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ROUND THE POLICE COURT
ARMED ROBBERY ON PIECE
GOODS. STORE.
Further evidence was taken es- terday before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy in the case in which two men are charged with committing an armed robbery "at Hong Hing Piece Goods Store, 192, Queen's Road Central, on Novem-
.ber 11th.
Police searchers at the wharf who arrested the two defendants said that when they were searched, a large sum of money in notes was
in them. They were asked to explain how they had got so much money. They failed to do and were taken to the Police Station.
The case was again adjourned un- til this afternoon:
EMBEZZLEMENT "CHARGE WITHDRAWN. Nam Fong firm who was charged The Chipes partner to the Chan with embezzling and. falsifying the accounts to the extent of 811,000, was discharged yesterday at the Kowloon Magistracy.
Mr. F. H. Loseby who appeared for the complainant told the Court that his client wished the charge to
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THE LIFE OF CHRIST.
WHERE HOLLYWOOD FAILS.
[BY IRIS BARRY.]
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. This film of the "Life of Christ The Show" which is to be at which Mr. Cool B. de Mille bas the Queen's during the remainder made has already been much dis of this week, is a film worth seeing used in Eagland, principally be John Gibert takes the main role of cause the sacred roles are portray the Showman. We are accustomeded by film stars instead of, as in to seeing this actor as a dashing the es of the Oberammergau well born hero in costume or roman- Passion Play, by men and women tic plays. His part in "The Show" | who keep themselves apart from
the world. is change and he plays it amaz- ingly well. From his £rst entrance A dispassionate view of "The Cock Robin" impresses his per King of Kings" leaves one with a soanlity upon his audience. Worth-sense of anti-climax. It is A 'less, reckless and handsome'; a don paltry affair.
post; and with his devil-may-care Juan to the servant girls of Buda-
air, and roving eye a great asset to the show; he holds your interest all the way through.
Renée Adorés, the heroine, really, comes to her own in "The Show."
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2nd,
1927.
WATER POWER IN NEW LIGHT ON A FAMOUS
INDIA.
VAST ELECTRICAL SCHEMES
THE VICEROY'S TOUR.
SIMLA, October 23rd The Viceroy and Lady Irwin to das conclude what appears to have been an enjoyable. sporting trip through the beautiful hills and valleys lying between Simlå sad Mandi, the capital of the Indian State of that name, 60 miles to the north, and enter upon a tour of the public works in the Punjab, Sind, and neighbouring States. These include the first stage of the operations for harnessing the water power the Himalayan foothills, which promise within a reasonable period to endow the Punjab and the associated States with 2,500,000 Alectrical
horse
power.
They include also the Lower Sutlej Valley irrigation project, the canals of which will serve 14,000, square miles of land which
WOMAN.
LADY HAMILTON'S PATHETIC Hong Kong Weekly Press
APPEAL WHEN A GIRL
***I AM ALLMOS MAD."
There have been 'come, fourteen lives of Lady Hamilton, in addition to the vast mass of literature in which she has received more than store without the excuse of eveal- a passing mention. To add to this ing a fresh discovery or throwing.. with due authority, some new light shows some bravery.
on a not very complex-character
Mr. O. A. Sherrard, whose "Life of Emma Hamilton (Sidgwick and Jackson, 18) is a formidable His chief asset is a hitherto un- volume, has such excuse in plenty. published letter.
An "* Ill-Spelt Scrawl,"
Mr. Ian Gow, a personal friend, had leat, him a collection of auto graph letters, and among the arst die round was an "aspelt scrawi an dirty crumpled paper" trom kmsina herse which At Onet changed her in his eyes from an historical personage to human being. It is as sadly letter (1782) and dates from the time when Sir
Larry Fetherstonchaugh and the this lovely young peasant girl. Hon. Charles Gevills were rivals of
Sir Harry had been the more favoured. He was amused by her outbursts; she was a new toy and caprice proved less able to alture, the humouring-grew shorter, and Greville's advice was needed for patching up quarrels.
be withdrawn. Mr. Schofield, the She was good in "The Big Parade," mankind's history or of the life of is now. waste or but imperfectly be humoured her. But by aegrees |
Magistrate agreed to this course.
Mr. M. K. Lo, for the defence, asked the Court to say that the defendant had not at any time been auspected of any wrong-doing and that he would leave the Court, with- out a blemish on his name..!
30.
The Magistrate said that this was
and indeed her noting is always interesting, but here she has a part which calla for sympathy and intel ligence in its interpretation. "
The anaterial has been scamped, the construction is weak, even the acting, save for that of old Mr. Rudolph Schildkraut as the High Priest, is uninteresting. And as an interpretation, whether of the greatest drama of the whole of
the Saviour, it is contemptible. What merit and what emotion it has come from the spectator, who brings to it all the rich associa tions and memories of a Christiau upbringing, and not from the film. It is as childish as those quaint, crude coloured illustrations of
In that band of freaks and mountebanks, Salome the dancer and Cock Robin, the Showman. 'arc the two human and lovable charac- ters; and balome has none of the cheap nineteenth-century family faults of the man she so fruitlessly Bibles, from which puerile “still ” loves. Her temperament is ex-pictures it seems that Mr. de Mille has drawn his inspiration.. The whole thing has just such a tableau rivant air of insipidity, and rew minds one of Sunday afternoons in the 1800's spent with "Line Upon Line" and "The Peep of Day!
A MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE. Sandi Khan. the Indian driver of Mr. C. Bernard Brown's car brought before Mr. R. E. Lindsell nt the Central Magistracy yester day on a charge of manslaughterquisitely suggested; lasy, pleasure when additional charges of reck Bess driving and failing to report an accident were put in by the police. Mr. Loo D'Almada e Castro
was present for the defence. The hearing was fixed for next Tuesday "afternoon."
ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT. "On his second appearance before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy yesterday, an Eurasian named A. J. Sinon, who gave him. self up to the police as a vagrant. had additional charges preferred against him. The police alleged that he embezzled 835 while "emplor- ed as collector for Royal & Co., and a further charge was that he unlawfully obtained goods to the value of 8181.45 from Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd. The case was ad journed until this morning.
LADIES NIGHT AT THE Y.M.C.A.
Another very successful and en
Icon, last evening, /
loving, passionate, and yet tender and unselfish when her heart is touched. The story of her blind father whom she supports aqu de ceives for his own sake, holds its proper place in the story as a
Of course Mr. do" Mille's "own explanation of Salome's character, without delaying the action. It is idiosyncrasies exude now and then. The picture begins in colour, with her unselfish devotion to the old Miss Jacqueline Logan, as Mary man as much as her adoration of Magdalene, in very little but high his worthless relf, which anally rely coloured drapery caressing a deems Cock Robin, and wins his leopard, before jumping into a chariot drawn by six zebras to go But "The Show" itself isinin search of the Carpenter who bas teresting apart from the story of stolen one of her lovers, Judas, the show people. Iu the Palace away from har.. of fusions"
love
you may
meet the
The next sequence,
a rather
affecting one, shows a little blind girl seeking Jesus and finding him and being healed. This is the best thing in the film because it is done freely and emotionally, and no with stilted care sund a lack of
"Spider Woman" lovely and cruel, with apparently no body; the
Half Woman
who stands smil ing from her waist up on a table; and a mermaid with all the tradi- joyable Ladies Night" was held onal beauty, who lives quite hap at the European Y.M.C.A., Kow. Pay in a tank with crabe and fishes. passion like the rest.
To crown these wonders is the "Salome" act, in which Cock Robin, in his role of the Baptist is beheaded in the most realistic man- Trick photography has been sided ner in full view of the audience. by really clever illusionist work. and the results, as we see them on the screen, are uncanny and dis tinotly alarming.
There were over 50 guests, and about 80 members present:
Following dinner there was a capital programane, to which the following contributed:-Mr. B. W. Sampson, Mrs. P. Younghusband and Surgoon-Lieut. Condr. Brad feld (song), Mr. A. Acheson (violin solos), the Rev. W. Walton Rogers (recitations), and Messrs. H. J.
Best, B. Baldwin, J. W. Baldwin and C. W. E. Bishop (quartettes). The quartette party, by the way, style themselves The Busy Bees
The Names" competition, pro- vided much interest and amuse. anent. These competitions are al Ways t popular feature of the Y.M.C.A. Ladies Nights.
BRITISH COAL MINES.
QUARTER'S DEFICIT £2,855,857-
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One other good touch gives a heartrending impression of the Via Crucis: the camera follows just the tracking foot of the Cross as it drags and vary. bumps over the bitter road to Cal
The death of Judaa is dramatic; but here, as in other instances too distasteful to describe, one feels that the director is gloating un The Show is a well made pic horror.
The sufferings of the ture and most interesting, and we Saviour, his scourging, the urown recommend you to see it. The ing with thorns, the hammering of photography and settings are ex-nails into the Sacred Hands and cellent, and the acting, especially Feet are dwelt on in a manner that of the two principal characters which has no justification; there is exceptionally good."
'THE QUAINTS" IN "THE
BLUE TRAIN.”
The "Blue Train, now comedy direct from the Prince of Wales Theatre, London, was pre sented by Mr. R. B. Salisbury's **Quaints" last night at the Theatre Royal. There was a crowd-
a lack of proportion in the way these incidents are enlarged, as well as another fault which it might not be prudent to name,
Though the Almas whole strives to avoid giving offence, it will hardly please anyone or edify. Is Blake's words:
B
this Jesus will not do
Either for Gentile or for Jew," for He is represented as a pale, kind, characterlees miracle-worker, a weaker conception even than Hol- man Hunt's The Tight of the
The play is an adaptation from | World." the book of Alfred Grunwald and
|
the
rsened by unregulated inundation canals from that condition. They include early construction works of the Sukkar Barrage ir rigation project in Sind, where the foundations of the great barrage across the Indus were recently laid within two gigantic cofferdams,
one enclosing an area of 18 abres, and the other one lot 13 acres, and a fleet of 44 enormous mechanical. excavators. This is the greatest battery of the kind ever com- centrated on one job.
They are unceasingly digging canals acrosa the Indian Desert, and their elec and their searchlights show the tric-fans wool their drivers by day
way by night."|| will perform ceremonies marking In several places the Viceroy the importance and progress of the undertakings. The Maharajah of Bikaner has lon been personally engaged in preparing a camp of 300 tents to accommodate the great concourse of guests be has summon ed to witness the Viceroy's inau- guration of the magnificently, con- ceived and executed works which are to irrigate the rich but dry soil of the northern portion of his State.
The Viceroy will proceed from Sukkur to Mogenjo Daro, where
the Archological Department is excavating the remains of a 5,000- year-old civilization, which prove
freshly being reclaimed were once that the deserts which are now Bourishing forest and agricultural will visit Karachi to inspect the country; and thence his Excellency inmense developments whereby that port for the best part of a quarter of a century has been pre, paring to deal with the immense volume of new traffic which is low- ing in from the newly revived northern hinterland.
Hll Power Stations. The Government of India in 1918 instituted a general hydro-electric survey of IndiaThis subsequent ly became provincialized under the constitutional reforms, and the works which the Viceroy is to visit to-day are the first fruits of the energy and thoroughness with which the Punjab Government the took up the lead which the Central Government had given. They are situated on the Uhl, a perennial stream flowing through Maadi State into the Upper Beas, and drawing every summier large quan- tities of water from the snow melt ed over 180 square miles of coun-
At last the inevitable break came,
and Emma, who was enceinte, was turned adrift. Seven letters to Fetherstonchaugh were unanswered.
A Moving Plea.
Then Greville wrote to her and
received the following pathetic re ply, now for the first time made public:-
January, 1782,
►
My dear Grevell,
Yesterday did I receive you kind letr. It put me in some spirits, for believe me I am almost dis- trackted, I have never hard from: Sit H. and he is not at Lechster now I am sure, what shall I dow, good God what shall I dow, i have wrote 7-letters and no anser, I cant come to town for want of mony, I have not a farthing to bless myself with and I think my freads looks cooly on me, I think so. O G what shall I dow, what shall I dow O how your letter affected me wen you wished, me happiness O G that I was in your posesion as I was in Sr. H. What a happy girl would I have been, girl indead, or what else am I but a girl in distres, in reall distres, for Gods sake G" write the minit you get this and only, tell me what I ham to dow, direct some whay. I am allmos mad. O for Gods sake tell me what is to become on me. O dear Grevell write to me. Write to me G. Adue and believe yours for "evet
EMLY HART
Dont tell my mother what dis- tress I am in and dow ford me some comfort.
A Brilliant Work. While this book makes no attempt | to whitewash its subject, it succeeds most brilliantly and authoritatively. in disproving the charges of over- much political meddling and of venality which in the eyes of a cer tain portion of posterity have de tracted far more from Lady Hamil- ton's character than the looseness of her morals.
But she did occasionally play the states-woman, when she considered that it might aid her social schemes. In ber endeavours to crush Lady! Nelson, and to make Nelson endure the pargs of jealousy by endeavour- ing to capture the affections of the
Mr. Sherrard's dealing with this difficult passage is.masterly..
try lying between 8,000ft. and Prince Regent himself she shows in 16,000ft. up in the great very poor light. That the latter Himalayan range. Parallel to the part of the scheme went endly, awry Uhi runs another stream, the cannot be counted unto this strange Rana. This is divided from the woman is righteousness. Uhl by a narrow mountain ridge, As to the actors, they were su but its level is 3,000ft, lower.
The main feature of the hydro- Walter Stein and has been played clearly overawed by their parts with much success at Home,
electric project's therefore is, a that most of them are unrecognis The scenery was excellent, partie. Welliam Boyd 4 Simon. of Ened tunnel, 9ft in diameter and cularly in the second act which Cyrene is good, Ernest Torrence na 21 miles long from the point where will produce another 10,000 kilo- depicts Grundelfrau, Switzerland. St. Peterlernale, the Judas of the Uhl enters the gorge through watts, which will be more than aufficient to meet the needs of the The performance throughout was
Joseph Schildkraut poor, the the dividing hills to an outlet on
present generation in an area ex- full of mirth and there was neve Pilate of Victor Varconi very vital the other side of the ridge at
dull moment, there being capital but too petulant. It is impossible place called Shanan, overlooking tending from Delhi to Meerut in songs and dances.
to speak of the Christ of H. B. the Rana. From there steel pipes the south to Sialkot and Lyallpur. The play centres on Lord Antony Warner, who obviously did the best will take the water down a drop Stowe (Mr. Edmund Nash) who was he could; it was mos his Christ, of 1,800ft to a turbine generating in love with Eileen Wayne (Miss but Mr. de Mille's And Mr. de house above that stream. The tail Frances Day) three years ago Mille is more at home in luxurious They had E misunderstanding,
Coal mining results for the three months ended June 30th Inst are ined house. striking contrast with those for the first quarter of the year. While in January-March all districts except South Wales showed some""return on working, and the aggregate net surplus amounted to £3.497,103, in April-June every district without exception recorded a loss the total deficit over all coalfields standing at £2,855,357. In other words, a surplus of is 2.41d. per ton was turned into a loss of is 0.85d on every ton of coal sold.
While there was & net decline of 1.20d. per ton in the cost of pro- duction, the aggregate net price
the north.
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PRINCE OF WALES A "FIRST he takes this place as one of the
CLASS RIDER."
NO TRUTH IN A SILLY BELIEF.
several hundred" fox-hunters and takes his chances with the rest of: them.
realised fell by as much as 2. 4d brought about by Eileen's passion bathrooms and boudoirs than in project, be conveyed for three to Simla, Ambala, and Patiala in American popular press concerns riders, who use the forward" scat
of sales were:
Nazareth.
The Prince rides in the style affected by most Englishmen, sut- Transmission Of Power.
AN AMERICAN OPINION. ting much more upright and tak- It is proposed in the second stage
ing a stronger hold of bis horse'a water will, in a second stage of the to extend the transmission system
One of the favourite quips of the mouth: than do good American miles in an open lade and then the east, and possibly as far as the Prince of Walre's horseman and drop their hands before the per ton-from 178. 46. to 18. O for dancing with "Dago." But
dropped another 1,2001. to Montgomery and Falks in the ship. An American observer in house "takes off at a jump. Ac As, a corollary, it must be report- second turbine-house. A third fall west. Is the same connection con- the fox-hunting field, however, discepting this English style as the the total production of 58,880,719 during the three years in which they Lons, 84,172,749 were available for had not met, love was still burned that one of the principal players can later conveniently be develop siderable railway electrification, elasting the subject, for once in technique of the country, as ons export or home consumption, anding in their hearts."
was present at the opening of the
ed if required.
Ancluding that of the Kalka-Simle They meet on New Year's Eve film in a state of extreme intoxica-
An important addition to the on the basis of this last figure the
can Review of Reviews:
tionably as a first-class rider who The business side of the undertak- The Prince is, na a matter of has no more than a share of aggregate met costs and the proceeds three years after and the love'iation, while one of the most sacred first stage of the project will be Railway, is under consideration. Boricua" vein, writes in "the Ameri-must, the Prince appears unques. rekindled with renewed vigour female roles was taken by a lady the construction of a dam at the ing is assured, as large contracts fact, one of the boldest and mishaps, considering the many Proceeds of sales £10,810,802 15/0.05 Both, alas! are too proud to confess, who contemplates divorce. To that ideal site where, the Uht enters the for current for power and lighting 'pluckiest of riders in the hunting daring chances be taken. Eo goog
Eileen brings her woman's wit and charming lady herself and her Wiles into play. She enlists the friends there is nothing to shock Forge. This will hold in a large buve already been arranged and field, almost always “on top of the strong and fast and straight and
lake the surplus summer flow from the Government has allocated funt" and ready to take saything does not care to ride any horse that " the melted anowa. A The first power funds for the supply of electrical that looks jumpable standing be does not feel the same way about? assistance of Freddy Royce (Mr. in this, nor need there be but to Gordon Beanie), who is engaged to those who might pay bar reverence house at Shana will develop machinery to mille on what tween him and his love-the love it. He even insists on horses that Josephine Janes (Miss Julic Brans- her film role is it nothing at 38,000 kilowatte of electrical energy amounts to the hire-purchase sys of every true hunting man--of "take hold" with a will..
to supply power and lighting to tem. The initial supply price of keping with the hounds while The true picture of the Prince grove) and then begins a series of all?
as important towns in the Punjab. Current will be-zine pies (three-weeping on with their hue on horseback shows a quiet, mas misunderstandings. How the Lord Finally, it should added that an- Antony and the charming Eileen other film company-not Mr.de and neighbouring States, such as finally come together in the "Blue Mille's-is making a comedy called Lahore, Amritsar, Lyallpun, Fero quarters of an ana) per unit, and Wath the Hunt galloping away, suring, courteous and kindly Train" is certainly worth seeing The Sting of Stings, and that zenar, Jullunder, and Kapurthala, the final cost, when all the stages heal for boldness and en- young man, a capable and vigor- The addition of the dsan to the of the scheme have been developed, thusiasm, and is generally one of ous horseman, whose youth and The gorgeous dresses of the ladies the hantering goseup of Hollywood
the half-dozen or who lead the high spirits bubble over sa soOT 26 the best seen in states, laughing, that The King first stage of the works will double will be five pies
Besides ordinary uses for power way out of the great crowd arrive hounds go away" and who is acclaimed za the East, are by Mme. Lightowles, of Kings" anyway has some justi the capacity of the Shanan power-
fication in the fact that it is excel house. The second stage of the and lighting there is a prospect of ing for a forward place. He is then on. h way to keep with them London.
lent anti-prohibitionist propa project with the second powerhouse using the current for the general ahead, however, simply by virtue if horseflesh can possibly make the
of his nerve and dashning riding; grade. development of the country (Continued on nest Column.) ganda.
Net costs
43, 103,719 16/0.70 Deficit ... £2,855,857 1/0.63 North Derbyshire and Notts re turned the heaviest deficiency, namely, is 11d. per ton, and is seven other areas the loss exceeded The total number of workers en- ployed was 957,383, and during the quarter 57,813,057, man-shifts were worked shove and below ground. The average output and earnings per man-shift: were 20.470wt and 10. 2.84d, respectively.
15.
The Blue Train will be repeat ed to-night.
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