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'TO-DAY to SATURDAY Dally 45 1.30, 5.33, 7.30 à 9.20. „Special “WIXOSo Musīs no £.15 à 9.BA

WILLIAM A WELLMAN

Paramount Picture

Daring youth seeks paths of glory in the clouds. Zooming, diving, falling. The soaring airmen of the war. Risking death and disaster while love awaits with bated breath. The thrill of fighting. The suspense of waiting. An appeal that goes to every human heart. William A Wellman's epic of the "Aces." more than a year at the Criterion Theatre, New York. Seen and praised by the notable airmen of the world. Hailed by leaders in every field as "the greatest moving picture ever made. It's the GREAT "WINGS!"

Don't miss this thrilling picture. 1.

TO-DAY to SATURDAY

Dally at 2.30, 5.15 7.20 & 9.80. Special Husic' at 5.15 & 9.30.

Under direction of MR. H. E. NICHOLSON

AT THE

MAJESTIC

NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.

Booking at MOUTRIE'S an i at MAJESTIC.

All the Aeroplanes, Tanks, Ambulances, Trucks, Motor-cycles, and other Vehicles used

in Wings" were lubricated with

Mobiloil

Make the chart your pride.

VACUUM OIL Co.

THE VICTIMIZATION OF EWO.

ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF A TRESPASSER,

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1930,

An unfortunate accident, writes the Hankow correspondent of the 3.C. Daily News, occurred on Messrs. Jadine's steamer Kutwo on her way up river, which led to the holding of the vessel for over four hours by the Chinese authorities, While she moored at the hulk, a Chinese hotel-runner jumped from the pontoon on to the cargo-deck and started to rush through to the other side of the ship. Cargo was being, worked and there were suth- cient lights to enable the coolies to work, but, coming from the light outside into the semi-darkness, the runner failed to notice an open hatch and plunged down to the bot- tom of the hold. The accident was at once reported to the captain by the officer on, watch, but nothing could be done as the man was dead.

The second compradore went to the police station to report the mat ter and asked that the body might be removed, but in a little while a note came from him that he was detained by the police till an in- quest had been held. A policeman was also posted on the ship to sce that the body was not moved.

It soon became clear that the question was not one of an inquest, but of a payment in hard cash, and after some bargaining a auga of money was handed over to the police by the company and then the body was removed.

The money is supposed to be re- quired to pay for a coffin for the man, but why a steamer company should have to pay compensation for the death of a man who had no right on board the steamer passes comprehension."

A woman sued for debt at Lam beth County Court recently wrote saying that she had bought a £95 stone for her husband's grave. Judge Spencer. Hogg.-"Shocking. This woman has most improperly incurred & debt for a gravestone and she has to pay for it by instal- ments. She has no right to have anch a liability which she cannot meet." A small order was made."

THE FAMILY ALBUM-THE SHORT-CUT

SAYS THEY'LL HAVE TO STEP ON IT TO GET TO THE DIMMICKS' BY SIX- THIRTY.

FIVE BLOCKS LATER WIFE EXCLAIMS GOODNESS. SHE WAS THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE.THEY SHOULD HAVE TURNED ONTO MAPLE

CRIES SUDDENLY THERË, THAT STREET THEY PASSED WAS THE ONE THEY WANT. HE BACKS UP

WIFE REMARKS SHE KNOWS A SHORTER WAY, TAKE THE NEXT LEFT TURN ON WASHINGTON" STREET

GOES ROUND BLOCK AND GETS ONTO MAPLE, WIFE SAYS. SHE DOESN'T KNOW NAME OF NEXT TURN, BUT SHE'LL RECOGNIZE IT.

DISCOVERS THAT THIS IS A ONE-WAY STREET GOING IN THE WRONG WAY.

By" GLUYAS WILLIAN

MURMURS SUSPICIOUSLY" 15.SHE SURE SHE KNOWS IT, AND TURNS LEFT

REQUESTS HIM TO DRIVE. SLOWLY SO SHE CAN WATCH, SHE THINKS THERE'S A RED OR A WHITE HOUSE ON THEIR CORNER.

PASSER-BY DIRECTS THEM CORRECTLY. RIDE FINISHES IN VERY THICK SILENCE.

(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.)

HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.

Betty': "My dear, I've just heard the most awful piece of scandal." Alice: "I thought you had. You looked so happy when you cause in"

"Are you keen on winter sports 1" "No. I know nothing about Why do you ask!" them.

"You dance just as though you were wearing snow-shoes."

CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

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1- Devoured.

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4. Pertainng to ocean. more-

ment.

9.-Domestic animal.

12.-Tatter.

13.-Positive terminal.

14.-Collection of sayings

18-Line bounding torrid zone.

17. Moved swiftly.

19.-Expression of sorrow. 21-Italian river.

· 92. --~--Among.

25.-Fabulous.

27-Prejudice. 31.-Seized with teeth. 32-Freedom. from guilt. 34.-Upon. 3-A constellation.

30-Measure of length

37-Conjunction.

35.-Emptying.

41.-Unit of energy...

42.-To prepare for publication.

43.--Before.

44.-Girl's name.

45-Spanish article. 47.-Desert dweller. 40.Tasks.

63.-Smoothed.

57.-To be ill. 38.-River of France.. 60. To be in debt. "61.-Cot.

62-Amphibians. 63-A number.

Vertical.

1.-Skill. 2.-Sailor 3.-Self. 4-Caudal appendage. 5.-To embody in flesh.

6. To act.. 7.-To. join.

8.To jump.

-Domestic animal. 10.-A number. 1-Small compact.

18.- Cushion.

18.-Gowned. 20.-Offspring. 92-Residence. 23.-Dug.

24. Pronoun.

26-Driving into inescapable

place..

28.-Within.

29.-Fruit of certain tree.

30.-Kind of cloth.

32,-Anger.

33.-Tooth of gear wheel.

35.-Change.

39.-3.1410.

40.-Man's name.

41. Hall an em.

44.-Finnish city. 46. Part of tree. 48.-War god. 49.-Public vehicle. 50. To basten. 61-Antique. 52-Address of respect. 61.-Negative 55.-Sheep... Be-Lair."

69,--Thus..

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

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Mac: "Does Freddy play golf!" Ethel: "I believe that's what he calls it."

Mrs, Willey: "Do your daugh

ters live at home?"

Mrs. Nilley: Only the married one!"

Hawker: "Buy a parrot? A real dandy talker."

Mr. Heapeck: "Er-no, thank "you I'm suited!".

Teacher of English. "Take the sentence The Indian stole silently into the wigwam. What tense-1"

Well-Brought-up Winifred. "His wife's, I hope!"

Waggish Diner (with menu); "Chicken croquettes, eh? I say, waiter, what part of a chicken in the eroquette 1"

Waiter: "The part that's left over from the day before."

BOMG

Shampoo-What did the doctor do for your loss of memory!

Realpoo-Ho

mo gave tablets to take."

Shampoo Have they helped you any 1

Realpoo-No, I always forget to take them.

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A smarty young man walked into an insurance office and asked the office boy: "Can you insure my 80ul

"I don't know,” replied the boy "but if you will take a seat. I will ask the manager of the fire in- surance department."

Mr. Portleigh wanted his por trait painted, but the artist asked for a fee of £200.

"I couldn't think of paying more than £100," said Mr. Portleigh.

Very good," said the artist; "but I shall have to make the por. trait look more like you."

Instalment Collector: "Sec here. you're several instalments behind on your piano."

Purchaser; "Well, the company advertises, 'Pay as you play."'

Collector: "What's, that got to do with it "

17.

Purchaser: "I play very poor

"No doubt it is true," remarked the man who had been disappoint ed over the number and quality of his Christmas gifts, "that it is more blessed to give than to re ceive. And I feel sure there are many noble characters who are re- ady to let the other fellow have all the blessings !''*

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TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON

356 METRES.

11 to 11.30 am.-Commercial News.

12.30 to 1.30 p.m.-Demonstration

programme.

1.48 p.m.-Weather report.

THE PHILIPPINES QUESTION.

A NEUTRAL" STATUS ↑

[UNITKO PRESS.]

New York, February 12-A pro- posal that a neutral status similar to that of Switzerland be given to the Philippine Islands by the antions of the world is embodied in an editorial published by the New York World to-day.

This would greatly facilitate the process of bringing the London Five-Power Naval Limitation Con- ference to a successful agreement, in the opinion of the World. The paper expresses the belief that the Filipinos and a majority of Ameri can citizens would approve such n salution.

The World paints to the American desire to build a fleet of cruisers, and says that this desire is based upon the difficulty of defending the Philippine Islands at present. This in turn is causing Japan to desire a larger naval ratio.

Thus a vicious circle is created, continues the World. This situation is based upon a fallacy, because the islands could not be defended suc- cessfully against a sudden attack although in a long war between the United States and Japan they would be recovered since in such a log confict Japan would be no match for America.

The Philippines are not strongly fortified, due in part to stipulations of the Washington Conference agreements, and it is impossible to keep permanently at hand a sui- cicatly strong American naval force to cope with sudden onslaught from a strong Far Eastern power. Naval Authorities have long admitted this, fact more or less publicly while still using the Philippines argument for increasing American cruiser strength.

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TWICE-NIGHTLY MUSICAL COMEDIES.

A NEW SCHEME FOR LONDON. Mr. Lee Ephraim recently out- lined a scheme for a twice-nightly musical comedy theatre in the West- End of London. "Owing to the ・is the talking pictures," he said, 3 to 3.30 p.m.-European, pro- public has now formed the habit of gramme of H... records sup-going to the theatre sariter in the plied by Messrs. Moutris & Co. evening, and my intention is to meet "Chal Romano Overture" (Eetel- the cinema competition by providing bey), The Band of HM. Cold-first-class musical plays with West- stream Guards.

End casts at prices ranging from 25. to 9s. 6d. The only difference be tween the twice-nightly perform- ances and the ordinary musical comedy will be a slight difference in length. In my twice nightly theatre the performances will start at 6.30 "Excuse Me. Lady-Fox-Trot"

and end at 8:45, and begin again at (Nicholls) and Am I Blue o'clock. Some musical comedies Fox Trot" (Akst), Jack Hylton would be improved by being short and His Orchestra.

er," he added, naming a well-known

"Nightingales And Beatrice Harri- een Playing Songs My Mother, Taught Me" and "A Summer Night Idyll," By Nightingales

and Church Bells.

"Have you fixed your theatre 1" Mr. Ephraim was asked.

(a) Song Without Words-Op. | example.

102, No. 3, "(b) Spring Song,

(a) Song Without Words-Op. 19, No. 6" and " (b) Bees Wed- ding." Mark Hambourg. "My Love Dwelt In A Northern Land" (Elgar) and "Just A Little Ring" (Schubert, arr. Berte and Clutsam), Baraldi > Trio.

5.30 p.m. Mrs. R. Sanger's Con- cort relayed from Helena Max Institute,

PROGRAMME. .

Trio: Piano, Violin, Viola 1. (a) Andante

(b) Viennese Popular Song

(Kreisler). Miss Jean Brags, Miss Carry Braga and Mr. John Braga.

"I shall know definitely next week, but you can say that it will be one of the big new theatres, and that the project will begin before Easter."

"Have you chosen the play with which you intend to open?"

O

No, but it will be one of two pieces that I have acquired, and the decision depends

getting permis- sion to make the necessary cuts to bring the play within the two and a quarter hours."

Mr. Ephraim has recently return- (Beethoven).ed from the United States, where be has acquired the British rights of Heads Up" and "Top Speed," two American successes. There is also a possibility that he will stage "Rio Rita," the spectacular musical play that, is being screened at the Tivoli as a "talkie." Mr. Ephraim who has been associated with

2. French Bergerettss:

(a) Cantabille & Madame de

Pompadour...(Weckerlia).

(b) Silvestrik

Chansonde

Bertingne.. (c) Le beau sejour ...(Weckerlin)

Mrs. A. Reinshagen.

(Massenet).

(Vidal).

Rose Marie,"

The Street Singer," ***Sonny," "The Five 'Clock Girl," Funny Face," and "The Desert Song ") will also con- tinue to produce the ordinary once-. 3. French Songs:

nightly plays at other theatres. (a) Peusee d'automme

Twice-nightly performances are, of course, the rule in many suburban (b) Printemps nouveau

The idea and provincial theatres. was tried some years ago in the Mr. Li Chor Chi.

centre of London-at the old Ox- 4. Italian Songs:

ford of presenting two perform. (a) Matinata (Leoncavallo),ances of dramatic pieces every (b) Tre Stornelli Toscani

evening with indifferent success. (Blair-Fairchild). Revues were also done twice-nightly at the Middlesex-now the Winter Mrs. R. Sanger."

Gadten Theatre-but the experiment of presenting new musical comedies twice-nightly in the West End is entirely new and is being made to meet the changing habits of play-

3. Violin Solo:

(a) Wings of Song

Mendelssohn), (b) L'alouette ... (Glinka-auer). (c) Le Cygne...(O. Saint Saens).

Mr. John Braga.",

4. French Bergerettes:

(a) Mes Belles Amourettes

(Weckerlin)... (b) La Romanesca (Weckerlin).

Mrs. A. Reinshagen.

A boy went into a chemist's shop to use the telephone, and the che mist overheard him call up Dr. Brown and ask if he wanted a boy. "Aro you quite satisfied with your present boy!" the lad inquir- ed, and, after getting a reply, he s. answered, "Oh, then I don't think "need trouble you any further, thank you.'

With some sympathy for the lad in what he thought was a disap pointment, the chemist offered him

job,

Ob, I don't want a job," the toy replied.

Why, you young begger, you have just asked. for a job,” said the chemist.

7. Ttalian Songs:

(a) Torna a Surriente.

(Do Courtin): (b) Tristożza Tosti.

Mr. Li Chor Chi. (a)When Love Went Riding

(Frank Bridge). (b) Light and Shade

(George Grimbit), Mra. R. Sanger.

At end of Concert the record programme will be continued until 7 p.m

"Suite Francaise" (Foulds), The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards.

7 to 0 p.m.-Experimental pro-

gramme.

"You see, I am Dr. Brown's boy, and I just wanted to see how I9 to 10.30 p.m.-Chinese programme. stood."

10.30 p.m.-Close down.

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