1927-05-18 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1927.

*PARTLY TRUE."

NO DUTY PAID.

CHEQUE CHARGE AGAINST INDIAN.

BEFORE CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

CHINESE STOREKEEPER FINED $500.

TELL-TALE BOTTLES, -

THE CHINA MAIL.

“IMPROPER MODELS.””.

FUTURE CITIES.

MORALITY THREAT TO AN AMAZING VISION MADE INTO motionless. But the short arms

· ART SCHOOL

VEIL FOR VENUS DECREE.

The zeal with which the

A FILM.

MANKIND AND MONSTERS.

Bunken on the chest, crooked legs rested, gnome-like, upon the plat-. form. The trunks and legs were

pushed and pushed and pushed, alternately forwards, backwarda, |forwards?

The Revolt.

The case was adjourned until Sitting in the District Office,

Ironically enough the ultimate Ionday at the Criminal Sessions Post Office Building, Mr. E. J. Hungarian police are enforcing in with the roar.

[A nightmare city throbbing

of countless salvation of Metropolis lies in a this morning, in which an Anglo-Wynne-Jones had before him yes- Budapest the "New Morality mechanical monsters, where men machine an automatic woman dian, J.M. Kalley, is charged with terday the master of the Hang Decree" issued last month by the are the slaves and machines the invented by a half-crazy scientist. the larceny of two Mercantile Bank Chun wine and spirit_shop, No.

of Hungarian Minister the masters, where television is as "This being had no face. The of India forma, the property of Mr. 137, Tainwan, New Territories, Interior is having amusing re-common as wireless, and thoughts beautiful curve of the neck bore E. R. Dovey; and with their forged charged with the illegal posses- signature and presentment for pay-sion of 152 gallons of dutiable Bults. The peasant class (from are valued in numbers, where sky- a lump of carelessly-shaped mass. ment with the latent to defaut Mr. Chinese wine."

which the police are largely scrapers tower to the clouds, and The skull was bald, nose, lipa, Dovey or the Bank of $980 or the

The seizure was made by Chief drawn) is not inclined to make where, finally, the slaves rise in temples merely traced. Eyes, as equivalent of £99.108,

Preventive Officer Clark who act-fine distinctions, and having been revolt to overthrow the hated though painted on closed llda. The accused had plended guilty to

stared unseeingly, with an ex- the first charge when it was renting on information received, went instructed to see that all repre- machines,

sentations of the female form are This is the fantastic vision of pression of calm madness...... to him this morning but paid, with to Laichikok where on the road, decently clad, the officials are not the world of the future presented "Give me a face soon," it asks regard to the second, that it was about a mile from the prison, he

by "Metropolis," an amazing Ger- with horrible tenderness: "only partly true."

stopped a Chinese woman carry-sparing classical art.

A publishing firm was aston-man film, which was to be re-

This 'robot-woman and a girl gallon bottles of Chinese wine.ished to learn from a police teased for exhibition in London in She took the C.P.O. to accused's official that the new decree had mail week.] shop where she said she had been infringed by the appearance Behind the weird story of the bought the wine. Here a search of the Venus of Milo on the title-great Armageddon between man- the subject of the charge was tions. They were ordered to created is the romance of a young death-to hell with them!" was made and the wine forming page of one of their art publica-kind and the monsters, he has withdraw the book and a sum woman who conceived the night- mare plot in a dream and was mons was issued against them.

Another firm was ordered to impelled by some strange force

the Rubens because the wrapper had set it down on paper. withdraw

blography of over which she had no control to

a picture of Venus and Adonis.

She is Thea von Harbou, the Barbers have been ordered to wife of Fritz Lang, the famous

This was taken as a ples of "not gulity."

BOY THIEF.

DESIGNS IN MOTOR CAR-

TOOLS.

CAUGHT IN TIME.

ing two baskets containing wine

brought to light.

After it had been proved by the account books that duty had not been paid on the wine, his Wor- ship imposed a fine of $500.

A 13-year old Chinese boy was charged before Major Willson "MODERN RAFFLES" clothe decently the busts of German producer. The idea came

this morning with attempting toị steal a bag of tools from the motor cycle of Revenue Officer, Grimmitt,

MAN WITH JEMMY AND PUNCHES.

GODOWN DISCOVERY,

r

lead the multitude of machine slaves in a rebellion to overthrow

the dynasty of iron and steel.

"We have passed sentence upon the machines," they cry. "We have condemned the machines to

,

20-YEARS-YOUNGER FACES.

gardens, S.W.

on

females in their windows which in an extraordinary vivid vision Dr. Raymond Passot, the Parts show various styles of hairdress-of a mammoth city controlled by surgeon who claims to be able to ing.

machines endowed with super-und scarred faces smooth and to make old faces young, wrinkled Film fulcs.

human intelligence.

reduce inartistic features to an ap- The decree demands not only a Mr. Grimmitt said that he park-

Millions of men teemed along proved classical appearance, is in new standard of morality, but the giant avenues-all slaves, all | London: he lectures on his art at ed his motor cycle outside the

There was a sequel at the Crim-seeks to support the authority of doing the bidding of the machine- the French Institute, Cromwell- Star Ferry wharf at 6.45 p.m., and went on the wharf to meet hal Sessions this morning to the the State in political matters. gods.

The Brain Centre.

He showed a press representative, the ferry. He had been on the vigilance of an Indian watchman at The title of a film. "The Daughter

in number of photographs Blustrat- wharf about a minute when a dear godowns at On Lan Street, who. of the Czar," has come under the. Everything in this nightmareing the transformations which he

caring a noise. inside, made an in- ban, and has had to be changed metropolis, was mechanical. and dumb boy, who acted as care vestigation and discovered from the to "The Princess.”

In has brought about in the faces of All picture the very heart of it all, in his patients. taker of the witness's machine, outside that an entrance had been houses have been instructed to mighty tower full of delicate in- A woman of 73 looks now a rushed up and pointed in the effected. direction of the motor cycle. Finding that he was discovered, omitt from their presentation of struments, was the brain centre sprightly dame of 50; a man of 60 Looking over the railing, Mr. the nocturnal visitor, after making the film, anything likely to hurt of the city, the humming hive of does not look a minute over 40;

feelings of Hungarian mechanism that had overthrown while unduly protruding care Grimmitt saw the accused leaving an attempt at escape which was tho over the seat. Witness worked the door from the inside but the

thwarted by an iron gate, barred Manarchists.

its creators and become son-younger people have been convert- ed into the attractive close-to-the- Swearing is also punishable thing more than human. his way round to the rear of the watchman got into touch with the under the new decree, and some

head variety, and double chins have For over machine and seized the accused, Palice who, on their arrival, broke papers have complained that the Harbou

a year Frau

von been made single, with n charming scarcely slept, 30 contour. who had just succeeded in work-Lown the door and found inside prohibition may result in violence, obsessed was she by the strange "Patients ing loose the tool bag strap. few seconds more and he would jenmy hand, punches in his pocas "a good round oath is the force which impelled her to write anaesthetic," said Dr. Passot, "and have got away with the bag. The key tools senttered around and treasured safety-valve of the the story of her vision. Worn afterwards are able to go home at out by the strain, advise.l by once. Only one operation la neces- Dag was examined by Mr. Grim-articles placed ready for removal Bery Hangarian temperament." meit and the contents found in-

Conducting a search, the Police The Rector of the College of doctors to take a rest, she found sary. The face or feature will re- tact.

found $172 in the possession of the Sculpture protests against the herself physically and mentally main in its new condition for a long Most of Dr. Passot's patients are, Accused was ordered to receive arrested man, $7 of which he claim-new morality decree of the Minis- incapable of giving up her task.ime-probably some years."

ed as his own property.

ter of the Interior. He fears that: "I have been given a warning of course, women. He said their Charged at the Police Station, the the police will insist on all statues to humanity," she said. "I must ages were, generally speaking, be- man pleaded that the. Magistratof females in the art schools being go on." should deal feulently with him.

At last her task was complored, Later, he denied that he had a draped, as most of the students Jemmy in his hand when arrested are under twenty-one...

and now her husband has made a and said that he was stunned by the An interpellation tabled in marvellous film of her book.. rough treatment he had receives on Parliament points out that in

Two years have gone to its Budapest it is a common thing for making. No fewer than 3,808 whole families to inhabit one performers appeur, including room, and that tens of thousands 1,000 completely bald men, 100 of peasant families in the country nurroes, 11.000 women, and 750 live in one-roomed huts. It is children. In wages along the reduction has cost over £80,000.

12 strokes with a rattan.

Afmodern

GAMBLERS ALL!

SEVENTEEN CHINESE PAY A| arrest.

FINE.

WHAT WAS THE GAME?

Seventeen Chinese were charg-

Chinese "Raffles" with

This morning, at the Criminal Sessions, Ee pleaded not guilty.

The case is pro-eeding.

ed before Mr, R. E. Lindsell this PEER SELLS LAND. suggested that this state of

morning with playing "pai kau” at No. 7, Burrows Street, Wan- chai. The accused pleaded that they were only playing the harm-

SALE SAID TO BE DUE TO

HEAVY TAXATION.

Owing, it is claimed, to heavy

affairs involves more danger to public morals than the sight of the Venus of Milo or an undraped hairdresser's bust.

Endless Stream. "Metropolis"the machine city of the future is a terrifying spectacle. Everything is con- trolled from the central tower- the new Tower of Babel," as it

less game of "Hakka pai." The death duties and to present-day interpreter said that the proper name of this game was "luk fu" taxation, 3,000 acres of land WOMAN AS TELLER. is known--where at a marvellous-

Asked for his opinion, Sergeant owned by Lord Ravensworth are McTiernan suid he thought the to be sold. game was "ngau pai."

The portion of his estate select- ed runs into the Cheviot range:

MRS. H. PHILIPSON MAKES HISTORY.

are put under

tvieen 35 and 50,

an

His plastic surgery has been offi- cially recognised by the French medical societies.

Shadows Before.

'COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL.”

Entertainmenta..

ly complicated switch-board pre-Auction Block." sides the man who has made him- self Master of the Metropolis.

A gentle pressure with his

After a Chinese detective had to the east of the picturesque and Mrs. Hilton Philipson (former./ingers on a sensitive blue metal given a description of the game historic village of Whittingham, ly Miss Mabel Russell, the plate, and he alters the destiny of

as he saw it played, Mr. Lindsell said he believed the game was "ngau pai."

Accused were fined $3 ench, and $4 found on the gambling table was confiscated.

Northumberland.

actress) made history in the the world. Another pressure and It includes about a dozen fair House of Commons during mail a great siren roars through the city calling the machine slaves to sized farms, and 30 or 40 houses. week when, for the first time, a work.

The river Aln runs through the woman M.P. acted as principal

The living food came estate. On one side is the teller in a division,

Along vicarage, church, schools, and a She read out to the House the the street it came, along its own

pushing along in masses. memorial hall, on the other the result of the important division street, which never crossed with post office, police and courthouse, on the Blasphemous Teaching other people's streets.

It rolled general stores, and the Castle Inn. Bill, and she was warmly con- Tenants will have an opportunity gratulated alike by her Conserva-The stream was twelve files.

on. a broad, an endless stream. of buying their holdings. before tive friends, including Ministers, dee. They walked in even step. the property is offered to the and by her opponents, on her dis-Men, men, men all in the same public.

tinetion.

Mrs. Philipson seemed a little uniform. from throat to ankle in nervous as she advanced to the dark blue linen, bare feet in the Table and "lined up" with her same hard shoes, hair tightly ¡pressed down by the same black three men colleagues. Her Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon The London and North-ayes" were successful, and so Caps, Mazistracy with receiving stolen Eastern Railway is abolishing it fell to her lot to declare the faces. And they all seemed one "And they all had the same property, namely 40 pigs which were the number 13 on its sleeping cars result of the division. alleged by Mr. A. E. Hall, for the to suit the whim of nervous.

Ithousand years old. They walk- The three bows which have to ed with hanging fists. they walk- prosecution, to have formed part of travellers.

FORTY PIGS. STOLEN PROPERTY CHARGE

DEFENCE.

Mr. Hin Shing-lo yesterday open- ed the defence In the ease in which three Chinese were charged before

19.

"UNLUCKY" 13 TO GO.

May 18-Queen's Theatre; "The

May 18-Star Theatre; Second performance of the Wilbur Players, 9.15 p.m. "Tracked in the Snow Country," 4.15 p.m.

May 18World Theatre; "The Ice Flood."

May 18-Tea Dance, Cafe Res- taurant Parisien, 4.30 p.m. Dinner Danee, 8 p.m.; exhibition dancing, 8.30 p.m.

May 18-Isako's European Circus, Hunghom, Kowloon, 9.16 p.m.

May 20-HK.V.D.C.'s dance at Lane Crawfordo, 8.80 p.m.

May 19-Smoking-concert for member of Easma Asen., Club pre- mises, 9

May 26-Matinee performance by

the "Squeakettes," Helena May Institute, 5.30 p.m.

Sperts/

May 24-Kowloon Cricket Club hold function in ald of Hospital Comforts Fund,

May 18-Postponed. Exhibition Tennis Match in aid of M.C.L., 4.p.m.

.M.C.A. playground, 1.30 p.m.

May 18-Basketball: University. v. Wah Yan Old Boys, Chinese

Cup, starting from Channel Rocks, May 26-Nace for Brown Rowing be made to the Speaker when he ad with hanging heads 5.16 p.m. the booty of a junk piracy outside Every 18 is to be painted out calls for silence were performed. The open gates of the New Tower the waters of the Colony on April forthwith and 14 substituted, an by Mrs.. Philipson's "squad" of Babel, the machine centre of

Originally eight men were placed the real 14 so that the sequence Whip's" vofen rang out clearly as ins it gulped them down.".

A being added to the number of perfectly. The temporary chief Metropolis, threw the masses up in the dock, but five were discharg- of the berths on the long Scottish she read the figures, and she was ed. on the ground of Insuficient express trains may not be further loudly cheered. evidence, at the previous hearing. broken. An official said recently: Only three or four of the pigs.

"As I was teller for the ayes,' In ten houre the Master would were definitely identified by wit-stitious. We have found that Mrs.

Railway travellers are super- I had to do the counting," said let the machine brute roar anew. ncases for the prosecution,

Philipson afterwards. And again'in another ten hours, quite a large acction of the "They kept coming through, and always the same, without public dislikes the number. as the number for the Bill grew loosening the ten-hour clamp. May:21. 28-Ladies' dress wear, Travellers have arrived to catch and grew I became so excited that Metropolis is a city of auto-Bros, Sales, Room, 10.30 a.m. the Scottish express and, find- I almost forgot to count. I had matons, of men who glide past! May 28-Household furniture, 4, ing that berth No. 18 has been the total all right, however. On like swimming shadows and whose Armend Bldgs, Kowlean, by Messrs. reserved for them, have refused the whole, it was a lovely ex-eyes stand open as though they Lammert Bros. 2.46 p.m. to occupy it.

never closed them. The great perience." In many hotels, and in some of

to

City of Automatons.

ever

Mrs. Philipson has been M.P. multi-streets. act one above the

race

May 28-20-Second extra Race Meeting at Macao, 2.15 pm,, June 4, 6-Fourth extra meeting of H. K Jockey Club, Happy Valley Race Course,

Auctionis.

and sundries, Messrs. Lammert

Meetings.

According to Mr. Lo. first accused was a farmer in Hoifung and hel had collected the pigs in three lota] from different places. They were brought to accused's junk. The pig were intended, to be sold in the Colony. Second accused instead of receiving fixed sum for trans- porting the animals was three-tenths of the profit of the sale. I disappeared long ago, 12a being 1923.

get the great liners, the number 13 for Berwick-on-Tweed since June other teem with them. They May 20-Fifty-fourth meeting of After landing in Hong Kong, the substituted in some cases. On the pips were kept in third accused's other hand, the demand for the godown at Shamshuipo where a detactiva came and after question--called "unlucky number, or ing the ownership of the pis, ar multiples of it, has exceeded the available supply in some recent A further adjournment was made club sweepstakes... until Tadaday next.

rested the men.

pack the giant, elevators which Union Insurance Society of Canton, shoot up and down with the speed Union Aldg., 11 am, du

May 20-Fifty-eighth meeting of of express trains, but not one stands out from his fellows, the China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd...

Union Bldg., 11.20 a.m. “3- Another reason why we hate to All are slaves of the machines, May 31-Fourth yearly meeting have a photograph taken is because lacking individuality, lacking en- of Prince's Bldg. & Land Co., Ltd.. It makes us look like we were terprise. bound body and soul to Prince's Bldg. 4 om de had having & photograph taken, the gods of steel they are com June 7-Forty-ninth 'annual The burgler had just been sen-bergera

pelled to serve to almond meeting of shareholders of the tenecd, when he asked: "You. Wor- The American heiress had just

Machines do everything; one China Sugar Relling Co. Ltd., phin couldn't start serving my returned from her first trip to even utters paternosters for the Messrs. Jardine's Offices, noon sentence in three months time?”, Europe. WAN the courts said to his neighbour: "Why?" asked the magistrate, At dinner her neighbpur inquir

prosperity of the city That last prisoner nut up a very Well, you see, your, Worship, ad "Did you see many picturesque good: fight, didn't he?!

repiled the burglar, it would mean old ruina during your trip to the "No wonder, replied the second. such a heavy loss, to me, just Continentia, 17 "He's got the courage of his twenty now. It is the height of our sea-les she replied. “And Ax one convictions.” One

A man in the public gallery at

them proposed to

In the middle of the room

crouched the paternoster machine.

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May 18-Whis drive at St,

May 27-Kowloon, Che Club re Imbi Under the crouching turn match Koploon HME! idy and the hend - which was "Hermes," 8 p.m.

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