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"FOLLOW THROUGH”,
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Paramount's all technicolour pro- duction "Follow Through," starring Charles Rogers and Nancy Carroll, Is
· Much
THE CHINA
MAIL:
Things went swimmingly until "Mona" was the pet name. bestow- the charming sister-in-law appeared on her father, a wealthy land- cd with husband and cousin, just to owner of Buenos Aires, because of make sure that dear Gerald was her mischievous habits at an early.
Rhoda comfortable,
was hidden ago, while her love for the sea and away in the kitchen, but although all things musical caused her to Mrs. Twine found nothing amiss, adopt the alliterative "Maria" when Clive was not deceived.
she made her picture debut with UFA in Germany.
From then on "Rookery Nook" is one long laugh and It is only after a series of side-splitting situations that everything is straightened out to everybody's satisfaction.
Since going to Hollywood she has been featured in three Fox Movie- tone offerings, "Romance of Rio Grande," "The Arizona, Kid" ́ ́and
CHEESEMAN'S
Resort of Famous Men
to Disappear.
AN OYSTER SHOP.
Cheeseman's, the famous little
fing picture, which is having ite tic drama. Inid against the prosperity, writes D.P.
ing Standard.
The white-haired, spotlessly
clean old ladies the
Misses
·ROYAL ACADEMY.
Contravention of the Rules.
PICTURE TAKEN AWAY.
J
A Royal Academy incident of "One Mad Kiss." Her notable work Brighton oyster shop, which is to picture taken off the wall for con- "STOLEN HEAVEN.” in these productions caused Direc-80 "because few people nowadays travening the Academy rules is re- now playing at the Majestic
tor Irving Cummings to select her can afford oysters at ila. a dozen, ceiving attention. A sixteen-year- Theatre on its second run here.
was established a century ago, old boy sent in a picture which was Followers of the current muelest for the feminine lead in the Film goers will find the picture very flair for novelty will be interested MoLaglen vehicle."
and always had about it the at- found to be so near an illustration. 'entertaining. There is a wealth of in the unique collection of tropical
A Devil with Women," which mosphere of a century ago-save in Stevenson's "Treasure Island" songs, of which "We'll Make Instruments played by the Havana opens its engagement on Thurs in the matter, of its oysters, whose that the Academy rated it as a copy CHHAREHOLDERS are reminded Peach of a Pair" is rendered by the Casino orchestra during the Florida day at the
King's Theatre. succulent freshness must have and so returned it to the artist. TUITION GIVEN. "
that the latest date for ad- Rogers-Carroll team.
scenes of Nancy Carroll's now star- is A
unique type of roman brought the business considerable The picture was entitle "On Board Underlying the film there is
the Eyen- the Hispaniola, and that is the tiple of the picture in "Treasure Island. LESSONS in English, ceptance of the Offer of New French, Music, Shorthand and Type: Shares of the Company is TUES romance and a good touch of golf. final showinge to-day at the Central colourful background of & Central
The boy denies that it is a copy and American republic. McLaglen en- writing. Terms modernic, 6 Aimal DAY, 30th June, 1931. Forms of Of course, the eternal triangle is Theatre.
The Havana orchestra has been acts the role of a wandering soldier Cheeseman (one of the three, who
says that he had not- scen Steven- Villas, Austin Road, Kowloon. Acceptance and/or. Renunciation not obliterated, otherwise where
arcompanied by remittances should would the picture be?
enjoing a season of unsurpassed of fortune, and. Miss Maris that of ENGLISH LESSONS given to be lodged at the Company's Regis credit is due to Zelma O'Neal, who is popularity in New York's most a wealthy heiress who le saved used to wear the flags of all nations
It must be left at that. But there Students with particular attention to tered Office, Second Floor, Ex the life of the show, whilst Jack exclusive night clube, notably the by McLaglen and his buddy from in the form of a brooch, married
is another interesting side to the; pronunciation, by English Barrister change Building, Hong Kong, on Haley and Eugene Pallette supply fashionable Central Park Casino, a group of bandits. Humphrey some years ago) who managed it
matter, says the London correspon»: bright comedy. Thelma Toad, where the strains of their maracas, Bogart, Luana Alcaniz, Michael so successfully, were wise in not
dent of the Manchester Guardian Claude King, and others of note guiros and bongos furnish nightly Vavitch, John St. Polis, Mana Rico, extending the premises,
They kept to the tiny oyster bar | who adds: It was, I believe, a son' serve the leading players well. donce muate for New York's Mrs. Jiminez and other film cele
elite. The orchestra aggregation brities are in the cast of the film, and the tiny parlour beyond It, of General John Charteris who drew Hubert Wilkins tell of his plans to of fourteen pieces is a unique col- which Irving Cummings directed which were ornamented with Vic-attention to the resemblance. What is remarkable is that young Char- visit the North Pole, and a splendid lection of instruments.
with George Middleton as associate toria shell-mirrors, model ships in
bottles, "artistic" seaweed and teris, after reading a description of picture of the Nautilus is also
producer.
signed photographs of celebrated the picture, which was noticed in shown.
customers who haunted the place. the Daily Telegraph because it had Had Cheeseman's been modernised,' been sent to the Academy by a boy its charm could have gone. of sixteen, thought that it described
a picture in Stevenson's "Treasure.
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Hong Kong, 22nd June, 1931.
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Location-North Point, next to Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. Opened for Use of the Public from June 29, 1931.
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From Other Sources.
"ROOKERY NOOK"
Gerald Popkies decided to go on a rest cure for a few days, his wife to join him at a later date. His Comfortable dressing rooms, fresh, sister-in-law, Mrs. Twine, the water showers, long pier, spring "mothering kind," had decided that boards, floating raft, &c. Good! water.
Clean beach. Open ter- race with awnings, well furnished Tele-a cool,, where light refreshments i
will be served. On route of Trams and Tramway Co.'s Taikoo buses. Sheds brilliantly lighted up at night.
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
- Public Auctions -
THE Undersigned have received
WATER RETURN.
All Reservoirs Below Overflow.
The level and storage of water in instructions to sell by Public the reservoirs on June 1, 1931, were
as under:
Auction
ON FRIDAY, July 3, 1931, at 3 p.m.,
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street. The Steam Launch "LA CONFERENCE" - with fut equipment:- Length overall....65' 8" Breadth extreme .10' 0" Depth
6' 2"
Engine: Compound, Surface Con-
City and Hill District.
1980 1931 Tytam
23' 7" 25' 8"3 Tylam Byewash 21' 9' 24' 4"B Tytam Intermediate 43' 9"B 8' 8*B Tytam Tuk
03 2B 33' 8"B Wong Nel Chung 27.5"B 17' 6"B Pokfulum
[Note: B. denotes Below Over now; A. denotes "Above Overflow"; L. denotes "Level with Overflow."]
Storage in millions and decimals
densing Diameter of Cylinder 7 Tytam inches and 14 inches by 9 Inches Tytam Byewash stroke.
Boiler: 3" diameter by 6 3" long.
Working pressure 126 lb. per aquare inch.
For further particulars apply to Official Measurer's Office,.
or
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LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneera. Hong Kong, June 27, 1981,
AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY
by
A. H. CROOK. O.B.E. M.A.
W. KAY, M.A.
W. L. HANDYSIDE, MA, ÉB¢,
PRICE $2.00.
NOW ON SALE. AT THE PUBLISHERS.
ם"11י21
B'11"B
of gallons,
1930 214.50
1931 200.74
1.99
98
Tytam Intermediate
Tytam, Tuk.. Wong Nei. Chung Pokfulum
32.08 320.70
150.34 727.68 11.94
Total
20.4
197
'It' introduces the guiro, which is nothing more than a tropical gourd with side incisions. A wire brush scraped over this gourd, produces. a Bound similar to the rubbing "of a
dram-head. brush on a
-
"GENERAL CRACK."
make Barrymore will
in. "General
John Maracas an appearance
are played in pairs. They are smaller and rounder gourds than the guires, fastened to handles and loaded with shots. They are mani- pulated in two-four time.
The claves, two sticks of
Crack," the Warner Bros. special showing at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday.
His strong characterisation in "General Crack," which Alan Core a land directed, is that of a dual
Model Locomotive Attracts Attention
The scale model engine, shown in the shore picture, constructed :> the scale of 2 inches to one foot and is The Baltic deplex of the of the Canadian Lane inished in correct C. F. R. colors. The young engineer Railway's "2800" type frst passenger locomotives and in the picture seems to be enjoying his tenure of office attracted considerable attention at the model railway and, doubtless, knows how to run the engine, which in exhibition, recently held in Central Hall, Westminster, a cumplete working machine, with all that is necessary London, England. Built for the company, in England to convey a realistic representation of its powerful the model is 14 feet long and weighs half a ton. It is | original.
5.36 20.85 10.68 he should stay in a lovely little cott age near her-of course he would 595.84 1,138.16 need care and attention although and Hill District In, millions and de to appreciate her kindly interest. Consumption of water in the Cits Gerald was ungrateful enough not eimnis of gallons during the month Gerald's cousin, Clive, was there to of May.
1030 1931 greet him on his arrival but the Consumption *** 288.10§ 341.62 trouble commenced soon after he Estimated population 442,880
410,050 left. Consumption per
A decidedly intriguing surprise head per day
26.8 Includes 15.07 million gallons from awaited Gerald on his return from Mainland.
the garage. Sitting gracefully on *Includes 96.09 million gallons from the table was a beautiful girl clad Mainland.
In pyjamas! The sophisticated, May, 1930-From May 1 to 81, though harmless Gerald, was struck
12 hours supply (6 a.m.-6 p.m.)
Rhoda, that was was given to all Rider Main Districts literally dumb. (Principal Mains, closed 6 pm, the damsel's name, explained the a.m.) with the exception of the area reason for her unseemly attire and North of Queen's Road between Mur-
It was very ray Road and Eastern Street where a presence in the house.
Her cruel stepfather constant supply was maintained dur- unnerving, ing the whole, month.
had turned her out into the night May, 1931-Constant supply and as she saw nowhere to go, the throughout the City, Hill and High open door of the cottage seemed an Level Districts during the whole invitation to enter. month.
Kowloon.
1030
1931
Kowloon Reservoir
and Byewash Shok Lai Pul
Reservoir
18" 11" The Cause of 90% of
Il-Health
8'11"
L.
The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd. Reception Reservoir 10" 1"B 1. "B
The condition. of your blood is the China Mail Offices.
Storage in millions and decimals-condition of your health. That is an incontrovertible fact. The blood of gallons.
stream is the life streams, and disease can retain no foothold in a porfect ly healthy blood stream.
:
Kowloon Roservoir
and Byewash
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
Shok Lui Pu!
Réservoir
1930 1031.
202.96 241/10
82.09
Reception Rezervoir -
Total
9.45
Misa Frances or Miss Charlotte
opened the oysters in full view of
son's book, and that his older brother gave the title.
Island," which he had been reading-
their patrons. The oysters were He cut out the picture and sent it not cheap, but they were extrame ¦ to the Daily Telegraph, and so the ly good, "There was nothing par- question came before the Royal ticularly novel about that. What Academy. General Charteris was was novel was the habit the chief of Intelligence Staff to Lord Missea Cheeseman had of placing Haig for the main part of the war. the oysters on "a long, narrow | It is interesting to note that his son 'piece of wood and of handing inherits his father's gifts of detec- them to you as if they themselves tive work, which is, after all, a large were sedate harlequins with A part of an Intelligence officer's wand. You bought, in fact, your work in the army. oysters not so much by the dozen as by the yard.
The process was rathor, a solemn one, but enlivened with much chaff and friendly banter.
Cheeseman's on a Sunday morn
MRS. LINDBERGH.
Licence:
ing was the resort of pilgrims Airman's Wife Gets A Pilot's week-ending at the more expensive hotels.. I rarely saw a woman there. But men swarmed-literary men, racing men, artists, actors- and the minute shop at midday be- came a sort of informal club, a dozen at Cheeseman's" "being zup- posed, quite erroneously, to whet the appetite for lunch.
One
The discipline was strict. no more thought of smoking there than in St. Paul's Cathedral, and "Put out that cigarette, please," from Mis Francos has caused many a celebrity to blush like a schoolboy. Rarely were there protests or back-answers; if there were, the Misses Cheeseman "gave as good as they got."
Very little except oysters, with brown bread and butter, and the uaual accompaniments, could be bought. But there was a most piquant home-made fish-paste,. which Mr. George Graves, one of "regulars," dubbed "rat- polson." Strangely enough, these high-priestesses of decorum did not mind, the
special kind of wood, give off a personality. whose inherent char- musical sound when struck together. acteristics take turns in dominat- Bongos are knee drunu, held be- Ing his loves and hates. Born of a
flat of the palms. The tones of the nobleman, he is one moment tween the legs and beaten with the gipsy princess and a powerful bongos vary, due to heating which spirited, carefree nomad, and the loosens the skin dram-heade to de- next the brilliant, fearless soldier. grees of tautness.
It is when the fiery Romany blood in his veins overpowers his royal self, that he becomes another Don Juan.
The Havans Casino orchestra has been featured on the Palace New York Theatre bill, and recording companies have caught their strange rhythms for public distribution.
"CITY, LIGHTS."
Spaghetti, with a side order of scrambled egge and sausages, will undoubtedly become a very popular dish after the initial showing of Charlie Chaplin's long awaited non- dialogue motion picture production, "City Lights," which is now the Queen's Theatrd. ''
the
The Chain Pier has gone, and the old Aquarium and the Royal York and the swimming-baths. And now Checaeman's is to go. Brighton is indeed changing.
NO FOOT SOLDIERS.
Mechanism in, Fascist Army.
An excellent supporting cast sur rounds Barrymore in this swift, moving story of royalty, fighting campaigns and gipsy love, which includes Marian Nixon, Lowell Sher- man, Hobart Bosworth, Armida,
By the end of this year there will Jacqueline Logan, Otto Matieson,
de be no foot soldiers in the Fascist Philippe de Lacy, Andres Segurola, Douglas Gerrard, William Army. Every man is to be pro-. Von Brinken, Theodore Lodi, Nick vided with either a bicycle, motor Thompson and Curt Rayfield. cycle, horse, motor-car or tank.
Announcing this decision the Walter Anthony prepared the screen. at
play from the George Freedy novel secretary-general of the party seld Not that spaghetti and scrambled of the same name. "General Crack" that in a test mobilisation 300,000
men were mustered in an hour. eggs and sausages have not already is partly in glowing technicolour. won popular favotir, but it is the Chaplin treatment of theso universally consumed edibles that is bound to stimulate new appetites.
It is recalled that when Charlie Chaplin vielted his native London, in 1921 the stewed cel occupied a warm spot in the tablefare of moat Britons. Yet when the comedian indulged in the same stewed cels but with an added personal touch,
Though a certain percentage of ill; health may be due to organic defects, 116.10 it can be safely asserted that at least 28.97 ninety per cent is dus to imperfec-
tions in the blood supply, either de- the event becoming public know
Pailor and
295.10 888:17 Acienty in quantitation, weakness to the skillet in the brief period of The following unclaimed tele Consumption of water in Kowloon
ledge, more cols found their way. grams are lying at the E. Telein millions and decimals of gallons and nervous troubles generally, dys- 4 week than in the history of that graph Co. Office, Hong Kong: during the month of May. pepela and rheumatism, depression city's cafedom.
from Bradford.mag
Roland Maurice Pearce, from Singapore,
S. LACK
1030 1081
head per day 24.7
and debility, neurasthening neuralgia
Mrs. Nesbitt, Hong Kong Hotel, Consumption 134.08 150.40 and morbidity, and · those ailments - In "City Lights"); Chaplin takes Fatimated population 176,360 286,150 which particularly afflict women, are his spaghett oozing in olive oil directly traceable to anserile condi-, onsumption por
Not because of any particular- 18.0tions, or blood Impoverishment, Constant supply in all districts dur. Fallative measures, which give flavour that la produced but for the ing May, 1980 and 1081 temporary relief from the symptoms, purpose of adding enjoyment and are useless, The ronly; satisfactory
It is Manager, The Government Analyst's reports treatment is go to the basic canse essa in the comsumption.
show that the quality of the water and build up the blood: Once the difficult to describe properly just
satisfactory."
blood is made rich, red and abundant, what happens, because words are nature – la % possessed of the only inadequate to fit the pantomime of weapon she needs to couibst the all the subject.
Hong Kong, June 25, 1981,
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