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THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1930.
POPULARITY OF GEN. YANG SEN.
ROADS BUILT BY HIS TROOPS: MERCHANTS STRIKE.
TAXATION TROUBLES,
BERLIN'S SPRING TOILET.
NEW IDEAS FOR PUBLIC GARDENS.
OPEN-AIR MOVEMENT. V
Berlin, March 20. The necessity of the word "Verboten" in a country brought up to respect it is more apparent than ever
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SCREEN POSSIBILITIES?
Here is the way to discover whether or not you have screen Ability!
According to Joan Crawford, now that whose rise to success
has been one of the most phenomenal, every feature of the face must, express emotion.
Chengtu, Sze., Apr. 2. -General Yang Sen has returned to his army at Chusion about four days away from the capital. He could not he persuaded to remain Berlin is making her spring toilet. in the capital although tempting There is still no money in the city affers were mile to hold him here, coffee, hut projects of beautifying anil have rejuvenating begun last year Evidently it looked to him like a been completed. Each borough is res good scheme to hold him where hemside for its own expenses as re- rould be watched and where, he cards public gardens, and the vacancy would not take sides against the of the highly-paid past of "Town powers that be. He is an exceed Garden-Director" as general supervisor ingly able general and is popular of the city, has not preventail because he makes his soldiers work delightful ideas being carried out in et such useful occupations as road-the way of new groups of statuary or building and rand-repairing. His playgrounds for children.
Grass still does not grow as it does initiative in road-building in this province has been catching. Many in Britain, to which ail "town-garden- lher military leaders are follow-directors" make extensive study trips, an the Berlin child is accustomed to ing his worthy example with the the ass being "verboten" all the result that the military nuisance to winter, end once or twice during the 1. degren Is being abated week all the year round, so that it may inci-recover from the unforbidden days motor These-públic parks are all extremely In the largest and most
in
some
places.
and
dentally HOTLE excellent roads
being built. It is well kep!. arc reported that there are actual-famous of Berlin, the Tiergarten, a staff
Mies Crawford, who is. pow playing at the Queen's Theatre in her first all-talking starring vehicle, "Untamed,” for Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, declares that in order to test your ability you should stand in front of a mirror. cover all the, face but the eyes, and express a given motion with
Then cover every them alone.
able to see,
thing but the mouth, leaving the fingers apart to be and try to get over the thought with this feature.
Try the same experiment with the eyebrows only, and then with the entire face.
To make facial expression com- Pete each feature must work with
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A: Good Entertainment at Kowloon,
Harry Bell, in association with 1. Ayres Mantell, again present- ed "New Yorkers” at the Star Theatre last night. Valey, who presented her original Ruth Van
dance creationą was extraordin.
May At Dr. Heanley's Laborn-arily good, as also was Stephe torg and dwelling house, household Moring (Van) the Instrumental- ist. Mantell's Manikins the and office furniture and laboratory glassware. 2.30 p.m.
world famous marionettes--were without a doubt the best turn of Meetings.
the evening. To have seen them
The May 7--Humphreys Estate
Miscellaneous.
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price of the seat.
The Jazz Trio were quite enter- taining and Len Ayres was very amusing. "Smiling" Jack Med- ford proved a popular turn and Katharine Scott performed magni- It was a very good entertainment and was thoroughly appreciated by the au- dience.
ly fifteen bus lines in operation of twenty-four old women is constantly the other for perfection, near Chengtu. General Yang had engaged in picking up the waste paper legitimate actor can make skilful Finance Co., Ltd., Hong Kong only would have been worth the A happy two months visit with old and peel of those who ignore, the wire | gestures, which aid his perform- Hotel, 11.30 am.
baskets placed there for that purpose.ance, but In a large close-up the May 16-Forty-ninth annual friends in the capital. General
"Beautifying Leagues." screen artiste, must say every-meeting of Canton Insurance Den Chi-hou certainly proved an This makes for constant tidiness, but thing with his face.
Offee, Ltd., Messrs. Jardine's ideal host and made many friends in the Grunewald; those pina woods
Office, noon, stretch for himself by giving Yang Sen surrounding Berlin, which such an ideal birthday party. It from une borough to another, there are funds nor local pride lasted two days with much merri- neither local
staff large enough ment and the giving of valuable sufficient to employ
Patrons of the World Theatre presents to the popular little Com-to cope with vandels. Where the police
had a delightful surprise On have no power, to forbid, this boing a mander.
purely municipal matter, there the Tuesday and yesterday when "The
Berliner caste his Fire Brigade" was screened. Al holiday-making
most "unheralded and unsung." there was little to show whethe? it was a comedy or otherwise, but had it been shown. say, at the
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Taxation and Indignation. The tene is changed to-day
dump.
Proclamations are posted up all my lee papers, and tins. For a police veto in Germany can only ever the city warning citizens not be issued when a local or civic matter to congregate for seditious pur canies tefore a federal parliament poses. But tho *air is full there stems nuthing for it but to pass with excitement. Recently Home Bilt in Prussin preventing, the dese. Queen's Theatre it would have at- new taxes have been promulgated ration of public places. A fine San-tracted crowded houses. by the military parties and the day, such as that of the past week, Grunewald Into a refuse eftizens are up in arms.
They turn the have actually closed all the shops. Everywhere in Germany it is indi- ag a protest. Students are holdingvidual enthusiasm that fires local enter- meetings and protesting against prise. Germans are such excellent the illegal new forms of taxation, citizens, that co-operation is always the 2 per cent, tax known as the forthesuing for any really progressive new stamp tax on all merchandise scheme. When the enthusiast for plac- coming in; the 3 per cent, tax oning nesting boxes for birds in trees, oll and the taxing of the citizens rents opposite a fine view. making with the east of policeman's new public rose garden, or erecting a war memorinl. has gathered two or more uniforms which is exceedingly ex-
friends about him,
1 he founda orbitant and it is suspected, notverschonerungs-Verein" ("Beautify without reason. that most of it Lengue" and sees to it that it is made does not go into uniforms that is a party political maller for the local not soldier's uniforms; soldiers' town council.. 'uniforms have no pockets.
"Building Police."
The burden of the student's Now that Tourist Trafic Leagues speeches is "Down with the are being founded everywhere, with a Military Rulers"-that means the view to bringing money into the three great Marshals-the present country, every help is afforded officiat Triumvirate, Den. Liu and Tien, ly to those enger le make the best of natural surroundings, Architects are They are working well together at required to submit seir plans to one present and have the city in com-
or other authority on one of these local plete control. The recalcitrant boards as well as to the Rau-Polizei students were clapped into prison "Building Police"), a body so much at once. They were liberated to inclined to red tape that many over- wards evening when they pro- night huis erected by devotees of tha mised not to offend again. The week-end movement round Berlin have "Chen Feng Si Ling" who has been "verboten" as not complying with special charge of the peace of the the requisite amount of cubic feet of air eity, has special guards patrolling for the individual human being, the streets night and day. They are heavily armed and each soldier carriea แก executioner's Bword strapped across his back.
In spite of the tension the city is very orderly and some business is being done through the back doors of the shops. The schools have not. closed. In fact the students as a body have not taken much interest, in this paricular strike. The principal opposition comes from the merchants, but the communist party has taken advant age of the opportunity for speech making and they hold a certain section of the students.
Gardening Wonders.
The Spring Fair and Flower Show is in full swing and draws
As the police, as hus been stated, are
federal affair, something will have to he done in the way of a municipal suthority appealing to somebody else elected on the party list to the Prus- |sian Dict before the permission for sleeping in them even for one night' is granted. This, of course, is a different body to that department uneasy about those who pass the night in tents, or even beats, and whore vigilance makes
It is to he hoped that it will come back to the World Theatre or, alternatively, at the Star Theatre, and that a special invita- tion will be sent to our Fire Bri gade to attend
en masse. The modern method of fire aghting.i with up-to-date appliances, is t The picture is lesson in itself. full of thrills, with the moral of that fall too jerry-built houses easy prey to the flames.
There is a spice of romance when the daughter of the jerry builder falls in love with "a com- mon fireman," and on the whole, the picture affords both education and entertainment,
May 9 Union Church Aunual ficently on the plane. Spring Jumble Sale.
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In the House of Commons the THE "FIFTY-FİFTY GIRL.”
Foreign Secretary, replying to Col. Wedgwood, said that negotiations had William Austin, the
screen not yet been entered into with the comedian's latest role is in supired States of Angries to define and port of Bebe Daniels in that agree on the right of search and cap 19 star's newest comedy, "The Fifty-ture of private property at sea in time Fifty Girl," the picture which will of sanctions. begin a three days' run
at the He added that this was a very big Majestic Theatre, Kowloon, to-1 question, and we already had other big
day.
gestions in hand with the United States. He thought it would be the de In the story, which concerns the sire of the Government that we shoubl activities of a head-strong young not raise this question during the Naval American girl and a headstrong Conference. young American youth. Austin Replying to Sir Basil Peto, the First plays the role of a graduate mind of the Admienlly said the arming ing engineer whose knowledge of merchant rasels had not been desil about mines far from embraces with at the Naval Conference,/ the practical side.
Miss Daniels insisted upon the slender comedlun after viewing his splendid performance with Clara Bow in "Red Hair."
Clarence Badger directed Miss
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daily to the popular rendezvous | Government of the Reich. It is the All it does is to bring relief for outside the city whore the Fair is Ministry of Culture which authorised a time; if persisted In its action the removal of the more dreadful ex-is harmful, causing deafness and This is a fine counter at traction to the merchants' strike crescences on certain buildings of the other troubles. and prevents the massing of peo- Withelmine era, makes the monetary plain the city. The Fair in granta necessary for all big-scale enter- prises in the federal States, and to about half through, but it is grow-whose encouragement the sports and ing in popularity and it looks as open-air movement associated with the If the interest will be fully main- Republic is due.. tained for the entire 40 days. There are signs in the spring air The Flower Show part of the enter that this movement is more vigorous prise is really a work of art. than ever. The borough of Charlotten Szechuanese farmers
real burg, which was once Bertin's most horticulturists and bring the fashionable suburb, is just finishing
The reason is that Malaria plants and flowers from far dis- the first "popular" tennis court com-
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