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THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
The Third Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at Happy Valley
Saturday. PARTICULARS AND CONDI- | 18th April, 1931, commencing
TIONS of the Sale by Public 1.30. p.m. Auction to be held on Monday,
The first boil will be rung the 20th day of April, 1931, at|1 p.m.
the 3 p.m., at the Ofees of Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the
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Lammert's Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Publie Auction,
on Saturday,
the 18th April, 1931, commencing at 11 a.m. at their Sales Room, 4, Duddell Street,
2 Cases Imitation Tiger Skins
2 Dozen Scott's Emulsion
4 Bales Scarlet Blankets. Terms: Chah on Delivery.
LAMMERT DROS.,"
Auctioneers,
PUBLIC AUCTION, The Undersigned have received instructions to sall by Public Auction,
on Tuesday,
the 21st April, 1931, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, 4. Duddoll Street.
A Large Quantity of Blackwood Furniture
comprising
Joss Tables, Curio Cabinets, Marble Top Jardinieres, Arm- chairs, Mah Jong Tables, Cabinets, Top Opium Bedetend, Marble Stools, Chests, Ilalf Round Tables, Ten Poys, Oblong Tablca, Desks Lampstands, Marble Top
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CINEMA NOTES.
SCREEN NOW INTRODUCING
DANCE STEPS.
That the musical screen will 'sup- plant the stage as a medium for in- troducing new dance steps within less than six months in the prediction of Margle (Baba) Kane, who has the Ingenae role in "The Great Gabbo," Jamoo Cruze's all-dialogue musical spectacle coming the Majestic Theatre to-day.
Because of her popularity on the originator of modern slago dancing and vivacious personality, Min Kane was recently placed under a James Cruze, Inc., long term contract,
to
According to Miss Kane, who will Introduce an entirely new dance of the "stomp" type in "The Great Gabbo," the younger generation, which Beldom consistently attenda the legitimate theatre, is taking up. the nudient screen as a model for its now dances.
The number which Miss Kane Gabbo" introduces in "The Great 18 entitled "The New Step," *rr music
which the written by Paul Titsworth and Lynn Cowan.
Indian Singer in "Whoopee".
Was
Most stage and screen Indikas_are perfectly good Americans dressed up in brown paint and feathers, but the man who plays Black Eagle in "Whoopee," the Samuel Goldwyn- Florenz Ziegfeld musical extravaganza which comes to the Queen's Theatre on Sunday is a real live Indian. He is Chief Caupolican, epera singer of great fame, and an authentic abori- ginal American, albeit of the South American variety,
Born in Temuco, Chile, down at the other end of South America, he was noted as a buy for possessing a voics of extraordinary range and power bid received any even before he formal training. His early youth wna apent on the sea in the Chilean mer- chant marine. Friends of his kept insisting that his real carcer lay in singlag and, taking them at their word he came north to the United States to give it a trial.
Je turned out to be not only a singer of rare power but a genuinely good netor and when he appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York as Mathias in "The Polish Jew"
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comments on this striking combina- badges prominently displayed. Cheat of Drawers, Card Table, en of talents. His services have No one without a badge will be Marble Top Washstands, Iron and been in great denland ever since.
He explains that it is quite appro- admitted to the Members' Es Teak Bedsteads. Ornaments. Pic- closure. Badges admitting noa-tures, Hand Paintings, Crockery, prints for him to be playing the role if a North American plains Indian in members to the Members' Encle-Glass Ware, Ice Chests, Gramo-hoopee," since the South American sure and Club Rooms at 5, for phone, Records, Bensa Ware, Table and North American Indians are f Gentlemen and $3. for Ladies Lamps, Table Fans, Vases, Brass practically the same race, with no (both including tax) are obtalo-Gongs, Cutlery, Blankets, Linen, more difference than distinguishes a man from Colorado from a man from able through the Secretary upon Mosquito Nets, Rugs, Cloisonne Ohlo, His powerful physique and introduction by a member, such
Vases, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc. commanding voice add greatly to the party of the old chief, Black Eagle, member to be responsible for
On View from Monday,
which is his assignment in this the 20th April, 1931. payment of all chita, &c.
picture. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have recived instructions from Mr. John S.
"Strictly Unconventional". "Strictly Uneanventional" to appear to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre in students of particularly interesting the drama because it definitely demon- strates the qulek manner in which the screen and stage have merged to devolop the new art of talking pic-
tures,
This picture, for example, adapted Maugham's W. Somerset
from
On no pretext will children be Smith, the proprietor of the celebrated stage play, "The Circles", permitted in either Enclosure dur-Station Hotel, to sell by Public
ing the Meeting.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
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Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, &c. will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hong.
Auction,
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 23rd, 24th and 25th April, 1931, commencing each day at 19.30 a.m.
at
Station Hotel,
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Kowloon.
kong Jockey Club during the Race A Quantity of Valuable Household Meeting.
Furniture
Tiffin will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public Enelo-comprising:-
sure,
By Order,
Pictures, Clocks,
is the first screen directorial effort of one of New York's most successful stage craftsmen. David Burton pro duced such stuge hits an "The Swan", "Serena Blandish", and "The Royal Family"
In the cast are two who have been entirely devoted to the screen for over ten years. Lewis Stone and Ernest Torrence; three, Catherine Dale Owen, Mary Forbes and Tyrrell Davis, who abandoned the stage less than six months ago; and two, Alison Skipworth and Paul Cavanagh, who ninke their Initial American screen appearance by way of this vehicle.
"Strictly Unconventional abunant- ly demonstrates that neither stage nor sereen is being killed by the talkies". stated Burton recently. "There plenty of room for the three expres sive arts, and no competent artist will lose his position, no matter where Teak Hatstand, Chesterfield
he received his original training. Couch and Chairs, Large Arm There is no doubt, however, that we C. B. BROWN,
chairs, Bookcases, Side Boards, have reached a paint where it will Secretary Folding Screens, Long Mirrors, be the survival of the fittest. Talking: pictures are an lefuitely more comi Brass Fenders, alleated art than either of the two CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME-Bras Ware. Ornaments, Carpotr, the precede, and they require special
ORIENT.
Rugs, Curtains, Flower Stands and rigorous training. Screen people |
must absorb stage lore, and stage etc., etc.
people are lost if they do not study Tenk Dining Tables, Round and carefully what the screen has accom- Square Tables, Dining Chairs, plished, and how it has been done". Tenk Sideboards, Dinner Waggons,
"The Laughing Lady." Ico Cheats,
Dinner Filters,
Clive Brook, who was Ruth. Chat- Crockery, Glass Ware. E. P. Cut- terion's leading man in "Charming terry, Table and Celling Fans, etc., Sinners" is to be esen and heard in support of the Paramount star for the second time when "The Laughing Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Teak Lady" comes to the Central Theatre Double and Single Wardrobes with for a three days run beginning to- Bevelled mirror doors, Mantle day this comedy-drama of society fe
Marble which deals with wealthy Pieces, Dressing Tables,
Chost Washstands,
of Yorkers, their foibles and didoes, Miss Drawers, Desks, Rattan Ware, Chatterton is the wife of a wealthy banker who thinks more of his Wall Linen and Blankets, etc., etc.
Street than he does of his home sweat Electric Lights and Fittings,home. She becomes the innocent vic- Porcelain Wash Basins, Shanghai tim of a scandal at Southampton, her husband learns of it through the Baths, Cooking Stove, Gas Stove, fashionable seaside resort, and when press, ho divorces her without fur- Water Tanks, Plants and Forna In Pots etc., etc., etc.
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Clive Brook in the friend of the husband and the lawyer who effects the victory for him against his wife in the divorce trial.
The Aubanquent proceedings are alternately humorous, dramatle and romantic.
The story in dorived from Alfred Sutro's play of the same name which had a great success on Broadway. Bartlett Cormack and Arthur Rich. an adapted the story for the talk ing screen.
"Animal Crackers.”
On Vlow from Tuesday, the 21st April, 1931.
The four Marx brothers, who intro duced a new brand of comedy that is LAMMERT IROS,
wholly enjoyed in a previous picture Auctioneers." shown here, justify all expectations
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they appear in their seconding to watch, then one cannot cavil at when picture "Animal Crackers," which was it, for all these ossentials of an enjoy. screened for the first time at the ablo present are packed from be-- King's yesterday. The title is difficult ginning to end. We can, récom to undertsand, but if it signifies fun mend "Animal Crackers" to the atten which in riotous, talk that provokes tion of the public as a picture whichs, taughter, and actions that are amos-le stimulating and engrossing.
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