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THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1930.
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The NEW Dance Music by the BEST Dance Orchestras Here's how to put sparkle and cheer into the nights you spend at home this month! Buy yourself a flock of bright new Victor Dance Records and play them on your Victor Radio Electrola! You'll forget every care you ever had! There's a wide variety of dance records to select from this month. For instance, Kat Shilkret and the Victor' Orchestra have just made a couple of thrilling hits from that Incomparable talking picture," "The Rogue Song." Leo Heisman and His Orchestra, whom Paul Whiteman once de- clared to have "the sweetest bax section in the world,” qffer a pair of tuneful fox trots from the London Revue, "Wake Up and Dream!" There's not a record on the list that won't make you want to get up and dance! Ffear all of them at our store!
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LEO REISMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA No. 22212, 10-Inch
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WARING'S PENNSYLVANIANS
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My First Love-My Last Love-Fox Trot
VICTOR ARDEN-PUIL OHMAN AND THEIR ÜRCHESTRA
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Keep Your Undershirt On-Fox Trot
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NAT SMILERET AND THE
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Under a Texas Moon-Fox Trat
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Should I?-Fox Trat
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APPRECIATIVE AUDIENCE
Yesterday's matinee of "And So To Bed" by the A.D.C. altracted a splendid house, there being gen- eral appreciation of the company to cater for the younger genera- tion-and many of the older who are reluctant to stay out late for the theatre.
Mystery Picture Thrill Triumph
"THE UNHOLY NIGHT
Grim spectres, uncanny mystery in the darkness of a London fpg screams in the night, and sinta ter shadows" in an old manor house, all wound up in one of the strangest mystory plots the screen ever seen mark "The Unholy
Nigh.." Ben Hecht's new thriller. directed by Lionel Barrymore, now playing at the Queen's Theatre, as an all-talking production.
The "amorous rogue," as "Mr. Pepys," fa called by James Bernard Fagan, was more amorous and more rogueish than ever.
This new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Edmund Gwenn himself would production shows another side of have been the first to congratulate the directorial talents of Barry- W. A. Hannibal on such an CX- more, who, after scoring one of cellent presentation of his charac- the dramatic, successes of the year ter. He was admirably support-] In “Madame X" turns his hand ed by Fay Grossman as "Mrs. to the uncanny and supernatural, Pepys" and, indeed, by all the evolving the most gripping mys- members of the company, Any tery drama in years. who attended in a mere captious spirit must have been confounded; and put to shame. Few travelling companies could produce the same comedy with the same high degree of skill and artistry.
A special word is due to the scenery, on which the designer and supervisor, Mr. W. A. Cornell, A.Q.T., B.A., is to be distinctly commented. Likewise the ladies responsible for the majority of the costumes-Mrs. Hannibal and Mrs Stade--deserve specil men. tion. In other respects.
too numerous to mention, success was achieved, adding in no small mea- sure to a veritable triumph.
The performance will be repent- ed to-night, to-morrow night, and Saturday night, and crowded houses should be the rule. And so to bed!
ALOE WOOD THEFT
may be somewhat clouded by the Quantity Worth $2,500
fact that its strict enforcement would place an unduly large
Bverland China number of persons behind prison
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Other laws which are being hastily worked out hold to criminal responsibility the officials
Stolen by Coolies Yesterday it was reported in the bars, whose sole offence was that Chiya Mail that two coolies who of making or selling something were entrusted with a quantity of also wood and ginseng, worth that was not of the very finest $2,500, to carry to the Star Ferry quality. What would happen in wharf from a shop in Bonham any other country under such a Strand, absconded with the goods. regulation?
The sequel to the case was heard before Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham this morning when Detective Ing pector W. Shannon charged one of the coolies with larceny as a bailee, in the State lumber trusts who and a second Chinese with receiv
ing stolen property. fail to carry out the promised
Found in Shop Police inquiries resulted in the programmes of production, and
stolen wood and ginseng being make it a legal offence for pea-found in a ahop at 44, Des Voeux sants to destroy their young Road West where it had been sold cattle. This last practice has by the two thieving coolies for $600. been especially prevalent among The master of the shop was arrest peasants who enter the collective ed and further investigations led to one of the coolles being appre- farms. Some of the laws, in fact, hended in Warchal with the $600, closely resemble the stringent re- the proceeds of the sale; in hla pos- The other inan was not session, traced.
The Magistrate sentenced both the thief and the receiver to six months' hárd labour.
Hong Kong, Thursday, March 27, 1930, gulations enforced under the Defence of Realm Act in Great Britain during the War.
RUSSIA TO-DAY.
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The Supreme Economic Council, the body which directs the State
Clad in pyjamas, boys of Felsted industries, has issued between School, Essex, fought a fire which One of the most impressive 500 and 600 orders, most of them destroyed Grignon Hall and eight figures in Russian history is the peremptory and 'some of them of the school class-rooms. Taar, Peter the Great, who by threatening in tone, during the methods which often savoured of first three months of the Russian Asiatic despotism and ruthless business year. Some time ago the ness, brought into his backward Soviet Goverment promulgated a country at least some of the ex-decree prescribing a 35 per cent. ternal signs of Western civilisa-l increase in the harvest yield per
The new picture was adapted from Hecht's "The Doomed Regi- ment" and tells the story of a body of British officers pursued by an uncanny enemy, The cast is very elaborate.
Ernest Torrence, as the mys- terious “Dr. Ballou," appears in a role entirely foreign to this artiste, who is usually seen in unshaven character and "heavy" roles, and who in the new play appears as an Immaculately attired psy chiatrist, engaged to a British Peeress, and relentlessly analysing the overstrained minds of the off- cers caught in the meshes of the strange plot.
"UNDERWORLD"
Hand grenades exploded against the side of a building.
Machine gun fire rattled steadily. Powerful searchlights mounted on trucks were swung into position.
ward, firing as they advanced.
Squads of men moved grimly for
An
ambulance rolled into the scene, preceded by a motorcycle with a machine.gun mounted on its
sidecar.
But it is not a war picture. It is a tense scene for "Under-
world" which was shown at the for the first time. Majestic Theatre. last night
Ben Hecht's
story of modern crime shows
RUSSIANS IN COLONY
To the Editor, China Mail] Sir,--Can you please, through the columns of your newspaper, inform me whether there are any restrictions regarding the entry of Russians Into the Colony, and if they are in any way enforced.'
There has of late been a great indux whish to my mind is detri mental to the many unemployed Britons resident here.
Anyone aware of the result of their influx into Shanghai in 1920 and afterwards, will realise that the matter is of vast importance to the Colony.
Yours, etc.,
Hong Kong, March 27.
BRITON.
RANDOM REFLECTIONS
FROM THE EXPURGATED DIARY OF TUCK SUN PAO
Hong Kong, Yesterday, My think su it all blong too funny. Somebody makee get little money, and makes buy shares.
Five years ho no catchee dividend. That blong too bad. Then he makes go to company's meeting and again catchee no dividend. The company have got money, about $160,000. but this money makce transfer to credit new account, This Httle shareholder, allee samca American friends taikee, "kick." The Chair- man he blong velly sorry. He talkee the "kicking" shareholder why company makee do that fashion. That blong all right. But an- other director, and he no business talkee, because the shareholder no makee askee him any kestshuns, makee too much walla-walla. My think this blong all wrong. Direc tors, my think so, who blong pidgin to makee look after money blong to shareholders, must allee timo makee- give ploper answers to shareholders. All directors catchee fee, and this fee makee come from the money
qhareholders makee puttes in busi- nesa. Therefore, my think so, shareholders
makea askee
a battle to the
be- death tween police and gangsters on a street built for the production at Paramount's Hollywood studio.
The principal roles are played by George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, Larry Semon and Fred Kohler.
Van Josef
Sternberg
diected.
TELL-TALE HAND
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testshung. Directors must makes give ploper answers allee samee gent'men.
Ah Ya, Hong Kong alde blong too funny, and some gent'men blong more funny.
My talkee you more to-morrow.
Ten Years Ago
From the "China Mail,"
March 27, 1920.]
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To-day's dollar is worth 5/-1⁄4d.
Club that Bars Chinese:-Sir, Chan San, who has a disfigured In the course of his speech at the
was
right hand, was found cutting V.R.C. Championship Billard down trees In a Government plan-Match last night, Mr. R. H. B. tation at Laichikok. At the Police Mitchell remarked that he Station It was found that he was sure there were many more good a returned banishee, being deport billiard players who did not enter ed from the Colony in 1928 for a
for the championship. He at period of five years, after he hadtributed this fact to Racial Pre- served three terms for stealing judice. I am sure Mr. Mitchell is trées.
right. I have experienced that When he appeared, before Mr. myself when in 1915 I was put up T. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon to be a member of the V.R.C. by Magistracy this morning he was two well-known members. I was sentenced to eight months" hard "blackballed" because I was a Chi-
nese.Yours etc., J. A. Lam.
labour.
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
Loss To Literature: Lord Rothschild's Private Menagerie
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tion and technical progress. acre during the next five years. A Lost Voice: Putting Up With Lloyd George: A Great English Conductor: A Brilliant Young Man:" Feter, a restless giant in physical It remains to be seen whether stature as well as in his recon- drastic legislation will prove a struction plans, was continually stimulant to economic progress hurrying from one end of his vast in Russia, or whether the Com-Trials of Voicelessness realm to another, ordering new munist leaders will find, as did A FORMER Cambridge Blue has projects to be executed almost Peter the Great, that some of the before he had conceived them, and difficulties with which Russia is of a Hugby football match, not, always leaving in his trail a confronted are rooted in objec-as he has to point out to every- series of orders threatening with tive circumstances which lie out-one, as a consequence of shout the most dire consequences any-side the sphere of legislation. one who might disobey or fail to carry out his commands.
News in Brief
lost his voice
as the result
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he was but little over 40-is most sad and a serious loss to English
literature.
second? And if he turns unwilling Loss to Literature he is "a very bad horse to go up THAT Mr. C. Scott-Moncrieff should to in a loose box,"
have died at so early an age
SIR Henry Wood has fust colebrat- Sir Henry Wood
ed his 60th birthday and, after a The end was not entirely unex trip to Egypt and three weeks of Pected, for his health had never been ing, but through a blow in the hall, fe se indefatigable as ever. windpipe.
three performances a day in a music.
He not only conducts somewhere nearly every night of his life, bat when he is not conducting frequent ly watches ather conductors.
Sir Henry is at his happiest when at his place near Rickmansworth, Apple Tree Farm. There is an old
This winded him temporarily, and later the same evening his Convicted on a charge of the it Is a husky whisper. This is a voice began to dwindle until now theft of an overcoat from a student double source of embarrassment. barn in his garden, into which he in Laichikok Road, an unemployed At a dinner party he found him. Chinese was at the Kowloon Magis-self next a very pretty girl whore menth's, hard labour. tracy this morning sentenced to one he knew only slightly. If he made a remark to her It had elther to be, so loud that the
has put a parquet flour and several windows by his own efforts, for he Is a skilled carpenter, and the walls are hung with pictures he has him self painted,
Ho is certainly the most versatile of British musicians,
Russia to-day is passing through a phase of ruthless, vigorous, sweeping innovation which is not unlike that of Peter the Great. The Bolshevist effort at reconstructing society affects, to be sure, a vastly larger num-
A first class tailoring establish- whole table could hear it, and in ber of people than were or could
ment has bean added to the Colony's cidentally his voice rose to a be touched by Peter's changes. sartorial business under the name squeak, or else he was reduced to But in the prescription of penal of Brown, which is on the second whispering. This looked so-intim: ties for all who obstruct or fall floor of Button Building, Duddell ate and affectionate that he found to co-operate actively with the Street Brown guarantees style himself finally forced to keep
and quality.
allent. work of Socialist reconstruction Russia's Communist rulers are When a Chinese, 60, years of age
Asquithians following closely in Peter's foot!) was at the Kowloon! Magistracy this steps,
One recent law,
morning, charged with the unlawful Liberal macontente in this Parliament are not, as in the possession of a bottle of Mariel's list, Conservatively minded men. draconian decree, establishes a brandy, from the M. M. D'Artagnans calls the reverse. They are As maximum punishment of five he stated that siller on the ship quithians, and always thinking of
An the old tans Nevertheless, their
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A Conservative Candidate MR. Hubert Duggan, son of the husband, has been adopted as Con- Marchioness Curzon, by her first servative candidate for the Actob division of Middlesex,
really good since the war, in which he was severely wounded.
"Charlie" Scott-Moncrieff had all the literary diligence of his race, and was a brilliant contradiction of the absurd theory that a Scot hes no sense of humour. Indeed, It was difficult to know when he was serie ous and when he was not.
In the art of parody he was al
most incomparable, and he was al- ready proñelent at this when at Win-
So charming was his per cheator. sonality that he could make even puns tolerable.
He will chiefly be remembered as a translator of Pirandello and Marcol Proust.
This in a sense is rather a pity, for had he lived it is more than
probable that he would have achiev original vergo. ed fame as the writer of some sna
He is one of the brilliant young The Fly-by-Night men of the party and should go far.ORD Rothschild is a man to be He revels`In a tough debt which in envied, for he has a private fast as well, for in Acton be has a menagerie on his estate at Tring. constituency which at the General Once he attracted considerable atten- action turned a Conservative major th by driving a team of tabrak, 2
of over 7,000 into a Socialist
The other night a kangaroo escap- Cid Elcolan, he joined the pribe and confdsign of those whom ed and wandered at large to the Burs Life Guards in 1924, has resigned his encountered in the Klackness
years' imprisonment for persons had given to him free. A fine private vendetta Acommission two years ago,for polls. Indeed it must have been hard to;
found guilty of systematically was Imposed.
$10 with the option of 14 days Jail; Georgs is all their own.
Auk-put a "šame, to this unfamiliar and inst i. Still, they must have a leader, manufacturing and selling goods
who is there but L-G. Is there He possesses an abandance of factcredibly leaping monster. That
*C-B/m2 d'nit Br John Bichosd resource," @" diefal bret, for at walk the Evil One himself, in his The nur
very will serve if he were not to tresent moment Acton Conser traditional guise would have been a
ving lively family pardonabla conclusion. out of controversial polities at the
for he has mere of the Agreement over the constitutiba of (mina) and (Camper han any of their local organisation pat BERAT KABUMINéady attended Kodskapande a very
that are of poor pose of this law is, of course,
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