THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1928.
THE TATTOO.
CINEMA NOTES.
SPLENDID PROGRAMME NOW BUSTER KEATON COMEDY AT
READY.
QUEEN'S.
GATHERING OF THE CLANS
"STEAMBOAT BILL, JR"
was in progress. troaps ground
CHILD MIND.
TRIALS OF RED-HEADED BOYS.
"DON'T POKE FUN,"
THE CHINA MAIL,
SHADOWS BEFORE. Tournament: H.K.V.D.C. ▼
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COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "BAIL,"
To-day Queen's Theatre; "Steamboat Bill, Jr." ·
To-day-World Theatre; "La Don't poke fun at the red-haired Boheme."
To-day Star Theatre; "The boy.
Don't call litle girls "Dobble." Telephone Girl." Don't make boys and girla feel Aug. 31-Theatre Royal; Cecilia are willing to Hansen, the world's greatest violin- gready when thay
ist, 9.15. p.m. eat wholesome food.
These warnings were uttered by September 2-3-Queen's Theatre; sponkers at the Summer School of "A Kiss in a Taxi."
September 21-Promenade Con- the British Social Hygiene Coun-
cert at Volunteer Headquarters. ell at Cambridge.
Admonishing his hearers not to
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Land Sales. September 3-At P. W. D. Offices, Crown lands at Shamsheipo and Prince Edward-d., Kowlock, 3 p.m.
"Steamboat Bill, Jr." is the title A meeting of the Working Com mittee of the Grand Tattoo was held of Buster Keaton's latest surprise at Scokumpoo on Tuesday evening, comedy which comes to the Queen's when the entire programme was Theatre to-day as the feature at- read and explained by Liout.-Col. traction until Saturday. This new J. L. Comyn, G.M.G.
production presents the "frozen The seats in the various stands faced" star as a master of subtle were priced by the Committee comedy and pantomime as well as cording to the view obtainable.he daring, blandering comedian of Half of the seats will be sold at 50 College" and "The General." The vents and $1, and no seat will cost picture is a story of modern life on more than $5. Whilst the meeting the Mississippi River. The humor.poke fun at the red-haired boy. Dr. H. Crichton Miller said: "We side of steamboating pre. contingents of ous were rehearing on the dominates, but there are moments all think red hair a joke, because us hore has it in any when the thrills displace the-laughs, none of
marked degree; but it is not a It is understood that the pro-Buster appears as a pampered col-
joke to the owners. They may gracame was finally fixed as follows: lege boy, who returns to his home grow to regard it as a joke when The Tattoo will be opened each town, to naist his burly father, they reach mature years, but the night at 8.30 p.m. by the firing of river steamer captain, whose busi- experience in earlier years of hav- three guns. Chinese striking of the news affairs are going from bad to ing been, on their entry into a hour will next be heard and the worse, The situation is not Im-school-room or going down the castle gates will te flung open. proved when Keaton falls in love street, the signal for a joke has Through them will issue the mass-with the daughter of a rival ship twisted their whole attitude to the
From then onwards the human hord. ed buglers of the command who owner.
becomes fast and furious! "We have all sorts of misappre- will sound the "First Post." They netion will be followed by the Drums and until Buster effects a number of hensions about the red-hafred per- Pipes of the ist Batt. the Queen's sensational rescues during a terrific son, especially the red-haired boy: Royal Regiment who will beat the tornado filmed with astonishing We think that red hair goes with Tattoo. Next the guard of honour realism on a large scale. Charles the choleric temperament, which is will enter and following them the Reisner, for many years associated a completa misapprehension. It is massed bands and drums of the with Charlie Chaplin's productions thought that rebels and adventur- tournament.
and more recently the right handers and, wild people like that have At 8.40.I. E. the Officer Adminis-man of Syd Chaplin, directed red hair as a physical symptom of tering the Government (the Hon."Steamboat Bill, Jr.." which has a their temperament."
That might be true in a sight Mr. W. T. Southorn, C.M.G.) will strong supporting cast' including
fact of the arrive and when the Government Ernest Torrence, as the burly degree, but the real House party is seated the massed father, Marion Byron, as the sweet-matter was that red hair led to an Mid-levela bands will played for 15 minutes. heart, and many others.
Gathering Of The Clans.
"LA BOHEME."
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Lammerts" Auctios. September 3-At 6, Chitham-rd., Kowloon, valuable household furni- ture, 11 a.m.
Meetings. To-day-Royal Hong Kong Golf Club confirmatory mosting,
To-day-Rugby Football meeting at Union Bldg., Fedder-at., 6.30 p.m. August 31-Forty-first annual meeting of members of the Hong Kong Football Club in Mesars. Jardine, Matheson's board room,
5.30 p.m.
September 2-H.K.V.D.C. No. 2 Platoon Rifle Club meeting at the
Peak Rango, 9,80 a.m.
September 8-Hong Kong Cricket League annual meeting in the Sanitary Board Room, Post Office Bldg., 5.15 p.m.
September 6-Annual meeting of Residents' Assen. at attitude of self-defence, and the Ladies' Recreation Club, Pesk-rd., owner might become aggressive 6 p.m. trying to compensate himself for
At 8.55 the first scene entitled Behind the gay and gorgeous life "The Gathering of the Clans" will of Paris, the scenes of "La Boheme" what he felt to be an injustice.
Dealing with the attitude of be given. Some details of this which will be shown at the World mental defectives towards life, Dr. have already been given in our Theatre from to-day to Saturday, Miller said: "The mental defective i columns. It will be performed by are laid. The story of the famous is haunted with the feeling that he the Philharmonic Society, the opera is generally well known. is different from others, and his life A.D.C.. and the Reel Club, the Rodolphe, a pout, is struck by the tends to become one long atfempt clansmen and the pipers being from beauty of Mimi, a seamstress, both to prove to himself and others that the 2nd Batin. the King's Own living in the poorer quarters of the really is as good as others or Scottish Borderers.
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Dancing Displays.
At 9.15 on the first night-
Paris. A love aprings up between better. The mental defective is the two but circumstances throw always wanting to -cheat simply the young couple apart. Meanwhile because the feeling that he has Rodolphe rises to fame and fortune, thwarted the normal person, that but his loved one, having been de- he has proved to himself how Khattak War Dance which should coyed by a cynical boulevardier, re-elever he is, is meat and drink to.
fuses to return to her lover, whose him." be particularly interesting.
A Dancing Display will be givan by the 3/16 Punjabis of the
Boys' Names For Girls. On the second night:-Old Eng-one sorrow in life is the absence to lish Dances arranged by Miss Daisy Mimi. The climax is reached when
Speaking of the effect of the ab O'Keefe, A May-pole dance will Mimi, after a life of struggle and sence of a sense of personal value, a girl who be given by the children of the hardship, returns to die in the arms Dr. Miller mentioned Garrison School, and a Merris dunce of Rodolphe. Lillan Gish and John had become beyond the control of Gilbert take the leading roles in her parents. She was the seventh by the ladies of the Colony.
girl in the family, and had always been even mere de trop than the The completo absence of others. personal value led her to try to get her own back on life. Then there was 19-year-old "bble" n girl, whose mother had anted a
On the third night:-Highland this big picture and are supported Daneing display given by the mem-by a huge east which includes Ranes bers of the Reel Club, the muse Adores, Ray D'Arcy, Karl Dine and will be provided by the pipe band many others,
of the K.0.S.B.
Torchlight Evolutions.
"THE TELEPHONE GIRL." Gripping drama with a political At 9.20 each night Torch Light background, in which a woman's re Evolutions will be given by the putation hangs in the balance and boy and had not hidden that de- sire. "Mothers who call their 1st Batin. the Queen's Royal Regia young telephone girl outwita a ment. About 440 N.C.O.'a and men gang of schemers at a crucial mo.little girls Bobbie are calling them will take pirt divided into threement, comes to the Star Theatre something they have
do.".. groups, and music will be provided to-day in "The Telephone Girl," by the massed bands,
Outposts Of Empire.
no right to
Professor Winifred Cullia, speak- Herbert Breuen's new production which will be screened until Satur- at that time needed as much food) ing on adolescence, said that a girl; day. As the centre of a political as an adult woman living a very At 9.45 each night the second maelstrom, a beautiful young tole active life, and a boy need as much scene of the Scenario will be givenphone operator comes to hold the food as an active man. Grown-ups which is entitled "Outpçats of the fate of many inen in her hands. An leading ordinary lives did not re- Empire" and which shows the election for governorship is pro-quire as much food na adolescents. capture of a desert fort. Taking ceeding and one faction has secured "Do. not ever restrict girls and part are the Hong Kong and Singsdetails of a past scandal in the life boys when they are willing to cat pore Brigade, R.A.; the King'a of the rival candidate. They have wholesome food.. Do not inoke Own Scottish Borderers; the Hong all the necessary evidence to run them feel they are greedy. When Kong Volunteer Defence Carps him except the name of the woman one looks back upon one's early (motor cycle and machine gun atc-concerned. The climax is reached years and thinks of how one tions); the Mule Corps and the when the telephone girl, who has wolfed bread-and-butter at that Hong Kong Branch, St. John Am-ail along held the secret of the time well, do not restrict young bulance Brigade.
woman's name, turns the tables in people." favour of the man she loves. Modge
Gala Displays.
At. 10.6 there will be various gala Bellamy, Warner Baxter, Lawrence displaye,
Gray and May Allison have the fea-
On the first night:-CLinese dls-tured roles, with Holbrook Blinn OLD JAPAN HAND. play, arranged by members of the leading a large cast of supporting.
Chinese community of Hong Kong. players.
On the second night:-Illuminat-!
ed decorated motor car parade,
arranged by the Hong Kong Auto-
DANCE-MAD GIRL.
mobile Association. The masurd STOLE TO PAY FOR LESSONS
banda will provide incidertal music.
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MR. J. T. SWIFT DIES IN TOKYO.
The death is reported from Tokyo of Mr. J.. T. Swift, a real- dent in Japan of over forty years AT 30s. A TIME.
standing. Mr. Swift had a street On the third night:-Fortuguere
accident over- year ago which, Thefts amounting to £120 to Pagent, arranged by the Fortuguese i community under the patronage of gratify her love of finery, choco-though trifling in itself, led to com- 11. E. the Governor of Macao. At lates, and dancing led to Eva plications which ended in his 10.20, Japanese fireworks display, Ball, aged 18, of Smithy Lodge, denth. Mr. Swift was born at Col- chester, Connecticut, in 1861, and arranged by the Japanese residents Heaton Park, Manchester, being studied law for a year at Columbia of the Colony.
bound over at Manchester. She The Tattoo is timed to end at was placed on probation for two University. He first came to Japan 10.30 pm, on the first two nights years on condition that she did in 1888, says the Japan Chronicle," not attend a dance hall during and taught at the Meiji Gakuin and. at 10.40 p.m. on the third.
Returning to America in the fol that period.
The thefts were from her em-lowing year to get married, he ployer, Mr. Isaac Stalberg, a came back as the Arat foreign. secretary of the International Com- The Bishop of Peterborougli (the
waterproof manufacturer.
In addition to going to dances mittee of the Y.M.C.A., which wa Right Rex. C. M. Blagden) at Oak- she had paid a professional dan-tarted in Japan through his ef ham School speech day, said that hecer as much as 30s, a lesson for forts. In 1898 Mr. Swift resigned. thought all grades of society were instruction.
from the Y.M.C.A and accepted i beginning to relearn the dignity
A detective said the girl bad position in the Tokyo Higher Nor of hard work.
become infatuated with a young mal School, being subsequently ap man and had told him he could pointed lecturer on the English lan Mr. Alfred Lane Belt, aged 26, have to much money from her as guage in the literature department heir of Sir Otto Beit, has been re- he liked if only he would dance of Tokyo University, a past which commended as prospective Con- with her. In addition to paying he held for 28 years. He also held servative candidato for South-East him and other men she had run other scholastic appointments. H St Pancra
up bills for chocolates amounting services to Japan were recognised to lus, a week.
by the Japanese · Government on several occasionis.
At Brighton lifeboat station cen- tenary Mr. John Taylor, coxswain". At Christie's, a painting by Wo for 20 years, who has just resigned, Joy, of H.M.S "Phoenix, was presented with a cheque for "Roebuck," and "Tartar" going up £31,
the Hudson River in 1776, made £567.
The Ilan Army has decided to Introduss three-rank: formation on the march Instead of the customary two-rank and four-z
More than £37,400 were recently distributed by 80 "walce saving clubs at Royton,
Parson (in whisper to mother whose Labyhe le about to chris- ten) "How do you spell hor nameAnna or Hannah 76
Mother I don't know air. I ain't no scholar, nel
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August 31-Notherland Consul General "at home" at the Chancery, Asiatic Bldg., 11 a.m. to noon.
August 31-Hong Kong Amateur Football league antries close on this date.
September 1-Second Moonlight plenic of St. Peter's Y. M. Club.
September 1-Miss V, Capell re- sumes her Dancing. Classes on this dale,
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