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The China Mail,
Hong Kong. Thursday, Jan. 21, 1932.
British Films.
--even from a pure-
THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932.
is another scientific discovery from CORRESPONDENCE.
America.
"UNAUTHORISED TAX."
Dr. Laird says that if you sit under music at dinner your mouth) will not water nor your gastric
ITo the Editor of "China Mall.") |juices flow. This doom is fixed,
whatever the band may be like. No Sir, I am directed to refer to education, such as was suffered by a statement published in your is the Pavlovian dogs, will break the sue of January 20, purporting to Immutable law that noise dries up be a summary of a letter propos- the secretions and impairs" the diges led to be written by the Hong Kong tion. The doctor hus worked it out General Chamber of Commerce in in centimetres to two places of reply to a circular letter issued by
the Chinese Piece Goods Guild. decimals.
No wonder the lady in the play The summary in question, and was "never merry when she heard the references to the discussion at sweet music," I wonder if Dr. a meeting of the Piece Goods Sub Laird is musical.-H. C. B. in the Committee, are unauthorised and Daily Telegraph.
Incorrect.
Please give this denial the pro- The Carlton Club Centenary.
minence of the original report.
Yours, etc.
*
*
In a few days the Carlton Club will enter its hundredth year.
I do not know if the centenary is to be celebrated by a banquet-an extra iron rail has been added to the main staircase leading from the annexe dining-room-but I am told) that an elaborate history of the club being prepared.
"M. F. KEY.
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ́ADVERTISED IN CHINA MAIL.
Social Functions.
To-day-Tea Dances at Hong Dinner Dances at King's Restaur- Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant; ant, and Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels
To-morrow Tea Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at King's Restaur- ant, and Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels,
Secretary.p.m.
Hong Kong, January 21.
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To- day — Old Bedfordians" annual dinner, Hong Kong Club, 8
To-morrow-Reel Club Dance, Lane, Crawford's Restaurant.
Saturday-Burns Dinner, Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 8.30 p.m.
Entertainments.
The historian will not lack rich VARSITY · PROFESSOR To-day - Kinga
material for his task. Many his toric scenes have been enacted in the club. I trust, too, that the his tory will deal faithfully with those curious cases in which aspirant- members have been asked to with- draw their candidature.
The Carlton older by Ave years than its rival, the Reform, and coeval with the City of London Club.
ASSAULTED:
Students Object, to Appointment.
CONDITION NOT SERIOUS.
Nanking, Jan. 10.
A grave assault on the person
"Hush Money."
To-day Queen's "Fivo and Ten."
Theatre;
Theatre;
Today Central Theatre; "East of Borneo,"
To-day Majestic
"Queen High."
Theatre;
Today Star Theatro: "Dynamite."
To-day-Chinese Play at Helens
May Institute.
Home Maila To-morrow-Inward from Europe
Lammerts Auctions,
Most people, by the way,' will be surprised to learn that the entrance! fee to the City Club la more than twice as high as that to the Carlton, of Mr. Kuei Chung-chi, hewly-via Siberia (Hakozaki Maru); Out- namely, 100 guineas to 40 guineas. appointed President of
Moreover, the City Club has been National Central University, was sident Jefferson), 6 p.m.
the ward for Europe via Siberia (Pre- able in recent years to increase its perpetrated this morning by a entrance fee. Previously it was 75 group of students of that institu
can scarcely be tion. As a result, Mr. Kuei is guineas. There many clubs in this fortunate posi-suffering from wounds tion-Londoner in the Evening head and face with cuts Standard.
lacerations in many parts of the body. His condition, however, is not believed to be serious.
Opposition to Mr. Kuei's ap- pointment was manifested lust) week as soon as it was announced.
To-morrow At 60A, Nathan on the Road, Kowloon,, household fural-
and
ture, 10.30 am,
lection of stamps, 6.15 p.m.
To-morrow-At Salos Room, och-
H. HYNDMAN, JR.. Passes Away in. Kowloon.
SECRETARY FOR 20 YEARS.
DEATH.
a position won by sheer pluck and merit but that of itself ought HYNDMAN-At his residence. 27, to inspire in us a spirit of emula- Jordan Road, Kowloon, at 7.55 tion and a desire to vie with the a.m. to-day. Henrique Hynd- man, aged 74. Deeply regret- best that Hollywood can produce.
News in Brief. ted. Funeral will pass the Many factors have contributed! Monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day in the past to stifle British en- -(Macao, Shanghai and
The lowest open air temperature terprise in the making of films; up to 4 pm, yesterday was 60 de-A committee was then formed Manila papers please copy.)
and not the least of the handi-grees. The humidity was 72 at 10 among the students with the ob
ject of preventing him from as-1 caps has been the army of cena.m. and 70 at 4 p.m.
suming the presidency. sorious critics at Home who
As Mr. Kuei was proceeding to The steel passenger steamer Hol have spared no pains to magnify Lee is to be sold by auction by call on Mr. Liu Kwang-kua, Dean the worst and obscure the best Lammert Brothers on Thursday of the College of Law, to discuss features of British productions. next at 3 p.m. Particulars of the the question of taking up his vessel are advertised in this issue.
new office, a group of hostile Double pneumonia has taken toll: Fortunately
students soon gathered and de- of another resident of Kowloon in ly sentimental point of view Sally Ellers, a new cinema star, manded his departure from the the person of Mr. Henry Hyndman,
Verbal demands were jun., who passed away at 7.55 -this- Of great interest to overseas these gentlemen with vitriolic who married Hoot Glison, will be campus.
Before moming at his residence, 27, Jordan residents is the news that a com- pens have not encompassed the seen in the King's Theatre on Sun- followed by violence.
day in "Bad Girl." Our reviewer, Mr. Liu was able to intervene Road, at the age of 74 years. pany has been formed to "boost" | discomfiture of British film who saw an advance screening, will, and get Mr. Kuei away, his as Mr. Hyndman early in his British films. The Colonial Office makers, who are surely, if slowly, give you his impressions in Satur-
sailants struck him several career Baw service in the. times.Kuo Min. has given the project its bless-coming into their own. They are day's issue.
Hong Knog Steamboat Co. After being employed by the now defunct ing by appointing an advisory rising superior to earlier dis- The case against Sung Ping and
firm of Fenwick & Co. he left for committee, which includes Sir couragements and placing Britain Cheung Wan, two stokers from the
Manila to join Smith Bell & Son. STAR FERRY DIVIDEND.
Returning to Hong Kong he was Horace Byatt and Sir Reginald indelibly on the film map. How 8s. Empress of Asia, concluded at Johnston (formerly in the Hong successful have been
the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday,
appointed bookkeeper for the Hong some of
Subject to audit, Kong Civil Service). The cam their recent efforts was recently turbance occurred in the stokehole balance at Profit and Loss Account of Messrs. W. S. Bailey & Co.-a when both were convicted. A dis- Ferry Co., Ltd., report that the which he left to become Secretary the "Star" Kong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., paign is backed, we are told, by demonstrated in the King's of the ship, while at sea, when the for the year ended December 31, position he retained for 20 years. "all the Colonial administra- Theatre during an all-British men assaulted Mr. Galloway, 1931, is $398,539.88, which, to- |tions"-but the local authorities week of "talkies."
fourth engineer, with an iron bar gether with $82,836.99 brought for his wife 17 years ago. He is aur
Mr. Hyndman was predeceased by and a shovel, have thus far observed rigid
The sponsors of the campaign month's imprisonment was imposed a total of $431,376.87 available for married, two being in the Colony, A fine of $25, or a ward from the previous year, makes vived by five sons, all of whom are silence on the topic, succeeding launched at Home must, if they on the first man, and two months' appropriation. admirably in keeping such. hope to fulfil even a tithe of their imprisonment on the second.
two in Shanghai, and one in Manila; The Directors will, at the ap- and five daughters (Mra. V. Gon- mighty State secret. from leaking "aims and objects" in the "boost-
proaching meeting of sharehold- salves, Mrs. F. X. Soures, Mrs. Lobo, out prematurely!
Yesterday two men entered No ers, recommend the following diswho resides in Macao, and the
a
3481,876.87
extended.
The funeral will pass the Mo^u- ment at 5,30 this afternoon,, the interment, taking place at the- Roman Catholic Cemetery."
However - ing" of British films, take a leaf 401, Queen's Road West, and, after tribution: thank goodness we are in cable out of their American cousins' intimidating three female inmates, To pay a Dividend of
Misses Dolores and Consuelo communication with London. book in regard to propaganda. escaped with bangles and rings
Hyndman. There is also a num- $2 per share and a
ber of grandchildren and three The new combine the Bri- The keynote of America's suc-valued $100. Whilst they were oc-
Bonus of $3 per share $400,000.00 great-grandchildren, to all of whom tish United Film Producers Com-cess from the box-office angle supied with her daughter and the To carry forward. 31,376.87 the deepest sympathy will be amah, a woman named Fong Wai- pany, Limited
has —is representa-
been Publicity, Publicity, fun, dashed down the stair and tive of all the prominent British Publicity, and that is the weak- gave the alarm, in spite of the fact "talkie" makers. Its creation is est feature of the work of Bri-that she had her wrists bound with wire, and a rubber ball in her the outcome of recommendations tish film manufacturers and mouth as a gag. Later the Police ANOTHER DEFAULTER by the Colonial Film Committee producers. For every ten yards picked up a revolver and a knife. in 1980. It aims to distribute of publicity matter unloaded on British films in territories hither oversans residents by the Ameri- The subject of public ownership. cans, the British cannot produce the European Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, of utility services was debated at to unaccessible to individual com-} The Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd. panies and to endeavour to cater ten inches. In no other modern last evening. The motion that pub for the requirements of both American industry, perhaps, has lle ownership WRS undesirable European and native popula
the slogan "It Pays to Adyer-was moved by Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, who denounced the system and tions.
tise," wielded a stronger and sought to show how it had falled in There ought to be an absence more powerful influence on the many parts of Britain. Mr. P. S.
JAMES
DUNN
NEXT CHANGE TO THE KING'S
ALLY EILERS
BAD GARL
NATION.
Greece Nearing "Breaking Point."
Athens, Jan, 18. That Greece would be compet-
„To-day's Thought.
Some college students seem to work for a degree rather than for an education.
Ten Years Ago.
[from the "China: Mall of January 21, 19221
of any tendency on the part of public all over the world. They Cassidy opposed the motion and led to default all payments on overseas folk to look a gift horse are past masters at the game tried to show that cut-throat coher foreign and domestic loans To-day's dollar is worth:2/7%.
apcrease in the coat of products, and unless the economic outlook, Im-
From Other Pens.
pur
in the mouth or to rush into whilst the British are mere print with comparisons between prentices! In this direction can
John Bull wake up to some British films and American filma. Rather should the an
pose And keep awake!
nouncement of the powerful cam- wanapanay paign create the utmost satis faction wherever Britons reside throughout the Seven Seas satisfaction that, in regard to films at least, old John Bull is at last waking up and giving us an is parnest of a Business Govern-¡ who has pro ment. We need not grudge the
taka pain,
The Dinner. Bands
petition eventually led to an in
that under private enterprise it was proved speedily and materially not possible for those who lived in formed the gist of a statement Kong Boxing Association has been The next tournament of the Hong the more isolated areas to obtain by the former Premiered for Saturday, February 25; electricity or gas. After discus Papanastas, published this morn- ofther at the City Hall or K Ming sion, the motion was carried by asing. The statement declares that Yuen Gardens, as circumstances Greece's position is especially allow The bouts have not yet grave as the result of the gen- been definitely arranged, but the eral crisis and that the situation services of auch good mentes Wil- has been aggravated by the in-line, Britt, and Jones have been auguration of a protectionist secured and the tourner, promises to
votes to 38.
Personal Par.
breakin
datest advances of The forthcoming marriages are policy on the part of various surpass even the last one, wh continually assured, announced of Rudolf Hulseman, countries.
Professor Pavlov, of 5-Feking Road, Kowloon, and is near," the statement thất you can, if you Kathi Schrader, en routs to the cludes."
a dog's mouth Colony on the ea. Conte Rosso; and The Bank of Greece has proud position held to day by Heved by the sanguine to show how Canton, and Flora Wan, of 8, White 11 to 12 per cent
*This is be of Li Shu-fong of the Bank of creased its discount.
in the realm of films we the humán mind works But here field Road.
voted the best yet held under the Auspices of the HBA. Local fans are greatly interested in young Chadwick after his excellent perfor mence at the last two tournaments, and the Association will do well ta