TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR LINE.
GERMANY TO MAKE A BID FOR SUPREMACY.
NEW GIANT ZEP,
When the Graf Zeppelin takes the air again on May 10 to fly to South America and New York, the Geman airship will really be per- forming a "dress rehearsal" for the establishment of a great Transut- Jantic airline.
By a combination of aeroplanes and airships, the Germans hope to break the French-Portuguesų mono- poly alliance, almed at shutting out all other nations from the Transut- loatle' airship race,
This was revealed by the con- clusion of a German-Spanish air alliance between the Zeppelin Works, the German Lufthansa, the Spanish Airship Company "Colon," and the "Classa," the Spanish air- planes traffic organisation.
The French-Portuguese alliance, concluded recently, reserves all For- tuguese airfields for 30 years for the exclusive use of the planes of the Portuguese Air-traffic Co., which is under French control.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, APRIL
ST. GEORGE'S DAY AT THE CENOTAPH.
Mr. T. E. Pearce (President) and Mr. E. Cock (Vice-President) laying a wreath on the Hongkong Cenotaph on behalf of the Hongkong St. George's Society on Wednesday, (Photo:
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CINEMA NOTES.
Mee Cheung).
OLDHAM MAYOR SETS
A FASHION.
VELVET COAT TO AID
THE RETURN OF EUNICE.
(Continued from Pago 8.)
her ways, was most responsive to Mrs. Kuttle's little talks, but her somewhat naive questions were apt
"How long have you been marri to prove a little embarassing. oned, Missces Kahtooh ?"
UNEARTHLY NOISES IN "THE GHOST TALKS."
Melancholy winda,
LOCAL INDUSTRY. " weird, All planes, other than those of the monopoly company, are prohibited sepulchral voices, mysterious foot-
Residents of Oldham, who meet man attired in a from landing on Portuguese terri-steps, the barking of a dog and the
negroa dignified tory. Portugal possesses the Azores, hysterical screams of two which form an absolutely necessary honeymooners are sounds which short jacket and yest of smooth a "creepy" at- black velvet, no longer mistake landing point for any Transatlantic help to establish plane which undertakes to carrymosphere in the haunted house se-him for a Spanish matador
quence of "The Ghost Talks," com-, holiday. passengers or freight..
ing to the Queen's Theatre to-mor- row.
Stepin Fetchit and Baby Mack, the dusky bridegroom and bride, hold the spet ght in the particular
No Stop at Azores,
To meet this, the German-Spanish alliance has reached an agreement by which passengers and mail tely comic action having to do with carried from central European points to Seville, Spain, by airplane, and from Seville to South and North American points by airship, so eliminating any stop at the Azores.
They know it is none other than their
Mr. mayor,
Issac Crabtree.
He has vowed to wear this un-
conventional dress out of local patriotism, and he hopes to in- the ghost. Both are exceptional duce other Oldham men to adopt troupers with the innate sense of the fashion.
His velvet coat and vest are humour typical of their race. "Sol you is a ghose, is you?" says Stepin. made of real Oldham cotton "Well, right heak Ise goin' to velvet, presented by a local firm cahve maself some ghose meat." to celebrate the Cotton Fair they The picture is all-talking and de- are holding. signed for laughing purposes only.
This working arrangement wili be tried out for the first time in
"The Ghost Talks" is from the May, when the Graf Zeppelin is story by Max Marcin and Edward scheduled to fly from Seville to Per- nambuco, Riode Janeiro and Lake-Hammond. The dialogue was writ-a
ten by Harlan Thompson and Fre- Passengers and mail will leave derick Brennan, the former acting Berlin by plane for Seville, transfer us rehearser during the filming of
the picture. there to the Graf, and continue the flight across the ocean.
hurst.
The Transatlantic airship line itself, however, will not be opened
"Trial of Mary Dugan.
"The Trial of Mary Dugan,"
"The mayor'a fashion lead has excited a good deal of comment," an official at the Town Hall told reporter, "but he is delighted with his new velvet clothes.
"About three years now, Mrs. Verisaki."
"Ah," said the lady inhaling sharply through the mouth.
"And you now have throo
children. Yes?"
"No," said Eunice innocently. "I haven't any."
"Ah, then you must have been very careful," said the good little lady thoughtfully.
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•
26, 1930.
The Very Idea! POWELL'S
Four golfers were reating at the ninth green, which was behind a mound, when a battered ball came over the rise and rolled into a sandy trap. The player was not in view.
"Let's make him think he did it in one and he'll maybe stand us a drink in the club-house," said one of the golfers..
So they picked up his ball and put it in the hole. Presently a weary player walked over the mound and looked about for his ball. The four men rose at him;) shouting, "Did you hit that ball? Good lad? You have done it in one, old man. Look! It's in the hole!".
The player looked bewilderød. "Here's how it rolled," they said, tracing, a course across the green. "A perfect shot! The right angle and the right strength!"
The weary player pulled out a tattered scorecard. "Good," said he" that makes it eleven for that hole!"
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Optimist "Cheer up, old man. Things aren't as bad as they seem to be."
Pessimist "No, but they seem to be."
Some of the schoolboy "howlers" secured in the competi tion organised by the University Correspondent:
The five greatest Powers in Europe are. battleships. sub- marines, aeroplanes, electricity, and Mr. Philip Snowden.
Lord Macaulay suffered from gout and wrote all his poems in Iambic feet.
The population of London is a bit too thick.
Magna Charta means the Queeni lost her garter. The French is: Koni soit qui mal y pense.
When holes are added to holes the boles are holes.
A skeleton is a man with his inside out and his outside off.
Poetic licence is a licence you get from the Post Office to keep poeta, You get one also if you It costs. want to keep a dog.
7s. 6d., and is called a dog, Hicence.
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whose death has occurred, was a The Rev. Mark Guy Pearse, Cornishman, and was distinguish-
until the summer of 1931, when the Bayard Veiller's all-taking picture- a black velvet dress that matches much interested and slightly on ed as a preacher and as`a writer.]
ization of the stage success of the her husband's coat. They
new giant Zeppelin, the LZ128, now
arc
being constructed at Friedrichsha- same name, will have its final show- both cut from the same cloth,Oh I thought Rangoon was sucha announced a collection as follows:
fen, has been completed.
The LZ128 will be one and a half times as large as the Graf, and have almost twice the motor strength.
TRIPLE MURDER IN CHICAGO.
..
Once after preaching at the West London Mission he There are not seven wonders of the world; there are eight.
One is the smallness of a three- penny bit on Saturday and the
waiter, on Sunday a gift for God! bigness of a threepenny bit on Sunday. On Saturday a tip for a And everything has gone up but
Mrs. Verisaki had recently been. transferred from Rangoon and was only too pleased to find someone who had been there and could talk to her about it. Eunice had spent only three days in the port altoge- ther and after the first day never "The coat, he says, is light left the ship, where she spent most and extremely comfortable, and of the time in trying to keep the it looks beautiful when worn mosquitoes out of her cabin. in the evening. Moreover, it Still that was sufficient cause for can be washed.
Mrs. Verisaki to ask her opinion "Mrs. Crabtree is now seen in of the place. Eunice was not
her guard, "but it seemed to be a safe subject anyhow. So she said, ings at the Queen's Theatre to-day. and together the mayor and
Bayard Veiller, author of the mayoress hope to give a big lift delightfully picturesque place, so oriental, don't you know. But the stage play, went to Hollywood under to Oldham'e trade." a special agreement with Metro- Dr. Jordan, founder and secre-climate, the climate must be ter- Goldwyn-Mayer to direct the screen tary of the Men's Dress Reform rible. Didn't you find it awfully adaptation. Veiller, whose earlier Party, welcomed the Mayor of unhealthy?" plays include "Within the Laws." Oldham's lead when a reporter replied Mrs. Verisaki enthusitis
"It was hot, but not unhealthy," and "The Thirteenth Chair" re-asked his opinion. cently sailed for England and plans "If the coat is washable, as
"We had a very good tically: to produce his next piece abroad. well as being light to wear, it will doctor, a personal friend of ours
"The Trial of Mury Dugan" ran certainly be an Improvement on
and we followed his 'advice." for more than a year on Broadway a jacket of ordinary cloth," he
"What was that?" asked Eunice and is now being presented by said.
putting her foot into it again,
"Eat well, sleep well, and one eighteen road companies in the
day." good deod States and Europe. The picture
Eunice blushed, and some of the all-star cast headed by
other ladies present were really Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, who has the part of Edward West, the
quite shocked. But Kuttle to whom she related the story only laughed. defence attorney, H. B. Warner,
"The doctor's advice was very good,
An Englishman secured a situa- that of the prosecuting attorney, and
he said "I'm all for pro corpore tion in the North of Scotland, and Raymond Hackett, who played the
mock one night his landlady asked-"I role of Jimmy Dugan on the stage:
don't suppose you will have made and has the same part in the photo-
Tokyo, Apr. 25. play. Others in the cast include The tramway strike has been
the acquaintance of Ben Nevis?" "Never," was the reply, "but on Olive Tell, Lilyan Tashman, Dewitt settled, the strikers surrendering
one occasion, while in London, I Jennings, Mary Doran, Wilfrid unconditionally, after an inter-
heard Ben Tillett speak." view with the Mayor-Reuter. · North and others.
THREK SHOT DEAD IN FEUD.
Chicago, Apr. 20. Another spectacular gang crime was added to Chicago's long list to-has an day when a single gunman entered a saloon, ordered beer, and, without tasting the beer or giving any form of warning, suddenly pulled out a pistol and shot and killed the pro- prietor, Frank Delre, the bartender, Walter Wakefield, and a man named Joseph Special.
The murderer escaped although his shots had interrupted a Catholic mass a block away, and throngs gathered at the scene within a few minutes.
Police believe that the crime was a result of either a labour or a beer gang feud.
EXCHANGE RATES.
Paris
Geneva Berlin Dako
Helsingfors
Athens
Buenos Aires Hongkong
York Amsterdam
Stockholm
Vienna
Madrid Bucharest Bombay
Yokohama
Brussels
Copenhagen
Milan
Prague
Lisbon
Hio
Shanghai
Silver (spot)
London, Apr. 25.
TRAM STRIKE IN TOKYO.
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
OF DISCONTENTS.
sono and modesty."
down - with
(To be continued next Saturday)
poisoning.
John Donovan, an elderly tramp. Miss Shearer was personally A message yesterday stated who broke into Poole Workhouse selected by Mr. Veiller for the title that the strike was nearing an end and slept in an office during the role, despite the fact that she was and that half the men had already night, was found dead from gas entirely without stage or "talkie" returned to work.] experience. Her voice is reported to be one of the best yet encounter. ed among screen players, in its re- cording quality,
In transferring "Mary Dugan" from stage to screen, Mr. Veiller is said to have adheared to the ori- ginal dramatic treatment. Court- 123.92 room
dialogue provides the 26.08 action and setting and the stage 20.361 18.16 production is shortened slightly to
conform with film requirements.
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BRITAIN & EGYPT.
NEGOTIATIONS RESUMING ON TUESDAY.
London, Apr. 25
SHANGHAI COUNCIL,
THE QUESTION OF MORE CHINESE SEATS.
Shanghai, Apr. 25. The Anglo-Egyptian negotiu- The Chambers of Commerce are tions, which were adjourned just doing everything possible to before Easter in order that mem-secure a quorum for, the rata- bers of the Egyptian Delegation payers' special meeting might consult their colleagues, in Trouble is expected if the audi- Calro upon certain points, are to tional Chinese scats are again re- be resumed in London on Tuesday fused.Our Own Correspondent. morning-British Wircless.
"I should have answered that manicurist ud first. probably be gone now."
collections.
Young Mathematician-"Mum, do you know how to get the cubic contents of a barrel?"
His Mother "No, ask your father."
BOXER FUND.
TWO-THIRDS OF MONEY FOR RAILWAYS.
Shanghai, Apr. 25. Concerning the allocation of the Boxer Indemnity Fund, it is understood that, following recent negotiations between the British Minister to China, Sir Miles
the Lampson, and
Nanking. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. C. T. Wang, the parties have come to an amicable understanding in the matter, and that an agreement may be signed in the near future. The new agreement; it is stated here, provides that the British Government will return about half of the total indemnity fund to the Chinese Government as the first instalment, the money to be devoted to construction works in China which will be mutually beneficial to Great Britain and China.
Two-thirds of the money will be spent on the construction of rail-. ways.
Reuter's Amplification,
Nanking, Apr, 25. As a result of recent discus- sions, Dr. C.. T. Wang and Si Miles Lampson have concluded natisfactory arrangements for the disposal of the British Boxer In dernity refund, for the promotion. of Sino-British cultural co-opera- | tion for educational and rail con- struction purposes,
A draft agreement has been initialled and only awaits formal, approval by the British Govern- ment.
It is estimated that the refund approximates to Mex $58,600,000.
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