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MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1930.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

.

DISAPPEAR.

TELEGRAPH BOYS TO REVOLT IN

PRISON.

FRENCH ROUND THE CINEMAS

DINING WITH CANNIBALS.

'Men Messengers Riding Guards and Police Dogs

Motor Cycles.

Hold Back Convicts.

ROTTEN ROW UNPOPULAR.

London, Sept. 5.

The familiar telègraph boy with his red push-bicycle may soon no longer be seen in the streets of London; that is if the Post Office'a proposal to replace them by men on motor-eycles is carried into effect. The General Post Office is now ex- perimenting, but an official states that it is too early yet to decide whether the general introduction of a motor, telegran delivery service would increase speed and efficiency and at the same time be an econo- mical success. Bournemouth is the In the country so far which has a daytime motor cycle telegram delivery.

only town

The Clock Stopper. There is a charwoman in Londor Whenever she who is unique.

watches, and entérs a room the

her clocks immediately stop, and employer states that she knows ex- actly what rooms she has been in and what-time-she catered for every clock stops. Although it causes much worry and confusion, she is such a good worker that her em- ployers do not like to get rid of her. There is, however, one clock that resists her influence and that is an

old grandfather in the hall which xos.on ticking merrily, however near she approaches.

UGLY SITUATION.

Paria, Aug. 26. An ugly situation threatened the prison of Aix-en-Provence when thirty convicts made a determined effort to escape.

The prison is occupied chiefly by convicts serving tong sentences with hard. Inhour.

JANET GAYNOR AND FARRELL TRIUMPH.

SUNNY SIDE UP.”

Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell segred 2 new sensation at the Queen's Theatre when they made their audible screen musical comedy

This tuneful light comedy-drama, debut in "Sunny Side Up." written by Do Syiva, Brown, and Henderson, has placed the young Fox Movietone stars on a new pin At about one o'clock thirty con-nacle, utterly different but in the viets who had managed somehow to same high altitude as did their per- The dainty, wistful little Janet escape from their cells broke open formance in "Saventh Heaven," a door leading into the inner court of the prison where the only guard proves her versatility by playing a on duty at the time was stationed. comedy role, broad in spots, and The convicts attacked the man with again on the border land of pathos, chair legs, and would probably have She sings, she dances, she talks, and killed him but for the protection of she does it all with that touch of four of them, who saved the victim genius that has raised her from the rear ranks of extra girls to the front from further injuries.

rank of the greatest stars in the to . Meanwhile his cries had brought entertainment world.

Farrell, too, is called upon the head gaoler on the spot,

the enact an entirely different sort of who

help of with the

two

doga and the role than he ever essayed before, prison

three guards succeed and he does it with a dash and other ied in driving the convicts bark finish that stamps him as a super into the prison and keeping them lative actor. Farrell, also, bursta there till a squad of gendarmerie forth into song and -if-the-en arrived and took charge of the thusiasm of the opening night's audience is any criterion, the public situation.

Gendarmerie Arrive.

shortly afterwards

A doctor, when sked if he could throw any light on the mystery.. anid that it was known that the chemical properties of the skin of effect on certain persons had an various metals and stones, and it may be that as soon as the char- woman enters & room an acute elec trical reaction is set up, but it is!

that this extra-Club more than likely ordinary feat of stopping clocks is induced by the chemical action of the skin. It is also possible that she is very romantic as romantic people have such powers hibited by this woman.

us ex-

Ice-Skating Popular. There is little doubt that-ice-skat- ing will be more popular than ever this year, and new ice rinks are the place. springing up all over

International The rink at the Sportsmen's Club will be reopened on September 26, and one of the will be a features of the season women's ice hockey team. The existing rinks have been renovated and redecorated, and the promoters are expecting a busy season. The Hammersmith Ice. Drome reopens at the end of September, the great rink at Golders Green on September 12. the Richmond Ice Club on September 17, and the London Ice

The dance en-

Butler was the pictorial, director.

Sharon Lynn, Frank Richardson,

Woman Traveller's. Adventures.

TEN YEARS' TOUR.

MODERN OUTLOOK.

ON MORALS.

The Church's Attitude to Suicides.

DEAN INGE'S ADDRESS.

The Dean of St. Paul's (Dr.)

When Miss Jill Crossley-Batt, of Hampshire; was a little girl she luge) delivered his presidential ad- had day-dreams of exciting advendress at the Modern Churchmen's tures in which she encountered Conference at Oxford on August cannibal kings and gorillas. She 18, when he spoke on "The Modern) grew into womanhood and deter Outlook in Morals.” mined to make these day dreams come true, so she set out for a tour round the world.

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Dr. Inge, whose address attracted a large audience to the Town Hall, said that morals were a subject on That was ten years ago, and which modern Churchmen ought to now, for the first time in a decade, have some contribution to make.

The present revolt against tradi- she has come back to Britain. During her absence she claims to tional ethics, which it was their aim have taken long walking toura In the conference to understand and through stretches of unexplored criticise, was not based on any land, to have visited South Africa, philosophy consciously held, but United thority, which had left the present generation without any universally Australia, South Sea Islands, In- rather on the collapse of all din. China, Japan, the

Some people States of America, and Canada..

Miss Crossley-Batt; a dark-eyed, accepted standard. dark-haired woman with a quiet were born rebels, but the majority of voice and a sun-tanned skin, gave people were uneasy at the outlook. Daily Express representative a The only religions that claimed to picturesque account of her adven have made some progress since the Most people now asked tures as she sat in the offices of War were those of Mra. Eddy and the Quebec Government just be the Pope.

few and he had none. fore she left for Hampshire, where a prophet to produce his credentials,

mentbs.

Church-and-Scientists- she intends to stay for a

She confessed that all the After reviewing various convic- dreams of her childhood had come tions that existed to-day, Dr. inge true. She had seen gorillas and said that in his opinion Christians and scientific humanists ought to eaten with cannibals.

"I had my first experience with work together. When, however, cannibals in the Kalahari Desert, they tried to do so, certain differ- the ex-Kaiser's old shooting light. in South West Africa, not far from ences of principles soon

began Miss Crossley- ground,"

not easy.

"I believe that I was the first

on October 8. The majority Marjorle White, and El Brendel white woman to visit that part of

Fewer Riders in the Row.

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of the

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been there since I left.

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eat me!

came to

The ringlenders were immediately will demand that he sing in every placed in solitary confinement pend-production he makes in the future.

De Sylva, Brown and Henderson, ing the investigation of the examin- ing magistrate, which was opened long known for their musical comedy hits on Broadway, have contrived a The head gaoler, who was sitting story that holds interest from the

It was in order to consider these at lunch when the attempt was opening scene to the final fade out.

the possibility of made, was warned that something The comedy is smart, sophisticated, was wrong by a prisoner who made and of the sort that frequently set Batt "I had travelled miles with differences and

drawn by a bullock team, That was being held. In very general signals to him from a window op the audience off in spontaneous natives in a Government lorry adjusting them that their conference pósite. But for this the convicts bursts of laughter.

sembles, surprisingly novel, are the was just after the war, and travel terms they might accept Amiel's might have escaped.

The prison has only four guards work of Seymour Felix, while David ling in that part in those days was epigram that Christianity brought and preached salvation by the con- Hasty Departure.

version of the soul; humanism by for 300 convicts..

the emancipation of the mind-the one wished to enlighten by making of them have mapped out pro-in supporting roles, contribute the country, and that only one has better, and the other to make better The first of the by enlightening. grammes of carnivals, galas, ice much to the success

real differences was the contrast be hockey matches and races, and production.

sing several cabaret entertainments.

hits of the musical comedy, while the cannibals and often dined with tween the "other-worldiness of

Only' when a plague finess"

of

human- scientific There are less riders in Rotton Brendel, as a Swedish grocer, carries them, but they showed no desire to Christianity and the "this-world- The promises of Liberal.. Row, owing mainly to the fact that the burden, of the comedy and does visited them they appeared to im.

of

had. and

Secularism think I was somehow responsible, ism the motor car has attracted the several specialties.

least at

six There

Man would not been fulfilled. and I took a hasty departure, man-about-town and his feminina

"Near Lake Tanganyika I had an

never be entirely willing counterpart: and modern commer- tremendous song hits in "Sunny cialism has forced the old landed Side Up." including "A Talk- adventure with a gorilla: A ter give up this world for the next, nor

"Sunny rible-looking ape more than six the next world for this. classes into trade, and they haveling Picture of You,"

a Dreamer,"

feet high suddenly attacked our now no time for riding. The an- Side Up," "I'm

A benevolent old gentleman, who party. One of the native boys was hurt, and had he not been the victim I most surely would have liked to All his house with young peo been. I believe I am right in.myple and see them enjoy themselves, theory that gorillas will not harm was walking through the conserva- women, and had I been alone, this tory. one would have been quite friend- ly. Eventually my boys speared were es- Two tuneful songs

the ape, and carried. Its skin written

Maurice for pecially Chevalier, Hollywood's "prince around triumphantly for weeks.

"My next adventures were in of

his personality," for

hit

Australia, where I went to study numbers in Paramount's film frolic of the stars, "Paramount on aboriginals. I found some of their Parade." The songs are "Sweeping customs, especially their marriage the Clouds Away" and "All I Want ceremonies, interesting. The men are subjected to tests of, strength Is Just One Girl." The second of these numbers is used by Para by other members of their tribe. I mount's child prodigy, little Mitzi think civilised people might do well to follow some of their habits. Green, the only child actress under contract by Paramount, for her number in the sparkling festival, in which she mimics Chevaller.

nual upkeep of the Row is £2,000. "Turn on the Heat," "You Find the or about 240 a week, and the riders Time, I'll Find the Place" and do not pay anything for using it. "You-ve Got Me Pickin' Petals Off The riding. track was laid down in of Daisies." 1878 when some of the finest horses

in the country were to be seen gal- "PARAMOUNT ON PARADE.”. loping on it. Nowadays, the track on which kings and queens have ridden high-spirited blood-stock is used chiefly by people who have hired horses. N.C.D.N.

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Royal Reception.

"I made my way to the South Sea Islands. I was received royal- ly by a king at Tonga, who is now dead. I was feasted, and there

"Eventually I came to Western America. Then I crashed through. the gates of Hollywood and became a film worker, appearing in a film with Lillian Gish.

ber in which it is sung, "Rainbow were special dances held in my Revels," filmed in technicolour, was honour. I went on to Japan, and directed by Ernat Lubitsch, who lived with a Japanese family, directed Chevaller in "The Love where I had an opportunity of see- Parade." Lubitsch took the Pari-ing how cleverly the Japanese sian songster and the scores of train and educate their children. dancing girls who appear with him to the house-tops of Paris, and even Into the skies, via a colourful rain bow, during the course of the song. The second of Chevaller's songs is introduced in a typical Chevaller But presently I am returning Lubitsch akit, played with a subtle to India to study a special tribe I believe that that. Interests me. humour reminiscent of "The Love Parade." In this skit, Chevallar the study of this tribe will eventual- appears as a Parisian gendarme, only smooth the unsettled conditions duty in a park where lovers are that prevail there at present." wont to go.

"My son," his father exclaimed, Nearly every atar and featured player under the Paramount banner you have grievously disappointed appears in the intimate revel. More me, I'm afraid! I promised to buy. than six stars and featured players you a saxophone if you passed your examination--and now you have are seen in the fifteen specialty num bere, and each of them does what he falled miserably. Furthermore, or she is beat equipped to do your master Informs me that he con- There are songs from Clara Bow and siders you have not studied ard Nancy Carroll comedy from Lillian enough. Tell me, now-If that lē Roth, Harry Green, Skeeta Gallagher, true, whatever have you been doing and Jack Oakle; comic dramatic these last few months? How have skits, from George Bancroft, Clive you spent the time which you should

have devoted to study Brook and others

"Paramount on Parade" is now showing at the Central Theatre to full houses,

"BROADWAY BABIES."

Alice White's singing, talking and dancing picture, Broadway Bables"

Why, dad, the youth replied, I've been learning to play the sax phone!"

months is seen in support of the

fure

is now being shown at the Majestic Doja Theatre, Kowloon

It is a story of Gay Broadway

swings from

atrs to night clubs

and into the dens of the

way Bables" was directed Roy, and Charles

te Mig White.

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He espied his young nephew in a shady corner with a very pretty girl, and, wishing to be genial, sald:

a nice "Ah, I see you've chosen nosey Httle cook!"

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