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5 GOLDEN RULES FOR MARRIAGE
MAGISTRATE'S ADVICE TO GIRLS
Mr. Claud Mullins, the London South-Western magistrate. dis- tributed the prizes at Rosebery County School for Girls, Epsom. recently.
On the question of marriage he had five golden rules to lay down: (1) Study marriage in all its aspects before embarking on it, just as you study history and geography, only a good deal better; and be frank with your "partner "before marriage.
(2) Try to arrange harmony in the home in the matter of money. and try to get the husband to realise that wives and mothers probably work as hard as he does: and try to get him to realise that
WILLS AND BEQUESTS
Woman Leaves £365,000
Lord Wyföld, Wyfold Court, Reading, left £154,522 (net per- Benalty £152,968)
€1,000 is bequeathed to buller, Frederick Eke.
his
Sir Hugh Levick, Wynberg, Cape Town, banker, left estate in Eng- land £40,558 (net personalty £40,- *858).
Mrs, Charlotte Cooper, Owthorpe, Bournemouth, widow of the Rev. William Cooper, left £365,797 (net personalty £355,760). Estate duty £107,017. Bequests include:
£1,000 to Canon E. Montague Dale, Vicar of St. Michael and All Angela, Bournemouth, in acknow, ledgment of his kindness to me."
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(3) Share your friends, and do
not jump to foolish conclusions if you see your partner talking to someone or your sex on top of the
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"
(4) Be prepared by knowing how to cook and what food gives good value.
(5) Remember what Moses sald that man cannot live by bread alone, and do not ignore spiritual values.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1937,
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong.
KING'S :---
"Stolen Holiday"
QUEEN'S
7th Heaven" ORIENTAL:-
"Michael Strogof"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
7th Heaven"
STAR:-
"I Met Him In Paris" MAJESTIC;-
"Hot Money"
KING'S:-
Coming
"All American Chump" QUEEN'S:-
"Wild Money"
ORIENTAL:
"Escadrille"
ALHAMBRA:---
"Stowaway"
STAR:-
"Gold Diggers of 1937" MAJESTIC:-
"Libelled Lady
STOLEN HOLIDAY.
Kay Francis, perpetual favourite. in this city, comes to the screen of the King's Theatre to-day in "Stolen Holiday," a First National film which depicts the rise of an obscure French mannequin in a tiny modiste.shop, to the position of world fashion queen,
The name of Kay Fiancis instantly conjures up visions of magnificent gowns and no list of ten best-dressed women in the country fails to include her name. but Stolea Holiday" is said to be not merely a fashion show. It is a tense drama. with rioting mobs on the streets of Paris, interna- tional political and financial com- plications, and no end of suspense. While advance, reports indicate that there are plenty of *1937“ gowns, to be seen as Miss Francis advances her career as a designer. the beautiful costumes are merely incidental to the story.
STARRY
SCENARIO
Hollywood Through the Backdoor, Ey Nils Holstins. Geoffrey Bles. Is. 6d.)
Having finished his best novel, "Winter's End." Mr. Holstins de cided to try whether it was possible to get his living as a stenario writer in Hollywood. But that his time might not be wasted in any case, he thought he would first of all make a study of the under- world of Los Angeles, the huge industrial city of which Hollywood Is the not too merry Mayfair. So, taking the name of Ed Hamilton, he salled in a tramp steamer to San Francisco, "hitch-hiked" to his destination. and Uved for months in the purlleus of its ex- aggerated Main Street. Great or small, rich or not so rich, the great Western cities all have for their psychological backbone, speak, the Main Street as describ- ed by Sinclair Lewis in his novel of discovery. They are all provin clal-minded to a degree undreamed of in England. Walled up to the sky as some of them are, and roaring like the sea, their tallest skyscrapers are dominated by colossal parish-pump which ever- lastingly discharges 3 Aood of prigments and platitudes.
to
The story of his adventures is "a real book, not merely a parcel of literary realism. There are soba in it, but no substuff. His disguise as a "limey." was never penetrated. and he lived at his ease under the flashing Neon lights of "down town" We in the least credible of tells uis of the capitals. He various rackets, and of the dollarless social derellets who yet renew their hopefulness dally in the brisk. Califor- olan air. He discovered a strong feeling of anti-Semitism In this turbulent underworlc.
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LA. LIFE
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14.
·Holidays.—
Anniversaries and Wellington died, 1852 Dana Gibson born, 1887.
of the Holy Cross.
Charles Exalta-
Cinemas. (See Page 5). Mails.(Seo Page 16). Meetings.-Lawn Bowls General Committee, in "8. C. M. Post" Board Room, 5.30 p.m.
Miscellaneous. Claims against the Estate of Isabella Kerr or Stevenson. due: Art Exhibition at at National Commercial and savings
Banks Bldg., 8A, "Des Vocux Road, Central, 2nd. floor, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Rotary Tiffin, Hong Kong Hotel: Annual Parochial Conversazione in St. Andrew's Hall, 8.30 pm.
Rehearsals-Hong Kong Singers at Union Church, Kennedy Road, Mozart's "Requiem" and Elgar's
For the Fallen," 8.45 p.m.
Social. Cralgengower Cricket Club Weekly Tombola, 9.20 p.m.:. Cheero Club Whist Drive, 8.30 p.m.. Police Branch M. C. L. Whist and Mah Jong Drive at Police Recrea tion Club, 3 p.m.; Whist Drive nt China Light and Power Recreation" Club. King's Park, 9 p.m.
Sports(See Page 10). Moon.-VIII Moon. 10th. Day. Sunrise 6.10 a.m. Sunset.-6.28
p.1.
Tides.High at 02.22. Low at 11.30.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
Cinemas-(See Page 5). Mails. (See Pare 16). Sports. (See Page 10). Moon.-VII Moon, 11th. Day. Sunrise.-800 a.m. Sunset.-6.30
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Tides. High at 00.35; Low at 08.40
Wife Can Adopt Illegitimate Daughter
Important Judgment
Daily he heard the croaking of the rewsboys." "Another murder in LA. Another murder in L.A." LA.. also prided itself on being a very religious city, and it is cer- tainly a museum of guerrilla sects. some of which maintain very dreary tabernacles. He attended Almce Semple McPherson's "Heal- ing Night and was much sur- prised at the eagerness shown to collect money on every conceivable pretex' (such as paying for "prayer- time on the aff") and ever more so when a hopeless, helpless crip- ple brought on a stretcher. from
The applicants, husband and hospital emerged from her bian-
wife, sought to adopt the wife's smart evening gown. The miracle must have been | 19-year-old legitimate daughter who was no blood relation to the Ian Hunter, who has appeared intelligently anticipated. A strip-
tease show. watched by highly husband. Husband and wife were with her recently in several pic-respectable people, is an interes-
both less than 21 years older than tures, provides the love interesting companion picture. Everybody the "infant"
Claude Rains, who triumphed in "Anthony Adverse," appears as au unscrupulous financier who backs Kay in her ventures, unth; at last his complicated schemes crash about his head.
for Miss Francis in this one.
SEVENTH HEAVEN
kets in 1
An interesting 'decision relating to child adoption under the Act of 1926 was given by Mr. Justice Luxmoore in the Chancery Division recently.
It
fant." There was a proviso that
Mked the spurious "limey": there The Act placed restrictions on Is this to be said for the Americans the making of adoption orders. -they are the kindest people said Mr. Justice Luxmoore. In the world, though very sensitive provided that no order should be to criticism. Mr. Holsting found made where the applicant was less The honours in "Seventh Heaven" that the beauties of the screen than 21 years older than the "in- are divided primarily between the were often .meagre and in- tremendously moving pleturisation significant in real life: Mac where the applicant and the "in- of this, the tenderest romance of West was disappointingly slim, our time, and the fact that in it her opulent physique being emerges fully an actress destined 3 matter of padding. though tự be known as the greatest star she likes the large love of a 1d on the screen-Simone Simon, co- like this" (to quote Marle Dressler starred with James Stewart in the in her vaudeville days): As for the Twentieth Century-Fox production Hollywood executives they made which has its run at the Queen's appointments with him but never and Alhambra Theatres to-day..
kept them-E. B. O. in the Lon- don "Morning Post."
Austin Strong's Immortal love story. adapted from the stage play produced and directed by John Golden, presents once again that star-crossed pair of of lovers, Dlang and Chice, who lift your heart to the sky.
ed for
Chico of the 24
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"Hot Money."
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tant" were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity the Court could make an order even though the applicant was less that 21 years older than the "infant."
The answer to the question, he sald, depended on the true con- struction of the phrase "within the prohibited degrees of consangui- nity."
The female. applicant and the "infant" were within the defined degrees of consanguinity, but the male adopter was not, though he was in a similar degree of affinity. The Court had no power to ap- prove an adoption by the male applicant. either or jointly with the female applicant.
were
Simone Simon, as the little walf. newest comedy romance opens at Diane, surpasses all hopes express-, the Majestic Theatre to-day, with this sensational French Ross Alexander and Beverly Rob- screen find, who has the strange erts in the leading roles. gilt of touching the deepest places The pleture is said to be a riot
The male applicant, added Mr. of your heart. And James Stewart of laughs with a delightful un- Justice Luxmoore, consented, to If these golden rules were fol-tall, laughing. gray-eyed-shines derlying romance.
The theme is the adoption of the "infant" by lowed, Mr. Mullins added, he would opposite her
based on the "wildcat" promo- the female applicant alone, the be out of work on most Tuesday vallant spirit and the sky, yearn- tion schemes of the days of easy requirements of the Act afternoons, and juvenile courts
ing love.
money, and in this instance is satisfied, and he authorised adop- would Jargely close down.
For the background of "Seventh the sale of stock in an organiza- tion by the mother alone. Heaven." Twentieth Century-Fox tion formed to sell a liquid con- has re-created a vivid and pic-centrate, which, added to water, turesque Montmarte, set in the will make a substitute for gasoline automobile turbulent days of 1914. In the that will run buge, subterranean Paris sewer, twenty-five miles per gallon at Chico spends his working days. the cost of one cent. scornful of the Providence that Stock is sold quickly to a gul-
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Judge And Gangster Methods
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KOBE'S DECLINING BIRTH-RATE
Kobe's birth-fate is on the de- cline. Whereas the rate stood at 27.1 per population of 1,000 in 1926, that for 1935 was 24.4.
failed, first. to make him a street lible public, but the company gets Osaka Has Lowest Figure Of
into hot water with the Better The Six Big Cities" "So long as I sit here as Judge. these micthods-which are gangster Darryl F Zanuck, chose Mel- The action moves fast and methods will be stamped out," ville Baker to adapt "Seventh furious with stockholders clamor- sald Mr. Justice Charles Heaven" to the screen, and Henry ing for their money back and the Winchester Assizes recently.
King to direct. Jean Hersholt, promoters threatened with arrest Gregory Raton, Gale Sondergaard: But an unusual event takes place J. Edward Bromberg, John Qualen, which brings the picture to a Victor Killan, Thomas Beck, Big close in a riotous climax. Rumann and Mady Christians are Alexander and Miss Roberts, the featured in the cast.
fast talking promoter. and hia secretary, form a new and pleas- ing team of screen lovers, Joseph table thows:---
Nagoya stage famous
and
Yokohama
He sentenced John Dunn, 32, to three years penal servitude and ten strokes of the "cat" for rob bing Portsmouth shopkeeper while armed with a revolver and for breaking into a Portsmouth house and stealing jewellery.
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In recent law case Mr. Justice Cawthorn. The case for the prosecution- was that he went into the shop A. Forest of Montreal ruled that; screen comedian, and Paul Gratz.' and said to the proprietor. "Stick cows have as much right in the former, German comedian who 'em up. Where's the notes?" He road as the motor-car. This con-made such a hit in "Mr. Cohen went behind the counter but all firms what cows seems to have Takes a Walk," have the leading he found was 188.
comedy roles.
known all along.
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NOVARRO DESERTS LOUNGE SUITS
For Sheik's Flowing Robes In
"Come-Back" Picture
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Novarro does it in a picture. "They Hever come back" is
Out," Shelk Steps Hollywood's favourite catchphrase. called "The
BO The film has been produced by Of the six big cities, Nagoya And Hollywood has said it standa first on the list with a often that it is now an integral Republic, one of Hollywood's in- birth-rate of 29.5 per poulation of part of the system on which Holly 1,000, and Osaka has the lowest wood works.
Which brings ひが to Ramon birth-rate of 23.4 aa the following
Novarro, once one of this greatest ot screen stars but now not seeli by filmgoers since he played in "The Night Is Young" three years ago.
29.5 277
Tokyo
Kobe.
27.2 24.4
Kyoto
24.3
Osaka
23.4
It brings Ramon Novarro back in a romántic role similar to those which first made him famous,
Adele Buttington wrote "the original story of "The Sheik Steps Out" specially for Novarro,
Novarro's future now hangs on.
or weakness of four words, ""They never come back."
Novarro is attempting a come-the power back, defying Hollywood.
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