The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-18
DAILY NEWS LETTER
By DAVID Nj. CHURCH, International News Service Staff
 EnrPaS1nnndar,t


 London, Oct. Li-Only tenors can make love, and that's why Chaliapin, the famous Russian bass, wants to be a tenor.
 Shaliapin confessed in an interview that his greatest disappointment in life has been that his million dollar voice is pitched so low that he never gets a chance to play the part of gay Lothario. but is always cast for the heavy villain.
 The Russian singer sails for the U. S. OF October 25 and will garner more shekels there per warble than ever Caruso did, according to information in musical circles here.
 II have just been through the German Black Forest" said Chalia- pin. 'In the twilight there I used to hear the zither, the guitar and the sound of peasants voices singing love songs to their sweethearts. Alas! that I am not tenor!
 People should run to catch their trains, not walk" says Professor A. B. Hill of Cambridge. "A speed of cient walking speed Above that speed, Up to six miles an hour it is much easier to run than to walk.
 of course, if a man has plenty of time to get to the station for his train it is easier to stroll along at three miles an hour.
 If he must hurry-and most peo- pie do that when they have a train to CdIOil-Cfleil IL IS HlIlCIl SdSASI edIIO le1L more efficient to run.
 Experiments show that a man run ming at a speed of five or six miles an hour requires much less oxygen than a man walking at the same speed. tfAs oxygen Is needed to restore the exhausted muscles to their full power again it is obvious that running with in these limits is easier than walk ing"
 Dorothy Dickson, American actress, has scored in London once again. Af- ter her success in the title role in Sally, this American actress has succeeded in finding new fame for herself in '"The Cabaret Girl" a re- written American musical comedy.
 "Phi-Phi," which failed miserably Frances White headed the cast. is a great success in London. Clifton Webb, whose fame as a dancer is known along Broadway. has a leading part.
 American recruits to the English music halls continue to come. Yvette Rugel is one of the latest. and the English have laughed so much at Charles Withers that they won't let him go back to America The Dun can Sisters have also had phenomenal success.
 With Walter Wagner. New York ularize the 'movies'' in London, it seems certain that big American film productions will in the future have better success in London. Two of the larger theatres have been given over to the films and are drawing large crowds.
 The London theatrical season is slow in getting under way. There have been many first nightA but very few successes. In fact, when Fay Compton opened in Secrets" and made a real hit the newspapers thought it of sufficient importance to give it headline position on page one! SibyI Thorndike, who used to barn storm in America, but who is now regarded as one of the leading Eng fish tragediennes, is having consider ablo success with her own production of "The Scandal" Marie Dohr, who didn't have a great deal of success in America, is struggling along with an indifferent piece, '"The Return" American successes which are being produced in London include Jose Col fins in "The Last Waltz" Dorothy Dickson in ''The Cabaret Girl" "The Cat and the Canary and Angel Face" Charles B. Cochran has turn ed to motion pictures and apparently abandoned his plans for bringing Shuttle Along to England.