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QUEEN'S HOLIDAY

NOLIDAY COMEDIES

Fore Jeck. storm deck, all around the boat-Danny tumbles la and out of comica! aliuntions and lords everything bui kls. brand new wife-and there's a hundred thousand-dollar forfeli to keep him from admitting she's his?

REGINALD

CARL LAEMMLE, t

DENNY.

Out All Night

with.

UNIVERDAL PICTURE

MARION NIXON

SUNDAY to TUESDAY

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TOM KENNEDY

EDWARD SUTHERLAND PRODUCTION

ADOLPH ZUKOP

JESSE CASKY

RAYMOND HATTON

WE'RE THE NAVY NOW

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Showing Wednesday Only

BUSTER KEATON College

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

HOLIDAY COMEDIES.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1928.

M.P.'s CONUNDRUMS.

1.

NEXT WEEK'S FILMS AT THE EXAMINATION IN ARITHME.

QUEEN'S.

TIC FOR A MINISTER.

HUMOUR IN HOUSE.

The genial Under-Secretary for the Ministry of Health got home a thrust at the Ornosition. Ho told them bluntly that these pro- ceedings and all their opposition were largely a farce.

The Opposition was hurt and protested.. The Ministeriallata suspected they were being kept up without real reason and encourag- ed Sir Kingsley Wood...

"Whitehall Cromwell."

Special advertisements in to- day's issue announce three first- rate comedies for the Queen's Theatre during the Chinese New

Two hundred members of the Year holidays. The first of these pictures is Reginald Denny's capt-House of Commons went home in tal new farce, "Out All Night," the early hours of a morning last which will be screened from to- month, after spending eleven He turned with a smile to the morrow to Tuesday; the second is hours 'considering on report stage financial figures which had been. the rollicking war comody, "We're Audit (Local Authorities) Bill. put to him. This was one of the in the Navy New, with Wallace It amenda the law with regard to cases on record where a Bill was Boery and Raymond Hatton, which surcharges by district auditors so excellent that it was actually and disqualifies from Loc ti In operation before it had appear- will be screened on Wodnesday; and, the third is Buster Keacon's Authorities for five years any pered on the Statuto, Book. And so latest United Artists picture, "Col-on who has been surcharged an with a rather broader amile

amount exceeding £500.

they would wait till these complex lege."

Out All Night,"

The Bill had a stormy passage problems arose if they did nriso

they worried -before

about It was "Out All Night" presents Ro-through-the Committee.

strenuously opposed by t'e

whether half a Town Councillor ginald lenny in the role of a wealthy yming man, who meets, Labour party, but the preceedings was involved in the answer.

exceedingly wordy 4 1. woos and marries the girl of his were heart all in one evening. There-nothing more. after numerous comical situations! As a prelude to the heavy legelter of Health, who shared with his are caused when an attempt is fare of the subsequent amend Under-Secretary the task of pilot- made to keep the marriage aments, the House had a lighting the Bill through its report Major Attlee described secret during an ocean voyage. exercise in simple arithmetic. stage, Denny's own inimitable sease of Mr. Arthur Greenwood purposely him as a "Whitehall Cromwell. comedy value is predominant kept it simple, and a comparative To Mr. Wheatley he was "gloating throughout, and the climax isly big attendance enjoyed the over a conquest." Miss Susan

angrily painted thrilling and unusual. The lead-problem and the smiling ease with Lawrence ing feminine, role is played by which Sir Kingsley Wood avoided picture of him, inpatient of his lack of power to crush his political Marion Nixon, popular and talent-working it out.

opponents." ed young actress, who is once more appearing with Deany.

World and Star.

The programmes at the other local cinemas during the holidays are as follows:

A greater variety of things than usual were said about the Minis-

It arose out of a Government amendment providing that where

Mr. Campbell Stephen liked the more than one-third of the men Minister so little that he objected bers of a Local Authority were to a drafting amendment which This disqualified, the quorum necessary Mr. Chamberlain moved.

to carry on the work of the was to omit the two simple words World Theatre:-To-morrow at Authority till the vacancies were "of health" from one liue, leaving att performances, the great my filled should be calculated on the the reference to the Minister stary drama, "The Bat: Monday number remaining, and not the simply as "the Minister." It was at 5.15 and 9.20, "The Bat," and full membership of the Councii. not necessary, to call him "the Minister of Health" this time, at 12, 2.30 and..7.15, the Chinese

From this proposition Mr. because three was a provision drama "True Love:" Tuesday and Wednesday at 6.15 and 9.20, pela Greenwood set his problem in earlier in the Bill that "the Minis- If half the ter" should mean "the Minister of Daniels in a drama of Martinique, valgar fractions.

and at 12, 2.30embers were disqualified, would Health" all through. "Volcane," 7.15, "True Love:" Thursday to me-third of the remainder, which Saturday at all performances, was one-sixth of the whole, he Charlie Chaplin in his greatest entitled to carry on the work of the Authority? SirKingsley comedy, "The Gold Rush."

Wood laughed,

Star Theatre-To-morrow and Colman and Monday, Ronald

Vilma Banky in a story of the

Too Simple.

there

where

It was a very small point. To most of the House it meant nothing one way or the other, To Mr. Stephen it appealed strongly that the two words "of health. should be left in "as a monument open, "The Winning of Barbara That was too simple for Mr. to the present holder of the office and his attempt to bureaucratise Worth;" Tuesday and Wednesday, Paling. Supposing

the Administration." Gloria Swanson in the comedy of eleven members of one party on a a chorus girl who plunges into local authority and two of another. the social swirl; "Fine Manners;" Supposing all the eleven voted to

Mr. Wheatley found another use Thursday to Saturday.. Leatrice gether and were disqualified to-

NILE the for the amendment. At 1.15 a.m. Joy in a story of the underworld gether. How many and the tropics, "The Wedding Minister going to constitute a he used it as a peg to hang on a quorum of the remaining two.protest, "against the waste of Song".

It was not fair that the And supposing the eleven convert-time."

LOCAL HOCKEY.

Then Miss Lawrence made the problem really involved. Suppose The following will represent there was such a number left that the Hongkong Hockey Club in the quorus would be one and a Their Sim Shield match against the half members what view had the

Tack) on R.A.F. (Kai

the Minister taken of odd fractions of R.N.O.S.C. ground, King's

a member of a local authority?

Park,

|

Quick Work.

ed the two Sir Kingsley Wood House should have thrown at it in laughed longer.

the early hours of the morning shoddy workmanship of this kind. Once the first two clauses were disposed of the remaining two went through in real speedy fashion in another hour, and the schedule took only two minutes.

When the arithmetical problems at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday:-W. J. Sir Kingsley Wood must like wure finished it was more than Lockhart Smith; J. E. Henry, Darithmetic and fractions. He legal puzzles could do to retain So the chief Gavern- Lyon; A. A. Dand (capt), J. Elaughed longer than ever, and the interest. Noronha, E. L. Sim; G. B. Slipper. House, as before, laughed with ment Whip went over to the Opposition leaders at 2.25 a.m., W. Woodward, F. G. Wheeler, B. him. W. Sampson, and T. Whitley When he arose to answer the and the Minister of Health accept- Reserves-R. K. Valentine and examiners of the Labour party the led the next amendment.

Twenty minutes later the House A. C. Howell.

House laughed in anticipation.

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INTERPORT RUGBY.

THE PROGRAMME FOR NEXT WEEK.

The following is the programme for the Hongkong Rugby Interport team at Shanghai:

|LADY IVEAGH'S LITTLE POPGUN” SPEECH.

ADDING TO HEAVY ARTILLERY OF HOUSE.

Speaking at the Ladies' Carlton. Club Chesterfield-gardens, Lady Monday, Jan, 3. Shanghai y Hong-Iveagh, M. P, described her maiden Palo speech during the Prayer Book de- kong. Kick-off. p.m., Ground. Interport Dance, Astorbate as "adding my little popgun to House Hotel, 9.45 pm. the heavy artillery of the House." Wednesday, Jun. 25, Hongkong. v

"I am very glad," she said, "that United Services. Kick-off & P. it is over." Polo Ground. Ref: Mr. G. 8. Holdsworth.

Friday, Jan. 27. Interport Dinner,

She had. Intended to take advice. from a recent speech of the Home Secretary to a boys' school, in

Shanghal Club, 8.15 p.m. which he said, "Only speak if you Saturday, Jan. 28. Hongkong team have something to say, otherwise leave on str. President Madison you might da well be women"

(Laughter.) Any

She did not agree with that,

The, Shanghai Fifteen.

The following side will represent Women did not speak when they

Shanghat against Hongkong,

G. 8. Dunkey; L. Goldman, E. C Hubbard V. W. Stanton, G. S. Me Gill: A JW. Evans, W. D. N. Noll;

had nothing to say any more than” did men, and, rather than follow the example of some members, who sall over again what had been said:

1 M. Currie, PA. Watkinson, several times, she would prefer to

R. Rodgers, C. E. Fleury Meathrol, A. J. Kane, D. W. B. Mur ray, K. F. B. Pawloy

Reforce: Sgt. Vaughan,

occupy that very thorny sent (the Speaker's Chair) which three of her ancestors had occupied,