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Are you a loo-good-to-be-true wife? Is your husbanil ao certain of your loyalty and devotion that the thril of loving you is gene? The story of such a wife and of how she lost and | rogained has been made into sparkling

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WING OF 'PLANE indy-drama by RKO-ftudio pictures and Frite in conjunction with Router.

He was Mr. George Oatlaw, of the 4th Bn. the Suffolk Regiment, and his home was at Romain-road, Lowestoft.

AFTER MOCK WAR

A company

Sergeant Major Exhibitors continue to ex-sacrificed his own life but saved 40 press satisfaction with busi- men under his charge during Territorial manoeuvres on the ness at the Radio Exhibition downs at Telscombe, near Brigh which is continuing to at fon, last month. - tract large crowds to

Olympia.

The vast home market, repre- fact that there Rented by the are 6,395,561 wireless receiving licences in farce in Britain, absorbs the bulk of the output of British radio industry, which employs some 100,000 people and has a turnover of £30,000,000, but the export trade in

An RA.F. neroplano which had bean engaged in mock warfare with tho Territorials approached C.S.M. Outlaw's men, flying low.

on

Immediately he ordered his men to throw themaeives on the ground. He himself was too late, and one of the wings of the aeroplane the head and struck him shoulders. sets and

Sgt. Bond, who was standing nucessories is also growing in neat, had an astonishing escape, his hat being swept from his head. MOCK WAR.

importance,

During the past twelve months theme exports represented a value of.£1,086,862 and for the first seven months of this year 'total was £724.644.

the

Home trade has, to some extent,

fostered been

by protective inearures, but the tariffs have not operated in such way as to exclude foreign radio nets and the value of imported sets and accessories during the January-July perlod

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and now showing at the King's Theatre. It in titled "This Man Is Mine" and stars Irene Dunne in a rola that is said to be different from any she has as yet essayed. The star i supported in "This Man Is Mine" by un excellent cast which includes Ralph Bellamy as the straying-from-thio fireside husband, Constance Cummings as the husband-stealer and Sidney 6 Blackmor as the latter's jealous lover. Other Important roles aro enacted by Charles Starrett, Kay Johnson, Loul Mason and Vivian Tobin, John Cror well directed with usual understand ing and touch, capitalizing on ovory point of the witty dialogue and clever situations.

"The Mad Genius“

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RADIO BROADCAST

Pianoforte Recital From

The Studio.

RECORDED PROGRAMME.

From ZBW on a wavelength of 365 metres (845 kilocycles).

G-R p.m. European programme. 6-7 p.m. A relay of the Hongkong Hotel Danee. Orchestra from the Hongkong Hotel Roof, Garden, (by courtesy of the Management).

7 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quata- tions, Lendon and New York Stock and Commodity Quotations.

7.08-7.40 p.m., A. Programme of records kindly loaned by a Listener. Descriptive Ballad-The

Trumpeter.

Raymond Nowell, Ion Swinloy

and Chorus. Humorous-Sam's Medal.

Humorous Many Happy Returns.

Stanley Holloway, Descriptive The Village Blacksmith. Columbia Dramatic Players. Humorous Old Sam's Party.

Stanley Holloway.

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7.40-8. p.m. From the Studio,

A Pianoforte Recital by Mr. A. W. Lorena.

Programme.

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1. Spring Song.

£80'

£135

Venetian Gondola Song.

Mendelssohn.

2. Prelude No. 13.

John Barrymore, who has given an many masterly screen portrayals of characters tragic, romantic and even comic-affers what many critics con- sider his finest characterization in the title role of "The Mad Genlus," the Warner Bros, picture, which com-Gorman 7% Int.

54 Alhambra

Lonn 1024 .... mences to-day at tho Theatre. The star is supported, as Japan 6% Sterling in "Svengali," by Marian Marsh,

Loan 1007.... £ 744 £75 | youthful screen discovery of the year, Japan 6% Sterling

Loan 1924. £ 85 who is exquisite as the dancer, Nana. The girl is dominated by the mad H.K. & S'hai Bk.

(Ldn. Reg.)... £135 C.S.M. Outlaw was in charge of travelling marionetto show, and Charld. Bc. sh... 15% £16%

genius, Taarakeva first seen as master a party of Territorials who are in camp at Roedenn, and was helping Imperial Ballet

kater na impresario of the Russian It is the later ex- to train them in the precautions to periences of Taarakova-who is snared ho taken when attacked by nit-in his own trap-his dealings with craft.

the drug maddened ballot-master-his The aeroplane, from Manston, tragle battles with himself-his sar- Kent, time after time swooped low donic and impotent rage that make over the downs, pretending to fire "The Mad Genius" no compelling. with machineguns at the Ter-"The Mad Genius" is a picture no

lover of great dramu should mina, ritoriale.

The staff captain at Roudean camp said that the aeroplane

accident occurred.

of the current year was £550,966. manoeuvren hand finished when the modern, fast-moving, dashing role in

The machine flew on back to Manston after the accident, but the pilot was called to Brighton to attend the military inquiry into the fatality.

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"Reaching For The Moun" Douglas Fairbanks has a strictly

Electric (England).... his new picture for United Artists, "Reaching For The Moon" showing at Impl. Chen, Ind. the Oriental Theatre on Friday and | Impl. Chom. Ind. Saturday. The humour and charms of Det. 10/sh... Bebe Daniels are given full leeway in Impl. Tobacco вет capacity

feninine lead. Woolworths The following oficial statement Edmund Goulding wrote and directed | Internat. Nickel regarding the accident was leaued:the film which, is up to the minute no par vai.... $ 24

Johnson "While units of the 183rd Infantry and is fully as romantic as any picture

10/- st. Brigade were being trained in the Fairbanks has made. Edward Eve-

Turner & Newall precautions to be taken against rett, Hortan has an important part.

Unilever

Manufacturors base their con- fidence in the future not only on the further growth of demand in Britain where there are still near ly five million homes without wireless, but on the development of television and on the further expansion of the export trade which has received an important attacks by aircraft, C.S.M. G. Out- filip during the present exhibl-Inw, of the 4th Bn. the Suffolk tion-British Wireless.

MR. BRUCE AND MIGRATION

"Britain Must Look

'to Dominions"

Mr. S. M. Bruce, High Commis- sioner for Australia, said In an address to the Royal Empico Society--Summer-School,. Oxford:

Regiment, was struck by the wing of one of the aeroplanes of No. 2 A.C. Squadron from Marston, and died of injury in the Royal Sussex County Hospital without regaining consciousness.”

C.S.M. Outlaw, was 34. He leaves a widow and child.

"Murder At The Vanities"

Pinchin

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Nocturne in F Sharp major.

3. By the Fireside.

Danse Creole.

Chopin,

Lorena,

Chaminade.

8 pm Local Time and Weather Report.

8.03-10.30 p.m.. Chinese Studio Concert.

9.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletina, London I p.m. Stock and Commodity Quotations.

10.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Mid-day Press News, Further London Stock and Commodity Quota. tiona.

10.40 p.m. Close Down.

ZEK PROGRAMME.

8.30-30; pan.

European Recorded

Programme Broadenat by ZEK

8.30-8.33 p.m. Orchestral Music.. Hansel and Gretel-Overture

(Humperdinck).

Symphony Orchestra conducted

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by Albert Contes. Afternoon of a Faun (Debussy).

Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra directed by Leopold Stokowski, Carissima (Elgar),

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Sam Corlow and Arthur Johnston, co-authors of "Thanks", "The Day You Came Along" Just One Moro Chance", "Learn to Croon" and dozena famous, have written six new songs of other hits Bing Crosby made for Paramount's production of Earl Carroll's "Murder at the Vanities" which comes

on Saturday to the King's Theatre. The picture, directed by Mitchell Leisen, is combination Tropea Mines

musical show and murder mystery

Langisagie Estates... based upon the Broadway play by Carroll and Rufus King. The new London Tin 107-

ult songs, in the typical Coslow-Johnston Pekin Synd. 2/- vein, are entitled "Cocktails for Two",

ord sh. "Lovely One", "My Gigolo", "Ebony Rubber Trusts Rhapsody" Marahvana", "Live and S'hai Elce, Constr. Love Tonight", and "Where Do They Van Ryn Deep Come From?". Singing the songs in Electric the-picture-are-Cari-Brisson,--star-of- Industries..... the London and European stage and It has beca announced that screen, who makes his American

debut in this picture, and Kitty:

JACK PAYNE AND THE B.B.C.

A DIFFICULTY OVER TERMS

.

"It is essential in these islands that you should have a healthy Jack Payne has decided not to agriculture, and I can assure you broadens with his band during that you will get the complete co-the second week when Henry Hall operation of the Dominions." But and the B.B.C. Dance Band are on we want to know what we have to holiday-September 10 to 17- face. How far are you going?

owing to a divergence of opinion "Remember, you are still prin-between the B.B.C. and himself arlly dependent on your exports of regarding terms, manufactured, Roods. How far are you going to affect other countries who are your great debtors and destroy their powers of meeting their obligations?

"There is one thing Australla can take that the Argentine and Denmark can never take-that is, your people.

"In the great days of Britain's prosperity she could not absurb the whole of her people. Sho will again have to have a great migra- tion. It is to the Dominions ahe will have to look to absorb these people, and they cannot do it un- less they are prosperous."

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"You Sald A Mouthful"

Eight small mice created a neur panic at the First National studios during the taking of the latest Jou The actual broadcasting time E. Brown comedy, "You Said a Mouth. offered to me was 6%1⁄2 hours spread ful," coming to the Alhambra Theatre over a week," Jack Payne said on Sunday next.. Although "prop" and for every hour's broadcast it mice, they were honest-to-goodness rodents, furnished for the picture. Is necessary to have three or four

hours' rehearsal.

They were intended to scare Joe E. Brown, who has the role of an artless "The final decision was made boob who is afraid of almost every- over the telephone. The B.B.C. thing, including his shadow. Joc munde one offer and I turned it simulated plenty of fear for picture down; then they made another purposes, bat he didn't scare at all offer of less work, but proportion-after. the scene was shot. Just to ately less money. I insisted, how-make sure everyone realized he had ever, that I should be paid the been only acting on the set, he let the original sum stated.

SORRY FOR LISTENERS.

"I am very sorry from the point of view of listeners. I enjoy play- ing to them, and I feel I am among old frienda..

The Ideal policy at this time was Aurely that Britain should be in the into the studio, and I fought down "I was the first band that went centre of a great group of agricul- the. B.B.C. principle of paying a tural countriesBritain giving them the opportunity of selling small set sum for every band." their products in exchange for the sale of her manufactured products. į

WHEAT CONTROL

PROPOSALS

CHINESE JUDGE IN LONDON

VISIT TO LAW COURTS

DELEGATES REFER TO the Judicial Yuen of Chinn,

GOVERNMENTS

Mr. Tan Chen, vice-president of

position like that of a deputy Lord Chancellor, visited the Court of Appeal recently. He was. wel- comed by the Master of the Rolls, Lord Hanworth, and Lords Justices Romer and Maugham,

London, Aug. 22. Many of tho delegates to the Wheat Advisory Committee which has been mooting at the Board of Trado were to-day in communica- Afterwards he went into the tion with their respective Govern- court where Lord Hewart was pre- ments and the meeting was post-siding.

" poned· until, to-morrow.

mice loose in the vicinity of the ladies' dressing rooms. There were wild shricks as Ginger Rogers, Shella Terry and other feminine players in the picture scampered off.

"King Kong" Edgar Wallace wrote for the films live to see produced, and King Kong a number of stories which he did not was his tart. This is a fantastic story about an ape 50 feet high who runs off with a film actress engaged in making a picture on an island. The spe in captured and taken to New York. It escapes, and it takes a squadren of aeroplanes to finish off both the ape and the film. A wonder fully realintie if far-fetched aim, full of thrills and excitement, it is now showing at the Lee Theatre.

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U.S. RECOVERY

WIDELY DIFFERING VIEWS EXPRESSED.

London, Aug. 22. Financial elreles

are sharply divided regarding the prospects of recovery in the United States,

was con-

by

New Symphony Orchestra Sir Edward Elgar, o.M., K.C.F.Ó. 8.63-9:10 p.m.

Love Duct from "Tristan and

Izolde" (Wagner),

Sung by Frida Lolder (Soprano) and Lauritz Melchior (Tenor). With the Berlin State Opera

Orchestra directed by Albert

Coates.

9.10-9.27 p.m.

Hungarian Fantasia (Liszt).

Arthur de Greet and the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra conduet. ed by Sir Landon Ronald. 9.30 p.m.

Reuter Press Bulletins, London-1-p.m. Stock and Commodity. Quotations.

9.27-9.44 p.m: Vocal Gems from Musical Comedy.

No, No, Nanette (Youmans).

Light Opera Company,

The Cat and the Fiddle (Harbach

and Kern).

Light Opera Company.

9.44-10 p.m. Band Selections, Wilfred Sanderson's Songs.

The Band of H.M. Coldstream

Lionel Monekton Memories

(Monckton).

Debroy Somers Band,

10 p.m. Close Down.

Guarda.

CHINESE STEAMER,

SECOND OF FAIR FROM BRITISH YARDS

London, Aug. 22. The second of two steamers ru- for the cently ordered and built

A leading American banker, Chinese Government by British yards, .

down Into Mr. A. IL Giannini, Chairman of the Hatheng, will allp the Executive of the Bank of the Clyde to-morrow. afternoon, fol- Amorlén, now vinced that President Roosevelt Reuter to-day that he

In London, told lowing brief ceremony at which Mme, Quo Tai-chỉ, wife of the Chin- as Minister to the Court of St. James, will 'oficiate, would adhere to orthodox monet- ay principles. He believed that President Roosevelt would not, at this Juncture, favour using, his powers for the lowering of the gold content of the doliar.

The New Deal, he added; had

had already

many beneficial offects. He expects to see a re-

Mme. Quo Ti-chi left for Glasgow today to attend the christening.

The first of the vessels was launch- ed on July 27 and christened the Haiyuan. She is leaving for China shortly-Router.

vival of business in the stock mar-American connections, state that kut once the implications of the the confidence of the United States Stock Exchange, and kindred financial community has been fur- legislation, are understood, and ther disturbed by renewed fears any necessary amendments are of inflation arising out of the na- effected.

tionalleation of allvar."

The sentiment has

Major L. B. In

cio La bylo. Angan book, in the realisation of the bean born of a con- the drought calamity and the The River Conservancy Commission in America has caused for Kwangtung Province notes that sidorable Impression, said Mr. necessity for large additional Gov- the height of water in English foot in Ciannini. Major Angas is recog.ernment relief expenditure, the West, North and East Rivere innland as one of the leading Bri- Mr. Tan Chen, after attending as follows: the royal garden party at Bucking

Aug, 21 Aug, 22

12.8

It will then have before it a roham Palace, told a reporter that West River at Shiching 17.2 17.6 port embodying the various points seeing the King, and uoch would .North River at Tsing- In the agenda upon which general remain one of the most momureble

0.8. 11.8 agreement has been reached among events of his life,

North Riyor at Samshui 10.5 10.7 delegates. The final recommenda He was dooply Impressed by East River at Shoklung. D.8 tions of the Advisory Committee Belilah Justice, of which he said: will be submitted to the various "Your judges do not believe in Governments and it la expected that theory when they are dealing with the Committee will adjourn' unt!!n case. The main object le to to the local health authorities on the autumn-British Wireless. bring out the facts,"

One case of diphtheria was reported

Tuesday.

Mr. Robert Bonton's opinion fa tish authorities of stock market that Public Works expenditure ap- trading, and its relation to ha- tional economics.

pears to have been on too small a sealb'or' too dilatary in execution', Mr. Giannini added that the to provide sufficient impetus to the weight of opinion in the United economic machine, and concludes States was that recovery that in view of the prevalling "just around the corner.".

confusion it is dificult to believe: that trade and industry, will be ablo' to show any pronounced im On the other hand, leading fin-provement of their own, accord ancial authorities here, with close Router

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