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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15,
1929.
PRAPS
would prove of great value, in ABOUT HOLLYWOOD, addition to the offering of suit- undistuks able rewards for information laid MISS AILEEN WOODS WRITES
..... TO HER FRIENDS: to the authorities against per-
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LOS ANGELES EXPERIENCED
P'RAPS NOT!
sons suspected of buying and selling or harbouring mul-tsais.
A long letter was received last romil The captain of an American The deterrent tos, must be suf-trom Miss Aileen Woods, who gives a negro company said that he needed ficiently severe to have the de-most interesting description of plays a good bugler, and that if there sired effect. Only a fogging, for and Alms which she has had the good were any in the company they
fortune to witness in Los Angeles, and should step one pace forward. male offenders, and heavy terms also had luck enough to see many of Оле wizzened little fellow of imprisonment for women, the leading Alm artistes at the wed shuffled to the front. would be commensurate with the ding of Miss Patsy, Rath Miller. Miss
Woods, who has many friends in Hong the captain.
"Are you a good bugler?" asked heinousness of this offence. Let Kong, wrote:
% the Government clear the name I heard that Patsy Ruth Miller, the "No, aah, Is no bugler," the of the Colony in this respect, and famous movie "star," was being mar private declared, as if he'd been
ried at the Church near us, and one, insulted. take definite steps to apply the of the girls and I went. We were not "Well, for the love of the Army atatute, instead of issuing more allowed inside, only recognized guests and the Navy, why did you step proclamations which are, in all being admitted, but we had a "front forward?"
Tow," and so had a real "close-up" view, "Well, sah," grinned the little probability, only read with of many of the famous stars Includ- fellow, "I thought you Bald nmusement. When we are final-ing Harold Lloyd, hla wife, and burglar"- ly rid of the evil in Hong Kong, "dear" and is very good looking Gloria, 'their daughter. He looks a
Gertrude Oldsted and Robert Leonard
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perhaps the Nationalist Govern- Connie Talmadge is quite ordinary, The young counsel for the de- ment will begin to realise that and her third husband was there a fence was intent on tying one of the system is not in the best were May McAvoy and her husband, the witnesses in a knot to make taste, is unpopular with the husband director) Mae Murray, also good his own argumenta. Clearing his throat and gazing proudly English conception of civilisa-Laura La Plante and husband.
round the court, he pointed drama- tion, and should be rigorously
"Nice-looking Chap"
tieally toward the man who was suppressed.
The bride looked quite pretty al-, witness in the assault case: though she is not a beauty. The
"And you mean to say that all groom (a director) was a nice-looking the injuries in this case were caus- chap, well dressed in frock coat and cd by a mere pin which my client tall hat, as were many of groomsmen was holding?" bellowed the counsel. and a number of the guests. It was unusual to see so many well-dressed men, since the American men out here
NEWS IN BRIEF
London, Yesterday. The British Legation in Warsaw and the Polish Legation in London have been ed to Embaasia3.---Reuter.
"Yes," said the witness. "Ridiculous" said the counsel.
| are very different from the English. "Why are there bruises but no
Janet Gaynor was married in San scratches? rais-Francisco this week too; no fuss, a "Because," replied the man, "it
very quiet wedding, only inmediate was a rolling pin!" relatives. The papers hore romark
A Chinese named Cheung Kwai has been arrested for the alleged theft of vassinate, to the value of $40, from 54, Temple-street.
of them was
on the fact of Charles Farrell, her co- star, not being prosant-a strange coincidence; he went to New York for more before I am able to drive?"
Lady Pupil: "Do I need many personal appearances on the same day Dejected Tutor: "About Я that Janet Gaynor left the studio dozen." Rumour has often said that they had;
A Chinese has been arrested for been in love, and they certainly seem interim by the Society in Eng- at Yaumati. One
allegedly atealing two perambulatora ed so in all their pictures, especially their last Alm "Lucky Star" which I Their love. land.
saw and much enjoyed. The result was that on valued at $40 and the other at making was ideal. May 6 the Secretary for Chinese $10,, Both were recovered. Affairs published a proclamation
Lady Pupil "Lessons?" Dejected Tutor: "No, ears."
Stage Manager: "Our scene-- shifter wants a holiday. He says ho hasn't been away for five years." Proprietor: "Well, tell him he
Volces Disappointing It was their first "talkie." Neither, The forthcoming wedding is an- has a good screen voice, but improved can't have one. He gets change of
forbidding the buying and selling nounced of Mr. of Mui Tsai,
Whilst this is a very creditable gesture on the part of the late Home Government, as well as of the local authorities, (in spite of the fact that it came after years of agitation) the proclamation cannot, as Dr. S. C. Yeung point- ed out at a meeting of the loca! Society on Sunday, be regarded
as an effective means of eradicat-
Constant Mare towards the loat, although, their
Pwoteau, chief engineer of the 8.9.volces were disappointing, but their scenery enough for anybody."
perfect (as "Seventh "Hopsang," to Miss Lillane Guerin, acting was
Heaven"). No one, think, can equal; "Solitude," Rose Hill, Mauritius.
those two. It is a simple story, but
1929 rainfall ::68.03 inches
Average 79.05 inches
Deficit
.11.02 inches
man got away.
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Jones was out shopping with his
I liked it enough to sit it out twice. wife and she told him she wanted Farrell was lamed in the War and to to make a final purchase in a ave him try to use his paralysed legs draper's. She asked him if he with his crutches was terribly pathetic would wait outside for her. and roallatie. He acted part "Well," he said, "If you won't be beautifully. (He must have had les-long I'll just rur home, put up the sons from Lon Chaney, I should think). fowl-house, whitewash the kitchen Gladys Brockwell died after much ceiling, and then call back for you: suffering through the motor accident but if you are going to be long, I'll It was sad. She was a great screen finish papering the dining-room favourite. You remember her and stain the floors round."
Bessie Love had a very narrow
For 40 Cents
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Green: "Shall we trot off to the Rose Cafe for a coffee?"
A snatching Incident, in which a "Seventh Heaven." ing the evil. Not only is it (ob-Chinese robbed a Chinese woman vious that a large percentage of of $1 in Wing Shing-street, oc-escape in a motor accident last month. Mui-Tsais are totally unaware curred yesterday afternoon. The Her nose was broken. Her father told of the existence of any such pro-woman raised an alarm, but then she has had to go away for a heli- day, as her nerves were all upset. I
Brown: No, thanks; I have gone clamation, or that they are afraid
am to meet her on her return. She is off that place. They don't provide priceless in "Broadway Melody," na teaspoons pow.". to report to the Secretary for The Chinese 8.3. "Chung Kong," you have heard.
"Why not?" Chinese Affairs; there is the cun-which left Tourane an October 6
"Because they have engaged an ning of the owners themselves to and arrived here yesterday, had to I went the other night to a small orchestra.” be considered.
go into Yu Lee Kau Bay on October |focal theatre and for 40 cents sat "But what's that got to do with Apparently -all
12 to shelter. Rough weather pre- through twice The Last of Mrs. teaspoons?" Hong Kong. Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1929. that is needful for them to do vailed then on that run
Cheyney" with Norma Shearer and an- to put themselves on the right|
all British cast. Her acting was de side of the law is to declare that
|lightful—so easy and natural—and she A report was made to the Police has a rost refined English accent. She their mui-tsais are "adopted" by Mr. Routley, Land Bailiff at will, go far on the "talkies.", And her daughters, and to destroy all Talpo, of the theft of $500 from a support was perfect. The play was Of all the social evils of the documental and other evidences of safe kept at the Shroff's Office. The followed closely; there was such wit six children, arrived at the seaside
I am thrilled when I safe was broken into sometime and humour. any transaction. Does the Gov-between 1 and 9.4.m. on Oct. 13,
bear how excellently the English to spend a week's holidays, and at voices sound over the radiophone.
once set out to look for lodgings. ernment propose to cope with this evasion by another pro-
THE UNHAPPY MUI-TSAI
of
"Well, I suppose it's bacause they consider the music so stirring that
spoons are not necessary,"
ft."
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A father and mother, with their
the floor."
Far East, perhaps the system of child labour known as Mui Tsai
I saw the *Black Watch" last week, At long length they espied a is the darkest. For some years
The 21st annual general meeting with Victor McLagley. It was won- "furnished room to let" notico, past, even before the League of clamation? Or will it wait for a of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Clab derful. I sat it out twice and was car "Ok, yes," said the landlady, in ried away with loyalty at the stirring answer to the father's inquiry, "It's Club House, Nations was dreamed of, at- few years until the Home Secre- will be held in the
In the Officers' Hess. When the toast tempts were made to influence tary in England deems it ex-North Point, on Tuesday, Oct. 29, the offers and with the dinners here the rooms is to let, but (eyeing. at 5.46 p.m., when the officent for of the King was proposed and the the crowd) "there's only one bed in Asistic opinion to regard the pedient to turn a sympathetic ear the ensuing year will be elected.
Pipers played, some of the Officers sang Annie Laurie" beautifully, fin- "Oh, that's all right," replied the traffic in girls as an abomination, to further insistent protests? unworthy of the lowest
To us, the problem appears to
Leaving Singapore on October 6thing up with "Auld Lang Syne My father, beaming with satisfaction, eyen Just filled with tears. And it "we're used to roughing it. The humanity. In spite of the efforts be, rather more straightforward and Holhow on October 12, the was the first real play I have seen wife and youngsters will sleep on of missionaries and others, who than bewildered "students" ofed here yesterday, reporting three
Danish, s.s. "Michael Jebsen" arrive since I came to Los Angeles.
Young Douglas Fairbanks, in "The have endeavoured to educate the situation seem to think. We Chinese deaths en route, one from Youngest," has a good play on modern
Addressing an old rustic chopping public opinion in China, the evil do not profess to be ou felt with beri-berl and two, from consumingly well and naturally and is one of wood, the tourist asked how long it
American home-life; he acted excred- still persists, and, unless the the exact ramifications of the tion.
the best looking lads I have seen, would take to get to the next village. Governments concerned take Social Welfare Bureau, and
Pilgrimage Play
The man went on with his work, Two Chinese were charged at the I also want to see "The Pilgrimage neither speaking nor looking up, more vigorous action than the will take for
granted. Dr. Central Magistracy this morning, Play." One is deeply impressed. It definition of
on his way, The Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd. publishing of proclamations, it Yeung's
its before Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham was unforgettable. The stage le but The traveller went seems as if the unhappy Mui Tsai "great deal of useful work." with snatching a handbag from Mrs. at the foot of a high hill exactly like assuming he was not heard.
He had not gone far when he must continue to suffer shame (A gentleman who accuses the Dickson at the Central Market. The a street of the Bible days. The hill is
ail covered in trees and foliage and heard the rustic calling after him: Government of being liberal, bag contained $50 and some papers with small paths leading up. The not-Hey, mister! Come you back! and cruelty.
For some mysterious and un-enlightened, and always ready to receiving, and the defendants were stage and sometimes on a path up the The traveller returned, and the
There was an alternative charge of
ing takes place sometimes on the Come you back!".... fathomable reason, the British sympathise with and espouse the convicted on the latter charge. They hill. It is not a stage nor like a play man said: "It'll tak per just 20 min- Government that was, through cause of humanity," is evidently were sentenced to six weeks jail You are just watching the story of petes to get into the village."
Christ and it is beautifully and most Why didn't you tell me that, when the then Home Secretary, Sir unsafe to be alone with an adjecach,
reverently carried out. In every way?
I asked you?” remonstrated the William Joynson-Hicks, met the tive). But, if it has not already
It is all in the open air. The audience A Chinese was charged before the sit on padded forms. The only stage traveller. protestations of the Anti-Muidone so, why does not the Bureau same Magistrate with the larceny scenery is the stone wall. All the rest "How did know how fast you Teal Society in Britain with ap organise a band of suitable of a gold bangle from the wrist of a is nature, aided by wonderful lighting was going to walk?" retorted the parent sympathy, but nothing Chinese ladies, whose duty it child. It was mild that the child, effects: This is the tenth year of this man. Was done whatsoever in the would be to visit houses in their only six years of age, was going up play. The season is about six weeks matter, in spite of the indignant areas and make general en- the stairs to her house at 10, Sai-old and "Christ" is taken. by Ian Mac- street, when the man came up and laren, a Briton. The voices, action and oratory of Sir William, who pro- quiries. They need not be re- attempted to snatch the bangle clearness of every sound in the night fessed to be shocked in the good, garded as unofficial detectives, or away. She raised the alarm, and air was marvellous to hear!" "Christ" looked truly wonderful at the last old-fashioned manner, to think "mui-tsal spies." Their work the man was caught by three rat was most reverently played. Maclaren that such a state of affairs could could consist simply in having catchers He was sentenced to one","Christ” appeared to Mary Magdaen at the opposite end of the office.
year's imprisonment and Afteen at the Tomb and spoke to her, they all ever be in any British Colony, "motherly chats with the girls, strokes of the birch.
went dark. You ses them with s
Cooper: "Honestly, now, you gorgeous light surrounding Him für up In the meantime, the Society in and enducing them to confide________
the hillside, just the hands outstretch-would never have thought this car Hong Kong had not been in their troubles with the Secretary Fipes inflicted by Mr. T. W. Hed and saying "Lo! I am with you al of mine was one I had bought active. Through its Executive for Chinese Affairs
Hosegood, acting Marine Magis- ways, even unto the end of the World?
• Coles :: "Never = in my life....... I' Committee, it transmitted to the The only way to circumvent trate, in his Court this morning, I was impressed beyond Words The second-hand, would you?"E
for harbour offences, were whole thing beggars description. methods of the owners follow.
thought you had made it yourself? Colonial Government a resolution the that all Mul-Tsai in Hong Kong is, as Dr. Yeung Auge en-Fishing junk, for having no-light,
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"How about your lady graphera?"
"In what particular?”
Do they watch the clock?": “No, there's a full-length mirror
Mr. Yosh Teik-ee, Principal of Stout Lady (in park) : ́ ""I am Junk, for ing abreast five the Tutorial Institute, Hong Kong, going to have ride on one of the aldea who lives at 8, Prince's-terrace, 1st donkeys, and I'll pay for one, for
floor, is to be married shortly. His you if you will accompany me. ithout bride to be is Miss Cheung Pul-lan, Small Boy: Thank eo, mm, but
| I'd rather sit here and laugh Hot 3, Prince's terrace, and noor.