FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1931.
THE LOG
Of The "TRADER HØRN" Expedition.
by W. S. Van Dyke
Beclusive to the "Chinn Mall”
THE CHINA MAIL.
ROUND THE CINEMAS]
REGINALD DENNY AS AN ACTOR.
"A LADY'S MORALS"
NEW
SHADOWS BEFORE ADVERTISEMENTS.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
ON
THE Underaigned have received] Tinstructions from The Liquida Social Functions. To-day-Tea Dance st Hong tore of The Lai Wah Co., Ltd., to Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at sell by Public Auction Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels.
Entertainments. To-day King's Theatre;
Theatre;
In "A Lady's Morals" Reginald Denny reveals himself for the first time as an actor rather than A comedian. As a comedian Denny bad a charm and a ludicruous En Route --
surfaces of tin, gold, aluminium, and manner which proved irresistible to The word "suspenze" is one fre- looking glass. By shading one aldehis admirers; as an aetor, Denny quently used in mution pictures. į auk "hitting" the sun into the pic shows us qualities that we should It represents one of the valuable ture at all desired spots, nice grada-never have suspected. His per- "Just Imagine." materials a director has to work tians can be achieved which bringformance as Paul Brandt, the love- | To-day Queen's with. The word suddenly occurred out not only the beauty of surrondack musician who becomes blind "A Lady's Morals." to me today, as the key to the at-ings bul the expression of the
through receiving a blow on the
Today Central traction of Africa.
head whilst defending the honour "The Singing Peony." of his beloved Jenny Lind, is one To-day Majestic of the finest ever seen on the sorean. "Drag." He is always natural. in grief,
To-day World anger, and joy. He is capable of "The Black Watch." infinite pathos and feeling and To-day - Star It has proved far from nonsensi-conveys the impression of a sen-"The Sky Hawk." cal to bring this glut of parapher-sitive and nalia to Africa,
What will happen next?
How will this event turn out 7 And the next? Nothing is settled, and life in Africa Assames Butt enjoyable dramatic quality.
I have 626 trudging at the hund of a winding column, single file
through liger grass (the local
actors as well.
With the addition of sixteen are lights to use
as needed it can be seen what a flexible and plastic "medium" a director of motion pic tures has to work in,
An Illusion Produced.
In a scene in which Harry Carey as "Trader Horn" visualises the de- parted form of the black man who
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MONDAY, the 8th June, 1931 at 12 o'clock (noon) nt their Sales Room, Duddell Street. The Stock-in-trade, Furniture. Theatre; Fixtures and Fittings of The Lal Wah Co., Ltd., af Nos. 139, 141, 143, Theatre; 146 and 147 Des Voeux Road
Central,
Theatre; Terma-Cash on Delivery;
LAMMERT BROS., Theatre
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 6th June, 1931.
temperamental man, June 7 to 9-King's Theatre;' which is just what Paul Brandt was "Along Came Youth."
upposed to be.
Meetings. We have all hear of Jenny Lind, June 15-Peak Tramways Co., the "Swedish nightingale," whose Ltd., Hong Kong Hotel. voice charmed half Europe in the June 17-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.,
Exchange Building.
in the story died by poisoned ar days of our grandmothers, and
same for cane-brakes that tower above the head; elephant grass is shorter, like four-foot hay, suited for farage for elephants bays with valuable caneca parta on their heade, others with food, medicines, rows to anve his master, we producwhatever we imagined her to be June 17-Indo-China Steam hels, more than a hundred of themed the illusion with the Nile low like, it could, not have been more Navigation Co., Ltd., Messrs. in a long row. For some reasoning through its papyrus in the back- gracious or delicate than the Jardines, noon. an African never walks in a straight ground and clouds such as only "Jenny" line., even on open graund, and in
the bruch their ancient Barrow trails twist and turn until one loses
Africa can offer, framing the face an befits its dignity.
It is doubtful if Mutia, full-blood- veritable
whom Grace Moore portrays. Miss Moore in beautiful in an eighteenth century. Teutonic her voice is rapturous. way, but
all sense of direction, and plodsed Mkamba native, a endlessly almig. We have all bronze statue of a man who is per-Hear her sing in "The Daughter of toughened up eansiderably.
Symptoms of Fever.
At such a time one get into a sing-song train of thought, all sorts of impressions floating through the mind. and rhythmically recurring, Animal stories, the whereabouts of a tooth-brush, the thug that died, gorks, shoe-soles, last night's sunset, life, eternity. One must such thoughts became fever comes on unexpectedly and your best ideas
may be unly symptoms.
watch
Three-fourths of our company
have had good touches of fever, and the sun has laid out a few of the
forming the part of "Renchero" with profound art. will ever visit America. Sensibly, perhaps, he would rather return to the fullness of his village life and its mysterious hill, than to Hollywood.
Home Mails. To-day-Inward from Europe via Siberia (President Wilson).
To-morrow-Outward for Europe via Suez (Kashmir), 10.30 am.
Sports.
EXCHANGES.
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Bank, on demand
See Sports Diary on Page 8.
Land Sales. June 8 At P.W.D. Offices, three On demand lots of Crown land, 3 p.m.
Lammert's Auction,
the Regiment" and, if you are Д lover of opern, you will be satiated with pleasure.
The story is well-conceived and seldom drags, but over it all broods sadness. There is not an ounce of become a star in stuff" in the film, however, and
it has an ending which every one the Lai Wah Co., Ltd., at Sales In contrast, white people in will like. We recommend this pic- Room, Duddell Street, noon. African towns (at least in this part ture to our readers. of the continent) do not regard Africa as home. By this general statement I mean that those I have met often express an idea
of re-
"JUST IMAGINE."
In the King's Theatre the film
turning to England or their homeast imagine" will be shown to- land, when they have made money day and to-morrow as the picture from trade, coffee plantations, or "Along Came Youth," featuring company at times. We have be-sisal, or whatever their occupation Charles Buddy Rogers, will be
come casual about it. One of our men at Rhino Camp fell with rolling
dropped his sun helmet in the rush
may be.
Rooted To The Sail!
eyes and frothing mouth. ffe had of all types, the professional big of the taking of a scene, and in his game hunter appears alone to be routed to the soil. They may have absorption had not gone back to bookknocked around the world, but for it for a half an hour or so. Africa is definitely their home. We are doing something that is not
written romance had woven about these admirable mèo as it has around the American cowboy in his Klorious daya, I am "westerns" would have a might stronge competitor among movie fans with the men from the "bush" und the "blue."
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screened on Sunday. Those who have scen "Just Imagine" have nothing but praise for it. It might be described as El Brendel's best, and his best is very good Indeed.
The picture carries one fifty years ahead and the air scenes are not at all unlikely, so rapidly is aviation developing. But the scenes at Mars are really too humorous to be missed, while the closing stages of the picture at the Tribunal make an excellent ending for a splendid picture.
that sure
Those who have not seen this
Credits, 4 months'
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DIET OF MONITORS.
To persuade the Zoo's snakes On demand to feed regularly is not always Dollar easy, says the Zoo correspondent On Yokohama- of the Sunday Times. Some of On demand them require a careful choice of Saveraluna (Bank's food, and others sometimes go buying rate) on hunger strike. It is a long Silver (per oz.) time, however, since the Reptile Bar Silver in Hong House had such an exacting Kong feeder as the hamadryad, or Copper Cash Copper Cents
A few days ago, we met another film should waste no time in get-king cobra. type of African, a hero unsung"ting their tickets for to-day or to-
in his real aspects, an American morrow,
missionary. We came out on river clearing and threw ourselves down for a "siesta" while the boys This man our lunch.
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"THE SKY HAWK."
Those people who lived through
recall its thrills when they see the taikie film "The Sky Hawk" which
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11% 12 5/16
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3% prem
8%% pa.
This snake is an exceptionally Rate of Native In- fine example of his kind, and terest measures 16 ft. 9 ins. As the Chinese Sub, Coln.. 24% dis. hamadryad does not take kindly Hong Kong Stb. Coin Par.
to captivity, every effort was
made" when this snake arrivėd
last Summer to provide him with food he liked. In his natural state the king cobra lives on a is being shown at the Star variety of other reptiles, but Theatre to-day and to-morrow. during his first months in the The cast of "The Sky Hawk" Zoo this one refused to eat any- has evidently been chosen withthing but monitors.
Man who has bought a watch: prepared "Now I shall be able to arrive, was on his way to his station with a Zeppelin air raid in London will late
the office punctually."a small safari, and was visiting at Pages Guire, Yverdon.
Home natives back in the bush. He was overwhelmed at our appearance. in that we had a long chat with him, and customary in Africa often werk vigorously in the open in when he took up his way with his the middle of the day, Our reason light gear and handful of "boys" it for this is the light. Very intense was a heart-felt parting.
discretion. The players are John His diet of monitors was ex light is requštusăto overcome the A Missionary's Bicycle.
Garrick and Helen Chandler in the pensive and difficult enough, but omnipresent green, a peculiarly He had with him the 'ast thing lead, with Gilbert Emery, Lennox recently the hamadryad has be
He suddenly took vivid green, that enn not be com- one would expect to see a bicycle. Pawle, Lumsden Hare, Joyce Comp-come worse. pared to foliage at home. Against With all our planning it had never ton, and Billy Bevan (who will be an aversion to monitors, and, al- this green an old white cont looks occurred to me to use anything like remembered for his work as Trot-though several kinds of snakes translucent at times. as though that. It is useful, however. Not ter in "Journey's End") in the were offered to him, he refused to feed at all until at length he made of glass,
only on beaten roads, but in some support. places the trail is hard ground for
In the counse of the narrative, was given a Malayan black-and- considerable distances, and he would which denis with the explaits of yellow snake. pedal along for a rest. One boy the son of a British peer, who la Now he touches nothing ex- carried the bicycle through other commissioned in the British Air cept these back-and-yellow places, “using his head," which is Force during the War, many thrill-snakes, and each costs £4 and the place where a native 'puts anying scenes of air raids and avis the hamadryad is often hungry, thing bulky and heavy to get it out|tion are depicted. John Garrick he is an expensive inmate of the of the way. They will carry (as the peer's son) does some re- menagerie. bunch of brush large enough to fillmarkably Ane acting, as does Miss
Contrasts in Pictures,
As the beauty of a pleture de- pends on contrast, we are often up against it to produce light and shadow that will photograph: well. To the naked eye, yes. To the lens, a beautifully formed tree becomes just a part of a tapestry pattern, the jungle behind it filling the whole frame of the picture.
an ox cart on their head, and often Chandler. Much credit is due to
I have seen a boy with more weight Billy Bevan, who is in humerous on his head than he could liit alone, vein.
Another awkward aspect the problem is that he has
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most exhausted the Zoo's stock
of black-and-yellow snakes, and
One method of improving this condition, and to use, a paradox to change the thing so that it will it would take two others to load The programme is supported a new supply of his rations will appear as it looks, is to use gauze him. Then if the safari pagees, with a newsreel, and a really ex- not arrive till this month. And, side screen called a bobinette. We boy will often stand for thinutes cellent comedy which features unfortunately, king cobras will
these in white, ecru, and with a load on his head than go to Clark and McCullough, black. They are from ten to the exertion of putting it down and
carry
twenty feet square each, and in a filéking it up again. The women series from very course mesh to are the same as carriers, with this
"SHOW OF BHOWS."
Yokohama
Hong Kong Silver Spot
12 5/16
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Silver Forward.... 124
cheerfully starve to death
if
they are not tempted to eat! The Zoo recently lost a speci- men that went without food for ten months.
solid cloth. We even have one addition, that practically every The flag of France is well repre- black curtain of plush velvet. Their mature native woman has
asented in "Show of Shows," Warner
Most inmates of the Reptile pital, Santiniketan, should derive transportation and care is the con- pickaninny strapped to ber back Brothers Vitaphone musical super-
House, however, are not so considerable benefit from the two- cern of "Pop" Arnold of the M.G.M. with bark, as well. This leaves the revue, in which scores upon scores
works - "Mahatma grip department. On location hands free, and it is quite a sight of stage and screen stars are ap- fastidious, and at present feed pervious frames Are provided, made of to see an uncensored matron thus, pearing now at the Queen's Theatre ing-time is a lively event, for the Gandhi's Ideals" and "Mahatma reptiles are waking from their Gandhi's Story" for the au- saplings. or
convenient the while smoking a pipe of harsh next Sunday. material, as the bobinettes must be tobacco, the bowl of the pipe being The tricolour is upheld by such Winter's sleep and are, therefore, thor's royalties are being hand- The large pythons ed to that institution and both a gourd the size of a tincup, and the famous citizens of France 03 have begun to take three volumes run into third editions
Georges Carpentier, the "Orchid Man and Irene Bordoni, star of chickens each Friday, and the in Britain, while American sales |Parisian musical revues,
Komodo "dragons" have develop are. ed enormous appetites.
the most
stretched absolutely taut.
Arnold ako supervises a couple of stem a joint of bamboo! dozen folding reflectors, aborted in
STUDENT'S DEATH.
No Foundation for Suspicion of Foul Play-
London, May 9.
[To Be Continued.]
NEW DIVORCE LAW.
Shorter Residence Now Required.
Carpentier, at one time a serioua contender for the world's heavy- weight boxing championship, makes.
hungry.
his initial appearance in the talkies MR C. F. ANDREWS.
in "Show of Showa." However, he
Reno, Nevada, May 2.
has starred in silent film both here TO COMPLETE THIRD VOLUME Nevada's new six-weeks re
and abroad, and is knows, tò thứ ON GANDHI'S LIFE SHORTLY. aldence
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divorce
In "Show of Shows," Carpentier Mr. C. F. Andrews, who
believed to be greater. Moreover they have already been translated into German. Dutch. French, Italian, Spanish and Czecho-Slovakian.
...
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and gratified, that the Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenures Amend- ment Bill is to. be postponed i pending consideration of the agreement with India.
No further developments are anticipated in connection with the death of Mr. Jagdish suits had been filed. It is displays his ability as a stellar song arrived. in London last month This was a great victory, he Chandra Bhatta, (22), a second. estimated that 300 will be filed and dance performer in a special looking extremely well after his said, for the measure had al- year student at the Depart before the end of the day.
number in which he ta supported visit to South Africa, intends to ready been postponed once at the ment of Mechanical Engineer. The residence requirement re-by Alice White and Patsy Ruth remain in Britain for a time in request of the Government, of ing, Sheffield University.
cently was reduced to six weeks Miller, and a dazzling chorus of order to complete his third book India and it was therefore very
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