SPECIAL CABLES,
PEKING SITUATION, PRESIDENT THROWS "DOWN GLOVE.
THE KINETOPHONE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 1913.
brass cylinder and placed over it what, on the small talking machine, would be a steel point,
An Evening "Behind" with the but was, in this case, a diamond.
Operators.
"The secret substance is so hard) that even that won't cut it. Me By the courtesy of Mr. Baldwin, Edison long ago substituted a who has been responsible for the sapphire for the commonly used [Our Own Correspondent.]
Kinetophone display at the Thea-steel point, but when he invent- tre Royal, a member of the " Tele-ed the Kinetophone he found it Shanghai, May B President You Shih-kai's man behind" on Friday night and got we're going to begin.'
graph" inff was allowed "to go necessary to use adismond.--Now date, plainly stating that as long an inkling as to how the latest as he is President he will not Edisoniun invention, which has shirk the responsibility of sup-been so much talked of in Hong pressing the Revolutionaries, ha kong during the past week, is been followed up by movements worked.
President Yuan has thus thrown down the glove, and the query is whether the Revolu tionaries will take it up.
A VIOI ENT TEMPER:
House Boy Who Got Off Lightly
At the Police Court, this
After hearing the evidence his left out." Worship said he would dismiss
long play
CAUTIONED.
Posting Bills Without Consent
บ
Getting to Work. the loop of which hung down He slipped a fine silk cord- from the roof of the stage over
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of the Northorn troops towards The speed with which that driving wheel. Hankow, up and down the invention has achieved popularity synchroniser," he said. Yangtag and at Shanghai.
**That This determination of the shown for the first time only just palloy-blocks and plays like an is almost phenomenal, for it was cord runs along the ceiling over President is producing a storm two and a half months ago on endless chain between the lamp of indignation here, which is February 17-when it took New at the back of the theatre and more bitter on account of the apYork by storm, appearing at four this wheel, and regulates every parent lack of remedy.
theatres simultaneously.
thing so that the sounds keep exact mad to get at it," said Mr. Bald-start the machine," He point "Theatre managers were just time with the pictures. Now I win, They knew that the pat- ed to a baby motor at the bottom ent was on its way, and, the of his box of mysteries. You moment everthing was completed, notice that there's none of the. they made a rush to acquire the preliminary groaning that you exhibiting rights; so that you may get with the ordinary talking hood. New films and records phone receiver and carried on a well that it's still in its babymachine."
Bay
He picked up a tele-THE EDISON KINETOPHONE AGENCY, are being made as fast as possible; brief conversation with his part- morning, hafore Mr F. A. Beze night and day and shall be start-electric bell rang, he signalled to we have two studios at work ner in the lantern box; then an land, D. K. Moss, manager of ing four more just directly, so the light boy, and we Alexander Ro38 and Company, of Dee Vaux, Road Central, was people have seen it they are gleam of a small electric torch great in the demand. Until suddenly in darkness but for the aummoned by his house boy, for inclined to think the show is too which, in its turn, was exting- wrongful dismissal and for with-short. They say: "What can uished as soon as the picture was holding part of his wages, you see in an, hour and a half?" thrown on the screen. emounting to $9.00. There was But, when they come to look, a cross summons against the boy they find for absenting liimself without sen all the
that they have leave.
gist of with the non-essentisla
Taking The Records. the enmmon against Mr. Moa-, and|
Mr Baldwin procreded to ex- the boy would lose his wages, plain how records of the plays steg machine could only be ade- W. Schellhaus. Prof and Mrs, He was eatisfied that he had gone taken in the first instance. Some technical knowledge. In brief, the Brigham, of the Internation- quately described by a person with Smith (England), Mr. E L away without permission.
Hefur years ago, ho said, an attempt silk loop was found to run over al Bank, Mr. G. A. Chanier also thought the houseboy waS a person of violent temper and it made which left a good deal to though distinct from the lamp, army,
talking pictures to take "
Waa an elaborate little machine which, (veterinary surgeon of French Waa wonder anybody kept be desired. The various actors
Saigon), Mr.. 'and him. On the cross-summons the spoke their parts into the phono Preared to form part of it. At Mrs. H. J. Gedge and Mr. Linc boy would be dismissed with a graph, and then the play was present the whole is turned Ngantow who proceeds to New AMERICAN ASIATIC 8.8. 00. caution, as his employer did not ask for a
penalty, and he (the gone through in front of the hand, but a small motor York in connection with Chines
is under camera; not only, however, was will render the whole appliance
onstruction which loans. boy) ought to think himself it found that the lip movements
During the absence of Mr. H. Jucky that he was not flaed,
did not correspond subsequently automatic.
J. Gedge on leave, the business of with the Bouude, But limitations "We take sixty turns to the the firm of Mecere, Johnston, Stokes and pull-ups appeared in every sixty-one would throw the whole Messrs. R.F.O. "Master and Jack- minate," said the operator; "and and Master, will be carried on by direction. The Kinetophone owDS no relationship with any nothing out of gear-Off we go son.
again. Edisonian invention and is a
The signal had come At the Police Court, this coor- genuine means of recording and wheel began to turn, causing a from behind the screen and the ning, before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, ultimately reproducing any play fierce light that one could only the agent of the Edison Kinets speech, concert etc, the words and look at through red glass to play phone Company was charged with pictures exactly tallying in point on each little asction of film as it received from the Manila Obeer- The telegram quoted below was unlawfully oflizing and posting of time. When the scone is revelved over the rollers. a bill on the notice board at the photographed the characters per you hear anything?" Shonted General Hongkong at 10.40 am.”
"Can vatory by the American Consulate Central Police Station, the pre-form at a distance of forty feat perty of the Government, without from the camera, the talking He held out an additional electric
the operator. "Then use this." to-day- conesat on April 30, and also with machine registering every sound switch that terminated in two Long E. and 13 degrees Lat. N., Typhoon in about 122. degrees posting thres bills on the retain-as it is given off. ing wall in ice House Street, the An Expensive Process.
ear-piecea exactly those of a Moving W.N.W. doctor's stethoscope. property of the Government, The photographing is a far
By this more expensive process than the mesos all the sounds from the Defendant said that he under-ordinary cinematograph work, gramaphone, till then inaudible stood from the Hongkong Printing for whereas the latter is done in were beard quite clearly.
That the kinetophone bas come Pross who were assuming respon-
Bentions and a spoiled longth of aibility, that the coolie was en film can easily be re-taken the stay, and that quite a short time. gaged to post up the bills and he Kinetophone film is one continuill suffice to see it absolutely
His Worship:-You asked the error, even at the very end, means which our representative left the Bidwell, G..A. F, Rumsey, Misa 13th inst, at noon, will, in addition
Que photograph; and a slight perfcoted, were the ideas with Hongkong Printing Press that the whole film and record theatre. From bore the exhibitors print these bille?
are spoiled and usele. go to Canton, thence to Shanghai, Defendant:And to post them. As an instance, Mr. Baldwin Manila, the Straits, and India, His WorshipAnd they were quoted the simultaneous photo-probably returning to Hongkong
graphing and recording of a scene your agents 7-Yeq
Defendant was dismissed within a Haarlem fit. Everything a caution, his Worabip pointing apparently went well, but, when opt that he was liable to a the record came to be tested, it fine of $50:
was found that the serecoh of a train whistle had been registered faithfully in the most important
Stubbs, Master part of the story
Detective Brown, in charging a
G. man before Mr Hazeland, at the
Towiés, P. W. Behind the curtain all that was Police Court, this morning, said Hatheway, F. E. Townsend, Miss Mr Russ on the Controversy
that early in the morning a con- Kittredge, F. W. M. an instrument sa much like a large sewing machine etable saw him in Wu Sung Street, Leo Kam-chuen Wilhelm. A, Testuring rt night, at the as anything, the narrow end of a Yaumati, with a bundle of clothes Lin Sung-wan, West, A. P.
Mr. & Mr.
West, Mr. and Y. M. C. A on the Shakespeare- gramaphone trumpet and an in. under his arm and 83 in his McDonnell,
Mrs. W. C. Bacon Controversy," Mr. C. A. S. tricate arrangement of electric Posession which he had stolen
Mr. P. G. Russ, (solicitor), argued from the wires. At
West, Miss M. from the house of a woman, gain-McDononll, one end of the
West, Master J. Baconian point if view that it machine was a grooved wheel ing entrance by means of the Miss E. M.
Wolcott, Mrs. was unlikely that Shakespeare and, at the other, connected verandah. He had als returned Melcon, Rev. A..
F.M. had written the playa, as nothing by steal shafts like those from banishment, having been Milholland, E.
Wood, Miss R. was known about him and there of a typewriter or a sewing
banished in Jantory laat.
Mong, G. was no contemporary reference to machine, a brass cylinder soms Defendant was sent to geol for Mortimer, G. B. him. It was very significant that nine or ten inches long and big one month and ordered four Mundy R that only signatures in existence ger than a men's wrist. This hours stocks for the larceny, and Neill, Mr. and appeared to be those of a man was the spindle on to which the ix months' imprisonment for who was illiterate. On the other hollow cylinder containing the returning from banishment; sen- band, Bicon was just the 'mon "record" fiited, sheath fashion, fences to run consecutively, who had the technical knowledge "This record," said Mr. Bald- necessary to write the playe, and win, picking up a blue pottery- although he produced no playa ware looking arrangement like a
without content.
stuck thom there.
up
SHAKESPEARE OR BACON.
to
The Machine
to be seen wis
"
in six months' time.
DANGEROUS
CHARACTER.
SANITARY BOARD:
or poems, he continually referred emall drain-pipe, "is made of a At the fortnightly meeting of to himself as the "hidden poet substance whose components Mr. the Sanitary Board which was of the works which would make Edison won't divulge. It is so held this afternoon correspond- more poems than those he had tough that no ordinary wear and ence was sibmited relative to the already produced for postority." tear can damage it; you would have proposed European Cemetery at
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IGONZALEZ DE BERN-
EDO, manager of the Vio-
Advertisement. toria Theatre, Hongkong, will
NOTICE.
Bever my connection with the firm of Ramos, Ramos & Com- pany on May 31, 1913. Hongkong, 6th May, 1918.
WANTED.
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MR. R.F.C. MASTER & Mr.
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More F.R. C. Ing it. This one is the "Descriptive The Hon D. P. W. minuted: Mr. W. R. Barry Gifford (of Lecture" and the tiny lines you I understand it has been decided of Johnson, Stokes and Master and have some knowledge of Sarawak) and Mr. Edward, Lees see traced round it correspond to not to notify the selection of during my absence from the Dispensing. State age and salary of the Straite Settlements) have the coarser grooves on the or- the area of the proposed cemetery Colony Les expected to "Ipecao" olo Hong- heen slooted Fellows of the Royal dinary gramaphone diso. He until the boundary wall eto, has
H. J. GEDGE,kong Telegraph. Colonial Institute.
Hongkong 8th May, 1918. [9601ongkong, 5th May, 1918,
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