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CENTRAL THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

A SENSATIONAL ROMANCE AMONG THE COLONIAL TROOPS STATIONED İN CENTRAL AFRICA

STIFFANY

presents

MAMBA

All-Talking All-Technicolor Super-Spectacle

Throbbing romance, pow.

erful drama and terrifie thrills-in a white man's story in a black man's country.

Jean Hersholt-Eleanor Boardman-Ralph Forbes

Directed by

Al Rogell'

JELKU

LATIFFANY PRODUCTION/S.

NEXT CHANGE

GEORGE

BANCROFT

WITH

FAY

WRAY RICHARD ARLEN

"INV

THUNDERBOLT A Paramount Picture Bookings at Anderson and the Theatre (Tel. 25720).

WOMAN SOLICITOR'S

DRUGS.

OVERDOSE TAKEN IN TURKİSH BATH..

The story of a daughter who was so devoted to her father that she

refused offers of marriage was told nt a Westminster inquest on Eather Julia Telfer (42), a solicitor, who practised with her father in Basing- hall-strcot, E.C..

Mina Telfer was found uncon- scious at Turkish baths in North- umberland-avenue, W.C.

Death was stated to be due to an -overdose of medinal, and Mr. Ingle- by Oddie returned verdict of "Deathly misadventure" after the father, Mr. William Telfer Levinneki, had made a passionate donial of a suggestion that hig daughter had committed suicide.

Mr. Levianaki said the only drug be found at their home in Aberdare- gardens, Hampstead, was medinal, which the doctor had prescribed for her as a 'slerping draught.

Has your daughter ever said anything about being tired of life the coroner asked Mr. Levianski..'

Mr. Levianski: No. She was de- voted to me. She had make ar- rangements to see some children with some Christmas presents, and was going to the South of France with me at the end of January,

"Dovolod, to Me"

The Coroner: If you assume for pomoat that she has died from some form of narcotic poisoning, how do you account for it?

Mr. Lovianski said that she had heen to the baths only once pro- riously, and he thought that she was qvercome after taking a sleep ing draught in the hottest room at the baths.

The Coroner: No powders word found, and she must have taken a very large quantity.

Mr. Oddie added that in his own mind he, had a strong feeling that this was a case of suicide.

Mr. Levianski said that there was absolutely no reason for suicide.. She was so devoted to me that she had refused offers of marrage," he added.

"She loved her father.

There was absolutely no reason for aui- aide."

The Coroner: How many times do you think I have had that said to I daresay thousands of times, Your view is that it was a caso of accident and not suicide,-Yes.

A Doep Stoop,

Maisie Ashenden, an attendant et the baths, said that while in the cooling room Miss Telfer asked for a glass of water. She had tea and

a sandwich, and lay down. Just after 8.30 p.m. she found Sias Tel- fer in a heavy sleep. She was re- moved to Westminster Hospital.

Dr. Braxton Hicks, a pathologist, in reply to the coroner, said that if a person had taken a drug oc casionally for sleeplessness and per- haps increased the dose following the urgent need for a good rest while in the Turkish bath it would possibly produce narcotic poison- ing,

Mr. Oddis, recording his verdict,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1931.

THIRSTY

WAKES UP IN NIGHT, FEELS THIRSIV BUT SORT OF HATES TO GET PARENTS UP

·OH GOODNESS HE'S REMEM- BERED ABOUT BEING THIRSTY

FOR PITY'S SAKE WHAT WAS (HAT AWFUL SOUND! MUST BE THE DIMMICK BABY NEXT, DOOR. WHAT A WAIL!

· (Copyright,

EARLIEST MAN..

MOST IMPORTANT FIND

YET MADE.

DR. ELLIOT SMITH BACK

FROM CHINA.

MAYBE HE'LL FORGET ABOUT BEING THIRSTY LISTENS TO 'HALL CLOCK TICKING. COSY

SOUND

DSTENS TO THEM SLEEPING SO QUIETLY IN THE NEXT ROOM, AND DADDY SNORING SOFTLY

WONDERS DOES HE SOUND LIKE THAT WHEN HE CRIES! GUESSES HE'LL LET PARENTS SLEEP, THIRST OR NO THIRST. 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Ind.)

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

WATCHES PATCH OF LIGHT FROM STREET LAMP FLICKER- IND ON CEILING

SEEMS A SHAME TO BOTHER. THEM BUT THE LONGER HE WAITS THE THIRSTIER HE GETS, 50 HERE GOES

DROPS OFF, REFLECTING THAT BABIES REALLY OUGHT TO GET · CREDIT FOR THE TIMES THEY DONT GET PARENTS UP AT NIGHT

THE SILVER SCREEN,

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

"CALL OF THE FLESH."

Hamon Novarro's much heralded flair for opera singing will be put to screen use for the first time in his newest musical ploture,.Onil·

of the Flesh," which will open on

Sunday at the Queen's Theatre with

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onab which includes Dorothy Jordan, Ernest Torrence, Nance O'Neil, Renco Adoree, Mathilde Comont and Russell Hopton.

QUEEN'S

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW.

·AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.20)

AN ENTIRE

BRITISH

THE

PROGRAMME“

LEVIATI

OF ALL TALKIES

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The story provides Novarro with the role of a Spanish singer whose operatic success is tempered by the complications which result as tho, outcome of two love affairs. The star will sing "Ridi Paglineci,”: one of the late Erico Caruso's | favourite, srina, – und -“Questa o Quella "from. "Rigoletto." In an attempt to keep the picture from Leing too "high-brow," Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer have also included AMOU three numbers.composed by Herbert Stothart and Clifford Grey, who wrote the music for "Devil May Care" and "The Rogue Song." They are "Not Good-Enough For DUPONT'S Me,"

Just For To-day" and MASTERPIECE Loving Thoughts of You." Report has it that this picture tops all of Novarro's previous talk-

The remains are believed to be of the evidence which is being obing and singing efforts, being equip millions of years old, and Professortained. Elliot Smith told a Home reporter I went out in an official capa- that he is satisfied they will proeity, and my first public statement vide a solid foundation for the

will probably be in the form of a building of the history of primitive lecture at the University."

wan.

He examined the exhibits on the spot, and the confirmation of their extraordinary importance by such An authority will stimulate the work of piecing together the evi" dence of those creatures from whom

After a visit to China to examine specially the remains of Early Man which were unearthed in a cave near Peiping, Professor Elliot Smith (of the Department of Anatomy atmodern man has descended. University

the College) holds opinion that it is the most import- ant discovery of the kind ever made.

"My mission," he said, "was

A Problem Solved.

Asked if he could say anything about the importance of the dis covery, he replied:

"I realised the unique importance of the discoveries, which give much more positive and precise informa- ton about early man than may in-

pod with a particularly entertain.| ing plot, "interesting clracteriza- tions and picturesque locales, whch include interiors of cathedrals, reproduction of the Madrid Opera House and scenes of provincial Spanish towns.

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CENTRAL THEATRE,

If ever

"MAMBA."

a picture combined all

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STAGE PLAY *TIAL BERG-97 ERNEST BUY MOND

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THUNDER- BOLT

OF

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MONTY BANKS ELLALINE TERRIS: and others.

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very impressive, and I was enor formation which has hitherto been that it takes to make complete and The romance

mously impressed by the importance

Box Plans filling rapidly at Moutrie's

(YOU ARE ADVISED TO BOOK WITHOUT DELAY)

Their Fame has proceeded them

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perfect entertainment, that pistura The material is most significant, is "Mamba," the Tiffany feature and is more illuminating than all produced entirely in dialogue and the remains of the human familyTechnicolour and shown for the that have yet been discovered. first time at the Central. Theatre What gives particular importance yesterday. to the discovery is not merely that

“Mamba" maken many bids to

of a content girl and a cafe. singer of S6. ville is NovAIN ro's finest talk ing rola. Hi

Edward Branscombe's 16 Famous that it bridges the gap between duction, tells a powerful story; is glorions singing, make this an

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it given certain evidence of age as fame as an outstanding picture of gay wit, his passionate love the year. It is a spectacular, pro-making, his tragic neting, his perfectly acted and rected and unforgettable event! beautifully photographed.

the irreconcilable, types previously known, the Pithecanthropus of Java and the Piltdown skull.

descent of modern man.

For the Arst time we And in a screen drama the strange situation that sprang up between English and German soldiers and civilians

The skulls are much more pris. mitive than either, and are more hearly to the direct line of theho had lived for years as friends and neighbours in the African colonies of those two countries and suddenly found themselves facing each other as enemies by reason of the outbreak of the great, war in far-away Europe.

“They give a solid foundation on which to build the history of primi- tive, man.

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Colour subjecta, of course, have been made before and are, in them. solvės, no novelty, but the back- ground of "Mamba,”—the African Jungle, the tropics, the gaudy war regalin of the natives, the flashing uniforms of German and British Colonin troops-offers a kaleidos- cope before unequaled.

From the viewpoint of the speeta- cular, Maiba" sets a new high anid that the father's theory that

standard. It presents limitless Miss. Telfer took the drug to enable her to have a good night's rest was

FEW HUNDRED SHARES of jungles, the veldt and impenetrable an intelligent one and was borne, DES VOEUX ROAD

Well-Established Litbographic forests. We see a nativo village out by the medical evidence.

OSTRAL A prosent in the Occupation of Export Trade, 4 Years Experienos Co. in Hora Koxo, Fally Paid Share With its hundreds of blacks, o nover- What Oder-Foronding menace to the whites, re- of the NETHERLANDS INDIA COMMER London. Contract Expiring, Shortly, of $10.00 Each. CAL BANK, Available from lar APRIL, Free for Early Re-engagement-Write Particulars please apply to Box No. gardless of nationality. We see the savages in their picturesque, and 1031.-Apply to DAVID BASSOON Box No. 750, alo Hong Kong Daily 210, olo Hong Kong Daily Press. &Co., LTD.

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EVELYN LAYE'S FIRST TALKIE.

THE FASCINATING FLOWER

GIRL

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and, finally, the attack by the horde of black savages on the little settle ment, defended by only a handful of men in command of a gallant German officer who has determined to die fighting. Then the shrill note of a bugle signals the arrival: of a crushing force of British, who save the day.

This is tense drama and inclo dramma in unusual proportions. In full wound, recorded by R. O. A. Photophone and Technicolour. Mar velous effects have been obtained

The dramatic burden is carried Boardman and Ralph Forbes, Hersholt is superb. It is undoubt edly his greatest characterization---* this German planter, gross, ugly, bestial, despicable but immensely

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