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THEATRE
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For an extended run Daily at 2.00, 5.00, 7.20, 9.40, p.m. sharp.
Broke all Records in London
and New York.
Music... Beauty
Romance、、
Glamor
and Pageantry United to Create what all America has ac-
claimed the
EIGHTH
WONDER
of the
WORLD
RIORITA
RADIO PICTURES' Colossal Clarification In Voice.
Song, Color and Beauty of
ZIEGFELD'S
Į GREATEST CIRL-MUSIC SPECTACLE
With BEBE DANIELS
thod as the screen's greatest singtag star
JOHN BOLES
Domall romaantie késl
Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey Dorothy Lee Don Alvarado
and a Thousand Ochars
Glorious élé sexgy and
glorious new by
HARRY TIERNEY JOB MCCARTHY
Spartacular
Scenes in Technicolor
A
WILLIAM
L BARON Production
Directed by LUTHER
REED
Mammoth Scenes in Technicolor
Another Super-Production at Popular Prices.
Song Hits distributed fee
Booking at Anderson's & The Theatre. Tel. 25720)
ADOLPHE MENJOU
at his best in
"A NIGHT OF
MYSTERY"
with Evelyn Brent, Nora Lane.
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Commencing TO-DAY
at 2.30, 5.80, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
STAGE PLAY at 9.30 p.m.
"GAY PAREE"
with
ELEANORE NINON, LEO MANTIN
In Latest Song Hits-Newest Dance Fashions.
Also Hilarious comedy scream MONKEY BUSINESS"
Slight increase in prices at 9.20 p.m.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. “SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1930.
Printed and Published for, the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANELIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong,
BODIES OF LOST EXPLORERS.
TAKEN FROM: NORWAY ON A SWEDISH GUNBOAT.
REVERENT SCENES.
Tromsoe, Sept. 19.
AGED PRINCESS MARRIED.
INFANTE OF SPAIN FOR BRIDEGROOM.
ESCAPADE RECALLED.
London, Sept. 19. "There was an impressive cere- The wealthy Princess Marle mony at the Cathedral here when Charlotte Constance De Broglic, the remains of the explorers who is seventy-three years of age, Andree, Strindberg and Fraenkel
authorities.
BRITAIN LEADS IN AVIATION.
ORDERS FROM ABROAD FOR MACHINES
GIANT AIR LINERS,
Ordens
London, Sept. 19.
for aircraft worth several hundred thousand pounds broad during the past few weeks. have been received in Britain from
I were handed over to the Swedish has been married secretly in a Britain is at the head of the list London register office to Prince Louis Ferdinand of Bourbon-Or- Swedish sailors bore the coffins jeans, who is forty-one. He is the through reverent 'crowds, flags being flown at half-mast, towards Infante of Spain, and a cousin of the quay, where they were placed King Alfonso of Spain. on board the Swedish gunboat The wedding was arranged to to take place in France last July, but
Svensksund for transfer Sweden.-Renter.
"
vainly
the Princess' family. [It was reported from Osio on endeavoured in the French Courts August 22 that a 33-years' mystery to prevent it. in the Arctic had been solved by
The Prince was ordered to leave the finding on White Island. between Spitzbergen and Franz France some time ago, following an Joseph Land, of the body of the alleged escapade in the "under Swedish explorer and balloonist, world" of Paris, Whereupon King Salomon August Andree, by a Alfonso deprived him of his rank Norwegian scientific expedition on and all honours and dignities- August 6 also a second body in Reuter. the remains of the camp. A
The marriage between the aged third body was found later.
Princess and Prince Louis Fredin- Andree left
Island and caused a great stir in European Spitzbergen, in July, 1897, in a continental society early this year, balloon with two companions, in- The De Broglies are a large and tending to fly to the North Pole, very wealthy family, and they re- but he disappeared and several garded the betrothal with the great- expeditions were sent to search est concern, not only because of the for the missing balloonists. The disparity in the ages of the couple, camp, situated a couple of hun-but also owing to the Prince being dred yards from the shore, bore persona non grata with minor many evidences that the bal Royalty and the more aristocratic loonists had lived for some time familles on the continent. after a forced landing.]
Dane
"THE DIVORCEE.”
Prince's Escapade."
The escapade of the Prince re- ferred to in the cable occurred six years ago. The following an- nouncement was made from Madrid on October 10, 1924:
FINE FILM SHOWING AT THE QUEEN'S.
"King Alfonso, as head of his
Marital problems,
with special House, has been obliged to take the decision of depriving reference to the facilities in Ameri- painful ca for the changing of husbands Prince Louis Ferdinand of Bour and wives, form the basis of "The bon-Orleans of all his rights as an Divorcee," Norma Shearer's big Infante of Spain. Prince Louis is talkie success now showing at the the second son of the Infante Don Queen's Theatre. There is no need Antonio, Duke of Galliera and the to tell the story; indeed, it is bet- Infanta Eulalia, aunt of the King French ter that it should be gathered from of Spain. Recently the
Government found it necessary to hearing and secing the picture. Suffice it to say that the main theme expel him from the territory of the is the conflict in man's and woRepublic. A Royal decree, depriv- man's viewpoint on faithfulness, ing the Infante of his privileges "on It is a tale of a woman who, think account of bad conduct," is publish- ing that what was sauce for the ed in the Madrid Gazette to-day." goose should be sauce for the gand-
er too, found that life does not work
out quite on those lines. In, the play, with some
quite clever
end, after a good deal that is sordid, epigrams. "The Divorcee" can cer- true love comes into its own. tainly be described as a picture far
above the ordinary.
The film is decidedly worth see-
In addition to the main film, there' ing. Apart from the study in life which it represents, it is marked by is an excellent news reel, which in- some remarkably fine acting includes some good pictures of the which Norma Shearer rises to new America's Cup, and an especially heights and in which also the other good musical speciality by the Re- characters give her able support. vellers. Altogether, the current There is, moreover, a happy vein programme, is most entertaining of sumour running through the and satisfying.
IN CAPTIVITY FIVE MONTHS.
Father Waguette as he appeared after being released from five months' captivity in the hands of Communist bandits. He is now. in the French Hospital, Hongkong, being nursed back to health. Details of his experiences will be found on Page 1.
of countries exporting aeroplanes and air machines. The Japanese Governments are and French among those which have bought For their navies the all-metal flying boats made in England and equipped with English engines. In addition, large orders for light aeroplanes and several fleets of monoplane passenger liners are being built in Britain for air routes abroad.
One important home order just being completed is that of eight forty-seater Handley Page air. liners which Imperial Airways are to use on their service to India. These giants, which have a 140 fect wing span, with wing slots as large as the main planes of Moth machines, have each a speed of 120 miles an hour, and accommodation which includes two lounges and a bar, equipped with armchairs, and two huge holds for luggage and freight-British Wireless.
MISSION TO THE FAR EAST.
(Continued from Page 1.)
chairman. Co-operative Insurance Society.
Mr. James Bell, J.P., secretary of United Textile Factory Work- ers' Association; secretary of the Oldham Weavers' Association; vice-president of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association.
Mr. William A. Crowther, J.P.. E. Crowther, Messrs. W. and
Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Limited, Slaithwaite. Morcom. C.B.E., Messrs Belliss and Morcom; late chairman of Council of British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' Association; vice- president of Federation of British Industries.
Mr. Louis Beale, C.B.E., special commissioner to Overseas Trade Development Council.
Secretary, Mr. T. St. Quintin Hill, O.B.E., assistant secretary, Mr. F. A. Barnes.
Cotton Section. Attached to the Mission there will be a special Cotton Sub-Mis- sion constituted as follows:
Sir Ernest Thompson,
of the Main Mission (chairman and chairman of Cotton Sub-Mis- sion).
Mr. James Bell, J.P. (alse member of Main Mission).
J.P.
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Mr. F. W. Birchenough, J.P. president of the Operative Spin- ners' Amalgamation; secretary of the Oldham Operative Cotton Spinners' and Twiners' Associa tion.
Mr. E. Duxbury, vice president of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association; general secretary of the General Union of Associations of Loom Overlookers; president of the Northern Coan- ties Textile Federation.
Mr. J. L. Edmondson, secretary, Federation of Calico Printers; chairman of the Exhibition Sub- committee of the Joint Standing Committee (Education and Indus- try) of the British Cotton Indus- try Research Association.
Mr. George Green; chairman Padiham Manufacturers' Asso- ciation; managing director of Messrs. George Green and Co. (Padiham), Limited.
Mr. Arthur Reiss, managing director of Reins Brothers.(1923), Limited.
Mr. Joseph Wild, president of the Wigan and District Cotton Em-: ployers' Association; member of the General Committee of the Federation of Master Cotton Spin- ners; director of the following companies-Carlton Spinning Com. pany, Limited, Clitheroe, Einpress Spinning Company, Limited, Wigan, Belgrave Spinning Com pany, Limited, Oldham.
Secretary: Mr. N. A. Gattery.
Terms of Reference.
1.
To the Main Mission. To in- quire into the present condition of British trade with China and Japan, and to report what action should be taken to develop, and in crease that trade.
To the Sub-Mission. To assist the Economic Mission to the Far East in their inquiries so far as these relate to cotton goods, and to report what action should be taken to develop and increase British trade in these goods.
Mr. Frederic Forsyth, dental surgeon, was found dead in his surgery at Portland-place, Mary lebone, last month. Death is stated to have resulted from gae poisoning.. Mr. Forsyth had been a member of the M.C.C.since 1918, and was a frequent visitor to Lord's.
AT THE
TO-DAY TO MONDAY
QUEEN'S A 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20.
The Picture That's Sweeping the Country !
Never such advance praise for a picture!
Raves from studio and previews!
Something new and Sensational in -disc-". losures of ex-husbands and. ex-wives!
Greater by far than "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney.”
NORMA
SHEARER
*Menor
CHOI
The
Divorceε
with
CHESTER MORRIS, CONEAD NAGEL ROBERT MONTGOMERY
A ROBERT Z. LEONARD Production
QUEEN'S NEXT CHANGE
GUS VAN-JOE SCHENCK
in
"They Learned About Women
AN ALL TALKING-SINGING-ROMANCE
THE CHINESE DRAMA
"The DECEPTIVE POTION"
AT THE
TITLED IN "ENGLISH
WORLD
>-DAY TO WEDNESDAY
41 2.50, 5.15, 7.15 2.9.20 (Interpretar at all Performans
A Farce that moves from back-stage to boudoir in a series of snappy scenes that will keep you laughing every minute
AT THE
Laura
The LA PLANTE LOVE TRAP
STAR
NEIL HAMILTON
Final Showings To Day
2/30, 5:30 8 9:20
TO-DAY "THE MONTMARTRE FOLLIES”