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TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1931.

Whilst pushing a hand truck in FOUR YEARS HARD Connaught Road West yesterday, Cheung Chuan (49) of 7, Morrison' Street, was knocked down by a pan- ing motor lorry, which is alleged to

LABOUR

have failed to stop after the ac Revenue Stamp Forgers

cident. The injured man was taken to the Government Civil Hospital.

Mr. J. K. Cameron, Assistant En- gineer of the Green Island Cement Company, the reported to the Police

Sentenced,

POLICE METHODS "PROPER."

CORRESPONDENCE.

LONDON HOSPITAL'S THANKS.

To the Editor of "China Mail"] Sir- append below copy of a lotter have just received from London Hospital acknowledging the cheque I sent after my last Dancing Display I would much appreciato Convicted on charges of possession. It you would be at opposito that at about 8 o'clock on Sunday and uttering of forged Hong Kong Insert it in your next issue as a morning, Wong Wah (47), of BG Revenue stamps, To Luk and Fung matter of general interest, Ma Tau Wel Road, was taken to the Chau-pun were yesterday sentenced Kwong Wah Hospital suffering by the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph from injuries to his stomach Kemp) at the Assizes, to Hour through being accidentally struck years' imprisonment by a sheat of corrugated iron whilst labour, on each count, sentences to

Hiarun concurrently.. engaged in work at Hunghom.

a similar concurrent sentence im- condition is not serious:

posed in respect of a third charge! of uttering tan forged revenue

Revenue Officer Humphreys and party raided un opium divan in stamps. Stanley Street, and there arreated a woman.

with hard

To Luk also had.

was

The Court sat until 6.45 p.m., in She appeared before the order to clear the way for the hear- Magistrate (Mr. Schofield) in the ing of the murder case to-day.

In passing sentence, His Lordship Central Police Court this morning' charged with being the keeper of commented upon the seriousness of

He the divan and with possession of a the offence of forgery. quantity of illicit oplum. Hia inclined to think the two prisoners Worship imposed fines totalling were not principals in the affair; $400 with consecutive terms of aix but without the use of agents, prin- months hard cipala could not achieve their ob- weeks and three

ject. The use of auch stamps not labour in default.

only affected the Government, by defrauding, but might involve mem- bers of the public in serious losses.

ROUND THE CINEMAS Reviews from Official Sources.

"THE CAT CREEPS."

Witness Attacked.

First accused, speaking from the

dock, said he had merely acted on

instruction from the second man.

Mr. Hin-shing Lo, for second accused, did not call upon his client, or any witnesses." He submitted "The Cat Creeps," described as that he had no case to answer, and one of the greatest mystery stories questioned the credibility of the in the history of stage or motion Crown evidence. He thought the] pictures, and adapted by Universal methods adopted in affecting the for the talking screen from John arrests were undignified. "The Cat Willard's famous play,

Hi Lordship, summing-up, ex-i 28 satisfied as to and The Canary," is opening its en- pressed himself gagement to-day at the Central prima facie evidence of forgery. The police trap, in his opinion, was

Theatre.

fore a film comes our way from Hollywood we know all about it!

This thrilling production presents quite proper. There had been no and by "we" we mean in this an all-star cast, headed by Helen inducement by the police for anyone instance the general public. We Twelvetrees, and including such well to commit a crime. are inundated with reams of known screen artistea as Raymond; "literature" and photographs of Hersholt, Montagu Love, Lawrence Grant, Theodore Von Eltz, Blanche) the "stars.".

Frederici, and Elizabeth Patterson

CIVIL AERODROME. Singapore Scheme to Be Started.

It will cost £700,000.-Reuter,

London Hospital.

Whitechapel,

E.1. May 11, 1991., Dear Miss Capell,

Thanks ten times ten for the welcome "tennor" that you send You have been a wonderfully good friend to this great place, and quite apart from 'what it means to "The London" I am sorry that it auggests pinched times for yourself. Still that only makes it all the kinder of you to have sent me anything.

To my thanks to yourself plasse add a word to all those delightful small people (and large people) who helped at the Display. I re member a delightful photograph you sent me, once of the per- formera.

"Let us both spend the next In hoping most twelvemonth

fervently for better times..

Yours very truly,

KNUTSFORD.

Thanking you,

Yours, etc.,

VIOLET CAPELL

Kowloon June 23.

STEERING WHEEL WOBBLY.

Man Killed by, a Motor Lorry.

JURY CENSURES DRIVER,

A Coroner's jury who sat with Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kow- loon Court to inquire into the death" of a Chinese named Lau Hok (24), On the other hand the timidity The blonde Miss Twelvetrees, a re-

who was killed through being knock- ed down by a motor lorry in Shan- on the part of, British producers cent recruit to motion pictures, had on the

tung Street on June 1, returned a to "boost" British films, British previously achieved fame

Singapore, Yesterday verdict of accidental death and made New York Stage. The picture was artistes, British scenes, and so directed by Rupert Julian, maker of

con- The projected scheme to

the recommendation that the stan- struct a civil aerodrome and sea-dard of efficiency of old type motor forth cannot be for the good of many outstanding successes. the British film industry. In the

"The Cat Creeps" abounds with plane base, previously held up, it vehicles be raised by the Police be

the adverse

fore granting licences. case of a picture that has been mystery and suspense, and its ca- is believed owing to

tire action deals with the hair attitude of Air Marshal Sir John

According to the driver of the something of a disappointment raising events of a single night in Salmond, is being started im-

florry, he was unable to start the to those concerned in its creation a great mansion which has not been mediately with the consent of the vehicle and had to get into another the lack of advertising genius occupied for 20 years. Here a Air Council.

lorry behind it and push it-out. It group of relatives gather at mid-1

was whilet. he was putting the other may be understood. None of us night to listen to the reading of a

lorry in the garage that a man wants poor or indifférent British|will, and thus begins a story which TASTE FOR CAMERA MAN.

crossed in front of it. He applied

the films to be "over-boosted" to the brings to the audience a swift auc-

the brakes, lorry akidded, thrills.

T. Onda, a photographer on mounted a mound of gravel and fell same extent as numerous Holly-ccasion of laughs and

Breathless terror grips the chartc board the NYK. liner Shinyo over on its right. He was thrown wood "jokes" perpetrated on a tera, and the unexplainable death of Maru, at present lying at the Kow- simple-minded public at the same one of them adds horror to a loon Doske, was bitten by an out, and on getting up, saw that s man was pinned under the right He went high rates as for really first mystery which is finally brought to satian dog owned by Mr. J. A. front wheel of the lorry.

copperamith, Kowloon for help and the injured man was class films. There is, however, a a surprising solution just before Lindsay, daylight.

Docks. The Japanese also receiv- removed. happy medium, and that happy The Cat and the Canary" hased a bruise on the arm. He was

Sub-Inspector Mason said that the Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 23, 1931. medium. British producers ap- for years been recognised as one of sent for treatment to the Kowloon steering gear of the lorry, an old

"T" type Ford lorry was bad. pear so far to be unable to strike. the greatest mystery "thrillers" of Hospital.

The dog. was taken to Ma Tau

Sergeant Scrim said that, he test- They have a lamentable paucity the stage, and "The Cat Creeps," it of advertising ideas. They do is said, creates to an even greater Kok for observation, but there is ed 1068, an old Ford lorry, and

degree a "creepy" atmosphere of no suspicion of rabies. not give even themselves a suspensa and terror. A Press view of "Splinters" sporting chance. Some of their

"ROYAL FAMILY OF and "Rookery Nook" two American competitors belleve

BROADWAY." eminently fine British pictures that if they cannot fool all the

rhage and shock, and recommended was given in the King's people all the time they can at

Fredric March is playing, at the

that the driver be severely censur- "FOLLOW THE LEADER"

ed, but they did not find that his Theatre this morning. Of itself least fool some of the people some King's Theatre, the very role in that fact may not convey much of the time, with profitable re the stage two years ago, got him his films which, when he played it on

carelessness was sufficient to war- Being funny. Is the castest thing rant a charge of manslaughter. to the outsider. One Home paper sults as regards box-office re-chance as a sareen performer. in the world, according to Ed Wynn, They further recommended that the recently included "Rookery ceipts. We do not, of course, re-

"The Royal Family of Broadway" "The Perfect Fool," who has made standard of efficiency of old-type Nook" among the best eight pic-commend that British producers is the story of the home lives of a "being funny" his life work. All one cars be raised by the Police Traffic

leading family of American stage has to do to achieve success at this

Department. tures of last year. But of publi- should copy this example to any folks. It is a rich, human story, business, says Wynn, is to make The Coroner, addressing the city for these two British pic extent. Let a Alm be advertised garnished with rare comedy and people laugh.

driver, said: "I've found that anything that "The jury have found that you tures there seenis a most sur on its own merits. If it is worth satire, and a tinge of drama.

In the cast with March are Ina will make people laugh at a dinner should be severely censured for this. prisingly scanty supply. We "boosting" let them quit their claire, famous stage actress, Mary table will make them laugh in the They don't find that your careless. took the trouble of going through sluggish habits and get busy tell- Brian, talkie favourite; Henrietta theatre," says the famous funny ness amounts to manslaughter. It quite a pile of Home papers ing the public what exactly they Croatian, grande dame of the man, who, after an unparalleled is a matter of oplaton, and I think Iately in the hope of finding have to sell. We do know that Broadway stage, Arnold Korff and laugh-making career on the stage, the jury have exercised a very what they had to say regarding both "Rookery Nook" and "Splin- other Broadway theatrical cele has just completed his first talking merciful view in your case. In picture, "Follow the Leader the view of the fact that you actually. "Splinters” and “Rookery, Nook," tera" are really fine films, but

next King's Theatre feature.

Film Publicity.

brities."

"REDUCING."

but we seem to have struck a when the King's Theatre is pack- bad patch even although ed at all screenings that will not

Those who laughed till their sided Rookery Nook" was being be to the credit of the Home film ached at "Caught Short" were out screened in one of the London companies responsible for their in force last night at the Queen's cinemas. Nor can we remember creation. reading any reviews of these two pictures in any of our Eastern

exchanges. Film reviewers at

found that the steering wheel was

cellent.

story of "Reducing" tells what hap-wobbly, though the brakes were ex- pens when Marie visits her sister

The jury brought in a verdict of Pally, proprietress of a New York accidental death caused by haemor- beauty parlour.

made a mechanical alteration to take someone else's car, out, and under THE BACHELOR FATHER.”

the circumstances we have heard this afternoon, I personally direct Who sald actors are lucky to get that the Traffic Inspector recom- three square meals a day?

mend to the LG.P. the complete When "The Bachelor Father" was cancellation of your licence." Theatre to greet "Reducing," the newest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer come aimed at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer dy to co-star those two queens of studio the players had to eat dinner News in Brief. comedy, Marie Dressler and Polly eight times a day before the

hilarious dining room scenes were Ten Years Ago, Morane

Reducing, as its name in completed, a task probably as annoy- Home seem to have nothing bet

Chinese who described him

From the "China" Mall”.

June 23, 1921.) ter to do than declaim on the self as a cloth weaver from dicates, telle a tale of beauty Daring to the stomach as going with merits of Greta Garbo, Marie Canton, pleaded guilty at the Loure and pokes pleasant fun at out the proverbial "three squares.

Central Court to day to being in those who would lose or gain weight. A steam table was maintained on

Today's dollar is worth 2/7% Dressler, Ruth Chatterton, and possession of some illicit oplum. Marle and Polly gambol through the set with a chef presiding over Charlie Chaplin (before he con- Aine of $500 or three months fall it with even greater facility of cooked delicacies tempting to

In consequence of the fighting. laugh-getting than that evidenced in hungry souls, but appallingly un- temptuously turned dow thè was Imposed.

their earlier effort, The direction savoury after several dinners had around Wuchow many river steam- Royal Command performance at

who also did been served in rapid succession to ers, it was learned to day, are re be given that of Chuck Riesne

still further con- the players, who were obliged to eat fusing to accept cargo for that port. connection Caught Short,"

Tem firms the place of this megaphoner with seeming relish and appetite. Should the Wost River traffic be pre-as one of the masters of the comedy Robert Z. Leonard directed the held up to any serious extent one of King's genre.comedy hit from the Belasco, atage the most serious possibilities as far love story is woven play by Edward Childs Carpenter ne Hong Kong is concerned will be. ement of the A double

through the laughs* the produc which enjoyed a nine-months run that our supplies of beef cattle lon and gives it a smooth dramatic on Broadway last season which mostly come from Wachow protagonists are Anita Ralph Forbes plays opposite Mias and other West River Ports, may ens posted tone::

Collier, Jr., Sally Davico in her new feature which be cut off Discussing the subject Harbour

Colonial Bakewell These will open on Thursday at the this morning

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