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Irig letter Mr.
„Assertions
Mate rectifies two other in assertions in the fellow
of
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AHL Watling, and ⠀⠀ which P. C. Field, Im-- by Mr. J. H:Ferguson,
[From Our Own Corigepond aka. Canton, Thursday. The Canton Amateur zheatrical Society have added to their laurels ing terms: In continuation of my by scoring another unqualified, ano, letter, which appeared in your cess in their production of "The Issue of the 11th instant, in re Ringer."
The play was firat perfocused last ference to the inaccurate state Friday and Saturday to the come the most important, were also ments in the short article publish-munity, but last night (26th) was
öd, (and showed their excel- ed in the 1911 edition of the their great evening when the tent training in the Shameen Special
Y.M.C.A.. and Chinese Officialdom Constabular)
personat
"Encyclopaedia Britannica" on were In attendance, there being Mr Mayes, who prompted; Mr.
and Baffling Mystery
Unholy Night
The
LAST SCREENING, TO-DAY
| Fantastic, and Bizarre shadowa in a!
Sir Robert Hart's career: that ac nearly 700 persons present, among wailing, Assistant, Stags: Manager; count contains two other incorrect whom was the Chief of Police. It And Mr. G. Duncan, the Stage Han- sasertions, which I wish to is hoped that the Chief of Police ager must not be forgotten, da rectify. The writer chronicles: will have paid close attention to the is to be hoped that the masterly methods of that melo C. A. T. 8. will give us another pro- Thrice only did he visit Europe dramatic genlus, Detective Inspec duction on almBar lined one of these between 1869 and 1902." As a tor Bliss, who tracked, the Ringer days Boo matter of fact, between the years The C.A.T.S.. deserve high praise 1854, when he proceeded to China, for departing from the usual lize
of light comedy and rhaking Pro ROUND THE CINEMAS and 1908, when he left it for good, duction such as "The Ringer, Sir, Robert Hart visited Europe which is by no means easy, for only twice in 1868, when he amateurs. Messrs Wolf lived for a while at Ravarnette duction, are to be congratulated on Galloway, who undertook the pro-]
Hours, near Lisburn, where his their enterprise and skill in making father and mother were dwelling of it the success it undoubtedly has
been at that time, and in 1878, when
**FAMA Walker - Outstanding London for, ghosts, mysterious crimin- he attended the Paris Exhibition
Mr. J.-M. Walker in the part of ali and a betting mystery form the of that summer. During his brief the Scottish doctor, Lomond, (alias basis of The Unholy Night Lional Bojourn in the French capital he Arthur Milton, the Ringer) was Barrymore's new all-talking, Metro- was decorated with the Order of simply magnificent, standing wall Goldwyn-Mayer production now play. the Legion of Honour by the head from the rest of the cast inng at the Queen's Theatre, d
of a group of British his astonishingly easy, ironic and merry famous Marshal MacMahon, Duke quietly forceful rendering of the
bed by an uncanny plot.. Holan of Magenta, the then President character This la, of course, the Dorothy Sabastian, Natalia Moorhead, of the French Republic; exactly character role and, therefore, full of Phillip Ba 7 years later another French Pre possibilities for the actor, of which Balmore
Mr. Walker made the most. His Moran, and made its own addition to the,sident Jules Grevy-made him height, alow Scottish accent and note usual expressions of loyalty and a Grand Officer of the Order in re manner were just right and ho made co-operation. The result was ex cognition of his brilliant services never an awkward or self-conscious gesture, establishing sympathetic tremely interesting, since the ad in bringing the Franco-Chinese contact with his audience from the dresses clearly indicated what War of 1884-5 to a close.
very first; added to his ironic problems each community was
humour was just that touch of in At the end of scrutability and secretiveness, which
unkue position His Marriage the article in gave character and force to the part among filmr keuken
She doem't own Selangor method was the more
dist and atmosphere to the whole pěny, any, pats, question men- impressive, as showing the spirit
His voice · is of the timbre that, kinds of “animals, dogs and monkeya tion is made that "Sir while modulated, carries clearly, and of solidarity and friendliness that Robert Hart married in 1886, the easy infections expressed the ECT. Raise Bars Mefatosh and.
Glenn
also is starred, with exists among the unofficial popu-When he
staying at slightest, shades of meaning, brings doyd Whitlock occupying important lation of the State, and, indeed, Ravarnette House in 1866 he being out the true value of the divere positions in the exceptional cast. throughout the Federation came engaged to, and married in not be an exaggeration to say that fames Craft
subtle remarks he shed. It would The film was directed" by William Doubtless it would be easy to Dublin, Miss Hester Bredon, the his performance touched the wings make too much of this, and the remarkably handsome (eldest) of the professional stage, and could Singapore procedure may indicate daughter of Alexander Bredon, not be battered by any amateur nothing more than an older and M.D. of Por
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herefore more developed and" Aped communis Pilion
was
thad
his profes
#the most obert amateur.
play and
vile monster/D
:
·but tinues our-con- Hart
there is no doubt During this engagement, which living in the whatever that, in the compare was a short one, as Sir Robert his depletion of
short history of the had to hurry back to Chins, Miss amazingly good; Federation a tradition of infer Bredon resided with her people in harsh and forceful, yet u tacia Tri
already Portadown. On one occasion Sir and cowardly withal come into
which the lead Robe was obliged to pay a flyanfortunate that on cocar
| arresting character and I was communities-re-ing viait to
inbun Bently lost touch
Hong Kong, Saturday, March 29, 1930. ing men or
cognise gre prize and care and had not met fully foster
at Fadition of his journeya banded on to successive genera- When she heard tions the Federated states should had passed twice On Friday
always be what they are today down without ma Differences in next in the
Welcomes
her Miss Bredon City Hall, Hongthe most peaceful and conte
will beed territories
was unhappy pro
new
the mode of Orient
Hart, is being
*memory-of
that Grand Old
bo given to : our Governor, Sir William Peel According to the Straf: 15 Times, the difference between t}}/ welcome which Sir Cecil Clement received in Singapore and Kusla Lumpur was interesting and Bobert Hart Mar
two more letters to t The He ceremony i significant RS
News Letter, copies Legislative Council Chamber,
has forwarded to the ta Singapore, His Excellency wore
In the first he his uniform as Governor and
always regarded the Commander-in-Chief, as, indeed,
to which Mrs. was only, atting on an occasion
makes reference commission signed at
published in your issue of the instant in the 92 hel the Encyclopedia Britannica
But that gathering, by members of the
wassap
Civil
the other hand,
that Sir Robert Hart's diary was burned in
Peking, as an aba one,
and it was
stat
well, did not quite essary feeling
W. Roland Farrier appointing as Colo
Assistant Commis His acting wa
art not quite, suits
zole, however for two parts) asetation Ser
Carter he was great, having
ighly diverting little mann which suited him down b being excruciatingly.
d again ro to prove hi fabilities.......
Mr. D. Baker-Carr was 1 aadetective-inspector in th ter of "Alan Wembur efore as is a long and than
Mortant for the fusion ling as it did co nenes on the stage, more. not as a subordinate ja Is only in the third ang that Wembury 3,16
TO BED"
ers. Even Better Than Before
NO STALENESS
fore and Mr. Bak
éd much ability:pl Ing
The Americ
Miss Gladys Milton" the America natural advantages ofer and an attractive stage pre elsar enunciation. She was Ingly good in all the Jeering.
(ned success, was the key-ing, and kabi boiled parts,
And So To Bed,” repeated the "failed? Theatre Royal last night by sense, and
ateur Dramatic Boolety
econd last
Toccasion to anal scenes
Detective played by
Pof plait
courses.
Ran
DEARY
«Bichard Tucker, Lional
Folly thers of
OUT
“Universal's comedy, Ost.coming to the Queen's baTheatre "to
in Brief
Bhants has been
Lopaty, Governor, the US Consul
George Lee, (Lon- the regis oners. Dr. welcomed ends hers, Thomas's
lalist
bave