FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1931.
ROUND THE CINEMAS
NO USE FOR MECHANICAL PERFECTION.
"MADAM SATAN,"
That "reserve power in voices is far more important than pitch,
WHITE MAGIC.
CALCIUM CARBIDE AND FRUIT
SALT IN AFRICA, VA
The following in a true story of avents which took place in Kenya Colony,
FEDERATION IN
INDIA.
Grounds of Mutual Understanding.
PRINCES' ROLE.
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THE
CHINA MAIL.
have no real place. For under it British authority, even in the Central Government, would be whittled down to a mere shadow, a pale ghost sitting on the tomb of the once mighty and, beneficent British Indian Empirel
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TUITION.
Many of the Princes here have TUITION.-Private Lessons given in mado no secret of their dislike of Book-keeping. Shorthand, Typewrit- the whole proceeding. Some, in- ing, English, Music and French.- deed, spoke out to this effect In Apply to 6, Aimal Villas, Kowloon. the Conference. "Others, including) the greatest States, while not enamoured of the federal iden, would not oppose one in which British India and the States would be equal partners, with the Crown and Parliament as the final
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The scene of action was a maize timbre, or any other measure of farm in the Solai Valley; there quality, the belief of Cecil B. De wern 600 acres of maizo which had Mile, producer-director for Metro-to be harvested quickly as the Goldwyn-Mayer, whose spectacular rainy season was approaching. new comedy with musle "Madam A mixed gang of Kikuyu and Satan," is in the Queen's Theatre. Lumbwa natives were engaged on The British people have yet to "All of this business about special the harvest work and for the first realise the full significance of the leasons in voice for screen stars is week all went well. On the Mon- Socialist Government's policy, viz., bosh," De Mille stated in a recent day of the second week the head-that in the words of the Lord authority in all federal matters, as Interview. "It isn't whether a man reported the complete cessa-Chanceller, "the responsibility for proposed by the Simon Commis- vaice is mechancially perfect that tian of work of all the Kikuyus. the Federal Government of India sion; but, then. Conservative sec counts; it is what that voice 'gets On further inquiries it transpired will in future rest Indlanations were swamped by the more over to the audience in the way of that two of the Lambwa, having
ambitious and vocal. themselves," This eagerness to emotional feeling.
made unsuccessful love to
two abdicato is justified by its aup minorities look askance at the re- Similarly, the Moslem and other "A man or a girl can squonk, they Kikuyu maidens, had proceeded to
the porters-including can even liap, if they will only give lay a curse on the girls, one of leaders-as following inevitably Hindu majority by bringing in the Liberal sult of strengthening the existing me in their voices that emotional whom lay at death's door and the from the sudden agreement of the reserve power which existed, in other felt very poorly. The Kiku- Indian Princes and
| States-predominantly Hindu—and 30, 1931. the Jadian pantomimic films, so very remark yus refused to work until the curse
politicians, writes Sir. Michael allies of the high-Caste Hindus. they regard the Government as ably in the face of Glorin Swanson, 'was lifted.
O'Dwyer (formerly Lieutenant Theodore Roberts, and others I Now as the Kikuyu formed the
Governor of
But, whatever one may think of the the Punjab) in B might mention.
greater part of the gang, it was Home paper.
result, one must admire the con- "In choosing Kay Johnson for the very important to get them back on
of "Madam the job quickly so it was up to the stoutest opponent of Dominion it. What of the British delegates? Mr. Lloyd George, hitherto the summate state-craft of the Brah- exotic name role
man politicians who have achieved Satan," it so happened that Miss manager to get a snappy solution status for India, covers his retreat Ons now understands the exclusion Johnson has an extraordinarily forthwith.
by the explanation that "the do- line and technically perfect voice. First he ascertained the names claration of the Princes of their of Sir John Simon from the Con- And Reginald Denny, the male lead, of the two cursers, then he stop-Intention has the same splendid baritone pad all work and had the whole Constitution for India has revolu which earlier won him fame as gang up in front of his house in tionised the whole state of affairs." Prince Danilo in "The Merry their tribal sections.
Authority Sapped. Widow.' No one can quarrel with Having delivered a long haran-- It la pertinent to inquire how the way either one of them pro- gue to the effect that his spirit was this agreement, involving the al duces the numerous songs in the troubled by bad medicine in the meat immediate substitution of pleture, But I didn't pick either affairs of the estate and that being Indian for British rule, came one of them because they were a bit of a medicine man himself he about. It was in this way. The rather unusually flac human talk brooked no rivals, he also stated, Indian Princes since the Montagu- ing and singing machines. They that he felt the trouble lay in the Chelmsford reforms have been were chosen because above and be- Lumbwa section. Ile then caused seriously disturbed by the fear
all the Lumbwa (15 in ali) to stand that the so-called democratic insti- Justice Cunliffe in the Rangoon Judgment was delivered by Mr forward and gave each one a stone tutions imposed by us on British suit, Eng Lwan Hock v. the As explaining that his magle would, India will in time lead to the sap-surance Franco Asiatique by thelz cause the stone of the guilty man ping of their hereditary and auto agents Messrs. Marshall Cotterell to smoke and crack. This caused cratic authority in their States and Co., Ltd., in which plaintiff considerable mirth until it was, Indeed the Congress leaders in the claimed Rs. 20,000 on a premium seen that the atones of the two curaers were definitely smoking intention, once they have got rid of tion by fire at Kayan, of the pro past have made no secret of their of Rs. 400, owing to the destrue Carbide of calcium looks very like British authority, to wipe out these perty consisting of stock of timber the local form of stone but acts "feudal anachronisms." The Insured in March last year with very differently with water.
Viceroy's ill-timed declaration of the defendants.
"Why did you only get one side
shaved?"
I wanted to know if you liked it first."---Lustige Blaetter, Berlin.
low what they actually sing and say are vibrations which tell more of their emotions than the words of the dialogue or songs.
"It is for these vibrations that producers are listening to-day, rather than mechanical perfection in reproducing."
"THE COHENS AND KELLYS IN AFRICA."
to join in a Federal
ference.
"A FRAUDULENT CLAIM."
Suit On Insurance. Policy.
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
IN CHINA MAIL.
Social Functions. To-day-Tea Danco at Hong Kong Hotel.
To-day-Whist Drive, Helena May Institute, Kowloon, 8.15 p.m.
To-night--Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels. Entertainments. To-day Queen's Theatre; "Madame Satan.”
To-day Central Theatre;
His Captive Woman." "The Cohens & Kellys in Africa."
To-day Majestic Theatre;
To-day- Stär Theatre; "Swim," Girl, Swim."
Today World Theatro; "Black Magic."
Theatre;
Tuesday King'a "Monte Carlo."
Sports. Sce Sport Dairy on Page 12.
Meetinga. Monday-Society of St. George, Jardine Matheson's Board Room,
5.30 p.m.
Monday-Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., 2, Queen's Building,
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Home Malls, To-day-Inward from Europe via
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To-morrow-Outward for Europe
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Lammerts' Auctions. Tuesday At 31, Humphreys Building, Kowloon, household furn!- ture, 10.80 a.m.
Saturday At 4, Wing Lok Building (top floor), Nathan Road, Kowloon, household furniture, 10.30
There Was а distinct edging November, 1929, that Dominion The judgment stated that a stock away from the guilty pair. A fur-status (L.e., democratic govern of timber was insured with the ther test was applied-each Lum-ment) was the natural issue of defendants. The terms of the bwa was given a pinch of salt India's constitutional development policy showed it was stipulated which had to be dropped in a glass increased the Princes' anxiety. that the timber was to be stored in of water. White man's magic was
At the same time, the more am an open space in Strand Bank to cause the water of the guilty bitious among them were disap Road, Kayan. That space had been man to boil. As each one dropped pointed that the Butler Report on identified as being close to the in his salt relief appeared on their their claims against the paramount plaintiff's shop. The policy also Faces until the guilty ones, care British power conceded much less contained the usual condition of fully kept until last, caused the than they had asked for, and in notice to the company in the event water to bail over the glass thanks particular had upheld the doctrine of fire by a claim in writing with to Eno's "Fruit Salt."
of British paramountcy, 30 Terrific consternation was regis phatically reasserted in 1926 by was a further term, to which, re
emin fifteen days of the loss. There noon. tered and the whole gang bolted the Viceroy (Lord Reading) in reference must be made. except the two guilty men
It laid dropped on their knees and con-with the Government of India as declaration in the claim would whejecting the Nizam's claim to deal down that any fraudulent or false fessed to the whole thing, offering an equal. Therefore, when invited disentitle the assured to any bene to Iny off the curse.
to participate in the Round Table fit under the policy. In two daya the girls recovered, Conference, some of the Princes
It was strenuously argued that but the great thing was that all approached the Viceroy with the notice was not given to the com the Kikuyu returned to work next inquiry whether its results might pany in time. On that point bila day. Since then there has been no not seriously affect their status. lordship was.in plaintiff's favour. rival magle worked on the estate.
The reply they received was not, For the purposes of this case and to their minds, re-assuring. on the basis of the computation AIR SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA. Realising how in recent years the made by the timber dealer, U Aye Government of India had invarl-Maung, his lordship looked on the American Dutch-Indian Agreement Brings Itably failed to stand up for its plaintiff's claim as being for
Land Sales. friends-and the Princes, as a loss of approximately Rs. 4,000.
Monday-At P.W.D.. offices, five body, have been our best friends.)
The question then arose whether lots of Crown land, 8 p.m. -they had to reconsider their atplaintiff. In making a claim for
Miscellaneous. titude.
Rs. 20,000 on 2
To-day-Annual Lenten Sermon loss of under Ground For Alliance.
Rs. 4,000. In value had not been at Catholic Cathedral, Glenealy, guilty of fraud within the terma pm. Thus began the rapprochement of the polley. Exaggeration of of a section of the Princes with valus bad, of course, often been the Hindu Nationalists. It was held to amount to, fraud. The prin
ABORIGINAL INTELLIGENCE. It is announced that the Indian facilitated by the for all the dancers save seven, to Government, has agreed to grant Brahmin Ministers of
fact that the ciple seemed to be that the exag give them the appearance of having facilities to the Dutch postal air portant States are allied by the it must be gross.
im-geration must be intentional and North West Tribe Can Read And long hair.
Those were
Understand Music. "It doesn't follow that all beauti-service to the East Indies in ex- ties of relationship or caste with questions of fact. His lordship did ful girls have bobbed hair," said change for Dutch facilities for the Brahmin leaders of the Na-not consider that the exaggeration |
Perth, Feb. 4. movement In British here was an innocent exaggeration. the make-up artist," but it does British service to Australia via the tionalist
In view of the widespread (m2 East Indies.
Indla. It was also easy to find, He thought that it was wilful.pression that Australian abori show the average American girl
Meanwhile, the plans of the common ground for an alliance. For these reasons his lordship.ginals are lacking in ordinary in still prefers the abbreviated form Royal Dutch Air Service to open The more ambitious Princes (pre found in favour of the defendants telligence, statements by Father
a passenger service to the Easi dominantly Hindu) and the Hindu on the plea of fraud. His lord Ottos Rafble, chief of the Beagle', Indies are rapidly progressing. Aleaders, like the Whig aristocracy ship gave judgment for the defen Bay and Lombadina aboriginal number of large aeroplanes which in Eighteenth Century Britain dants with costs, 16 gold mohurs. missions in the north-west of West
Australia, are interesting. "Contracting regal (British)
Bobbed hair still seems to be the popular style among girls,
Nearer.
When Universal Studios cast Ita twenty-five girls for the harem
A Dutch aeroplane will be sent scene in the Murray-Sidney feature-
from the East Indies to Australia length comedy "The Cohens and in Alay on a trial flight, but it is traction in the Central Theatre, the expected that that part of the eventual service to Australia will make-up department was called on to supply the same number of wigs be taken over by the British.
Kellys In Africa," the current at-
of tresses.
"THE COHENS AND KELLYS
IN SCOTLAND."
1
are nearing completion will be put were equally desirous of Linto service in a few months.
If he takes up goling seriously. The company is arranging for
he had better go into the caddying hotel accommodation along the
the conclusion reached by route.
WAS
The single fare will be George Sidney, after an experience about £200.
he had during the filming of "The
Cohens and Kellys in Scotland."
fourth. of Universal's hilarious
some
power to stretch their own." Those Princes saw. their future: position stronger in 'an India with Eritish authority and paramountcy | disappearing; while the Hindu politicians believed that the support Broadway," a 100 per cent. natural to them In supplanting British
series to be seen in the Queen's Warner Bros. "Gold Diggers of of the Princes would be invaluable Theatre on Sunday.
UPROAR IN SENATE.
Lively Exchange Of Views On's
Birth-Control,
A.t.
Father Raible said that mem- bars of the Niol tribe, for whom the Beagle Bay mission provided, were very musical and “could memorise words of songs easily, On one occasion natives sang for two hours without cessation in English and aboriginal. Some of the natives were clover and ambi. tious
One half caste aboriginal about
competent:
The script required. Sidney to colour, singing, talking, dancing authority by their own. The pro- Both factions in the birth-con- collect a lot of golf balls that didn't picture in technicolour, coming to blem was how to combine those trol movement were heard by the
two objectives. The Simon Com Senate Committee in Washington 36 years old was a belong to him. While the scene the Queen's Theatre on Tuesday.
Her role, which is one demanding mission had put forward the idea recently when each side accused motor mechanic and could take an was being shot on a famous South- ern California course, the regular the atmost of her dramatic, and of an All-India Federation as
the other of misrepresentation, engine to pieces and reassemble" Club members continued to enjoy terpsichorean talents, marks her distant goal, but with the promise and much anger was displayed. It. He could also read, and was their sport. A
return to the screen after more of a strong central British Govern-
A bill providing for the distrl- always anxious to learn more: ment, ma At the end of the day, during than three years on Broadway.
bution of birth control Informa- about his trade. A. full blooded The ambitious section of the tion was opposed by witnesses, aboriginal presided over a saddlery which Sidney had given unquestion- During the past three years the able evidence of his unfamiliarity has been the star of George White's Princes and the Hindu leaders de- who feared that, it would open the chop and another attended to black- with the game, he turned in his golf "Scandals" in the Apollo Theatre cided to short-circuit the Simon way to Soviet free-love, prepa- smithing requirements. balls to an assistant director:ta New York Before that she Commission'a qualified proposals! garde and lead to the degradation "How is this, Mr. Sidney?" starred in several feature Bllent by plumping for an immediate of womanhood and gross immoral
Federation. Further, to strengthen it queried that puzzled worthy motion pictures.
BOAT CAPSIZED.
Captain, Engineer and Wireless Operator Drowned,
gave you only twelve bulls this In the all-star cast with Miss control the Central Government, of the birth control movement, de- the claims of the Nationalists top Mra. Sanger, a veteran leader morning and you are returning Pennington in "Gold Diggers of twenty a Broadway are Talyan Tashman, Princes went so far as to make the fully misrepresented. She stated some of their allies among theclared that the bill, had been well- Looking at a number of golfers Conway Tearle, Albert Gran, Win extraordinary declaration that that almost as many Roman Catho woryladly and fruitlessly searching nig Lightner, William Bakewell," the rough, the actor replied: "That's Helen Foster, Julla Swayne Gordon, they could only federate with a lice as Protestants came to her British steamer Lorca, the engincor right, we were only taking a pics: Gertrude Short, Nick Lucas, Neely self-goversing British India. birth-contre clinics, the propor of the ship, Mr. Hendry, and the
You know, for a minúte IE8Vards, Lee Moran, and. Armand ja
Astute Move,
tions being 88 per cent of Pro- wireless operator, Dr. Dawson, were
ture
Captain D. V Thomas, of the,
I we were playing for keeps." Kaliz and a beauty chorus of 100, | For the Princaa it was danger--tostante, 32 per cent of Catholics, drowned in the harbour at Almerla "Gold Diggers of Broadway" is ous, but for län Nationalists it was and $1 per cent of Jews. Uproar în mall week when a boat in which "GOLD AGERS."
based on the play of Avery, Hop, Rowery natuta move for at decided followed Mrs Sanger's talk, cha they were returning, with two sea- wood. The adaptation was, made the Liberal delegates to
Robert Lord, songs by Al Dübin
Burke: stage prese
Ceballo
stiver top
row all The prospects are that the bill man from the story capsized after the providing for the distribtion of colliding with the nig's cable
birth control Information? nd con-1jOne of the seamen was metiously
cal au- Injured, but the oth
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