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H
ILAR (@
A 1931 PARAMOUNT SUPER-PRODUCTION
MARLENE DIETRICH
The new screen Beauty whose resemblance to GRETA GARBO is the rage of two continents
in
"MOROCCO"
brings
The Magnificent Enchantress of the Talking Screen!
B
EAUTIFULI Rav
ishing Harlene
Dietrich, the rage of
two continents! A
woman whose life is love. See her bring the Legion of the Dead, the Foreign Legion, to life! In the mos
masterful drama of the -year "A new electric light name is born," exalt the critics. See for yourself!
A Paramount Picture with
GARY COOPER
MARLENE DIETRICH ADOLPHE MENJOU A JOSEF VON STERNBERG
PRODUCTION
Booking at Anderson's & the Theatre. (Tel. 25720),
nad and publiabel for the Proyelators, The Newspaper
Edinited, by David Christian Wason, Busfuera Ha, Wyndham Strust, Hong Konk
Monday, April 13, 1931.
Second Moon, 26th Day.
.BIISHDD 大英四月十三號 禮拜一 中華民國辛未年十月廿六日
1845
•
HONG KONG, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1937.
LETTERS OF OSCAR WILDE.
"I Was All Wrong in My Life."
ARTIST'S STORIES.
MILLIONAIRE IN A MOTOR CRASH.
"Drug Smuggling " Protest.
GRAVE INJURIES.
QUEEN ENA'S AGONY.
Dash to Spain from
A
Mother's Bedside.
PERILOUS LIFE.
Stories of all the world in Art, Mr. W. Perkins Bull, the mil
British Princess, twenty- in London and Paris-of lionaire Canadian K.C., and a free-five years ago, smiled bravely at Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, man of the City of London, who the crash of an assassin's homb Ruskin. Epstein. Orpen, John Sar- was alleged by the Chicago as she sat in her bridal gown by Kent, "Jimmy" Whistler. and authorities to be involved in in- the side of Alfonso the Thir Oscar Wilde, tumble over one an- vestigations into 1 mysterious teenth of Spain. She was filled other in a first volume of racy re-drug-smuggling ring, was badly in with the same calm courage when collections by Professor William jured in a motor accident near she bade farewell to the King Rothenstein, the painter "Men | Quincy, Michigan, recently.
and Queen at Victoria Station, to and Memories" (Faber and Faber. He WAS rushed to hospital, be once more by the side of her where it was found that he was husband at perhaps the darkest ile was one of the few men suffering from 11 fractured hip, moment of his reign and his who could afford, and had the severe Internal injuries, and pos dynasty. courage. not to east Wilde off'sibly, a fractured skull. when Wilde was released from prison.
21s.).
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Mr. Búil, with Mr. Bernard Magruder, an official of the Hor There are some rather pathetic lick Manufacturing Company, was and very typical letters from being driven to Detroit at the time Wilde, hitherto unpublished, in of the accident, having left Chi- the book. Wilde, writing from cago. According to witnesses the near Dieppe, heads one letter car came into collision with a "From M. Sebastian_Melmoth"-motor truck and trailer. The car the name he assumed on leaving was completely wrecked, and Mr. Reading Gaol.
Magruder and the chauffeur also sustained Injuries.
"You will be pleased to know," he writes, "that I have not come out of prison an embittered or dis appointed man. On the contrary. in many ways I have gained
much.
"I am not really ashamed
of having been in prison; I often was in more shameful places; but I am really ashamed of having led a life unworthy of an artist.
"I don't say that Messalina is
a better companion than Sporus, or that one is all right and the other all wrong. I know simply that a life of definite and studied materialism, and philosophy of appetite and cynicism, and a cult of sensual and senseless ease, are bad things for an artist; they narrow the imagination and dull the more delicate sensibilities.
" was all wrong, my dear boy. in my life. I was not getting the
best out of me.
The local sheriff is investigating a report that the motor-car was forced into the collision by an other car, which is reported to have followed. Mfr. Chicago.
Bui B from
The Chicago authorities are ex- tremely puzzled at Mr. Bull's aud- den departure for Detroit, as he had been subpoenaed to appear before the Master of Chancery there to give evidence regarding a petition for an injunction presented against | him by Dr. John Streeter Sidley, who alleges that Mr. Bull is responsible for having him con- stantly shadowed.
A swift and dramatic crisis had brought the downfall of the Palace Government of Spain. The throne of the Bourbons rocked.
There were demands for the abdication of the King, and dark rumblings of revolution. Alfonso was facing his enemies, his back| to the palace wall.
Ilis queen heard the news while tending her mother in con- valescence. before, grave news of Princess Only a few weeks.
retrice's health had brought| her hurrying from Madrid to Kensington.
News of Danger.
uring many anxious days and nights she watched unceasingly, Barely had the anxiety of the sickroom at Kensington Palace passed when the news of danger came from Spain. Within a few hours Queen Ena was ready.
A grac us woman in a black fur cont and a small black hat took her place like any ordinary passenger in the Continental boat. express. King George and Queen Mary, her cousins, stood on the platform and waved her
Mr. Bull's friends decline to comment on the reasons for his sudden dash from Chicago, and preparations were at once made to out of sigh transfer him to Windsor, Ontario, 1 Royal farewells are generally where he arrived in a special am. | formal. This one was not. bulance. No explanation has been | There was a deep emotion in it given for this step."
which communicated itself even to those who did not realise its full significance."
"Now I think that, with good health, and the friendship of a It was reported that Federal few good, simple, nice fellows like agents had raided Mr. Bull's suite yourself, and a quiet mode of liv in the Drake Hotel, Chicago, and ing. with isolation for thought, had taken him to the drug head and freedom from the endless quarters for questioning. Mr. hunger for pleasures that wreck H. V. Anslinger, Commissioner of the body and imprison the soul-Narcotics, later denied this, but well, I think I may do things yet admitted that agents had visited that you all may like.
Mr. Bull.
"Of course, I have lost much, but still, my dear Will, when 1 reckon up all that is left to me,
The K.C., through his lawyer, Mr. J. E. Kenol, declared that ho
would demand a drastic inquiry
the sun and the sea of this beau into the action of the Chicago tiful world; its dawne dim with authorities in questioning him. gold. and its nights hung with Mr. Kenol asserted that the entire silver; many books, and
all matter was a "frame up." and that flowers, and a few good friends; the authorities were not able to and a brain and body to which discover a particle of incriminat health and power are not denied ing evidence against Mr. Büll, -really, I am rich when I count Ho also complained that the up what I still have.
authorities had seized Mr. Bull'e
"As for money, my money did me horrible harm. It wrecked
me..
#
I hope just to have enough left to enable me to live simply and write well. . .
Wilde's control over himself falled, and he died shortly after wards.
A BACHELORSHIP IN PERIL.
Mr. Justice McCardie's Hiat.
private papera.
The authorities also entered the
apartment of Mrs. Mabelle Horlick Sidley, the daughter of Mr. Wil liam
H. Horlick, the 'multi- millionaire malted milk manufac turer, and took her to the Federal building for questioning.
an
She was later released, and through her lawyers announced that sho, too, would demand. explanation.
Mr. Bull is a well-known figure in 'England. In 1924 he acted as host at his Putney house to the Oxford Boatrace crew. He found -The bachelor judge, Mr. Justice ed a hospital at Putney Heath for McCardie, stated recently that Canadian officera during the war. he almost felt that the days of
He is sixty years old, and has his bachelorhood may before long seven children.
be coming to an end.
He was the guest of the Press never be taken to any court of Club on Ladies' Night, and this appeal. was his report, when looking
Mr. Justice McCardie said he of a
round the gathering, to a remark remembered the words
There was a warmth in the farewell kisses, and something very touching in the Queen's em- brace, as, placing her arms round the Queen of Spain, she patted her lovingly.
As the train pulled out Queen] Ena was seen faintly smiling.
Those who saw her go so gal-i lantly to her duty imagined her on the long journey across the; Channel, south through France and over the border into Spain, a queen going to share the re sponsibility of an uneasy crown, a wife going to stand with her husband in his hour of destiny.
"GRAF” IN EGYPT.
CROWDS CLEARED BY THE FIRE HOSES.
CHEERING THRONGS.
Cairo, Saturday. The Graf Zeppelin arrived at Almaza Aerodrome at 6.30 a.m. and;
crowd. A member of was tumultuously cheered by a hugoj
the crew first landed by parachute and 350; British Air Force men and troope
held down the dirigible for an hour. Firemen were obliged to use their hoses to clear off the enthusiastic crowd surrounding the dirigible, which then left for Palestine. It will return to Cairo later in the
day and will leave for Home in the evening.
Jerusalem, Saturday.
The Graf Zeppelin arrived here at
of the chairman (Mr. P. E. famous dramatist that marriage 1.10 p.m. and circled the city for Verstone), that his unmarried was inconsistent with the liberty a quarter of an hour, being cheered bliss was a case which could of the subject...
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AMUSEMENTS »
AT THE
QUEEN'S
NONG KONG
TO-DAY TO WEDNESDAY
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
HE HAD TO THINK QUICKLY!
The Ghost Gang afoot! His own tiappiness at stake! You'll be thrilled and surprised at Bi Haines next move. And you'll love this picture's blend of typical Haines hawls and heart-throbs!
William
HAINES
broadcasts laughs, thrills, romance in
REMOTE CONTROL
with CHARLES KING MARY DORAN JOHN MILJAN POLLY MORAN J. C. NUGENT
-ADDED ATTRACTION
An EDWARD SEDGWICK Production, Matt Goldwyn Mayer
ALL TALKING POTE
BENNY RUBIN
in
"The GENERAL'
M-G-M'S TECHNICULOR REVUETTE
NEXT CHANGE
Strictly Unconventional
Based on the play, "The Circle," by W. Somerset Maugham. Directed by David Burton,
With
LEWIS
STONE
CATHERINE DALE OWEN
PAUL' CAVANAGH
ERNEST TORRENCE
A picture for
WIVES!
A plcture for
HUSBANDS !
A picture for those who would know something of marriage before it la too late!
FROM W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S PLAY, **THE CIRCLE." THAT RAN TWO YEARS ON BROADWAY. **
COMING SHORTLY
FLORENZ ZIEGFELD. GAMUEL GOLDVEN
EDDIE
CANTOR
WHO PRE
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