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13 THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1929. "3ramatis Vt 5an6om. tt) CJ6? St 3obn rvmc.) 5l)e "pictures. Ann Casson'a unaffected naturalism. These things, including the sheer pre-Raphaelite Beauty of Miss Elizabeth Pollock, helped to explain the charm so many have found in this play, and are more than reason enough fur its revival.

H. H. CAMERA MATERIAL. afprenamr's point of view if criticism did I. -it aift up aoJJie law IMS BUSINESS OF i urnuisM i.

ing it himself- He made Lord Salisbury wit back in bis chair and open hi mouth. The offending tooth was located, and Mr. Gladstone carefully applied cotton wool soaked in Nervine to the tender place. Jn five minutes Lord Salisbury had to admit that the pain was gone. Not in every country would It have been wise, in the eighties, for a statesman to take his rival prescription.

But the thing happened even more literally in the election of 1922. when Lleuh-Comdr. Astbury, candidate for West Salford contracted a sore throat and was prescribed for by his Conservative opponent. Sir William Mdtigan. 1 surest to her lhat she should not Ado I phi.

her analogies too closely. Vba; BROTHERS." By Herbert Ashton, September has brought us the poignant transition from the frying-pan to the and the weather of tbe week has been mucli more propitious for the holiday-maker than for tlie town-dweller. The little more and how much it is" is a very personal quotation when the mercury creeps into the later eighties, and when the pleasanteM things in the streets are the grateful whiffs of cool air from long, dark office passages and kindly cellars. But London goes on its way without concession; and we may give tlie cause of Dress Reform over for (r i.lMll- trie i-oru t.iuei Justice says about crime is evidence in considering art. A rnrutnul is a person who attempts to assert ht.s individuality in a sphere in i h.

On the very hottest day of last week I saw eight films, and If there Is any compensation for such mis-spent hours, it is in the fact that two out of the eight films proved to be perfect documents of the wrong, and the right way to approach the cinema, Dun or tki Week. WEDNESDAY. Apollo, Yesteiduj' Harvest." Strand. Devil in Bronze." THUR3 DAY. Ambassadors." The Misdoings of Charley Peace." Drury Lane, Bose Marie (revival).

SATURDAY. Old Vic, Romeo and Juliet." Prince's, Tbe Flying Fool." The last performance of Sun-Up was I). I am in a quandary. Indeed, my out-i-tanrjinp impressions of this American urarua are so exclusively sartorial that 1 f-ei 1 oupht to be recording them for "Tiie Tailor and Cutter. of course, the piny had other features; other.

I mean, thun us hero's quick changes from the wrum individuality should not be sprie.lL au art isi is a persmi who attempts i in assert his individuality in a sphere untie only i rui i viduahty can be 3 The business uf existence i enri he conducted only by each of us It'dt; ing that other people, up to i li I iiri'i Tht-y l.ae, 'Irnriirii i-s- -IK-. .11 i I 1 1 i 1 1 1 i a pH'iin, hae as much right to live as uda rags of nobert into the workadav ol his twin broili.T Eddie. Hut fucIi the speed, the high frequency with. we li.ive. Tlie iiinment a man begins -lo tu denv lhat duflniif1, he begins to be a i'a- lell Nd i -1 1 critn-.

i dnur lt cannot be said that Journalism is diminishing in enterprise when wre find a picture paper a Portrait of a Partridge (head and shoulders). But it seems disrespectful to omit the obituary. From religion the papers seem to be veering towards hedonism. I read within tlie last lew days Bivuuxt Nichols Asks "Who is im Happy Man "Daily Mail." This Wy Happinxbs No. 8." Daily Chronicle." Arc You Happy If Not, Why Not Daily Express Questionnaire.

And has there not been some talk of a Blue Bird: We are told that Torouav. Britain's Mo. Mr. Hartley iut-r this re-curn-nt metamorphosis, that us other elements, psychological, physiognomic, sentimental and dramatic, even the cast-iron complacency of the plot, became cornDara- cnimiiii, iiiiil the rest of us, for our i own protputnn, have to restrain him, may feu have (o kill him. The law of tin; ruad was not devised for the pur-'; pne of hindering tratlic, but for the LHirin'su1 of enabling trath'c to move, it Til tn br ttiim t'O'iiu lost.

If a man does not wear shorts at fi. in September, when will he wear them 1 Certainly not, as an argumentative person has pointed out, when he ascepds the pulpit of St. Paul's. The Postmaster-General has been telling how a postmistress in a Welsh village, at her wits' end for a messenger, oflered him threepence to deliver a telegram. It is almost to be regretted, for the sake of dramatic completeness, that he did not accept the offer.

Complaint is being made in Jersey of the low code of decency shown by several visitors to the island, who walk about the town, or ride, in costumes which would not be permitted even in France, where latitude is allowed," Perhaps it is not so much a question of latitude as of longitude; btit it is certainly an odd grievance to come given last night, and sometime next week Miss Lucille La Verne will appear as Shy-lock in "The Mertham of Yeiuee at the Little Theatre. Mr. E. Lyall Swete is producing the play for her. Portia is to be Idayed by Miss Virginia Pemberton, a Canadian actress who has never acted In England.

Miss Christine Silver will be seen a1; Nerissa, and Miss Dorothy Dunhels as Jessica. Mr. Reyner Barton and Mr. Andrew Leigh repeat the pertormances of Antonio and Launcelot Gobbo that they cave at the Old Vic. and Mr.

Tristan Raw-son, Mr. Barry K. Barnes, and Mr Kretieruik Sargeant are also in the com i i. Mm mm-. Mr, The first film, which see.ns to me the quintessence of all that the cinema should not be, do or say, is "The Last of Mrs.

Cheyney." the new talkie at the Empire. Now, let me be quite fair about this production. It ts a thoroughly workmanlike job, smooth, and finished, and socially conscientious, and it has the hallmark of its author on every scene. The diction will delight all the people who have been calling out for English voices in the talkies." and although the film was made in Hollywood, every one of the players except Mrs. Cheyney herself, who ohviously does not come, as shs says, from Blooms-berry might hove been speaking his part for the London drawTing-room stage.

It is smartly and completely drawing-room in manner and tradition, and the I tividv unimportant. Tli to 1" vein in iK Ii prison II--' Uii tli.it ii i-r 1 1 1 dYehu i-rnpr Every melodrama, however improbable, must have a beginning. And the contrasting careers ot these iwm brothers were the onicume of a bet made by two doctors on prior imporiance of heredity or environment in the moulding of character. Thus Hubert, who was raised in the lap nf luxury, wns called the bar. and took to and murder; while Eddie, condemned tii moan st reels and the shadows of the York underworld.

But I needn't particularise further. The effects, at any rule, of this eugenic wager were rdiviou rmoiighi even if its subtler implications evaded one. Perhaps niv failure to pany. Miss I.a Verne told me during the week that to play Shylock has been a life Icng-ambition. Ah the age of fifteen shp icted Conn in an all-women production of As You Like It in New York, and then the sh)W-nuvinp veliicle to get ialuiir wnhout impeding (lie progress of (h'- i fl -tnoviij vehicle.

Hut if we cuiild a'l duwn lli Strand as we -3iked, mnvinp; from nht tn left as the rjhim ns, and turning sharply i r-'iiml ci irrjprs williont a rninp ol hers of niir in(ention, traltif" would become a juud'U-, and, utlnuately. a wrerk. Tins is a business i ti which individuality is b-s important than common effort. (1 I Iiii! tlie business of art is enlirety a matter rf i ndivirlualit v. A committee list' I j--.

1 1" o--ed fr-mi II from an. island which has given us name lines come over well, pointed by polile wi.n j.r gesture, pregnant pause, and proper inflection. The story is given full value it has an air: it is well buttled. received an offer to play the Jew. Sir Henry Irving's is the only Shylock she has seen, and her costume is being copied from lite one he wors.

Tin1 Hi' as.ip-d -i a i I v. i i 1 1 1 pri-i hih fi.own it sunniest town, is shortly to have express trains fitted with vita-glass." It mtghl be headed. "Keeping Pace with. Bognor Regis." In Carlyle day the criterion of respectability was to keep a gig. To-day: Woman (at WjUeaden) I would like to stand bail for the prisoner.

Tha Magistrate: Are you a person of jub-stance and standing! Woman: I've got a very good gramophone. The MiciMrnte: That will do; will accept your bail. For a more searching Judgment one would need to know svhat she beard on it. nil vVliHSlI-! V-W ri'1 N'lthin" cannot write a play, or paint a picture, rireoccinatirm with the fi.il T9e 8ea.s0I ln earnest this. rlrait ri Mirrnr." character of I ho rlmhrs eti which Mr.

first two nights are ronr rnng Ihe fraternal changes a clash on Wednesday which, wir'i 'nMi asionliincr celeritv 1 may yet be avoided. At the moment Yesterday's Harvest played at lw ivlav, ranker a stark sportmPr, of i n--' ital'iv e. him dram'i'n 4-t en-1 inav say that I'Vrv j.ired in him a criNe i of i i rariT w. a pr- pura' inn uhlrh a drama ufit 'o havp f-'ir his wurfc mdv srrieihiri; 'ihsurdlv in 'lit the V'MHiis and mai-hm-v r' la-rd from whnul, ai -rive UUalllied to Iri 1 If! to a garment or quite unexciting contour. The Jests that come from Russia are generally agin' the Gove in mem." One ot ihe latest is of a man who explained that he was engaged to watch from the top of the Kremlin every morning.

11 To look for the World Revolution." You won't get much for that." No. but then it's a life job," In the meantime, we are faced with a new form of automatic morality: It is stated that if suitable mixture of scopolamine and morphine is injected into a mau or woman a state of stupor if produced, known as ''twilight slep." In this state, it is claimed, a guilty person cannot avoid speaking the truth. From the description it seems very similar to the old-fashioned recipe which is enshrined in the words, ln vino Veritas." But the Ninth Commandment is not the only one that stands hi need of a drug. I notice in the accounts of the Lutworth Cfxstle fire that visitors were taking away or carve a siriiue, or compose: an opera. The laws which operate in the general affa i rs (i (lie cornmun i cannot be applied to sins slrh-tly individual husi-rn-s, arid as bombastically as I can I assert that all this talk about objective standard in art is tn-h.

There are no objective standards, either in rrilicisin or in creation, for in the final result, the crilic jurles the play by i(s effect on him, Find not by its enVct on his objective standard. A standard is something, snrt-lv, which may be generally applinij-? 'j'hp rule of ibe road cln-is. uks and produced hy Mr. Kfit'ar Walln; and I could not help re-L-r iiinc times that he had riot pone the Imc and rowrnten it. For then the srrnli nt dialogue mielit hnvp been more rirhly i in mor I tile rupi-nic thnsis hav-1 fiu-er Ihe hct have been lpi-nlr-il with more finality, the hare hones But what a dreary, desolate, slow, uninspiring proposition for the real lover of film-making I Where is the mofion picture in all this stage translation? What is the camera doingf Who thinking of the white rectangle of screen to be filled with changing pattern and made fine and forceful to the eye? It is not necessary, because images on the screen can make sounds, that they should los3 all their value as parts of the visual design.

Drawing-room comedies like The Last of Mrs. Cheyney are more of a menace to the cinema than any amount of imbecilic song-and-dance shows. They are so dangerous because ttiey part company with the cinema at the moment of conception; ttiey have never been, and never will be, films. To justify themselves they have to he ashamed of the screen's mechanics. 1 hey b-long neither to the cinema's world nor lo its generation, and stand for that whole era of entertainment from which the movies deliberately broke away.

emmnsea jasi weeK unaer the title of hife "at the Apollo and Devil tn Bronze at the Strand, are in the diary for that nipht. Both are stronp dramatic "fare On the foLlowing evening attention will be divided between the revival of Rose Mane at Drury ane and The Misdoing of Charley Peace," the chronicle history nf the famous criminal, at the Amhfisadors, Owinp to illness. Mr. Robert FJirmjharson has had to ptve up the part nf CharW Peace, which will be played hv Mr. rwaM Dale Roberts Mr.

Roberts was fnrmerlv in (iie Renson rnmpanv, and id i I.i-IIKTS ll hi ihf'fr i v-irr---n. ford or lid of it plot clothed wiih pomethinc ltlp Mr. I ell fT in he it th. v.1 Professor Leonard Hill has been making our flesh creep (though it is getting used to that exercise) with his account of a new mxin of which one gramme would suffice to kilt a million people. His moral was the.

peril of modern war. but does It not rather mean lhat w-e are appmac hint a time when the life of the community will be at the merry of any lunatic or evil-difipnsed person, just as the Graf Zeppelin might have bee tro ed by the American passenger who insisted on smnkinsr a Cigar? As science pursues its researches into the nature of things, mie gets more and more the Impression uf the world as a sort of powder-magazine which pnm'T giinHi dialeeiienl meat, and my manorial "rmipli'X hnve Vm In any en. howtver. thn pr'it-ean rl i in-1 'y nf Mr. power, who had 1' spiral sn much tiu1 evening i lianting his and vet --o well ii.vef ded in hi 1 1 a i in ihe of ler, otid hardly have d----.

i 1 wann-'r apTOai than ii won. H. ii different in detail from (lie rule of he n-ad in bo in principle it the same, a nd an F.ULd ishrna in l-'rari'-e, rr a Frenchman in Kngland, I thm he has iruislered Ihp difference in ilei.ol, is able to aoolv the principle. I a ret-eut npiaranee as a.s Seroeant Stnb- ili Friday is free, but on Satnrdav the re- Hi Hi-' fa .1. Whal npeiiitiK of the Prince's Theatre (closed for -d all sorts of souvenirs before the grounds were closed." Perhaps the French language itself has a sort of narcotic effect in this case.

many niooiiis owinc to the cas evn nsinni 'inni'in h'iuver. lo The I 'tl-i nil's i'roLrres." Jones," A "N'unity Adam llp'le." Di.ina of the Sili.l Hi i a.n accident may blow up. The trouble is that the people who pro wnh The Klying Fool will draw some of the ntt-ntum from Romeo and Juliet at in 1 Jfinriiev," 1 i. i isv; King's, Hammersmith. "THE LADY WITH A LAMP." iiy Reginald Berkeley.

duce these smart drawing-room pictures h. lie old Vie. The former Dlav. bv Messrs The Cotdcn Howl," Tile Arnold Ridley and Bernard Merivale, is an I i 1 1 1 1 1 IX the hut Jilr, nf ot to 1 .1 utit if iinv laoorateiy produced melodrama with an from the works of famous plawnghts and authors really congratulate themselves on giving the talkies," as it were, a leg up. They are immensely proud of their Maugham and Barrie and Hardy films, and airman hero and many ingeniously contrived spectacular effects.

Mr. Henry Ren It seems lhat the Chinese Government has forbidden the importation of greyhounds. In justice, no doubt, to tha Pekt industry. Whether Dudley should or should not have a Lady Godiva In its carnival is a alter of much local controversy. Some think it would be perversion of legend; some that it would be an undignified imi- iders it in 1-e Ins hnsiin-ss i fif.ri-ni i'-es itti ctinnce lo i The rani can hv rclv visiting the tal! has the chief nart.

and others in the reel connaem in recommending tnem to what they call discriminating big enst are Mr. Bernard Neriell. Miss Bar- I went to Hammersmith on Monday less to confirm for confound my original inv press.inns of ihis play, tlinn to see Miss t'iWi Ffranfirtm-Davies as its heroine. And Inns before the handkerchiefs of my neighbours had enme into action over the bier nf nonr Henry Tremavne at Scutari, the mra Hoffe. Miss Barbara Gott.

Miss p.vp Ilettirn of the llTnnn-Uungay," The Ohl Wives' Tale," Tlie Knrsyte Saga," ami Mr. James Joyce's And how can any common rule relate them to the Cinlden Asse nf Apnleiu? If Shakespeare be a nut i st, r. Berna rd Shaw? If Mr. Shiiw he dramatist, i. Sir Arthur I'infro1 If Sir Arthur IMti'-ro he a is Mr.

Krnst Toller? If Mr. Truest Toiler he a dramatist, is Henri patrons.1' I do not quite know myself Gray, and Mr. Martin Walker. wnat a discriminating patron of the cinema may be, but I am inclined to think A problem from Rome: The Cardinals' stipends of 238 a year were barely sufficient to keep them and their servants in food. Nvw thev are to receive 1.081 a year." Daily Mail." The Tope has increased the salaries of Cardinals living in Rome from 2,250 lo 11,000 per annum." Daily Chronicle.

As from Julv I last the Rome Cardinals will receive 100,000 lire instead of 22,000 lire (22S) per annum. Reuter. Rut arithmetic, like other things, is apt to go bad iu the hot weather. From Kingston Hill parish magazine: Girls, never marry a parson. You will get ah the difficulties of life without ihe compensations.

Rut surely it is some compensation to Perhaps the most recrrettable ftrst-rifrht i i in meter i st ilistmetiuri of her aeting had clash is on Tuesday week, when The tMion of Coventry; some that it would be i ndignifled in itself; and the local churches object on principle. The Carnival Committee, however, think an undraped lady would be an attraction. That1 is what comes of being an inland town. more Hindu this sei-nml stpht uf the play that ne is a man wno prefers one Krazy Kat cartoon to the whole opus of Cecil de Mille, one picture like Thou Shalt Not to the collected work of 90 per cent, of the American directors, and one short comedv like Senneu's The Lions Roar" 'idiev pri.h-il.ly ere on rig th.it dm runt nil irs Ihem arrived at Apple Cart." now beinp acted at the Birm-iriLibant Repertory Theatre, opens at the -li ti Like the low which Recoup? exacllv i i nut Queen on the same nieht as Emma If a i thev tri sting than the first. It also proved ihe axiom "the part makes the Hither than the actor the nart so mioieii against ilie critic by his vie-is not invariably true.

1 all jjnod actresses. Miss Ffranpcnn-s has mannerisms of voice and move- rlirit often in the past, have made Hamilton nt the New Theatre. In the fatter play Miss Mary Newcomb will sin two songs c6mposed by Mr. Norman O'Neill. equrillv h.

S.iphocles, Hen 1 Haciue, ltvsen, C.hek-. Imi-iip O'N'Pill, II. It. I.Hiinrniaiiii, i ru Rennveiitc, Susan r.lnspell, i 'tansi in Owani, It. Sherrln', Frank We.lPkinr.

Strindherg, .1 M. BarriP, Frederick I.ruis.lole. A. A. a.

ti nfteli tuns, I Lk ha vn riMTir. Hi ji Lady Warwick has an amusing story in her new book of how Mr. Gladstone cured Lord Salisbury's toothache. On discovering, at a tea-party, that his great adversary was suffering. ih'i t-, if them prhn)d andL It, Weir kuVMi a- iimmm hy lii' her'niiie a -I Miss Tallulah Bankhead's next appear- oniewhru RrudRinK parls seem vry gra to all the clever dialogue borrowed by the talkies from the classics of the theatre world.

Whether or not the man I have described is the really discriminating patron, 1 recommend to him the little fljm that 1 saw the same day as Mrs. Cheyney, as the perfect example of what a moving picture should be. It is called Crystal Champions, and is roughly what is known as a 4 marry the parsonT Mr. Gladstone insisted on running out for1 dtice "in in oet iour Man. a comedv OBSERVATOB.

a Dome oi a popular remeay ana on apply a pied by Mr. Arthur Wlmperis from Louts VerneuH's successful play. Tu MilrsP, ainl Hip author of Chu Chin Chow "'j Is 1 hern, in foci, nnv rule nth-r Ihati tlait till uf thorn wnrk fur Hip I hea (rp? a-nuiailv riths. The uruhit ions tn llllielv Irec.Ji even if the limy he U.iilld i'')Iic ire ti.it IIH- rn epouseras, wmcli is bemc nresented. kin i 1 1 1 1 i first for four weeks' provincial tour becin- cms, and endowed relatively prosaic ones nili extraneous charm.

Here those manner isms, th-autif i illy complement i npf the of tins portrait of Florence iLditinpale, filled the early scenes at the ni in tain, in which Florence chooses between her vocation and love, with an in--junrl romanticism that sharpened the j'oiunanry of the tragedy at Scutari. The artistry of Miss Ff ranron-Davies was the more notable in lhal it owed so nin a the end of Ibis month, and later in London, by Messrs. Clayton and Waller, in .1, th.it s-ai-f-ly -lit npjnilllt .1 tn Ihe A frnin culle association witn Mr. Oilbert Miller. The THE WEEK'S THEATRES.

piece nas not yet been fudy cast, but Mr Allen Aynesworth and Miss Helen Haye my be ajiji. criii-i- plays as si-ar-eiv any expp 'aire, luit he mast base had '( lif- ainl lia- Ptayhou hirle eiiher to reflection of. or arbitrary slL-hs i-f kr-min-; in DEAR BRt'TlS. Hv J. M.

SuutiL. spurts rum. lo describe it as a series of photographs showing champion djvjg and under-water swimming in an American lake gives only the faintest idea of its attraction. It is unbelievably beautiful and thrilling to watch; the curves, rhythms, outlines, and patterns softened, and yet intensified, by photography through water, take on the quality of movement in dreams, without the dream frustration. The whole screen is used, like a Rue panel in black-and-white drawing indefinitely motivated.

Each pattern of body dissolves and merges into the next; the composition of masses is always fluid and beautiful. 1 in addition to Mr. Leslie Henson and Miss Ada May, the cast of Follow t. H-rhcrt ik. hi lo -run- a inruugn.

me musical play wnicn is to differences (mm, that nf her illustrious pre-ih-cessor. The company includes Mr, Murray Carrinmn as Lord Palrnerstnn, Mr. Neil Porter, Ihe original Sidney Her' bert. and shrewd Miss Nad i tie Ma rch as Elizabeth Herbert. H.

H. Ium r-! he open uie Dominion Theatre in ebout ai.n the MsillTifT. Ct.wlv. ralii fin Fru month, will include Miss Ivv Tresmand i lli-. ti-" Dill I It in ir knew iu i- a i i i i ur tested the fresii p- lint tha ili hell lirini: Miss Llsie Randolph.

Mr. Mark Lester, Miss Una Page. Mr. William Black, Miss Violet r.ompion. and Mr.

Harry Pelissier. The last named is the seventeen-year-old son of It -dlh I- tt.lli Mr itHrurM' il ri in if. li it I VI ru'. hv H1j-r-k. Kal-er.

Mav Wh.uy. firi-p WlUrm. KhtuWtli 1'nllin-k. i i ii Manner. Vaudeville.

THE CO-OPTIMISTS. At TI MS PEtOG RAMME, lli-ih-rt h.i-l alp I n.i a li l-l i aliiH-lll' s( vie. uif.ino ir.Mii thai tilirp lliol Hudi-a-bye Baby, you'll do it on top MBP the spirit to stop all the knock. remember seeing one or two under-sea nature films, in which free movement took the place of design and the water acted as an artistic ye, but never one in which the human body became so fundamentally a part of the changing rhythm. It seems to me that this is a fltm which every director with ideas and ideals would do well to see.

It is pure movement, pure photography, and pure cinema. i hat a oiial per- Ky Willi 1 ill tl II. 11 ra Summer, Auliiran, Winter; it; In tins immorial Inaipe. The utriLje i-tj't i i ealile. Tin? irnr arnrae changes, the more i-l the 11 1 LVi pi Hi i'i 1 1 re trie rarnous rounder of Ibe Follies" and Miss Fay Compton.

Miss Fay Compton will have four members of the original company with her in the revival of Secrets at the Comedy on Monday week, namely: Miss Louise Hampton, as Elizabeth Charming; Mr. Hubert Harbeti, as William Marlowe; Mr. Henry i hart, as Dr. Arbuthnot; and Mr. Norman Page as Bob.

Mr. F-uge is again producing, and his daughter. Miss Prunella Norman Page, has the part of Lady Lessington. Mr. Leon Quartermame's old part will be taken by Mr.

Henry and others in the company are Miss Violet Fare-brother, Miss Harvey, Mr. Leslie Stokes and Mr. Norman Pierce. .1 i i i rn nf- jU ih.tt I hud mis all hi fr play: Ir-iem In e-e hof.i There an and a "sr. :i.er.

I SELECTIONS FROM THE NEW FILMS. usually a nid-st i nT" id three as- --1 1 -i thai ur lit-1 L'-'U I ihrv that irritants -Tit Ulii-lllFlJll ii i husfe. the nitist Marv nose 1 had sia'erraft. ihe rr ihanns, the has 'ppeil me (Ueforih I will m. nfier fool mil; lie lifulLUht HI" my juilgrtierit I r-how remain?) the same More, in-deeti.

tins tune tiiau ever; for Ojlbert the lan Lean nf the company, has relurmd after a lung iJitieMS, and the show is the rie her his presence. He brings hai with him a flavour of the Guud (Ud Jas. and he dispenses it- generously; wiih all Ins old parodic fervour, thai uioib-ealen, fnr- nl la red, fr averl-cuffeit, ami toj, Jrat-brandlurm ballad, The Hadi Man I i ves by in His Oirna jje ami tide the rest of the w.jrJd dissolves in the shift of the The mm-'St th. W. ii (JiaL i ItH-re f'T tn this pro 1 'o T-ast 1 i-e.

H. flrt 1 rii of lie. ile.lareil harn.eff Mr. Walter Hackelt's plays are rarely finished until the rehearsal stage reached, and in the case of Sorry You've Been Troubled," originally announced for Tuesday next, the author made a sudden decision to reconstruct part of the comedy. The production has therefore been indefinitely postponed, and the St.

Martin's will remain closed for a short time. Mr. i i a 1 1 1 i aroiuid )i nit. Ihis, piirarnute hejus uitb Davy Einruahv as a un ic-oj ier a Admiral, com. den tele-e, ji 1 1 li him as Hn lana la iio 1-'- i repb te Aral the niir run is fhied with the familiar met-I-v of sv.nv:-, tlant i-s.

sk-tches ami Inch enables earh member of me i The Last or Mrs. Cheynty (Empire), with Climbing thc Golden Stairs, a short singing and dancing show in colours; stvle rather uncertain in character, colour variably interesting, the whole thing curiously reminiscent of the attempts ol eighteenth-centurv entertainment-mongers to bo classicaliv light-hearted. DASOERora Cl-rvcb (Plaza). Clara Bow in her first talking film, a story of wire-walkers in a circus. Double bill with Betrayal, one of Janniugs'a less successful American pictures.

The Trespasser (New Gallery). Gloria Swan-son in hfr fiiot talking film, not yet shown in America a story of the faahionable four hundred Lake Shore, directed and written by the Englishman, Edmund Gould ing. Holly and Me IRialto). A part-talking and part-singing hybridt another story of show life, which adds little to our knowledge t.f the genus or to our appreciation of the sound-film. -e Sphlrv a a-! How i lar r.

i ii that, as I to rl. it th. i nrl i nf 1 mav i1 Ihe ranv at'iti-'td. rrtljr i iV l.lli!! rii) in wr i a I ifoiifie io i-xplmt hrs or her speciality, or Mind that piece from a hut. L'en gn.

i dv I re Other cars follow Tve always lead "BFs the stuff that will give us the speed! 10 remain Why bv -ts in the aia jokes ere '-Ti of rhe obvious the for hies of (be fif 1 i artist and ar? -starved, caste- 10 anion more emmm tally ami us tu pas the evening We do not cnncL-e these shows, wp just enjoy the-m; singling out. perhaps, for our louder gufJuus such a travesty as "The Banana Harearolle," which shows what a provincial choral society can do v-nh an operatic sundae, when a severe sense uf parody does dulv lor truth. Mr. Melville Gideon sun en. 1:1 f-in i that Die i a- lt t.

v. ha; an -nhorat ruhinnjj of Die squalor fiis rhh wih the In now I come tn the point of these whieh is the vexed question of criticism. is my nt to he ihat best 1 1 h.it ever 1 1 ved, and rn easdv Ihe unrJd's wi.irl LTite- hound pn.le of tlie spinet so on' Whiit a superfluity of eroded t's and pi 's lashings of sentimental whipped im; atid there is alwavs the breathless -leii i Hut yon win have patber. my reactnm so far were hardly syru- moment when Miss Phvths Monkman letic; huw eniert-d tlie I break the verb is jusn into smig. "I.ove I ru n-'t a ci df irh th.

alt. I un atv An interesting item of news this week is the announcement that Mr. Paul Robeson, (he famous negro actor, will play Othello in a production that Mr. Maurice Browne is contemplating for the spring of next year, it is not unlikely that Mr. Browne himself will take the longer part of lago.

Tess of the D'Crbervilles was withdrawn from the Duke of York's last night and the company is going on tour. Wrten Jew Suss" is produced on the 19th it will be found that Mr. Ashley Dukes has divided the play into four acts and five scenes. The latter are laid in the Pump Itooui at Wiidbad. the Jew's house in Stuttgart and his house in the forest, and llrtally the Juke's castle.

Mr Basil Dean's return to England was put off for a week or two as he was called to Los Angeles. As soon as he gets back, probably about ten days, he will start rehear-ils for the new play by Mr. John r.ahworihy, which. 1 hear, may be seen at the Criterion early in October. THE PICK OP THE WEEK.

The Adventures or Baron Von Mttnchausen (Shaftesbury Avenue This cartoon comedy, which stays in the programme with Martin Ltttheb for a second week, is a bit of real moving-picture work, a glorious, bombastic piece of mechanical exaggeration. It is not too clever to be good fun, and not loo funny to be fine. C. A. L.

-h rh d- I dn af rer fullv teeond had -u, Uap rk as be; I p.l-S Up lot ill )ld Sweet Song Titles provide the i-iih? f- ir ibe sort of skndi yrnt would ihem io; and "The Five Pound brings iss Monkman and Mr. together in 1 he bonds of eer in null-. ry All the irn'mhers of the 7(u pat' ar- in form and ttn-I'Kumn progranirTiP will run until tiie box-ifru e. rarrier than formal to Uie demands another. H.

Fir 1- aie I -uared ani-i te. iliaVs paihv -i tut th -e a lv vi---t. UT rr fr-- rh Santos of tle XeeK. ihe rumour lhat this v. And hiTt third art, fen.

ga me hack, icl-t and wi.rd for w--rd. all Coliseum. DO LIN AND LUDMILA. if klJi 1 sh.Lil ll- rn K-halls, i At the end of the month Miss Violet Melnotte wilt present at the Garrick Theatre a nlav in three acts called Happy fit -ahi fare-a vlnu" ah -o murh amuint: and fanci wa ih-eji iu ttie pit that I tae and rermy frjh" rn-Forgive rf.i- a- nn-ot ho- be Without the aid of ih 'k Pallet iri th In Lver Mini' ih. untry would mera i Die sn oi I Knmdies.

bv the Mioses Audrey Carten. f. ep.tf iv enemies tha. a eked hy cen I r. simw Wfivenev Carten, and Jane Rosa.

Miss nrm Audrey r.arten will be in the cast. The a pam in h- ph'-ir-u Inrl "ti th A I i.H I H.itdi turned lYrp'-e in i ith tl -1 Knglish danepr 1 ri'1 1 has me ur rn fi) nt alive. At the rin uuen Ci-liM-Min alone carries mem 1 1. 3 eompuy was nrsi seen metiue keep ry twinkle it 1 arm nr's ha nd' mre of mv TrifiM. eT nv liiM'nin hi iu ver, iir uut Hip utip? by the Al ham bra tlie day of their 1 We want the world to know that Great Bri tain can longe be regard ed as th milch-cow of Europe.

Mr. Snowden. There are two Christian graces, humility and purity, which are entirely spoilt by talking about them. Dean Inge. There is just as inucn security in a political agreement as in a regiment of soldiers or a fleet of battleships.

Mr. Ramsay MacDoTiald, Any book is a good book if you get any good out of it. Mr. St. John Adcoch, To be safe and sane may mean that a man is commonplace and unenterprising.

Dr. Jostph Jastroir. Tha curse put on Adam of earning bis rea the sweat of bis brow can be evaded. Professor Leonard HUL Isn't it probable that a good many of the difficulties of modern mamage are caused by the fact that we still make general rules for what is the most individual, private and personal of human relationships I Mist Clem-ence Dane. There is a tendency to be rather broad-minded about other people's security.

if -Briand. Better per cent, of a certainty than divided by 1 per cent, of chaos, ir Jotiah Stamp. a ho havf pla I sia'p Mill the Ai da n- d-' diver- tiier are Anna I rT-'Tiri'-d a Ihe purpu-it ha rrn I on April i. 1.h. when it was produced by Sir Gerald du Mauner.

Thp Gate Theatre re-opens on September with a programme Grand Guignot plav which will imSude "Max HenMg." bv M--srv Algernon Blackwood and Km- IVde. with two scenes, one in a Virk prison and the other tn a 'uaken-v "The Adnura Reerets," a tern-1 'n a sunken submarine, by Mr. H. B. The End of the Trail." by Mr.

Ernest Howard Cuthhertson; and Mr. it Sevens' one-act farce, Out of rmlT." has been given in several uf the Gret Etoom Rags. G. W. B.

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