TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1930.
CHINA'S PROBLEMS,
BAND CONCERT.
A
THE BURDEN OF CIVIL WARFARE.
PLANS FOR TO-MORROW AT K.F.C.
AN OUTPOKEN, VIEW.
MORE CHAIRS AVAILABLE.
(Contributed.)
The arrangements for the third
tive to read the various claims put morrow, at the
"What
This
Kowloon Football
THE
ROUND THE CINEMAS
·
"THE GIRL FROM HAVANA ” AT QUEEN'S.
AN UNUSUAL TALKER.
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COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL
TO-MORROW
THE KOWLOON RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION Announce the Third PUBLIC BAND · CONCERT at the
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Will Fyfe.
I'm 94 To-day
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Salling Up the Clyde
Full Military Band ·
Came and See the Baby
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The Engineer
D. McGregor
(Erincess Louise's)
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No Power on Earth
Billy Bennett.
by kind permission of
Charge of the Tight Brigade
Lt. Colonel R. G. Maclaine, M.C...
9469
Buckshee ....
and Officers 03rd Highlanders
The Idol's Tongue
Admission Free
9237
She's Mine All Mine
Napoleon ...
To-day Queen's Theatre, If you enjoy your all talking "The Girl From Havana."
To-day- Star Theatre, KOWLOON FOOTBALL CLUB It is more amusing than Instruc-public Band concert to be held to- / screen' drama well sweetened with "Big City", (matinee only); Nicola, ]
(Chatham Road) romance and portrayed against
WEDNESDAY, 16th July, 9 pm. picturesque backgrounds of foreign the Magician, 9.15 pm.
To-day-World Theatre, forward by the contending parties Club, are practically the same as parts and the rolling ocean, don't
on the pre-miss "The Girl From Havana," the "Everybody's Acting."
Theatre: To-day Majestic in China. The average resident in those which obtained
Movietone Fox
special produc- It should, how-
The Reno Divorce," 5.30 and 9.20 the Colony, very naturally, asks vious occasion.
tion now at the Queen's Theatre.
p.m.; "Reminiscence of Peking" It has all of that and are they fever Le noted that this time the the question.
more; is if he is performance will be given by the audiences have been most enthusi (Chinese picture). 2.30 and 7.20 fighting for?" sufficiently interested in the sub-Band of the Argyll and Suther-astic in their praise of, its scenic P.m.
To-day Central Highlanders. This is the beauty and splendid dramatic pre- ject. Many people are not, as ten land
sentation, with the sounds as well "Roadhouse Nights",
Home Mails. or twelve years of "victories" and Band which, under the baton of Mr. as the sights of Havana, where
much accept-| much of it was filined and record- Tomorrow-Outward for Europe "campaigns," claims, and counter-Beat, played with so
Ited, faithfully presented by the via Victoria, B.C., and Europe via claims have rather tended to bere lance at the opening concert.
may be reculled that, under his pre-magic of Movietone. Ben Stoloff, Siberia (Hikawa Maru) 8.83 m.
director, took his big company com from Hollywood to Havana by What, then are the Chinese decessor, Mr. Ricketts, who fighting for? In the
writer's posed the famous Colonel Bogey steamer through the Panama Canal opinion, mostly for personal gain March, the Band of the 93rd High- and made the all talking drama en
This islanders reached a very high stand-route and in Cuba. and self-aggrandisement.
them.
9.
Theatre
Sports See Special Sports Diary on page
Lammerts". Auction. Lola Lane and Paul Page are in July 18-At Sales Room, house- a considered view after long ex-ard of excellence and was widely the featured roles of the absorbing hold furniture etc., and a 7-seater
detective story and in the support-Studebaker Limousine, 80 p.m. petience in all parts of China. famed.
The Kowloon Residents' Associa-ing cast are Kenneth Thomson, with the various ruling officials. tion, which has undertaken the or- Natalie Moorhead. Warren Ilymer, ganisation of the series of Band Joseph Girard and Adele Windsor. told the concerts, informs the China Mail, Li Hungchang once
the 50 cent writer that unless the Chinese re-that the demand for
as to justify the chairs was such
and more or less constant contact
ceived a good whipping every ten supply of a greater number of theac years it would not be an easy matchairs. One great advantage is ter to control the country. This that they can be booked beforehand seems to be proven by my experiat Anderson's Music Store, and re-
served for the evening.
The refreshment bar and tables, prepared on the tennis courts, ad- were taken nd- us joining the Club. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, Wu Pel-fu did before him, is try.vantage of by many and it is ex ing to persuade
ence.
"Unification."
***BLUES" İN FOLLIES. .
Meetings.
To-day-Kowloon Cricket Club, extraordinary meeting, 6 p.m.
July 16-China
Provident Loan and Mortgage Co. Ltd., extra ordinary
meeting, Alexandra Building, noon.
A new "blues" song which seems July 16Green Island Cement destined for instant popularity Co. Ltd., extraordinary meeting. with its first public audition in the Exchange Building, 11 am.
William Fox Movietone Follies of
Social,
1920, gigantic musical revue and
July 16-Public Band Concert, Follies produced for first
the Kowloon Football Club (Chatham screen, is a heart-pulsating melody that will find an answering throb Road, 9 pm. the people that /pected that, as this feature berones in the breast of anyone who ever)
It re-
better known. It will be still more
Programmes with explanatory notes will be on sale as before.
There is no doubt as to the ex-
they are fighting for unification of popular. the country. This is rather digi cult for anyone to believe. cally a speech made by Dr. C. T. cellence of the musical fare which Wang, in the writer's presence, to will be provided: the only uncer- the commercial people of Shantung tainty is the weather. It is just before the Tsingtao Railway treacherous season and all that can was to be taken over from the be said is that, in the event of the Japanese.
The speaker informed rain persisting or the ground being the gathering with great gusto that too sudden, the concert will be post- "Shantung was for Shantung peopened until the following Wednes- ple." The remarks were received day, and sents booked beforehand with the appropriate enthusiasm, may be either carried forward or and matters undoubtedly improved the money refunded. for about six months. After this
the Shantung began to disappear.
for a reason well known to most Chinese.
MANILA'S IDLE.
in
There is nothing said here detriment of the Chinese officials, There could not be, as the writer freely confesses that in the olden days he was interested in a concern whose main business was to buy and sell positions!
I
The Basic Trouble.
LABOUR DIRECTOR IS ALARMED.
was alone in a big city,
It is called "Big City Blues,”
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France. tic effect.
Six years ago, it will bej remembered, there was a memor- Miss Lane, before signing a long-term Fox Movietone contract, able assembly of lawyers in London, had scored a sensational success Canadian Bar were joint hoats of The forthcom- in New York in the short period the American Bar.
Bombay, June 22. of two years. Discovered in ing visit is by way of a return of
Explaining the attitude of the small lows college where she and the hospitality.
committee of the Bombay branch her sister "harmonized” on college The party, which will be headed of the European Association and programmes, she was an instant by Viscount Dunedin, will leave the committee of the Bombay success in the Greenwich Village Southampton on August 5 in the Chamber of Commerce towards Follies.
Duchess of Atholl. Only a few the political situation, in response Her first Round production, hours will be spent in Quebec. to the request of the president of "Speakeasy," all-dialogue Fox After a day at Montreal the jour-the Indian Chamber of Commerce, Movietone feature, in which she ney will be continued to Toronto, Mr. J. R. Abercrombie, the presi was featured with Paul Page, is where the annual meeting of the dent of the Bombay Chamber success throughout the Canadian Bar Association will be of Commerce, states that both
held.
the above-mentioned committees, The president of the Canadian speaking for those whom they re- Association is the Hon. R. B.present in Bombay, believe that Bennett, who, Incidentally, is also the solution to the present situa- leader of the Conservative Opposition lies in a policy of conciliation ation in the House of Commons at on both sides.
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"THE LADY LIES."
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Manila, July 10. Unemployment in the city of Chine is not a fighting nation. Manila has reached a peak hitherto Is any, or con any afford to be unheard of, Director Hermenegildo these days? The basic trouble in Cruz of labour revealed to-day.i the country is lack of industry, and More than 3,000 labourers in the It does not look us if the rising geneity nione are now out of job, be- eration, in spite of all their pro- sides hundreds more in the pro- testations, intend to start any. vinces, the labour director said. is all very well for them to rant and Appeals from unemployed labourers memory test record of the enter-Ottawa. Three days will be spent In this connection, the com- rave, and call Yen Hai-shan a rebel to the bureau of labour for work are tainment world has been establish in Toronto, and the visitors will mittees endorse the recent state. and a Communist, and so on. The pouring in every day.
ed by Clayton, Jackson and then go by lake steamer to Niagara. ment of Sir Chimanlal Setalvad plain facts remain that in the few with the business slump still at Durante, the trio of comedians who where they will be received by and Sir Cowasje Jehangir years he has been Governor of his ita low ebb, the labour director in- graduated from New York's after-representatives of the American (junior) that, simultaneously province, he has built a raffway to variably counsels these labourers to the-theatre clubs to the talking Bar Association.
with the calling off of the civil Talyunnfu, commenced mining
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wait for better times and, mean- screen in "Road House Nights,"
there disobedience movement,
It
What is believed to be
Tour of One Month.
enterprise at Pingdindou, and has time, to do the best they can to which is now showing at the Some time will be spent at Buffalo should be a general amnesty to all
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last
SOVIET EMBASSY,
LUXURIOUS LONDON MANSION TO BE SOLD,
aleo established a college for shift for themselves. For the first Central Theatre. research work, besides encouraging time in years, we have become The members of the trio boast and Detroit, but the chief engage political prisoners who are not the farming and iron industries- practically helpless to remedy the of a repertoire of 54 songs. Everyment is the annual meeting of the guilty of violent crimes, and the Apart from all this, he is the one altuation, Director Cruz remarked. song has many verses and multiple American Association at Chicago, definition that the purpose of the Round-Table Conference is the man in China who has set his face
where the party will remain for The labour director points out to variations of the chorus!
a self-governing against cultivation of the poppy, the fact that many business firins
All but two of the songs were three days. Another three days will evolution of with all its alleged evils.
Yen shi-shan has done his best the greatest contributing factor to themselves, with Jimmie Durante, and Philadelphia will also be visit-guards for the transitional period. have cut down their personnel as written by the singing comics be spent in Washington. Baltimore Dominion constitution with safe- Mr. Abercrombie's statement for the people in his province, but the big unemployment at present. A their leader, officiating in the dual cd, and the tour will close with threa the Interminable civil wars have partial survey by the bureau of la role of composer and lyricist. days at New York and a final day has also been approved by the committee of the Bombay Trades' brought ruination in their train bour of the different labour employ.
In "Roadhouse Nights" they sing at Boston. The whole tour Association.
expected to There is no in- throughout China.
ing firms in the city showed that "Everything Is On The Up And arranged, dustry in the country, so that every adverse business conditions have Up," "Hello, Everybody, Folks," exactly one month, without counting boy over eighteen years of age joins compelled business houses to dis and "Everybody Wants My Girl" the homeward voyage. the Army, merely in order to get miss many of their labourera.
The trio share feature honoure It la entirely suitable that Vis-) hold of a gun with which to pro-
The Katubusan cigarette factory, In the production with Helen Mor count Dunedin should go at the head tect himself and his family.
which used to employ hundreds of gan, Charles Ruggles and Fred of the travellers. Since the passing That Foreigner.
hands, has been closed. It was ex-Kohler. The story is an original of Lord Haldane it has fallen to As to the much-maligned foreign plained. The Manila Railroad com- by Ben Hocht and was directed at Viscount Dunedin principally to
It was announced recently that er in China, it is worth putting on pany has also reduced its number the Paramount Long Island studio preside over sittings of the Judicial
finest mansions in London and record that there was not even of labourers especially in the pro- by Hobart Henley, who made The Committee of the Privy Council Kensington House, one of the when appeals from Canada are un overlooking Kensington Gardens, village on the site of the Kailan vincas, Director Cruz sald. Another Lady Lies."
der consideration.. Mining Company in 1883. The condition pointed by the labour company now employs in the rail director as responsible for the scute way and mines practically 100,000 unemployment situation is the ebb The foreigner has also in the building trade,. Only few people. developed enterprises at Lingahan buildings are at present under and Ching Ching, and built the rall-construction because business is at ways throughout the North, whilst a lull-Philippines Herald. the Manchurian mines at Fushun
and Fai Gechu amongst other are also due to his enterprise and en- deavour.
The Chinese is one of the best workmen In the world, and very
easy to control. There are thou-
NICOLA.
"A RENO DIVORCE.”
bassy.
At this very time he is busily, is to become the Soviet Em- occupied in this way. 24
A Soviet official stated that a, Next in order in the party is Lord
price for, the lease had been “A Reno Divorce" now playing at Tomlin, another member of the agreed upon with the agents of the Majestie, Theatre Kowloon, is Judicial Committee who sits very the owner, Sir Walter Gibbons, a vivid ultra-modern comedy-drama, regularly. Lord Macmillan, recent the consulting engineer though Miss McAvoy plays.. the part of ly created a Lord of Appeal, and there were certain formalities, to Carla, a reckless society girl, who who delivered the chief address at be completed.
rung
down a good looking but the Canadian and American Bar The Soviet Embassy is now seedily clad pedestrian, picks him meetings two years ago, is also, temporarily housed in Grosvenor up, and nurses him well. When going.
Square, W.
both are acting to the satisfaction The King's Bench will be repre
of Cupid, they are confronted by a sented by Mr. Justice Tabot, Mr.
sands who have passed through the FINAL PERFORMANCE AT THE newly divorced couple who proceed Justice Wright, Mr. Justice Maug- 1
writer's hands, so that, he speaks
from Jang experience. But now
their own "Government" appears to
**STAR TO-NIGHT.
ART OF TAXATION:
to make things hum in a manner ham, Mr. Justice Macnaghten; the rather shocking even to the thrill-Law Officers, present and former, by INCOME TO BE WORKED OUT TO loving Carla. Her new anitor Sir William Jowitt and Sir Frank
FOR FIGHT PLACES,
be doing its best to make rebels of Nicola, the famous magician, tries to win her through, appealing Merriman. Also in the company them all. In Shanal only four gave another good performance at to her love for gaming, and "fixes are Sir John Simon (an earlier A new horror for taxpayers has seara, age one had the spectacle of the Star Theatre last night the roulette wheel in order to force attendant at the legal conventions been evolved by the French taxa people literally starving in a na- There were many clever magical her into paying up for her losses on the other side), Sir Lynden tion department. P turally wealthy country, and two items, and Nicola thoroughly de by marrying him.
Macassey, and Sir William Grant- Income taxes this year, the years ago in Shartuzy the sale of served the applause that he got. Other exciting and unexpected ham Government has decided, must be children openly was the general The "convict escape" act was the twirls of the wheel of fate sweep Representatives of the Bar will worked out to eight points of de. thing,
best by far while the usan! the story to a dramatic climax. total about eighty, and there will be cimals on the centime. would do better to spend sleight-of-hand tricks were good. In the cast are Ralph Graves, some aixty, solicitors from England. This means that calculations on industry instead of The magician announced, at Hedda Hopper, Robert Ober, and The balance of the party of two are made to one hundred millionth Then people would be too the end, that to-night will be the Anders Daviar
hundred will comprise representa part of a centime--and the cen In the costly amuse- farewell performance of his sea Ralph Graves directed the pro-tives from France and from Beot time is worth about a fiftieth part
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