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Every man in a rebel at heart, inc-i cording to George O'Brien. To this universal urge for altering conditions about him, the actor attriimtes the popularity of action and Western
The hearing of the case against Kwok So and a concubine, Ko Ng charged with having used insulting and abusive language and threaten-pictures, ed to assault. Ko Sam' and her hus- band Wong Tin in Queen's Road West,
was concluded yesterday afternoon, the first defendant nard TO SEATTLE, VICTORIA 17 DAYS. sentenced to three months" hard labour, and the second defendant being bound over in a surety of $100 to be of good behaviour for one year. The case was heard by Mr. Schofield at the Central Magis- tracy yesterday.
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In the original charge, only Ko Sum wna mentioned na the com. plainant, but when the hearing wIH resumed in the afternoon, the charge was amended, and Wong Tin also put down na a complainant.
Mr. Schofield in passing een- tence on the first defendant said that he appeared to be a regular street bully, and was going to be dealt with as one.
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London, Aug. 17.'. Described by Judge Humphreys us "almost the limit to human endurance," the great fire, cons piracy trial, longest ever held in the Old Bailey, has entered upon its closing stagco.
But
sluce economic and other condi tions prevent the average man from After six and a half...... weeks' being a Robin Iload himself, the next hearing, in which the inquiry was some one on-sure couplicated by details of 14 some one else champloning the op- uffferent pressed. Hero the Western picture begun his summing up which is
Judge especially meets this whether its hord be an honest man expected to last until tomorrow waging a single-handed fight against will consider their verdiet.
outlaw, he is presented as afternoon, after which the jury injustice and evil in some form as A feature of Judge Humphreys* the champion the spectator would like anidress to the Jury wah his strong to be if he could. And consequently attack on the chler witndas för stich pictures have a wide following.
the prosecution, Caproni, Judgo lumphreys entled him binck- maller and a highly dangerous criminal, though, he added, it was Impossible to prosecute him:
O'Brien's latest picture showing at the King's Theatre to-day, la "Smoke Lightning." taken Troin Zane Grey's novel of the cattle country. "Canyon Walle." Nol! O'Day, Benty King Ross and Frank Atkinson head the supporting cast of this exciting film, which deals with a cowpuncher's efforts to save a little girl's heritage.
"To-day We Live"
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His chief regret was that he
was unable to pass on Capson the sentence. he so richly deserved.
Ten pleaded not gulity.
Of the 10 originally charged. six pleaded guilty to various in- dielmente. Leopold Loula Harris,
fire-i The original announcement of "To described as "hend of the out that the second defendant had day We Live" opening to-morrow at raising gang." pleaded guilty to alrendy more or, Jessplended | the Queen's Theatre, as' Joan Craw- sine charges of arson. Laula guilty to the charge.
fort's first war story, was sufficient arvis and four others also enter Mr. Schofield. Yes, Aashë to pique the curiosity of this reviewer, fed, plens of guilty.'. has been in custody for some time. Modern generation roles laye i think it beat to take her plea exclusively engaged the attention ef of gulity with a plen of extenuat the vital Miss Crawford that war and meledrama seemed sovel linked Ing 'circumstances, or will you be
with the mnte of saffailed that she be bound over?. - Mr. Slyn objected saying that
"Today We Live," however, serves she was the chlef figure in the ford is
to emphasize the fact that Mien Craw
a particularly well-rounded actress. And the combined appear- phee of this star with Gary Cooper has given the screen one of its most interesting and engrossing romance,
ense.
Outlining the case, Mr. Silva safd that the complaingat was a married woman living at 142, Queen's Road, West, and her hus- band was the proprietor of the Yat Tun Tin restaurant as well as the holder of two stalls.
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As Diana an aristocratic English girl. Miss Crawford receives word of the deaths of her father at the front on the day in which her brother, Franchat Tone, and her chikibood sweetheart, Robert Young, join the British navy, 'Shortly after, word American that Cooper, the officer whom Diana has come to love
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wife, and she approved of his Suggestion of taking a concubine, been killed in an airplane crash. This happened in the third moon
Engaged in the most dangerous of last year, and he went to the game of the war, that of launching country and took as a concubine, trpedoes at enemy craft from tiny the second defendant, Ko Ng. Ife speedboats, Tone and Young are at brought her back to Hongkong, death's door every moment of their And installed her in an establish-service. Forgetting to-morrow, and ment next door to that of his kit thinking only of today, Diana given
This fery beauty has never been fat wife.
berself to the man who has loved her from childhood and then Cooper comen as lovely as she is now. Her figure Misbehaviour Alleged. back! It is a thrilling moment on is a marvel of rounded slenderness, and her personality more radiant than Matters were quite amicable ba. the cereen.
per. tween them, but towards the Eng men as cowards, takes a trip
Grst despising the two ever. Sufficient to say that there has
never been but one Negri, no far nai fourth moon of this year, the hus-it them, in their torpedo bont and her particular type of appeal is cun- band obtained information, which comes back with a revised opinion. cerned, and she is at the very zealth he confirmed, that his concubine During a bombardment, Young is of her charm in "A Woman Com- was misbehaving herself, possibly blinded, which binds him oven closer mands." Mias Negri's command of with some other men. This cul- to the girl whose pity le mistakes for English is perfect and her necent dis minated in the first quarrel on the love. In an attempt to forget Diana, tinctly Intriguing. 23rd. day of the fourth moon, when inaio: to sink a ship. At last especially for her, Folu give a superb There is no better value to-day!
hatury which with written Cooper asks for a desperate nir the complainant was scolding the llaing Diana's love for the avintor, performance. Inspired by the most than an up-to-date MORRISON fokis of the restaurant, and the young purazades-Tone-to-lake-hit dramatic eplaode Intu.......history-of concubine, thinking that the fokis out on the torpedo boat for a sure hitter day European royalty--the | PIANO. Tone, Touch ·and meant her to be a figure in the death chance at the same ship, thereby spectacular rise and tragic end of the incidents, started scolding the insuring the safely of Cooper. They beautiful Queen Draga of Serbia-Finish. even better than in complainant and abusing her.
the story gives Pula a characteriza- Shortly after that, and as a re-
tion in which she rises to real heights instruments often costing con sult of the husband discovering frightened, and the husband open-
of dramatic ability.
Produced on a lavished scale, the siderably more.. her infidelity, Ko Ng attempted aed the back door, enabling his wife picture features backgrounds of bogus suleide. She went with her to get out and report to the police. authentic old world beauty and state- mother to the Kennedy Point bath- Mr. Silva asked that a very ser-liness. Miss Negri's costumes, ing beach, and there jumped into lous view be taken of the case in either two feet of water. Apparently view of the threats to the old created to suit her own individuality, the first defendant rescued her couple. She was taken to the Government Civil Hospital, and detained two days, and then to the S. C. A., where the husband and his kit fat wife were also called. It was then decided that the parties should separate, and that the second de fendant should not receive any allowance whatsoever.
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"Pleasure Cruise" Defendant's Deny Charge.
Combining the talents of a group After evidence had been called, of modernista responsible for some of the first defendant elected to make the stage and screen's most brillia a statement, He denied having the now Fox comedy comes to the comedy succusses, "Pleasure: Cruise" threatened the complainants, and King's Theatre on Sunday next. said he was only passing by, and In the cast are Genevieve Tobin and did not know anything about the Roland Young, the vamping wife and matter.
subtly discerning husband of "One Second Restaurant Incident,
Minnu defendant mndo nn Hour With You
Gombell. Since then she had got the first allegation during the hearing that noted for her rollicking girl friend Herbert Mundin defendant to threaten the elderly by Weng Tin's younger brother, and Frank Atkinson,
aho had been threatened with death characterizations;
two of the couple on three or four occasions but Ko Sam refuted this.
cercon's new comedy favourites: with naaault, and this culminated on July 30, when she and the first said that it was untrue that she Arthur Hoyi.
When making her statement, ahe Ralph Forbes, Unn O'Connor, Theo
dore von Eliz. Robert Greg and defendant went to the restaurant had gone to the house to ask for Frank Tuttle, whose. long list of with about ten other men, and, maintenance, and she denied having directorial achievements includes tho standing outalde, Informed com- gone there to create a disturbance, sparking "This is the Night," directed plainant and her husband that: Mr., Silva said that the first de-Pleasure Cruise." Guy Bolton, au- they were going to take them out fondant was the real malefactor, thor and co-author of more than fifly Into the street, and kill them.
and was putting the girl up to successful plays noted for their gaiety The first defendant also went obtain money for himself. He and dash, wrote the screen piny. It again at 7.30 p.m. and approached was a regular scoundrel.
ta based on the London stage hit of An amah at the house, telling her
Austen Allen, who is being acclaimed Detective Sub-Inspector O'Don- the English erlies as one of the that he had handcuffs and shackles ovan informed the Court that first cleverest of the modern authors. ready to take the complainant and defondant had been takon to the
The story concerns a spicy romance, her husband to the police station West Point police station on several complicated by matrimonial entanglo- where they would be given a good occasions, for disorderly conduct, ments. on a "Pleasure Cruiso where beating. The attitude of the crowd but no official conviction had been practically everything in condoned, an Was such, that the old couple wan' registered against hlin.
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