1928-07-23 — Page 7

MONDAY, JULY 23, 1928.

DEBATES IN CANTON,

OREGON MEN AT THE LINGNAN U.

is

not In

DARING RAID.

FIVE CHINESE WOMEN GAGGED,

A FAIR HAUL,

THE CHINA MAIL,

NEW BARRISTERS.

SEVEN WOMEN TO BE CALLED.

Three of the women are students

CONTROL RESENTED,

102 STUDENTS.

Four, Chinese armed with dag- Young Intellectual Nationallata of

Seven women, two of whom are China are enthusiastic to-day in gers carried out a daring robbery married, and one is an Indian, were at a little before noon on Saturday among the 103, students of the Inns. denouncing foreigners. But their on the second floor of No. 31, Heu of Court who were called to the ability to express themselves in Wong-terrace, and after binding English Bar laat month. The calls English

propor- and gagging five helpless women at the Inner Temple number 35, tion to

their political fervour: Inmates of the flat, ransacked tho at the Middle Temple 27, at Lin- When our team met Lingnan place securing booty valued almost colns Inn 11, and at Gray's Inn 20. University, it was tho

first 300.

According to a statement made by time a publle debate had been held by college students in China. The a Chinese widow named Lo Sze, the American Instructor who coached robbers entered the premises by the the Lingnan men, finally encouraged staircase door which was closed but them to lose self-consciousness not lockerl. Lo Sze was in the rear enough to speak before un audience cubicle combing the hair of another without apparent trembling at the female inmnte of the floor, knees. We ourselves were rather when the four men suddenly ap unsteady on the platform at Can-

peared. As soon as they entered ton-lut our trepidation was due the cubicle in which the two women to the unsettled condition of chao- were, the robbera produced daggers tie China.

and threatened to kill their scared victims if they attempted to raise

panese.

An alarm.

over

the helpless women, the other three proceeded to ransack the flat.

Hack from Shopping.

TEASERS.

Answers to To-day's

Questions...

1. In 1762.

2. In Caine-road.

3. Sir A. Conan Doyle. 4. Twelve.

5. Louis Paulhan,

(4 bearers).

6. 30 cents (2 bearers); 60 cents

Shadows Before

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE “MAIL.”-

To-day-World Theatre; Show Off."

"The

To-day-Star Theatre "Hell'a

High Road."

To-day

Queen's Theatre;

"Frisco Sally Levy."

July 24-25 World Theatre; "Forty Winka.",

July 24-25-Star Theatre; "The

July 25-28 — Queon's Theatre; "Sorrows of Satan."

of Gray's Inn, namely, Sophy Sanger, of Weybridge, Katherine Mary Evelyn Fearnley Sander, of Bruges, and Mr. Phyllis Lucy SORROWS OF SATAN." Coming of Amos." Morgan Blake, of Newnham College, wife of Mr. Charles Anthony Morgan Blake, of the Temple.

MARIE CORELLI'S FAMOUS Dorothy Travers Wolfe, to be called

NOVEL FILMED. at Lincoln's Inn, is daughter of Mr. Jasper Travers Wolfe, a mem-

"Sorrows of Satan" a lavish ber of the Dall Eireann, and ex-screen version of Marie Corelli's Crown Solicitor for Cork,

novel of the same name, is to be. screened, at the Queen's Theatre from Wednesday to Saturday of this week, according to a special adver- tisement in this issue.

The Inner Temple supplies, two candidates, Harriet Elizabeth Vaizey, of Halstead, Essex, and Seeta Vadivu Devadoss, of Girton College, daughter of a judge of the High Court of Madras. Mrs. Mary Josephine Clark, eldest daughter of the late Mr. John McCormick, of Liverpool, will be called at the Middle Temple. Mr. Michael Binchy, on the Gray's Inn list, is already a member of the Irish Bar.

Typifying the celestial" mind, these debiters were more solid, less responsive in their mental processes

The robbers then drove Lo Sze. than the emotional, Impulsive Ja-and the other woman into the mid- The Chinese are philoso-die cubicle where there was another phical, immobile. And the lack of female, the only other inmate of the superficial dexterity was revealed house at the time, All three were more clearly as they spoke in a for-then bound and gagged by the rob eign tongue. Constructive speeches bers, who then demanded the keys were memorized. So were most of of. Lo Szo's boxes, which she sur-

of the world. They, cannot for-rendered. Then, whilst one robber their rebuttals. mulate their ideas in English words stood guard quickly and smoothly enough for effective extrémpore speaking. Na turally their bodily aetion and ges tures were stilted and poorly co-

After they had satisfied them- ordinated with the instens being con- selves that they had not overlooked voyed. Under the circumstances, anything of value, the rebbers pro- a brilliant eceded to bundle up their booty however, theirs was efort.

preparatory to leaving the place, Rambling as forensic: "delegates- As they were about to go, Lo Sze's at-large" of the University of Ore- daughter-in-law and her maid-ser- n short-stop vant, who had been out shopping, in Shanghai, and a longer one in returned to the house.

These two Hong Kong. We did not see the were overpowered by the robbers real China, however, until we re-immediately they entered the flat, turned from the Philipines to de- and wore bound and gagged also, Bate at Canton. This oldest com- after which the robbers stripped the mercial "eity of the rams," whose | daughter-in-law of all the jewellery history dates back to the time she was wearing.

gon. we had made

GIRL'S £2,000.

SURPRISE FOR £800 A YEAR JUDGE.

July 26-28 World Theatre; "Mark of Zorro."

July 26-28--Star Theatre; "Love, 'Em and Leave 'Em.”

Lammerts" Auctions.

July 24-At Sales Room, 4 & 4A, valuable household Duddell-st., furniture, etc., 2.30 p.m.

August 2-At Auction Rooms, +1. Duddell-st., the steamship Unlimited "Gorjistan," noon.

Meeting.

QUEEN'S THEATRE

THE

FAMOUS MAGICIAN

Marie Corelli gave Satan a new description in her famous novel Sorrows of Satan." She decided that to be effective, temptation must be attractive. So she made Satan a tall, powerful, graceful, polished man wealth was at his disposal, Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a prince with a To-day-II.K.V.D.C. Sports Com- mysterious realm somewhere, whomittee meeting at Headquarters, knew everybody worth knowing, but 5.45- p.m. about whom little was known. He moyed in the highest social circles. Paris, London, Berlin, Moscow were all familiar to him. Yet he

1129 Faris. In a Paris court, the pre-sorrowful. A brooding sadness en- siding judge of which receives only £900 a year, was astonished veloped him.. Some say. Miss when a young woman came before Corelli chose the title because it was it and declared that she was em insist she wanted to be different and effective and sensational. Others

ployed by a prominent firm' of dressmakers as a saleswoman at vindicate the reputation of a per- £1,750 per year, with an entertain-enage badly in need of it. Any ment allowance of £800 and a per-way, the author produced one of the

world's best sellers. centage on sales.

She has chosen to emphasise the She was Mile. Simone Gray, 'n pretty dark-haired girl of 24. She anelent idea that Satan is a fallen Finally, the robbers left after declared that she had a three angel. Throughout, when he pur- having spent about an hour in the years' contract with the firm, and sues his occupation of putting fat. It was not until some time that one of the clauses provided temptation before weak characters. after their departure that any of for, a penalty of £2,000 against the he is saddened by success. the five victims were able to release party who should break it. She lays the time when he can return With Canton a veritable hotbed of themselves and give the alarm, but had brought considerable trade to to the angelic state. revolutions, we were fortunate in by that time the desperadoes had the firm, but they suddenly dis- Aalready disappeared. Lo Sze has missed her on the ground that cer- even being able to reach it. general had just been deposed a furnished descriptions of the four tain persons she had introduced short time before we arrived and, men to the police and is confident had not paid their bills.

other change in control took that she will be able to recognise grounds for dismissal were inade- Sybil, portrayed in the picture by

The court declared that the place shortly after our depar- them.

The quate.

dressmakers The booty carried away by the ordered to pay Mile. Gray £2,000, Ricardo Cortez and Lya de Putti re- were Adolphe Menjou, Carol Dempster, roblara included $46 in local cur- as well as a month's salary, while spectively. use "comparatively"-we the word advisedly stable. Shockney (notes and silver), twelve two experts were named to work noticed Chinese 20-cents pieces, one Japan-out the amount of commission due proof Canton hardly the events witnessed: These silver coin, and jewellery, cloth to her. smoking ruins of a business blocking and other article's worth $248.55. destroyed by sirikers; a run on the Chinese National Bank (burned a few days before we left) that as-

the birth-

uf Marco Palo. was place of the Republic under Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the George Washington of

POPPING NOISES,

Chian.

,ture

Were

DIL

Dee.

we

1.

Conditions

sumed the proportions of a riot with policemen shouting and clubs dying: innumerable posters, and

CINEMA NOTES,

"FRISCO SALLY LEVY"

"Frisco Sally Levy" which

placards directed against Commun-atarted its run at the Queen's

MODERN PILGRIMS.

WELCOME IN NEW YORK.

New York. The delegation of

It .de-

The central characters are the Prince, Mavis Claire, a novelist, supposed to be Marie Corelli's idealisation of herself, Geoffrey Tempest a young writer, and Lady

"THE SHOW' OFF.”

"The Show Off," now showing at the World, is a good picture with an unusual story. It deals with the adventures of Aubrey Piper, a clerk in a Railroad office, who poses before his fiancee and her family as an important offfelal. In spite of the family's contempt for him, Amy marries him, and after

Mayor Walker. Later they visit dead, and the family are in finan ed the ancient Plymouth Church,cial difficulties. Aubrey realises. made famous by Henry Ward that he has brought them all to Beccher, and in the evening at this, and the next day he sells to tended a religious service in the directors of a large steel com. Broadway Congregational Taber-pany the invention which. Joe,a nacle.

younger brother, has been working

iam, the Nanking Government, and Theatre yesterday and will con-1,200 British pilgrims, who, ar imperialism; thousands of soldiers tinue until to-morrow, is a picture rived at Boston in the Twentieth leaving for the northern front; and [which is well worth seeing, and was Century Mayflower," reached three months discovers the truth Eritish вла American cruisers much enjoyed by good houses at all New York, and were welcomed by about his position. Her father is hovering in the offing. It was "com.the showings yesterday.

The photography is beautiful, paratively" quiet,

Lingnan University, formerly particularly the part showing the Canton Christian College, is lucnted St. Patrick's Day Parade which was on Hohan Island in the Pearl River. very naturally done in colours, The night we stepped on the wharf which helped one greatly to appre- we heard a peculiar popping noise clate fine pageant.

The story was that of Colleen Since the arrival of this second on for some time. which we fearfully concluded must be the machine guns of battle. But Lapidowitz (portrayed by Sally band of pilgrims in America There is some good acting, and O'Neil) who was the daughter of a Congregationalist ministers have Aubrey is very skilfully portrayed, students were simply welcoming us

to the objectionable laugh in the peculiar Chinese custom with Jewish father and an Irish mother. been actively engaged as mes-even

50 At Ply. which The din lasted for She has two suiters, one an Irish sengers of goodwill.

annoyed the family. firecrackers. twenty minutes.

boy who is a traffic cop. (Charles mouth, Massachusetts, recently, There is also a good M.G.M. news With red, green, Delaney) and the other a well-to-do there was

a comedy, "Hold your an impressive cere reel and and blue fire flashing in the gather Jewish sheik named I. Stuart Gold mony when the visitors placed a Hat," which is very laughable. ing dusk, it was a novel sight.

(Roy D'Arcy) whom Colleen's wreath of laurel, brought for the Lois Wilson takes the leading This institution, now under the father aptly describes as a "bum-purpose from England, on

the role.. administration of the Cantonese mer whose name was "transinted rock where the Plymouth Fathers Government, has also felt the im-

from Goldberg."

landed three centuries ago. pact of awakening China. Its doors

Colleen fell for the grandeur of

A dinner was held in honour of were recently closed for months by

Cold's fine automobile and the Congregationalists, at which a hostile communistic regime. Sev

showed her' preference. The 8,000 persons attended. The eral of its students have been killed

Jewish boy's Buit was back-visitors sailed for home a few and wounded in military outbursts. ed. by Colleen's Irish mother days later in the White Star liner Others have been kidnapped and (Kate Price) whilst Hebrew poppa "Celtic." held for ransom by bandit chief favoured the Irish cop. This leads who grew strong as the Government to trouble and Colleen leaves home grew weak.

to become a dancer at a night club | is Accompanied by American ins-under the name of "Frisco Sally Donald. tructors in the university familiar Levy." Eventually, she returns home, with, the provincial dialect, we ob-on Christmas eve and makes up tained an intimate contact with pea-with the family, and Pat the Irish sant life in numerous villages near cap who rescued her from the Canton. Living in squalor, harass scheming Gold.

The story is interwoven with

ed by bandits, weakened by priva- tion, the common people are appar many laughable situations which ently happy and carefree! Yet from must be seen to be enjoyed. some of these hovels, as handleraft products of crude looms, come fine textiles. Rice and vegetable farms to lead in revising unequal treaties surrounding the villages are laid that now allow foreign domination. out with the well cultivated pre The debate, indeed a novelty. to ciseness of a landscape garden by them, was apparently, enjoyed by the "farmers for 40 centuries." the large Chinese audience. This Cities like Canton, strangely, response was also true of a later boast vast improvements in light-contest with a British Y.N.C.A. ing, housing and sanitation in apite team at Hong Kong in which the of chaos. Even the boat po.same question of democracy "was: pulation, whose thousands of sam- used. As in the Philipines, Inter- pans form an impressive spectacle eat in self-government is more than on the river,fore learning cleaner academic. It was indicative that methods of living.

China thoroughly resents control by CONTROL IN CHINA.

the hated "foreign devils." The sleeping glant is stirring. But it Young officials of Canton city adis difficult to forget our walk along ministration, gave us a ten. They the short road from a modern city ware forward-looking group of to an ancient village which lead us graduates from American colleges, back on the path of progress for They named the United States a countless deceder "Christian Chinn's best friend, looking to her Science Monitor."

Wherever missionaries go slavery doomed. Mr. Rasag Mac

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