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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1919.

ACTING SERVES THEDA BARA AS WORK

AND PLAY.

Photoplay, acting is both my vocation and my avocation, if 1 may so express myself,” says Theda Bara, Star of "The Serpent" and other William Fox successes. "I have no bobby and no fad, like some actresses If it were a physical possibility for me to work for twenty-four hours a day before the camera, I should be glad to do so."

BRITISH SEA POWER"}

GOOD-BYE, TO" WAR

STORIES.

THE CHINA MAIL.

They have had a laboriously long day, and now they have ceased to be

or presently will cease to be.

A more concrete example of the removal of naval censorship restric- tions it would be hard to find than that afforded by a small paragraph which has just appeared in the

It is true that many of the popular papers, says a Home paper. It an-magazines go to press a month or nounces the arrival of the battle two in advance of publication, and no cruiser Repulse at Portsmouth, and doubt, therefore, many an editor has gives not only the name and class of on hand short stories breathing, or the ship, but her ports of arrival and intending to breathe, the spirit of departure, with dates, entirely in modern battle. But if with the sign- prewar fashion. The Repulse is one ing of the armistice the soldiers ceas of those ships the names of which ed to fight, then one may assume, that were whispered with a hush, if the wise authors will cease to pen mentioned at all. The information red fiction. giver is a clear indication that it is Horseback riding, motoring, no longer necessary to maintain that golf, tennis or any of the other hundreticence about naval affairs which red and one means of diversion which up to now authority demanded and so many actresses follow, are hin- feelings of loyalty and patriotism drances to one's work.. It is true, to be enforced. sure, that a certain amount of relaxa

ion is necessary for everyone; Irelax by taking long walks in the open air." "Do you think you will over-tire of your work before the camera ?" Miss Bara was asked,

"I am never so happy as when act lag in photoplay, and I never tire of my art, for it is of more vital import ance to me than any other thing in life.

"Never!" said she. "I am miser. able in those periods of enforced idleness between productions, and I haunt the William Fox studios even when not working on a picture.".

"Then you mean that walking in the open air is your sole means of brushing the cobwebs from your brain?"

"I do" was the response. "How about your home life? Do you consider yourself domestic?"

"I am a home body," replied Miss Bara, "yet would hardly consider I have myself of the domestic type. never enjoyed cooking or sewing or any other domestic care. Each bores me. Every detail of my home life is

TO-DAY'S CABLES. THE VICTORIA THEATRE.

(bulenia Servico to the Oking Mall.) (Continued from Pogs 1.)

*OBITUARY.

KENT LONDON, Feb. 24. Sir Guy Calthrop, the, coal-con- troller, is dead.

New York reports the death of

Doctor Mary Walker, the famous advocate of women's rights, who served in the Civil War as assistant surgeon.

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BRITISH AND U. 8. LABOUR DIFFERENCE.

LONDON, Feb. 24.

It may quite well be that some years after, this when the tumult has become faint in car memory's cars, and the horror has become mercifully blurred, when through memory's eyes we glance at it now Paris reports a hitch in the pro- We shall become accustomed soon and then stories of the great war ceedings of the International Laboar to these revelations and, already the will from time to time be welcomed Legislation Commission. The British names of many, vessels have been and the really good among them be draft of the labour charter advocates mentioned which have made their read, at least by a younger genera- the freedom of workers to go from country to county as they please. appearance in the Fleet during the tion, with avidity. last four years, and by their numbers

But the average magazine reader | Americans strongly oppose this be- speak of the great increase in and we are all magazine readers ing anxious to exclude foreign labour material strength which the Navy nowadays has dropped, or is going from America. has received since August, 1914. It to drop, war stories like the hottest will still be found expedient to exer- of hot bricks-and story," of cise a certain amount of caution in course, is used here purely in the the matter, and it may be recalled fictional and not at all in the news- that from the day when the Dread-paper sense. nought was born, the Admiralty withheld many details of the design and equipment of vessels projected or building-

NO RATIONING AFTER

MAY AT HOME. Mr. J. B. Cynes, M.P., the Food Controller, stated recently that it had. been decided not to issue any more ration books,

To some scribes who have done. little else for four years than man- are "khaki or blue or hospital uniform on paper, the sudden change mystery, however; about those in may prove irksome. But it will have books are finished there will be no 1

to be faced.

There can be no

You can tell for yourself what, men and women seeking leisure with their favourite periodicals, will want to find in the ŝtories put before them.

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Good pictures draw good houses This was exemplified last night when it was extremely difficult to get a seat at this theatre. There was a fine 5-part picture "A Daughter of the West," Baby Marie Osborne being seen to advantage in this film." À Comic, "Jerry's Million" was very amusing and the audience were well satisfied with the programme..

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Kinema goers should not miss this programme which is a really good one. The orchestra too is a distinct attraction.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

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Hongkong, February 46; 1919,

TO LET.

When the presentTO LET Chatham Road, 6 ROOM ED HOUSE. Apply No. 3 Chathama more," said Mr. Clynes at a farewell

Road, KowlooD. dinner to which he was entertained by his colleagues at the Ministry of

Food.

The current coupon books end on

superintended by my housekeeper, surrender of the German ships, the back not to sentimentality, let us the present rationing restrictions will

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dweller loves.

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short period.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

LULU, JAPAN POETS and MANILA.

"SHINYO MARU," The above named steamer having

of Cargo ADD

commission, and in regard to these it is possible to set forth some. remarkable facts about the recent growth and development of British naval power.

the descriptive account of the They will want to be swung right May 3, the date, therefore, on which From SAN FRANCISCO, HONO- names of 21 additions to the British hope, but certainly to sentiment. To who came from Paris with me."

Oh yes," said Miss Bara, ecstat! Battle Squadrons have been mention- gaiety without a background of case. It is understood that a system cally, "I have one weakness which ed. These vessels have all joined dread; to care-free sport; to the of registration will be in force for a

The British public. HK Stoamahip nearly forgot to confess. It is the Grand Fleet since the Navy List rural delights which, in his heart of however, will be able to purchase alf jetter reading. 'I receive a daily for August, 1914, was published, hearts, even the most hardened town commodities as in pre-war days, with average of two hundred letters from Two of them are the Iron Duke

A country garden on a morning in and fresh meat, over which the rived, Consignoos

thepossible exceptions of milk, butter, class, the Emperor of India (ex- opened by my own hand. While I Delhi), which was completing at Spring with Phyllis among the apple Government may continue to exercise hereby notified to send in their Bill "of

Barrow, and the Benbow, which was trees; the country lane on a summer

a slight control. Measures will be Lading for counter-signature, and to take completing at Beardmore's. They evening with honest John plodding taken to prevent any attempts at immediate delivery from alongside, belonged to the 1911-12 programme, home behind his horses; the village profiteering, by tightening the super-

Cargo romaining undelivared as did also the Tiger, battle-cruiser.in the valley and the honeysuckle vision over traders.

February 28, 1919, at $ . will be which was completing by Messrs. around the porch; the lovers at the

landed at Consigress' risk and expense, John Brown and Co. The five stile when gloaming comes-these vessels of the Queen Elizabeth, class, simple sorts of things are coming

and delivery must then be taken from the Company's Godown. Valiant, Warspite, back to their own. the Barbam, Malaya, and the name-ship, all of which were in the programme for 1912-13, are also among the additions in the same period. In the battleship programme for 1913-14 there were five vessels, which in armament and armour protection were to resemble the Queen Elizabeth class, but on a slightly smaller displacement, They are all in the Fleetthe Royal Sovereign, Royal Oak, Ramilles, Resolution, and Revenge.

find no time to pen answers, 1 njoy learning, the public's opinion of me."

"Do you think that photo play offers the same field of opportunity to-day that it did a time ago?" was

question put to Miss Bara

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There is always opportunity for those who make it," answered she with a smile. "The average aspirant to photoplay is wholly unfitted for the work she desires, to take up. If a girl has the requisite qualities and a capacity for hard work, I should be the last to dissuade her from ap pearing before the motion picture camera."

A CHINESE FAREWELL.

Mr. S. K. Ho interpreter C.I.) Chinese Labour Corps, B.E.F., France on December 20th. writes to the -editor of "The Times":-

Plot, of course, must be there. "A real story to tell," as the editors say, but the atmosphere will be one of peace and of gladness.

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A well-known writer said to me the other day, forgetting, it seems, his pre-war activities:

What on earth am I going to write about now that the war is

over?"

What is he going to write about? Why now he is stepping merely from a world of romance soaked in agony into a world of romance which should bear upon its brow always the flush of joy.

Four years of war stories are more than enough. Let us look forward thankfully to a future of stories which even if they lose something of tensity" are going to leave us with pleasantly entertained minds and un- lacerated hearts.

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Mr. Chin Lin-pak; compradore of the Shameen branch of the Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank, has been elected president of the Canton Mer chants' Protective Association.

Then there are the vessels the pur. chase of which was announced by Mr. Churchill in August, 1914. Two of these battleships were owned, by Turkey, and were known as the Osman I. and Reshadieh. They were renamed the Agincourt and Erin. The first ships carrying Chinese Two other battleships were building labourers employed under the British in this country for Chile, the Almi- Army are leaving France for China rante Latorre and Almirante Coch this week. I, speaking on behalf of rane; in November Mr. Churchill an -my" fellow-countrymen, desire tonounced that the former had been address to the British nation: a mess-acquired, and renamed the Canada. age of farewell. The period has The Cochrane was not so far ad been a memorable one and the vanced as her sister-ship, and the sug Happy time we spent in Europe, and gestion has been made that this is the the kind hospitality offered to us by vessel launched by Mrs. Page, the the British soldiers, will never be for-wife of the American Ambassador, gotten by ús in the days to come. last June, and named the Eagle. The

The Asiatic Petroleum Company Great Britain, unlike America, that official announcement, however at Canton having had a threatening makes her war effort open, has been raerely stated that the Eagle was letter from a bandit called Ho Chung- carrying on this war in dark and one of the largest ships in the foi, the British Consul has urged the the important work done by Chinese British Navy." That we should be Chinese authorities to get him. behind the lines has thus been re able to acquire these powerful ships mained unknown to the British and others in an emergency" was a public. Our own country of China. proof of the value of encouraging its return season at the Theatre owing to internal trouble, has never the construction in this country of Royal to-night with an entirely new been able to participate this war, but warships for foreign Powers. By programme, comprising many new our coming over to work under your exercising their right of pre-emption, novelties: Owing to the short time colours gives an example of whatever the Admiralty was able to add pro available for advertising and Messrs. help we people are ready to give in mptly several formidable and useful. Moutrie closing early, the box plan order to defeat the enemy. Showing vessels to the British Fleet." his appreciation of our work, Colonel The five remaining vessels of the 21 will be transferred to the Hongkong B. C. Fairfax, the head of the Chi- are those familiarly known as the Hotel from 5 to 8 pm. to-day. The. nese Labour, has recommended to

public will no doubt give the Com- Hush" ships, because of the secrecy "the British Government to provide maintained about their design and pay a hearty welcome back to the three years' scholarships for a fixed construction. It was not, indeed, Colony,in view of the excellent im- number of interpreters who are able until a year ago, when M. Rousseau, pression it created on its last visit. to pass. an examination: I trust that the naval writer of Le Temps, after

the British people would support and visit to the Grand Fleet, was per-

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like to see it sanctioned by the mitted to give a description of these until all the story of these ships is -Government, for not only such vessels, that anything authoritative revealed, that a full appreciation will scholarships be advantageous to the was published about their characteris-be obtained of the brilliancy of their individuals on whom they might be tics. There are five of these immense conception, the marvel of their con- conferred, but the education of these vessels the "Renown, Repulse, struction, and the extraordinary mer in England would help them to Courageous, Glorious, and Furious" closeness of the shave by which they develop China in years to come, and and they are reported to be nearly missed the complete fulfilment of we believe would also help towards a 800ft in length, to displace 30,000 their purpose. The Furious has been close relationships between the two tons each, and to be capable of a converted into an aeroplane carrier, countries.

speed of from 30 to 35 knots. and from the floating aerodrome M. Rousseau said: "They are provided her spacious deck raids very swift," much fleeter than the have been made upon the German flectest of pre-war cruisers." They coast.

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HYPNOTISM IN COURT.

are understood to have formed part The contrast presented with this of the great building program output of British ships is the more me which Lord Jellicoe last February marked when it is recalled that in The Philippines Government. is said that Lord Fisher started in the the battle squadrons of the German prosecuting a man called Blas Angeles autumn of 1914. Although so huge, High Seas Fleet not more than two for abducting a girl called Dominga they were to have been completed or three vessels could be classed as Olivares. Presumably the man claimed | fráide a year, while the combination products of war time. Neither in that the girl went with him volun of great speed with a heavy armament design, construction, or equipment tarily, because the prosecution is now on a comparatively light draft would do their ships compare favourably reported to have taken an unusual allow them to be used in the shal with ours, and, while we can point course to prove the girl's innocence low waters of the North Sea and to many vessels which are actually Alleging that the girl was hypnotized Baltic to catch and smash a retreat the embodiment of battle experience, into following Angeles, the prosecu ing enemy.. M. Rousseau stated that nothing can be found in their Navy tion called Professor Salas of the they were fitted with devices to of the same kind outside the pirate University of the Philippines into neutralize explosions as far as pos- flotillas. As Captain Persius admitt- Court, and asked him to hypnotize sible, and to afford them apparently eft in the "Berliner Tageblatt" of -the girl there and then. According considerable immunity againsttorpedo November 18th, "the longer range to the "Manila Cablenews" he did so attack." He instanced them as a of the British guns would soon have without any difficulty, and then was proof of the confidence of the British sent our weak-armoured ships to the witnessed the extraordinary scene of Navy in the powerful surface vessel, bottom." Nearly all the British the girl moving about the Court capable of heavy hitting, the only vessels mentioned have had their Room, at his suggestions, for the one which appears able to assure the baptism of fire, and have added lustre. edification of the Court

mastery of the seas." It is not likely, to the historic names they bear,

The Yee Li Trust Company, which assisted the Bank of China to bring the value of its notes up to within 8 per cent. of par, winds up on Feb. 28.

Sixteen Chinese including a female, were brought before Mr. J. R. Wood this morning and fined $3 eachfor gambling. They were arrested in a Police raid on No. 32 Circular Pathway.

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That he might extract a nail which, projecting uncomfortably from his bed-board, had given him many sleepless nights, a Chinese cookie stole a pair of pincers from a shop. He got three weeks' hard labour for it.

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Storage charges will be assessed on all

undelivered Cargo remaining March 5, 1919, at 5 p.m.

No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected

No claim, will bo recognised after the goods have left the Steamer or Godown.

All chafed and damaged cargo will be landed into the Company's Godown, where they will be examined on March.

1919, at 10a.m.

No claim will be recognised it fled after March 10, 1919.

T. DAIGO,

Manager. Hongkong,!Feb. 26, 1919.

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