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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 3rd, 1928.

|NAVAL FILM AT THE ROUND THE POLICE THE ETERNAL

QUEEN'S.

BATTLES OF CORONEL AND FALKLAND ISLANDS.

A WONDERFUL BRITISH ACHIEVEMENT.

SUPREME AS AN ENTERTAIN. MENT.

[BY OUR FILM CRITIC]

Much has been written here of

the wonderful film of the British Navy The Battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands." Statistics of all sorts have been published and some daseription of the purpose and manner of making of the film. But 1 havo hero to view it not in the light of a patriotic achievement but of an entertainment, and as such it stands supreme. Never has any fim been so packed with interest; there is not a single moment when your attention wanders and every tiny detail is enormously significant. It would be asking too much of the Alm industry to expect that as much care should go to the making of every film, and too much of cinema goers to expect them to like auch Alms as their daily fare, but it is on auch films as these that the cinema can base its claim to serious consideration.

Some of the scenes of the ships at sea are pictorially very beautiful, and the roles of the famous persons connected with the naval actions pictured are splendidly taken. The illusion that you are witnessing what actually occurred during the war, seeing the ships in action and Lord Fisher, Winston" and the Ad mirals in the flesh is almost perfect. The spirit of the fim is as fae As any other part of the production, There is no bitterness or hymn of hate in the struggle between the opposed navies, but the spirit which has made our forces glorious in their uncomplaining and unvaunt- ing heroism

Land Of Hope And Glory." The assistance given by the Misses A. and D. Woods to the programme has proved as welcome and success. ful as it was in the case of 7th Heaven." One of them is singing at each performance “Land of Hope and Glory," and Miss A. Woods entrance at 5.10 house yesterday was the signal for thunderous ap plause.

series moving pictures The song is accompanied by a appropriate to the words «which appear above them word by word. These pictures show England in all her aspects. Childhood by the sen, rolling downs, green meadow land, London, the first her shores. The fighting forces and the voices of the Misses Woods are particularly well suited to German's setting of the song and they are well able to fill the Queen's. The sing ing of the chosus which was taken up yesterday by the whole audience was extraordinarily impressive.

COURTS.

POLICE INFORMER

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SENTENCED.

SIX MONTHS AND TWENTY"

STROKES.

FELLOW OFFENDER

ABSCONDS.

TRIANGLE.

42 ELOPES WITH .36.

ELDERLY CHINESE LOVERS.

THEIR QUEER OCCUPATION.

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Charges of reducing and harbour. ing a married Chinese woman aged #2 were made yesterday afternoon at the Central Magistracy before Major C. Willson against a Chinese named

Before Mr. B. E, Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday after- noona hawker with the side line"

Kwan Yuen (30), The employment of police informer was woman was also charged with un sentenced to labour and twenty strokes of the the woman admitted the offence.

six months' hard faithfulness towards her husband. The man pleaded not guilty but birch.

Mr. E. H. Williams, of the Secre- Inspector A. J. W. Dorling aptariat for Chinese Affairs van-

ducted the prosecution. peared for the prosecution. It will be remembered that the defendant | and a district watchman who was also an ex-policeman made demands for bribes from two refugees from Swatow, under the throat of arrest ing them as Communists. They took the refugees' belongings and in prisoned them in a fat at Third Street, West Point, for three days.

Mr. Williams said that the com- plainant was part owner of a knit- He was married to the second de ting factory in Honam, Canton.. fendant, and the first defendant was a worker in the factory. About June last year the first de fendant and his wife suddenly abaconded taking with them 8200 in Canton currency. Some jewel- lery and suits of clothing were also taken and a black suit-case.. He reported the matter to the Canton" Police and gave them a photograph of the first defendant which they affixed to a warrant for his arrest. He came to Hong Kong.on the 23rd April because he had been told by an informer that his wife wa living with the first defendant at No. 136, Shaukiwan, East. After a visit to the police he went there with St.Haywood and found the two defendants who were living in The other defendant, the district enhicle. The complainant also watchman, bas since absconded and identified some of his missing pro the 8500 bail put up by a friend has perty. been forfeited. A witness for the prosecution declared that the watch man attempted to bribe him not to appear in Court.

The complainants only got their freedom by a piece of luck. A Chinese constable whom they knew personally passed the door and they called him in and explained, the situation. They said that they were under the impression that they were being detained in a police station and they were charged with being Communists.

The Magistrate convicted and im- posed sentence as stated above on the informer.

A DOG THIEF.

RE. Lindsell at the Central Magia A Chinese, appeared before Mr. tracy yesterday on a charge of stealing a dog.

continued,

The woman, Mr. Williams. denies that the complainant is her husband and states that she was married to his brother who is now dend. The first defendant also denies that he was cumployed at the complainant fas tary in Honam."

The complainant then went into that the second defendant was his the witness box and told the Court wife, and that they were married

"

about 20 years ago at the Nr Far defendant had a piece of raw meat always been kind to her and main- The prosecution alleged that the Yuen village in Waichow. He had with which he lured the animal tained her to the best of his ability away. When arrested it was found

They Had No Childrez. that the accused had tied a string

Complainant's partner corroborat leading is away along a street ined this evidence and said that he around the neck of the dog and was Wanchi,

was present at the wedding. His Worship: What have you to

was also his niece. A little boy was then called and Mr. Williams Defendant: The dog followed me described him as the adopted son and I did noz steal it.

of the complainant. The little fel low who was extremely smart and hardly, topped the witness box. self-possessed, though his head, pointed out the complainant as his father, the second defendant as his JERRY BUILDING STOPPED BY real mother by birth, and the first

P.W.D.

say?

His Worship did not believe his story and sentenced him to four weeks' hard labour.

defendant as the man who had

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"WHEN WE WERE

VERY YOUNG'

Words by

A. A. MILNE Music by

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Decorations "by

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A collection of songs you will thoroughly enjoy.

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FLITTING.

[CONTRIBUTED BY NIX.]

In the tactile operation of effect- ing a junction between back-stud and collar, I was interrupted by a call on the telephone. When I re-

as well as tie, had disappeared; turned, both back-stad and collar

and a coolic was going off with my Obviously the flitting had com jacket in a waste-paper basket.

menced.

Tel. 527.

The

Boy had given us to understand that once overarched some of the that zero hour would be at 8 a.m. roads of this island. But by half past seven glattal

There are people who deplore Jack' plosives and the rattling of butt of system in operations conduct- ends of bamboo pale's signified thated by the Chinese. Alter seven' the shack troops were already at flittings, in eight years, one becomes. an admirer of this lack of system. their point of assembly.

It is part of their wisdom, Only, the middle-aged are aystematic. very young have not yet come under the obsession of the horrible idea

system. The very old realise that that all things are simplified by

system is a means of introducing undertaking, Chinese as a race aro complexity into any naturally simple

old enough to have learned that. Their method of conducting fittings proves it. The Westerner, during, his first experiences of flitting in the East, tries to introduce method, I should substitute the latter for arrangement, and foresight. the former, but for something that happened during the day. A young unsettled condition about mid-day, Southerner, noticing my unusually

For the benefit of those who were born south of the Humber, it might be considered desirable to point out that fitting means, house-removal

He

packs carefully; making sure that the ink is not among the linen. Ha everything on bamboo pole and in believes that there is a place for

asked what was wrong? I replied motor lorry, and tries to foresee "Would you know what I meant if those places. He condescendingly said fitting "?" "Oh, yes," was leuda brute labour the benefit of his Messrs. Hung Lee, a Chinese con

his retort, "moving about aimlessly systematic intellect. As Tennyson tracting firm, were summoned be- fore Mr. W. Schoheld at the Kow

from place to place." It seemed to says "our little systems have their me that the interpretation which he day," and the coolie has his laugh; The very interesting and appro-loon Magistracy yesterday morning printe gazette which prefaces the for using faulty bricks in the can

had put on the word was truer than but the result is delay and destruc. picture, comes also from a British struction of the flats at Nos. 208 studio, and shows scenes of Naval, and 212. Shanghai Street. Mr. for himself the first defendant said be conveyed by such terms as operations, the Westerner learns Asked if he had anything to say the false notions that are liable to tion. After hall-a-dozen removal Air Force and Army Manoeuvres. Neville, of the Public Works Depart- This alone would be worth visiting ment, appeared for the prosecution, that he was employed at the Wah" house moving," when the trouble The defendant agreed that owing Mui Knitting Factory in Honam

British Garetto,

the Queen's to see without the rest of an excellent programme.

British Boxing Film For The Queen's.

run away with his mother." He also told the Court that the first defendant was a worker at his father factory in Honam. Sgt. Haywood also gave evidence."

Said She Was Single?

teered to live with him if he would

to Hong Kong and the woman fol- take care of her. As business was

dull in Canton he decided to come

lowed him.

A Queer Way Of Livelihood. took up the cdd occupation of wor.

know the complainant and had

attainable on these occasions.

The next incident was

scretima

from my wife. Screams in the hall. Screams on the footpath, Screams down on the road. It sounded like kidnapping with violence. But when I rushed down the was standing at the door. In one hand she held hat, and in the other a purse. had to rescue these," she said, "but couldn't get hold of them till they

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to his absence it was possible that and the woman had got the job for is that the house is the one thing his workmen had not used the cor husband and waa single and volun- which suggests a passivity quite un- him. She said that she had no that can't be moved; or removal," rect "blue" bricks as instructed.

Mr. Neville said that when he described by the London papers as found that the bricks used for the The Ring the boxing drama inspected the Blats in question he a triumph for the British film external wall were not even fit to industry, will be shown at the be used for an internal partition." Queen'a on Sunday and Monday. The Magistrate imposed a fine.of The central figure in the story, is a $50 and made an order for the They lived in Shankiwan and boxer in an English country fair, contractor to pull down the walls played by Carl Brisson, a great in question which would have to be shipping for other people charging stage favourite at Home and a constructed to the satisfaction of the fees for this service. He did not boxing champion of the Danish Building Authorities. Navy. The boxer is in love with the pretty ticket-seller, played by Lillian Hall-Davies, one of the most popular of British screen stars. "The Ring" has been elaborately staged. For one of the scenes a complete fair with merry-go-rounds, boxing booths, peep-shows, strong men, performing seals were assem bled,, whilst in the boxing scenes the actual ring used in the Walker Milligan fight at the Albert Hall was rtilised. This fight is refereed by Eugene Corri,

A MOSQUITO BREEDING

PLACE,

Factory was summoned before Mi. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magie- tracy yesterday morning for causing

The

never worked for him.

that he might as well try to halp

ants by laying down e system of

but cxpeditious. He may be indign- white lines. He leaves things to take their course. The removal is chaotic ant to find a special journey being

aodden cigar, that even griffins have made for a cigar box containing the one and last cockroach-bitten mist- refused, but the cigar will be there in its box when he arrives in his new abode.

I was delighted to see that the only As a veteran in furniture moving,. touch of system ghout the business was when the Number One blew three shrill blasts on his whistle, to ealleet the mob before the larry moved off. After each blast he

defendant also told the had packed them in the lorry." Court that he had two witnessed After that I need hardly say that whom he wished to call and who I ate my breakfast with my arms stopped and laughed and his sub-

dant was a widow.

A ROGUE PUNCHED AND GAOLED

The Manager of the Tick Wa So.. would say that the second defen-round it; my hat on my knee, and ordinates joined in the laugh,

circumstances the Magistrate agreed telephone bell rang again, but it comedy, it is a romance, and as

Under there my attaché case as a footstool. The

But flitting is not merely a to adjourn the case.

Mr. Williams remarked that one rang in vain.

such has its revolutions, discoveries As they were loading the lorry and mysteries. There is something a nuisance by, leaving stagnant of the defendant's witnesses had water in pools and jars of earthen disappeared.

when I left the premises, I deemed exquisitely revolutionary about the ware, in a way which tended to

it advisable to pause and spread a placing of a silver match box, for breed mosquitoes.

supervising, eye. They were hoist safe keeping, in a jar of marmalade. ing a sideboard into its place on And yet when you first think of top of a chesterfeld, when one of matches in the morning, marmalade the doors flew open and reveried is not entirely unassociated with a decanter full of whiskey, which them. System would have dictated I had been told at a late hour the the juxtaposition of articles usual- previous night was irredeemably ly required contemporaneously. My and carefully packed away. It was greatest discovery, however, con- nately it didn't fall out of the side which might appeal to those who. the best cut-glas decanter. Forty tains also the elements of a mystery, are most expert at solving pro- board. Boy, with great promptitude, seized hold of it, and with ready wit blems. My dearest friend lent mo dumped it in the spare seat of my recently the manuscript of 431. That constituted, my original epic poem, and has always two-seater. luggage for the day, and my share insisted, in spite of my protestations in the burdens of removal. to the contrary, that I never ro- When the lorry moved, off on its turned it to him. The house was first trip, it was piled so high that searched several times. Even he in it reminded me of a recent picture a last effort to retain his friend- in the Ephemeral Looking Glare ship, was allowed to search for it. He showing a pointaman's signal tower searched with the fury and futility being moved bodily to new site of a Mah-Jong player looking for on home railway; or like one of a fifth East Wind in the unexpended those classical machines of war in portion of the wall after the game which the ancients foresaw tanks has gone against him. But the and attacked the high battlements fitting brought the document to of walled cities. With a geat on light, like magic. It was lying be top, it might have served as a tween the top of a wardrobe and natural object in Swiss scenery, that ornamental coping, which. Momentarily I felt indebted to the although eternally fixed, is called local sophist, or ironist, who re-removable. Will anyone venture to cently pleaded that as the numbers any how it found its way, there of Hong Kongites to whom aesthetic This regrettable resurrection, and considerations mean anything, are the breakage of one parcclain bed- negligible, there was no harm done heater, were the only misfortunes in cutting down those mighty trees of the day.

Sanitary Inspector A Sinton said At The World,

that although there were no signs Ivor Novello, the famous English of larvae on the premises, there was actor, has the leading part in "The likelihood of mosquitoes laying White Rose," which will be the main their eggs there. The defendant A Chinese was charged before Mr. picture at the World Theatre from had drained his property but the R. E. Lindsell at the Central to-day to Saturday. The Story of water had accumulated in pools on Magistracy yesterday morning with The White Rose" deals with the a vacant piece of Crown land. The larceny and attempting to bribe love of a wait and a rich man. The Inspector suggested that a large watchman. etory and action is modern, but pool be dug from which the water The tenant of No. 6, Tang Lung affords opportunities to interpret could be pumped into an adjoining Street, top foor, was aroused from dashes of olden days in a pleasing nullah.

sleep shortly after 4 s.m. on the 1st manner. It has been directed by The Magistrate pointed out that inat. He saw a man's face appear D. W. Grifith and included in the the defendant had done the neces- above the doorway and promptly supporting case are Mac Marsh,sary drainage work or his own land punched it. The intruder dodged Carol Dempster, Neil Hamilton and but the water, through no fault of but was stopped by a district watch. many others.

his had collected on Crown lands.

man just outside the premises. He At The Star,

The defendant was then ordered then attempted to bribe the watch Patsy Ruth Miller and John to take measures to clear up the man with a jacket, a watch and Harron have the leading parts in nuisance and was ordered to pay a 70 cents, which he had stolen from "Hell Bent fer Heaven," a new fine of $25. He was warned that the house, picture which will be screened at any repetition of the nuisance would The watchman refused the bribe the Star Theatre from to-day to mean a fine of double the present and arreated the thief. Saturday. The background of the penalty.

The prosecution informed the picture is provided by the Cali (Continued on next Column),

Magistrate that the defendant was fornia mountains where a religious

a returned banishee having been fanatic revives a family feud out of

convicted for larceny in 1924 and jealousy of the man who has

subecquently banished. successfully won the love of a moun- The attention of cinema-goers is On the charges of larceny, and tain girl. There is an exciting scene drawn to the special times for D. bribery, the Magistrate imposed a which serves as the climaz, when W: Griffith's production, "The total sentence of six months' hard the fanatic breaks the dam, and White Rose," at the World Theatre, labour, and for returning from nearly brings destruction to those namely 2.30, 5.00, 7.16 and 9.30. The banishment he was further sentenced whom he hates.

picture is an aurally long one to a term of six months' hird and begins promptly at these times labour..

(Continued at foot of next 'column)

"The White Rosa,"