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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1932.

FAMOUS LAWYER'S CINEMA SCREENINGS. the splendid supporting east inclues actar-manager", says the Yorkshire

William Bakewell, C. Aubrey Smith, Evening Nowe. "In turning to talk Polly Muran and Alan Mowbray, ing pleture production he had the

"Indies of the Big House,"

COLLAPSE.

DEATH AT BANQUET.

Mr. Frederick Preke Palmer, the famous London solicitor, who had been in practice for nonrly 50 years, collaps and died Masonic banquet at the Connaught Rooms Great Queen-st., Kings. way, on Jan. 20,

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NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES

At last we've discovered what the talkies nel. It is pure pictures like "Guilty Hands," which in showing at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday with featured

Lonel Burrymore role,

in the

advantage of having at his command

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young lovers, cruelly sepurated by la just nu welcome an, and no less Authored Capital .... Bere is something absolutely difay, which is the feature pleiure at

The law just before their wedding amusing thon. "Rookery Nook" and Subscribed and Pald Us ferent, even for mystery plays, writ- | thế King's Theatre He had just falshed apenking.

in-lay, "Miss On Approval. Though restricted in ten especially for the screen by Sidney's first stage sole," said un uld its setting, there is no restriction in Three doctors who were present Bayard Veller, master dramatist who friend, called for a good old-fashion-the amount of laughs it creates. Tom ran to his aid, and artificial rea- | has thrilled millions with such plays ed, lond-curdling, scream as the cur piration was trivs for a ennsitter. Í as “Thirteenth Chair" and "The Trial | tain came down at the end of the | Walls, in the dual capacity of direc Although murder secol act. Thr able time without avail. Death is Mary Dugan."

till hin theane, Veliler takes ad believed to be due

vantage of the camera's scope to hemorrhage:

|tackte kia problems in another way Summoned by telephone, Mr.thnu le did in his minge plays. In Freke Palmer's own doctor, Dr. G. fact, he has conreived a plot no weird A de B. Turtle, at Cambelägesterrace,) and original, the story scarcely can made a dush in his car to the Cop.be compared with any others he has naught Rooms, but was to late given as in the past,'

In

to be of any assistance,

member of

Told

A household Chronicle:

cerebral

Mr. Palmer's

News

前

"Mr. Palmer was in his usual good spirits and cracked a joke before leaving his home at five o'clock to attend the function

inner of the Grund Stewards Lodge. He had put in a weal netive day at the allee, and hot not complained of any lineas."

Famous Cames,

Mr. Preke Palmer had one of The most piprehensive practices, chielly in the criminal courts, in Great Britain. 3tant at bus work, however, was done in Londen.

audiene was terrified by it that Miss Sidney came a specialist, in stage, seren as a curtain cuợ in a succession of plays. It took her some time talve down her reputation as the terr netresh."

witnessed

tor and lending player, has given us the polished article, and at the same time grand entertainment fare."

"Tolable Dayld."

The United States boasts of an unique and unusual gente of people in its Virginia and Tennesse moun- tainers. These people are entirely different from any other sect or group in the states.

General Exelange

accounia apened.

Peking]

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DELHI

Gene Raynettel sale he

and Banking Duviome|ILAIPTIONG tressed. Lovor and overtrufte, granted vo SAMOUBG the following trying situation: "Mis

FIANKOW It was a happy choice by Metro Sidney was playing a scene once in

proved swearly. Current and Fixed Deposli toldwyn-Mayer officials that placed which she picked up a waste basket

BAVINGS BANK ACCOUNTS:—Int»ew: HARDIN Barrymore in the magnificent charae. full of revolvers and carried it from a terization of the veteran prosecutor roomy under the nose of the police."

A particularly clear-cut charactered at retea which may be obtained on HONGKONG

application. study of these hardy illiterates, with and criminut attorney who finds him-

TRAVELLER OBEQUES ISBUCH. self confronted with the necessity of denly aware of a change in Miss Sid-ple living standards and

Raymond continued: "I wAK

d their peculiar moral codes, their sim-

Fung travelling Homeward are To hastness transacted. committing a murder latnikelf

amazing commanded to obtalu a Letter of Credit from

Current Accounts opened IDA frying to pass it oft as a spicide. They acting. She became more intravery, is found in Columbia Pic. which can by cashed through the user

Depostia receira for oDE THAT CƠ abortar audience Lenne; the His bailling plat

more tures production of "Tol'able David," "any of the Branches of the Corporation, perinda at rutas which will be quoted en

the which opens at the Central Theatre with starting puddemess and z There was a crash

syplication. W. J. WADDINGTON, singe. The nudlence wna deathly to-morrow,

Acting Manager. ing conception, We guntinter

A STUART, you: there was not a snicker. In the

Маладог won't gure it.

Kosażone. 17th August, 198I.

climax

and

beente

hour, Miles Shiney continued her W. A. Van Dyke, restinK ME bis vibrant but collected performance; "Trader Horn" taurel, stayed at but the bottom had fallen out of the Sur la rect the Voller drams and basket and the police had to pretend Chay accented in a remarkable way to brať ta

A the

revolvers. By her add other Weintoess and thrill to expable acting Miss Sidney held the the elut in the screen treatmen of attention of the audience and saves the

Hi campern wogbes antelte eene," terifying tempe make the netdon even i Loan baliking mol likod murdere

Jenks and Mulgre Eynn. I

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He was a familiar feure al moat of the London warts, Pat he was the leading feminine Todes

chiety concerned with

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Marlboroughstreet. Marylebone

and low-street. He had practised

FL 1 solicitor STIL: AN December.

1884,

He figured in man of the cen brates poses of event tunes, per haps his most stoportant being the defence of Sergeant Godard. He Also appa pred in

"Colonel Barker

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The Case of San Dwe.

He defended San Dwe, the 22 year-old Burmese ebghan trainer. who was charged with the murder of a Mohammedan framer in the Zoo in M

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Although San Dwe WILM tenced to death, Mr. Freke Palmer obtained information later which altered the wipert of the case and secured a reprieve for the demned mau.

In legal circles Mr. Palmer was known as a man of very wide knowledge. it was often said that

he knew bore of the intricacies of the how than a mod many bar rinters. He built up a reputation for sound judgment,

He was a man of withe pathies and intellectual attain ments, a keen student of humani nature and onto always willing to belp the unale-paalum.

ONE-WHEEL CAR.

LOUIS BRENNAN'S SECRET,

The Vores-Chimwe ka reveals that at the time of his death Mr. Louis Brennan, the inventor of the Brennan torpedo, Monorail and helicopter who has past led al Montreux. Switzerland was work. ing on the invention of a wheel motor-car,

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A friend of the tamily in Lon- dan told a reporter that the invon- tion sought to apply the principles of the Monorail to the notor-car.

Father Aluysing Sutherland, of Battersea, who had known Mr. Brennan 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 ag- CHENGJU sisted in his research work

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Farnborough by his son. Captain

Michael Brennan, M.C., who served

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in the Royal Engineers."

CHENGJU

In order to ba modern, it's

getting so a girl just has to be old-fashioned.

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Director John Blystone depicts in stark and vivid fashion

what hap

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pens in the moniale entry when Talable David." He masseures that. the meraer of any family is wronged aivote that makes him ident in the revealing the workings of the broke of the simple, nature-loving lad

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