CHAPLIN CHARLIE STIRS AT TEN
DROWSY ARRIVAL IN HONGKONG
There were no hustling, bustling crowds, no cheering thousands, at the Kowloon wharves to meet the N.Y.K. liner Terukuni Maru when it arrived early this morn- ing with Charlie Chaplin, the famous flm star, and his brother Syd, as passengers,
Instead, just a few curious loiterers and half a dozen press- men were there to greet him.
Although the Terukuni Maru arrived at 6 a.m., Charlle proved a late riser, and it was not until after ten o'clock that he emerged from his cabin.
The pressmen met Charlle with Some trepidation, for rumour and it that Charlie was a very exclusive young man. But rumour, happlly, proved a lying jade, and they found the famous film star plen- sant, and eager to help them fo every way.
THE HONGKONG
Charlie Chaplin was a serious-minded tourist, out for a visit to the pyramids of Gizeh, Egypt, when this picture was taken
EMPIRE FAIR FEATURES.
BEES IMPORTED FROM CANADA.
SYMPATHY WITH FRANCE
COMMONS AND LORDS MOTIONS
London, May 9,
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1932..
A NUISANCE SOMETIMES.
In the House of Commens to- "Newspapermen are a nuisance sometimes, Charlie said with the N.T. PRODUCE ALSO day, Mr. Baldwin, Acting Premier, gave notice that he would to-mor-
smile that is famous all over the Cworld, "but they have to do their
job, generally find them most decent sorts of chaps, and we get
on well together."
LADY HOUSTON'S AMAZING LETTER.
£200,000 OFFER FOR TOOTHLESS LION,
Lady Houston, in making an offer of £200,000 towards the cost of national defence, sent the follow. Ing extraordinary letter to Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer:
Beaufeld, Jersey,
April 9, 1932.
Dear Mr. Chamberlain,-On the sad heart of Mary Queen of Eng- land-Boow wrote the word Calais.
.:
On my heart love has indellbly written the word-England-and this love of my country makes me bold and not afraid to speak the truth--for the truth is ghastly England is in deadly peril-her pride has been dragged down into the dust by Socialiam.
When I read the terrible news that
our Forçen of Defence -already far, вень Far be- jow the safety mark-are again to be the victims of what only So- cialists can call economy--my spirit | was heavy and oppressed, and every fibre of my being cried out against this further trenchery to us and to our Fighting Forces.
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7251/7282, Gymnopedie No. 1 (Satie and Debussy] ·
Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Serne Koumevitaky 7242. 6.10-6:60 p.m. A Concert.
Violin Solo-Macuahia (Rowe-MacMurrough
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Reno Chemet 1442. (Dourget- Dubiney)
Kary Garden (Soprano) 1439. Plano Belo-Etside In A Kinor (Mondelssohn), Plane Halo-Etude in P Major (Mendelsohn)
Bergel Rachmaninof? 1948, Vocal Trio When the Cock Drains to Crow
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Bong-Deau Soir (Evening Fait)"
"Three Etonians"
R. . Bow, D. McKenna, K.B.,
M. McKenna, K.8. (12774. Churus-Eton Blasting Song (Kaps)
Eton College Mualcal Society (12774. Violin Roto-Franquia Serenade eher
Kreiler). Violin Solo-Kreisler Berenade (Lebar)
Friis Kreleder 1158, Sour-The Little Silver Ning (Chaminade)
John McCormack (Tenor) (308, Notice, etc.)
7. p.m. (Stock Quotations. Mail
4.50-7.30 p.m. Variety.
Song-Body and Boul.
Humorous Bang-You Can't Kill Me by
Seratehing Them
Oracle Flatl. 04181. "A Base Betrayal."
Degno Sole-Orange Blossom Time Organ Solo-Yuur Mather and Mine No, No, Nol Mr. Chamberlain.
Randy MacPherson 113160. Mantous Song-What Did the Village Weck- You must not allow this to be called
smfile Bay! Arrangements are being made
economy. This is Hot economy.
Humorous Song-Pukee-Okonoh
Leonard Henry B3011. for the display at the forthcomingrow move an address to the King
Plano Bolo-She'r Funny That Wey, Empire Products Fair in Hongkong requesting His Majesty to express, This is a base betrayal of the peo-
of the House, abhor-] plea anfely. To leave our homes Plans Sale Wake Up and Dream-Medley of one glana hive of high-grade on behalf
children It rence of the crime and sympathy and our
unprotected-Voen) Duet My Song of Love.
Carroll Gibbons (1303, A perfect barrage of questions bees Imported from Canada.
every other country la tumbled out na Charlie sat down will be of interest to learn that no with the Government and people while
n Socialist feverishly arming-is in the lounge of the Terukuni less than 1,200 hives containing ap of France in consequence of the invitation to our enemies to come Maru. "How do you like Hong-proximately 10,000,000 Canadian assasination of President Docu- and destroy us. kong?" "In your next picture go- bees have been imported Into Can-1 ing to be a talkie?" "Who is going ton via Hongkong for the establish- mer. A similar motion will be to be your leading lady?"
ment of an apiary industry in moved in the House of Lords. Walt a minute! Wait a minute!" South China. Soon after their ar said Charlie with a smile, "One at rival and before their transporta- a time,"
tion of Canton, by courtesy of Lady Ho Tung, these hives were porarily accommodated at Sir Robert Ho Tung's farm at Sheung Shiu in the New Territories.
BIG PLANS BREWING. "First of all, my next picture is not going to be a talkie. There
nothing definíte yot, but big plas are brewing and am going to start production on my new picture when I return to Hollywood. I've been away over a year now, and it will be three months before I return there. The
picture will utilise new synchronised sound, In much the same manner as in City Lights'. Naturally. the theme will be different, but what it will be 1 can't tell you, as our plaus are not yet complete.
INTEREST AND ART.
"I consider the talkies very in teresting, but I don't think they've improved the motion picture art. They have certainly made pictures more interesting, but interest and art are two different things, By the no means do I think that standard of art has been improv- I would say that there is ed. mare interest but less art."
|
H... the Prince of Wales will fly to Paris on Wednesday to "at- lend tem-
the funeral of President the Doumer, as representative of King. He will return to London by air after the ceremony,
The Canadian Government Trade
Answering a question regarding Commissioner and Mr. Eiddiford, the International Labour Offer, his assistant, are exerting them in the House of Commons to-day, selves to make of this display the Foreign Secretory, Sir
Products feature of the Empire Fair to be opened in the Peninsula Hotel on Monday, 23rd May.
John
Simon, took occasion to express the regret of the House at the sudden death of its chief, M. Albert Thomas.--British Wireless.
LENA GOLDFIELDS
The New Territories Produce section promises to be of very special practical interest from the fact that the District Officers of the New Territories and the officials of the Botanical and Forestry Depart ment have been assured by the farmers of the New Territories that every effort will be employed in order to ensure a large supply
sweet corns, i of rice, vegetables, potatoes, a number of roots, to. matoes and various kinds of cook- ing melons, that go to prove the agricultural resources of the Newmons Territories, for Hongkong sumption on Empire Day.
AWARD
BRITAIN TAKES FRESH ACTION
It is sad to notice how Conser- vatives have 'widened the gulf be- tween themselves and their policy— for It is Socialism and not Con- ervatism that stands for dragging down our Navy Army-and Air Forre. In Webster's Dictionary Conservatism is "preserving and guarding the safety of the State and conserving its Institutions.” The Navy-the Army-and the Air Foree-are its chief institutions.
BORG.
Veral Duet-Your Eyra
Whale Melviles and Derek Didham
7.30-7.40 p.m. Operatie. Thengrin-The Bridal Chorus (Wagner). Lohererin-Prelude. Act 111 (Wagner)
Frimphony Orchesten conducted by
Albert Coates 1305. Samson and Delilah-Bacchanale (Saint-
Яменя) Phillphin Symphony Orebestrn under the linn of Lempald Stochowakt 0827. 7.13-8 p.m. Light Opera. The Land if Smilew-Selectlon (Lehari, Buch
8 pm. Report.
Symphony Dreliceton 2227, Buntzig-Voral Gems (Caryl)
Ilahi Opera Compway C4202. Local Time and Weather
9.3-11.30 p.m. Relay from the Ko Shing Theatre.
10,30 p.m. Rugby Mid-day Press
England-formerly the envy and admiration of the whole world-is Treated with contempt and disutninNews.
-even within the Empire--as wit- ness the revolt in India-Ireland— and Malta.
But claw by cinw and tooth by Looth-Socialists have been per- mitted by Conservatives to make the British Lion powerless to pro- tect itself-und it is now like a toothless old lap dog-that can yap --but cannot bite.
11.30 p.m. Close Down.
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ABNORM A L
ONE-POUND BABIES Haunted by a Hymn.
New York, Apr. 14. London, May 9. When the British Navy WIS America has been watching Asked in the House of Com Mistress of the Seas and was so with sympathy the struggle for to-day what steps the called because it always rushed to life of three abnormally tiny con-Government proposed to take the help of all who needed help no babies born in recent weeks in
secure payment from the Russian matter what their nationality different parts of the country. Government of the award of peace reigned in Europe--for our From the Southern District of As question after question was the New Territories, especially September, 1930, amounting up glorious Navy ensured it.
Lo £13,000,000, in fired at him by the eager press- Cheung Chao and Tai O, several proximately
Asumed
But this happy state of affairs that varleties of fresh fish and shell- favour of the Lena Goldfields.
the Foreign Secretary did not please the Socialists—and Chaplinesque attitude, so dearlyfish will be available for sale at the Limited, loved by his film admirera, of
Baid
few our soldiers and sailors-our pride that during the last Fair at current market prices.
days he had been in personal and our valiant protectors-have playing two fingers on his cheek, und smiling.
consultation with the Company been houuded down to beggary and
now in communication the Dolo.-
While the two boys are reported with the British Ambassador at
to be thriving with more than even Moscow.
These verses of an old hymn chances of surviving, Violet Younle, haunt me day and night:
men,
Charlie
A Japanese reporter asked him what his real reason was for go- ing to Japan.
re-
POPULAR IN JAPAN.
"Purely for pleasure," he plied. "My pictures are more
In popular in Japan than
any other country: it is a wonderful country, and I want to meet my friends and all those who have written to me about my pictures. My fan mail from Japan ik one of the heaviest 1 receive."
"By the way. I see that Kono. your Japanese private secretary, has come into a fortune," нomeone Bald.
and was
the N.Y.K. line. Charlie Chaplin and his brother this morning visit ed Repulse Bay, where tin is be- ing taken. This afternoon, & visit He assured the questioner that will be made to the studio of the the Company were not dissatisiled Photoplay Service Company and with the action he was now tak- the Chaplins depart by the Teru-ing.-British Wireless. kuni Maru atp.m. for Japan
direct.
his
H. K. LIKE MONTE CARLO
not break Charlie did customary rule of not rising before 9 a.m.. but his brother, Syd, was up on deck long before the break- fast gong sounded, and was soon surrounded by Pressmen.
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OFFICIAL SUMMARY BY STOCK EXCHANGE.
Christian, seok not yet reposc, Ilear thy guardian angel say Thou art in the midst of foen. Watch and pray. Principalities and Powers,
Mustering their unseen array. Wait for the unguarded hours,
The only means of feeding each has been by eye-droppers, - and every morning hundreds of thou- sands of readers have turned to their newspapers to see.
if tlay Violet, Charles and Billie still putting up a fight against desperate odds.
were
who weighed 20 ounces and was born 13 days ago, died this morn- ing at Houghs Neck, Massachus- etts.
This midget had been kept in a nest of cotton wool and giver 60 drops of milk and water from an eye-dropper every two hours.
In Kansas. City, Tiny Charles Watch and pray.
Bernard Saint John, who weighed exactly 11b, when born on April 4, Ponder for one moment, Mr.is flourishing on 12 spoonfuls of Chamberinin and I think you will milk daily, while a guard of honour agree that no clearer warning of his male relatives, all of them could be given you of your grave strapping six-footers, is posted "Hongkong gives me an impres-
With two or three exceptions, such responsibility for are the around the shoe-box in which he sion of Monte Carlo," said Syd., Lands, Dairies and Trams, for Watchman-answerable to God and lives. to me. Guess Syd, and I are goingt "especially just now, with the which there is a sustained demand, to your country-for the defence to participate in that fortune." rising sun shimmering over the markets generally appear to be mark of the nation. Can you as Watch- who also weighed one pound when
Charlie does not intend to make a harbour. It looks
selling ing time, but there in no beautiful
pressure frum nay quarter. picture in Japan. For one thing place, and could be most aptly he has not got the time, as he described as the Riveira of the
Sales. muat return to Hollywood by East."
"Yes, so I heard," replied the star, although it
newa
A
August, and his studio Is esta- Chatting about his brother's | blished in California, and it attitude to the talkies, he remark- would be too expensive to shifted that "Charlie thinks the talkies the plant to Japan. For the same excellent, but does not think they reason, he does not think that he would be good for his characteri will make a picture in England,
sations."
THOSE OLD PICTURES.
"What about some of those old
pictures of yours?" he was asked;
KOWLOON'S CLOCK.
The famous comedian'a brother the
then directed attention to "do you over intend to revive any clock on the tower of the Kowloon Railway Station, the hands of which were all natray.
"What's wrong with clock?" he asked. "Is it a munici pat aflair
of them?"
"Good Lord, no!" he replied, "I want to forget them!"
Charlie's laugh is infectious. It is the same old laugh that has in- fected millions of film fans all over the world.
Charlic, of course, is quite a dif- ferent person to the wochexong tramp wo saw in "City Lights."
your
He then showed the Pressmen something new in the way of wristlet watches, "New iden," he remarked; "they call it a sports He is aple and apan, and a pleture watch." Taking the watch from of sartorial perfection. As he his wrist, he showed it to the new- crossed the harbour and walked | papermen. The face is construct- neross Connaught Rond, nobody-ed on the principle of a wireless recognised the dapper little man,
receivor's dial, with thres small who, with his moustache, novi-peep-holes giving the time in table cone and grotesque boots hours, minutes and seconda. There amused the whole is no glass, and the whole thing is added, has world.
net in solid silver. Under arrangements made by i
Bank of East Asin $115. China Fire Insurances $500. Humphreys $15. Ewo Coltona Tĺk, 131⁄4%. China Lights (Old) $21. Dairy Farms $28. Lane, Crawfords (Old) $6%. Constructions (New) $1.80.
Buyers.
Douglusca $205. Union Waterboats $19- Benguet Explorations 31 cents. Providents (Old) $4.80,
Hongkong Lands $77%. Humphroys $15.
Hongkong Realties $11.30.
13.20.
Ewo Cottons
T1s. gkong Trams $21 Hongkong Peak Trams (Old) $18. Yaumati Ferries (Old) $31. Yaumati Ferries (New) $30. Hongkong Electrica $13. Hongkong Ropes $14. Dairy Farins $274. Lane, Crawfords (Old) 36,60, Sinceres $17. Constructions (New) $1.70.
Sellers.
South Chim Motors "3" $12. S. C. Enterprises 38.89.
yon
Bille Henderson, of Crane Ohio,
man-persist in a measure so he was born on March 7, has dou- fatally dangerous to the safety of, bled his ounces in the paat six weeks. These three babies were your country?
for their oX- Weary and sore distressed after quite normal, save
i traordinary smallness, and were' mediating deeply for many months born of normal parents.
again and again I have prayed to God for advice-und 1 love ask- ed flim if I am right in fighting in my poor weak fashion for the glory and welfare of England-and al ways the answer is-"Yes, you are right. Fight on."
A million of money has been voted for dote palaces and work is actually in progress to build new Labour Exchanges at a cost of £700,000-while county councillors are given carte blanche to pile up Therefore I know that what I am writing to you now is an inspiration every extravagance waste can sug- front Heaven: to say what I feel I gest, und are encouraged to fritter must day to urge you to save Bri- away millions of money that should taln from the terror of Invasion- be spent in protecting us.
But deeds are better than words, Famine-Pestllonce and Slavery.
For the Russian Five Year Plan and eo, Instead of sending you a has only two more years to run-cheque for £40,000 for income-tax
I now offer you $200,000 towards and Russin will then have an army -trained by Germans-of 30 mil the five million required for our pro- lion men and women. The vast tection, so only 19 times as much hordes in China are also receiving as my gift is needed to make up military training by German officors the five million necessary-a paltry --who are hand in glove with sum to ensure the safety of the Russia-and thus-before we know nation-and I appeal to all-both where we are war may be forced rich and poor to find it-for surely there is not a man or woman In England who will not echo my ery "Hands off economising, on Navy-our Army-and our
• Force.
upon us.
Is this the time for the defendera our country to be starved and de- of u
loted and the country left bare for the enemy?
our
Air
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INDIAN ARRIVES IN HONGKONG
Kowloon.
Mr. Lamuwalla has just arrived in Hongkong. after being nearly two and a half years on the road.. He set out on his quest on Dec- ber 5, 1929, and up to the present has completed about one third of his itinerary. Every one of his 20,000 miles to date have been ae- complished on his Raleigh cycle, which is fitted with Dunlop tyres.
Starting from Kenya Colony, the "All the world's a stage," said Shakespeare, but to Mr. A. M. intrepid eyellat found his way to Tanganika Territory, thence to Alllbhoy Lamuwalla, it's à pedal Portuguese East Africa, on to cyclist's paradise, with perhaps a South Africa, Ceylon, India, Burma, Siam, Malay States, Sumatra, few stony byeways to add a spice Java and Borneo. From Hongkong
of adventure, not to be found on he intends to push Into China, then across to Japan, on to Canada and inain arterial roads.
United States, and finally Europe." Mr. Lamuwalla is traversing
His trip has not been without 32,000 miles of the earth's high some adventures. In Burma he was ways on an all-steel Raleigh push held up by a tribe of rebels, but bicycle, but is not out to establish upon giving a satisfactory ex- planation of his presence, ho was records. Ho estimates the trip will released, whilst In South Africa, take him seven years, and ita he travelled 200 miles on rough wild animals. Fortunately he came object is to enable him to study tho sandy roads, where he encountered races of the universe, their habits to no harm. and customs,, and the geographical Mr. Lainuwalla, who is a mem- nature of the countries visited, sober of the Health and Strength that at the conclusion of the tour League of London and the Olym- plan League of New York, is he will be able to write a book and cycling the globe with the motto give to the public a graphic dos-Trust in God and be not daunted
He will continue his trip ‘after cription of the world.
short stay in Hongkong.
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