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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1927.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

A GARRISON UNIT.

HOTELS

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL. Tolegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;

MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegazphic Address: “CENTRAL, SHANGHAI,”

HOTEL S.

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel

Dos Wagons Lits, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colonyall Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.

All Trams pass in front of Hotel,

Most Moderate Rates in the Colony,

Hotel launch meets all steamers.

Diving Room and Lounge now open to the Public.

($25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office

of the above Hotel).

TEA DANCES

MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS

Tel. Add. Victoria.

5 to 7 p.m.

J. H. WITCHELL,

Telephone C.373.

Manager.

HOTEL SAVOY

Comfort, Convenienco and Distinction.

HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.

22, Ice House Street,

Масло,

UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT.

KOWLOON HOTEL

KOWLOON

A FIRST CLASS HOTEL WITH ALL MODERN CONVENIENCES.

High Class Cuisine and Table Appointments. Wonderful ylew of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Wharves and Stalion.

'Drawing Room, Saloon Bar and Billiard Room.

Very moderate rates

on application to-

H. J. WHITE,

Manager.

Tel. Nos. K608 & K609. Cables, 'KOWLOTEL,'

Hongkong.

PALACE HOTEL. Tel Kowloon No. 8

Tel. Address "PALACE." Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Roome. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Tarma moderate. Special terms to families of application to:

Mrs. J. I OXBERRY, Proprietress.

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Cables

"EUROPE"

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD. Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.

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A recent photograph of the R.A.S.C. unit at present stationed with the Garrison Hongkong. (Photo. Ming Yuen).

NEW ORDINANCE.

(Continued from Page 9.)

Section 13 of the Ordinance pro- vides that no watchman is to act as a money-lender or to have any share in the business of any money-lend-

er.

DRAFT REGULATIONS. Important Requirements.

NAVVY WHO BECAME

A DRAMATIST.

-SEAN O'CASEY TO MARY

AN IRISH ACTRESS.

young

AN UNUSUAL LAW

# SUIT.

GERMAN ACTOR SUED

FOR PLAYS FAILURE.

or

Sean O'Casey, the Dublin navy who became one of the most in-

Intense interest has been aroused portant dramatists to appear sime not only in theatrical circles in the war, was to marry in mail Berlin but also amid the general week Miss Eileen Carey,

public by the bringing of suit at The draft of regulations propos- several of his plays, and who is an actor for the success

Irish actress who has appeared in law to determine the responsibility ed to be made under the intended also a native Watchmen Ordinance.

failure of a play. of Dublin. The is also ceremony was to take place at the berg, theatrical manager and hand published for general information, Church of All Souls and the Hoof one of the greatest amusement The suit is that of Herk Salter- and among the requirements are Redeemer, Chelsen. the following

Corporations of Berlin, against One of the most shy and retiring Rudolf Forster, one of the most personalities in theatreland, Mr talented and popular actora of

'Casey, who is 43, tried to keep Derlin."

Every watchman shall pay to the Captain Superintendent of Police a fee of $1 upon registration in the Watchmen's Register.

the

event quiet until after the Herr Forster was, cast for the The Captain Superintendent of ceremony, and the news of the star part in "Scandal in America," Police shall issue to each register to his friends.

narriage came as a surprise even by Hans Rehfisch, a play that was ed watchman a licenco book bear-

brought out at great expense and ing the name, photograph, thumb Sean O'Casey was unknown Inman Artists Theatre, a house con- with great expectations at the Ger- print and registered number of the dramatic world before 1923, trolled by the Saltenberg concern. such watchman,

but since then he has had five plays) Every employer shall, when produced. and took the Hawthor

A "Frost." ceasing to employ any particular den Prize in 1926 for work which great flourish of trumpets, but was. The play was produced with a watchman, enter in such watch. Lord Oxford described as "in the not favourably received by the man's licence book a note of the truest and most adequate sense.apublic. date upon which he ceases to em- great work of art."

Indeed, it encountered ploy such watchman, and a report

He left Dublin and a life of hard-formances it had to be withdrawn. such "frost" that after a few per- on the watchman's character, and ships last year, and took a flat in shall sign the said note and re- Chelsea. where he was recently case was, however, that while the The extraordinary feature of the port.

working on the second act of his play itself was The Captain Superintendent of new play, "The Red Lily."

unmistakably Police shall issue to each registerr. Shaw, to wear dress clothes, triumph: so that after the curtain

For a long time he refused, like achieved

Jamned, the star, Forster, himself ed watchman a badge bearing the and once says the Daily News had fallen at the end of the per- an immense personal registered number of such watch- man; and such watchman shall from a peer's house where he was or expressions, of disapproval, he Wan turned away by the butler formance, amid either dead silence wear his badge at all times while to be the guest of honour. op duty.

He has been roaming the East curtain and heartily applauded.

was vociferously called before the Every watchman, other than End-and Dockland recently to ship's guards, shall be provided gather material for a group

With this attitude of the public, with uniform the cost of which Cockney plays. Before he sprang agree. Instead,

of however, Herr Saltenberg did not shall be defrayed by deduction into fame with the success of "The Forster

he regarded from the pay of such watchman.

Plough and the Stars" Mr. O'Casey failure of the play, and consequent- as responsible for the Promotion to the rank of head was living in a Dublin tenement. watchman shall be in the discre-

ly brought before the arbitral tri- tion of the Captain Superintendent stare career in the chorus of the bably unique in dramatic history. Miss Eileen Carey began her bunal of the stage a suit that it pro- D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, and Every registered watchman, was given her chance as understudy the actor was at fault and had In his complaint he declared that other than ship's guards, shall in "The Plough and the Stars" at caused the failure of the play and attend at such times and places as the Fortune Theatre. One of the consequent heavy loss to the man- may be directed by the Captain principals, Miss Kathleen O'Regan, agement, and he demanded to be Superintendent of Police and shall was taken ill just before the first reimbursed in the sum of 600,000 there take part in such parades, night and Miss Carey took the part marks damages. One of the chicf Distruction and musketry and at short notice.

It was during the charges against the actor has to do revolver practice as WHY be chearsals for this play that, she with his "too early change to prescribed by the Captain Super-st met Mr. O'Casey. intendent of Police."

of Police.

Every watchman of Chinese

of the mean population of

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June on

costume.

..

Too Quick Change. This occnfred in a scene in the

esti-occur on an ocean steamer, and in the which the actor had to change 30 quickly from the uniform of a

race, other than casual watchmen. The Malaya Mail has received first act, which was supposed to shall, during employment, betatistics entitled to pay at the rate of not mated less than $20 per month with free F. M. S.. quarters or not less than $23 per These are as follows: Perak, 664, steward to a conventional street month without free quarters, and 680; Selangor, 478.868; Negri Sem costume. every other watchman, other than bilan, 209.113; Pahang, 163,162 casual watchmen, shall, during employment, be entitled to pay at the rate of not less than $25 per month with free quarters or not:

Total, 1,504,823.

The agent of the Wahabiti King

In the hurry Forster made the: change sooner than Saltenberg thought he should have done, and thus, in the latter's opinion, de- ranged the performance and spoil- Forstar'a reply was that as a

less than $28 per month without the Imarn Yehia of Sanas is reed the play.

free quarters...

norted to have returned to the Every. head watchman of lejaz, as no settlement could be Chinese race shall during employ-reached with regard to the frontier, matter of fact the audience did not ment be entitled to pay at the rate which the Idrissi claim should in-realise that the change had been of not less than $22 per month clude Hodeida, Lahia, and Maidi, made too soon, with free quarters or not less than;

The reply of the actor to the $25 per month without free quar

El Universal, of Mexico City cause of the failure was the play. manager's complaint was that the ters, and every other head watch-states that a group of army air-itself, and in this he was supported man shall during employment hemen who have been sent to Europe not only by a number of expert entitled to pay at the rate of nat to study the progress of aviation, artice, but also by the author of less than $27 per month with free are authorized to spend 500,000 the play himself, who unhesitating- quarters or not less than $30 per chase of aeroplanes for the Mexican of failure, and declared that the pesos (roughly £50,000) on the pur-ly accepted for his work all the onus manth without free quarters.

Every ensual walchman shall, Government. during employment, be entitled to pay at the rate of not less than

actor was in no wise responsible, but on the contrary, was entitled to $2 for every day of such employ-supplying of

such credit for his efforts in trying such watchman, to make a poor play succeed. ment.

provided that the said supplying Before the case is ended a long Every employer shall on or befte of $1 shall not be payable array of authorities from Berlin fore the last day of each month the watchman is supplied by way and various other cities will be pay to the Treasurer in respect of transfer, or substitution, at the called before the tribunal as ex- of each watchman who shall have instance of the Captain Super-parts, to give their opinions of the been in his employment for any intendent of Police. part of such month, other than

merita of the play and of the actor, Every employer shall give to the end of the reasons for the failure. ship's guards and casual watch- Captain Superintendent of Police, men, such amount of pay as shall ore month's notice in writing of

be certified by the Captain Super-intention to dispense with the HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW! intendent of Police as the pay of services of any watchman em- such watchman for the current ployed by him, other than a casual watchman, or else pay to the

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The following are the replies to. pay to the Treasurer in respect of watchman, a sum equal to one 1. Bach; the Choral Prelude, "Wen Wir each watchman who shall have month's pay at the rate at which a ochoten Nuthen sein. 2 Two: the well- been in his employment for any such watchman immediately before noor, the latter being unfinished in the part of such month,, other than his services were dispensed with that the greater part exists only in ship's guards and casual watch was entitled to be paid, together, Feinele Barnolt. 1. Schubert: the Bank, keleton fora. It was completed by John men, the sum of $1 per month or with the additional sum of $3 in "ark. hark, the lack.". Rossini. 8. The. part of a month, for police respect of quarters where free core of Act I, of the opera "Plerabras," supervision.

10 pages, composed by Schubert in quarters were. provided by the the whole of "The Hemlah," composed Every employer to whom any employer: provided that it shall by Handel in 24 days. 6. Sir Hubert Parry, watchman is supplied by the be lawful for the Captain Super in 7. laydn: the sing was given him by tribute to his skili in contrapuntal writ- shall, except where a supervision notice or payment or Captain Superintendent of Police intendent of Police to waive such redole 11. 8. Another theme, which

never heard, "goes with the theme played, fee is to be paid, forthwith pay shorter notice or to authorize the covered what this "hidden" theme 1. to accept and with each variation of it. Nobody has to the Captain Superintendent of Treasurer, to accept a reduced pay-known to have been lost. 10, Both went About 200, etart figure unknown, da revers) Police a fee of $1 in respect of the ment

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LAURA LA PLANTE

Creighton Hale Arthur Edmund Carew

Flora Fineh Tully Marshall -Gertruide Astor

THRILLS

LAUGHS

CHILLS

The

Cat

Based on the famous play

WITH

at and the Canary

BIZARRE SETTINGS, WEIRD LIGHTING, EERIE EFFECTS At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20.

AT THE

WORLD

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The greatest sea picture ever made-

DOUGLAS

FAIRBANKS

IN

THE

BLACK PIRATE

Filmed entirely in natural colours. The wonder film of a

year."

Orchestra at 5.15·8 9.20. Chinese Interpreter at 2.30 8 7.15.

AT THE

STAR

TO-DAY

ONLY

CECIL B. DE MILLE'S Startling social satire based on the novel by Wallace Irwin-

with

ROD LA ROCQUE

LILLIAN RICH

VERA REYNOLDS

WARNER BAXTER

JULIA FAYE

THEODORE

KOSLOFF

The

GOLDEN BED

See the dazzling Candy Ball, the millionaire wedding, the fight on the Alpine crag, the beautiful women and the lavish settings.

Continuous From 2:30 to 11.15.