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HUMOUR: " ANCIENT AND MODERN.

"I didn't know the how atenes: rapher was left-handed."

She isn't she's just engaged."

Editor's Wife: "I want to have

a little chat with you.”

· Editor: "All right, my dear, but try and hold it down below 10,000

"The workers in my organiza-words.” tion never watch the clock.'

"So I've noticed Most of them have wrist watches."

"Here's a follow, who thinks a timetable has five lega."

"Ha, ha! How absurd How' many has the bally thing?"

I see by the papers," said the street cleaner, "that"

That there's been another parade in town," asid the other.

Fop: The most delightful thing in the world is to bold "converse with the person one loves most in the world."

Lady: "But it is very "bad talk to oneself."

to

Someone had congratulated the club wit on becoming a father. "Oh, yes. thanks," he said. "We're quite an international household now. I represent England, my wife Scotland, and the babe wails.'

What are you going to do to- night, dear?"

"Oh, write a letter or two, road -a bit, listen to the wireless, and so

*On."

"I'm publicity min for the citrus growers.

"Well 7"' "I want public eye."

"This vase is 2000 years old: Be very careful in carrying it." "

to get grapefruit in the

"You can depend on me, Pro- fessor; I'll be as careful of it as if it were new!"

The film producer was in difi- culty about the leading man for his new film.

ed.

"What about So-and-so ?" he ask-

"He's too caustic," said the studio manager.

roared the

"Hang the expense producer. "Get him!"

Little Mary Jane and her · next- door neighbour Billy were engaged in an absorbing conversation.

"What are anarchists ?" asked little Mary Jane.

,

Then Billy swelled with -wisdom. "They want everything anyone else has got, and they never wash themselves," he replied.

"Oh, yes!"

cried little Mary "Well, when you come to the sew Jane, with enthusiasm." "I see- on.' don't forget my shirt buttons."thry is just little boya growed up ???

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Cook: "If you please, ma'am, ray I entertain my fiance in the kitchen this evening ?"

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A story is told by Mr. Evelyn Graham in his newly published book, entitled. "Fifty Years of Mistress: "But I thought you Famous Judges," concerning Mr. broke it off with him last night, | Justice Grantham. Whils Mary?" 11.

¡ circuit once he returned to the "So I did, maʼam; but, natur- į house where he was staying rather ally, I gave him a month's notice."

Little Noanie was beginning to spell her new acquirement filling her with pleasure and confidence.

"So you're learning to spell; are you, Nan?" inquired Uncle Ben. "Let me see. Spell up."

"L-p, up," came triumphantly.

Right you are. Now, let me see if you can spell down'."

"P-u, down." came promptly and we must say with reasoning.

late, and, as he was wearing a cap, he was not recognized by the con stable on duty outside, who seera- ingly mistook him for one of the Servants. "Has the old blighter gone to bed yet!" inquired the policeman of the judge, who replied that he thought he had not. A short while later he opened his bed- room window and put out his head. "Officer." he called down to the street below, the old blighter is just going to bed now."

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CENTRAL THEATRE

A

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1930.

DIFFICULT DECISIONS

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

LOVE IN FRANCE

IN

"Melody

of

Love"

ALL TALKING-SINGING

with WALTER PIDGEON-MILDRED HARRIS.

GUYAS WILLIAMS..

WONDERING WHETHER TO STRUGGLE TO EAT YOUR DINNER OR TO OWN UP TO HAVING CONSUMED IN THE PAST THREE HOURS ONE DOUBLE HEADER BANANA SPLIT, ONE BOTTLE

OF RASPBERRY POP, TWO DOUGH NUTS AND

SUNDRY JELLY BEANS, WITH UNSATISFACTORY RESULTS

(Copyright, 1530, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

5-15

THE SILVER SCREEN, ambitions: After numerous situa- DUCHESS SAUCEPAN GIFT.

MELODIES OF LOVE,

At the Queen's Theatre to-day the first all-talkie of the Universal studio can be heard, "The Melody of Love," in which Walter Pidgeon and Mildred Harris are singing a number of tuneful songs. Both artistes have good voices, and the story covers scenes in France and New York (which means America). The hero is a song-writer who loses

tions which are shot through with. clever dialogue and tense drama, the romance reaches a lógical cul- mination.

THE CHAPLIN OF THE

TALKIES.

AN EARL: GIVES A HEARTH- BRUSH.

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A duchess has given an April bride a set of saucepans: An earl has given her a hearth-bush, and another titled friend has given her, a patent egg-boiler.

..

This is the new "fashion" in

Clayton, Jackson and. Durante, who were. Broadway favourities, particularly among after-theatre wedding presents, heralding, per club devotees for several years, have hapa, the end of those days when a at last been signed for a moving bride might reasonably expect, tö furnish her new home with pre- picture. The picture is "Road-seats of silver and fine linen. the use of his hand in the Great house Nights," and it comes to the War, but who finds consolation in | Central Theatre to-marron. In bus aha received a. visitare hook,

Paramount's Sound Pictures R the love of a French girl, who this film, which wag, written by

TO-DAY ONLY

At 2.15, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 P.M,

CLAUDETTE COLBERT

IN

"

“THE LADY LIES'

Based on the famous Broadway stage play of the same name.

SUNDAY,” JULY 13th

IS HE,

as Motion Picture

News says!

"THE

CHARLIE

CHAPLIN

OF THE

TALKING

SCREEN??

See and Hear the new hit comedian Jimmy Durantee and other stars.

ROADHOUSE

rari

You' olyt ajas yoursel Immensely! And al The time you're done scious of a grim maison

turking beblad the fun," Well the thrilz

Paramount Picture

NIGHTS

"with"

HELEN MORGAN CHARLES RUGGLES

FRED KOHLER and CLAYTON JACK and DURANTE

follows him to New York, and so Ben Hecht, this inimitable trio of brings the romance to a happy conclusion.

In addition to the star picture, the Queen's management is show ing three other films-a musical" number by the 'Broux Sisters, an amusing cartoon, "Stage Stunts," and a comedy entitled "Pilgrim Papas."

song and dance comica display clearly why they have made such a great success on the Great White Way. They sing three of their own songs in the production, which is comedy thriller, and Jimmy Dir ante, their leader, shows why he has earned for himself the title of the Charlie Chaplin of the talking sercon."!

The "unlucky" bride in question

and what she describes as a dead- ly kéme-made hand-bag.**

three. wooden kitchen spoons, taste. Another bride has been given fully tied together with a piece of blue riban; and doe bride burst into tears when she received an amateur water-colour, the laborious work of the door.

Family photographs are also po pular-with everybody but the brides for this is the time of year when fashionable photographers give free sittings.

!!

It is said that the imit was reached when one member of a rich family gave & sugar how, while another member of the same fami

Roadhouse Nighta waa pro- duced at the Astoria, I.1. studio of the Paramount company. Bely gave the tonga. cause of the fact that most of the But the bride who is regarded as principals were engaged at the time the unluckiest of the a' is the in Broadway entertainments which one who received a sachet of laven- kept them busy in the afternoong ed in the corner.

der with the family erezt embroider and evenings, the camera and talkie recording of Roadhouse Nights" took place in the moming hours. NA

THE GIRL FROM HAVANA"

Ben Stoloff, whose thirtieth diree torial production for Fox Films is The Girl From Havane," Fox Movietone picture to be seen and heard at the Queen's Theatre to morrow, was formerly a profession- al baseball-player, with a batting average in the Coast League of well over 300. As a director, he has "clicked " close to 1,000. Lala Lane and Paul Page are co-featured YOU WERE MEANT FOR in The Girl From Havana," with ( Warren Hymer, Natalie Moorhead, Adele Windsor and Kenneth Thom- son prominent in the supporting cast.

THE LADY LIES."

In The Lady Lies" Paramount has produced a powerfully dramatic but at the same time, absorbingly human romance drama that should add greatly to the prestige of its sponsors, and to that of its teatured-players, Walter Huston, Claudette Colbert and Charles

Ruggles.

At the Central Theatre yesterday, audiences liked it, and liked it very much. Of Huston they were saying

Hasa't he & wonderful voice! Can't he act Of Miss Colbert. they were saying "Lan't the a gor geous creature-what a splendid ing Isu't he the funniest man in voice Of Ruggles they were say

MEX

LOVE SONG INSPIRED BY OTHER WOMEN.

Is super-tax responsible for this wave of economy?

REAL CASTLE IN THE AIR.

NEWSREEL COMEDY CARTOON MUSICAL

AT THE

QUEEN'S

JOHN

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

"At 280, 510, 7.15 & 9.20

TWELVE

OUT

GILBERT MILES

AT THE

STAR

FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.80 Only.

At 5.30 & 9.15 p.m.-"NICOLA?

AT THE END "WAN

WORLD

NIES ASTHER JOAN CRAWFORD

IN

Dream

of Love

A Thrilling Royal Romance.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 5:15 & 9.20.

At 2.80 & 7.15 Chinese Picture “SPARROWS OF WAR"

CHURCH NOTICES.

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL,

: Họa Kon

HOME THAT DANGLES FROM JULY 13, 1930, 4th Sunday after.

A. MAST.

A house that is "airship," home, garage and aeroplane shed in one When Nacio Herb. Brown, the has been invented by Mr. A. Buck- £10,000 a year composer of "Btoadmaster Fuller, a retired American way Melody," "The Wedding of the naval officer who has turned archi- Painted Doll, Singin' in the tect

tin, and other popular Améri can talkis songs, wrote the hne "You were meant for me. I was meant for you

he did not realise that it would own domestic life. have a special significance in his

Trinity-

Holy Communion at 8 a.mu Holy Communion (Pesk Church) at

8am.

Children's Service at 10a.m. Mattina and Sermon at 11 am.

Preacher Rev. H. V. Koop.. Evensong at 6.00 pic.

Preacher Rev. L N. Watkins Note: Et. Paul's College Bassar on Friday and Saturday, July 18th and 19th at 4.00 p.m. in the Colege Grounds, Lower Albelt Road.

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MA Fuller calls his new dwelling The Dyminxion House." It looks like an octagonal circus tent, but instead of resting on the ground it is suspended from an aerial mast

The house weighs less than thred FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, like an airship. tons and can be installed in 24 hours. Beneath the house is a com bined garage and hangar for a fold. ing acroplane, prem

But soon after he had written it, Bis wife, Mrs. Baby Porter Brown filed a petition for divorce. She declared that the whole 'verse-

The first deck of the living quar "Life was a song. You came along, ters is 14 feet above the ground. I've laid awake the whole night Here are a living-room, a librery

through,

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equipped with wireless, typewriter If I but dared to think you a television; two large bedrooms, eared, this is what I'd say to each with a bathroom attached, a you,kitchen and laundry. You were meant for me, I was

meant for you,

was inspired by another woman Eaton, youngest of three Hollywood So he cited the lovely Doris

sisters, as co-respondent

On the top of the house is a deck where sunbaths can be enjoyed.

The outside walls are hollow parent material made of vegetable triangular panes of casein, a trans-

the world!" and of the childrm,

wasto The windows are construct- Tom Brown and Virginia Deering Mrs. Brown in her petition deed on the thermos flask type so as several persons were heard, to say clared that her husband had. nagged to preserve an equable temperature Bright young actors, aren't and bullied her into providing him It is claimed that in this house they

with two sums of £4,000 and there is no need for the local elec The Lady Lies" is the story of £18,000 for the purpose of organis tric light or gas company, for til a prominent and successful lawyering a music publishing bugincas the heat, lighting and refrigerating who is a widower and who to the Ny poother complication, his poiler can be sunnjjerk be a Pjesed disappointmagalegre Porn Easton in Erftid tuut | engine at a cost of 5. & month. children and his relatives, falls in by figuring in this domestic entang Mothers and housewives are ex- love with a woman, who is not, in their opinion of an equal social ed.

fement her cafeét may be prejudic-pected to rejoice in the new serial home, for the floors are made of standing with him. The family

Furthermore, the divorce suit | rubber blown up, so that babies can powers of intervention are brought would also embarrass her two sis play without being watched to bear and the plot deals with the ters Mary, the wife of a talkie This magic, house is to be made weighing in the balance of a true director and Pearl, who devises in an American factory at a price love affair and a family's selfish dances in Hollywood.

61 £750.

SOIENTIST (Branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Chat, Scientist, in Boston,

Mass 7.8.AY WA MACDONNELL ROAD, BELOW BOWE Both Talu STATION. SUNDAY SERVICE, July 15, 1930, at

Subject--SACRAMENT,

The Sunday School is held on Sunday Morsings at 10 o'clock.

6.30 pm.

Wednesday Evening Meeting at

TO-DAY ONLY

At 2.30, 5,30, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

MILTON SILLS

VALLEY

OF THE

GIANTS

with

DORIS KENYON

The Valley of the Giants will be heaven to you when you see this romantic adven

Tuesday and Friday, 10a.m. to 43 Boninspiring love scenes and ture drama. You'll remem- Reading Room at above address, open ber the sterling acting, Monday and Thursday, 5. U to 7 pm. the services and visit the Reading Room. The Publia i cordially invited to attend.

£97,

UNION CHURCH. (KENNEDY ROAD).

BUNEXY, JIN, A vio qu

Morning Worship at 11. a.m. (broad.

casted),

Subject How

..."about God?" Evening warship at 6 pm.

we know

Preacher, Marming and Even

Ing:Rev. J. Foster.

rugged fights for days! It's the Goliath of dramas !

PATLITHE

screen

MAJESTIC

Hathan Road, Kowloon.