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FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1932.
INDIA AND HER
PEOPLE.
Interesting Lecture by Mr. Talati.
BRITISH RULE BEGAN IN 1600.
"India and Her People" was the subject of an interesting talk by Mr. B. M. Talati before the. Theosophical Society last even- ing, when he traced the configur- ation and extent of the country, its topography, climate, history and racial units, and concluded with a list of the provinces and towns.
TALKIE TALKS
by Diane
FRANKENSTEIN ”
OF THRILLS
IS FULL
FREDRIC MARCH'S "DUAL ROLE IN
"STRANGERS IN LOVE.”
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"Dumb-Bells in Ermine Due at Queen's.
THE
— CHINA
MAIL.
American girl in the dainty per sonage of Beth Beri will dance her way into your hearts when she spi at the Kings. on Sunday pears She will appear at four shows that day, but on the succeeding the omita
LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
the 2.30 p.m. show. With it we Bill Read at Yesterday's
have Ruth Chatterton, who rarely fails to give a distinguished per formance, in "The Magnificent
Lie."
whom Ralph Bellamy particularly noticed in "Secret Six" is the blind ex-soldier on whom the trick of masquerading the common cabaret girl as the famous French) actress, is played.
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Meeting.
PENSIONS BILL BECOMES LAW.
The following Bills were dealt! with at yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council;— Read for the first time,
"A Bill to amend the Merchant: Shipping Ordinanes, 1899."
"A Bill to amend further the Crown Solicitors' Ordinance, 1912,"
Read for the Second time,
"A Bil for the resumption of the City Hall."
"A Bill to amend the Liquors Ordinance, 1981."
third time
Rend for the
passed,
and
It starts as a joke, and ends as (the one love of her life. The story offers much that is sentimental and dramatic. Mrs. Jacques Feyder the wife of the famous French [director is good in a minor part.j The history of India, he said,
An unknown mán struggling. Inimonster, and you watch the me- I like Bellamy, and although it is may be epitomised as a series of
means among Chatterton's invasions by fresh races from Hollywood for ten years, a Britisher, chanical man become alive. If you by no
stage name like mystery and spooky stories, greatest parts, she pleases. Stuart colder climes and the transfer of named Charles' Pratt,
He was educated at then go by all means. Boris Karloff.
The open-Erwin is the best among the sup the country in whole or in part;
Uppingham Publle School, and thenjing scene is a funeral, and the final port, "Stu., the ever-dependable.” to new masters. Even the begin entered the Government Service at one with the body hanging on the (King's).. nings of the Hindu Period are!
He has only sails of a revolving wind milf, in shrouded in remote and unchroni London Univeralty.
The Silent Witness." He left flames, will give you all the thrills one craving, the stage. cled antiquity and of the pre-
want. (DONT take the The Silent Witness" is a Court England for Canada and started in you can Aryan days of India there are
Room drama with the English actor the best of all dramatic schools, children), practically no records.
Stock Companies.
There is a love story, and Mae Lionel Atwill enacting the part he has Clarke is a conventional heroine, made famous on the stage. Ac- After about 500 A.D. prolong Drifted to Hollywood, and
All the Bills were proposed by the ed darkness falls upon India and known all the hardships and dis-with John Boles and others helping cording to many critics the man'
that go with this to make this weird play into a who deserves the best notices is Hon. Attorney-General and second- confusion reigned until the com- appointments ing of the Mohammedans; and precarious livelihood.
It is gruesome, but the Weldon Heyburn. Remember him 'ed by the Hon. Colonial Secretary, for 50 years, reckoning from 1,000 Lon Chaney, he is the main attrac-¡lighting effects, the staging and the in "The Gay Caballero ?" A.D., successive hosts of fierce tion in the film "Frankenstein," direction, combined with good act. in love with Greta Nissen, who Arabs, Turks, Afghans and Mon-which is superbly directed by aning from all, do make this outstand- takes the part of the loose lady, and gols fought for the spoils which other Britisher, James Whale, wholing, that is provided you care for now they are married. More of it India had to offer, until finally gave us "Waterloo Bridge," and the this Babar the Turk founded the stage Mongul Empire in 1526.
and screen "Journey's End,"
Now, like triumph.
"Dracula" type
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versions of (Central). With him is an The British rule of India may old friend Colin Clive, whom so be considered to date from 1600 many of us remember when the famous East India Stanhope, Company was founded.
as Captain
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and "A Bill to consolidate amend the law regulating the granting of Pensions, Gratuities And other Allowances in respect to public service."
He fell and there was no discussion.
of film, later, but I do know that Shanghai insisted, on this Fox film extending
"Skin Deep." I remember Milton Silis in “Skin Deep," the story of a conviet who
¡its season. Coming to King's.
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She Couldn't Say No" Winnie Lightner, Chester Morris
A mad surgical genius creates a undergoes a marvellous plastic sur- and Sally Ellors in "She Coudn't
Postmaster General's Annual
Report
Kowloon, situated in grounde
450 711
1,181
(Continued from Page 10.) Special Expenditure. Pillar and Letter Boxes of Royal Observatory, opened Hand Trucks May 4, 1931, for acceptance and delivery of telegrams. This Special Expenditure office which is useful as a de- livery centre for Kowloon is not extensively used by the public
for handing in telegrams, prob- ably owing to the fact that it is Bituated in
Observatory the Grounds, which are some dis- tance from the main road.
Comparative Statement of Expenditure 1930 and 1931
(G.P.O.)
Totals
Post Office & Wireless Department (A)-
Postage
in
gery operation. Now we have the Say No," Winnie goes dramatic, Talkle with Monta Blue, in the but she CAN sing a Blue number. same part, Betty Compson, "Sonny Morris plays the same part he has
since his success Boy" Lee, Alice Day, and a large played ever cast. The story of the underworld "Alibi"-Sally, talented and beauti- is full of interest.
ful, charms once again. You may An added attraction is Long Tak like it. (Queen's), Sam, and his charming daugh- tera. It fo their first ap- pearance at this theatre, although their marvellous show is well known locally. They will be there for four days with their magic, singing and numerous novelties. Queen's.
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"Dumb-Bells in Ermine."
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on
HOLLYWOOD "GOSSIP.
Latest Jottings of Film Stars,
www
Norma Shearer, now that she has finished "The Strange Interlude" ¡will return to mid-Victorian films, and will start on "Smilin' Through," "Dumb-bells In Ermine" gives us Norma will PROVE her, versatility Bob Armstrong, Jimmy Gleason, in this. We associate her now and Barbara Kent. 'with but one type of woman--who Post Office Totals 460,801 472,198 Beryl Mercer
Includes Officers of Cadet, Senior It is amusing, and the girls are gets as much out of life as a man, Clerical & Accounting and Junior pretty, but the main attraction for who experiments with her life, and Clerical Services.
me is Bob Armstrong, who is known has killed what our grandmothers Comparative Statement of
as the greatest. "stealer" the stood for, the old-time: GOOD w0- Revenue 1930 and 1931
Radio lot... Coming to the Queen's, 'man. She has cremated the myth (G.P.O.)
¡that men will NEVER marry "That 1930. 1931.
Star Attractions.
kind of a woman," and made "Free ......$942,930 $1,355,675
Buster Keaton and Charlotte Souls." Norma Shearer stands for Comparative Statement of
Greenwood in "Parlour Bedroom modern woman, and I do not know Expenditure and Revenue for
and Bath, then Adolphe Menjou, of a screen artist for whom I have Last Eight Years (G.P.O.)
Leila Hyama and Norman Foster in greater admiration, when it comes *Personal
Total Emolu- Special Total
"Men call it Love," and at the week to histrionic art, and achieving all ments Expen- Expen- Revenue end, Marion Davies and Sydney one's ambitions and desires. & Other diture diture
Blackmer in "Its a Wise Child." All right you music lovers, it (Star).
won't be long now before you see Chevalier and Macdonald, and en- 1,850 269,568 754,928
other little lady of ice who has 284,420 644,211 €69 1026
698,606 239,823
Clive Brook does NOT give us been made HUMAN by the genius 1927
300,909
of. Lubitsch-Genevieve 1321
787,260 the fine performance he gave in the hands 4,969 1928 .300,304 663 300,967
804,679 same type of role, in "Anybody's Tobin, who will surprise you In 360 860 1929
.321,402 1,778 323,180 B18,455
Woman," but in 942.236
Roland "Twenty four "One Hour with You." B50 960 1030 405,640 1,161 488,801
478,198 1,355,676 Hours" there is the little girl from Young and Charles Ruggies, make .472,198 16,888 18818 1931
348 602 Includes salaries of officers of Georgia, Miriam Hopkins, and she a perfect cast: 1,056. 956
1930. 1931. $ $
Personal Emoluments 316,029 940,182
Carrloge
Other Charges.
of
Mails
Transit Charges.... 59,682 95,907
Cleansing Materials,
etc.
Coolie
Incidental Expenses
284,420
230,823 .306.809
Chargez
$
Hire
1,190 153
1,302 1924
.257,018
282 1025
911
Mail Bags, Parcel
Boxes, etc.
1,853
Printing
Rent of Branch Offices"
Stamps
Telegrams
Transport
Uniform & Equipment 6,749 7,124
Personal Emoluments,
& Other Charges
Totals.....405,040 472,198)
Comparative Table of Postal Revenue from Sale of Postage Stamps during the Years 1929, 1980 and 1931.
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"24 Hours."
Cadet, Senior Clerical & Accquat steals the picture. I regretted she "Sunshine, Susie," "Arrowsmith," ing and Junior Clerical Services
scene so early. Kay"Shanghai Express" and "A Night) attached to the Department, but left the excludes any expenditure not ac- Francis had not much opportunity, in Vienna" have smashed box- tually charged against the Post and wondered what she saw so office records in London. Office Vote.
fascinating in Minor Watson. Regia Kay Francis was: married at six- She Toomey was fair.
'teen, and divorced at twenty. In the short space of a day, we is now happily married to Kenneth Miriam have a birth, murders and tragedy. McKenna. the director.
The wife shows the real thorough- Hopkins is separated from her bred stuff of which she is made writer husband, but they are still that Miriam's. and stands by her husband in his friends. I hear trouble. After that hasty adven-dream is to play Shaw's "Pygma- ture, when drunk, I wondered why lion-If you saw her in “Jekyll he did not go out and sign the and Hyde," you would say she was) pledge at once, He does promise the ideal.
1929
1980 78,587.85 $ 70,414.58
Month
January
February
57,890.50 61,174.58
March
62,804.24
08,567,27
1931, $ 93,635.54 84,010.22 99,171.75
April
70,302.90
113,363.08
May
65.253.72
106,698.44
June
54.652.71 60,948.63
107,894.09
July
82,380.69
$2.385.59
68,979.50
111,411.78
59.401.97 77.882.49
100,872.88
September
59,991.96
80,239.89
104,504.19
$7,781.35 84.124.07 108,895.70
October November December
Total
125,864.46 118,518,31
$895,868.42 $1,270,580.71
78,054.85 98,689.18 68,244.14 96,402,80
-$780,151.28
Comparative Statement of Expenditure 1930 and 1981; Radio)
1980. 1981. *Personal Emoluments 112,422 180,452 Other Charges Cleansing Materials 110 215 Incidental Expenses- is 549 1,067 1,019 1,021 15,000 15,000
Uniforme
Rent of Offices
Contribution towards
expenses Radio Tele- graph Union
Personal Emoluments
▲ Other Charges Total
Special Expendit
Card Index
Bicycles
Special Expenditure
Totala
Post Office
Department
-Wireles„Ta
Wireless
• Includes', Qfforts of:,Cadet,
Clareal & Accounting, and Clerical Services.
The Operating and counter staffs only are paid from the Post Office Vote. The technical staff, provi-| sion and maintenance of all equip ment are provided for under the Public Works Department Vote.
Comparative Statement of, Revenue 1930 and 1981-
(Radio)**
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devoted wife, as they leave the Three famous Studios, who do harbour, that he will wear a blue not own Theatres, are the only ones ribbon for the rest of his life. It holding their own in this terrible is worth seeing if only to chalk up grisis through which the film in- another winner for the Hopkins dustry is going. {girl. (King's).
Irving Thalberg will forego his princely salary for the summer “Strangers In Love.” months, and there is talk of closing William J. Locke's story "The many theatres during July and shorn lamb comes to the screen as August, and make the people Strangers in Love." Fredric WANT their pictures. The radio March has one wonderful oppor-bridge and reading, are the biggest tunity in the dual role of the twin factors in empty theatres, but I am brothers, Drake, and he salses it glad to say the stage plays are with both hands. He is a grand ing into their 1930: 1981 actok subtle, gay, and so light, musical comedies, Messages Tees .....$432,620. $880,268 Ever since "The Royal Family"; he wood Wireless Licences 8,928 20,088 has held my staunch admiration. Lionel
-$461,548 $700,301 He dust fools the household, pretends from rheum. Comparative Statement of alijs passion for his dead brother's 148,188 Expenditure and Revenue for the treat,
Last Three, Yours (Radio),
Personal Che
zolis Special Total Total
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