1932-03-14 — Page 3

MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1932.

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"THE AGE FOR LOVE." Modern marriage, as prescribed by the fairer sex of the present jazz-mad age, seems to be a con- stant bid

Yes, the for freedom. love is there all right, but where

be the finest Walsh has ever pro duced. It includes in its cast such celebrities as Walter Byron, Rita LuRoy, Mischa Auer, Sarah Padden, and Boris Karloff.

"THE CHEAT,"

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (843 KL.C.'s):-

5-7 p.m.-Chiness Programme. 7-10,50 p.m. - European Pro- gramme.

7.05-7.35 p.m.--Variety. Chorus Vesta Victoria Old-Time

Medley,

Vesta Victoria and Chorus; DX200. Song-Body and Soul,

Marle Burke (Soprano), DB73. Song-If Winter Comes,

Billy Benett (Comedian), DX13. Friedl Lusser, DB542. Champion-Old-Time

Years ago, when Fanny Ward and is the home? Is it washed out by Sessue Hayakawa made the popular Uni-silent version of the "The Cheat," this spirit of modernism? versal Pictures have tried to answer the director used a fake Inscription the query in their latest talking on the branding iron which intensi-Youling Solo-Tyrolean Yodler, production "The Age For Love," fies a big scene in the plot. which is now showing at the Central Theatre.

of E. The Bim is an adaptation Pascal's sensational novel, and stars Billie Dove, the screen's bird of parnais, and Charles Starrett,

Film fans were not so numerous and alert in those days, but to-day the photoplay legions are rated the most watchful and intelligent cross sections of any civilisation.

So that director George Abbott, Miss who direted eParamount's new talkle a new and promising find. Dlove is seen in the role of Jean edition of "The Cheat," opening on Hurd, the modern secretary of a Wednesday at the King's Theatre, literary agcut, excellently taken by demanded and got the real thing.

Edward Everett Horton.

She falls

in love with Starrett, who despises mttern ideas of sex. They marry,

The branding Iron used by Irving Pichel in this production is supposed to bear the legend, "1 Porseas," into Chinese. Through but after only four months, the transinted drudge of old-fashioned ideas begins co-operation of the University of the approval of to tell on the wife, and she goes Peking, and with

Consul in New York, the the Chinese much back to work.

He Gaston Duval, hend of the Para- nggravation of the husband.

amount New York research depart marries Brother girl, this time house wife, and they have a child.ment, procured an authentic inserip- Torn between two loves, he is in tion for the brand.

to

a quandary. What does he do?

Miss Dove and Starrett are con-

vinting, whilst welcome comedy relief is given by Horton.

-CIRE.

"MIN AND BILL."

For her excellent acting, in M.-G.-M.'s great success "Mia and

This

If you care to say "I Possess" in Chinese, you may read the brand to the folks at home as "Au Ycow."

LESSON-SERMON.

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hong Kong.

" Marie Dressler, the queen of screen · actresses, was awarded the

"Substance" was the subject of Golden Statuette last year. film, in which she stars with Wallace the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches Beery, is now showing at the Star of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday.

Thentre.

The film deals with the fisheries,

March 13.

The Golden text was, "Faith is and is a welcome variation from the the substance of things hoped for. usual type of talking picture pro- the evidence of things ductions. There is not a single (Hebrews 11; 1).

hint of slapstick romance.

Miss

Dressler, in the role of Min, is won derful, whilst Beery gives out-

Dorothy standing support as Bill. ⚫ Jordan and Donald Dillaway supply the film's necessary ingredient of

romance

OFFICIAL SOURCES.

"THE YELLOW TICKET."

Ticket" showing

not seen."

Among the citations which com- prised the Lesson-Sermon was the

following from the Bible, "In the, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for ¡thou art my rock and my fortress."

Psalm 71; 1, 3).

The Lesson-Sermon also included the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, "Science

THE

CHINA

MAIL

1920 TO 1927. PENNIES.

Discoloured Coins to Be Withdrawn.

COPPER TINTED SILVER.

Discoloured silver coinage is to

be withdrawn from circulation by the Royal Mint.

SHADOWS BEFORK

COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED

IN CHINA MAIL. ·

Hong

Social Functions. To-day-Tea Dances at Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant; at Hong Kong, Hotels and King's

Dinner Dunces and Peninsula Restaurant.

Patrick's To-day-St.

stitute.

Entertainments. To-day Kings "The Yellow Ticket."

Society

These coins were struck between the years 1920 and 1927, and be- came discoloured owing to the large proportion of copper contained practice dance, Helena May In- in the alloy. The high cost of silver after the War' necessitated a reduc tion in the quantity of silver used in making coins, and under the Mint Act of 1920 the alloy was changed from the 925 standard to 500. Thus 50 per cent. of every silver coin consisted of copper. The coins soun

Theatre;

Half Shot at Sunrise."

Today Queen's Theatre:

Today Central The "The Age for Love."

To-day Majestic Theatre

Theatre:

Songs-Harry

Medley, Harry Champion (Comedian), DX289, 8 p.m.-Local Time. 7.35-8.20 p.m.-Orchestral. Scenes Pittoresques (Massenet),

after being put "Bad Girl." Orchestra Symhonique de Paris, in circulation began to turn shades

4941-4942.

Today Star of yellow and gold, as a result of "Min and Bill" Dame-Overture (Suppe),

of the copper. Sir Dan Godfrey conducting the the oxidisation

Home Mails. Bournemouth Municipal Orches- They were looked upon with dia- To-day-Outward for Europe vis

0490. favour by the public and distrust Siberia (Empress of Japan), 6 p.m. There Bears

Phantasy) by shopkeeper, and official state- (Coates),

Plaza Theatre Orchestra, 9499.ments were made vouching for their Bronze Horse Overture (Auber), genuineness.

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Lammert's Auctions. Wednesday-At Sales Room,

All Columbia recorda in the was lowered to 40 per cent. and Steam Launch Elsie, noon,

above European programmes are

kindly supplied by the Anderson

Music Co.

8.20-10.30 p.m.-A Selection of Records from Z.B.W.'s Library.

a mixture of zinc and nickel Was added.

Meetings. March 15-Hong Kong. Canton & An official of the Royal Mint told Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., 1. a London Morning Post representa-Queen's Building, 11 a.m. tive that it will be impossible to

March 18-Hong Kong & Shang-- renew all the discoloured coins at hai Hotels, Ltd.. annual meeting, 8.20-9.10 p.m.-Instrumental. Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven Op. 27), one and only the worst will be Exchange Building, 11 a.m., extra- Gavette in F Major (Beethoven-Bauer), dealt with. Even with the

Harold Bauer (Planist) operation of the banks and post Le Coq D'Or-Hymn to the Sun (Rim-offices the process will be slow.

sky-Korsakow Franko), Thais-Meditation (Masenet),

co-ordinary meeting, 11.30 a.m.

March 23-China Entertainment & Land Investment Co., Ltd., King's Theatre Building, noon.

Mazurka (Popper).

Mischa Elman (Violinist). A CHRISTENING GOES March 23-Hong Kong Electric Musette (Bach-Pollain),

Pablo Casals ('Cellist). Naila-Waltz (Delibes-Dohnanyi), Liebeatraum (A Dream of Love)

(Liszt),

Wilhelm Bachaus (Pianist). Estrellita (Ponce-Heifetz). Valse Bluette (Drigo-Auer),

Jascha Heifetz (Violinist). 9.10-9.46 p.m.-Vocal Gems from Gilbert & Sullivan's Operas. Iolanthe,

Ruddicore, The Gondoliers, Patience,

Columbia Light Opera Company. Carmen Suite

9.16-10.20 p.m.-Operatic.

WRONG.

Customs Officials Would

Look at the Baby,

Co., Ltd., P. & O. Building, 11 a.m.

March 29-China Entertainment & Land Investment Co., Ltd., extra-| ordinary meeting. King's Theatre Building, 12.15 p.m.

March 24-China Provident Loan & Mortgage Co., Ltd., Exchange Building, noon.

March 30-Hong Kong Fire In- surance Co., Ltd., Mesara. Jardine's offices, noon.

"May I take a peep at the baby ?" asked a courteous German Customs official when a christening party- several men wearing top hats and a March 81-Green Island Cement woman-marched up to the frontier Co., Ltd., Exchange Building, Des post at Bocholt, near Aix-la-Vœux Road, noon. Chapelle.

April 19-China Entertainment & "Certainly not," retorted the Land Investment Co., Limited,

extraordinary woman indignantly.

meeting, King's But the Customs official peeped all Theatre Building, 5th floor, noon.. the same. Madame Butterfly Fantasie (Puccini), charming christening robe, was no And there, muffled inside the Victor Symphony Orchestra. Aida-Fantasie (Verdi arr. Tavan), baby but a large box packed with

Marek Weber & His Orchestra. į cigarettes.

Die

Intermezzo and Les Dragons d'Akala

(Bizet),

Gypsy Dance (Bizet),

Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.

Fledermaus-The Bat-You and The whole party were taken into

You-Waltz (Johann Strauss),

which istain.

10.30 p.m.-Close Down.

in the

SWIMMING POOL IN THE DESERT.

15,000 Years Old Engineering Feat.

An announcement was made Inst. month of the latest discovery of on this incident, the Oxford Field Museum expedi- Daily Telegraph, tion in Iraq. A fifteen thousand year old palace of the Sassanian A story of perfidz-comes-from Kings was excavated in the middle Cologne a little too late to be re- of the desert. Its most startling ferred to by Sir Herbert Samuel In feature is a magnificent swimming his presentation of the peril of pool 45 feet wide. It is brick-1 tariffs. A mother with her baby lined, and the flow of water was sought to cross the frontier from provided for by varying ground! Belgium into Germany, explaining levels, which gives evidence of high that the infant was to be christened engineering skill.

custody. They turned out to be Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

notorious gang of The dominant note in every pie and Health,

10.20-10.25 p.m.-A record by members of a with Key to the Mr. Stenson Cooke on "The Road, smugglers. Lare directed by Raoul Walsh, Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, Act" now in force in Great Bri- Commenting whose latest Fox production, "TheSubstance is that Yellow

(This record is kindly loan-E.C.B., at the eternal and incapable of discord and ed by the Hong Kong Automobile, says: King's Theatre to-day, is realism-decay. Truth, Life, and Love are Association). His people must be true to type, his substance as the Scriptures use this scenes must be authentic in local word in Hebrews: "The substance colour, even the accents of those of things hoped for, the evidence of portraying people of foreign lands things

not keen." Spirit, the must be perfect.

synonym of Mind, Soul, or God, is Before starting production of the only real substance. The "The Yellow Ticket," which features spiritual universe, including indivi- the glamorous Elissa Landi, Lionel dual man, is a compound ides, re- Harrymore and Laurence Olivier, ducting the divine substance of Walsh scoured Hollywood and its Spirit." (p. 468). environs for real Russians to play the extra and "bit" roles in the pic- ture which is filmed against a back- ground of Imperial Russia.

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