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COLUMBIA RECORDS

FIVE YEARS FOR BLACKMAILER.

MAXIMUM SENTENCE IN "MR Z" CASE.

"Under the Section of the Act under which you have been in dicted the maximum penalty is five year's penal servitude... I can Im agine no worse case than yours, and that is the sentence upon you.”

These words were addressed by Mr. Justice Swift at the Old Bailey to Hans Kulk, aged 88, a Dutch ar tist, whom the jury found guilty of INSTRUMENTAL attempting to blackmail "Mr. Z."

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Charged with him was his wife, Anna, aged 21. She was found not guilty.

When the jury's decision was an nounced the judge turned to her and said, "You are discharged: Is your mother here?"

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Mrs. Kulk, who broke down in the dock and sobbed bitterly, said her mother was in court,

Mr. Justice Swift: Then let her come and take you away.

Mrs. Kulk was led from the dock, and met by her mother in the well of the court.

They kissed each other and went out together weeping.

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A foolproof aeroplane, designed largely by a woman, is nearing completion at Heston Air Park, Hounslow.

KITTEN "LOOKS AT

KING."

1930.

CINEMA NOTES.

popular comedy team on the Broadway stage. S twist - a... gay' thread of laughter."

· Berlin added a new theme song

MYSTERY AND ROMANCE IN

"The Cocoanuts" is the Marx

· GAZETTED AMONG ARMY

*THIRTEENTH CHAIR.” Brothers's great stage hit which OFFICERS...

played in New York at $6,60 for Conrad Nagel, who recently has one year. The music was com- Whitehall has been nonplussed scored sensational hits in talking posed for the original stage show by a kitten.

Berlin. It happened Jike this. A Mrs. pictures, and, Lella Hyams, who by the king of composers, Irving ELddyd Jones imported a Siamese last appeared in "Wonder, -of- The machine has been designed cat, which in accordance with re Women," are the romantic centreyhen My Dreams Come True," by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Navarro, guiations was placed in quarantine of "The Thirteenth Chair, Metro for the screen presentation and who have worked together in aero in the Dogs' Home, Hackbridge. plane designing since 1908. They Then to the embarrassment of Goldwyn-Mayer's all-talking filmi- Oscar Shaw and Mary Eaton, In

ful melody. claim that it will neither nose the Ministry of Agriculture, pussy zation of the celebrated stage the romantic lead sing this tune- dive, side-slip, stall, nor spin. gave birth to a kitten tiny ball play, now showing at the Queen's

The setting is the picturesque A three-seater cabin craft, to be of fluff with brown ears and tail.

Theatre. Tod Browning directed

seacoast of Florida, reproduced. Ministry officials were perplexed. Chief." known as the "Navarro the aeroplane owes a number of The Diseases of Animals Acts the new thriller, a mystery drama with lavish beauty and boundless Calcutta, with Margaret imagination. Groups of beautiful

girls make up the dazzling its safety Ideas to Mrs. Navarro, provide for the detention of import- lof

ed cats-but the kitten had not been

on the stage, that of the strange many

and surprising unique imported in the meaning of the Wycherly in the role she created and the photographs reduces Act.

spirit medium.

The design of the tail plane, for instance, which prevents the ma- chine from going into a nosedive, in her work.

effects.

You And Your Wife Need A Tonic New

To Build Up Your Strength and To Bafeguard Your Health Throughout The Hot Season.

At this time of year in the Far It was found that the only way legally to detala'the kitten was by

The picture combines a romance Laughs come so fast they are East, when the enervating heat l Air Brake Rudder.

an order "in pursuance of section

heela. "The Cocoanuts" is us, everybody is the better for a As soon as the machine's nose 49 (3) of the Diseases of Animals with a series of uncanny, scenes always stepping on one another's close at hand, if not already upon

revealing the hoaxes practiced by laugh-show from start to finish. tonic. dips towards the ground the tail [Act, 1894."

In the damp and steamy tropica plane immediately counters the The order was made, the official mediums and spiritualists. Fan- It is all the distinctive Marx movement, and, without the pilot seal of the Ministry being "hereunto tastic sound effects heighten the brand of humour. It is a super energy is sapped, further norib, touching the controls, brings the affixed." It provided that the creepy sensations around by table production at popular prices.

in China and Japan, conditions are kitten should be detained in tapping and other ghostly occur- Osten and Musle in talker."

little if anything better. And machine back on to an even keel.

Mr. Navarro also designed the quarantine, and should "not be perrences which reach a startling

George Olson studied law at the unless proper means are taken to wing sections of the craft, which mitted to stray therefrom or be re- climax in a murder.

University of Michigan, because his fortify, the blood and to keep the prevent the machine from stall moved therefrom until Nov. 7..

India is used as atmosphere for parents were ambitious for him to nerves up to par; the system is 1930. ing through lack of flying speed. The charge against the couple was Most curious among the aero-

the mystery drama and serie become a great attorney, Olsen's liable to become enfeebled to the of attempting to extort 104 by plane's features, however, is the

shadows and camera, angels, give personal ambition, however, was to point of offering no resistance to landing,

an uncanny and vivid feeling to play the snare drum in a brass lckness or disease. threatening to publish letters, said rudder, which, when to have been written to Kuik by opens out in a fan, and provides

the picture. One of the dramatic band so he left school and forgot. scenes takes in the home of the all about Blackstone. "Mrs. Z," the English wife of "Mr. an "air brake." Z," during a temporay infatuation. As soon as the machine touches

British governor in Calcutta at Addressing Kuik, the judge re- the ground the rudder opens out

midnight when a knife thrown marked, "The jury have found you flat against the direction the craft guilty on the clearest possible evi- is travelling, and by its air resis- denct of the terrible crime of black tance reduces speed. mail-one of the worst crimes that is known to our law."

LAWN BOWLS.

This "air brake" was designed by Mr. Navarro just after the war, but until the present time he has been unable to utilise it in Jactual construction.

In the "London Gazette" the order occupied three inches, showing that a kitten has legal privileges equal to all Navy and Army officers who jare.gazetted.

Upon calling at the Ministry a reporter was solemnly handed a copy of the order.

"It is one of the first cases of a kitten being legally detained under the now cat quarantine regula- tious," said a Whitehall official.

But in spite of Whitehall the kitten was not detained. A few hours after the order had been Imade it died!

Many years ago, when Dr. WiI- liams' Pink Pills were first brought. Nobody seemed to be in im- to the Orient, they earned the the into the ceiling is revealed by the mediate need of a snare drummer, name of "The Tonic for moonlight shining into the room. so be formed a band of his own Tropica" because of their unique The original play was written which has since become nationally blood-building virtues. And to by Bayard Velller, author of "The famous. George Olsen and His

T

Trial of Mary Dugan." A cap Music are featured with 100 other this day they still stand pre- If your blood is poor, if you are able cast includes Mary Forbes, celebrated entertainers. In "Happy eminent for the same reason.

pale, lack appetite, Bela Lugosi Helene Milllard, Days," all talking musical romance. Holmes Herbert, Cyril Chadwick, coming to the Queen's Theatre on anemic, Frank Leigh, and others.

Sunday..

energy, vigour, spirit, are troubled

All in the Design,

Central Theatre Attraction. In the cast are Frank Albertson, with digestive weakness, back;

Warner Baxter, El Brendel, Walter paine, nervous beadaches, "We have designed this aero-

"The Cocoanuts" which will Catlett, William Collier, Sr., James general sense of enfeeblement, K.C.C. TEAMS FOR SATURDAY. (plane. Mr. Navarro said, "with An Englisman, giving an ad- open a seven days run at the J. Corbett, Charles Farrell, Janet give Dr. Williams Pink Pills a as "fool dress in Gloucester, was detained Central Theatre beginning to-day, Gaynor, Richard Keene, Dixie Lee, trial and they will surely do

Lowe, Sharon Lynn, The following players, will represent the idea of making it The K.C.C. in the League on Saturday: proof as possible. We have not at Ostend as he was about to em- is the first film musical comedy armor

1st Team v. K.D.R.C. (away),resorted to any mechanical devices bark on the Channel steamer for las such. Here is the method of George MacFarlane, Victor Melag. you good. To women they hava the musical comedy brought to the len, J. Harold Murray, Paul Page, a special significance as a corret H. Gittins, C. 3. Tacchi, A. Hyde Lay, for ensuring safety. Everything Folkestone. According J. Fraser (skip): E. C. Fincher, has been done in the actual design police he had been employed at screen, all-talking, all-singing, all-Tom Patricola, Ann Fennington, tive of the ailments of the female

the villa of Mrs. Muller at La dancing, all-laughing.

Your chemist can supply If the Frank Richardson, Will Rogers, sex. Howe, W. Hyde, J. C. Lyal (skip); of the craft.

My wife and I always work to- Touquet. It is alleged that after lovers have a song in mind when David Rolling, "Whispering" Jack them A.. C. Burford, B. Petheram,

departure, Mrs. Muller they Overy, A. E. Silkstone (skip). gether, and she has a number of his

are in conversation, they Smith, Marjorie White, and every found that one of her dia sing it. If the chorus feels like other player at Fox Movietone City. 2nd Team v. H.K.E.R.C. (home).-

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