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BRITISH FILMS.

اده

The world at lary would up- to changing its viewe par

filnis. 1. about British

a few years ago, it has been predicted that thu products

British studios would to gnin mere popularity than those emanating from Hollywood, the prophecy would not have been taken tos seriously. But the fact is to-day that it is the British talkies which are most popular, the appeal of the American production being on the wane, There are reasons for this, as we shall show later. Mean while, it is interesting to note

DAY BY DAY

AFTER ALL, LOVE IS LIKE A WH100P- ING COUGH. WE ARE ALL SUBJECT TO IT, AND WHEN WE'VE GOT IT WE CAN'T SMOTHER IT.-T. R. Threlfall,

The opening rate of the dollar this morning was 10.7/80.

Lt. Col. ROWLAND FIELDING on

GOLD: THE EARTH

RANSACKED.

even if pure English were spoken, American talking films could not be exported to non-English speaking peoples. Mr. Maxwell therefore realised the opportunity and dis- covered that Elstree was ideally situated for the purpose of the multi-lingual talkie." He began to produce Engilsh talkies and then to arrange with a German or

Tselling at prices which barely world dumps nearly a wise of t French company

to bring their own casts to Elstree, using the

repay the cost of production, con- annual production, most of which numers still refrain frem replent is merely hoarded. same studio sots and recording

shing their stocks so deep is the Since the discovery of America' apparatus. Obviously, Američan

The Hongkong Technical Institute prevailing feeling of uncertainty, at the close of the fifteenth cen producers could not ship whole advertises its re-opening on Wednes- Within the last few days aliver tury the world has produced ap

has reached the lowest price in proximately 1,042,850,000 ounces its history.

of gold, more than half of which The St. Patrick's Society of Ilong-

Gold alone is being produced in was mined during the last thirty kong is holding its ball at the Ponin-insuficient quantity to meet the years. Of the total about 467,- sula lintel on Tuesday, the 17th in-demand, and the world's output, 000,000 ounces are catimated to which in 1929 was approximately exist in the form of monotary

The P. and O. s. Mirzapure, from Singapore, is due here at 8 a.m. on Sunday next.

cauta of German .or French day, March 4. artistes

Holly- from Europe to wood for the purpose of making tri-lingual Alms.

A prominent American Consul recently stated that the English Arc adapting themselves much more readily to "sound" than they

production. did to "silent" film The reason, of course, is that the producers have the material ready at hand on the British stage. At the moment, they are largely on- aged in merely transposing the spoken drama from the medium of the stage into the new medium of the film. They have not had the time in which to develop an entire ly new art or technique of sound and talking movies. But they have made a fine start and are now coming into worldwide re- cognition. We can only hope that as an outcome of the deliberations of the recent Imperial Conference, a larger proportion of British films will before long be made Available to Britons oversonal,

CORRESPONDENCE.

Forthcoming Concerts.

stant,

♫\HOUGH most commodities are that of an ocean into which the

..

It is advertised that Mr. J. w. £82,500,000, will probably have stocks. Stephenson has taken over charge of soon passed its zenith, if it has

It is at pro- To-day the principal_gold-pro- the Chinese Maritime Customs from not alreay done so.

r. J. G. O'G. Anderson, is from t-sent being kept up by the Randducing countries in their order of goldfeld, the capacity of which importance are the Tranavani, must before long show diminution. the United States, Canada, Rustin, Rhodosia.

tiny.

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Sir Charles Eliot, retiring Abbansa-J In countries which have define-Mexico, Australasia, dor for Japan and formerly Vice- Chancellor of Hongkong University, ly adopted the gold standard, the The Transvaal, which contributed is a pussenger by the Hakone Maru, value of gold as expressed in car- some £43,000,000 in 1929, produces rency is unchanging. In England [about one and a half times an due in Hongkong on Friday.

an ounce of fine gold is worth 85s.much as the other six countries A further remand for a week was it follows that ne gold becomes mentioned, put together.

The world has been ransacked granted by Mr. Schofield, when Sohbat scarcer its purchasing power in- Khan and Abdul Khasan appear crenses, which-in other worda-more thoroughly for gold than for {ed before him, charged with having means that commodity prices fall.nay other metal. Untiring pro- nssnulted for other Indians in a It would seem that the nation spectors, rough pioneers of civili-

continuo street fight at Wanchal in January.

to ecour 1.ke Sub-Inspector M. Murphy salt the producing most gold, in a rising sation, injured men would probably be markel for gold, possesses advan-mountains and the plains as they

dono throughout hospital for at least another week. tages over other nations in the have

world markets. Now that is the history. But there have been for Mr. Jolin Charles Oswald, of Croy-position occupied by the British new finds of late years and none don, Surrey, and late of Foochew, who Empire, whore mines, mostly that is likely to replace the Rand died on June 21, 1930, left Hongkong controlled from this country, pro-when it begins to fail. Some discoveries Bre estate to the value of $22,100, and duce rather more than 70 per cent. promising new gross perennalty, including grosa of the world's total output. It is being developed in Western Aus- tralla, and the Australian Govern- renity, of $58,324. He rescinded a former will, by virtue of which left position which some years ago, his wife, Nina Louina Oswald, suls led people to think that our re-ment, alive to the Importance of benefleiary and executrix, and she has covery from the ravages of the the gold-producing industry, has Un-recently decided to pay a bonus of been granted the resending of the war would be fast and sure. probate.

fortunately, our production costs £1 per ounce of gold mined in the of goods have not come down in country. In New Guinea, annual carnival dance in the Pen-proportion to the rise in the rich deposits are being exploited in spite of great natural dilleul- insula Hotel on March 15, and purchasing power of gold,

ties an Equatorial climate, scant would appeal to all lovers" of

Practically speaking, all the untrained labour, a country animals to give this function twir support. Prizes are being present gold that has ever been produced precipitous and inaccensible that has been employed either as transportation is practicable only ed for the Best Dressed and most)

There exista no Gold docs by aeroplane. To The Editor of Hongkong original Costumes for hoth Lamoney or in the arts.

base diftkulty, however, that cannot be not get used up like the Telegraph.]

and Gentlemen. This anal Ball metals, such as iron, copper, tin, overcome by the ingenuity of man la sufficient. is recognised as one of the end, and zine. It is imperishable if gold is found Sir.--We have just received a pleasant ways where all hase and indestructible, and the gold quantity. wire from the Westminster Glee who take an interest in the work articles recently excavated at Ur Rich mines may, and probably Singers, stating that they are peror the S.PU.A. may get together of the Cha dues, though several will, be opened up, but the earth's forming at the Star Theatre from and the Gnancial support hem thousand years old, are as fresh surface has been searched so in- March 7th to March 10th, and ask-interially to enable the Suricly to to-day as when they were manu-tensively and for so long a period

us to assist in making this carry on the good work. The factured.

for gold that the chances of find- known. They were so popular dances hebt in 1928 and 1929) The existing available world Ing new fields of the magaltade here before that we recommended proveri a great success, everyone supply must indeed closely apnecessary to arrest, the declining them to give a few performances present being out to enjoy the proximate the total gold mined output become less probable

Kowloon UF3 their in

return evening. I should again make a since men first began to extract each year passes.

The hope for the future liek journey.

special appeal to the rising genera. the metal from the earth-after would be in April. Advertise-tion of the Colony to support us in deducting, of course, the gold lost principally in the large low-grade ments are, of course, appearing our effort in this direction, thereby by misadventure or attrition, or ore bodies. Already the flotation hidden process has made available vast immediately, but the notice is so combining sympathy with the lot through its having been or deposits of lend-zinc-copper ores that whilst the Films Act for a short that the Singers will have or animals with a social evening away deliberately in tombs

containing small quantities of arrived almost before the public spent in the delighttul surround. otherwise.

however. various gold. The Buchan's River Mine in time played into the hands of un-has

heard of them. We unterings of the Garden in the Penin-ways in which gold can go out of Newfoundland provides a notable scrupulous company promoters, it stand that booking is being opened surla Hotel.

use and become ineffective. For example of one of these. Tickels may be had from did a good turn for Mr. John Max-at once at the Star Theatre and at

the example, about tivo-fifths of the History shows that gold short- Mout ric's.

following members of the Commit-gold produced each year is con-nges have in the past invariably will, the tone man of enterprise

We should appreciate it if you fee

sumed in the arts. Obviously been made good by new disco from Glasgow, for his company, would allow as to make a further

Goldfield after goldfield Mrs. Anderson. Hon. Mr. J. P. such gold server no utilitarian veries. the British International Pictures, announcement of three fortem Braga, Mrs. Forrest. Mr. II. Owen purpose, and the available sup was found. The sixteenth century

inse was helped by it to weather the through sheer had luck, are book-Martin. Mrs. A. H. Roffey, Mr. M. by legislation restricting its uses

musical attractions which, Hughes, Mr. S. W. Ko, Mrs. deplies could be made to go farther produced many discoveries in The hungry fortien ter- Lukic storm, with the roult that ed for three consecutive week. Talali, Dr. K. C. Yeo, Mrs.in this manner,

minated in the Australian and to-day his Elstree studios are the uights: Fri, and Sat., March 27th Halter, Mr. E. R. Dovey, Miss Grace The remaining three-fifths Is Californian gold rushes. In 1885 was discovered and, centre of the British talking-film and 28th, and Mon. March 10th.

Ho-lung, Mr. J. D. A. Hutchison, employed na money. Most of this the Rand Mr. Strok has just wird reserv-

Mrs. 41. K. Lu, Messrs. A. P. B. gold having been laboriously dug later, the Klondike and the Lona. count production.

ing the Theatre Royal on the 27th Silva-Nelto. J. Russell, E. aut of the ground is reburied in But it will not be wise to A writer in one of the English for a pair of excellent dancers Tregilus, D. H. Blake, W. B. Win bank vaults. A great deal of it upon a continuance of these ex- reviews, in commenting пв

known as the Sakbarote who are nigan. Lady Bo-tung, Miss in hoarded. Recently, the flow of periences. fature of the British film indus accompanied by a pianist and a Hered. Mrs. Lonely, Mr. N. .gold to the United States

violinist. They should have op- Perrin, Mr. H. S. Rouse, Airs. P. P. France has reached flood propor- try. puts forward the view that peared here earlier, but have been. Wodehouse, or from our Hon. tions, with the result that all are feeling the even without the Films Act. Bri-delayed by splendid successes in Secretary, Mr. J. D. A. Hutchison, other countries

ä India, according to Co.. York pinch, tish talkies would have emerged apan. He has also hooked the %.

Theatre for the 30th, for a vocal

writer in the New York Times, absorbs about 6,000,000 victorious. In the first place, he recital by the celebrated prima says, the British people wanted donna, Toti dal Monte, and her good English. The plain, honest husband, the Maro-Lonunto (lyric tenor), who are on their first world audiences of the Midlands,

four. North and the South could stomach

the

but

understood

this

the not. At the same time another im-

a jargon which was pressario, M Podoli, unaware of largely meaningless to them. They Martenot, the inventor of the these engagements, is bringing M.

could not appreciate the wise- wonderful "Music from the cracks of the "big boya" or the Ether instrument, in the Star It would oe sayings of the "red-hot mammas Theatre on the 28th. For a Chicago "wap" to say, "I'm going out to grab a can; I gotta on that mick before he squeals," may menn something in America,

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a pits for music-lovers to miss any of these attractions, but without a special effort the attendances are Blue found to suffer from the proximity of the dates.

to the public; to stimulate interest

It is the object of this Society to au- give timely notice of the visits of dience gaping when asked to lis-professional artists of sufficiently to such gibberish. Even high standing to be recommended London began to loathe buck-and combat the apathy that used to diana with commonplace be so widespread; and to ensure these rusten shall face “storica, of, crime, boot-legging, or that

reasonably-6lled halls and not sex. which follywod sent, over rows of empty henches. Adver week by week, month after month, disements will appear. lu your to serve as the background for colunins in due course, But soine- inonatonous displays of chorus thing more than the usual ndver-

į sieunt is needed if the attendances į girls legs. Even the romantic on these three dates ava to justify. "young woman from the suburbs this, Colony's improved musical stress food of such back-chat BS overs will give all the support in reputation. We hope that muxie- "Haby, you didn't oughta travel their

power for the sake of the with that bunch." "Is zat so?" artistes who are in no way to "Yeah, that's so--and I don't blame for thesa unfortunate

mean mybe.

Listen, baby, you kinda kid yourself you're smart; well, some day 1 guess you're gonna be kicking yourself all round the block." "Aw, can

arrangements.-Yours, etc.

A. M. HOWES-SMITH,

Hon. Secretary,, Hongkong Musical Society.

S.P.C.A. Ball.

Sir, The Committeo of the Bo big boy." "0.K., baby!" Sumelont ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty has been quoted to show that, to Animals are having their third

Thomson

Buildings.

and

J. RUSSELL. Hon. President,

There are,

and

aubces each year. The relution of India) to gold-in says this writer-Is

- ESPERONCA SERACE VIC.

"The polar bears, will next play--"

145

We Must Have Favourites.

By Beverley Nichols,

con-

HE man next to me was study- ing one of those bright little theatre programmes which tain, besides the list of econos and the numes of the cast, various storles, jokes, and oddments of theatrical information. One of the most popular fentures of this programme is its series of "con- fensiona," in which various actors and actresses Inform the public of their favourite flower, their favourite food, their pet aversion, and the like. It was one of these confessions which a roused the ire of my neighbour.. "How can they nike sugh fools of them- selves?" he demanded, with a snort. "How can anybody but a half-wit have a favourite flower or a favourite anything, for that matter?"

I do not agree with this crible. I am all for the man who says, quito. definitely, that he has favourites. whether they! animal, vegetable, or mineral, All Specialiste,

are

It may be more impressive to any that you havon't-to observe, gushingly, that you adore all flowers to such an extent that C.. you couldn't possibly choose a single blossom from the world's Karden. But such broad apprecia tions are not to be a little dull.

After all, the institution of marriage is based, somewhat rush- ly, on the assumption that you. havo a favourite woman so that in this matter, at least, you have

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