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News in Brief.
THURSDAY, JANUARY
EDUCATION BILL.
GOVERNMENT DEFEATED 'ON
AMENDMENT.
NOT A VITAL ISSUE.
London,, Yesterday.
In the House of Cominons to- day the Government
were de- feated by 282 votes to 249 on an!
X22 1931. BRITISH ACTORS IN "ATLANTIC."
Harbrodt--The
An Epic of Heroism at Sea.
AT THE QUEEN'S.
Although in many respects a re-
For having possession of 28 pota amendment to the Education Bill murkable" nahievement, "Atlantic," of prepared opium at Canton Road,moved by the Labour Member, the "talkie" drama of the sinking yesterday Chán Fal, a Chinese, was Mr. J. Scurr, demanding that the of the Titanic, by no means up- Ained $80 or one month.
Bill should not operate until proaches the high standard that we aid was extended to non-provided had been led to believe by the Lon The forthcoming wedding is an-schools,
don Press reports this British film nounced:-Mr. Louis Smith, c/o Mr. MacDonald subsequently attained. in the first place, there Asiatic Petroleum Company (South announced that the Government is no neticeable plot, the whole China) Limited, to May Devereaux would not treat the defeat asatory dealing with a protrayal of Kurie, formerly May Devereaux De vital. as no principle were in-the reactions of various types of Longueville De Bucy, also of the volved if the Government accept passengers to the realisation that A.P.C.
ed the amendment.
the liner which they had imagined Third Reading.
to be as unsinkable as St. Paul's, has about two hours "to live"". having been struck by an iceberg. Good Acting.
For stealing a plank of wood
Later. from a carpenter of No. 302, Can- The House of Commons passed ton Road on January 21, Lai Ling tion Bill by 256 votes to 238.- the third reading of the Educa-
an unemployed Chinese, was sen- tenced to five weeks' imprisonment at the Kowloon Magistracy morning.
this
The acting is always good, es- Reater.
pecially that of Frank Dyell as [On December 3 the House of John Rool, the elderly novelist who Commons passed an amendment displays such noble heroism in the postponing the operation of the last hour. The terrifying moments Found in a fishing not, by Ny School Age Bill to September, when the boats are lowered, when Sal-fun, master of
1932.1 a fishing boat,
fear drives men and women to acts General Opposition. of the Ninepins, the body of an un-
of frenzy, and the iron discipline known Chinese male, aged about 40
Rugby. Yesterday. compels the officers to use their re- In the House of Commons to-volvers, are splendidly captured on years, and hadly decomposed, was Pesterday removed to the Kowloon night the Government were de- the screen. The action is a trifle
feated in a division on the report slow, and the photography some. stage of the Education Bill for times dim, but it is a rare pleasure Stated to have been in crime for The Bill was met in opposition of the English voice! The ending raising the school leaving age. to hear the distinct musical tones seven years, a Chinese with eleven
from previous convictions was this morn- í
groups in all political is moving and not overdone. ing entenced to three months' hard parties on the question of State "Atlantic" is a picture we recom labour by Mr. R. E. Lindaell, when did to be given to non-provided mend you to soe.
Secretarian schools to enable
Public Mortuary. }
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Twenty-three Chinese lined up before Mr. Butters this morning at the Kowloon Magistracy charged was to ensue. No one imagined, with gambling. Tam Fat, the first not even our economic experts, defendant, pleaded guilty to that the dollar would drop below keeping a gambling house the shilling rate, and now that Po Kong Road, Kowloon City and was fined $50 or опе the catastrophe bas come it is month. The remainder were fined only fair to compensate the Civil 33 each, and three men who fall-
at
"MAMBA" AT CENTRAL.
THEATRE.
Wo have had musical
he pleaded guilty to the theft of two hottles of sweets from a shop in them to fulfil the programme of |building and staffing involved. A Vanchai.
series of conferences to i ench by the Education Minister during to-day at the Central Theatre, we agreed settlement had been held
"Mamba", the feature attraction the recess, but proved abortive. believe brings to the talking screen The division took place on an the first drama of feature length to amendment moved by Mr. Scurr, be produced entirely in Techni Catholic Labour Member, to sus colour. pead the operation of the Act comedies and colour sequences in pending an arrangement for such pictures of various types, but aid, and resulted in 282 votes Mamba" is sheer drama-without- against 249.
Questioned by Mr. Baldwin has been laid in the heart of an ja single theme song-and its locale Servant. It is a question thated to appear had bail of 36 es- whether the Bill would be pro-African jungle.
treated.
ceeded with to-night, the Prime
Jean Hersholt, Eleanor Boardman Ho Wing-kwong, licensed motor Minister said that no principle at end Ralph Forbes head the cast of all was involved in the division this Tiffany production, which Al driver, has reported to the Police and he hoped the House would
we should like to see raised al the next meeting of the Legisla- tive Council,
that at about 4.20 p.m. yesterday, proceed. The motion to adjourn Rogell directed from an original H.M.S. Lucia Mutiny. 534) in Lockhart Road, a Chinese vatives, was not pressed to a divi-again in his spectacular career as whilst driving motor lorry (No. the House, moved by the Consertory by F. Schumann-Heink and John Reinhardt. Hersholt, nec female, named Ng Mui (17), whosion-British Wireless Service. was sitting next to him, stated that Courts-Martial in any branch she wanted to get off. He applied
WOMAN GIVES MAN MONEY AND JEWELLERY.
of the Services are unfortunate, the brakes, but before the vehicle BANK NOTE TRICK. and we cannot but help feeling re-jumped off.
had come to a standstill, the woman She fell to the ground gret at the unpleasant incident and received injuries to her head, which occurred on board the depot and she is now lying in hospital in ship H.M.S. Lucia on Sunday, a serious condition.
Another
female victim of the "famous bank note trick," Chan Ying (23), à spinister living at 16, Queen Victoria Street, made her report to the Police.
an actor, turns mean, In fact, it is from the meanness of the charse-
ter he portrays that the picture gets
its title, for the Mamba is a deadly poisonous snake of Africa--and August Bolte is as vile and feared as any reptile
"Exquisitely Bred."
He thinks to command the res January 4. Whatever grievance The directors of the Tung Wah
pect of the British and Germans A member of the Service may Hospital have decided to discard
at New Posen by marriage to the have, no good can ever come of the lunar calendar, and from this
daughter of a German count.
This allying himself with an act of year, their tenure in office will be She stated that at about 6 pm. beautiful girl has consented to gauged on the Gregorian method, yesterday, two Chinese males ap marry the immensely wealthy Bolte mutiny. One essential and un-thus severing a 60-year-old aye Franched her, and suggested that only because the price he pays for written condition of entering any tem in connection with the hos- they had $70,000 in a parcel, and her will save her father from bank- of the three Services is that, Pital. The terms of the directors that she should hand her money, ruptcy. She fa as refined and ex- elected to serve this year totalling $1,305, also her jewellery, quisitely bred as Bolte is gross and Hong Kong, Thursday, Jan. 22, 1931. from the senior officers down to will accordingly terminate in valued at $107, putting the whole vulgar and she shrinks from him the lowest rating or private, December of this year. Many lot together. She gave the menu horror. On the way to her new every order must be obeyed not Chinese firme are under the money and jewellery, and they home In Africa she meets Karl von
stood to be seriously considering let her retain the parcel.
Reiden, a handsome young German only. without hesitation, but with a similar change, and It is prac- The woman then missed the men, officer, and her unhappiness is made
REMITTANCES.
1931.
INFANT CORPSES.
paper.
་
his own crualty is told in "Mamba.”
DEPOSITIONS TO GO TO THE UNITED STATES PEEVED WITH are Josef Swickard, Claude Flem-
GOVERNOR.
LIBERIA.
chased bride and Ralph Forbes the young officer. Others in the cast
ing, William Staunton, William von Brlocken, Hazel Jones and Arthur Stone.
RCA Photophone record-
ing.
"CALL OF THE FLESH"
Talkies sometimes bring cele
Goldwyn-Mayer's romance of Spain which will open on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre, is really going back to her first job.
a willing spirit.
tically certain that many sugar, and on opening the parcel, which greater by their falling in love at Members of the Hong Kong In the case of the mutiny rice and flour firms will abollsh was said to contain $70,000, found sight.
How the romance is untangled Civil Service are constantly be aboard the Lucia, which previous-the lunar calendar at the end of that its contents were only waste-
and Bolte becomes the victim of ing reminded by their businessly had enjoyed a good reputation friends that they are over-paid, in the Royal Navy as a very
IN THE SOUP. Eleanor Boardman plays the pur- and that over-staffed,
they happy ship, we understand that should consider themselves ex- the men objected to working on ceedingly fortunate that they are Sunday. It is not for us to en-' not affected by the rate of ex- ter upon a discussioon of the
Washington, Yesterday. change. Of course, this is quite merits of their cage, but since After a protracted hearing, Mr.
Reports from Geneva that the absurd. Members of the Service, orders had been given for the E. Lindsell (as Coroner) at the United States is seeking to wash
Central Magistracy yesterday more especially those with large Lucia to join the Fleet for the solved the confusion concerning two its hands of Liberia, have elicite
à State Department announcement: families or dependants at Home; annual manoeuvres at Portugal, infant corpses whose respective that, while it is not in accord with are now suffering the brunt of it is apparent that in giving these identities became mixed up, at the the policy of the United States to brities of the screen back to things
Public Mortuary. the dollar's antics as much as orders the Captain of the ship
azsume any exclusive responsibility they did on the stage, before they Giving evidence, at the resumed in the continent of Africa, the faced the camera. For instance, it unyone. Commencing from this was doing his bare duty.
It is hearing, an Interpreter from the American Government will gladly took the talking pictures to get month, all Government salaries only natural and "human" for Weat Point Police Station said that consider sympathetically any pro- Renee Adoree back into dancing. will be paid according to the fol- men to
bear an
occasional the body sent from his Station that posal of international co-operation Miss Adores, when aba does her lowing scale: Half to be paid at "grouse," for life at sea or in morning (November 14) did not to help Liberia to solve her problama Spanish danco with Ramen Novarro have a cord tied round the neck. of sanitation and slavery-Reu- in "Call of the Flesh," Moto- the rate of a one and sixpenny barracks has never been and never
The Inquiry WAS held withoutter's American Service: dollar, and half at the present will be as enjoyable, shy, as the a jury, His Worship gave bid rate. This means that men who kind of existence we may suppose finding as follows:
freight car; escaped to England, Home each Mr. Rockefeller to lead.
In the case of the body of the and thence to America. send remittances
child from West Point sent to the But there should be reason in Mortuary about
In Musical Comedy, mouth will now have to meet a
Long before she won fame as 9.80 a.m. on In New York she danced in "Melisando" in. "The Big Parade," heavier burden. Even the con- all things, above all in the reNovember 14, 1980, death was due musical comedy and made a number Miss Adoree was famous on the sideration that they receive more lation of a man to his orders, and to natural causea,
of stage appearances before a stage in Europe as a dancer. She dollars to the pound than for we are able to find no circum-in the Public Gardens and sent screen, try out. This led to her German Invasion started during the In the case of the body found director noticed her and gave her a was dancing in Belgium when the merly does not ease the situation stances which justify insubordin- to the Public Mortuary about 2.80 coming to Hollywood, to "The Big war; was smuggled away in a locally to an appreciable extent, ation in the Services. - Conditionsr.m. on November 14-murder by Parade, and later to such brilliant (Continued at foot of preceeding Se sent In will-for, it is practically certain that are not always as one might de person or persons unknown. roles as those in "The Fagan," "The
Column) Riderą: toward the end of this month sire, and there are occasions when examination of the latter body Redemption."
(1) No. sufficient Cossacks," "Forbidden Hours" and prices in Hong Kong will in a superior is able to make life a was made by. Inspector. Shaftain, The new Novarto picture, which crease considerably and taxa very unpleasant business, but the thbligh it is improbable that Charles Brabin directed, is a vivid tion, we may be sure, will keep time has not yet arrived when mediato discovery of the cause story of Spain, with Novarro play of death would have helped to ing a young opera singer who finds them company,
men serving in the Navy or the discover those responsible for the fame in Madrid and who is torn When the Salaries Commission Army can follow the example of crline. (2) Tying to each body between fivo toves Original müste 8/18. last Autumn proposed to adjust the Welsh miners, lay down their that bods before: it is sent on to and He, alad aings opera ambers Prat W. P. G. Trafford of long
or the Identification card covoring was written for Novarro's Donga, Civil Servants salaries according arms and refuse to obey orders: the Mortuary ta absolutely in the Madrid opera, seveces: Kong University: reached Jani, a to this scale, the value of the To a great extent the Happiness essential (3) The two bodies Dorothy Jordan, who played op fortnight ago to become a Profes dollar ranged approximately f a ship is dependent on the offl-involved in this case must have bosity, him in "Devil Mar, Care" and sor of the Osaka Higher Commer from fifteen to sixteen pence, and cers, who, if they are wise, will been niixed up at the Mortuary In Gay Madrid" is the heroine, ciel School Professor Trafford, is
owing to the fact that the steps and Ernest, Torrenze, Nange O'Neil, graduate of Oxford University, it is to be doubted whether the treat the men with friendly con- taken by the Mortuary antheritied Mathilde Comont, Russell Hopton and his speciality in commercial! Government would ever have sideration and seek their cota differentiate between one, body and others are in that cast. In science. He was recommended to conuented to this reduction had operation. Yet only too fan and mother were sufficient. eldentalis, Torrence, who started his new, gosh by Sir Charles Eliot,
Den Boblb dad to would for hir career they realised the disastrous de has discipline been broken by one ward the whole of the depositions plays the plane for the Brat time latter, having previously been pre-
as a concert pianist. British Ambassador In Tokyo, thet cline in the rate of exchange that or two disgruntled elements on to fla. Excellency the Governor of the talking screen, in his role,sident, of Hong Kong University.
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