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FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1931.

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A WHOLE WEEK'S NEWSPAPERS IN ONE.

A sensational case opened before the Magistrate when a Portuguese and a Chinese appeared charged with cheat- ing, or obtaining by false pretences the sum of $7,000. The victim of the alleged conspiracy was a sub-editor on a Chinese newspaper. The OVERLAND CHINA MAIL con- tains a report of the preliminary hearing.

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In another case before the Magistrate, a European was charged with the theft of a diamond ring, valued at $2,250. The theft was said to have been carried out in an exception- ally cool and daring manner. A full report' appears in the OVERLAND CHINĂ MAIL.

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The British captain of a local river steamer was also convicted for a breach of sailing regulations after a lengthy hearing, the Deputy Harbour Master being the complainant in the case. Full particulars appear in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL

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An outrage on the West River, when two British and one Chinese river steamers were fired on from the banks, is also fully reported in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL. As a result of the Aring, a British deck officer was wounded, and afterwards removed to hospital. No motive for the affair has as yet been divulged.

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In addition, to the usual sports features, the present OVERLAND CHINA MAIL contains a special account of the Volunteers' Aquatic Sports, and details of an impending wrestling tournament of considerable interest.

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"THE PRODIGAL.”.

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

Lawrence Tibbett, American opera and film stör, at last plays The following programme will an American on the screen! be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station ZB.W. on a wavelength of 855 metres:

6-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 7-10.80 p.m.-European Pro- gramme of Victor Records.

7.05-7.25 p.m.-Band Selections Cernoll Song Medley, Cornell Marsh Medley,

Cornell University Band. Hail to the Orange-Oskee Wow Wow

(Green-Hill), Illinois Loyalty (Gulld),

University of Illinois Military. on, Wisconsin. (Beck-Purdy),

Band. Varsity Toast-Medley, :

After his swashbuckling roles of Russla, he is now seen as a young American of this modern day in "The Frodigal," playing at the Queen's Theatre.

Any who might have thought Tibbett would lose his Anyone docking a good laugh that should pay a visit to the Star uniform need only see

glamour and romance without a the new Theatre while the present attra-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production tion is being shown, for "The to realise that he has another Aviator" contains more laughs per of the most engrossing perform- guess coming. Tibbett gives one minute than anything that has yet ances ever seen on the talking been shown there,

screen as the prodigal son of the As the outcome of a publicity aristocratic Southern family.

The story itself is a paradox. stant to boost the sales of a book It is an intimate tale of family an aviation, 'Robert Street. (Edward life, with romantic music and Everett Horton), a well known haunting songs of the South, that writer, finds himself feted and suddenly with dramatic twiat feasted, and hailed as the greatest goes Into one of the most intense and gripping dramatic situations a hero of the air. In reality the playwright ever conceived. Bess book has been written by an un-Meredyth and Wells Root, who known "air aco" who wishes to re-

wrote the story, have given the screen main anonymous,

something distinctively now.

University of Wisconsin Concert Band.

7.25-8 pm. Variety. Song-

Love (from the Film "The Trespasser"),

Organ Solo

Dinah,

Song

Gloria Swanson (Soprano).

Always....Jesse Crawford, Pal of My Cradle. Days, Brown, Eyes. Why Are You Blue?

Franklyn Bauer (Tenor).

Orchestral

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Marcheta, What!! I De,

The direction, toe, is outstand- Hates Aeroplanes. Street, who knows nothing about situation with a fine sense of bal-Humorous Duet

ing. Harry Pollard handled every

Victor Salon Orchestra. flying, and hates the sight of aero-ance. The music is gorgeous, and

How's Your Folks and My Felks, planes, continues to be the unwill-

is woven into ing dupe of his pushing publisher, salient, part of the drama itself.

the playas Humorous Song-

The Happiness Boys. and eventually finds himself in- Tibbett sings "De Glory Road,"

I Married the Bootlegger's Daughter, veigled into a stunting contest one of his best concert numbers,

Frank Crumit. with Major Gaillard of the French with a male chorus in a camp of Report.

8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Air Service.

trampa; incongruous setting for a 8.05-8.32 p.m.-Orchestral, Various attempts to call the con- song that is drama in itself. HeWarblings at Eve (Richards), test off fail, and it is finally ar- also sings the haunting "Without Dance of the Toy Regiment ranged with a mechanic that the a Song," by Vincent Youmans;

(Green-Shilkret), wheels of Street's plane are to fall "Children," "A Child Is Born" and off before taking off. Even this "Looks Like Pappy." by Herbert falls to work and Street ands him- Stothart, and "Life is a Drama," self in the air, "flying as no other by Oscar Straus. man has ever flown before." The Frenchman finally lands, complain- ing that there is not enough room for the two of them in, the alr. The "desperate stunter" ends his hair-raising manoeuvres by sweep-von ing into a tree.

From Other Sources."

"SEA LEGS."

There are more laughs in an Oakie grin than the whole hyena Family could muster in a life-time of laughter. There аге laughs in Jack Oakie's "Sea Lega" more than in any Oakie picture to date (and we recall "The Social Lion," The Sap from Syracuse," "Let's Go Native"), It's a swell sea swell, capped with the Oakle wise cracks.

"DISHONOURED.”

At the peak of a new country- wide craze, the third of the Josef

Sternberg-Marlene Dietrich smash sensations, "Dishonoured," is coming to the King's Theatre next change of programme.

Dietrich is the new craze-like

a comet she burst on cinema fans

SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.

Entertainments.

To-day King's Theatre; "Sea Lega."

To-day Queen's Theatre; "The Prodigal."

Today Central Theatro; "Czar of Broadway.”

Theatre;

To-day Majestic TЯentre. "A Devil With Women.'

"Hell Harbour."

To-day World

Today Star "The Aviator."

Theatre:

Home Malls. To-morrow-Outward. for Europe via Suez, (Khyber), 10.30 a.m.

Land Sales. Tuesday--At P.W.D. Offices, two lots to Crown land, 3 p.m. * Sports

See, Sports Diary on Page 4.

Meeting. Tuesday-Mid-Levels Residents* Association, Messrs. Shewan Tomes Board Room, St. George's Building, 5.30 p.m.

WATER RETURN.

Level.

The level and storage of water in the reservoirs on July 1, 1931, were

as under

Traumere! (Schumann),

Victor Salon Orchestra. Three Reservoirs Now Evening Song (Schumann),

Victor String Ensemble. Kashmiri SongMattinata Medley (Woodforde-Finden-Leoncavallo), The Merry Widow (Lebar),

The Troubadours. Hungarian Dance No. 6 (Brahma), Hungarian Dance No. 6 (Brahms),

Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, 8.32.8.52 p.m.-Operatic. Male Chorus-

Faust-Soldier's Choras (Gounod),

Victor Male Chorus. Trovatore-Anvil Chorus (Verdi),

Band-

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1930 1031

Tytam

7' 0"B 30′ 2′′B

12' 5"B 28' 6"B

and soda

Tytam Intermediate 8" 9"B IA

Totam Tuk

41' 5"B 24' 5′′B

Wong Nei Chung Pokfulum

30' 8"H 25' E

1510 B 0.2"B

Tytam Byewash

[Note: H. denotes "Below Over

in "Morocco" to create more in- Male Chorus Arthur Pryor's Band. I flow"; A. denotes "Above Overflow";

Band

Tannhauser-Pilgrims' Chorus

Wagner)....Victor Male Chorus. Traviata-Selection (Verdi),

Creatore's Band. 8.52-9.27 p.m.-A Concert. Piano Solo-

By the Brookside (Stojowski), The Prophet Bird (Schumann),

Ignace Jan Paderewski. Homing (Salmon-del Riego), Do Not Go My Love (Hageman),

Marguerite D'Alvarez (Contralto).

terest and discussion than has any other actress in the past decade she soared to new heights in "The Blue Angel." Now, backed by an assured public interest and aup- Paramount studio, she bursts into ported by all the resources of the real fame in' this new picture. tor McLaglen, Dietrich is here

Co-starred with the popular Vie-Song- cast with a male star whose rols- toring portrayals in "What Price Glory?" "The Cock-Eyed World"

Violin Solo

Negro Spíritual Melody

(Dvorak-Kreisler),

Song of the Volga Boatman

(are. Kreisler)....Fritz Kreisler.

Song

A Brown Bird Singing

(Barrie-Haydn, Wood),

Mother, My Dear (Nolen-Treharne),

John McCormack (Tenor). Instrumental Trio- Mother. Machree

(Young-Olcott-Ball),

"Sea Lega," which is now show-and a score of other successful ing at the King's Theatre, gives pictures have made him one of the Oakle everything he needs for his leading men of the screen. And, mirth-making. It has a cargo of in "Dishonoured," he has a role comedy lines it would be hard to similar in character to those which beat anywhero. George Marlon, won him fame-a reckless, mock- jun alang-slinger de luxe, wrote ing young officer playing danger- them. It is equipped with a series ously at love. of hilarious eltuations. (We're The supporting cast includes thinking particularly of the Lew Cody, for years. a familiar and moment when Oakie wakes up likable figure on the screen,

A Perfect Day (Jacobs-Bond); and from a heavy sleep to find him Gustav von Seyfferitz, an expert-

Victor Salon Trio, self shanghaied

9.27-9.43 p.m.-Organ Solos, and shipped enced actor whose heavy roles The Swan (Saint-Saens), under a strange name aboard- have added weight to many a Freinda in E Fiat (Saint-Saens),... ship he never heard of before and thrilling episode. Warner Oland,

Marcel Dupre. of the moment Oakle discovers the recently featured in his own right In a Monastery Garden (Ketelbey), ship is packed with girls.) And in the "Fu Manchu" pletures, and In & Persian Market (Ketelbey),

Reginald Foort. 9.43-10.07 p.m.-Hawallan Music. Trio M

Hawallan Twilight,

Hawaiian Trio. ! Duet-

Beautiful Hawaii,

Frank Ferera and Anthony Franchini

"Sea Lege" is manned, and woman Barry Norton are also in the ned, with a great fun-producing group. N castHarry Green, Lillian Roth, Eugene' Pallette and others.

"DANCE, FOOLS, DANCE.”

Orchestral

In the Heart of Hawail, ' My Honolulu Dream Girl,

Hilo Hawallan Orchestra. 10.07-10.28 pm-Planoforte

"Sea Legs" takes Jack Oakle into the navy of a tiny Républic For the first time since coming of which no one has ever heard. into pictures, Cliff Edwards plays He's shanghaied to all the berth a "straight role without his of a young millionaire slacker, famous ukulele in "Dance Foola, Harry Green is the wily lawyer Dance," Joan Crawford's new who arranges the situation for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Oakle. And the ship is home to a vehicle which will come on Sunday Solos. dozen of the captain's beautiful to the Queen's Theatre,

Dance of the Gnomes (Liszt), daughters, from which Oakie In the picturisation of the thrill. Etude Tableau (Rachmaninoff }; selects one to take care of his ing Chicago gangeter story Invitation to the Walts (Weber), ***** Sergei Rachmaninoff. heart. Forced to continue under Edward enacts the part of the UN SV Alfred Cortot. the imposed name. Dakle finds newspaper reporter whose dis- Staccato Caprice (Max, Vogrich), much compensation in trading on coveries of underworld crime re- Hungarian Rhapsody, Noranda hero,

4 (Liszt), his principal's name, but the whole sult in his murderer affair gets him into a ticklish HarryBeaumont directed the

10.30 p.m.-Close Down situation and results in an img sensational picture from an orl promptu battle between two op-ginal story by Aurania Ronverol. posing sailor groups.

The Industrial Development Leater Vall plays the romantic Board of Manitoba announces that In these rippling altuations, the lead and the supporting cast in it is at present in touch with about happiness hit of the hour waxes cludes William Bakewell; William thirty United States firms in re eloquent and joyful. He sings two Holden, Clark Gable, Earl Foxo, gard to the development of the really, catchy song numbers, both Hale Hamilton, Natalie Moorhead, beryllium deposits in Northern of which contain many a chuckle, Joan Marah, and Russell Hopton. Manitoba.

L. denotas "Level with Overflow."]

Storage in millions and decimals of gallons.

Great

THIRST

Tytam Tytam Byewash

1930 -827.80 7.79

1931

174.08

.30

Tytam Intermediate 159.76

QUENCHER.

195.00

Tytam Tuk

603.75

800.50

Wong Nei Chung Pokfulum

* 9,40

0.55

- Total

32.82 52,54

... 1,140.32 1,819.87

Consumption of water in the Oly and Hill District in millions and de cimals of gallons during the month. of Jona.

1981 Consumption.... 841.99 835.45% Estimated population 448,740 411,800 Consumption

per

head per day... 25.7

29.6.

Includes 64.14 million gallons from Mainland.

Includes 83.22 million gallons from Mainland

June

1980-Constant supply during the whole month to district North of Queen's Road between Murray Road and Easten Street. 12 hours supply (6 am-6 p.m.) in all other districts from June 1 to 17 inclusive. 16 hours supply. (5 am-9p.m.) in all other districts from June 18 to 80 Inclusive. June, 1981, Constant anyply throughout the City, Hili and High Level Districts during the whole month.

Kowloon.

1830 1981 78BL Shek Lai Pui

Reservoir. 8' 13 Reception Reservoir 2,7′′B 123 Storage in millions and decimals of gallons.

Kowloon Reservoir

and Byewash Shek Dal Pu

Reservoir Reception Reservoir

Kowloon Reservoir **and Eyewash

1950 1931

276.88 435.50.

85.61 116.10 20:40 28.58

$80.19

390.29

Total

Consumption of water in Kowloon

during the month of June.

in millions and decimals of gallons

mption 1080

Consumption

1981

185.14 161.02 Estimated population 175,780 287,300 Consumption

Constant supply in all districts dur head per day 26.6 18.7 ing June, 1980 and 1981.

The Government Analyst's reports show that the quality of the water Total rainfall:. June 30, 1930, 81.42; is catisfactors of the water June 80, 1981, 80.58.

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