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THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1928.

CINEMA NOTES.

LAURA LA PLANTE'S NEW COMEDY.

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"FINDERS KEEPERS."

to be nor

IN A VAULT.

-'RELIGIOUS- ÀITES AT PAIGNTON.

COUNCIL SUED:

THE CHINA MAIL,

cemetery authority were entitled YEARS OF FLYING,

to say that no one should go and conduct unusual ceremonies as a

Shadows Before

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The New

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right in and about the tomb. Were CELEBRATIONS IN HONOUR COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED OF AVIATION'S MILESTONES;

it otherwise it might be that those who inherited the personal right of sepulture from plaintiff were persons who held diverse opinions, and might claim to conduct cera-) monies of various descriptions.

Tutankhamen's Tomb.

while the

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To-day-World Theatre; "The Heart of Salome."

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[By Harry Harper.]

Laura La Plante's latest comedy,

From nearly every country re- This case, which was adjourned "Finders Reopers" comes to the till after the Easter vasation was

ports are beginning to come in of plans that are shaping for the Queen's Theatre to-day as the chief resumed by counket addressing, his extraction until Saturday. The ac- lordship upon the evidence.

With regard to the obligations celebration of one of the greatest

To-day-Star Theatre; "Ankles tion of the story is laid in a war

Plaintiff, Mias Gertrude Renira which defendanta owed to plain of all milestones in flying history,

Preferred." time training camp where Miss La Wenonah Hoskyns - Abrahall, tiff, Mr. Vaisoy argued that, It will be at the end of this

To-day-Cheer vault remained the memorable air year of 1928-on Plante appears as the beautiful Avenue-road, Torre. Devonshire property of plaintiff, the soil December 17, to be precise that Dance, City Hall, 7.30 p.m. daughter of the camp commandent claimed the right of access to a

to, belonged

and Was vest we shall reach the 26th anniver- Her love for a private brings about | vault în which the body

June. 1 Cheer 'O Dance. City of her much trouble for all concerned and mother was burled for the purpose-Describing the articles which were flight in a power-driven, heavier- ed in, the public authority,sary of the first brief controlled

Hall, 7.80 p.m. things are not nude better when of ventilating and cleaning" it,"and]

June 3-Concert arranged by the giri's father withholds his con- for the purpose of performing acts placed in the tomb-fruit, wine, than-air flying machine. In the sent to an early wedding.

The of piety.

and lavender water-he said there United States, I learn, they have Miss Stubbings, City Hall, 7.30 greatest merriment is caused when

The defendants, the Paignton was also what he considered very just decided, at the suggestion of p.r.

Sports Miss La Plante impersonates

Urban District Council contended improper-a spirit lamp. Plaintiff President Coolidge, to organise private in order to enter the camp that plaintiff was only entitled to claimed the right to put in a small an aeronautical convention repre- number of articles sentative of aviation throughout the man she loves: access to the vault for the purpose cupboard a

the world in order that this land- Once there she finds herself in of interment, and with the written which were of an inflammable na mark of a quarter of a century of the clutches of a violent sergeant consent of the council, They ture. It was wholly foreign to the flying shall be worthily recognis- who mistakes her for a recruit, and denied plaintiff's allegations of words of the grant that those ed. In the case of the United she is forced to go on parade with having been assaulted by the coun- things should be put there. The States, of course, there exists a full marching kit. The sequel is cil's employees and shut in the vault was not constructed for that very special and intimate reason extremely funny. Directed by vault by closing down the cover-kind of thing. The only parallel for rejoicing, remembering that 8 Highburgh Terrace, Kowloon Wesley Ruggles, who has boon ros- stone. Crowds were drawn to the case of a vault being used for that it was an American pioneer. Dock, Hunghom, 11 am. ponsible for many of the cemetery, said defendants, by purpose was that of the tomb of Orville Wright, who made the comedienne's recent auccesses, the plaintiff displaying fruit, a pigeon, Tutankhamen in Egypt. The pre-first flight at Kitty Hawk, North excellent supporting cast includes and roasting a piece of beef on an tence that they were Christian Carolina, on the morning of De- June General meeting of Edmund Breese, Arthur Rankin oil stove.

rites was something on which cember 17, 1903. It lasted only Christian Brothers Alumni Asso- and William Gorman,

Misa Hoskyns, as she said she plaintiff had not dared to call evid-12 seconds, but in its significance, clation, St. Joseph's Collego, G p.m. preferred to be addressed, sald she ence.

in its potentialities, that first real June 7-Annual meeting of Peak "THE HEART OF SALOME." had made a study of Early Chris- It was never within the contem-conquest of the air, which was Tramways Co., Ltd., Hong Kong "The Heart of Salome," the plc-tian customs in relation to the plation of defendants that "the watched by only a little group of Hotel, noon. fure at the World Theatre from to-burial of the dend. Her dealre was place should be filled up with all local folk, represented one of the

Miscellaneous. day to Saturday is an absorbing to fumigate and ventilate the this stuff." There was not a word greatest events in the world's

June 4-Reception at Govern- story of an international spy, play-vault. She denied the cooking, of of evidence that that sort of thing history. ed by Alma. Rubens. There is a food.

On that same bleak morning,ment House in honour of the King's was permitted in any cemetery in immediately after Orville had birthday. great deal of action, humour and

Mr. G. B. Hurst, KC., and Dr. England, and here was no evidence landed, his brother Wilbur went

(instructed by Messrs.

Parade at suspense in the picture, together Bellot with a thrilling sword duel which Peacock and Goddard) appeared

that "these things are customary up in their little 12 h.p. biplane Happy Valley in honour of King in any English sect." comes as the climax. The settings for plaintiff, and Mr. H. B. Valsey.

and stayed aloft for 58 seconds. George's Birthday, 9 a.m. Counsel admitted, that defend Wilbur, alas, is dead, but Orville June First of a series of in Paris where the siren exercises K.Ç, and Mr. C. E. Harman (in- her wiles, as well as the rural structed by Messrs. Torr and Co.) ants were under an obligation to is still with us, busying himself addresses at Union Church Hall, as a represented the defendant council. refrain from encroaching upc at the moment with various Kennedy-rd., on the Old Testament, country maid' are equally good. Reports of the earlier proseed-plaintiff's right in the property as forms of aerodynamical research, by Mr. J. S. Flacks. The cast is excellent, for besides ings appeared in "The Daily Tele- piece of masonry. They, how- And what should interest us. November 13- Matriculation, Miss Rubens herself, there is graph" on April 3 and 4.

ever, had an obligation to the specially in this forthcoming an- Senior and Junior Local exams, at Barry Norton, who appeared as the Mr. Valsey said that Mias public, and particularly that part niversary is the fact that the the Hong Kong University, young artist in "What Price Glory." Hoskyns first asked for a declara- of the public whose friends or re-identical machine used in their Others worthy of mention include tion that the property in the vault latives lay buried in the consecrat-first flights by these two quiet, Robert Agnew, Walter Dugan and was vested in the plaintiff, and fored part of the cemetery. The unassuming brothers now Virginia Mudison.

a further declaration that such of ceremonies by plaintiff offended cupies a place of honour in the ties save those involved in occa- the by-laws and regulations of the against decency, and defendants, aeronautical "ANKLES PREFERRED.". defendant council

conflicted in the interest of public pre- Selence Musuem at South Kensional damage to their apparatus. Madge Bellamy, charming Fox with her rights as owner of the priety and a public sense of At-sington, London. Orville Wright, When Wilbur died, it was illness stat, comes, to the Star Thostre to-property were ultra vires. The ness, were bound to present them. who has always had pleasant as and not a flying accident that day in a new picture entitled claim for damages was not persist- The idea of placing bottles of wine Rociations with Great Britain, brought about his death. Other has lent us this history-making pioneers were also able to demon- Ankles Preferred," which will be ed in. The counterclaim asked for and food in the tomb was bound aircraft for a period of five strate that it was possible to fly a screened until Saturday. The pic-a declaration on behalf of the coun- to. lead to improper discussion.j ture presents Miss Bellamy as acil that plaintiff was not entitled People might think it was a place years, and the fact that it is great deal in crude, early-type temporarily in our possession craft, and to make all sorts of bad girl in a mediate shop who tries to to open the vault save for the pur- where they could get in at night should make us all the more de- landings, and yet live to tell the succeed with her brains only to pose of interment, and with the and posssibly put these things to termined that our participation in tale. M. Louis Bleriot, that gal- get into all sorts of trouble through written consent of defendants, and their own use. Five florins and the coming celebrations shall be lant Frenchman who was first to Her pretty ankles. Allan Forest subject to their by-laws.

two pennies were déposited in the on a scale to do justlee, to such a fly the Channel, and whom I inter-

scenes where she appears

right in the end.

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Mr. Hurst, for

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Pioneer Prophets. When, far back now in the early days, the Wright brothers came to England to arrange for the said commercial production of their biplane in a factory in the Isle of

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viewed directly after he had done so, crashed time and again in ex-

perimental planes, and always emerged from the wreckage prac tically unhurt. The last time I saw him, not long ago, he was still flying in his own machine, after vel. Henry Farman, too,.sur-

all apprenticeships to the air. So did that indomitable little Brazilian sportsman, Santos Dumont.

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has the role of a pleasure-loving | Counsel and he did not wish to tomb. It could not be desirable memorable occasion.

an of weath, and Fawrence Gray raise any question of plaintiff that it should be known there was is a young man of humble meansing entitled to open the vault for a place where loose money who loves the girl in spite of her purposes reasonably ancillary to craving for the fast life. There the right of interment. He wish-

Nothing Unseemly. are many dramatic moments in the ed it to be expressed if neces-

In conclusion, Mir. Vaisey story but everything comes out all war, in his lordship's declaration, defendants had not the slightest MacDonald, Arthur Housman, and vault for the purpose of repairing her mother's grave,

J. Farrell that she was entitled to go into the] wish to prevent plaintiff visiting Sheppey, I had an opportunity of more than 20 years of aerial tra- Lillian Elliot contribute to theit, and that from time to time she owera thereon, but they wanted to with both of them; and, looking vived one of the most arduous of

or placing discussing the future of flight should be at liberty to Inspect it. Bay not more than twice a year. prevent in consecrated ground the back on that conversation one is SHANGHAI AND DOGS after sziving forty-eight hours performance of grossly materialis-struck by the shrewdness and ac- notice to the defendants. Mr. tie ceremonies which were alien to curacy of their comments. It was Vaisey submitted that no order the practices of the Church of not easy to make either of them ought to be made on the action. England and were bound to offend rather than words, and Wilbur talk, They were men of action

Other Pioneers. and that defendants were entitled other persona.

Other names one could men- was the more reticent of the two. tion in this connection, such as Says the "N. C. Daily News" to to an order on the counterclaim.

plaintiff, said hand: Apparently dog shows in

It was he who remarked, dryly: those of Paulhan and Grahame Obligation to the Dead.

that it had been claimed by defen-The only birds that talk are White. This aspect of pioneer Shanghai have one special object,

dants that the ownership of a parrots and they are not birds of aviation has special interests at He asked his lordship to con- apart from their original raison sider first the position of defen- it was vested in them. In the high flight." But once I succeed- the moment, because it has been d'etre and that is to get up adants as regards the obligation whole of the correspondence there ed in lifting the discussion from decided that one of the aims controversy. We may help those which they had to the body of the

no admission that plaintiff personal issue, and induced them sought in organising the 25th an who regard these shows from the lady buried, or to those to whom was entitled to enter the vault for to envisage the general trend of niversary of man's first definite purely controversial standpoint her memory and the undisturbed repairs. There was undisputed aeronautical progress, they spoke triumph in flying will be to en- by alluding to the prices now be remains were a matter of concern. evidence that for four years plainz readily and to the point. But deavour to remove from the public: ing paid for police dogs-an Plaintiff swore by affidavit that her tiff had been allowed to go to the even they, masters of the situa- mind the idea that there is any- Alsatian by any other name mother was a member of the Or- cemetery with articles conveyed tion as they were in those days thing fundamentally or irremedi- would look as street-and then thadox Greek Church, and she ad-in a bag. The cemetery off of the infancy of flying, hardly ably dangerous in aerial trans- suggesting as a topic whether mitted in the witness-box that both clala saw nothing indecorous or foresaw how rapid aerial progress port, Accidents we have had and they are worth it. In the past, she and her inte mother were mem-unseemly. Now, plaintiff was to would become as soon as aero-shall continue to have, though in people have had occasion to think bers of the Church of England, or, be prevented from having access engines had been made reliable, a steadily decreasing ratio from twice about paying Tls, 300 for a at any rate, Protestants. The to the tomb for all purposes other and aircraft had been given suf- the viewpoint of miles, flown. police dog pup, and numbers con- burial place must be deemed to be than the right of burial. Counsel ficient atability to enable them to They are the price of progress in sidered that this was a passing a grave of a member of the Church claimed that his client was en-be piloted safely in high and a means of super-speed travel phase and that such dogs would of England because the burial was titled to visit the interior of "the gusty winds. In the following which, when it is perfected, will come down to what might seem in a consecrated part of the ceme-vault as-a-person who owned a table I show, as an epitome of pro- serve the world's purpose better a moderate price. But just retory according to the rites of the grave could visit it.

gress, how the figures for dis- than any other development in cently a Chinese is reported to Established Church.

When discussing the definition tence, duration, speed, and height history. Even to-day the story have bought such a pup at Ts, Ought they to allow anyone con- of a vault, Mr. Hurst quoted from have leapt ahead since Orville told by official figures is one of 700,, without haggling over the nected with the person who had "Romeo and Juliet," as follows:

Wright made history on the Caro-a-round encouragement. I have price, and then coming back not the right of sepulture to conduct For kere lies Juliet, and her

lina Sand-hills: so long afterwards and demand-in or about the tomb ceremonies

before me the latest statistics in

· 1928. ing another. On the second occa-which the person visiting the tomb

beauty makes,

the operation between London Distance This vault a feasting presence Duration sion the price was up to Tls. might from time to time consider

580 feet and the Continent of the aero- 1,000, but this was Hikewise paid suitable and appropriate? asked

59 seca. plane services of Imperial "Air- .. full of light.

Speed per hour

30-35 miles without murmur.

One of the objecta of a vault or Height Such prices counaci. It could not be said that mausoleum, said Mr. Hurst, was to

our national company. have been enough to excite com-the person who had the exclusive give privacy to a grantee.

15 feet They show that during the past ment, but apparently they are to- right of burial in a plot of ground

three years, flying under probably His lordship said he would give Duration day nothing out of the ordinary, had been given the right to con- judgment in a few days.

8,911 miles the most unfavourable weather ..: 53 hours for it is said that as much as Ts.duct ceremonies about the tomb at 2,500 has been paid bare rebis or her own pleasure. It was Golfers who play at Klangwan

Speed per hour. 8181 miles conditions in the world, this com Height

88,800 feet pany has carried more than 52,000 cently for a locally born dog. Na-obvious that the opinions of plain have no need to be told of the ter

people by air at 100 miles an hour Safety First. turally such high prices come only tin were of a fluctuating nature rera of the short and narrow sixth though they are, do not bring ger. To such a record, obtained to and fro above the Channel Such statistics, striking without injury to a single passen from Chinese who have convinced themselves of the merits of the To-morrow she might have somehole; These were added to the other into prominence one of the most in all-the-year-round flying, often animal as a watch-dog, and it is pressed. Could it be right that student who was seated at the to which is the steadily-growing are abnormally bad from a pilot's other opinion to that already exday by the presence of a Chinese vital phases of aerial progress, in atmospheric conditions which perfectly easy to understand that merely because the body was reading aloud in English out of a factor of safety imparted to the point of view, must be added the with the kidnapping and armed buried in that particular place by book. With perfect courtesy he navigation of the afr. I recall wonderful, safety figures which robber evil as it has been during virtue of a purchase right, the per-desisted when players wished to how, Wilbur Wright stressed this have been achieved by our Bri the past two years and more, son who had the right of sepulture make use of the tee, but it was the question of aerial during my tish flying clubs. Men and women people should value in the highest could continue to go and conduct degree the enormous efficiency which is inherent in the animal. ceremonies which she thought added to the terrors of this parti-referred before He had no no more than an average share subject of his reading matter, which talk with him, to which I have from all walks of life, possessing For the moment we are simply the lady who lay buried there?plained that he was reading an in handling the first pioneer air handle light aeroplanes with an proper in and about the coffin of cular, hole, for on Inquiry he x-illusions as to the skill required of dexterity, have been taught to high prices being given for such do not want to say anything article on Socrates. This latter craft, but insisted that by an immulity from accident which dogs, and have no desire to con- about the ceremonies the lady was one of a school of philosophers should be possible to fly with res- those experts who had realised harsh or revolting, said counsel, gentleman, so far as we remember, exercise of extreme care It has impressed profoundly even trast their merits with those of other breeds, but there is one thought fit to conduct at the tomb who counselled the keeping of the sonable safety even in auch ex- beforehand how safe, given ade- point which ought to be stressed, but I ask your lordship to allow emotions under control, and taught perimental machines, and both quate precautions, aerial trans and that is, Do the owners know me to say that they are of an un: the way to do so. Unfortunately he and his brother Orville proved part can be made. It is therefore how to get the best value out of usual character, and are not come Socrates never, went out of bounds their point by their personal in a very hopeful frame of mind their animals? Let it be rememmon to those who follow the prac, when playing the sixth hole at achievements. First they learned that the air work is now drawing bered that a former chief of the tices of the Church of England. Klangwan, otherwise he might have to balance themselves in the air in up the programm will do London Police, insisted that a He asked his lordship to say that appreciated the Impossibi of motorless gilders, and then honour to the 25t watchdog attained its full value where, a body was entrusted to a putting his principles practice taught themselves to y ens the first only when kept loosa indoors. cemetery authority for burial, the at golfN. C. Daly News driven) craft, without any casua

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