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SHOWING TO-DAY

Al 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9,20 p.m.

EX-FLAME

A Modernised Version of "East Lynne"

How hearts għand elichomes destroyed by the anenster Jealou-y-mothy is See this great hog 4 my told by Mes Irazy Whod in East Lynne " there mught us to darerin 'EX.PLAME," starring

NEIL HAMILTON and MARIAN NIXON

but mere then wisty years "Kast „Lamon what wippreting cast thred' the wacht as a link and stage play—Sce now hyneddtinued version

cos De er gamat of Sorgen erations--Bon't miss 20

Coming Attraction

Four Sherifs wanted

him for breaking

laws

Fourteen wo-

men wanted him for

breaking their fragile

hearts. What a man

for troublel

NOT EXACTLY GENTLEMEN

FOX

THE

HONGKONG

DICKENS LETTERS

DISAPPEAR.

AN ARREST MADE AT-

BRIGHTON.

at Bow-street to-morrow.

TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1931.

at

SIR THOS. BEECHAM'S DEBTS.

EXPENSES OF IMPERIAL LEAGUE OF OPERA.

cápital sum had to be brought into Court, and that was done.

In 1927 he conceived the idea

Since 1924 he had been engaged in various musical projects, includ- ing the production of grand opera In London, the provinces and abrond, and he had conducted a number of concerts. After taking London, July 2 into consideration his expenses Brighton, June 21.

เษ An arrest has been made Sir Thomas Beecham attended there had, however, been no sur- Brighton in connexion with the before 31r. Registrar Warmingtos plus in any year, disappearance of the collection at the London Bankruptcy Courl known as the "Dlekens Letters, yesterday for his publle examina of the

recolved a a great men- valued at £1,500, and 34

cluded.

Nure of public support. He was stood that a man will be shared clad, which was subsequently con- which Imperial League of Opera,

of the

League and its The statement of the debtor's the founder are the affairs showed abilities totalling general artistic director. He did The "Dickens as Fellow- £194,532, of which £133,798 is ax-(not receive salary from the Lea- Shin off, the

of Doughty-street. Blogmspected to runk for dividend, and gue, but to a very large extent.he bury, and were missed from their assets £109, apart from a bad book paid its expensos, and he had idea- place at the Fellowship headquar debt of the nominal amount of tifled payments in that connexion to £10,786. ile had ters a fortnight ago. Scotland £15,000,

amounting Yard was at once informed.

Mr. Wheeler, Assistant Official given over 100 concorts on behalf Included in the collection are Recalver, who conducted the ex- of the League and had expended on them a further £5,000. As a re- numerous letters in the handweit amination, remarked that no or ing of Charles Dickens, as well as der had yet been made by the sult of his time being so occupied hundreds of others from Bencons-Court adjudging the debtor n he had had to sacrifice other pos

sible lucrative angagements. field, Gindstone, Southey. Thac- | bankrupt.

Personal Economica keray. O'Connell, Meredith, and

The debtor said that a previous various eminent Victorians, and a

The conversion of his father's receiving order was made against few from Queen Victoria herself. him in October, 1919. His liabili-estate involved heavy financial res- They cover a period extending from ties then amounted to £35,000, and ponsibilities, which he was com- 1839 to 1857, and among other in March, 1923, the Court approved pelted to assume and which forced personal econo- manuscripts are six parts of "Ed-

a composition arrangement for pay him to exercise

The beginning, and sub- win Drood" and the original pre- ment of 20s. in the £ and dis-mies.

of his face to "Dombey and Son."

stantially the chief cause charged the receiving order. It

was the very Owing to their value, they were was a fact that claims for very present position,

obligation he incurred in kept armong the archives of the Fel-substantial amounts were omitted

pubile flota- lowship. The loss was only dis from the arrangement, and that connexion with the covered when the collection was re- debts amounting to £97.000 had tion of companies formed to take quired for the compilation of an been paid since the date of that over and administer his father's

estate. Moreover, inventory of the possessions of the receiving order.

he had been

Fellowship.

Under his father's will, the dob-prevented from reclaiming large tor had a life interest in forty-six soms in respect which had contri-

· Other one-hundredths of the Income derived from the testator's bust-buted to his fallure were the ex- nese. His father's estate want ponses of financing the Imperial through a series of conversions to League of Opera and heavy in- companies,

terest charges and law costs.

TROTSKY DENOUNCES FIVE-YEAR PLAN.

"NOTHING BUT A SNARE AND!

DELUSION."

A

Warsaw, June 19. An article by Trotsky throwing cold water on the Soviet Five-Year Play appeave in a Polish perind

val tudny.

צי

the

T

of super-tax.

His Honour made an order con- elding the examination.

The creditors have necupted

Income of £20,000. In May, 1924, as the result of a conversion operation, in which ha posat lodged by the debitor for (Sir Thomus) was the chief per their beneft. It provides, inter the raising of cery sanctioning son concerned, a cash sum of hair alla, subject to the Court of Chan a million WAB received

the necessary funds, for the pay trustees and executors of the will.ment of 108, in the £ to the un- in that way his life interest was secured creditors. converted into cash. The half million was invested, and from that source his income had been derived. Such income had recent- ly amounted to

£20,000, a year.

BUIG

The whole thing he describes AN nothing but a smar and a decon lusion. Even If the plan BUC ceeds, which is impossibile in view of the extent and population of Hintha Soviet Russia, the article the country would still be pal. pably behind capitalistle Stati

Trotsky concludes by stating that the plan means the cheating result of those operations, he had to make provision for the payment of the masses, and that its prof substantial annuities under his moters themselyos do not lieve father's will. That meant that a

in it.

Sir Thomas explained that, as a

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The most comfortable and the only Air-Conditioned Theatre in the Colony. Showing To-day, at 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.

VICTOR

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AT THE

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* Metro.

Goldwyn May TALKING

"FICTURE

The

The

finest

blend

of

melody,

romance,

laughs

and thrilis you've seen,

PRODIGAL

With Esther RALSTON

Roland YOUNG Clift EDWARDS A Harry POLLARD

production

A carefree adventurer, be crashes into the midst of grand romance in his home town down South! A grand talkin of bobos and heart throbst

Special Added Attraction

OUR

in

GANG

"LOVE BUSINESS"

TO-MORROW.

She used Her Beauty

and Allure as

Weapon to

Battle the Underworld!

with

VICTOR McLAGLENK

Directed by

BENJAMEN STOLOFF

with

FAY WRAY, LEW CODY

EDDIE GRIBBON

Booking at Anderson's and the Theatre. (Phone, 25720)

DIVORCE-TOWN CHASE.

MR. C. VANDERBILT, JR., AND A CARTOONIST.

On Sunday, it is stated, Mr. Vanderblit saw his wife and Mr. Arno get out of a motor-car out-

side their house. He seized a re volver, it is alleged, and started to pursue the cartooniat along the road, but soon gave up the chase and went home, and it was subsequently discovered that the

unloaded. revolver was

Reno, Nevada, June 20. The story of a revolver chase of a New York cartoonist, Mr. Poter Arno, by an angry young husband belonging to one of the best-

Mrs. Vanderbilt has now left known American familles, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt junior, is her husband's house, and her law- featured in the newspapers here, yer states that a legal separation and It is now confirmed by Mr. will probably follow. Mr. Arno, Vanderbilt's lawyer that his who has been here since May to require- client has been incensed for some full divorce residence timo by the attention paid by Mr.ments has applied to the police

for protoollon. Arno to Mrs. Vanderbilt.

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Bure of her power over man, she uses them of prey for her charms in her dangerous game. And wins! until love-loads the dice. Don't miss their flaming drama. Better than "Morocco. "

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MARLENE

DIETRICH

Crash through

with

Jour RAWFORD

in her most

dramatic romance

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DANCE

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