CENTRAL
THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.
A 1931 Paramount Super-Production.
MARLENE DIETRICH
The new screen beauty, whose resemblance to GRETA GARBO is the rage of two continents
in
WHICH? Fate dings into her arms a man who affers every Iul. thing woman eraven. out of the Legion comes e lav er who offers nothing but fore. Which does the chigone? Wealth and proveriton, or a love that will make ber an omcast amid the mad splez- dur of
WITH
Gary Cooper
Marlene Dietrich Adolphe Menjou
MOROCCO®
'A Paramount Picture
A thrillingly magnificent ple refrigging to the screen A new personality that will flash in lights across the nation, Mar lene Dietrich Revealing the amazing things a woman will Sa for love!
Joser vor STERNBERG PRODUCTION
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY,
HELD FOUR YEARS BY BANDITS.
CHINESE WOMAN" NOW SAFE IN HONGKONG.
the
Four
in
hands the years of a bandit gans operating_on
Chinese
Lo Tal- border,
me.
ing
the
APRIL 14, 1931.
TRIED TO SWINDLE LANDLADY'S TOUR OF
CUSTOMER.
FIREWOOD BROKER'S FAULTY SCALES.
How
It
DOLLAR profiteering
firewood
INSPECTION..
"THROWN OUT OF HER OWN HOUSE.
AT THE own
A landlady's tour of inspection, which ended, as she alleged, in her described at Bow house, was #married woman beleng- FIFTY
FINE. being thrown out of her
County Court recently. Tim
in village, to Yin
Mrs. Zivin Vona, a widow, of Chinese country bordering Shataukok, has turned up in Hong-broker was caught whilat trying to Tredegar-square, Bow, was award- Harris kong, with a story of having esswindle a customer was disclosed ed £7 11s. 6d. and costs against
by a case brought by the Inspector her tenant, Mrs. Annie caped, after many vicissitudes.
She wa originally kidnapped of Weights and Scales, Inspector (whose daughter Jenny Harris was from Macao, and relatives had Ellis, at the Police Court this morn-joined as defendant) of Mile End-
road. long given up hopes of seeing her ink.
Mrs. Vons said that she called again alive.
In report to officials of the a Chinese who dealt is firewood, on with her rent collector, and Miss Secretarint for Chinese Affairs, a commission basis, secured an or Harris showed her over the house, she said she was kept in captivity der for the delivery of soveral at a place over the Chinese border, picuis to tailor at No. 45. Calne but after four years an opportunity ilond. He was proceeding to weigh for esrape presented itself and she out the first lond, when the tailer fled over the border into British-a Northerner of sharp percep territory, where she made her way tlone-noticed a peculiar detail in to the nearest Police Station. The the long-stick scale which the bro case is receiving attentiongfrem ker was using. the Secretariat.
a
It was stated that on Saturday, j
.
When Mrs. Harris came up into the bali sho exclaimed: "I don't want you to come and collect the rent. Chuck her out!"
The daughter, Mrs. Vons added, abe fell pushed her out, and
Against the railings. Her right and leg were bruised. The looped string by which tha I can show you the mark on my scale
was held was discovered fas-leg," she said to the judge.
Oh, Judge Owen Thompson: tened to the stick with a plece of MR. MORRISON'S HINT wire, giving a false leverage to the never mind! (Laughter).
scale. Upon the discovery, the tni- TO INDUSTRY.
lor refused the measure dealt out, and insisted on using a scale stick which he borrowed from a neigh- bour.
AVOIDING WASTE.
The broker demurred, and hedg Mr. Herbert Morrison, Minister of Transport, speaking at the dinner ed, and the tailor upon being told of the Drapers Chamber of Trade that he must accept the broker's said so far as the retail trade was weight or return the firewood, de- concerned he did not think there clled that here was a case for the was any justification for pessimism law. So be called in an Indian con.
Binble. with regard to the future.
before Mr.
Miss Harris said that Mrs. Vone called her mother nasty names in Yiddish. She just assisted hor out. (Laughter).
Solicitor: What do you weigh? Miss Harris: That là a personal question; bealdos, I have not weighed lately.
and Emphasising the need to avoid The Inspector of Weights unnecessary waste or duplication in Measures, investigating, discovered the drapery trade, he asked: "Is that the scale operated at 36 per customer, He there a range of articles which can cent, against the le standardised without diminish-charged the broker ing the
of individuality of Williams at the Central Police Prope taste? is co-operative buying pos-Court this morning.
An offence under the Weights sible in the case of the retail trade? Is there po
for the voluntary and Measures Ordinance was prov-was chain store which has become so ed and the man was fined $60. fashionable in the United States 7"
If the louders of each industry
or trade were to ask questions of that nature
BOYCOTT DANGER?
(Continard from Page 13 Language Peint.
He mentioned
that one of the reasons adduced for not giving up extrality as soon as China required that, the difference of languages might lead to mis- understandings.
He pointed out that foreigners centuries `ago, The rainfall recorded at the Royal visiting China
of the Chinese
no
reason
to
and acted upon the Observatory for the 24 hours ended before foreigners had their present answers they would approach the at 10 a.m. to-day totalled 0.51-inch. knowledge better ordering Of
the whole This brings the year's total so far to language, had
7.07 inches, against an average of complain of their treatment. economie life of the country.
He added that the abolition of Mr. Morrison suggested for the 8.24 inches.
extrality would quickly be follow- improvement of trade generally the
Ted by negotiations for the importance of passing on reduc- +
of the remaining tions in wholesale prices to the con- "Reduce your prices and you will rendition
settlements and con- sumer without delay.
encourage people to buy. You will foreign "Only so can the world crisis so clear your stocks, you will give or cessions in China. Such rend!- far as it is due to the catastrophic ders to the manufacturers, the tion would not remove the righta fall in the prices of primary pro- manufacturers will give more em- of foreigners to live in peace In country. Their interests ducts, eventually be overcome." he ployment, and trade will once more the
would be protečted, be an the upward grade."
anich.
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CHONGKONG
To-day & To-morrow
QUEEN'S A 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.29
TUNE IN FOR A MILLION
LAUGHS AND THRILLSI
WILLIAM
in
HAINES
REMOTE
CONTROL
How you'll roar! How you'll gasp as But Hainen traps a gang. of desperadoes and wins a girl -- all by radio!
with
CHARLES KING MARY {DORAN JOHN MILJAN
POLLY MORAN
J. C. NUGENT
An
EDWALD SEDGWICK
Metac
production.
TALKING
Next Change
Beware a Laughing Lady, Men!
HONCKONG'S FINEST CINEMA
Last Showing To-day
- at 2.80, 5.10, 7.15
& 9.80 p.m.
-ADDED ATTRACTIONS-
BENNY RUBIN
in "The General
NEWSREEL HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY
-NEXT CHANGE.
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romance
after marriage?
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OF Sadama
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by Clive Brock, ber Dan la
Charming Ders."
CHATTERTON
'THE LAUGHING LADY"
CLIVE BROOK
A Paramount Picturę
Booking at Anderson's & The Theatre, (Tel. 25720)
KU KLUX KLAN OUTBREAK.
LABOUR LEADERS HEATEN UNCONSCIOUS IN TEXAS.
Kansas City (Mo.), Mar. 14. The Ku Klux Klan, the notorious
The two men had been arrested
by the Dallas polleo for inciting to disorder, and when they were re- leased the Ku Klux Klan
pakse, which it is alleged included several well-known business men of Dalias, left them half kidnapped them and dead by the roadside, having object- ed to their radical
propaganda, and donunciation of whites oppression of the blacks. They were found by
secret society of America, has re-a negro labourer, who looked after sumed its activities. Two Labour them for six days.
The Dallas police are accused by agitators here allege that they wore
victims of being in league with the captured in Dallas (Texas); carried the Klan and making no attempt to of, and beaten till they were in-round up the perpetrators of the
outraga. sensible with knotted ropes.
Printed and Pubilahed for the Proprietors "by: FREDERICK PEROY, FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3 Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
The Peach of a Pair!" in a perfect- play | Love, Laugha, Song hita.
FOLLOW THRU
WITH
CHARLES
PRICES
Including Tax
Loge Seats
$2,20
Dress Circle $ 1.70 Back Statis $ 1.10 Front Stalls
50
Booking at the Theatre only
Tel. 25313 & 25330.
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