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Passion Ran Like
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CHARGED with
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GRETA GARBO LARS HANSON Adapted from Hermann Sudermann's famous novel, "The Undying Past."
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$200, $1.20, 80 ctx. & 50 cts." Servicemen in uniform 60 eta, to back stalls and 40 cts. to front stalls at all performances.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28th, 1928.
LONDON'S CHINA
TOWN.
UNPERTURBED AT NEW
YEAR.
BUN FIGHT FOR HALF CASTE CHILDREN.
pant,
AAAAAA TARVOR ALLEN.]
Two Chinese flags, with sun cam were flying, in London's China-town-Pennyfields. A Chia ese café in West India Dock-road displayed the notice: * Reserved for Private Party till 8 p.m.”
It was the Chinese New Year's
Day, but it might have been a Scot
tish Sabbath.
Unfortunately, there had been an opium-smoking prosecution against
Pennyfields resident Et the Thames" Police-court in the mora, ing. Perhaps that had something to do with it. Anyway, there were no lanterns of buntings; except for the two flags, it looked very much the same grey, drab Pennyfields when I wandered through it quest of exotic sensations.
My first call was at a Chinese to- bacconist's inscribed with all the recognizable brands. I think his name was Chung, Ching, or Chang, but he was far too occupied paint ing the banker's name on a pile of " pukkahoo" slips to worry about the New Year.
When I mentioned festivities, hel aumbled something which sounded
-HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.
(ORDERS BY THE HON. ME'L D. G WOLIE, C.M. O., CAPTAIN-SUPKE- INTENDENT OF POLICE]
Governor's Inspection. The inspection by H.E. the Governor which was previously Axed for March 8th is postponed to April 17th, 1998,
Practice Parade.
All members of the Chinese, Indian, and Sharpshooters Com panics will attend practice parades on the Central Police Station com- pound on Wednesdays, April' <th and 11th. Fall in at 3.30 p.m. sharp. Dress: Uniform, helmets and bolts.
Flying Squad.
The next weekly instructiona! patrol of the Hong Kong section on Thursday, March 9th, will start
from Central Police Station at 5.15 p.m. sharp. All members are to attend
Sharpshooters' Company.
OPEN REVOLVER COMPETITION.
CINEMA MUSIC MACHINES.
RAPID DEVELOPMENT.
·GRAMOPHONES AND LOUD. SPEAKERS.
[BY A MUSICIAN.]
Are we on the eve of a general mechanisation of cinema music! It would seem so, to judge by the rapid development that has taken place within the last twelve months.
The new mechanical devices began to come into existence two or three years ago, but were scarcely ripe. for, exploitation. To-day mest, of Eugland's larger cinemas are equip ped with one or more of them. And it is only rational to assume, that in the degree that they can. tinus, to be improved, their fund tions will be extended.
The annual rifle meeting of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence
The new processes can be group-" Corps to be held on Sunday, April 8th, and Monday, April 9th, includes ed in two classes: those which re- an Open Revolver. Competition for, cord and reproduce simultaneously which members of the Sharpshoot the sound and the picture, and those
enter. ers' Company may
Firing which are based on the gramophone may be carried out on the range at Stonecutters at any time on principle with loud-speakers,
Unlimited the above two days. entries are permitted at a cost of 20 cents per entry. Any type of revolver or automatie may be used had competitors provide their own ammunition. The firing is deliberate, six shots at twenty yards_range stationery bulls eye taget. Entries are made at the range.
(Sgd.) W. KENT, For C.S.P.
like "Oo1 Um? Ah! New Year | NATIONAL CITY BANK OF Ah Umi Oo" and went on with
his elaborate painting.
It was an English woman in the shop who told me that nothing happened nowadays," except a tea. party to the half-caste children in the New Café round the corner the one with the notice. When I asked Why only the half-caste ones?" she replied that, of course, there weren't any others round Pennyfields way, and recommended. me to the tea-dealer next door.
·
The Chinese Sphinx,
The tea-dealer, whose name was, I think, Ching, Chung, or Chang proved to be a perfect Oriental enigma. He, too, said "Oo1 Um!
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and looked as though he could not remember what a New Year was if he tried.
He moved stealthily from one side of the shop to the other, ap- parently arranging "business as usual with two other Chinamen who were there. But he did say, as a special concession:
"Party to-night-yes, Number 41."
Number 41, I discovered, was an empty house, with blear, vacant windows and a door which looked as if it would not open to the crack of doom,
The almond-eyed ten merchant had certainly put one over me that time, and I grinned and passed in- to a little general store not much bigger than a cupboard.
NEW YORK.
PROPOSED INCREASE IN
CAPITAL.
Reproduction By Light, The former include the Movie tone, which may be seen and heard at the New Gallery: the British Acoustic Film: the
De Forest
Phono Film Company; and several
others. Some of these, "such as the De Forest, record the sound on the margin of the picture Elm. Others record it upon a separate filmu.
The recording of the sound is done by the light process, and its reproduction is effected by rays of light projected through the various' depths of shading on the film to a selenium. cell, producing è minute electrical current, which is ampli fed through loud-speakers. Ol course, the synchronisation is per
The Manager of the local office of The National City Bank of New York is in recerpt of the following New York telegram from his Head Officefect.
Aspecial meeting of the shareholders of the Bany has been called for April “ith wo aushore
increase 1A Capita ΣΤΟΝ
U.S.875,000,000.co U.S.800,000,000.
For the present the cinema public is more familiar with the second group of devices, which are also more numerous. For instance, the Panatrope combines a gramaphone with a loud-speaker, and is reported ****hus increase in capitali 18'in
to be installed in about 600 picture Eine with the traditions policy of
theatres up and down the country. the Bank to maintain a larger ratio of capital aza, surplus to Perfect synchronisation of the re- deposits an is dictated by cord with the projector has been general banking practice: The achieved by some dovices: Other- National City Company (a sub-wise it depends upon the human diary of The National City Bank element that is to say, the skill of of New York) wil benefit by the the operator. Most of the instru increased capilar and the addiments are now being equipped with tional resources wi bo use for double turn table to enable records the furthering of their own and to be charged without a break. the Bank's interests on the in- vestment side of the Bank's buzi-
nese.
SAIGON RICE MARKET.
SLIGHTLY FIRMER TENDENCY.
Organist And Record.
Loud-speakers are also in use for the projection of other gramophone-- recorded music and effects. Among these the lead is taken by an appli- ence which is a valuable adjunct to cinema organs for the projection of
shout, & laugh, or a sneeze,” pr. may be a snatch of song where the The Compagnie de Commerce & film suggests it. de Navigation. l'Extrême-Unient in A good effect is sometimes obtain- their report dated Saigon, starched by the organist accompanying a Vanished Limehouse Hights. mi, etate :-Since cur JAJE I- gramophone record, particularly a Behind the counter, and all but port, our market has continued vocal one. Somehow the participa under it was a little Chinese with very quiet but at the dose, the tion of a real instrument seems to a face of Buddhistic serenity. tendency is Eughtly frmer owing have the effect of making the voice When he found that I did not want to exporters covering their sales to also sound more real than it would Sunlight soup
Rickett'a blue, he India. No demand from the other do in the ordinary way. too looked surprised, and said: markets.
Needless to say, these devices are Oo! Um? Ah! New Year? Aht The total amount of rice export-also at the service of dance-balls, Um Oot
o and implied that heed from January 1st to March 15th, In fact, for small cinema and did not spikee Ingleesh. His name 1928, is 306,658.621 tons against dance-halls which cannot bear the also was either Chang, Chung, or 301,332.579 tone in 1927.
expenses of # good band the GHOSTS"cumstances, I don't think Ice No. 1 25 per cent. brokens lerable to an inadequate number of Ching, I'm sure which. In the We quote to-day White Saigon mechanical substitute is really pre-
greatly care.
round grain: Hong Kong $6.60 per second or third rate players. What had happened to London's pacal of 134 lbs. f.o.b. Baigon; lis.
So far, the actual use of the new Chinatown, since the piping days 4d. per evt. fo.b. Saigon; Yen 7.05 appliances has been mainly to pro- of Mr. Thomas Burke's house Nights
Lime per pical of 134 lbs. Lob. Sargon. ject the various effects and " noises and "Nights in
White Saigon_rice No. 2 sifted off demanded by the film, such as Town," that one should encounter Japan quality: Hong Kong 6 per railway engines, motors, and the such desolation on New Year's pical of 134 lbs. fo.b. Saigon; 105. like, or the whistling of an errand Day 1.
ad per cwt. to.b. Saigon; Yes 6.40 boy, or animal noises, as in the Varied Manu,
out of 134 lbs. Lab. Saigon. case of "Chang" But as those in For March/April chipment...
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The children's party at the New Café proved to be very much like Sunday School bun-fight, with ordinary cakes and tea.
One or two fireworks, I was told, might be exploded at night, but they would be homely English ones in any case, as the pugnacious native variety could no longer be obtained from China,
RUBBER PRODUCTION.
COMPARSION BETWEEN 1921 AND 1927.
terested come to realise how' us expectedly good is the effect now obtainable, from a good orchestral record on a first-class gramophonë, with, say, an amplifying equip ment, it is inevitable, that the new devices will come into more geaerul
use.
It is oven probable that pro But I did encounter a man who In the House of Commons on ducing and renting firms which now had been to s private party over a February 27th, Colonel Woodoock issue a score for the necompani Chinese café in the Causeway the asked for comparative figures show-ment of their films will presently previous night, to see the Old Youring the rubber production of the have the score recorded and offer
His British Empire and of foreign the records with the film. out and the New Year in.
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name was not Ching, Chung, or countries respectively in 1927 and Chang, but plain Charlie Brown, junr., landlord of the Blue Posts hostelry in the West India Dock road.
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"No, nothing much happens. nowadays," he said, "but before the war Fennyfields on New Year's night would be littered with spent fireworks inches deep. The police stopped all that."
Mr. Amery: Where I have en
deavoured to farmish myself with the most exact figures obtainable on this subject, they are to some extent based on estimate, and I cannot guarantes strict accuracy. The fol- lowing are the figures to the nearest 1,000 tonsil
British Foreign
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THE famous British comedy star
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PRESENTS
REGINALD
DENNY
"ON
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A UNIVERSAL PICTURIE
Dancing master – taxi-driver-lover-boxer- hero-faint-heart- victor. But above all fighter with a fighter's heart!
How He Dances! How He Loves! How He Fights!
AT THE
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At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20,
Has a pretty wife and mother the right to a good time? A story of New York's fast set--
CONWAY TEARLE AND ALICE " JOYCE
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In
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Based on Edgar. Selwyn's Big Stage Success. -
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THE PRINCE'S ESCAPE.
UNDER FIRE OF A FRENCH GUN IN THE WAR.
Of course, no mechanical repro- duction is as yet, or likely to be, as acceptable at the sound of a good orchestra reinforced by the paychological effect of the visual A new story of the Prince of prosence of the players. There is, Wales's part in the war was sold therefore, little or no chance of at the annual dinner of the London mechanisation superseding a good Branch of the Welsh Guards Com- orchestra in theatres which can rades Association at Harrods. afford one. But all audiences "are The Prince, who is colonel of the There is usually a procession to Year. Empire Countries. Total. not equally tastidious in the matter. regiment, said, unfortunately he the Chinese corner of the local 1021 203,000 97,000 300,000 There are many who will consider had not had the privilege of ac- cemetery, where the relatives leave 1027 344,000 238,000 food on the graves, and perhaps (restricted) 00,000 themselves equally well served.tually fighting in the Guards
Moreover, recent developments in Division. bit of a bust-up in the evening. Some slowance has been made the building of cinema. organs have Major C. H. Dudley-Ward, refer- he added, but it is only in the
an instrument which ring to this remark, said in a sub- Chinese quarters of New York and for rubber smuggled in 1927 and for provided
impurities" in native rubber. No already relieves the band in many sequent specch have pro San Francisco that cemions with dragons.”.
allowance has been made for im- picture theatres. It is not unlikely London's Chinatown, since Mr. purities in wild rubber Produc- that the present alternation of band Burke abandoned it, has become tion by. British companies in for- and orgun may usher in a new alter rather liks Poplar, which is a pity. eign countries is included under nation of organ and mechanised
foreign countries. estminster Gazette.
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music.
It all depends on what you call fighting. I can remember when we were in Houlthuret Forest. On the top of the hill we had a lot of trouble with a French
gun which had shelled us: the whole of the day. (19
We sent messages to say that we were being shelled by the French, but nobody paid any tention.
We seat out runners and got. "a reply that we were not being. shelled by any such gun and we ought to know the difference be tween German and French by that time,
Saddealy we saw two figures" coming along the hill. One wai the Prince. When he got half- way up the hill the shells fell all around him, and one come pletely hid him from view
Colonel Sterling, who was com manding the battalion, said, "My God, they have got him,” but they did not, for we saw him legging it through Elling, mud and filth to a little German pill- box we had taken shortly before