THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1931,
HISTORIC FINDS IN MALACCA.
Search for Secret Passage.
MR. HAZEL'S ADDRESS.
Malacca, Dec. 1, 1930.
At last week's Rotary Club tillin
TURIN WOMAN'S DIFFICULTY.
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Seeks Court Assistance to Prove Her Existence.
CURIOUS CASE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
ROUND THE CINEMAS
MOST POPULAR CHILD ACTOR.
IN SARAH AND SON."
One of filmdom's most popular child actors, Phillipe de Lacy, will be seen and heard in “Sarah and Son" Turin, Dec. 1.
Paramount's powerful ro- mance-drama starring Ruth Chat- terton, which is now showing in the Central Theatre.
A curious case has occurred here Mr. J. Hazel gave a short his-of a woman, who though Hving and tory of, and resumé of the work of. perfectly well, is obliged to appeal the Malacca Historial Society, ex-to the courts to establish the fact
that she is not dead. cerpts of which are given below.
-NEW
SHADOWS BEFORE ADVERTISEMENTS.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
IN CHINA MAIL.
Social Functions,
CLUB LUSITANO.
CONVITE.
A Direcao do Club Lusitano.tem a honra de convidar os Exmos.
To-day-Tea Dance at. Hong Sra. Socios de Club de Recrelo, da Associacao Portuguesa de Socorros Kong Hotel.
To-night Dinner Dances at Mutuos, da Liga Portuguesa e do This is Phillipe's third pletoro Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels. Club Lusitano ▸ suas Exmas. for Paramount in less than a year'a
To-night-Third Annual Dance Familias e os demals Membros da On March 17, 1824, said Mr. Some time ago, the woman's hus time. He was cast in the role of of Ladies' Hockey Club, Lane, Craw-Comunidade Portuguesa para 80 reunirem na sala “Luíz de Camoos" boy in "The ford's, Hazel, the British and Dutch Gov-band, Signor Giovanni Rosso re- Richard Arlen as a
January 23-Society of York-co Club Lusitano, na Sexta-feira, ernments signed the Treaty of eived a letter from the local insane Four Feathers," and was Lilyan
Dance, do corrente, as 5.15 horas da London by which Malacca was re- asylum informing him that his wife Taahman's son in "The Marriage shiremen Cabaret-Dinner
In "Sarah and Son" Hong Kong Hotel, 8 p.m.
tarde, afim de assistirem a Recep turned to the British Government Angela was interned there. Much Playground,"
mystified, the couple supposed the he plays the part of the eleven-year.
honra do for the last and final time.
EntertainmenİR.
seu ilustre Sun a few letter was intended as some kind old son of Miss Chatterton.
Excellencia 0 In 1923 I.got together
Today - Queen's kindred souls to consider how best of a joke on the part of someone. Phillipe is the adopted son of "The Unholy Three."
Governador de Macau, Senhor Artur Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa e Sua Edyth de Lacy, a British woman. to commemorate the centenary of Gathering Amazement,
To-day Central
Exma Esposa.. occupation. We formed ourselves A few months later, Signor Rosse Who, serving as a nurse in France Sarah and Son." Into the Malacca Centenary Cum-received a second letter from the during the war, discovered the baby
To-day-World His mother and Chasing through Europe.” as such published a madhouse authorities telling him
in a shell-hole. mittee, and "History and Guide of Malacca" that his wife was behaving violent de Lacy took charge of him and "State Street Sadie."
father had been killed. Miss To-day Star. which undoubtedly filled a long-felty to the nurses. More amazement
in the Rosso family.
want.
Some years later I got together
of another bunch enthusiastic
The
people and with the help of the then Resident Councillor we started the Malacca Historical Society. two remaining members of the ori- Centenary Com- ginal Malacca
Eventually, a third letter arrived from the director of the asylum in forming Signor Rosso that his wife was dead.
took him to the United States.
In 1920, when Phillipe was three years old, he made his screen debut іл Geraldine Farrar's woman."
CAO em
Theatr
Patrono,
Theatre
Theatre,
Theatre
Theatre;
To-day Majestic "Dames Ahoy!"
To-day-Helena May Concert, 5.30 p.m.
Institute
"Riddle After that he has made an unbroken series of appearances
Home Maila Investigation showed that A
before the screen.
To-morrow-Inward from Europe former servant of Signora Rosso had given the name of her old mistion, "Beau Geste," "The Blue Boy," Maru); from Europe via Negara-
"Rosia," Mary Pickford produc- via. Sihería (Jeypore and Haruna: mittee met solemnly in the "Pigtress when entering the madhouse "Is Zat So" "The Four Feathers" tam (Patroclus); from America and Whistle," passed the necessary
as well as a document purporting and "The Way of All Flesh" are and ports (Empress of Japan). resolutions and wound up the old to show her identity. Signora some of his major pictures.
Meetings. committee and handed over ita
Rosso will shortly be declared
Zoe.Akins, poet and playwright, January 14 Meeting of Gradu- assets to the new society.
ates in the Great Hall of the novel for the films..
University, 5.15 p.m.
The first excavations made in Malneca by the society were made in 1924, thanks to then Resident Councillor who provided the funds
officially alive by the courts adapted the original Timothy Shea United Fress.
for labour. About three fect of the Pope should be approached with
"THE UNHOLY THREE,”
Here's a new use for a derby hat.
earth was removed from Inside the a view to issuing a world-wide ap You can throw your voice with it, chancel and sacristy in St. Paul's peal for $50,000 with which to reaccording to no less an authority After we had store the church of Malacca (St.than Lon Chaney, who asserts that Church on the hill. removed this earth we came upon Paul's Church) to ita former one of the favourite tricks of a ven- the tomb of St. Francis Xavier the grandeur at the time of the actual position of which until then Portuguese. They were confident triloquist is to use the derby as a had not been known..
Tombatones Found.
January 14-Annual Generall Meeting of Boy Scouts' Association,
Havera em seguida Cha e danca. Afm de que esta recepcno soja revestida do mator brilho possivel
Direcao pade a comparencia del todos os Socios e suas Exmas. Familias e os demais Membros da Comunidade Portugues2..
A. . S. ALVES,
Secretario.
Hong Kong, 8 de Janeiro de 1931.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIBITED.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO ANTWERP, LONDON, STRAITS AND PHILIPPINES.
"BENLEDI"-
St. John's Cathedral Hall,.6 p.m. The Steamship,
Sports. See Diary on page 8 -
COSTS OF LITIGATION
that the appeal would meet with sort of sounding board to push OFFICIAL REFEREE ON LITTLE
adequate response and were of the When the new society was form- opinion that that amount would be ed it immediately got busy on ex-subscribed by South America cavation work. Shafts were sunk alone. in various parts of the building. In the course of excavation work we
DARDAL
TALIO
"You broke your stick over the head of this man. What have you to say?"
The Pope Approached.
place of worship.
Bound in a certain direction.
Ha
does the trick in his role of ventri loquist in "The Unholy Three," his first all-talking picture which opens to-day in the Queen's Theatre.
The accoustics of a derby make
Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- formed that all Goods are being land- ed at their risk into the hazardous
The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or
and/or extra hazardous Gedowns of
from the whartes delivery may be ob
tained UNDERSTOOD PROCEDURE.
Important hints on economy in litigation were given in the High Court recently by Sir Francis New-rent.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 15th Instant will be subject to
All claims against the steamer must
14th instant at 10 a.m., by Messrn. Goddard and Douglas.
The Rev. Father Francois has it useful to hang over trombones in tolt, K.C., the Official Referee, in be presented to the Undersigned on taken up the matter and is now in jazz orchestras for the same rea-judgment on a builder's claim for or before the 20th instant or they communication with the Pope. It son, declares Chaney, who adds the erection of a house in Shooters will not be recognised. is not intended, when the church that the derby in such a case is Hill Road, Blackheath.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, has been restored, to use it as a gilded. to make more ornamental Sir Francis said that it was where they will be examined on the rather than for musical reasons, dispute between two business men St. Francis Xavier, as you know, Appearing with Chaney in the as to the balance due, and though a greatly honoured by members of cast of "The Unholy Three"
No Fire Insurance has been affect- are counsel had been business-like and
ed. the Jesuit Society, and to-day Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent, Harry helpful, the case had lasted a year
Bills of Lading will be countersiga- people of Malacca go up the hill to Earies, John Miljon, Ivan Linow, and involved the parties in costs ed by, light their candles and count their Clarence Burton, and Crauford more than the sum due.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., rosaries. If the appeal succeeds, Kent.
Agents. Hong Kong, 8th January, 1931.
it will be a great boon and blessing
to Malacca.
On the hill, outside the church
and behind the chancel we found
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"THE VAGABOND KING?
Curious fans
If the parties had instructed their surveyors to agrée upon a price and then, if necessary, had gone to an umpire, the case could
who have often have been amicably settled last year AMERICAN two pits full of charcoal. They wondered whether a screen Idol at a quarter of the present cost. Chemical Diamonds are equal to real were symmetrical and covered with ever condescends to become an Even a cheaper and better course diamonds in brilliancy, lastre and arched cement work with an aper-extra should read this.
would have been to appoint the hardness. Cut glasses like real dia
DIAMOND POACHERS
ture in the centre. The aperture It happened recently at the Official Referee as sole arbitrator. monds Proof against fire, steel fle was about fourteen inches square. Paramount studio in Hollywood. Not even in the profession was and natric acid. Price per carat They were full of charcoal. One Danais King, who was working on it really understood that any refer The American Chemical Diamond HK. $5 nett. Terms Cash or .0.0.D. of these pits we emptied and a sequence of "The Vagabond ence of a case could be decided in Ca. PO. Box 360. PENANG, "I had no intention of breaking found that the charcoal had been King." In which he is started, the High Court as an arbitration STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. the stick."-Buen Humor, Madrid.resting on broken tiles and rubble. Anished his day's work early. without arbitrator's fees.
We came to the conclusion that i After doing his medieval tights those pits could not have been fand tunic, and resuming the dress came upon a number of tombstones used for storing fresh water or of a gentleman of the twentieth MODESTY OF SEXES. together with a lot of rubble and strong charcoal but that they were century, he stopped in on the "Be- rubbish. These were
removed.
The Portuguese idea of the modern hind the Make-Up" setting, where WHEN MR. BALDWIN FIRST MET The Malacca Historical Society la
septic tank.
Kay Francis and Hal Skelly were! certain that those tombstones did
Turning to St. John's Hill, we re being directed in a scene by not cover any graves.
from the centre to the firing plat- moved the mound which extended |Robert Milton.
We also found a few mausoleume, Ugly looking vaults they were. They were of old Dutch brickwork covered plaster and
over in
form.
"Just in time," Milton greeted
A GIRTON GIRL
UNEMPLOYED DEFY THE POLICE.
Over 200 unemployed men, who Mr. Stanley Baldwin, who was trekked to Namaqualand in search
We dug down and discover-King. "Walk out that door for me the guest at a dinner of Girton of- easy wealth, are causing the ed that the floor of the building was in this scene and as you go out, College, Cambridge, at Hyde Park police grave anxiety, particularly Hotel, recently recalled, the day in the Buchuberk area, where old made of brick. The Fort has been say good afternoon"." built over restored to its original form, and The star-extra did his bit and as when he first met and danced with there are rich diamond deposits. Portuguese vaults. These were to-day, is practically in the same a reward received the complimentaa Girton giri.
Almost 'nightly these men 'forma demolished with the permission
"I was 17, and shy," he said. "I small parties, and raid. the 'dia- of the few remaining descendants condition as when the Portuguesa of the director,
left it.
"The Vagabond King," in which knew nothing of women and I went mondiferous ground, where dig who were found and the heads of
Other discoveries of interest con- Dennis King plays the starring to a dance and met the first Girton ging is prohibited by the Govern- the Various denominations in cern finds in a manhole which con-title role, is based on the famous girl that I had ever met. We ment, usually escaping in the Malacca. Some of the old stones, tractor's coolies had dug in front of novel, "If I Were King," by Justin danced together. She told me that darkness in spite of vigilant police weighing over a ton each, were
no natural modesty patrols. the Post Office. Here were found Huntly McCarthy, and the subas men had found to be reating on half bricks,
The raiders merely fill aacks and were, therefore, dangerous.
a stone or granite cannon-ball, part quent operetta, "The Vagabond (Laughter.) I had never thought
subject before. I felt with gravel, and hastily make off, In the early history of Malacca of a grind-stone and part of a King" which was written by Wil about the
liam H. Post, Brian Hooker and instinctively that men had. As a sorting the gravel afterwards at you read that the Portuguese when
Wall Across the River. Rudolph Friml, and in which matter of fact it is perfectly well prearranged meeting places. This they landed here destroyed.. the Moorish castle upon the hill. All Then we also discovered the Dennis King was the star before known that men have much more is a highly profitable business, Mohammedans were called Moors existence of a wall across the river. Paramount signed him for work in modesty, at any rate in their earlier for one sack of gravel, which the police captured, was found to by the Portuguese. Those of us It has only recently been removed. an all-talking and all-singing pic years, than women."
"That conversation set up in my contain nine big diamonds. ture. who had been working on the top It ran across the river just op
The men are becoming increas- of the hill had the pleasure of ace posits the buildings of the Govern- Jeanette MacDonald, who was mind an appreciation of the turn Ing the original foundations of the mont Monopolies Department. We last seen and heard as the leading that a conversation might také ingly truculent, and an open clash ancient Malay palace,
do not know the reason for that lady for Maurice Chevalier in "The I ever met another Girton girl with the police is feared. Fur wall, but possibly it was erected as Love Parade," is the lovely royal For many years I kept out of their thermore, the seashore is known to be, rich in diamonds washed up A venerable white-baired old a boom or barricade to prevent the piece of Louis XI and the beloved way." (Laughter.)
by the sea from an underwater Indian told us that he remembered | Malaya from amuggling goods of Francols Villen (Dannis King)
diamond pipe, and, though the
The Secret Passage...
prau.
in this gorgeous ail-technicolour,
going down a secret passage on top through without paying duty to the singing romance which comes to huge outdoor terraced garden was whole beach above low water is out the spot to us. He did, and We had a visit this year from the Central Theatre on Saturday. constructed and Gilbert Adrian closed to digging, It is feared that buoyed up with the hope of making His Excellency the Governor, Sir
of the hill. We asked him to point Portuguese. A
a further Important, discovery we Cecil Clementi, who very graciously
dug and dug but could find no trace has consented to become the matron
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Macca Library new talking film which will open entirely in black and white, vividis They were locked in the tower of on Baniny in the Queen's Theatre emphnaising the silver costumes the church all day, and were without Harder the direction of Harry Band and widia wigs of the dancers food or drink, and they rang 27,687 mont, who elevated her to ardom | Róbert Montgomery, who played changes. In February 1920, the with "Ouf Dancing-- tighte opposite Miss Crawford p-Up Painswick Youths set up a record of aini is her leading man ringing 15,091 changes in eight
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