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THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 29, 1925.

WAGNER HEROES.

A VIRILE RACE.

TRIUMPH OF SILVER SCREEN.

WONDERS OF "NIEBELUNGE."

DUELS TO THE DEATH FOR SPORT

A race of real "toughs" is described in a "Daily Mail"" article. by a man who has lived among the! gauchos,

THE CHINA MAIL.

COTTON FORECASTS. FORGOT HIS RICHES.

SENATOR ALLEGES. | INACCURACY,

(Reuter's American Service))

New York, October, 23. The "Seventh Art"-that of the

Senator Caraway alleges that motion-pleture has reached its

The gaucho is a picturesque the Government's forecasts of the highost perfection In the German

Though often illiterate. cotton crop are inaccurate, costing Alm, being shown at the Queen's follow. Theatre for the last time to-night. he has the polished manner of an the planters in the South millions Entitled "The Nebelungan," it ambassador, and is seldom rude of dollars, and requests that the dramatisos old Teutonic legends even when trying to pick a quar-Government's whole crop report made famous the world over by rel with a comrade. Rudeness is ing system be subjected to Wagner's operas. Nevertheless, considered boorish, a tradition searching enquiry by Congres- Не ргоровев the critic Emile Vuillermoz re-handed down by the courtiers of sional committees. marks, "We trust that The Spain when led by Don Pedro de to introduce a Bill to prevent Nebelungen, on the screen, as at Mendoza, they came adventuring gambling in cotton and grain in

the meantime. the opera, will stir the imagina-to the River Plate.

The gaucho knife fight some- tion cf our artists and Instil the spirit of emulation and generous times takes on the ceremonial rivalry that produces master- qualities of a duel.. The adver- pieces Writing in "L'Ilustrasuries, having drawn their sharp tion (Paris), he tells us --

hours

WINDFALL FOR THE CEYLON GOVERNMENT.

How a rich man apparently for- got that he had deposited a large. sums with a bank in Calcutta, so that in time the amount grew into an enormous fortune, has just been disclosed.

The revenue of Ceylon is expect- d to benefit to the tune of over $135.000 as the result of the duty payable on the estate of the late Mr. Elias Meyer, of Calcutta, who has left a sum exceeding 101 lakhs of rupees on fixed deposit in a Colombo bank.

Mr. Meyer, who died in London last. April, was a prominent -mer- Не asserts that Monday shant of London and Calcutta, allegedly inaccurate forecast cost and is said never to have set foot the growers over £50,000,000 and on Ceylon of. He is closely re says that if the Government, wasnted by marriage to the Sussoon and wicked-looking knives, trace actually allied with the specula-family, of Bombay, Bagdad, and the sign of the cross upon theers It could not have co-operated London, and it seems that several The photographs would

ground, exchanging glances.more effectively with the bear years ago he placed 44 lakhs of seem to indicate that. les Then wrapping their ponchos element of the Cotton Exchange.

rupees in fixed deposit at. & par pite hard times, our neigh-

Senator Boruh says that he cont. in the Colombo Bank, and can accomplish feats capes) round their left arm and holding their rebenques (raw.

a further deposit, 1grees with Senator Caraway in atter added whose scope, method and audacity hide whips) in their left hand ny effort to remove the Governoringing the total

of serve not only as an eye-opener, and knives in the right, circle nent from the gambling business 2367,500.. hot as an example. To bring this round one another, guarding with Jn the other hand the Dopart- The interest was not touched, gigantic work to completion. enormous technical and financial their muted left arm and riding nent of Agriculture declares its with the result that the original whip, watching hawk-like, for an estimates are based on official indeposits were more than doubled. resources have been employed in

coalition of all the forces of the opportunity to strike. The blow formation and declines to with it is understood that this huge

when delivered is generally at the draw anything. German motion-picture industry-stomach with an upward rip. A huge trust, the Ufa Company. Cases have been known where whose president is a director of the duelling was carried out with- the Berlin Deutsche Bank, proves out motive except for sport, and that the German financiers appreincredible as it may sound, the ciate the immense importance of motion-pictures as propaganda,"

The Niebelungen film is not a direct screen version of Wagner's

operas, it seems.

man who got in Arst blow would try not to pierce his adversary's stomach too deeply, so that the man's friends could bind up the gaping wound and carry him away with a chance of life.

Riding Power.

COPPER NOSE.

Dear..

FOUR PREHISTORIC

WARRIORS.

surn in ready cash in Caylon ropre- sents only a very small portion of che late Mr. Meyer's estate.

COST OF LICENCE.

WOMAN WHO CHANGED. HER MIND.

If you buy a marriage licence and the bride will not marry you, you lose your money.

Swathed in strands of pearls. some of extraordinary size and perfection, the remains of four The scenario

bodies have been discovered in e writers, Frau Then von Harbou..

mound, near Bainbridge, Ohio, wife of the film director Frizz

during excavations by scientists.

If you buy railway ticket and! hang, ie conspicuous in German

The bodies, two of which were do not use is your money is re- Fiterary circles. She has handed The old-time hand to this day the legends of the "Ring in a cals only meat (4-5 lbs. of it crowned with copper Helmets, funded.

carved with Intricate designs. somewhat original way, giving us daily) and regards vegetables as not. four days but only two weeds. None of his forebears were surrounded by ornaments of "Siegfried" and "Kriemhild's ever attempted to milk a cow, and copper, silver, and tortoise-shell. Vengeance."

Also found in the mound were The story runs he has himself a low opinion of

A bridegroom, who while on his thus:

milk. As for riding a mare! To tusks of the grizzly bear, the big- "King Siegmund has entrusted ask a domador (horse trainer) of gest ever unearthed in a North way to a Fulham church to be his aon Siegfried to the dwarf the old-school to do this would be large pipes, one exquisitely carved his bride curtly intimating that her] American mound, and several married, received a telegram from Mime, who in a mysterious an insult. But bring him a young with an image of a standing wolf affections had changed and that she forest, has set up a forge where he horse full of five and pride that and another with an image of a was not going to be married, hoe makes enchanted weapons. Soon has never know the restraining

Imade application to an ecclesiastical' the pupil becomes as skilful as his hand of man, and he will rope it master,

Armed with a magic and tie a knot in its tail to keep was present when the discoveries EC, for the return of his money.

Professor H. C. Shetrone, who register office in Doctors' Commone, sword, he leaves the dwart's the tail put of the mud, senar!? were made, said the fact that the abode and goes to the court of the and sit upon that horse's back tour bodies were found together and

The licence. tyis obtained, Burgundians to win the beautiful through a series of evolutions in the same mound does not in-heen nude. For the Faculty Offer all arrangements had Kriemhild, King Ginther's sister.suggesting a ship in a typhoon diente that they died together, licence the bridegroom paid £2, 08. And when the horse is tired he being the custom of the ancient of this being for the official will leisurely dismount, waddle tribes to place their dead in across to the ombu tree in his temporary charnel house and then

2 stamp. enormous spurs and stake his once a year to hold a feast of the for the return of his money was re- When the bridegroom's request day's earnings in one shrow of the dead and place all the bodies ateived the officials were astounded. taba (hock bone of ateer used as a sort of giant diue), and then his

once in a mound with. great

No money can be returned by silver-mounted whip, his saddlery,

ceremony. and most precious of all his

the ecclesiastical offices after a Tience has been issued, as the earthly goods-his horse.

matter is entered in the official calendar. All the bridegroom can aim from the State is the. 10s.. stamp duty.

Presently he meets a terrible

monster, the dragon Lindwurm which no one has ever been able to conquer. Sleyfried attacks it and, after a dreadful struggle plunges his sword into its body,

school.

"Knowing that the dragon' blood has a miraculous power 14 make him invulnerable, Siegfried bathes in it, but finds that a leaf from a linden tree stuck to his shoulder and that the spot it covered is still exposed to

the dangers of a mortal blow..

"Gunther grants Siegfried his the sister's hand, but on strange con- ditions. Gunther, it seems, de- sires to win the warrior maid Brunhild, but knows that he is unable to, so he asks his new letters friend to overcome the invincible chart. lady and bring her to Worms, cess. Siegfried accepts the terms. "I don't see the letter E on this Thanks to a magie helmet he chart," he said, frowning at the makes himself look like Gunther, chart. They must have forgotten conquers Brunhild and takes her it. Can any one, see it?"

made of copper..

The nose of one skeleton was

Scientists have never been able to agree how long ago the mound builders lived, whether they were an early type of American Indian,

race.

The school inspector had reached

west class in a South After distinct and separate earlier If he obtains a declaration from this vicar of the church that his They hope these new dis-licence has not been used, and takes enveries in America's "Valley oft with his licence to. Somerset the Kings" will throw light on the Houses, where he makes another subject."

eclaration, the authorities may refind the 10.

He had lasted the child- knowledge of the alphabet by them, one by one, Duane the which he pointed out on n Then he reversed the pro-

Berlin. Outober 28.-It is now disclosed that Edmund Stinnes is very secretly visiting the United Sates where he intende to settle The wedding group was brought and to start life afresh. He left his font for inspection, and the like-

to the court of the Burgundians. He chose the tiniest of all the Business : Berlin in the hands of nesses were pronounced excellent.

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Brunhild, not having detectedtots whose hande went up. The imposture, marries Gunther, "Well, he said, you show me whom she believes to be her con-where the letter R is."

queror and Siegfried receives the On tip-toe, by means of a pointer,

hand of Kriemhlid,

"Bat the perfidious Hagen ré- veals the truth to Brunhild, who, Alled with anger and shame,

she could just reach ite line on the jebart.

"There it is," she uligost lisped, demands the death of Siegfrieden, klopid old man.

Hagen treacherously confronts

Sleyfried and, secing the

vulnerable spot on his shoulder, and the same time, to make of the transfixes it with his javelin. Niebelungen & romance of love Brunhild, who has been secretly and death with a direct psycho- In love with Siegfried, stahs her logical interest. The film has no self and fails dead upon his resemblance to the papier-maché corpse. Kriemhild swears to revivifications of Gothic antiquity avenge her husband's death." 80 overdone in American studios.

i wife and friends who must All but one-that of the bride- take urge of the Aga motor car groom. company--Renter,

The second reel tells of her Instead, it gives us a beautiful WHAT WILL MAKE ME EAT?

legend treated with simplicity and

revenge on

•

Whatever made him look ke that? He looks, as if he'd got apoplexy," inquired the visitor.

The proud mother replied bright- ly There! I wondered whether you'd notice our George, pour boy! But it was the photographer's fault. George was just talking deep breath when the photographer calls out. Keep just as you are! And Itbe poor boy had to hold his breath for nearly three mimiitas before hod got 'em right and taken the grOUP, Fit to burst he were!".

HONGKONG TIDE.

Leak of appetite in nature's first wan "Unable to induce her brother sincerity, in a spirit of real artis-ing that something in the complicated to punish the treacherous Hagen, tie dignity,"

machinery of the system has gone Siegfried's widow decides to i This form of motion-picture wrong. And that something la invari

ably The blood. Good blood helps the The tide table given halow has bears marry Fizel, King of the Huns, "resolutely disregards the dogmas digestiva organs in their work by complied at the National Airaone Offer who, with his savage horsemen, hitherto imposed by alleged com-supplying them with the strength they in London from the result of the has come from the deserts of mercial shrewdness, we are in-constantly need. If the blood is im- analysis of observations taken by mean Aata. She lures Gunther and formed. It is "artistic through poverished and weak theso-organs fall fan automate tide-recording machine Hagen into her new abode. After out. The director has rebelled to receive this assistance and the first in the Water Police, Essin' at Tsim Sha many roundabout measures. In the against the orgies of light that for pont they make to use to call Tsui during the years 1908-8.

Idr food. Poor appetite, never comes course of which Kriemhild's hate prevail in American films alone t de generally accompanied by

laws conflicts with the hospitality which her husband is white, the technique of the etch

moon rising. „from bed, coated klassitude and igak of.

a to gut

the zora

sponds wi The Zore sounding

6 of the table corresponds

(the "Adi Chart, which has been found t

To obtain the depth of water on the zido

Exuga at the Victoria Naval Yard and the Burgundians end by whole gamut of light and shade" slaughtering one another. are utilized with rare virtuoualty. The d, now strengthening blood tehes to the height given in the table Camast Dock, Aberdeen, add 10. feet Gunther and Hagen periah in And so

which Hero allleferente inds, its way.

of Here, the contrasts.of; black and headaches, bad taste: In the g inches below mean sea level,”

compelled to respect, the Hunsing and the wood engraving and out the dead 8 feet 4 inches, and on the gauge si

their turn, and Kriemhlld herself | "It is impossible not to be im,at end to the defiiliated and exhausted, is murdered in her burning posed by the example thus sat us digestive, organ and the bendat they October 28 to November 3, 1945, palace. King Etzel dies with for to dieregard the lesson it receive from its soon. noticed in the her in its rulmanoven teaches Other nations bealdes der appetite. Then the digestion natural and permanent retan" of the As Mr. Vüillermge explains :--- Germany, have"~ their national becomes normal, headaches are absent, "The new interpreters of the legends-beautiful themes, at you rise in the morning bright and well, legends have been careful to once herole and touching, which and retire at night to sound refreshing

Sleep maintain their independence of faff the feelings of an audience. Dr William Plak. Wagnerlan traditions so as not to Instead of squandering, enormous third of a contury's wor compete with Beyreuth or merely suma on, roman give us one, more film of the spectacles, or

famillar type. With a certain and" malod

legitimacy; the author has sought| moti

to emphasize the sterial humans their

neem In útbase herolo, adventures

and addressing the popular mind and that of the cultivated at

dame

Daltion behind thomas the mga you are not at the

health. Ge

In Siegfried There are Things too Beautiful For Words,”

Thus does a famous critic describe the great wonder film

"THE NIBELUNGS"

Besides magnificent moments of valour

and glory, there is to be seen in this superb picture a dragon as splendid se any medieval monster, ever imagined.. There is a great forest through. which Siegfried passos-mighty, mysterious There are the Mistlands, wrapped in a magle that, no stage steam can compass, There are fuming fields through which Siegfried rides to the castle, with its wide rooms and white walls, and low doors; and its vast empty floors across. which people move" with mythical remoteness,

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These are but a few of the exquisite settings that make The Nibelunge" a feast of beauty that will long haunt the memory. No one who has a soul above the commonplace things of life in Hongkong should miss this masterpiece of

romance.

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