TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 52, 13 July 1928, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

A Fascinating Film. HERE are twenty different ways of killing cats, ’tis said, and thrice as many ways of wearing a shawl to advantage, all of them exploited in the pictured play, "The Loves of Carmen," now being staged at the De Luxe Theatre, Wellington, and founded on the lovely apera by Bizet. Against a background of old Spain, with its passion and superstition, its vivacity and violence, the gay, sad story makes an admirable film play; the part of the wanton, lovely gypsy being acted by Dolores del Rio with a daring grace that charms, Of an adorable slimness, lovely and seductive to a degree, she dances her way into the hearts of men/ and without shadow of compunction forsakes the nice young Jose for the coarse and virile bullfighter who has captured her wayward fancy. Provocative to a degree is the dance by which she brings down her quarry; but was it essential for the great Toreador to have such evil "table manners," and that he should consume his victuals with such ogreish appetite? The bull-fight seems a somewhat tame and perfunctory performance, anil hardly up to the standard of the blood-and-sand drama that one imagines; put slender, passionate Carmen captures and holds her audience till the jast scene, when Nemesis finds her, and the dagger of the forsaken Jose ends her careless, laughing life. The subtle, haunting music of the pera is exqnisitely played by the De Imxe Orchestra, and the Habanera and Toreador songs, by artistic vocalists, Aare a charming interlude. : Things Women Say. [eZ is really well worth the extra bit of trouble to keep a hushand.Lady Kitty Vincent. Parents who want their boys to be brought up in old, die-hard traditions should have te pay for it-Mrs. Neville Dixey, M.P. . The only advantage of being a woyan is that you can’t marry oneCountess of Oxford. I igs sometimes very easy to agree with prinelples, but not se easy to agree en their application. -Viscountess Bryce. The modern girl is clever and interesting, and, in a quiet way, knows that life has been good to her and her gen-eration.-Lady Norah Spencer Churchhill, There is more cant talked about raotherhood to-day than any other sub-ject-Mrs, Dora Tayler. I dislike jazz extremely, on the ground that it makes no real contribution to music-Dame Ethel Smyth. Tver since there was a ryote, the men’s yote has swamped the women. In enfranchising women, the Conservative Government has done more in the cause of peace than any other Govern-ment.-Mrs. Stanley Baldwin. Advice fo Wonien. ‘A WOMAN who shingles loses control of her face, ¢iven long hair, a variety of costumes, and imagination, & woman can transtorm herself into a dozen different ¢reatures. She can be demure, or gay, or tragic; but if She loses her hair she is condemned to monotony. For the sake of the artist women should keep their hair on.-Mr. Drummond Young, atthe Professional Photographers’ Exhibition, London, Women Farmers. ‘THERE are now over 20,000 women farmers in England and Wales. The main openings for women in rural occupations are poultry-keeping, rabbityearing, and the breeding ef goats. Formerly rabbits were reared in EngjJand for their flesh alone, but with a decreasing supply of fur from wild animals new breeds of rabbits have been created, and they are now reared Jargely ror the value of their pelts, As much as 35s. a pound is paid for Angora fur, and one Angora rabbit will produce 100% a year. A Balfour Story. SOME years ago when Mr. A. J. Balfour was going through a village near the home at Whittingelame he ‘was accosted by one of the old men of the place, to whom he presented a shilling. The old man leaned confidentially towards Mr. Balfour and whispered, "Man, dae ye ken, what I’m gaun to tell ye?" "No," said the statesman, "Wee," he said, "it’s gaun to rain seventy-twa days." Mr. Balfour smiled, and thinking to have some fun with the old man replied, "That eannot be, for the world was entirely flooded in forty days." "Yes," returned the old fellow, nodding sagely, "but the world wasna sae drained as it is noo."

Paris Shoes. HOES in Paris aye simpler than last season. A single strap, or two, yery little trimming, a slender cut and a straight heel from five to six centimetres high, and there you have the main lines of the fashionable summer shoe for town wear. Beige is the fayourite colour, a rosy beige and a grey beige. In fine kid these beige shoes are being made by all the leading Parisian bootmakers. Grey is now recognised as unpractical, It is difficult to get the right shade to go with the dress, and grey dyes are not good. They turn yellow and mauve and look sickly, whereas beige keeps its colour or takes on a pleasant "patine"’ of light brown. Grey is kept for women who can afford to have shoes to wear 2 few times and then set aside as net to be worn any more,