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POST OFFICE ROBBERY.
$1,587 EXTRACTED FROM. IRON SAFE
The mysterious disappearance
FASTEST TIME HONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO. of a sum of about $1,587 in bank- notes from a safe situated behind the SPEED WITH COMFORT.
central counter of General, Post Office is engaging the-atten.
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Is Diana Wynyard, the lovely Eng- ilah girl, who has created a sensation
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Ile algned a Fox contract. In 1031 and his present
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Machine," opening next. Wednesday at the King's Theatre, with Cheater Morris and Genevieve Tobin featured, to- In Hollywood's film of Noel Coward's gether with Victor Jory, is the third "The Silent Witness" and "Chandu, notices "Cavalcado" to share the martyrdom ho has directed. His others were of, the few film beauties who seem the Magiclan". Advance fated to grow prematurely old? state that the "Infernal Machine", novel by Carl Sloboda Cinemagoers will be able to form adapted from their own conclusions when they ace outdistanco all his other work because of its sustained humorous quality
TO SAN FRANCISCO TO SEATTLE, VICTORIA tien of the police, who were the film at the King's Theatre today and pictorial charm,
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called in early on Saturday morn- ing to investigate the robbery.
The money was found missing when the clerk opened the safe to begin his duties in the morn ing. There was a sum of about $3,500 in the safe at the time. and some stamps, but these were not touched, the thief merely contenting himself with taking tho banknotes.
For months the Fox Company
“Gabriel Over the White House" searched for an English girl who could be expected to give a true char
Thoke, who look for motion pictura acterisation of the dignified, austere
tenso, authentle melodrania of actunt Jano Marryot who is the chief charge entertainment permeated with the tor in Cavalcado." ...
headlines in to-day's news will. And Tests proved, that even the best"Gabriel Over the White House." new that the stage could offer would in no Cosmopolitan Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer way satisfy the film camera,
production coining on Thursday to the Queen's Theatre one of the put- standing talkie events of the year.
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Then Dinna Wynyard, at that time unknown in Hollywood,' was teated. she went before the camera as the
This picture was adapted from the young Jane Marryot of 1800, fresh, most daing expose of Washington young wife and mother, into whose ever written. Its anonymous author life a lone shadow was enat by dark knew his politics and at the same LONDON A very significant aspect of Africa.
Lime weaved into his story of n Unit- the robbery is that there were no The result of the test was electrify-ed States President who steps out marks of damage on the safe.ing: here was a striking new star, a and does something about current which leads the police to believe pure Engliah typo with great drama- problems an unusually gripping hu that the thiof or thleves tic force, and with regal dignity sub- must have used a duplicate key. Bistent in the best British woman-
hood.
But The method of entry into the
Hollywood #lill doubted office also seems to be very mys- whether Miss Wynyard could play terious, as it was impossible for the part. For Jean Marryot sho the robbery to have been com- must be able to start her performance mitted in broad daylight, situa-at the age of 82 hnd end, it as
woman of 65.
ted as the anfe is in the generali view of all the clerks and persons entering the Post Office to buy stamps. There is a bright light above the safe,
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The drama, sturts with the in- auguration of the simple, back- INWARD country man, Jud Hammond, who becomes the lion. Judson Hammond, President of the United States.
Is first press conference shows him i to be a typical politician, javial, in-
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With faint hopen they asked 20- year-old Diann to show them she could do with the character of Jano Marryot aged 66. Clothes, make-up and art combined in the making of the most astonishing film test turned Mr. W. J. Carrie, the Post Mas-out of the experimental studies of ter General, when interviewed by Hollywood. a representative of the South China Morning Post, expressed the opinion that the thief or thieves must have concealed themselves in the office before the closing of the doors on Friday evening, and committed the robbery at their leisure, walking out when the doors were, opened on Satur- day morning. There is good reason to believe this must have been the caso, because none of the doors had been forced open or the locks tampered with.
No suspicion attaches to any of the clerks, for the money was all. Intact when the day's work Was over.
The police are busy making in vestigations, but so far no arrests have been made.
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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONGKONG
"Reality" was the subject of the Logson-Sermon which was read in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, yesterday.
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The Golden Text was: "Behold, earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind" (Isaiah 65:17).
Diana, as the whole film world now acl:nowledgea, was Jane Marryot. Not only the Jane of 1900 with the two young children, but the bereaved, elderly and childless Jane of 1932. Her greatest hope is that her great "Cavalende" succeer will not result in a Inng succession of "old woman" part.
With her in "Cavalcade" are Clive Brook, Irene Browne, Herbert Mun- din, and Unn O'Connor who also age with the story. Other British artists in the Alm Include Frank Lawton, Ursula Jeans, Merle Tottenham, Mar garet Lindeny and Tempe Pigott, All are British.
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"The White Sister"
A new contribution to the list of imposing screen nehlevements came yesterday to the Queen's Theatre in the presentation of Metro-Golwyn Mayer's talking-picture version of The White Sistor," with Helen Hayes and Clark Gable in the principal roles. In its poignant, touching narrative, its beautiful direction, its effective camera work and in the brilliant performances of its two wellknown stars, this picture stands out forcibly as an example of the best in cinema art,
F. Marion Crawford's immortal story of the girl who enters a convent when she believes her lover to be dend only to meet him again after she has taken her holy vows, is too well known to bear repetition in these columnse Sufficient to say that the
most forceful moments, new talkie version of the tale brings out its describes the experiences of the romantic Italian girl and her soldier lover in a series, of warm sympathe -Among the citations which com-tie, human episodes and brings the narrative to a close in as heartrend. prised the Lesson-Sermon was the ing a climax as has been seen on the following from the Bible: "Rejoico screen in some time. in the Lord, O ye righteous: fer praise is comely for the upright... For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth....By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth....The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the tions" (Ps.38:1,4,6,11).
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"Infernal Machine"
Chartered accountant, actor, war veteran with five years' service, director of stage plays and motion pictures in two languages are some of the activities Marcel Varnel has crowned into thirty-eight buay years. A native of Paris he was educated in Chaptal College there, at Charter House, London, and the Freneh Con- Hervatory, of Dramatic Arts in his The Lesson-Sermon also includ-home city. Then he took a business course in college and qualified as an ed the following passages from expert accountant, the Ghristian Science textbook, His father wanted him to follow "Science and Health with Key to in his footsteps as manager of the the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Paris markets, but young Varnel pre Eddy: "To grasp the reality and ferred the stage. After playing a variety of roles for three years, he order of being in its science, you became a atare director, staging, plays must begin by reckoning God as with such famous actresses da Duse the divine Principle of all that and Rejanc.
really is....There is but one He entered the war as a privato primal cause, · Therefore there and was discharged five years later can be no effect. from any other as a first lieutenant. He was twice cause, and there can be no reality taken prisoner by the Germans, but
escaped, each time after recoverin in aught which does not proceed from injuries. from this great and, only cause" (pp.275,207).
In 1925 he came to Americi and directed "Countess Maritza", "Circus
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