cinema and the theatre would be com beef dripping. accord so quickly. The main again under the leadership of Wil-scene to be changed in the twinkling plementary. Each would

and Buxton. It falled of an eye, and the speed and variety fullest use of its special advantages, subject engaging the attention of berforce

several times in consequence of the and appropriateness of these changes in a proper sphere. The cinema in the delegates was the altering of better, opposition of the planters in st not blind us to the fact that independent of space and time, and they arc necessary. A scene that is also three-dimensional so that it the basis on which receipts for the Colonies.

lasted ten minutes in n picture is can show us cross-sections of man. unthinkable; the whole audience kind in the mass. Its special task through traffic are apportioned

would yawn itself to sleep.

would be to give us dramátic stories of action, in which the charactérs between the Chinese and British sections of the line. Under the

Dialogue. again,

only be would often include some hugo and Finally the issue was taken ap

cinonin. A implacable power of Nature (a River old agreement, the respective by Earl Grey's Ministry in 1833, sparingly used in the shares were 65 per cent. and 36 and a law abolishing slavery in all cracker exploding in a few wise or a Mountain), and almost always cracks is the most that is possible. that prodigious creature, the crowd, forms throughout the Empire was

Such dramatic discussion as Mr. whose psychology is now being ex- per cent.: the revised figures, forced through Parliament in 1833. Bernard Shaw's "comedieting for plored. In "The Return of agreed to by the both dele-A sum of £20,000,000 was voted as a volces in two scenes, which Native," Thomas Hardy hins shown course, I was astonished to hear gations, are 72 per cent. for the compensation to the former slave mused me very anuch and will draw us how a natural power, Egdon Heath, the creating sound. I had often owners. Subsequently the slave thousands to the Little Theatre, can be the protagonist in a tragitni heard near Tunbridge Wells last Chinese section and 28 for the trade was made illegal by Chile in would be anything but a diversion in comedy-of-human-life...The sanie.consummer, and which I was then in-

picture-palace; the audience done even more effectively in a British. The old proportions 1841 and by Brazil In 1848.nny had long been regarded by the Slavery was finally abailshed in there would probably ask for their picture play, which can also exhibit formed was the call of the night-

Letter to daily paper. France's colonial possessions in 1848 money back. The gradual reveintion the menacing monds and colossal Jar."

of the subtleties of human character Imbecility of the Crowd in o way Chinese Railway Administration and in the United States in 1862 by the warm words from Hving lips, which is impossible in the theatre. IL Was more probably Mrs. as not quite fair to its interests, At the Berlin conference of 1885. which is frequent triumph of the

Goucher, whose pecullar jarring or seventeen nations agreed to join in thentre, will always be impossible in The theatre, some of whose special "churring" note, rising when angry in view of the fact that the suppressing the slave trade in Cen- the cinema-at any rate until the advantages have already been man to us rasping shriek, has often Chinese section is by so much tral Africa: and nt Brussels in 1800 intellectual curiosity of the man out tioned, would present the subtleties made fools of nature-lovers. larger in point of mileage than there was signed an international of the street has been immensurably of character evolving through the

spoken word. Fuil use would be A poet friend, who is also a de- the British, but against that fact pact to outlaw trade in the Congo.

made of the strangely intimate tio voted naturalist, wrote this recent- Tho question of slavery was first had to be placed another that tackled by the League of Nations colossal and, to my its way and show side of the footlights, which enables

The cost of producing a fimm la between the human beings on either ly in her ladyship's album:

To Mrs. Pamela Goucher, with the capital outlay on the British in 1919. The most far-reaching profit, it must appeal to the million. the players to vary their "timing" the Gift of u Portmanteau

ever for That is why the love Interest," to so as to fall in with the mood of an portion was rendered tremend- international convention ously heavy by reason of physical mulated to deal with the subject put it politely, is almost always the audience. A picture play, being a was proposed in the League of most emphatic feature. It is seldom mechanical production, is always the obstacles which had to be over- Nations in 1926 and subsequently you hear the applause that takes the rame, a play in the theatre is never form of clapping: the spectators are the same for two successive evenings. come and which had no counter-signal and ratified by 47 States. for auch occupied in holding, one an- That is why the latter can be seen

The signatory Powers agreed to

(Continued on Page 7.) a "close-up" part on the Chinese section, the complete suppression of slavery other's hands. which mostly runs through fiat in all its forms of the slave trade country. However, now that by land and sen." The League of the railway is doing so well Nations now has a standing com- and is no longer 1 burden mittce to deal with the problems of

slavery. to the Colony, for so many years, the Hongkong MUNITIONS RACKET Government has had no com-

as it

was

OTHER STEPS

-uncon-

punction in offering to work on Recent attacks on the terms more favourable to the trolled traffic in munitions must Chinese Administration. The strike a responsive chord in the agreement now reached should breast of every man who hopes to yet further strengthen the cor- see the world continue at peace, dial relations between the two So long as private individuals stand to make millions upon sections. In this connection, the millions out of preparations for Canton authorities have had no

war, governments everywhere will reason to complain of Hong-be under tremendous pressure to kong's co-operation in the past; continue with such prepartions- indeed, it is not too much to say and since human nature is want it that but for the British Railways, that means the creation of Administration: the Chinese which make war more and more rivalries, fears, and auspicions section would on many occasions likely. In the United States a have found it quite impossible to committee le to investigate the operate. This fact, we feel sure, whole traffic in munitione, and it is well realised in Canton and is to be hoped that the investigu must have been present in the tion will bo te thorough and as minds of the Conference dele- far-reaching as the members can

tho gates, At

moment, no possibly make it. Before the pro- official statement has been issued blem cap he dealt with properly, covering the various points dealt all available information must be

obtained.. with by the Conference, but in- asmuch as financial issues are

said to have been predominant, but no steps appear to have it would be interesting to know been taken in payment of the whether any settlement was obligation There can be little. reached regarding the large sum doubt of the validity of the debt, outstanding against the Chinese under the terms of the old agree. section in respect of suspensionment. That point notwithstand of through and joint sectional ing, It would come as a surprise, traffic and demurrage. Year and a welcome one at that, to after year, the sum figures in the learn that the matter had at fang accounts of the British section, last been adjusted.....

increased.

傻

When

can

make the

"You see, In my work it's personal appearance.

counts.

Where O whero will the crocus go Should the tocather turn to snow? If it comes down hard and settles, She'll get chilblains on her patula, Where will little crucna go Should the weather turn to snow?

Oh, oh, oh!

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WILD LIFE NOTE, "Only last Sunday, walking over the the East Devon Hunt point-to-point

"Heard metodies are sweet," bui"

those unheard

Are swceler still. O, shall I call

thee bird

Or

spírit rare? Meanwhile, accept this bag.

Aul firmly lodge your head in it,

you hag,"

THE GLADSTONIAN TOUCH. We cull the following from . contemporary!

"Miss Loveday Prior, the young authoress of A Law Unts Them selves, is on the teaching staff of a girls' private school in Rugby.

"The reviewer of a local weekly Bays:

...

"If Miss Prlor can produco a first novel of such an intellectual level as "A Law Unto Themselves," what is there to prevent her In the future from placing before ua a book which will do more than prompt the question as to whether here, in Rugby, there is a literary genlus ?"

TRAMMELS OF CLARKE,

I was the representative To Interview Mr, Clarke.

I dangled out a tempting balt--

He'd neither bite nor bark!

I spoke to him of trams and

plans

He nothing would remark;

· I said: "Wo'd like to run a bus

To the bottom of the Park,

Don't you think this is a swell

Idea

He said: "We're in the dark As yet, and plans are in the air. I'm thinking now that he'll

embark

Upon a railway in the air. (Unless he said it for s inrk' And moant an underg

tunnel

Which he is hoping to band dark)