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"Make Believe"
“Ol' Man River”
"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man”
"Why Do I Love You"
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LABORATOIRE DENTRAL D'ELECTRICITY-PARIS.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1928.
It is the value of the lessons usually taught that ought to weigh most when ano is considering! what is, admittedly, a complex problem.
DAY BY DAY,
THE LAW DISCOVERS THE DISEASE. THE GOSPEL GIVES THE REMEDY.- Martin Luther.
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday,
NEW STEAMERS FOR THE EAST.
SEVEN DUTCH VESSELS ORDERED.
The Very Idea!
A great artist would play In London to an audienco of 130
We think that the Indian Com-
A somewhat interesting class of people, half of whom had not paid mittee had the right outlook when
vessel was recently ordered by the for their seats, said Mr. Alfred Il reported that if the exhibition
Malls by the e. Kashgar, dated Royal Packet Co. of Amsterdam Hill recently. In America tho of Western alms is doing any mis London August 2, consisted of 547 and Batavia for Coastal service in same artist would draw an au chief, then the best remedy would bags of letters and 98 bags of pat-lars of these ships show them to would pay good prices for admis- the East. The plans and particu-dience of thousands, and they be to encourage Indian films to cels.
be of a novel and superior type of sion. In America musicians were take their place. Apparently, Dr. Wagner, the Consul-General craft. The contracts for seven paid thousands where they would Mr. Hill. If this sort of thing owing to the secluded and guard-for, Germany, left to-day by the were placed with the "De Maas" receive £1, or so, here, concluded
Shipbuilding Co., of Slikkerveer, ed life of the average Indian P. and O. s.a. Kashgar for a trip Holland, and six are grouped un- goes on we shall soon be forced to
to the North.
laton exclusively to player- der the Company's A1 class and The body of a fisherman who was the other one under their A2 class, planos in our theatres and pic- ture: shows. The only musicians, type they are generally women drowned walls bathing at Cheung The following are details left in Australia will be ingr Chau on Monday was yesterday Length B.P., 165' 0" Moulded teachers, who will wear silk and of some reputation, but the recovered near the spot where he beam, 28' 0"; depth, 10' 0"; draft,enbles and possess three cars, 80 displacement, 783 tons; retained at princely salaries to deadweight capacity, 400 tons; prepare email children for a Amongst the passengers who ar-engine power, 240 B.H.P.; speed musical career in the U.S.A. rived from the North by the P.loaded, 8 knots. and O. s.s. Naldera to-day were the Rev. E. Quick, Dr. Macgown and the Rev. and Mrs. F. Shore.
woman, film actresses in that country are not of the desirablo
remedy for that lies with Indiana disappeared." themselves; the provision of safety for cultured and virtuous women who are prepared to take up cinema work as an honoured profession. This moral ban on women does not apply to. Chiria where there have been actresses
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Heavy freights in this morning's Harbour Office reports included 7,560 tons of fuel oil by the 8.8.
A.P.C., discharging at the North tions, and, with the rich store Point Installation. of Chinese plays upon which draw, the development of the film Industry in China ought to be assured. The Indian Committee finds. gratification in the fact that the film-making industry there is as yet entirely in Indian hands interests and that non-Indian
KELLER KERN & Co., Ltd have not in any way established
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The
Hongkong Eelegraph.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1928.
FILM PROBLEMS.
Misa Eva Spicer, daughter of Sir Albert Spicer, started from Eng- land on the return journey to Nanking on Aug. 1. She has been in China for several years, attach ed to the teaching staff of Grisling College.
Sir Charles Jolin Dudgeon, of La formerly of San Remo, late assis Cereda, Velate Varese, Italy, and
control over it. But they urgeant British Commissioner for the that the danger should be re- Revision of Commercial Trentica cognised and guarded against be-in China, who died on January 23, aged 72, left unsettled personal fore it is too late, and one might estate in England of the net value voice the same hope iu connexion of £62,063. with China. The development of
There was one very Interesting
A
The engine room is arranged at the after end of the ship and in it is installed a five cylinder com pressorless Sulzer engine of the direct reversible type, started and reversed by compressed air. It is
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About Hong Kong.
Do you know thot
The
ter
fashionable
quor.
of the town, was at one time Elgin Street?
The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, G.G.B., came as Special Plenipoten- tlary to China in 1857, and the grateful Colonists at-
his Hongkong perpetuated momary by giving his name to this street the most fashion- able at that time.
The Royal Observatory at Kowloon is on the hill for merly known as "Mount
·Elgin."
According to American dairy the experts, "British cheese is best in the world."
On tennis courts we're beaten By stars from near and far: Golf championships tako dia-
tant trips,
Our mon being under par;" On the playing-fields of Eton Few winners liravo the
breeze,
But in one sphere we need
not foar
Comparisons, curt, cavalier Three cheers for British
cheese!
A ripa old Stilton, full of.
"bito"
For Britons is a pleasant,
sight-
Trus emblem of our British
Might!
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Australian visitors to London have often been taken aback at the high price asked for certain fruits, especially when just com- Following a quarrel with the
Ing into season, and many have a film industry, reflective of other tenants, Chan Yueng, a 21-
ruefully paid a restaurant bill country's art and morals, is bestyear-old married woman, living at
that had soared to unireamed of Bowrington Canal Street, throw
heights when fruit, which in Aus- left in national hands, and Ahere herself into the harbour from the a standard model, having cylinders tralla would have amounted to a is obviously much scope in China Wanchai Reclamation, She was re- with a diameter of 300 mm, few pence, figured on the bill of scued by boatmen and turned over whilst the piston stroke is 400 mm. fare. This is instanced by the for the Chinese. They should be to the police. The case has been It is of the usual pre-combustion- fact that "cherry ripe"-at a left undisturbed as much as pos- referred to the Secretariat for chamber design running at 275 shilling each was the cry at
Chinese Affairs.
.p.m., and developing normally Covent Garden recently, when the sible.
250 B.T.H., although in the troples smallest consignment of cherries A marine store dealer has been it is rated at 240 B.I.P. The that has over passed through the We were pleased to note that the Indian Cinema Committee in remark made by the Indian Com-arrested in consequence of the re- mean effective pressure is low be-market arrived from France. It covery in his shop, at Tung Maning 2.9 Kg per square centimetre, consisted of two miniature boxes, the report which it has just pub-mittee concerning the censorship, Street, of a quantity of rope stolen equivalent to only about 41 lbs. each containing ona dozen cher-
per square inch.
ries, carefully packed in cotton lished slated frankly that the which, owing to the unorganised from various steamers in the har bour. He will be charged before
The machinery is self-contain wool. These aristocrats of the general effect of Western films in and inarticulate nature of Indian the Magistrate with receiving India is not evil, but, on the whole, public opinion, ought to be re- stolen property and with a breached, each propelling engine driv fruit world were priced at 12/- a good. One often hears such a lot tained. The Committee gave it of the conditions of his licence ng an air compressor, a cooling box, and were exhibited with a
through not entering particularetary pump and a fabricating pump.
water pump, a bilge pump, a sani- dignity, befitting their price, of unreasonable criticism concern as its opinion that "it is not con of the transaction in his books.
There is however a three-cylinder Ing the effect of Western films on sidered either practicable or justi- native races (especially here in fiable to make one Hongkong) that it will came as a body of men, the arbiter of morals salutary reminder to the croakers or artistic taste for whole to be told by Committee, population.". This is an appointed by the Government of to which the Hongkong Govern- India to survey the whole ques-meat might give a con- tion of the cinema, that Western sideration, for in this Colony the films have a great educational question of what is to be shown value and tend to open the eyes or not la decided by one Govern- of the uneducated to other and ment servant. He is made to an- more advanced conditions of life.sume a responsibility which
the Nayal Dockyard are leaving cargo winches each driven by a hard all the week and do the wash- could The Committee went on to, stala one man
ever hope to for Home this week. These in-80 H.P. oil engine, On the pooping on Sundays, so I think I am that however imperfect some of shoulder without leaving himself clude Mr. J. McQueen, Construc- is a windlass driven by transmis-entitled to a drink of beer some- the imported films might be, they open to criticism from all angles.tor, Mr. W. J. Rundell, of the sion from both motors of the deck times.
clerical staff of the Chlef En-winches. On the after deck are Registrar at Bow County' Court: tend to broaden a native's mind The practice is not a good one. gineer's Department; Mr. T. Foster two wooden lifeboats, 26ft. long | What is your husband's Christian
of the Chief Engineer's Depart-x 7′ 0′′ beam x 2′ 0′′ depth.
namo? Woman: 'Arry. Registrar: and to widen his outlook. No-one
ment and Mr. W. Payne, Inspector, Accommodation for the Chief | Henry?—No, not 'Enery; 'Arry, would claim for a moment that all
Chief Constructor's Department. Engineer and six pussengera ja Mr. Cairns, at the Thames War Pensions, Western made films, whether from
Mr. Mathias Is relieving Mr. Me- provided in the deck-house, whilst Court, to a woman who complain- Queen and Mr. A, Biggs is reliev the Captain and 'Officers are borth-ed of assault: You do not want mo Hollywood or the various coun- Some idea of the extent of
ed in the deck-house on the navi- to send her to Holloway Gaol, do financial tries of Europe, were of educa-Britain's
obligationsing Mr. Rundell,
gation bridge; the accommodation yout Woman: I should sing tho arising from Great War pensions tional value for good, but there may be gathered from a recent
Thirty-nine Chinese were ar for the crew is forward.,
Doxology if you did.
Willesden wife; I want to know can be no doubt about the general statement made by the Minister rested on Aug.. in a raid by the
what to do with my husband when worthiness of the main impres-of Pensions, who pointed out police on some premises in Pilt-
that there are to-day over a mil-street, Liverpool, and have been THE WEEK'S PICTURES. ne
comes home drunk.. Magis- trate: Ask ve police court mis- sionary.
n.
Woman at the Thames Court: Mr. James Clare, who was on-130 H.P. Sulzer auxiliary engine man, or one
gaged in Singapore to take a num-driving a compressor, a dynamo, a She gave me a black look. Mr. ber of griffins to Bangkok, has died centrifugal sanitary pump and a Cairns, magistrate: If you saw the
In black looks I receive here some of injuries received in a motoring standby lubricating pump.
Evidence in a.sheep worrying opinion accident at the latter place. The the engine room are also a verli- times you would be surprised.
car was being driven by Mr. J. Genl Weir fresh water pump, driven Taylor, an officer of the 4.4. Kola, by compressed air, two hand fire action at Brentford County Court: when it struck a pile of stones at extinguishing pumpa, and there He was, a docile dog. The rats the roadside and capsized. Mr. 4re four air bottles of, 250 litres uned to ent the food out of the.
capacity. Clare was taken to hospital in an unconscious condition, and diedes, each being served by two marries for happiness and gets
The vessels have two cargo East Hom landlady: A woma thirteen hours later.
2-ton Mannesman cargo derricks, hard work. Several members of the staff of and around the mast are no
little
con-
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VARIETY IN TO-MORROW'S "TELEGRAPH.”
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sions given. At times we are lion and a half people receiving ed the men were playing Chinese charged with gaming. It is alleg- inclined to think that too many some allowance or pension. By
ganes for money atakes, and In
A woman stated at Highgate of the films of to-day play unduly the end of the present year, there
the excitement of the raid a num- will have been spent on war pen-
that she did not wish a minister on the question of love and sex sions since 1917 no less a sum
ber of Chinese managed to escape i
of religion to sign her. old age and that a native would some-thin £788,000,000, which la
by rushing to the top of the pre- To-morrow's Telegraph will con pension form: Magistrato; A the whole
mises and climbing through a wintain an interesting selection of minister of religion would hardly times be forgiven for thinking that siderably more than
dow and over the roofs of adjacent topical pictures, dealing with be worthy of his cloth if he could National Debt before the War the average white man and woman On orphans, over £100,000,000 property.
events and personalities associated not keep a confidence. Woman: spends most of his and her private has already been paid out, and
with the past week.
You know what the flock is, don't" This morning's Harbour Office Amongst the portraits. will be
you? time In embracing and kissing, but even at the present day more thin inasmuch as sex fo the most vitet a million sterling per week is he-reports gave 13 arrivals and the pictures of Dr. Wang Chung- ] ing paid in respect of children. same number of departures, with hui (Minister of Justice of thing in human life the world It is gratifying also to note that British holding top place by a large the Nationalist Government), Dr. The Judgo had decided a point over, this criticism can be carried some three million sterling per margin, leaving 52 vessels in port, C. C. Wang and Professor C. Y. against the young barrister, who of which 21 wore British. With the anuum is being spent on men too far. The average Westerner suffering from mental trouble an
same number of arrivals, tonnage Wang, three noted brothers; as was nettled, and said, "M'lud, I showed an increase
over well as photographs of three naval am amazed.” loves a story in which love and a result of their war experience yesterday's figures, while individual boxers who are to be seen in action His leader, who felt that this goodness triumph, and Hollywood and as a consequence of the treat producers and others have seen to ment which has been given to this freights were high. British cargo in Hongkong soon-namely, Jack might prejudice their case, arese
under both headings totalled more Seaman, of H.M.S. Suffolk; A, B. and interposed:- class of men, quite a large number than 15,000 tona. There were 11 White, of II.M.S. Suffolk; and A. "I must apologize, m'lud, for It that villains are always punish-have made complete recoverien. inward cargoes of which seven were B. Mudge, of H..S. Berwick, the hasty remark of my young ed and, that virtue is always re- These facts should serve some of four figures, while only four of whose records will also be given. friend. By the time he is as old 'Sporting, pictures will 'include as I am he will not be amazed at warded. And that is not a bad what to remove any impression the seven throughs reached this
that the country has forgotten point.
several taken at the R. A. Aquatic anything your Lordship does." example to set before anyone, no those who came to her aid in the
Sports at the V.R,C. and two of the
rines.
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matter of what the surrounding dark days from 1914 onwards, Mr, T. Foster, who is well known Chinese Interport baseball match A sood company had received "atory" might be compounded. many of whom gave their all and in lawn bowls circles in the Colony of last Sunday.
left wives and children behind as a skip In the second team of the
There will also be two photo-from a man ifteen separate ap- One has to credit a native with them. Happily, the war pensions Kowloon Bowling Green Club, has graphs of the funeral of the late plications for the samples of their knowing that all "atories" are question has been kept free from been presented with a handsome corporal Hallet, of the Royal Ma- pea seeds; and when the sixteenth arrived the chief of the post or- embellished with sensational party polities, for the main silver rose bowl by his colleagues
dor department dietated this: let- foundations of the system were in the Dockyard on the occasion of
ter to the customer:"Dear Sir,--1 Incident and action and wo do the laid down by the co-operation of his leaving the Colony. He is aai!-
am sending you the seeds as request- native intelligence an Injustice if all parties in the House of Coming with his family on Saturday Kisaku Oshima, 'a fireman in the cd, but what are you doing with so
la particularly for Home. The presentation took wo Imagine that he believes as mona. What
gratifying also is the fact that al-place at the Dockyard Recreation Japanese steamer Hakusan Mare, many? Are you planting the whol literally true all that he sees upon though the scale of pensions is Club at a function, presided over has been fined £20, treble value of your suburbs with pens?"
A few days later he received the screen. Film atories uro now much higher than it used to by Mr. J. Magill of the Chief En- and duty, at East Ham Polico generally wholesome in their be, the cost or administration has gineers Department. The pre- Court, for harbouring four aute the reply:"No, we are not plant- endings if not in their entirety, been reduced from 1s. 3d. to b1⁄2d sentation was made by Mr. W. matic pistols and 400 rounds of ing them at all. My wife, uses
them for soup."
In the E
Sayers.
ammunition.