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A CLERK'S LAPSE.

CENTRAL OBTAINED MONEY BY FALSE THEATRE

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

GEORGE

BANCROFT

FAY

WITH

WRAY AICHARD ARLEN

אז

THUNDERBOLT

A Paramount Picture

SATURDAY

GREATER THAN IN RIO RITA'!,

golden.

The voiced songstress of the silver scenen at the height of ber brilliancet

BEBE

DANIELS

LOVE COMES ALONG

With Lloyd Hughes Ned Sparks Montague Love. Powerful drams of a glorious Love]

Bookings at Anderson and the Theatre (Tel. 25720).

MAINTAINING

PRETENCES.

NINE MONTHS' IMPRISON. MENT.

Before Mr. E. H. Williams yog- terday, Ke King-was, formerly om- ployed as a clork at the Cards Oo, Central Police Station, was charged on three different counts of obtaining money under false pre Lences, amely the sum of $17.60 from Ko Lo-chi af 36 D'Aigular Street on March 10, 813,20 from Tao Tat-wing of 0, Triangle Street on March 22, 1030.

Before proceeding with the anec, the prosecution asked if they might Ko on with the third charge first, as the witnesses for the first and second charges were not yet in Court. This being granted, Chan' Pun Sze (widow) was put into the witness-box.

She said that she was tho mistress of the Chan Pun Kee shop and on March 29, a man went into the premises, stating that he had come to collect the fees for the two Indian guards who were engag- ed by her some time previously. She had not seen the man pro- viously, but as he produced a bill, she belioved bim and handed him the money, in return for which be gave her a receipt. A few days later, however, a sergeant went to her shop with a Chinese youth, azd' told her that she had not paid her watchmen's fees. She maintained that she had and produced a re ceipt to substantiate her atatement. The officer took the receipt and went away.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1931.

THE BIG GAME OF THE YEAR

111-22

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

p D C C C C C C C C C C C co

A FLEETING FIDGETTY FIT!

ODD SCENE IN HONG KONG

AUCTION ROOM.

(Copyright, 1933, by The Ball Syndicats, Inc.)

NAVAL OFFICER'S EVIDENCE.

*

GLUYAS WILLIANTS

Soochow came alongside of the star- board side. In each case, the crows of the two junks were or dered to come aboard and did so

ALLEGED PIRACY ON JUNK without resistance. The Soochow

RECALLED.

SOMME COMMANDER'S "

The

STATEMENT.

left the scene of operations about live minutes after my arrival, and I never had an opportunity to com- niunicate with her.

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S. THEATRE,

TAMAN TROUBLE."

QUEEN'S

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

Ar 2,30, 5.10, 7.15 & 0.20.

Man Trouble is a slice of A smashing Fox Movietone hectic American life, intense thrill- ] drama which crashes in and ing from beginning to ond. Milton | exposes the glamourous Sills dominates throughout and nightlife of New York. succeeds in giving a most convina. ing performance at the strong and silent gangster, boss of an up torn speakeasy.

The story, not entirely concerned with crooks and crooked dealing, is rolieged by many flashes of rich humour and is as full of wise cracks as somo' of 'the gunmen engaged eventually become as full of holes.. We meet some old friends. in the shape of James Bradbury, Sharon Lynn and Roscoe Karns, to say nothing of Harvey Clark and Edythe Chapman as Uncle Joe and Aunt Maggie, dear old folks in the country. Pretty Dorothy Mackaill is the leading lady and does hor charming best in the rôle of a would. bo. suicide, later succumbing in raceful fashion to the love of a newspaper man."

The direction is in the very able. hands of Berthold Viertel who achieves not a few subtle touchen. In fact the whole production moves on well oiled, wheols and comes to rest in quite unconventional

manner.

Her "The

ROMANCE."

Greta Garbo, who is starred in Romance," her new. Motro-Gold- wyn-Mayer talking picture, which will come on Sunday to the Queen's Theatre, was born in Stockholm, With a finger poised in, air and

"Meanwhile, the complainant's Sweden, where she made her film n queer look on his face, tit, tit,

junk went alongside the Hangsang debut in "The Story of Goesta tit," muttered a Chinese of the Manager's Story.

where she embarked the first offi- Berling," before going to America working class from the midst of The manager of the shop then

case against the twelve.

cer of the Hangsang, Mr. Moodie, in 1923. Miss Garbo, who was A cosmopolitan gathering of several went into the box and told the hundrede, bent, on catching the

Hakkos and Hokies for alleged at and the ship's compradore, She educated in the Royal Dramatic Court that he made out the ap-auctioneer's eye.

tempted piracy on a trading junk then came alongside the Sommio and Academy in Sweden, rose to star- Perhaps, like

near Pedro Blanco On January 4, plication for the Indian guards.

I interviewed Mr. Moodie and dom at once with "The Temptress," was continued before Mr. R. E. When he got to the office at Cen-myself, there were in the vicinity:

also the master of the complain- and since that time has steadily in people who imagined thit our tral Police Station, he saw the de- Celestial friend was about to par

Lindsell yesterday and after con- siderable evidence had been heard ant's junk, through the compradors, creased her tremendous following. inst silent filma were fendant there, and it was this man.

form some fent of magic, or 4 the bearing was again adjourned. Moodie, I decided to arrest the From the statement given by Mr.

Standard " and "The who showed him what was to be

least to make a sensational advance done, Witness went on

The first witness called, C.P.O. junks, as there was a reasonable Kiss." Her talkie debut, in "Anna to Bay

in the bidding, but the mystery. W. Cowley of H.M.S. Somme that he was not present when the

was cleared when he collapsed on

case against them, and usked per-Christie" won her new laurels, man came to his shop to collect the floor.

which went to the aid of the tradmission by wireless to bring them Clarence. Brown again directed the money but he told the Court

While a few compatriots stooding junk, said he boarded the two aghast, others assisted in lifting suspected craft as they got along a long table where he lay foaming side the warship, and took the crew off. Ho found a fishing net at the mouth. A young man pro- ceeded immediately to give first aid

on one of them. He did not, how- in an effort to revive the patient, ever, see anything being thrown but he shook his head when the patient's limbs became rigid with every stroke and his appearance Lt. Comdr. P. N. Walter, com- seemed to indicate that the endmanding H.M.S. Some, said that he found the craft about five miles A glass of water, a doctor, an to the north of Pedro Blanco. ambulance-these were visions dif. There were two merchantmen pre- ficult to realise in the present cir- sent at the time, the Seochow and cumstances when a few seconds and the Hangsang. Closs by thờ would have made all the difference, former was one junk while near "Carry him away to the door and the Hangmang were two give him some fresh air," shouted 1 junks, one of them larger than the the taipan. And carry him they other." did, table and all!

that sometime later they rondo an other payment (of the same amount for the same guards)

to the Tron-

sury.

This evidenco was corroborated by another foki of the shop who added that he recognised the de- fondant as the man who went to the shop to collect the money,

In the witness-box, Sorgt, Walsh said that the defendant was a clork in the Guarda Office and part of his duty to send out debit notes for watchmen's fees. He had no authority, however, to go round and collect these faca..

the almost unconscious man onto

WES NAIT,

A quarter of an hour later the

Evidence was then given by wit-patient regained consciousness, sat neasca regarding the other charges up, and put on his felt hat which and after having heard all of was lying beside him. A syrapathi

ser removed the hat so that the them, the Magistrato neked if the patient snight have the benefit of more fresh air on his cranium. defendant had anything to say. But the hat was soon again on his The latter replied in the negative.head, and with a vacant store and

Mr, Wodehouse for the Police and a grin at those around him said that the defendant had about the erstwhilo dying man resurned

his place among the crowd. five years' service in the Guards Office and there was nothing against the, man. Shortly after the incid- ents, he applied for two days leave but never returned, and was ar- rested only a few days ago.

The Magistrate then passed sen- tence of three months' imprison. ment on each count, the sentences

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UFA

"I savvy him very well," mured an ancient inhabitant after close look, "he is an old bird at the auction game!" And so the anle at the Industrial and Com- mercial Bank went on merrily again.

overboard.

other

Of Their Own Accord, Continning, witness said: "I steamed close alongside the Hangsang and communicated by semaphore in order to find out which junk was the complainant's junk and which junks were the

alleged pirate junks. The Soochow and the Hangsang wore then about a quarter of a mile apart.

"While I ws communicating with the Hangsing, two of the three junka came alongside of me of their own accord. The first one camo from the direction of the. Hangsang and was the first "ons. to arrive. She went alongside of the port side. The one from the

and

in. The Chief Officer returned to Miss Garbo in the picturization of the Hangsang which wont on its the famous Edward Sheldon play way. I towed the three, junks in which Doris Kenne starred for

many years. Lowis. Stone back."

In reply to Mr. Hin Shing Lo Gavin Gordon hond the supporting (for the defanco) witness zaid he cast which includes Elliott Nugent, had encountered fishing junks Florence Lake, Clara Blandick, when passing through that sea Mahtilde Comont, Henry Armetta, previously but none were within Edward Woods and Countess Mina his view when he arrived there do Liguoro. that day.

The case was adjourned.

Miss Adele Astaire, the Ameri can dancer spoke to a newspaper -representative over the Atlantic telephone from New York concern- ing a report that she will leave the stage next summer to marry Lord Charles Cavendish, the second son of the Duke of Dovonshire. She said: "Lord Charles Cavendish is a very good friend of wine, and I am found of him, but we are cor. tainly not engaged. We are not contemplating such a step." Mies Astaire and her brother Fred have frequently appeared in London. It was reported some time ago that Miss Astaire was engaged to Mr. William Gaunt, the son of a Brad ford manufacturer, who financed several thoitrical productions, but the dancer denied that the report was true.

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THUNDERBOLT."

Bancroft and Von Sternberg in now showing at Thunderbolt the Central Theatre, in the all- talking screen medium, have per- freted a new picture of life in the little known milieu of the under world..

Opening in the intriguing atmos phere of Harlem's black metropolis, where Bancroft as a fearful death dealer sways the lives and destinies of hundreds of human beings, is swings to the awe-inspiring setting of Sing Sing's Death Row, where the. final exciting climaxes in this most exciting drama are enacted.

The story captures and vivifies the dramatic incidents that cross the news horizon in the newspapers every day. It goes behind these Bitting episodes and brings the whole tale forward. Superbly act- od by a splendid cost, headed by Bancroft, Richard Arlen and. Fay Wray, it is a slice of contemporary life made to live,

MAN TROUBLE

with

DOROTHY MACKAIL--- MILTON SILLS

KENNETH MACKENNA

SHARON LYNN

heading

".

AN ALL STAR CAST directed by Berthold Viertel

See the startling revelations in this Fox all talking movietone dramat

NEXT CHANGE

Again Garbo Triumphs ! The ever-changing, always alluring first lady of the

screen.

Greta

Garbo

in her triumphant successor to Anna Christie

Romance

with LEWIS STONE ▲ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ALL TALKING PICTURE

STAR

There are so many things to hear TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

as well as to see that the combina- tion of picture and sound, ie neces- Bary to the complete entertainment. The perfection of the dialogue re- cording matches the perfection of the direction and the coting.

Mra. Holcroft-Watson-number. one in the British official tennis, ranking-has.arious thought of retiring from strenuous interna tional lawn tennis. She played a leading part in the recovery this year of the Wightman Cup from the American women, for she beat Miss Helen Jacobs, won her double with Mrs. L. A. Godfree, and led 50 in the first sot of a woderful Moody Ske-felt the strain -- DI these and other international mat- ches of recent years. Now she is influenced also by the fact that bor sight has been affected by the at- tack of mass which prevented her from playing at Wimbledon.

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