1928-05-26 — Page 11

SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928.

CINEMA NOTES.

"LES MISERABLES" AT THE QUEEN'S.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY..

AUTOMATIC VOICE.

FOR CIGARETTE MACHINES!

IMPERTURBABLE COURTESY.

The automatic machine had lost

THE CHINA MAIL,

SHATTERED STAR.

HEART DISEASE.

SURPRISING AND ALARMING, WEIRD MYSTERY OF THE

FIGURES.

DR, GOODALL'S LECTURE.

DISTANT HEAVENS,

T

NEW PHENOMENON.

very

Shadows Before

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

IN THE "MAIL"

mga pan

To-day-Queen's Theatre; "Bes Miserables,"

To-day-World Theatre; "The Frontieramus."

To-day-Star Theatre; "The Boy

end."

May 27- Queen's "That's My Daddy."

Theatre;

May 27-World Theatre; "Three Weeks, in Paria."

May 27--Star Theatre; "Man of the Forest."

"At Home."" To-day- V.R.C.

To-day & Monday-Fifth Extra

9 p.m.

"Les Miserables," regarded by

Surprising and alarming figures Capetown-Great interest is most people as by far the greatest something of the fascination which were quoted by Dr. J. Strickland being taken in astronomical work of Victor Hugo, transferred to the screen by the French, is it had when wo were young to Goodall In his lecture, at, the In-circles in the discovery that the having its final serooning today at gother. Our sophisticated children stitute of Hygiene, to prove his star Nova Pictoris, discovered by 'the Queen's Theatre. The picture have but a tepid pleasure in operat-obatement that deaths from hoart South Africa in 1926, has split in, contains many memorable scenes, ing it. They put their pennies in

dlaches are Increasing with extra-two. and the acting of M. Gabriel as a commercial transaction, they ordinary rapidity. We are, as he Recently Gabrio as Jean Valjean is that of

La Plata Obser- a great artist. The aim is note only use it when they want the reminded us, accustomed to read vatory (Argentina) reported to worthy for the fact that the major stuff it sells. Not for them is the of spectators at football matches the Union Observatory that the ity of the exteriors were taken at innocent delight of taking the thing and clergy in the pulpit falling star was presenting a the same places as mentioned by as magle, the thrill of dropping dead, but it is news to many to hear strange appearance; the famous author In kis book. penny in doubt whether anything that a dozen lateners-in died dur- Union astronomers immediate Owing to the great length of the would come of it, which was then ing the Tunney-Dempssy fight, ly resumed observations through film, "Les Miserables will be not invariable, of playing with the seven of them in the seventh round, the great 26-inch telescope and shown at 2.30, 6.00 and 9.15 p.m. miraculous machine as a toy till when Tunney was floored. We are

all the pennies were gone. The assured that it is no longer confirmed the belief that Nova modern child has a dull life. It rheumatic fover that causea the Pictoris had split takes so much for granted. But trouble, but that its source is to the solicitude of maternal legista, be found in arterio-seleronis, which, Copenhagen. The star, which is,

A telegram was at once sent to "The Frontieraman," which is to tion has recently given the auto- partly transmitted through succes- near the Southern Cross, cannot be shown at the World Theatre formatie machine a new importance. sive generations, supervenes at a be observed in the Northern the last time to-day, is a story lowed to provide himself with among medical men, stock-brokers, here closely, as it may afford very

By ita benign aid the citizen la al- much

earlier age.

particularly Hemisphere, but it will be studied based on the Creek Indian war and cigarettes which the law forbids and actors, as the result of hare important information in connect the exploits of General Andrew Jackson in his endeavour to pro-

anyone to sell him.

physical work, undge mental strain,ion with the composition of mat- mote peace between settler

and severe emotion. and

The possibility of contriving

Mr. Goodfallber and structure of the universe. machines which shall break the law accuses us of attending too many Indian. Colonel Tim McCoy and for us as and when required has night cluba, drinking too many Claire Windsor, who have the lead-

not been sufficiently explored. But

cocktails, smoking too much, and resting too little.

only.

WORLD THEATRE.

ing roles, are ably supported Tom

O'Brien, Louise Lorraine, and May Foster.

etiquette.

and a

it has one ro-

POSSIBLE CAUSES.

Event. Without Precedent.

|

Courts.

Race meetings of the H.K. Jockey Club, Happy Valley.

June 3-Next meeting of the Macao Race Olub.

Lammerts" Auctions,

Middle-rd., Kowloon, 2.45 p.m. May 29 Household furniture at

GA, Jordan-rd, Kowloon, (first) May 30-Household furniture at floor), 11 a.m.

tinge at the Cafe Regent, Pedder- May 31-Furniture and shop fit- bldg., ground floor, 10.30 am,

Land Sale.

May 20-At P.W.D. Offices, one lot of Crown land at Kowloon, 3

Meeting..

p.m.

"

May 29 Half yearly meeting of HK. Jockey Club, H.K. Club annex, 5.15 p.m.

Miscellaneous.

June 4-Réception at Govern- ment House in honour of the King's birthday. June

June 6 First of

series of

Happy Valley in honour of King 4- General Parade at George's Birthday, 9 a.m. addresses at Union Church Hall, Kennedy-rd., on the Old Testament, by Mr. J. S. Flacks.

November

the Hong Kong University.

13 Matriculation, Senior and Junior Local exams, at

by America has already got to work on these causes, which have been the improvement of that sigarette adduced before, he adds a freeb machine. It was perceived that for social nirits an automatic tobac- one. In his view, the emotional STAR THEATRE.

conist lacked charm. Your genia)

character of modern plays, novels, Also showing to-day for the last his tobacco from a man

smoker likes to feel that he buys and films, with their appeals to the baser passions, luada to overstrein time, at the Star Theatre, is "The brother.

[By Walter G. Bell, F.R.A.S.] Boy Friend, an excellent comedy now prepared to offer us a dgarette displace the author of the modern Star unquestionably is a novelty.

The American genius is and so to sudden death. The re- medy is luckily simple. it is o

The splitting into two of a Now in every way. John Harron and machine which talks. As at pre- thriller" in favour of Jane Austen, So entirely unexpected is it that Marceline Day head a capable cast sent constructed, which includes also George K.mark to make, and

but one for to substitute Twelfth Night" for English astronomers cautiously Arthur,

Ward Crane, Gertrude each kind of cigarette sold, and It A Man with Red Hair," and to sit selves to the statement that such abstain from committing them- Astor and Gwen Lec. The picture ferrs on the side of taciturnity.

at home ruminating over the philo- is an amusing satire on the book of But that is a good fault. The Bophers of the unperturbed East in an event actually has occurred in principle must be capable of adap- stead of risking death af film the remote heavens till more in- tation for other forms of automatic showing the lawless passions of the formation is at hand than is yet DENNY COMEDY TO-MORROW, machines, to the general brighten that modern life demands more of (Sir Frank Dyson), when asked Wild West. No one would deny available. The Astronomer Royal ing of our lives. The general store the heart than has ever been asked at Greenwich about the matter, The popular British screen machines which sell all kinds of of it before, but doctors had given said: "We cannot offer any comedian, Reginald Donny, will be things on our stations might an us to believe that it was capable opinion until we know

strain, and wThe event reported in the cable- have made outrageous calls in con-gram is most unusual.". Dr. The picture, which is full of amus-> penditure on the more mysterious sequence on its services, baileving J. H. Jeans, one of the greatest ing complications, was directed by tells our weight might murmur ap- He who would live long and see news could be true.

comestibles, The machine which ourselves to be invulnerable. We living authorities on cosmogony, Fred Newmayer; who directed

are now told to revise this judgment frankly expressed doubts if the many of Harold Lloyd's films. The dolences at each store. Some diffi- good days must avoid emotion, take the astronomers of the Union Ob

propriate congratulations or con- large cast includes Lillian Rich, cult moments are imaginable, but

Still, it must be assumed that

Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Presi Tom O'Brien and Charles Coleman, who was ever automatically weigh brain, and cut down hia: tobacco.cervatory at Johannesburg would dent of the Board of Trade, fald the ed without a will to contribute to not a very easy prescription without good grounds for it big new studios which British-In- not have made the announcement fouridifloh-stone last month of the the general amusement? The to follow. And in any case; most Something has happened, and it is structional films are erecting at machines from which the Post of us would prefer to drop down tantallsing that details are at pre- Welwyn Office sells us stamps, when it can dead in the middle of a crook play sent lacking The difficulties of Speaking during a heavy fall of Garden City, Horts, remember to fill them, should coo or sermon than have to endure the to us the compliments of the De- lingering torture of slowly dying

the observation must not be anow and surrounded by a snow- partment's assurances of its off by other diseases. Mr. Goodall

underestimated. Even when covered landscape, Sir Philip said ciency. What a future there is Will frighton fewer people into vir seen in the largest telescopes, a he was glad to have that occasion

star is only tucus dullness than he imagines.

a point of light, to express his belief in the future without measurable diameter, of that great enterprise. It was

seen in his latest picture, "That's Bounce the charm of one line of My Daddy," at the Queen's Thea-goods to the buyer of another, and thus ture him on to prodigal ex- to-morrow

on Monday.

tre

and

EMPHATIC..

REFUSED TO BE BOUND OVER.

of almost infinite

but little exercise, not overwork his

more,

BRITISH FILMS.

NEW STUDIOS AT WELWYN.

Pleading "not guilty" to a charge for an automatic machine of im- The theatres and cinemas will not and the more perfect the lens em one of the first tangible proofs, of

Chinese perturbable courtesy."Daily Tele- shut down on his account..

graph,"

of disorderly conduct, appeared before Mr. Schofield, at the Kowloon Magistracy, yesterday. Defendant was charged 'in connee-` tion with an incident which arose

after a passenger fell from 1 motor DOCTOR'S REFUSAL.

bus at Laichikok. The driver of

SHOULD HE HAVE OPERATED?

the vehicle was abused by passers- by, and on the return journey there was a large crowd waiting to as- sault .him. The pollee, however, dispersed the mob, who were. alleg- ed to have been collected by the Much discussion has been arous defendant.

ed in Chicago, states "The Times." Th defendant refused to be by the action of a physician there, bound over, steadfastly maintain Dr. Martin Schupmann, in allow ing that he had done nothing ing a three-day-old child to die wrong. The case was accordingly rather than perform an operation, adjourned for hearing this morn-which, he said, would have pro longed its life indefinitely, al- though it would have been & cripple and imbecile for life,

The child, a girl, was born with malformation of the head.

ing.

S'HAI'S CATHEDRAL.

NEW PLANS PASSED.

PUBLIC DESIRE.

GRATIFYING ANNOUNCE-

MENT.

convinced, was a In this country we had

structed height of 50

contain all the latest facilities for

ployed the smaller is the star- the success of the policy which had paint. The cable reports that led to the passing of the recent the star has split; in other words, Films Act. That Act was the pre- it infers that the star makes two liminary move in an Imperial plan light points. It is not stated if to re-establish an industry which the division is distinct, and the was of vast importance to the probability seems to be that one whole Empire. On that point the image impinges upon the other, representatives of the Dominions giving to the object a dumb-bell who assembled in London last year

the Mr. R. R. Tatlock, the art critie

shape of "The Daily Telegraph," writes; appearance for a Nova, such as dominate place it had once held,

had been unanimous. That would be "a very strange In order to resume In the painful circumstances of first attracted the attention of the all the British film industry need- that pre- the death of Charles Sims, the observers at La Plata. Not infreed, he was Hanging Committee of the Royal quently New Stars, which appear chance. Academy were confronted with a suddenly and unannounced in the the authors, past and present; we very unpleasant task-that of skies, develop gaseous nebulae, had a past history and present- deciding whether the pictures he which alters their apparent shape day romance; we had accomplian submitted for exhibition in this Nova Pictoris is a very faint star, led actors, skilled producers, and year's show should be accepted of the eleventh magnitude. If It technicians everything, in fact, or rejected.

be the case that the components, necessary to make Alms that The committee, quite properly, as seen in the 26in, refracting would spread throughout the physician told the parents that he see any pictures under considera-Observatory, are sufficiently wide and that indefinable atmosphere The strictly forbid non-members to telescope of the Johannesburg world our ideas and our ideals, Not only those more intimately tion. by removing a growth, but

could ameliorate the child's condi- tion, whether they are the works apart to be separate and distinct, which characterised our people. connected with Holy Trinity that the child would never be able siders. Therefore, one is not in something new, for no precedent 220 ft. by 120 ft to fit, and wil

of members, associates, Cathedral, but every Briton in to think, talk or move.

or out- then we are in the presence of The new studio will measure Shanghai and many in other parts The mother begged him to save contributions on their merits. A Clash of Worlds..

a position to judge Mr. Sims's can be recalled. of China will (says the "N. C. the child's life, but finally agreed Suffice it to say that it is a mat- More than one explanation is picture-making. In 1919 the con- Daily News") be glad to learn with the physician and the father ter for gratification, especially in possible. Although the visible pany began production in half an that, the trustees of the Cathethat it would be better to let it view of the unfortunate artist's stars are to be counted by mil Army hut. Later they moved to dral gave final approval to the die. During the last day the child anxious and repeated, requests lions, there are reasons for belief larger premises at Surbiton, where plans for the new school, Church was given no, nourishment, House, and Deanery, the building We knew we should have to Academy exhibition, that the dark stars, perhaps sa mumerous, hoped that the new studio will be that they should appear in the in the presence in the heavens of they made several big films. It la of which will be commenced face some bitter criticism," Dr. Hanging Committee have not re- that will never be seen. There completed in four montha shortly and pushed on to compleSchupmann said, "but I am certain jected them on their own respon may conceivably have been & tion as rapidly as will be consist-all thinking people will realise that sibility. ent with the best work. The it was the only right thing to do,. trustees who for years have dis- and I believe the parents should ed, will wish to see the pictures, ternal explosion bursting it as clash of worlds, breaking up Nova The public, it may be anticipat Pictoris, or alternatively an in- cussed the matter over and over be commended for their brave decl- unless they are, indeed, of a char: under; but in either case an ac- been that it is gradually fading. again and thought of innumerable schemes to bring about what is ---Baw to be accomplished are espe

acter that would only intensify cession of brilliancy in its light with some evidences of spasmodic one's sorrow for the tragic loss of would have been expected. It is activity disclosed by increased cially to be congratulated on the fact that the munificence of the

an artist who has delighted thou also possible that the apparent brightness at irregular epochs. late Mr Henry Leater has put an

Bands of visitors to Burlington duplication of the Novs is due to The familiar binary, or double end to their worries and given

House. The fact that a substan- the near presence of another very star, is quite a different thing. Thousands of people are poison- tal proportion of the members of faint star hitherto unnoticed. In that case there are two stars in them that which they most de ing their systems by overlooking the Hanging Committee felt that New Stars when first detected are motion separated by a great space sired. One can regret only that the duty of daily regularity, they ought to be shown rather often, though not always, faint between, though because of the Dean Walker, and especially Dean Wreto matter quickly accumulates, points to the advisability of that then they rapidly Incrocas in immense distance over which Symons (with whom a suitable and if it is not expelled daily its comme being adopted. add proper school was a far poisons are absorbed by the blood. It is well known that in the magnitude, and more slowly dle pear to be close

brightness even up to the first they are en from earth they ap greater thought than a comfort. The immediate efecte arendences, blaty political atinosphere of down, till they become the faint. On

alons. able house to replace his dilapid- sion, loss of appetite, and ill fem The Royal Academy there have est of telescopic objects, clea ated residence) will not be here to per Fow people can avoid con- be any critics of Sims pic Novi Pictoris is not new in the visibility is see the new buildings and to work atipation and torpid liver without fares and general policy. It is sense that its mater in them.

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