MONDAY, MAY 9, 1927.
SOVIET POLICY.
CO-OPERATING WITH CAPITALIST COUNTRIES.
IMPORTANT STATEMENT.
WILBUR PLAYERS.
AMERICAN COMPANY AT THE "STAR.”
WELL KNOWN IN FILMS.
Geneva, May 8. The Soviet spokesman, Sokolni- Coming down with a splendid re- If, declared the Soviets were putation from Shanghal, after con- ady to cooperate with capital-queste in America and Hawall, the i countrica. The policy of the Wilbur Players open at the "Star" viets was to encourage produc-Theatre, Kowloon, for eleven nights, tive investments. The task of commencing on May 18. reconstruction was difficult, but
Booking opens at Messrs. Mou- tric's on May 11.
they were assured of success. "Do Foolish Wives Pay?" "The The Soviet delegate M. Ossinski Family Upstairs," "Rain," "Cappy arged the Bolshevist system as Ricks." "Able's Irish Rose," "The the panaces for all the economic girl in the Limousine." "The ills of the, world. He recom- Divorce Question" and "So. Long, mended inter alia, cancellation of Betty", are only a selection of the all war debts, fullest liberty for Wilbur Players' presentations. trade unions, abolition of all
Who's Who, barriers against emigration, ean- cellation of all systems of protectione their hit in motion pictures. The Wilbur Players have all torates and mandates, suspension They are as well known in Los An- of the Powers "intervention" in geles and Hollywood, ne on Broad China in order to allow China to way. New York.
Comprising the company are N. M. Joubaux declared the Soviet Anthony Baker, Richard Wilbur, delegates' speeches showed that Florence Priaty, Florence Under the Soviets and abandoned their hill, Tove Lindan. Earl Hodgins, revolutionary policy; therefore Verna Merkereau, E. Kneeland operation with the Soviets was Parker, Caryl Coleman, Edgar Cart-
· possible.-Reuter,
wright, and others.
Richard Wilbur not only has ap
work out her own evolution.
Vice Presidenta.
the
THE CHINA MAIL.
NORTH'S CAPTURE.
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Severe Fighting.
Peking, May 8. Apparently serious fighting is going on at Chumatien between
"MANNEQUIN."
A WELL WORKED OUT FILM |
DRAMA,
UNIQUE TRIAL SCENE.
LATEST NOVEL.
A PROPELLER-DRIVEN TRAIN.
TO RUN AT NEARLY 200 M.P.H.
the Fengtien and Hankow troops.necessary to sacrifice accuracy electric traffic, the invention of For the sake of effect it la often The new scheme for high-speed
Tang Song-chi is at the front, for human interest in historical Herr Kruckenburg, of the Zep- personally directing the opera-films. For the same reason it is pelin works, is to be investigated tions, Considerable casualties are seldom that court procedure Is by a committee of experts in the reported on both sides.
faithfully followed in a film fea- Ruhr, The Southern plan that Feng turing a "big murder case."
It is, of course, true that the Yu-hsiang should intervene at Hence, in "Mannequin," any proposition has not yet been fully this juncture and threaten the laws that the meticulously mind- worked out, but it is insisted that Fengtien flank would appear to ed could pick in the conduct of the there are no technical difficulties have failed owing to the Fengtien closing trial scene are more than about maintaining Д service interception of a huge quantity balanced by the tense dramatic in- operating at between 200 and 300 of ammunition, which was being, terest centering round the unique kilometres (between 126 and 188 sent up the Han River to Feng position that a well executed plat miles approximately) an hour Yu-hsiang in Western Honian. has worked out as a fitting finale with perfect safety. The econo- Reuter. Hence Feng did not move.--the trial on a capital charge by mic possibilities are to be inves- ja judge, of one who, unknown to tigated forthwith of constructing him, is the daughter he mourned a line from Cologne to Dusseldorf, as lost in early childhood. thence from the borders of the London, May 7. Dolores Costello (as "Manne-Ruhr industrial area to Hanover In the course of a speech at a quin") wins the heart of the and Berlin. dinner in London, the Rt. Hon. audience as well as that of the Allowing for stopping-places Sir Joseph Cook (ex-High Com- young journalist whose articles even at approximately every 50 missioner for Australia) hoped on the punishment of women ar- kilometres the journey that Britain was going to keep a'raigned on murder charges play Cologne to Berlin, just over 500 stern upper lip in regard to China. a considerable part in the prose kilometres (over 300 miles); "Conciliatory and ameliorating, cuting attorney's case. Alice would be completed by this new
Prior to adjourning.
beared in pictures, but he has Economic Conference elected by directed a number of comedies. ncelamation eleven vice-pre- Baby of the Company, sidents, including Sir Arthur N. Anthony Baker has done some Balfour (Britain), Mr. Henry notable work in the films, especially Robinson (America). Mr. Sídachi during the early days of the screen. (Japan), Mr. Ossinski (Soviet). When he finishes his Oriental tour I also elected Herr Collin he intends to write a complete re- (Netherlands), M. Hodae (Cze-sord of his experiences of the cho-Slovakia), M. Franzch Yuge early days with Mary Pickford, Slavia) as chairman of the three Ruth Roland, Bronco Billy Ander-terprise.' main committees on Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, re- spectively.--Reuter.
RIOTS IN BOLIVIA.
POLICE AND TROOPS IN ACTION.
Santing the Chite, May 7 The Chilean Minister for Bolivia reports that there have been seri ,ous disorders at La Paz, the police and troops being compelled to charge demonstrators outside Government buildings, several be Ing wounded.-Reuter's American Service.
Martial Law.
Buenos Aires, May 7. A message from La Paz states that martial law has been proclaim. ed throughout Bolivia owing to the riota of students after a demonstra tion against the Government.~*~ Reuter's American Service.
Wages of Professors.
Later.
The nonyment of salaried Professors of the National Faculty for three months was responsible for yesterday's rioting, resulting in two persons being killed and wounded and the proclamation of martial law.
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Two thousand sympathetic stu- dents demonstrated in front of a newspaper alice reinforcing their arguments for a students' strike with a shower of stones.
Mounted police charged the crowd and arrested and deported five men.
Subsequently
the
Professors
were promised their back pay, Reuter's American Service.
ABOLISHING FORCE.
Britain's Patience.
The K.O.S.B.'s Band.
from
13 our attitude ought to be," he Joyce, Warner Baxter and Walter railway in about 21⁄2 hours. The said, "nevertheless there should Pidgeon also play their parts with highest speed of the present-day be behind it all the force and firm-'conviction.
German express train, is 90 kilo- ncss of British character.
do not see that we
Imetres (about 56 miles) an hour, through unless that British char- can win
The band of the 2nd/K.O.S.B.'s Berlin with an express train but a journey from Cologne to acter asserts itself and maintains plays at the 9.20 performance. takes about nine hours.
Last night, their the right and privilege of protect-
rendering A general idea of the present ing its citizens wherever they (under the baton of Mr. W. H invention may be obtained by re- may be engaged in legitimate en- Fitz-Earle, A.R.C.M.) of the Inter-garding it as the application of mezzo from "Cavalleria Rusti-lairship practice to an elevated |cana, "A Hunting Scene" and railway. "Plantation Melodies" met with are to contain 200 passengers, are The waggons, which an enthusiastic response from a to be cigar-shaped in order to re- packed house.
duce wind resistance, and the The film as a medium for dancing driving force is supplied through instruction is somewhat novel but a propeller by a Diesel motor. Arthur Murray demonstrates that Twelve yards above the ground this is practicable in his firat a suspension rail will be sup- lesson in the "Charleston." The ported by giant masts thirty audience did not respond to his yards apart. Owing to the con- request to “stand up and try it,”!
"struction and means of propulsion but his request that they should of this train it is considered that | practise in the interval between the strain and friction
on the the second lesson will probably supporting rail will be reduced to bear fruit.
Mr. E. Kneeland Parker, leading man with the Wilbur Players,
who will open at the Star Theatre, on May 18, whose fuithful inter- pretations of difficult roles make him an instant favourite with audiences.
Rio de Janeiro, May S. Speaking at the largely attend- ed Pan-American International Law Congress, Mr. Brown Scott (United States) announced his intention of bringing forward a proposal to submit to an inter-son, Alice Joyce and other pioneers American arbitration
tribunal of the screen.. any disputes arising among the American nations.
Verna Mersereau is a cousin of Violet Mersereau, and, like her He added that he spoke in the cousin, she has done Rome big name of the United States Gov-things in pictures. ernment, which was desirous that Florence Underhill has added to all solutions of problems by force her fame for her character work should be abolished throughout in the Hollywood studios. the continent, and the indepen-
Tove Lindan for many years was dence and sovereignty of all known as a "child wonder" of the She is hardly grown-up as American States assured.-Reu-ct, being the "baby member" of ter's American Service.
the Wilbur company and being as signed to ingenuo roles.
sereen.
POISON AFTER QUARREL,
COMING FILMS.
THE WORLD'S GREATEST TRAGEDIES.
Into one scene of "The Auction |Block," are crowded several of the
world's greatest tragedies.
The scene shows Charles Ray as
minimum.
Shadows Before.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE MAIL.”
Entertainments.
May 9-Queen's Theatre; "Man- nequin."
ja popular young shoe salesman, May 9-Star Theatre; "Black
trying to sell Polly Moran a pair Oxen."
of slippers about two sizes too small May 9-World Theatre; "Souls for her. The fact that the scene
Is screamingly funny reveals the fold adage that people laugh at life's
greatest tragedies,
for Sables."
May 9-Cafe Restaurant Parisien Dinner Tea Dance, 4.30 p.m., Dance, 8 p.m.
May 10-11 Queen's Theatre; "The Temptrcas."
· May 12-14-Buster Keaton in "Seven Chances."
Sports.
Tennis,
"Here is a middle-aged woman trying her best to look young, even at the expense of physical torture." declares Henley, "a tragedy that
May 13-Smoking concert at thousands of women are going Volunteer Headquarters 9.15 p.m. through daily. But perhaps the
May 18-Star Theatre: The Wil- greatest tragedy of all is the fact bur Players in their latest come that the young shoe salesman, dies and dramas. knowing that the woman is in pain, purposely sells her the shoes, dis- May 11-Exhibition playing all of youth's contempt for H.K.C.C. 4 p.m., for M.C.L. age."
May 24 Meeting of Faaling Eleanor Boardman is featured op- Hunt Steeplechases. posite Charles Ray is this Metro-1
Auctions. and Goldwyn-Mayer production,
May 10-At Messrs. Lammert Baily O'Neil, Ernest Gillen, James Bros.' sales room, a valuable col- Corrigan, Charles Clary, David tection of Postage stamps, 5.15 p.m. Torrence, Forrest Seabury and Ned May 13 Another collection of Sparks are in the east. The story postage stamps will be auctioned by was adapted to the screen by Mesere. Lammert Bros. at their Frederic and Fanny Hatton from Sales Room, 6.15 p.m. the famous novel by Rex Beach.
May 14-Messrs. Lammert Bros. will sell by public auction at 5, Carnarvon Bldg., Kowloon valuable household furniture, 10,80 a.m.
Meetings.
The Limit Reached. Sir Francis Aglen, speaking at another dinner, said that, we had "So This Is Hollywood." pursued the policy of patience and By Inez G. Howard. conciliation in our relations with From towering hill on which I stood China to the limit. We had sub- said, "So this is Hollywood!" mitted to offronts and humiliation Beneath were churches, homea and unparalleled in our history with parks, the most exemplary patience and Where children played and meadow There to my restraint, yet our relations with China were deplorable. He was of Sang Happy lilts. opinion that the reason was that The bowl of Hollywood in sight. the foreign policy of the Nation-Float free and, beckon all mankind. alist party was directed by those And there, the hills to glorify whose immediate interest it was The Pilgrim Playhouse met my eye; to do as much damago as possible There, with its sacred cross held a pan. respectively. to Britain.
high.
larks
right
-THE MARQUIS DE PINEDO.
New York, May 8. The Marquis de Pinedo has re- sumed his light in a machine xent The wife of a Wei-hai-wei from Italy Reuter's American policeman is now in hospital suf- fering from opium poisoning. She [A telegram from the Marquis is alleged to have swallowed the de Pinedo on April 7 said that his drug after a quarrel with her bus-own foreign policy in their own And plan their ills and griefs to seaplane burat into flames as a band on Saturday...
Service,
result of a stray match tossed by an individual aboard a motor, boat while the machine was refuelling. There were no casualties.
KOWLOON BURGLARY:
De A burglar entered No. 543, Pinedo immediately telegraphed Canton Road, yesterday morning to the Italian 'Ministry of Aero- and made a haul of money, cloth nautics, and M. Mussolini ordered ing and jewellery worth $556. an Italian airforce machine to be shipped to New York.]
FIERCE INDIAN RIOTS.
Lahore, May 8,
The fierceness of recent riots is
There were signs of a reaction Ita floor the earth. Its roof the sky. against this and he believed that And down a green, secluded street we would soon see a change for I saw the League where women the better, but he was confident meet that until the Chinese took their To sew and labour for the poor
hands there be no real improve- ment.--Router.
"Sumatra" Leaves Shanghai.
And Patience, Skill and Thoughtful
·
cure.
care
The needy seek and bring relief, The Hague, May 8. With smiles for joy and tears for
grief, The "Sumatra" was ordered to leave Shanghai after consultation An hundred homes I looked into. with the Dutch authorities, in And there found hearts and souls China, who express the opinion As ever trod the whole round world. As the result of a fall while at. / that Dutch nationals there no And then this shout of joy I kurled:| longer require the. "Sumatra's" "Can this place, then, be Holly. protection-Reuter.
tempting to board a moving tram- car in Praya East on Saturday, a Chinese sustained a fractured leg. He is now in hospital.
BABY'S FATAL FALL.
as true
wood?
I see no evil; only good!"
The present generation of young
May Officers' Mess Meeting H.KV.D.C. Headquarters, 6.30 p.m.' May 10-Meeting of the Hong Kong Land Investment & Agency, Co., Ltd., Messrs. Jardine Mathe- gon's board roam, noon.
May 10-Annual and monthly meetings of the 11.K. Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, 65, Connaught Rd., Central, 2.80 and
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May 10-General meeting of the Marine Engineers' Guild of China, Hong Kong branch, 67, Des Voeux Road Central, 5 p..
May 14-Fifth yearly meeting of Lane, Crawford, Ltd., Exchange
Bldg., Des Voeux Rd., 11:80 a.m.
May 14-China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., Ltd.'s thirtieth meeting. St. George's Bldg., noon.
May 16-Meeting of Members of] the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, City Hall, 4 p.m.
May. 17-Forty-sixth annual
meeting of the Canton Insurance Co., Messrs. Jardine Matheson's offices, noon,
May 20- Fifty-fourth meeting of. Union Insurance Society of Canton, Union Bldg., 11 a.m.
May 20-Fifty-eighth meeting of the China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.. Union Bldg., 11,20 a.m...
May 20 Sixty-first meeting of British Trader's Insurance Co., Ltd., Union Building, 11:16 am.
May 21 General meeting of shareholders of Douglas Co., Ltd.j Co.'s Office, roon, een beter te va Miscellaneous May 9-10 Exhibition of Chinese Art. Lee Garden, East Point.
May 16-Moonlight picnic of Bt, in Kennedy Road yesterday, a
A Poter's Young Men's Club... bullder's foki fell from the second Military aviation is ob per cent. May, 17-Last, debate of St. floor verandah and was severely of the danger of warfare in the Peters Youps Men's Club, at Club Injured about the head:
times of peace-Lord Thomion, House 8.80 p.m..
shown by the fact that eighteen A Chinose passenger of the 9.8. | 2 A 4-year-old Chinese baby was were killed and nearly two hun-"Huichow" collapsed and died of killed instantly yesterday by a women will certainly go bald-Dr dred wounded.
A hundred and heart failure on beard the ship fall from the first floor into the Leonard Williams. fifty arrests were made.
while she was tied up to No. 38 | back yard of No. 117 Whitfield,
The cinema started in this coun- In response to appeals most buoy on Saturday afternoon.
try as a showman's stunt" and it Mahommedans have reopened their shops, but the Hindus are A Chinese boy was on Saturday While working in the new build has never got out of the hands of still reluctant. Normal activi- taken to the hospital suffering ing of the St. Paul's Girls' School those people. Lt. Col. Moore
Brabazon, M.P. ties, however, are expected short from injuries to his face and ly. The curfew order and in- knees caused through being tensive police patrolling having knocked down by a motor cycle in restored quiet-Reuter,
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