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CONFUCIUS DAY.

LOCAL CELEBRATION OF BIRTHDAY. :'

YEUNG CHUNG GIRLS.

On Saturday the ceremony of the

cele birthday of Confucius wis brated by the Yeung Chung Girls' College in the Ro Shing Theatre.

ROUND THE CINEMAS MANY M-G-M CELEBRITIES IN

"FREE AND EASY."

ALL-TALKING COMEDY SATIRE An impressive array of stars, players and directors was gathered cast of Metro- to make up the

all talking- Goldwyn Mayer's comedy, "Free and Easy," which is showing at the Queen's Theatre,

There were numerous guests present,. The worship of Con-

The picture, a satire of Holly fucius was observed, and then a speech was given by Dr. Chan wood studio life, makes use of auch Chung-yuen, who said a great deal well known Screen names.us Buster. about the teachings of Confucius. Keaton, who makes his talking and The "Youk Die Mo," an old-singing debut in the production, Frigangs, Page Trixie' fashioned dance, was executed by Anita eight girls to the accompaniment Robert Montgomery, Edgar Dear- of Chinese music. The scenery at ing, David Burton, William Collier, the back of the stage was made sen., Cecil B. De Mille, Fred Niblo by the pupils in accordance with Dorothy Sebastian, William Haines, the stories, the work being beauti Kari Dane, Marion Shilling, Lionel

Barrymore" and Lettice Howell. fully done.

The "Ng Fung Mo," also an old- fashionad Chinese dance, was skil- fully acted by five girls, and some the pretty acting followed by kindergarden pupils.

The performance was greatly appreciated.

In the afternoon, the "Lang Fu Toa Keung Kung," was played by the actors of "Yan Shau-Lin." The theatre was full, and the celebra tion was a great success.

LESSON SERMON, FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG. "Dogtrine of Atonement" the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all the Churches of Christ, Scient ist, on Sunday, October 19.

WRS

The picture contains a number of elaborate revne scenes staged by Sammy Lee, former Ziegfeld dance director, as wet! as a comic opera and Trixie Friganza play opposite sequence in which Buster Keaton

and 'sing cach other as king and queen,

in

hilarious д

duct which the only lyrics are the four words, "Oh King, Oh Queen," the rest of the song being interpreted by gestures and facial expressions. Other songs heard are a sole by Keaton called "Free and Easy," which he accompanies by a new version of the Charleston. "It Must Be You," sung by Robert Montegemery and Lettice Howell:

and "Down in Arkansas."

THE CHINA MAIL.

with the famous and comical Dun ens. Miss Wood has done every thing on the stage from characters to leads.

She underwent a very at the strenuous training course Pasadena Community Playhouse. Her ability carried her steadily up- ward to featured roles in "Why -It is Not?" and "Redemption." from these that she came to work under her father's direction.

"It's a Great Life," a story of vaudeville life, contains a number of catchy popular songs and was filmed with technicolour sequences.

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"A DANGEROUS WOMAN.".

GERMAN POLITICS.

FASCISTS EXPELLED FROM REICHSTAG.

THREAT TO KILL..

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme will the be broadcast to-day from Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 955

5 p.m.-Chinese Studio Concert, 7.p.m.-European Programme of Messrs. Records supplied by Moutrie & Co.

Perlin, Yesterday Communists and Nazis, the Germetres man Fascists, attempted to turn Parliament into a bear garden ot . Reichstag, sitting. yesterday's Several members were expelled.

One Nazi threatened to kill a Children's Overture (Quiiter),

Munich

Now Light Symphony Orch., Socialist spokesman,.

22008... Public Prosecutor, if he returned

Q

to Munich, The Opposition, par- The Fairy Adventures of "Molly

Jack

The strange, impenetrable mya-ties put down more than a dozen Little Brown Owl,

no confidence motions but pro- The Cuckoo,

countered

and

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The A Hunting Scene, of Central East Africa was brought

Victor Concort Band, 22044. to the eyes and ears of the audi with an over-riding motion.

7.30 p.m. From the Studio: Rev. H. R. Wolls will give the 11th ence at the Central Theatre yester-vote resulted in a Government vic-

Loud cheers by the Centre party lesson from "Cantonese for Every day with the showing of "A Dan. tory by $18 to 236. gerons Woman," a picture, of the

the 8 p.m.- high standard which Paramount mingled with hisses by the opposi-One."

The Nazis Zampa-Overture (Herold), "Internationale." has established in the audible Ald. tion and Communists sang

Victor Symphony Orch., 35985, Through the focus of this realis-

shouted out their slogan "Wake

Ballet Egyptien Suite (Luigini), Up Germany."

Concert Orchestra, 35794. the jungle panorama the audience

Finally the Reichstag adopted Gold and Silver-Waltz (Lehar), beholds a rugged plot, incompar

acting, uble

International Concert Orch., and free-flowing

an, Amnesty Bill by 395 to 147, a number of

35013. comedy.

The measure affects

con- The Desert Song Vocal Goms Rom- persons, including several

berg).Light Opera Company, 1331. An

Love Lies-Selection (Mayerl), cerned in political murders. adjournment was made to Decem-Five O'Clock Girl-Selection,

New Mayfair Orchestra, 1058. Lido Lady-Selection, ber 12-Reuter.

Savoy Orpheana, 1310. Dear Lave-Vocal Gmse,

The locale of the picture is a British outpost set in the jungle country near a negre tribal village. Clive Brook plays the representa

tive of his fatherland and Bacla- Neil nova is, his Russian wife. Hamilton is cast in the role Brook's brother who is ensnared

of

by the romantic wiles of his comely sister-in-law, and Leslie Fenton is another Briton who saccumbe to

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SEDITION IN EGYPT.

Cairo, Yesterday. The Government has ordered

Light Opera Company, 1809. 9. p.m.-Weather Report, Local Time and Press News. Clowns in Clover-Selection,

Now Mayfair Orchestra, 1466

Victor Salon Orchestra, 20024,

the witchery of this man-hunting the confiscation of La Patrie, Charmaine, woman who has seemingly "gone the only newspaper which pub- Moments of "Free and Easy"native" under the influence of lished the Ward manifesto, on Me and My Shadow,

to be funnier Africa's mystic jungle enchant-the ground that this publication Sad Blue,

ivas "calculated dangerously to than anything yet seen in a talking ment. comedy, include u sequence in which Karl Dane is blown up in

which are claimed

The Golden Text was: "If an man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righte-cave when a charge of dynamite is ous; and he is the propitiation for set off at an inopportune time: our sins; and not for our's only, scene in which Miss Friganza ia but also for the sins of the whole world." (1 John 2; 1-2)

Among the citations which cam- prised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible;. "But Christ being cone an high priest of good things to come, by a greater acle, not and more perfect tabe made with hands, is to say, not of this building; neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." (Hebre s 9; 11-12.)

The Lesson-Sermon also included the following passage from the textbook. Christian Science

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The sparkling comedy parts are imperil order and both European Joc Murgatroyd Says (Jahn Henry),

a and Egyptian security."--Reuter. A Certain Lecture, provided by Snitz Edwards as native negro chieftain and Clyde Cook as the faithful Cockney ser-

Keaton's appearance tending. in opera sequence us a soldier of

the Guard: and the interlude in which Lionel Barrymore's scene is ruined by an unexpected interrup- tion..

"IT'S A GREAT LIFE."

A second generation of famous personalities continue to pour Inte the movies. The latest of this class is Jenne Wood, daughter of Sam Wood, the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayar director who made the Dun- can Sisters talking and singing picture, "It's a Great Life," which will open at the Queen's Theatre on Wednesday.

vant to Brook. These men are old-with the aid of practically the en- time favourites in humorous pre- tire staff and cast of the produc- tion.. Nearly every member of "Journey's End" has seen the type of war service depicted, and this is an assurance of absolute perfection) in detail.

"A Dangerous Woman" has an climax tumultuous emotionally which comes crashing through to of the audience the eyes and ears ike a ball elephant. through the "bush."

ture.

John Henry and Blossom-,

Humorous, 2120.

Ramona, Girl of my Dreams.

Gene Austtin-Tenor, 21334.

We're Living at the Cloisters, So Tired, Cohen at the Telephone,

Gracie Fields-Comedienne, 2780,

Julius Tannen-Hebrew Mono-

logue, 20921, Ol' Man River, James Whale directed this all-Oh Lucindy, talking picture, recorded by R.C.A. Photophone, and coming soon to the Central Theatre. Whale is

The Revellers-Male Voices,

-21241. 10 p.m. (approx), 1st. Act "Rigo- letto" (Verdi)-The records of this

listener. opera have been kindly loaned by a

10.30 p.m.-Close down.

The play is based on the story by Margery H. Lawrence, which ap- peared in Cosmopolitan Magazine.

original London and New York Rowland V. Lee directed the pic-war veteran and also directed the stage productions of the play. Colin Clive, who created the original role of Stanhope in the first stage pro- duction, plays the same role in the "No chances were taken by

screen version. He travelled from His Tiffany Productions, Inc., with the London to Hollywood to do it. technical detall and scenic investi- round trip involved twenty days of ture in filming "Journey's End," the travelling for twenty-eight days

M. Rinko, the Assistant Com-

"JOURNEY'S END."

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A SOVIET APPOINTMENT.

Moscow, Yesterday,

Eddy: "Jesus aided in reconciling Jeans Wood, though successful R. C. Sherriff war play that critics of work before the camera. He had missar of Agrleulture, has been ap man to Ged by giving man a truer on the stage for some time, consist-have termed the most sensational to be back in London on a definite pointed Commissar of Finance, re-

sense of Love, the divine Principle of Jesus' teachings, and this truer sense of Love redeems man from the law of matter, sin and death by the law of Spirit, the law of divine

Love." (p. 19.)

ently refused to appear before the camera until she had learned all the fundamentals of acting. How ever, her father assured the 17- year-old beauty that she need wait

no longer,

Hence her appearance

stage success of to-day.

.Colonel Gordon Magee, perhaps the foremost authority in Holly wood on British and other foreign military regulations and atmos phere, was the technical adviser,

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