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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 31 August 1929, Page 18

Lance Fairfax, the talented young XSew Zealander. who play® the important part of Tlie Red Shadow in “The Desert Song,” coming to New Zealand in September, ha® a most romantic role in this entrancing musical play. Mr Fairfax, to an interviewer, discoursed on sheiks a,s follows: ‘‘Playing a, sheik h)a® taught me that this type of he-man is a universal favourite in women’s hearts. The very young ones (and the oldl ones) like him best of all. Women whom love has passed by, for example, respond to his lure. In him they see the Perfect Knight. The ordinary young man who sits naxt to them in the tram., the casual hail-fellow-well-met chap with whom they come in daily j contact, doesn’t oarrv this aura of romance about him. Women, bless them ! are inveterate hero worshippers. They put the pedestal in 'position for .any sheik of stage or story.”

Paramount Pictures- organisation has purchased half interest in the 'huge Columbia broadcasting chain of radio stations, in America. That deal brings into union the leaders of two amusement companies in their respective spheres. The new co-operative effort, combining radio, screen and stage talent, is an epoch-making combination. It portends the early practical broadcasting of motion pictures bv television, according to the information received by Mr Hicks. Television of motion pictures would do away with the actual projection of film in theatres as entirely new apparatus would be requ.rred to tune in on a central broadcasting station where the master picture would be broadcast to theatres, according to a study of the successful ©xperimeiits already made. The public may expect television in use within three or four wars. Mr Hicks stated. That form of broadcast in"* motion Heture* would apply to talkincr productions "s well. Memorial tablets to about 70 Presbyterians of Oxford University who fell in the war were unveiled! by Lady Haig in St. Columba’s Church. Oxford, in June.