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Hongkong Daily Press.

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TP TRAINS

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Kowloon.Dap. 6.49; 8,05/$,00| 9,48). 9.15 10,03|17,10) 1.38) 2.asy 2.50) 4,80 5,40 7,35

Yaamati. Dep. 6.49

9,25 10.09|12,18 1,23||

Shatin...Dap 7.01

9.33 10,20 12,33 1,35

Taipo...Dop 7,25

9 53 10.9312.43 1.48;

Taipo

Market.Dop, 7,20 "—

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Healing Dsp., 7.30

|10.10 10.47|12.37) 2,02)

4.38) 5.48 7.44 4.50 6.00) 7.58 5.048.13 8.09.

5,096.17 8.13 5.19 6.37 8.23

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5.48

6.90

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WHAT JAPANESE LIKE TO READ.

INTENSE INTEREST IN CINEMA STARS.

WHAT NEWSPAPER-READERS ARE MOST CONCERNED ABOUT.

[United Press.]'

"Talkies" in Japan.

The insatiable curiosity of the Japanese about things new is well excraplified by the popularity of talking and sound motion-pictures

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary I do not mann by this that the Pickford visited Japan last Decem- Japanese are not interested in the ber and received an ovation prob- administration of the Government ably greater than that over accord- of the United States. They are. e. any other foreigners who have The President's activities probably landed on these shores.. It surpass-nre reported as fully in the Japanese in the Empire. Despite the fact ed that accorded either the Prince Press as in that of other countries all the talkies exhibited so far have of Wales or the Duke of Gloucester. outside the United States. But it bepa in English, Japancze-parti- It made the reception accorded or cannot be gainsaid that the people cularly the student class-have fill. ordinary foreign notable seem as

read popular news with mached the theatres. Since study of the nothing. Tens of thousands of greater activity. The United Press, English language is compulsory in Japanese waited in the rain and for example, carried a full report schools, most of the audience can kept Doug and Mary virtual pris of the laat Hoover message to understand at least a part of the onere in hotels in Tokyo, Osaka, the Congress, I asked scores of dialogue. The remainder is explain. Kyoto, Nara, Miyanoshita, Tokyo Japanese if they had read it. The cd by the "Benchi," h translator and Yokohama. Thousands of photo- great majority admitted they had who stands near the screen' in every graphs and hundreds of columns of aot. On the other hand, an item Japanese movie house and explains news were printed. The visit. was about the reported invention of the action. the biggest domestic news story of machine for projecting talking 1929 for Japanese editors. It was

motion-pictures by radio aroused # truc indiention of what the tremendous interest. modern Japanese is interested in-

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Besides Doug and Mary, Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, Charlie Chap- lin, John Gilbert, and the others. whose names shine in front of of Americk movie houses carry a tremendous appeal in Japan.

nounciation for every star.

Colleen Moore, for example, is "Koring Noru.

During five years in the Orient I of the sirewdest of Japanese news The Japanese have their own pro

have seen, acores of world figures arrive in Japan, but I have seen nothing that compared to the tro- mendous popular reception arcord-] ed Doug and Mary. Buge crowds braved the worst imaginable wen- ther, tore clothing from each other's backs, and literally risked their lives for a glimpse of_the motion picture players. The Press chronicled their every move--what they wore, what they ate, what they bought and how much they paid for it, every word that industrious reporters could overhear or that Press agents could grind out in i their 24 hours work daya.

The way the newspapers handled the story was a clear indication of what Japanese aditors consider news. They have learned thoroughly the Dana maxim-that news is what is interesting to the people. Two great Japanese dailies-the Osaka Mainichi and the Oraka Archi- have attained circulations of more than one million copies a day work- ing on this theory, which they frankly admit they got from study of American journalism, ' Colleen Moore and President Hoover.

executives, suggests the following outline for news interest in the Empire-

1-Big domestic news stories

which carry

an element of human appeal. 2--Sports, particularly baseball

the national game of Japan. 3--Motion pictures And the drama, with an emphasis on new developments in technique and mechanica. 4-Discoveries and inventions 3-Aviation and adventure. 6-General foreign news. T-Commercial

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and economic

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The Dramatic Stage. The legitimate Japanese drama and Japanese movies also attract big crowds. Tokyo has half a dozen good legitimate houses including the famed Imperial Theatre and the Kaburi-za, which generally produce oaly Japanese drama. Every nowa paper has. critics who report each new play that appears, and every revival of old plays. The emphasis in dramatic criticism is placed riot on plot, but on acting-for acting is the thing in most Japanese drama.

For example, during 1029 the stories which aroused greatest in-

Interest in New Ideas, tereft were those involving the Discovering and inventions are downfall of the Tanaka Cabinet pteresting to Japanese because of and the organization of the Minseito the intense desire of the entire Party Government, hended by nation to push forward rapidly in Premier Yuko Hamaguchi, to re- the path of modernization and in- place it. the series of graft scandals | dustrialization. The English word unearthed after the fall of the modern has been adopted into the Tanaka regime, and the usual run Japanese language. pronounced of marder and sensational stories. "medan. Newspaper editors wel- None of them, however, approached come stories of science and inven- the Fairbanks-Pickford story, which |tion of every kind. was a mere recital of what the motion-picture players did during the three days they spent in this country.

"Play Ball."

The public interest in aviation was imply demonstrated during 1929 by the immense crowds which swarmed to the naval air station So grent is the demand for

at Kasumigaura to see the German motion-picture news-the gossip of Sports are read by the Japanese world-girdling dirigible Graf Zep- Hollywood-that the United Press exactly as they are in the United pelin. Thousands camped at the, literally has been forced to carry a States. United Press carries their field to see the dirigible arrive considerable volume of this gossip World Series by cable, play by play, and depart. The Imperial Aviation in daily telegraphic service which is with a box-score. Every Japanese Society during the year opened a furnished to practically every news- bay knows Babe Ruth and follows five-story modern building devoted paper in the Japanese Empire his home-run record with avidity. exclusively to aviation exhibita, through Nippon Dempo Taushinsha The great domestic sports event is showing world air lines, types of -The Japan Telegraph News the fall baseball series in the Uni-'planes and lighter than air craft Ageney-which markets United versity League in Tokyo, which and modela showing the develop Press telegrams in Japan. It is brings out crowds as great as those ment of the airplane from the days literally true that the great mass which attend the World Series in of the Wright Brothers to the pre- of the Japanese people, particularly the United States. the younger generation, is far more sports the Davis Cup competition which combined the elements

In foreign sent. Admiral Byrd's polar flights, interested in the activities of Colleen ranks after the World Series, just aviation interest and adventure Moore than it is in the work of as tennis ranks after baseball as a

interest, were read with avidity.. Herbert Hoover.

popular sport in Japan.

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To-day.

(February 3.)

Golf: Interport Matches, Fan-

ling.

Sale of Crown Land: New Kow- loon Inland Lot No. 1301, P.W.D. Oces, 3 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Last of Mrs. Cheyne."

World Theatre: "Iron Mask." Star Theatre: "Painted Post." Tea Dances: Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel, 5 p.m.

Diarer Dances: Hong Kong, Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels, 5.30 p..

Wednesday, (February, 5.)

Golf: Interport Matches, Fan- ling.

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Holena May Musicale, Local Com- posers, 5.30 p.m.

Annual Meeting R.A.O.B. Club, d

D:M.

Queen's Theatre: "The Bridge of San Luis Rey."

World Theatre: "Casanova" and The Adopted Son's Victory" (Chi- nese picture).

Star Theatre: "The Terror." Tea Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, & p.m.

Dinner Dances: Peninsula Hotel, Fanling Hunt and Race Club:Repulse Bay Hotel and Hong Kong Hounds Meet Huntera Arms, 2.30 Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

Footinli: Eastern China v. Army. H.K. Chinese Amateur Athletic Association, Football Championship dinner, Tung Yat Restaurant, 7.30 fi.m.

Industrial and Commercial Bank "At Home."

Queen's Theatre: "The Last of Mrs. Cheyne."

World Theatre: "Iron Mask." R.H.K. Gulf Club, Interport Star Theatre: "Painted Port." Dinner, Lande Crawford's Restaur- Tea Dances: H.K, Hotel, Peainant, 8 p.m sula Hotel, p.

p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Last of

Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and Mrs. Cheynë." Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

Tuesday.

(February 4.)

Golf: Interport Matches, Fan- ling.

Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.15 p.m.

World Theatre: Iron Mask." Star Theatre: "Tenderloin." Tea Dances: Hong Kong Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, p.m.

Dinner Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 8.30 p.m.

Thursday. (February 6.) Golf: Interport Matches, Fan-

English Association, lecture by. Major J. B. H. Doyle, "English in the Army, Cathedral Hall, 5.30 p.m.ling.

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