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"A THIEF IN PARADISE ᎪᎢ . THE QUEEN'S THEATRE.
The programmes at the local picture theatres are again interestingly varied and are making a wide appeal. "
Large audiences visited the Queen's Theatre yesterday to enjoy the good fare provided. The general comment was that it was a splendid show and one as good "as Hongkong has seen for a very long" time. The opening number From Cake Walk to Jazz was played in fine style by the now very fine Queen's Theatre Orchestra, and repeated calls for.enceres were beard, a very unusual thing for musical selection. Miss Glady's Garfield, An Australian singer with a very fine voice, followed, and gained much ap- plause for each of her numbers, her most pleasing contribution being "My Hero " from the Chocolate Soldier,"
The big picture, A Thief in Paradise," is a colourful story superably cast and perfectly directed, and looks as if a great deal of money has been spent on
FROM SHANGHAI TỚ MAYFAIR.
WOMAN'S BANKRUPTCY COURT. STORY.
THE REGISTRAR'S WARNING.
In the London Bankruptcy Court on July 17th Miss Josephine O'Dare, des- cribed as of B§, Park Street, Grosvenor Square, W., attended for public exami nation before Mr. Registrar Francke an a statement of affairs showing liabilities £6,274 and an estimated surplus in assets of £7,801.
Miss O'Darę admitted that at one time she was known as Trixie Skyrme. She was born 19 miles from Shanghai, but could not remember being taken to Eng land.
Her father had been dead tea years. She received the information that she was born in China from a solicitor who used to practise in Birmingham.
Answering Mr. Francke she enid she could not give his name.
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afterwards Mr. Francite warned Miss O'Dare regarding her evidence and informed her that she THE SHANGHAI HEAT WAVE. could be prosecuted if she gave false un- swers in that Court."
On the Official Receiver banding her it. It starts in the South Seas with du a copy of a birth certificate, she exclaim under-water battle for the possession ofed that there was not the slightest truth a great pearl, with a shark hovering over. the contestants. The action then gravit- ates to America where the hero, a sol- dier of fortune, impersonates the son of a millionaire, returns to his father's home with a conniving woman with whom he agrees to share the fortune upon the old man's death. Just how the thief discovers that he is in a fool's paradise after all and rights the wrong he has done, it would be unfair to tell. Suffice it to say that the story will keep even hardened cinema-goers breathless until the very
last minutes of the film.
Asked whether it was a fact that MF. Skyrme was a general labourer, she re- plied, "I do not know,"
In reply to Mr. Francke she said that to the outside world Mrs. Skyrme passed as her mother. Her real mother died when she was three years old. Mrs. Thief in Paradise is being shown Skyrme then took her and gave her ber until Wednesday evening.
It is an own name,.„ adaptation by Frances Marion, of Leonard Mérrick's "novel The Worldiings."
"
At the age of 14 she went to live at Barton Manor, Hereford, and four years later came to London.
Dever...
"AGENTLEMAN-IN-AN OVERCOAT--
DISHONEST HOUSE BOY.
DISMISSED FOR LAŽINESS
A correspondent of the Y.-C. Daily
ROBS HIS MASTER. Fer writing on August 11th says:-
"If I wanted to steal, I would have Eyes were focassed on a gentleman who
than this," said a appeared this morning in one of our stolea a lot more large business institutions clad in an houseboy at the Central Magistracy on overcoat. The gentleman, we presume, Saturday, when he was charged with the not the institution.-E.] The customers, theft of a pair of opera glasses and a gaped at him in wonder, and the clerks watch, the property of Mr. Leo. Weill, from the adjacent departments left their of Messrs. Sennet Freres. The defendant
had formerly been employed at reats to look at this curiosity.
residence of Mr. Weill's mother.
Acting honours go to Ronald Colman,
One humourist in the crowd suggested
Defendant was arrested after informa- the young British actor. He plays the The Official Receiver: Is not Barton that he bad just landed from a non-stop role of Blake, the derelict who masquer Manor quite an unpretentious place acroplane fight from Mesopotamin, tion had been given to a detective by a ades as another man. Doris Kenyon is No.
while yet another thought he must be the small boy, who was seen entering a pawn- the girl he loves and marries and Aileen It was untrue, she added, that Mrs. ambassador from Hades come up to watch shop with the glasses. In defendant's Pringle, gives a splendid characterisation Skyrme only managed to keep the place the Diplomatic Corps barter away the possession were also found pawn tickets as the Eurasiau girl. Excellent portray- going by taking in lodgers.
last of our foreign rights for a maki offer two watches. These Mr. Weill identi 'als are also given by Claude Gillingwater, The Official Receiver: Were you known Chinese cunjy. The gentleman'seemed to fied as having been at his mother's house, HUSHIGAURA.-Finest Bearide Summer Holiday Resort in North China. Five milese Francis, John Patrick, and the other at Hereford as Mrs. Houghton? No, be happily ignorant of the fact that be but as Mrs. Weill had at one time given defendant a watch for his little daughter, from Dairen, bat connected with the city by special motor and sarriage road and electric meirahere of the supporting cast.
he could not swear that both watches. tramway. Yamato Hotel (25 roome) and 1a furnished bungalows in sharming slik garden From Thursday to Saturday, inclusive, Fathing, Boating, Faking, Golf, Tennis, Billiards, Orchestra twice a week. Capital" place Rafael Sabatini's story of
were stoler. Scarabeen prosecuted with one Davies as being that the individual in question was cold. for children. OGONDAI-Most beautiful and select Bolds Resort in the Far East. Two ofise from Fori mouche" will be shown. This film was accessory after the fact on a charge re- We positively refuse to call him a gen- Arthur. Formerly the Sammer Basort of the bigh Balan officers and officials. Yamato shown in Höngkong before the Hongkong lating to a forged cheque bearing the tleman, though. No real gentleman Estal and villas and bungalows, mostly with datached servants' quarters. Excellent
Amusements took over the Queen's signature of John Skyrme. Bathing, Wanderfal Bomery, Historie Estulaselds, Rained and Diamanded Forts, Milos of
She was, would insult a sweating populace lik: sharming Walks and Drives. Abundant Pionicing: Facilition. Orchestra bele a week. Theatre, but-those-who-saw-it-before-will however, acquitted. She was prosecuted ours by Haunting himself before it far Best place for high-class familāna, PORT ARTHUR-Famone for it two memorable Bleges and its beautiful landlocked probably consider if well worth seeing a
as Josephine M. Skyrme. Harbour. Exactly one hour's jonmay from Dairen by express train. Yamato Hots second time, while those who have not
"The Oficial Receiver: Was Davies ever (1 rooms). Wuficient place of historical and woenie Inserer to fill a mouth with fresh yet seen it, should certainly not miss the known as Houghton Not to my know- walk or drive every day. Most healthy and salubrious spot in the Far Enak.
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their liberty after years of oppression. Historians agree that this is one of the most interesting and colourful periods in history." The picture proves the truth of such an assertion. It owes much to the-fact-that-Rafael Sabatini, the author of the story, is an authority on history as well as the foremost writer of roman tic-adventurous novels, and that Rex | Ingram, the director, has gone to con- siderable trouble to ensure the historical accuracy of every detail of the produc tion.
The fact that "Sacramouche" treuts so luminatingly and authentically one of the most vital events in the world's his
It was true, she admitted, that she had
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herited £12,000, and she had since re- At the age of 21, she added, the in
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Our own theory, adds the paper, is
overcoat.
HEAT WAVE IN ENGLAND.
MID-NIGHT MOTORING INSTEAD- OF SLEEP...
COLLAR.
The Official Receiver asked the Court THE CURSE OF THE MASCULINE to order Miss O'Dare to lodge a cash account for the period of three years pre- ceding the date of her failure.
ed.
This application Mr. Francke grant-
The NC. Daily News has made in quiries among the old residents in Shanghai regarding the family of Miss O'Dare, but so far has not been able to obtain any information.
Adapted from Clarence Mulford'a novel, "The Orphan," there is more action, humour, pathos and romance in the Mix
In one form or another the great heat which has suddenly appeared has affected almost every branch of our ordinary life, says a Home correspondent writing from London on July 15th. Lagt Monday, he adds, was the hottest and most trying day of the year. These were some of the temperatures recorded in the shade:
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South Farnborough Weston-super-Mare Seventy-nine in the shade on Sunday
Defendant denied the charges. The
glasses, he said, had been given him by a customer at the shop, who had, since goue home to France, and the watch had been given hira by a nephew of complain-
ant's. He further stated that he had been in complainant's service for five years at the same wage, and, on asking for an increase, it was refused.
In reply to Major Willson, the Magia- trate, complainant said defendant was dismissed for laziness,
He was sentenced to "six wecks' "im- prisonment.
MESSRS. LANE, CRAWFORD'S
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H.E., the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.) will open blessrs. Lane, Craw ford & Co., Ltd., new premises at... Exchange Building to-morrow morning at eleven o'clock, as previously announced. The ground floor and first floor, which will be occupied by the various depart." ments and offices of the firm, have not yet been quite completed. They have been handsomely. arranged and set out,.. however, and are a vast improvement on the old stores. The various departments above the ground level can be reached by
|tury-that had such a tremendous in-production than the Fox Western star and 78-in-June-were-the-previous-highest number of lits, as will also be the
fluence on our own makes it an enter tainment of a highly educational value.
WORLD THEATRE- From today and tomorrow at the World Theatre, "Why Mon Leave Home"
has had the chance of portraying before. Lynn Reynolds directed the picture and also wrote the scenario. One of the best supporting casta Mix has ever had in cludes the following well-known screen
temperatures in London.
The heat in Cheshire in the early after. noon was so intense that harvesting, cricket and tennis bad to be abandoned.
London streets were like furnaces of
offices, etc., that will be situated on the higher floors, when completed and occu- the Telephone Company Practically-all- pied. The top floor is to be occupied by that remains to be completed with regard. to Messrs. Lane, Crawford's establish- ment is the grand main entrance, which will not be ready for a week or two, and entry to the building, meantime, will be by one of the minor entrances.
will be shown. It is taken from the Playera: Doris May, George Bancroft, humid heat. The sun was seen in the will be very striking and imposing. This
comedy success by Avery Hapwood It is a very amusing picture, very interest- ing, and well worth seeing."
From Wednesday to Thursday Dorothy
Revier, with Cullen Landis, is featured
in the Waldorf release "Enemy of Men," which opens on Wednesday for two" days. A number of other well-known players are in the supporting cast, including, Charles Clary, Leo White, Barbara Luddy, Cea sare Gravina, Virginia Maraball, sod Laura La" Varni, under Frank Strayer's direction, from the story by Douglas
Branston.
On Friday and Saturday "The Dead wood Coach," the greatest Western pic. ture in which Tom Mix has ever been starred, according to trade reviews, will be shown.
(Continued on next column.)
De Witt Jennings, Buster
Gardner, City for only 24 hours. It was the ex- Lucien Littlefield, Norma Wills, Nora cessive humidity of the atmosphere which Ceoil, Sid Jordan, Frank Coffyn, Jane increased discomfort. Keckley and Ernest Butterworth
Most of the scenes for The Deadwood Coach" were taken in Zion Canyon,
Utah.
STAR THEATRE.
Quite a number of people gave up the attempt to sleep.. Those more fortunately situated went for motor rides. The
Great West Road and other arteries hummed with traffic all night. Many Commencing yesterday and running people spent the night on the river, and until Wednesday at the Star Theatre, after early morning dips turned up at Kowloon, is a very recent First National the office fitter than those who had tossed
release. "The Bad Man," with Holbrook and perspired in their bed rooms. Bina in a star role. The story is of the The greatest curse everywhere was the Mexican border, with the here as a masculine collar, but few had the courage bandis. It is an entirely new type of to discard át. narrative. The whole of the production is a mixture of laughter and thrill, comedy and melodrama. Other first class pic ́tures make up a capital and very tive programme for the week.
A barrister who appeared before_Mr. Justice Lawrence in the Chancery Divi- sion yesterday with his waistcoat un- buttoned was severely rebuked. Don't attrac-appear like that again before me," said
the judge.
WISEMAN'S CAFE,
The gatherings at Cafe Wiseman on Saturday were somewhat in the nature of farewell functions, for it was the last that name and in the familiar promises time that Cafe Wiseman will open under in Ice House Street
On Saturday evening the doors of this popular rendezvous were" finally closed. Cafe Wiseman will remain closed to-day, but to-morrow it will re-open in the new premises of Messrs Lane, Crawford
Co. Ltd, ie, in Exchange Building &
The Cafe will occupy part of the first floor, adjoining the general offices, and is reached by lifts. No longer, however, will the Cafe be known officially "Cafe Wiseman," being simply: referred to as the cafe or restaurant.