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TO-DAY ONLY

AT 2.30, 5.10, 7 15 & 9.20 p.m.

All-Talking Romantic Smash! Burning Love Under The

Tropic

Moun !

Thrill To The Haunting Molody of "GAY LOVE."

The

DELIGHTFUL

ROGUE

with

ROD LA ROCQUE

and

RITA LA ROY

THURSDAY

„TIFFANY

presents

MAMBA

All Talking All-Technicolor

· Super-Spectacle

Throbbing romance, pow.

erful drama and terrifio tbrills-in a white' man's story in a black man's country.

Jean Hersholt-Eleanor Boardman-Ralph Forbes

Directed

- by

Al Rogell

LA TIFFANY PRODUCTION

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GOLD CREDIT SUGGESTED AS BETTER FOR CHINA.

MONEY TO PURCHASE SUPPLIES,

Kansas City, Jan., 13.--A new pro- posal for restoring the world's com merce to its former position of Trosperity was advanced here to day, and has China as its keystore, Mr. Henry Kittridge | Norton, author and student of world affairs, suggested that the Powera land moboy to China to enable her to purchase supplies in other coun- tries,

Mr. Norton, however, does not propose that large quantities of silver be dumped in China. He said that any funds loaned to her should be in the form of a United States gold dollar, credit, Or, he said, gold bullion could be shipped to China.

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If China has gold to spend abroad, Mr. Norton said, world trade would be greatly stimulated, Ta 1927 Mr. Norton wrote"" China and the Powers." In 1928 he was

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1931.

WORLD PROPAGANDA

BY: FILM.

NEWSPAPER. ORITICIZES FRANCE'S INDIFFERENCE,

Paris, January 13.-L'Ordre questions France's apparent indif- ference to the propagandist films which are being shown abroad.

They go on to say that films are the most powerful method for spreading propaganda. In up-to- date countries they are being used by Mussolini and Hinderburg with & success sufficient to cause anxiety. A now film entitled "1914, the nim of which is to prove that Ger- many was not, responsible for the War, is soon to be shown. This is the inevitable prelude to the re- vision of the trenties that Germanny will make with France,

RELIGIOUS CLASH IN LITHUANIA.

ENCYCLICAL.

chairman of the round table dis- MANY ARRESTS OVER POPE'S cussion on China at the Williams- Town Institute of Politica. He has travelled widely in Asia and Europe and at one time he lectured on economics at the Tsing Hua College in Peiping. In 1996 he wrote Occidental Interprolations of the Far Eastern Problem," and he has been an officer of organizations interested in the affairs of China and of other countries of the Far Enst.

MEXICO ANNOUNCES

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CROSS-RATE.

TWO PESOS TO U.S. DOLLAR IN

SETTLEMENT OF DEBTS.

Mexico City, January 12-Sr. Don Rafael Mancora, the Under- Secretary of the treasury of Mexico, to-day issued a signed statement declaring that Mexican debtors may, legally discharge and debt contracted in United States gold dollara by paying two Mexican pesos for each American dollar.

At the present rate of exchange

Kovno, January 13.-The conflict between the Lithuanian Govern- ment and the Catholic clergy over tho introduction of the civil mar- riage culminated to-day in numer ous arrests including prominent leaders of the Catholic youth or ganization, who will be detained in: a concentration camp for as long as six months. Four priests and several students will bò arraigned before a court-martial.

JUDGE LINDSEY EJECTED FROM CHURCH.

A COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE

ROW.

Mr. Bon Lindsey, the former U.S. judge and the propounder of the theory of companionato (or, trial) from the Cathedral of St. John the marriages, was forcibly ejected Divine, New York, after creating a disturbance.

He will appear in court on charges of disorderly conduct.

Archbishop Manning had conclud- ed $ Rannon.condemning *0m- panionate marriages and was about Mr. Lindsey leaped on to a table to celebrate Holy Communion when almost directly beneath the pulpit and shouted that he domandod an opportunity to defend his theories but the house of injustien," he cried.

This is not the house of God Ushers half dragged and half carried the resisting judge to a side exit, where he was placed in a police motor-car and taken to a police station, He was released without bail.

Archbishon Manning recently for. bade New York elergy of the Epis copal Church to listen to Judge Lindsey's address on companionate | marriage.

An intensive campaign to push sales of British motor vehicles in South America was announced in a statement issued last month by the British Section of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Trad ers. At the British Empire Trade Exhibition in Buenos Ayres next March, it was stated:-

Thirty-one British firma will have stands of motor exhibits;

The late Sir Henry Begrave's

is to occupy a

"Golden Arrow central position, while

The Lithuanian Archbishop im- mediately summoned a conference j. of the bishops at which grave de cisions are expected to be taken on the basis of the Pontiff's recent encyclical. Government quarters emphasize that the Cabinet cannot possibly tolerate what is being

"the described.

persistent Catholic intriguca against the motor-boat.

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His boat, Miss England II., which holds the world's record, will be piloted over a ten-mile course in an attempt to raise the record still higher.

Mr. Kayo Don is to pilot, the

CHINESE GENERAL

AMNESTY.

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Nanking, January 13.-Definite Could a stranger, have passed steps for the enforcement of the through the portals of Elstree regulations governing the general Pictures during the making of been taken by the Ministry of the Queen's Theatre, he could have amnesty for political offenders have "Atlantic," which opens to-day at

Judicial Administration.

beon excused for thinking he had

TE

PROGRAMME

In & circular order to the various arrived at the workshops of a buge LEVIATHANE

the Ministry instructs that special thing to meet his eyes would be a Provincial Higher Courts yesterday, ship-building concern. The Arat committees to sauction the pardon large navigating bridge of an ocean of the political offenders bo im-liner, complete with its wheelhouse, ; mediately formed in accordance compass, engine-room, signala, tele- with the regulations. The com-phones, pte. Crossing the bridge ho mittee will be composed of the would have found himself in one President of the Provincial Higher of the most jealously guarded rooms Court, Chief Procurator, two Judges of any ship that suited the seas. of the Provincial Higher Court and

Procuratorate. ono Procurator of the Provincial

Political offenders entitled to the benefit of the amnesty, "whether under detention or at large, must file petitions with the District Courts of the districts in which they are domiciled. Such petitions will be forwarded by the District Courts to the special committees of the Provincial Higher Courts concern- ed. The committee, if satisfied that the petitioner comes within the provisions of the amnesty regula. tions, shall order bis pardon and release and report to the Ministry of Judicial Administration for re- cord.

Here he would and maps, charts, many weird hieroglyphies signal apparatus, semaphose flags, instruc- tions in case of collisions, fire, etc., any many other things that make a liner's chart-room.

Further on

OPALL TALKIE

ATLA

FROM THE FANGUS STAGE PLAY "THE BIRG" BY KRIGETT, RAYMO

the visitor would sea a wireless operator's cabin. Behind this he would come face to face with three tiers of decks riding one above the other, and a little way off he would see workmen assembling, DUPONT'S

parts of a ship's boiler room.

THUNDER BOLT

OF

SORBEN

DRAMA!

EAD

MASTERPIECE

with

All these constructions word A BRITISH INTERNATIONAL PICTURE "sets". built for "Atlantic," the made for British International Pic talkie drama of the seas, which was tures by E. A. Dupont.,

"CALL OF THE FLESH.",

The procedure for the pardon of political offenders who were conmovie music Laves in shrubs in "Singing leaves ** are no, asset to victed by military courts will be a garden bower on a movie set had announced separately.

to be sprayed with glycerine in order that they wouldn't interrupt r singer.

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"THE DELIGHTFUL ROGUE."

Rits La Roy, whom 'Hollywood calls "the miracle girl," plays op- posite Rod La Rocque in "The Do- lightful Rogue," the all-talking radio picture, now at the Central Theatre.

She won her nickname because, in seven months in pictures, she has played seven featured roles: Miss La Roy has a footlight background of five years on the legitimate stage and two years in vaudeville, prin cipally in Canada,

FRANKLIN „DYALL: DONALD CALTHROP

MONTY BANKS ELLALINE TERRIS

and others.

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The titian-haired actress came to Hollywood to play an outstanding rôle in Cecil B. DeMille's "Dy. namite," Since then she has ap peared in six other features. This. record for a newcomer is consider ed miraculous."

A Leslio Pearce, stage director of "The Delightful Rogue," which, is from the story, "A" Woman De- cides" made many exhaustive testa before he and R.K.O. executives selected Miss La Roy for the La Rocqua foil.

"MAMBA."..

Jean Hersholt ia, the role of. rich, cruel and hated vulgarian, Eleanor Boardman in. the role of

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anaxquisite, sensitive, gently Beaule Love reared daughter of nobility, and Mary Lawlor Ralph Forbes in the role of a hand-

Cliff Edwards Bome young oficer who loves as fiercely as he fights, stand at the Stapley Smith three points of the triangle drame Lota Land set forth in the all-talking, all-

Gas Stry Technicolour Tiffany production, "Mamba," showing on Friday at. the Central Theatre

The story of "Mamba is laid in an African jungle and its name comes from the mamha, the poi duous snake of that country. A poisonous reptile in human form is the man portrayed by Hersholt, When his wealth buys a cultured bride who bates him and who is wooed Impulsively by a daring Boldler, the romance hogins And when war brings about a mobiliza- tion of the English and German troops in New Rosen andủ thú

against Hersholt-the, excitement begins

F. Schumann-Heink and John Roinhardt wrote the story of "Mamba and Al Rogell directed Also included in the cast are Joef Swickard, Olaude Fleming, William Staunton Hazel Jones, Arthur Stone and others. It is recorded by R.C.A Photophone.

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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

At 5,30 & 9.20::

TWO BIG STARS IN ONE PICTURE

BEETLETI

Frozen River

DAVEY LE

A WARNER BROS. PRODUCTION

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