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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 20th, 1928.
Д
THE WIDOW OF BOND-STREET.
"AUREO" READING
SEANCE.
YELLOW AND BROWN WITH
PURPLE PATCHES,'
A
MUSSOLINI AND THE "HOTEL IMPERIAL'
MONEYLENDERS. AT THE QUEEN'S.
USURY ON THE BLACK LIST.
[By SIR PERCIVAL PHILLIPS.]
11
Rout
A WAR STORY FROM AUSTRIA.
REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPHY.
British moneylenders who com-
[BY OUR FILM CRITIC), In my search for the hidden par-
plain because their nefarious ac- lours of the soothsayers in the tivities have been restricted by: West Ead I spent one day combing
legislation may well be thankful
"Hotel Imperis!," which is show. Regent Street and Old and New that they are beyond the reach of ing for the rest of the week at the
a Mussolini, The Father of Fas- Queen's, is a war story" ol" Bond Streets, where were the pre-eist Italy has put usury on the Austro-Russian frontier.
the war haunts of the palmists, writes black list. No gentle legislating is based on a play written by s
The film special correspondent to the
for him.
He simply bottles the Austrian dramatist who was a war Daily Mail.
human leech by process of his correspondent and witnessed own known as the "confine."
scene which gave him hie" plot. Every prefecture in Italy This is the explanation of "Hotel the "coufino."It is a revised left its mark there too. posscues the machinery for feeding Imperial, although Hollywood has
police measure which enables the authorities to isolate persons who often told and there is nothing The story rings true; it has been are considered dangerous to the very new about it or the presenta. public welfare. Communista, of tion, except the fact that actual cours, have special consideration war scenes are practically omitted. guise, and then I eaw an advertise- So have other avowed enemies of Apart from the acting of Pola ment in the International Psychic Fascism. Then there are various Negri who takes the role of the Gazette:
grades of offenders against society, heroine, what makes. "Hotel Im- Madame Bishop Anderson, including the rank profiteer, the perial" very well worth seeing is Clairvoyante and Clairaudient.
the photography" A certain amount of the action and s the mental reactions of the char- good deal of
acters is told in a series of super-
I questioned commissionaires, lift attendants, landlords of. publie housee in the side streets, and some of the charming assistants in the manicure ehope, but them had heard of a man or woman who was known as a crystal gazer or a palmist. But I felt certain they were to be found in some
not one of
Aureo readings and Psychological extortionate landlord-and the studiee, Hands, Photographs, moneylender. Letters, etc. Lectures; At The latter had a long and suc- Homes, Spiritual, Material and cessful run. Then Mussolini acted. Health Advice. Appointments Daily, 11 to 8; Saturdays 11 to One moneylender and then another imposed 4. Arcade House, 27, Old Bond and another was filtered through Street, W.1.
the sieve of inquiry which led to
There we a telephone number, and on the afternoon of June 5th I spoke to a woman who said, "I can't do very much for you until five o'clock." On the ground floor was her name, with Consulting Psychologist," and the lift took me to the third floor and to two tiny rooms with a communicating door.
Whispered Volcas.
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which are quite the cleverest of or dissolving pictures
their kind I have seen. When the confine." A fat 500 per cent. Austrian officer hero is lying ex- Snancier would suddenly find him- hausted in the lobby of the hotel, self haled before a committes of pictures pass before his eyes of quiet but inquisitive Fascists at the last terrible half hour, during the prefecture. He went through which, weary from a long ride, he
remorseless examination. F
and his handful of companions have tried to make a dash through the Russian lines. The enemy band throbs in his ears, he feels the The really bad cases were quaran- jolting paces of hie jaded horse, tined on one of the islands which starts at the crack of a rifle and Mussolini has set aside for the in-lives again through the sequence cd people terment of unpleasant and unwant of his running tight.
Isles of Mystery " they are called by some critics of ed. by the hotel servants Austrians While still asleep he is discover- tions concerning the treatment of Davidson the porter, and Otto Fascism. One hears curious allega- like himself-Pola Negri, Max these exiles, but in Italy, as in Fries the cook. The girl insists on other countries, where a strong hiding him and when the Russiana
gave his defence, whatever it was If the case against him was proved, off he went into enforced obscurity
"Plesee take a seat," said a woman's voice from the room with the door marked private, as I kaccked on the other door. I en- tered and sat for a few minutes. Whispered women's voices came through the communicating door, I heard someone depart, and then man has risen to power despite who have occupied the town take host of enemies, many of the stories told of. Mussolini's punishment colonies are either highly coloured facts or sheer pytha
Madame showed me into her room. A tout, elderly, jolly woman, with glasses, and wearing two long necklaces, one pearl, one gold, told me she was a widow and that she would leave the size of the fee for me to decide.
She studied my palms intently, and then began with a bad blun- der: "You were not born in this country."
However, she made a quick re- rovery, and, like all the other soothsayers, declared I ought to write, and read my character well. Also, like the others, she thought I was single and would marry in
possession of the hotel se their beadquarters she makes him poec as a waiter.
The exiles even moneylenders,
The Russian general is attracted although this may seem strange by the servant giri and when he are given an allowance by the offers her presents of fue clothes, State which is sufficient for their she makes one of the most pertin maintenance in simple comfort. ent remarks which have ever been Life is not all jazz, but neither is dashed on the screen, "You men," it Hades.
she says,
are all alike. I believe you only make war because you are tired of your own women."
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The harvest of moneylenders and other breeds of usurers pretty well said to be first on the list. Some general and Pola makes a large The battle of wits between the representa al Italy, but Naples is
Shylocks have passed out of the introduced and killed by the pseudo thing like dozen of her local part of the film, a Bussian spy is illegal money market by the "con-waiter because he is bringing in- fino two years: If you had married walk warily in search of clients to the General. Unable to account
" route. Those that remain formation about the Austrian forces it would have been to a sick woman The price of money has dropped for his whereabouts at the time or a widow." (My wife was an in- valid for some years.)
to a reasonable figure, and I am when the murder was committed he When I told her I was born in told that loans can be negotiated is about to be hung when Pola rays on terms" that would make a he has been in her room. The March, she talked about the watery pseudo-Scot decoy in Bond-street General who has not been able sign and Pisces, the fishes, and the writhe in anguish twelfth eign of the Zodiac, a sure
despite his presents to make much sign that I am going to travel iniquity, the rapacious landlord girl is enraged and drives them The moneylender has a cousin in head way with the pretty servant much.
who batteda ou helpless victims of both ont. A final scene shows the She told me that he had made a housing shortage. He also is re- victorious Austrians in charge of que discovery of her very own presented in the ignoble island the town once more and Pola being "The eye is and of usurers
complimented the Austrian
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Ecstatic Glance,
However, this consulting pey- chologist" then proceeded to read my Aurea and supplied me with paper, and pencil to take it, all down. She looked above my head snd then said:
gentry,
One was a prominent Fascist of Turin, an influential and popular man, who used his position as a cloak to cover the expoitation of his tenants. He charged them exor- bitant rents, and loaned the solvent ones money on oppressive terms. I see a peculiar shade of yellow his debt. Now he is spending five His tenants were perpetually in and browne. Yellow means seek-years on an island where the Gov- ing for knowledge, the brown ernment is the landlord and he one heavy state of consciousness and of the tenants. morbid depression, from which you have emerged, and now there is little left.
landlord who profited by the Inck The other culprit was a Bomé
You will enjoy "Hotel Imperial" although it is not the best film Mies Negri has acted in. Yet it bas 4 certain freshness in treatment and the interest is well sustained.
A. TITIAN FOR £360.
FATAL GRIEF OF MÄN WHO SOLD IT.
of old masters. -
STRASBOURG.
Now we are getting to the He bought a piece of ground and the United States, was sentenced of adequate housing for the poor. Alexander Hinkerk, a citizen of golden ebades. (This with an leased small bits to working class at the Murich Azize Court to four ecstatic glance upwards.) In the families, on which they built miser: years' imprisonment on charges of distance, ebades of amethyst able hovels of waste wood and mingled with purple, which to petrol tins. The landlord squeezed fraud in connection with the sale you means spiritual wisdom and them to the last penny of their understanding and self-sacrifice meagre incomes.
It was stated that he was born He, too, wis in the future.
haled before- A
in Munich and emigrated to the confino "selection There are little sprays of silver committee and unanimously elected United States to become an Ameri from a star, meaning the purificaa Sveyears Robinson Crusoe. tion of the mind and body that You may be inclined to question setti... is coming to you in a much the wisdom of this method of social He posed as an art expert, and higher form, and then you will reform, but there can be no doubt during the period of the mark col- have no more fear of failure, and as to its efficacy. Ask the money-lapse formed a syndicate in Ger that will be the greatest part of lenders and landlords of Italy. many for the purchase of old mas your success. Threes and cevens Daily Mail."
tere. He bought a number of noted are your important numbers.
pictures, including some by Van Having finished with the Aureo,
Dyck and Rubens,
"
can citizen under the name of Baci-
One of the best known that he
I asked Madame to get baay with He had French blood in him. purchased was Titian's celebrated the clairvoyance, for she had told (Pombly.) Your father urges youWoman with a Dog," from the me I was mediumistic Again she to work hard and so on. look upwards; "Your father is
Hapsburg collection. For this pic
The room was littered with psy- ture he paid £360 to an aged pro- about here. Yes, he is here. I see chic literature. Ons wall there fessor at Cologne, and the old man him.
Tras In Farts.:
WAS $
According to the accusation Hin-
framed extract from the afterwards died of grief at having works of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, sold it so cheaply. It was stated "He passed over some time ago. and Madame strongly urged me to that Hinkerk resold the canvas in, Your mother is still alive. (True) read a book by a new Indian the United States for £15,000. There is a man beside him-your" world teacher" by the name of brother. Has a brother passed Krishnamurti. over? (True.) He is very much But, there was like your father on the top part of his face, and like you mother in the lower part. (Truc,): Your father spoke French very well. (Wrong.) (Continued on next Qolumn).!
a knock on the kerk neglected to pay for his valu
on the able acquisitions. He nevertheless. door of the next room. A new returned to Germany recently and client had arrived, and I heard opened up negotiations for the pur a man's voice, Bo I handed out a chase of other works of art. It pound note and said good-bye to was then that he was arrested and my" consulting psychologiet." sent for trial.
A skillfully--woven drama of Intrigue and a
woman's daring sacrifice for love I
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