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FAKED GLASS ANTIQUES.

"PLANTED" IN INNS TO

TRAP TOURISTS.

How it is Done. "Sometimes," he said, he takes' great trouble.

"He procures a piece of old crown glass, and tries to make the picture as it was de 130 years

He may take an

oid glass picture of a scriptural subject- type not in 'demand-and scrape it clear.

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frains.

in the

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY,

JULY 11, 1930.

'ROYAL" COURT OF Joan Crawford, influenced perhaps EASTERN NEWS IN

HOLLYWOOD.

SOCIETY RULED BY MARY PICKFORD.

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WOMAN. ARTIST'S ́ [M-

PRESSIONS.

Mias Olive Snell, the artist, has

arrived in London from Hollywood, where she has been drawing por- traits of the brightest stars.

In the sudden rise to popularity "of old-fashioned, glass pictures the professional antique faker has found a new line of exploitation.

"He uses an engraving, which he Many well-known people, includvarnishes, face downwards, to the ing the Queen, the Earl of Sand glass, and takes of as many layers | wich, and Lord Bearsted are in- of paper as he can without damag- ing the face of the engraving. He terested in these old glass pictures, colours it, attempting to reproduce The result is that a pair of the mellow tones of the genuine old genuine paintings that might have picture, and places it in an old

Miss Stellapent weeks in the bera, picked up a few years ago

"Experts, however, ena tell im for Es may to-day be worth £100.mediately that the lustre, depth of inner circle of "film star society Profits on forgeries an immense, colour, and soft tones of a genuine the inner circle to which only those

Mr. Blairman, whose exhibition glass picture are lacking

who have fast been received by fake. of authentic examples was visited) "There forgeries." Mr. Blairman Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pick recently by the Queen at his gallery said. are manufactured in great ford can hope to penetrate. in King Street. St. James's, told a quantities for the American tourist

She has recorded her impressions season. They are 'planted' in small Press representative some secrets of country inne and cottages or slip-of the stars' appearance in her at

ped into sales." the faker's studio.

tractive tinted drawings, and she gave me her impressions of their personalities recently at sea.

"The Fairbanks," said Miss Snell, ale the royalty of Holly wood. The visitor from England must first be presented at the court. Then, if Many Pickford likes you, she sends for her secretary and says: "Who would you like to meet? Just dictate the list and we will fix it '."

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Miss Snell chose Lillyan Tash- man, Alice White, Marion Davies, Jnan Crawford. Loretta. Young, Evelyn Brent, and Greta Garbo among the fair sex literally fair," she said.for they all have hair bleached to the palest primrose "-- and Douglas Fairbanks, jan, Gragt Withers, and Charlie Chaplin among

the men.

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by her husband's work is herself acquiring the strange charm of the Women in Beardaley's drawings.

Evelyn's Ambition,

is

Douglas Fairbanks. sen.. unaffected by his son's aesthetic I taste. He is still the great apostle of physical fitness. He lives for the day and enjoys it.

Evelyn Brent made her name in low class i vamp parts, and hates playing them. Her ambition is to play a drawing-room vamp, where she can be less crude and more

subtle in her acting. Marion Davies is a magnetic wire. Her vivacity is infectious. As hostesa in her bunga low, in her senside house, and else where, she is unsurpassed,

Greta Garbo, is an outstanding! personality even in this company

When she arrives at a party one would ask ull about her even if one had never heard her name. She is castál, and, I though, rather prone to melancholy. I doubt if she is really happy as a film star. She loves the sea and a simpler, more natural existence.

After all, the life of these film stars is no joke. By eight in the morning they have to be ready, elaborately made up, with their eye. Inshes an inch long curled and shining, and their lips ready to simulate, if need be, the evening party smile.

"Foreign" Noises.

They have to stand by for hours and hours antil they are quite exhausted especially since 'shots' have now to be done all over again "not only if any movement is wrong, but also if any cough or foreign naise has been accidentally record ed in the microphone."

And Charlie Chaplin " I ask ed. "I met him." Mis Snell an swered, at a party at Mrs. Samuel Goldwyn's. When I arrived Friml was at the piano and Chaplin was humming to him the haunting tune that runs through the film he is now

Lillyan Tashman," said Missmaking. Srell, is like a white panther. I watched her at a party. She has a way of looking through half-closed eyes that is enormously effective.

Friml improvised upon it in the manner of Beethoven, Wagner, and Debussy, Then Chaplin acted most of the new film for the party-- playing all the parts himself and burlesquing the other actors.", He is a marvellous mimic

So is Merion Davies.

"And who," I asked, "is the prettiest woman in Hollywood ? "

"I will tell you," said Miss She is not a film star. Snell. She is Mrs. Samael Goldwyn, who is surely the prettiest woman in the

Alice White is just lovely 'cutie': Loretta Young Las eyes like a Persian kitten, and the most entrancing figure; she is just nine- teen, and her marriage with Grant. Withers, who is just twenty. was real love match. In Hollywood they depict a brilliant future for this pair.

Douglas Fairbanks, jua., and Joan Crawford are another attrac-world. tive pair. D.F. jur.' writes poems, and illustrates them with drawings of an Aubrey Beardsley character.

Mits Snell, in private life, is the wild of Lieut.-Colonel E. J. L. Pike, of the Grenadier Guards.

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Lady Clementi will open the St. Andrew's Cathedral Fete, which is to be held in the Memorial Hall. Singapore, on Tuesday, July 22, The proceeds will go to the support

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NOTICE.

TOTICE IS BEREBY GIVEN that AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SKARE- HOLDERS in the CHINA PRO VIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE] COMPANY LIMITED, will be held WEDNESDAY, THE 18TH DAY OF JULY, 1930, in the Company's Board Roem. ALEXANDRA BUILDING, BONG 12 O'CLOCK NOON, for the Kore, at purpose of considering and, if thought of diocesan and parochial organisat, passing the following Resolutions: tions, including St. Mary's Home, 1-That the Capital of the CHINA for which a special appeal is being made.

Th

PROVIDENT LOAN MORTGAGE COMPANY, LIMITED, be increased from $3,000,000 to $4,300,000 by the creation of Sou C0 Shares of $5,00 each and that the 300.000 Ehares of $5. each shall each rank for dividend sad in all other respects par pass with the existing Shares of the Company-

While Towkay Ow Yong Hong, proprietor of a store in Market Street. Klang,, was on his way home last week carrying $1,400 in notes and cash, he was attacked hy-That in the event of the stove a gang of five men, who threw pepper in his eyes and robbed him of two bags containing 300 worth of silver. Later, one of the gang was arrested by the police in Kuala Lumpur.

More than a thousand delegates. from the different Masonic lodges in the Philippines attended reccni- ly the first Masonic Independence Congress in Manila. A resolution was passed asking for the politicnl emancipation of the Archipelago frein the sovereignty of the United States. A second resolution appeal cd to the members of the American Congress, who are Freemasons to collaborate with the Filipinos "to attain that end.

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Besolution being. pasted, 294,789 Shares shall be issued and offered in the first instance by the Directors at par to existing Shareholders oo the Register of the Company as at

1934, the 18th day of July, teably

the properation

Of ONE Share for every TWO Shares held auch Shareholders. And in the r

event of any of the said 204,769 Shares not being taken up by the Share- holders within the time stipulated by the Director, the Board shall be empowered to allot them or dispose of them as they in their discretion deem expedient in the interest of

the Company.

"ALSO HEREBY NOTICE GIVEN that the TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From MONDAY THE 7TB DAT 07 JULY. Dr JULY, 1930, Both Days inclusive. 1930, to WEDNESDAY, THE 10TH DAY

Dated this Twenty-sixth day of June, 630.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

D. L. KING,

Secretary.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

OR Rensous give to Shareholder

at the Annual General Meeting of the Company, held on 7th May, 180, the Directors bars decided to CANCEL all the Existing Share t'ertificates and to REPLACE them by New Share Certificates of a different Colour.

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All Shareholders are therefore re- guested to send their Share Certificates to the Registered Office of tbs Company ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, at VICTORIA, in the Colony of HONG Koxo, forthwith so that the New Share Certificates may be prepared and issues to them in lieu of the Certificater now held by them which will be Cancelled.

By Order of the Board. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers, Hong Kong; 20th June, 1930,

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to be held on MONDAY, the 14 DAY of JULY, 1980, at 8 .., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of HIS EXCELLENT TH GOVERNOR, of Due, Lot of CROWN LAND at Prince Edward Road, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Bent to be fired by the Burveyor of Hu Maizett tax "Emo, for one further term of 75 years.

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