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THE HONG K THURSDAY, JANUA FRIDAY, JANUARY 4th, 1929.
"MOCKERY” AT THE YESTERDAY'S HELENA MAYA LADIES' SCORCHED COAT.
QUEEN'S.
A STUDY OF A TRADI- TIONAL RUSSIAN
PEASANT,
NOVEL MUSICAL TURN.
[BY OUR FILM CRITIC)
." Mockery" is Lon Chaney's latest picture in which he takes the part of a Russian peasant in the days of the Revolution. It has
CONCERT.
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN,
Mrs. Hargreaves Brown who organised the musicale held yester- day in the Helena. May. Institute, ia to be congratulated on having made a radical and very delightful change from the usual programmes
MISHAP WHILE GOING ASHORE IN M.M.
LAUNCH...
SKIRTS AND TAILORS DIS- CUSSED IN COURT.
of alternate vocal and instrumental in the Summary Court is called to It is not very often that a Judge
items.
The programme was made up of discuss women's fashiona în general well known vocal numbers from the | and short skirts in particular,"but most popular of the Gilbert and
Sullivan operas. and several star this was the task before Mr.
performers of the Philharmonic Justice P. Jacks at the Summary Society came to play their parts Court yesterday when Miss Georgia again in multi on this small stage.
baen claimed that, in the role. The variation of sala, trio, and Gale summoned the Messageries:
ed.
in Russia is
not
part singing was very well arranged, Maritimes for $200 being damages and yesterday's large audience owed done to a coat which she was wear- a debt of gratitude to Mr. Har ing when being taken ashore from greaves Brown and her willing band of artistes, a debt which they paid the . Paul Lecat on
A atekmi
in part at all events in their most launch provided by the defendant
firm on October 2nd, last year. cathusiastic applause.
Flaintiff
SPEA
Sergei," Chaney has reached the heights of his powers of charac- terisation, but there are two factors which seem to have been overlook The one, and that the most important, is that a peasant even
Having spent so enjoyable a time
Mr. J. T. Prior appeared for the brutish it is a rather ungrateful task to "Neanderthal man" of this type pick out any particular singer for the plaintiff and Mr. H. C. Mae of romance.
A peasant may, and praise, but we think no one will namara was for the defendants.
begrudge Mr. Brock a specially ap- often does, appear stupid, an atti-preciative mention for his two solos.
net present in tude which he adopta as a defence against a man in a stronger post- tion, but he is a shewd fellow at heart, as a MAI must be who wrings a living out of the earth with little in the way of money or machinery to help him. Secondly, however well acted, this type of "missing ink man is not a hero in whom one can take a great in
tercat.
The story is quite good but it would have been more interesting if
The facts of the case as present- were that Miss Cale arrived.
Mr. Brock is an actor above all Court and her evidence, which had and is at his best in these recitative been taken de bene ease was sub- songs. As he sung the Mikado'smitted by her solicitor. song, the brown lounge suit he wore seemed to be veiled in the Mikado'r robes, and his face take on the ed lines which make up would have here on the Paul Lecat on October given to it behind the footlights.
Mrs. Womack's strong clear voice, too, did much to help, especially in the part songs, while Mr. and Mrs. Richards gave really charming
1
2nd and the vessel was anchored in midstream. She and other pas- sengers were going ashore in launch provided by the defendants items in their duets,
There can be no doubt of the when the awning of the launch All the caught fire. The flame was just success of this concert, artistes appeared to enjoy them above "Miss Gale's head and a selves as much as the audience- that is, of course, the great appeal burning piece of stuff, fell on her. Every 'She was at the time wearing a of Gilbert and Sullivan. body likes singing their songs and tailor-made cloth coat, waistcoat most people, think they sing them rather well. This does not always and skirt. The shoulder of her coat was scorched and though the follow, but no one had any com
damage was slight it was sufficient plaints yesterday.
to ruin her coat.
it had been told via Tatiana and her lover rather than through the workings of a brutish mind. Barbara Bedford acts very well in deed as the Countess Tatiana she is always lovely and always intensely alive, her fear and her courage being equally well drawn. Riczdo Cortez. too, does well in fis shall part as Dimitri," the White army-captain, who wins the love, of the Countess. The cast as t whole is good (although very. patently American in type) and the settings ard excellent. What the picture needs is a good deal less Ohaney and more of the vigorous life that made such an excellent film of A Girl in Every Port" The American mind is divided by 4. far too wide a gull from that of the Russian realistic scheel to be able to play a story of this sort with anything like conviction,
Professor Hartrath.
A novel and interesting musical turn preceded the picture. Profes- sor Otto Hartrath gave selections on various instruments, violin. Flexatone, Xylophone, and an in- vention of his own the Singing Saw.' He played with considerable sweet- ness and skill, and gained the hearty applause of the audience. This performance is being given at all shows this week at the Queen's.
CINEMA NEWS.
"CIRCUS ROOKIES COMING TO QUEEN'S.
1
Programme..
The programme was as follows— 1-Sextette
Patience.
2-Three little, maids...Mikado. Mrs. Bellamy, Mrs. Womack,
and Mrs. Carnegic.
3. Oh Rapture"........
5.
...
What caused the fire was diffi-
Mrs. Bellamy, Mrs. Womack, cult to say and it was speedily put Mrs. Carnegie, Mesars, Annis, out by the coxswain before any Richards, and Hargreaves- damage was done to the launch. Brown
In cross-examination by Mr. Macnamara when her evidence was being taken de bene esse, she said that she thought the fire was caue- ed by a spark from the funnel" of the launch. It was put to plain- tift that the fire was equally likely to have been caused by some care- less passengers throwing a lighted cigar of cigarette end on the awning.
,"
Mikado.
The Gondoliers. Mr. and Mrs. Richards. As some day it may kappen
Mr. Brock. Strange Adventure
Yeomen of the Guard. Mrs. Womack, Mrs. Carnegie, Mr. Annis and Mr. Har "greaves-Brown.
Haddon Hall. Song.....
Mrs. Womack. -Madrigal.......... Haddon Hall. Mrs. Womack, Mrs. Carnegie, Mr. Annis and Mr. Har greavee-Brown, 6-Mikado's song... Mikado Mr. Brock.
Mikado. 0. Trio"
Mesars. Annis, Richards and Hargreaves-Brown.
Iolanthe.
Out That Dofles Anno Domini. Mr. Prior admitted that the cont was eighteen months old. However it was expected to last a long time as it had been tailored by the best ladies tailor in London. Mr. Prior further remarked that he had seen Misa Gale wearing clothes of similar cut but of different colour when she gave her evidence. Mr. and Mrs. Richards.
Those clothes were eight years old 11.- Flowers that bloom in the
Spring"
Mikado, and yet she looked very smart in Mrs. Bellamy, Mrs. Carnegie, them.
Messrs. Richards, Brock and Hargreaves-Brown. See how the Fates"
10.--Duet
Karl Dane, and George K. Ar- thur, of "Rookies"
Baby and Mine,
are together again in "Circus Rookies which will be 13. screened at the Queen's from Sun- day Tuesday. The story is one of circus life with thrills and laughs and a charming remance between Arthur and Louise Lor raine, who plays the part of a trapeze artist. Daac appears 25 an animal trainer, chaperoning & giant gorilla until "the beast he comes rebellious Thrills before the target of a knife thrower, wild chases with the angry gorilla, a breath taking trip to a trapeze under the "big top," and a dash over the roofs of a moving circus train, are among the 'spectacular. zcenes in the story.
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Mikado. Mrs. Womack, Mrs. Carnegie, Messra Annis, Richards and Hargreaves-Brown.
SCOTTISH ENGINEERS'
HUSTLE.
BRIDGE BLOWN UP AND REPLACED IN 18 HOURS.
L.N.E.R. FEAT.
A bridge at East Linton, East Lothian, which carries the main line
His Lordship: Haven't fashions changed considerably of late years? I thought no lady would be seen any garment of eight years
ago 1
Mr. Prior': She would in these tailor-made clothes.
His Lordship (smilingly): ́I am not an authority.
Mr. Prior: Neither am I.
His Lordship: Ia the skirt
short !
1 it.
Mr. Prior: I have not measured
They Have Not Dons Sof His Lordship then remarked that EDINBURGH. in a few years' time ladies would probably be wearing their skirts down to their ankles again in of the London and North-Eastern which case the skirt, if short, Railway from London to Edinburgh would be of no use at all. and Aberdeen was demolished and Mr. Prior replied that in that another permanent structure was case his Lordship would have to erected in its place within eighteen wait and see.
Many years ago hours. It was the first time in the I can remember, when skirts first history of British railway engiacer got as short as they are now, it ing that a bridge bas been replaced was said that they were bound to without the provision of a tempor increase in length, but they have ary overhead way in the interval.
News of the undertaking, despite Mr. Macnamara submitted that precautions, had reached Holly he had no case to answer, and that wood, and a corps of camera men in Englaad, the case under dispute and directors from three film com could never go to a jury. Plain- Panies were present to record the tiff would be non-suited.
Plaintiff would have to prove blowing up of the old. bridge-n | spectacle which would have cost her case beyond any reasonable them tens of thousands of pounds doubt as to negligence by the de- to reproduce in the studies of Los fendant firm. Even if coal or hot Ashes fell from the smoke stuck, it was no evidence of negligence.
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They were unlucky, however, for the great explosion which destroyed the century old bridge took place in the dark. and the Scottish engi- neers were deaf to all appeals to delay the operation,
not done so."
Mr. Prior submitted that the de- fendant company were responsible: for everyone and everything in the launch. If launches were proper- ly constructed and properly looked The charges were electrically after, they do not extch fire. fired, and echoes of the explosion His Lordship after reviewing reverberated through East Lothian: the case at length said that no The new bridge, a high steel evidence had been adduced to Pro-structure weighing nearly 200 tons, prove negligence against the defen- and with a span almost twice that dant firm. No evidence had been of the old bridge, was hauled inch given as to how the fire occurred. by inch inte position on speciulls It might have occurred in many constructed bogies running on different ways, and in the absence transverse railway lines, and was of any evidence as to negligence on lowered to the permanent way level the part of the defendants, he by eight 100-ton hydraulic jacks.. must give judgment for the defen-
dants with costs. The scheme cost £75.000.
Mandoline Band. "The Man in the Ditch"
Told by Edgar Wallace. God Save The King. Close down. ́ ̈‚'
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