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JA- Murnau-Flaherty,
Production.
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The first real romance; of
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SPECIAL ADDED MUSICAL ATTRACTION!
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DICK LEUTERIO ··
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(A Paramount Picture Orchestra in Hollywood)'. ANOTHER NEW MUSIC PROGRAMME
1. HOT AND BOTHERED.'
2. COME EASY; GO EASY, LOVE.
8. FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN.
4. CAPITOLIANS (MEDLEY). S
a. Madame Butterfly Introduction.
b. Rose in a bud.
Heart of Mine.
d. Sextette from “Lucia di Lamermoor."
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COMMENCING TO - MORROW
They longed for each other.
vet honor held them apart!
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ESTABLISHED 1845.
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1931.
THE BEERSHOP OF A FLORAL TRAP FOR MADELEINE'S MAD
TO-DAY.
Bacchus Modified by Pasteur.
ROBOT BREWERS,"
DENTALINE
{Conorntrated Antiseptic)
Is more than a mouth-wash it actually
KILLS GERMS
Dentaline is an Antizăptic Germicidé and Astringent. Properly diluted it is delightful to taste and refreshing to use":
Asiatic Bul
THE PHARMACY
THEN 20345. 'A' Queen's Road
AMISEMENTS:
FLIES.
Victims Drunk With
MOMENT.
Shoots Husband and
Cuts His Throat.
TO MAKE SURE.
AT THR
• Nectar.
What might be described as a cor- tain awed interest was displayed by There is something cheerful amateurs in one of the exhibits at "Arrest me," Mr. Policeman! 1: about the idea of a brewers' ax the Royal Horticultural Show, of have, through Jealousy, killed my hibition. To the layman it con- orchids and allied plants.
husband. Being a good citizen,- 1 jures up visions of hearty rubicund This is the pitcher plant of Mr. feel bound to regularise the affair old men, quart pewter tankards L. R. Russell, the Richmond by reporting the and, occurrence. set out on the table before them, nurseryman. Mr. Russell has been Pray consider me at your disposal chatting breezily about spigots and cultivating pitchers for some years, for guillotining purposes.” bungs, while their grandchildren Like orchids they are strange feed- Thus did Madeleine, à lady who romp merrily in the skittle alley aters, and not only eat but trap In: is no longer young, admit her fault, their feet.
sects.
+ and who, clad lightly in a "chemise But somehow (writes a "Daily This particular pitcher has de de nuit," and little else, presented Telegraph" representative) Pro-veloped a gargantuan appetite, and herself, very early, one morning, at gress seems to have interfered with dearly loves a cockroach for break-a French police station. this idyllic state of affairs. Purity, fast. sterilisation, and high-power bottle washers have made Pasteur replace Bacchus as the central figure in the brewers' shrine.
„Did Not Feel Well.
Obligingly conducting the Inspec-|| [tor' and his " minions to the little hatal where she had taken the law
Mr: Richmond told a Star report into her own hands, a terrible sight er about it. The first cockroach he confronted them. For the ""unfor- Nowhere Is this change more gave it rather surprised the plant, tunatè husband, his wife's junior by clearly marked than at the Royal but the cockroach was even more some twenty years, lay weltering in Agricultural Hall, Jelington, where astonished, for the pitcher with a gore, a bullet being lodged in the the Brewers' and Allied Traders' never-say-die and all-desperandum brain, while his throat was cut from forty-third exhibition is taking nir, closed up its flower and settled ear to ear. It transpired that place.
down to the work of assimilation. "Madeleine had first put a revolver Robot Brewer.
The next day it did not feel very to Maurice's temple, completing the As 1 walked round the stands I well, but there was nothing left of business with her prostrate" hus-|- felt that I must have been, mis the cockroach.
band's razor "I do not believe
Little Reckless.
toy things ...."
Madeleine, who, by this time, was extremely penitent, told her sad
taken when, some years ago, 1 Nowadays nothing pleases it bet- in these modern weapons," said the thought I had discovered the per ter than a nice, plump, tender cock-murderess, when asked why, she fect bear, Mewad on the premises roach, and the Russell nurseries are considered it necessary to make a in an inni in a little Worcestershire no longer healthy quarters for the double job of it. "They are mere village. Here were enormous andį pest. elaborate machines whirling bottles) --- about, cleaning them, stamping) ・・・ them, and purifying them' in a way The ordinary pitcher is not quite tale, and in a voice broken with that that would have made the hair of so ambitious a feeder, but its uncontrolled emotion which the the landlord of that humble, public methods are the same. It attracts Parisians ladle out in large quan house stand on end.
Ita victims by a display of first-class tities..... "Five years ago," sobbed Such is modernity... The robot nectar, and fnduces them to come the lady, "I married the victim of brewer, I was proudly assured, in inside where there is some even my Jealousy, multing him a suitable nearer realisation than ever be better stuf
allowance. Recently, the unmanly fore. The aim of the public-house The normal, well-brought-up in- fellow twitted me with being his keeper is nowadays to make his Inh sect is very suspicious of the senior, and the next day I discover: not a mere `gin palace, but a "cosy pitcher's hospitali but, after a ed that he was carrying on an social centre."
few drinks, it becomes a little reck-intrigue with a French typist em The iden, undoubtedly, is an ex- less and refuses to be intimidated ployed by one of the Britlah banks cellent one. But I could not help by a mere flower.
in Paris, and a most abandoned wondering, as I looked at the writ So it goes farther down the young bussy! I interviewed the ing tables, the talking-weighing escalator, has a few more and then little wretch, and endeavoured to machines, and the charming table decides to go back. decorations, whether the average; ** * The Pool of Death, of her offence, upon which the rustic (if he still exista) would not This is where the pitcher is so reptile mocked at mel I also saw be too much intrigued by the com sinister, because the slope is so slip the Manager; but the islander does forts which will surround him fnpery that one step upwards means not understand French as we pro hie Imposing village road-keuse to two steps back Still quite un-nounce it. The ignorant one was no remember to order any beer before afraid, the visitor tries to fly out. use to me!"... closing time.
But the petals have by now closed At this juncture the poor thing "Minerals" To The Fore. op, and the By eventually falls right was so overcome that floods of tears It is difficult to make special into the pool of death at the bottom choked her utterance. Two glasses mention of any single contrivance of the pitcher.
of rum, however, fortified the among a multitude of combined So far Mr. Russell's plant does orator, and, with dramatic gestures, counter-pressure filing and crown not tackle wasps, bluebottles or she described how the deed was ing machines outside cask washers, spiders, but the way it reaches out done adding:"I should have used bydro soakers and automatic load-for unwary travellers, and induces the revolver only, since it is the offi Ing drag-bar elevators. It is, how-them to drop in for refreshment is cial weapon of the crime pas ever, a notable sign of the times very uncanny.
Bionnel The razor may prove my undoing. Very true.
that the mineral-water industry is Pitchers are becoming quite popu- making the biggest display it has lar but, as it is essentially a "stove" ever shown at the exhibition. plant, (or hot-house), it is not of There was an interesting link much use to the ordinary suburban with the past at the luncheon held gardener who wants something use- to Inaugurate the exhibition. The ful for green fly. chairman, Mr. J. A. Pryor, present-
ed a testimonial to Mr. J. B. T. Chevallier, a grandson of the famous Dr. John Chevallier whi
A MOUSTACHES RECORD?
Each of Herr Jung's moustaches
originated Chevallier batley, which measures 2ft 1in Herr Jung,
make her understand the enormity
BROKEN BONES NAILED TOGETHER.
Metal nails as a means of con- necting the two ends of a fractured: bone are a feature of a new method for treating fractures, which Dr. Lorenz Boehler demonstrated at a meeting of the Vienna Medical Society of the
woman of 50, who, he said, was NOW able to walk normally.
Is one of the biggest mainstays of who went to Paris from Bamberg, Dr. Boehler showed X-ray photo- the brewing industry.⠀
claims that his moustaches.are the graphs of his method, and presented Mr. Pryor told, the story of how, biggest and best in Europe.... lul a number of patients, Including, a hundred years ago, a workman: Phot Gamed Edward Dove found a few bu grains of harley in one of his boots saw the barley there he asked for The new method, is particularly when he returned home from the seed and cultivated it. The useful with fractures of bones of threshing. He grew them in his resulting barley has now gone all old people whose bones lack powern
and when Dr. Chevallier over the world.
of recovery
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