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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1931.

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"ONE ROMANTIC NIGHT."

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Though the whole world cognises Lillian Cish as a motion picture star of the very first mag- nitude, few know that the early parti of her life was spent on the speak- ing stage.

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Theatre;

To-morrow Ten Dances nt King's Restaurant. Lane Crawford's and Repulse Bay Hotel.

Entertainments. To-day King's. Theatre: "The House of the Arrow." police-To-day

Reaching for the Moon."

- Queen's

Young Eagles."

Today Central Theatre;

"Charlie Chan Carries On."

Theatre:

Today Star

The famed United Artists' star, who makes her talking picture debut] in "One Romantic Night" coming

who telephoned from to the Queen's Theatre to-morrow, call-box to Bournemouth first appeared on the stage at Rising station and waited for a constable Sun, Ohio, as a child actress in to arrest him appeared before the melodrama.

Convict's Bournemouth magistrates recently, enlied "in Stripes.

Arthur Clegg (32), no fixed Alisa Gish's last theatrical en-abode, pleaded guilty to charges of gagement was with Miss Pickford the theft of a handbag and contents

To-day Malostic

Theatro: in Belasco's presentation of "A and of obtaining 10s by false pre-"The Bishop Murder Case." Good Little Devil."

November 14-Theatre Royal;

tences.

production of "Dear

"One Romantic Night," which is A constable stated that in con, opening performance of Hong Kong on adaptation of "The Swan," Ferenc sequence of the telephone message A.D.C.'s Molnar's romantic comedy directed he went to a telephone-box near Brutus." by Paul L. Sein, presents Miss Gish in the role of her career.

Bournemouth West station, where he saw Clegg and told him he was looking for a man who had tele- phoned. Clegg replied, "I am tho man. I wish to give myself up for Dougins Fairbanks hus a strictly stealing a handbag from a motor- modern, fast-moving, dashing roler at Buscombe."

"REACHING FOR THE MOON."

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Home Mails, To-day Outward for Europe via Siberia (Pres. Madison) 5 p.m.

Monday--Inward from Europe via Siberia (Duisburg).

MiscellaneouA, October 23-Promenade Concert Kowloon Cricket

in his new picture for United! Accused was' sentenced to threo (H.K.V.D.C.), Artists, "Reaching For The Moon," months' imprisonment.

now showing at the Queen's Theatre. The humour and charm

of Bebe Daniels are given full lee-] way in her capacity as feminine) lead. Edward Everett Borton and Juck Mulhall have important parts. Lavish modern settings were creat- by William Cameron Menzies,

"6 CYLINDER LOVE."

Spencer Tracy believes In thorough preparation for his roles, and with he also possesses 171 impish sense of humour.

per-

As a result Director Thornton Freeland and his staff were plexed during the inaking of "G] Cylinder Love." the Fox Film comedy offering whileh comes to the King's Theatre next Wednesday with Tracy in the featured role of a "high-pressure" automobile sales- iman.

I Club, 9.15 p.m.

EASIER

GOLF

by⋅

H.STUART HOBSON

THE MEANING OF THE "CLEEK COMPLEX.'

"SNOBISME" IN GOLF?

19

01

Every morning Tracy came to carrying a cleek?" asks a reader-somebody else beloved of the gover

"Why do golfers persist in Whatever Samuel Smiles, work with a forked brief case con- whose tone suggests that he feels taining a mysterious book, with deeply about his game. "Not one which

he retired lo a secluded golfer in a hundred can play cleek corner between scenes. All efforts shots, even when the need arises, of the directors to find out what the which is less frequently than they volume might be, resulted in seem to imagine. failure until one day the actor was "ganged" and the book discovered them. Two

... the cleek in the bug tempts or three times in a

to be a weighty tome on "The Art round they will have a bang' with Of Salesmanship."

this treacherous club. Almost in- Noted players are in the cast of variably the result is a duffed 'shot "Six Cylinder Love," which had and a lost stroke. tremendous success on Broadway not many seasona ago."

KOWLOON'S NEW TALKIE HOUSE.

Alhambra Theatre.

Snobisme?

"Why this cleek complex? is it what our French friends call

snobisme?"

Let us begin the answer by being fair to the club attacked. There is a very good reason for using a cleek,. if you can use it.

The cleek is the answer to those shots that cannot be answered by the easy choice between iron and Construction work

on the new wood. There are some distances Alhambra Theatre, owned and just a few yards too far for the operated by the Hong Kong Amuse-conventional approuch with the iron. ments, Limited, and situated at the Rather than press with the iron, it junction of Nathan Road and Kan-is far better to tuke su Street, is proceeding apace. It baffy. Yet nothing in golf is more a spoon or will not be long now before Kow-icult than to play a spared shot loon will be served with another jaith a wooden club, when you have talking picture-house.

The theatre, built, specially for that you must spare.

to judge to a yard the distance talking films, 'occupies an area of

Wooden Club's Handicap, ubout 20,000 square feet.

It is

A veteran professional told me bounded on the north by Market the other day that he doubted if Street, Kansu Street on the south. even the finest of players could Nathan Road on the east, and Su-gange strength exactly chow Lane on the west. The seat-wooden club. ing accommodation for over 1,700

with

will be apportioned as follows-of the long-handicap man,

That is certainly the experience Dress circle 611; first class 311: second class 116; and third class and seems to be on the way, towards A shot that sings 'off the club, 402, with about 30 sauts in the travelling every inch of the dis- Luxes.

tance may easily "stand up and sit The building, which will be sar-down" as a caddy I knew used to mounted by an imposing tower. issy-yards short of the pin. A expected to be ready early nextshot that is apparently exactly simi. lar will do just the opposite. Flying true to the pin, it will develop non- Atop notions the 'golfer will see his perfect approach run past the mark and then awful! topple over the back of the green.

The cleek has no habits like this.

Cleek's Advantage.

year.

NELSON DAY.

Local Observance on Wednesday.!

It will achieve greater distances

The observance of Nelson Day, than the usual iron clubs, yet the October 21, by the long Kong golfer will know to a yard whether branch of the Navy League will this he is short or "gay" the moment he year be confined to the laying of has hit the shot. wreaths on the Cenotaph and the Wanchal Monument.

That Is the advantage of the cleek,

Once mastered, It is a remarkably

Why do so few golfens. master

In view of the fuct that the League recolved much widespread exact club. aupport in aid of the Poseidon Dia- aster Fund, it is felt that the hold- the cleek? ing of the usual concert Inald of A considered opinion is that the League fund can be dispensed with reason is that so few good clecks this year.

are made.

bad workmen and their tools, the ness at home, may have said about simple truth is that a golfer is tremendously clubs

dependent on the he carries. Persistent in- ability to produce a shot is just as likely to be due to a bad club as to any other cause,

Specialized Business,

cleok-head is the most difficult club Any expert will tell you that the

to forge. It is, indeed, a specialised business but that does not guar- antee perfection in any clock-head manufactured.

Often a cleek seems to "drag" us it is awung.

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This is fatal in play, for the essential of the shot is that it should be crisply and cleanly struck.

"Dragging" in a cleak-head is usually caused by a small excess of weight at the toe. The golfer who experiences this dragging sensation when using a clock should consult the professional on the advisability of having some of the weight filed away.

Choice Not Easy.

professional opportunity

This is work that gives the good to show his understanding of the game of the individual golfer.

Choosing a cleek is not easy, for the golfer who has not already the knack of using the cleek will hardly know whether the club he is trying is good or bad.

Once suitable cleek has been found, however, it should not pre- sent any undue difficulties in play.

lar to any wooden club shot, except The shot with the clock is very simi- that the player must stand an inch or two nearer to the ball to compen ante for the shorter shaft of the club...

Firm Grip Essential.

The

A firm grip is advised, for it la fatal to have the face of the club turned

by impact will: ground. The commonest fault with the cleek-as distinct from the or- dinary iron is topping; for that reason the golfer should murk a spot behind the ball, rather than in frant of it.

to the swing used for the driver, The actual awing may be similar except that it should be shorter.

Control is of maximum Import- ance, and the golfer may well re- strict hid activities to a half swing at first."

The real secret of the clock is the clean, exict hit that comes, only most gallery, implies practice and with confidence and confidence, "for more pricffce-(China Mall Copy right).

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