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BRITISH FILMS IN
HONG KONG,
QUITE recently there appeared in
TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1931.
our ininds need a "joll" from time to time. That is why we were hoping that local cinema companies would take advantage of the recent offer of British productions.
* News and Views ⭑
Domocracy,
"White man taste no better than black men,' said the cannibal chief.". B. Scabrook's Jungle Ways"
British talking films have gone a long way since the production of
Blackmail "
and ** Allaatje." | and if local audiences are still shy of mental stimulant, why cannot we have such films as "Rookery The Tinny" Kind. Nook," which, should afford as many laughs as any Hollywood talkie. Again ex-servicemen would undoubtedly flock to see "Splint crn" which is the story of a divi- sional concert party in France, and which shows the lighter side of the Great War. There are other recent British musical, and talkie films like "Variety," the "Co-optimists," the famous Fred Etamey faree "A: Sister to Assist and It's a Boy," with Leslie Henson, which
Sir Hamilton Harty on wireless music. If you have tinned fruit all the time you are apt to lose taste for the real article." The Quaker Giri.
broke several records in London Inst year...
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The Society of Friends in New York have issued. nn amended "Book of Discipline," which de crees that it is no longer necessary for members of the faith to observe a strict plainness in dress
Sclance and Religion.
In a broadenst speech from the the Fope states: "God is the new wireless station. at the Vatican
Maker of both faith and science, hence the Vatican Council is able to proclaim that there in no conflict between them.'
The Mormons,
Death of Asiatic Explorer.
The death of Dr. Emil Trinkler, the Asiatic explorer, is announced in Berlin. Dr. Trinkler, who was 35, sustaired fatal injuries in a motor accident, A Doctor of Philology of Munich and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he had made a special study of Afghanistan and Tibet. In 1927 he undertook a expedition to North-Western Tibet and Chinese Turkestan, returning at the end of 1028: Ho was the author of several volumes on his explorationa.
|SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local."
Police Reserve Orders. Page 7. Handicaps for Saturday and Monday's race meeting. Page 7. Sentence of three yenre' imprison mint was passed at the Criminal Sessions yesterday on two Chinese who admitted a highway robbery.
Page 7.
Some people many wonder, "what does a Sanitary Inspector da?" The report for 1000 by the end of the Sanitary Board relates that they reported the following "nuis ances21,762 in all Page, 7.
Lam Shing and Lam Yuk wero indicted at the Crimipal Sessiong yesterday, before Mr. Justice Lind- sell, on a charge of robbery together with others not in custody, but they saved the time of the Court by pleading guilty.
Page 7.
An inquiry way hold yesterday at E. W. Hamilton and a jury, into the Kowloon Police Court, by Mr.
the death of Fung Foon, aged, 60, who was killed as May 3 as the result of injuries mustained after being knocked down by a 'bue in Nathan Road.
Page 7. To-day's wireless programme. further step
Page 5.
Soviet's Second Five Year Plan:.
Kuibishev, the President of the Soviet State Planning Commis sion, declared to a conference of scientists in Moscow that it was already clear that the Five Year Plan would be fulßlled in 1939, a bishev declared, a new Five Year year ahead of time. In 1933, Kui- Plan would begin which would secure the definite victory of So We have no fim quota system
cialism; the contrasts between in Hong Kong as they have at
town and country would be liquidat- ed by the mechanisation of agricul- home, but as we are British
ture organised in immense collec- Colony, it is high time that local
The Mormons are holding an tivist farms and cinema concerns interspersed their annual conference in Salt Lake would be taken towards abolishing Grant, their differences between physical and programmes with a few British pro- City, Mr. Heber
president, deplores the fact that mental work. Among other thing ductions. The British film industry some. Mormon women are still per- the new plan projects an increase makes no claim to special treat suaded to contract polygamous mar- in the production of the Kusnetzk, The Siberia, to 80,000,000 tons #year; ment, but only for a fair treat.riages by designing meal
Mormon Church, he said, excom- that is, more than the whole con ment for its productions. We be municated polygamists, who should production of the country at pre-
sent. In connection with the Kus lieve that films from England will be dealt with by the law.
netzk con basin the new iron make their way by their merits
works, the largest in the world, and by establishing a tradition of
being constructed by Americans on their own. We all know the dif-
virgin steppe at Magnetogorsk, at the south end of the Urals, whero. ficulties placed in the way of
there are very large iron deposits,
Overdue.
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the local Press an advertisement cinema proprietors who wish to when an overdue war bonus arrived are expected to begin production.
show anything outside Hollywood productions, but we believe that the
When an unemployed ex-soldier collapsed from hunger in a Pitts- burgh street he explained in hos pital that his trials would be over from Washington. The police went to his lodging and found a letter enclosing a State cheque for £100.
the old soldier's trials were, over, He was dead.
Grace Darling.
1
Latest Cables.
The body of Lieut.-Col. Morshead has been found, but the cause of his death is not yet known. Page 9.
The strike order to the French. textile workers has been obeyed by 100,000 out of 130,000 workers. The majority of Belgian employees are still working,
Раде 3.
Bomb throwers are busy in severals districts of Lisbon where oleven persons were injured on the occasion of demonstrations in sup port of a Dictatorship. Page 0. ten per ceat. reduction in
August 1, applies to all staffs of the P. & O. Co, afoat and ashore, from the Chairman downwards,
A
to the effect that a certain number of British Alms were open for hire public will be only too lensed to When they returned to the hospital berland, who was 8 last month, is salaries, which becomes effective on
The ace some of the films that break
away from the American methods
to local cinema companies. films were; if we remember coreet 1y, all 1830 productions by well; known British companies and Ind
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James Backworth, of Northam.
the cousin of Grace Darling and the last living ink with the heroine. It was 07 years ago that Bolshies War on the Dying,
Grave, with her father, the light- house-keeper of the Farne Islands, Doctors in Russia have been or-
went out in a tiny boat to the ship CITIES ON THE MUSHROOM dered by the Soviet Government to Forfarshire, which had struck
de all in their power to dissuade rock. Many people were drowned, their patients from asking for but Darling and his daughter re- absolution or the last sacruments scued nine, including a before death, according to a local Grace Darling died soon after | newspaper.
wards. It is one of the grent comply with this order will ironics that this daughter of the rogarded as having aided and abetted the spreading of "religious superstition" in the U.S.B.R.
PRINCIPLE.
1 more
'Doctors who do not
Smith Turned Medico,
woman.
.
sra. should have died of consump tion in, & stuffy room, while the four winds of heaven bent against her tightly-closed window,
Correct Sentiments for "Our
Cousins."
Page D.
The Provincial Governments of Hunan and Hapeh have wired Chen Tani Tong urging him to desist from stirring up civil strife and pointing out the fate met by Feng Yu Hsiang and Yen Hai Shan, who had a con aiderably larger army, Page 0.
Warned by Dutch detectives the pollee seized four large cases enn- taining eight hundred kilogrammes of raw opium, disguised as Dried Frait," consigned from Constan- tinople vid Rotterdam to Antwerp.
Page 9.
Helmets for Paris Police.
où by British and American critics. We have been awaiting with in-
AccomDING to present calculations terest, therefore, to see whether the the civilised countries of the world public of Hong Kong were to be are at this moment trying to sup- efforded an opportunity of viewing port about twenty million unci- the latest examples of British ployed persons, and though that film art, but, after scanning the amount of "Black" in the indus. lists of future programmes in local trial situation may be diminished, smith, who became first an amateur Alexis Moreau, a Paris black-
At midnight, after long delibera- cinemas, it appears as though we it is very unlikely that it will ever veterinary surgeon and then an
tions, the German delegation to are to be disappointed. Hongbo permanently taken up as the amateur doctor, is about to answer New York. After hearing him the Lengue of Nations' Council an- nounced that both Austria and Ger- Kong cinema audiences have seen, world is administered to-day. The before a Paris court a charge of self called the supreme interpre-
illegally practising medicine. Heter of life" by Dr. John G. Hibben,many are determined to persevere we believe, only two British pen problem is one that leads
is now over 60 years of age, and President of the Princeton Univer with their proposals for an Austro- ductions since talking pictures than resthetic interest in Mr. H. set up na a blacksmith in the St.sity, Mr. John Galsworthy told the German Custome union,, in spite of the French argumenta. Huge . were inaugurated in the Colony G, WELLA' prophecy, when he open. Quen quarter thirty years ago. But diners at a meeting of the Princeton over eighteen months ago Blacked a modern Transport Exhibition his scientific mind was not satis- Library Association that the cconv- fied with the simple business of mic depression had apparently mail" and "Atlantic" Bat these in London of a world which will fixing horseshoes. Beginning to brought Americans happiness and two films were not "new" in the bo building and rebuilding and ex. study the discases of horses, he contentment which they had had no treated the animals with auch time to apprecinto in the period same sense as the American proùue- périmenting in architecture' more
success that he soon acquired a big of prosperity. It seems to me," tions which were shown about the freely' than hins ever heen the caso | local reputation. Making still Mr. Galsworthy said, "coming here same time; they were over a year | in the, past:-
further progress, he decided to after five years, that the people of apply his skill to his fellownen. America are more quietly efficient, old, and were among the first talk-
We can look forward to a time In this department, 100, he achiey more kindly, and, if possible, less ing films to be made in England. when towns will rebuild themed so much business success that he hurried, and on the whole more | Taking this into account, there-
selves just as we now go to
contented-looking than I ever re- tailor for new suit of clothes,
member them; and that is rather fore, it was surprising to note their.
when people will no longer think
odd considering these are what are excellence in many ways. No onc of living in houses 100 or 150
called bad times." Mr. Galsworthy who
"Blackmail "
years old, houses haunted by the
warned them against over-emphasis nad
ghosts of arm and women who
or Modernism in literature, adding "Atlantic" will deny that there
"We should not make a fetish of have lived and died in them. was originality in the British pro- Houses will pass very rapidly out
tradition, but neither should we Juctions. This was particularly
out of use, and rehousing and
barn joss sticks to upheaval In rebuilding will become as normal
spite of all the impatience of chang true in the case of Atlantic,"
accupation as harvesting.
ing fashion Literature, like social. which, in spite of occasional bathos
customs, has a habit of stendy ad- herence to the human need, which is a fairly constant thing."..
BIW
converted his smithy into a labourn tary for the manufacture of oint ments and potions of which he alone held the secret. Same time ago he was fined 1001. (18) for the illegal practice of medicine. He then took into partnership a qualified chemist, believing that he would thus be able to sell his medi- eines legally. It appears, however, that he has treated patients for all kinds of maladies, and has become a serious competitor of the local
ir its dialogue, its uninteresting It is an engaging and adventur-
Modern excavadoctors. ous possibility. photography, except in a few not. tions have shown that there were able incidenta, and a number of
no fewer than nine successive cities nautical errors, made-n vivid and
or settlements on the site of Troy, profound impression on all who
ranging in point of time from saw it.
perhaps about 3000 B.C.to a And bero the all-important quca- Greco-Roman town of the Christian tion arises: Does the general era. According to Mr. WELLS' public want mental stimulant or vision, our later world might have
Paris is about to undergo uh- other change of appearance, small in itself, but important in the eyes of old Parisians. It has been de- finitely decided that the "képi," or cap worn by the police shall ho replaced by a helmet. The pattern selected is like a tropical helmet, but of blue felt with two broad white bands encircling the crown. It has been adopted on strictly utilitarian grounds, for it has been shown recently that the policemen on trafic duty are not sufficiently distinguished from the ordinary citizen.
Recently the experimenti was tried of making these officers more clearly visible by placing a white band round the köpt, but this has proved to be sufficiently, conspicuous.
* Local Notes and Events ⭑
The clean-up of the Raub Aus- only amusement? The answer has nine new towns in the course of tralian Gold Mining Co., Ltd., for been given by American producers a single centory or less than that the four weeks ended, April 25, go to the cinemas to be if new housing schemes come round amounted to 1,803.05 oz. gold, amused; to the majority the film with the regularity of harvests or
-WB
and
The Colony have a clean bill of, gave him fourteen days to be happy health for Inst Friday. During the in, and Coffee left the court in 46 hours ended on Sunday there charge of a constable protesting were one case of typhoid and one against the severity of the sen- of cerebro-spinal meningitica tence.-Hong Kong Daily Press,
May 19, 1900. is regarded as entertainment and the urge for spring hats The years in the employ of the Taikoo sell four wooden doors to a marine
A Chinese, who had been ̈ten. Arrested as they were about to Looking Back 50 Years, not A# a medium of dramatio
house-breaker and the house-builder Sugar Refinery, was charged be hawker, two Chinese, who were The fact that ten steamers of expression.. Britain, Germany, would be at work alternately-or fore Mr. W. Echofeld yesterday charged at Kowloon Magistracy light craft are being built in Eng- France, Russin and, in a few cases, perhaps side by side, with one half with the theft of four bars of yesterday, with the theft of the land to the order of a French firm
Bolder. The defendant pleaded doors from 88, Argyll Street, plead for the Cochin-China trade is a America have produced, and are of a town coming down while the guilty and was fined $50 or in ed not guilty. One of them ex- no significant straw indicating how producing, films of great artistic other hall went up. The only glimpse default, one month's hard labour. plained that he had been engaged the wind blows. These vessels are,
dramatic value, but the of such a system which' is vouch-
to carry the doors for 18 cents it is reasonable to suppose, intend- American producer, who has one, eafed to us at present is in the Schofield with cutting trees in he was merely helping the first is no other employment for, such a When charged before Mr. W. and the second man claimed thated for the Song-Koi trade, as there and one only, aim, serves up to realm of rond-making, whero, as Broadwood Road, a Chinese ex
They were each sentenced to six fleet of light draft steamers, France the film public throughout the soon as a new surface is complete, plained that he had only cut a months' hard labour.
has not abandoned the intention of world-entertainment only. That
annexing Tonquin; but merely de- along come the pipe and cable branch to make an umbrella handle.
ferred" it, and it would seem from The police, however, produced a is why Hong Kong cinema audi-layers who pull it up again. The branch weighing about 16 pounds.
the latest news in regard to the ences are, generally speaking, satis
subject that in the meantime she is not usually regarded A fine of $10, or, in default, ten fied with the film fare supplied to with approval by citizens and road-days' hard labour, was imposed,
The following is from the Singa, is about to take stops for properly. pore Free Preat:-"Bernard Coffee, policing the estuaries and lower them in local theatres.
users, but that is probably due to
At the close of a ca at the an ex-Hong Kong policeman, who part of the river in order to secure It is enzy, however, to become the obstinate and unenlightened Criminal Sessions yesterday. Mr. appears regularly at the Police the safety of trade. Although the stereotyped, in regard to our ideas conservatism of the herd. In the Justice Lindsell informed the Court Courts for drinking stronger liquor ideas once entertained as to the that the Chief Justice and himself than that his nama signifies, was extent of the possible trade with of the film drama. If there was coming Utopia where, art and wished it to be known that future again before Mr. Colman this Yunnan by this route have had to alternative entertainment, the pre-economics have both indicated that hearings of Criminal Sessions ses morning. Colles strenuously deniedbe considerable died, the fast sent level of talking films, could new houses shall be as frequent no would commence at 10 in the morn-that he was drunk on this occasion remains that there is some trade to a man could be done, and that if a profitable be regarded with equanimity. But new hats that tendency will probing continuing to 12.30 pm. The adding though that
| afternoon_hearing would commenco be as happy in 'gaol ne outside if character-Hong Kong Daily, in the absence of touring companies ably have been corrected.
ut 2,30 finishing at 4.18 p.m.
he had no work" Mr. Colman | Press, May 18, 1831.
process
Looking Back 25 Years.