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A verdict of death by misadventure; was returned at a Coroner's inquiry conducted by Mr. W. Schofield, at
New York, May 6. the Central Magistracy yesterday
Swan, Culbertson & Fritz Dow into the circumstances
Jones afternoon,
summary of yesterday's sencenging Kurrounding the death of a
market: The market to-day was up. svolle of the Sanitary Department.
ward and displayed steady strength who was knocked down and killed by
on favourable business news in spite on
trading. volume of lorry No. 4135 about 3.15 am. April 17 near the Hongkong and
of the light Traders are reticent regarding new and the tax until Shanghat Bank.
"Personal Maid's Secret" was Wong Lee,
commitments The dead man
French situations are cleared. Gold
"Personal Maid's Secret, a War #ged 35 years, who lived at the
Sub-Inspector S. C. Saunders, who and silver shares were upward early
Bros. production, which opens scavenging coolles' quarters at Wan-
in the day. Late in the session, steel
to-day at the Queen's Theatre, is the chai, and the driver of the lorry was went to the scene of the accident
and railroad stocks advanced on censure about 4.20 a.m., sald there were no
based on a story by Lillian Day which Lo Ol-lk, who received a
appeared in the Saturday Evening [ from the jury on account of the marks on the road to connect with stendiness of steet productions and
accident.
Credit companies The off-side head lamp good curloadings.
"Let 'Em Have t", the new Rr. Post. It is a rare tale of a trug- good linnee brakes being bad.
The foot are independently strong of the lorry was twisted,
thriller glorifying the U.S. The jury comprised Messrs. D. brake was bad, but the hand brake automobile sales. Oil shares were in Federal operatives in their current gling New York family ambitious to but lacking the proper war on organised erine Allen (foreman), E. Manning and was quite good. The weather was demand. The market for bonds was
Is at the get whend, Kaname, Trame In-
fine and the road dry. The driver upward
of King's Theatre to-day with one of contacts. The plot involves a per- fectly eficient maid who enters the spector C. F. Alexander appeared for had told him that the lighting on the activity. Stocks on the Curb Ex- the senson's greatest casts. the Police.
change advanced and trading was Arlen, Virginia Brace, Alice Lady, employ of a struggling couple, and through her adroit manipulation and Evidence was first given by Dr.road was good at the time.
Bruce Cebut, Harvey Stephens, Eric contact boosts them from moderately active.
humble Swan, Culbertson & Fritz Wall Linden and Gordon Jones, the sensa
Journal comment 5/5 tional new football star-film "find" riment to a Long Island estate in the Bank of head the cast which also includes the role of the maid who is the real and to fortune, Ruth Donnelly has Street market: --"A The injuries were consistent with westwards, and travelling about 121 France discount rate is likely. Wali Hale Hamilton, J. Farrelt MacDonald, inspiration behind the rise to fortune. the deceased's having been knocked to 14 miles an hour. At Garden Street opinions regarding the prob- Dorothy Appleby. Barbara Tepper Miss Donnelly although she play down and probably run over by Road he noticed a man walking to-able future course are most mixed, and a score
wards the lorry about 25 yards ahead, with bears saying that the present Joseph Mancure March and Elmermi-comedy role to start with, is to show her dramatic ability. In a The man wore a white jacket and advance is merely a techniient re-arris wrote the story which pre-iven an opportunity in this picture very Brokers still find out issues senta Arlen, Stojihens and Jones as tensely dramatic scene, she reveals pair of trousers and had a hat on
Federal sleuths Bo Chung. scavenging coolie of his head.
Investment favourites. fearless
who pit to her daughter that she, the muid, the prime The man was walking in
science and brains against machine ін her mother, although the Sanitary Department, next said the middle of Queen's Rond, and the The inability of railroad companies
guns. Cabot is seen as Joe Keefer, thinks her real that about 4.10 a.m. on April 17 lorry was
parents on the left hand tram to do better than in 1933 and 1934
a chauffeur who starts his shocking wealthy and aristocratic persons by was engaged in sweeping the street track. By, the curve, the man was is the main discouraging feature of
career of crime by engineering the whom she has been brought from the A. P. C. building towards well to the south of the tram track the
market. current the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank,
Bank. He sounded his horn. The man had certainties will probably continue to attempted kidnap of his society gh Anita Louise, as her daughter, ami There is employer, played by Virginia Bruce. Frank Albertson play the romantic discourage when he asw a man lying on the his hend bent down and rolling from
buying. security
Paroled, he grows more and more roles, and are an antsually pleasing roadway, and a lorry stationary about side to side, as the man showed little cash demand for stocks."
daring, finally beceniing "Public pair of screen S. C. & F. New York office cables:
lovers. Arthur three cheongs (30 feet) away.
Stocks: found that the man was his fall, signs of getting out of the way.
The The sounded the horn twice, The man
suit and final spectacular capture of necked butler who insists on patroniz Keefer by the three buddies makes ing the maid, although quite in lose the east bound tram track and the He swerved the lorry to the right should work moderately gher and
for one of the most exciting adven with her. The taleated cast is pavement beside the cricket ground, and put on both brakes, but the then possibly develop irregularity,
tures the screen has ever shown headed by Margaret Lindsay, Warren midway between the City Hall and
was knocked down. ITALIA WALN
He found Woolworth sales during April were
Virginia Bruce and Richard Arlen Hull, Henry O'Neill, Ronnie Cosby, Garden Road. Deceased wore a light the man lying on the west bound 4.1 per cent. above those of April
provide the romance, while Alice Gordon Elliott, Florence Fair and striped suit.
provides the comedy. "Let Maude Turner Gordon. trara track, three or four feet behind last year. The Alaska Juneau Gold Brady Inspector S. Logan then deposed to the lorry. Both his head light and Mining Company's earnings for April Em Have I was produced by
"Tough Guy" having taken deceased to the Govern- the tail light were on. The lighting amounted to $173,003 nguinst $213, Harry M. Goetz and Edward Sinall
Launching a new star is an easy ment Civil Hospital in his motorcycle in the street was good. Had he not 700 In April last year. The values for release through United Artists. task compared to the launching of a
of bonds listed on the Board of the Sam Wood directed the film. combination. The man WEL dead sounded the horn, he would have Stock Exchange totalled $41,624,000,-
new dog helor. Sp declares Lee Dun- He could not 000 on May 1st.
"Miss Pacifle Fleet" After Sardar Khan, an Indian con- say whether the lorry passed over
"Miss Pacific Fleet" comes to port can, who is now engaged in bringing to the screen Rin Tin Tin, Jr., Colton: The Government weekly at the Queen's Theatre, shortly, with stable, had deposed to the position in the man or not. which the man was lying, which be The Jury then returned
crep report is favourable, Further that famous quartette of film coon of the famous dog star of silent said was on the west bound tram verdict, adding a censure of the with
the beneficial rains are reported in Texus.edians, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farol days, The dog has leaped the first track, Yu Chow, a passenger in the driver for the bad state of his lorry's
good plantation
hurdle toward stardom already, and conditions Hugh Herbert and Allen Jenkins playing his first important role back of the lorry, said, that at the brakes.
generally.
heading a cast that includes hundreds in Tough Guy" with Jackie Cooper Wheat: There is nothing doing la of gobs and marines, The picture is May
and July wheat. It is reported based on the rallicking comedy by and Joseph Caleia, The Metro- that dust storms are spreading, thus Frederick
Goldwyn-Mayer picture come Hazlitt Brennam and is Sunday to the Alhambra Theatre. strengthening new crops. There are said not only to be hilariously funny we started with the pup with the scattered rains in the South-West and but to carry a humorous love tri iden of bringing an entirely different a forecast of the weather indicates angle between Miss Blondell, Jen- kind of dog to the screen," says more rainfall. We doubt any kis and Warren Hull, the radio star Duncan. "In the Arst place, we material advance in prlees at present. who has the romantic role in the trained him with the screen
dis- Rubber; There were some stop production. Miss Blondell and Miss
mind, while his father. finitely in loss orders in a narrow market.. We Farrell are teumed as a couple of reared in Europe, was police-trained, understand that there is a substantial wise-cracking chorus beauties who
and we had to adapt this to the factory interest at slightly under the run, concession of an amusement
Consequently, the new dag screen. market prices.
park on the Pacific Coast, They are is much easier to handle and under- put out of business through the enne ringing skill of Jenkins. Hugh standa silent signals as cues, neces- Herbert promotes a beauty contest, sary since the advent of sound." Following intensive training, Duncan includes a prize fight with broke" the dog to pictures. He was 6,000 votes wwarded the winner to introduced the camera and soon give
IN to his girl friend. Tals
who has became accustomed to the lights. In staged between Jenkins, fallen in love with the chorus beauty, time the canine has learned his sercen Miss Blondell, and one of the local by almost constant association with technique. Duncan trains his dag over ench
He
The injured man was lying between shot right across the tram lines reflect a more continues to Enemy No. 1". The relentless pur-Trenchor is riotously funny as a stir
when he reached the hospital.
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