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RUSSIAN DANCER SHOT.
Jealous Lover Under Arrest.
CONFLICT OF OPINION.
name
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In Avenue Joffre.
dancing
THE CHINA MAIL.
BANNED.
COLLISION WITH AROUND THE CINEMAS CHINESE CUSTOMS
COMET.
Danger Averted in Striking Earth.
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DELIRIOUS FUN AND NONSENSE.
Paris, September 5.. French astronomers at the Meu- don observatory announced to-day that all danger of a collision of the Schwassmann-Wachmann, come! with the earth is post. The comet has swung as close to the earth nament.. it will ever come and, is now tis appearing, having missed this globe It's
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Tho Cuckoos" is not a revuc. musical comedy, not
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WORLD'S DRUG PROBLEMS "Naturer Craving
Alcohol. * " CUCKOOS."
fun and Filled with delirious
Old-fashioned Chinese weddings
EFFECTS OF TEA. hilarious nonsense, "The Cuckoos,"
of their ancient Professor Walter E. Radio Pictures' wild riot of wag and funerals will hereafter be Shanghai, October 21.-
gery, will be shown on Thursday shorn of much at the Central Theatre. The show pageantry, says the Kao Min F.R.S., fn the course of his address News Agency, if an order issued at the ninety-eighth annual meet- Angored at her refusal to signa
apme- contract to perform at the Little
brings the talking screen
Greater Shanghal be strictly en-elation, said that addiction to Club when she preferred to go to
thing entirely new in entertain- by the Bureau of Public Safety of lng of the British Medical As60-
foread.
druga had recently assumed such Hankow to dance at the Interna-
The order forbids the presence world-wide dimensions that the WING HING CO. tional Cafe, a Russian fired four bullets into the legs of a pretty
fall away through the production. of attendants costumed in garb of ed much investigation. ballet dancer at her residence in
wedding or funeral procession problems connected with it requir
Avenue Joffre last, evening. The
French scientists insist that the The show is a distinct departure the Manchu Imperial Ern. Other The advance of Science, the girl was picked up unconscious
the conventional, offering features or traditional pageantry speaker stated, had limited the and immediately taken to St. earth had a narrower escape than from
Had a well-knit story which serves as are forbidden as tinged with feu need for manual labour and substl- Marie's Hospital while the man most laymen ever imagined.
outdoor life. These changes con was promptly arrested and locked the little comet come on at the speed a background for the antics of the daliem and incompatible with pre- tuted an indoor life for the natural But foreign observers note the stituted some of the causes which up by the French Police, says and angle it did when it was dis-maddest pair of comics ever to sent day social conceptions.
covered by the German astron-grace the screen-Bert Wheeler Shanghai paper.
remembering the 1980 abolition" the universal and regular con- Nadia emers, Schwassmann and Wach- and Robert Woolsey, who won ple- Chinese reporter's "if" and smile, led to neurosis, but another wis girl's The Astrova, formerly employed at the mann on May 1, 1030, It would ture fame in "Rio Rita."
Romance has not been reglected, of China New Year, New, Year sumption of caffeine, the Canidrome Ballroom and the man have put a dent in the globe' and
It is bo perhaps knocked the earth out of and a tender love strain is carried holidays, New Year feasting, Now monest, though it might be the is Fhoid Bibribzee.
by June Clyde and Hugh Trevor. Year gratuities, we were told, least harmful, of drug addictions. The old Tea and coffee, the chief caffeins lieved that Jealousy was the its smooth-running circuit.
Scientists are lost in weird con- Wheeler and Woolsey are capably would be no more
more beverages, were consumed most motive of the crime, brought on by
jectures of what might have hap-aided in their lunacy by Dorothy Chinese calendar was no
Business as usual and co waste of largely by the English-speaking a disagreement over
pened had the collision actually Lee and Jobyna Howland.
time. But when the traditional races. One good cup of tea usual- contract.
occurred. Some argue that the Lebedef and Mitchell Lewis are alearth would have broken into bits the "bad men" and Marguerita days arrived, shop doors were ly contained more than a grain of closed inexorably. Foreign fac caffeine, so that the average tea- The shooting took place at Russian boarding house at 632 at the impact, others belleve that Padula lends her glorious voice tutories were closed too, because the drinker consumed ive to eight grains of caffeine daily, a not in- Avenue Joffre shortly before 7 like a Derby hat, the earth would a number of song hits.
The con Filmed partly in technicolour, workers simply stayed away.
So now the gorgeous head- considerable amount. p.m. From information in the have been dented but nothing more
offering ten ting hit songs, num-
of caffeine produced hands of the police, it appears that serious would have eccurred.
irritability and The comet was travelling at a bering more than a thousand in its dresses of the marching small tinual use Babribzec, who recently secured a divorce from his wife was Inpace which would have left the cast and containing the Hivellest boys, the tawdry grandeur of the mental fatuated with the young ballerina world far behind. Through the set of chorus presentations ever hired mourners, perhaps even the citability, and sometimes dizzineas The spirit money, will disappear from and digestive troubles, while re the brought to the screen, Nadia, who la 19 years of age and telescope, watchers could see
to have every- our streets"if" say the Chinese, flexes were always exaggerated. A people All- these effects could be produc- much younger than the man. She comet streaking through the fieldCuckoos" is said
that makes for perfect the order is obeyed. the of stars, its progress being such thing
which lavishes its all, goes heavily ed by six to, seven grains daily. been performing at had
Caffeine had been called an in- Canidrome Ballroom and her con- that movement was visible to the screen entertainment.
Judging by its record-breaking into debt, even comes into court. trael terminated recently. Babrlb- eye.
reception in other cities, "The for theft, that the family may be tellectual beverage because it was attract honoured by due ritual when a supposed to facilitate thought and] zee, it is understood, had been
Coming Again.
Cuckoos" is expected to making arrangements for her to The Schwassmann - Wachmann,
during Its marriage or a death occurs, will association, but modern investiga- not take such an order too literal-, tions showed that it had not quite. dance at a little club, but she will be back in five years, but its capacity audiences
showing here. -
the effect that had been taught.: ly.. had other ideas. She wished to circult will be even farther away
Within, the same time, from the The inordinate use of caffeine for go to Hankow, where an attractive from the earth. Instead of being
"JOURNEY'S END.". offer had been made from the In-22 times as far away the Moon,
same Bureau of Public Safety, many years predisposed to mental ternational Cafe.
It will be 30, times, so that from
the were features of the neurotic per toms, which, according to Fires Four Shots.
now on there will be lese dan: One of the several things about comes another order about cus irritability and instability, which "Journey's End" as a drama is its Chinese-edited China Critic, is son. Tea also occasionally, pro- Yesterday the dancer and
A play in Babribzee met at the former's re- French astronomers point out lack of profanity.
ly, the Burean shut its eyes to sical depression. sidence where an argument com- that there have been but three which all the characters are mentimely enough to be obeyed. Wise- duced an extreme degree of phy
particular danger to the
A Natural Craving. menced. The man had,
on pre-comets come dangerously close to in which they are all soldiers, it
Dr. Dixon then dealt with the vious occasions, sought to marry the globe in the past few centuries. you please, and probably less public safety till the Shanghai
and affect of alcohol. Alcohol, he said, the girl, but she had refused the Lexell's comet came nearest, miss-wearing in it than any talking pic summer had done its worst
fled. Now, the Bureau prohibits differs from narcotics In geroral offer. During the argument over ing the world by 1,440,000 miles on ture yet produced.
"Journey's End," current at the Chinese women from appearing on because it is widely distributed dancing contracts yesterday, the July 1. 1770, while the Pons- girl stated definitely that the In-Winnecke passed by just 3,480,000 Central Theatre, was written by the streets it safeguards, without throughout nature in association Under the in
Pair tended proceeding to Hankow, miles off on June 27, 1927.
R. C. Sherriff without profanity-stockings or in short socks. The with living cells. whereupon the man became angry The Meudon scientists succeeded and it did not get inserted in danger here is not of feudalism, fluence of alcohol mental opera Leather Sole Canvas Shoes... 4.50 morals."-Unitedtions are shortened and reaction is Crepe Rubber Sole Canvas Shoes $ 5.00 comet Hollywood, In spite of the success but to "good and is alleged to have stated that
in photographing the new
quickened, mental association, Crepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10.00 he would prevent her leaving at and have been able to figure, its of "What Price Glory", and "The Press.
"Journey'a
such as making words. to rhyme, Black or Brown Shoes from $6.00 Black or Brown Boots from ..$ 8.05 size as 400 yards in diameter in- Cock-Eyed World."
are facilitated, and the apprecia-Children's Boots or Shoes from 2.00 thon-End" is a story of men who have The girl left the house and pro- stead of tens, hundreds or
the need of
tion of differences in weight is on- ceeded to the garden, where Bab-sands of miles as astronomers gotten beyond
The war-their un
hanced. Under the influence of ribzee followed her. A further first believed. The rest of the blaspheme.
aleobol, the burdens, anxieties, and argument ensued, in which the visible mass is ultra-rarified carbon natural life, their nerve tension, man draw a pistol and fired four gas which makes the cemet appear their incessant danger has taken
life may be forgotten.. The desire shots, two entering the right leg much larger than it really is...
the edge off the most virile curses.
worries of modern indoor mental 81, Pottinger St. for alcohol and tobacco should bo and two the left. The girl fell to
Scientists point out that meteors The superlative and that's what
regarded, at least partially, as a the ground and immediately lost of that size have struck earth, but profanity is-is not half so force
natural craving of those who take consciousness...
proved of little damage because ful to these warriors
little physical exercise to attain
dis- artificial relaxation.
should be Alcoholism tinguished from drunkenness. The Treasurer who normal man after taking oma- what immoderately of alcohol be- comes in certain respects ab the following subscriptions:-
40.00 hand, takes alcohol because he Previously acknowledged $3,062.30 normal; the alcoholic, on the other needs it to become normal. He is Mrs. 6. B. C. Ross Staff and Pupils of Queen's
85.00 a neurotic and alcohol relieves his College
28.00 condition. The alcoholic is the Douglas Steamship Co.
26.00
type of person who, it opportunity 20.00
affords, takes to drugs, and hav Mrs. Carmichael
18.00 Ing once transferred his allegiancé 17.00 to the needle practically never re- 15.00 turns to alcohol, :
all costs.
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time to arrest Babribzce, who was placed under lock und key as soon as the girl had been taken to hos
pital.
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ger of a colliston,
speed.
United Press.
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this
S.P.C.A.
FINANCIAL DRIVE FOURTH LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS.
A total sum of $3,506.80 has now been collected by the S.P.C.A. Practically all subscriptions
A French policeman had they came in on an angle instead simplest of words.. witnessed the latter part of the of coming directly down and Fer, instance, Colin Clive's no quarrel and was on the spot in because they canie at much less to the Colonel, "How awfully nice
In North-Eastern Arizona if the Brigadier's pleased," is so lists have now been returned to is a meteor crater 1,200 yards in much more heavily freighted with the Honorary diameter and 180 yards drop.meaning than any cursing, This wishes to acknowledge with thanks man with his heart torn to bits over the loss of his best friend and his best officer can express his agony most succinctly in the bit Ing sarcasm of those simple lines. repeated again when he says
Stil it'll be awfully nice if the Brigadier's pleased 1"
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It was ascertained at a late hour, Immediate that she was in no danger of losing her life, but her dancing days are over... AN EYE TO BEAUTY.
P.L. BILLBOARDS TO COME DOWN.
Believing that improper billboard advertising may injuriously affect the natural beauty of the landscape and might also prove detrimental to the tourist trade in the Philippines, Governor General Davis bas ap pointed a committee charged with the task of studying existing lawe
DOUBLE TRAGEDY. VERDICT IN GROSVENOR HOTEL
CASE.
London, Sept. 23,
P. P. J. Wodahouse Canadias Pacific: Steamship
Co., Ltd
M.-H. Turney.
Edgar Walte, in the San Fran- cisco Examiner, said of "Journey's Raven & Basto and Staff End"It's deeper than more pro- William G. Jack & Co. At the Inquest at Westminster on fanity. It's the pathetic torment Staff of Lane Crawford, Ltd.
Army Pay Office the Grosvenor House Hotel tragedy. Ing of men caught in a trap, of M. 3, Quist a verdict that Lockerby murdered nerves, physical and mental~· ex-
Staff of Theosophical Society Miss Jessie Guild by shooting her hauition, the hope and the terror of F
Messm, Leith & Orange and then committed suicide while of of oblivion and with it all the de-
J. F. Grose & Co. unsound infad was raturned termination to keep backed up. Ella & Edgar Lockerby's father, a draper, gave Journey's End" is playing at Borg & Co. evidence to the effect that his son the Central Theatre to capacity Sports Club was twenty-four and that he was audiences that listen to this all- Gerin Drevard & Co... and regulations governing the erec divorced. He loft his home on dialogue Tiffany- Gainsborough D. V. Steavenson tion of billboards, sky-signs and September 16 with 240. The other forms of advertising..
The committee will recommend father was of the opinion that his to the next Legislature such legis son was subject to mental lapses, Lockerby had not mentioned re- lation as may be considered appro- marriago, but he could not afford priate and necessary to restrict and prohibit the exhibition of advertise ments that tend to disfigure or in- Juriously affect the scenic beauties of the Philippines or to mar the appearance of residential districta and to safeguard public buildings. and monuments.
to marry.
MURDERER SHAMS DEATH.
picture in hushed awa.
F. MWeller e Consul General for Canton R. H. Kotewall & Co. "THE LOVE PARADE.”
Capt Hugh Willia Me Far Enat Oxygen & Acetylene
Co The girl with the red-gold hair and the sea-green eyes," known to J. F. Grose.. The Phurmay the musical comedy world as
I.R.S Jeanette MacDonald, has gone Ellis Hayim "talkie through a whim of fate. E Grossman Ernst Lubitsch, the famous direc Clover Flower Shop
PM. N. da Silva tor, went in search of a proper ye Olde Printerle, leading lady for Maurice Chevalier De B.de Souza The committee is also charged
for "The Love Parade," the screen's Lal You-taun first original musical romance In Assuranco France Asiatique. with the duty of studying the posal-
P. L Woo. bility of erecting standard-guide San Quentin, Calif., Oct. 2. New York Lubitsch attended every Chion Fancy Goods and warning signs on Insular and Gordon Stewart Northcott, who musical show in search of the per- Joseph Gould & Co Provincial roads and regulations of murdered three boys on his chicken fect type be desired for the role of MJ. Van Bem
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Phipps (Asia), Ltd. houses or stands and the possible ed at the State penitentiary here Jeanette MacDonald was the prohibitions of their erection in this morning
perfect type. She
certain places, Kusume
Hanged After Pretending To Daddy Takë- Panon
An hour before he was executed tiful, the was Northcott drank the contents of a actress, and she
The first day of his holidays Lottle which he pretended was She was just finishing Binks entered the
seaside polson. The authorities used a ment In the Broadway boms and had a ham sandwich stomach pump on him and discover Boom!" and was
/3, so he sent fored that he was Laking.
Ender contr
In addition to the three boys-he Parade A
the
Love
8 convicted of having killed Northcott was suspected of having brings murdered
long.
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