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NOTES & COMMENTS FROM THE FILM COLONY.

AMONG THE STARS.

"HORSE PLAY."

FATAL FESTIVE SEASON HAPPENING.

MEDICAL EVIDENCE.

By The Hollywood Boulevardier." dence before Mr. Roger Edward Dr. Alexander Cannon gave evi- The engagement is announced Lindsell at the Central Magistracy William "Buster" Collier, Jr. yesterday in the case in which a Wind Dorothy, McCarthy. The Chinese youth named Lo Chi-hing

former is at present working in "The Lion And the Mouse,"

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a charged with the manslaughter, of another youth named Ho Kwong- hot as the result of hitting him a Irving Thalberg and Norma blow on the head in the course of Shearer have left. California on some, "horse-play" among a number the first lap of their honeymoon of St. Paul's students in the Club trip to Europe.............

room of the South. China Athletic Association, China Building, on Christmas night. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer an- The doctor who is in charge of nounces that Greta Garbo's next the Victoria Mortuary deposed to starring vehicle will be an adapta-holding a post mortem examination tion of John Colton's story of the on the deceased at 9.80 a.m., on South Seas, entitled "Heat."

December 26. He said that the primary cause of death was rupture of the left middle meningeal artery to the brain, and secondarily to in- William Farnum, the sterling ter-cranal haemorrhage of a alow actor, who is perhaps one of the nature, and subsequent shock. The few really good artists, in the deceased's physical condition was movie world, has recovered. from very good and there was no sign of his long illness, and is at present disease. convalescing in Santa Monica. He intends to return to the stu-

By the Magistrate: The deceased dios as soon as his health per-was of strong physique, and the mits.

muscles were well developed for a Chinese.

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seventeenth birthday the other make out in view of the fact that' Admission to Subscriber's En- afternoon with a party at her own the accused was standing up, and closure on production of badge only. home, where the select younger the deceased lying down, the de-

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TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY

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"Casualness," in my opinion, in one of the worst forms of passive rudences. Never have young men' been more casual. They will often left temple. It commenced a little

fall to open a door for you if there above the cheek bone and proceed-

is one in your path. They will Forthcoming pictures

ed for four inches in the vertical

Inger for hours over the port after PASSIVE RUDENESS.

dinner, instead of Joining the HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. nounced by William Fox include: and five Inches in the horizontal.

"Come To My House," with Olive! No External Injury.

Indien." They will frequently fall to reminded that Borden and Antonio Moreno;! On making an incision in the

What of our young men ?

Are answer invitations so much 80 OWNEkins for the ortcoming Legs," with Madge contre of the swelling, the witness they nicer than they used to be? that a hostess never knows at all ANNUAL RACE MEETING Will Bellamy: "Sharpshooters," with found extraversation of blood in To discuss that one has to generaccurately how many guests will bo

Cutting alise and generalities are notori- coming to her dance. close on SATURDAY, the 14th Lois Moran and George O'Brien; the left temperal muscle.

They are often unpanetual for an deeper to remove the scalp, the January, 1928, at 3.p.m.

"Very Confidential," with Madge witness did not find any external Granting that, I find that young they will have fixed themselves, but appointment, the hour of which Bellamy and Mary Duncan. Injury to the skull. The witness man I meet may be divided into two they will be furious if you keep removed the vault of the skull and very distinct classes. The first is them waiting even for the regula found A large blood clot about the sporting type-possibly an offi- HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB will bear the very commonplace brain on the left side.

Ramon Novarro's next picture three inches wide pressing on the cer in the Brigade of Guards, and ton Ave minutes! They make no effort to ask you to dance unless The size certainly fond of outdoor sports title of "His Night." It deals of the clot was approximately the like hunting, polq (if he can afford they are already anxious to do so with the early life of Louis XIV.

same as the outer swelling-5" xit), racing, shooting, and so forth. on their own accord. When the Oxford evening draws to a close. they will 3. He removed the clot carefully The other is the former Charlie Chaplin, after much de- and found the left middle men- undergraduate type, who relies on quite openly; if they are seat- ingeal artery on the inner side or more en talk of the books be pro not unusually attractive they will ed next to a girl at dinner who is lay, has finished his picture, "The table of the skl! was ruptured. poses to write than on the phes make little attempt to entertain and Circus," which will be released It was ruptured at a point sants or partridges he proposes her; indeed, they will lean in front early this month. Merna opposite the lower part of the ex- to kill, in order to entertain one in of her and engage someone else in Kennedy, a newcomer, makes her ternal swelling. As a matter of conversation.

conversation. this.. film debut in

They of the sporting type seem opposite fact, the rupture had nothing to

Altogether, the more one studies do with the swelling except that to have changed very little in the them, the more one is drawn to the Charlie,

both were due to the same blow. last fifty years. They

have The new eccentric dance which beyond the

There was no injury to the brain same moustaches and top hats that conclusion that young men

Blight compression their father and grandfathers grown exremely ill-mannered by

reason of their casualnesa. George White introduced in his caused by the blood clof. The affected, whereas those of the in- body wants them to go back to the latest production on Broadway, clot was by itself sufficient, by tellectual type are inclined to wear days when they were compelled to "Manhattan Mary," is taking pressure to cause death.

soft black felt hats at night (like call their fathers "sir"-though t Hollywood by storm. It promises

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Photography & Art.

to be just as popular as the Replying to the Magistrate, Dr. members of the Foreign Office). In certain Irish families for the Charleston or the Black Bottom, Cannon said that the length of and are alwaymistaken for profes- young men to address their sentors and is called the Five Step. time it took for the clot of blood fear of being mistaken for profethus-or to click their heels like

sional soldiers though, frankly, Prussian footman on bidding goed. Eessie Love and Richard Arlen to reach a size big enough to cause gave a demonstration of it at the pressure on the brain varied. It there is not the slightest danger of bye, or taik sentimental flattery be Ambassador the other evening, had been known to take 24 hours.

cause they imagined "the Indies". Ilked it. 22nd January to 15th February, and were well applauded for tak-In many cases, too, the haemor-

Greater Conceit. 1928,

I certainly think, however, that it rhage might cease and then resume ing the trouble..

and cause death hours later.

As to manners: I should think is a great pity the young man of to- Dealing with the nature of the that, on the whole, the young man day, so much better educated. In* Adolphe Meniou has admitted blow, Dr. Cannon said that it must of to-day is a great deal more con- every other way than the young that he is engaged to a certain be other than that due to a fall celted than his predecessors. There men of the past, has deliberately contemptuous and Kathryn Carver. We understand for, the following reasons:-(1) are fewer of him and more of us developed

irritating ignorance of. the amall that Miss Carver is only a recruit fall on a flat surface could not which finds him at a premium to the ranks of the film notables; cause the rupture on account

This conceit is occasionally quite courtesies of life. Loelia Ponsonby her former name was Katherine the anatomy of that particular part charming. It is always Intrinsically in "Daily Mail."

of the head, and (2) if in falling amusing, even if sometimes rather Hill,

the side of the head came in con- tiresome. But la conceit had man- tact with a projecting surface nera? The answer must be in the

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January 12, 1928;

Col. C. B. Follett, Mr. J. C. Fineli.

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Goring, R. D. Gillespie, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Gunn, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Gellion, Miss A. M. Grant.

the celebrated there would be evidence of this affirmative, when the young man HONG KONG HOTEL VISITOR"a. Paul Poiret, Parisian costume designer, paid externally, such as a lesion of the cannot parade it amusingly, and in a visit to Hollywood a few weeks skin, however slight.

the negative when he can. In the witness's opinion the in-

The bad manners of the sporting ago, and was besieged by hun- dreds of the feminine species at jury also could not have been caus-type of young man usually consist

Messrs. G. Appelbaum. Geo. ed by a slap of the hand, however in describing,in detail, throughout the station. No, they didn't want force. He did not see how anyone dinner, every fence he jumped, the Avoyard. free dresses-but they wanted to could bring the injury about other day before, or in explaining length Mesers. G. A. Palham Browns, know what he thought about than with a closed det. Personally tly how he took his manhla in R., J. Birbeck, N. C. Barry, G. Bofa, their figures! Later, he had lun- the witness had known four cases bunker at the 15th ... till his un-['S. G. 'Boydell, Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. cheon at the home of Renee of death caused in such a way.” fortunate victim feals inclined to Brown, Mr. Birchall. Adoree, and afterwards motored

Messrs. E. J. Carmichael, “M."Æ‚ Natural Consequence.. Mr. Lindzell asked if, the witness he smokes between every dance and Cohen, W. H. Comstock, P. Van to Venice (Calif.), where he was observed strolling on the pro-would say that it was the likely re-the next, and, either leaves his Campinñort, Mr. and Mrs. F menade with a beret perched on sult if anyone was hit on that part cigarette burning on the side of a Courtney.

Messrs. G. L. Denigin, J. M. the top of his head,

of the head, and Dr. Cannon replied chippendale table, or treads it out that it was the natural consequence, negligently on the Aubusson car- Dalgarno, It was the same on the other alde of pet. If he is not dancing he col Martha Ostenso❜a "Pictorial the head. There was no other lects a friend and chooses the meat to Review" prize novel of two years artery. Inside the head which was comfortable sofa in the room

sprawl on while he watches his ago, "Wild Geese," has been faith-likely to rupture in that way.

By Detective Lane: The injury elders and betters vainly searching fully translated onto the screen could not have been caused by be- for a seat of some kind by Tiffany, with an all-star cast, ing hit with the tips of the fingers The intellectual; type of active HR, M. B. Hoare, W. Hoegger, E. which includes Russell: Simpson, of a partly closed hand. He did bad manners is much more subtle. Eve Southern,Donald Keith, not see, how, it was possible to get True, the tricks played at country-L. Anita Stewart, Belle Bennett, that force with the fingers.

house parties are an exception, but still bad manners are different Wesley Barry and Jason Robards.

'Might Sce' Stars, Replying to Mr. Turner, Dr. among these young men. They Cannon said that to cause the rup- take the form of an ostentatious Dorothy Gish slipped off again ture the blow must be forceful, but allence if you sak a question or make very quietly for England, where not necessarily very violent. The A remark by which they choone, to she will soon be at work on a deceased would not necessarily be displeased, or of discussing sub- Herbert Wilcox production, have fallen down after, receiving dects with which they know you "Anne Boleyn," depicting the life such a blow. It was only possible, are unfamiliar, and with which, in of the lady who was "dumb" but witness would not say it was identally they probably are ur- enough to let old Henry tamper staggered by the blow. There was

probable that the deceased was familiar themselves! with her neck. Meanwhile, her no splintering of the inner table of g Camp Mr. F, da Silva, Dr. and Mrs. mother has recovered from her the skull that could be seen with But some bad manners seem com Sheahan and Masters Sheahan, recent illness, and is daily seen on the eye. If the accused had clap-mon to both types.

Mr. G. Wragge. A the Boulevard with daughterped the deceased on the angle of Lillian

the faw as demonstrated in Court, that slay could not have caused the

Passive Rurieness

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W. Harris, Mrs. Hamilton. Miss K. Ingles.

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Mr. A. U Reid.

An unemployed Chinese, with Work having been entirely Jury. Any blow below a line drawn stars. He would be able to walk three previous convictions, against finished on "The Private Life of from the corner of the eye to the a considerable distance, and per him, was sentenced to twe

centre of the ear could not cause hapu return home to bed, bafore it. Imprisonment in the Shartchat Pro- Helen of Troy Alexander Corda the injury ostrimit took effect. Vomiting would be visional Court, before Judge Liang and his beautiful wife Marin By the Magistrate: The most that likely to start when compression Lone, on a charge of r have left for Salt Lake City on a the deceased night have felt as started.

gold pin from two-weeks vacalom:

Road.

the result of the blow, was to see The case was adjourned."