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TO-DAY'S FILMS.
"THE RED MILL” AT QUEEN'S
THEATRE.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1928.
LONG TACK SAM.
OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
THE
FINAL PERFORMANCE TO-NIGHT.
BEST
AND
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The claborate screen version of
Long Tack Sam, the world the famous stage play, "The Red famous magician and his troupe Mill," brings its season to a close of wonder workers bring their at the Queen's Theatre to-day, Hongkong season to a close at the when it will be screened at 2.80 Queen's Theatre at 9.20 to-night. 5.10 and 7.16 only. The story is Most patrons of variety know of a delightful blend of whimsical Long Tack Sam and his particu- comedy with some grippinglar, line of entertainment, though emotional drama. Thereo is a low could place him in any one touch of mystery
In the weird class. He is a magician, clever scenes which take place in an old and adept at all sorts of illusions. haunted mill. Several hundred He is also a contortionist of people take part in a glittering merit, but perhaps the outstand- winter festival, a huge lake being ing feature is his faculty of pok- specially constructed and frozen ing fun at others and clever cross over by artificial means in order talk. The magician's. beautiful to get the correct atmosphere. daughters, the Misses Mi Na and Marion Davies is the lending play Nee Sa Long, are included in the er and is excellently supported supporting company, and may bo by Karl Dane, George Seigmann, seen to advantage in some clever Owen Moore and Louise Fazenda. song and dance items. Plenty of variety la offered by the pro- gramme, and those who have a liking for feats of magic, clever aerobatic stants, vaudeville turns and a dozen other things that go- of a youth against the conven- to make a first class variety show tions of home life. A passing will not be disappointed in their band of gypstes brings to the boy hopes of being thoroughly enfor the futility of his fa
and he tained. The prices of admission joins the troupe, meeting and are $3, $2 and $1, and booking, is falling in love with a beautiful at the Queen's Theatre,
World Theatre. The story of Heaven on Earth," which will be screened for the Inst time to-day at the World Theatre, tells of the revolt
gypsy maid. There follows an extremely entertaining tale of his love for the girl, played by Renee Aduree. Conrad Nagel is
the hero.
Star Theatre.
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bigger than any instrument ever toloscope, before built, has been planned by Professor G. W. Ritchey, on an on- tirely new principle of contruction.
It is a reflector, with a practically
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secured,
perfect mirror 50 feet in diameter. 12 Flant from which a bitter drug
Instead of casting the disc in one solid block, the reflector will be 18 Dinod. built up in the form of plates. 14 To revise for publication.
Professor Ritchey Baya that 15 Editor. futuro optical mirrors will be made 17 Blushing.
In this way from light cellular 18 Thin scale.
structures cemented together and 20 The ovul-boaring organ of a figured at high mountain sites. soed plant, where they are intended to be em-24 Morey. ployed. He details his plans in the 28 To beautify. organ of the Royal Astronomical 2D To concur. Society of Canada, and is confident 30 One of the subordinate parts of
a whole.
NO "LADIES ONLY" AT LAW of their success.
SOCIETY.
A. lunch-time problem concern cussed at a meeting of the Law ing 36 women solicitors was dis-
Society recently,
Norma Shearer has the leading part as a cigarette girl in "After Midnight," which will have fla final showings to-day at the Star Theatre. The story is unusual since it begins in comparative poverty and ends the same way Lawrence Gray is seen as a thief who enters the girl's life, and, failing to rob her of money,
heart instead. The were 66 women solicitors, of whom steals her very simplicity of the story, toge-36 were members of the Society
and he urged that every step should | ther with the fine acting of the be taken to provide for their com- principala, marks the production as obe of Norma Shearer's best elforts to date.
A BIG FILM.
"SADIE THOMPSON" COMING HERE.
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Mr. Edward Boll said that there
fort.
In the common room, at lunch- ilme," he said, "there is no table reserved for our fair sisters.
"It has been observed that when lady member conien in she looks around for a table at which one of her sisters may be sitting and sometimes one is not available,"
Bunch of Flowers.
Commenting upon these innova-32 The whole golf course, tions. "Nature's" astronomical ex-38 Pendent mass of lee. pert declares that the immediate 36 Bed lath.
Bowitched. 38 future may witness the dawn of a
of glass plates, light and easily 45 Wrath. new astronomy, If combination dlacs Pertaining to alr.
44 Age: manipulated, can be utilised.
They may carry practical astrono-47 To rot by exposure. mers far beyond the limits reached 48 The forehead, by means of their previous équip ment.
Up to now it has been found that atmospheric disturbances affect the big telescopes, and for general work those of smaller size have been found more serviceable,
Á Long Experience. Professor Ritchey is a man of great experience. He has been superintendent of instrument con- struction at the famous Yerkes "It is within the knowledge of Observatory, professor of a
nt the University of members that a lady may have to tronomy sit in a state of oppressed abstrac-| Chiengo, and superintendent of in- tion
or suffused disconcertion.strument construction at the Solar (Laughter.)
Observatory of the Carnegie In- "I urge that they should have stitute at Passadona, California.
If his project is successful it will tables to themselves. Let there be a bunch of flowers on the table. mean that some of the vast outer Place It adjacent to where the spaces of the universo. never pre- Masters sit. It would be an ad-viously penetrated will be brought
education mirable
for both" within the bounds of human vision.
Somerset. Maugham's widely discussed story "Miss Thompson," which was later produced as a stage play "Ruin," has been trans- ferred to the screen under the title of "Sadie Thompson" and will be shown at the Queen's Theatre
Lo from Wednesday Saturday next, according to a special advertisement in this
issue.
Mr. P. H. Chambers, "ns the father of the first woman articled there," said that women solleitars did not with to be acgregated.
It was decided to make no al- teration in the rules.
The story is of exceptional (Laughter.) dramatic force and concerns "Sadie's" experiences with a re- former at Pago Pago in the South Sens. The reformer, blindly de- voted to what he considers his daty, drives the girl to the brink of greater suffering than she has ever faced, yet believes he is her soul, Her eventual ++÷÷÷÷÷÷÷++++++++++ [salvation is effected not through the influence of the missionary, DEEP & SHALLOW WELL PUMPS
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Women's Favourites Thousands of discriminating above but through the love and simple women favour Pinkettes falth of a marine who is also all other forms of laxative medi- stationed on the island.
eine because they are dainty and One of the most dramatletiny, act
as gently as nature. scenes of the picture hinges upon And the same pleasant attributes The reformer's decision that Sadie make them equally popular with
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AN UNPRECEDENTED MURDER TRIAL.
PUBLIC TO FIND £1,700 AB COSTS FOR PROSECUTION, The case of Mrs. Pace will pro- bubly go down in legal history as one of the most remarkable murder trials on recurd.
it, arose as the effect of the machinery which allows a coroner to commit a person for trial on his warrant.
After police court proceedings and then a triat lasting into the must leave the island. He de-
fourth day the case has collapsed in Bounces her and is thrown bodily man.
a manner which is itself almost from her room by the marine.
modern Then begins a conflict between remedy sick. headaches, billous without precedent in a the outcast and the reformer, attacks, vertigo, flatulence, to murder trial. which, following closely the ori-stimulate the liver, increase the
aid digestion, at the conclusion of the case for the ginai story, moves from one un-appetite and expected climax to another and so Pinkettes are perfection.
To restore daily regularity, to
where.
It is not uncommon for a judge,
They prosecution, to suggest to a jury that they should consider if the
Mr. Justice Horridge said, "1 nak you to return a verdict of not guilty."
to the sensational endings. keep the system clean and cool, evidence is sufficient to support a
Glorin Swanson as the colour clear the skin of pimples and conviction. fal "Sadie" has the most dramatic
blotches, sweeten the breath, It is a very difficult matter for a role yet attempted by the star.ratieve Piles. Of chemists every-judge to say in a murder trial, an Raoul Walsh, the man. who made "What Price Glory," directed the picture and also appears as the marine. Others in the engi in- clude Lionel Barrymore B the reformer, Charles Lane, and Blanche Friderici. Owing to its unusual lenith, "Sadie Thomp- son" will be screened. at the special times of 2.30 5.00, 7,15 |and 9.30 Advance booking is now
open at the Queen's Theatre.
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Before doing this the judge must have satisfied himself that there was no case even for the jury to consider.
The costs of the defence are said to be between £1,600 and £1,700. The public will be called upon to
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