TUESDAY JUNE
PRINCESS REVEALS THE ARMY AND GAS ROUND THE CINEMAS
WARFARE.
HER DREAMLAND.
Secrets of a Friend of Kings.
Football Played in Masks.
"MY PRIVATE. DIARY."'
fiend!"
DEFENSIVE TRAINING.
The
**'T have always refused, to meSportal measures-are-to-be-taken cept even playful' admiration by the military, authorities with from a married man! And View to increasing the efficiency of think a woman who flirts in defensive training against gas. - carnest with a' married man is af The Chemical Warfare School at Porton is in future, to form a wing So, writes · Daisy,
of the Smajl Arms School. Princess Ploss, formerly Miss Daisy Machine-Gun School at Netheravon Cornwallis-West. in a new book, Salisbury Plain, and the Small "From My Private Diary," that Arms School, Hythe, were amalgam will probably be one of the sen ated in 1926. Thus, to-day, the son's "best sellers." It is a very School embraces three wings, the revealing book.
Machine-Gun Wing, the Small Arms
Was
Struck to Her Job,
Sho
PLEASANT COMEDY AT THE KING'S.
ALONG CAME YOUTH."
!
NEW
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SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.
"Along Came Youth," the plea-
→ Social sant little comedy now showing in June 13 Hotel Cecil, Special en- the King's Theatre, owes a great gagement, of. Pref. A. Barna, deal of its success to the work of world-renowned cymbalist; at din- that-eminent pair of comediana, ner dance. william Austin and Stuart Erwin. Ona wonders what Paramount
kind of film.
Entertainmenia. To-day King's
The Show of Shows." To-day--Quecu's. To-day - Central The Broadway Hoofer." Part-time Wife."
Today Majestic
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WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, June 17 and 18, 1931, commencing each day at 10.30 am.
"at No. 22, Ice House Street
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would do without them, although "Along Came Youth."! neither is rated 115 a "star."" Austin has, another "silly-ass" part of which he makes the most, and Erwin provides a lot of laughs with his study of the lugabrfous Am- brose, one-time trainer for Larry Brooks (played by Charles Rogers).
To-day World. The story is ca familiar lines, "The Sky Hawk." although the most is made of the
To-day Star situationa that arise. Charles Arizona Kid." Years before the war Daisy, Wing, and Anti-Gas Wing. The Rogers is breathlessly youthful in Princess Pless, was reckoned one latter branch has been placed under the leading role almost aggres-
Meetings. of the two most beautiful women the School Commandant. Brigadier sively so, at times but he has a
To-day Sanitary Board, in Europe. She and her sister, J. Collins, in order that he may good appearance, and an infectious p.m. Shelagh (the former Duchess of co-ordinate small arms and anti- smile, which go a long way in this Ltd., Hong Kong Hotel.
June 16-Peak Tramways Co Westminster), were the mast as training. famous pair of beauties in Bri-Petween 500 and 600 soldiers last
June 17-Lane, Crawford, Ltd., Frances Dee is a discovery. Exchange Building. tuin.
year voluntarily submitted them-Her playing, is natural, and she has
elves to tests to prove the efficacy been at some pains, apparently, to Navigation
June 17-Indo-China is clear from this diary of certain treatment for skin-burns cultivate the "English" voice for Fardines, noon.
Co., Ltd that "Daisy's" marriage with produced by gasca used in warfare the occsalon. For the most part the son of a rich German prince and to test masks ernbodying new she is successful. Another good
Home Maila, To-day-Inward from a long, carefully hidden, protective devices..
"bit" is played by Lee White, ng bitter disappointment.
The provision of adequate protec South American financier.
via Siberia (Porthos) stuck gallantly to her job. She tion against chemienl warfare ja aj
To-morrow-Outward for Europe Cheaterfeld Couch and Chairs, waited until her eldest son mar-matter calling for considerable re because of its clarity, both of a.m.; for Europe vin Siberia (Pre- Brass Ware, Fenders, Ornaments, The film is the more acceptable via Marseilles (Sarpedon), 10.90 Teak. Bookcases,, Side Tablea, ried, "and" she says, "when that search and experiment and the ap-sound and photography. Our cars sident Wilson), 6 p.m. was over, felt that I had no long-plication of practical tests with due are by now becoming accustomed er any ties in Silesia." She di- regard to the safety of the personnel to the trans-Atlantic twang, and
Lammerts' Auction. vorced her husband in 1923.. engaged. The respirator, as a pro- there are no strenuous objections furniture, 22, Ice House
June 17-18-Metropole Now, as a result of arduous tective instrument, has been greatly to it, so long as what is being said 10.30 am. hospital work in Germany dur improved in recent years, but it ing the war, when she ought to does not wholly provide against the not always the case, there being a have rested, she is unable to walk, netion of gas on personnel.
growing tendency, it seems, on the She lives at La Napoule, on tho
Protective Measures. Mediterranean.
part of some talkie stars to Indulge Blistering agents, of which mus-in semi-audible "asides." Princess Daisy was a friend of tard gas is the most important, at- King Edward and Queen Alex. tack all parts of the body, so that An interesting news reel precedes andra, and of the Kaiser and special antidotal measures have to Marion Harris (now playing in the main feature, together with Kaiserin They all called her be applied. Hence the special London Cabaret in a rather incon- Daisy. She entertained all the treatment to which soldiers have clusive song scena. German Imperial family, and submitted to crable experts to find half the nobility of the Contin the best method of handling and trenting gas injuries. Success in the She writes of the ex-Kaiser:field must necessarily depend to a "I am vain enough tr think considerable extent on the informa that the Emperor liked me het. tion now ohtained as to the use of ter and treated me with more poison vapours and the nature of sincerity and freakness than their effort on the soldier, almost any
ent.
can
be heard' properly. This is
"PART TIME WIFE."
Sports. See Sports Diary on Pago 9.
Pictures, Screen, Teak Flower Stands, Filler, Wall Clocks, Car-
Street, Linen, etc.
Hotel pets, Rugs, Curtains, Blankets and
Teak Dining Table, Dining Chairs, Toak Sideboard, Teak Ice Chest, Dinner Waggon, Dinner Crockery, Glass Ware, E. F. Cut- tric Lights, Electric Heaters and lery, Ceiling and Table Fans, Elec-.
Fittings, etc.
FAMOUS "HEAD" DIES AT 94.
Canon J. M. Wilson, Of Clifton College.
In spite of his age he was ex- traordinarily active and attended the recent reunion of visitors to the 1851 exhibition, who gather ed at the Persian Art Exhibition. His son, Mr. Arnold Wilson, was chairman of the exhibition.
Canon Wilson was the oldest
also
Several Enamelled Baths and. Porcelain Wash Basins and
One Plano Player with Rolls of Music. -Cataloguća will be fasued.
Teak and Iron Bedstedde, Teak Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrors, Dressing Tables, Chests of Draw- Canon James Maurice Wilson, ers, Marble Top Wash Stands, head master of Clifton College Desks, Toilet Sets, Gas Stoves, Kit- from 1879-90 and for twenty chen Utensils, etc. years science and mathematical master at Rugby, died in mail Humour and romance are equally week at his home near Peters- divided to make good entertain-field, Hampshire, aged ninety- ment in the talkie Alm, "Part Time four. Wife," which, is having ita final run offer wem he All maks are trained in the at the Majestic Theatre to-day. knew. There were many reasons maintenance of the respirator in Edmund Lowe of "Cockeyed for this. I was Reitish, I was an efficient condition, its proper adWorld" fame, and Leila Hyams, different, I was never afraid of Justment in the shortest time pos- who played In The Girl Said No" lilm...
sible and to take advantage of other and "Thirteenth Chair," head an "Tru le liked to be with me available protective devices. They admirable cast of players. Lowe and look at me because my beauty must be able to wear the mask con is seen in the role of a business was'of the pink, white, and goldtinuously for long periods and be man with a terribly brid temper, of the veterans present, and 'British type that appealed to come so accustomed to it that its whilst Leila Hyama ia depicted as made a speech of thanks on their ..him
He often kissed my inevitable physical disadvantages the wife who is an amateur cham- behalf. hand."
are reduced to a minimum. It is pfon golfer. The all-suspicious. An Exile.
also considered desirable that men husband causes his wife to leave until The Princess occasionally pours should be taught to recognise by the home, after her heart out to her diary." She sight, smell or taste, the main types quarrels.
numerous petty was an exile, in Germany, but of gases which may be encountered, Deserving of special mention in her heart was always in Britain.both for their own protection and to the supporting cast is Tammy
In December 1908 she writes: give the alarm.
Clifford, the juvenile adtor, who "My wedding day sixteen years. It is pointed out that good gas enacts the part of a caddy at the ago to-day. I cried myself (but discipline implies not only that Bnks most capably. not to sleep) last night thinking troops shall be well trained in de McGrall gives the picture a touch- Walter of all, the 'might-have-beens,' the tensive measures and practised in up with the necessary villainy, little intimate things I prayed wearing respirators, but also that "Part Time Wife" is really and tried and longed for years commanders and staffs are conver-worth seeing. Recommended. between Hans (her husband) and sant with the powers and tactical myself but what's the use uses of chemical weapons." Fur: now ?"
ther that troops placed in unsuit
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He was Canon of Worcester ho was ninety, an office he had held for more than twenty years. Before going to Worcester he was Archdeacon of Manchester from 1890 until 1905.
His eleven years as headmaster the reservoirs on June 1, 1931, were The level and storage of water in of Clifton College preceded this. as under:-- Mr. J. H. Whitley, Among his pupils at Clifton was
City and Hill District. former
1930 1931 Speaker of the House of Com Tytam Byewash
Tytam
23′ 7′′B 25' 8"E mons?
21' 0"B 24" 4"B Tytam Intermediate. 43′ 0′′B. 8' 9"B Last year he attended the Tytam. Tuk
03′ 2′′B 38' 8"B centenary celebrations in Lon-Wong Nei Chung. 27' 6'B
17' BB don of the Manx poet Thomas Pokfulam
21'11"B: 811"B "SHOW OF SHOWS." A couple of years earlier: "Tonble positions or retained in poai-
Brown, and without any prompt for A. denotes "Above. Overflow";
[Note: B. donotes "Below Over
morrow a ball at my German in tions which have been heavily con- The-biggest-production-of-its lines of "Betsy Lee
ing dramatically recited 1,000 L. denotes "Level with Overflow."] laws on the 31st a Court ball taminated with substances such as kind-over-offered to the public such He was a distinguished mathe
Storage, in millions-and-decimals
-of-gallons but oh, how tired my heart is; mustard gas, will sustain heavy gas is Warner Brothers' "Show of matician, ond was president of Tytam and yet I know things must ever casualties, no matter how well Shows," the Vitaphone musical ex- the Mathematical Asacciation in Tytam Byewash go on like this..
trained the troops themselves may travaganza in- technicolour, which 1921. His many publications in Tylam Intermediate "I have been cast for a part on, be...
Is showing at the Queen's Theatre. cinde volumes on geometry, pas- Tytom Tuk.... this world's stage,-and when the Recruit Feels Suffocated,
5.30 Scores upon scores of outstand-toral theology, and collections of Wong No Chung.. curtain goes up I must come for Although the latest type of gas-Ing stars of stage and screen con- his sermons and lectures.zo ward, face the audience, and speak (mask is more comfortable to wear tribute to this elaborate revue. my lines.
It is stated that during King than the one used in the war, the Some five hundred persona "Deep in my heart I keep hear young soldier, when introduced to pear in various numbers.
apEdward's reign he refused more
than one bishopric., ing is it an echo of genuino it, feels that he is being suffocated. A few of those in the imposing life somewhere in thie world, of But the inconvenience soon dis-list of stars are John Barrymore, the intimations of some past or appears. The difficulty in breath- Frank Fay, Dolores/Costello, future existence that was, or ing is due only to inexperience, Monte Blue, Beatrice Lillic, Winnie for the first quarter of 1981 make shall be, mine in close communion coupled with the thought that his Lightner-Georges Carpentier, Ted
a favourable showing with an in- with some ideal love?
supply of air must necessarily be Lewis, Irene Bordoni, Marina case of a million dollars ná com- "My true beloved whose restricted. With the disappearance Nixon, Myrna Loy Sally O'Neil Pared with the corresponding period whose voice will sound ever caresing comes the relief from the know Withers, Lila Lee, Patay Ruth total for January, February and hands will hold up my face of the initial discomfort in breath Alice White, Noah Beery, Grant of last year, according to the figures of the chief building inspector, The singly in my ear: Come, little ledge of the protection which is of Miller, Alice Day, Ben Turpin, March, 1931, both as regarde, new 12 hours supply: (0 a.m.-5. p.m.) one, away from it all to a home forded in a contaminated area. Lloyd. Hamilton. Lupino Lano, In the woods near the sea, in The wearing of the mask is now Bert Roach, Lee Moran, Heinio work and. repairs and alterations to a given to all Rider Main Districts | some for 'countrý.. ordered for both day and night Conklin, H. B-Warner and Bull while the total: for the same period North of Queen's Road between Mur- CORDON BLEU
buildings, amounts to $5,077,578, a.m.) with the exception of the area
(Principal Mains closed. p.m. The scent of the flowers at exercises, and competitions for Montana. evening floating in through open masked men are arranged. The Direction was shared by John
ray Road and Eastern Street whére, a windows; the thrill of crisp air commanding officer of a unit told Adolfi, Larry Ceballos and Jack
constant supply was, maintained -dur- over white snow no artificial me that he successfully removed Haskell, under the supervision of Pawle, Lumsden Hare, Daphne Pol-
ing the whole month, perfumes in gilded saloons the objection to the gas-mask Darryle F. Zanuck.
May, 1931, Constant supply live only for and in the worship among his men by arranging maak-
fard and Percy Challenger.. throughout the City, Hill and High John G. Blystone, who has given Level Districts during the whole.
month. the screen Buch hits (as““Mother
Kowloon Knows Best," "Through: Différent Eyes," and 44 other productions Kowloon Reservoir for Film directed." day and Byawash
of God, tending the new lives ed football matches.
that spring up from us—
A Distant Dream House. But the War Office is not en
"But I must drop this non-accordance with international
amoured of the gas weapon, and, in
THE SKY HAWK."
7
Building activities in Montreal
of last year was $4;017,435.
"LOTTERY BRIDER
20.85 *10,58
Total
695.84 1,138.10 Consumption of water in the Chy and District in millions and do cimals of gallons during the month. of May.
1010 1931 Consumption Baimated population 442,880 420,650 228.109 341.02* Consumption DET
head: por, day 204
·28.8" Includea 85.07 million gallons from Mainland.
Includes 96.03 million gallons from Mainland.
May
1930-From May 1 to 31,
Shek Lal
1030
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1 1930 1931 Kowloon Reservoir
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BOTTLED IN
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Fashionable London in action sense. The hotel band down-agreement ontered into by the a cafe glittering with uniforms stairs is still playing may it Government and the Governments and brilliant gowns the forced, make them happy. And to- of the self-governing Dominions hectic gaiety of Picadilly-the morrow I shall again wear and India, the British Government sinister wall of the Maron, the air Carroll Nye's reputation for of gallons monds and dance ... Yet my will, on the outbreak of war, enden raid warning siren out to the dramatic roles on the talking soul lival in my distant dream-vour, In Conjunction, with its Allies, streets crowds rushing in terror screen is given another boost by house, a little house but big as to obtain from the enemy Gover-through the darkness the waver his work in "Lottery Bride," Ar- Shekal Ful the kingdom, over which lovement or Governments an engage ing panells of search lights feel thurs Hammerstein's first spectacu- Reservoir reigns for now am alone, Pont that poisonous gap shall not in through the clouds the lar musical feature for the screen, Reception Reservoir alone in an allen country, trying be used as a weapon of war, In the distant crack of shrapnel and the coming to the queen's Thestre. Tosel my best to do:may share fairly to do my best and no one knows, yont of fallure to obtain an enon-coming rear of Zuppelin bombs Nye augmente a cast of prin Consumption of water in Bowinn but God and myself what langagement of that character HM and crashing bulldings such is cipals that includes Jeanette Mac. in millions and decimals of gallons
Government will be free to take the beginning of one of the many Donald John Garrick, Robert during the month of May
1930 2011 ~ (tain for such action as circumstances des spectacular scenes,in "The Sky Chisholm, Joe E. Brown, Joseph Consumption 134.68 189/20/ mand London Morning Post Hawk" Fox Movietone all talking Macaulay, Zazu Pitta, and other Estimated population 175,300 286,150 Yachting at he
picture, now showing at the World games, famous on stage and screen. Consumption posted
Bride, fe an original, head per day 247-18.0
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