THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1927. SOCCER’S AMAZING PROGRESS. lii very few clays we shall have started the football season; that say, the Association season, for Rugby players start somewhat later. From thence until the first Saturday in May next, if the world is still in existence then

ised in jewel robberies, and one of his most sensational exploits of recent months was a raid on a shop in the Avenue de I’Opera, when booty to the amount £lO.OOO was secured, spite the tact that the most modern anti-burglar had been fitted on the premises. He is wanted for kill

ACCUSED'S KNOWLEDGE OF LAW. Ernest James Burbidge, twenty-six, a labourer, of no fixed abode, and James Barber, nineteen, a coal carman, of Quinn’sbuildiugs, Bethnal Green, were charged with being concerned burglariously breaking and entering High-road, Ilford, with intent to co

I hear for the first time of a dance band contest as part of the current programme at an English cinema, and tbo idea is to be credited to Mr. M. K. Lansmere, manager of the Putney Hippodrome. Here, during next week, ho will run a competition for which sixteen bands have entered

There is no doubt that Charmaine,” the beautiful waltz ballad, rapidly the country. Florence Smithson at the Coliseum is making a great suew*th this number. Toots Pounds at Hackney is encored at every performance for her delightful rendering Charraaiiie.’' Philis Conley, in Torn

WANTED, really Oroh. Pianist, experienced in hifh-claM music, to start Monday next. Salary £6. Audition Thursday 11 a.m.. Queen s Hall Cinema. Oricklewood. N.W.. or apply to Mus. Dir. WANTED to open Monday. Sept. 12. experienced Relief Pianiste. for popular family picture house.

C. E. Lawrence, whose play. The Year,” has received the distinction of being played for a second week the ** Q Theatre, is the friend, guide, comforter and confidant of hundreds Savages. He tha socrota«-y of the famous club in tho Adnlnlii, and epitomises all that it stands for

GRAND OPERA HOUSE. Mr. Fred. W. Warden; R.M., Mr. James M. McCann; Mus.D;, Mr. S, P. Swanton. —Tho attraction here is Miss Pauline Frederick and company in Madame X.” ROYAL HIPPODROME Mr. George Dobler; Mue.D., Mr. J. Fowler. —Bert Loin presents ths super-revue, Birt'hdays. incl