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TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1932.
CINEMA SCREENINGS. cover the track. The train escápes by
inches.
NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES
tender love story
Hereen.
"Cut calls the director. Another realistic scene is recorded for Radio Pletures' all-talking railroad drama, "Danger Lights," showing to-morrow, at the Queen's Theatre.
* movies.
"Delicious"
"Kept Husbands."
In thin
jara, a
ABDUCTION CHARGE
GIRL'S EXPERIENCE ON WAY TO GRETNA GREEN.
2.
·DEATH INQUIRY.
YOUNG CHINESE ASLEEP IN
JAPANESE HOUSE A
young
The Coroner explained that the
Alfred Marsh, aged 23, уда
At the Kowloon Magistracy yes« Fiction lovers who have enjoyed the
committed for trial at Brentford terday afternoon, Mr. J. A. Fraser, many stories of Basque fe written by Eleanor Mercela, including her Janet Gaynor, whose latest produc- charged with having obtained by sitting as Coroner, conducted an in- Dr. Raymond Unwin, the Arnaval, "Basquerle,"
were treated to tion. "Delicious," now showing at the false pretences £2,664 from a wo quiry into the circumstances sur- chitect, made an attnek on tho rare entertainment yesterday at the King's Theatre, proven again that she man unnamed, and £50 from G. 0. rounding the death of a sporndle building which, he said, Central Theatre where Their Mad in the exception to the "luxury and Reynolds, of Goldhawk-terrace, Chinese, Yuen Fook, aged 18, who had taken place on the Sussex Moment," Fox romantic drama based wealth" rulo of the movies, coast between Brighton and Soa- on the novel and featuring Warner picture, in which she is co-starred Plumstead, and with having ab died as a result of a fall from the Rond shortly after 1 am. on May ford, when he addressed the Baxter and Dorothy Mackaill, opened with Charles Farrell, she is again ducted a girl under the age of 18, second floor of No. 45 Haiphong
most appealing as the pathetic little at Walthamstow. Universities Congres of the Na- for its final showings to-iny.
The picture
deals with
by poverty and the tempest figure surrounded
Mr. Lawson Walton said that which her innate
The jury empanelled consisted of tional Union of Students at Ox-
your love affair of a sophisticated squalor through ford on the future of town-plan-young American society girl who be- goodness and charm shine brightest. after his arrest Marah made a Messra. C. A. Wright (foreman). COMEDIAN ning.
The story of "Delicious" is conalat statement, in which he was alleg. R. Mackaskill and E. Wolf. ⚫comen enamoured of a native Basque. "I was never more shocked in There are the obstacles of a needy ent with this characteristic of Missed to have admitted 6 cases of
two inquiry was one into the circum- my life," he said, "than when I stepmother, and a rich rival in the Gayner except that her occupation is obtaining money by fraud,
way of true love. but after some little more than ordinarily unusual.
ome a
Chinese who was found by a Japan- saw that disgraceful collection of trying situations, a really exciting Sho is, of all professions, a marmalada forgeries, and the fraudulent constances surrounding the death of a .
named Jushiro abominable buildings. They have climax solves all difficulties. Baxter girl. Or was, before embarking in the version of £36 entrusted to him.
ginnt liner to call for The statement alleged that he oas shoc-maker been erected without a shred of
is unusually charming in the role of terrage of imagination, without a shred of Esteban, and imbues the character America to find a home with an uncle went to practitioners of Chris- Tajima, who had been in Hongkong discrimination in the lay-out of the with a prasionato sincerity that stamp in Idaho. Charles Farrell as hand-tian Science, asking for spiritual for a number of years and who was
young sportsman land, and without a shred of re-it as a high point in his histrionic some
player returning from Europe with guidance and comfort. By gain-well-known here. Tajima, at about career. gard for the amenities or the re-
his string of ponies, makes the ne Mas Mackall, too, has an untiattally
he large sums of money.
everything in his house was all. iatlon of one house to another or
right. When he got to the second fine role, and her transition from quaintance of Janet one day while their sympathies ho obtained 1 a.m. on May 2, went to ace that one rond to another.
When staying at Scarborough nt floor, he discovered a Chinese asleep shallow society girl to woman of reata down in the hold working with his "It would be a merey If the depth of character and feeling is as horses. Janet thinks he is a groom,
team, he ences in a Scotch marmalade factory. Innd ericket whole area was swept away and well done as anything she ever has and tells him all about her expert the same hotel as the Now Zoa- there, Picking up a stick, which obtained was lying at hand, he woke up this people, and man and hit him a single blow on buried in the depths of the sea. accomplished. Many interesting back. Her job, according to the story she £200 from different
grounds, including the beach
tella the amazed young millionaire, he secured £12 from a chamber the leg. The man took fright and It is a disgrace to the country, a Biarritz, and the rugged peaks of the was that of sticking waterproof paper maid at Harrogate under a pro-jumped out of the window. He was disgrace to the owners of the Pyrenees, are seen, in the picture
picked up in a serious condition and land, and a disgrace to the people which la replete with both pictorial on the tops of marninlade who have gone to live there. I and emotional scenes of deep human prosaic enough calling oven for the mise of marriage.
The prosecutrix in the £2,664 taken to the Kowloon Hospital find it difcult to speak with Interest. To inmilton MacFadden
case, said that she was a Chris-where he later died.
Dr. J. Mackie, of the Kowloon moderation of the kind of die-and Chandler Sprague, the directors,
goes much credit for the admirabla Do you know that Dorothy Mackalltian Scionco practitioner. Marsh graceful building which is way in which they succeed in follow-star of Inulin Pictures "Kept Hus- told her that he needed money to Hospital, testified that at about on around our country places,”
ing the book in faithfully bringing this hands" now showing at the Queen's pay men to keep his mills going. 2.40 a.m. on May 2, a young Chin- cse was brought to the hospital in to the speaking Theatre was once a Ziegfeld star
condition. He died at Referring to the building of
that she was born in England...that and she advanced money.
Marah afterwards wrote to her, serious houses on the frontages of our big
Splendid noter roads, Dr. Unwin said he did noting and authentic char. her screen debut was in "Blighty Lak you bellared me to be God's good about 6 a.m. Denth was due to shock A Rose". that she was trained from believed that to say it was econo-
Lam Ngan, the step-mother of ment" these details being in the hands youth to be an actress, though her man, but I am a rotter and a cad, and internal haemorrhage. mical to build ou rond froutages of an exceedingly capable
the deceased, said he was a bad son cust. parents were non-professional people and I cheated a good woman with was all moonshine. It was slicer.ZaSu Pitts, Nance O'Neil and Law- .and that a recent contest named Hes."
and always stole her clothes and extravagance and highly dangerous rence Grant are numbered among the her one of the ten most popular talk-
In the charge of abducting the jewellery to pawn. At the time of many famous mes of both stageing screen stars? to human life.
and screen seen in the production.
The new Radio Picture is another girl, who, it was stated, was now his death, deceased was unemployed. that she accepted Ko Ping, the step-brother of the "Nobody dress," he said. "of
triumph of production following in married, said "The Night Angel"
to go to a party deceased, sald he Identified the body the trali of such Radio triumps as his invitation fences along palling down
"The Royal Bed" building
and he accompanied her home. na that of his step-brother, Yuen Nancy Carroll and Hollywood, Cali- "Cimarron," and
a bad- line the
fornia are strangers. Or at least so other recent successes. Our highways are railways to it would seem by a glance at the The east includes the "come-back" Later they went to an hotel where Fook, who, he said, was day.
'trains. arc not recent work of the red-haired beauty performances of two old favourites he persuaded her to stay all night. tempered man, and had not been Bryant Washburn and the incompar-Next day he said, "We had belter home for three weeks prior to his and travel twice go quite as fast of Paramount pictures.
This adorable little star who fratable Clara Kimball Young whose re-go to Gretna Green and get mais denth.
reached that Jushiro Tajima, a Japanese shoe. and travel twice дм Frequently,
some-maker, described the events which The death rate on our highways gained fame in the Hollywood-made tirement left the screen without one rici! there." They
who comes back radiant.
led to the death of the deceased. is twenty or thirty times as high "Abie's Irish Rose" and continued her of its shining luminaries some years ince after eleven days,
Auccessful carcer in "Honey," ago, und as it has ever been on the rall | "Sweetig" "The Devil's Hoilday" and Others who are seen are Robert Umes sleeping out in the open.
Wade the comic Ned Sparks and They went on to Glasgow, where He stated he had just removed into othera, hasn't been in Hollywood for
of the hotel, and No. 45 Haiphong Road when this ng players of excellence.. picture work in many months.. On the question of clearing Her last three films were made in
from an original story by that was the Inst she now of bid on May 2, he had a look round the slum areast. Dr. Unwin said: Paramount's New York studio. They hands"
house to see that everything was all "Until we can get control of town are "Laugher," with Fredric March; Louis Sarceky, Radio planning and plan central areas "Stolen Heaven" with Phillips Hulines; ducer, and he did a fine job of it,
Edmund Goulding production, making it a thoroughly enjoyable sweetheart, business men asking for right. On the second floor, he of big towns we shall go on manu- and facturing slums and we shall go again with the handsome Fredric. entertainment and a smooth, well- tip on the market, property owners found, with the help of a candle to the told story. See it and have a delight we wish to know if they will sell (electric lights had not been in-
ful evening.
their holdings at a proft and when, stalled) a Chinese eleeping there. on killing children in the narrow "The Night Angel" comes
persons who have lost articles etc., He picked up a stick and woke up Witness hit him with a strects. There is no hope for it." King's Theatre on Sunday Naxt.
Vaudeville Show.
etc., are all given the most amazing this man. Feature of "Danger Lights.”
a tele- answers, many of which are proved stick, which frightened the man, Some persons call Alekn A sign post by the side of railroad
An the window. In many cities there are hundreds through LAWN BOWLS STARTS.rends "Continental Divide, Elevation pathist, some call him a soothsayer, to be absolutely true thon and there. who in his hurry to escape jumped
spiritualist and as
then called and the 6757 ft. A long freight train rours some call him a
their questions by Aleko Police notified, and the deceased by. Down the long grade it runs Aleko anys himself, with a bit of of persons who have been given true bulance was brakes screeching, steam hissing, humour, some call him "humbug," answers to engine and cara rocking, wheels ellek But he frankly asks the public to and his company, so it is expected was taken to hospital.
After formal evidence had been form their own conclusions after they that there will be swarms of ques- primed with the mest ing and rails groaning. It enters a With the exception of that of the canyon. Scenery of rare beauty greets have witnessed how he and his as- tioners all
лге offering the opportunity at the of "Accidental Death." perplexing questions. Royal Hongkong Yacht Club, all the the enginemen. A clit rises to dizzy nistants reply promptly to the most perplexing for them now that they taken, the jury returned a verdict
seems
And the audiences get several good Queen's Theatre. to sink-clouds of dust rise-can it local bowling greens are in good con- heights in front. Suddenly it
Aleko dos
does not claim any particular dition for the opening of the now see be-there's no doubt now-it's n ter- uis rank in his methods and his title except that he is a truth tellor, his audience on tiptoe to hear the laughs out of these questions, for son this afternoon, when a full pro-rifie landstidel, Emergency brakes are gramme of matches is due to be play. ed. Owing to the reconditioning of applied--they respond but hesitating assistants do not hesitate to answer! He says that some call him a mystic, answers made by his assistants to ly. The train is henvy. Wheels are all questions in the presence of the same call him a spiritualist, some call the whispered questions propounded the Yacht Club green no matches will locked and they finally quit, sliding audience that can be answered with him a telepathist and some call him by those in the theatre and no one be played there during the first three
as hundreds of tons of reck and dirt due propriety. Lovers in search of al a "humbug" but, at any rate, he has goes away disappointed. weeks, but the turf should be in good condition by the end of May, when they play their first home game.
The programme of matches for this afternoon is as follows:
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the
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The
OPENING OF SEASON THIS AFTERNOON
Kowloon Deka Kowloon C.C. Voller Civil Service
Taiko
First Division.
(60). Craistenpower
(45)
(61 v. Kowloon 1.0.C. (74) cha v. Hervio
(60)
(57) v. Talkon 11.C.
(81)
Second Division.
(GA) v. Yacht Club
(46)
Craigengewer
(64). Kowloon C.C.
(60)
Rectalo
170). Chil Bervice
(GA)
Kowloon B.G.C. (1) v, ILK. Electric
(37)
The figures in brackets indicate the result of the matches last year.
MAMAK HOCKEY.
FINAL MATCH TO BE PLAYED THIS AFTERNOON
The following will represent the "Rest" against the Radio Sports Club in the final match in connexion with the Mamak Hockey Tournament:
R. 11. Wong (St. Andrew's); Khushi Mohammed (Police), F. V. Wong (St. Andrew's); N. Beitrao ("Incogs."), W. A. Reed ("Incogs.") Capt., D. Davis (C.B.A.); E. V. Reed
"Incogs.") TS. D. Whitley
(C.B.A.), C. C. Francis (C.B.A.), W. G. Johnson (C.I.A.), and Lt. White- way Wilkinson (Signals), Reserves: R. Blackburn (Police), Segt. Hurst (R.A.S.C.), R. C. Reed ("incogs."), and Pte. Buckland (R.A.S.C.).
The match will be played on the Y.M.C.A. ground at King's Park and the presentation of the Shield will take place at the C.B.A. pavillon.
BOMB EXPLOSION
EGYPTIAN POLITICIANS' NARROW ESCAPE
Cairo, May 6,
Two watchmen guarding tho railway line at Tammuh as the Prime Ministor's train passed were killed and three others Horiously Injured in a bomb ex- plaston.
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rapy pre sveg Pasha, and the Miniators for Com- -ny-uojuosis oyi diojog jaf tor.
and
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accident occurred.
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