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IT'S A COP
EVELYN PRENTICE
LAP » Waitomo, tendency of dim Life's most potent dramas are producers to give the stars of their wrong from the courtrooms. Thườ pictures strong supporting, casta realizing TILA Value of story I won ovidenced in British and
material to be found in courtrooms; Dominions' "It's a Cop," at the Metro-Goldwyn - Mayer .studios King's Theatre to-day.
again have toamed William Powell oyney Howard, who stars as a and Myrna Loy for the thrid time, London policoman, has timbless his tame in une gripping courtroom show his comic drama "Evelyn Prentice showing opportunities to verantility, and his supporting at the Oriental Theatre on Wednes casu motudes such splendid charac-day and Thursday, N LUF actors as Donald Calthrop, It is such a story that brings Dorothy Bouchier, aud Garry Powell and Miss Loy, accepted no afarsh, as three crooks.
the ideal husband and wile of the screen, to the theatre public "for the third time,
Donald Calthrup needs no words of introduction he is in a class by himself in British pictures. Hist character acting is probably the JONE accomplished which the sereen has to offer and in every part he emerges as an entirely dis tince personality. As Murray, in "It's a Cop," he renders au ex traordinary study of B orooked, manufacturer who, even in the process of cheating his company, is constantly beset with nerves and the fear of detection.
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Dorothy Bouchier makes her bow as a free-lance artists in "It's A Cop." appearing, by a coincidence
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As in their previous pictures, Po- well and Miss Loy have been given an excellent supporting cast, in- ending Una Morkel, Henry Wad- swroth, Harvey Stephens, Isabel Jewell, Rosalind Russell. Edward Bropry, Cora Sue Collins and Jessie Ralph.
ed by the charin and facility upon which her reputation is based.
Garry Marsh is said to turn in his usual effective study
in a production of the very comforceful and daring organiser of a pany to whom she was under con- coup which, if successful, would be tract for a considerable period. worth thousands of pounds to him- Her work as Babette is distinguish-self and his confederates..
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AS A COOK — A
DETECTIVE-A POLICEMAN-" ITS A CUP.”.
Sychroni HOWARD
It's a Cop
DOROTHY BOUCHIER DONALD
ALSO
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POLMANSARI HERBERT WILCOX STROLL THRU BOLLAND (PICTORIAL)
“A SONG CONTEST""(Organlogue)
—NEXT CHANGE——— SHIRLEY TEMPLE
IN “OUR LITTLE GIRL" A FOX PICTURE.
GUN FIGHT IN SHANGHAI
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Three Pedestrians Wounded
Shanghai, Aug. 28. Scores of pedestrians in Fong Zia Road, Nantao, had either to seek shelter in shops or lie down on the ground at about 11.15 a.m. yesterday, when two robbers, en- countering a police party, engag- ed the latter to a gun fight. In about 50 shots fired, three pedes- trians and wie police constable were wounded. One armed man and with four suspects were Er- rested,
The couple were chased into. the Chinese territory by the French Police after they had rob- bed a Chinese woman of $1,100 in banknotes in Rue du Marche, near Rue Lafayette. Before they cross- ed the border, an Annamite con- stable attempted to stop them but was fired upon. The shots went wild.
According to the victim, she was carrying the money from a pawns shop to another pawnshop in the same street, where her husband was employed, when a woman, a perfect stranger, engaged her ing conversation. Suddenly two men appeared with pistols, throwing pepper into her eyes. Her package containing the money was quickly snatched away, and she screamed at the top of her voice for help.
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CORPORATION HEAD SENTENCED
Sequel To Closure Of Local Finance Institution
Shanghai, Aug. 28.
SINGAPORE ENGAGEMENT the defunct Wing On Finance Cor- Mr. Ou Chien-chen, manager of
poration, was sentenced to
оде
London, August 15.
The engagement is announced year's imprisonment by Judge Mao When General Ugaki, now of H. G. Beverley. Assistant Com-in the First Special District Court Governor General of Korea, was missioner of Police, FMS., Alde on Monday afternoon on charges Minister for War he advocated the de-camp to His Excellency the of fraud and misappropriation. increase of the standing army in Governor, and Kathleen Audrey, Mr. K. H. Ling, secretary-general Korea on the ground. that, if there only daughter of Me and Mrs. J of the Chinese Bankers Associa - were trouble in Manchuria troops D'Ferrepont of Singapore!
tion, who served as a director of could be sent by rail across the
Miss Audrey Pierrepont arrived the defunct concern, was fined border to settle It, without the Malaya from England at the $200 for failure to register with uproar that was excited among beginning of this year. She is the authorities in accordance with the Powers when they were dis well-known in Singapore where the corporation law, while Mr. Lo patched from Japan by transports, she has taken a prominent part Hua-long, another official of the writes a correspondent. Evidently in soolal events during the past institution, was acquitted. à similar idea actuates General few months. ...
Both Mr. Ou and Mr-Ling were Hayashi, the present Minister of As a tennis player she has ap-named defendants in a private War, who recently returned from peared in several local tourna-criminal prosecution. by Mr. Chang. a tour through Manchuria. Again,ments and hot with considerable King-sal, Mrs. Chao Chu-sze, and
a year ago, he has "broken his success. predecessor General · Araki's pro-
mise that the military expenditure
several other depositors. The ac cused were further ordered by the court to refund $558.86 to the first complainant, $300 to the second complainant, while Mr. Onu was Army, but only succeeded in. see also ordered to pay one complain- ing General Itagaki, who told him, ant, Liu Chia-Ing. $1,717,77 and in reply to a question, that the interest. The suit died by Miss army regarded the independence Chao Bu-cheng, and the cly sults movement in North China as an hy Mrs. Chao Chu-sze and Mr. Zia exclusively domestic matter of Chun-ying were referred to the China's, that it had no knowledge Civil Division of the First Special of it, and would refrain from District Court comment, in order to avoid even the appearance of interference..
in Manchuria will be reduced. It sador in Hsinking and Comman- needs rather to be increased, he der-in-Chief of the Kwantung says. The bandits, it is true, have been reduced from the highest official estimate of 210,000 to between 20,000 and 30,000, but the army, instead of being reduced, needs strengthening by another division at least, though it is doubtful whether Japan can spare so many (or afford to keep them on a war basis, he might have
The corporation closed its doors added).
not long after its inauguration, There has been a prolonged and and efforts to reopen, were made SOVIET TROOPS
important conference of high without success. Mr. Ou, the There are, the Minister for War Japanese officers in Hsinking, the manager, was Chased by several pedestrians,
said, some 240,000 Soviet troops conclusions of which have been months imprisonment on charges sentenced to ten along the border, Shanghai, Aug. 28. the robbers entered Nantao by.
who need only unofficially given out. The or obtaining deposits through watching. (In this connection conference decided, according to traudulent means and six months" Coming here from South Amer- way of the Tang Ka Wan Market.
there is trouble over orders for this statement, that it was not imprisonment on charges of mis ica by way of Canada, where he Chinese Constable Li Po-chin, who
60,000 tons of cement-and pro-interested in the independence u this production, the first since
has been on a holiday, Mr. H. A.heard shots fred on the bound-
spective orders for another 100.003 movement; and
| appropriating"
the depositors' the child screen wonder received Scott, new Trade Commissionerary, immediately rushed an alarm
General Sakai, special award from the for Canada, arrived in Shanghai) to a station. While the woman
Miss Father 9. Lyen the talent tons which are part of the pay- Chief of Staff of the Japanese funds, and to serve one year in Academy of Motion Picture Arts in the s.a. Empress of Japan yes- who took part in the robbery was
ed "young daughter of Mrs. Marment in kind for the Chinese Carrison Forces in North China, and Sciences, she gives a powerful terday. He was accompanied by lost sight of the two men were
garet Lyen prominent local re- Eastern Railway. To the mutar who was present, told an inter The suite against other officials portrayal of a child's heart-break. his wife.
seen running towards Feng Zia sident arrived here on the ss. mind cement can only mera for- viewer that it would be left to of the institution, including, Mr. When those she loves grope in the
Mr. Scott replacès. Colonel L. Road In pursuit, Constable Li Conte Rosso accompanied by her cations; but it is so much an take its course. A statement re- Teng Ching-wan, will be heard on shadows of misunderstanding M Cosgrave, who last November was fired upon and wounded in
mother (who went to Bingapore to article of ordinary commerce that garding what is "authoritatively September 255. Shirley meets the. trisis with a
meet her) from Europe.
the objection has withered away understood" "confirms the un- brave smile.
left Shanghai to take a similar the foot. She plays at being
to a complaint that it was sold official report of the army con- happy to rebuild a shattered dream. post in Melbourne. Since Colonel
Before the couple got to the
Miss Esther S. Lyen first went too cheaply and that it was obference, and says that the army "Our Little Girl" is a poignant Cosgrave's departure, Mr. Bruce other end of the street, they were to London where she obtained her Jectionate-seeing that cement is requires the immediate cessation story, tenderly conceived, freighted MacDonald has been the Acting met by a police party headed by degree SA a Licenclate of the also used for military purposes of anti-Japanese and anti-Man with heart-tugs yet leaving the Commissioner.
Inspecor Kung Dung-cheng. With Royal Academy of Musto, later to allow a soviet agent to come chukuo: movements in North aduiences, from all
Before his appointment to the cut warning, the robbers opened proceeding to Germany for fur reports, strangely happy.
Shanghai post, Mr. Scott was fire, to which the policemen re- ther studies. Hundreds of novela and short Trade Commissioner for the Cana-plied, the shots dispersing scores stories in print and typescript were dian Government in Buenos Aires, or pedestrians in the streel. road before this particular story a position that he held for two the confusion, one gangster es WEB selected for Shirley, Who and a half years. Prior to that caped, while the other was cap- the list thinned down to thirty, the he was a member of the staff of tured with a pistol in his hand. producer discovered that "Our Little Girl" was ready-made for representatives of Canada at the the adorable star.
It tells the story of a happy family disunited by suspicions, threatened with wreckage, and of a littel girl who runs away from hez home when she finds all the Joy and safeguards gone.
PERAK MINERS
Ipoh, Aug. 24.
Conference
Imperial Economic held at Ottawa in 1931.
ECONOMIC SPECIALIST After service in the war and
In
A portion of the loot was also found in "his possession.
Of the three. wounded pedes trians, all of whom were of the after graduating from Queen'st be in a serious condition. They labouring class, two were reported University, where he specialized in were all sent to the Municipal economics. Mr. Scott entered the Hospital on the Nantao Bund. Canadian Ciali Bervice, and Was attached to the Federal Depart- ment of Agriculture.
He was later transferred to the Department of Trade and Com-
It is understood the Parak merce. He became Trade Commis- Chinese Planting and Mining
sioner at Liverpool, later returning
Association has passed a resolution to the Imperial Economic Conter- that-in view of the strong and ence, and then going to Buenos unanimous opinion of the Malayan Aires. delegation as conveyed by Mr. V.
It la felt, not only in local cir-
WHEN MRS. LINDBERG
WAS AFRAID
(Special Air Mail Service).
London, Aug 15
Miss Lyen was educated at the received her early training in St. Stephen's Girls' College and
pianoforte music under the in- struction of Mr. Frederick Mason and Miss Luba Pecker. She will be giving lessons locally and we hope to hear more of her recitals over the radio and local concerts.
the Tangise River while their 'plane was being lowered from the British aircraft carrier Hermer Something went wrong.
Better get ready to jump, my husband's voice shot at me tersely, she writes. "I climbed out and looked into the muddy current. Jump' he shouted, and I jumped We were swept downstream to a lifeboat, where we limbed aboard and wiped dirty Yangtse water off
our fa068,"
A. Lowinger, that agreement becies, but in Canada, that Mr. Scott graphically described by Anne Momente of terror in the air are tween the signatory countries on will do much to forward the Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Col.
Throughout the book ruas an the basis of the standard tonnages economic relations between Cana- Lindbergh, in her first book, "North cho of her happiness with her of 1929 is an essential condition da and China. He is one of the of the Orient, published to day. husband, and there are intimate for renewal of the restriction outstanding economists of Canada. It tells of her air craise with her glimpses of her love for her little agreement the committee of the A number of dinners, t'ffins, and husband to China in 1931, vis Pointsby later to be kidnapped and Perak Mining and Planting "Asso-
killed ciation agrees that the ratio of him and Mrs. Scott to give him Lindbergh, caught in thick fog over receptions have been planned for Barrow, Nome, and Fetropavlovsk
Describing an occasion when tonnages of the signatory countries an opportunity of meeting many volcanic country, sought desperate shall not be altered and that nego of the business, men in Shanghally for an opening, she writes: "His tiations for renewal of the agree-
face was set. I could see it out of ment may proceed on this basts on
the side of the cockpit, the wind cond tion the industry shall be
lips were tightly closed like a man fattening it like a skeleton. His gritting his teeth in his last fight Were we two, I wondered, at our last Sight ??''
consulted and given the opportu- The commitee is of opinion that nity of expressing its opinion on there should be no deterioration any agreement which may be rea- of the present position of Malayan ched with other countries before producers vis-a-vis all other parti- such agreement is ratified by the cipating countries under the terms
· Governments.
of any new agreement,
Another passage describes how the Lindberghs were spilled into
into the cement mill to watch the China, thus paving the way for manuracture in progress) The economic co-operation between
all:
ALLAMBRA
CENTRE
FOLLOW FAMOUS PHILO
VANCE AS HE SOLVES THE AMAZING SWIMMING POOL MURDER MYSTERY!
army in Manchuria will be a China, Japan and Manchukuo, FIN L SHOWINGS TO-DAY convenient for use in North China Chinese financial quarters in the A 2.80, 5.20, 720 49.80 p'm. as that in Korea was for use in North, the authoritative state- Manchuria NN LANTAR
ment continues, heardly welcome it to be said in the press that its (Nanking) Army under Genera
Normally the army will not allow the withdrawal of the Central opinions do not perfectly coincide ya. This will mean a freer field with those of the Foreign Office, of activity for industrialists who but apparently there are excep are now desirous of effecting tions. Lately Mr. Ots, the Am prompt: economic co-operation bassador in Moscow, came home with
Japanese and Manchukuo on leave and made a speech to interests." It is added that the leading business men at the Osaka army will spare no effort to en- Club. Mr, Ota told his hearers courage and expedite these co- that Russia would require a large operative tendencies quantity of Japanese goods for
NANKING'S SUGGESTION. the second Five-year-Plan, that As for Nanking's suggestion that she was inspired by a new, and the Tangku Truce should be em- pacing spirit, and that rumours of bodied in a treaty, General Barat aggressive actions on the border says that the arthy intends to were deliberately alarmist, in bring to an end China's "dual order to keep the sense of national policy in deci'ng with Bino crisis alive is the public mind" Japanese affairs. The elimina The army was reported to be tion of anti-Japanese activity exceedingly angry about this, and be left to the Tokio Foreign Ome ordered Colonel Kanda, Chief of while the Japanese ar the Russia Section of the Army a watch over the situat General Staff, to Osaka, so that that no further violation
he might speak to the business men and give them the correct view on this subject.
military agreem
There is one pol ind North
he likes flying. "It is megic,
Finally Mrs. Lindbergh tells why he writes, that has more kinship There are rumours, the army pent
"NO INTERFERENCE" with what one experiences standing tells us, of an independence more in front of serene Madonnas or ment in North Chine. The listening to wool chorales or stated that the army in a books. illuminating that one had sent
eading one of those clear passages annoyed about them, and feels that the writer has given the China com WATE
razdern glass-bottomed 2 boeket; where with to peer through the ruffled surface of life far down to that still permanent world blow Gener
THE
DRAGON MURDER CASE
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