1929-05-24 — Page 11

FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1929.

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DAILY

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been music by an export but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho,)

EN

16

12 13

24

118

21

22

24

25 26

27

THE CHINA MAIL,

MUSIC

IN CHELSEA STREET

ACTOR FINED FOR CAUSING AN 'OBSTRUCTION

MAKING A FILM

Eric Hales, a fm actor, was fin- ed £2 and 2 guineas costs at West- minster Court for causing an ob struction in King's-road, Chelsea, by film acting.

The police said Hales was tak a prominent part in film

ing

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DRAMA

"RED" DRAMA

GERMAN DRAMATIST'S WEIRD

PLAY..

FILMS

parent lack of understanding of ordinary human life.

tacle

Horror-And Laughter

Mr. Graveley Edwards acted the part of Thomas extraordin; "Hoppla!" produced at the Cate arity well; so well that the spec- Was Theatre Studio, is the first play

of tormented lunacy

painful. which Ernst Toller, the German, often really

But he wrote after being released from could not prevent the audience imprisonment for his revolution-laughing at the scene in which he is horrified merely by listening to

ary activities.

what

to

It is even older than his earlier plays, such as "Masges and Man."

One hardly knows make of it Toller does not seem to have any talent for writing. plays; this one is chiefly interest- ing for its extraordinary methods.

Hero Awaits Death

It begins with a cinematograph flm of scenes in an abortive and ruthlessly suppressed revolution, and then introduces us to the res volutionary hero. Karl Thomas, and his companions, awaiting death in a cell. But they are re- prieved and sentenced, to impri- | sonment. Eight years later Thomas is released, and the play proper begins.

The stage is divided into four portions, two upper and two low- er. The action goes on for a minute in one; then the lights go out and appear in another por- tion. where another minute 12 passed, and so on, all interspers

a powerful wireless set tuning in stations all over the world.

Miss Beatrix Lehman was ex- ceedingly vivid in the chief

THE

HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTEL:

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL:

PEAK HOTEL

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AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR · HOUSE: PALACE HOTEL: MAJESTIC HOTEL

HOTELS,

LIMITED

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lite, Patling.

WATER SUPPLY

Level and Storage of water in Re- servoirs on May 1, 1929:- CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS.

Tytam

1928 .... 1715B

1929 31' ("B

Tytam Byewash ... 16" 8"B 24'11"E Tytam Intermediate 4' 6" 34" 7′′B Tytam Tuk

38′ 0′′B 92' 1"E Wong Nei Clung 16′ 5′′B 40′ 3′′E Pokfulam

11'10"E 38' 8"E [Note: B. dunetes "Below Overdow": A. denotes "Above Overflow: L. de- notes "Level with Overflow."]

Storage in millions and Decimals of gallons.

1928

1929 253.30 173.70

Tytan

Tytam Intermediate

Tytam Byewash ........ 4.67

.70

171.36

53.80

Tytam Tuk

658.00

79.50

Wang Nei Chung

12.62

Pokfulam

40.44

4.42

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.

The following unclaimed tale- grams are lying at the E. E. Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:-

Aweby, from Paris Po. Chartering, from Saigon.

G. A. Diez, aboard "Empress of Asia", from Manila.

Infoco, from Shanghai Miss A. N. Mcleish, from Syd-

rey

Newsnik, from Haiphong. Introduces, from Foochow.

S. LACK,

Superintendent. Hong Kong, 23rd May, 1929

Q

10

16

42 27 43

$4.5

146

148

44 450

54

55 56

69

62

HORIZONTAL

1-Prates

8-A Swise river

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14-Sooner than

16-A communal adobe building, New Mexico 17-Cryptogamous

plants

19-The Greek letter 20-A vegetable 22-To tilt 23-The player of a popular outdoor game

25-Motive

26-Upon

HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 43-3napping turtle

144-Father

45-Rends 47-To assault

-Equality of value Et-A coal product 53-Not well

35-A European coin 5B-A source of coal-

tar dyes T60-Greek goddess of

29-A tower merchant

30-Taward

31-Stained

32-Playing card (pl.) 34-A comman

exclamation

35-Combining form.

One

S6-Captain of the Ark 39-Whirled rapidly 41-Prefix Indicating the

the dawn 81-Najestic 82-Girl's name 63-Wooden spool 64-To strike (stand)

VERTICAL

VEHNICAL (Cont.) 16-French for "alt" 18-Short for "eister" 20-To goad 21-A melody 123-Large spectacles

24-Marked by

refinement

|26-Eludca

27-Existing in name

only

131-A sanctum 183-A Belential body 37-An Egyptian god 38-Part of to have" 39-To box

40-Like a bear

42-To act in oppositior

to

44-A head-rest

1-To atand wide open 46-An Etruscan

2-American Athletic

Union (abbr)

3-Native of Brittany

B-Tyrant

6 Swedish coía

7-Remainder

! 9-Downy

10-Behold

11-To observe

beginning of an 112-A type measure

epich

13- revolve

household god

48-A Mohammedtan

proper name 40-The Southwest

wind

62-Everything

64-A small fly

56-Love (Scot.)

67-The Greek letter N. 50-Exist

50-Mar's name

(The solucion of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new crossword puzzle.)

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

OER ACE SLAM DAN ELLA

SAG

ALAD JAUN

Viola Dana

operations one afternoon in Chel- sea, which led to the assembling of a large crowd on the footway and to the congestion of traffic.

When charged, it was stated. Hales said: "I consider one police- man could easily

200

remove

people, the same. as they do at football matches. I do not deny that I refused to go away."

Hales, in evidence, said there were at first only a few specta- tors, but "the presence of police- men always attracts a crowd.”

The filming. it was stated. was taking place in an enclosure ad- | joining the road, and the defence said permission had been asked from the authorities of the Royal Hospital, who were understood to be the owners.

Lya de Putti who recently dined in London with Prince George.

Conrad Nagel

Lupe, Velez

woman's part. a girl revolution- ary; her odd personality gave & touch of reality of this very odd affair. Miss Joan Pereira was the best of the rest.

One must be grateful to the enterprise of Mr. Peter Godfrey and his Gate Theatre Studió in presenting a play which no other London theatre would venture to touch. It is certainly a

good thing that these "plays of the day after to-morraw" should have some sort of a showing here, but one must be allowed to hope that the masterpieces of the future will be on less eccentric lines. J. G. B. in "Evening News"

Total 1,146.39 312.78 Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in millions and de- cimals of gallone during the month of April.

1928 1929

159.74* Consumption... 217.00 Estimated population 421,380 481,700 Consumption per

12.3

head per day.. 17.1 *Includes 3.72 m.g. from Taikoo Refinery Dem & 7,39 ing, from Kow. loon.

Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main Districts during April 1928. Services to houses .in the Rider Main Districts were discon- nected and a supply was given by public street fountains only during April, 1929.

KOWLOON WATER WORKS LEVEL

1928 1929 17' 4" 37 5′′B. Kowloon Reservoir Shek Lai Pai Reser-

voir

9" 34 2"B Reception Reservoir 2' 0" 22"B Storage in millions and Decimals of gallons. Kowloor Reservoir: Shek Lai Pai Reser.

voir

Reception Reservoir

-Total

1929 1028 196.58 72.75

-8184- 16,80

27.87

27.45

306.29 117.00

Of the 31,085 cadets, representing Consumption of water in Kowloon 173 schools, of the Junior Division (in millions and decimals of gallona ed with scraps of film and loud- of the Officers Training Corps, during the month of April. speaker announcements.

26,601 were returned as "efficients" We learn that Thomas is hope-last year.

lessly bewildered, and that hiz

former comrade Kilman has be come a respectable Prime Minis

ter.

Thomas eventually makes up his mind to shoot Kilman 8 a dangerous die-hard

but is fore- stalled by a student, who shoots him for exactly the opposite mo- tive, as a dangerous Bolshevist. In the end Thomas hangs himself in prison. just too soon to bear of his acquittal:

It is hardly a play for English audiences who know nothing of its political significance if any. One cannot help feeling sympathy for the author, but it is difficult to feel any for his fantastic no- tions, and in particular

Hands and Health Worth $500,000

his ap

1928

Consumption

97.59 Estimated population 164,860

1929 105,04* 169,000

EXPERIENCE TEACHES

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THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO, LTD,

OF DENMARK.

The following unclaimed tale grama are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph Com pany (Limited) of Denmark:-

Chebros and Co., from Tokyo.

from M. J. Reidy, Race Club. Manila.

Davidson Black, s.s. "Takliwa," from Peking.

Cochran, s.s. "Van Buren," from Peking."

Akun, from Omori,

Sai Company, from Shanghai. Bateman, Caldbeck, MacGregor and Co., from Manila.

E. V. JESSEN,

Superintendent. Hong Kong, 23rd May, 1929.

Consumption per

20.7

head per day 19.7 *Does not include water sent to

Hong Kong.

Full Supply in all districts during

April 1928 and 1929.

The Government Analyst's reporte show that the quality of the water is satisfactory,

Total rainfall to April 30, 1928, 14.74; April 30, 1920, 3.56.

EUGENE GOUSSENS

A London writer. says:—

I am very glad to see that Mr. Eugene Goossens's opera "Judith" is to be given next season at Covent Garden. -I have watched him at work on the score, which is a miracle of neatness, and have heard him play some of it over on the piano. It is really lovely music. He told me, that he hop- ed to secure a certain well-known actress of the legitimate stage- not for Judith but, for one of the minor roles.

LONGER SKIRTS

-Skirts are decidedly longer in both afternoon and evening dresses, If not straight, hips are closely swathed, so as to appear slim. Different designers treat such things in divers waya. Certain collec- tions emphasise a mode from the "sixties" or the "nineties"; other models go back to

Pola Negri, screen actress, photo graphed two years ago' in congenial attitude with Frince Mdivani, her hus- band and business manager. They're the piquant fancies of the not talking, though, since "talkies" "Louis" period, or even mediseval have caused a disagreement in their magnificence allied to classic line. policies in connection with a French

contract.

IIN

Benjamino Gigli, of Hetropolitan Opera House fame, with Mar- garet Shotwell, 20-year-old pianist, at the latter's home. The noted tenor has signed the Omaha girl for six weeks' tour of European musical centres at a fabulous sum. Before leaving the United States Miss Shotwell's hands and health were insured for. $500,000.

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