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CHAT ON LOCAL FOOTBALL
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Junior Games.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
Behind the Scenees
in Hollywood
HOBBIES OF STARS.
Wealth of Talent Revealed.
[By Dorothy Herzog.I Didst know Harry Langdon la
Eddie Cantor has blossomed forth as a profilic scribe.
May Allison (Mrs. James Quirk) wrote several sprightly articles for Cosmopolitan Maga- zine. She has the ability.
Eve Sutherland leans to paint- Ing. I believe.
a clever cartoonist? Umt Harry and Benny Rubin plan to collator borate on 4 cartoon strip for ed. nowspaper release, Benny writing the continuity.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., heard somewhere, is another adroit pen and Ink sketcher, and is to do a series of short articles, illustrat ed, for Vanity Fair.
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Joha Barrymore's talent caricaturist is widely known.
Lionel Barrymore once forsook the stage for years (this, before hie concentration on pictures) and devoted himself to painting.
S. China "A" v. R.A. Caroline Hill ground.
Navy v. Club, Navy ground, dabble Happy Valley.
LEAGUE TABLES TO DATE
Division L
Goals.
scenca.
Before Jack Gilbert "turned ae-
he wrote scenarios and direct
Jack is another potential writer, if he would sacrifice the time to it.
Louis Fazenda once wrote a series of impressionistic articles for a motion picture magazine.
NO CURE.
Well, a guy can't always be right.
Hoot Gibson, for instanca. Hoot has a friend. The friend has a son. The son stuttera.
Hoot has да airplane! He savvies that, in many cases aero- nautic drops have cured deafness. He figures it might cure stutter- ing. At all events, it was worth trying. The friend agreed. So Hoot and the boy took off. They dived in and out
of clouds. Hoot soared to 10,000 feet and a clunk to 3,000, dropped like
He tallspinned. At He looped.
landed.
Milton Sills used to being a minlature clay to the studio, and
in modelling
between
Doris Kenyon prefers writing. Doris Is the author of several books of poema. She has a book of sketches coming, out soon. The heat victory of the day was
Carmelita Geraghty's avocation recorded by the Navy over Chinese
P. W. D. L. F. A. Pta is clothes. Carmelita designs her "E". By finding their oppon- Royal Navy 20 13 5 2 39 22 31 own, many
of Colleen Moore's, .19 13 3 3 44 19 20 and others Athletic ents*
times the Navy K.0.3.B....29 11 6 3 45 21 28 net six
of her frienda. brought their season's всоге
Somersets
28 one time she thought she would .18 12 2 4 41 13 date to
to
century, South China 18 9 4 5 26 22 organise this talent up
13 and now hold the best record of the R.A.
20 0 2 9 31 33 20 ness. Kowloon .20 7 3 10 33 31 17 League. With three games to play
Club
18 3 5 10 21 85 11 two should be certainties, but they fecreto
19 .....19 4 2 13
41 10 will have to be very steady when St. Joseph's 20 42 14 18 59 they meet Chinese "A".
3 2 10 20 50
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Two goal-less draws were recorded during the
afternoon Club versus Kowloon and South China "A" versus Ewo. The "Sets" were easy victors over the University, and the Gunners took a new lease an life after their recent reverses and held St. Joseph's to n one-all draw.
Police
He
to
the
"How's it?" turning youngster.
"D-d-d-d-derndest r-rr-ride I h-h-h-h-had," grinned the
into a busi-
Naomi Childers in a splendid sculptress-when she'll take the 10 time to sculp.
Will Rogers, manages to find
boy.
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points
Kowloon awarded two against Recreio for December 21.
I includes time for his newspaper, magazine Table for Division points awarded against teams fail-and book writing, in spite of pic- ing to fulfil their fixtures
ture and other activities. 'Tis fascinating to watch Will do his follows:
dally newspaper stunt. If he is working in a film, he'll take a few minutes off, Knaw on a pencil, ink into space and then scrawl his stuff. All in a jiff. wright and scenarist.
Gilbert Emory is acte,
He nates 'twixt the three.
Navy awarded two points against Kowloon for February 1.
South China awarded two points against Recreio for February 8.
Police awarded two points against
Recreio for March 15.
Division II.
ever
READY TO WORK.
Constance Bennett. returns to the Gold Coast, a free woman, her final decree of divorce (from Phil Plant) secure In the vault. Connie goes to work 'soon in the leading role of "Three Faces East." which the Warners will play-screen. Erich Van Stroheim Will alter-share stellar honours
In this
talkie. Connie has the role por com-trayed by Jetta Goudal years ago.
Should be quite a novel combina tion, Miss Bonnett and Von Strohelm.
Victor Schertzinger is a poser when he isn't megaphoning. James Gleason tosses off plays, sketches and screen stories even when he le emoting before the
To-morrow's Programme. The replay of the Junior Shield Anal between Chinese "B" and Eastern has been arranged for to. morrow, meeting on the Kowloor F.C. ground, the kick-off being timed for 4.30p.m. Last Saturday
Goals. Chinese "B" (in reality their "A"
RW.D.L F. A. Pts aide) had an "off" day and in the KO.S.B.....28 23 2 3 118 17 48 raplay to-morrow. I shall expect Royal Navy 25 18 4 2 100 -13 42
Tom Mix budded forth аз д Chinese "A"
2 63 20 35 them to confirm their League Somersets
G 73 29 37 penster, but the first few months superiority by defeating Eastern & China "A" 24 5 89 24 36 proved the hardest. with a goal or two to spare.
Senior Fixtures.
The Military ground at
Eastern St. Joseph's Kewioon...
Sookumpoo should be pushed S. China "B" 23
сашега,
9 45 48 25 Verily, there's avocational 11 49 64 20 talent in the hurdy gurdy of 10 27 52 19 cinema artistes. 18 28 66 18
to its full capacity to-morrow Ewo .23 8 5 12 24 61 the University.24 3 2 10 22 66
for
the Somersets
a
game between
12 35 62 17
17
14
RA.M.C.....26 4 4 18 28 65
Club
.24 1 5 10 12 68- E.E.B.C. Football Team.
and Athletic will Chinese "9" 23 5 2 18 22 61
We
are informed that the
Eastern
Billie Dave has never knocked on publication doors, but she used to write her impressions of people and scenes in fraguay style. be the attraction. For the
Lois Moran, as you know, re- Athletic It is their last League
cently sold her first short story Axture for the reason and the
and is doing others. Championship is within their grasp.
Charlie Bickford leans to writ- A win for the Athletic would give Chinese staff of the Equitable ing and
proves it
with several them the Senior Trophy by virtue Eastern Banking Corporation have plays that have seen the light. of their having
formed a football team and will better a goal average than the Navy; try conclusions with the
draw is likely to rob F.C. at Causeway Bay on Sunday at them of "Runners up" position 2.30 p.m. unless the "Sets" spoil their pre.. sent goal average or loss more than one point in their remaining fixture. At Sookumpoo, the "Sets" bagged three points from the K.O.S.B., two from the R.A., but lost both to the Police. On the other hand the Athletic hold an unbeaten certificate on the Military ground, sharing the points with the K.O.S.B. 1-1, and with the R.A. 3-3. Will they per- form the "hat trick" against the "Sets" to-morrow, or will they go one better?
Last November South China were easy winners on foreign soll against the Club by three clear goals, and on their own ground at Caroline Hill they should confirm that form. Junior Games.
The Navy should improve their goal average at the expense of the Club on their own ground. Can they reach double figures, without the fall of their own goal?
The Gunners will complete. their season's League programime by visiting Caroline Hill to meet South Chins "A." The "A" side should have a comfortable victory..
TENNIS
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E. C. Fincher will meet T. Honda, a former champion, in the final of the Open Singles Cham- pionship.
Handicap Doubles.
D. S. and S. E. Green defeated
Screening of "The Duke Steps Out."
TITANIC ECHO.
While shooting trench scènes for "Journey's End," the sundry players were compelled, to stand in knee-deep water. And the water was plenty cold. One chap in the Alm, Tom Whitely, didn't seem to mind the experience so much.
Investigation rovealed that Whitely is among the few Titanic survivors. When that ship crashed an iceberg and sank, Whitely was in the water seven and a half hours bofore he was rescued. The water's tempera- ture was 22 degrees below zero!
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ROUND THE CINEMAS “FRAMED" AT THE MAJESTIC,
The Brazilian diamond mines,
natives, where
under white supervision, work in the swelter- ing heat and turmoil of the mines digging for diamonds, are depicted in the First National film "Framed” showing to-day and to-morrow. at- the Majestic Theatre.
A, PRIZE FIGHTER,
One of the most famous fight stadiums in America, the Holly wood Legion Stadium, where film stars gather to watch flatic stars in combat, has at last made its debut
lead the cast, and the acting of the Milton Sills and Natalie Kingston. former is extremely good,
The penal colony is, show... where men convicted of diamond L. Forster and Dean Swann in on the screen. Though famous in atealing are sent for five years. the semi-final round of the Han filmdom for years, it was used as a dicap Doubles by 3-6, 6-3, 6-8. In film locale for the first time in pro-surrounded by miste of fever, in This colony is merely a mass of huts, the other semi-final, Humphreys ducing "The Duke Steps Out," Wilthe jungles. and Wilds beat Humphreys and llam Haines" new Metro-Goldwyn Sayer by 6-0, 8-6, 6-2.
The prisoners have nothing to Mayer play, which is being shown do no hard labour,but just at the Queen's Theatre to-day and sweat, drag & chain and ball at to-morrow..
thefr feet, and live until melaris fever takes them into another world.
OPEN DOUBLES SEMI-FINAL.
.
"The Duke Steps Out" is a vivid Three Rumjahus and Cassumbhoy filmisation of Lucian Cary's famous
Concerned,
Saturday Evening Post story E. J. Radcliffe, John Miljan, directed by James Cruze. Joan Charles Gerrard and Easygra Pell. A most interesting match is Clawford plays the heroine, and a are in the supporting, ch down од this afternoon's pro- notable cast appears. gramme at the H.K.C.C., whọn the
holders, H: D. and 3. A. Rumjahn who goes to college to please his It is a drama of a prize fghter meet C. AL Rumfahn and South Chring "B" and the Univer anal of the Open Doubles Cham-ventures. In double identity furnish There is little to choose between 7. A. E. Cassumbhoy in the semi-sweetheart, and still has to fight to protect his title. Haines' · ́ad» alty, and the same remarks apply to Kowloon and St. Joseph's. So a plonship,
both thrills and hilarious comedy. division of the spells in these two the title for the last five years The Rumjahn cousins have won games is the most likely result and are playing just as well as play is the fight, staged at the The most speciasulari thrill of the With new faces In the Medical over, "CI AL and Caseumbhoy Legion' Stadium between Haines eleven they should give Dwo a good will be strong challengers this and Jack Roper, well-known Heavy run, even if they are beaten.
afternoon, as their combination is weight contender, before an sound, and both have more than audience of several thousand.
FULL PROGRAMME.
To-morrow's complete programme appanded aga
Junior Shield. Final Replay.
CHARLES CHAPLIN.
Eager for a Serious Part.
Mr. Charles Chaplin Is studying the manuscript of the stage version
of "Jew Buss" with the intention, an ordinary knowledge of the Hundreds of college students if it proves suitable, of taking the accounted for Honda and Akiyama pear in the campus scenes and The famous comedian in known game. The manner in which they from a California university pleading role in a talking-alm of it. and League table to date areas very convincing and leads one Haines has one fight in college and to be tip of his character of å to expect great things of them. Another in a cafe among his thrilling
To-day's programme is as fol, adventuros in, the realms of higher,
Open Open Championship Doubles James Cruze, who directed The (semi-final) *ZID:
Covered Waggon and who recently directed
Excess Bag
(4.30 p.m.)
Chinese "B" v. „Eastern, Kowloon:| Jowa:-
F.C. ground. S
Division L. (4.30 p.m.):
Somersetsy. Athletic/Military.
ground
Club, Caroline
educatan..
the rew
ragged tramp and to be eager for a serious part in a gorious. Ami
Interested in the possibilities of “Jew Susi,” he asked his Eastern representative, Mr. Arthur Kelly for a copy of the play
New York It has been for his consideratione Chaplin ka that
Imer faith
bellaved, however
FOREIGN FILMS.
Advertising Ban. Not Approved.
CHINESE PAPERS AFFECTED.
From April 1, all moving pictures for exhibition In Settlement of the International Shanghai must be subject. to censorship by the Film Censor-, chip Committee of the Special Municipality of Shanghal, accord.. ing to a decision reached at a meet- Ing of the Committee. Advertise- ments of all moving pictures in the
newspapers must hereafter bear
the words "Approved by the Film Censorship Committee of the Special Municipality of Shanghai," and all Chinese papers will be instructed to refuse acceptance of advertise- ments not approved by the Com- mitteo, Pictures in cinemas out- side of the Settlement are already under control, says the Kuo Min
news agency,
Advertising Ban. Chinese
recently newspapers stated that all films screened in the International Settlement from April. 1
must bear the stamp specified above. Unless a film is so atamped,
the vernacular papers assert, permission for its exhibi- tion will not be given.
It is further claimed that the Chinese authorities will prohibit local Chinese newspapers, even if in foreign-controlled territory, from accepting or publishing advertising copy pertaining to films which have not been approved by the Chinese censors.
Chinese newspapers of the Settle- ment, it is claimed, have been warn ed against accepting auch adverti sing. In loca. cinema circles this decision on the part of the Chinese authorities is believed to be the re- sult of the agitation against a Harold Lloyd comedy, recentlý · ex- hibited at two local theatres, and which was protested against by a!". Chinese
the latter film director, claiming that the comedy
Was 47 insult to the Chinese people→→→ Shanghai Times,
A "TALKIE" KINDERGARTEN.
Talking pictures have created as many new problems as they have outlets for talent. Mr. Monckton Hoffe, the author-actor, is at pre- sent engaged.. for example, in the delicato task of assisting "talkie" actors and actresses to speak, with the correctness and Intonation with which they would wish their shadows ultimately to speak from the screen.
Ho la fnding his task abounding
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE,
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11-idio chatter 13-5k!!! 14-Falsehood
16-One (German) 17-rock fattar E 18-Musical note 19-Againat 21-Threa-toed sloth 22-City of S. W.
Prusela
25-A worthless, leav.
Ing 26-Emit
29-A number 30-River in Scotland 31-Numbera (abbr.) 32-Musical exercita 35-Artificial floor in
closed for sport 88-Epoch
39-Nothing
40-A white sauce for
meat
41-A prank 44-Ada (Scot.)
45-To cut off
HORIZONTAL (Cont), VERTICAL. (Cont.) 54-Smallest State.lv:
U. 8. (ubbr.) 56-Karried women 58-Exist 59-90ficit (61-Buffix forming
feminina noun 82-In no manner 63~3. W. State of U.
(sbbr.) 04-Lowly 66-Thicker 68-Tropical fruit 69-Peruse
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Bible (abbr.)
poam
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20-Raw metal
29-Observe
24-Penetrated
27-Hint
28-Greek goddess of
the dawn
8. 33-Ending of nouns of
action 34-Restrain 25-Tavern 37-Insect cap 40-Vahlcla 41-Exalta
42-A covering to pro-
tact a person's
lothes
43-Worthleen don
44-Elevated
4-Propeller
4-A fruit of the gourd 40-Approached
family
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sand
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mischief (Gr. Myth.)
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50-Wear a cheerful as
pect
82-A fewer
53-A high Turkish
official
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B-Metsille aubalances † 57-To be drowsy
47-A woman devoted to 9-Attention
religious life 49-Programa,
51-6wles rivar 62-To consent
10-A mere tento
11-A pastry
60-New Zealand parrot
63-Mæn's name 65-Knight (abbe.)
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
with subtle dificulties which he never suspected when he consented to play the role of school master.
On the other hand, Mr. George Bealby, whose sonorous richness of voice and perfect articulation are not surpassed by any other actor, has just completed his first "talkie, and is by no means displeased with the result.
Certainly deep voices are extreme- ly effective
the screen. onTM "Atlantic" owed much of its suc céss to the fine quality of Mr. Franklys Dyall's 'resonant' vpice,
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