1935-03-21 — Page 9

IDENTIFICATION COMPETITION

NOT A STAR OF

THE

SCREEN THIS TIME

Here is the third of the series of masked faces for identification. This one is the director of the film "Broadway Bill," which is coming to the Queen's Theatre on Saturday week.

THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1935.

FORMER US. NEWSPAPER EXECUTIVE IN COLONY

Major R. K. Strassman Leaving For America On Saturday

Major R. K. - Strassman,

formerly a noted figure in the

American, nawspaper “world, arrived in Hong Kong yesterday from Singapore by the ss. Corfu. Major Strassman, who is a member of the officers' re serva corps of the United States Army, was publisher of the Red Book Magazine" and affiliated magazines for 28 years

He was also manager of the "Chicago Tribute" for some years, later becoming the manag- ing executive for Mr. William Randolph Hearst's publication, the American Weekly, which" is Mr. Hearst's largest property.

ME Strassman, sails...” for America on Saturday by the, 8,8. President Hoover.

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

Society Organising

Flower Day.

A DESERVING CHARITY

To-day's Short Story:

Police At Festy Lenihan's

he

By Nina Conarain

half-door and John Joe the western road to sit with him in HERE was a fumbling at the the flaming, sunlit flag-stones of

Mannion came in. For a while his peaceful, womanless home;" to he was not able to speak. He talk and talk, to drink and drink, atood on the threshold, his hand until their cares and their senses pressed to his heaving chest. were quite dissolved in the mellow He was a forlorn looking, chin-flow of the lovely potation. Fosty less youth. His big mouth was found it congenial to be the un- hanging open, his dark hair lay in official publican of Inishoole.

a wet tongue across his forehead, Now he stood before John Joe

and his high cheek bones stuck out broken and trembling, his wrinkled,

of his thin face like the haunches monkeyish face grey with anxiety,

you would see on a starved cow.

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The Screen's No. 1 Singer Singing 1935's Ace Songs

"WITH EVERY BREATH I-TAKE

This three tufts of beard quivering} "LOVE IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER".

"Festy," he wheezed. "Festy on his chin, his usually" crafty,| There's a boat-load of Guards" com- twinkling little eyes dimmed over ing out from the mainland. on a with sudden tears. + 129.

potheen raid." He slumped into a "This is the end of me, John chair, adding that he had run all Joe," he whispered, weakly, “This the way from the town to bring the is my death."

news.

"Ah, not at all." John

Joe

now,

Old Festy Lenihan started up rallied him in a tone of exaggerated from his fireside seat at John Joe's heartiness. "Take 2 sup first words, stuffed his crutch under Festy, to bring you out of the shock,

his arm,

and took two hobbling and I'll tell you what I made up in alepe across the room. Having my mind and I tearing and racing made this show of prompt action he to you along the road." appeared to abandon all hope and "You are a good boy, John Jos, drooped in the middle of the floor, a It is yourself maybe who could do pathetic figure.

with a sup as well?

If there was one

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on the man

"I'm destroyed with the, hurry- Island of Inishoole to whom Johning," John Joe admitted, plaintively. Joe's tidings meant misfortune, it With drinks before them they sat The public generally will have an was Featy. In his lonely mountain at the table. By the time Featy opportunity of assisting one of the house, three miles from the harbour had come to the three sky-blue rings This gentleman-not'a screen star-is one of acreenland's biggest Colony's most deserving causes on town, he made a good living from at the bottom of his mug, hope was "riames!" He made "Submarine," "Dirigible" and many other hits the morning of Saturday, March 30, the brewing of illicit whisky. An beginning to stir in him.

"It might be they wouldn't get such as "American Madness," "Lady For Day" and "It Happened when a street sale of flower emblems injury to a leg in early manhood One Night, all sensational "auccesses, which brought him great screen will be held in aid of the Society hindered him from the strenuous out this far at all, John Jos." fame. His latest Columbia hit, "Broadway Bill," comes soon, to the for the Protection of Children. toll of the farmer or flaherman; he "Now let that notion out of your Queen's Theatre. Identify him, and five other stara being shown daily The event is being organised by had been driven to find this easier head straight away," John Joe said, in the China Mail, and win tickets for his latest triumph. Write 50 the Women's Auxiliary of the Sway of keeping himself.

firmly. "Don't you know as well as ciety.

Unkind and 'mostly feminine meself there will be plenty of busy. The Society is in urgent need of tongues said the injury was long bodies to make the road sasy for money with which to carry on its since heated and Festy's crutch was them. There isn't a woman in the work for the sick and destitute but the badge of his incurable lazi-place but would be glad to see you! children of the Colony. Since its ness. - However that might be, in trouble."

words about each personality, if possible.

When you have completed the set of six, send them, with your full name and address, to the Contest Editor, China Mail. You may win one, or possibly two, dress circle tickets to the Queen's Theatre. (TWO OTHER CONTESTS APPEAR ON PAGE 11.)

CHILD STEALING

CHARGE AGAINST

CHINESE WIDOW

Two Children Enticed Away By Promises Of Oranges

DEFENDANT PLEADS "NOT

GUILTY"

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Four Winners Of Theatre Tickets

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foundation in 1930, the Society has Festy was popular enough. Even Women," said Festy, bitterly, investigated no fewer than 8,488 ing after evening the men of the "is the beginning and ending of all casen, involving the welfare of over island would make their way along misery since pour Adam let Eve out

6,500 children..

Last year, the Society secured

medical treatment for nearly 600

sick children and provided milk or HEROIN HAUL

other food, for 748. It also main-1 tained nineteen destitute children

An exceptionally large number in institutions and provided medica! of solutions to the Crossword Puz-supplies and milk foods for the zle Competition, which appeared Children's Hospital at Shamshuipo, | In yesterday's editions, were 're-which dealt with 8,627 patients. ceived from readers.

The senders of the first" four.

correct solutions were Miss M. Cinema Notes

A Chinese widow, Cheung Kam, Wu, No. 3, Bowling Street (top

alias Shok Pat, pleaded not guilty floor); Miss B. Moses, Co. Messrs. (Continued from Page.3.)

Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith, Assis tant Crown Solicitor appeared on behalf of the Crown.

em-

The following was the correct aplution:-

'i

MADE BY POLICE

ON MOTOR BUS

40,000 Pills Carried By Unemployed

$1,000 FINE IMPOSED

of his sight for a couple of minutes In the Garden of Eden. I tell you what it is, Jóhn Joe------”.

"Not to be interrupting you, Festy, we haven't the time to be talking about Adam and Eve. If

you go out on the high road you will see the steamer already and the little smoke of it making a cloud inļ the east.".

"Oh, wirrah, wirrah! I am a |ruined man,” ́Festy groaned...

"There's no call for you to beļ ruined at all. Listen to me, now. Do you know those two big, long

On being found guilty of having sugar-boxes you got from the shop

ning.

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to a charge of child stealing with McDonnell and Gorman, No. 881, people is to throw off the yoke of others, to wit a Chinese baby, Exchange Building; Mr. W. Weng-Czarism. She dedicates her life to 40,000 heroin pills in his possession to make into a hen coop?” Leung Chi-tung, aged:3, and a him, No. 334, Nathan Road (first the cause. She sacrificos every-on

board Bus No. 83 in Festy said he knew the boxes Chinese girl, Leung Ki, aged 13, on floor); and Mr. A. Agafuroff, c/o thing in her devotion to

the re-Fuk Wah Street on March very well. December 12, 1934, when she ap. S. E. Levy and Company. No. 7, voltionary leaders. When love for 12, Wong Siu, A 20-year- "Well, there you are. You have peared, before His Honour the Ice House Street.

the "British Agent" anters into old unemployed, was fined $1,000, in the solution of the whole trouble. Pulane Judge, Mr. R. E. Lindsell Two complimentary tickets for her life, she accepts it because she default six months imprisonment, If we were to knock those boxes at the Criminal Session this mor the "British Agent" at the Alham- cannot help herself, but she never by Mr, A. W. G. H. Grantham at one into the other we would have a ning.

bra Theatre have been sent to each lowers the banner she is carrying the Kowloon Magistracy this mor- very good imitation of a coffin." of the above persons.

for her countrymen.

John Joe's eyes were glistening То her lover, England", comes. Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for the with the creative artist's pride. He first; to her Russia. Enemies to defence, while Sergeant Channings, held up his hand to check Festy's the last, even in each other's arms, of the Shamshuipo Police Station, unbelieving retort. "If you will she plays a part that makes her was in charge of the prosecution. listen to me now we will diddle the centre of the British Agent's MUM E

In outlining the case Sgt. Chan-every peeler in the length and difficulties. HT ACTION AN

ninga stated that at about 8 a.m. on breadth of Ireland. Waan't thera TOR HISS LAP

Leslie. Howard, Irving Pichel, March 12 he was in charge of a plc- many a funeral in the times of the Walter Byron, and William Gar-ket party at the junction of Fuk Trouble that was no funeral at all, gan are featured,

Wah Street and Tai Po Road, when and didn't a priest at Cloons- "CHARLIE CHAN IN LONDON" Bus No. 83, which was on No. 9 croghery, a first cousin of my -ORIENTAL THEATRE route came along Tai Po Road from brother-in-law, read a whole string the direction of the New Territories of prayers over a coffin-load of guna Warner Oland makes another and was stopped by the police. at that time, aye, and bury them return to the Oriental Theatre, as

Did Not Have Keys.

in the sacred earth of the church- the famous Chinese detective, in A Chinese constable, D.247, yard like they were, some Chris- Fox Film's "Charlie Chan In Lon: boarded the second-class section, of tian?”........ don."

The following Jury were panelled:-Mesars. S. Hope (Fore- man), P.P. Archipoff, Edgar Lewis, Chung Kwan-ting, D. V. Lopes, J., E. J. Walker, "and Lee Jiek-ting.

The defendant in answer to the charge said, "It was not me, I was only employed by another woman as a coolie."

Opening Address

In opening the case for the pre-{ secution, Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith;

charge, child

said the present.

stealing, was

a very rare occur-

rence in England, but unfortunate-

ly it frequently happened in China.

BRITISHAGENT

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GOA HINT NEE ET SONORA AN HAUN ALA T TENPERANENTS

In stealing the small children, LOCAL ESTATE

the abductor deprived the father of

the custody of his children, and for this offence the maximum penalty was seven years.

Portuguese Resident Leaves $40,200

"

The father and mother of the small, baby lived at No. 266 Tai Chun Nea Ching, of Lane No, 881 Nam Street, Shamshuipo, while of Tientung Road, Shanghai, who Leung KI, the giri, 'was an orphan 'died on August 2, 1985, left local adopted by the father and mother estate valued at $22,500, of the baby.

On December 12, 1984, the mother use and benefit, have been granted

the bus and saw the defendant alt-"Is it wrong in the head you Drue Loyton again portrays the ting opposite the entrance, with a are?" Festy asked, wearily, - role of the romantic lead oppce brown leather suit-case at his feet, "It is not." said John Joe, quite te Ray Millanda. Other notables and a card-board shoe box under his unoffended. "What have you In In the cast are Mona Barrie, Alan right arm. On being questioned de- the house that might - Incriminatë Mowbray, Murray Kinnell, Doug-fendant said he owned the suit-case, you?” gjen „ las Walton, Walter Johnson, E. E but atated that he did not have the Clive, George Barraud, Madge Bel keys. lamy, and David Torrence.

(Continued on Page 7)

"I've the worth of a hundred pound fine in it, or maybe a year in Kukellan Gaol There's a new bagi of malt, maybe half-a-dozen jars of potheen. There's a quantity of the stuff not bottled at all; and, of

Letters of administration for the P. I. British Consul-General course, there's the still Steelf. Now

of the baby was taken ill and the to H. J. Armstrong, solicitor, the In H.K. Following Retirement

what have you to say?!!

“We can throw the still out in girl, carrying the baby on her back, lawful attorney.

the bracken. The rest we can put went out into the street to play. Carlos Augusto Savard Remedios,

into the coffin. I'll get a few of Promise of Oranges late of No. 9 Humphrey's Avenue, Mr. Thomas Harrington, British; "I never give interviews. It is the lads and we'll carry it down the The defendant was then alleged Kowloob, who died on December 22 for the past 15 years, who is now rington in a tone of finality. grand police. It will be the salest Consul-General for the Philippines against my rule," said Mr. Hary road right under the noses of me to have approached them and to 1984, left local estate valued at have admired the little boy, and, $40,200.

retiring from the consular service, Mr. Harrington and his family thing in the world to let on we are with the promise of buying them

arrived in the Colony yesterday will leave here, by the Empress for going down to the cemetery with some oranges, took them to a house been granted to Ignes Maria Savard the R.M.3. Empress of Japan. Mr. travel by rall across Canada. They All we have to do will be to walk

Probale in the above estate has afternoon, en route to England by Vancouver from where they will some poor corpae in Shamshulpo, where she washed Remedios, widów, them and clothed them.

Harrington, who has been in the will then return to England where round a few of the roads until the The defendant was then alleged where taken to Cheng Tai, a fourth Orient for nearly 40 years, is ac- they will establish their new home Guards are satisfied there is noth- to have met two other women and woman in the case.

companied by his wife and daugh-in Lontion king this house. They will, be the three females, carrying the girl

MANA Mr. A. P. Blunt, acting-consul in forced to hurry, back to the steamer and the baby, went to the Kowloon The girl would also tell the court Met by a China Mall, representa Manila, has been appointed to for the tide, and there you will be Railway Station where they em how the defendant sold her to a tive on board the liner yesterday succeed Mr. Harrington as Consul with your boxes for the Lencoop, barked on a train for an unknown woman called Wong Chik-nam for Mr. Harrington refused to answer General Mr Blunt has been in and your stock of potheen, saved to destination, management a sum of nearly $200,- any questions concerning his long the British consular service for

The girl, lo her evidence, would The girl lived with Wong Chik stay in the Far East he experience about 30 years. He began serving you Sure it will be no bother tell the Court that they subsequent- nam, while the baby, remained with in regard to the consular, service, as a student interpreter In China ly arrived at Walchow Clty, and Cheng Tafe

1 for present day conditions

Sold for $200

that she and her little step-brother (Continued on Page 7)

in 1905

(Continued on Pare" 10)

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