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TROUBLE IN PARADISE"

“Did you learn right from wrong

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1936.

TODAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Man of Arab”

QUEEN'S

13 Hours By...Air” OBIENTAL:-

"RIT RA"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

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Coming

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"The Lady Consents"

STAR:-

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**Trouble In Paradise" "Dinner At 8"

MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN

Douglass Dumbrile, one of the screen's oetter known'character ac-

KIDNAPPER IS SENT TO GAOL

CHILD UNRESTORED

The first case in the Criminal Sessions which began yesterday at

PIRACY IN LOCAL WATERS

CASE AT THE SESSIONS

the Supreme Court... heard before In the afternoon session at the the Chief Justice, Bir Atholl Mac- | Supreme Court, Tang Cheung, 31, Gregor, was that of Lau Nam, ac- and Lau Mun, 47, were accused of cused of child-stealing.

the piracy of a junk in British waters.

Mr. E. H. Williams, the Assistant, Attorney General, prosecuted for the Crown.

Lau Ng. the master of trading

· Jank, - T5903H. and his

crew of The following Jury wasem- two, Lau On and Wan Kam, were panelled:-5. F. Bishop (foreman), { robbed at Shau Tze Mun Pass. Geo, Wai Tong Kwok, J. W. Alabas- They were chased by six men in ter, J. P. D'Aquino, L. Quen, Chaa. three row boats, and they did not F: Ouiterrez, G. Harbigg.

stop until a shot was fred at them. The pirates then boarded the junk, chased the men into the hold, and took various articles, for clothing away with them.

The defendant pleaded. not guilty to the charge of stealing a Chinese boy, of 7 years, the son of Yeung Sing.

On May 4, at the village of Au Ku Leung, near Kowloon City, at about 11.00 a.m. the defendant was seen walking hand in hand with the young boy, Yeung She Ping, towards Kowloon City. He had not been permitted to do so by the parent of the boy..

Fourt weeks later, the father saw

Mr. G. S. Wilson, A. 9. P. (K), and Det. Sergeant A. Kinnear. save corroborative evidence again- at the defendants. One of them

been had

Identified at two separats identification parades..

In his own deferice Tang Cheung sald those men who accused him of participation in the piracy

the defendant, and went imme-merely bore a grudge against him

diately to the police, when the lat-

ter was arrested.

to

and that he was falsely accused.

Lau Mun protested his innocence throughout the hearing.

The jury consisted of:

Lau Nam said that the boy fol- lowed him, and he took the child to Mongkok, and entrained Taipo, where they boarded a steam vessel. He accused Tee Kwal, the owner of a boarding house, of sella Sala ing the boy.

In making enquiries, the police traced the story of the defendant, and were, held that he asked Tse

il

W. C. Excell (foreman), B. G. Xavier, K. 8. Khu. J. F. Roza, B. S. Vlera. F. M. Garcia, R. P. de

deliberation of about ten minutes the jury brought in a verdict of guilty against Tang Cheung, and that of not guilty

After a

in the urn of poverty" and "tooking to be the boy's father. sors, is truly one who "put a pennywai to purchase the boy, claim. 1 against Lau Mun, who was im-

a shilling out." For it is to the distressing condition of having

Yeung Sing, the child's father, been broke in practically every fendant for some three years. He said that he had known the de-

mediately discharged from the court.

The defendant, said the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor,

town of more than one hundred arst met him at his mother-in-law was found guilty of a very serious | thousand population in the United

States that be attributes his even-boarding house, which was next

door to his own domicile. tual "success on the stage and screen.

This line of reasoning probably sounds a triffe mad, but the ex- planation offered" by Dumbrille, who plays an important role in support of Gary Cooper and Jean

Arthur in Columbia's new Frank Capra production, “Mr. Deeds Goes Town," coming soon to the Alhambra Theatre, has much to recommend it.

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"When I found myself broke," says Dumbrille, "I invariably turn- ed to selling in an effort to re- coup my fortunes. Automobile ac- cessories, tea, coffee, · spices, in- surance, real estate, books-any- thing that was handy I tried to to sell. When I found that I could sell merchandise with a good deal of success, I fell to pondering why I should not be able to sell myself in the same manner."}

So Douglass began selling Dum- brille. Discarding an inherent

The evidence of Lee Loy, aged 10 years, and that of Yeung Shek

were very much the same in that they both saw the defendant with the missing buy on May 4.

that his admission was coerced by The defendant could only say

the police.

The Chief Justice admonished the defendant roundly for. his calloumess in hot making any ef- fort to restore the child to his rarents, and he would have no hésitation in punishing bim severely.

A sentence of three years with hard labour was imposed on the fendant.

BAYREUTH WAGNER

FESTIVAL

"Hong Kong Daily Press": Specia

Bayreuth, July 19. Fuehrer Reichsminis-

The

oxence. It was the duty of the court to help the police la keep- ing the harbour, free, open and harmless to legitimate trade.

In view of a previous conviction in April of this year, the defen- dant Wa sentenced to seven years with hard labour.

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SURVEY OF SUNKEN TUG

DIVERS EXAMINE HULL

Despite Bad Weather

Shanghai, July 15, Within 24 hours after receiving A singing voice that has thrilled modesty, he high-pressured theater Dr. Goebbels, General Goering. the contract to salvage the tug millions and which she acquiredtrical managers into believing he Field Marshal Blomberg, General St Aubin, Mr. J. E. Bayford, of quite by accident has brought was good. In this way he crashed

von Fritasch, Ambassador yon Rib-

the Far Eastern Balvaging Co., fame and adulation to

Broadway. Frances

bentrop and von Papen were pre-salvaging expert from Britain, Langford in the few brief years

sent at the festive opening on

was at work on the preliminary since she left Southern College.

sunday of the Bayreuth Wagner surveys on the vessel that sank Festival.

Miss Langford, who has her first featured sole in films in Paramount's "Collegiate", with Joe Penner and Jack Oakie and now showing at the Star Theatre, häs come a long way in the enter tainment world since the days, when she sang, soprano to her classmates.

She is not a soprano any more On being divorced from her ton-

sils, she discovered that her voice

Since coming to Hollywood, Dum-

brille has appeared prominently in such pictures as "Lives of a Bengal Me Forever." "Naughty Marietta,"Inaugural opera of the festival, Lancer." "Broadway Bill," "Love

Lohengrin was presented in the "Puter Ibbetson," "The Music Goes Round" and many others.

this being the first time

since 1909 that it was included in the programme..

for the second time in the Whang- poo on July 4 when rammed by the ss. Ping An She also sank last year when rammed by a steamer of the China Merchants" Co.

ONE WAY TICKET

Dr. Wilhelm" Furtwangler dir-this time will be carried out on The raising of the St. "Aubin ected the initial performance and Lloyd Nolan and Peggy Conklin, the outstanding singers of Ger- latest of the Broadway stage stars many were selected for the roles. lured to Hollywood m⚫ recent

Frau Winnifried Wagner, daugh months, will be seen in the lead-ter-in-law of Richard Wagner, 15 ing roles of Columbia's "One-Way as in former years again directing Ticket," a prison drams based on the festival.—-

had changed. She was afraid she could never sing again. But one evening at a party she got up and tried it.

Ethel Her operation had changed her into a contralto.

She started off in New York singing on the radio, in vaude- ville and in the leading night clubs. It was at a party giver in honour of Cole Porter" that a motion picture executive heard

her sing and sent her off to Hollywood.

the novel of the same name by Transocean. News Service,

Turner, Dow screening

at the Alhambra Theatre, Walter

Connolly and little Edith Fellows, the lovable tyke of "She Married Her Boss."will be seen in mm. port

"MAN OF ARAN”.

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"Man of Aran" showing to-day at the King's Theatre tells how ""Tiger King," his wife, Herbert-Biberman, late of the Maggie, and their son, Michael, New York Theatre Guild, directed win a livelihood from the forbid the dim from the screen adaptading conditions on their island tion prepared by Oliver H. P. Garrett and Grover Jones Vin- The little girl from the South cent Lawrence and Joseph An- soon found herself featured with Dick, Powell

thony are credited with the wreen on the popular play. "Hellywood Hotel" broadcasts. "One-Way Ticket" is the story She made her screen debut: in.

of a young, rebellious convict who "Every Night" at Eight" and ap-talls in love with the daughter of peared in "Broadway Melody of the prison guard. Fared with the 1938" before receiving the feminine prospect of losing her when she lead opposite Jack Oakle. In decides to go to college, No. 27117, "Collegiate."

played by Lloyd Nolan, conceals himself in her trunk and makes good his escape. Discovering him thus, and unwilling to lose him, Peggy Conklin, the prison official's daughter, leaves the school and the two run off and get married. Responding to a nationwide slacas, police throughout the nation launch a search for the young

home. The picture, opens with one of the thrills with which the story abounds. The three, gathering seaweed on the shore, are almost overwhelmed by a sudden rush of the sea and with dificulty scramble to safety. We tee how the scanty soil is pre- pared for potato-growing, and Michael, sitting at the cliff edge, catching fish in the sea three hundred feet below. "Tiger" and other men of the island hunt and harpoon the basking shark for the oil contained in the liver of the 27-foot fish. Maggle and Michael extractie oll, as valuable 15 spermaceti dreadful storms that sweep the islands and the daring Islanders aghting their way through in Mtragile curraghs,

We see, top, the

Miss Langford has the smallest waist in Hollywood. It measures Just 21 inches. She is ve feet three inches tall and weighs 115. Her featured song in her new picture is "Will I Ever Know?" and she is cast is the unattrae tive secretary of a rich old lady, who falls in love with Oakie when be inherits a girls' school and couple. undertakes to operate it along There is a cumache turn in strikingly modernistic lines. It events which lends to the nim takes some time and a remarkable several of its most intense and portray of Claudette Colbert's change in personal appearance for exciting momenta Nine-year-old step-daughter in She Married her to capture Onkle's heart but Fellows is seen as a “little angel Her Boss. Oliers in the cast are she has adequate assistance and who is a tormenting deyil at Robert Middlemass, Mana Bryant, advice from Ned Sparks and heart. This is her first screen Thurston Hill, George McKay and Lynne: Overman.

performance since her remarkable Gloria Shea

different Unes from what was done last year, it was announced patched up, the water pumped yesterday. Last year her hole was out of her, and then she Was raised by reason of her lighter weight

This year it will be different Eight six-inch cables will be passed under the St. Aubin åt low tide, air will be pumped into her fore peak, after peak, and water Banks, and then when the tide rises, it is expected that the craft will rise with the aid of two lighters on her bow and two on her stern, She will then be towed

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MAN of ARAN

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OBITUARY

MR. F. C. GOODMAN

A large circle or friends and over to the Shanghal side of the the regret of the colleagues in the Colony will hear river for beaching and final re pairs. She is now lying off the Shanghal and Hougkew Wharf Company's Pootung Wharf.

DIVERS SENT DOWN .. Yesterday, despite the bad wea- ther, what with high wand and rain, divers were sent below to

ascertain the damage to the tug and make reports on the prospects or laying the cables that will be used to raise her. Mr. Bayford expects that these surveys will be completed in a short time.

As soon as everything is lo readiness the eight large cables

will be slipped under the vessel These will be attached to two lighters forward and two astern At low tide these cables wat be made fast," air will be pumped in them to the fore and after peaks and water tanks, and with the rise of the tide the craft will be partially raised.

This partial raising will be all that will be necessary, for then she will be of the bottom and the

death of Mr. Fred C. Goodman,

who died whilst on his way Home The sad news was received by cable last Sunday night.

beached.

was accompanied by his wife and daughter ⠀⠀ aboard the P. & O. steamer "Rawalpindi."

The late Mr. Goodman" wasɛori- ginally in the service of the Naval .. Dockyard, and later he joined the engineering department of the for fourteen years. Kowloon Docks, remaining there

The deceased then left the Dock Company's service in 1912 and proceeded Home, where he rejoin ed the Admiralty, being, transter- Owing to serious illness, the latared to the Naval Dockyard in Hong Mr. Goodman left Hong Kong, at Kong about a year ago, on an ap- very short notice, on June 27, and pointment to the Chief Electrical

Engineers' Department. S

The late Mr. Goodman was for four lighters, pulied by tugs, can some twenty years a member of." then take the St. Aubin on the the Kowloon Bowling Greep Club.. hazardous trip across the river to and had represented Hong Kong the place where she will be in, interport bowls. contests He was also a keen rise shot, and had. Fortunately this is just across fred for Hong Kong at Bisley ina the river from where the St. also won interport ride honome Aubin sank and it is expected that locally little or no trouble will be Being a man of sterling charge- experienced in the passage ter the late Mr. Goo

When she gets over to the much liked by those who had. 01 other side, she will be ready to loyed bis endship, have her hull pumped out. Then | He she can be brought ones moes to daughter and a brother, “Mr. B. J. the

Goodman Superintendent of Btores

the Kowloon Docks to mourn:

to whom the deep will be extended in avement.

pot.

their

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