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FIRST TRIAL OF MR. BREWER

ADVERSE VERDICT BY THE

JURY

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SENTENCE DEFERRED

Drama, if any was expected, was al- most entirely absent yesterday when Mr. Noel Instone Brewer, barrister-at-

law and hitherto President of the In

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stone Banking Corporation, reached the final stage of his first trial in connection with five counts (three in one is dictment and two in an additional in- dictment) at the January Sessions.

Court The Puisne Judge's crowded with offeinis, inembers of the fegal profession, and the general public when the jury returned to their seats after having retired an hour and five minutes.

In response to the Clerk of Court. Mr. G. G. Stopani-Thomson (foreman of the jury rane, Mr. Brewer and Mrs. Brewer (who sat by her husband at the Bar table) looked straight ahead. The following dialogue between the Clerk and the foreman ensued:-

Have you agreed upon your verdict?

-We have.

Are you unanimous?-We are. How any you? Do you find the de fendant guilty or not guilty?--Guilty.

No Longer on Bail

Mr. Brewer rose and was thereupon addressed by the Puisce Judge (Mr. Justice Wood) who said: "You stand convicted on this charge. I propose to reservo sentence until a later stage in this sessions, when I will say what I have to say then. You are no longer on bail.

After consultation with Mr. Somerset Fitzroy (Assistant Attorney-General) who is conducting the case for the Crown, his Lordship ordered an ad-

February 3.

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THEFT OF LETTERS

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MUSIC DRAMA · FILMS

A NEW FARCE

"The Man Who Missed It"

HOME DRAMA Censorship of Stage Plays

London, Dec. 6. The advisability or otherwise of retaining the censorship of stage plays is again being canvassed owing to the action of the Lord Chamberlain in refusing to issue a licence for "People Like Us,” by Mr. Frank Vosper.

POOR "SUPERS".

The Actor's Lot in Budapest

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During the past two four Budapest theatres gone bankrupt. The latest thoatre to succumb to the exorbitant expenses is the Buda- pest Operette Theatre where "The Great Prison:" a first play, dealing with the life of the war prisoners, by the brother, of the well-known dramatist, Melchior Lengyel, has just been produced,

London, Dec. 11. "The Man Who Missed It" is a farce by Harold Owen, and farce is the risklest of all mediums. It is more susceptible to the virtues or vices of production than any other form of drama. A good farce badly produced may prove appall ing. A had farce well. produced This play was produced by reper may prove a goldmine! A farce of tory players recently and a my own, which I think can be de-number of theatrical managers are scribed ля being in manuscript eager to produce it publicly, but the As the play has scored some sue. neither exceptionally brilliant nor censor rofused permission, on the cess, after one night's closure the exceptionally bad, is due for pro- ground that its theme recalled the | Actors' Association decided to con- !duction in about a couple of circumstances of Mrs. Thompsontinue the performances and divido

months; I ahat sit and watch Fate and Bywaters murder case.

the proceeds among the actors and (le, the producer and the cast) An offelal of the Lord Chamber-theatre staff. At the first perform turn it into neatness or nonsense,lain's office declared that if a anco 1,600 pengo was taken (the mirth or muddle-headedness. If it play portrayed living people or peo-average income of a good house). | is hailed as a work of genius, I shall ple who had lived quite recently, but when the night's expenses in hug my luck, knowing in my heart stage presentation was generally taxes, police, firemen, water. of hearts that it is no such thing. not permitted.

electricity and coal were paid, only If it is hailed as Farjeonic Foolish- ness, I shall shed a quiet tear and Hindulge in one day of self-pity. Not more than one day-self-pity is not worth it!

The censor is not able to interfers | 340 pengo remained for the actors with the presentation of the play and attendants. The result is that privately, and has no jurisdiction [the leading actors are playing for over its publication.

thirty pengo a night each (slightly

The Arts and Theatre Club more than a guinea), while the Probably Harold Owen's farco which Ja open only to mem-aupers are obliged to content them- was better in manuscript than it ap-bers. therefore

to selves nightly with less than a half. proposes peared Cross the foutlights, give Mr. Vosper's play a ten penny eachl But if it war, he cannot blame the night's run, while an evening paper producer, for he produced it him- which, has been making a fea- self. It needed a producer like Tom

ture of publishing serially well- Walls to provide the necessary known war novels and plays has an crispness and air of finish and nounced that it will publish Mr. also, I think, to suggest certain Vosper's play to enable the public

to judge for itself.

structural alterations.

In contrast to this protest against the censorship is the announce ment of Lord Morris ex- Premier of Newfoundland, that he will raise the question of censorship in the House of Lords, because several plays pro-

A Professor's Sleeping Draughts.

The main idea was amusing enough, if not very now. An old professor (0. B. Clarence) spent the declining years of his life in trying to perfect sleeping draughts. He invented several kinds, each one set, like a bomb, for a definite duced recently have flaunted the The Chinese cook employed by Mrs period. Thus one bottle would send justification of misconduct and mur.

to sleep for day, An- der. A. H. Basto was yesterday charged you

Lord Morrie, who is a member of hefure Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, at the other for a fortnight, another for Kowloon Magistracy, on four counts of a year, or four years. And so on, the Westminster Catholic Federn- This was not the tion, formed by Cardinal Bourne. theft of letters, and alternatively of ad eternititem. receiving the letters knowing them to only eccentricity of the old profes- which

with the co-operates He also wanted to marry. I Bishop of London's Vigilance Accused was arrested in Austin Road do not reflect on marriage general-Committee. sald that his sole under suspicious circumstances, with ly by calling the professor's attitude object was to prevent the the letters in his possession. His de- eccentric, but he was a very old dissemination through the stage Tenee was that the letters were given man, and his bride was a very young to him by a friend to look after whilst girl. Such uniona are not usually the latter crossed the harbour to Hong found on the normal map.

have been stolen.

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on the

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of the poisonous and danger- ous principles asserted in some plays referred to, which were a dan ger not only to the individual

Now Philip Belchamber (Deering In convicting the accused charge of receiving stolen letters, the Wells) was the professor's nephew, Magistrate said that they were not and he desired the young bride for but to the State. much to carry and accused's friend himself. So, on the eve of the pro- could have put them in his pocket. posed wedding, he did the obvious Sentence of one month's hard labour thing. He contrived to give the was passed.

ALLEGED MURDER

professor a dose of his own sleeping draught-and the professor drop- ped into a four-years doze. Actual- ly four years and a bit. Thus, the professor missed not only his own At the District Court (South), in wedding, but the War, for he fell the Post Office Building, yesterday, asleep in July, 1914 Mr. J. S. MacLaren, Assistant District Waking at the Armistice Ofeer. New Territories, heard a case During the War, while his sleep- in which three Chinese nanied Ya ing body was daily swept so that he Sang, Li Sze, and Ip Sui-won, were would not wake up under layers of charged with the murder of a woman dust, his nephew and intended bride named Kwok Ching-mui at Cheung- got married, and when the profes- The murder ccurred in the course for woke up on November 11, 1918, of a robbery on board the woman's he was fust in time to hear the sampun which the accused were al pence maroons go off, with his littlo leged to have engaged to take them, grand-nephew crying at the noise! out to a fishing boat.

One of the chlef drawbacks of

chau on the night of December 17.

The caze was adjourned until 10 this play was that it gave us a good a.m., on Wednesday,

deal of plot that did not much mat- ter, while it failed to develop the plot we required-the plot. In fact, suggested by the title. We mere- ly had a few minutes of professorial consternation and incredulity at the end of the play, but we wanted the whole play to deal with that aspect.

BANDIT OUTRAGES

Canton, Wednesday.

It is reported that bandit activi. ties have, owing to troop movements,

journment Entil 10.30 am. on Monday appeared in Linchow. Already more If the old fellow had been sent off To the jury his Lordship said: "1 than ten cargo boats were pillaged to sleep in the first act; had woken thank you, gentlemen, for your enre- In the vicinity of Todu Washeung. up in the second and slipped un- ful consideration of what has been laid | Large consignments of goods detected out into the badinm of war, before you daring the last four days. for Linchow are now stored getting himself into serious tangle- I propose to direct that you be exempt at Linkonghow for fear of being menta through his ignorance; plundered by the robbers-Canton and had got himself unentangled in News Agency.

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from further service for three

years."

Mr. Brewer bore up unflinchingly and r smiled

at Mrs. Brewer, who also showed no outward sign of emotion. Just before his Lordship. had taken his soat on the resumption, Mr. Brewer grasped his wife by the hand..

Mrs. Brewer's Protest After the trial Mr. Fitzroy moved acrosa to Mr. Brower and said: "I am Borry, Brewer." He was thanked by the defendant but Mra. Brewer, in a hushed voice, protested: "It was very unfair." She was, however, imme- diately calmed by her husband and left on the moment.

The jury comprised Mossra.-G.-G. Stopani Thomson, W. N. Lasonder, P. Wong, M. Piankoff; V. M. Omar,, Tru Ho-tseung, J. M. G. Barbe.

"Financial Gymnastics"

FEAR!

Little children are easily scared, The dread of nasty medicino so ter- rides many children that they fear to tell when they feel out-of-sorts, or ill Most of us can remember even to this day the horrors of cas- tor ail, enna tea, and the Tauseous powe ders which wore admini- stered to us childhood,

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But those

An excerpt from his Lordship's days are over

summing up is appended:

We have listened to a

financial story."

vary It may да 4 series of gymnastics not with

curious

be described

Inancial

and done with; they have been abellshed since the introduc tion of Baby's Own

Tablets,

out its humorous and ridiculous sides, the specific for

and though I may say something that children's

you are forgetting, the question that the defendant's reputation to tuvolved, The charge is under the Perjury Or dinance and it is charge of making false statement, not under oath, which Is connected or akin to frand

and

the third act, then there might have been a jolly play. In fact, if one bright day Mr. Owen rewrites his farce from this angle, gives it a new name, and gets Tom Walls to pro- duce it, I think ho will make a lot į of money.

An Excess of Wit Mr. Bradley seems, in this initial effort, to have been hampered by his gift of wit. For many years ho has been known as a weaver of aphorisms and a' manufacturer of maxinia. He has written light books, from which after-dinner 'speakers quote, and he can be as sparkling as Lord Dewar. But you cannot build a play on witty lines, and it is a curious fact that, in "The Amorista," Mr. Bradley is legs 'witty than usual. I think he may.

write a very good play some time;"

Bra Charles Henry Fargo, popular.

young Chicago society matron, for- 'merly of Boston, has just made ber professional bow in the leading role to the cast of a style review t Chicago theatre. She has stated vory charmingly' that she is out to Cena a little pin money to help. things along in view of the fact that the airplane business is quiet.

· but I do not think this is it.-

It is a play of ideas and conversa- tions, of couples at a house party without admitting them to his wife. falling in love with each other, and When she wants her freedom, how- out of love with each other; some ever, and admits it openly, he ob with ideale, some with none. There jects, following that strange, blind

Amorousness, and Pacifism

might suggest that to you during my stomach summing up, I do not want you to bowel allments that has no nasty taste is a very nice pair of young lovers rule that permits a man to take but think that I am forgetting, or that and which all children like.

Baby Own Tablets quickly correct infantile to rejoice our sense of romance and not to give. indigestion, constipation, colle, they of sanity. There is a very check diarrhoes, rellevo croup and nasty pair of lovers to make us dis All through all these amorous colds, cool fever, allay the pains of approve of such things, Ore of comings and goings is woven an in- testhing almost as if by magic, sepel these latter is a matried profiteer, targilag but hardly appropriate WORDS.

And they are guaranteed ab solutely safe and hartzea, con for who, prefers other people widows siment of pacifism, which provides At the same time, I should say it is the youngest

gest and most delicate babe to his own wife. There is another the pacifist of the party with a not alleged that the defendant ham in STIE delicate babe been guilty of any Had offrand for No home where there are litt married couple passing through the splendid, second act scene where he little mid-channel of marriage. Each wipes the floor with the profiteer, chis own personal interest, apart from children should be without Baby's Own started by allowing the other ab- An excellent scone, this, though, an his interest in common with the other, Zable of chemist wrerywhere, or solute freedom that glorious, dire far as I could detect, it had nothing shareholders of the Banker - Nothing|| post free, 60-benta per vlat, from the has come out in the wvidence to Dr. William Budleine Co. 60 Klanges fouit idea) ami the husband has to do with the rest of the play gest any frand on hit part-

already accepted his freedom when J. Jefferson Farison in the Strafts. ha has periodically wanted it, but Times,

Road, BandeŽAL

Camilla Horn, flaxen-haired film sou tress, has come to a definite parting of the ways with her husband, Klank Geerz, a young merchant of Harn- barg. The young merchant husband attributes the divorce to her fame

in the films.

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light

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valve mollusks

A wind Instrument

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41-An epoch

42-Thallium (abbr.)

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10-Implements used in 40-Extremo

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11-A Middle Atlantic

State (abbr.)

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19-Prefix. With 20-impair

21-A river in Scuth

Carolina

23-To pay respect 20-Two

The nostrils

27-A Baweed eaten

In Scotland

31-A spine (Latin)

35-Peaceable

37-One who shines

38-Radical (abbr.)

38-Preposition

47-Crowd

49-Dry up

60-Sarf

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mon! 3-Kind of cloth 4-To imbue with

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23-Musical note 21-Mother

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28-Mountain range be

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Greek alphabet 33-A Roman emperor 34-A group of stem off

coast of Ireland 35-A motor car for

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ROMANCE !

the nickname Babe liked

When Babe Kane no relation to Helen but a snappy singer for a that went to the United Artists lot to play a part in Fannie Brice's picture, she met Director Thornton Freeland for first time. T-his --liked

and T and the two have been socializ- ing together to the extent that it's a colyumnist's prerogative to in- limate romance with a question mark.

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