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OLD PICKPOCKET

CENTRAL IN DOCK..

THEATRE TRIED BEFORE TWO MAGIS-

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7 15.&.20 p.m.

THE SINNING LADY OF "THE DOCTOR'S SECRET". THE FIGHTING LADY IN

MADAM X" AND NOW

The laugh that turn Bcandal to Praise and Love. The Talking Screen's newer and mos daring story of woman's its pitted against men'e Intrigues.

You loved her in “Ma dame X--now thrill to

the brilliant acting of

Ruth Chatterton

"THE

LAUGHING LADY

A Paramount Picture

Starting Sunday April 19.

You know this Nancy

The Devil's Holiday"

NANCY CARROLL 'The Devil's Holiday

a Paramount Picture)

But I

Do you

know this one?

A new fiery. up-to-the-

minute

miss, who plays at

lovel

COMING SOON

EVERY GIRL IN LOVE- EVERY LOVE LÖRN YOUTH EVERY MAN AND WOMAN

will want to see this startling revelation of the love intrigues of the beautiful ladies of the most romantic court of Europe.

BOUDOIR DIPLOMAT

with

Betty Compson lan Keith

Mary Duncan Jeanette Leff

TRATES YESTERDAY.

FAMILY BROUGHT INTO COUNT,

An unusual case arme upině. Cen- tral Magistries yesterday when n Chinese with several previous con- victions for picking pockets MAN charges - before two MagistrateY, Mr. W. Schofélik and Mr. E. İL Williams for larvený | Front Life.

person.

When sked to plead the oli offender said: “I admit the charge, i

1 hayo been trying to keep straight but was not able to make a living. My children are young. Show.me mercy,"

Chief Detective luspretor Rey- nolds, who was prosecuting, said. that the defendant was observed for over an hour by a Chinese district

watchman who fingily saw him ex- tract a wallet from a pedestrinu. in Queen's Road West. The detec tive promptly affected the defend- It's arrest. The wall was found to be empty,

Kaite Used in Struggle? The defendant resisted violently when he was arrested and put up a st: ug in the course of which be is believed to have whisked out penknife from his pocket and at- temps to sinh the district watch- ma. Haply for the Intier, a Chinese student happened to see the knife and going promptly to the assistance, managed to wrench the knife from the defendunt,

Evidence was then given by the district watchingn and by the stu- dent. After hearing the latter.. Mr. Schofield expressed thanks to hith for coming to the assistance of the district watchman, adding I think! you have done very well indeed."

Convicted 'Six Times.

The Magistrates, however, did not find auflicient evidence, to support.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1931

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"Animal Crackers

aquamcunt Picture

10ith

LILIAN ROTH. LAUGHTER'S LEADING LADY

THREE DROWNED IN SNOWSTORM.

SHOWING TO-DAY

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PHONES:

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Patrons are requested to call for Reserved Seats, 16 minutes before the show-No Reser- vation be guaranteed after that hour,

Fifty yards from the beach and within sight of a Life-Saving Bri

The trial comchided at the Oldgade,, three Blyth men lost their

employment frauds.

the nilegution that the defendant Bailey of three men and a woman attempted to stab the district watch-alleged to have been engaged in man. In concetion. with the actuni theft itself, Mr. Schofield asked de fendant. Is it a fact that since 1916 you have been convicted six tinies for larceny from the person ?

Defendant: Only three times, Sir. On the remaining occasions I was sentenced for keeping company

with undesirable characters.

In answer to further questions de fendant said that he had to support his wife and two children besides an old mother who, was at hoino; His wife and children were called before, The Magistrates. Defendant went on to say: "I have tried to live straight have been a marine lawkor, but I could not find a

lives and another from Gateshead narrowly escaped drowning when their motor-boat was capsized in Blyth Day by a sudden storm, which, accompanied by thick anow, swept the Northumberland coast.

Henry Wright, 45, sales organi- sur; David Schaffer, 36, printer; Herbert Samuel West, 50, estate

The four men left Blyth Harbour agent and Catherine Marguerite Richard, 29, widow plonded not guilty to conspiring to cheat and

on a fishing trip about 5 a.m, in defraud such persons as might be bright weather, but an hour later induced to part with money to they were struck off Seaton Sluice Women's Social Services.

For the prosecution it was stated by the storm and were driven shore- that advertisements were inserted

wards.

They could be seen standing in for representatives, who were re- their boat waving their arms for

help. quired to invest in the concern,

The Common Serjeant (Sir Henry Dickens, K.C.), summing up, said living. Please show me leniency. that pamphlets were issued which Mr. Schofield: You are sentenced ninde it look as if Women's Secial Services were A philanthropic movement for the benefit of ser

to nine months' hard labour,

Defendant: I am indebted to your Worship.

4.

GROWTH OF FRENCH

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ARMY.

GERMAN MINISTER'S

PROTEST.

General Wilhelm Groener, Reich's' Defence Minister, stated before the Reichstag's Ways and Means Com- inittee that France had the strangest army in the world.

vanta.

Holiday homes were to be pro- vided! "with bath-rooms and haird. reasing saloons and a charabane

to run the girls down to the soa front without charge." One pass- age stated: "Many will enry the lot of these girls of the holiday homes, and the only harm anyone wil wish a girl there is that she may find a nice boy and claim the dowry of £25." (Laughter.)

Wright and Mrs. Richard were found guilty.

Schaffer and West were not guilty and discharged.

The jury

recommended Mrs. Richard to mercy.

Within three minutes the Blyth motor lifeboat raced away, having on board the father of one of the men who was drowned,

The lifeboat, however, had gone only a short distance when the boat capsized about 100 yards from shore and was driven among the break-

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A Life-Saving Brigade, wearing corkjackets and carrying a life. line, dashed into the sea and made for one man who was olinging to the broken mast of the motorbont,

The leader of the brigade had just reached the mast when he was knocked unconscious by heavy seas but, both still clinging to the spar, the two men were, dragged ashore found by the lifeline.

ed in the Women's Social Services was £4,500. In one case a solicitor's widow invented her savings and was reduced to penury.

The Common Serjeant said that Wright was the sole mover in tlus shameful scheme. He quite agreed with the verdict with regard to Schaffer and West.

Wright was sentenced to eighteen

Donaldson Detective inspector France has not even begun to said that Wright's real name was disarm," said General Groener. Henry Dunsford. After good Army "On the contrary, through her new service he formed various fraudu form of army organization, she has lent concerns. For many years he catablished the strongest and readi- had been a pioneer and leader of est war instrument in the world.” a gang of fraudulent company "We disarmed to an extent un promoters and charity exploiters, paralleled in history," he added, obtaining thousands of pounds. He Recalling the remarks of André had never been prosecuted, but his months' imprisonment in the Maginot, French Minister of War, concerne had been subject to policecond division. Mrs., Richard was -that-there-must-be-a-strieter-con-inquiry. The total amount-invest-hound or to come up for judg

trol of armaments, of aggressor

! (Continweil on utat Calumu.) ment if called upon. nations, General Groener sail they were pointless up far as Germany was concerned, because "the Treaty of Versailles, which in the Hisais of Germany's war guilt, long since has been confounded by inter national historical science.

Mentioning the purpose of Ger- many' disarmament, General Groe ner said: “According to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany's disarma ment was to be an overture to n general limitation, of armament's of All nations. Germany did her part. We have the right to demand that Germany's inequality of armaments be balanced by the corresnonding. nctions of other nations. We have the right to the same degree of security that other nations demand for themselver, We voice our de

the intercals of peace and the re- construction of Europe.

Lionel Belmore Lawrence Grantmand for general disarmament in

The Spicy Affairs of A Master Lover.

IT'S A 1931 UNIVERSAL SUPER PRODUCTION.

Booking at Anderson's and the Theatre (Tel. 25720)]

The army's value is not deter- mined by this lengths of servion, but by the intensity of training, the number of trained reserves and, the quality of material. All of this France possesses in the most com. pleto form. Only one year of ser vice is demanded now, against two years' service and 440,000 men in 1012 Yet the total army strength to-day is almost ne big as then,' General Groener declared.

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.

THE HONG KONG FILM DISTRIBUTION COMPANY having through their Lownox AGENT concluded Arrangements with the following Producers, of British Pictures:-

GAINSBOROUGH PICTURES (1928) LIMITED. THE GAUMONT COMPANY, LIMITED. JULIUS. HAGEN AND HENRY EDWARDS. BRITISH AND DOMINION FILM

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Takon pleasure in announcing the Early Release in Hoxo Koxa of

the following Recent Ruccesses:-

ROOKERY NOOK

HOUSE OF THE ARROW SPLINTERS

LORD RICHARD IN THE PANTRY PLUNDER

BED AND BREAKFAST

A WARM CORNER

ETC., ETC..

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MOVIELAND FEATURES

FOR THE WEEK

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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.20.

DUAL ATTRACTIONS

With CONRAD VEIDT

LAST PERFORMANCE

AND

LAURA LA PLANTE

All

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Talking

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THE STAR THEATRE IS

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ALTERATIONS.

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IMPROVEMENTS. Re-opening Shortly.

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE,

"STRICTLY UNCONVEN-

TIONAL,"

Strictly nonventional,”- all-talking severa version of Somerset Maugham's play, "The Circle," opened last night at the Queen's Theatre, and proved to bo even more entertaining as a cinema product than when it served as the en-starring vehicle for the late John Drew and Mrs, Leslie Carter,

No small share of this somewhat

MOVIELAND

FOR

THE WEEK

QUEEN'S

10-DAY & TO-MORROW

Ar 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.20.

untuishing feat is the to the in- WHAT about LOVE?

mensely intrating performanIGES

of a clever onst which includes Lewis Stone as Clive Champion- Cheynay; Alison Skipworth Mu Lady Kitty Ernest Torrence as the swallow-ailed and moneled Lard Porteous; Catherine Dale Owen as Elizabeth; Tyrrell Davis as her husband: Arnold Champion- Cheyney who ignores his wife's charts for the attractions of anti- que furniture; Paul Cavanagh, who attempts to make up for this error; and Mary Forbes as Mrs. Shen. stone whose efforts to patch up the brench between Arnold Elizabeth only servo to make the situation more complicated.

When it is recalled that Lady Kitty run away with Lord Porteous thirty years before and returns to visit her husband, Clive, in time to be used as "the awful example," it can be seen how riotously funny a satire this picture really is.

WHOOPEE."

Besides being an unprecedentedly lavish production in its own right, "Whoopee," the Samuel Goldwyn- Frenz Ziegfeld musical riot, starring Eddie Cantor, which comes to the Queen's Theatre on Sunday, revived an unparalleled compli ment when Owen Davie, the author or "The Nervous Wreck," which it was adapted, personally. complimented the members of the staff of the Samuel Goldwyn stadion- who wrote it to the screen.

from

It is a proverb among movie peo ple that the author of a ping or novel which has been adapted to. the screen invariably claims that the adaptation has wrecked his master-piec

Owen David, author of "The Nervous Wreck," is known wher- ever there are theatres as one of the most prolific and powerful dramatists of the present day. Win- ner of a Pulitzer prize with his play. "Icehound," versatile writer of #rious drama, melodrama, farce and musical comedy, he has always considered "The Nervous Wrork" his best farce.

CENTRAL THEATRE.

"THE LAUGHING LADY."

The fame which Ruth Chatterton established for herself in Charm- ing Sinners" and "Madame X" gains added glamour in her newest talkie release. "The Laughing Lily," which was shown at the Central Theatre last night,"

She is seen and heard as the atar of this powerful, buman drama played against a background of smart sophistication, with Clive Brook, one of the fandom's great favourites, ns her leading man.

It is the story of a woman who laughs at death, laughs at the irony of fate. Inughs at her own renting heart, but who cannot laugh when the chance comes to ruin the man who had tried to wreck her life, because she finds that she lores him more than she hates him..

ANIMAL CRACKERS.

AMUSING FILM AT THE KING'S.

Animal Crackers," which is showing at the King's Theatre till Saturday (inclusive) is an amtsing Glm, with the Marx Brothers n the stars. It tells of n wealthy woman, who is holding an extre yagent houso-party, to which a number of notables are invited, among them being an explorer and hunter (Groucho Marx) Chico and Harpa are two hired musicians and Zeppo is an amusing secretary. The atory deals with complications aris- ing out of a masterpiece and a copy of it, owned respectively by our Hostess and her hated rival. It is amusing farce, light hearted stuff that passes away a couple of hours very happily, High-brow may

cellent attendances at all showings.

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HERE is the

talking TALKÜL

drama of thou" sands of men and women who defy convention for love!

Somerset

Maugham's

play, "The Circle," that ran two years, is now a picture the whole world's gasping at!

with

LEWIS STONE PAUL CAVANAGH CATHERINE DALE OWEN ERNEST TORRENCE ADDED ATTRACTIONS M G M REVUE COMEDY

CHARLIE CHASE

NEXT CHANGE

Marvellous! Suappy! Gay I

RICKET ZAGHELD

EDDIE

CANTOR

Whoope

WALTER BOWLESTON

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gorgeous of all..

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