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CENTRAL
THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
HEAR
A 1931 Paramount Super-Production.
MARLENE DIETRICH
The new screen beauty whose resemblance to GRETA GARBO is the rage of two continents
in
WHICH Fate flings into her arme a man who offers riers. thing a mom craves, Best, out of the Legion comes a lon
er who offers nothing but love. Which duen sŝie «hoose? Wealth and protection, or a love that will make her e ontract amid the mind splen due of
WITH
Gary Cooper Marlene Dietrich Adolphe Menjou
MOROCCO
a Garamount Picture
A thrillingly magnificent plc. Gure! Bringing to the screen a new personality that will dash in lights across the nation, bíur.
fene Dietrich Itevesting the
nazing things a woman will
do for love!
A jos von Strensere ProDUCTION
THE HONGKONG
AGED BARONET'S SUICIDE.
TELEGRAPH,
TRAGIC ACT OF SIR ROBERT GRENVILLE HARVEY.
BIG GAME HUNTER.
London, Apr. 7.
MONDAY, APRIL
CHINESE POLICE
CO-OPERATE.
KIDNAPPER TRACKED DOWN AT AMOY.
CHILD RECOVERED.
With the assistance of the police
at Williams
13. 1931.
FROM NEW YORK TO PEERAGE.
ROMANCE OF AN American' UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR.
COME BECOMES VISCOUNT.
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London, April 8, curious, romance of the A pretty mont-encircled mansion at Amoy, a Chinese who had lost! in Buckinghamshire, the residence his son, succeeded in recovering his peerage Is revealed today in the of Sir Robert Grenville Harvey, child and also in having the ld-dry pages of the official London Baronet, was the scene of annapper arrested by the local police. Gazette, which prints a long list inquest on his body to-day, when: Two charges of kidnapping inf of allens granted naturalization a verdict of suicide during tein-respect of different boys were ecrtiflentes. porary Insanity was returned. brought against the man before
Sir Robert, who was 74 years of Mr.
The list contains the name Central the ge, was a noted sportsman and Magistracy this morning, it being "Viscount Exmouth" and the com- big-game hunter. He returned alleged that the two, Inds were ex-ment is made that this is a CRD of rendhesion to British nationa- home on. April 2 after ( six ticed away on January 24. weeks' visit to Scotland. He was The defendant denied both counts.lity. found dead in bed with a revolvùr, Detective Sergeant Naughton*
Viscount Exmouth, who with which he always slept, and told the Court that the two boys
born in England, went to the a book on big game hunting was were playing maglies in Blake Gar- United States with his parents also beside him. The evidence dens on January 3 and later a man when he was eight years of age. showed that he had been suffering who appeared on the scene, engaged
Was
Was
from a severe attack of influenza. them in conversation. He took His father became a naturalized The Sie Robert, who succeeded his them to the Taiping Theatre where American and inherited a peerage a few futher the first barones, in 1887, they met the defendant, to whom father, just before his death
married six yours Inter to boys were handed over. the Hon. Elly Murray, eldest were then taket to a ten shop and months later, expressed a wish that Ron would spent his fe in Senth Baron from there to the n.8. Fong Plug in his Elibank. There were two daugh-harbour. The original man apEngland.
peared an the ship prior to its des
dicaphter of
ters,
Viscount Exmouth is a professor Calumbia University, New York.
SECRET POWER IN SPACE.
AMSTEM
AT THE
QUEEN'S To-day to Wednesday At 2.30, 5.10, 7,15 & 9.30 TUNE IN FOR A MILLION LAUGHS AND THRILLS!
WILLIAM HAINES
REMOTE
CONTROL
ns Bill Haines traps a gang of desperadoes and wins a girl all by radio!
with
CHARLKS KING MARY ¡DORAN JOHN MILJAN
POLLY MORAN
When asked 10-day what he
How you'll rear! How Sir Robert, who was educated at parture and the entire party Inter would do in the House of Lords,
you'll gasp Viscount Exmouth replied: "I shall too, went into the Army, beeum-left for Amoy. Juga captain in the 3rd Battalion On arrival at Amoy, one of the be very quiet, but if questions of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry. boys was taken by the defendant concerning Amerien arise I may be In 1900 he was appointed High and the greand by the ather man, very useful." Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. whose present whereabouts are un-)
The (ཊྛཾrL I;༥Zirཊྛི
oward about known, this boy being still missing.in 1108) SUPP. There is an heir to The deferuingt took his lad to Lauj
Lang So, outside Amay, and sold the barometov.
him for $450, only part of the money being paid on the spot.
Some days after this y's dise appearance, the father cabled to a friend is amoy to notify the police and in raid on the hottie where the SCIENCE ON ITS TRACK. buy was staying, he was recovered
Sir Oliver Lodge, addressing the Bee again an attempt is being and later returned to Hongkong. It made to persuade the Englishman was stated that the defendant had Imperial College Literary and De
to bating Society, said that animated- to wear a new type of summer hat.been arrested and
twelve years in the Amoy Courts matter. like il matter, was inert, This time, it is notated by #1 ultle mind with a knowledge of but on April 10 he was seen in but was acted upon by an unknown the psychology of the English male, Bonham Strand and pointed out to something called Life and Mind. He is offering them something new the police by the boy who was walk- which
quite indistinguishading in the streets with his parents. The defendant, a man of 60 years from the old.
The idea is to put on the market of age, was sentenced to six months' fa two-sure hat exactly similar in hard labour on vack charge.
appearance to the ordinary felt hat
NEW HATS FOR OLD TO WEIGH Zoz,, BUT TO LOOK THE SAME.
How so firmly established in masen.
Arienced
"There has recently been dis- covered or suspected," he said, " physical agent, which exerts guid ance without imparting energy. that might serve as the instru- is ment for life and mind, and more at home in space than in asso- felt,viation with material objects such
as the bodies of animals and men.'
In electricity, in magnetism, and in tght, the really effective medium, whatever it was, existed in space- time,
line favour. Thus the Englishman is made of almost gossamer will have something alsolutely new and compares this with the stand -but nobody will know anything ard types of headwear: about it.
The new hat, which is expected
in the shups at any moment now,
Now hut. 20z. Panama hat. 9. Straw hat, 5 oz.
J. C. NUGENT
An
EDWARD SEDGWICK
production
* Metro Godwyn
TALKING
PICTURE
Next Change
Beware a Laughing Lady, Men!
HONCKONC'S FINEST CINEMA
Showing To-day
at 2.80, 5.10, 7.15
& 9.30 p.m.
ADDED ATTRACTIONS
BENNY RUBIN
in The General
UKELELE IKE | HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY
-NEXT CHANGE
What right
have we to
romance
after marriage?
AUTH
Divorce, with its scandal, striken at her with fore that dargers hez, But he his back with the
power abs CAD CCD- mand. And ade laughs, as she bat
LEEДt ber
IDEA.
By a daring dashing story, bith Hati acted' by the
X" tane, supported
by Clive Brook, Ber loading Doan fa *Charming Bin
CHATTERTON
прив
“THE LAUGHING LADY'
CLIVE BROOK
A Guramarent Picture
Booking at Anderson's & The Theatre. (Tel. 25720)
GRAF ZEPPELIN ÖVER rounding the dirigible,
JERUSALEM.
TUMULTUOUSLY CHEERED
IN CAIRO.
Cairo. Apr. 11.
which
then loft for Palestine. It will return to Cairo later in the day and will leave for home in the evening.
Jerusalem, Apr. iì.
The Graf Zeppelin arrived here The Graf Zeppelin arrived at at 1.10 p.m. and circled the city Almaza Aerodrome at 5.30 am. for a quarter of an hour,
ing
and was tumultuously cheered by cheered by crowds in the street.
n huge crowd. A member of the-Router.
crew first landed by parachute
and 350 British Air Force men
London, Apr. 12.
and troops held down the dirigible
An official statement declares for an hour. Firomen were obthat the steady Improvement liged to use their hoses to clear the King's condition is off the enthusiastic crowd sur-maintained-Reuter.
in
being
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PEROY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
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The Peach of a Pair!" ia a perfect-
play | Love, Laughs, Song hita.
FOLLOW THRU
The Sparkling show that made America Golf-
Conscious.
WITH
CHARLES
ROGERS
NANCY
CARROLL
PRICES
Including Tax
Loge Seals
$2.20
Dress Circle $ 1.70
Back Stalls
Front Stalls
$LIO
30
Booking at the Theatre only
Tel. 25313 & 25330.
Patrons are requested to call for reserved seats afteen minutes before com- mencement of performance. No reservations can be guaranteed after that
SCHWAB MANDEL hour.
PRODUCTION a Paramount Picture
Strictly Unconventional
with
Lewis Stone
Catherine Dale Owen
Paul Cavanagh
Ernest
Torrence
MOST romances that we see on the screen end with marriage-but here is (one that starts with marriage!
An all-star, all-talking pro- duction of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle' which hold Broadway spell- bound for two years as stuge play !'
Ite daring and truth will set everyone talking!