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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1929.

COMING TO STAR THEATRE.

THE BANVARD ENGLISH COMPANY.

SOMETHING ABOUT THE PLAYERS.

The Banvard English Comedy Company are opening a short sea-

week with "A Cuckoo in the Nest." The play comes direct from the Aldwych Theatre, London, where bad a great success, and

CHANG TSUNG "CHANG'S NARROW. ESCAPE.

MEN ARMED WITH BILL- HOOKS.

PILLAGE AND DISORDER AROUND CHËFOO..

SOLDIERS CHARGED WITH LAUNCH SINKS OFF

+

ASSAULT..

STORY OF A MIDNIGHT OUTING.

LANGUAGE DIFFICULTY,"

Before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the

Chaloo, March 28-An interest- Centrai Magistracy, five soldiers,

PRAYA.

CREW OF TEN RESCUED.

CAUSED BY SHIFTING OF CARGO?

A most unusual incident occurred

son at the Star Theatre this daying account is given of a skirmish Privatee Hegarty, Crawford, Ormis. yesterday afternoon in the Har- between Chang Tsung Chang's ton, Bailey and Lunt of the King's bour, when a crowd of several

hundred Wu Chi EneiOwn Scottish Borderers, were sun-

Chinese witnessed the forces and the

Chinese sinking of a steam launch within bandits, some of whom are assisting moned for assaulting a hns, with other plays in there the villagers to revenge the out chauffeur and with travelling on a few feet of the Praya while it pertoire of this Company, received rages perpetrated upon them by the public motor-ear No. 339 without was maneuvering alongside one

In this skirmish some paying the fare, enthusiastic pross notices in India soldiers

The defendanta pleaded and the Straits. Of the original thirty soldiers were killed as welt guilty. production at the Aldwych, The as five members of the Wu Chi Times said: "The audience were Haci, although the latter claim tharoughly exhausted with laugh- that they are invulnerable. ter and The Sporting and Dramatis, "If you know of a bet- ter farce than this, by all means go

to it."

The explanation given is that the mensters of the Wu Chi Huei were cating when the call to arms was A few notes on the players may sounded: These fivo were so hungry prove interesting. Miss Jesephine that they took time to finish their Kilfoyle was chosen by Sir Jamesmeal and rushed off to battle with Barrie to play the name role input swallowing the piece of paper "Rose Marie when that play on which was written the charm to toured England. Miss Valentine the Heavenly Father. This charma Clemow played in London in

is said to consist of illegible charac- "Gentleman Prefer Blondes." Miss Anne Chippendale, who takes ters which the warrior must swallow

before going into battle. "Character' roles, was in the original cast of "When Knights In some cases the charm consists of a certain drug which stimulates Bold. Mr. Henry Corner has the warrior into

a frenzy and, appeared in "Royal Command performance. Mr. Eric Elliott was whilst in this condition, the men with Margaret Bannerman in Aus- make dangerous foes. tralia, Mr. Reginald Tippett and The Wu Chi Huei have no rifles, Miss Elana Aherne were with Sirrut depend on a long heavy knife" John Martin Harvey during several attached to the six-foot pole which successful seasons. Mr. Ormiston they carry, and, for this reason, no wounded soldiers come back from the battlefields.

Miller takes the male lead in most

of the plays and particularly die tinguishes himself in "The Fana- tica.

A Phalanx Round Chang.. It is recorded that Chang Tsung Chang when proceeding from Huang Hsice to Ta Shin Theny was surrounded by the Wu Chi Huvi on March 1 and almost captured.

The plays which we shall have the pleasure of seeing in Hong Kong Kong during the visit of this company are besides A Cuckoo in the Nest," "Thark" Rookery Nook": "The Best People"; General Chang was stopping at a "The Fanatics "'; Other Men's temple on a hill top when it was Wives"; "Diversion": "The surrounded and attacked by the Wu Joker " "Two.. White Arms Chi Huei armed with their long "No. 17" and "The Terror."

We understand that half of these plays are to be given during the season Which opens on Saturday, April 13, and the rest on the return visit which the Company will pay after going to Shangbai and Tien

tain.

BANVARD COMPANY.

FAREWELL PERFORMANCE

repeated.

finish.

TO-MORROW.

bill-hooks. The soldiers formed a phalanx about General Chang and fought. their way out of the trap, but in the fight that ensued some five or six hundred soldiers were killed, amongst them 30 to 40 officers including one general and two colonels.

400

Inspector Logan of the Peak Police Station, outlining the case informed his Worship that on the night of April 1, two of the defen dants engaged ear No. 359 near the Shanghai Bank. It was then about 10.30 p.m. and the two soldiers ordered the car to be driven to Wan- chai where they picked up three more soldiers. The car was then ordered to proceed to the Peak, but on arriving there, the chauffeur was told to drive to Causeway Bay, The soldiers next ordered the car to be driven to West Point and finally to the Peak again.

The five mer got off near Jar

dine's bridge and walked along the road to the direction of Mount Austin Barracks. The chauffeur asked for his fare, but one of the five defendants struck him on the face.

A Chinese constable on duty out side the tram station is alleged to have approached the defendants in order to get them to pay the car fare, but without success, the con-

of the piers,

The launch in questing is the Sai Kung, owned by the Kwong Sing Steam Launch Company of It was Connaught Road Central almost alongside pier at Eastern Street, when it was seen to take a decided list and sank in the sight of hundreds of spectators.

the

Cheshephonia Plċtrein, Modal Four-tänne

IT GIVES SO MUCH AND COSTS SO LITTLE

AN ORTHOPHONIC VICTROLA

The crew of the launch shouted for assistance and several of the sampans always to be found in the vicinity went alongside the sinking launch and took off the whole grew of ten.

The launch sank slowly, after i « brings you the world's great the crew were taken off, and now rests on an even keel near the pier at Eastern Street, with about three feet of her mast showing. The

funnel is submerged at high tide.

The sinking. According to the coxswain of the Sai Kung was due to the shifting of a heavy deck eargo,

The launch, it would seem, left Sai Kung at 3.15 a.m. for Hoag Kong, with a cargo of 100 baskets of salt fish on her deck.

This, we were told, is about the usual quantity which the launch

music operas, symphonies, popular songs, the latest dance hits reproduced with re- markable realism. You enjoy your favorite selections when- ever, and as often as you like.

Yet this wonderful enter- tainment is not costly. We have Orthophonic Victrolas at our store whose price is within reach of even the modest in- come. Convenient payments

stable not being able to make him carries on its regular trip from S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.

self understood. The defendants Sai Kung to Hong Kong and very were checked into the Barracks at often it has much more. 1.30 am, by the Corporal on duty. The launch arrived at the wharf The chauffeur in question then at Eastern Street at about 6.15 went into the witness-box. He was p.. As it was turning to go a Shanghai Chinese and it was dis. alongside the wharf, the deck cargo covered that the Shanghai inter-slipped to the starboard side, caus- prêter was on leave and that noing the trouble. other interpreter could speak the At that time a strong East wind Shanghai dialect.

was blowing and this made matters worse and the tide was running in a direction apposite to the wind... Water streamed in over the gun- whale and the launch started to settle down, fortunately on an even keel.

Inspector Logan stated that the interpreter at the Peak Station could speak the Shanghai dialect and could be procured if the court could wait an hour. Mr. Hamilton caused inquiries to be made at the Central Police Station as to whe The sinking occupied about seven, ther a Shanghai interpreter was minutes, the position being about available, and learning that there twenty, feet from the wharf. Chefoo is beflagged with thou-were no Shanghai interpreters, ad- sands of the old five bar flags which journed the hearing until this morna appeared in profusion immediately ing when the man from the Peak apon the arrival of General Station will be in court. Chang's troops, in spite of the orders issued some time ago by General Liu Chen Nita, the Nation-

Tipalist commander, that every five-bar

flag was to be burned,

A Reign of Terror.

In this north-east section of Shan-

Chefoo From observations made

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

LECTURE..

THE MEANING OF LIFE.

The crew of the launch included coxswain, an engineer, two ac countants, one stoker, two seamen, one cook, one boy and one steers- There were no passenger of any kind on the launch,

man.

THREE FEEBLE HIGHWAY- MEN.

HOUSE BOY SET UPON ON NEW ABERDEEN ROAD.

PLUCKY AND SUCCESSFUL RESISTANCE.

In their presentation of Toes" at the Star Theatre last night, the Banvard Musical Comedy Company maintained their reputa-| tion for providing a cheerful and tung a medley of ex-Northern and vigorous entertainment. This is ex-Nationalist troops, together with one of the brightest pieces in their bandits, the Fed Spear and Wu Chithe Hong Kong Lodge The Theoso

At this week's public meeting of repertoire and having made a great Huei Societies, have exercised a hit on their first visit, had to be reign of terror over the entire phical Society on Thursday, at the

Last night the comedy countryside between Langkow and

Theosophical Hai, Alercantile Baok went with a swing from start to so within ten to fifteen miles, of Building. Mr. John Russell, the President of the Lodge, delivered Better houses are expected at the by missionaries up-country the first Life" He said in part: Theosophy twenty-four, employed at No, 515. an address on "The Meaning of A Chinese house boy,, aged last two performances of the Com-reports of outrages committed on pany. To-night Folies Bergere, the peaceful inhabitants of these proclaims that life is something The Peak; according to a report which was the introductory number districts have been in no way ex- and that it can exist entirely apart went through an alarming experi altogether independent of matter, which he has made to the police, of the Company on their first ap aggerated. pearance, will be given. The fare.

Lile physical organisins.

ence yesterday while on his way well "performance on Sunday night

never dies, the" experiences it bar pet pourri programme in Village after village has been accumulated are not lost when the from the Peak to Aberdeen by the which favourite items will be pre-country folk forced to fee to the within itself and uses them as yesterday with the object of visit-

looted and barn, and the helpless form is broken. It stores them new Aberdeen Road.

Starting shortly after 1 p.m coast-ports in an endeavour to reach foundation, as a mould to building his father who lives at Aber- Manchuria, forsaking their home new and higher, more efficient or deen, he was near No. 39 Bridge steads and all their possessions with" ganisms. It matters little wher when he overtook three men who the exception of the few they can the form perishes, the life continues, were strolling slowly in front of carry away.

enriched by the experiences it has him.

is a

sented.

CINEMA NEWS.

THE GATEWAY OF THE

-MOON."

1

Destitute of to Manchuria,

from

received through them dan is an As he walked past the three men immortal Ego, he returns to earth one of them produced & revolver again and again clad in ever higher and ordered bim to stop. The ing and joy to know himself as the man with the revolver seized forma, and learns, through suffer house boy did as he was told and

"

THE DOVER ROAD.”

TO-NIGHT'S PERFORMANCE.

Chater Road.

WILLIAM FOX Presents

The

GATEWAY of the MOON

With

DOLORES DEL RIG

thrilling drama of the Amazon

jungle with the star of "What Price Glory" in the most colourful· role of her career-) COMING TO THE

QUEEN'S

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY

STAR

& Chincer Christian recently re turned from the district just south of Choynan city, after making a "The Gateway of the Moon," a drama of the South Amerien jungle have been burnt in whole or in part, aurvey; be reports that 7 villages with Dolores Del Hio as the star, 5,589 buildings have been destroyed Divine. will be shewn at the Queen's on-depriving about 2,000 families of

him by the neck and started to. Tuesday and Wednesday.

search him. The house boy, how. The story deals with a company's killed, and all this has taken place their homes, 318 people have been

ever, suddenly turned on bis efforts at building

assailant and knocked him down, railroad

11'an area of less than twenty miles

The through the South American jungle.

sending the revolver flying. by twenty: Gillespie, the chief engineer, played

other two men then came to the by Anders Randoff, is hated and

Other districts are receiving the

assistance of their fallen comrade, same treatment but no detailed in- feared by his workers. Tosi, Dolores del Rio, is his nicee, whe

formation is obtainable at present. The first performance of "The but the house boy broke away and took to his heels. The would be will be given at the robbers made a feeble attempt to neither fears nor hates him, but chowfu seems to indicate that Chang Theatre Royal to-night. The final thase him, but the house boy easily

News from Huanghsien and Teng. Dover Road with the coming of Wyatt, she Tsung Chang's forces

con dress rehearsal took place last eluded his pursuers. were hegins to recognize her uncle's evil aiderably disorganized a week ago evening, and was much appreciated

He reported the matter to the and that he was experiencing great by an audience chiefly consisting of Aberdeen Police Station as soo1 BE trouble from portions of his so-call-service-men.

The curtain will rise punctually last he saw the three bighwaymen

he arrived there, stating that when RETURN SEASON ed army, particularly from the country people. This would con at 8.18-to-night, and those attend. firm the reports that his capture of ing the performance are requested they were making towards Wan- chai Gap. The only thing the the Chefoo area was largely due to to be in their seats by that time,"boy" lost was his hat. The health bulletin of Eastern the treachery of General Lan Chen in order that the action of the play ports for the week ending March Nien's underlings, rather than to 30 gives the following record of Chang's powess in actual conflict.

The latest rumours about Chang Tsung Chang is that he has been assaminated.]

nature.

HEALTH BULLETIN OF EASTERN PORTS.

cases: -..

Suez: 1 case.

Plague.

Baghdad: 2 cases, "1 death.

Bombay 1 death.

Pnom Penh 4 cases, 4 deaths.

Cholera.

Bombay: 1 death,

Calcutta: 79 deaths.

Bangkok: 3 cases, 1 death.

Poom Penh 3 cases, 2, deatha.. Saigon 5 cases,

Canton: 1 case,

Small-pox.

Aden: 0 cases, 4 deaths. Basrah 1 case, 1 death. Bombay 34 cases, 51 deaths Calcutta: 22 cases, 13 deaths. Karachi: 39 cases, 20 deaths, Koulacin: 5 cases, 1 death. Vizagapatam: 15 cases, 9 deaths, Singapore: 1 case... Paom Penh 27 cazes, 14 deaths.. Shanghai: 5 deaths. Canton: 38 cases.

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

"PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY. Z.B.W. "ON 350 METRES.

1.48 p.m.-Weather report. 5.30 to 6.30 p.m.-Programme of Chinese music, (Beka records sup. plied by The Canton Trading Asso. ciation, Ltd.).

7.46 p.m.-Evening weather re. port.

8 p.m. -Evening programme, (Victor and H.M.V. records up. plied by Messrs. S. Montric Co.).

9.30 p.m.-Dance music. 10.10 p.m.-Neya bulletin. 10.30 p.m.-Close down.

may not be interrupted. Further performances are being given.on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and TWO HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS. Saturday, April 9, 11, 12, and 13. Booking is at the Anderson Music Сотраву.

MOTORS AND RICKSHAW.

At 12.20 p.m: yesterday, two motor-cars mêt in a head on colli- sida in Bonham Strand East, an 'a result of which both vehicles, were badly damaged.

The unsolved mystery of the death of Mme. Hodoyer, whose nude body, with a thin cord drawn tightly round the neck, was recover- The motora involved are public ed from the River Rhone at Bb. cars, Nos. 26 and 64 respectively Peray has been deepened by the nod the accident is attributed to finding of a second body-that of a an error of judgment. At the woman and also rude-floating in point where the collision occurred," the river at a spot a few miles the road is Darrow and usually away. M. Hodoyer has offered a crowded. reward for information which will At noon yesterday, in Connaught clear the mystery of his wife's Road near Wardley Street, motor- death. She disappeared from her car No. 453 ran into à rickshaw, home at Lyone last November, and reducing the latter to splinters.

i believed by the police to have There were no casualties in either been the victim of a ritunt crime mishap, the three cars võáçérüéd committed by a sect of Oriental and the rickshaw being without fanatica whose tenta demand a passengers when they had there human sacrifice.

respective mishaps.

* THEATRE ·

OF. THE

BANVARD

MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY

TO-NIGHT

At 8.15 p.m.

"FOLIES BERGERE"

To-Morrow April 7.

́FAREWELL PERFORMANCE

POT POURRI PROGRAMME

Booking Open at Montres and

Prices: 14,38, 12 & $1.