1930-06-10 — Page 3

HONG, KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1930.

THE BEDTIME STORY

By GLUYAS-

ខ

HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.

"Thero's a parking space outside the museum!"

Yes, it ought to be inside with the rest of the curios."

"Now, boys." said the teacher. "always remember that you should never end a sentence with the word 'with."

That is," he went on burriedly,

Taxi Driver: "Wot number did "unless you have nothing else to you say it was, sir?"?

Fare: "I'm not sure, but it's the headquarters of the anti-tipping league."

"You must love your wife, as you never let her go out of your study."

"If I did she would go into the kitchen and cook."

Kitty: "Jack says he can read me like a book."

end it with.

Teacher: "What do you know about verbs?"

Pupil: They are just the op- posite of chiefs of state."

Teacher: "How is that?" Pupil: "They always agree with their subjects."

Little Nancy had been visiting and the grandfather clock had made a great impression.

She

Phyllis: You mustn't take Jackattempted to describe it to her

too literally, dear. He probably metas that you are a plain type."

----—

Sam (at marriage license bureau): "Ah want's license,"

Clerk: "Certainly, Where is

the bride-elect?"

Som: What

you-all mean,

we ought to have one?" mother, and said, "Don't you think

"What kind was it " asked the mother."

"Ob, it was tall and didn't once stop wagging its tail!"

Little Betty, taking her first ride

bride-elect Dey warn't na 'lection in the country, was very much im a-tall. De lady done appoint ber-pressed by everything she saw, self to de office at mah own pusson. al request."

There had been several earth- quake shucks in a certain district, so a married couple sent their little buy to an uncle who lived out of the danger zone.

A day or two later they receiv- ed a telegram:

Am returning your boy-send- earthquake.'

Little Billy, returning from danc

į

Turning to her mother, she cried, "Oh, Mother, they must be very rich in the country?

Mother "Why, Betty, what makes you think so?”'

Betty (pointing to the wind- mills) "Se, they even have big electric fans for the cows!"

A little girl had been taught

never to interrupt anyone who was

spraking, but one day at luncheon

JUNIOR CLIMES INTO DADDY'S JAP AND ASKS FOR JUST ONE UTTLE STORY BEFORE BEDTIME

JUNIOR GETS SETTLED AGAIN AND DADDY RESUMES A LITTLE LESS BRIGHTLY

DADDY EXPLAINS THERE'S NO USE HIS TELLING A STORY IF JUNIOR IS 60ING TO SING [41-16

she was seen breaking this rule CENTRAL THEATRE. ing school, was asked by his mo- good breeding, making efforts ther, "How was the lesson " to to speak to her grandfather, a which Billy replied, "Not so good, prominent politician, who Mummy."

talking earnestly to guests. "How do you mean, 'not > good" "

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"Well," said the contemplative four-year-old, "I couldn't get the step the teacher showed me."

Oh, so that was it. What do you think was the trouble "

"Well, Mummy, I've been thinking about it, and I think it was my frets."

WES

The grandfather motioned her sternly to silence. Presently he turned to her, saying: "Well, Dorothy, since you were so very eager to speak, you may proceed to do so now."

Dorothy shook her head. To late now," she said mournfully

There was something crawling on your lettuce."

CENTRAL THEATRE

Paramounts found Pictures R Commencing SATURDAY, June 14th

FOR OUR GRAND OPENING We are pleased to announce the First Showing in South China

HEAR!!

Dream Lover My Love Parade

Paris. Stay the Same Lets Be Common Nobody's Using It Now

a Paramount Graik

TTERLY de

Ulightful en.

Trancing, carap turing!" says The New York Daily News. Hear Che. valier sing.. See him make love. In this mirthful mue ical-roniance of a beautiful queen.

MAURICE

CHEVALIER

The Love Parade

AN ERNST

LUBITSCH

PRODUCTION

JEANETTE MACDONALD LUPINO LANZ LILLIAN ROT

SUPER-PRODUCTION

AT POPULAR PRICES.

AT 2.15 PM.

AT 9:16 P.M;

Time and Prices:

At 5.157.15 PM

$1.00, 70 Ore & 50 078, 81.20, 80 Czs, & 60.Cm.

$1.30, $1.00%

SERVICEMEN: 50 C, TO ALL SHOWS.

Bookings at Anderson Music Store and at the Theatre (Telephone 25720);

"THE LOVE PARADE"

ON SATURDAY.

"The Love Parade," which brings Maurice Chevalier to the new Central Theatre for seven days starting Saturday, June 14, is an original musical romance. The story is ag smart and sophisticated

1.5 to-morrow's newspaper and brings in new type of picture to the talking screen.

Maurice Chevalier is cast in the role of a prince who. marries a queen, and becomes a very stern prince consort, who refuses to be ruled according to ancient tradi- tions Ten popular bits form the basis for the musical background.

The girl with the red-gold" hair and the sea-green eyes, known to the musical comedy world” as Jeanette MacDonald," has

gobe

talkie" through a whim of fate, Erust Lubitsch, the famous director, went in search of a proper lending lady for Maurice Chevalier for

The Love Parade," the screen's first original musical romance. Ip New York Lubitsch attended every musical show and every show in production in search of the perfect type he desired for the role of Queen Lonise.

DADDY CLEARS THROAT AND BEGINS. * WELL, ONCE UPON A A TIME -

JUNIOR SHIFTS POSITION, CRACKING, DADDY, SMARTLY UNDER THE CHIN WITH HIS HEAD

WILLIAMID

-PRESENTI

MOTHER KNOWS BEST

STORY STOPS ABRUPTLY AS JUNIOR, SHIFTING AGAIN, GRINDS. HIS KNEE INTO MUSCLE OF DADDY'S

DADDY GETS JUNIOR INTO FISH- TION WHERE HE CAN HOLD HIM AND REPEATS "ONCE UPON A TINEJ

EDNA FERBER'S most popular story,

is now a most interesting picture on the screen! With MADGE BELLAMY, LOUISË DRESSER, BARRY NORTON and

an all-star cast.«

LEG

`GETS WELL LAUNCHED INTO STORY

WHEN JUNIOR REMEMBERS HE HASN'T PRACTICED STANDING ON HIS HEAD TODAY

(Copyright, 1936, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc)

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON

353 METRES.*

11 to 11.30.in.-Commercial News.

וי

DADDY DECIDES HURRIEDLY THAT IT'S JUNIOR'S BED-

TIME

GUTAS BULLETS

HOLLYWOOD GIRLS IN DISTRESS.

BATHING BELLES CARRY SANDWICH BOARDS,

Film players have fallen on hard times. Popular stars have suffered severely, but salaries gen-

not

11.30 am to 12.30 p.m.-Chinese

programme. 12.30 to 2 p.m-Programme of

Columbia records supplied by exally are lower than they have Messrs. Anderson Music Co. been for years Economy cuts in

6 to 8 p.m.--Programme of Colum-most of the studios followed the bin records supplied by Messrs. Wall Street collapse and a large Anderson, Music Co.:-

&

p.m.Poet and Peasant, Percy

Pitt and Orchestra.

6.09 p.m. Vocal Gems from "Fol- low Through," Columbia Light Opera Co..

6.17 p.m.-Sunnyside Up. Ben Sel

vit and Orchestra. 0.23 p.m.-The Fourth Form at St.

Michael's, Will Hay.

6.30 p.m.--Estrellita, Albert Sam

urons - (Violia).

6.56

Memories,

p.m.Melodious Regal Cinema Orchestra. 6.15 p.m.-Gaiety Echoes, Herman

Finek and Orchestra.

*

email-part players and others are number of resistant directors,

out of work.

The change from silence to sound, too, has caused a good many sub- title writers and scenario authors' to lose their employment.

Actresses in Old Frocks. Just how severe unemployment in Hollywood is can be seen by any visitor,

Actors and actresses are going about in the clothes they wore in their last picture-clothes careful- ly pressed and preserved row-vid the cheap cafes are making up what the expensive restaurants are los

6.33 p.m.-Virginia, Sophie Tucker.

pm-Scene de Ballett (de Beriot), Squire Celeste Octet. 100 p.m. Selection from "Broading.

way," Regal Cinema Orchestra. 7.47 p.m.-Away down South in

Heaven, Sophie Tucker.

At last he decided that Jeanette 14 p.m.-Miniature Musical Comme MacDonald was the perfect type.

dies.

She was beautiful, she was a talent-731 pm-Ideals, Jean Lousea and ed actress, and she could sing. She

Orchestra,

was just finishing an engagement 40 p.m.-Selection from "Madame in the Broadway show “Boom!

and Boom!"

kaa immediately played under contract for Love Parnile."

The

:

OWNERSHIP OF AN ARCTIC ISLAND.

NORWEGIAN SEAMAN'S WAR REVELATION.

"

Hugo Stinnes, the GenSEZ Captain of Industry." during the war tried to purchase the well- known Aretic Island of Jan Mayen. This interesting revelation made before the Court in Oslo re- cently during a law suit in connec

Butterfly," New Queen's Hall Light Orchestra..

7.43 pm-Aren't Women Wonder-

ful Sophie Tucker.

7.5 p.m.-For You Alone, Albert

Sandler and Orchestra. 3.p.m.-Chinese programme relayed from Ko Shing Theatre until the end of the play.

ELECTROCUTED IN -BATH.

CURRENT FROM OVER- TURNED RADIATOR.

Beauty Winner's Flight. One phase of this "low" "ebb' Period is the enterprise displayed by those in search of work. It is see a pretty girl clad in a bath- not uncommon in Hollywood to

reading:- ing suit carrying a sandwichboard

"Beauty competition winner Would like job as vaah-desk girl, theatre attendant or any regular employment

Or a man bearing a sign: 2

"Good character actor needs work £1 a day acceptable. Plays villain, gangster or any heavy role. What offers 7"

AT THE

QUEEN'S

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.

Thrilling! Dramatic! Different!

THE

13 JUROR

with ANNA Q NILSON-FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN

AT THE

STAR

I:

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY

At 5.30 & 9.20.

BEWARE of

MARRIED MEN

STARRING Ë

IRENE RICH

WITH

- CLYDE COOK AUDREY FERRIS

AT THE

MYRNA LOY-

WORLD

At 2.30 & 7.15

LONDON SEES PARIS

REVUE.??

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY

At 5.15 & 9.20

BEMINISCENES OF PAKING ”.

"DE LA FOLIE PURE" AT THE VICTORIA PALACE.

The Folies Bergere of Paris has a world-wide reputation for un- The newspapers contain hundr-clad revues eda of similar advertisements, while-

De La Folie Pure," at the Vic beautiful girls, who came to Cali toria Palace on April 16,, is the fornia to get into the movies and Folies Bergere production of last failed fill every office, quick-lunch. bar, shop and theatre.

It has been said that Hollwood contains more beautiful girls than any city in the world. Even the chamber-maid: at an hotel-was' pro

year anglicised with Charles Aus- tin's homely British humour, "and the Lord Chamberlain's fatherly reminders that in our treacherous climate it is unwise, to cast too many clouts till May is out-or even inter in the year. display of limbs, scenic effects on But, even so, there is a lively The Norwegian Government has den Police Court recently on the than go home and admit failure alarge scale, and at least one num- occupied the island as State pro- body of Magda Forensen, a Danish And Besides, who knows One her; La Belle of La Bete," which perty, and erected a wireless station there. The occupation is contested subject, aged thirty, of Nelson day there may be jobs for everyone. in its conception challenges our in-

Hollwood's unemployed are incur solar tastes. by a private individual, who claims Road, Malden who was found ably optimistic. that he had occupied the island be electrocuted in her bath. fore the State intervened, and that

A verdict of accidental deathbably a prize-winner-in a beauty tion with the ownership of the was returned at an inquest at Mal would rather live in this manner contert in her home town." "She-

island.

1

He had informed the Government in An electric radiator was found the ordinary way.

beside her in the bath, and the

During the bearing of the case an opinion was expressed that she bad old seamen asked to be heard. He maintained that neither the Nar-knocked this from a shelf, and that wegian State nor its rival could the water bad become charged with claim Jan Mayen, for his own oc-electricity.

cupation was made before the war Erna Schwiening, friend of In 1917, he said, Hugo Stinnes Mrs Torensen, anid that Mr. approached him and offered one Forensen went up to have a bath million gold. marks for the island.

at eleven o'clock at night. Ten

The seaman laid documents before minutes later the witness heard a the Court proving that his tale was scream, and rushing upstairs to true. In the documents Hugo the bathroom found. Mrs. Toren- Stinnes ofers to pay the seaman sen in the bath and leaning, over

three years

The seaman said that he had ac tric radiator was in the bath with cepted Hugo Stinnes offer, but that her. This had been standing on a the Norwegian, Government inter-small shelf at the end of the bath. vened and forced him to convey his Dr. C. T Cohen said that death rights of occupation to the Nor was due to electrification, evident- wegian State for a sum which was ly caused by the radiator falling exactly one hundredth of what into the water. There were no signs Stinnes was willing to pay.A of injury except one small burn.

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R

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For the men there is the well-i drilled troop of Lawrence Tiller girls to rouse applause by the pre- cision of their dunce, movements. For the ladies there is an effective fur parade, with a chinchilla drop- eurtain which, if real, would be worth thousands, and a tasteful grouping of sable and ermine.

Mr. Charles Austin, as a wayward: Britain who goes to Paris on a firat prize won in a football competition, and diminutive Mr. Ivor Vintner, as bis precocious son, provided broad hurdour, Miss Josephine Trix and Mr. Walter Williams Leana in dainty whispers, and Miss

Marika Roke Was TesponsWIĘTOF"] some effective dancing.

Besides the novelty of a "Pazi-|| sian" show, there is an amazing apache dance on skátes by Elaic and Paulsen that ought to please all faithful patrons of the Palace, and give them lots for their

nopty.

TO-DAY ONLY At 8.30: 5.30, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

CHESTER CONKLIN

1.

GEORGE

BANCROFT

IN

"TELL IT

ΤΟ SWEENEY"

The scream team of the screen-get in on the laughs from the mitey Conklin... and # mighty "Bancraft.

AT THE

MAJESTIC

Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Shoring for the FIRST TIME in Hong Kong.