WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1930.
THE
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WHAT THE CHICKEN THRONE AT STAKE IN ROUND THE CINEMAS
THINKS ABOUT IT
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LAWSUIT
UNFORTUNATE THAT IT CANNOT CURIOUS TALES OF THE SAXONİ
were
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Theatre,
Theatre.
Theatre,
"THE UNHOLY NIGHT"
A cat may look at a king, and a Inner workings of "Scotland CRUELTY TEST CASE
working man can sue e monarch, It has Yard," London's famous detective
Social Functions Victor von bureau, are shown in graphic detail
To-day-Tea Dance at Hong Kong "There is a difference of opinion been revealed at Berlin. about this question of carrying Horvath is a Berlin working man who the screen's latest mystery thrill- Hotel, 4.30. p.m.
er, "The Unholy Night," Metro-
To-day Tea Dance at Peninsula chickens. Some people argue that is at present receiving the unemploy-Goldwyn-Mayer's all-talking filmi- Hotel, & p.m.
dole. He has filed a law-suitsation of Ben Hecht's famous story,
Dances To-day Dinner carrying them by the wings is most ment
to the Hong Kong, and Peninsula Hotels, humane", stated Mr. T. S. White-against ex-King Frederick Augustus which comes to-morrow
8.30 p.m. of Saxony, whom he accuses of having Queen's Theatre.
The new play, a murder mystery Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy
Entertainments usurped the Saxony "throne and family two
To-day this morning when
Chinese heritage of which he is
Queen's the rightful laid in London, with a group of cruelty to hair. He declares that he is in a posi. British officers as. the centre of "Dynamite." charged with
To-day - Star chickens by carrying them by their tion to bring evidence that he ought to action, was directed by Lionel
be King of Saxony by right of his des- Barrymore, with a
notable cast. "Honeymoon." wings.
cent as a grandson of King Albert of Roland Young, stage star, Dorothy
To-day World Sergt. Barnicle said that it was Saxony and Queen Carola, who were Sebastian, Ernest Torrence, Natalie Westward Ho."
Nthat the Twenty-third OR Moorhead, Lionel Belmore, Richard most humane provided no string supposed to have died without izsue.
Today Majestic Theatre: DINARY ANNUAL MEETING of Von Horvath states that his father. Tucker, Gerald King, Sydney Jarvis, "Underworld." was used to tie the wings.
SHAREHOLDERS will be held at The Magistrate: It is unfortun-musician, named Geza Horvath, who Boris Karloff, John Loder, John
March 26 (matinee), 27, 28, and the Company's Office, No. 2. Ice ate that we cannot ask the chicken
Roche, Sojin, Richard Travers, and 29-A.D.C.-"And So To Bed," House Street (St. George's Build- which it prefers! I think that
many others of note are in the cast Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.
Ing), on THURSDAY, the 3rd carrying by the wings hurts the
Polly Moran. and George Cooper
April, 1930, at 12 o'clock noon, chicken more than by the legs.
furnish the comedy details in the
for the purpose of receiving the mystery plot.
Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1929.
Both defendanta remarked that they had seen the market fukla tying the chickens by the wings.
His Worship indicated to Inspector Marks that in the next case of cruelty to chickens he would like the Colonial, Veterinary Surgeon to be called as a witness,
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tiety in 1944, le lunga rint Woman forty from an old Hungarian of Veszprem, Hungary, whom he had always regarded an his mother, that ahe was only his foster mother, and that his two parents were unknown to her. She told him that as a two-weeks- old child he had been placed in her hands by a high official of the Saxony Army and a Reman Catholic bishop.
mother.
Son of the Queen
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Inside secrets of "punctuality 2.30 p.m. efficiency and good memory" of "My father," says Von Horvath many business men are revealed in Kowloon, household furniture, 11 March 29-At 16, Chatham Rd. "made searching inquiries concerning the Paramount pleture "Figures a.m. The Magistrate (to the Interpre- his true origin, at the end of which he te): Tell the two defendants
that discovered that Queen Carola was his Don't Lie" starring Esther Ralston, now showing at the the opinion of this Court is that
A secret law of the Saxon which is chicken should be carried with its legs Royal House demands that the eldest Majestic Theatre, Kowloon. tied up and supported by one's hands born son of the Saxon rulor shall be In this instance, Esther Haiston, Inspector Marke: I certainly think put away in order to avoid compliance who takes the part of "Howdy" that tying by the wings is cruelty, as with the clause in the will of Queen Jones (Ford Sterling) furnishes it causes a certain amount of pain. Eberhardina, who died at the end of the three qualities mentioned. She His Worship: Perhaps it would be the seventeenth century. The clause finds a string around her err- as well to remand the
case, to get demands that the eldest son of ployer's finger an Invaluable aid to someone to speak who understands the Saxony ruler shall always be brought his "good memory." feelings of chickens more than I do. up in the Protestant faith. It is a The defendants were accordingly re-significant fact that since this will be. manded for 48 hours, being admitted camo law no son was ever horn to a to ball of $10 each.
Saxon king during his reign.
POLYGAMOUS BIRDS
Changing Mates in One Season
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short time but care must be exer- cised to replace the lid as soon as possible. A good method to adopt is to refill after three or four bottles have been taken out.
o
room to
The plot of the picture centres about the incidents that arise
They are perfectly magnificent through Mias Ralston's innocent
when used in conjunction with a efforts to conduct her employer's meeting of Religious Differences
Frigidaire or a Kelvinator. "The Saxon Royal House are Roman business and at the same time keep
The small sized Tank can be Catholics, and naturally wish to avoid from being shot by his jealous Ltd., 2 Ice House Street, noon.
April 26-Hong Kong Tug and carried easily by one person the succession passing into the hands wife, Blanche Payson. of a Protestant, Queen Carola, ataunch Richard Arlen takes the leading Lighter Co., Ltd. (in liquidation), it becomes a matter of convent-
move it from 6, Des Voeux Road Central, Noon.ence to Roman Catholic that she was, com male role as the breezy young plied with the custom of her house, but sales manager, who quite naturally
May Hong Kong & Shanghal room; this is a real boon on a hot Think of waking up in when it came to putting away her child
the night and by merely stretch- she refused to have him killed, but falls in love with the beautiful Hotels Limited, Exchange Bldg., night.
A rescue from the surf Des Voeux Rd., 11.30 a.m. placed him in
of two Eather. the hands
Miscellaneous
ing out a hand to procure an ice- trusted courtiers, the officer
and furnishes one of the high spots of
To-mbrrow-St. John Ambulance cold drink instead of having to Brigade Annual Inspection, Murray get out of bed and walking some Parade Ground, 6.15 p.m.
little distance to the ice-chest and March 27, April 3, 10.-Lectures In ali probability there finding all "Modern Architecture" by the Ice has melted. and nothing These Tanks Mr. C. E. Moore, University En- but warm bottles.
can also be carried out to the gineering Society.
tennis court enabling cold drinks to be had at any moment instead
In the good old romantic days we used to think the birds mated for life. Then some callous destroyer of illusions made the claim that they not only change mates every spring when they come north again, but cessfully to persuade the Saxony Court VIVID SETTINGS IN DE MILLE'S that they divorce and marry other of the justice of his claim, but they would not listen to him. He died spouses when
the bishop of the old woman's story, this swiftly moving picture, direct begging them to find a mother for her ed by Edward Sutherland. child."
Geza Horvath tried long and unsue-
Theatre.
"DYNAMITE"
the time comes to leaving his son, Victor, to carry on the
"The greatest De Mille picture raise the second of the two broods fight. Victor von Horvath, who will be since "Manslaughter," "is the ver of young which most birds bring up represented in the courts by Dr. Mueller dict of crities on "Dynamite," Cecil each year. To get at the real facts Roehr, one of the cloverest advocates in B. De Mille's first talking picture, in the case, Mrs. Margaret Morse the Saxony capital, is suing his alleged which is now at the Queen's Nice, of Columbus, Ohio, tagged acousins of the Saxony Royal House for lot of birds with little numbered the title of Prince of Saxe Wettin, and bands around their legs and studied the restitution of the legacy of his them for several seasons. Recently grandmother, Queen Carola. The un- employed workman does not claim the she reported her results at the meet-title of king, and he says that in the ing of the Willson Ornithological present circumstances this is valueless, The ex-King of Saxony will be repre- "Five pairs of three species shift-sented in the courts by Dr. Maeding, ed mates in one season, but in a famous Dresden barrister. twenty pairs of eleven species there "The was no change," she said. species that changed were brown thrasher, house wren and bluebirds. The species that did not change were phoebe, Junco, chipping spar- row, field sparrow, song sparrow, towhee, cardinal, catbird, house wren, robin and bluebird.
Club at Des Moines.
JERICHO FINDS
A Bronze-Age Rampart
"Both house-wrena and bluebirds The Sir Charles Marston expedition.. leave the nesting site for a period under the direction of Professor J. after one brood is raised. Brown Garstang, which is examining the site ancient city Jericho, has thrashers appear to make a definite of the new start for the second brood, for now probed the lowest part of the in-
"Dynamite," decked with beauti- ful gowns, pretty girls, thrills, a a spectacular glass bathtub and mine explosion, returns the pro- ducer to the highly-coloured type of story, with which he made his earliest triumphs. The film, by Jeanie MacPherson, is said to have the same irresistible type of eye and sensory appeal which pre- dominated in "Male and Female," "Manslaughter" and "Why Change Your Wife?".
DANCING
How to Do the Tango
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car.
of having to call for the "Boy" whenever one is required; then again they are invaluable on any picnic-walking, launch, The small size is small enough to fit comfortably under one's legs or there is another shape which fits to the shape of the running beard and can be clamped on also securely, and safely, and there is a perforated folding tray for food which the ice cold at- mosphere keeps fresh and sweet throughout the whole day.
The prices are so graded, that they are within the reach of all pockets and the eaving in Ice soon pays for the outlay and then be- comes a profit to the owner be sides a profit very materially to comfort and juxury. No house is 9-10.30 p.m.-Programme of Vic- complete without one. tor records,
gramme.
p.m.-Experimental
9 p.m.-Weather Report.
10.80 p.m-Close Down.
Pro-
Mr. Albert Barnett, who, with HOT WEATHER BOON
the male resumes singing for a few terior of the mound and located Neoli- Miss Nora Chile is ballroom danc
days at this time.
"Many species, however, stay con- tinuously on their territories and
BARREN ENGLISH
Mr. Justice MacKinnon, in the Lon- don High Court:-
"The English language, even when reinforced by all the resources of the American, remains an utterly in adequate instrument for those concerne ed in the filmi industry, and inadequate because of its paucity and barrenness of superlatives."
thie floors and hearths 16ft. below the Burfrce.
ing round the world, told the Far
The great stone rampart, surround- East over the local wirelces, to A Money-Making Article ing the whole area of about ten acres, soft muste, how the tango should and the citadel uncovered recently be danced.
This excavation is expected to prove of great Biblical interent,
Testament as having fallen (about 1400 BC.) before the trumpets and
for All
REJECTED SUITOR
Blows Himself Up with Gelignite
moreover their nesting cycles over
Bertram Morrison (aged 82 Jap. Female song sparrows, robins, belong to the Middle Bronze ago, 2000 In addition he gave a brief his- It la not as widely realised as years), station overseer, blew him- cardinals and migrant shrikes have to 1600 B.C. being the period which tory of the origin of this dance. it should be what a boon Tundice self up with a charge of-gelignite at been watched building new nests marked the culmination of the pro Mr. Barnett said: "The tango Tanks are to all those who live the home of Mr. J. LB. Weir, while still feeding young of the first perity of many Syrian and Palestinian originated in South America, for it in hot climates; these compact Claremont, Perth, Australia, before brood. In such eases the seeking of cities.
The atone-girt city of Jericho was was invented by the descendants of Tanks are made on the thermos the eyes of Miss Guilds Wier, who new mates is impossible."
destroyed at the beginning of the Late the original Spaniards who colonis principle and therefore all bottles was slightly wounded in the ex
is Argentinia, and that are put In become, and re-plosion. Bronze age, 1600 to 1200 B.C., but the ed what now surface was levelled and fresh walls took wives from the native women main Ice-cold for twenty-four Morrison arrived in Perth on the were built higher at the top of the of the country. These half-breeds hours with a very smail expendi- same morning from Hinnetarra alopa, enclosing a smaller ares. had inherited the natural grace of ture for ice.
station, in the Carnarvon district, Professor Qarstang is now tracing their Spanish forbears, and & What a great Improvement this where he was employed as an over- these lines of defence..
marvellous sense of rhythm from la on the ordinary ice-chest, where seer. The young lady, bleeding their aboriginal ancestors. The only those bottles which are ac from cuts on her arms and suffering tango was danced upon the greens tually resting on or touching the from shock and burns on her legs. The citadel is believed to be part the vicinity of the drinking ice become cold. Most of us have ran to a neighbour's residence. of the wall described in the Old
The man was shockingly injured, shanties of the camps, thus sc experienced the frantic and an- counting for the lifting steps noying search on a hot night for and the detectives, when they enter Instead of gliding.”; **
a really cold bottle to the detried the room, looked on a scene which Mr. Barnett's explanation of the ment of our tempers and also we was appalling in its horror. Owing so-called tango crouch is not, with all know the number of times we to her condition, the detective RECORDING A FOWL'S "MILL" out interest. "Much mystery has have had to send back a warm officers were unable to interview been associated with the tango Soda because the "Boy" could not Miss Weir, but Detective-Sergeant The microphone is being used at the crouch," the lecturer, continued, be bothered to burrow down to Reld was told an amazing story by Positry Nutrition Research Institute at "In reality, there is no such thing find a cold one. When an ordin- Dr. Stawell. Cambridge University to record. the In any ballroom tango. This ary ice-chest is filled up the usual néise of a 'fawl's mill—the spund from fallacy is due possibly to the fact practice is to put in some layers its gizard when food is being ground of the knee-joints brushing in pass- of bottles and then a large quan-
The doctor sald that Miss Weir op among the mall stoner and grit the ing. Virtually one tangos knock tity of Ice, some bottles around had informed him that she had been bird has swallowed.
kneed. The gauchos were all very and above the ice and then more engaged to Morrison, but had writ The record le beleg amplified, and hard riders and consequently were layers of bottles above these and ten him a letter terminating. this will be heard on a loud-speaker at the also how-legged. Their instinctive the result is when a bottle is relationship. When he arrived at World Poultry, Congiwas at the Crystal grace never deserted them, and to quired the one nearest to hand is the house she conversed with him Palace, B.E., next July
overcome their acquired defect generally taken.se for some time. they turned their knees Inwards. All this is eliminated by Tun-
AND SO TO BED
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Mr. R. J. MoNė Love, Stree?” burgeon, is to mari Dorothy Borland in the cellar
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A Hissing Noise
When they had finished after-
As this causes the weight of the dice, for then the bottles are noon tea she suddenly heard a hla body to precede the movement of placed standing up and a remark sing noise. She asked Morrison. the feet, it produces to the on-rably sma looker, the illusion of a crouch
Mr Barnett concluded:
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ice a place what he was doing, and he replied: the ice "You will see. In a minute." She Funk down the then became award that he was hold elects ind something in his hand, some
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