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FAMOUS LAWYER'S

COLLAPSE.

DEATH AT BANQUET.

THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1932.

CINEMA SCREENINGS.the splendid supporting cast inclues William Bakewell, C. Aubrey Smith, Polly Moran and Alan Mowbray,

NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES,

At fat we've discovered what the Mr. Frederick Freke Palmer, talkies necal, it is more pictures like the famous London solicitor, who "Guilty Bunds," which is showing at had been in practice for nearly buthe (Q's Theatre on Sunday with years, collagised and died at and Bareynore in the Masonic banquet at the Connaught, Rooms Great Queenst..... Kings- way, on Jan. 20,

Here is something absolutely dif- ferent, even for mystery phys, writ. He had just finished speaking. ten especially for

te streen by Three doctors who were present Bayard Yeller, master dramatist who ran to his aid, and artificial rebus thrilled millions with such plays piration was tried for a consider. as "Thirteenth Chair" and "The Trini Able time without avail. Death is of Mary Dugon." Although murder

is still his theme, Veiller takes ad to be le tu believed to

cerebral vastage of the camera's

neopr

to hemorrhage.

tackle his problems in another way Summoned by telephone, Mr. | than be diĺ' in his stage plays. In Freke Palmer's own doctor, Dr. 65. | fuct, he line conerived a plot so weird de B. Turtle, at Cambridge-terrace, and original, the story scarcely can made a dash in his car to the Cop.be compared with any others he han naught Rooms, but was too late given us is the past..

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regarding Bylvin Sidney's early slage

A number of interesting secutes a succession of bright farees with P. & O. BANKING THE CHARTERED HANE OF HONGKONG AND BHANGILA and screen experiences were to dialogue and situations worked the Hollywood Partinent studin, with clockwork precision, and Cana CORPORATION LTD when she and Gene fays ad were no rien Sometimes Sing' (will be shown (Incorporated in England, 1920-) the sets making Ladies of the Big the King's Theatre next Sunday) featured house", a remantle story of two

young lovers, cruelly separated by in just an welcome an, and no lens Athard Capital the law Just before" their welding amusing than, "Rookery Nook" and Subscribed and Pald Up slzy, which is the fentire picture at the King's Theatre today "Min On Approval." Though restricted in Sidney's Best stage rule," salt an off its actting, there is no restriction in friend, "called for a good old-fashion ed. Blood-curdling seriam na the cur- the amount of laughn it creutes. Tom

The Walls, in the dual capacity of direc tain came down at the end, of

ter and leading ployer, has given us

DABOUTTA second net. The audience terrified by it that Miss Sidnry the polished article, and at the same

CANTON came a specialist, in stage screams

BRANCHES-Bomber. Colentia, CallentİGAWNPOKE on a curtain cur in a succession lise grand entertainment fare."

Madras, Bhanghai | GEJU Hongkong. "Tol'able David." plays. It took her some time to live;

COLOMBO down her reputation as the terror The United States boasts of an

AGENCIES-in all the principal towns of DAIREN netres.

unline and unusual genre of people the world.

DEJTI General Ercmage and Banking Business | HAIFIOND Gene Raymind sald he witnessed in its Virginia and Tennesse moun-

are entirely taste Loans and overtraits granted on HAMBURU the following trying situation: "Lainers. These people to be of any - assistaner,

it was a happy chufer by Metro Sidney was playing a scene ance in diferent from any other nect or group apprared sveurity, Current and Fixed Deposit | HANKOW

accounts opened. A member of

in the states. Palmer's Goldwyn-Mayer officials that placed which she picked up a waste basket

BAVINGS household told clo New Barrymore in the magnificent charac full of revolvers and carried it from a

A particularly clear-cut character allowed at rates which may be obtained ve

appilention. Chronicle:

Lerization of the veteran prosecutor room under the name of the police." study of these hardy illiterates, with TRAVELLERS CHIQUES ISSUED.

Foreign Exchange and орке Banking CHEFOO and criminal attorney who finds him-

Raymond continued: "I was Bud-their peculiar moral codes, their sim- Tamentera travelling Homeward are_T baalmeen transmeted. self confronted with the necessity of denly aware of a change in Miss Sid-ple living standards and amazing emmended to obtals Latter of Credit Arve comunitting, o murder hingelf and

of any P, and 0, or 11. 1. 6, N. Blatiner or trying to pass it off as a suicide. Theey's acting. She became more in-bravery, in found in Columbia Pic. which can be shed through the Farmer Deposite received for psa 77

Tense: the audience became

noretures production of "Tolable David," at any of the Branches of the Corporation. of this baffling plut comes alert. There was a crash 17) the which opens at the Central Theatre

W. J. WADDINGTON, with starting suddentess and amaz-

stage. The audience

drathly to-morrow. ing coteration. We guaranter

still; there was not a snicker in the house. Min Sidney continued her won't guess it.

Director Jolis Blystane depicts in vibrant but collected performance; ark and vivid fashion hire

what int but the bottom had fallen out of the Igiens in the mountain country when "Toluble David." He possesses thai | basket and the police had to pretend the member of any family is wronged, nivele that makes him ideal in the

revolvers. Hy her not to see the

revealing the workings of capable acting Miss Sidney held the ung feial and the manner in whichle of the simple, nature-loving lad attention of the audience and saved the family's men mensare cat justice chat are Joan Peers, depleted in the story. the scene."

without the ald of law courts.

They Henry Jare a haw unto themselves,

Mr.

"Mr. Palmer was in his usual good spirita and cracked a joke before leaving his home at lve n'clock to attend the function-aclimax dinner of the Grand Stewards' Lodge. He had put in his usual active day at the office, and had not complained of any illness."

Famous Unses.

Mr. Freke Palmer had one of the most comprehensive practices, chiefly in the criminal courts, in Great Britain. Most of his work, however, was done in London.

He was a familiar figure at most · of the London courts, but he was chiefly concerned with PANCR at Marlborough-street, Marylebone and Bow-street. He had practised Aulicitor siner December.

RK R 1804.

He figured in many of the rele- brated cases of recent times, per. hape his most important being the defence of Sergeant Goddard. He also appeared in the famous "Colonel Barker' case.

The Case of San Dwe.

He defendet San Dwe, the 2- year-old Burmese elephant trainer, who was charged with the murder of a Mohanimedas trainer in the Zoo in 192A.

Although San Dwe Was Lenced to death, Mr. Preke Palmer obtained information later which nitered the aspect of the case and secured a reprieve for the com). demned man.

In legal circles Mr. Palmer was known ny [201

very wide knowledge. It was often said that he knew mare of the intricacies of the law than a good many bar-

risters. He built up a reputation. for sound judgment.

He was a man vi wide sym pathies and intellectual attain- menta, a keen student of human nature and one always willing to) help the under-dor,

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A friend of the tarolls in Lon-` den told a reporter that the inven tion sought to apply the principles. of the Monorail to the motor-car.

Father Aloysius Sutherland, of Batterson, who had known Mr. Brennai for nearly 20 years, said: "Brennan had devoted all his working hours in the past few years to the perfection of the in- vention of a one-wheel motor-car. This, he believed, would be more important than any of his previous inventions.

"Since the war he had been as sisted in his research work ni Farnborough by his son, Captain Michael Brennan, M.C., who served in the Royal Engineers."

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