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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1931.

CENTRAL THEATRE

To-day to Saturday

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15& 9.20 p.m.

Every girl in love- Every love lorn 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 Ian Keith

Mary Duncan Jeanette Loff

Lionel Belmore Lawrence Grant

The Spicy Affairs of A Master Lover.

It's a 1931 Paramount

Attraction.

Sunday April 26.

S. S. Van Dine's Most Daring Philo Vance Thrill-Mystery.

Kurder dans before your eyeil Vanos right

on the scam! Firs

Busparta defy you to pick

the gality personi That's

THE BENSON MURDER

CASE®

with

William Powell

a

Gurvana unt Nature

with

WILLIAM POWELL

as PHILO VANCE

Booking at Anderson's

the Theatre (Tel. 25720).

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE..

BILLY THE KID."

tmos-

Shooting to ragtimo ja a nevelty in dramatic touches introduced by King Vidor in his Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer story of the old historic wed, "Billy the Kid," which will open on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre for four days, Comedy is introduced into the stern phere of the besieged McSween Iraine of Lincoln, New Mexico, when its defenders, headed by John Mack Brown, as Billy, tapporarily pump out their shots to the tune of "I've Been Cutting Paper Doils," played and sung by Roucos Ates. Walince Beory plays nacther memorable character role in the production and Kay Johnson has the feminine lead.

CENTRAL THEATRE.

"THE BOUDOM DIPLOMAT."

Andre Berangery who plays a pro-

ju minent role "The Boudoir Diplomat," the sophisticated Uni- versal comedy now playing at the Central Theatre to full houses, Was burn in Paris, and made his stage debut in Australia, appearing in various plays of Sheridan and Piero. Later he played rúles in Shakespearean and early Greek repertoire,

This first work in motion pictures was done in Los Angeles, when he became member of the old

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Biograph Company under D.W. Griffith. He appeared in "The Birth of a Nation" and other early

Grifith successos. More recent, pie- tures in which he has played im portant parts include Are Par- cnts People?" "Broken Blossons,"

The Grand Duchess and the Waiter,Stark Mud" and "The Gnd Rag Doll"

Jeanette Loff, who is seen in an important role of "The Bendoir Diplomat," Universal's sophisticat- ed comedy, began her theatrical career as the piano player in the little Canadinu town of Wadena,

Saskatchewan, where the sole mo- ! tion picture theatre operated but two nights per week. When she later moved to Portland, Ore., with her parents, Mies off qtudied orgna playing in a local conserva- tory, and subsequently officiated as organist at a number of leading theatres there. But she was always saring her money for a trip to Hollywood

LONDON P.C.'S WAIST.

A. SMARTER TUNIC PLAN.

Changes have been decided upon in the uniform of the Metropolitan Police.

While the general design of the uniform remains the same, the changes will. it is thought, add to the air of smartness that charac terises the force. The principal alterations. are:

The helt. of the greatcont is to be abolished, except for four to Aix inches in the middle of the back; and

The serge tunic is to be cut no as to fit more into the waist.

It may be recalled that a few years ago a leather belt was worn outside the greatcont, hut this occasionally proved n source of danger, for in a rough and tune- blen policeman, outnumbered by hooligans, was sometimes seized by the belt from behind. The present Lype of cloth belt, fortning' part of the coat itself, was accordingly instituted.

Experience has shown that this cloth belt tends to cause a wrink ling in the front that sometimes, prevents the cont from hanging neatly. In future there will be a false belt in-the-middle of the back,- and it will serve to take up some of the fulness from the shoulders. It will, of course, be stitched to the coat throughout its length of four to six inches.

When wearing the serge tunia the policeman of the future is to have a waist. The change in the cut of the bunic. will, probably, nud greatly to the appearance of the younger men.

Time was when the policeman was of rolund proportions, bat nowadays he is generally a man of athletic guro, to which the

pre- sent snek-like tunic does sennt jus- tice. Hence the new tanie is to be *** waisted.”

HONCKONG'S FINEST CINEMA

SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT 2.30. 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30.

THE WORLD'S GREATEST

JUNIOR STARS!

JÄCKIE COOGAN

JACKIE COOGAN MITZI GREEN

Amarlos' lawye younger antom making The ass of the lunghe and thrills in MAT Twain's Joyous Comely.

TOM

MITZI GREEN

Jackie Coogan, "The Kid," grows up! Now he talks for the first time!

And the most popular

Pert

girl on the screen.

and pretty, Mitzie Green.

SAWYER" Mark Twain's immortal

A story unsurpassed

in all fiction for heart-

felt human drama and

light-hearted fun!

a

Garamount Picture

classic for the first time on

the screen.

Booking at Theatre, Phones: 25313, 25330.

PEACE IN YOUR HOME?

SHELL TOX

Can you call

it peace with the

maddening song

of the mosquito

keeping your

- neives on edge as

'you wait for his

next attack?

Is it peace, when cockroaches invade your wardrobe,

and eat up your books?

Do you feel kindly towards the large black spider

you find in your bath ?

THE ONLY WAY TO ENSURE PEACE IS

TO BE PREPARED FOR WAR!

CALL UP

SHELL TOX

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(INCORPORATED In England).

A NAVAL SECRET

REVEALED.

WORLD'S LARGEST

TORPEDOES.

It is now permissible to mention a fenture of the armament of the Battleships Nelson and Rodney, which has hitherto` been one of the Navy's most jealously guarded secrets.

Each of these ships has two tubes i for discharging 24in. torpedoes, the largest in existence. Beyond their diameter no particulars of these gigantic tin fish" can be in- closed, but it may be taken "For granted that in range and explo sive power they are quite unique,

With the exception of a few old submarines all our other fighting ships are equipped with the 2lin. torpedo, which is a very formidable weapon. Presumably the main ob ject in developing a 24in. torpedo was to obtain. greater destructive. power, in order to defeat the elabo rate system of underwater protec tion in modern ships.

But to furnish Nelson anil Rod- ney with these large and exes.ding- ly costly weapons was an net of doubtful wisdom. War experience demonstrated the uscicssness of tor- pedo tubes in big ships, and in such vessels they are an anachronism.

A Hit at Jutland.

were

Our earliest torpedoes were of 13in. diameter, with a small "war head," ie., explosive charge. They were not only very limited in range and speed, but

decidedly erratic, and almost ́na dangerous to friend as to foc. Later the dia meter was increased to 18in, and guncollon torpedoes of this size were largely used by our sub... marines during the war,

They were not entirely reliable, and many a British submarine cap- tain, after maneuvring for hours, to get a shot at a German warship, had the mortification of seeing his carefully-aimed torpedoes run wild. When hits were secured on hig Ger- man vessels, their robust under- water protection generally saved them from mortal injury.

In the night fighting at. Jutland our destroyers fired 21in. torpednes, some of which got home with specta cular results. The battleship Pom- mern, hit abreast of the magazines, went up in one tremendous explo Bion.

Towards the end of the war the Germans produced a 23.7in. tor pedo for the special purpose of arming an iron, division ". of twelve big destroyers. These were to have formed the spearhand of the High Sen Fleet's light forces in the great North Sea battle for which the Gerrmans were' propar- ing all through the summer of 1918. But the building of these super- destroyers was delayed, and as the projected action did not come off, the new torpedo was never tosted.

Since the war new types of tor- pedo have been evolved at home and Abroad, but so far as is known ours is the only Navy which possesses a 24in.fish." A small torpedoes are now priced at nearly £3,000 apiece, the cost of these huge and complicated weapons must be stag- gering.

BEAUTY QUEEN MURDERESS.

TWENTY YEARS' HARD LABOUR.

Paris-Georgette Hodot, former beauty queen of Paris, was sen tenced to 20 years hard labour by the Scine Assizes for murdering her lover, Tanne Eichisky, an American jewel broker. After half an hour's absence the jury found a verdict of wilful homicida with premeditation, but considered that there were extenuating circum- stances.

The murder was committed last June. Eichisky, who apparently is described as an American becauso he occasionally went to New-York- on business, had gone into a chem- it's shop, when Mlle. Hodot sud denly appeared beside him and fired two shots, killing him out- right. She throw herself upon the body uttering endearing. epithets, but soon straightened herself, and arranged her hat more becomingly before the police arrested her

It appeared in evidence that Eichisky had wroken off relations with her in February, 1928, no he was about to be married, and had paid her the sum of 20,000 francs to soften the blow.

Georgette

demanded

Hodot

200,000 france, telling him that ho would have no peace until she was satisfied. She persecuted him-with- out romission, and sent him' nows-" paper catlings describing the sequit- List of men and women accused of.

crimes-passionels !!

The newspapersccounts of her own trial, however, will fail to re cord the denouement which, she expected.

MOVIELAND ATURES

THE WEEK

QUEEN'S

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20,

Marvellons Snappy Gay

SUB COLVIN EDDIE

CANTOR

Whooper

WALTER DONALDION Lyrics by From the Mindy by WILLIAM ANTHONY M‹CLIKÉ TECHNICOLOR

Ziegfeld has. outdone himself in this, the most gorgeous of all spectacles t

UNITED ARMST BCTURE &

Added Attraction

"AN IRISH

FANTASY"

UNITED ARTISTS?

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