KOWLOON OPIUM DIVANS.
VERDICT DELIVERED BY MAGISTRATE
"I discharge the defendant, and hold that there is no case to an- swer." eald Mr. Buttora at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, when he delivered a verdict in an interesting case in which a woman named Li Ha was convicted at the first hearing for allowing an oplum divan to be Street, of which she was princi- carried on at No. 280, Tal Nan
pal tenant.
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(Continued from Page 6.) about in this country than in the United States, where values in the for motion picture industry are moro static.
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Above all, is not this pilgrimage to as much as points due towards England an indication of to better outlook for stimulation the relative degrees of prosperity of major industries on weaker U.S. between the two countries? May
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Sept. 8. Sept. 11.
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Hai Rly. 1913 re Lang Tsing U.
£90.00 owing to anticipation of repeal of thinks that we have passed the 46% Loan 1998. £ 8244 £ 824 dollar. Wet" stocks were strong it not be that long-sighted men 44% Bonds 1898 prohibition by four more states this week. The Sugar and Coffee This judgment ended a lengthy Exchange will be closed on our nadir of our fortunes and are alow-6% Loan 1012.. 01
1913 (Ldn. Iss.) £89 period. ly recovering, whiles America has 6% Reorg Lean case which commenced carly last day's
Into alte month, when Mr. Hin-shing Lo Our New York. Office cable (This atli! n long way to go before she 6% Bonds 1025-47 £ 884
same relatively B'hal-Nanking appeared for the defence and sub-morning). Stockat Batter trade news can enjoy the
-* 40 mitted that his client had no started a rally which broadened with
696 Tlent. Pukow
..'* £ 21-20 Rent-Fukow knowledge that the two cubicles renewed inflation rumours. The ad- happy state of affairs? I know she had rented to a man were vance is likely to carry somewhat that such thoughts are in the
further without serious interruption. minds of many of my American 5%
Railway (Supl. boing used as an oplum divan.
Wheat: Cables were ignored. Buying
friends,
Loan) At the first hearing, the Magis greatly increased. Strength of stocks trate decided that there was a and cotton niding inflation talk again
Sha-Hang- The coming of the American reasonable inference that the de-affecting prices which advanced cast Alm industry to this country can-
chow Ningpo Rly. fandant knew the second and ly. Constructive side favoured. Cot-
ton: Fundamentals are not bullish not but benefit our industry. It
Honan Rly.. E 12 third cubicles were used as a divan. He passed sentence of but the possibility of infation is in will help to quicken the astonish Hukung Rly.
The Government's $200 or three months' hard the background,
efforts to
to curtall the next crop and the ing development which has taken labour.
improvement in ether markets are on-place here during the last two Three days later a similar case couraging some buying but a large years. It is a matter of first-rate Foreign Bonda and Banks
7% Int appeared before Mr. Butters, and amount of hedge selling is yet to
time this
the defendant,
71%% 71 absorbed. Silver: The market closed importanco. It is of equal im-German
Loan 1024..... woman, was discharged. Mr. Cairang sympathy with other portance-I repeat it for emphasis
Japan 5% Sterling strong Y. Kwan, who appeared for the markets. Our New York Office cable that we should have a
£ 884 5 871% Loan 1007 Stocks: Continued
own. The Japan 6% Sterling 'defendant, successfully, pleaded (Last Night).
a firm film industry of our
Loan 1924 ..... £ 94% £84 that there was nothing in the dullness indicated to-day but
Industrials and Breweries Ordinance referring to a "prin-tone Fustifies the holding of stocks, world is waiting for the English Wheat: Cables featurcicas. Buying
Associated Elec. alde
Industries
21/~ 21/- 113/1% 112/0 Brit.-Amer, Tob, Chinese Eng. &
Min. ...... J. & P. Courtaulds Distillers Dunlop Rubber Everready General Elec. Guinness
visable.
In
oipal tenant" in the sense that lacks leadership desnite bullpoint of view on its screens, but it they understood the term.
The term "principal tenant" developments, Constructive side ad- must be the true English point of Cotten: Such speculative view, and, other things being had been used in the charge and buying as in apparent is based on con- equal, that point of view can only the Magistrate, who could find idence of the ultimate realization of nothing in the Ordinance refer- the Government's plans for higher be put over by Englishmen and not ring to "principal, tenant," dis- prices. Worth Street reports continu- to Americans, however brilliant missed the case.
ed Improvement of sales of print and they may be. shootings.
Dow-Jones averages:
Sept. 9 Sept. 11
103.50 .... 99.42
49.11 61.07 20.20 30.30 80.20 80.01
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Caso Re-opened. Having convicted in. the first case, Mr. Buttera then decided to re-open this case on his own ac- cord.
30 Industrials 20 Ralls
20 Utilities 40 Bonds
Juncau Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant At-Alaska
Mining Co. torney General, appeared for the
Chemical & Allied prosecution, while Mr. Hin-shing Dye Lo again represented defendant. At the re-hearing on August 31, owing to a request made by
Power Mr. Fraser, the charge was Amer. & For. Pow. changed, the term "principal American Metal.. tenant being omitted and "o-American Smelting cupier" used ipstend.
American Can American
Mr. Lo submitted that although his client was the principal ten-American.
law, his elfont was not the OC- Anaconda Copper .. .cupier of the second and third cubicles which were used as an He eald that he oplum divan. had no case to answer and the onus was on the prosecution to prove that his client was the ne- cupler.
Auburn Automobile 68%
32 Baltimore & Ohio.. Bethlehem Steel... Borden Company .. Borg Warner...... Canadian
Magistrate's Vlewe.
Chase National Bank 24% At yesterday's hearing, Mr. Chesapeake Corp. . Butters in passing judgment said: Chrysler Corpora-
"It was found as a fact that
Gas the ground floor of 280;-Tai-Nam Columbia
Electric Street consists of an open shop
Consolidated Gas of and three cubicles which were
N.Y. rented by the defendant for Continental Oll twenty-seven dollars a month. Corn
orn Products Douglas
The two roar cubicles she sublet
to ono Hui Chim for eighteen Drug Inc. dollars a month, retaining for her Du Pont de Nemours occupation the cubicle next to the Eastman Kodak ... shop and the shop. The cubicles Electric are usual type Chinese tonement cubicles and are reached by door-General Electric
General Foods ways from a coridor which in turn may be reached through the shop in front, or through a door in the roar of the premises. The second and third cubicles were used by Hut Chim as an opium divan on the day in question.
There is no evidence that the defendant was in any way con- International Har-
General Motors.... General Railway
Signal Gold Dust Goodyear Tyre &
Rubber International
Cement
Aircraft
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Coats
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Chem. In
Tobacco
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29/8 20/3 1077/-
100/6 28/12 27/0
$21 38/6 32/D 36/0 30/8
What does ΟΥΣ own Industry lack? We are short of some prime cssentials. Stories are our chief need. It would be ironic, if it were not pathetic, that this nation Int. Tea Stores with the greatest literary, tradi-Internat. Nickel.. $ 21% tions in the world behind it cannat Pinchin Johnson supply good screen stories, It is Turner & Newall largely a matter of adjusting our Unilever point of view. We still behave like talented amateurs in our films. We have yet to learn the essentials of true "movie" technique. Per- haps the American Invaders will teach us these fundamentals.
Secondly, wo Inck leading men. Not yet have we divorced the art of screen acting from stage acting. Our actors are actors. How often. are they real men in the way which
Anglo-Dutch Burma Corpn Canadian Pacifie
Rly.
Miscellaneous
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London Tin Rubber Trusts Shai Elec, Constr
is a commonplace in American Van Ryn Deep... dims? A few years ago It
woman
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40/1015 40/1016 said that there were no potential Anglo-Persian Oi
in this country. Burmah Oil... 86/714 85/14
.... £ 2244 £ 22% That view is completely dispelled Royal Dutch to-day, although it has, once again, Shell Trans. and
Trad.
55/56/~ been the Americans who have de- veloped our latent talont. Must
our FOR THE LOVE OF EVE wo seek their aid to develop mon?
BY LUCY WALLING
every
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American Tel.
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Mr. Lo has submitted that Johns Manville" these facts disclose no offence by hla client under the section.
Purpose of Amendment,
ed from the scope of the amend-
The Assistant Attorney Gen- oral has argued (1) that as the occupier of the divan la covered
Mines Ltd.
30% the Montgomery Ward 28% by the principal ordinance, occupier of premises referred to National City Bank 27% In the added sub-section must be National Distillers. 90% other than the actual divan keep Now York Central.
Ameritan or, that the purpose of the amond-North
Company....... mont la to strike the principal tenant and that if he is exclud. Owens-Illinois Glass 78%
Pacific Gas and
Electric mont, it becomes meaningless 80 Ponnsylvania. Rall- far as "occupier" fa concerned;
rond (2) that in law the present do- Phillips Petroleum". is Phillips Petroleum. fondant, as principal tenant. occupier of the whole floor and Reynolds the divan keeper is merely 0 lodger.
"Before I deal in detall with Shell Union those two arguments I venture, Socony Vacuum
Corporation. with great respect, to suggen Seuthern California that they contradict each other.
Elson It was submitted by the learned Standard
Electric Assistant Attorney-General that
tho Standard Oil Co, of the principal tonnnt and divan keeper, not bolag joint tenants. In common, could not bo both at one time in occupation. of one and the same piaco, name- ly the divan. If the principal tenant is the occupier of the whole premises, a part of which is used ne a divan, the divan keeper must be taken as the per
Soars Roebuck
- (Continued-from-Page-5.)--- would have to go home with Eve with whom she had come to the party.
--But perhaps our greatest_nced of all is national courage. In spite of our astonishing develop ment these last few years, have we yet produced a film which is as English
Eve and Arlene waited for Dick, essentially American aim is essentially Amer- who should have arrived long be- lean? Have we yet produced a fore. Finally Eve telephoned, the worthy national British flim? The apartment but there was no an- best of this all-important kind, awer. Just as she was beginning "Cavalcade," was mando in Holly to grow worried and restless Reeco wood, athough entirely with Eng-emerged from the kitchenette.
"All set to be chummy," Arlene lish personnel. If any proof were required that the world was wait-whispered to Eve as he sat down ing for British aims it is to be on the davenport with the girls. found in the amazing success of this flm in the States. It is said that fifty million Americans have already paid to see "Cavalcade," occasions President Roosevelt has ordered a Command Performance at the White House. a unique compliment for any film. is The whole industry hero changing. It is drawing towards a better type of worker, more intelligent, with
Bense of national responsibility. But even here thoro is still room for vast Improvement.
and on two
more
The chance to become the world's contre of film production is before Are we going to take it?
qa.
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
RELAY OF THE SOUTH WALES BORDERER'S BAND
4.30-7 p.m. Chinese recorded pro- gramme.
7.19.80 p.m2, European programme. 7 p.m. Closing Local Block Quota-' tlons, etc.
7.3-7.45 p.m.
Second Concerto (Rachmaninoff,
Op. 18).
Sergel Rachmaninoff with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. B-18. 7.45-8.30 p.m. Variety. 8 p.m. (Local Time and Weather Report). Duet for Two Pianos Ragamuffin
Victor Arden and Phil Ohman. 21920, Vocal Duct Sometimes I'm Happy.
Louise Groody and Charles Ring. 20000, Orchestral-Ev'ry Tinte my Heart
Boats.
Ted Black and His Orch, 22882. Instrumental-O Sole Mio (My
Sunshine).
Neapolitan Trio. 40248. Song The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi. Gene Austin (Tenor). 20977. Orchestral By a Rippling Stream.
Johnny Hamp and His Orch. 22000, Banjo Bolo-St. Louis Blues,
Eddle Peabody. 20008. Dust for Two Pianos-Danco of the
Paper Dolls.
Victor Arden and Phil Ohman. 21020.
Chorus-Hallelujah!
The Revelers. 20009, Orchestral--My Lips Want Kisses.
Ted Black and His Orch. 22982, Song-Are You Happy?
Geno Austin (Tenor). 20977. Orchestral-Cabin in the Cotton.
Johnny Hamp and His Orch, 22999, Banjo Solo-Doll Dance,
8.30.10 p.m.
Eddio Peabody. 20008.
A relay of tho Band of the 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, con- ducted by Bandmaster J, L. Gocks, from Mount Austin Barracks, by kind permission of the Officor Commanding. (During the Intervala recorded mule will be broadcast from the Studio).
10-70.80 p.m. Concert Items Violin Solo-Vocalise (Rachmaninoff-
Pross).
Violin Solo-Caprice in E Flat Major
(Wieniawaki-Kreisler).-
Mlacha Elman 1304. Song The Cuckoo (Lohmann). Song I Know a Lovely Garden (Teschemacher-D'Hardelot).
Maria Jeritza (Suprano). 1301. Piano Solo-Cradle Song (Brahms). Plano Solo Under the Palms
(Albeniz)
Alfred Cortot. 1271. Song-Calling me Back to You
(Beaver). Bang When Twilight_Comes, "I'm
Thinking of You (Tandler-Horne). John McCormack. (Tenor). 1197. 'Cello Solo-Intermezzo (Vivaldi).
10.30 p.m.
Pablo Casals. 1542.
Today's Opening 10 am. Stock and Commodity Quotations na-re- ceived from New York by Messrs. Swan, Culbertson. and Fritz...
10.35 p.m. Close Dowit All records in the above European programmes are kindly supplied by Messrs. Taung Fook Plano Co.
THE TRUTH ABOUT "CAVALCADE"
(Continued froni Page 5.) season we have four left for the summor.
A SUGGESTION.
The directors feel that the Navy Eve knew she had a hard day should be given the chance to see before her and that Freda, had them, yet to withhold them from niso. She was anxious to be home the rest of their patrons is de- and it became increasingly erabar cidedly unfair. The ideal is to rassing to sit waiting for Dick. please both without depleting At last she decided to call
"That will be fine," said Recce. box-office returns, Vo can all three make knots that
way."
was
taxi.
Eve was annoyed but with Arlene as a third she did not fear Recce, She asked to, bo taken homo firet and this was logical as her Home nearest. However, she did not hear Recce give the instruct- lons to the driver and they arrived at Arlene's home first. Eve had pald no attention to the direction In which they travelled. Now she was, too surprised to use her with and with a goodnight to Arlene she resigned herself to the situa- tion. Alone again in the taxi with Reeco whom she detested, Eve was provokingly. allent.
"You don't like · me_ very well, do you, Eve?" he asked.
"Mrs. Rader, if you please," she corrected him.
that every one of these super Alma From experience we know that is a Boven-day draw. Then let us have a three day showing in the absence of the Fleet, and four days later on, when they are with us and the film is again available.
Returns would, in the aggregata be much superior to a straight seven-day run. Each of these pictures, being of undenied enter- tainment appeal, a considerable porcentage of discerning fans would be eager to see the film again.
Everybody would be satisfied and the consideration exercised by the proprietors would be reflected in the steady support of patrons, who realise the management are wide awake to advertising.
"Cavalcado" has been clamoured Recce removed his hat and ran for Wednesday brings it to us, his fingers through his black, curly yet we are not satisfed. The bair. He was good looking, Eve method of its arrival may seem thought,.in rather a movie horo manner. He laughed, a law, throa ty laugh. "Can't make mo mad,” he assured her.
wrong; It may look like the way sido robbery; but after all," "It would not have been supplied
bad thore been no demand. - To Eve's intense relief, however, This article on the
sub-
jexed
he did not become cheaply familiar.ject of Cavalcade, Its Premiere and His attempts at conversation mot delayed appearance m Hong- with silence from her and sho
aprang from the cab as soon as it kong has been contributed. The stopped. before her home. Reece opinions expressed are not neces followed her. Whether or not this sarily those of the Telegraph.
A LEARNED POOL IS MORE FOOLISH Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was for her protection she did not THAN AN IGNORANT FOOLMO son of Sir Frederick and Lady Gra- know, but he saw her safely. Inside But I've been waiting a long whilo lloro.
ham, and Miss Phyllis Ann Cumming, the hall. Dick opened the door since I got home."
MAS of Shanghai. Bir Frederick Graham and nodded curtly to Rebco who Thore was no use putting up a defouce, Eve thought. She was has been Conservativo MP for North Two cases of typhold were reported Cumberland since 1926. He is
the turned and went his way.
of the tilvan or having care or week-end.
Eve said "nócusingly.a
nowhere Let Dick think what ho Grahain was born in December, 1908. lle was appointed Second-Leutenant I'm sorry I was late, Dick said, might about her coming home with In:1929, and Lientechin three years but I couldn't help it. When I Thaton Rosceler
son having the use temporarily to the health authorities during the ith holder of the baronatey.. LE 1"I waited, and walted for you?! | tirod and an: argument would-lead
management of such place."
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