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It happened, one night--in. Paris--when. Boyer meets girl. and the grandest roman în ages makes history! WALTER WANGER
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BOYER-ARTHUR HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT
with Los CARRILLO and Colin Clive Directed by Frank Bor
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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 9, 1937.
A.D.C. EARN HIGH PRAISE IN "OUTWARD BOUND"
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THE HONG KONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB AN ENVIABLE RECORD OF UNBROKEN SUCCESSES TO THEIR CREDIT. LAST NIGHT, IN PRESENTING “OUTWARD BOUND," A REALLY BRILLIANT PLAY BY SUTTON VANE, THEY NOT ONLY MAINTAINED THE STANDARD OF THEIR PREDECESSORS BUT ADDED FURTHER TO THEIR LAURELS.
In a play with a moral, Sutton Vane has treated a difficult subject with great delicacy. Most people do notį care to think about death and what follows it. Vane writes a play about it and manages to incorporate a variety of conceptions, both biblical and ultra- modern, while introducing an uncanny mixture of comedy and drama, which maintains * keen interest until the final curtain. “
One would have thought that a play such as this to be a trifle ambitions for
ULSTER RIFLES
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FAREWELL
an amateur organisation. Successful Details of the 1st Battalion, production requires a deep understan- the Royal Ulster Rifles who are ding of the author." Cyril Brown
thas instilled it into his cast.
"THE PRISONER OF ZENDA" has character "lived his or her
with Mara Carroll-Douglas Fairbanks, J
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A PERSONAL TOUR TO THIS TROPICAL WONDERLAND Exquisite beauty of the native wo men revealed at the market place, spectacular dances, native customs, habits, industry, pleasures and ceremonies in this Garden of Eden where the honeymoon precedes the wedding and brides are kidnapped.
"dead" role to the last detail and it is difficult to imagine a more convincing présentation.
evidently has that understanding and leaving for India and details Bach from other Units leaving for England after service in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tientsin, were given a wonderful send-off this morning when the Transport THE LAST VOYAGE The setting is not elaborate all the Dilwara sailed for India and action takes place in the smoke-room England via Singapore, leaving of a small passenger liner, off on the wharf to the accompaniment voyage to what is discovered by the passengers, to be an unknown destina- tion
To begin with, everything is So apparently normal that none of them realise that there is anything odd about the trip. The habitual drunk makes for the bar, the snob continues her snobbers, the clergyman carries on in his efforts to help those in need of it. the charwoman is her usual unassuming
of cheers from hundreds of spec- tators, and martial music from the Band of Middlesex Regiment, and the Pipes and Drums from the 1st Battalion the Seaforth Highlanders and the Kumaon Rifles
Hundreds of friends who had board-
5 WOMEN TO EVERY 3 MEN ON THIS ISLAND PARADISE self, the pompous self-made business ed the Dilwara earlier in the morning
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Cup vs. Killer! The Law vs. The Laules
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realisation latives, were signalled to leave the Then comes the awful that they are all dead and this is, in ship at 11.30 am, by a short blast on fact, their last voyage. The discovery the whistle and promptly at noon, the is made by the drunk, portrayed by big troopship moved stern-first into Nigel Waymouth, in a dramatic out-the harbour to the strains of “Auld burst and the various reactions of his Lang Syne," intermingled with the fellow-passengers make a grimly in-skirl of the Pipes and beat of the ket-
tle drums. teresting study
* Officers of practically all units in MAGNIFICENT PLAYING T Nigel Waymouth as Prior, the drank.the Colony were present on the wharf, and Phyllis Henderson as Mrs. Clive headed by His Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops, Ma- don-Banks, in the biggest and most difjor General A. W. Bartholomew, CB
brilliantly ficult roles, handled them
well
CMG, CB.E., D.S.O., and Mrs. Bar- tholomew the G.S.O. I Col N. M. S John Abbott, as the Padre, gave Irwin, D.SO M., Brigadier A. B. convincing portrayal, while Cyril Thomson, MBE, Major J. F. Benoy, Champkin, as Scrubby, the steward.
and Col. A. Burrowes. cockney and Maud Mather. as the
Tonching scenes were witnessed as charwoman were also exceedingly ef-
was about to move away, the ship fective.
Myrtle Brown and Gerald Nigel, alamahs of military families weeping and waving, while even cabaret girls were the young lovelorn couple who have on the wharf to bid adieu to friends.
committed suicide, have little to
say.
but their parts demand skilled acting and they were the dazed passionate lovers. terribly afraid of being separat- ed, willing to face death in order to be together, to the life..
Phillip Mason, as Mr. Lingley, un
"had scrupulous business-man, who never lost a penny in his life" and who could not stand failure by anyone else,
ASSAULT APPEAL DISMISSED
An appeal by Li Ting-fat, repre-
was well-nigh perfect. The one charac-sented by Mr. M. A da Silva, Iterisation which I felt was less con against the conviction by Mr. Ken- vincing was that of Cyril James, as themedy-Skipton at the Taipo Police
examine, the Rev. Frank Thomson One felt the role demanded more res trant
This is a first-rank play by a well balanced and skilful cast and should on no account be missed N. A. E. M.
EPIDEMIC OF ROBBERY
Court for common assault on two Chinese women, Li Yan-shi and Li Kau-mui, was unsuccessfully made before the Chief Justice Sir Atholl MacGregor, in the Court of Appeal this morning..
Mr. Silva submitted that the con- viction was against the weight of the evidence, but the Chief Justice" ruled that there was an abundance of testimony to justify the learned
CENTRAL
Mrs. L. Maure, of No. 5, Cam-Magistrate's finding. eron Road, has reported to the Po- lice the loss of a hand bag contam- ing $40 în money and a ring valu- ed at $500 from the above address.
A quantity of rope, valued at $30, has been reported stolen from the Texas Oil Co. at Tsun Wan, by Mr. Herman.
Mr. F. R. Spenceley, chief officer of the sa. Talamba, has reported the lost of a gold watch and chain, valued at $40, and $6 în notes from his cabin. The ship is at Kowloon Docks.
While shopping at the May May Co. in Queen's Road Central yes terday afternoon, Mr. Jilloth lost a hand bag containing $35,
r's licence and two keys.
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