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THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1931.

QUAKER IN

INDUSTRY

Romance of Cadbury's Enterprise.

FOUNDED 100 YEARS AGO.

The growth of any great firm

in the town. When he became a

THE CHINA MAIL.

ROUND THE LOCAL lives off the weakness of Paris's

gentleman-cheat, a blackmailer who

· CINEMAS,

Reviews from Official Sources.

"SCANDAL SHEET."

George Bancroft was one of the

wealthy American visitors. Powell is the Editor of a yellow gossip weekly, designed to circulate en- tirely among the Americans In

SHADOWS BEFORE

IN CHINA MAIL

Paris, Wynne Gibson, his assis- COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED tant, Is in love with him, Powell, bowaver, falls in love with Carole Lombard, the niece of one of his He determines to throw. victims. everything, including Wynne, over-

Entertainments.

from small beginnings will always Temperance advocate and objec first film största balk at the use of board, and begin life anew with the "Scandaj Shest." make an interesting story. In the tors said "What is to be done with make-up in filming his pictures. girl.

How he discovers the Tmpossibi- "Great Meadow." history of a firm like Cadbury's, all the barley?" he would take Camera men objected to this plan at which celebrates its centenary this barley puddings to his meetings first, but not for long; the star of lity of this step and disillusions the

year, there is an added interest: and hand them round steaming"Scandal Sheet," which is now girl whom he loves furnish the sur-What Men Want."

the reaction of the' Quaker, mind to industry.

hot.

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strange placca, of exotic lands. He for his role of Flagg in "The Cock is Victor McLaglen, world famous

Today King's Theatre;

.To-day Queen's 'Theatre;

Today Central Theatre;

To-day Majestie Theatre; "The Phantom Of The Opera."

To-day World' Theatre; "Yik Jan Mac."

Today Star

showing at the King's Theatre, soonprising climax of "Man of the had his way, and bad it ever since. World." Model Parish Mission. Perhaps the most significant aï- As carly as this

The story of, "Scandal Sheel" is we, oncounter cestor of the firm, though not ac- the germ of the Bournville Garden about George Bancroft, manng tually the founder, was Richard Village idea, for the firm subscribing Editor of a sensational scandal "NOT EXACTLY GENTLEMEN," Tapper Cadbury, born at Exeter in ed to a trust known as the Model sheet, Gilbert Emery, publisher 1763, writes Mr. Trevor Allen in Parish Mission, whose object was and owner of the paper, often proactor there is the glamour of "Caught Short."

Around at least one Hollywood John O'London's Weekly. In his to establish a village for workers tests about this theory, but Ban- nineteenth year he came to Lon-who would not drink or smoke but croft tells him "II either print don as a draper's assistant at £20 make provision for acquiring their em or I quit," and since this ruth a year, but of which, he stated, own cottages and supporting them-less tyrant is building up circula. respectably clothed myself. found selves in old age. In 1852, when tion for the sheet, Emery has to my washing and pocket money, the Cadbury giris worked from give in to him. and always appeared so respectable nine till seven, less one hour for

Clive Brook, the city's leading as to be the invited guest amongst dinner, at from 53. to 98. per week, banker, is in love with Bancroft's the first families of Gloucester," welfare schemes were already wife, Kay Francis. where he had served his appren-foot to improve their conditions.

Bancroft learns that Brook'à ticeship.

The principal builders of the bank is in financial difficulty. He business as we now know it were guesses wrongly that Brook is Richard and George, John's second leaving town to escape the bank and third sous, who came into it, trouble, when it was in low water, with

In due course he opened 擅 drapery business of his own In Birmingham, where he became a prominent member of the Society of Friends, and played an active part In the eivic affairs of the city, and its charities,

A Striking Presence.

He had a striking presence, says Mr. Iolo A. Williams in "The Firm

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Boom.

same

Sports.

Theatre:

RADIO TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

the

Home Malls.

To-day-Inward from Europe via Eyed World," whose Intest appear-Suez (Soudan). ance in "Not Exactly Gentlemen" is To-morrow-Inward from Europe coming to the Central Theatre very via Siberia, (Suwa Maru); Outward

W

for Europe via Siberia (Tanda), Coming of a family of soldiers, 3.30 p.m. with the outbreak of the Boer War, he was naturally anxious to enlist. By giving a fictitious age, he aue-

. See Sports Diary on Page. 4, reeded in enlisting in the Life

Lammerts' Auction. Guards regiment.

War experienco did the

To-morrow-At Sales

Room, He sends reporters and photo thing to him that it had done to so

household furniture, 2.30 p.m. £4,000 each. For a time they had graphers to remain near Brook's many others, instilled a desire to a hard struggle, but George was mansion for news and pictures of get away from the unexciting. He

Land Sale. anreating in his enterprise, and the banker's flight. The scribes started to travel. While in the continually introduced new "lines." return with

August 10-At P.W.D. offices, surprise photos of army he had learned, to box and one lot of Crown land at Mongkok, Whon he heard of a new machine Brook and Kay embracing in wrestle, so he put the knowledge to 3 pm. in Holland which manufactured a Brook's home. Bancroft is stag- use while in Canada and soon be of Cadbury, 1881-1931" (Constable, finer cocon, he went there without gered by this display of unfaithful came the Eastern Canadian boxing 10s. Gd.) was keenly concerned in knowing a word of Dutch, convers-ness on the part of his wife, but champion. various humanitarian causes, such, ed with the manufacturer by the he looks at it in the light of a bigParses were small-so he cast his as the abolition of slavery benid of signs and a dictionary, and news stoop and orders the story to fortunes in turn with a medicine came a total abstainer; took a bought it forthwith, By such be published with the pictures show, a Wild West Show, then fatherly interest in his workpeople, methods, supplemented by judi- Then he dictates another story tell- vaudeville. and assembled them once a week cious advertising, the firm forged ing" of the shooting of

He returned to boxing for 'Scripture reading; and lived ahead, and with it the well-being himself-and sets out to commit non-decision bout.

Brook' by again and held Jack Johnson to 2 The following programme will to the ripe age of ninety-one. of the employees. Early closing the deed...

be broadcast to-day from Another attack of wanderlust Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Thus, John Cadbury, the son on Saturdays and Bank Holiday Some time later Bancroft is the and he was off to Hawaii, Tahiti, Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 856 who founded the firm when he be closing were among the pioneering Editor of the prisoners' newspaper Australia, Bombay and Ceylon. metres: yan to manufacture cocoa ' - and concessions.

at Sing Sing prison. He complains With the news of the world war, chocolate in Crooked Lane, Birm-

The religious Quaker spirit was to one of the other prisoners about ingham, in 1831, had a thorough active all through. In the early the ruling the warden has just laid

6-8 p.m.-European Programme of Victor Records. grounding in the social and reli- days when Richard and George down. "If it's news I claim it gioga principles which were to in. breakfasted with their workpeople should be printed," he says.

With the close of the war, he fluence its growth during the next they would often read to them

found himself in London.

At the hundred years. He evinced that from some book. Out of this grew

National Sporting Club, McLagien Syncopation (Creatoro), combination of, strict living and the brief daily service which con-

was apprached by a motion picture Chocolate Soldier Waltz Medley

Tripoli (D'Anna) Creatore's Band. practical business enterprise which tinued until 1912. In 1865 the

director who recognized him as the (Strauss), Only the fertile mind of Warner exact type for a picture about to Unrequited Love (Lincke), has always been a characteristic working day from May to Septem-Fabian which conceived the ques-be made. of the family. Among his earlyber was changed to from six to tion, "What Men Want?" could career in "The Call Of The Road" He started on his

Nat Shilkret & His Inter- Lastea, says Mr. Williams-

half-past two,

national Orchestra, so that employees answer it as sparklingly and as then followed a number of British Blue Sklos, was that for music, and he should enjoy the utmost daylight, dramatically as it is done in the productions in

6.18-6.39 p.m.-Organ Solos, learned to play upon the Ger-rise carly, and "escape much of Universal Special Production of starred..

which he was Falling in Love with You, man flute; but as music was not the temptation which abounds,dur the same name which is now show- then well regarded in the ing the late evening hours"

J. Stuart Blackton, who had seen What Does it Matter, Society of Friends, he gave it

ing at the Central Theatre.

Fabian is the startling modern America for the lead in. "The Ting-a-ling,

him in London brought him to Song of the Wanderer, up, and henceforth all the music

Jesto Crawford. The year 1879 saw the begin-author who aprang into instant (Beloved Brute." he allowed himself was fromnings of the great Bournville fame with his two musical boxes which in his scheme, on land acquired four "Flaming Youth" which, produced Women" and he has been with the Trovatore Selection (Verdi),

Fox then signed Cherie. I Lov, You, Jesse Crawford. meteoric novel him for the role in "The Hunted 6.39-7.10 p.m. Operalic. uld age (perhaps because Quaker miles outside Birmingham. There as a motion picture, made box office company ever since. opinion was then already some- were difficulties at first in arrang-history because what more lax) were among his ing early morning transit for em- modern story.

of its daring Fay Wray is also featured with household possessions.

MeLaglen In this production which As ployees, and at one period beds further example of the vigour were actually installed in the face greater conception by the same

"What Men Want" is an even was directed by Benjamin Staloff. and simplicity of his life it may I tory so that some of the girls could brilliant mind, written especially be recorded that it was not sleep there. But the scheme pros for Universal and produced as the until he was seventy that he pered, and by 1899 the number of ultra-film of the present decade. consented to sit in, an easy employees had risen to 2.685. chair.

Bournville has become a miniature

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Great Bournville Scheme.

"WHAT MEN WANT."

he was among the first to join up and was sent to Mesopotamia,

Artista.

"KIKI"

a conference

1

6-6.18 p.m.-Band & Orchestral Selections:

Jesso Crawford.

Creatora's Band.

Margarethe-Potpourri

(Gounod arr. Weber),

Marek Weber & His Orchestra, Pagliacci-Fantasy

(Leoncavall, arr. Taven),

Marek Weber & Ills Orchestra. 7.10-7.31 p.m.-Planoforte Solos. Mary Pickford has definitely Etude in C Sharp Minor (Scriabine),

Etude in D Flat Major (Scriabine),

aembled to portray the vivid charac-stage.

An outstanding cast was as-abandoned plans to return to the

Muric! Kerr, Polished Own Windows. model State embodying every kind ters of the plot, headed by Pauline

Danse Exotique (Horowitz-Demeny), His shop in Bull Street was-the-of-social-activity--the health of its Starke, Ben Lyn, Barbara Kent, following

This was announced recently Paganini Etude in E Flat Major first to have plate-glass windows, inhabitants may be judged from Robert Cilis, Hallam Cooley, Car- Joseph M. Schenck, head of United (a) Freinds in B Minor,

(Liszt-Buxoni).Vladimir Horowitz. which he often polished himself. these figures, per 1,000 births, for melia Geraghty and others.

with Prelude in D Minor (Mondelssohn), His counter for weighing and pack- the seven years ending 1929-

(b) Prelude in G Major (Chopin), ing tea was presided over by a

Though the weather of yesterday "There is an unprecedented de-7.31-7.69 p.m.-A Concert.

Vladimir De Pachmann. Chinaman in native

was not too good, yet the Central mand for pictures starring Miss Violin Solo- Theatre had packed houses. That Pickford," said Mr. Schenck. When he became an Overseer of

"I the Poor the first thing he did was

proves that "What Men Want" le have strongly urged her to continue to, protest against the weakly dia-

the kind of picture that draws. If making films, ners which the Overseers enjoyed

The bookings for at the public expense. In a cholera epidemic he was one of the few courageous enough to help bury the dend

costume!

Bournville Birmingham

Infantile

Death Death-

rate

rate

7.2

56

11.7

75

England and Wales 12.1 .71

The business which began by employing a few hands now em- ploys many thousands. Through- out the century of progress, says Mr. Willams

Songs My Mother Taught Me

(Dvorak-Kreisler), Slavonic Dance No. 1 (Dvorakt-Kreisler),

you are a modern youth, you must her new picture, "Kiki," are of re- not miss it.

cord proportions, even surpassing Song "Coquette."

"THE GREAT MEADOW:""

Fritz Kreisler.

The Nightingale and the Rose

(Rimsky-Korsakow), Instrumental Trio

Rosa Pannelle (Soprano).)

Joycelyn-Berceuse (Godard),

Miss Pickford stated that follow- The Great Meadow," which is tion which comes to the Queen's ing "Kiki," a Sam Taylor produc there has been unity--a unity a talking picture version of

showing at the Queen's Theatre, is Theatre on Sunday, she will return brought about because during much-discussed novel by Elizabeth for United Artists, heading her

the to her status as a producer-star Song the whole period the business Madox Roberts, John Mack Brown own production unit and making has been the 'dally personal con- and Eleanor Boardman play the two pictures annually.

Soon the curious sight was seen of a surpliced clergyman with open book 'proceeding at full trot along the road gasping. out the burlal service, while at his heels was an uncovered' coffin, borne by four men, each with a pipe in his mouth, follow- ed by Mr. Cadbury In a 'broad- brimmed hat and flowing Quaker Those principles have at times frock coat, and by Henry Knight, invited unfair criticism which the man for Greta Garbo in "Romance, the star in “Kiki."

Harrod. Gavin Gordon, leading Reginald Denny plays opposite his nose and mouth muffled up ordinary business man escapes. is the third angle of a triangle in in a large blue scarf.

Their complete vindication is fa He helped to emancipate the this romantic story of the growth an interesting Enoch Arden twiet "climbing boys" (who had to of a great firm and the evolution of the story. clamber up chimneys) by buying of a distinctive family which Mr. Grabin has directed "The Great mechanical sweeping gear and Williams has written with Buch Meadow" with a keen sense of the himself setting up maater aweeps sympathy and understanding authentic. The atmosphere of SALARY REDUCTIONS, A CEYLON TRAGEDY Mr. R. A. H. de Vos of

cern of a family that has steadi-pioneer couple who are married on The only possibility of stage ly tried to apply, as an employ the eve of the start of a brave party activity on her part will be in con- er of labour, the principles of of Virginians along the Indian nection with the Motion Picture its Quaker faith.

infested Wilderness Road to Fort Relief Fund.

Planned by Bombay, Axe"-Wielders.

Peona, July 7

Galle Commits Suicide

HOTEL GUESTS

...

AT HONG KONG HOTEL

August 4, 1931A60

Venetian Trio.

String Simfonietta

·Dream of Love (Liszt-Schipa),

Tito Schipa (Tenor),

Londonderry Air (arr. Grainger),.. Gossips (Dubensky),

Philadelphia Chamber Siring Simfonietta.

Report.

3 pm Local Time & Weather

8.09-10.30 p.m.-Chinese, Studio Concert.

10.33 p.m.-Close Down.

EMPEROR AGED 18.

Bao Dai Leaving Paris Soon for Indo-China.

1775 is beautifully preserved. The dipping of candles, the lighting of fres with flint and steel, Indlan Mr. W. Bolton. fighting with flintlock muskets, aro Mr. C. de Couraalho, Birs. H all accomplished with fire accuracy Chamberlain, Miss I. H. Chamber

In addition to the work of the lain. Po So three principals, a large list of Messrs. RM Dalgarno, P. T A shocking tragedy was reported other well-known players con- Didisheim.

Preparations are being made for It is understood that a cut in recently from Galle where Mr. tribute to the success of this fine Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Fairfax shortly of Bao Dal, the young Em- the return to his native country the salaries of all Services under R. A. H. de Vos, proctor brother picture of early days. Among Mr. H H. Greatwood, Mr. and the control of the Government of of Mr. W. A. S de Vos and Mr. them are Lucille La Verne (the Mrs E B: Gardner Miss Grace

Indo-China, who Bombay, whether Provincial, Im- C. E de Vos, committed suicide well-known Widow Cagle of "Sun-Graham

is now algate

years of age, perial or covenanted, has been re by swallowing lysol, Mr. De Vos Up") as Elvira Jarvis, a sturdy,

Bao Dai Mesara, SL Harrobin, J. L commended by the Retrenchment was 45 years of age and had been ploneer mother: Anita Louise Hunter, NY. Karped only visit he has paid to his coun been studying In France for nine years, and the Committee appointed by the Gov in practice in Galle afhce 1908. Gulen Willams, Russell Simpson ernment to meet the estimated de- Mr. De Voalustated to have Sarah Padden and Helen Jerome Bolt of £457,000 in the current, bud- risen as usual and had a sea-bathe

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