THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1931.
PRINCE AND PRINCE OF CLOWNS: TWO TAIL-FIRST AEROPLANES.
Charlie Chaplin, the famed film comediau fa shown at dinner recently with the Prince of Wales at Grosvenor House, Park Laza. It is reported that Chaplin will star in a serious stage drama, of his own authorship, based on the theory that Napoleon sscaped from St. Helena.
0-1960
No wonder English crowds gaped when th is plane took off "backwards" Designed so that it will not stall nor spin whlis in flight, the wings of the craft are in the rear and the "tall" it in front. This is how it looked hopping off from Hanworth Airdroma in Middlesex.
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Germany's curtailed military forces havn furned to work al This picture shows trimly uniformed soldiers from the garrison at Munich distributing soup from field klichens to unemployed and destituto residents of the city.
Gems of Peril
BEGIN HERE TODAY.
Rich Am. Juiter is u berderist during the engagement party wie wie der
cretary. Mary Harknew, ermen Sather, Battle, may have my bath
house at the murder ber, ADMAZIVĚ.
Minty' scrapna
HAZEL IROSS HAILEY
Wedding clothes!"
"Ah-ah! So!" He retreated as she
The this falles to get the tried to press a bit into his hand. Jupiter rab
Feldhea run down and killed as he goes to meet Mary, Inspector Kahe drag
living Ed
the
murder. Me
uple and blak believe the enNE.
Howen of the Year dieovers leurs rambler and rock called The Fly 4, 3141281 Yadio w money. Bowen gives Mary
"Sul, nal, give it to Tim, there- he has a big family!" The bill she pressed into the policeman's hand) met no protest.
at he found in the Jupiter botter the stat the front door.
the tourder, it her henther's. T
butler recognizes it as having
TH WHIT
"gateher he elected that night.
Dirk forbids Mary in go on with the j involation because of the notoriety. They
"Want to try it?" he indicated |
"I'll go firs{" "Oh, no Ian't there some other) wap
The policeman called
quarrel, dinke up and Mary bruntises to Jack!" and the fat man bustled up "Hey. tarry at at once. Wht shopping for her; „Troubente, Mary's taxi crnance foto a buliting again. He looked more than a lit- tle worried, as well he might be, for the sidewalk in front of his
was a morass of Place
splintered
CHAPTER XVII
This strange looking craft, which abo flies tail first. may be a model for planes of to-morrow. It was built in a week hy the Granville brothers of Springfield, Mass, and made its successful sky debut in a heavy wind. The designers claim that the experimental ship is unusually steady in fight and cannot be put into a spin.
WATCH FOR
THE OCEAN LINER "TRANSATLANTIC" Edmund Lowe & Lois Moran
ON BOARD
Passing Through Hongkong.
Piloted by Captain FOX
A 700-milo an-hour flight ten miles above the earth1 À swift voyage through the stratosphere is planned for this newly built monoplane, shown here at a field near Barlin. Note the chambors which will supply oxygen for the plasie's engines in the rare upper atmosphere, and the hermetically sealed cabin for the pilot. The plane has a wing span of 32 feet and a crude ail motor.
Don Moyle, the aviator who flow from Japan to the United States, is shown above studying maps in his cell at Los Angeles county jail when serving 30- day sentence on a traffic charge. When Mary beesme conscious wood and shattered glass. The
Moyle in making plans for an someone was shouting, "Bring some place was one of the innumerable
other flight. brandy for this lady!" and moving speakeasies housed in the base-
"You think I should, Delin?" her arms about and slapping her ments of old brownstone
"Indeed, you should!" And that can't get away before we try to we ought to tie him up an tight he hunds. This, she Inter learned. And the proprietor was hardly can- "the man I'm
"Oh, keep me out of it!" Mary was that. fronta. was merely an attempt to discover vinced yet that what had happened would be furious
begged as she handed him her caril.
make a pinch. That's what I want whether or not she had broken any
going to marry
to talk She had just taken
to you about. I've got a boues. At the moment, however, dents in Mr. Jack Shay's life usual. The policeman did not protest when body feel tingly and rested, and him to-r
any was a mere traffic accident. Acci-quite true but it was true enough, stiff brushing that made her whole
This wasn't shower and given her hair
quick swell Idea-look, is there Beme- the indignity of her position-shely had a deeper significance. Fear the taxi-driver drove off rapidly.
a where I can
800 you?! was lying on a couple of chairing gang warfare as he did,
Why
How could she see brought her upright and awake no wonder he appeared far more felt no worse for the misadventure softness, when the maid came in
to-night? Yet it might be slipped the black dress over newly her only opportunity. To-morrow She was not much delayed, and bought underthings of incredible she would be married and gone. more quickly than the burning nerve-wracked by the liquor they were forcing down her than Mary, the
occurrence except throat.
victim, did.
heightening of the
"I'm just trying to think I have "Come this way," he invited, and ing through her veins all She was in
the sense quite breathless with chagrin. of excitement that had been thrill- A restaurant, ap-Mary and the stalwart officer fol- "A
"Oh. Miss Harkuess, I didn't be
an engagement to-night, but it may parently. About her hovered auxi-lowed him to a door at the rear of mantel showed nearly 6 o'clock, and has some important information for you-something I want to talk over
late." Mr. Bowen ous faces-awaiter, a fat man who the long room. Here the fut man Dirk would
A glance at the clock on her har you come in! A
got a night assignment or turned out to be the proprietor, and knocked. entered, spoke a
been calling you repeatedly. He I'd come there. But I'd like to see pice-lecki policeman who kept words, and then held the door open furried. Fatigue and she said he'd wait in until you called." have dinner with me somo
could you. He gave me his number and with freshen “Jus
you. Could a little
you come in and all right. Take It ensy"
admit the others, "O. K., come on cally as alte dashed about.
vanished magi- Mary took the card she proffered through."
Mary thought Lured and went thoughtfully to the tele-was still at the office she could she was taking
rupidly. Dirk The room was
came in to help, and to her
in and meet Bowen and Dirk could Rounded very call for her and bring her home. and business-like over the She would really see him much of the sooner that way. And so it was ar-
accident, to
she
easy,
alfretfully.
Her bead ached
happened?" she asked.
oing the wrong way on one-way street," he told her. "You can't go out that way, Indy." He moved between her and the door.
hy can't 17 What's there 77
it
Was
few
come before
day
own
by curiosity, the lumbering Dellawen's voice amall private surpribe as much as the maid's, there was no sign
from his
ан
much
J
placed
80
you
meeting. Ils serious tone! Then come to this address": bempressed her
RA his she wrote down the number he gave words.
her. "TH be there "Miss Harkness, the man
when were speaking of is in New York.
welcome."
ment, and seems to have a good Not hiding, exactly, but-in retire- deni on
his mind." "Yes?" "The talk is that he did But the packages were a more jobs. And
bookkeeper said when she
Dirk had gone out to dinner, the called his office,
but would be back. Mary gave him the address of the both restaurant. underworld talk is Mr. Jupiter had not come in-
forcely from the jar when the taxi dining-room. Half a dozen men Mary seized her about the waist crashed into the building but other sat about a wine-spotted tablecloth, and waltzed about the room withwise-cracking companion of yeater- ranged. wise she was all right, and she smoking and drinking. A suddon her. wanted to go home.
silence, like
the She made this wish known to the group arnlysis, seized policeman, who held her arm firmly appeared, one man, tall, and foreign-mustn't tell a soul!"
"Della, Dell, I'm going to And the
officer
cer married
to-morrow! as if he feared she might go faint appearing or was he merely well-
But you and drop again.
tanned 7-rose
"To-morra is it? Oh, Miss Mary! then sank back again. abruptly.
chair
And does Mr. Jupiter know?" elined her head in perfunctory -oh, if Mary smiled alightly and in- Delia.
"I don't know how to tell him,
I promised to stay, but cognition of what she took to be an
if Mr. Bruce
would unly net of politeness.
como " "Ah, that young spalpeen!" passed through the room, potent attraction than the derelict usually pretty accurate. out another door into a black hole Bruce-they forgot him in the Jay I think this is. We can safely as stayed at the Yacht Club for dinner The cab'e all smashed, and there's door of a drugstore opening on
mese. of a hallway, and entered the back of snapping string and burrowing sume he is the man we are after. with some of his old cronies. He a lot of broken glass. Besides, side street. Here the officer de dress was all she was looking for, trying to talk over the telephone-new clothes she called one of the there's probably a mob of people posited her packages into a taxi, to wear this evening, but somehow
a into tlasuo paper. Ons simple little You understand, don't you? Rotten had Tom, but in deference to her waiting to see the "corpso Say," and helped her in.
"What-what shall we give you that driver's name," seemed necessary to open all the Mary asked. She sat down sudden- town in state. She had lost faith
do ? other chauffeurs and drove taking out a pad and
fly, One revealed a little black dinner with
surprised to find horself shaking "Do. And the other man's name, lace at the top with a skirt made of corrected her. "God, I don't know. her. It was not until they had en-
dress that was a love, all cobwebby
excitement.
Bowen stepped out of the shadow and the address of his restaurant," etiff ruffles of net.
"What can wo do, you mean," he of a flight of stone stops to great They both Several things. I don't want to tored
They're cleaning up the
out
They
he broke off, "you want to thank
| perenid
that driver, lady! He saved your he life"
I wil" Mary exclaimed. "Oh, "Where is ho?"
it
boxca
XCB.
At least, Spence reported his master hed
and
taxicabs.
Into
Next Change at the Central Theatre.
DIRIGIBLE
with
JACK HOLT RALPH GRAVES
and FAY WRAY
A FRANK CAPRA Production
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TO-DAY
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not bad hurt. I'll give you
"They've taken him home. Ho'sishe added. "Perhaps I can take a hugged it, held it off and caressed mult this. Nelther do you, I take nized Place that Mary recog name
if you want
his party there for dinner sometime it with their eyes. Mary had it. Ordinarily I'd say take bini In Why, this is where I was this "Please do. Oh, but-my_pack-
und ay him back that ages! Where are they?"
"Don't worry abou
bought it for dining and dancing The fat policeman replied. "Ho don't want on shipboard, but she was tempted trust Kane to third-degree a con- thronded their way between tables
on the evidence we've got,
CRACKERS afternoon she exclaimed as they proprietor indicated a pile of boxes anything you could give him-un- to wear it tonight. After all, could feanlon out of him. But I'm afraid to one in the angle of the wall. neatly stacked on a nearby table. less it's a bullet-proof veal," They were crushed a little, but not
any night of her life be more im Tell you frankly, this bird has a Half a dozen persons, all mon, were damaged. She thanked the fat
[portant? Her last "date."
Theraren for bolusalicker than an ecl. man profusely.
embroidered slippers ing, and tore off the sheet and hand- Mightn't they be going out to dance! He's got a record, but that was
to He's been in klad they had all been!
match, and a white evening wrap. Acrapes and wiggled out, legally. good many tight
a little? Dirk hadn't said. years ago. They haven't pinned "I don't know, but it seams to me
How careful and
"I can't thank you enough!" sho bold him happily. Those are my
"Oh! Why T
The policeman had finished writ-
word
ed it to Mary without reply...
address as a witness," he said.
"I have to take your name and Della made her declalon for her anything on him lately.
by whisking away the empty box.
about the room, eating.
story of the taxi aceldent, when sho Mary was about to relate the caught sight of an unforgettably ugly face reflected In a sideboard (Continued on Paga 11.)
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