THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1931.
ON THE
MODERN
NEWSPAPER
Especially on That Coupon
Cross-Word.
LOTTERY CIRCULATIONS.
A Few Cross Words By E. V. Knox..
OLDE ENGLISH FAYRE.
Interesting Event on
Saturday.
THE CHINA MAIL.
ROUND THE LOCAL
try.
CINEMAS.
Reviews from Official
Fifty
Sources.
"DRACULA."
enormous bats,
་
those
to
SHADOWS BEFORE
.COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED IN CHINA MAIL.
Meetings.
Entertainments. The Olde English Fayre" in St.
To-day King's Theatre; Andrew's Church grounds, to be strange flapping creatures of the "Murder By The Clock."
night, were recently taken
To-day Queen's » Theatre; opened at 3 p.m. on Saturday by Universal City, for use in a number "Sinner's Holiday," Mrs. W. T. Southern, promises to of scenes of "Dracula," the amazing
Today Central Theatre; be one of the most delightful func-drama which came to the Central "Dracula."
Theatre yesterday, which a bast tions held in the Colony, As many which includes the
To-day Manatic Theatre; famous Belo "The Awful Truth." the features of an Lugosi,, the original Dracula of the as possible of
Today Stor Thentro: old time fair are being reproduced.stage play,
"The Bellamy Trial.", The bats were captured in a
Home Malls, Nobody has yet printed a news-morning he is so overcome with de. There will be many booths in the
great cave T Nevada by three re- great
To-morrowOutward for Europe sidents of Las Vegas, who made au vin Suez (Hakusan Maru), 6 p.m. paper which one can eat, or even a light that he has to be put into a Church grounds whore--a newspaper which one can wear. I strait waisteont immediately, even variety of articles will be for sale. expedition into the hill region when
Saturday-Inward from Europe admit that newspapers may be he does not expire on the apot. An English cottage is being prect-an emissary of Universal arrived via Suez (Kashini Maru); from
It used to be said that, newe- placed between the blankets to give extra warmth at night, and papers obtained large circulations ed, in front of which on the village in town with the strangest order America via ports (Empress of that food can be and is, wrapped by appealing to the semi-educated, green the beautiful old dances of ever delivered into the desert coun- Canada); from London (Glaucus) up in newspaper, to the great des who could do little more than read. the home country will be danced. In addition to Lugoal, the east of triment of green open spaces near The latest idea is to excuse them For those who wish to dance them- London after a Bank Holiday. from reading altogether. All they selves there will be ample oppor writes E. V. Knox in the Morning have to do now is to buy news. Post
papers and cut out twopenny tic-tunity from 9 to 11 p.m. when 1-admit also that newspapers are kets for a raffle in a kindergarten. modern dances will be interspersed put under sticks to light a fire-The idea, in fact, is to sell news in the programme with older
favourites. except, of course, at the Belshazzar | papers, and it does not seem to me Hotel, where the old oak logs are to be a very ingenious idea, At think of ideas made of glass and kindled by elec- any rate, I can tricity, and when you give them a which seem to me far more busi- thorough lam with the poker to nena-like and far less troublesome make them fame up a bit more you to the unfortunate consumers, who get thrown out by the management. dre already demanding a new wing
But for the most part, the quaint at Colney Hatch. old-fashioned idea still lingers that rond. newspapers were made to Using them for this purpose, a man only requires one of each sort each morning, and about half a dozen of each sort to find out what won and how it came to do it, as the afternoon wears on.
Modern Development.
It is only a modern development of journalism to buy newspapers by the gross in order to cut little bits out of them with a pair of nail scissors and put them in an envelope, and it is rather insulting to the labours of all those men and women who have compiled the rest of the twelve-to-twenty page affair. For my own part, also, I dislike being bullied. When I am ordered
by some man I do not know, and
"Dracula" includes Helen Chandler, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Egarte, Frances Dade and Herbert Bunstono.
"MURDER BY THE CLOCK."
October 8-Hong Kong Horticul tural Society, Jardine, Matheson
October 9-Hong Kong and Can- Co.'s Board Room, 6.16 p.m.
ton led Manufacturing Co., Ltd., : 2 Lower Albert Road, 10.45 a.m. 'Lammerts' Auction. To-morrow-At! Sales
Room, postage stamps, 6.15 p.m.
Land Sales. October 5-At P.W.D. Offices,
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
The side shows are to
The strange and mysterious story bu numerous and include of a man, who was murdered twice
stool; helter
skelter, in a single evening, is told with ducking skittles and hoop-la. Children spine-chilling effectiveness in Para- will be amply catered for and mount's "Murder by the Clock," at two lots of Crown land. 3 p.m.
with the
the King's Theatre to-day, The they are unsuccessful treadle bun they can try their skill
story centres around the luxurious Why not for instance, sell news at the fish pond.
mansion of the ernaky but wealthy Fair No English
is complete papers in bundles of a dozen or
old Mra. Julia Endicott. She lives. twenty, announcing that in every without the gypsies and a mysteri- there with her son, the strong-fram-
palmist from Laa Palmas five thousandth bundle there will us be one paper that is absolutely will pitch her tent where she willed but child-minded idiot, Phillip: and her her housekeeper, Robertä
The following programma will maid, Jane. blank, and that the happy buyers predict the good things in store for
from the of that bundle will be entitled to her clients for a small sum.
The time is fast approaching her nephew,
Shortly after Herbert Endicott, be broadcast to-day a fifty pound prize? Or why not
comes to visit the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station arrange that any reader who can our thoughts turn to the house, old Mrs. Endicott is found Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 356
appropriate murdered. tear a hundred titles off the title problem of finding
She has willed all her metres: page of a newspaper in a single Christmas cards to send home. money to Herbert, cutting Phillip
6-8 p.m.-European Programme week and send them in to the Thie difficulty may be very easily out of the bequests.
of Columbia & Regal Records kind- solved at the Olde English Fayre, auspected of the crime. editor will be presented with A
ly supplied by the Anderson Music free fountain pen, or an
electric as a number of special designs, not
Lieut. Valcour is assigned to the Co. Or to be obtained elsewhere, will be fron, or a mincing machine?
Several hours after the 5-5.35 p.m.-Orchestral, that the first man
funeral of the older Mrs. Endleott, Waldtsutel Memories-Fantasia to on sale,
It is hoped that those who come Herbert is found strangled. (Finck), arrive every Saturday in a snit of clothes entirely made of news to the Fair will stay for supper as papers and present himself at the well as, for tea because there will offices would be be items of interest going on all the advertisement
being made to have various typical time. Special arrangements are national delicacies on the menu.
or woman
given a gratis August holiday at
the silver sei?
on
the
when
At intervals the Strolling Players will provide a humorous entertain-· arise
ment in their booth and no doubt the place will be crowded out goon announces that after the bell-man the performance is about to begin. The grounds are to be decorated with bunting. flags and coloured lanterns, and appropriate music will be broadcast by the amplifiers. The helpers will be dressed in old-
probably should hate if I met him, to Cut Out This Coupon, I don't At any rate, these are bolder and cut it out. And when 1 am told larger developments of the lottery
iden. They that A Thousand Pounds Must Be circulation Won. I say to myself, "You think naturally from the notion of not so, do you, you bilghter? This is reading your newspaper, but hack free country. There is no coming it about and tearing it into at all. shreds, pulsion about the matter
'hundred-to-one So far as I am concerned, a thou thousandth chance of obtaining a sand pounds need not and shall not prize. be won even if I am the last man In England to stand up against this gross tyranny, and not to win a thousand pounds! I bought this paper to read it: not to be ordered about, and sent hunting for nail scissors by a hound like you."
Age Of Specialisation,
news-
time costumes.
Cage.
Herbert
is
Phillip is suspected. But the family doctor brings Herbert life again, using adrenalin. Herbert is about to tell who "killed"
to As
him he is shot dead. Another
bullet
Hollander,
wounds, Tom Laura's lover, who had been in the
room...
"Murder by the Clock" was meant to be a thrill-pucked, creepy
mystery tale.
It is.
"SINNERS HOLIDAY.".
Herman Finck & His Orch. (9836). The Damask Rose-Selection
(Chupla-Clutsam),
Court Symphony Orchestra
·(DX24). Silhouettes (Arensky) — '
(a) The Dreamer, (b) Introduelion, (e) La Coquette,
II. C. Amera & Eastbourne Municipal Orchestra (9749).
Fifth Symphony-Adagletto
(Mahler),
Willem Mengelberg conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra (L1798). 5.35-6.05 p.m.-From the Studio the lives of professionals engaged-European Children's Programme. In the business of running conces-
Those who have wondered about
The proceeds of the Fair are to sions in amusement parks and at Violin Solo go to the Church Organ Fund in the beaches, need only witness.
Warner
But stay, I am wrong. I have suggested that the modern paper snipper and coupon slicer has to do his own toll. That is not so. I am told that already in this age
of specialisation there commemoration of the Church's "Sinners' Holiday," the
26th anniversary. Tickets for ad- Brothers and Vitaphone picture exist agencies for destroying the mission are 50 cent; children half-which comes to the Queen's Theatre to-day, to have their curiosity grati- newspapers unread and sending
price. out to the gambler nothing but the
fied. necessary coupon with their Bind, Bond, Band, Bend filled in.
So far, in fact, is the modern newspaper reader front merely not having to read his paper, that he need not even see it. He is thus relieved from a great deal of worry and care, of toll with the scissors, and of labour with the mind and the pen. He can buy his alter-
STANDARD TIMES. of
Sunrise and Sunset in Colony.
I know, of course, that this statement about the necessity of winning a thousand pounds le not true, As a matter of fact, it is a bowling lie. Even if I take a wheelbarrow to my news agent and wheel away twelve large bundles of newspapers, and cat them all up ..into ribbons with the garden shears, except the little squares on the back pages, where they say HND and tell me that I have to find the missing letter, and that
Bunrise and Sunnet in Kong the whole word means "tle", I shall native solutions in packets of half Kong for October, 1981, Stan- not really be obliged to win a ↑ dozen * time from solution dard time of the 120th Meridian thousand pounds, because I shall sellers, who take upon themselves East of Greenwich) ате as for have tried Bind, Bond; and Band, all the arduous and ignominious towa:- spending twopence sixpence labour of stripping away the with each of them, whereas the oloquent leaders, the soul-stirring October
news from foreign 1 hypocritical arch-flend who has articles, the constructed the fatuous conundrum places, the exciting and fascinating, has written Bend in his sealed advertisements, and what not the solution on the grounds that "bend" whole outer husk and shell, in fact, is a nautical word for "tle", and in which the lottery has been en- that scarcely anybody but himself shrined. will have been such a fool as to have thought of it.
or
Thus a new profession has arisen: that of a newspaper gutter, abstracting the precious | jewel from the dross."
The Congenital Idiots.
It seems very strange to me, and He profits by making. It Bend, because in that way he weeds out hourly expect the birth of some an enormous number of newspaper new organ of public opinion called choppers who imagined that they merely "The Daily Totalisator," in were forced to win a thousand which the public put their pennies pounds and relieves them of their obligation more speedily. Only a few congenial idlots Have written Bend, and one of these carries off the swag. Unfortunately, when the warder brings in the news in the
DISORDERLY. -BEHAVIOUR.
Two Convicted and One Released.
Three Chinese were charged this morning with disorderly behaviour
Grant Withers enacts
the role
a swaggering, youthful and amorous barber, while Evalyn Knapp, is seen in the feminine lead as his sweetheart and the daugh- ter of Ma Delano, owner of a penny arudes. Lucille La Verne playe Ma Delano.
"I TAKE THIS WOMAN."
Few modern writers have more "best-sellers" to their credit than Mary Roberts Rinehart whose re
"Lost cent fiction sensation,
to the King's Ecstasy," comes Theatre screen on Sunday under the title: "I Take This Woman.”
"Take This Woman" features Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard in its cast.
The locale, shifting as it doce, between fashionable, dance-mad New York and the, wild country of the West,, and back again, 'adds de- lightful variety to the picture.
"DAYBREAK.”"
Sunrise Sunset
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rific success in a German role in
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"The Student Prince." Thereafter
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Battery
The three men were arrested dur Ing a police chargé led by Detective- Sergeant Flattery when the mob was threatening to burn Japanese goods from 'a, shop at:- No. 115,
Street
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every morning, and a few lucky ones, receive the prize at night. Either that will happen, or else we shall come back to the queer old superstition of reading our papers to find out what, they say,
A
Second defendant said he was de- livering magazines in the district for his employer, First pos
defendants
second at Battery Street on Betember 27, were convicted and fined $250 or Mr. F, C. E. Rendall appeared for three months' bard labour. Third Ho Chi-wong the second accused defendant was discharged.
6.05-8.47 p.m.--A Concert,
Randino (Beethoven-Kreisler), Song of India (Rimsky-Korsakow),
Yovanovitch Bretzo (4823),
Song-
The Songs My Mother Sang
(arr. Grimshaw), The Kerry Danss (Molloy), Piano Solo--
Doris Vane, Soprano (DX157). Impromptu No. 2 in A Flat
(Schubert), Impromptu No. 4 in F Minor
(Schubert),
Ethel Leginska (9478).
So We'll Go No More A-Roving
(Byron-White), The Devout Lover (Pollock-White),
Dennis Noble (Baritone) (DX248).
Song
'Cello Solo-
Adagietto (Bizet arr. Squiré), Tarantelle (Popper),
W. H. Squire (12371), 6.47-7.20 p.m.-Variety. Band-
My Cavaller,
While the Tango Moans,
Eldorado Tango Band (BIR388).
Vocal Duet--.
Wabash Moon, The Little Old Church in the Valley,
Sweet & Low (MR358). Hawaiian Orchestra
Ohl Rosalità, Hawailan Stars Are Gleaming,
Linn Milford & His Howallan Players (MR849),
Bong-
At the End of an Irish Lane, My Irish Song of Songs,
Cavan O'Connor (Tenor) (MR357) 7.20-7.38 p.m/Pianoforte Solos. Jutish. Medloy (Graingor),
Ramon Novarro, like all success- 5.59ful stare, realises very fully the
great value of a change of pace.
Some years ago he made a terola Vienna (Schubert-Friedman),
6.58
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Percy Grainger (50120-D).
Ignaz Friedman (12107);
7.38-8. p.m.-Light Opern.:
he did "Ben Hur," and from that Tom Jones-Selection (German),
went into the young American naval officers of "The Midshipman" and The Flying Flost." Recently he has taken cognizance of his Spanish birthright, in "Call of the 5.51 Flesh" and "Gay, Madrid.","
Now, however, he had assumed a Teutonic
characterisation,
Regimental Band of 11.M. Grenadier Guards. (9297). Merrie England Vocal Gems
(Hood-German),
Miriam Licette, Clara Serena, Francis Russell, Dennis Noble, Robert Carr and Chorus
in
8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Report.
8,03,10,30 pm-Chiness. Studlo Concert.
5.49 ・・ "Daybreak," his new M-G-M atar 5.48 ||ring vehicle, which will open, on 5.48
The keel of HM.8. Falmouth, a sloop of 1,500 tons, has been laid down at Devonport Dockyard.
Sunday at the Queen's Theatre | 10,93 pm-Close Down.
“Daybreak"" la an adaptation: by N.B.--Commencing from to-day Ruth Cummings and Cyrll Hume of European Programmes will begin at Dr. Arthur Schitler's highly suc-15 pm, instead of 6 p.m. on Tues cessful romance of Vienas before days and Thursdays during the
Winter months.
the war.
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