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BONNEY POWELL BACK AGAIN

To Complete "Magic Carpet" Film

CHAIR COOLIE HONOURED

Mr. Bonney Powell, "see": cameraman for Fox Films, who

: visited the Colony in October.

and made about 100,000 feet of film for the "Magic Carpet” picture of the Colony, returned to the Colony from Shanghai yesterday by the ss President Cleveland to make the final shots before returning to Hollywood

Mr. Powell has been considerably handicapped as a result of an acei- dent in Manila. when he sustained a broken ankle. He is now obliged. to go about his business with an encimmons cast on his foot. When the final pictures have been made Mr. Powell will then have 15,000 feet of films of Hong Kong in his Of this only 1,000 possession.

feet will be used in the actual pic- tare. which, when screened, wäll rum for about 10 minutes.

Our representative. when he in- .terviewed Mr. Powell at the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday. suggested that this appeared to be en enor- mous waste of m: The camera- man replied that although many of the shots he had taken would not. appear in the "Magic Carpet”-pic- ture they would very likely be used fater on as a background for other pictures with Hong Kong or China for their location.

Every Conceivable Angle Mr. Powell stated that so far hel had photographed Hong Kong from every conceivable angle. He had taken shots of the Harbour

from the Peak and life on the har-

bour in junks. For this he hired a-junk and filmed every man OGUETE from the sailing till the momesti the ssil was lowered at the end of

Some women da noc Wke to follow any particular style trend or mode, so for them there is the costume gown. Mar- guerite Churchill, screen setzess. illustrates it with a smart model in marine bine crinkly satin with a straight lined skirt and rip- pling cascade Bounce down the. front.

FOUR-POWER BLOC

IN NEAR EAST

Turkey Negotiates With Afghanistan

Istanbul, To-day.

--THE CHINA HALS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

SHIRLEY TEMPLE HONOURED

President Sends Signed Photo To Baby Star

Hollywood: President Roose volt has sent a signed photograph of himsel to Stanley Temple.

To Shirley Temple from Franklin D. Roosevelt,” is the inscription on the photograph, which shows the President seated at his desk.

Today's Short Story.

I Think It Was Schenectady

1936

By Walter R Brooks

TELL' it was up in Roches-time Mr. Pringle saw his daugh-

** ter or one of those up-ter aime, there were a good many

State cities there was a man battles over Mr. Crane But Mr. named John Pringle.. He was Pringle never got anywhere.

But at last Mr. Pringle said to president of Pringle and Co. and he had a daughter named Miss himself. If I go on like this she Caroline Pringle. Miss Pringle will marry this fibbertigibbet and could not spell and she did not so he put his foot down and said

MME. MASSON'S know what the capital of Ohio

RECITAL

Another Enjoyable Evening

BEAUTIFUL PLAYING OF BACH AND CHOPIN

was but she had ash blonde hair with a natural wave and an impudent nose and the pret- tiest legs in Utica if that was the town. So there was always" something going on at the Pringle house.

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Seated-One Day At The `Organ,” by Walter -Brooks.

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Now Mr. Pringle wanted his daughter to marry Mr. Zenas Crosby an elderly lawyer with no she must announce her engage conscience and a great deal of ment to Mr. Crosby. And when Madame Madalah Masson money. Mr. Crosby was a good she just laughed he went and gave another most enjoyable lawyer all right. Whenever he called up Mr. Croaby and then he piano recital last evening at the saw another lawyer in Syracuse called up the newspaper office Helena May Institute before alor whatever the town was getting | And the next morning Mr. most appreciative audience a lot of business he would take Crane read two things that he which included His Excellency him into into partnership and did not "like" The first was in·· the Governor and Sir Thomas then after a year or so the part-the newspaper and it said A mar- and Lady Southern.

nership would dissolve and the Tiage has been announced and} The peculiarly attractive quali other lawyer would go into bank-will shartly take place between ties of her playing were partica-ruptcy Or sanatorium. But Miss Caroline Pringle and Mr. larly in evidence in the D flat Miss Pringle did not like Mr. Zenas Crusby. And the second Berceuse of Chopin, which was out Crosby much-because he always was a slip from the bank and it and away the best played item on talked about mortgages and de-said Your services will no longer the programme. All Madame Mas-cisions and his hands were cold be required.

(Continued on Page 10) son's delicacy of touch and her And also she was in love with a Jaccomplished, technique were in it, Mr. Freddy. Crane who was just!.......

to provide an outstanding cameo out of Yale and had a small job of how these things should be in a bank. done.

Mr. Crane was a sort of aver-

The other items which particu-age young man. He tried to help friends and injure his larly appealed to us were both en-his cores not on the actual programme enemies but it didn't always, work and they were a transcription of out because he was constantly a Bach Chorale and two Sonatinas, mistaking the one for the other. Madame Masson, especially in the He was the kind of man who is Bach, being restrained and ac-always trying to kill two birds | curate, and producing a âne sing-with one stone-but-only-succeeds

tone

in injuring both of them. He was

Of her 16th and 17th century that kind of young man. But group of offerings the Ane Gigue Miss Pringle thought he was won- was full of fun and the Gluck derful ¡Gavotte of à spacious dignity.

CHILDREN CONFESS TO CRIME CAREER

Wholesale Robberies Admitted

Well Mr. Pringle did not ap- the journey. He had taken 2

Memorable also was the second prove of Mr. Crane and when he sequence of the Empress of Japan)

movement of the B flat minor heard Mr. Crane ring the doorbell sailing, with a view of the bow and

Chopin Sonata, Chasing "Rush which was nearly every evening a few sampans and junks in the

Hour in Hong Kong" (a really he Hid. And at Sunday break- foreground for contrast He did

President Kemal Ataturk, dur- delicious fragment, this), and the fast, which was about the only not neglect Hong Kong's night life either, and filmed the Hong Keng ing a prolonged talk with the final encore, that charming caprice, Hotel dinner dance one Saturday Afghan Foreign Minister, discuss "The Little White Donkey." In The fact, Madame Massco coce znate night. In addition be has takened with the latter plans for numerous views of the Lido, and creation of a political bloc embrac- displayed her undoubted gifts and

Irak ing Turkey,

Iran and was again most generous with her the Repulse Bay Hotel.

Hiring a chair be installed his Afghanistan, according to a report encores. She is always sure of a received here from Ankara, which warm-welcome-in Hong Kong, and camera and traversed the length adds that the aim of the new poli-the large number of bouquets hand- of Lagard Road taking many Pitical combine is the formation ofed up to her in the interval tenisy tures of the city while the chair.

A "united front" in foreign poli-to the place she holds among local bobbed up and down. Turning the tical affairs, in order to co-ordinate music-lovers

Madame Masson was very badly camera around be secured an ex-

the foreign policy of the four coun- cellent picture of the rear coolie

served by her instrument, which tries. carrying his burden.

was vilely out of tune. It is real Melbourne: Two brothers, aged Political quarters here stress the ly not fair to ask an artist of her nine and eleven, confessed to Best In World

a children's necessity of such a common pelicy calibre to play under these cand career of crime in Mr. Powell believes that Hore for the four States in view of the tions; and more: it is hardly com-court at Melbourne.

international tension. plimentary. To have the astru- They admitted: Kong has, the most beautiful har- present bour in the world. This is indeed-Trans-Ocean Service.

a tribute, as in his present capacity

he has had opportunities of visit-

ing most of the ports of the world

and is therefore in a better posiMR. BALDWIN BACK

tion to judge than most people. He thinks that Hong-Kong is more; beautiful than Rio because there are many more attractions.

IN LONDON

ment gone over by a tuner before a public recital is surely not very] much to ask Something/finust be done about this.

The following was the complete programme:-- Minnet in G major

...... Purcell Gique in G major

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U.S. Under-Secretary To old French

Pays Visit

Questioned regarding the ex- pease of making a film such as thei

London, To-day. oze he is engaged upon at present

The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Mr. Powell replied that making à picture of Hong Kong had been Baldwin, who returned to Down cheaper than the usual rum as the ing Street on Monday, yesterday Government had given considerable continued consultations with

As a rule ministerial colleagues preparatory financial assistance. however, the "Magic Carpet" series to the meeting of the Cabinet next were the costliest of all the film week.

"shorts."

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Gavottes Composer Unknmun Gavotte in D major Sonata in E flat minor,

-Op. 35.

Grave. Doppiomovimento. Scherzo. -Marche Funebre.

Presto. Intermezzo in E flat, Op.

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POLICE PUZZLED

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Bobbing morze than a dozen automatic cigarette and cho- colate machines of the contents) and coins at seven suburban railway stations."

Stealing clothing and money. from a school.

Robbing four tills.

Previous convictions for shop-breaking.

Only six months ago they were bound over after being convict- Chopined of shopbreaking. Since then the raids on automatic machines at zailway stations had puzzled the police, who were looking for older pilferers.

(Inspired by an old Scottish folk song).

The boys made the error of bay- Brahma |ing themselves smart new clothes: The police knew that they belong- ed to a poor family of eleven and that their father was out of Schumann work, and inquiries brought about

their arrests

"People often forgot that The American Under-Secretary after the film had been made the for State, Mr. William Phillips, Three Frantasie Stucke from editing and cutting were still who is in London in connection

Op 12 very expensive items.

Scaring. Why?

Entry Info Pictures

Explaining how he had first en-Wireless Service. tered the picture business he stated that in 1922 he was in the US. Navy on board a ship which was sent to Smyrna to protect Ameri- tionals during one of the

Greco izrish wars."

"Minstrels"

with the Naval Conference, was also one of the Premier's visitors yesterday afternoon. British Whims

Debussy

The Flaxen-Haired

Girl

Debussy

$525 PAID FOR STAMP

“Bush Hour in Hong

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Chasins

Chopin

use in D fat,

Chopin

in F minor,

A rare King Edward

While there he and a friend ob- tained permission to photograph dated 1902 and overprinted some of the scenes of American Official," was sold at Harmer blue-jackets assisting in divers Bond-street, for £525.

The brothers have been sent te a reform home for six months

BABY PYTHONS AT LONDON ZOO

Five Survivors Of Forty Eggs

Five baby pythons, Chopin long and very short 4

occupy a diursery ing House at the Zoo. survivors of 40 egys anake, and care the find that have been

3,000 Bottles Of 'Fizz'

ways when the trouble starter. This was later issued as propa" ganda to convince the Middle West farmers of the United States of the usefulness of the Navy, in times of peace As a result of this. he met many people who were in- terested in films and from that revel point onwards he became connect-mobile ed with the business.

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