National Theatre movement gains cross party backing
A parliamentary committee endorses a long cherished National Theatre project. Sir Israel Keighley recalls 1904 origins and the Shakespeare Memorial link. Fundraising and wartime delays are noted, with hopes the plan will unite diverse cultural interests and reinforce drama as national art.
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Bern
National Theatre
Selene
Bircrave
Theron
Israel
Badger
Strafford-on- Avon
Shakespeare
Laman
London
Twan
League
Scarborough
Shakespeare Memorial Committee
Career of Somerset Mangham in The Land of Promise
The career of Somerset Mangham, famed Pritish playwright, star of The Land of Promise at the Comedy Theatre Milbourne, is described as meteoric. He left medicine after a successful early work and turned to playwriting, producing twenty five successes and four plays running in London simultaneously.
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Somerset Mangham
Leon Aborndon
Comedy Theatre
Milbourne
Ebay
Ber Torel
Jin
Tau
Ethel Irving
Hey
London
Pantomime Record at Leeds Sees Cast for Love Ties
Pantomime at Leeds last year set a record by running for many months. Mina Hetty Filey arrives in Australia to play Valerie St. Chir in White and Edaley's new Tandon musical. Love Tiles features Cinders with a noted voice and charm. Clem Powe stars as leading comic in Love Ties with Rita McLean Bathy Gordon and Peter Lane joining from London. Dan Agar also in comedy role.
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Leeds
Mina Hetty Filey
Astralia
Valerie St. Chir
Edaley
Love Tiles
Cinders
Leeda
Clem Powe
Freom
London
Rita Mclean
Bathy Cordon
Peter Lane
Dan Agar
Paris Street Discipline Enforced at Underground Stations
The Paris prefect of police orders Parisians and visitors to maintain tidiness in the city. At all underground stations and on tram lines empty or discarded items must be picked up when reminded by a police agent. A recent incident involved a man who threw a ticket and a match-box onto the pavement.
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Paria
Altramcara
Rue de la Pale
Anethin
Fale
Eholl
Australian actress Mary Macgregor offered a U S television role
Mary Macgregor, a Melbourne stage actress, received an offer to appear in a new Vennie AQP program in London but remains under contract with J Wile Tamyon Ltd. She prefers staying in Australia for now, saying she is very happy where she is and has no good engagements in England at present. She has expressed a wish to travel abroad someday to see the world.
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Mary Macgregor
Leon Garden
Conds
Melbirne
Miss Macgregor
Wile Tamyon, Ltd
Australia
Oscar Asche
John Calsworthy
Skin Clan
Landen
Comedians Escape Shark Fishing Tale at Port Phillip
Comedians Cecil Kelleway Leo Franklyn and J C Williamson group staged a Melbourne Theatre Rogal show turning up amid a shark fishing spree. They say the sharks were not plentiful nor dangerous, yet their powerful motor boat trip yielded several large captures. One encounter nearly tamed the boat’s total, and Cecil Kelleway reports two nights of nightmares after the scare.
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Cecil Kelleway
Leo Franklyn
J. C. Williamson
Did
Melbourne
Rogal
Port Phillip Tay
Orcashima
Jazz Singer at Star Theatre Opens Saturday January 14
AQ Jolson stars in The Jazz Singer at Star Theatre Queanbey with Jolson hits Mammy and Rainbow Around My Shoulder. Cartoon Micky Mouse in While the Cat's Away airs with Fox Movietone shorts. Box plan available at WDL Freebody's opposite Star Phrase.
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Star Theatre
Queanwwo
Baturday
Jolson
Alcan
Micky the Mowse
Fox Movietone
Freebody
Fumes to Combat Germs at Pimlico Humanity House
Medicinal fumes offered at Humanity House Pimlico London to boost immunity reduce infection risk. An inhalation chamber seats 30 people operates 10 minutes per session two or three times weekly with a revolving wheel of air and liquid sprays in the room.
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Humanity House
Pimlico
London
Britith Humane Association
World’s Thinnest Watch Astonishes Readers
A fragmentary feature describes ultra slim watches including a finger worn model and a wristwatch for Sir Ivor Cheat. The piece notes a special Swiss made design in platinum costing around five units, with delicate apertures revealing hour minute and second at a glance.
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Arhur
Ivor
Europe
Switzerland
Moorefield Final Acceptances Revealed For Nan Keen Meet
Twelve contenders named for Moorefield decker races with Maiden Handicap and Moorefield Gold Cup in two divisions. Heavily listed fields include Flying Toy Trena S, Trena S10 Bonaws, Verblage, Noseffigtt, Exagcerration, Maid of King Hunter, and many more across First to Third Divisions plus Carlton Welter and other events at Moorefield NSW.
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Decker
Moorefield
Batuntay
Canali
New South Wales
Mt. That
Dennis Hoy
Cw Jester
Hetty Welarel Atle
Prince's Gold
Womb
Mester
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N.Z
Marien Pride
Golden Tip
Allegresse
Porves
Somite
Tantrum
Boy Scout
Lanodan
Lorna
Ardnamona
Mademulische
Lady Moabrie
Secom Division
Weeterina A
Lebanon A
Dendule
Buckler A
Roman Emperor
Fair Money
Coquelin T
Rowan Berry
Ketch
Gipsy Ruler
Viclona
Lady Bylong
Genien Hetty
Scratchings from Sydney Horse Trials Announced
SCRATCHINGS SYDNEY Thursday announces entries for the Anniversary Handicap race with Fondant among the noted entrants and Blakes and Gay Tattering listed in the field.
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Sydney
Blakes
Fondant
Ape Man Theories Spark Debate On Evolution
Professor Henry Fateh Obhern challenges Darwinian views arguing humans diverged from apes during evolution and that early humans lived in the Gobi. Obhern cites Osborn’s work on mammoths, elephants, and evolutionary study, noting Osborn’s leadership in American science associations.
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Palacontolor
Oman
Gobi
Profesor Osborn
Advancenest of
Beionie
Amerion Museum of Natural
Windborne rust spores threaten crops across regions
Historical note describes rust spores blown by wind from infected fields spreading across wheat crops. Researchers traced origin to airborne spores carried by air currents, with notes on transmission to soil and potential epidemics in future seasons. The text mentions Phineas experiments and gelatin plates used to catch spores.
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Aerd- Phineas
Boris
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