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CENTRAL

SEE

THEATRE HEAR

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

CZAR OF BROADWAY

with an all-star cast inclinatang

JOHN WRAY

BETTY COMPSON

JOHN HARRON

Songs:-

That Homestead Stoady of Mine,'' Collegiated Love."

Claude Allister, King Baggot, George Byron, Duke Lee.

Directed by William James Craft.

NEXT CHANGE

Another 1931 Paramount Sensation

Amazing

because it is REAL!

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1931.

NOT WATER BUT WINE.

ALERT REVENUE OFFICER

DETECTS TRICK.

TWO DESTITUTE SEAMEN.

SENT TO DETENTION HOUSE.

GIRL SENTENCED FOR MURDER.

BUT PROSECUTION SAY SITE IS INNOCENT.

Paris, June 20.

A pretty Italian girl, Ginn Pagliani, aged 19, was charged here to-day with murdering a contractor, Maurice Verne, who was found shot

Had it not been for a curious Revenue Officer, a new trick by Two seafaring men who had Chinese youth would have passed missed their ships and become des- detection. The officer was stand-titute in the Colony, wore to-day ing by n street water tap in Con- committted to the House of Deten- naught Rond West, when the youth, tion by Mr. Williams at the Cen-outside the girl's room in an hotel. Sek San, passed carrying two tral Magistracy." kerosino tins on a pole across his shoulders.

Charged with vagrancy, Erward Although he appeared to be in-Ellia, a young Irishman, admitted the charge. Sgt. Mottram enld nocently engaged in carrying water, the defendant had told the police the youth's action aroused the Bus that he had missed his ship, the picions of the officer, who dipped Ordune, at Manila, and had stowed his fingers in the liquid in the tins and found that although one of away on the President Taft a few them contained water, the other had weeks ago. He had not been de- light coloured Chinese wine in It, tected, but his resources had run For having been in possession of out, and, becoming destitute, had two gallons of wine, the youth was given himself up to the police on

Tuesday, Aned $40 by Mr. Williams at the Central Magistravy this morning.

"THE PRODIGAL”

$

Yohanas, a native of the East Indies and a Dutch subject, aged 19, also appeared on a nimilar charge. Sgt. Motiram Bald de fendant's story was that he had come from Java on a ship with a ÂT THE QUEEN'S.

Chinese master. He intended going Possessing one of the best volces to Amoy to learn motor driving, on the screen at present, Lawrence but had missed the ship and was Tibbett, the New York Metropoli-found wandering in the streets, tan Opera star, is at the Queen's Theatre in "The Prodigal," in which once again Hongkong audien ces may hear hila wonderful voice.

As a tramp who returns home to see his mother after an absence of A few years, Tibbett has role quite different from his characteri- sations in pictures so for. He sings several Southern melodies to good effect, with the help of negro The music throughout the picture is a high order of enter tainment.

chorus.

DEAF MUTE TRIES BLUFF.

BUT IS GIVEN THREE MONTHS' SENTENCE.

Both the prosecution and the defence maintained that the murder was really committed by the girl's tance, Glusepun Paglinchi.

As the girl persisted, however, in saying that she killed Verne, de- he made an attempt on her honour, claring that she shot him because the court had no alternative but to try her on her own confession, and she was to-day sentenced to five years' solitary imprisonment,··

The judge, the Public Prosecutor, and Maitre Henri Torres, the girl's counsel, strove to make her retract her confession and give the true story of the murder. They quoted the dying words of the victim: "It was a man who shot me," but Gina, brushing aside her tears, said: "No, I did it, and no one else."

ALFONSO AND THE THRONE.

RENUNCIATION STORY

DENIED.

Landon, July 20. Lord Londonderry, speaking on behalf of King Alfonso, denied Proceedings in Mr. Williams' Court this morning

the repart that the King had re- in connexion

nounced his claim to the Spanish with a larceny charge were threa- Throne and Crown, in favour of tened with an impasse when the his third son, Don Juan De Ester Ralston, Tibbett's sis-man accused, a deaf-mute, indicat- Bourbon. ter-in-law, has not been scen ined that he was unable also to rend Hongkong for a long time, and in and write. this film, he nets with exceptional

charm.

SHIPS PURCHASED BY

DOLLAR LINE.

TAKES OVER FLEET RUN ON

AMERICAN COAST. Under the name of the Portland California Steamship Company, the Dollar Steamship Lines have pur-1 chased the 22 vessels comprising the

intercoastal trade by the Trans- Marine Lines.

Refusing to be discouraged, the Court directed that the charge and evidence be presented to the accused in writing, and although bo shook! his head vigorously, he appeared at

times to understand.

A TYPHOON,

The Royal Observatory reports central about 300 miles to the east that a typhoon or depression is

of Manila moving W.N.W. A bound tram in Des Voeux Road Cen-South of Hanoi.

A shop-foki who was on a West-feeble depression is central to the

tral last night said he caught the According to a message from deaf-mute in the act of extracting Maniln, at 10.55 a.m., the typhoon two dollars from his pocket.

is situate about 126 Long E. and 17 Lat. N., moving N.W..

His Worship came to the conclu sion that the accused was pretend- former fleet operated in the Gulf and ing when he said he could not un- derstand the purport of the The fleet was operated by the evidence. Trans-Marine Lines from 1024 to It transpired that the man had 1920. Nothing definite has been de-been convicted on three previous cident un what use will be made occasions for lureeny.

of the vessels, but it has been in- timated that possibly six of them will

He was now sentenced to threo

be used in the conetwise fleet of the months' hard labour, after evidence Admiral Line, and the balance in the of arrest was given by Sergeant S. trans-Pacific trade.

Smith.

PRINCE'S

THEATRE

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AT THE

HONGKONG

QUEEN'S

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 3.80, 8.10, 7,15' & 9.20

Lawrence TIBBETT

is here now in the perfect picture!

Mono-

Gottuyn

TALKING

*PICTURE

The

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With Esther RALSTON Rafand YOUNG CH

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A carefree adventurer, he crashes into the midst of grand romance in his home town down South! A grand talkie of hobos and heart throbal -

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THE SILENT ENEMY'

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Love

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MARLENE

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Sea Legs Disord

WITH

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EUGENE PALLETTE

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She used Her Beauty

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Battle the

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with

Joan

RAWFORD

in her most

dramatic romance

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