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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1931.
CORRESPONDENCE.
News in Brief.
all come from west of Suez? For that, if the Chinese film industry fulfilled its destiny, would be the inevitable consequence. . A balance that up till now has been The Empress of Asia, due to severely tipped against the Orien arrive to-day in delayed one day,
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DRAMATIC FILMS.
To the Taltor of "Chinn Mail")
tal would be readjusted in his and will arrive to-morrow at 10 a.m. Stry-To-those who are tired of favour, Already Hollywood's complacent habit of seeking
:
pictures of the whoopee and jazz The troop ship Neuralla is due variety, and for a change would She has prefer one of strong dramatic
ecoundrels always among the here at ti p.m. to-morrow. non-Nordic races has roused con- on board the Lincolnshire Regiment, interest, perfectly presented both
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In a wireless
message
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as regards to speech and action,' with just enough of love Interest
to the and natural humour to make it Com-life-like, the writer would strongly
siderable anger in the East. For from India, and Garrison reliefs. long enough it was the Mexican who invariably attempted in vain to thwart the heroism of the Commander-in-Chief noble cowboy. But since "More medore, the survey ship, H.M.S. recommend "Disraeli" returning tact with Mexico" became a Herald, reports that flags have been to the Queen's Theatre shortly.
Were Hollywood uniformly to turn slogan of United States foreign erected on the summit of Enst policy the unfortunate Chinese Brother and Chu Lu Kok Islands, out pletures of such merit, alight has to bear the brunt of Ameri- and on Flood Point, on Santau aberrations as to plot and history can film indignation or ridicule. Island. These bave no naviga- would be very much less matters of Seldom do we see him except as tional significance.
resentment and criticism. servitor in a dope den or sport
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Yours. etc.,
DRAMA, Hong Kong, November 12,
MRS. HARRIS FOUND.
of the athletic prowess of a West- Sam Kwong, an unemployed, of ern "he-man." Did not the no fixed abode, was this morning Nationalists in Shanghai lately charged at the Kowloon Magistracy protest against a public recep-with breaking and entering the tion being given to Mr. Fair-Star Store; at 812, Nathan Road, banks because in a highly suc-and stealing on the night of Novem-, BLANKETS & DOWN QUILTS.
cessful Holywood film he had ber S, clothing and jewellery to the hauled a Mongolian prince off value of $142, property of Ho, Kwal the store. Four REAL WITNEY
his throne by the pigtail? If Sir the cashier of BLANKETS.
The anxiety that was felt last Robert Ho Tung's enterprise can months' imprisonment was imposed. night for the safety of Mrs. Harris, suggest to the Western film fan
wife of Major Harris, residing at
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MYSTERIOUS REPULSE BAY
BEACH INCIDENT..
that nobility may reside even in On the application of Detective- Repulse Bay Hotel, has been some- n yellow skin it will do good Sergeant Flaherty, 48 hours remand what alleviated by the finding of work alike for China, for inter-in Police Custody was allowed in the lady on the Repulse Bay beach national amity, and for the art the case against Ho Luk, Lin Hol at six o'clock this morning, by her of the film Manchester Guar- and Li Sam, three Chinese who husband. She was seriously injur dian.
were this morning charged at the od, and when taken to the hotel, Kowloon Magistracy with decoying became unconscious,
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labour.
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was
Goods Instead of Doles.
or detaining a child named Wal According to a Police report, Shing, with intent to deprive him Mrs. Harris left Repulse Bay Hotel Currency of the normal kind is of his father's legal custody and at half past two o'clock yesterday- also being superseded in ex-care.
day afternoon, for a walk, but did pedients for solving the extra-|
not return. Major Harria reported ordinary problems of want in A well-to-do Chinese womah was the Incident to the midst of over-supply. In examining some cloth in the Pak and in company with Capt. Wales,
the
Poliće, New Zealand, where the Gov-Li Co.'s premises, in Queen's Inspector Andrew, Sergeants B., G. ernment 'rejected the proposal of Road Central and left her Baker and Brittain, made a dole system, communities have handbag on the counter, when thorough search of all bye-ways, adopted methods of self-help best a Chinese, entered the shop paths and lanes, in and around the
up the handbag and ran vicinity. little more deeply conveniently suited to their needs. At Auck- took
land, for instance, farmers bring away: He was chased by a foki night through, the search
Practically the whole fall back in the end upon the in truckloads of farm produce and arrested. The defendant was carried out but without success. Hong Kong, Thursday, Nov. 12, 1931. "experts" who, again, are hope-and meat for the needy of the brought before Mr. Williams this
This morning, Major Harris was lessly disagreed among them-city. In Christchurch Buch re-morning. pleaded guilty, and was returning in a car, by way of Deep sidents as can do so give gro- sentenced to three months' hard Water Bay, when he noticed, what selves.
We have the advocates ceries, clothing, or shoes. People Don't Think!
of stabilisation of the dollar; we From the Pacific North-west
appeared to him then to be a coolie, Commenting on the "blank have the opponents of stabilisa- comes news that a hundred and Kwan Sik, an unemployed Chin-lying on the Repulse Bay bathing fifty workless families in a town ese, was convicted on two charges garage. On approaching nearer, beach, near the nullah, by the ignorance" of the mass of the tion. We have those who proof Idaho have formed their own at the Kowloon Magistracy this Mrs. Harris, who was in a conscious people on financial and fiscal claim that we are bound hand relief organisation, and are morning; one of stealing clothing condition, recognised her husband questions on the eve of the Gon- and foot to a silver basis of ex-storing cartloads of beans and valued at $20 from a fruit stall in and called out to him. He rashed eral Election, a Home paper change so long as China remains/other surplus vegetables for them-Yaumati, and one of having posses to his wife, picked her up, and car? selves. Their plan has spread,sion of an offensive weapon, to wit, ried her into the Repulse Bay asked: "What knowledge of "silver"; we have those who de- and in the adjoining State of a screwdriver, fit for an unlawful Hotel, where after being put to
can possibly be clare that we can well afford to Washington has led to
an ex- purpose.
The first offence ́ took| expected from people who, apart regulate our own currency affairs change of apples from the place on November 6, but defendant bed, she became unconscious.
Wenatchee district for wheat was arrested yesterday when he
Mrs. Harris had lost her hat and from their daily work, never or and "go on gold" irrespective of from the Big Bend region.
shoes, but a diamond ring was still was found attempting to forca 1. Between these To the long list of things which shop door with the screwdriver, there was no robbery. Her left leg hardly ever think of anything China's policy.
lor Iptact, which suggests that but sport,
two schools of thought it is in agricultural regions can personal gossip,
be He was sentenced to three months' and ankle were badly injured, also fashions, or 'the pictures"?" This little cause for wonder that the lately been added college tuition, and fined $100 or a further month's Mrs. Harris must have gone for a paid for with farm produce has imprisonment on, the first charge her thigh. It is sarmissed that query was eminently topical and average individual he or she Morris Harvey College in Weat imprisonment on the second charge walk in the direction of Deep pertinent in view of the fact that whose personal interests are Virginia has announced that the Election turned mainly centred in sport, gossip, for the school dining-room in Governors will accept potatoes largely upon questions which are fashions, and "the pictures"-is lieu of the usual fees from stud- among the most obscure, dif- averse to scratching beneath the ents.-Manchester Guardian, ficult; and unfamiliar in the surface and finding out for him-
public affairs
the General
Personal Pars.
A Dream.
Water Bay, and for same unic- countable reason, either lost her balance or foll or was blown by the strong winds over the cliff into The forthcoming marriages are ed to swim back to Repulse Bay. the water below, and just manag- whole range of national or inter- self or herself exactly what are The Prime Minister's Right.
announced at Harry Bernard beach. Collier of the Chinese Maritime national problems. It was in the fundamental points of dif
It is a Prime Minister's pre- Customs, York Buildings, Chater reference to these problems that ference between the currency rogative, dating from I know not Road, and Eleanor Edmundson, of informed the Pollee at Stanley, that It is learned that Major Harris an eminent American financier "experts." Reams of learned when, to fix the date of a Dis-the Shanghai Municipal Council when he found his wife lying on said: "Money is something like essays on the silver problem solution. Whether the majority Isolation. Hospital, Range Road, the sand, she remarked she had God; everybody speaks about it, I must fail to convince if the of his Cabinet agree or disagree Shanghai; and of Dr. Yu Chiu dreamed that she had to go into the
kwong, of 45B, Bonham Road, and water. but nobody knows very much."audience is determined to allow
Actual unanimity is rare, ex-Ivy Phylis Youngsaye, of 5, Essex, Until only the other day, even others to do the thinking for it. cept after some signal defeat or Crescent, Kowloon Tong.
leaves no choice; there are usual-
the final word is his.
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comparatively well - educated Unfortunately the mentality of blow to prestige which virtually
people, frankly acknowledged an audience cannot be altered in ly some Ministers who are loth that they knew practically no-the twinking of an eye any more to resign "this pleasing anxious in this Colony than at Home, being." and are more ready to thing of finance.
debate the keenness of the The theoretical function of And so our policies, will continue sword's edge than fall upon the
to be guided and controlled by point. the processes of ex- change, the factors involved in "experts" completely at variance the management of currency one with the otherl
money,
From Other Pens.
A Hollywood for China? ·
Even in 1905 it was freely said that some of Mr. Balfour's colleagues were for holding on. Peterborough in the Daily Tele- graph.
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Never Heard of Mr. Priestley.
BUTTER STOLEN FROM
PENINSULA HOTEL.
How the unfortunate accident actually happened is difficult to say, and the affair will remain a mystery until Mrs. Harris recovers aum- cleatly well, to recount the episode.
BRITAIN'S OVERSEAS TRADE.
LOOKING UP.
W
Mr. A. H. Gladstone appeared as complainant in the case in which, the Peninsula Hotel, was charged Young Hung, a coolle employed at
Rugby, Yesterday. with the theft of four Ib of butter
Considerable increases in from the Hotel on November 10.
Britain's overseas trade over the The buttar was found hiddenia, previous months was shown in the empty room, and several prediminary Agures for October European members of the staff kopt published by the Board of Trade, a watch, which resulted in defen-though the totals are all much be
an
Even the vogue of best sellers dant being arrested when he came low those for October of last year, is limited. In the course of a to take away the butter. Detective British Wireless Service.
To-day's Thought.
Nothing tires us more than being imposed upon.
Ten Years Ago,
* [from the “China Mall" of
November 12, 1021.)
and credit, what was meant by the "gold point," or what might be the results of purchases of sales of Treasury bills — all these were scaled mysteries as remote from the thoughts of
A Chinese business man of conversation I had with Mr. Sergeant Flaherty said there were ordinary people as the abstruse
repute, Sir Robert Ho Tung, is Charles Chaplin before he left many thefts of this nature at the mathematical reasoning of a said to be considering the London for the week-end, he in- Hotel, and the management wished Einstein. They are still very launching of a Chinese film inquired blandly: "What are "The to have a stop put to it. A month's
hard 'labour was imposed. much so for the great majority dustry. He maintains that in Good Companions' 7" of us, and even the few who have climatic conditions and in drama. I had asked him if he was go- tic talent China need yielding to the play. But its title begun to penetrate a little way nothing to California. About conveyed nothing to him. Nor AN EVENTFUL VOYAGE. into them are discouraged by the latter he is incontestably did the name of Mr. Priestley.
It was not until someone point- THREE BABIES BORN AT SEA. their complexity and the tre- right. China has a tradition of
ucting that goes far back in her ed out that Mr. Knoblock had mendous difficulty, experienced history. It is, moreover, a trai had a hand in its adaptation that Captain PWoide, of the J.C.J.L. by the most expert, in applying dition that has always put great Mr. Chaplin's interest was rous- Tjinegara, has reported at the llar- theoretical conclusions to the value upon a highly convention. "Oh," he said, "If Eddie bour Office that during the voyage rough and ready rule of thumb alised type of mime eminently Knoblock had anything to do from Batavia to Hong Kong she Cricket Club celebrated Armistice suitable for screen: use. The with it, the show must be worth encountered a strong monsoon. Day with an "at home" yesterday practice of the world.
Western world would welcome seeing!" Peterborough in the One man, a steerage passenger, was afternoon, when a large gathering The same difficulty has con-both as a novelty and as an art Daily Telegraph.
drowned, while during the voyage spent an enjoyable time witnessing fronted us, and still confronts classic themes of Chinese drama treasure the reproduction of the
three bables were born on board the various sports competitions ar the ship.
ranged for the occasion, Lawa us, in this Colony regarding by: Chinese actors. But cinema.
bowis and tonnis were on the card silver and exchange. The aver cannot live by classics alone. Bir Christopher James Parr, who
and visitors from other Cluba in Would the Western world was formerly High Commissioner]
An Algerich woman living at the Colony were present to con age individual is in a perpetual equally welcome films in which for New Zealand in London, has Bone, Fatma Ben All, has given pets. Competition was keen and morass of ignorance and doubt the symapthetic characters are been appointed Leader of the New birth to four boys, according to the some good play was witnessed on Those who profess to think a Oriental and the villains one and Zealand Legislative Council.
Paris "Matin."
both rinks and courts.
To-day's dollar is worth 2/7.-
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