THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1927.
NO STRIKE.
JOSEF BORISSOFF.
INTERVENTION IN NEW YORK | FAMOUS VIOLINIST DUE NEXT
creuse
DISPUTE,
of wages.
WEEK.
CONCERTS AT THEATRE ROYAL
LONELY FEATS.
HUMAN ENDURANCE 1
LIMITS,
THE CHINA MAIL
AT THE QUEEN'S..
**THAT ROYLE GIRL” TO-DAY TO SATURDAY.
Shadows Before.
J
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL."
p.m.
Entertainments.
Theatre;
It would seem, after the magni- New York, Wednesday,
Fresh from the master hand of ficent achievement of America's D. W. Griffith, featuring Carol An eleventh-hour settlement has
July 28-Queen's averted the threatened strike of
Josef Borissoff, the famous violin. "Flying Fool," that there are no Dempster. W. C. Fields, James subway motormen und trainmen, ist, will arrive from Saigon on Tues- limits to human endurance and Kirkwood and Harrison Ford, comes "The Royle Girl."
The experts scoffed at a stirring melodrama of contem- July 28 World Theatre; "The who demanded recognition of their day next and will give his first con- courage Union and a twenty per cent. In cert in llong Kong on the following this attempt to control an aero-porary life in the Chiengo under- Alaskan."
over 3,600 miles of world and jazz belt. And if its July 28-Star Theatre, Kowloon; All arrange day, at the Theatre Royal, to belfol-plane alone ments had been perfected for towed by another on Thursday. stormwept ocean. but the result title, "That Royle Girl," has a re- "The Street of Forgotten Men."
July 28-Tes Dance, Cafe Res- alternate transport system to- As a musician he has made. bis has proved again that, when a man miniscent ring, it la because the morrow, when the Mayor called a name throughout America, Europe is convinced that he can perform picture is based on Paul Schofield's tauran: Parisien, 430 p.m.
July 28-Isako's Circus, New Re- conference of Trade Unionists, and the East. He has had an in-a superhurman feat, he often does adaptation of Edwin Balmer's after which it was announced that teresting career.
it. And what is more, that he can widely read aerial story in the clamation ground, Wanchai, 9.15 un- do it without the inestimable aid "Cosmopolitan Magazine.” the strike had been called off- Discriminating critics have
Particular interest, attaches to hesitatingly accorded Boriasoff the that the mere companionship-to
July 28-Informal Dance, "Cheer Router's American Service.
New York. later. honour of ranking among the elect say nothing of the active pssistance this new Griffith production, due to 0,"7 p.m. Sing Song and Singing 'Con- have classified him with that of another human being will the fact that it deals with those Competitlan, "Better 'Ole" chosen few to whom the public may lend to a desperate adventure. types of individuale-gangsters, cert by "J-Pans.". Rope Factory.
7.15 Livingstone's name lives for ever bootleggers, and the jazz-mad fast p.m. look as representatives of the high-
July 29-Concert, at "Cheer '0," ext attainment in the violinist's art na a result of his exploration work set-who have been very much in
p.m., at
"Better 'Ole," 7 p.m. Ife brings to his work the highest in the then unknown wilds of the public eye during the nest few
July 30-Grand Concert, City months. traditions of the past happily blend-
Hall, 6.30 p.m. ed with the spirit of the present; but the outstanding feature of his playing and the one which has won for him such instantaneus response fram his audiences, has been the in. CHAMPION IN NAME. tensely human note that is sounded
in, everything he essaye.
The Trade Unionists yielded to the Mayor's plea not to disturb transport arrangements before the city had completed the construc tion and operation of the projected hidependent underground system. -Reuter's American Service,
ALTITUDE RECORD NOT
BROKEN.
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July 30-Fifth Grand promen de concert. Lee Gardens, 9 p.m.
July 31-Open Air Concert by Band of Queen's Royal Regiment, Kowloon Dock Bathing Beach, 5
P.m.
Africa, Another missionary who
Those who have had an advance played a lone hand fearleraly was John Williams, who was murdered look at the picture claim that woren by cannibals in November, 1839. into the warp and weef of its plot Incidents as thrilling, au He became virtually a king of the are
and travelled startling and as sensational as any Harvey Islands, through the Pacific groups hailed that have been chronicled in the of the newspapers. as a law-maker and teacher by un- front pages Born in Crimes.
ate One of the outstanding features of
Lammert's Auctions. Born in the Crimen, his first tea- tamed natives who usually
August 4-5-Household furniture, cher was his father, followed by white men when they could cap- the film is a dramatic murder trial,
with Harrison Ford as the accused, pictures, curios, etc., of the late Sarasate. Later he passed to the ture them. - Washington, Wednesday.
Conservatory of Petrograd where he The sea has a splendid record James Kirkwood as the prosecutor. Mra. M. J. D. Stephens, No, 5, Penk Official examination of Cham-became a pupil of Leopold Auer, and of lonely feats, writes F. S. Stuart and Miss Dempster as the girl- Rond, 11 a.m.
September 16 Valuable pro-] pion's barograph reveals that the in his classes was associated with in the "Daily News." Captain accomplice, suspected of providing
perties in the New Territories, at altitude reached did not exceed Mischa Elman, Efram Zimbalist, Slocam, an American, sailed round the motive for the crime.
Following the Griffith tradition Messrs. Lammerts' Sales Room, 8, 39,000 feet, thus the world's re- Jascha Heifetz, Kathleen Parlow, the world by himaelf in a tiny cord, namely, 40,820 feet, held by and others. Upon his graduation nine-ton boat, less than thirty-of picturing some elemental strug-Daddell Street, 3 pm. Meetings. a Frenchman, is still intact he was awarded a gold medal as seven feet long. The ses journey gle, the director has filmed a
the honour pupil of the Auer class was about 46,000 miles, and the cyclone that furnishes the climac- July 28-Annual meeting of mem- Reuter's Amerkan Service,
cable published yesterday and as a special listinction he was vessel had been rebuilt from a tie highspot in the production, and bers of the Peak Club, at the Club, given a famous old talinn violin century-old sloop that had been which is said to be the most terrific 6 p.m. stated: A new unofficial world's called "Gobette." the gift of the condemned as unseaworthy. It storm aver captured by a motion August 2-Water Polo Associa-| altitude record has been achieved Princess Altenboursky. This in-needs a anilor to realine what this picture camera.
tion Meeting at Vicloria Recreation by Naval Lieutenant Champion, strument was lost during the war three-and-a-half years voyage must
In spite of its predominating note Club, G p.m. record & He has used several famous violins have ment. He was wrecked, be of drama, the picture is by no means whose instruments
August 18-Meeting of Creditors but the one he now playe is a calmed, chased by pirates, boarded sordid. There are laughs aplenty of the Hong Kong and Kowloon hy savages-but completed his and comedy galore. The inimitable Taxicab Co.. Ltd. Liquidators nificent Guatianini noted for clear and full tone with evenness of journey. Net till afterwards did it humour of W. C. Fields, famous Office, 3, Queen's Road Central, all strings.
comic H. K. noon. For for years afterward he tour- become known that he could not Follies comedian, and the
antics of Bobby Watson, popular the various Russian cities in reim!
to Captain Blackburn crossed from stage player, are guaranteed eitnl as soloist with the principal orchestras, and as first violinist of Ameries to England in a tiny boat bring smiles to the most hardened the Leopold Auer Quartet which he by himself, and this daring ad-film fan. organisel in honour of his maestro, venturer had neither fingers achieving a very great success in toes, having lost them years be- the foremost circles of Petrograd, fore from frostbite. It is almost Odessa, Waranw and other musical, incredible that, thus handicapped, centres of his native land..
be should, have been able to steer,
height of 48,000 feet. The nero- plane caught fire during the descent, but Champion landed uninjured in a cornfield. In order to save the barograph, on which the official establishment of the record depends, he was obliged to fight the flames with his hands.]
A SKIRMISH.
MORE WORK FOR US. MARINES.
Managua, Wednesday.
its
nor
AT THE STAR.
Sports. July 30-Lawn Bowls League: Lawn Tennis League: H.K. Base ball League; Friendly Football,
July 80-Second Night Fete: Victorin Recreation Club, 9 pm.
Miscellaneous.
July 29-Annual prize distribu- tion of the Garrison Children's
The Near East.
row, reef and manage the boat in**THE STREET OF FORGOTTEN | Schools, Hong Kong V. D. Corps, Released from the army he re- the great Atlantic rollers. entered the Conservatory for post- The memerable single-handed MEN," TO-DAY TO SATURDAY graduate studies in composition and passage of the Atlantic by the
Drill Hall, Garden Road, 3 p.m.
July 30-St. Peter's launch pienie, 3.30 p.m.
July 30-European
orchestration. Then began a tour French tennis-player, Alan Ger- Percy Marmont gives one of the of that interesting part of the world bault, in his little Firecrest is greatest character portrayals of his bathing picnic. A United States marine and known as the Near East. In Con-another of the great tales of the career in the role of "Easy Money"
rtantinople he gave ten concerts, playing before the Sultan. Before while
several Nicaraguan constabulary were wounded when the combined forces engaged in a fresh skirmish with Sandino's troops
20 miles from Ocotal-Reuter's
American Service.
опе of the finest Charlie in "The Street of the For-
Y.M.C.
Y.M.C.A.
the Sultan of Arabia he was equal-proved by heroic service was gotten Men," which is a Herbert
provided by the Corniahman who Brenon production. The story YOUNG WOMEN'S MANNERS. ly well received. The late-ing stayed nently six weeks alone in a deals-with-a-petty panhandler-who- Alexander of Greece decorated the artiste with the title of "Chevalier lighthouse, attending to the light adopts a little girl and brings her de Suveur in his fifteenth recital all the time, and saving hundreds up in ignorance of his profession,
Professor Winifred Cullis, Pro-
in Athens, he being the first foreign af vessels from wreck when the only to see the one fine thing infessor of Physiology at London Argentine Criticism.
er to receive this honour. It has son was too rough for aid to come his lie threatened with ruin University and Lecturer at the of Medicine for Buenos Aires, Wednesday.
since been granted to Saint-Saens, to him.
through the evil plotting of one of London School It has been truly said that "A his fellow crooks.
Women, presented the prizea at The Senate, after a speech in but to no one else outside of the
man's power is bounded only by which the military action of the Greek people.
George Kibbe Turner, who wrote Roedean School, Brighton. In an United States in Nicaragua was In America Borissof has found his will."
the story for "Liberty Maga- address to the pupils she said zine," has created ап severely criticised, passed alike approval in recitals in New
un-that, having taken part in the York and elsewhere, both for his;
urval motion in favour of interpellating skill as a violinist and his gifts
exceptionally in-training of nearly 1,000 medical teresting character in Easy women since 1901, she knew how the Government regarding Argen- a composer. He has also been
Money Charlie. Most of the drama- well they were doing and how tina's attitude.-Reuter's Amer-soloist with leading orchestras. ican Service.
Upon his appearance here M. Borissoff will be necompanied by Mr. Willy Reiman.
SOVIET VICTIMS.
RUSSIAN MAJOR-GENERAL'
Reuter.
TO DIE.
Riga, Wednesday.
CONFISCATION.
SENTENCE CONFIRMED ON CZECH.
WORLD THEATRE.
"THE ALASKAN" TO-DAY TO
and
tic action of the story is laid in a
dive near the Bowery to which flock great a service they were render- the hopeless, battered wrecks whoming the community.
Medicine
more
SATURDAY,
life has forgotten a novel back-really was a career that gave a Alaska-land of ice-clad moun-ground against which Charlie and woman a chance to show a great- GENERAL DEGRADEDtains and towering glaciers! the girl stand out appealingly. many of her qualities. It was
Alaska-where towns are born In such a role, Percy Marmont often said women cared overnight and gold is suited from is in his element. Here he is scen about persors than things, and the rich earthl Alaska-ryster- as a beaten, hopeless wanderer, that was one of the reasons they lous, strange, colourful! World of forced by circumstance into a life made such good practitioners. the Midnight Sun!
of petty crookedness which almost Professor Cullis complained of The Military Appeal Commis-
This is the rugged setting in burles the idealism which he had a Major-General Perkhuray, who in gion has reported to the War which "The Alaskan," Thomas hoped to use in bettering the world general manners of the young slight deterioration in the 1918, headed an anti-revolutionary Minister confirming the sentence Meighan's production, unfolds its in general. Then with dramatie organisation, the "Union Defence of the Fatherland and liberly in of degradation passed by a court-story of gripping. red-blooded suddenness, he becomes the guer-women of to-day. They wanted Yardalav Province and who later martial upon General Gajda, the drama. It is a picturization, based dian of a small girl. To bring her to show they were, free, coura fought under Koltchak till 1920, late Chief of Staff of Czecho- on Wills Goldbeck's adaptation of like a lady, he is forced to re-geous, and truthful, she said, has been sentenced to death. Slovakia who is only 35. No James Oliver Curwood's dynamic main in the surroundings he des- and feared that if they were plea- mention is made this time of novel of the same name. Herbert pises and to keep her in ignorance sant-mannered they were being Brenen, who produced it, Thomas of his profession. When she hypocritical. Good manners, allegations of espionage against Meighan and the entire supporting rencher womanhood, he falls in love however, meant being the right, the French, and it is recommend-cast travelled more than four thou- with her; but this, too, he is forced sort of person and giving others ed that instead of the general's sand miles by sea from Hollywood to conceal and, by shamming death, a chance to develop. They were pension being reduced by 25 per into the wilds of British Columbia he leaves her free to marry a young the outward expression of an in-1 cent., the reduction should only to secure the proper locations. be 1 or 2 per cent. He is con-
Here is an out-door story, based man in her own sphere of life.
Featured with Marmont in the sidered by
this commission upon conditions which are so re- cast of the production are Neil guilty of having misrepresented cent they can scarcely be called Hamilton and Mary Brian. The
loss of £7,500,000 due to his past career in letters to news waved against forces seeking to ex- history. It tells of the grim battle Soviet confiscation of the Com- papers, and of having belonged pany's property, was mentioned in to organisations "seeking to alter ploit the country by the sons of the the Chancery Division, when Mr. the present democratic constitu-century ago.
men who went there quarter of a Justice Eve confirmed the petition tien of Czecho-Slovakia," mean-tion, the men of to-day, are the true This second genera- of the Russo-Asiatic Consolidated,
Meighan's new star- Limited, for a reduction of the cap-ing that he actively supported Alaskans.
Misa Penelope Lawrence, foun- ital from £12,000,000 to £4,500,000. Fascism. He also, says the re-ring vehicle is an idealisation of
Reuter.
port, maintained close relations this sturdy race which has come hot weather of the summer months dress of Roedean, whose portrait and in order to protect yourself and by Sir William Orpen, R.A., has with Colonel Krakowiewski, into cistence under the shelter of family against a sudden attack, get been presented to the school by
hattle of Chamberlain's Collc and old girls, and Lord whom he knew to be in the ser-the American flag.
A talented' cast has been as-Diarrhoea Romedy. It can be de- LOAN TO GERMANY. vice of the Russian Soviets.
Lawrence also spoke. General Gajda commanded the sembled that, among others, in- peqded upon. For sale everywhere, cludes Estelle Taylor. John Sain- Czech Legion in Siberia ten years polis, Charles Ogle, Frank Cam ago, and was later sent to St.peau and Anna May Wong. Cyr, near Paris, to complete his
RUSSO-ASIATIC COMPANY'S
LOSSES.
Loridon. Wednesday.
RESULT OF FINANCIER'S VISIT.
New York,. Wednesday.milltary education,
A credit of G.$30,000,000 has
been arranged, for the German AN "OUTCAST", 'FROM SPAIN. Gold Diskontbank by a New York
business group,
Schachi's
Dr. American Service.
as the result of visit. Router's
KOWLOON PIER DAMAGED.
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The
One of the largest elephants ever exhibited in our Zoological Gardens "I prefer an English jail to has arrived at the Regent's Park menagerie. The animal a present Spanish freedom" was a state- from the Maharajah of Patiala, is ment alleged to have been made fifteen years old and stands 7ft. 8in. by Javier Nualart, a Spanish high. In India it was used for subject, who was summoned at hunting, and this is demonstrated Tsim Sha Tsui pier was damaged Bow-street Police-court for fall by two large scars on its flank, in- in the atorm of the 24th instant ing to register himself as an alien. juries received in a balle with an to such an extent that use by all The defendant was described as exceptionally ferocious tiger.
elenkant arrived At Tilbury, an intellectual man who had re-
Rid
march its nocturnal cently been working as a garden- from the docks to the Zoo, er at Mildenhall, Suffolk, and a companied by the superintendent, a police officer gave evidence that native servant, and a retinue when asked why he had not regis keepers, caused a mild sensation tered he replied, "I told the amongst those revellers suddenly immigration officer I was only confronted with this extraordinary staying fifteen days. I cannot protesfon. go back to Spain yet, as I am an outcast from my home owing to
launches and boats other than small motor bents and aampane will have to be discontinued until repairs have been effected.
POLAR
CAKE
"ITS QUALITY THAT COUNTS
my religious ideas. I am at your July diapoul."
Defendant elected to be tried by
jury, and he was committed for trial, bail being allowed."':
HOT WEATHER DISEASES.
Disorders of the bowels are extreme- dangerous, particularly during the
THEATRE
ward attitude of mind.
Miss E. M. Tanner, head mistress, asked parents who com- plained that their daughters were frivolous, how it could be other- wise if they were taken to seven- teen dances during the Christmas holidays and sent back to school worn out.
ROYAL.
Justice
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, August 3rd & 4th, · World Famous Violinist in his round the world CONCERT TOUR
JOSEF BORISSOFF
will give his 100th concert la Hong Kong. accompanied by Mr. Willy Relmann for August 3rd. PROGRAMME.
af Ave Maria Shubert Wilhelmy b/ Menuett ef Preludium-Allegro
INTERVAL.
Mozart
Purani-Kreisler
IV
Ac-!
I' Symphony Eragnol
Allegro Andante
Lalo
of
Ko. do
III af Impromptu b/ Romance without
words
Josef Borisseff
b/ Livestrend
c/ Valse Stacatto
c/ Zigeunerwel cos tastaSra
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7.06
5.69
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