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"The Ronary" the remarkable Bri- tish drama thit is showing on Thurs- day at the Queen's in a story of great love and self-sacrifice. Mary Ed wards and Vern Mannering are half- nintara. They discover by accident that they both love the sume Ronald Overton. Neither is prepared to retire in favour of the other: Mary because her love is reciprocated, and Vera because she thinks that Ronald in too wealthy to be given up easily. Realising that her only way of keeping him by menna of sub- terfuge, Vera lies to Mary about the nature of her intimacy Ronald, and in so convincing Mary surrenders the man she loves and prepares to enter a convent.

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with that

On returning home after an inter- view with the Mother Superior, Mary hearn a shot, rushes into the draw- ing room and Anda Vera, revolver in band, standing over the dead body

Oscar Dalmayne, a man with whom i Vera had had an affair and whom she rejected on meeting Ronald, Mary taken the revolver from her terrified half-sister, and while she is listening to her story of a quarrel, a struggle and on necident, the police enter. Standing she is with the gun in her hand Mary is at once suspected, and, ngin sacrificing herself, she confesses to the shobting. She is ar- reated and charged with murder,

At the trin Mary's Comingel la con- | vinced that he knows the real truth, and recalling Vern into the witness box almost succeeds in tricking herli but she manages to hold on to her origion) story. Eventually he puts. Mary herself under examination and lends her into the tenp where than a ↑ deeply religious woman" she atat either tell the truth or “imperll her | humortal soul," She chooses to Be and anve bang vinter

The verifier au nileets Yers that

After the Court xhe ruche from

Wandering the streets, Ahe buy IL new puper announcing the rest of the trial. The verdet is "Not Gality: --Self-defener,"

On ber releuca Marg goes to the one piece which she knows will find peace the fonvent.

Line:

The example of Mary'n self-sucrific. Ing love makers Vera "completely re-i pentant, aud dirking nothing; brings Ronald to the convent so that who may ranfe, to the lovers network of lies by which she has separated them. After her confes. sion she leaves them together in the garden, and walks to the Convent. Mary and Ronald digart completely reconciled and full ef- happiness.

We now are a nun at her devotions -tetting bee beads. It in Vera. She lifts her Rosary and "klases the cross."

"Doctors' Wives."

The summer and fall of 1928 fund Joan Bennett pretty much at Jonse ends with the world. Not yet eighteen i years old, she was already a wife and mother. She was alone, with no ang to look to for financial support, since she had laughtily separated from her youthful husband.

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China Underwriters, $4.62% n. China Fires, $600 n. H.K. Fire In., $1,250 n.

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IL. K. Steamboats, $23 n. Indo-Chinna, (Prof.) $32 n. Union Waterboats, 825 n.

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S'hai. Explorations, Tis, 2.10 a, Kauba, $39 n.

Docks, etc. Kowloon Wharves, $1541⁄2 n. Whampon Docks, $29 n. South China Motore $10 n. Providents (old), $4.90 HA, Hongkews. Tls. 220 n. New Engineers Tls. 64 n. Shanghai Docks, Tin, 90% n. Coltons.

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I.K. Hotel (old) $13 b. IK. S. Hotels (new) $13 n. 1. K. Lands, 378 n. S'hd Lands, Tis. 30 n. Humphreys (old) $19' n. itenfiles, $11,65 †

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Siores, etc. Dairy Forms, $291⁄2 n. Wations. $16.50 n. Der A. Wings, $1 n. Lane Crawfords, $6 n. Mackintosh, 319 b. Sinceres $16 n. Powells, $3.60 n.

Miscellaneous,, Amusements, $19

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Entertainmenta (old) $16% n. Constructions (old) $5.15 n.

S. C. Enterprises $10 n. Constructions (new), $1.75 m.

B. Ind. G. & Bonds, 368% n. Loans, $% h. Prem.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1932.

“All that life had taught her of self-her intest Fox success in which whe fortitude, self-] is en-featured with Warner Baxter discipline, courage, reliance, she hurl need of in those and is now showing at the King's

dark munthn.

Fortunately for Joan, in this drinis her father, Richard Benuett, came to the rescue, He gave his youngest daughter the lending feminine 'rote in his own play, "Jarnegan,” It was a

lilt.

Theatre.

Frank Borzage directed the picture, which includes in its supporting east Victor Varconi, Helene Millard. Cecilia Loftus and many others.

105.

A year

"Ladies of the Big House," Sylvia Sidney is one girl in "My job paid $150 a week." Juan This is a distinction when it is relates, but at that time it seemed pine that Miss Sidney in the s like a million to me. And then girl in a class of 10 thous nccepted an offer to go to Hollywood dramatic students, who for

George Arlbos Jane hren playing featured roles in to work with

Disraeil. The future, of course, is important pictures and in w mak In the hands of fate, but if my wishes a strong bid for stellar honoura have anything to do with it, the geurs, Harmont, recognizing the marked to come will find me carrying on the talent and popularity of Sylvia Sid. traditions onoured by my dear nasty, elected her for ther and father in the profesdon they feminine. loved so well."

the lending role in the remarkable, irana, alles of the Big House," a gripping, romantic love story of two The same spirit of courage as car young lovers caught in the clutches ried her through the event fut sum-fit the law, which will be the King's mer of 1925 is revealed throughout Theatre's fenture not Wednesday. her performance in "Doctors' Wives," [When Miss Sidney entered the Then-

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Just credible trick. But I soon discovered at Wimbley, the scenes are all taken fifteen. In her vivid, colourful way I was wrong."

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hor Since that day, six years ago. Misu conniderably to the entertainment Sidney has achieved many noteworthy value. A number of the incidents "Every Saturday morning when performances, including the lend in were filmed in Yeadon, the birthpines the class gave a play, the school's "Ind Girl" on the stage and the leads of Sydney Howard, and the shots of directors checked over their ratings on the screen, In "An American this Yorkshire mill town with the of the cast on little score carda and Tragedy" and "Street Scene."

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