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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1930.

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BOYS PLUNGE TOWN IN DARKNESS.

And One Gets a Shock to Remember.

Two adventurous boys put out all the electric lights in Portland for nearly two hours.

Arthur Carter, aged 14, and his friend, named Pratt, about the same age, opened the door of a IN EXTRAORDINARY GEN-

transformer substation which re- ERAL MEETING, of

ceives the electric current from the Weymouth. Club will be held in the Club House on FRIDAY, the 5th Sep-which was conveying a current of Carter approached ε cable tember, 1930, at 5.30 p.m...

10,000 volts and immediately there BusinessAs set forth in the

was a flash like lightning, notice posted in the Club,

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AMUSEMENT

NEWS

FILM STAR MARRIED.

Nils Asther Weds Vivian Duncan.

ENGAGED IN 1926!

Nevada, August 2. Miss Vivian Duncan, one of the

QUEEN'S present Catharine Dale Owen and Warner Baxter in "Such Men Are Dan-

A gerous."

millionaire

cans. not purchase a woman's heart though he may lead her to the altar. Never, perhaps, in the hi- wedding ceremory. been staged world-famous Duncan sisters, has tory of motion pictures, has

with the attention to detail that just married Mr. Nils Aather, the marked this beautiful and colour-film star, here, after an engagement | ful affair which is to be seen and which was first announced at the heard. in "Such Men Are Danger- | end of 1926, ous" A talkie film.

Soon after they were engaged, a quarrel estranged' them, and for two Walter years they refused to make it up. Last autumn, however, they patched up their differences, and now they are married.

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features

On the marriage register they gave their ages as "over twenty- one," and declared that neither had been married before.

in "Gentlemen of the He ran down the street shouting,{. Preas." The story deals with n "I am killed! I am killed!" He veteran newspaperman who has was taken to Weymouth Hospital given up everything in life for his home, business. When his daughter was and after treatment sent still very frightened.

born, he was covering a prize- All the electrical circuits in fight; when his wife died, he was Portland were affected.

og assignment covering a Mexican

The careers of the Duncan alsters, Uprising: when his daughter Vivian and Rosetta, make romantic graduated from high school ha reading. Although only girls, they was writing about Lindbergh. havo staged great triumphs and up is his fatal susceptibility for This only thing he has not given lost huge sums of money on other

shows. a pretty woman A talkio film.

In 1928 they produced in London "Topsy and Eva" at the Galety MAJESTIC presenta Gaston Theatre, and ten weeks lost be- Glass and Ben Turpin in "The tween £10,000 and £12,000 on the Wife's Relations." There are Bev-show, eral thrills introduced Into the action, such as a chemical explo- Los Angeles. Nils Asther, who was The Duncan Sisters were born.in sion which throws Ben Turpin born in Sweden, began his stage more than twenty feet; a chase career at the age of thirteen. over roof tops and a catastrophe

MASONIC MEMORIAL.

Masonic visitors to London this Summer will have good oppor tunity of witnessing the great pro- gress made with the construction of the new Masonic Peace Memorial in Great Queen Street. Already the external brickwork of the rear premises is completed and now the handsome frontage of Great Queen Street Is rising rapidly, while the steelwork for the handsome cupola over the en- trance, which will be higher than the Nelson Monument, is also fixed..

AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY

by

A. II. CROOK, OBE.. M.A. W. KAY, M.A.

W. L. HANDYSIDE, MA, B.Sc.

A PRICE $2.00.

NOW ON SALE AT THE PUBLISHERS

The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd. China Mail Offices.

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FOR SALE.

Miss Duncan recently left a Los | A selection of the best varieties of: in the dining-room which provide Angeles hospital, where she was real hearty laughs.. You'll like treated for a black eye, inflicted by

Reliable and Tested "The Wife's Relations"

Flower and Vegetable und it's Rex Lease, a film artist, who punch- ed her when she rejected his ad-

Seeds vances at a party. Lease pleaded guilty to a charge in court, and was fined 50 dollars ($10).

tion."

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From

Messrs. Sutton & Sons, Reading and

a safe bet you'll see this picture more than once, and urge your friends to see it." A silent film.

-STAR features Dolores del Río Nils Aather made his first screen and Rod La Rocque in "Resurrec appearance In "Sorrell and Son", Messrs. Arthur Yates & Co., Ltd.

Count Leo Tolstoy, who with Mary Nolan, and among other

Sydney. died in 1910, wrote the novel productions in which he has appear- which was translated into elevened have been "The Single Standard" The opportunity of serving you languages. Dolores del Rio has and "Wild Orchida" with Greta will be a pleasure and your com- the part of Katusha Maslova and Garbo and with Joan Crawford in mands will have our best atten- Rod La Rocque that of Prince "Dream of Love." Dmitri. "Resurrection" Is the included in the cast of "Our Dancing

story of a Prince and a pleasant Daughters," maid who loved and sinned "and sorrowed and loved again. silent film.

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He was also tion.

WORLD presents "The Chang- ing Age," (Continued at foot of next Column. silent film.

a Chinese drama. A

GRACA & CO.,

10, WYNDHAM STREET, F.O. Box No. 620. HONG KONG

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