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AFFAIR
JACK HOLT
DOROTHY REVIER'
WILLIAM COLLIERA
FRANKR CAFKA
Oralitas
It will lift you out of your seat and send the chills down your spine!
WHO KILLED JACK DONOVAN: A glittering dinner party- gaily, laughing. guests. Sud- denly darkness and the thud of a falling body! Donovan was murdered!
COMMENCING FRIDAY, SEPT. 11th.
First Time Shown In This Colony
An All-Talking, Singing
1931 Universal Super-Production With Four Big Song Hits
The Glory of Human Lovel
The Damnation of Flaming Passion?
A Man's Story-A Wom.
en's Story With a Note of Human Pity to Wring the
· Hardest Heads!
RESURRECTION
John BOLES
Lupe VELEZ
in EDWIN CAREWE'S Šans
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Leo Tolstov's Immental Story
By All Odds the Outstanding Dramatie
Smash of the Sentont
Presented by
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The
Mail.
ESTABLISHED 1845.
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 10, 1931.
"BUT ME NO BUTS!"
Men "Carried Away" at The Zoo:
on
A kindly
Adolphus
looked soul
THE PERFECT PEST. TRAINING FOR THE
Trials of A Modern
Hostess.
GROWING ANTIPATHY.
Something must be done about it, and quickly. This growing
and
FILMS.
New Organisation's Aims.
all
„Adolphus and Archibald, are two
The aims of a new organisation young fellows whose philosophy of
for training aspirants in life is made up chiefly of "buts" antipathy between guests or "butts"
or "huttes" (as your hostess has reached undue pro- branches of cinema acting and pro- particular dictionary and you may portions, and if allowed to conduction were explained by Mr. wish).
tinue unchecked it muet inevil- Sinclair Hill at a luncheon given One fine at the Dorchester by the directors inably lead to murder. and Archibald morning the trim housemaid rat of British Cinematograph Training at. their rooms on
Mappin ting upstairs in her starched Studios Ltd.
print frock will find a battered Terrace, the Zoo, and said:
"My boy, your turi for a holiday body lying huddled in the bath change in the country. There are rucm, while a bloodstained poker a dozen of you young Barbary sheep in the hostess's room will point lats and maidens booked for a nice only too clearly to the murderer. little outing to Whipsnade, the new It is useless to say that civilised people do not behave like this Fresh air, plenty of space, Sufficiently goaded, even the most urbane of mortals is not respon- sible for his or her actions.
Zoo. grass, nut eh?"
The keeper made a grab at the horns of Adulphus and had the sur prise of his life.... Adolphus was not there.
branches-just heaven,
There was Adolphus going round the sides of the den like a trick cyclist in a cylinder. He spun him- self up to the ceiling, came down with a whack, and pinned the keep er to the wall with a butt that ent his ear.
:
Then Adolphus reversed engine and whipped round the walls the other way, coming to rest again with wonderful nicety on the other eide of the keeper's head.
the
The keeper went to guard the doorway and Adolphus rushed for It. His head went between keeper's legs., and the astonished man found himself hoisted for a joy ride.
Rapid Exit.
·
At the moment another keeper appeared at the den entrance. It was just the moment that Archibald had decided to quit. He caught up keeper No. 2 just as his chum had
done the first man.
...
Keeper No. 1 found himself reaching forward astern. That is, he was going forward backward, grabbing at the stern sheets, so to speak.
1
Rolling off, he grabbed a hind leg
of Adolphus.
Now a man hanging on to the hind leg of a Barbary sheep i8, 05 you might say, on top. No Barbary sheep can butt a man who has hold of his hind leg.
Keeper No. 2 adopted the same rear action tactics. Adolphus and
a
British film producers, he said, could not at present afford to take a chance with young artists and technicians in their most promising years because they had no training.. If American producing corporations found a promising artist they sent that person to school, where he was taught not only the ethics and prac tice the profession, but the art; of p sonal showmanship,
Only the other day I read in
It was this training which their an American paper an account of
poor creature in a dentist's enterprise intended to provide, not chair who, because he was hurt only for screen artists, but for heyond endurance, suddenly pull scenarists, producers and all classes ed his revolver and shot his tor-of technicians. The company would mentor. This is exactly the kind of thing that may happen in a dozen country houses this Sum-
mer.
How is it that guests have be- come such pests? Why are they no longer the prop and ornament of every well-run household?
be in a position to select its stu- dents, admitting only those who showed real promise. During a preliminary general training in all branches of film work the greatest care would be taken to find out ex- actly what particular department in the industry a student was fitted' for......
.
The answer is not far to seek. Without being unduly censorious,
"Studenta," said Mr. Hill, "may strely we need lunk no further be fired with the ambition to be- than the teaching of Freud and come a Ronald Colman or a Greta his followers, The "inferiority Garbo, but after their second term anxious to please and so grateful complex" that made people it might be discovered that instead for a kind word bas given place to the superiority complex that makes the task of entertaining one long nightmare.
Entertaining in pre-psycho- analytical days was mere child's play.
After breakfast the hostess said moaningly, "What would you all like to do this morning?"
!
Immediately there would be a chorus: "Oh, may we have a romp with Tottic and Toby?” or "Can't I weed that delicions rock garden?" or "I adore dogs; do let me give Fido a bath,”
they are a Cecil B. de Mille or a Frances Marion in embryo; so, in- stead of turning out an indifferent artist,, we shall produce a budding director or a promising scenarist.”
Lord Glanmorris, who presided. said that a higher standard of acting and production was needed if British filmis were to win a wider market.
CLASS TEACHING OF THE PIANO.
The first piano-class in England to be successful at an academic of seven examination consisted girls taught at Trinity College, London.
Having settled all her guests
They sat for the July examina- comfortably for the morning, the hostess was able to retire to her tions of the Associated Board of the boudoir with the latest novel. The Royal College of Music, and, all! passed the preliminary performance was pented with seven variations at 'lurecon. The hos-examination in piano playing, their hurd work being highly commended. Archibald are attese wold hem on her
individual this moment grazing on the
None had received Chiltern "slopes, at Whipsnade,
lessona. meditating, let us hope, on the folly of meeting everything with a "but "butt," or "butte."UR. in Daily Express
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC, R.A.F.
working little party (hungry and glowing with the morning's exer- cise) and inquired brightly, "Who World like a long drive in the waggonette to see the site of an old Roman camp?" Delighted murmurs of assent would come from her well-trained band, and not later than three o'clock the hostess would be free to return The Air Council have appointed to Hor beudoir to finish her novel. Cant R. P. O'Donnell, M.V.0., Very often she was able to force Director of Music, Royal Marines, them to take a tea-kells and en- Portsmouth Division and H.M.joy a mercy picnic, in which Yacht Victoria and Albert, as case she was free unt it was Director of Music, R.A.F., and time to dreas for dinner Officer in Charge of the RAF But, alas! How differently Central Band, in succession to guests behave to-day! To begin Flight Lt. J. H. Amers, M.B.E., who with, the modern girl announces is retiring from the Royal Air at breakfast that she losthes Force.
children and dogs and hopes the Captain O'Donnell is one little beasts won't come near of three brothers, all.. of her, while her ungrateful brother! whom have
conductors joins, in and dds that "ary form of Marine bands. One is still of sightseeing makes him go all- a director of music, Royal Marines, of-a-dither." It is useless to ex-
been
at Chatham, and the other, Mr. B. pect your guests to save you the Walton O'Donnell, is director of wages of an extra garden boy. the Wireless Military Band." They flatly decline to do any
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weeding, and if you give them a syringe for the green-house fly all they do is to eat the peaches and nectarucs you were saving for yourself,
As for their behaviour after dinner, it is nothing less thann scandal. They rush into the drawing-room and seize the most comfortable armchairs near the As these happen to be the only ones that get any light the result is that the host and hostess are obliged to shiver all the even- ing in semi-darkness on hard rush-seated chairs.
Some day, as I said before, we shall not be surprised to take up our daily paper and read:--
ANOTHER MURDER IN A COUNTRY HOUSE. And will the jury convict? Most emphatically not if there are enough women on it!-Rose. Henniker Heaton in the Man- chester Guardian.
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