THURSDAY, AUGUST 4
THE CHOICE OF
CAREERS.
University Men's Leanings,
MUCH-INCREASED SUPPLY.
1931.
CINEMAS.
THE
CHINA
assistance to meet their university ROUND THE LOCAL expenses on condition that they be come teachers.. But there are now; at every university a large number who intend to follow none of these ancient profession.
Industry's Bidding.
Our generation has discovered that a university training is a aseful preparation for anything and everything. The complication of modern industry and the application of science to every process in it have created a new demand for en Two thousand men, they on, are who have worked through a univer- just going down from Oxford andsity science, course. What used to Cambridge to make their careers be thought pure knowledge of no These numbers shock my narith- metical mind, but Cambridge and material use in this world hus be even Oxford hayo grown out of the come necessary equipment for mill recognition of middle-age. The de- and factory and mine.
wonder that
more will
younger
It has been recognised that in the administrative work of business a
minn
Reviews from Official Sources.
"CRAZY THAT WAY"
Regis Toomey, graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, smilled his way into motion pictures whan an alert manager caught a flash of that smile across the footlights in Toomey at Los Angeles theatre.
the time was playing in the musicali show, "Hit the Deck," and had mand for a university education
never given a thought to entering strains the much-increased supply.
whose mind, and character film work. The manager, however, How many thousands
have had the exercise of a universold him the idea and his serpen de- be crowding through the doors ofsity is likely to be a very useful but was made in "Alibi," follow workaday fe as the universition finish their verma .. The young entry of 1031 ed by a featured role with Richard shall not calculate, says H. C., Bailey are in general ready to turn their Dix in "The Wheel of Life.char
and to anything, confident, as Toomey's early stage education in the Daily Telegraph. I do not youth ought to be, of enpaelty towas received with a dramatic stock 'nervons volets are make good and with a happy con- company in Pittsburgh. At the end heard asking what they are all viction, which was always fount of his Summer stock contract, he do with themselves. it is a sodamn youth, that there is nothing went to New York to understudy.
common or unclean...
Dennis King in "Rose Marie." Later." But, after all, it is not wholly of he went to London and played the
inrome-tax that the two thousand Kelly." of the young entry will be thinking these days. Many years after he had left Oxford, Professor Saints bury has related. "a person of
season.
Areneration since when the unitensities were maller many or
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6-6.10 p.m.-
SHADOWS BEFORE
Theatre;
Theatre;
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.
Entertainments. To-day King's "Quick Millions."
Today Queen's "Crazy That Way" Norwegian Dance No. 1 in D Minor
Today Central Theatre; (Grick),
"Bad Sister."*. Norwegian Dance No. 2, in A Major To-day- Majestic Theatre;
(Grieg),
"Framed." Georg Schneevalgt and The
To-day World London Symphony Orchestra (7128-M).
"The Story of Kin Tan." 6.10-6.27 p.m.-Organ Solos.
Today Star Organ Fantasia of Old. Sangs "Anna Christic
(arr. Wubber).
W. G. Webber (962). Finlandia-Tone Poem (Sibelius),. Valve Triste (Sibelius),
G. T. Pattman (9163), 6.27-7.14 p.m. Variety. Orchesten
I Love You So Much, Fr. Instance,
Callforsin Ramblery (4231-D). Banjo Solo
Joy Dance, La Vivandiere
Ernest Jones (DB230); Instrumental-
That Lovin' Four, Pa Ahnu, In Crazy That Way," directed by
Andrew, Alone's Novelty Four (1788-D). Hamilton MacFadden and based on Sung- Vincent Lawrence's successful In the Morning, stage play, "In Love with Love,"
most of the men were reasonable their citances of carning a notable juvenile role in "Little Nellie
ness, there were a large number for whom family or other fortunate -fate-had-provided a comfortable position. The majority who find to attain prosperity. for themselves could in general depend én elfelent direction before the journey was begun.
Bar And Church. And, the choice of careers was not
embarrassing. The Bar took, as it always had, those of sperial aptitude
screen.
The Characters. Kenneth MacKenna, whose wife
is Kay Francis, the film star, ap- peared in "Man Trouble" with Dorothy Mackall, and "Bulldog' Drumniond" with Marceline Day.
When the Heather Bells are
Blooming,
Orchestra:-
Old Fashioned Girl, I am the Words, '
Ben Selvin & His Orchestra (2298-D).
Song
My Kinda Love, THI We Meet.
Bing Crosby (1773-D). 7.1-1-7.58 p.m.-A Concert. Song
O That We Two Were Maying
(Kingsley & Nevin),
Dame Clara. Butt, Contrálto (X339).
Piano Solo-
The White Peacock (Griffes), Danse Rituelle Du Feu (De Fallo),
Myra Hess (5014D-D).
Joan Bennett played with Ed- mund Lowe in "Scotland Yard" and Many a Slip" with Lewis Ayres.
Jason Robards was featured with #Isle of Lost Virginia Valli in Ships."
Regis Toomey had a strong part (arr. O'Connor-Morria),
Le Cygne (Saint-Saens), Alibi" He appears in "Fram
Song with Evelyn Brent and "Kick
Violoncello Solo
sure when they went up what, they were going to do when they went down. Beyond the scelton, already small, of those to whom Oxford and „Cambridge were only a happy pro
Lezue, to a lifetime of opulent filte-nosition happened to Tuomey-plays-one of Joan Bennett's Sandy-MacFarland (2039-D). consult me about his son, who was discarded suitors. It has been hail- at the University and was rathered everywhere as one of the smart- dispendious. Do you think it's est, best directed, and best enacted worth sending them there? said he comedies that has yet come to the
Sir, I suid, “If it were possible and somebody offered me twenty thou sand pounds not to have gone to Oxford, I would say, Thy money perich with
thee. I will not that a man could feel maintain quite the same about Cambridge.
Towards the Future. These are solemn days. However or interest and a considerable numboldly our young men come out to ber who thought it a useful introclaim their rights of the world. duction to anything which might they will remember the past. After turn up. The Church still claimed
many years a man still dreams of many. Preparation for the Home his last Summer term, the best of
began them all and the and Indian Civil Services
most fleeting. Somebody said the other day the
In with Clara Bow. of his seemed like the end of the world. I do not think of it eo.
Sharon Lynn who always adds It was a fascinating, an infinitely
of the immensely to the success exciting beginning, as well as an end of many good things. In the production, has figured in "Men on song of those who go down which Call," "Sunny Side Up," "Let's Go wrote half an age ago, there is! Places" and numerous other pie a ilefinite good-bye.
Never we
none wince though
deplore us We who ge reaping that we
sowed: Cities at cock-crow wake before
UG- Hey, for the lilt of the Londen
road. and a rousing One look back
chorus. Never a palinode. This is a pretty spirit to begin comedy prison fe,Up The
when a boy left school, or even before. Finally there was school mastering to provide for no small number of the elite and a large number of the crowd.
Nothing much else was to be thought of a providing for any considerable fraction of the univer sity output. When this century begun it was true, as it had Leza many a year before, that a univer-1
nowhere in sity education led to
particular except these fields. You remember the advertisement which Warrington drew up for Pendennis:
A gentleman, B.A. at St. Doni- face College, Oxbridge, and who was plucked for his degree, wishes! give lessons in classics and Lo mathematics' and the rudiments of!
i
ed"
¡tures,
Londonderry
Felix Salmond (7107-M).
Where My Caravan Has Rested.
(Lohr).Edgar Coyle (Baritone)
(2332R), Piano Solo
Poissons D'Or (The Gold Fish)
(Debussy), (a) The Maiden With Flaxen Hair
(Debussy), Lumsden Hare is noted for his (b) Minstrels (Debussy),
Myra Hees (7151-M). performance in "So This Is Lon-Violoncello So
Villanelic (Pianelli-Salmon). don" and, for his portrayal of the role of Sir Clive Heathecote in Serenade Espagnole (Glazounow),
Felix Salmond (7117-3); "Scotland Yard."
8 p.m.--Local Time & Weather Report.
"QUICK MILLIONS."
Spencer Tracy, who made an un- usual debut in talking pictures a in John Ford's short time", ago
tre 10-day.
8.03-10.30 p.m.-Chinese, Studio Concert,
10.33 p.ni-Close Down.
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Theatre;
Theatre:
Lammert's Auctions. August 26-At Sales Room, house- hold furniture, 2.30 p.m.、
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August 21, 25-26-At King's Silk Store, 1c, D'Agullar Street, stock- in-trade, 10 am. daily,
Meetings. August 31-Dougins Steamship Co., Ltd., P. & O. Bldg., 11 am.
August 31-Hong Kong Develop- ment Building and Savings Society; City Hall, 2.80 p.m.
Home Malls. To-day-Inward from Europe via Negapatam (Hakusan Maru);"Out- ward for Europe. via Siberla (Hakusan Maru), 5 p.m.
-Sports-
See Sports Diary on Page 4
Concert,
August 28 Promenade Concert, Volunteer. Headquarters, 9.15 p.m.
HOTEL GUESTS.
At Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon.
August 19, 1931.
Major N. W. Adams.
Messrs. F. C. Barry, C. B. Bird, H. Boas, J. W. Bundred, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Bunje and son.
Messrs. M. O. Clark, P. C. Colman, P. H. Crapnell, Dr J. E. H. Cogan. General M. A.. Cohen, Mra. J. Cogan, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Cornell, Mr. and Mrs. C. Cromlin.
Messrs. W. E. Denison, E. R. Dovey, R. N. Drake, Comdr. T. E. Dockney.
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Easterbrook, Capt. B. Montague Ede.
Messrs. C. J. Ferguson, G. E. Frisque, Miss-D.-Faye..
Mesurs. W. L. Gaddum, C. c. Gallon, I. H. Geare, L. L. Gilson, Col. F. E. Gowan, Miss M. A Gallaher, Mr. and Mrs. J. Gould, Lt. Col. and Mrs. R. F. Gross,
Messrs. A. .V. Harvey, E. Hausamann, A. S. Hersee. Capt.
Messrs. L. Kadoorie, H. A. Keller, E. Kern, K. C. Kreniz
No treaty can stereotype the pre-A. F. Howard, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. the French language; he can eut! hair, attend to the young pupils, the world with. But perhaps the liver." demonstrates that his suc- sent political divisions and bring Hall, Mrs. N. Heath and daughter, and play a second on the piano brag of It is a trifle forced. Did cess in that picture was no accident about stagnation in a world which Mrs. G. H. Hodgson.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Johnson, Mr. with the daughters of the prin we go down as gayne all that? with "Quick Millions," which have is inexorably involved in the uni- cipal.".
Pendenais in fact went to the When they do now is it quite its performance at the King's Thea-versal law of change--Mr, Athelstan Stanley Johnson.
Kiley. There was a long look back, I This picture, a Fox romance, is Bar, where he made no figure, as straight from the heart? so turned to journalism and novel
think, and more than one regret. made to order for Tracy and it is writing. These deplorable occupa Even with the world before us, we hard to imagine another actor doing tions gave him a modest success, knew that some things of delight claret of the second class. But few of this year's two thousand will belay behind and would not be found well advised to go the same way.
Neglected Vocations.
In the expanded Oxford and Cambridge of 1931 many things are changed. Almost all of the young entry, they say, have their own way to make without much help from influence or family resources. Half of them could not be at the univer
Messrs. E. J. McGann, W. .L. McKenzie, D. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. such a great job as the recent tical note to the melange of love 3. T. Bildren, Miss P. Moore, Mr.
and Mrs. Moseley and family. Sam Wood, who produced Miss C. S. Pierce, Mr. and Mrs, Broadway star does in the role of and laughter." again. At twenty-two, twenty- "Buge Raymond."
excellent Haines's "Telling the World" and A. G. Plovanelli, Mr. and Mrs. three, whatever it is, one is mortally Sally Eilers does old, to be sure. But age finds youth piece of work as "Daisy", the girl "The Girl Sald No." directed the M. E. Pollie, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. right in this at least, that the who helps "Bugs" climb from the new picture, which boasts an ex-Pyeatt. university years are a possession gutter, only to be cast aside when he ceptionally interesting cast... for ever.
FATE OF BRINTON.
eity without scholarships of one Result of Examinations
sort
or another. On the other band, some of the vocations which used to take many university men have lost their attraction.
by Experts.
According to Reuter's and Bri- tish Official Wireless messages of What proportion of Oxford and yesterday, the body of Lieut. Cambridge mon now go into the Brinton has been found in the tail- Church? I have no statistics, but end of the wrecked fuselage of his hardly a week goes by without a machine.
an
R. D.
Messrs. F. Reck, J. Richmond, Dorothy Jordan, of "Min and Bill" Mr. and Mrs. Rocques, Mr. and gets silk hat ideas.
"Devil May Care" fame, Mrs. A. P. Rabino. Warner Richmond is satisfactori-] and
Messra. C. J. Seitz, ly menacing and suave as "Bugs" plays the principal feminine role, first Keutenant who succeeds to while the outstanding charactor Sheepshank, G. W. Stabb, J. M. thorn, stage and screen luminary, Swan, Col. and Mrs. C. R. Savile, command when the boss.goes in for role is in the hands of Joseph Caw-Stevenson, E. Stauder, K. Sun, G. society.
Rowland Brown, who created a who appears as Huber, the old Col. and Mrs. R. B. Skinner, Mr
and Mrs. L. Smith, Mr. and Mra." sensation with his first picture, German tailor,
E. J. Spear, Miss A. E. E. Steelc "The Doorway To Hell," proves
Mesars. J. J.' Thompson,' G. himself a capable director, as well
Travers, Mrs. H. Thomson. as writer with this picture.
"A TAILOR MADE MAN."
Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Ulderup, Messrs. J. Watts, A. L. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs: D. F. Warren, Mrs. G. M. Watts; Mr. and Mrs. R. 0. Whitney, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Wild.
Mr. A. Zinggeler
A SURPRISE:
Hungarian Cabinet Resigns.
"THE LAWYER'S SECRET."
Clive Brook's suave forcefulness, Richard Arlen's appealing youth, Fay Wray's Winsome loveliness, The inner workings of a great de-Jean Arthur's fresh earnestness, lament from bishops or clergy of The machine was salvaged late the scarcity of curates and young last night, and it was then found partment store, with its hundreds and, last, but not at all least, men who are willing to take Orders. that the pilot's seat was vacant, of clerks and its million details, Charles Rogers's newly discovered The clerical profession, whatever and during a later examination are shown in full in "A Tailor Made dramatic ability-give to "The Law- the cause may be, is not in favour his body, was discovered in the Man," William Haines's latest starr-yer's Secret," the next attraction with the youth of 1931,
tall end of the fuselage, into which ing picture coming to the Queen's at the King's Theatre, all the talent needed to translate this It is a good many years now it was probably driven as a result Theatre on Sunday, since the complaint was heard that of the impact.
To do it the biggest department, gripning drama inte living reality. "The Lawyer's Secret" is an ex- the Indian Civil Service was being The experts' examination has store in Los Angeles was "borrow- neglected by young men of the right revealed that the disaster was ad." Microphones and cameras traordinary drama, really three
**A political crisis has been pre- | stamp. They say there has been purely an accident, and not due to were installed, lights placed, and vital atories with one sweeping some reaction, but still it has not any defect in the machine, which the store operated while Haines, motivating force. Brook, a law- its old importance as a career for with the exception of one wing Dorothy Jordan, Joseph Cawthorn ver in love with Fay Wray, un- cipitated in Hungary, according to Oxford and Cambridge men: The has been recovered.
and the rest of the players went wittingly becomes the confidant of Reuter, by the Government, of British government in Africa" has Lieut. Gerald Brinton was ex- through their action against a gen- the girl's brother. Rogers. Rogers which Dr. Bethlen has been Pre- believed owing g to the Hungarian meanwhile boen so much developed tremely popular with his colleagues, une background of big business. It has assisted against his will at a mier for a decade, resigning, it le
murder, for which a young sailor, that similar administrative appoint among whom he was recognised as was the biggest location set" used Arlen, is being fried for his life. financial crisis. Count Karolyl manta have been created there, and a highly skilled pilot. His death Je months thus he demand for ability and has cast a gloom over the camp at The How Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Brook's lips are sealed, because of the Foreign Minister, is trying to ambition of that type lefully main Calshot, where, however, prepara- picture is a fiimisation of the stage professional, ethica, and because of form a new Government, in which | his love for the girl. Rogers, in he will retain his old partfalio. The
hitherto la that Dr. Bethlen
feola
tions for the Schneider Trophy con hit, one of the most successful ro- fear of his life, refuses to confessignation of the Cabinet has sur old, and as it always must test are being continued.mantic comedies, in many seasons Arlen is convicted, in epite of the Drised the whole political world. profession takes a The team have six other ma- Haines Appears as a youth who brave fight made for his life by The only plausible explanation rtion of the products of chines at their disposal, including rises from tailor's assistant to his girl" fean Arthur,
The pedagozic positions two new Supermarine Rolls Royce high pressure" executive
The folution of this unsolved that Hungary has turned the hichte, recently
great stor few sound lessons situation is tremendously, exciting, corner, and that it la time to let the cessfully, from severe In curing hard times add a pre-and surprisingly effective. tests at Calshote
various s.a.
emerge
younger men take up the burden.
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