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SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1930.
Hong Kong has got you beaten, ROUND THE CINEMAS We're very "hot dog" here; Unless you've been to Eaton Or danced with Mrs. Featon, You're very smallish beer.
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Our plutocrats Sigh No More, are worried 'Bathers! because no in-
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THE LOT OF 'A POOR MARRIED MAN ?
"HARMONY AT HOME."
"Harmony at Home" is emphati- cally a picture to see. It is show- ing at all performances to-day.
"LONE STAR.RANGER.“
The well known cat in the strange garret had nothing on Sue Carol when she appeared on the "Lone Star Ranger," Fox Movie- tone all talking romantic and The lot of a poor married man is thrilling drama, set to portray the puny will undertake the placing never an enviable one, especially character of Mary Aldridge. Sue when he has to think of a grown-up had been playing "lapper" types of matsheds on their books daughter and a son who is good for in so many pletures that she felt Neither from fire nor storm are nothing.. To realise this to its herself in a strange atmosphere," ye safe, oh my people. That is fullest degree one has to see "Har- but soon adapted herself to the A superb, talkie part and declared it was a relief the trouble with a matshed. Imony At Home,”
now showing at the Queen's to enact a role that gives her a
chance may be blown out to sea in, a Theatre,
to be human
and sym- night or reduced to charred re- The poignancy of this film does pathetic.
up the much- George O'Brien plays the lead- mains, and there is no means not only show.
ing male character, Buck Duane, humbugged husband, but is also whereby one may recover his ex-lesson to mothers with marriage whom circumstance compels to penses. Yet this does not deterable daughters whose only desire in become an outlaw, but one with a' our brave
a good match for heart--which he eventually poses. plutocrat. What,iife is to inake
Others in the cast are. Walter tnuir.. girls. apres tout, is $300 to him? Dash
McGrail, Warren Hymer, Les A Familiar Theme: itall, we spend that on
Shumway, Russell Simpson, Edgar- Joe Rickson, Rez Havanas, don't we? The difficulty
"Harmony At Home" is an ad- Kennedy, aptation from the well-known stage Stewart, Richard Alexander, Billy is not to find people who want to play, "The Family Upstairs," and Butts, Colla Chase, Elizabeth. bald matsheds, but to find room has lost none of its wit and humour Fatterson: Caroline Rankin, Wi- on the beach for people who can- by being transferred to the silver liam Steele, Bob Fleming, Ralph
Fevre, The theme of the play is Le
and little Delmar not afford them. The man with
one which is daily to be seen in Watson. no matshed, wanders aimlessly most households, particularly out about like a lost sheep. He looks here in the East.
our
screen.
so wretched that a kind-hearted Joe Haller and his wife, apparent-
"DANGEROUS CURVES."
Poor Punchinello with an "" owner may bawl ostentatiouslyly of working stock, their two girls
came to the Central and a son, are in the centre of the punch from his deck chair. "Oh, come picture throughout. Joe, a hard Theatre yesterday, in "Dangerous
have.
to Our Readers
course.
and join us?" But he knows working man, receives his promotion Curves." the latest Clare Bow- quite well that he will only be an to superintendent of the mill where Paramount release.
he has given 30 years of his life. Miss Bow changes character in Intruder on that over-crowded Feeling rather proud of himself, this one. She graduates from the verandah. After all, reader, the he plans to spring a surprise on his dizzy, flapper class to work for degree in tragi case has its duplicates. Have you family, but when he reaches home, her master's
How she does it in not stood outside the Park Lane he finds that his young daughter and comedy. Hotel, with not a bean in your receive the good news.
his "long tongued" wife had already "Dangerous Curves" is "nobody's
They con business." For the record, how pocket, and watched the proces- and woo him and dance attendance over, let it be said that she in- Ine feels disgusted, of jects as much vigour, enthusiasm the place on the floor, on the sion of opera-hatted Israelites on him.
and charm in the portrayal of a Ah, to be sure you plano, everywhere, like broody troop in?
A woman of humble birth, Ma short-skirted and spangled bare- hens-sipping cocktails.
Come, then, let us join Haller does not know how to take back rider as she formerly did as Thinking that an a scatter-brained and adolescent. Isn't Nietzsche perfectly mur-hands in sympathy and vow to her prosperity. vellous?" shrieked a young thing found a Plutocria for impecunious elevated position calls for a more girl.
In "Dangerous Curves" MI- outward and visible display of pump; dreamers, There is a certain with a face that Rosetti would
she sets out removing P& Bow is in love with Richard wistful satisfaction in wishing for Haller's cosy arm chair, his pipe, Arien, a tight-rope përformer. certainly have refused to paint. She was so excited that she spilled that which we have not. Hence and all the little things which com- She decides to learn tight-rope the reason that the tale of Alladin fort and solace a poor working man walking herself (between perform- her drink over my shirt front.
after a day's hard toil. Pa is ances as a bare-back artiste), so "Very," I murmured drily.
and his wonderful lamp was driven to desperation, and to enjoy that. she can get a place on the written.
his evening newspaper, he has to circus programnie near to her be Then up came a long-necked
loved. She finally learns the get out and sit in his car. mastodon in a bright blue shirt
wire-balancing art, but finds that Wanted a Lover.
Arlen spurns her for Kay Francis, and collar. "I say, I say," he
Ia Adversarian hasi
The big act, however, centres on female menace in the piece. warbled, "Do you know that
Louise, their, cldest girl. The apple spite of his repeated irresponsive priceless thing Euripides wrote
An Apology been accused of of her father's eyes, Louise is feel-ness, Clara continues
to demon- writing hot air. Ing just as any girl of her aga strate her love for Arlen and about the nude lady? Ha! Ha!"
Twenty-one candles finally manages, by a desperate It is to be at- would feel. After dinner (at which every-
had already been lighted on her last move, to save him from disgrace, mitted, with re-
A realisation of body shrieked at everybody else)
birthday cake, and yet not a touch bringing him to gret, that the "criticism" came of romance had crept into her life. love for her. from an irresponsible and not very] Who can blame her then If she is. A splendid background of cir dove cue atmosphere has been brought serious quarter. Otherwise Ad- inwardly crying out as
to the picture by Paramount and versarian would have been decries out for its mate?
But what is the secret of Louise's the direction of Lother Mendes is lighted to cross swords with his inability to capture a young man? excellent. To Miss Bow rightful- Adversary. But there are some She is afraid of the pratting tongue ly go the highest honours for act people with whom one cannot of her mother, and her over eager ing that rings true, and to Arlen enthusiasm to make an impression and Miss Francis go the second afford to quarrel-at least with on the young men who should come ary tributes for their intelligent far, that type it usually does become a forward to ask for her daughter's supply. It is a great picture.
quarrel. One has a, certain sub- hand. stratum of self-respect. If he is man at a concert. an Adverse-"hot"-arian, he hum- quite accidental, but like all ac- bly apologizes to those numerous cidental meetings, it soon develops
into a budding romance. renders who are generous enough meets her boy on the quiet, but not Our local Appollos (in increasing numbers) to find entirely without her father's, know- seem to have de-him amusing and not in bad taste, ledge. She dires not bring her veloped a new style even if sometimes "Knott lover home lest her mother would
spoll everything for her. of coiffure. The Wright! ing to an adver-iden appears to be to grow the tisement in a well-known maga hair as long as possible, and then zine. In fact, we are assured that there is absolutely no need what-marm it down with any kind of grease that happens to be avail- ever to come to the Far East in
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ADVERSARIA.
an unendurable lady with an abstract face played the worst of Handel.
"Come again," quoth
the hostess, presenting me with a lily. "I should be too gloriously
delighted to," I gasped, "only I
have decided to go away
far away."
("Master no wanchee .ten?" Bald my boy, pathetically, as I woke up.)
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Loulae, however, meets a young
The meeting is
Clandestine Meetings.
Louise
At one of these clandestine meet- ings. Dick Grant, for such is the name of the young man, brings matters to a head. He asks Louise
able. The following "Discourse," It is notified in the Gazette that if a man with an income of 540 a order to acquire that admired by Sir Joshua Reynolds, may pro-struck off the Register: The Tat honesty, Louise says, why not, if 'the two following firms have been week can support a wife. In all
olive tint. "Moonshine" pro- duces à "healthy-looking open-air complexion," we are told, "quite undectable and unaffected by rain and skin-moisture." The testi- monials number over 6,000 and include hundreds from Society people. (Presumably the Riviera is not "hot" enough!) What a boon to the plain and pale, the pimply and puffy, Just a little coating of "Moonshine" and every attractive girl will be chasing you the minute you leave your wife. The cloak of Adonis is yours mere- ly for the cost of a postage stamp. All the same, Adversarian feels that there are other things that attract women besides dirty skins.
vide them with a few sugges tions:-
Kwong Printing Company, Ltd., the girl loves the man in the same and the Wang Hong Steamship way as the man loves her. Dick then asks for her hand and is ac- "If in European, when he has Company Ltd.
cepted. on the spot. These two cutoff his beard, and put false hair on his head, or bound his His Excellency the Governor has young lovers are now literally living own natural hair in regular hard appointed Sergeant-Major Henry in the "saventh heaven," until by knots, as unlike nature as he can Westlake, D.GM.,
Hong Kong a freak of chance, Dick is brought to possibly make it; and after having Volunteer Defence Corps, to be the Haller's home. rendered them immovable by the help of the fat of hogs has cover-
ed the whole with flour, lald on by
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་་
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "China Mall," August 9, 1920.3
To-day's dollar is worth. 4/-
4d. Honorary Lieutenant and Quarter Ma Haller, anxious to make a master, with effect from the May 27, good match for her daughter, and The result of the recent petition also to "create an impression," by the European recruits of the
..
They receive an increase of £20 per annum on the recently sanc
a machine with the utmost regular- ity; if, when thus attirod, he issues forth, and meets a Cherokeo Indian, The Government Gazette notifies dotes on Dick. She tells him a lot Hong Kong Police Force for a re- who has bestowed as much time at that at the expiration of three of piffle, such as "a young man must vision of their new scale of salary, his tollet, and laid on with equal months from date the Wai Hing get a car and plenty of beautiful has been made known. care and attention his yellow and Company, Limited, will, unless dresses for his wife."Also, that ted oher on particular parts of his cause is shown to the contrary, be when the was young, she had horses forehead or cheeks, as he judges struck off the register and be dis-and carriages, in short, she does tioned new scale of pay, namely most becoming; whoever of these two despises the other for his at- tention to the fashion of his coun- try, whichever first feels himself provoked to laugh, is the bar- barian."
"It is amazing to Where Hong me," declared | Mr. Kong Scores. Alfred I.
Watson, man PESEditor of the States- man, at a dinner of the Calcutta Rotary Club, that when we are all in this town earning our liv. ing as best we may, we should vendeavour to keep up the enormous number of social distinctions main tained in Calcutta."
solved.
ESCAPE FROM EXECUTION.
everything to a scare Dick off.
Mother Spoils All
from £160 to £200, instead of £160 to £180 as originally fixed..
Ten Years Hence.
[From the "Chiun -Mall" of „ef August 9, -1040.3;;'
From this it will be seen that Dick tells Louise that a man in his there is no immediato increase in humble position cannot marry a girl the pay of a recruit. He starts na who has been brought up with a before $160 per annum-as-a Lance silver spoon and who is now being Sergeant. Berlin, June 25.fed by her parents with a golden Adversarian, probably
Eathonian law, which gives con- one. Louise assures him that such Those on account of his long
demned criminals a choice in the is not the case, but Dick will not be manner of their execution between lieve it, Baying that it will not be "Arty" nose and degenerate
poisoning or hanging has created fair on a girl for him to drag her People expression, was in-'
3 very difficult position. The con- from a lofty position to a humble vited to a highly un-
stitution of a condemned criminal one. Serge Vasilenko, who selected usual dinner party recently, “You
A private company. is being the The romance is thus shattered by Ah, my dear Watson, you polaming, was proof again toly a ally mother, who, it may be sald, formed, to run a powerful and fast know clever people,” explained his hostess, You'll feel at taget
should come to Hong Kong. Here prescribed by the law. After in all earnestness is doing every Ferry service to all the bathing we have social barriers which weeks of acute pain Vasilenko re thing for her daughter's welfare. beaches round the Island at ex- home." As a matter of cold fact,
would make Surbiton green with covered completely from his execu Cupid then takes a hand, and where ceptionally cheap fares.. Adversarian thought he was at a seakan laud align t
tion and has now refused all in two hearts beat in tone and love our STUDEN lunatic asylum,
or envy,
vitations to be hanged holds away over them, it is not a An Order In Council published in Jurists are now engaged in a difficult matter for them to find a the Government Gazette notifies that pareful examination of the law in way out. Pa Haller helps in finding henceforth all tobacco and cigarettes he hope that some legal means of the way and the lovers come to must be retalled at uniform rates putting him to death can be disgether in each other'e arms in a based on the prices supplied by the
(a mándfacturers. train
They were as queer à collection of fadd and frumps that ever foregathered
They sprá
Calcutta may be "classy," Calcutta may be prim, With frozen mit and glassy Stare for the ones who're passe Or not in the social swim..
Eeoverd,