CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 167, 11 April 1932, Page 9

CABLE BREVITIES

Mrs. Helen Wills-Moody, who now has bobbed hair, plans to leave the United States shortly for Europe to enter the French and English tennis tournaments.

Five cotton-spinners in Lancashire, controlling fifteen million spindles and employing 90,000 workers, have decided to curtail production by twenty per cent., as recent price-cuting has brought rates to an unprofitable level.

The Australian Press Association understands that with a view to amalgamation of the Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line and the Shaw Savill and Albion Line, retrenchment has commenced in the former’s London office.

The fate of freak declarations was sealed at a meeting of the Advisory County Cricket Committee, which resolved that if in a three days match there was no play on the first two days, no side may < 'are on its first innings until it has b» ted an hour, states a London message.

AH French theatres, cinemas, music halls, and cabarets, except nationally subsidised theatres, were closed for 24 hours as a protest against the entertainments tax, and authors of plays billed for subsidised houses refused to permit performances, rendering hurried changes necessary. The strike ended at midnight. It is estimated that in Paris alone the Government lost £12,000 revenue in entertainment tax.

British Radio Equipment for Danes. The Danish Government has placed an order in Britain for a new broadcasting station for Kalundborg, which is to be one of the most powerful in Europe, states an Oflicial Wireless message. The equipment will be manufactured in the London factories of Standard Telephones and Cables. Ltd.. and the station will be put into service early next year. It will operate in the 1100 metre wave-band.