SATURDAY MAY 31, 1930.
Have You Heard?-
sea,
Two Szotamen were down at the Says Jock; "Sandy, mon, I'll bet ye saxpence I'll stay under the water the longest."
Sandy "Recht ye are, hoa." The bodies were recovered twelve hours later,
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He: "My dancing alone would 'make me popular.”
She: "Yes, it would; why don't -you try it?"
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ench hospital and placed beside ather.. One of them was grumbling and moaning about his aches and
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THE CHINA · MAIL.
RED PROPAGANDA, ROUND THE CINEMAS
Berlin Police Raid on Yacht.
Wit in "Puttin' on the
Ritz.
AT QUEEN'S TOMORROW,
SHADOWS BEFORE
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COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAILA
Social Functions, To-day-Tea and Dinner, Dances at Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 am 8.30 p.m. respectively.
To-day-Dianer Dance at Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Entertainmentau Richman and James Gleason
Totay Queen's who play a prominent role, are zus of Broadway's leatting wise-"The Idle Rich."
Star crackers, and interpolated many spontaneous gags into the picture. "The Girl on the Barge."
Today World Queen's which
Tide of Empire", 5.15 and 9.20 Theatre to-morrow.
Others in
p.m.; "The Great Success" (Chi- ness picture), 2.30 and 7.15 p.m.
Today Majestic Theatre;
Today
Detective of the Berlin political pite, assisted by the Belch Water
oard or river pollee, mided a small There is a lot of witty conversa- motor yacht, the Pirate, on Rum- tion in "Puttin' on the Ritz," the melsburg Lake, recently, and arrest- United, Artists all-dialogae musi- ed the owner, Herr Ernst Friedrich, cal pleture starring Harry Rich on suspicion, of having printed a man which wasn't in the script, number of subversive Communist even though William K. Wells's Regilets recently distributed indialogue was of the best.
Reichswehr garrisons and among Friedrich is a the police. Herr writer and owner of a printing press. He was the founder, and is the proprietor, of an anti-war
comes. ta the museum" and at one time published an anarchist weekly. The Back Flax.
the supporting cast According to the police, Herr afe Joan Bennett. Lilyan Tashman, Friedrich was strongly suspected of Ailsen Pringle. Richman Tucker,
and Eddie Kane."The Patriot." having printed up to a very recent Purnell Pratt date such Communist leaflets nsward Sleman directed "Puttin' To the Lamp-post!" "Soldiers of on the Ritz" from an original story the Reichswehr!" and other address. by John W. Cengidine, jun. “Na” replied the „her, "yester-id to the frontier, river, railway, and ordinary palice. A search of the house, it is allegedl, disclosed evidence of his having printed not only the leaflets, but also the "Rote Front." the organ of the proscribed Communist semi-military organisa- tion, the Red Fighting Front.
When the yacht was raided there were over 60 gallons of fuel on board, and the police claim to have arrested Herr Friedrich when he was about to leave for Breslau through the chain of lakes and rivers leading from the Spree, of which the Rummelsburger See is a large backwater on the eastern out skirts of Berlin.
The other, fed up with it, turned to him and asked: "Did you come here to die?"
die."
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"Hai your cak ben with you lung?"
With us? She's been against us fran the very start."
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Waiter to weary motorist, wait- Ing for a meal): "Are you the fried flounder, sir?"
Motorist: "No. I'm a par lonely sole with an empty plaice waiting fur meine to fillet,"
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aily: "I'm sorry the chicken sou does not seem very gand. showed the new egok just how it should be made, hat sie doesn't seem to have caught the idea."
Bourder: "I think it's the chicken she seems to have missed."
AIDING ANARCHY,
Mrs. Besant's Attack on Mr. Gandhi,
Madras, April 17. Mrs. Annie Besant, in a signed article in New India, strongly con demas Mr. Gandhi's law-breaking campaign, which ale dezeriles is a "policy of premating anarchy."
She writes:-
In connection with the leaflets and the regular filegal publication of the Rote Front" proceedings are being taken by the Public Prosecutor and ether judicial authorities, and the exanilang Judge ordered Herr Friedrich's detention until further notice.
OVERSEAS LEAGUE.
Proposed Club Scheme
'Too Ambitious."
There was a good attendance at the last meeting of the Overseas Leagué general committee, when "Mr. Gandhi has been know Major R. R. Robertson, vice-presí- ledged by a number of people us *tient, occupied tho' chair. It was dictator, whose opinion is to be decidal that Empire Day should accepted as supreme. He is hailed take the form of a dinner and dance as Commander,' as 'General, and
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THE IDLE RICH".
What might be considered one of the most experienced casts in dialogue films ever assembled was culled together by William de Mille to-make "The Idle Rich," his all-
talking picture for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, which is showing for the inst time at the Queen's Theatre today.
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Sports
See Special Sports Diary on page
Miscellaneous.
Conrad Nagel, a veteran in the "talkie," plays the leading male|s. role. Bessie Love, of "Broadway | Melody" fame, and Leila Hyams, To-day Opening of Hong who scored in the all-talking ver-Kong Flying Club's Premises, 4 p.m. sion of "Alias Jimmy Valentine," June 4-Ladies' whist Drive, have the leading feminine parts. Police Recreation Club, 3.30 p.m.
The supporting players, Robert Ober, James Neill, Edythe Chap man. Paul Kruger and Kenneth Gibson, are all troupers of both stave and screen.
"THE PATRIOT.”
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
The following programme will be brandenst to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station 2.B.W. on 356 metres:—
A remarkable picture is being shown at the Majestic Theatre, Kowloon. It is "The Patriot," a 1.15-1.45 p.m-Organ Recital Paramount picture, in which Emil relayed from Union Church by Jannings, the great dramatic actor, Mr. G Longyear. is starred.
1. Isla of the Waters 2. Pastoral
3. Finnish Song Linden Bloom
"The Patriot" follows faithfully the play by Alfred Neumann, cele brated European playwright.. Berzeuse Ernst Lubitsch, also a European, 5. Spring Song
1.45-2 directed the film masterpiece, and has won new laurels.
Jannings is, to put it miklly, superb. There is little doubt he
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be held at the Europe Hotel, has achieved the greatest acting of Moutrie and Co..
we are all bidden to obey him, on Singapore, on Saturday, May 24, .puin of being denounced as une
the residential |
his career in "The Patriot." Por-
Jannings has brought to the screen
9-11.30
of
MR. WILLL THORNE.
church
To Wedding in Tramcar.
1. Motor cars conveying officials to the Ceremony at the Ceno- aph will be stopped at the junction of Des Voeux Road Central and Jackson Road where the occupants will alight, The cars will then be sent to Chater Rond west of the Statue to park there, 2. From 9.45 a.m. to 11.30 1.01. motor omnibuses and lorries travelling along Caine Rond in easterly direc- tion
diverted will be
by way of Arbuthnot Road, Hollywood Road, Lyndhurst Terrace and Wellington Street to Queen's Road Cen- tral and arriving Blake Pier vin Pedder Street. From the lower levels to upper levels these vehicles will travel by way of Pedder Street,. Queen's Road Central and Ice House Street.
An
3. From 9.45 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. motor omnibuses and 3orries travelling East along Queen's, Road West will be diverted by way of Bonham Strand West, Morrison Street and Des Voeux Road Central, The return journey will be made by way of Das. Voeux Road Central, Wing Lok Street and Bonham Strand West.
Between the hours of 9 a.m. and 12 noon vehicles will not be
permitted to park in Connaught
hours.
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ROBERT BURNS
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Capt. O. S. Webb reported for the traying a character with the heart Dance Music (Victor Recorde). patriotic, as enemies of the Mother-sub-committee оп land: In spite of the fact that club scheme, and outlined the ideas of a child, and the brain of a tiger, some of his ideas have proved to be of that committee for converting an and modern times a figure of his impracticable and others to be mis- existing property in the residential
Road Central between Pedder chievous, the mass slave-mentality centre of the city into a first class tory, Mad Tear Paul 1. of Russia.
Paul 1. was the son of Catherine marches triumphantly along, declub with. 12 bedrooms, large dining the Great. He inherited the fire of
Street and Murray Road; Chater Road, east of Queen's Statue; nouncing and persecuting all who re-hall, reception hall, two card rooms, his mother and the mentality of
Wardley Street north of Queen's sist its away.
billiard room, and two tennis courts his father, making a queer mix-
Statue, and in Jackson Road, "But a new and more absurd posi The hon. secretary put forward ture. He proceeded at his mother's
Mr. Will Thorne, M.P, WAS No vehicular traffic will be per- tion has now arisen! Mr. Gandhi is two other schemes and gave detalls death to tear down all that had married at West Ham parish mitted in Connaught Road, Cen- announced to be immersed in eilent of the cost and running expenses.
en April 26 to Miss tral between Pedder Street and been built up during. Catherine's meditation, in order to determine
All three schemes were criticised regime, and with ruthless cruelty Beatrice Nelly Collins, who lives Murray Road between the above what laws shall be obeyed, and what by committee members as
being
and authority. He was brought to at West Ham, in Mr. Thorne's laws shall be disregarded. We are rather too ambitious for putting his end by the workings of his constituency. not to follow our own consciences into immediate operation, and after best friend, Count Fahlen, a part Mr. Thorne left his home in but his, and his inner voice is to be some discussion, it was agreed that portrayed in the film by Lewis Lawrence Road, Upton Park, just accepted as our law. The Inner the official headquarters of the Stone. He is "The Patroit" of the after eight a.m., and arrived at the Ruler Immortal" in each of us is to League in Singapore be housed at story, and gives a very remarkable church on a tramcar at about a be dethroned to make way for Mr. the Europe Hotel until such time as
quarter to ten. The service, was Gandhi. Otherwise, We shall be they could have their own premises. Florence Vidor, as the Countess attended by about a Score of ordered to hold our tongues, or to
Ostermann, glides through her role people, and was conducted by the submit to be howled down.
like delightful dream. Neil Vicar of West Ham, the Rev. G. W. Hamilton, as the Crown Prince Wallace.
The M.P.'s three daughters, Mra. Alexander, treats his role in a very
Vera Voronina and W. Adamson, Mrs. J. Mills, and human way. Harry Cording are twe others who Miss E. Thorne were present, and Mr. W. Adamson acted as best stand out with their work.
́ ́"The Patriot” will surely be num- man. The bride was given away bered among those select few films by another Bon-in-law, Mr. J.
Mills.
Mr. and Mrs. Thorne did not re-
"Personally, I have no objection, SHAH'S CORONATION
as I have experienced that intelli- gent form of opposition before it)
Celebrates the Fifth Anniversary.
is rather a favourite with Bombay Teheran youtha. They used it against my- self when I opposed non-co-opera- tion, before everyone, including its author, had found out that it was
ed.
Teheran, April 23.
characterisation,
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The whole town is beflagged and which are placed at the head a 'Himalayan blunder. However, the shop-fronts are embellished with of the cinema list. Lover of young enthusiasm, though change- beautiful rugs and chandellers in drama able for lack of experience, is, in preparation for to-morrow, the fifth No words
will fairly revel in it. turn to Lawrence Road after the can describe adequately ceremony. It is understood that itself, a beautiful thing. The young anniversary of the Shah's Corona-the tremendous appeal as mirrored they are spending a short honey- will, all too soon, become crystalliation.
on the screen in this production It moon on thé. Continent,
Mr Thorne's first wife wan The Municipality has made is the peak of cinematic achievement. "But Mr. Gandhi is not young, elaborate preparation for three
Miss Hallam,
of Birmingham, and he ought really to find work nights entertainment, including
whom he married in 1879, and who more suitable to his age than the fireworks, commencing to-night.
died twelve years later. His breaking of laws which he has long
second marriage was to Miss obeyt:"
Emily Byford, and Jasted twenty- five years, and in 1925 he married Miss Rebecca Sinclair, who died in
·1926.
A CURIOUS OFFENCE.
Soldier Who Drove Tank
While Drunk,
Diplomats and Cabinet Ministers will attend a dinner, at the Palace. fo-morrow, which will be followed by a grand sofree.
From to-morrow the police will
Has it
ever occurred
to you
wear a new uniform, somewhat re- WHY IT'S UNLUCKY TO SPILL sembling the German uniform, with double-beaked helmet.
The Minister of Transport appeal-
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our many popular supersti tions none perhaps IB entertain-
ed to the electrical industry to com-ed' so widely as the old idea that it bine in a great publicity campaign is unlucky to spill salt. “There's for the wider use of “such a bless-bad luck for you is the invariablo ing. to mankind."
YALOVA THE GREEN.
The unusual charge of being drunk in charge of an Army tank
Revival of An Ancient Turkish Spa.”“ was the sequel to an accident which occurred at Farnham recently.
Stambout April 30.. Thomas Clee, a private in the
remark when we are unfortunate About fourteen centuries ago Royal Tank Corps, was fined £10.
snough to upset the salt-cellar. the Empresa Theodora Inaugurat- Clee, it was said, was driving a Whippet military motor tank when A woman was fined £48,000 by the Thereupon, we hasten to throwed a new system of canalleation it ran into the back of a motor-car, United States Customs as a penalty pinch of salt over the left shoulder aniting the waters, of Yalova knocking off the tail lamp and dam-for attempting to amuggle jewels, in the fond ballef that, this is the Next week its thermal baths, will aging the body. Puh.
fura, and clothing on returning only way to cast off misfortune. be inaugurated by Mustafa Kemal The united efforts of three police from France.
This idea has descended to us Pashp Between the two events from the Romane, who certainly to the Crusades and the devasta- men were required to carry the soldier into the police station. The Budget speech made by the considered that spilling the salt was Uon of Bythinia and her environs,
An officer of the Tank Corps Canadian Minister of Fimice, an-
Ag. Inspector-General of Police. Hong Kong, 29th May, 1930.
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MATCH CANCELLED."
The tennis matches between the
an unlucky omen, Judas Iscariot which caused the sites of the I.R.C. and the C.R.C. in the "A"
said Clee had been cut with the tank nounces important tariff changes is said to have knocked over a salt- thermad to be quite forgotten, Division, scheduled for this after-
all day and was engaged with an- designed to increase the British pre other man on experimental work, ference.
Clee, who was said to be the son
cellar accidentally with his arm until they were re-discovered by noon, have been cancelled. It was when sitting at the last Supper Van Millingen in the nineteenth stated that the Chinese players
The superstition may also be a century Wed
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relic of the custom of the ancient Realising the Importance of Greeks and Romana and, later, the Yalova, as a prominent watering Jews, in using salt when sacrifices place, in the Near East, the Gazl
of a prison official at Leede, claimed A Berlin scandal which involves that he had been led astray by his allegations of espionage against the companion in drinking gin and wife of a well-known man is dccupy gingerbeer at Bordoning the attention of the courts were being offered. If the salt was decided last year that no effort of more than one mile in length
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