THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MR. CHURCHILL AND HOMICIDAL FOOTBALL. BOY KING LIKES HIS
FLAPPER VOTE. :
GLAD IF IT HAD BEEN PUT OFF.
11
AMERICA'S CASUALTY" LISTS.
New York, Nov. 27. The hazardousness of at least) Loud cheers greeted the declara-one branch of American sport is tion of Mr. Winston Churchill, the emphasized by the announcemont Chancellor of the Exchequer, at that 17 young men were
This was Mr. Churchill's first speech at the club for 24 years, Referring to the "upper vote" he said:
only
“KIDDIE CAR.”
TELLS LOOKER-ON IT IS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1928.
WAR FILMS IN GERMANY.
· PICTURES' FROM FRANCE AND BRITAIN.
MUCH MUCH FUN."
London, Nov. 22. Believing that a photograph of killed the impled face of little King Mi- "THE KING OF KINGS." the Constitutional Club, Nor- and 100 suffered major injuries chael in every Rumanian home Is thumberland-avenue, recently that during the college football sea- the best propaganda ngainst the
Berlin, Nov. 24." he wished the decision, to extend son just ended.
The second part of Germany'r the franchise to women of 21 could. This game, which is avowedly return of the former Crown Prince one of the roughest, claims an- Carol, Mr. Bratlunu, the Ramanian have been deferred.
nunally a large number of casual-remier, has ordered thousands of trilogy of war films, will be re- fore Christmas. Applications ad throughout the country. tien. Eight players wero killed Pictures of the boy King distribut-leased in Berlin, it is hoped, be- and 200 injured in 1926 and 20
The anti-Carol party argues have already boon made to Eng wore killed and 100 injured in that Kine Michael's dimpled smile land and France for authentic I have never concealed that I 1925. The season lasts
jena do much to make safe the battlo scenes on the other side. should personally have been glad through October and November throne for the six-year-old monar- These will be shown as well as the if this matter could have been put with an occasionet game playedch. The women of Rumunia are German pictures, as in the first Launch defenders of the little part of the series. Rumours have off until a later period in our poli-In September and December.
(Cheers.) tical development.
One of the chief manoeuvres in
earls and winsome face,
version boing prepared for abroad. But I was not aware at the last the game provides for shoulder King, chiefly because of his golden cropped up lately of a special election of the pledges given or to shoulder charging by players.
For this reason photographers This is probably a garbled account the Interpretations put upon them. one side carrying the half to the have recently besieged the palace of this request for English and film is I am quite sure of this: that inother's goal. The dead this year in Sinaia to catch the lively young French pictures. The view of all the facts as we now were between 15 and 22 years monarch in every pose, and Mi-awaited in Germany with the same know them it would be a very old. It is emphasissed that the uhaul, dashing through the palace interest as the first part, and by grent danzer for the Government percentage of casualties is low in park on his kiddie car." leads all accounts will be just as objec- to do anything which would allow view of the gigantic scale on the photographers a merry dance. Live: there is certainly no inten
is now being
His English "Miss." tion on the Ufa Company's part themselves to be assailed by which the game
the country. charge of breach of faith by any played throughout
Usually the young King is dress to prepare an ameniled version vory large section of the popula-Public protest has rosulted in aed for the event in a white flannel for export.
modification of the rules, prin- sailor suit with high patent leath- For my part I accept the deci- cipally for the purpose of elimina-or duces--his favourite costume.lms to Germany had led to an sion which the Cabinet came toting injuries. and which has been endorsed al-; most unanimously by the Unionist and Conservative associations in England and Scotland.
tion.
Do not let us be discouraged. If you take 1.000 men and 1,000 women drawn at random my per-
DARTMOOR PRISON.
CLOSING FORESHADOWED.
The growing import of Russian Accompanied by his English gover-interesting development. The ness, whom he calls "Miss," and value of "the pictures" s pro- police officer to guard him from paranda has been seen by the mil- danger, he meets the battery of entire newspapers owner, Herr cameras without turning a hair. Hugenberg, who is in possession
On such an occasion youn King Michael granted his first "moli-of a great number of the shares. cial interview to the Internation-and is particular that in picture, al News Service correspondent, houses owned by the Ura Com- who accompanied the photograph Pany none but lopichl pictures of strictly Nationalist tendency shall be included in the news part of "Docs var Majesty enjoy riding the programnic. It is rumoured the rolfestzu The King, with a hoy grin, re-that he also exerts ar influence on died:
the type of feature films. chosen for production, ang has already arranged an excellent system of screen propaganda to be in time for next year's elections in Ger many.
London, Nov. 27. The Secretary for Home Affaina (Sir William Joynson-links), who recently toured the penal settle ments and
prisons, described rs. Dartmoor as
a cesspool of humanity." However, he ranfess
sonal view is that on the whole you will find there is a larger per centage of Conservatives in the 1,000 women than in the 1,000 men. At any ride that was the view taken by the conferences at Cardiff that it was dificult be know! and Edinburgh, which curtainly what to do with the criminal res did not view this large extension of the franchise with any feelings
The Sunday Express 1433 of fear. It is our duty to make firms that Dartmoor will gradu sure that these new votes are wonally be closed, and that convictsons, such as:-- over. They have a great interest of the type now kept there will in the stability of the county he sent to some distant and un- There is no one who has more in- terest in that stability than thus, developed part of the Empire, where they can lend are useful who jurice over the home.
4.
siduum.
I cannot believe that the silver-lives a parole.
"Pure Imagination.”
London, Nov. 28.
"Oh, my, it's much much fun." "While the cameras clicked the hrabarded the company with
"Why does thur, man stick his her'd behind a black cloth?"
Why do they want to make so any photography"
Are they all for Bukarest!" What's that man over there
writing
A Kiss as Reward,
Russian Films.
To counterbalance this, dering, the visit to Berlin of the Russian Commissioner for Arts, M. Luna- film Russo-German charsky a sive doctrines of Socialisin or the rowdy moods and manners of a
company was founded which will section of our openents. 'or the The Secretary for Home. Affairs
st after the fiftieth photo-incorporate the productions of William' Joynson-flicks) groph had been snapped, up drove that ting Russian company, the violent revolutionary doctrines of (Sir the Communists will make any classes as pure Imagination the Kie metde car with Princess He-Sowking." Lunacharsky himself headway in an electorate the maj-reports that he intends to close fem and her favourite dog "Wolf" will adapt some of his plays for
send the catching sight of his mother, the the Berlin ority of whom will be concerne! Dartmoor Prison and
productions. More with the prosaic but vital details canvies to undeveloped parts of Kine juniped from the table and more Russian films are being of keeping the hume-together and the Empire.
when he was sitting, ran and shown in Germany, some of them bringing up a family. (Cheers,) "What Comptry would take our fear her around the neck and xcellent in comedy, but none free
delinquents". he asked. "I moved her face with kisse Mauled Budgets.
From revolutionary propaganda. Tazether they went in to the Bed and Sofa," a Parisian three- Dealing with the donneial jo-considering the whole future of tion of the country, Mr. Churchill the system; and its reform would love of the big palace while the
cornered theme, translated into King called back. "Seet knew the atmosphere of the Soviet said that three successive Badgets take years.”
d my lessons to-day, so Mother had been mauled and murred by the coal troubles. First there was with no increase in taxes on ne
ave a kiss." The cameras Peasantry, and "The Waiter at the coal subsidy which many vessary things. and without licked a final time in catch the Palace Hotel," with magni- ficent scenes of pre-war restau- back the Temissions human interest" seen between rant life above and below stairs, thought, was a mistake and which taking perhaps was a mistake that had somewhat improvidently given the six-year-old King and his mo-
are two of the best and the ther my upsot their first year's fiance. by
and predecessor
subtle of these. The strike it has destroyed ispunice off the income their second, and the aftermath of which was granted in the first year be ashamed.
In the present your there never been devating most attention to the strike, involving a loss if $20,- of the Government. 000,000 to £30,000,000 in the re Further than that we have re-have been 30 many people at work unpretentious work, filming well- venue, overclouded us at the pre- tained our Sinking Fund of £65.-in this land, and there never known novels, and tryin to re- sent time. Mr. Churchill added: 000,000, which constitutes ag nee have been so few days lost through peat the success they attained in
We have got through this periodhievement of which no one heed traile disputes,
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The Germans themselves have
the filming.df operetta. Of these, "The Dangerous Age," Karin, Michaelis' famous story, has been excellently done, with that fine actor, Bernhard Goatkzu, in the part of the long-suffering hus- band. Pictures of Germans at the opera, how they rash for the bullet and consume sausage and her in the interval, and fight for their garments in the cloak- room at the end, should make this interesting to anybody who has ever visited Germany for the sake of her music. The Ufa Company have found "The Waltz Dream"
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The Christ Film.
Berlin was very disappointed with the acting in the American, religions Alm, "King of Kings:" justifiably so, considering that the German picture "IN.R.I." is de- finitely better cast. On the other hand, great pride is felt in the typically German touches in the first Emil Jannings him made in America, The Way of all Flesh:"
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Germany realises the growing importance of the film as an in- tegral part of the artistic life of the nation, as shown by its use in the productions of Erwin Pisca- tor. His version of the Russian Erana, "Rasputin, makės much use of the screen as of the stage. Pictures of soldiers mar ching, or world events thrown upon a screen which is no longer a rectangle stretched taut, but covers a globe, open up undream- ed-of vistas in film productions.
Sir James Par, High Commis- sioner for New Zealand, speaking at the opening of a school at Sen- ford: Sussex, said he did not think Mr. Baldwin was going far astray in giving the vote to girls. "I think that girls of twenty-one,' said Sir James, "are much steadier than the average boy of that age. I think the average girl, especially the girl in employment, dislikes. more than boy does the idea of rough; unjustified, revoluntionary change. While the age of flapper- dom in this country goes on until about twenty-one or twenty-five, it finishes in New Zealand at eighteen.
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