FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1931.
BACK FROM LEAVE.
THE JOY OF SIGNING CHITS AGAIN.
1.
AMENITIES OF MALAYA.
ARE MEN BURIED
ALIVE?
Singular Allegations Made.
CHANGE IN LAWS?
THE
ROUND THE CINEMAS
LON CHANEY IN "THE UNHOLY THREE."
FIRST LOCAL SCREENING.
CHINA MAIL.
SHADOWS BEFORE
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OLD BEDFORDIAN DINNER.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED be held on SATURDAY, Janu-
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To-day-Tea Dance at Hong
To-night Dinner Dances Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels.
January 23-Society, of . York- Danco, shiromen Cabaret-Dinner Hong Kong Hotel, 8 p.m.
To-day-Reception to Governor
"The Unholy Three," which is} Many bundreds of men and wo men who have just returned fron
now showing in the Queen's Theatre, is one of the best crook leave must be starting to realize the
Paris, Dec. 3. reward if such one can call it, of
pictures shown here. Lon Chaney Worried by reports such as that had the leading role and he proved living in Malaya, writes G. G. N. in
Kong Hotel, Perhaps they of the Rev. Cusley that 1,000 Hve himself a unique actor who used no the Free Press. have come from France, perhaps persons are buried every year in fewer than five voices in the course Switzerland, the majority almost Britain and Dr. Hartmann, of Ger- of taking two parts, that of Echo, certainly from
Britain, many, who contends that one per the leader of the Unholy Three, and Great where, during the Summer they son of every 500 buried is really as Mrs. O'Grady, the old pro He was have fed on strawberries to their alive, the French Chamber of De-prietress of a bird shop. hearts' content, sniffed the odour ruties is to-day giving serious con- well supported by Rosie, the pick- of peat smoke in the lonely glen and sideration to a project for making pocket (Lila Lee), Hercules the watched the departing glories of a scientific determination of death strong man (Ivan Linow), and Mid- real British August day.
obligatory before burlal. And now that most of us аге are back, how
I wonder many For our benefits here are
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Entertainments. To-day Queen's "The Unholy Three."
Theatre Today Central "Sarah and Son."
To-day-World "Chasing through Europe." To-day - Star "State Street Sadle " ** To-dari Majestie "Carnation Kid."
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get the dwarf (Harry Earles),
Echo. The Chamber has no idea of how
The picture opens with death can be guaranteed, but there Hercules and Midget as members of are some deputies who favour aa freak show, Rosie being attached "coup de grace," such as the injecto it as the "light fingered" artiste, tion of a few drops of deadly poi turning over all the booty to Echo. To sign a chit is a pleasure we son which will not hurt a dead The show is closed down by the have not been able to enjoy during person, but would bring death to Police, following a rough house, the whole of our time at Home. one who was really only "apparent and then the three men band them- as the Unholy No more
selves together pockets full of pennies ly dead,
For some years, deputies have Three, a daring gang of crooks. that weigh our trousers down until
Their coups are all planned in a we earn the disapprobation of our been trying to force such a measure)
Home Malls frane through Parliament, and several bird shop which they run as wife, по more dirty one
To-day--Inward from Europe Everything goes screen. notes, no more worries about cash-j projects are gathering dust in the
No claims will be admitted after the M. Arsene Fie introduced until Hercules and Midget pull off vin Siberia (Jeypore and Haruna ing cheques in outlandish spots. files. But there are a hundred and fifty the project which the Chamber is a robbery without Echo and they aru); from Europe via Negape-Goods have left the Godown, and all (Patroclus); from America Goods remaining andelivered after, the such unpleasantnesses. Take my studying to-day, whereby all the commit murder.
The trio then de- tam shirt for instance.
All claims against the vessel must I don't of old projects must be dusted off and cide to plant a stolen necklace on and ports (Empress of Japan)...15th instant will be subject to rent
To-morrow-Inward from Ameri- be presented to the Undersigned on or course want you to do this liter-studied.
the young clerk employed in their bird shop to shift the blame on him. ca and ports (President Harrison); before the 28th instant or they will ally but in Britain I must wear
Apparent Death, my shirt for a week because it
All broken, chafed, and damaged M. Fie argues that thousands of The clerk is tried for his life. Outward for Europe via Marseilles not be recognised.
Goods are to be left in the Godowns, costs a small legacy to get wash-Frenchmen grow grey prematurely Rosie, who has fallen in love with (Harana Maru), 10.30 a.m.
Meetings.
where they will be examined on the ed. Yes, that clean shirt every day from worrying over the possibility the youth, pleads for his life and
January 14-Mecting of Gradu-16th Instant at 10 am. by our sur In a joy and a boon. Then there is
He listed Echo at once attends Court as Mrs. of being buried alive. another matter connected with
death O'Grady to give evidence for the ates in the Great Hall of the veyors Messrs, Goddard & Douglas.
No Fire Insurance has been effect- string of 20 causes A
He is dramatically un- | University, 5,15 p.m. this very necessary garment of
which might put the victim in a defonce.
January 14-Annual
ed.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned mine. In Malaya when I take my state of apparent death, although masked in Court and makes a con- shirt off 1 am ashamed to say
DODWELL & CO., LTD., leave it, on the floor where it
Agents. mains until Ah Took cumes At
Hong Kong, 9th January, 1931.
I
ro-
life was not extinct.
of
General fession which results in his being Meeting of Boy Scouts Association, Among them he named epilepsy, put away for five yeara and Rosie St. John's Cathedral Hall, 5 p.m.
Sports. See Diary on page & dawn to do my valeting; not so in anemia due to an abundant hemorr- and her lover are thus made happy. hage, commotion due to fright, Midget is killed by Horenies, who
Miscellaneous, Acacia Avenue, Wigan-for there
lethargy due to alcohol or sleeping himself meets with a terrible death
Monday-Hong Kong University dne to at the hands of a huge orang utan I know that I shall find my shirt
sickness, asphyxiation
Degree Day. in exactly the same posilon as I left it over night. Curse my shirt. strangulation, submersion or toxic pet of Echo's.
Here in gas or impressions such as gudden that white suit. Malaya a clean suit every day, and great joy, fear, pain or sud- whereas if I were in Britain I
And
ne88.
"STATE STREET SADIE."
Conrad Nagel and Myrna Loy are M. Fie recited hundreds of cases would wear my second best blue where persons believed to be dead, the leading players in Warner serge for two years, have it clean-rose in their coffins. Some of them Brother's production "State Street' were then, in turn, actually fright- Side which is being screened at the Star Theatre to-day and ened to death. He cited the case of one French women who legally Saturday. aled three times in one morning.
Doctor: "I do not like the look of your wife."
Husband: "Neither do I."-
Buen Humor, Madrid.
twice being revived after having registered as dead,
most
"STAR" ARRESTED.
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Hollywood, Yesterday.
WAR THOUGHT
Built up on a plot concerning the has furnished G$6,000 bail in con- TRAINING YOUTH IN underworld wo Bae Nagel as a rection with a charge of parti visitor from South America, who cipating in smuggling narcotics finds his twin brother, a suicide, from Mexico.-Reuter's American He recalled one of the famous cases of rare escapes from coupled with the murder of a Police Service.
Through the many scenes being burled alive, that of Prince officer. Masukaha, of Tokyo.. During the that follow, there is much excite past year there have been three ment, and, of course, the inevitable William Russell figures cases in Europe, one in London, on romance. January 10; a second In Barcelona, in the supporting.cast.. February 1, and a third in Milan, March 15.
If the Chamber passes the Fle project, the law will be changed so that the fact to appear dead does not constitute death. The Government would be obliged to of Medicine consult the Academies
ed and wear it for another two and Sciences and evolve some acheme of making sure of death before public services grant the burial permit-United Press.
years.
God bless the dhobie. What About Whisky. Now what about whisky? Whisky is 12/6 a bottle at Home, taxed so that every time a gulp shoots over the larynx you feel your child's education. premiums are going with
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It is alleged that Miss Rubens bad Manifesto Inconsistent C$5,000 worth of drugs hidden in the
with Kellogg Paet. lining of a cloak. She declares it to be a "frame up."]
A manifesto protesting against The salmon pack of British the military training of youth and Columbia for the 1930 season is
A comedy, entitled "Night Owls," starring Stan Laurel and Oliver nearly 100,000 cases higher than conscription, and stressing the Hardy, completes the programme,
"SARAH AND SON."
the previous record of 1926. The total pack for 1930 was 2,163,712 cases. The 1929 total was 1,389 476 cases; 1928, 2,035,829; 1927, 1,360,634; 1926; 2,065,451.
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cent. technicolour, which comes to the Central Theatre to-morrow.
"OUR BLUSHING BRIDES."
It prevents the development of the will to peace." s tem A Grave Crime. The older generation commits aj grave crime against the younger
Incompatibility of such things with the renunciation of war through the Kellogg Pact, bas Leen published simultaneously all over the world by the National Ruth Chatterton's theatrical
Council for Prevention of War. career has been a series of dares. When she was fifteen years old
Military training, it points out, she went to Washington to spend
may be enforced by law or may Five of the girls are decided be imposed on a wide scale by Christmas vacation from an ex- clusive Southern finishing school. blondes one is a brunette. Two moral or economic pressure, while The vacation was spent in a round bave dark hair and light eyes. all Governments claim the ultim of matinees, She became stage Their average, height is five feet, ate right to demand war service struck, and told her friends that four and a half inches and their from their citizens, both men and come day she would be a great weight average is 123 pounds. women. In a husband and wife dispute as theatrical star, sun.
Such things should be abolish- They are from various sections of it. A dreadful business that and to the ownership of property in The other girls laughed at her the United States, ed, it argues, and the right of we can get it here in Malaya for the Chancery Division the husband but: failed to discourago her.
The eight queens of pulchritude Governments to impose conscrip seven or eight shillings. Cigarettes? remarked that if he had known this Then they dared her to go on the are Dorathy: Davis, brunette, from tion should be denied, since con Well what about them? Cigarettes trouble was going to arise he would stage. She answered by getting a Paradena, California Cecile scription subjects the individual en- in Malaya are about 1s. 6d. for 50, have kept proper accounts, job the very next night in the in Britain they are
Cameron, black hair and blue eyes, tirely to the military powers and 2s. 6d, in Mr. Justice Eve: That is what chorus of a show that was playing Milwaukee, Wis. Jean Douglas, form of servitude the habitual France between 4s, and 88.
we shsil all say on the day of ir. the national capital. ..
blonde, Albany, New York; acceptance of which only lus- Tipping? Who said tipping? I
judgment and it won't assist us Five years ago a motion pictura
trates its deadening effect. by Eugenia -Woodbury, blonde, any man know aught against this
very much. (Laughter).,
producer offered Ruth Chatterton a
Such training, the manifesto Denver, Colorado Thora Waverly, thing let him declare it now. We
hige salary to desert the stage for blue eyes and brown hair, Enid, continues, Is that pf: "mind and want to see a really you over
the screen. She turned down the Oklahoma; Rae Murray, blonde, bedy; in, the technique of killing flustered and unhappy individual.
etter and word went around Holly San Francisco; Blanche Saunders, perpetuation of the war mental
It is education for ware -It is the i watch a Malayan visitor leaving a much as you are ever likely to see wood, that Rath Chatterton would blonde, Seattle, Washington; geaside hotel in France. Having of a spot of exercise; and then never appear in pictures..... dealt with the restaurant, femme you'll have to wait about three But about 18 months ago she was
Frances Waverly, blonde, Enid,ity. de chambre, and chef cinge he still hours for even that. And talking in the film capital again. A Oklahoma. has several concierges, the conduc- of tennis, a'small, matter
prominent director asked her to teur, lift boy, the voiturier, the small did I say it is vitall take a screen test. "Just for fun." vestiare, the chasseurs, the bagag-"Tambi bola:" where are you going She refused: He looked at her
Training with the Albertina generation, it, charges, when in iste and the telephone to square. to get a ball boy in England again and said, "You are
afraid Even in Britain it is rather a except at Wimbledon?
you won't make good on the screed, exactly-eight pounds while youth often under the pretext of Rasch ballet cost Joan Crawford schools, universities, oficial and private organisations, it reducates business to dodge the head waiter after forking out to two of his Yes, there are many things that That was a dare. She made the Brides her new talking physical training in the service of
parlag for her role in "Our Blush- satellites, when nothing but a thrill us with pleasure when we test the next day and it was pro-vehicle which will come on Sunday warrants, si dature meagre lunch has changed hands. think about them, after our return nounced a success. That test won to the Queen's Theatre as how The Peace Treaties, the man-4 But there it is; tipping is the curse to the Far East: For instance, we her over to the screen as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature.
festo points out, imposed upon the of Europe. And in Malaya no needn't go and pick brambles on medium for her art: A short
Miss Crawford, who leads the defeated countries at the close of tipping, or not if I can jolly, well hot afternoons, we needn't scrum tinse later she was signed by Para famous ballet in the spectacular the great war the suppression of help it; I remember shortly after up in Woolworth's to buy a foun mount to play opposite Emil Jan-garden-party scenes, rehearsed for
conscription and the military coming East I gave in the greenish tain pen for little Willie, we needn'tnings in Sins of the Fathers."
four hours every day with the training of youth, and itsiatime way that newcomers do, a small carry our own clubs or drive our Then came the talking Airas. trained ballet gifle until the for the peoples of the world to take pourboire to a Malay tambi to own car. We needn't pay Income Her Arats! appearance on the strenuous routine was completed the initiative in freeing them- which he replied. Tuan mau bil tax or wrestle with ling the form audible #screen was in
The
When she went to At costumes, the calves from both. If Govern-1 apa? Roko? Mutt, I hear you say,up. We needn't baths in a se Dunimy Then came "The Doc-loss of weight was, discovered.ments fall to recognize the strength- well possibly we both were y that is one degree above žero, hor for's Secret Charming Sinners”
Harry Beaumont, who directed of the revolt against) war: they w Malayan Clubs: need we travel in tube or chars and "The Laughing Lady."Our Dancing Daughters direct must expect the resistance of those And whore in the world are you bang, “) And on the other - hand, „Hör fifth all-talking: production going to get auch Jolly good clubs where can you find d curry like our for Faramount is Sarah and Soned the new Crawford fim with Pr whom loyalty to mankind vanit as in Malaya? (Hats of Messrs, cooky makes it, where does a whisky based on the best-sellingi moval of Robert aföntgomery in the leading conscience is supreme stivist, Secretaries please). The average behit toss as good as in the FMS the same name by Timothy Shen masculine role and Anita Page Strength is lent to this latest London Club is a parking and where is it so easy to get a partner It is picture of a mother's strug- and Dorothy Sebastian sharing campaign in the cause of percolby grousing place for moth eaten and for golf of tennis as in the Straits? gler to regain her young son who feminine Honours. Included In the the fact that both Australia andi ageing-bodies who have no further I don't know and yet. I shall have had been lost to her, through the supporting chat are Raymond New Zealand have recently ens use for the world or themselves to go on thinking of a further 150 ofrcumstances of hardship, and Hackett, Hedda Hopper, John Mil-pended, compulsory military train They Just lle about waiting for the other benefits that Malaya has to poverty,
NJ, Mary Doran, and Owes Lec. 18, and that during the past year SSTE MANY RED Sthe British stater granta for the Cadet Corps and the Church Lods?
Mathe, manifesto has; been signed || courtesy and kind In-America by Professor John man and Commit Dewer: h Germany by Dr
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