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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 16.
LOCAL WEDDING
MR. G. TRUE MARRIED ON SATURDAY
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Capital Punishment ·
To the Editor, Hongkong
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Bir Your loader advocating commutation of the death, men- tence on Cheng Kwok-yau may not accord with. the views of thono who hold that the obligation to in- flict capital punishment depends on the fact of guilt and not on the motive or circumstances of the crime. It is, however, quite com- potont to be at varianco with the crude priciple of the log talionis | and, yet be free from múshy_sen-. timentality toward a convicted criminal.
At the celebration of Solemn Mr. George William Ewart True, High Mass at the Rosary Church, the well-known local musician, son Kowloon, yesterday. morning, sung of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. True, was by a selected choir and at which the married on Saturday afternoon at colebrant was Rev. Fr. G. M. St. John's Cathedral, where he took Spada,
Lordship Bishop as his bride Miss Constance Marie Valtorta dedicated and blessed the Halsall, the daughter of Mr. and now organ. In an address be ap- Mrs. C. F. Halsall.
poaled for funds to clear off the The Vory Rev. Dean A. Swann debt outstanding on the organ. officiated and Mr. F. Mason played Mass was followed by Benediction. appropriate music it the organ. At the organ during the ceremony
The bride, who was given away was Professor A. Gualdi. by Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, looked The instrument is a pipe organ charming in white satin and a long of two manuals and pedal organ Inca vell. Sho carried a bouquet and la constructed almost entirely of white rosea and was attended by of teak and roahogany at a cost of
It would be gratuitous to ques the Misses Geraldine and Joan approximately $5,000.
The great organ contains the tion the justice of the sentence ac- Davidson, whose dresses
were following stops: Open diapason,cording to the law as it stands. long pale green organdle. The 8ft.; hole flute, Bit.: dulciana, 8ft. Public aentiment le outraged by bridesmaida had bouquets of violets principal, 4ft. and piccolo, 2ft. and pink sweet peas.
In the swell organ there is a Mrs. L.. C. F. Bellamy Was
a viel di matron of honour and wore a dark stopped dlapason, 8ft.; red lace and satin dress, with black Gamba, 8ft.; a voix celeste, Bit; a hat. She carried a bouquet of gold gemshoin, 4ft; one fifteenth, 2ft.;
and a tremulent. chrysanthemums.
The pedal organ consists of a The best man was Mr. R. A. Bourdon, 16ft.; swell to pedals: Fawcett, while the ushers wore Messrs. C. F. Hyde and B. J. H.roat pedals; and swell to greut
1 am more pedule. Fox.
concerned perhaps 'The work of construction has with the general tenet of capital A reception was subsequently been carried out by Mr. William punishment, which I believe to bo held at 1 St. John's Place, the rest-Charlton Blackott, the well-known fallacious la principle, than with dence of Mr. V. M. Grayburn organ builder, who came (Chlef manager of the Hongkong Colony some 15 years ago and during my time in the East I have Its particular application, though and Shanghai Bank:) The bride's during that period has made and known of two men who were bang. going nway dreen was a navy and renovated the organs in many of ed and whose innocence was after- white ensemble.
the churches and chapels in Hong-ward fully restablished and of- kong. He is the only organ builder ficially admitted. In this caso it in the Far East.
does seem to me that the execution of a more youth as an act of ven- gence; though it be right by legal Banction, is of itself and of its very nature intrinsically wrong.
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The wedding wis quietly solemnised at the Rosary Church, Miss L. Maher. A reception was Kowloon on Saturday afternoon, subsequently held at the Club de between Mr. Carlos P. Basto and Recreio, King's Park.
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this callous and calculated crime, but it cannot be doubted that those who have the power to com- muto a death sentence have also the courage and wisdom to run counter to public sentiment if broader and more humane con-
alderations can be established in their minds.
The main purpose of capital punishment is deterrent, and if we may judge from the stultification of every forecast in times when it was a common penalty for all kinds of petty offences, we may reasonably conclude that the total abolition of capital punishment would not be followed by an in- crease in the number of capital crimes,
Within recent years enlighten- ad opinion in civilleed countries has given practical expression to the proved fact that capital punishment is not in itself deter rent. The death penalty has, in effect, been abolished in thirteen countries, in Europe. In some of these countries, as in France it remains on the statutes, but is ap. plied only in cases of peculiar atrocity, as in the cases of Landru and the assassin of President Doumer.
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No country that has abolished this relic of barbarism has found It necessary to re-introduce it as a deterrent. Our people, who led the nations in prison reform, still hold fast to an outworn theory; yet it la certain that not long hence men will marvel that Eng- land lagged so far behind.
C. CHAMPKIN.
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NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES
Looking like someone famous has Intrigued many a hardy soul into gambling his life on the chance of impersonating his double. A Czar of Russla, a Dumphin of France, a Duke of England-they've all, for example, been impersonated, with and without success, in the past conturies. Para- mount Pictures oficials discovered that fact as they set production under way on "The Phantom Presklent". political comedy featuring George Cohan, Claudette Colbert, and Jimmy Durante, the film now on display at the King's Theatre. For "The Phan- tom President" is the story of a man who passes himself off as someone else, and gata away with it. The role is played by Cohan, who in cast as a candidate for President. He is well. qualified for the official, but lacks the personality to win volen. Hla managers, to solve this little problem dip up a medicine-nhow barker who is a doad ringer for the candidato, and send him out to ring in the ballots.
"Bob Bister" "Sob, Sister", Fox drama of an ambitious girl who was too busy trading on the romances of others to recognize her own love affair until it had practically passed her by, which opens its local engagement on Thurs- day at the King's Theatre, is hailed as being one of the year's most important pictures, and for several reasons. First, it marks the second screen up- pearance of James Dunn, who bundled into the film spotlight overnight in his history making screen debut in "Bad Girl". Second, it introduces to movie. goors, a new leading lady, twenty-one years old, gorgeously blonde, n favourite of the Broadway stage, Linda Watkins. Third, the picturo Is the first directorial effort of Alfred Santell since bis record-breaking success, "Daddy Long Legs", with Janet Gaynor and Warner, Baxter. After that picture Santell was given his choice of all the stories owned by Fox: Films and from them ho chosu "Sob Siator'. The large cast support- Ing James Dusn and Linda Walkins includes such celebrities as Minna Gombell, who played Edna, the friend, "In "Bad Girl'' Molly . O'Day · and Howard Phillips in the other featured roles as well as George E. Stone, Sarah Pahhen, Eddle Dillon, Neal Burns, Lox Lindsay, Harry Beresford, among others. Edwin Burke, who the sparking dialogue for "Dad Girl", adopted "Bob Slater" for the screen from Mildred Gilman's novel of the same namo.
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