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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 17th, 1928.
“SORRELL AND SON" AT THE QUEEN'S.
W. J. LOCKE STORY ON THE SCREEN.
THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE.
(BY OUR FILM CRITIC.]
H
But what
PROCESSIONS WITHOUT
PERMITS.
CASE AGAINST LEE THEATRE MANAGER DISMISSED.
ORGANISERS FINED.
THE SITUATION IN HONAN,
RED SPEARS AND MARSHAL FENG.
HAS BORODIN RETURNED?
Haykow. May 5th.
Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the At the beginning of the week it Central Magistracy the manager of was possible to book by train a the Lee Theatre appeared on a 'aum-
far as Changchow; to-day it in The admirers of the work of Mr. mons for organising a procession doubtful whether a passenger would W. J. Locke are very many and without the written permission of get heyond Yeacheng, though the they will not be disappointed in the the Secretary of Chinese Affairs. Chinese Post Office is still accept, bereen version of one of his most Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, of the S.C.A. ing heavy mail matter for places characteristic novels. The novel-prosecuted and the defendant was as far up the line as Suchów. This rending public does not expect represented by Mr. Hugh Jones.
fact alone indicates serious trouble sturdy adventure or modera jaiz
in the section of Henan immediate- The Ting Cho Kwaï firm were from Mr. Locke, but 亞
ly south of the Yellow River......... certain also summoned as they had ar- brand of sentiment that be has
When seeking an explanation of ́ranged the procession and supplied made his own. Some people may the necessary banneri, etc.
the trouble one thinks first of the call "Barrell and Sou" mawky,
action of Fan Chung Hsiu, who is Mr. Forrest explained that this said to be in revolt against Marshal others will see in it a story of un-
action was taken by the S.C.A. Feng. Fan is a Honanese of the complaining heroism. ever your tastes it will make a big result of the complaints lodged Honanese and is regarded with appeal if you are from "England', by the District Watch Committee great esteem by his fellow-provin with regard to these advertising cials. He has always been a devot green and pleasant land." The scepe is in England, and there proccasions, which were continued ed follower of Sun Yat Sen, and are a hundred and one details that spite of notices prohibiting outwardly it is for this reason that convince you that the film was
he has decided to break with his actually taken at Home. A country The Magistrate imposed a fiue of superior, for he accuses Marshal railway station; an English train $10 on the Ting Cho Kwai firmi and Feng of disloyalty.to the teaching and a postman give verisimilitude | advised the manager to obtain the of the Nationalists. But it is com to the river side scenes" and the necessary permit before sending out mon talk in Honan that Borodin "Pelican Ian" which itself is de- these processions.
has made his way arrayed as a lightfully lacking in American
Chinese to Raciteng. Persons who luxury and efficiency. Mr. Warner
have previously met Borodin have and Mr. Trevor both! look like
no doubt of the identity of a Englishmen.
Russian who has large influence with the Marshal. And it is said Fan and others resent this fresh development of the influence of Moscow as they realize that the Nationalist cause has already been imperiled by this alliance with Sovictism.
porter in
them.
Mr. Hugh Jones remarked that his client could not be held respon sible as at the time the Theatre was leased to the Tai Lo Tia Theatrical Captain Sorrell, MO., demobilis- Company who made all the arrange ed and deserted by his wife tries ments regarding the advertising to bring up their small son. The and sale of tickets in connectica only job he can get is that of with their performances. This coin.
a small public house. pany had since gone to Canton. Happily for himn a guest at the
Mr. Lindsell agreed with Mr "Anchor" offers a better job in Hugh Jones and Mr. Forrest with the same capacity at his own large drew the summons against the rivereide" hotel. Mr. Roland; Sor-Manager of the Lee Theatre. 6160 rell's patron, is played by Norman
The Magistrate remarked that the Trevor whom you will probably S.C.A. should wait until the Tai Lo remember as Col. de Gramercy in The Ace of Cado." He is kind to Sorrell and treats him eometithes as a friend rather than an em• ! ployee but, the Captain is the hero, and therefore the victim, in Mr. Locke's novel, and his life at the "Pelican is by no meaue easy.
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Tin Theatrical Co., returned to Hong Kong and then take out a summons against them.
136,932 SETTLERS.
CANADA'S INCREASE IN 1 MONTHS.
...
Taxation is heavy in all parts.of China, but it has been so heavy in Honan that the people look for deliverance from their present Military Governor and would wel come anyone who can promise her Red Spear movement is directly ter treatment. The growth of the connected with this question of taxation. The people feel that they must combine together to resist the extortions of the tax-collectors, among whom they seem to include anyone in a grey uniform.
The Red Spears.
It is never easy to get informa- tion about a Chinese Seerst Society, Kit the Son is played by Mickey
and the Red Spears are members of McBean as a child and Nils Asther
such an organization. Every fainily when he is grown up and has be-
is expected to have at least one MONTREAL come a surgeon. Mr. Aether is
person onrolled in this organiza. very charming looking young man
Immigration to Canada for the tion, and it is said that this do and we may even see him on the eleven months of the fiscal year mand is enforced on the Christian pedestal left vacant by Rudolph ended February 29th amounted to families. The result is weird. The Valentino before long. Mickey 150,032, according to a statement Red Spears tre idolaters, but they McBean played the little boy very issued by the Department of Im- are not Buddhists or Tacists. They well and cleverly kept off too much migration and Colonisation. This may use an existing temple for sentimentality. Captain Sorrell compares with 123,720 for the same their rites, or they may set apart. himself is played by H. B. Warner period a year ago, an increase of a house. Each group has an idol, who has entered perfectly into the
11 per cent,
but even though he may be taken Immigration for February from a temple he ceases to be a you may wish he were a little lees amounted to 4,312, of which 1,009 god in the Buddhist pantheon and patently noble and long suffering were British, 1,454 from the United is given the name of some great but that is Mr. Locke's fault not States, and 1,886 from other coun- hero. Each time the band gathers Mr. Warner's, and he certainly tries, including a from France, the members worship this idol, and looks the part.
Belgium, the Scandinavian coun- it is understood that they have a There is a large cast in which tries, Holland, Germany, and secret Classic which is read to the gathering. All possible precautions part is found for Alice Joyce wheSwitzerland.
are taken to prevent the uninitiat
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WARNER ANNA Q NILSSON ALICE JOYCE ! NILS ASTHER CARMEL MYERS
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SHAKESPEARE IN 42 LANGUAGES.
INTEREST AMONG HINDUS.
BIRMINGHAM, April 23rd.
During the last year 290 volumes were added in the following lan- guages: English, Italian, French, Danish, Russian, Dutch, Serbing, Norwegian, German, Portuguese, Esperanto, Spanish, Gaelic, and Swedish.
A apeaker with experience of India said educated Hindus were greatly "interested in Shakespeare's worka, zaini.
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Five miles from Dairas, but congested with the city by special motor and car- is always pleasing to watch, She During February 1,012 Canadians ed, who may watch the worship, rage road and electric tramway. Yamato Hotel (35 rooms) and 13 furnished is the housekeeper at the "Pali who had gone to the United States from seeing the Classic or hearing bangalows la charming slid garden. Bathing, Boating, Fishing, Golf, Tannu can who is in love with Borreli; to reside returned to Canada. The it read. Biliaris. Orokmies. świow a wink. - Capital plnen for childrens
exactly what their relations are is number of such returning Cana- OGONDAI-Mort beautiful and selen Bomide Rowers in the Far Ear Two left a little vague, but probably the dians for the eleven montha of the Spears have made a compromise Being a practical folk, the Red from Port Arthur.
Formerly the Summer Resort, at the high Russian is just intended as a chorus of fiscal year is 37,217.
with the Christians who are enrol- MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND MR. officers and
womanhood. Carmel detached
you dummy Yamais Hotel and 23 villas and bungalows, mostly with | admiring
quarters. Exosilent Bathing, Wonderful Booner, lle and exotic and had tempered hostess of Historie Myers has a small part as the
led. The Christian Red Spears do Battlefaida, Ruined and Dismantled Forts, Viles of sharming
not take part in the worship of the Abandaat Pionising Facilities. Orchestra twien k wook. Best pear the first, inn where Sorrell ands The picture is catirely a French idol-hero, but they listen to the bigh-class families.
production and over a year was reading of the Classic. On the "For heaven's sake let us take It was reported to-day at the PORT ARTHUR, Fazupas for its two memorable Siege and Hebenstifa employment, but her role has been spent in the making at a cost of other hand, the band sometimes away the Road Fuad. It is a stand annual meeting of the Shakespeare
40 overworked already that no one landlooked Barbour, Emily one hour's journey from Dairen by pro is sorry when the scene shifts to Over one hundred and fifty artists ship and allows a Christian to ex declared Mr. Lloyd George, ad- that the library containe 18,457 more than twelve million france, assembles outside the place of woring temptation to Mr. Churchill," Memorial Library at Birmingham train. Yamato Hotel (14 rooms). Hafistent place of historical and scopis the "Felican" with Alice Joyce. Interest to A11 a month with fresh walk or drive every day. Most healthy Mr. Roland has a small daughter, Theatres were engaged for the
selected from the principal Parisian hort them to righteousness. and salubrions spot in the Far East.
for although Captain Sorrell can leading roles, while the crowds future, the view is expressed that
Asked us to the prospects for the dressing Liberal gathering at volumes in forty-two languages.
Glasgow. not be allowed the consolation of
"I don't know what will become sumbered 5,000. The entire picture the organization of the Red. love affair his son has to have one. Molly Roland is played as a child contains over 6,000 scenes and dif- Spears is so defective that the of it," added the ex-Premier. "He ferent foregrounds, the interiors movement will collapse. "Already has got into bad habits. Take it by Betsy Ann Histle and when being made at Vincennes and Join- it is found that communists have sway. Use it to develop transport. grown up by Mary Nelan, and the ville le Pont, near Paris, and the secured admission to the bands in the country; that is what it was is particularly attractive when little interiors at the place which figure with a view to perverting the move founded for." Miss Hisle pereonates her.
in the book, principally in the townment, and there is no one man with Other points from Mr. Lloyd We very much recommend "Sor-. rell and Son" it le an unusual film of Digne and at Montreuil-Sur-Mur. sufficient authority to order the ex- George's speech are:
Miser-pulsion Critics wherever "Les
of these undesirable in many respects, and if Captain ables" has been shown, have been elements. If a Honanese were Sorrel is a trifle superheroic, and unanimous in their praise of the installed as military governor of the plot rather sentimental, at film. The Daily Hail said: Les Honan and the burden of taxation least it is not the usual triangle Miserables' is an outstanding exam- were reduced, the Red Spears would story of which most of us are get-ple of what can be done in the film probably revert to their old status ting very tired.
world with a great human story as village train-bands and devote THE HEART OF SALOME." intelligently produced and excel themselves to their farming again.
leatly acted. The picture, owing-North China Daily News, a At the Star, from today to to its great length can be shown Saturday
The Heart of only three times daily, and, per-i Salome, a atory of high finance.formances commence promptly at The evil genius is a count who em 2.30, 6.00 and 9.20 p.m. ploys a beautiful woman to spy on his rivale. While on a holiday the spy falls in love with a
young engineer, and decides to become ten for Sarah Bernhardi by Vic- An air daah from England to honest. A sword duel between the torien Bardou, Diplomacy, the India in four days is being planned count and the hero in an under new picture at the 5.15 and 9.20 by a firm of British aircraft manu- ground dungeon forme the climax performances in the World Theatre facturere. The venture will start of an exciting story.".
from to-day to Saturday, is told some time during the summer and against the neuenal background of an ordinary type of L.A.F. Sight- the secret services of several Euro-ing plane will be used, though the pean countries, including England, attempt will be entirely civilian France, Germany and Busma. and is not being arranged by the Opening in Deauville the story tells Air Ministry. of a secret conference in progress The machine selected will be cap- awang, diplomats who are each able" of a cruising, speed of 175 "Les Miserables," the story by antions to: secure an important miles an hour and will carry, suffi- Victor Hugo, which has been trans- document held by another Power. cient petrol for & 600 or 700 mile Inted into many languages, has Following the theft of this paper, non-stop trip. The intention is that been screened and will be shown two innocent people fall under the trip shall be made in fast at the Queen's Theatre from Tuei, shadow." At 9.30 and 7.15, the Chi- day to Saturday of...pext week, nese drama “ Lok Yeung Bridge''
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INDIA IN FOUR DAYS:A BRITISH AIR "DASH."
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I am not one of those who say, Britain is done for. She is a long way from that. She has stil! got the greatest international trade in the world and the will retain it so long as she is a free trade country.
We have recovered 76 per cent.. of the international trade which we had before the war. It has been increased since the present Government came into power by 2 per cent. That is what 24f. Baldwin calls the re-establish ment of prosperity.pk
WOMEN'S STRANGE PETS,
SNAKES AND SNAILS AT A" RIVIERA RESTAURANT.
CANNES, Fets of strange skape and form are being carried by women who visit & well-known Cannes restau- Tant for dancing in the early morn ingin
Marmosets, makes, and lizards woman carried a chameleon. ard frequently to be seen, and one
We must utilise the unemploy ed to recondition Britain. We Early one morning the dancers must make better ure of this were surprised to see on one table country for the production of huge mail that had been placed food, timber, and coal. We must there by a young Englishwomen, restore the cultivation of the soil She and her partner having order- to the position it used to hold.ed supper, she asked the waiter to A thistle in a military cap is bring & lettuce for her pet, on which an adorament; in a cornfield it is the snail was duly and snugly de a menace. It is a national
"posited. calamity to let agriculture go, down. Agriculture is as essential part of the defence of the realm as the Army, Navy and Air Force. The programme of utilising (all our, resources would not create fresh burdens and would savo miil- lions on the dole, (Continued at foot of next column.)
The land is the key to the con-2 dition of the towns.” There are - the slums. There is the rich; swaggering, Tory Kensington. No Liberal dare step there. (Laughter.) We must-have more wland for improvement.