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FEBRUARY 16, .-1937.

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349,534 People-A World

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SECTION of

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Test in Melbourne. World records were broken. In the six days (Previous record. of play 349,534 people paid for admission.

was 262,467-In 1929.) More than 78,000 spectators, repre- senting a gate of £7,126, saw first day's play, Right: First wicket to fall-Brown, caught Ames, bowled Voce. Final test. will commence on this ground on Friday week.

Caught by Candid Camera at the complimentary dinner by officers of the Fifth Army to General Sir Hubert Gough, their leader, at the Piccadilly Hotel recently. Left, Sir Hubert Gough'enjoys a joke with Major-General Sir Richard P. Lee, Centre:- Sir-Hubert studies the menu. Right: Lady Gough with General Marchant,

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CINEMA NOTES

Neck-and-neck with death, half- way 'round the world, Charlle Chion races a ruthless murderer in his most baffling case, "Charlie Chan at the Race Track," Twentieth Century-Fox. pleture at the Queen's

with the thrilling Melbourn

Opekes in Avstrnila, the scene

of the film racce across

"the

Pacific

where the murderer first strikes, to Honolulu and then Los Angeles, with Chan

on the killer's

trall. Chon en-

дл the

thrilling and exelting during the chase. A gambling ring that stops at nothing has switched the favourite in the Santo Juanita Handicap with an in- ferior horse. Chan alono discovers the fact but the killer kidnaps the wily Chinese sleuth the day of the big race. Chan is faced with infra-ray dart that kills with speed of light and deadly foom emit- venomous polson, Byn rusc, Chan escapes from his captor, and arrives at the, track just a the big race is about to start and the murder- er is about to strike again! Wamer Oland portrays Charlie Chan, with the cast of the Alm also featuring Keye Luke, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck, Alan Dinchart and Gavin Muir. "Earthworm Tractors"

A huge mynthetic swamp of several acres was constructed. Several miles of mountain tralia were dug in Bron- son Canyon, ucar Hollywood. And half dozen powerful big track-laying caterpillar trucks, ranging from gigantic 17-ton brutes to the "smaller three-ionners were not only used for this pre-shooting construction but figured as motorised "actors" In the picture. Reference is to the new Joc E Brown comedy-dramu, "Earth- worm Tractors," the First National picture which is at the Majestic Theatre to-day. In this picture the plot hinges upon the fact that Joc E. is a tractor salesman orth- Не In the sale of

worm the Saturday Evening

a synonym for caterpillar na used in.

atories of William Hazlett Upson.. One of the funniest stunts In the pic- ture, it is declared, is the house moving sequence. In this, Joe is at the wheel of a glant Earthworm while who Guy Kibbee,

suffers from conorm- nervous indigestions und

Hak

ed bypochondriac, is taken for a ride. It is all the funnier when the finally breaks and Kibbee's house is left squarely on the tracks of an oncoming train,

**M'll"

Bret Harte's "M'liss," in which the NKO Radio is co-starring on screen Anne Shirley and John Beal, has an unique and Interesting history Published in 1873, it was a best seller

д

for years. For three decades it was a popular store play. Twenty years ago it was a hit in. Bilent Bl with Mary Pickford in the tille

role, and now it comes to the screen modern

18 A

talking picture,, directed by George Nicholls, Jr. who played with Miss Pickford as a child actor. In the leading title role of the picture, Anne Shirley hos character ideally suited to her talents. Tho proud. lovable, independent and courageous character

of "Miss" offers

the 18- acope for her emo- Jolin

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and her Dair for down

Beal, co-starred"

to-earths paris.

with Mi- masculino

Miss Shirky, has the

Liveness

demanded by the role of the courage-

the

our newspaper man who takes over position of school-master in the mining town. Heading the support

M'liss's father

ing cort in the role

is Guy Kibbee,

Roted

of his

have

for his portr/yal of delightful old scallywags who retained their lovableness despite their worthlessness; and Douglas

Dumbrille, as Ellis, the gambler,

Olsen,

friend of M'lis and her Others in the east are Moroni Frank M. Thomas, Art

Arthur Hoyt, Mar- garet Armstrong, Willum Benedict, James Bush, Ray Mayer, Esther How-

ard and Louis Muson,

"The Gay Desperado"

A rare treat is in store for music lovers when Pickford-Lasky's "The Gay Desperado," brings Nino Martini, famous singing star of opera, radio and films, to the King's Theatre to- day. In addition to the original songs written

for

Martini, there will be several operatic solos,The World and a number of Mexican folk songs.

Is Mine To-night," written for the by the British composers, Holt picture Marvel and George Ponsford, is already popular on the air. original number, "Adios Mi Tierra was composed by the singers' own accompanist, Miguel Sandoval. The Verdi aria, "Celeste Aida." will be the high light of the operatic music and three famous Mexican songs, "Cielita Lindo," "Lamento Gitano" and "Estrellita" will complete the star's diversified repertory in the picture. Ida Lupino and Leo Carrillo are featured in the gay romance which Rouben Marnoullan directed. ··

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