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CENTRAL THEATRE

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.30, 5:10,.7 15 & 9.20 p.m.

Adolphe Menjou

"FASHIONS IN LOVE" -A Paramount Picture * Refreshing, Stimulating. Thoroughly entertaining. Two lovely leading ladies. Fay Compton and Miriam. Seeger, both of the stage.

Starting Sunday

GOOD NIGHT NURSE!

RICHARD

DIX

"The

Love Doctor

A Joy-maker it there ever was one, Heart-tronble's catching and the dector euccumbs to his beautiful nurse.

ELICT.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1931.

LATE SIR CHARLES THE SILVER SCREEN B. DeMille's "Madam, go." Korloff stepped into the part Satan, 194 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | and made this ballet one of the comedy with music whichi will open outstanding features of De Mille's O Sunday at the Queen's Thea

new picture.

SOLEMN CEREMONY. AT THE UNIVERSITY,

TRIBUTE BY VICE -CHANCELLOR.

A solemn ceremony took place in the Great Hall of the Hong Kong University yesterday when members of the University Court, Senate, graduates and undergraduates stood in silence as a tribute to the me mory of the late Sir Charles Eliot, the first Vice-Chancellor of the University.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

"HIGH SOCIETY BLUES.”

Janet Gayuor, appearing with Charles Farrell in "High Society Blues," - Fox Movietone musica] hit. at the Queen's Theatre, plays the sort of rolo she always has wanted to in this production.

"I've been an 'Orphan;Annie' so often, that I'm glad of a chance of being a wealthy society girl for a change," Mia Gaynor said,

William Collier, Sr., Joyec Compton, Hedda Hopper, Louise, Sir William Bornell, in moving | Fazerida, Lucien "Littlofield, Bran- a resolution deploring Sir Charles don Hurst and Gregory Gaye hre Eliot's untimely denth, said:- Also in the cast. David Butler, re

Members of the University,membered for his production of About two years ago Sir Charles "Sunny Side Up." directed, Eliot pagged through Hong Kong on his way back to Japan-there to complete his great study of Hin duism and Buddhism by writing a book which dealt mainly with With one of California's most Budhism in Japan. At the begin- beautiful and Inxurious resorts as ning of this year he was taken in location lite, advanco word comea į and he wrote to me from a hos from the Pacific Coast that the pital in Kobe a letter which rend¦ making of "Love in the Rough" ominously. But he started for home was more fun than work. on the Hakone Maru.

Five song numbers, most of them on the way to atthin universal po pularity, were provided by Joseph McCarthy and James F. Hanley.

for as though they were on a vách- tion, devoting several weeks to the hilarious golf links sequence which kept the players in close touch with their favourite pastime.

Charles F. (Chuck) Reisner, who The steamer was held up by Eng directed the musical comedy ro outside Hong Kong for nearly forty-mance from the play, "Spring eight hears, but his old friend, Mr. |‚Fever," för Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor, Ponsonby-Fane, and I went on is said to have made his company | board the sleamnt on the morning of Sunday, the 8th March, and sat with Sir Charles for about forty-Į five minutes. He was obviously very ill, but he rallied wonderfully while we were with him and talked to us in his inimitably humorous way. We naked about his book; "There is most of it," he said pointing to a proof which was lying on the table. He thought that an ather year might pan before the book was published. And now the author is dead and it remains for some other scholar to complete and publish the work which he did not live to finish.

A Great Scholar,

I will not dwell upon the details of Sir Charles Eliot's remarkable

career.

He was a great scholar nd great gentleman. To those who knew him he was an unfailing source of joy, for his mind was stocked with all sorts of queer and interesting things and his wit, though piquant, was ever kindly. Looking back over this University's, troubled history, I sometimes won- der whether the institution would have survived the dangerous years of its neglected infancy, had it

Heading the cast of the produc tion which will open to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre, is Robert Montgomery, whose rise to ή έντα fame within a year is regarded as little short of amazing. Other players include Dorothy Jordan, recently Berg opposite Ramon Novarro in "Call of the Flesh, Benny Rabin, Durothy McNulty, J. C. Nugent.

"MADAM SATAN."

The return to setive dancing of the fanious Russian ballet star, Theodore Kosloff, is one of the in teresting features promised in

.

For several years Kosloff hag been devoting his” time "tố" thứ sup- ervision of his dancing schools in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Dallas, Toxns.____.

Out of courtesy to his old friend De Mille, who introduced him to pictures in "The Woman God For

"Madam Satan" largely concerny

the matrimonial adventures of Bob

BOY TO FACE

SECOND TRIAL. -

TALK WITH MOTHER AFTER

JURY DISAGREE.

A human drama without "parál- ̈

and Angela Brooks in Jocnle is the wealthy Brooks home, and tha Zeppelin of Jiminy Wade. Da this airship, there in a masked ball, featured by the appearance of a mysterious-"Madam-Satan,-and-lei-in-the-history of the Old-Bailey- ending in the mid-nir crash of the

--. broken-hearted mother's meat. craft, and the descest to earth in

ing with her fourteen-year-old boy parachutes of the guestä,

after he had stood all day in the dock facing a murder charge- formed the climax to the trial of Thomas - Michael Treaccy for the murder of his sweetheart, Margaret Golding, in a half-built house at Palmer's Green.

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world of a great scholar, desire to place on record their conscious neas of the debt which the Uni- versity owes to Sir Charles Eliot,

· their regret at his untimely death, and their gratitude to his me mory. The meeting instructs the Vice-Chancellor to convey to Sir Charles Eliot's nearest relatives the University's sympathy with them in their loss."

I would ask you members of the University, if you approve of this resolution, to signify the same by standing up,

The gathering having stood in silence for a while, Sir William de- clared the resolution duly passed.

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The jury, after more than an hour's deliberation, could not agree ona verdiet. This means that the boy will have to undergo the or. deal of a second trial..

There can be no sentence of death

passed, even if the jury bring in n verdict of guilty.

It was Mr. Justice Avory, the joldest judge of the High Court, who

tried the youngest prisoner who has over stood in the dock of the Old

Bailey on this or any other charge,

Ocurt Stormed. Women stormed the court to lis ten to the trial. They seemed to be everywhere. Two women wore in the jury box, women sat in the crowded enclosure at the back of the great dock, behind counsel, and in the public gallery.

But there were two who stood cat from the rest as the legal duel

went on all day. They were the mothers of these boy and girl lovers.

The governor of Brixton Prison brought about the meeting between

the mother and her boy after the 'case ended. · All day long he had sat beside the boy, in the" dock.

For once Mr. Justice Avory care into-court to hear the jury's ver- dict without the dreaded black cap in his hand, Trencey stepped nervously to the centre of the dock and gripped the ledge with his. twitching fingers.

He heard the jury announce that they could not agree, and seemed puzzled. It was not until a warder touched him gently on the arm that he turned round and walked towards the ataircase leading. to the cells below. He looked through the glass panet of the dock' and stared into the face of his mo- thor.

The mother, in tears, appealed to the judge for permission to see her boy Mr. Justice Avory was sympathetic, but helpless. "It is a matter for the prison authori- ties," he said, quietly.

The prison governor nodded, and the meeting took place a few min- utes later in the "accommodation coll" behind the court. It was very brief. It did not last more than five minutes, but it consoled the

woman.

A few minutes later Thomas Treacey was taken back to Brixton.

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