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Army Leadership

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London, Aug. 28. The High Council of Salvation Army, comprising 47 mon and women holding high office in the movement in various parts of the world, met to-day in London to appoint a successor to General Higgins when he retires from the leadership on November 1st.

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RESULT OF BALLOT one of the finest remances scen upon shortly after the close of the morning the Mercon in recent years. This rersion of the Manila Block Exchange

me it in "Operator 10", the exciting are as follows: Robert W. Chambers story which Botro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cosmopolitan presents as Marion Davies newest! starring vehicle and which opens to day at the Queen's Theatre. Yet it is not, in a sense, a war story. It is a gripping love story for which tho Civil War

serves only as a back- ground. It is the story of an all-| powerful Inve affair involving a beautiful woman spy of the Union army and a gallant spy of the Con- federate forces. As Gail Leveless, the federal spy who is sent into the Southern lines to destroy the ment Market-steady; Volume Penos 65,000, dangerous spy of the Confederacy, Miss Davies contributes her finest dramatic performance of her eventful screen career. Gary, Carper, the Southern spy, equally surpasses_all! ha former screen roles as the man whom Miss Davies sets out to destroy not with whom she falls in love. The masterful direction of the plcture was conducted by Richard Boleslavsky, former noted director and actor of.

The meeting was held in private and the voting will be by ballot,

Those taking part in the gather. ing Include Commander Evange. line Booth, daughter of the Feun dor of the movement and Cather Ine Booth, daughter of the Inte General Bramwell Booth.

It is understood that both are among the fifteen who have been nominated for the Generalship.

The result will not be known until to-morrow afternoon at the earlicat

The Duke of York will preside! at a farewell meeting to General Higgins at the Albert Hall November 1st.—British Wireless.

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the Moscow Art Theatre who has been Messrs. Benjamin and Potts have responsible for such entertaining received the following Straits cur- pictures as "Rosputin and the Emrency quotations (buyers) from press" and "Men in Whito".

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The Invisible Man". one of the most effective of all the creatures created by Hollywood for spine tingling purposes is showing to-day: at the King's Theatre, by special request for one day only. But "The Invisible Man" tops them by production, directed by Erie Pommer, forming his sinister deeds under the clock of invisibility. Just as the dark and has been staged on the opulent and grandiose lines that have charac- SUCCESSFUL PLEA. IN in fear-compelling because of it. terized similar plotures made by this

aren things which might lurk in NUISANCE CASE. inky blackness, a man who can out-anization "Congress Dances and "ler Highness Commanda" for ex- "Jack line into the air, such as against Mrs. Grimin," the mad super-scientist of ample. Among notable settings are Fone charming reproductions of the M. F. P. Laurenco in respect of the 11. G. Wells tale, possesses more court of the Empress Eugene, around rubbish creating_a nuisance at than human power. It is this power

whom the story is largely woven. Nos. 6 and 38 Bulkeley Street, and its graphic effect on the which Hunghom, were dismissed to-day provides The Invisible fan with by the Kowloon Magistrate, Mr.ita atunning strangeness. Not in

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The music for the film was composed by Franz Wackamann and is based on contemporary motifs, Lilian Har- voy sings a haunting WL YOU

E. I. Wynne-Jones, following a many montha has a flm caused such low Can I Live. Without Successful pica by Mr. M. W. Lo, a startling sensation as this specula- which all Europe is humming. "The appearing for the owner.

tive screen treatise on invisibility, a Mr. Lo's explanation was that subject, by the way, which has in-Only Girl" premises to be stimulating entertainment for faded taxles seeking something new and different. after the rubbish was removed trigued man for countless agca. from these empty floors in com-

"The Only Girl"

"No More Women" pliance with the Sanitary Dopart- Lilion Harvey, the gay, winsome mont notice, a fresh deposit was and provocativo English star is Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen | made by what appeared to be next-stated to have an ideal role in "The are at it again, forty fathoms under the sea, in the Paramount_picture, door neighbours choosing a con- Only Girl", colourful musical romance

Women". coming venient method of disposing of which is to have its premiere at the "No More their house refuse. Mr. Lo re- Alhambra Theatre to-morrow. Play Thursday to the King's Theatre. presented that the situation was ing opposite her in this film is one Hard guys, sore-heads when their the control of the of the lending French actors, Charles fight is private, they are pais to the one beyond

Boyer, who played lends in the French death against outsiders. This time, owner, and suggested that this versions of The Big House" and they are cast as two deep-sea divers, was where the Sanitary Depart- The Trial of Mary Dugan". "The The film is a Charice R, Rogers' pro- ment could lend their co-operation. Only Girl" is a British Gaumont-Ufaduction.

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