THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1928.
AT THE CATHEDRAL
FASHIONABLE CHINESE WEDDING
SQ. PHOON-K. S. NG
St John's Cathedral was the
{"BILL” EDLEY
DEATH AFTER 25 YEARS IN STEAMBOAT CO.
A TYPHOON HERO
THE CHINA MAIL,
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS. ANNOUNCED
IN THE “MAIL * ·
To-day-Queen's Theatre; "The Divine Woman," and Carpi's Parl After 25 years as wharfinger ofsian Revue",ni 9.20 p.m. scene of a fashionable Chinese the Hong Kong, Canton & 'Macao To-day. World wedding yesterday afternoon, the Steamboat Co., Ltd.-he was due to "Seventh Heaven."
Theatre: bridegroom being one of the dis-retire on pension on the last day To-day-Star Theatre; "Paris tinguished Phoon brothers.
of the month Mr. W. H. ("Bill") | At Midnight."
Miss Koon-sheung Ng the Edley died at the French Hospital Dec. 28-St. Peter's Y.M.C..dance daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ting-yesterday from pleurisy, at the age at Lane Crawford's restaurant 8 aang Ng, was married to Mr. of 63, mourned by a wide and p.m. Seck-quai Phoon, whose brother cosmopolitan circle of friends. was married last week, and who
is a son of Mrs. Sai-leung Phoon and the late Mr. S. L. Phoon, well known in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Land Sale
Mr. Edley was born in Canada. Dec. 31-At P.W.D. Offices, one shortly after his arrival here he lot of Crown Land at Mong Kok was employed by the Steamboat Co. Tsuf, 3 p.m. until yesterday. Only once did he
Sport Dec. 28 II.KY.M.C.A. Hockey: abroad for a holiday. This was quite recently when he went Home 2nd XI. vs. H. K. Club “A.", 5 p.m.
Meetings recuperate, from illness which,
To-day Sanitary Board meeting, however, recurred after his return, 4.15.m.
The ceremony was performed by the Dean (the Very Rev. A Swann, D.S.C., M.A.) who subset quently proposed the toast at the
reception.
and he was removed to hospital on
Dec. 29 Twelfth meeting of In- Christmas Day, passing away in 24 dustrial and Commercial Bank, 2 hours.
} pan. "B" was a typhoon hero. His gare was known to everybody who
Miscellaneous,
Dec. 28-Yaumati School prize
THE DIVINE WOMAN'
Beautiful Dresses The bride was led up the aisle by her father. Mr. Wai-keung Ng was best man. Two of the bride's sisters acted as bridesmaids, the had business at the Steamboat Co.'s distribution, noon. Misses Kong-sheung Ng and Choi-wharf beyond the Harbour Office. sheung Ng. The Misses Cheung-His kindness to the Chinese work- chu Ma and Po-chu Ma, the ing classes was proverbial. daughters of Dr. and Mrs, C. K.leaves a son, Master Victor, 16 Ma, were the flower-girls. Master years old, who is at St. Joseph's Hey-yin Wung, the son of Pro-College, and a widow, fessor and Mrs. C. Y. Wang was page.
The Funeral
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SENSATIONAL STORY IN NEW FILA!
The funeral took place at the Greta Garbo, and Lars Hanson The alluring blonde screen star, "The bride wore a white charm- Roman Cathetic Cemetery, Happy play the leading parts in an un cuse dress embroidered with Valley, yesterday afternoon, the diamante and crystal beads. Her Rev. Father Terruzi conducting the Woman," which will be screened usual picture, "The Divine embroidered veil was held in place service. The son was the principal at the Queen's Theatre from to- by a coronet of pearls and orangemourner,
Among those present day to Saturday. Aadapted from blossom. Her bouquet was of were Messrs. John Arnold, Gladys Unger's famous novel white roses and maiden-hair fern. Arnold, S.J. Clarke, W. Ward, C. F."Starlight' which was later suc-
The bridesmaids' dresses were Pragnell. A. Place, R. M. de cessfully produced 29 2 of apple green and pale rose Souza, A. J. Agabeg. P. Lanigan, W.play, the story concerns the ad- stage georgette, embroidered with Fearon, I. 11. Stewart, R Shannon. ventures of a great French thea- silver. They carried pale pink.P. Lane, Lo Kai-hong, Jata Singh,trical actress, who, tired of the and tea roses with maiden-hair A large number of Chinese connect wealth and luxury showered upon ed with the various wharves on the her by her many admirers, re- waterfront also attended.
tuns to her first love-a private
fern.
Choral Service
The flower-girls wore apple green and rose georgette, em- broidered with silver. They car- ried gold baskets of pale pink roses and sweet peas.
Mrs. T. C. Wong was matron of The bride's mother Honour. wore a Chinese ceremonial dress of red and black, embroidered with gold and silver.
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Among the wreaths was one from soldier and deserter from the Victor, other senders being Messrs. French Army. It is said that' John Arnold, T. Arnold, G. E. Miss Garbo carries her role mag- Ellams. W. Ward, J. Lowrie, Fnificently from the opening scenes Pragnell, A. J. Agabeg, J. Has a peasant girl to the heights Witchell, Andrew Harper, W. which she achieves as the darling Fearon, G. H. Y. Chué, Saninghton, of the theatrical world, and back R. C. Wilson, R. A. Cooper, Capt. again to her tawdry surroundings B. R. Branch, Rev. Father Murray, in Montmarte. Other members of Capt. and Mrs. Mitchell, Capt. and the cast who have important parts Mr. Hing-tak Woo, B.A., was Mrs. Madden, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. to play are Lowell Sherman, Jean visiting Shanghai, says the Chinese groomsman.
Clarke, Mesara. R. Shannon, F.de Brine and Polly Moran. Dur-press. The service was choral. "The Thomason. J. W. Beattie, Cheng.ing the 9.20 performances a com-: Voice that Breathed O'ver Eden"Quinn, Ah Loy, Yuen Chong, Chow plete change of programme will was played and, at the conclusion Yan-u, Lau Hoy. Sam So. Yung be given by Signor Carpi's popu- that the body of Dr. Sun Yat-sen of the ceremony, Mr. F. Mason, Kwai-fan, Chai Ow, Chong Man ar "Parisian Revue." A.R.C.O., L.T.C.L., played Men-eek, Lo Kai-hong, Wong Tai Lat delssohn's wedding march.
Valuable Gifts
Kwal, Sze Cho-hong, Mok Choo-u, Captains and Officers of 9.5. "Tai- The reception was held in shan," "Sui An," "Kinshan," Messrs. Lane, Crawford's restaur-Lungshan," "Fatshan," European ant and was attended by a large Revenue Officers, Office staff of the number of quests, including Pro-
Steamboat Co., Wharf coolies, fessor and Mrs. C. Y. Wang, Dr.Wharf staff, coolies of Wing Lok and Mrs Ma Luk, Dr. and Mrs. street and shipping correspondents C. K. Ma, Mr. and Mrs. W. Leong of the local Press.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Woo.
The bridegroom's gift to the
bride was a diamond bracelet and TO-DAY'S RADIO
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7TH HEAVEN ”
THE RETURN OF A NOTABLE PICTURE
The Cuban Charge 'd'Affaires is
It is reported by the Chinese press
will be removed from Peking next month. The road leading to the mausoleum at Nanking is fast being completed, the report says.
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On December 4, according to the "Japan Chronicle," the Kobe Water Police raided the N.Y.K. "Kasogi Maru" which had just arrived, from Pirates robbed a launch belong Shanghai and arrested seven Chi- ing to the Hain Shing S. N. Co.,nesc atowaways for America. the usual meaning of the term, and Tatung a couple of days ago closure of an "agency" at Shanghai Although not a war picture in which was plying between Wuhu Their examination led to the dis- 7th Heaven," the big film which and got away with several tens of for secret passages, mainly to will be screened from to-day to thousands of dollars' worth of pro-America. According to the police Saturday at the World Theatre, perty. The local militia were noti-the agency has been in co-operation presents some remarkably fine fed and after a long chase they with a branch at Kobe and is be war scenes as a background to the arrested story.
one man and recovered leved to have smuggled a number These scenes, in the about $2,000 worth of property. of Chinese and Japanese 'already. opinion of many people who have During the pursuit, one of the When they were arrested on board seen the film, are as good as any soldiers was wounded.
the ship they each produced certi- yet shown on the screen, if indeed diamond bracelet. Dr. and Mrs. be broadcast to-day from the Gov the dash of the Paris taxicabs to Chinese press be correct, another proved to be counterfeited and sup they are not the best. Certainly
ficates of their being realdents in T. C. Wong's gift comprised a ernment radio station on the Peak, the battle line to save the city cial seandal is threatened with plied by the Kobe branch.
Should reports appearing in the Sannomiya, but the certificates cheque and a curio cabinet. the wave-length being 300 metres from the
The honeymoon is to be spent The, call sign of the station is hordes is a wonderful piece of enemy's advancing
They in Manila and Singapore.
The G.O.W.
The reports are to the confessed to having Intended to go exposure, bride is to travel in a dress of
realism.
effect that Information has been over to America by a Dollar liner beige georgette embroidered with
Criticism may be offered that received by the Salt Inspectorate to from Kobe. The Kencho police and gold and pastel shades, with shoes
7.48 p.m.-Evening Weather Re-not be correct, but the general salt is being amuggled to Yangtze the agency in Shanghai.
this or that technical detail may the effect that a large amount of the Water Police are trying to trace and hosiery to match."
These effect can only be described as ports from Fuklen and that gun-Chinese seem to have promised to magnificent. 7th Heaven" is a boats are being used for its trans- give Y.1,000 each to the agencies splendid film, with a story that pertation. An Investigation has if they got to America successfully, stirs the heart and fires. the been ordered by Nanking, the report besides the "commission" already imagination. The acting of the concludes. two stars, Janet Gaynor and
paid. Charles Farrell, as the little waif
a pair of diamond ear-rings. The bride's gift to the bridegroom consisted of diamond studs and links. The bride's parents gave a cheque, a diamond brooch and a
The Toast
Proposing the health of the *bride and bridegroom, Dean Swann said he was very pleased to welcome Chinese people to the Cathedral, Personally, he was grateful for the honour of an in- vitation to this wedding and it gave him the greatest pleasure to propose this toast. He always enjoyed Chinese weddings.
In the first place he had the greatest admiration for the de- corous manner in which the whole function was conducted and, secondly, the beauty of the Chin-
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Queen's Hall Orchestra. (b) On the Edge of the Lake. "Tho, Merrymaker's Carnival,”
Queen's Hall Orchestra "Artist's Life," Strauss.
New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Tales from the Vienna Woods,"
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Miriam Licetto and Dennis Noble.
ese dresses made him very much.The Merrymakers in Hawail," envy those who were able to wear The Morrymakers in Spain,"
The bridegroom, he understood, "Aida," Celeste Alda.
them.
was studying for the very noble
profession of medicine. As one
who had, many years ago, follow-
Glaconda," Cielo E Mar.
Ulysses Lappas. Tenor.
:
MYSTERY, FILM" HONORE DE BALZACS, NOVEL
DUKE WEDS MANICURIST
Berlin. It is revealed that Nicolaus von Leuchten- in
.
The "Hankow Herald" learns of the Paris streets and "the very from a very reliable source that remarkable fellow" who works in Mr. F. Zappi, who was one of Gen. the city sewers, holde one fascin- Nobile's party in the North Pole ated. Altogether "7th Heaven" is Expedition, will leave Italy, for one of those pictures which every China about. February of next year Duke one-movie fan or not-should and will rolleve Mr., De Nadamlen-berg was married secretly New York Philharmonic Orchestra. make a point of seeing. Owing to aki, the Italian Consul there, Barber of Seville," Can It be. its exceptional length, "7th Hankow residents will remember Mueller, a pretty Munich girl em- Old Munich to Fraulein Ella Heaven" will be shown at special that Mr. Zapp! was a commander ployed as a manicurist in a barber's times commencing promptly at of an Italian gunboat which was shop. 2.30, 5.00, 7.16 and 9.80 p.m. stationed there about five years ago The duke, who is thirty-two years and during that time, acted as of age, is the nephew of the Italian Consul.
Duke, of Leuchtenberg, who at his castle in Bavaria made a home for In view of the prosperity of the the mysterious girl who is alleged, district, the Tessfield Bridge. Con- to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia struction Committee (Shanghai) of Russia, and the only member of Several notable players appear. In has asked the Bureau of Public the Czar's family to escape execu- the large cast of "Paris At, Mid-Works to construct a temporary tion by the Bolshevike. night", which is the feature, attrac- wooden bridge
The young duke was formerly an tion from to-day to Saturday at the Creek and has promised to contri- officer in the Czar's Cossack body- Star Theatre.
Lionel Barrymore, bute two-thirds of the expenditure.guard. He has studied music in "The Good Little Boy and the Bad Jetta Goudal, Mary Brian and Et is now reported that the Bureau Munich, and has frequently con-
Jocelyn Lee
are the principal of Public Works has secured per ducted orchestras at public con- Little Boy,"
players. The story concerns the mission from the Shanghai (Chi- Norman Long, Humorist. adventures of "Vaturin," a man of nese Territory) Municipality to the Bazunka Tree,"
mystery, who is being sought after undertake this work. Tenders will Norman Long. Humorist by the police. In connection with a be invited and work will be com "Manon Lescaut," Donna Non Vidi series of amazing crimes. His menced soon.
Mal. Gigli.
hairbreadth escapes from the hands "La Tosca," Recondita Armonia.
Ulysses Lappas. Tenor:
ed the same study for a short "Light Cavalry. Overture," Von
time, he knew what it meant. He was sure that the bridegroom's charming wife would bo of the very greatest help to him in his work.
The Dean then asked the com-
pany to drink to the health of the bride and bridegroom.
The bridegroom suitably res- ponded and thanked the Dean for the kind way in which he had proposed the toast, and the guests for their presence.
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