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8 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27 1931 ROAD AND RAIL CO-OPERATION NEW BBC STUDIO FOR TELEVISION NEW PLAY ROYALTY (Ger 7331-2) Evgs at 830 MATS THURS and SAT at 230 NORMAN MACDERMOTT presents WITHIN THE GATES By SEAN SAVILLE Temple Bar 4011 EVGS at 815 Mat every Wed Sat 230 LILI DAMITA and GEORGE ROBEY HOW A WALKER-NESBITT PRODUCTION IT IS A GAY LIGHT-HEARTED EXHILARATING Dly Mail WEST-END MANSION MB 0 STANLEY ON NEXT STEP A DISAPPOINTING EFFORT OPERA BALLET COVENT GARDEN ROYAL OPERA INTERNATIONAL OPERA SEASON Begins Monday April 30th Particulars from Box-office Tem Bar 7961 WELLS Roseberv-av 6d-6s If 1121) TO -NIGHT at 8 BALLET (Douanes Gtelte DOUV MARKOVA STANLEY JUDSON Wed 8 the BARBER OF SEVILLE (1st perf) conducted by JOHN BARBIROLLI Thurs 8 MADAM BETTER FLY Fri TOSCA with FLOREN'CE EASTON Sat 230 THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Sat 8 IL TROVATORE WIMBLEDON Lib 1166) At 8 Thu 230 CARTE OPERA CO At 8 THE GONDOLIERS Wed Yeomen of the Guard THEATRES ALDWYCH Tem 6404 (Smoking) 830 MATS WED and SAT 230 SYDNEY HOWARD NIGHT FUN NIEST THING ON THE ENGLISH Dispatch ST Whitehall 3903 NIGHTLY 830 MATS WED SAT 230 GILBERT MILLER presents EDITH EVANS CEDRIC HARDWICKE in THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN IT IS Daily Telekraeh LIMITED UTILITY OF STATE ACTIO ST Sole Lessee A Meyer (Temp 1443) 230 830 Mon Tues Fri 230 THE WIND and THE RAIN CELIA JOHNSON ROBERT HARRIS Directed by AURIOL LEE Margaret Watson and Hugh Wright THE PERFECT THIS ENCHANTING News-Chron THIS CHARMING IDYLLIC COMEDY OF STUDENT Post THE MOST PLEASANT EVENING I HAVE SPENT IN THE THEATRE FOR SOME Daily Mirror ALHAMBRA Leic-sq (Whitehall 2525) Every Evening (except Mondays) at 815 Mats Wednesdays Thursdays Saturdays at 230 JULIUS CESAR GODFREY TEAELE BASTL GILL FRANKLIN DYALL AS MORALITY A CABARET DEATH MYSTERY APOLLO Gerrard 2663 NIGHTLY 8 30 MATS WED SAT 230 CHARLES COCHRAN presents ELISABETH BERGNER STRAND Temple Bar 2660 (Smoking) NIGHTLY 830 MATS THURS SAT 230 LESLIE HENSON in NICE GOINGS ON ZELMA ROBERTSON HARE FUNNIEST MUSICAL SHOW FOR Obser BY OCR RADIO CORRESPONDENT An Adam drawing-room in a Portland-place mansion has been converted by the BBC to the service of television Where the dignified social drama of past generations Was acted comedy in its most modern guise filled the stage yesterday The Eight Step Sisters the BBC dancing girls were prancing in the flicker! ing light of the television scanning npparatu-when I visited the new studio The nodding plumes that they wore in emulation of circus horses made their antn jn half-light reminiscent of a Rider Haggard witch dance Chalky white cornniexion demanded hy the television producer exaggerated the grotesque effect This is the first studio laid on BBC exclusively for television vacated at Broadcasting House I originally designed for sound only The scanner which outwardly resembles a cinema camera can now he directed at all angles on to the subject of the transmissions Engineers controlling sound and vision sit side by side new and can co-ordinate their effects The walls and ceiling have been covered with acoustic board giving the appearance of masonry and a severely practical effect The construction of this studio is an interesting pointer to future developments It shows that though the BBC lias been experimenting with the projection of film- it has no intention of dropping the studio productions Work on high definition television on the ultra-short waves has been going on for some time and a decision on the future of television was to have been taken at the end of March The expectation now is that the present 30-line transmissions will be continued twice a week after the end of March Mr Eustace Robb the BBC television director told me that he believes films can never replace the studio productions FEEXCK COMPANY AT THE GLOBE in ME By GEORGE BISHOP A new play by Sherriff the author of drew a big and expectant audience last night to the Embassy Theatre Unfortunately it was a disappointing evening for Windfall proved a lame uninspired little effort a poor affair even compared with Mr second play It is a modern morality about the danger of money The chief character is a meek assistant at Putney who wins £80000 in a sweepstake and in order that the ground should not slip from under his feet determines to go on with his job and make no alteration in his method of living He reckons without his friends and relations They all assume not unnaturally that he will leave his poky little house and enjoy his good fortune Finally he is forced against his will to accept their advice THIN AND UNCONVINCING There were some shrewd touches of character but taken as a whole the play is thin and entirely unconvincing Perhaps the least likely incident is the suicide of a hearty brother-in-law when he discovers that he is expected to go on working for his living The producer did not seem to know what to make of the piece It was difficult to understand why the second act should have had a queer fantastic' ending or the reason for presenting the court scene in the dark I doubt however if rnuen could be done with for the chief character is one long picture of misery and most of the spongers are overdrawn Hugh Wright and Margaret Watson did their best with the poor little suburban rich folk and there were clever individual studies from Winifred Oughton Thomas Weguelin Frederick Piper and Aubrey Dexter ESCAPE NEVER By MARGARET KENNEDY Directed by KOMISARJEVSKY TEM BAR 6056 7 Mate Wed A Sat 230 CAMBRIDGE Every Evening at 830 SUCCESS STORY JEANNE DE CASALIS ESME PERCY BEATRIX LEHMANN A forcible play forcibly acted' Dly Telegraph Great stuff Daily Express What a fine actor Mr Percy Morning Post 1000 SEATS BOOKABLE 3s 6d 4s 6d 5s 9d 6s 7s 6d 8s 6d 12s 6d A rn phi theatre! Unreserved 2s (inc tax) VAUDEVILLE Evg830Wed Sat 230 By arrangement with Gatti The National Theatre presents THE ROSE WITHOUT A THORN By Clifford Bax OVER 225 PERFORMANCES LAST WEEK WESTMINSTER Victoria 2s 5d-10s 6d (Vic 0283) Evgs 830 Mats Wed Sat 230 ANMER HALL presents PRIVATE ROOM by Naomi Royde-Smith CHARMING Morning Post FINE ACTING IN CHARMING SCENE CLEVER AND ALTOGETHER Daily Mail WHOLLY DELIGHTFUL A DELIGHTFUL LITTLE Daily Sketch I CAN RECOMMEND THIS CHARMING LITTLE The Star A CHARMING LITTLE PLAY MISS THEA HOLME AND MR ALAN NAPIER ACTED DELIGHTFULLY Sunday Times FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT LEEDS Monday Mr Oliver Stanley (Minister of Transport) speaking at Leeds to-day on road-rail competition said that he be-I lieved that voluntary co-ordination of the two branches would be far more 1 satisfactory than anything forced upon them by the Government If the general community cannot get such a voluntary he added it will not be prepared to put up any longer with a completely unregulated and uneconomic competition such as obtains at present I am certain that some time or other some Minister of Transport will have to deal with the problem in a way which will make my way appear pale and There were two extreme schools of thought as to how the transport problem should be dealt with he said Those who believed in an entire unification of the means of transport and those who believed in completely unfettered competition Personally he was convinced that for a generation at least we should need both rail and road transport IMPARTIAL VIEWPOINT Those who approached the subject from an impartial point of view realised that the general public could not afford to see the destruction of either the road or the railway transport and the final solution must be I reached by other means Those were the i considerations with which he approached the problem of good transport when he was called upon to go to the Ministry of Transport Facility for reasonable agreement was provided in the new Transport Advisory Council which would be fully representative of all forms of transport After speaking of the present chaotic state of the road transport the Minister said We have arrived at the limit of utility of Government interference in this particular problem The next step is up to them the road and railway transport industries themselves I do not believe that any form of co-ordination forced upon them by the Government can ever be as good as the voluntary division of functions by the two parties themselves If ever there is to be a chance of voluntary agreement between these two antagonists it is now We have a right to insist that these two forms of transport shall between them offer to us the citizens of the country the best and most efficient and the cheapest transport which modern science has put at our COLISEUM Charing-X Tem Bar 3161 To-morrow at 8 pm Subs Dly 230 815 Sir Oswald Stoll presents LUDWIG THE GOLDEN TOY A Romantic Play by Carl Ztickmayer COMEDY 830 ThurSat230Whi2578 FIRST EPISODE By Terence Rattigan and Philip Heimann BARBARA HOFFE PATRICK WADDINGTON "SPARKLING PLAY ABOUT UNIVERSITY LIFE WTjTmTrrr SHOULD RUN FOR A The Evening News WHITEHALL (Whl 6692) EvgS 830 Mats: Wed Sat 230 WALTER AFTERWARDS Ger 2157 Evgs 815WS230 RITA JOHN'S New Revue THE HAPPY" YOURS SINCERELY GORDON HARKER MARION LOBNK RONALD SQUIRE Splendid work Morning un smart and Bright music beautiful Post Packed with slick Sketch WYNDH Evgs: 830 SHARP (Tem Bar 3028 Mats WED SAT 230 DUCHESS Catherine-stWC Tem 8243 Evenings 830 Mats Thurs Sat 230 (Smoking) EDMUND GWENN in A NEW COMEDY LABURNUM GROVE By PRIESTLEY Produced by CEDRIC HARDWICKE MELVILLE COOPER MARY JERROLD LESLIE BANKS in CLIVE OF INDIA PLAY OF YOUTL ADVENTURE ROMANCE By Lipsoombe Minney ENTHRALLING DO NOT MISS Daily Mail STIRRING Morning Posh EMBASSY (Pri 2211) 815 Th 230 WINDFALL By SHERRIFF (Author of End TICKETS FOR ALL THEATRES WEAK PLAY AT THE HAMMERSMITH The Theatre Hammersmith does not often present new plays and The Happy which was produced there last night was not a fortunate choice Ralph Stock and Patrick Ludlow set out to give us a modern comedy of Their material is the threadbare tale of an ancient English family about to be turned out of its ancestral home An American millionaire is brought to the house and failing by fair means to persuade him to lend £1000 they hold him prisoner The conclusion holds no surprise for he buys the estate and marries the daughter The absurdity of the plot might have been forgiven had the dialogue been brilliant and both might have passed muster had the play been acted by a first-class farcical company But it was produced and acter as straight comedy and the result was extremely dull Guy Middleton was responsible for most of the laughs and Vera Lennox worked hard fo make her part effective Patrick Ludlow Dodo Watts and Harvey Braban gave fair performances in the other principal parts HAVING TREATMENT FOR SLIMMING The death of a cabaret girl who was undergoing a treatment for slimming was inquired into yesterday by Mr Idris Evans the Paddington Deputy-Coroner The girl was Miss Vivian Bates Philcox 19 and she died on Thursday in a nursing home at Knaresborough-place Kensington The inquest was adjourned until March 15 for an analysis of certain organs The mother Mrs Annie Philcox of the Studio Gunter-grove Chelsea said her daughter was employed in a cabaret at the Tricity Cafe Strand She had been there only three nights and before then was on the stage in Beau She had been putting on weight recently and though it was not very noticeable she was wqrrying about it The Coroner Had she been treated for the plumpness? She was under Dr Justina Wilson of Wimpole-street She had baths massage and one tablet a day as treatment Did it have any effect upon her plumpness? I do not know You did not notice any difference at all? No Continuing Mrs Philcox said that on Monday of last week her daughter perspired very freely and said she felt hot That was the first night of her cabaret employment and she went to the cabaret She was all right the next day and also on the Wednesday morning At five she complained of perspiring and she went to bed WORRY ABOUT JOB She was worrying about not going on with her added Mrs Philcox so we called in Dr Butcher because we could not get Dr Wilson Dr Butcher said she was quite all right She wanted to do her turn and she drove her car home and went to Both Dr Wilson and Dr Butcher saw Miss Philcox at 130 on the Thursday and said she would be all right when she had had a sleep but that they had better get her into a nursing home for forty-eight hours in case of pneumonia Dr Justina Wilson said she first saw Miss Philcox on Feb 2 She complained of greatly increasing weight and that that was interfering with her work Recently she said she had put on seven pounds The Coroner Was she abnormally fat? A little perhaps for her size but it was not abnormal Dr Wilson added that the treatment consisted of steam baths strong massage and radiant heat and dekrysil tablets Of the tablets she gave her one a day From Feb 3 to Feb 9 she had 350 milligrammes each capsule containing 50 milligrammes Miss Philcox lost only fib in weight during the days she had mentioned and she told her that she could increase the dose Between Feb 9 and 17 she had 400 milli- WARNS TRADE UNIONS Dr Wilson added that she saw her again on Feb 17 Her weight had gone up again to 9st By Feb 20 she had lost a few ounces in weight but there were no toxic symptoms She told Miss Philcox not to take too many of the tablets and had better stop altogether for a few days She saw the girl again on Wednesday Feb 21 and in the evening she left her two tablets of omnipan to be given if she did not sleep On Feb 22 Miss Philcox was unconscious and throwing her arms about on the bed Her temperature reached 1014 Latent pneumonia was suspected and it was thought wiser to move her to a nursing home DISCOLORATION OF NECK By A DARLINGTON Don the new play by Andre Obey was brought to the Globe Theatre last night by the Compagnie des Quinze It does not come near in quality to the masterpiece nor will it supersede his Noe in our affections but it has the impress of his original mind and it gives this wonderful band of players another fine opportunity of showing us their beautifully concerted and highly stylised acting The play though its theme is ostensibly the career of Don Juan in Seville is really a morality As if to point the resemblance the stage is set after the manner of mediaeval plays with structures symbolising the houses of the different characters Don Juan seems hardly to exist as an individual He stands for suffering and sinning humanity which makes its way through this temptations as best it may conscious always that death awaits it in the end REALISM AND SYMBOLISM technique here is oddly like Sean in Within the There is the same fusion of poetry and prose of realism and symbolism The Watchman too who wanders in and out to remind Don Juan of the passage of time and the coming of death has almost exactly the same dramatic force as down-and-outs with their terrifying dirge It seems that these two very different and very individual playwrights are both working in the same direction to give the theatre something new The acting as always with this company calls for collective rather than detailed praise These players have always a unity of action which reminds one rather of an orchestra obeying an unseen conductor than of other actors Partly this is due to the fact that even the tones and pitch of the voices have obviously been thought out and carefully arranged beforehand Partly it is due to the brilliant precision of the movements and the groupings Nevertheless three or four individuals demand mention These are Pierre Fresnay attractive and vital as Juan Michel Saint-Denis the producer richly yet subtly humorous as his valet Auguste Boverio as the king and Marie-Helene Daste as Elvire SIR HERBERT AUSTIN RESTRICTIONS Sir Herbert Austin in a broadcast talk from London last night on Modern try and National said that trade unions had done much to improve the conditions of the working class but if they did not adjust their views to modern industrial development they would find a strong swing of the pendulum away from them Youth seems to be realising the bad effect of the restriction on individual he said and is shaking itself free from their shackles The definite revolt against trade unions is in some countries an indication of their failure to adjust their influence to suit modem developments GLOBE (Ger 1592) At 830 sharp YOU want Best Seats VVE have them Mats Thurs Sat 230 (FOR TWO WEEKS ONLY) You can reserve the best seats any part of a London Theatre or Attraction at any Keith Prowse Branch (See Telephone Directory) These seats are unobtainable elsewhere KEITH PROWSE 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Is 6d 2s 6d 11-45-1 Whi 3711 CINEMA HOUSE Oxford -circ Ger 7149 Alexander Korda's Screen Epic THE PRIVATE LIFE OF nENRY VIII with CHARLES LAUGHTON 35 615 925 Also Bureau of Missing ROAD TRANSPORT WAGES BOARD APPOINTED The constitution of the Joint Board to consider the question of wages and conditions of employees of road haulage firms was announced yesterday An undertaking was given by the Government during the passage of the Road and Rail Traffic Act 1933 that the Minister of Labour would consult with the organisations of employers and employees with a view to the establishment of such a body After ascertaining the views of the and organisations it was agreed that a joint board for England and Wales with an independent chairman should be constituted The following representatives have been nominated by the and organisations to be members of the board and steps are being taken to arrange a meeting at an early date Employers Messrs A Amor Bristow I CBE Currie Dalgleish Edwards France French Hurst Lloyd Nicholl Parkin Rudd Topham Turner Venn Workers Messrs Bevin Bowman Brooks Corrin A Denaro Aid Donovan Donovan Francis Henson Keeling A A Robertson Russeli Tarbit Walker Witcher It is contemplated that the board will deal not only with wages but also with hours and working conditions and other subjects such as the promotion of safety on the roads A SHOW NO ONE SHOULD Teleoravh EVERY SEAT BOOKABLE 2s 3s 6d 4s 9d 5s 9d 8s fid I2s 6d (inc tax) HIPPODROME Ger 3272 Thurs and Sats 2 30 JACK BUCHANAN Eteie Randolph Alfred Drayton Fred Emney Kathleen Gibson William Kendall HIS 830 Wed Sat 230 CHARLES COCHRAN presents YVONNE and NOEL PRINTEMPS in COWARD EMPIRE Leic-sq 2nd GREATER GARBO Week! GARBO in QUEEN CHRISTINA Showing at 1025 1240 35 525 745 1010 3000 seats at Is 6d from 10 till 1 (Sat 10-12) LEICESTER SQ TH Elizabeth Bergner and Doug Fairbanks Jr in CATHERINE THE 5 shows daily 120 215 430 645 9 6s bk 8s 6d 1750 seats Is 6d BEETHOVEN CYCLE BEGUN Adolf Busch and his friends (Andreasson Doktor and Hermann Busch) began last night at Wigmore Hall their series of performances of all string quartets The exordium of this first programme was unconventional it consisted not of Op 18 No 1 but of the great fiat fugue a work-which after being neglected for generations has to-day come into its own through the sheer force of its forbidding nature Then the early major and the second Rasoumovsky quartets were played The Busch Quartet has earned many admirers in London by the earnestness and solidity of its playing and to these there will be additions if the team maintains the accomplishment shown last night when the weightiness of the style was incessantly animated and purposeful The minor was the finest experience of the evening It was a performance remarkable for sustained depth and tension throughout the great Adagio for immensely powerful playing of the scherzo so powerful that if it had not been so securely controlled it must have been rough and finally for an extraordinary demonstration of the ensemble in the fierce rush of the coda of the finale a daring performance MARBLE ARCH PAV Mayfair 5112 VICTORIA HOPPER BRIAN AHERNE in THE CONSTANT NYMPH (A): 1230 320 615 915 Also Will Rogers Zasu Pitts in MR SKITCH (U): 2 5 8 NEW GALLERY Regent 2255 Premiere of LILIAN HARVEY in 1 AM SUZANNE (U) with 325 620 925 Also Mary Brian Shadows of Sing Sing (A) GB Mag' News NEW VICTORIA Vic 2544 2000 sts ls 12-1) Wallace Beery George Raft in BOWERY (A): 12 310 620 935 Also Victor Jory in nioki (U Bobby Howell his Band LADY ANNE HUNLOKE ROBBED CONVERSATION PIECE A Rmuttic Comedy with Music by NOEL COWARD Seats at ordinary West-end Prices now on sale at all Libraries and Box Office Whi 6606) KINGS WAY Hol4032 815WedFri230 IAURA COWIE in THE QUEEN WHO KEPT HER HEAD By Winifred Carter 10b 61 fid 5s 3s 6d 2s 6d Is fid (inc tax) LITTLE 830 WS230 Irish Players in PAUL Thurs next 830 JUNO AND THF PAYCOCK LYCEUM Pantomime (LAST WEEKS) TWICE DAILY at 2 A 730 QUEEN OF HEARTS Blend of vivid colour and rich Mail Seats Bookable from 2s 4d Temple Bar 3612 LYRIC (Ger 3686) 830 Thu Sat 230 POLYTECHNIC TH Regent-st Lang- ham 1744 -THUNDER OVER A Film of Charm and Purpose Also George Arliss in I Full Prog Daily at 220 520 820 Not continuous REGAL A Barbara Stanwyck I EVER IN' MY HEART 110 40 635 950 Powell THE KENNEL MURDER CASE I Comm 1250 Mat prices up to 5 pm RIALTO Coventry-st Cont 12 till 11 LA RUE SANS the Romance of the Most Wicked Street showing at 1228 246 5-4 723 942 Suns 710 937 Book in advance Gerr 3488 PLAZA Beautiful Anna Neagle in THE A Royal Love Parade Set to to Herbert Marshall in CecO FOUR FRIGHTENED Whi 8944 GILBERT MILLER presents LYNN FONTANNE ALFRED LUNT in REUNION IN VIENNA By ROBERT SHERWOOD GREATEST PAIR OF STAGE PLAYERS NOW LIVING" SL'RREY JEWEL THEFT 1 Indus-I Youth wants to know more about fundamentals it is more inquisitive That I think is the great characteristic of the young workers to-day and for this reason they are looking towards Fascism Nazism and even Communism for Sir Herbert remarked that modem amenities had restricted somewhat the urge to strike out in new lines The spirit of adventure is not so strong as it he said and youth generally would rather put up with conditions it knows than venture into the unknown to make its own way In spite of this however I believe the British worker to be equal to any in the JUNO THE REVIVAL Tame? Agate in the Sunday Times From Our Own Correspondent ADDLESTONE (Surrey) Monday Jewellery and other articles valued at about £4000 were stolen from Walton Leigh Addlestone Surrey the home of Mr Henry Hunloke and Lady Anne Hunloke while they were at dinner They had only recently arrived from their town house in Montagu-square having taken the house for six months The burglars entered through an upstairs window by tying two ladders together They left without anyone suspecting their presence and the robbery was not discovered until a maid found Lady bedroom in confusion Mr Hunloke is the son of Major Sir Philip Hunloke Groom-in-Waiting to the King and Master of the yacht Britannia Lady Anne Hunloke is a daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and before her marriage in 1929 was Lady Anne Cavendish The Duchess of Devonshire is Mistress of Robes to the Queen STOLL Kingsway Com at 1150 am NEW (Tem 3878) Evgs at 815 sharp AffWFW0 MICKEY MOUSE in ala (U) No seat over Is 6d up to 130 except boxes LAST 4 WEEKS LAST 4 WEEKS and Sat at 230 Mats Thurs We Grandpas may be old but we are still active physically and mentally We find Benger's Food fully nourishing and very delicious We can workwell think well and sleep well on THE CURZON Curzon-street Premiere of world-famous masterpiece SYMPHONY Music by FRANZ SCHUBERT A Rabinovitch-Press-j burger production From March 6th Box-office now open Grosvenor 4100 Seats 2s 6d to 8s 6d (Opening i night 15s) JOHN GIELGUD and GWEN FFR ANGCON-DA VI ES RICHARD OF BORDEAUX By Gordon Daviot LONGEST RUN After Miss death at the nursing home vyitness and Dr Butcher found a slight discoloration about the neck In reply to the coroner Dr Wilson said that as the cause of death could not be ascertained it was decided to have a postmortem examination in St Hospital that the usual practice? the coroner asked I do not replied the doctor The Coroner Should you not have communicated with us? I did not know that We wanted to satisfy ourselves as to the cause of death The Coroner Well that is not the usual procedure Dr Newcombe who conducted a post-mortem examination said Miss Philcox was decidedly on the fat side for a girl of her age She had a curious rather dusty hue about her face Her trachea and bronchi were full of blood-stained frothy fluid The terminal cause of death was really internal drowning from that fluid He thought the cause of death was asphyxia from oedema of the lungs following intense oedema and congestion of the brain which was due to some toxaemia There was no pneumonia He could not say what gave rise to the toxaemia and with a microscopical examination he failed to find anything narcotic He thought he could rather exclude narcotic poisoning He had preserved certain organs and handed them to Dr Roche Lynch for further examination The inquiry was adjourned for this examination to take place Gordon Oboe Concerto A new concerto for oboe and strings by Gordon Jacob had its first performance last night in the Chamber concert given at the Ballet Club Theatre Nothing Hill It is an attractive and ingenious piece of work in the course of which light and pleasing scenes are treated with deft and gracious touches In the solo part which was admirably performed by Miss Bothwell there is no display of mere virtuosity and some of the most charming effects are obtained by the contrasting colours of solo instrument and' orchestra Three other compositions were also given a first a Prelude and Fugue by Miss Gow a Quintet by John Locke and a work for chamber orchestra by Christian Darnton Naima Wifstrand Although described as a diseuse Naima Wifstrand rarely fell back on a speaking tone for her intimate performances of a number of unfamiliar character songs at Eolian Hall last night Her skill in managing a slender voice was as engaging as her use of gesture which was used so sparingly and with so nice a sense of fitness that it never distracted attention from the musical as opposed to the dramatic shape of the song Miss Wifstrand in fact excels in a difficult art Gerald Moore was a first-rate accompanist TIVOLI Tem Bar 562o Doors 1145 2-11 1000 sts 1 6 (12-1) Premiere of JACK HI LBERT in JACK (U) with Nancy 120 43 659 9 55 The Crosby (A) I TAIRE (Georgo THE AFFAIRS OF VOL- Arliss) at 325 635 945 Also MR OLD VIC (Hop 3424) 6d-5s 6d inc Evgs (ex Tues) at 8 Mats Wed Sat 230 IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST SEAN TWO PLAYS Porvard fiQO MIDNIGHT CLUB (Clive Brook George Raft ueriara 0004 Alison Skipworth) at 155 55 and 815 SAT 2 JO Write for the Food Booklet containing dainty recipes for nourishing light dishes that give digestive rest Post free from Benger's Food Ltd Otter Works Manchester PALACE NIGHTLY 830 MATS WED LAST WEEKS! GAY DIVORCE THIS GREAT SUCCESS MUST END OWING TO FRED ASTAIRE RETURNING TO HOLLYWOOD VARIETY ENTERTAINMENTS GARRICK The Old-Time Music Hall IS GREAT STAR ACTS Twice Nightly 630 and 9 pm Tem 8713 HOLBORX EMPIRE HOLBORX 5367 Twice nightly 630 9 Jack Jackson Band: Vic Oliver Freddie Forbes: Rose Perfect: Wright Marion Flying Rockets: Billy Danvers: Man Tbit: 3 Emeralds By Our Theatre Correspondent On Thursday the Irish Players will present at the Little Theatre a revival of Sean play Juno and the Pay Their present production is to be withdrawn on Wednesday night This means that there will be two of Mr plays running in London the other being Within the Gates at the Royalty £2000 JEWELS MISSING The LNER police are investigating the loss of a crocodile leather handbag containing diamonds and jewellery worth £2000 which has been missing since the ss Malines docked at Harwich in the early hours of last Tuesday The jewellery was being brought to England by Mine Assystent the wife of an Antwerp diamond merchant who was travelling with her sister an Englishwoman When the Malines reached Harwich Mme Assystent sent her luggage from the boat to the Customs When she opened her bags for the Customs inspection she discovered that her hand-bag containing the jewellery and £56 10s in notes was missing PICCADILLY Evgs 830 Ger 4506 Matinees WED and SAT at 230 BARRY JACKSON presents THE MOST IMPORTANT OF News A SLEEPING CLERGYMAN Br JAMES BRIDIE 1 200th Perf To-night) ROBERTS FORDRED ROBERT DONAT Evelvn Roberts Pamela Carme Bruce Relfrage PALLADIUM Gerr 7373 6309 Mats Wed Th- 230 Enormous succese Never such laugrhs before Flanagan Aden Co excerpts fr Give Me A (Iasi week' Bob Murphy: Dick Dorothy Mae Wynn 4: Sibyl Boy an: Tex McLeod: 3 Bredwins PRINCESS AND A FILM NON-STOP ENTERTAINMENTS LONDON PAVILION 215-1115 Is3d-5s GREATEST VARIETY SHOW PRINCE OF WALES 2-1130 1s7-5s Bkble Ss 6d inc ENTIRELY NEW VERSION OF SOURIRE DE PARIS from Casino de Paris FRED Dl'PREZ FRED SYLVESTER Coy New Sketches VICTORIA PALACE Nightly 630 9 The most sensauoml Variety Bill ever presented CICELY COURTNEIDGE and Company of 80 and 14 other Big star Acts 1- to 5- inc Tax No booking charge Vic 5282 PLAYHOUSE Lessee LEON LION (Whi 7774) 840 Mat To-morrow Sat 240 THE BIG HOUSE (Four Scenes in its life) By LENNOX ROBINSON With NICHOLAS HANNEN GERTRUDE HOLIDAY IN SPAIN Miss Gertrude Lawrence the actress is leaving at the end of the week for a holiday in Spam It is expected that her daughter Miss Pamela Howley who is in a London nursing home recovering from an operation for appendicitis will be well enough to sail with her WINDMILL Picc-circ 3rd YEAR REVUDEVILLE NO 40 (2nd week) Cont 130-1130 Last performance starts 930 nightly WINTER SPORTS NUMBER ART EXHIBITIONS RTHUR BRISCOE SHIPS and SEA PICTURES MEMORIAL EXHIBITION of WATER -COLOURS by SUTTON PALMER PAINTINGS bv RUTH DOGGETT FINE ART SOCIETY 14S New Bond-street FINE PLAY Deeply Express Simple beautiful as righ' as could Morning Post ENTERTAINMENT A DRAMA WITH BRUNS AND A Mirror Hit '-morrow 246 PRINCES Tem 3633 Thur Mar at 8 First Mat Mar 10 at 230 Pop Prices Is to 5s PHYLLIS NEILSOX-TERRY in DRURY SWEET NELL OF OLD Do GROCERS sell your Goods Then you must be represented at the EXHIBITION NATIONAL SOCIETY of PAINTERS SCULPTORS ENGRAVERS POTTERS ROYAL INSTITUTE GALLERIES 195 Piccadilly 5th Annua! Exhibition 10-5 Is PORCELAIN THROUGH THE AGES LOAN EXHIBITION 25 Park-lan In aid of the i Royal Northern Hospital Daily 11-7 including Sundays Admission 5s EXHIBITIONS BRITISH INDUSTRIES Final Week Admission Trade Buyers Season Badge 2s Public 2s Hours Olympia and White City London Trade Buyers 930-730: Public 430-730 daily Fri' I all dav (Fashion Parades daily: Birmingham 10-6 Printers and stationers home or export are invited to visit the EXHIBITION of PRINT STATIONERY and WINDOW DISPLAY at 184 Strand London WC 2 Open to-day 9 to 8 nm and daily (Sunday excepted to March 3 CASTELL BROTHERS Ltd Makers or Prn Stationery MADAME EXHIBITION 1 Baker-rt Stn Dly Sunds 10-10 Adm Is 6d (after 8 pm Is) me tax Child under 12 6d Late- Portrait Model 4E- WEST RASPUTIN CASE TO HEARD TO-DAY Tire action by Princess Irina Alexan-drovna of Russia wife of Prince Yousoupoff of Boulogne-sur-Seine Paris against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Ltd is in the special jury list in Mr Justice cqurt to-day Her complaint relates to the film Ras- I putin the Mad the princess alleging that one of the characters Princess Natasha was portrayed in such a manner that it could be taken for her She asks for an injunction The defendants say Natasha was a fictional character Among the counsel in the case are Sir Patrick Hastings KC for the princess and Sir William Jowitt KC for the film I company MISS MARIE TEMPEST Following the slight indisposition from! which she has been suffering Miss Marie Tempest appeared last night in The Old Folks At at the Theatre She will now continue to appear in her part VARIETY SHOWS The potted version of Me a with Flanagan and Allen in their original parts was so popular last week at the Palladium that it is being retained in the bill Last programme also included Sibyl Bowan in her remarkable series of film star impressions that delightful comedian Bob Murphy writh Dick and Dorothy and Tex McLeod the yarning rope-spinner At the London Pavilion there is a good all-round bill which includes a dancing act by Lilliputians the Singing Newsboys two young men with excellent voices who were discovered in the streets of Glasgow the amazing acrobatic turn by the Carlo Medini Six and Howard Rogers the genial and popular padre 1 understand that Florence Desmond the well-known impressionist who has just returned from a successful visit to America will make her reappearance at the Victoria Palace next Monday Ci Shaftesbury-av Gerrard 4517 Evgs 840 Weds and Sats at 230 MARIE TEMPEST in THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME By HARWOOD I HAVE NOT SEEN MISS TEMPEST IN A BETTER Ev Standard TEMPEST SUPERB BRILLIANT Daily Telegraph ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION of BRITISH ART Tuesdays and Thursdays 930 am to 100 pm: other week-days 930 am to 70 pm Admissioi Is 6L except Fridays 2s 6d ROYAL SOCIETY of PAINTER ETCHERS ENGRAVERS 5a Pall-mall East SW Etcunss Drypomts Woodcuts 52nd ANNUAL EXHIBITION Daily 10 5 WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS BY SUTTON PALMER VICAkS BROTHERS 12 OLD BOND-STREET 1 LAST WEEK THOS AGNEW SONS LTD 43 Old Bond-street and 3 Albemarle-street ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF WATFR-COLOUR DRAWINGS Now oi--il Belle Vue Manchester Organised by the Northern Council of Grocers' Associations and the Manchester Salford and District Association THE GREATEST FOOD EXHIBITION in the PROVINCES Seven-eighths of available stand accommodation already reserved by leading firms including most of the best-known names in the trade a few good spaces still available Send for full particulars and list of exhibitors to BURNS Hon FGI Manager 393 Corn Exchange Fennel Street Manchester 4 RESTAURANTS CABARETS GROSVENOR HOUSE GROSVENOR GAIETJESSOSHAN ROSARITO BRUCE ROGER and the GirL Entirely Dew shows at 10 pm and 12 nightly Sunday at 10 pm 6363 A FIXE COMEDY MARIE TRIE Morning Post.