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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1930.

A NOTABLE EVENT.

REDUCTION IN PRICE OF FAVOURITE DRINK.

In these days of the low dollar and the consequent increase io prices of commoditica it is refresh-

FIGHTING MEN'S THE SILVER SCREEN.

WAR TALES.

SIXTY AUTHORS WHO TELL

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THE TRUTH."

GHOST TALKS AT THE QUEEN'S.

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Metronome musical items by the

ing to find one popular commodity-th those days," writes one of Keller Sisters and Lynch, and a

fail to

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sixty contributors to "Every man at War," "Generals used to of universal consumption actualis visit us on blood horses, with an reduced in price. This is the case orderly carrying a lance with a with Horlicks Malted Milk, the pro-little fag, in case, the troops should prietors of which have decided to

appreciate the extreme amend their current prices in the i downward direction, thus affording stability of these high person relief ta the many consumers of this

"But Rawlinson, who was our popular beverage...

corps "commander this was in Horlicks Malted Milk is prepared May 1913, near Laventie" would from the finest ingredients, and its go about with one A.D.C. for com value as a nourishing and refresh-Bay, nd have a friendly chat, and pass on the latest news of the cap- ing beverage is recognised through- ture of three Germans and six out the world. It is obtainable at officer he might meet. He even yards of trench to any humblo all the leading stores in screw-top came up into the front line, where Bottles of various sizes.

his red hat stuck up over the breastwork."

Waste of Life.

In

comedy by Hall Beach Rascals serve as an introduction to, the main talking picture The Ghost Talks" at the Queen's, in which Helen Twelvetrees and Charles Eaton take the leading roles. their stage names of Miriam Holt and Camera Eye" or Franklyn Green, the twe become fast friends, the latter using his skill as a detec- tive who graduated from a cor- respondeate school to help the girl to find a million doliar worth of bonds hidden in a house infested with ghosts.

A gang of crooks scheme to And the hidden bonds, while pretendiag This reduction applies to both theThe essential truth of this book to be assisting "Camera Eye" ordinary Horlicks and to the will strike" all ex-service mec with chocolate-flavoured Horlicks, which the strength of a blow from a rifle-Green, and the haunted house is butt. The simplicity of each nat taken chaige by Stepid Fetchit and is so rapidly coming into generalrative transcende all the imaginative Baby Mack, a dusky married favour. There is no more delicious" blood and mud writing that has drink in the conting hot and trying wrung the withers of the post-war couple, in search of accommoda

generation.

tion. They come into direct con tact with the ghosts, and their doings cause considerable laughter, In the end the bridegroom" runs away and brings in the police, while Camera Eye" had bottled up the crooks in a room by means of a secret door spring connecting with the chandelier, The real de tective is astonished in the end at the success of "Camera Eye" as correspondence detective and decides to take up a course him.

summer period than iced or cold Horlicks, therefore this reduction in price comes at a very opportune time for its many devotees.

Mr. Charles Chaplin, the famous comedian, is planning to organise a new company. He will, it is r ported, sell probably for millions the live-acre plot he bought in 1917 for $33,000 and establish a fifty- acre plot in the San Fernando Valley, where the National First Senett Universal Studios will be located. Mr. Chaplin still refuses to enter the talkie veld, declaring that he will content himself with appearing personally in one panto mime a year. His company will produce perhaps half a dozen silent comedies" per annum. One of those who intend to sign on for the new company is John Gilbert.

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This is just what happened, set down by men who are not profes- sional authors. There is no pre- cious worrying after psychological horrors. But there is humour, there is the bitterly sarcastic attitude among the Armies towards the "ataff's fatuous waste of life There is the physical beaatliness of war, and the apiritual exaltation which war, too, brings out. Con- sider these passages:

"The usual notice was given by a feeble bombardment, the Ger- mans were well wired in and quite ready, and the attack achieved nothing, but the destruction of several good battalions and a very few Germans."

During this afternoon" (Sep- tember 1, on the retreat from Mons) we fought for about three hours, near Villers-Cotterets I think it was, but I getting very nixed about things. Fifteen men in my company were killed, one in a rather peculiar: fashion, He was bending down, handing me a piece of sausage, and a bullet ricochetted off a man's boot and went straight into his mouth and out of the top of his head.

"We marched till about 3 p.m. nothing ehe, just march, march, One man (Ginger Gilmore) found a mouth-organ, and despite the fact that his feet were bound in blood-soaked rags, he staggered along at the head of the company playing tunes all duy"

march.

In Delville Wood.

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ESTHER RALSTON, IN "THE "SPOTLIGHT.”.

Those who like" pictures that tell an intensely interesting story should sce. The Spotlight, a Paramount picture starring Esther Ralston now playing at the Majestic. Thes tre, Kowloon. The Spotlight" is

story of the stage with an excep tionally fine plot that keeps every- oac guessing until the eminently satisfactory ending. There is al ways a glamour of romance about stage life, and in "The Spotlight" one sees the stage and theatrical life as they actually are."

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The story centres about the strug gles of Lizzie Stokes (Esther Ral- ston) to gain fame on the stage, and of the predicament she finds herself in when she does attain success as adoption of a different name and actress through

an entirely different përsonality. There is an amazing transformation when the timid Lizzie Stokes be- comes the exotic Russian, Olga Rostova. Then there is another equally astonishing transformation "Every semblance of a trench when Olga Rostova becomes Lizzė seemed full of dead. The Stokes again. A somewhat differ weary tramp in single file went on ent Lizzie Stokes, however, than for about three hours. Men car the shrinking, sensitive creature of ried heavy loads of equipment. the pre-Rostova days....

How they cursed, aa they collided with some obstacle, or fell flat on a dead body.". in- terspersed with humorous though trite remarks as to the first five Fears being the worst.' The real war has been re-created at lest.

U.S. SENATE · AND. NAVAL PACT.

MR. BRITTEN WANTS EVID- ENCE ON TREATY'S EFFECT.

[UNITED PRESS.]

Washington, April 19-Senators William E. Borah of Idaho and Frederick Hale of Maine have pro- dicted the ratification of the Three- Power Naval Limitation. Treaty fortnight after it is submitted to the Senate.

with

laver as Norman Brooke, the man Neil Hamilton maker a good

who becomes infatuated Madame Rostova. That, by the way, is the great problem of the girl. Can a man who loves a Rua an actress care for the American girl who is the real article beneath the foreign trappings and manner- isms Nicholas Soussania, a Rus- sian, gives a strong characterization as Hoffman, the theatrical genius who makes a star out of Lizzic Stoken, while Arlette Marcha) and Arthur Housmann have good parts.

One of the best pictures seen in recent months; that describes "The Spotlight."

MEI LAN FANG ON HIS WAY HOME.

ENTHUSIASTIC LIONIZING.

BY SAN FRANCISCO.

[UNITED PRESS]·

They said that the Administra- tion planned immediate submission of the treaty after the Americag delegates returned, contrary to re- ports that it would be held over, Chinese actor, Mei Lan Fang, San Francisco, April 21. The anless Col Henry L. Stimson, after a triumphal tour in the East head of the delegation, registered era states, to-day received word objection: Ne

Senator Porah said that he saw that he had been elected an honor no Borious objection to the ary member of the China Society treaty, Representative Fred Brit The actor spent to-day visiting

of America, in New York." ten of Illinois, well known "big the mayor of the city, Mr. Rolph, navy" "proponent, said, however, that he intended to request Mr. Commerce, and other prominent the president of the Chamber of Charles Francis Adams, Secretary persons. He thanked all citizens of the Navy, and other Nový ex for the reception accorded him ou perts to testify before the House Naval Affairs Committee as to how in his opinion, the treaty would affect be U. S Navy.

his arrival in the United States and his reception when he reached here on Sunday on his way back to Chinsich

The actor was escorted to the Tivoli Theatre when he arrived heré There will be no aerial. Derby yesterday and was given honours this year, owing to lack of kon similar to theac accorded the great- trants. The last race was won in cat native and foreign actors. 1023 by Mr. Larry Carter, who | Mayor Rolph presented Mr Mei bowed the to une gură Mind with Fave to t

London- at, an average speed of 10% Dificulty is anticipated in accom miles an hour, The Royal Acromodating throngs who wish to view. Club do not consider that any use Mai's performances here. The actor ful purpose would be served by is attending a round of receptions, continuing the race unless there is and tea partios in his honour. The prospect of Carter's record being hewspapers hail him as the greatest surpassed.

of Oriental dramatic artists.

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