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'TITANIC;"
FINE PICTURE AT THE QUEEN'S.
UNUSUAL AND INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPHY,
"THE LIGHT OF ASIA “ COMING TO THE
** WORLD."
[ET OUR FILM CRITIC.]
"Titanic" is a picture of out-
standing interest. Two things dis. tinguish it, one the acting of George O'Brien, who made his name in "Sunset," and the other direction by Allan Divan.
ROUND THE POLICE SUN FO IN UNITED STATES.
COURTS.
PARK ROAD SNATCHING
CASE.
AT CENTRAL MAGISTRACY.
WANTS U.S. MONEY FOR REBUILDING CHLVA, “
New Yoxx, Aug. 2nd. Sun Fo, Minister of Reconstruc- tion in the Kuomintang, or Nation- alist, Government of China, hoe
"A snatching case came before just arrived here on board the Mr. R. E. Lindell at the Central steamship Majestic of the White Magistracy yesterday when a Chi-Star Line to attend conferences in the this country preparatory to enlist. admitted defendant
ing the co-operation of Govern-
Rese
offence.
was
It appeared that Mrs. Fuggles,ment and industrial leaders of the the wife of a prison warder, was United States in the rebuilding of returning from a visit to a friend China into a modern nation,
The now Chinese régime seeks afternoon along on Wednesday Park Road when a Chinese snatch to initiate a programme of general ed her handbag and ran in the education and reconstruction work The throughout the country, and to direction of Bonham Road. lady kept the thief in sight and push the work as rapidly as poe- Revenue Officer Ward who passing on his motorcycle at the able, he said. Details of the pro- time took up the chase. The man gramme include rebuilding of Nan- was caught by two students near king, the new national capital of the Ellie Kadoorie School.
China; the rebuilding and exten- sion of a complete system of com- munication and the construction of 100,000 miles of railways and more than 1,000.000 miles of motor roada to link up China's 4,000,000 square miles of territory and 430,000,000 population, according to Mr. Sun.
An application was made by the police for a remand in order to make. further investigations about the defendant and he was accord ingly remanded until this morning
It tells the story of a young man who has been brought up on a brick carrying barge, to whom the Bearing buildings of the city are an ideal and an incentive. His dream and his ambition is to create buildings, to pull down every thing that seems unworthy and to see in solid fact the city of his dreams An accident lands him archaued in the Jewish quarter of the city which is, of course, New York, and from there he fights his way with his hands upward into to the patronage of a wealthy man who has him trained as an architect. That
Another theft of telephone wire "Gif Van Horn" is in reality the
Mr. Sun said that the conferences took place on Wednesday night, hero's father is a sop to the sentibus, the thief failed to evade the to be held with American leaders mental which matters not at a police who always look with sis in the real interest of the picture.picion on carriers of auch goeds in finance, commerce and industry His dreams are within his grasp after the recent dismantling of the are being arranged by a committee when a girl pinys him false and his fines at Shaukiwan and their in New York. He was accompanied patron goes to his death on the watchfulness has led to saveral Titanic.
by S. Y. Wu, special representative
STOLEN TELEPHONE WIRE.
arreate.
The man was charged at the Magistracy and sentenced to six weeks' hard labour.
Science Monitor.
Then the undisciplined mind" of
"A Chinese who was found in of the Ministry of Finance of the. the idealist is unhinged during a Aberdeen with a coil of wire en Chinese Government. Christian night of stormy passage from the his shoulder failed to satisfy the "seats of the mighty back police and he was arrested. Later through the city to the ghettohe admitted that he took down the which had first given him shelter, wire from the lines at Telegraph The scenes of his wild progress are | Bay. extraordinarily well done, as he crashes from battle to battle, leny. ing a path strewn with wreckage behind him. One by one the in- essentials of his training the West End are torr off, and when he finds peice at last in the army of the little Jewess he is na ragged and sad looking an object as the dreamer of the barge.
The story is not a picture of the West and East Ends, though you many take it as such if you like, but of a man. Perhaps George O'Brien was the best choice that could have been made for the man because Sunset which gave him fame had the same theme. Curiota ly, though it is not Mr. O'Brien who recalls Sunset but certain of the scenes. Considerable use is made of mist and the photography of inanimate objects, the river and. the city, does more to give atmos phere and meaning to the story than the acting does.
Mr. Sus from 1980 to 1996 was ; Mayor of Canton, President of the Kwangt ing Provincial Government Council and, concurrently, Commie- sioner of Reconstruction, During 1920 and 1997 he was Minister of Communications in Canton and Hankow and. Minister of Finance in Nanking. He is a graduate of the University of California, and was doing graduate work at Colum- until after the bia University
OPIUM PROSECUTIONS.. There were several opium caees before the Magistrate. A fine of $2,300, or six months' hard labour. was imposed on a Chinese who had 33 taek of illicit drug hidden in luggage case and admitted that he brought the opium from W. chow. Another passenger by the 23.000, or a similar term of im ...Anjou from Wuchow was fined meat. sonment in default, in respect
43 taeis. Possession of. B taels cost a man. $150, or eight weeks. All these cases resulted from the searching of passengers at the Tai Hing Wharf.
On the Yuen On Wharf, revenue officers found a quantity of false opium labels concealed in a man's trousers. The garment was shown The Titanic episode, which is very to the Magistrate by Chief Preven well done, has little bearing on
tive Officer Clarke. Defendant the story being a mechanical device
gave the usual excuse that the to get rid of the father and the trousers belonged to a friend and unworthy young woman and give he was unaware of the existence the hero the money to realise his of secret pockets. The man ambitious. It serves, of course, as fined 8100, or
aix weeks' hard
•
!!!
an additional attraction from the labour. box office point of view. -As-an episode it is quite extraordinarily moving and realistic.
The part of Becka"the Jewess is played by Virginia Valli who did so well with George O'Brien in Paid to Love." Her part here is not so attractive but she fills it very adequately and the rest of the cast is quite good.
CINEMA NEWS.
THE LIGHT OF ASIA.
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AT KOWLOON COURT,
SHIPS ROPE THEFTS.
wan
United States entered the war in 1817, when he returned to China and joined the revolutionary move-
MURDER PLOT IN BRUSSELS.
ALLEGED ITALIAN AGENT SHOT.
BROSSELS, August 7th. Cestari, an alleged Italian agent provocateur, was nearly murdered at Liége last night. He was "uuid while in Brussels to have bribed an Italian named Vecchio to denounce A compatriot Bottini as having been concerned in the attempt at Milan this year on the life of the King of Italy.
Vecchio, having, it is said, dis- covered the real role of Cestari, traced him to Liége and met him there in company with a woman yesterday evening. They parted at about 11.30 p.m., promising to meet again to-day.
Recently the Kowloon Magietsate (Mr. W. Schöfeld) ordered a firm of marine store dealers to return
Cestari had gone on a few yards to three local shipping firms rope further. when two men sprang out stolen from the vessels in the hat- from a doorway, fired several bour which had been found in the revolver shots at him, and disap- store. A sequel to the case was peared. Badly wounded in the the arrest of the master of the stomach and leg, Cestari WAS shop who was charged yesterday taken to hospital, where he lies in on two counte, (1) receiving 12
a serious condition. lengths of repe knowing the same to have been stolen or unlawfully dhtained; and (2) failing to make the necessary entry in his book as required by his licence.
Vecchio, who had stated that he was staying the night in Liége, was arrested as he was about to board the train for Brussels.
Mr. F. H. Loseby appeared for the defence and asked for a reduc- tion of the bail of $2,000 rash. SECRET ARREST IN PARIS. The police raised no objection, and his Worship made order for bail at 81,000 in cash and $1,000 in securi- ties.
The story of the life of Gautama Buddab is wonderfully told in" The Light of Asia which will be screened at the World from Sunday to Wednesday next. The picture shows the joys and sorrows, trials and temptations of Prince Gautama, who left his palace to put on the rags of beggar in order to serve mankind. The picture, acted by an entirely Indian cast, was photo graphed in the actual settings in
The case was fixed for hearing India. A love romance and many next Thursday afternoon. interesting and spectacular scenes. add interest to the picture. Thero is a great tourney to which princes from many places come with their elephants and camels in the hope
AN ALLEGED BURGLAR,
A Chinese when he was charged
of winning the hand of a princess. with breaking into and entering Over 500,000 people saw the, film the shop of Ali Asghar at No. 83, during its run at the Philharmonic Austin Road, denied the charge Hall, London, and it was generally and also maintained that he was declaimed by the British Press as not arrested inside the shop but being a unique production, and come distance away.. India's greatest contribution to the
screen.
New York.
by
With Д large cast led Richardo. Cortez, Lois Wilson, Estelle Taylor William Powell and Norman Trevor, "New York" will be screened at the Queen's on Tuesday and Wednesday next. The
story opens in Bowery "dive" where four men who have lived their lives on the East Side One man deter- are introduced.
The evidence was that the com- plainant woke up at 2.30 in the morning to and the electric light switched on and a Chinese inside the shop. With the assirtance of others the man was caught and handed over to the police.
An adjournment was made until to-day to enable the defendant to
call a winese.
ALLEGED THEFT OF STATE
PAPERS.
PARIS.
"A new scandal in which officials of the Civil Service are involved is engaging the attention of the Gov. ernment, following the arrest of a former high official of the Ministry of Liberated Regions.
The arrest was effected, secretly. and revealed several days later. It was made in connection, with the disappearance of a number of con- fidential documents concerning the execution of the Dawes Plan for German reparations.
It is alleged that the documenta were stolen from the files of the Ministry and sold to speculators who were interested in knowing the. Government's plans for the rebuild- ing of the devastated towna.
Acting with the utmost secrecy, the three magistrates charged with GAG OR HANDLE)
the investigation" paid surprise visits to Government departments, mines to get out of the rust and Four Chinese were charged with to the private houses of prominent raise himself to the level of the the possession of gage for an un- civil servants, to banks, and the beautiful society. girl he loves. His lawful purpose. A bit of wood to homes of other people suspected of adventures form the back ground which was attached a coil of wire being implicated in the plot. of the dramatic story directed by which would form an effective gag It is understood that a girl Luther Reed, who was responsible was the subject of the charge. typist employed in one of the Gov for "The Ace of Cads" Many in One of the defendants, explained ernment offices has confessed that teresting scenes including those of that the contrivance was used by it was she who copied the secret the Bowery itself, Time Square, him as the handle of a basket documents. She declared she did the Woolworth building, and other which he used in the bear trade so a good faith, but at the instiga- famous New York show places are The men were remanded for furtion of an official in whose depart to be seen in the picture.
ther investigations by the police. ment. she was employed,
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