South African Pictorial - Volume 17 (Jul-Dec 1923)

November 8, 1923. mM ee eo :. . BRIGHTEN one wo +". Mr. and Mrs. Gemmill, Dr. and Mrs. Peirson, Mr. and ‘Mrs. Islip, Major and Miss Henley, Mrs. A. M. J acobs, ‘Mr. and Mrs. Frank Raleigh, Captain von Dam, Major “Fulton, Dr. Max Greenberg, Mrs. Thurlow, Mrs. Broad, “Mrs. Joe Cohen, Mr. and Mrs. Purchas, Sister Ollorenshaw, Mrs. Hocking, Mr. and. Mrs. H. J. Lamb, Mrs. Wentzel — ‘and very many others. After the official opening one passed -under the Della Robba Bambino into the Hospital and paused with a feeling of reverence in the chapel-like entrance-hall with its bronze tablets, its altar-like tables containing the rolls of the brave dead, and its white marble ‘walls and floor. Cool green palms were set in corners and ‘one felt that indeed a monument had been raised ‘‘ To ‘the Glory of God.’’ Tea for the Royal party was served in the Matron’s room, and meantime the public went over the whole Hospital, which received its first. inmates on Thursday. Miss Rogaly was assisted by a bevy of undergraduates in:ushering in the public, and the whole. of. the ‘arrangements were excellent. An Interesting Engagement. The engagement is announced of Sophie, only child of ‘Mr. and Mrs. H. Levinkind, of Cape Town, to Monto M. ‘Smollan,. cnly son of Mr. 8. and the late Mrs. Smollan, late of. Vryburg. . Mr. M. M. Smollan is the Branch Manager at ‘Cape Town of the African Theatres, Ltd., and. the Africah Films, Ltd. ++ The Old Nest.”’ Tuesday was a red-letter day at the New Bijou, when a private view was given of that wonderful picture ‘‘ The Old Nest,’’ which is to be shown to the general public on Monday, November 5. Arriving early, I found a very representative crowd assembled, comprising all sections of society, and in the cool airy hall we all certainly spent an instructive afternoon. Among those present I saw Mr. Emile Nathan, M.L.A.,.and Mrs. Nathan; Monsieur Batezat (Vice-Consul for France) and Madame Batezat, in their party being Mrs. Arthur E. Harris and Mrs. Sincox, who has just returned from a holiday trip to England.. Mrs. Frykberg, wife of the Consul for Sweden, was another interested spectator, also Mr. and Mrs. Langley Levy, Mrs. (Councillor) G. W. Nelson, Sister A. C. Love, the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Woolf, Mrs. Waldie Peirson, Madame Pettavel, Canon Ridout, the Rev. — : T. W. Joyce, the Rev. H. P. Rolfe, the Rev. Andrew Brown and the Rev. Mr. Peron. ‘‘ The Old Nest ’’ appeals to old and young alike. It is a Goldwyn picture that cannot fail to touch everyone’s heart, although justwhen the pathos is most pronounced a gleam of humour is inserted and we are all laughing again. To me the picture was the more remarkable for the splendid acting of a large family of kiddies, all of whom were really wonderful. Time. after time, in fact right through the film, orie Jost sight of the fact that it was acting and saw only a very human family in their own home. For Tom is a good boy who always brings home a prize, and Jim.is always in hot water. Frank again, from the minute, breathing hard, he carves his name on the best mahogany table, brings the tears to our eyes as we think of our own babies. And there are six of them who live in the comfortable house. that looks as if it could surely expand to allow of a tew more children. Their father is'a doctor, but it is the mother, played by Mary Alden, who is the central figure, and with her we feel a pang as the children grow up and go out nto the world. We are shown a very wonderful scene at right where two express trains collide on a bridge and one . falls into the river—and Mother loses a son. The scenes — ' joy than any other picture ever made. SOUTH AFRICAN: PICTORIAL. | 21 Home, Sweet Home! | , | aN AND: soesipdanaseies YOUR HOME. WITH. ; : . JACKSON’S ANTISEPTIC WAX POLISH a oa | #2 OLEANSES, If POLISHES, If DISINFEOTS | a @ THOS. S. JACKSON AND SONS, LTD., LONDON, ENGLAND. | TTY Tilt rrr taken at night are a marvellous piece of photography. We see Mary, the eldest girl, in her home in New. York, one of ‘the lovely interiors the Goldwyn folk specialisé in. We see Paris at. carnival time, and through the whole plot Mother sits at home and waits for her chicks who are making their way in the world and are too busy to trouble about her... But they do in the end, of course, and we are told in the last title: “‘ This has. not been much of a picture for plot -or _ action or mystery, but if it should persuade you either to remember your mother piously if-she is dead, or if she lives to send her a long love-letter or even a telegram saying ‘ 1 am well. I think of you and love you’; or, above all, to go home and see her, then this picture would give more real ** But, my friends, don’t make a mistake; it is not a sermon—not at all; it is just a slice out of a very human life. -It leaves behind it the same holy peace as comes to us when hearing classical sees after a long period of blatant. jazz. Don’t miss it, please. . | The Hollowe’en Ball. Somehow a function for the children is always.so satisfying. And when I entered the Town Hall for the Hallowe’en Fancy-Dress Ball given by the Caledonian Society I found a babel of fresh young voiees and all the people out. of the story-books scampering about. But I have come to the end of my space, and so I must wait till next week to tell you about it. | | ‘CARRIE. BEDESR EE SES CEOS HES ROCECAS CECE HS CASEOSCUSHSEN CRRORORURS SE SERVE eSasssesnusEe 4 a The National Bank of South Africa, Limited. 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