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ADVERSARIA.
On Those
palterns of the fashionable set.”. Better a pale, pimply pedagodue who puna in perpetuity!
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Meet Mir, Derk Yonkerman.
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can't write on a empty stomach, can you?"
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1931.
There are many consumers of ROUND THE CINEMAS
Scotch Whisky who have not had
the good fortune to visit or to pass
"ATLANTIC."
FIRST DI-LINGUAL TALKIE.
It was
My friend drew himself up by a rest old Scottish Whisky Dia- THRILLS AND HORRORS IN stily. "I am not in the habit of tillery where the "real Stuff" is pro- tattooing any part of my ana-duced Messrs. John Dewar and tomy," he declared.
Sons Ltd. the most famous of all Whisky distillers have had a very ne model made of one of their One afternoon 1;
many distilleries in Scotland. It is Chaucer a arrived homea fae work of art, faithfully repro- La Pidgin earlier than
is ducing the grand Scottish Mountain columns of the "Daily Mail" first, predicted and in the (very scenery, with the Distillery nest that if opportunity were seized, the my wont stylish word that) and found to ripe barley which is being gather and obviously could-spell a new ling in the valley near by fields of advent of talking pictures might— my astonishment Ab Wai, my led in. This model has been exhl-importance for London as a film- menial, on his knees in front of bited at several great exhibitions at producing centre of the world.
H was reading A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd. Agents ability to overcome the apparently Alrosdy London has proved ita insuperable language difficulty
home and on the continent. Mesars.
my bookcase. Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." in Hong Kong for Messrs. Dewar's He quailed before my stern Whisky have secured the loan of that talking films present by tak- gaze, "Ah Wai," I said, "for this very fine modal and it is now ing Berlin by storm with a London- Heaven's sake don't demoralise on exhibition in their Wine Depart-made picture, "Atlantic," which is
ment show window. It has already showing at the I can't attracted crowds of admirers and produced in German with a bril
your English further, understand you at the best of devotees. Įtimes, but—” Ah Wai grinned in an esoteric fashion and patted the calf-bound volume. "Me savvy this, he said, and looked
MORE HOWLERS.
at me expectantly. "Go on," I BRIGHT BUDGETS FROM BOYISH said.
And this is what I heard:
"What time No. 3 moon have
got plenty rain, "All land plenty dry, roots all
belong thirsty, "Vine have got much beer, all
in bath,
By and by come flower, velly
good."
BRAINS.
The following "howlers" sent in by a contributor:
Are
The difference between a King und a President is that a King is the son of his own father and a President isn't.
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Old King Cole
Queen's Theatre,
liant German cast, as well as in English with a brilliant English cast. Some of the scenes ware made in a liner at Tilbury, the others at Elstree. E. A. Dupont, who made the glittering pictures, "Vaudeville" and "Piccadilly," was the craftsman who undertook the task of providing what was, in fact, two complete pictures in two languages at once.
"MAMBA" CENTRAL THEATRE,
A
dimensional is very apparent in the quality distinctly third
Tiffany production, "Mamba," cur- rent at the Central Theatre. This was the father entire picture is in Technicolor, but it has none of the faults that colour pictures frequently have, and this is due to the careful arrange-
of the Black Prince.
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He got no further. Overjoy- jed, I took a bunch of marigolds
Gorilla warfare from their vase and wreathed the enemy gets up to monkey mont of colours and scenes.
them around his brow. But he tricks. has promised faithfully never to do.it again.
ย
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not yet forgotten:---
Rise, daughter, and go to your
daughter,
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when
In colour photography, a fore- ground that does not compliment its
Mary Queen of Beots lived at background lacks a definition. It be Hollywood.
comes blurred and flat. But when both are arranged with the care Ceneral Smuts is a vulgar name arranging of his subject, the re that a portrait painter gives to the for niggera.
sult is a picture with depth and Quartz is a name for two pints. has and this is what makes it, in roundness. This is what "Mamba"
In our opinion, one of the very finest colour pictures yet produced.
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Volcanoes emit streams of lager.
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The Cingalese are people who never marry,
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The chief industry of Ireland is fighting.
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Dresden is the capital of China.
Native Dances.
Mrs. Bisby, who finds herself great-great-grandmother, at the age of ninety-seven, cannot Whilst on have many rivals in that emin- the subject of
jence, but one was the Countess scribes, I am
of Abercorn, who married in moved to
1686, and lived to see her great- paen the praises of my colleagues great-granddaughter Elizabeth, 6f the patent medicine Press. The event gave rise to a jingle Aha, I am no literary snob; I am not ashamed to raise my hat to these Livys of the world of bronchitis, dengue, nettle rush, eczema, catarrh, asthma, pains in
Morecambe is the chest, or housemaid's knee.
embracing air. They have the courage and the All five were named Elizabeth.. forbearance of pioneers
The new list of B.B.C. pronum-Lots of politicians get these let- picturesque.
O.M. means "on the Galileo, and when diapeptic scepciations raises the question wheters. tics declare themselves and their]
ther 50 much cerebration is interiors unmoved by the gorge-necessary. How many ways are ous-hued liquids that bear the!
there of pronouncing "quagmire," bridge. stamp of the Ministry of Health, and "manifold," and "long-lived," they will write, with all the blaz ing faith of that Italian martyr, lar? There are words that and "simultaneous," and "jugu- "Eppur si muove!"
raise doubt, but surely not these?
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like!
It
For your daughter's daughter's
got a daughter.
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One of the earliest triumphs of
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The film is spectacular, but it has not sacrificed the drama in order to startle the eye. Soldiers and savages swarm across the acreen-there aro native dances, burning villages and battles-but drama that weaves about the in- they are all part of the triangle
teresting characters portrayed by famous for its Jean Hersholt, Eleanor Boardman and Ralph Ferbas. Jungle, planta- tion, garrienriver and village make a background that is always
Colour and sound photography have added greatly to the subtle A bolt from the blue means run-personality of Eleanor Boardman.. ning away from Oxford or Cam There Is a rose-petal loveliness. about her skin that is enchanting in the close-ups and her voice is
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Noah was one of the archangels.flexible.
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La belle dame sans merci: The beautiful lady who never said "Thank-you."
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What does the bat do in Winter?
CLEANING, GLASS.
Only a day ago I was perusing one of their masterpieces. warned the world to write for a quinine on its introduction into It splits if you don't of it.. "Without fear, favour or malice."
free trial; "before it is too late," Europe was the cure of Louis (as though Death were waiting Quatorze. More remarkable was Not every jour-round the corner), and then, to its failure to cure Cromwell, who nalist presumes prove its bona fides, produced an died of tertinn argue; but that Who Scribe. to be an impec-impressive wood-cut engraving of was because he would not take it. cable stylist, Mr. Derk P. Yonkerman, dis-It was then known as "Jesuit's Heaven knows.
We sometimes coverer of the new remedy. Well, bark," and no good Puritan would split our infinitives as well as our Mr. Yonkerman's moustache have anything to do with it! nibs, and men have been known would implant faith Zu anyone, I to emulate the English tutor who feel assured. In fact, directly I warned the undergraduates that saw it I wanted to rush for
a
"CALL OF THE FLESH"
Novarro Prepares For Foreign Versions of Talkie,
Ramon Novarro did all his re- hearsals for a Spanish picture in French.
The reason
While filming "Call of tha Flesh," which will open to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre, Novarro The glass panels of doors and had with him two French atten- windscreens can be cleaned very dants, and away from the micro effectively if a small quantity of
phone conversed entirely in paraffin is mixed with the cleaning French. water. A simple method is to pour Novarro was "brushing up" on the for this is that a few drops of the parafin into a saucer, in which is a little water, language, so that, In case he were The oldest fancies come true in and then rub on the mixture with called upon to make a French ver the long run. Everyone knows a piece of old chamois leather or sion of any of his pictures, he cloth. A few minutes should be would be letter perfect. He learn- allowed for the cleaner to dry, and ed French some years ago, and be- There once was at Magdalen the glass can be polished with a came adept at it during European
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clean duster. In this manner
trips. Д A man who knew nothing at particularly brilliant polish le ob
all;
a preposition "was a bad thing to Postal Order, "to cover cost of the limerick end a sentence with." But some-carriage and packing," and only how I believe we are. more con- the thought that the precious scientious than our American cargo of curative fluid might be, cousins at least than those who "lost" on its way across Siberia assume the yoke of writing and wasted on some ungrateful "advance copy" for the films: kulak deterred me.
One cannot waste too much pity on that forlorn band of scribes. They not only live on adjectives, but hurl them about with an un- ruly violence that few words can stand.
"Not in the Habit"
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Best Linguist. tained, and it will last for some The star is one of the best He took his degree
time. In addition to the bright linguists in the screen colony, as When he'd turned ness of the glass, the mixture he speaks French and Spanish
seventy-three-
BONNET THUDS.
in
forms a coating which tends to fluently and also fair German, Which is youngish for Mag-make rain drops run off rather which he picked up while Oh, no, we have
dalen Hall.
than collect, and it will be found Europe, when he visited Berlin and not yet done And I was only reading in a ales that, as far as the interior of other cities. with the tribe Home paper yesterday of the sedan is concerned, the windows Ifis new picture is a romantic itorați. You death at Aberdeen of the Reinelde when they are closed.
have no tendency to steam on the narrative of a Spanish opera singer and contains a wide variety must hear, before we enter pas-Thomas Laing, formerly a United
of popular songs written by Her- We of the staider school are tures anew, what once befell a Free Church minister, who,
bert Stothart and Clifford Grey as well as a number of operatic arias. content with the good, old journalistic friend of mine.. We "after his retirement took an
Dorothy Jordan plays opposite fashioned quadruple syllable were travelling from London in M.A. degree at Aberdeen Univer
Novarro, while the cast also in words, such as "magnificent," but the Cornish express, and on the sity in 1924 at the age of
cludes Ernest Torrence, Nance not they. No, they are satisfied opposite seat reclined in portly seventy-three yearn." But it is The noises that arise from an O'Neil, Renee Adores, Mathilde with nothing less than drama personage who might have been an event less improbable.ot Aber- ill-fitting bonnet are sometimes of Comont and Russell Hopton
a nature that makes their origin. that blazes, dialogue that "anything" in the City. He was.deen than at Oxford.
difficult to locate. In two cases, the crackles, thrills that are mighty, We discovered during a-conversa-
noise was a series of positive thuds, and scenes that are startling in tion that opened on the subject
which gave the Impression that the front or back end of the engine their power and superb again of draughts, (which ended in my
was loose in the frame, lifting and cence. They must be awkward friend closing the window with a
falling back on to its supports with people to live with, though I very, snarl) that he was tra Tal Fat, an unemployed. Chinese,a bump after every pothole or other much doubt whether many of veller in patent medicines of 577, Canton Bond was sentenced irregularity of road norface had them are married. A wife simply and coffee. (Later we tasted to six weeks' Imprisonment at the been passed over. The bonnet 16/16.
Kowloon Magistracy to-day for edges at each side wore found to be His Excellency gave a dinner on couldn't keep it up. Dash it all; some of the latter and stelling a longcost from Lam Fat touching the frame boards - they reader, who can be a dazzling found that the "patants had of the same address, yesterday. queen of charm at 7am.7 As won-it was decidedly medicated)
News in Brief.
Ten Years Ago,
From the "China Mail" of
January 24, 1921.3
To-day's - dollar worth 2/10.
had sagged owing to the flattening Saturday evening at Government House in honour of the Hon. Mr. W. out of the leather strips threaded for forming a mess with them, "You know, confided the travel Dr. J. Howard Montgomery, flanges, especially those on which ar
through the radiator and scuttle Chatham CMG, and Mrs. Chat- quite rule that out as one of the er in the hoarse whisper of one M.B. Ch.B. (Medical Superinten the top panela of the bonnet rest. The guests present were:Hon. unachievable _things_of_life who has something of vital in-dent of the Matilde Hospital) will By Inserting stripes of leather Mr E. V. D. and Mrs. Part, Dr. and Think of eating hard boiled eggs portance to convey, "I must ave read a paper on "Radium" before about 8-16th luch think, under each Ms Hareton, Mr. and Mrs. opposite a man whore soul food at, regt
Denison, Major and Mrs; Wakeman,
the Hong Kong University Medical for the loops above the top fanges, glar interval, Now, Society on Monday (Feb. 2) at 6.30 the bonnet, sides were lifted to that Dr. and Mrs. Black, Mr. and Mrs. radiates” - “colourful, romance,” Lido a lot of writin' in my job- pam in the Union Assembly Room, extent and brought clear of the Chatham, Mr and Mrs. whose very socks are quisite orders, you know. Now, I simply all are cordially invited to attend. boards.
Ormiston, and Mr. Hike p