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TO-DAY & TO-MORRÓW ONLY
5,15 and 9.15 pm.
An Intensely Dramatic Story Dealing with the Experience of a Democratic Russian Princess under the Balshevist Regime....
NORMA TALMADGE
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THE NEW MOON"
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Powerful, vivid and terrible in its effects, "The Now Moon" bares much that is sensual and unscrupulous, in Russin's enormities com. mitted under the namo ef Government at the same time halding. attention closely through swift dramatic petion, wonderfully well visualized by producer Jeanph M. Schenck, Norma Talma:lge and a
brilliant taat.
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The power of this Solect Production conion very largely from the vitality of its theme and from the dramatic opportunities afforded by actual nundaten igated in Russia. The structure of the story is good, and its trust ment impressively realistic. When is addetta cast of exceptionally bigh order, the values of The New Moan are many and strong. The performance of "Norma Talmadge shows that she is covetantly improving an artist. She keeps her youth, and besiys while gaining in spiritual charm and in more suhile revelation of mind and Iceling. Pure Corlors as Michael dignifies and elevates avery. moment of his impersonation, as does Marc MaeDermott as "tho interne Lazoff. No lens skillet are the characterizations of cunning Kamencff by Charles Gerard, and brutal Korloff by Stuart Holmaz.
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A sum of £70 was raised at Chefco by the sale of popples on Armistice Day, and this is being sent to Earl Haig's fund.
|| The rather extraordinary death by suicide of a Japanese lady named Azuma-occurred at. 818 Miller Road, Shanghai,The de ceased, it was found on inquiry met her death by swallowing ra poison. The motive which prompt ed suicide is thought to be domestic affairs..
The following are fixtures for. "The Sunday Herald" Charity Cup Competition.
England v. Scotland, December 26th,
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Scotland v. China, February 28th 1925.
China v. England, March.zist: This Competiton will be played on the League system, two points for a win, and one point for a draw. In the event of a tie in points, a play off will take place between the teams concerned.
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The Japanese treasure house at Mito has been burned, and as a result several interesting relics lost. One of these was awar chariot composed of iron plates which is stated to have had a function similar to the moderu tank. When used in battle it was drawn by oxen.
The motor lorry concerned in the death of a Chinese woman in the accident, which took place last the junction of Thursday at Queen's Road West and Fat Hing Street was traced by the police the following day, The man, who is alleged to be the driver of the
"Commenting on the announce-
A clever ruse on the part of a ment, that Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews is to lecture on "Where thief is reported in the "Japan the Dinosaur Laid His Eggs," a Advertiser." which mentions that writes to thea hand safe contalhing Y.,500 was correspondent "Peking Leader:" "It's, all very stolen from the Koizumicho Post well for Professor Andrews to tell Office in Hoil, a week ago, by a us where the Dinosaur laid his person who spilt a quantity of! eggs, but will he let us into the sulphuric acid in the office, tory at the time of the accident, brought up. at the Central secret of where the female of the frighten two girls to charge of the was remanded when he was iffe work. When stationery and species laid hers?"
Magistracy on Saturday and desk began to burn he shouted to
charged with manslaughter. the girls to get water. He took the safe and disappeared while the. frightened girls rushed to the back part of the building for water:
Marshal, Chi Hsieh-yuan.and Mr. Han Kuo-chun, the 1WO Governors of Kiangsu, are report- ed to have Issued a statement to the effect that they are supporting Marshal Tuan Chi-jui. They state the only method of salvation for China is to bring the different provinces under one central head and they suggest Marshal Tuan as the Chief Executive.
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The four Russians, Messrs. N. A. Diskoff, V. I. Diakoff, S. A Isaeff and V. R. Karpushko who reached Tientsin last month to complete preparations for their circumnavigation of the globe, are now ready to sail. The small schooner in which they will make the trip has been built by them in Tientsin and bears the name Their first "Rour'd-the-World."
Yesterday being St. Andrew's: Day, the annual Church Parade of the Scottish Section, Hongkong Mr. W. P. Ker CMC., British Volunteer," Defence Corps, took Consul General, laid the founda-place at the Union Church. About tion stone, last Wednesday, of the 70 members of the Company, head- new Chartered Bank building ined by the pipe band and under the command of Lieut. J. B. Ross, Terisin, which is to be erected on the old site in Victoria Road marched from Volunteer Head- Referring to the important nature quarters, to the Church, where "Ascetic" writes in St. John's of the occasion he said:"Occur the minister, the "Rev. J. Kirk Cathedral Church Notes, rink as it does at a period of grave Maconachie, conducted the service. was very much struck in the commercial depression, when the The officers and committee of the 'admirable lecture
Early immediate outlook seems excep. St. Andrew's Society were among
a full attendance. Buddhism by the Reverend J. A. tionally gloomy, this event should Romanis Lee at his references to serve to remind us that we must. the way in which the great men of look forward to a brighter future the East influenced their followers beyond the present darkness, and by various acts of asceticism. that we can so look forward with Buddha is reputed at one time to a confidence based on experience have eaten a thousand grains of of the past." rice a day and in the course of a few years' fasting he cut this According to a Japan paper, the amount down to one grain per Great Earthquake of September diem. Gandhi likewise fasts 1923 appears to have done some to impress, and influence his good. For several months past the followers and to *make them coal has drifted ashore on realise his own earnestness Boshu-coast, at the entrance to and resolve. May I suggest, Sir, Tokyo Bay, but for some time that the members of the ChurcJittle attention was paid to it, as it ⚫undertake a sort of public fast so was thought that is, some way it from steamers. Of long as there is debt on St. John's had come Cathedral? It is perhaps unlikely late, however, coal, deposits have that their main diet is rice, but if been found among the shoals off they reduced their allowance of the coast, where the sea-bed was food by a quarter of an ounce a raised by the earthquake. Some day, I feel certain that the public prospecting has been done and borings have shown that the interest and sympathy would soon be aroused and the debt of $9,000 deposits are of anthracite, or would speedily be cleared. I am smokeless coal, and belong to an aware that such methods are not extensive field. usually adopted by westerners, but we live in the East and we may learn something from our neighbours."
port of call will be Chefoo where they intend to give several leclures, thence to Shanghai" and further on according to their illner- ary. The trip round the world is ex-! pected by them to be completed] in three years. The trip has been arranged by the Harbin Sportmen's Society and the Y.M.C.A. there of which organization the four travel. lers are, active members. The party is well supplied with
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Sir Malcolm Watson and Lady. Dr. and Mrs. Neville Bradley Watson returned to Malaya from left yesterday by the "Mingsang" London by the P. and O. "Khiva." for Haiphong, en route to Yun
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The, hon'ble Mr. J. Strachan, Director of Public Works,, Ceylon. is going on leave to England about the end of this month.
The death has taken place of Mrs. Frank Capper, wife of the original proprietor and editor of the Times of Ceylon."
The Hon. Mr. D. A. M. Brown and Mrs. Brown" are leaving Penang for Home by the Blue Funnel liner Patroclus early next
year.
The "Strails-Echo" understands that Mr. D. Beatty, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, has been repre» senting Malaya at Opium Conference.
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Passengers leaving For Home per s.s.Karmala" on Saturday included Mr. T. G. Bennett, Mr. F. B. Pfordion, Mr. A. H. Barlow, Mr. W. I Hughes, Major G. de Herier Smith, Lleut. Blood, R.N, and Captain T. H. Webber.
Passengers arriving by S.S. "Khiva" from Europe yesterday included Mr. C. R. S. Johnson, Mr. Lee Warner, Mrs J. Bannister, Mr. B. A. Oswick, Captain, and Mrs, Bacon, Commdr. J. Wootton, Lieut. Commdr. and Mrs. Bailward, Pay Commdr. Bell, and Pay Lieut.
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Mr. Charles Dimond Conway Braine has been appointed to be an Assistant Engineer, Public Works! Department, F.M.S. He reported his arrival and assumed duly on October 11.
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The engagement is announced of Mr. G. E. Mann, of the Depart ment of Agriculture, F.M.S. and S.S, and Miss Edith Leadley Earnshaw, daughter of Mrs. W. Earnshaw, Wakefield, Yorks, and the late Mr. W. Eamshaw.
The Siamese Minister of Com- The death of Mr. E. Chong Eng, merce, Prince Chandaburi, con- of Chop Eng Thye, Main-st.cluded his mission on Oct. 22, Klang, at the age of 62, took place and left for Paris. The Siamese on November 14, at his residence Minister, with the personnel of the at Simpang Lima, Klang.
Legation, and several English deceased was one of the oldest friends, were at Victoria Station to and most respected residents of lake leave of the Prince. Klang, and leaves a widow, a son, and a daughter (Mrs. Fam Foh Yeow), to mourn his loss.
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The vacancy for a captain in the Royal Sussex Regiment the Ist Battalion of which is at Ebrington
The death of Mr. George Brink-Barracks, Derry, and the 2nd worth took place in England on Battalion at Singapore-has been November 23. Mr. Brinkworth was filled by the promotion of Lieu well known to older residents in tenant John L. Mason, who latterly Shanghai, Yokohama and Singa has been serving with the 2nd He went to Shanghai in Battalion in the East. Captain the service of Messrs. Kelly and Mason was commissioned in the Walsh, Ltd. in the early eighties, regiment in April, 1915-after over Mr. Hoefeld, partner in and was held in high esteem a year with a mobilised Militia battalion-ad held the acting rank Messrs. Lean and Co., Penang, amongst his friends.. He spent who went home very ill with sprue, many years in Yokohama and of captain in the last stages of the was able to leave hospital in the Singapore, and returned to Shang- middle of October. He is now hai in 1908 as a director of Kelly on the Western front, was awarded recuperating at St. Leonard's on- & Walsh, Ltd., and left to take the Military Cross for conspicuous Sea and is making good progress, charge of their London office in courage, and as well received the
1914-15 star and other medals. says the "Strafts Echo."
Mrs. Flora Drummond, usually
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Reuter announces the death at known as the "General," one of The "Yellow Dragon" an- Brussels, of the composer Gia the best known leaders of the Dounces that Mr. Woo Hay-tong ( coma, Puccini, who was born-lo women's suffrage movement in the has generously presented two sets 1858 at Lucca, of a family already old days, was married at Maryle of scholarships to Queen's College, distinguished in music; bone registry office on Saturday, for translations into Chinese from great-great grandfather Giacoma, Out of great-grandfather Antonio, grand- October 18, to her cousin, Mr. Adam English and vice-versa.
and father Simpson, a mechancial engineer. the $200 provided annually will be father: Domenico,
awarded three prizes of $50, $30, Michéle, being 'all well known 'in Captain Aubery Lambert, "who and $20 respectively fortranslation the art. He was educated at the has taken over the post of Captain from English to Chinese and the Milan Conservatoire, and in 1884 of the Dockyard and King's same for translation from Chinese his opera Le Villi was performed Harbour-master at Malta, was to to English, Mr. Woo writes at the Teatro del Verme. In 1889 command of tha Devonport Those scholarships will be given his Edgar was performed at La Torpedo School ship 'Defiance" in perpetuity once a year, to be Scals, and in 1893 his Manon down to July fast. Prior to this he called after the name of my father, Lescaut la Turla. But fi was the commanded the "Cairo" on the, the late Mr. Woo Lai woon, who production of La Bohema -la- Chioa Starion, but had been was among the firs: bunch of the Turin in 1896 that made him succeeded by Captain Hagh Queen's College (then the Govern famous, and this opera had a Carrey before that vessel became ment Central School) graduates, great success everywhere. Tosca escorting cruiser to the "Renown" and whore name, If I remember followed in 1900, and four years during the Prince of Wales's visit correctly appeared on the first later Madame Butterfly confirmed the highest opinious of his talent.** to the Far East.
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