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MADAME KELVEY'S

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

EPIC OF EVEREST.

COMING TO THE STAR THEATRE. ·

CLEVER DANCING AND WONDERFUL SETTINGS. With so much that was excellent

Indianapolis, May 1.

The film record of the 1924 at the dance recital given by

Even the smell of intoxicants Mount Everest Expedition, which Madame Kelvey's pupils at the is admitted as evidence of in-will be screened

at the Star) Star Theatre last evening, it was fraction of the so-called Wright Theatre, Kowloon, from Wed: impossible to particularise any bone-dry law, the most drasticnesday next, May 6th, is the one item for distinction, though prohibition measure enacted, the most wonderful record of endur. special mention should perhaps be enforcement of which is causing ance, strength and self-sacrifice. made of the really wonderful consternation among citizens of It is a film full of reality; nothing

this state. too dancing.

la pre-arranged. The settings Tholma Scott gave a most A number of spectacular raids Joost dothing. yot they are the graceful and clover interpretation have already been carried most magnificent that have aver of "The Spirit of the Roso" and out in tho bomo of boon placed before the eyes of little Miss Rosemary Richards wealthy, respectable citizens; men. It is the story of the battle did wonderfully well in her peaceable inhabitants have boon of strong men against naturo, for Crinoline Dance Potite. Mise stopped, and searched in the Mallory and Irvine were within Gladys Ramsay, an older girl, streets, and arrosted if found in 600 feet of the summit of the who perhaps ovon more polished in possession of a flask.

greatest mountain in the world her performance, and, with Cubby

The various penalties range when their names were added to Dunoan in the Gavotte and Gardon from a month's imprisonment the tall of lives that is steadily of Dreams, she gave a charmingly with a hundred dollars dno to five mounting in the attempt to graceful exhibition.

years' imprisonment.-Acuter's conquor Everest, Their fate, or American Service.

the exact way in which they gave their lives, will always romain a mystery.

Cubby Duncan also partnered Miss Annie Tollan. in a stago interpretation of a flirtation waltz, oleverly oxoouted and very virile.

Tho various ballet numbers were well received. Mise Ivy Nicholls in the lead sang oxcced- ingly well, the background" boing provided by five dancing missos in the persons of Molly and Annie D'Almade e Castro, Mario de Sousa, Abnie Tollan and Betty Cleme. The tambourine dance by Miss do Sousa and Molly D'Al mada e Castro' was both lively and colourful.

All

Little Dot Tollan in the Cake Walk made a distinct hit, and the sword dance of Lorna Tollan wae carried through effectively." the children did extraordinarily woll, though space forbids indivi- dual mention.

Mise Daphne Leigh provided An amusing interlude, and two extraneous items, vocal selections from the region of the orchestra aid timekeeping by an occupant of the right hand box were also appreciated.

FRANCE AND THE GOLD STANDARD

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SIR EYRE CROWE'S SUCCESSOR.

London, May 1. Sir William Tyrrell has been

appointed to succeed the lato Sir Eyre Crowe, as permanent Undor Secretary of Stato for Foreign Affairs.-Reuter.

Theso bravo explorers of Everest must have diod a hard

death. We will honour them at all times for their grand effort and their sacrifice. They have added a frosh glory to the fiag of British adventure.

Booking for this wonderful film $2 and $1 half-price for children. is at Moutrio's, the prices being

、,

(Sir Wm. Tyrrell, K.C.M.G., PRINCE GEORGE EM- R.C.V.O, C.B., has been the As-

BARKS. sistant Under Secretary since 1919. He is 50 years of age.]

LAWN TENNIS,

YESTERDAY'S

TOURNAMENT MATCHES.

A large crowd watched the play yesterday afternoon in the local lawn tennis tournament..

Marseille, May 1. Prince Georgo has embarked! on the P. & O. 5.s. Malwa which sails at midnight.-Reuter.

MOIVES OF TO-DAY.

Where Are the British Films ?

There is something almost pathetic in the way that the The chief interest of spectators themselves and their Empire. As! British poople refuse to advertise wes in the doubles game butwoen a race we pride ourselves on our Captain O'Callaghan and Dr modernity: yet we resolutely Paris, May 1. Gawler and the young I.R.O.refuse to make any effective use Addressing British and Ameri players, Razack and Cassumbhoy, of the many modern inventions can correspondents on the subject which the former wen without which have been placed at our of financial policy, M. Caillaux much difficulty, though extended disposal, comments declared, inter alia, that a return in the last two sets.

Roine to the gold standard' was & In the singles, Honda got day in another column to the journal. We draw attention to- distant problem" for France, but another "life" against a fellow- sooner or later she would have to countryman, and Ng Sze-choung, American film has made in recent enormous stridon which the follow in Britain's wako.-Reuter after losing the first set, ran away years and to the serious relapse,

with the match against Yamada, almost THE WEMBLEY

amounting to decay, GUARANTEE.

paralysed British

London, May 1. The House of Commons has passed the reading of the British Empire Exhibition Guarantee BIL—Reuter.

The detailed results of yester day's games appear on another page.

The match between 'S. E. Green which has and M. W. Lo produced a fine enterprise in this all important tussle, but it had to be abandoned industry. If ever there was a when the score was two sets all case for protection, surely British and will bave to be replayed.

encouragement from the Govern film production deservos some mant. But even the modest, support given by the MoKonna Duties bas been withdrawn, with the result that our home. films. notwithstanding the artistry and care devoted to thom, cannot possibly hold their own against itbo overwhelming Wave of American enterprise which breaksj on our shores. ...There are

RESURRECTION: "II.

"

By the Rev. G. R. Lindsay, M. A.

The resurrection. of Jesus Death, in the case of such hriat throws a very valuable boing, can never be a merely ght upon the nature of the natural event. Body and soul demption of man. Man is a cannot be sundered without loss ompound being. The body as to the spiritual part. The idea

reasons

for this Amorican supremacy and the-difficulty which British pro ducers find in meeting it. Evon if the film were merely an in- dustry and not a most potent weapon of propaganda, a strong Case could be made out for pro tecting it from the ravages of a carefully organised and ruth-

ell as the soul entere into the that death freas the soul from cap less form of foreign competition. pmpleto conception of

his tivity for larger life is not oBut even the most rigid Free ature. The redemption of the Christianity. The disembodied Trader must admit that the film hole man includes tho

ro- state in Scripture is always reis something even more import- amiption of the body. The forred to as one of incomplete

ant than an industry. When esurrection was, therefore, wo and restricted life. Redemption ay say, 9ssential in that, the from a state of sin which has firms are compelled to alter their Yorkshire and Northampton demption of man meant the brought man under a law of death plants in order to give to their demption of his whole per must include deliverance from Near East customers' the Ameri aality, body and, soul together, the incompleto condition. The dan

mere spiritual survival of Redeemer must be One Who "bolde

styles" which they see re- hrist-an immortality of the the kays of death." It must em-high time that our rulers abould presented on the "movies," it is ul only-would not have been brace Résurrection. fficient. The Christian doctrine How is resurrection possible begin to realise the significanon immortality is not simply a for the boilies of Christians that underlying a new battle cry that

Trade follows the film." rvival of the death, and future have utterly perished? "The ate of existence of the soul. Christian doctrine of the resur

AID TO COMMERCE. Idealism would omphasize the rection does not necessarily in Who can deny the enormous iritual side of man's nature volve the raising again of the very impetus which the film has given von which has been stamped the material form laid in the grave, to American trade and to the Bage of God. But it is apt St. Paul uses the analogy of the dissemination of American forgot that man appears not sand, "Thou sowost not the body ideas? All over the world the as the crown of nature's which shall be... but God giveth American cinema is doing the velopment and as bound by a it a body as it hath pleased Him." work which used to be done by ousand ties to the physical and There is here identity between the the British Navy. Civilisation is imal world. Naturalism, in old self and the new, even as re-represented by the latest super- rn, lava stress on the latter gards the body. But it is not the production. of Log Angeles,

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le of his being and is tempted identity of the same material and the oredulous children of many charming phases of make the average spectator not tidre the former. The true substance. The identity of our primitive communities are being American life which are never only gasp, but also groan. Fool- of man's nature will include bodies, oven on earth, does not told, in the simplest and most reproduced in the studios of Los lug like a Pharaoh inside the th. It will acknowledge the consist in sameness of material realistic form of entertainment Angeles.

Į piature house, he may almost boj iritual dignity of man but will particles. The bond of identity is over devised for simpla minde, But there are other phases excused for becoming a Bolshevik bognise that he is not, and was in something bigger, in an abiding that the only people who count which recoivo # dangerous when he roaches the street. In ver intended to bo, pure spirit, principle which survives. all the are Americans. Even within our phblicity, particularly the ex- those and other respects, the t he is a denizen of the natural changes. The Resurrection proves own Empire, as our Correspon fraordinary luxury, which American film may become a rid, his body being as truly a this is not destroyed even by dent points out, the American reaches such sumptuous heights serious danger. At any rate it rt of himself as life or soul death itself.

picture is making serious among the favoured sons and would be none the worse for elf law

"If the epirit of Him that raised headway. Moreover, quite apart daughters of the groat Republic. British competition in British le not simply a soul in- up Jesus from the dead dwell in from the very natural tondoney In this country, harsh neoassity pinama balls. But unless the siting a body. He is soul and you. He that raised up Christ of the British people to object to and an inherited discretion Government intervenes, as the y. Ho is, in short, the pre- Josue from the death shall the United States, it is doubtful prevent too garish a display of German Government has inter- bined link between two quicken also your mortal bodies whether the average American superfluous riches, but, among voned for the protection of Gor- ids, the natural and the through His Spirit that dwelleth film is so sound a moral and the circles patronised by the man filme, it does not look as if

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