THE CHINA HALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER
UNUSUAL FACTS REVEALED by "Movie Spotlight"
LOIS WILSON, SCREEN STAR, INTRO- DUCED THE ENGLISH GAME OF BADMINTON—SIMILAR TO LAWN TENNIS BUT PLAYED WITH A
SHUTTLECOCK-TO HOLLYWOOD
FRANK BORZAGE DIRECTOR OF COLUMBIAS NO SREATER GLORY": HAS BEEN AWARD- ED MORE CUPS AND MEDALS FOR I EXCELLENT DIREC- TION THAN ANY MAN,
IN
HOLLY-
WOOD
WHEN FERENC MOLNAR FAM- CONS NOVELIST AND PLAYWRIGHT, WORKS DURING
THE DAY HE DRAWS THE
CURTAINS AND TURNS ON THE LIGHT
TO SIMULATE NIGHT TIME.
THE MOTION "PICTURE IN- DUSTRY IS ONE OF THE LARGEST CONSUMERS OF AMERICAN COTTON-COTTON IS THE RAW MATERIAL FROM WHICH FILM IS MADE
"No Greater Glory," a Columbia picture, will be shown at the Alhambra Theatre to-day. It stars Lois Wilson and George Breakston.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
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LAVAL CABINET'S FATE
STILL IN BALANCE
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HERRIOT TO RESCUE
the mobile guard has been great- increased, with the object of en- abling effective measures to be
Despite the menaces of the taken against 237 1020 11.0g | Left-wing factions the consensus {bances,
of opinion yesterday evening apUnion pears to have been that M. Laval
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The following quotations from Lon.
were received last night be- reen 5.30 pm and 10.30 pm. Silver Spot 29 (last close), 29% Clast recd.), unchanged.
Silver Forward 28% (last close). 28% (last red.), unchanged.
Silver Report: America bought India sold. Market quietly steady.
Liverpool Cotton-Jantary: 6.39 (last close), 6:47 (last red.), .06 up (change).
Liverpool Wheat-December: 6/011⁄2 (last close), 6/0 (last recd.), 1/2 down)
London
(change) Pubber-April-June (623- ers) 6 7/16 (last close), 6% (last) reed.), 1/16 down (change).
London Rabber at noon. (buyers)
67/16 (last recd.).
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only because it reads nicely in And then, from out of nowhere, type. If you want my honest along came Tominy. He was reaction, she'd have been better, good-looking kid who was act- off if Tommy had given her plen-ling as a cashier in a Broadway ty of air. And my reasons are night club. If he had five dollars in his pocket at one time, he felt very simple.
A cutie such as Jane should as though he were dragging the have fallen in love with dough mint around with him Why? Fll tell you She hadn't He was as close to Jane's idea known anything but poverty as of wealth as a polar bear is to long as she lived, which wasn't the equator But love snickers at very long if you say it swiftly. philosophies, as the saying goes; She started as a telephone operand when it comes to emotion, ator, but that fancy map of hers nothing succeeds like excess. - I looked far too good in a mirror think Tm a trife mixed up in that Tel 20155.
one particular maxim. but it doesn't She went into a dance hall
the make much difference because it ight, rolled those eyes at manager and the very next all boils down to one thing day she changed from bers to rhumbas.
מנית
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Singing Seats,' A. D. Divine.
A few months of that, and shej was searching for bigger and better things Chorus work "look- ed good to her, and all she had to do was to answer a call One of New York's most expert produc- ers picked her out of the line in- mediately. And boom! Before her honest old father could get. sober enough to argue with her. And he was so nuts about her she was out on the road with a that his heart forced off a vest musical comedy troupe.
button every time her rame was
Janie was daffy about Tommy.
It wasn't long before she had mentioned. developed a definite philosophy.“
The wise men say that love con-
"I'm staying straight until I get quers all. All what, is what I married," she informed one her friends in the chorus.
of want to know? Here were two! "Not kids who were completely in love
with each other. The only thing for them to do would be to get: married immediately. They could
street diatur LATE PRINCESS then be divorced in a short time
created by the Fascist
La Mame, the departments and
stands a good chance of weather sections of the gendarmerie, that ing the storm. The brunt of the
is the country's constabulary, on M. Herriot, have already arrived. All these work again falls who is expected to save the day emergency troops have been sup- by obtaining his party's agreplied with 47 rifle cartridges and ment to a resolution which, while 200 ride and revolver ballets per demanding vigorous action against:
the leagues, will express confidence that the Government will not fail
At the upheaval at Limoges re-
VICTORIA
Royal Engagements Cancelled
WORLD-WIDE MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY RECEIVED
London, To-day.
and live happily ever after. All very simple. But as Janie pat it, on what were they going to {get married?
Not a bad question when you ¡come to think it over. Tommy wasn't making enough money to pay the first instalment or a re-l frigerator, disregarding the fact that he'd have no place to put it if he did have a refrigerator. Janie was earning fifty dollars a
cently, a professional revolution- The death early yesterday of week. But with show business in to take the pecessary measures ary of foreign nationality. was the King's sister, Princess Vica state of nervous prostration, for preserving order.
Paris Garrisons
Augmented
POLITICAL DISTURBANCES
CAUSE ALARM
matter Ishot dead, but the
was toria, is mourned by the whole ber job might end before you hushed up by the Socialist mayor nation and messages of condol could say: "Standing Room Only-"
the town.
Momentous Debate Opens In Paris
ence from all parts of the world So what? Well, believe it or have been received by their not, my friends, these two charm- Majesties the King and Queening people turned to a racket for Land by His Majesty's only sur-additional funds. They meant no Absolutely viving sister Queen Mand of harm by the racket Paris: Tense excitement pre- Norway, who is at present stay-one. All they wanted was sui- ficient money to get married and ing at Sandringham.
Princess Victoria's death was start a little home.
a bulletin which
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Paris: The garrison at Paris vailed in the Chamber yesterday has been strengthened by numer-afternoon when the long awaited ous reinforcements of cavalry and debate on the Festist Unions be announced in infantry from, the provinces, also an on the demand of the Left stated that Her Highness had a
wing parties, who declare that peaceful death. veka
The Princess, who was 67 years.
DRAWING FOR "DONKEY"
St. Vincent De Paul Bazaar
they will be satisfied with nothing old, was never robust and since less than the prompt dissolution of the death of her mother, Queen all the Right-wing organisations, Alexandra, of whom she was the jand above all the Fire Crossers.
If this demand is not complied constant companion, she has led a retired life in a small Bucking- with the Left-wing are prepared hamshire village, in the affairs of to overthrow the Government of M. Laval. The first interpellator, which she took a lively interest
The funeral will take place at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Cas
The drawing for the "Donkey" in a long and fiery speech, st and the two consolation prizes in tempted to prove that all the Wall Sect is expected to open a connection with the bazaar organ- Right-wing organisations wortle, on Saturday morning, the ser- the Royal Family and personal Rubber market ised on November 3 by the Society hostile to the state. He admitted vice being confined to members of
·will be dependent on the quote af St. Vincent de Paul resulted as that his most cherished with waskriends. Simmultaneously a memor
little stead ex
The trend of the
nouncement.
will probably
“the Wheat market open steady.
Cotton prices are expected to rule higher with market bullish. Egyptian advices are good. Gianings to date is. 86 per cent. tenderable as agzinst -99 per cent. last year. Good grades
of cotton are scarce.
GRUESOME FIND IN CAR
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In the luggage compartment of the car which he bought for scrap metal, Mr. Virgil Reynolds, to his horror found a woman's
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the dissolution of the Fire Crosscrsial service will be held in the which the Left-wing saw as a per Chapel Royal, St. James' Palace, ticnlarly powerful and dangerous London. organisation.
GON HIM; LAVAL BLAMED
The Court will wear, mourning
The so-called private meetings for six weeks for the late Frin- of the Fire Crossers, said the cess, changing to balf-mourning
Prizes can be obtained at the speaker, really amounted to milijon December 24.
Toy Department at Messrs. Lanetary invasions. He laid all blame FUNCTIONS ABANDONED Grawford Ltd., to whom the So
the upheavals Limoges at The engagements of members
ciety's thanks are tendered for the the door of the Fire Croasers, and of the Royal Family have been
kind courtesy extended.
KWANGTUNG COAL MINES
TO BE OPENED
Canton, To-day-The Provi Government is now Isteps to open: the eas Feeling sure he had come upon, Yeong Mooi San. another horrible mutilation, not the capital will be der, he went to the police. both from the
heir enquiries, however, re from merchants or -vealed that the size had been the Government still
property of a medical stu tion undecided. It who had used it in a surgery
and left it in the car by wit
Renter
say that cancelled on account of the death was really responsible, far of Princess Victoria” and
the
a confederate of state opening of Parliament ar ranged for yesterday morning was
ised the abandoned, the King's speech be
ing read in the House
by the Lord Chancellor
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