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14-Dart
15-Visite
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17-Stare vulgerly
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19-Clamor
20-Entiend
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(pl.)
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140-Tollet article
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(The solution of the above crossword puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-toord puzzle.)
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
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Bebe Daniels was reckoned to be terribly fond of Jack Pickford and mary believed they would be mar ried. Only recently, however, Bebe and Jack split, and this split has proven to be décisive. To-day Bebe together with her friend Mildred Loewwho Is getting a diwarce from her husband are frequestly seen
Ben Lyon and “Skeeta". Galla
Mari
parting
that Ben and
friendly
THE CHINA MAIL,
MUSIC DRAMA FILMS
MODEL THEATRE
REVELATION AT SALE IN
LEEDS HOUSE
£20,000 IN SECURITIES FOUND
The last act In an strange drama as Leeds has ever known was played recently, whed, to the accompaniment of the crisp. voice of an auctioneer, and the rap rap, rap" of his hammer "the re- maining antique contents of the residence, 11, Park Plice, Leeds," were sold by order of the admin- istrators of the late Dr. Clarence Foster.
The auctioneer's audience as sembled carly, and wandered round the house, the business folk to look with a business eye at such things as might be worth their bids, and the curious to marvel and say in every room that they had never seen anything like it They scanned the backs of the books, tied in bundles and ready for the auctioneer's hammer; they opened drawers and speculated as to which was
in which the one £30,000, in securities had beer found by the relatives: and they told to each other as much as they knew of the mysterious story of the brothers who let their medical practice slide and lived 49 **- cluses.
bills, dated between 1860 and 1867, went for 32a. 6d., and & collection of bills relating to the attractions of the Vickers' travel- ling theatre (well known in York- shire once upon a time) and cutting from the "Evening Post" telling of the life of Vickers, sold for 608.
rapped the
list of prin-
“OFFICE SCANDAL
NEW TALKIE FILM OF NEWS- PAPER, LIFE
· SHOWING AT SHANGHAI
decent, and shows a newspaper as it really is, by that it is meant that the picture does not in any way exaggerate.
"Office" Scandal" a new Pathe Talkie film, now being screened at A bundle of plays-Old plays Shanghai, is a picture of newspaper and new plays for Leeds amateur life. It is said to be most inter- dramatic societies" said the auc-esting, and features Phyllis Haver tioneer was knocked down, and of "Chicago" fame in the leading all the time the curious folk pop-role. Raymond Hatton Leslie ped in and out, and the auc- Fenton and Margaret Livingston
hanumer tioneer's
are included in the supporting curtain down...
cast. The dialogues are clear and The following is a cipal articles sold,
and their prices:-An Adam mirror, 21 guineas; Georgian carved wall mirror frame, 36 guineas; painted pine side table, five guineai; nar- row gate leg table, 10 guineas: two small Chippendale tea trays, £11 5 miniature ship model, £3 s.; gilt candle sconce, £45.; oil painting of flower subject, 16 guineas; oil painting, school of Hogarth, 11 guineas small oil painting of portrait of a gentle man, painter unknown, 20 guineas: and an Adam mantelpiece, 33 guineas..
CHATTER FROM HOLLYWOOD
They glanced in the surgery, with its bottles untouched for years; they opened cupboards and found stacks of medicine bottles Jack Gilbert saivived a wobbly under layers of dust; they visited year and only a few weeks ago re- the, coach house to inspect the aigned with M. G. M. at a stupen old carriage, and they looked overdous salary. Perhaps this year will a pile of harness. saddlery and see him and Greta Garbo married. buols in the yard outside the Last year Greta had not decided coach house. They found some to break with Maurice Stiller, the thing to create wonder and amaze Swedish director who "discovered" ment in every room, and especial her. lle passed on recently. ly in the study.
Cupids on Ceiling
the
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NEW PRINCIPAL
TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC
Mr. E. Stanley Roper, M.A., Mua.B. (Cantab), organist, and composer at the Chapels Royal, has been appointed Principal of Trinity College of Music.
Mr. Roper, who was born in London in 1878, received his earliest training at Westminster Abbey, where he was soloist from 1888 to 1893. He studied under Sir Frederick Bridge, and obtain- ed the Organ Scholarship- atTM Corpus Christi College, Cam- bridge, in 1899.
In Cambridge he worked with Sir Charles Stanford, Dr. Charles Wood, Dr. Sweeting, and Dr. E. W. Naylor, and from Cambridge turned to Westminster ...A ́ There he presided regularly the organ until 1922 officiating most of the important natio...!! services, such as that of the burial of the Unknown Warrior.
Constance Talmadge has become In 1918 Mr. Roper was appoint- There was evidence that
more a name than a screen actual- ed organist, composer, and choir-
Haines soared celling had been decorated. Therety. William
to master at His Majesty's Chapels stardom. were the remains of gaudy colour-
Marion Davies enjoyed Royal The Chapels are those of her most successful ings, with cupids floating in
screen year Buckingham Palace, St. James's brilliant blue. There were trim and 1929 dawns to see her the out- Palace, and Mariborough House. Imings in celours
standing woman comedienne of the door over the
talkies. Dolores Costello, just mar- and around the walls, there were imitation gillars-one thought of grisis in her flicker outlook,
ried to John Barrymore, faces a stage "props"-and
for pictures which had been worked Dolores readily admits her voice into a weird scheme of decora-does-not-take-any-too-kindly to the
miscrophone.
tion.
there
were
Mr. Roper is also organist and choirmaster at the official charch of the House of Commons, St. Margaret's, Westminster. He is well known as a recitalist, con- ductor and lecturer, as well as an adjudicator at the principal com- petition festivals in the British
This year sees the motion picture Isles.
the tulkmenace. It faced with
From the centre of the ceiling, which must have been a flaring
His most important influence on picture, with its rede and blues and yellows when the colouring sees the producers hurriedly pre-musical life in London during re was newly done, there hung a paring to cope with the new order. cent years has been his work as candelabrum, and
It sees the old silent order slinking part-founder of the Bach Cantata but and leaving many players scared of their future, not to men- tion their present,
there were amailer ones hore and there an the walls. One sought for a res- son for giving the study such a setting, and one sought in vain until the sale was
well'in pro gress, and the auctioneer (Mr. Hepper) had knocked scores of bundles of books down, at prices varying from a few shillings to a couple of pounds.
Then he arrived at what he described as "a most interesting" lot, and he told how the late Dr. Foster spent much of his time making model theatre stages.
man
of
The year 1929 will be the most interesting and the most revolution- ary one the cinema has yet known.
Sue Carol has risen from the no-
where to the giver sheet some where. Very retently Sue and young Nick Stewart were married, al suspected they would. as To-day sees them rooting for the University of California at the football game being played. in Pasadena's Rose Bowel twixt this team and Georgia Tech.
"There are quite a number them," said Mr. Hepper. "One re presents Drury Lane, and there
Lialan Deas, a beautiful Hawai- are many others, as you can see.”
The auctioneer's
pulled an daner, was born on the Is- Three the toy stages out from under the land of Hawaii, Hilo. theatre,, and there the secret. was years ago she woz i beauty contest, revealed. The study upstairs had and came to Hollywood as "Miss with a film contract: Honolulu" been decorated in theatre fashion, and the candelabra, the imitation She returned soon to her home only to again try her fortunes in the pillars and the trimmings were what they looted-stage props." m capital. She dancer in "Bed And, while the auctioneer talked Wine," Fox Film directed by Ray- of the model stages and handed mond Cannon. round to the audience the tiny figures, cut out of paper, which had been prepared for thear stages, one thought of the study And the play that had been per formed there, unknown to the world, at the door of the house.. The toy theatres were attrac tive. At the sides were boxes.
Sally Phipps is now making "Joy Street" at the William Fox stadios. A great cast supports her, among picture will be shown in Shang- them will be Lois Moran. This
bal soon
Sue Carol, who will be remember-
and in the boxes were tiny figures ed more recently for her gart in "Captain “Swagger," will play the
In evening dress. There were chief role in The Exalted Flapper.” miniature lamps. on the box
to start fronts, and there were orchestra This pietura 18- due
completes cut out of paper. There soon after Miss Carol everything for the play, and the
"Girls Gone WIL”” The new characters, hundreds of them film comes from the short-story pen villaine, heroines, strong men and of Will Irwin; it will be directed weak men, good women and bad by James Tinling. women and all the others were kept in a box which in itself designed, eid painted like a stage
A Skilling Bid
Last year Lape Velez was an un- known screen quastity. This year she rates with the known screen quality.
“An interesting lot, said the Dolores Del Rid another import auctioneerWhat offere?" fram Mexico was riding the wave "A__shilling to carry the lot of popularity as 1988 bowed onto RWAY," said A man in the crowd the calendar. To-day Dolores faces: and that shilling started the bid a crista in her fin career,› Her ding, which ended at eight shill next picture. Is prognosticated by ingsight shillings, and no one, those who know their box office, thought of the hours of work that tells the tale neither she remains had been put into these tiny a star or gradually sinks into the theatres and paper people, and obscur fro
Car thon the connection be ewea tween these theatres and the Lives lifted. study
- Dolores was, happily. Eother evidence of Dr. Jan Del Rio as ine forest in the
Foster
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Club.
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UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.,
OF DENMARK
The following unclaimed tele- grams are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph Copa- pany (Limited) of Denmark
Kashiwabara, from Tokyo. Ozorio, 11 Glenwaly, from Shang-
bai.
Fujihan, from Osaka,
H. Kong Kwok, from Osaka. George Lynott, from Shanghai. Peak, from Shanghai. Stlebel "Chargte", from Har bintl.
E. V. JESSEN,
Superintendent. Hong Kong, 20th June, 1929.
Never Mind! Smoke a Will's
Gold
Flake
THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA. &. CHINA TELEGRAPH CO. LTI,
The following unclaimed tele- grams are lying at the E. E. Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:-
Thayer, Repulse Bay Hotel, from Singapore,
Torp, care Kluver, from Shang
"Kasigar,"
hai
steamer
Barham, steamer
from Batavia.
Parker Bell, Kowloon Hotel, from Monrovia, Calif.
Law-san Lee, 283, Des Voeux Road, from Leiceal.
8. LACK,
Superintendent
Hong Kong 13th June, 1929.
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