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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1931.

THE EXPRESS

"GARGE, WHO DIDN'T MIND

WHAT HE SAID."

At

By

Norman Anglin.

1

an elderly man sitting alone with

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Reviews from Official Sources.

"BED AND BREAKFAST."

THE

CHINA MAIL

LIVE BEETLES AS MEDICINE.

By special request the King's Theatre will re-screen the British picture "Bed and Breakfast" for one day only.

EXCHANGES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS,

On London

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Eaten to Destroy Evil Bank, on demand... 1/4 13/16

Spirits

MISSIONARY SHOCKED.

You have to believe this one, whether you like it or not!

Szechwan.

One afternoon. whilst reading on! the small verandah of the house, the

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On Yokohama—

It is told by a missionary who has just returned from Upper Szechwan and-well, isn't that Farmer George was over eighteen partments that looking over the

On demand stone. As though aware that no hedge, topped last winter, he could

balance such a great epe everything, the coaches full of flirtatious complications at country hai Times of November 18, had a

Farce-comedy. Familiar story of enough for its veracity.

The missionary says the Shang- On New York- neck could head as his nature had increased passengers sitting in compartments.

Deft direction maintains house-boy ae have most, missionaries Credits, 60 days' sight 25% his chins, so that they also seemed j "Ah!" All looked as though they'd studio.

On Bombay-- to support, the weight, and his col-Tailen asleep, so many to each pen, smooth succession of comedy situ and other foreigners in China. The Jar was completely hidden. Under all being taken to market. "Ah!"tions based on predicament of pair boy was the son of his father, who wire

had been in the employ of the on demand the eyebrows that burned upwards They'd got their newspapers with

forced to por as man and wife, household for many years before On Calcutta- in a fury of white hair his old them; been reading about the poor, fashioned, gold-rimmed spectacles draft, daft farmer and all that the barked by incidental gags born of the "Grim Reaper" snatched him seemed lost on the vast expanse of experts had to say about him-and diverting characterisations of clerie away from the trials and tribula On demand his face, while from between them his goings-on, and all the commis and Cxkney. No lack of purely tions of this world-particularly | the huge shiny nose swept down sins, and all the committees, and

the formidably to heavy grey all the boards. Then he brought popular netian, toaches of undress moustache, the big pendulous lip, his ear to a stop by a coach consist-revelatimi, good climax, amusing

Clever por missionary happened to observe the On Shanghai— the first chin. The color had ing of "firsts." for he had espied dialogue throughout. faded from his eyes; they sermed fixed in a straight stare ahead, and a perfect litter of newspapers about trayal, goid settings, fair record houseboy busily engaged in search On demand

anding. Dependable booking of exing under stones in the garden. He Dollar when he glanced you he him, a man wearing spats

watched the proceedings for some laboriously moved his, whole head striped trousers and a black coat elusively popular pattern.

time until curiosity got the better On demand "Ah drawied

Sovereigna Although this latest British farce of him. He questioned the boy. nose, chins, and the wide-brims and gig-lamps.

buying rate) med, flat-crowned hard felt hat Farmer George Jang and loudly. "I

Producing a email wooden box, Silver (per oz.) which he always wore.

Farmer wonder who got you up this morn presents little that is now, it pre-

enough comedy business, the boy cautiously opened the lid. Bar Silver in Hong George was known as a bit of a ing: you looks the sleepiest ind in sents

Kong Mayle you was like amusing dialogue, and clever char-Inside was a quantity of saw-dust character in the parishes of Little the parish. Much and

Owley-in-the-Field, the mushrooms--you was forced acterisation to be assured of a weland chopped grass and, crawling Copper Cash the definitely popular around the interlar. were half a Copper Cents while in the market town of Mary-up! Ah!" and he chuckled. The come from

of patron.

dozen small black beetles of the Rate of Native In- ford be WRR considered a great lady and little girl and boy

terest

3% pa. The portrayal features Jane Bax-igarden variety. wit, though people often exclaimed, twelve he next saw did not interest

Chinese Sub. Coin 20% % is. moved again talter, and he

a pretty new-comer, with a

All very interesting. But what Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par. "He doesn't care what he says!" him, They said this in Maryford because espy

a young man and a young flair for comedy, in the role of the

sitting facing to their very faces he would call woman

eachtruant wife, Richard Cooper as her were they for? was the next query them "Yellow bellies." He himself other. The young mon hadilly-ass accomplice, Frederick Volge of the missionary. Closing the lid with the greatest of care, the boy show as the prosy deric. Alf Goddard usi had a small reservoir on the hill shiny hair, and his caffs side above his farm, but in Mary-ed, and he was leaning forward the radiant bookie, and Sari Maritza imparted the information that the

black insects were for medicinal! ford they still depended on wells speaking earnestly. The young as the other erring Httle lady.

purposes. for their water. He would say, woman seemed very flimsily dress! "Ah! You gets yellow-bellied ed; she was jeaning back staring: frog and you puts him in a canary enge and you drops it on a bit of twine down your wells and you asks him to sing to you weet, like a canary bird, ah!"

now

at the fellow; but suddenly, she shook her head and with a quick movement urned it, aside.

·

"THE RIGHT TO LOVE."

Having Hvad hmong Chinese for

this hald statement! many years. David Minta, pane of the three did not come as any great surprise "Ah!, leading men cast with Ruth Chat to the missionary who inquired how:

was to be taken. lass, your mother never bred aterton by Paramount in "The Right the medicine jibber, did her?" The young man to Love" talking camerisation of Equally indifferent, the Chinese bay nook, "Brook again opened the lid of the box ex- Glaspell's He didn't care what be said. Hé was leaning yet farther forward;) Susan

tracted one of the small beetles and, But Evans." owned his land and had no mort- bis hand touched her knee.

eyes of his This new drama romantic re before the astonished KUL on it, no mortgage on any Farmer George was tired of them,!

the insect into pression throughout three genera- employer, popped thing at all: he was a farmer who and he moved his car again.

Now were more crowded compartitions offers Miss Chatterton screen his mouth, took one, swallow.and had inherited from his father, a farmer Inheriting from his father, ments, sunlight picking out the land's first. "triple characterisation." again closed his precious box.

It appears that the boy had been and so on, Farmer Georges reach-figures all the way along the seats. The picture opent an engagement of ing back over the same Belds and and each figure appeared surpris- three days at the Central Theatre informed by a native doctor that the beetles, it taken internally, spinagya-and dikes, now in henveringly exhausted. All gave the im- to-day.

In the role of Joe Copeland. Man would destroy, the evil spirit which hats,

in tricornes, century pression of knowing nothing about after century, working like sailors the others, motionless like so many ners will enjoy the opportunity to had been giving him Cammy trouble. And Mr. Ripley did not tell this! and drinking like Ashes all the sheep packed ander a net in a float portray the sympathetic part of

story. time. He felt it in, his hones that for market. But Farmer George's Mine Chatterton's first lover.

Manners In "Journey's End," he owned this corner of England; thoughts had turned homeward,] rates annoyed him. inxes annoyed him, returns annoyed him, while efforts from Westminster to mind his business left him speechless.; There was one politician of whom he invariably remarked, "Parson as married father and mother of he ought to have his gown took off him!" while whenever London was mentioned he would exclaim, "Ah! They folk put the pig on the wall to hear the band play."

never

and he would have left the express made his screen debut, and his suc- had not his eye been caught by a cess in this production resulted in group in a first-class dining-car, so a film contract with First National. he drew close by and stopped and stured.

"THE BAT WHISPERS.".

SMUDGES ROUSE FRUIT SECTIONS OF CALIFORNIA.

Smudge the witch cloud from orchard heaters which ruine thou- Extraordinarily difficult camera sands of dollars worth of merchan- work mapped out for Roland West's dise and furnishing in the citrus United Artists production, "The district every year-may not darken But Whispose featuring Chester the early morning hours this. Win- ter if the united efforts of interest-

They were all males; they wore black couts with talls. They were, rising from their seats all faughing together, smiling and bowing to each other as though highly satis. fed with their dinner, or perhaps Morris, was handled by Ray June. thoir whole day's work. They were

"THE HOTTENTOT.”

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WORLD'S LONGEST ROAD.

3,500 Miles--Frem Ocean To Ocean.

"The Bat Whispers," a thrilling ed persons in this region prove suc-

A plan to connect the Atlantic One afternoon as he was return-smoking big cigars, all freshly i comedy-drama, now showing at the cessful, says the Christian Science ing from market driving his old lighted, and, indeed, a uniformed Queen's Theatre, is replete with Monitor of October 17.

In past years, merchants and and Pacific seaboards by a high-

have dreaded Ford, chancing to look up his five- attendant could be seen disappear effect shots and trick camera stunts.

the way 3,500 miles long is projected The cast includes Una Merkel, householders acre meadow, he saw what he had Ing with a pile of cigar-boxes. The

Von Seyffertitz, Ben Winter season's first frost, bringing in Canada. sunilt, tables were covered with little Gustav

It will be the world's longest seen before---the glistening conches of a long passen-glasses, coffee-cups and coffee-pots, Bard. Grayce Hampton, Spencer with It" the firing of hundreds of

Dow Clark, and thousands of smudge pots, which road, and ie to be constructed as a ger train drawn up against the east ashtrays and crumpled napkins, Charters, Charles

guard California's orange industry measure of relief for the largo hedge and standing as still as a and they looked very deserted as Maude Eburne.

from the cold. The black burner numbers of unemployed throughout row of cottages of any other per- the black-coated company left Holding themselves with

smoke, usually from cheap oil, filters the Dominion.

сочета It will stretch from Glace Bay, manent feature, of the landscape. them.

Its way into homes and Except that steam was roaring from dignity, but still laughing together,

"One of the few places where furnishings. It works into the stock Nova Scotia, to Vancouver, British the engine the train looked as the fellows were walking down the

the sun, and Exlating ronds along the roule though it had been there for years, couch puffing away at their cigars. bluffing may be lastingly successful on etore shelves. It clouds the Columbia. He exclaimed, "Come on,

Slowly Farmer George turned his is in dealing with a horse!" says horizon, blots out beauty!" and without shifting his head away, away from the express, Edward Everett Horton, who heads blackens the faces of pedestrians on will be improved and new links, through the construction of new His the star cast of Warner Bros. the street. full-faced stare from the train which had not yet moved.

Residents of this section have roads, will be established, the turned his old car straight up the face told nothing; his eyes stared Vitaphone comedy production, "The meadow, for the lane to his farm straight ahead as if into the far Hottentot," which is coming to the therefore greeted with approval a whole highway being brought up. concerted effort this season to com-to a standard provided for by the He moved his car and Queen's Theatre shortly. Tan unfenced along the bottom distance.

The cast of "The Hottentot" in-bat the smoke evil. What many Dominion Government. But hedge..

swung down the meadow, when he reached the lane at the cludes Patsy Rath Miller, Edward consider the most feasible plan, and bottom ho did not accelerate. Sud-Earle, Stanley Taylor. Otto Hoff the one the general committee re- denly his lower tip jarted company man, Douglas Gerrard and Maude cently decided to follow, is to bring Roy Del Ruth into general use, proper smudging with his moustache," and for half Turner Gordon.

50 constructed equipment, jeliminate the greater portion, if not

all, the gummy.oil smoke.

my

Not In a memory of seventy years had he seen any train stop just there. It must have overrun the signals by the North Field. He expected that at any moment it a minute he drove with his mouth At last, dwelling slowly would slide away, but in little more gaping. than a minute he was alongside upon each word, he said, "I never plate-glass and varnish bright in did like to see piga walking around the late evening sunlight which with strava in their mouths; it's a .streamed so directly into the com-sign of rain."

SZECHUEN IN A BIG SEA.

directed.

HEIFETZ'S MOVIES.

AB to

This would be accomplished by jadoption of an ordinance prohibit- One of the chief diversions of ing the use of smudge pets which do! Heifetz, the famous violinist, who not meet requirements laid down by Ipears that a sea must have lift will appear here at the King's government experts concurring with cd the animal and carry it down on Friday, is the movies... He also the general committee, and would and shoots be effective in the four counties in Once which the citrus industry la ceit The China Navigation Co.'s the tunnel escape ventilator. It owns his own camera steamer, Szechuen, 'had bad wea- was later on carried out of the views wherever he goes, ther on her recent trip to Hong engine room, none the worse for while taking pictures of some Fiji tred: San Bernardino, Orange, Kong. Siccawei had reported a its experience, although it was Islanders the natives insisted that Riverside and Los Angeles. Each ..hurricane

the as black as the "ace of spades." he pay them for the privilege! Re-of these counties fe, represented on prevailing in Formosa Straits, but it was Sheltered at Amoy, every effort cently the violinist has also made the general committee. hoped that vessels would escape was made to save a few of the nome successful experiments with That the path of the anti-smudge

It colour photography.

campaign will not be altogether the force of it and make for affected sheep and goats.

Ile possesses an excellent project-smooth was indicated soon after the Amoy in safety. High seas were was a novel sight to see some of encountered, and some damage the men on board, going amongst ing apparatus, whiti is installed in ordinance was drafted. Mr. James was done to a consignment of them with hot water and brandy his home, and his friends are often King, chief deputy district at- about 680 sheep and goats on the trying to revive those which entertained by watching the reels torney for San Bernardino County, he himself has taken, a fascinating has questioned the constitutionality Capt. were in a state of coma. poop. The commander, Barling, was estonished to have The fury of the storm may be record of his peripatetic life. Just of such legislation. Whether in recently, he made the first movies citrus grower égally could be a telephone, message from the imagined when we find, that a of his little daughter, Josepha forced to scrap, the equipment he has second engineer when draw, plate glass window was smash- Anns, whose mother, the erstwhile, used for yours and then invest ing near to Amoy to send ed by the sea.

Florence Vidor, needs no introduc-heavily in new and improved or- down a man to fetch a gont The log was found on the tion to film lovers in, this part of chard heaters is being investigated which was 40 feet below. It ap- poop--The Shipping Review. the world.

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