CENTRAL THEATRE
The Best Natural-Ventilated Theatre in the Colony, that has the greatest number of Windows and Electric Fans, being equipped with the most High Priced and Clearest Sound equipment available, and with Lifts always operating for the convenience of the Dress Circle, Back Stall, aud Upper Circle Patrons.
SHOWING TO-DAY
at 2.30; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
The Greatest Universal Super Special Production -
of the Year.
EVERY SENSATION KNOWN TO
MAN EXCEPT THE LOVE OF. WOMAN!
FRANKENSTEIN
..THE MAN WHO MADE A MONSTER
And he lived in misery and died in shame...a fiend or friend or fabled monster?...or a soulless wretch with mechanical brain? hunted by a thousand men... the only thing he feared was fire! ...a man-made monster with the strength of a dozen men, he made no concession to life or love!
A UNIVERSAL SUPER ATTRACTION
PRESENTED BY CARL LAEMMLE
WHS COZEN CLEVE, MAR CLARKE, SOMN HOLES, BORIS KAZIOSY, Dwight Tres Béward Van Bonn, Trubarle Korv. Based upon Über Mary Winteraki Sindley Boot Adapted by John L. Baldeaga Team de play by Prazy Wickling Produced by Cut Lukemeade, Jr. Ducted by JAMES WHALE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1932.
CANTON CHOLERA
OUTBREAK
OVER 300 DEATHS IN HOSPITAL
Canton, June 27,
LONG TACK SAM
A WORTH-WHILE SHOW
A: QUESTION OF IDENTITY
:
SOLDIER ACCUSED OF THEFT
"Wo Chinese, damn clover!" These words used by Long Tack Sam to describo his own show,
Private Andrew Young, of the sums up the offering of tumbling, Argyll and Sutherland Highland- juggling and acrobatic displays, ars, made another appearance be Oriental magic and mystery, danc fore Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon ing and singing which will open at Magistracy this morning on the the Queen's Theatro to-morrow.
Dr. Ho Chi-chang, Director of the Bureau of Health, states that the Government has procured a fur. ther supply of anti-cholern vaccines from Shanghai and Hongkong so Long Tack Sam, whose years of charge of theft of five watches from a shop at No. 46, Halphong that more people may receive pre-experience have made him a master Road at 10 p.m. on June 20. ventive trentment.
showman, is outstanding in a
An apprentice watch-maker tes. The following are the figure of troupe for which nothing but tined that he was left in charge cholera casca treated by the various praise can be offered. This smil of the shop on the night in quca- hospitals during the past three Ing Chinese miracle man so clover- tion, and saw the defendant walk
ly directs his men that there is not in. Defendant, pointing to Admitted Dieda dull moment in his whole pro-show-case which contained some
weeks:
No. 2 Hospital of the
gramme.
watches, said, "Watch." Witness
Long Tack Sam himself provides presumed that he wanted to buy the mystery. Ife burns two pieces watch; and accordingly showed of ribbon and puta them together him a tray containing ten watches, 7before, the audience without the prices of which ranged be
break in them. He cuts a rope and in the next minute it is as strong
Sun Yat University
Sen
0
Pak Tanl
20
1
Municipal
33
Tal Tung
1
Paul Todd
64
8
Liang-Kwong Bap-
tlat Minsion
22
11
Kwong Wah
26
17
Infectious
Diseases
19
7
Fong Bin
612
207
798
319
The
Defendant
tween $17 and $31. pointed to another tray of five as before without a knot being tied, watches, the prices of which were He produces trays and glasses from $13.50 to $31. Witness alleg- from thin air and to prove thated that defendnat seized this tray thero
and that is no fake
the of five watches and ran glasses were not attached to the Witness run after him but tray, he drinks the contents of one stopped by two guards at Whit
defendant of the glasses and remarks that Itfield Barracks, when
away.
Was
Up to the present, no cases have might have been something better.ran inside.
Long Tack Sum's daughters, Mi- Questioned by his Worship, wit- been reported on Shameen.
Na and Nee Sn Long, give nness said he could not recognise members of the Federated Malay Straits police who are in Canton splendid touch of variety to the the defendant as the soldier who
ja entered the shop. studying Cantonese have been or-programme. Their dancing
In answer to further questions, dered to leave. Tungshan, where beautiful, the result of years of they were staying, and remain on arduous practice. One of them witness said when he gave chase, Shumeen until the epidemic has plays the violin artisticnily while he was about ten feet behind the ran Into soldier. The soldier ceased. One member has contract- the other has a gifted voice.
Two of the male members of the Whitfield Barracks but when he ed the disease, namely. Mr. Jerold, troupe astonish the audience by himself tried
to follow, he was but though his case was very ser their balancing. One of them lays stopped. He was not sure what- Ions, it is hoped that he will now on a mat with arms stretched above her the Indians who stopped him recover-Our Own Correspondent, his head. Balancing on
his saw the soldier.
LORD KILBRACKEN PASSES AWAY
| GLADSTONE'S FORMER
SECRETARY
partner's hands, anothor remalna steady while the
beneath rolls over, turns and finally stands up.
Chinese A cook employed at Armend man Building corroborated the previous around witness' evidence regarding the en- try of the defendant into the shop. But the work on the horizontal e said he was present at an iden- few days bur is the most fascinating. Twotification parade held members of the troupe take their later at the Shamshuipo Military turns on the bar. Men of Camp, and pointed out the defen- marvellous physique, muscles rippl- dant, whom he recognised.
His Worship remarked that it Ing beneath their ́skin, these two London, June 27. do all the "grinders" practised by appeared to him that the whole the average acrobat and then go on case, rested on the identification The death has occurred, at the to perform some hair-raising spin-
parade. age of 85 years, of Lord Kilbrucken, ning and whirling. The last act is
The hearing was adjourned until who, as Sir Arthur Godley, was a classic. The man on the bar
Thursday. Private Secretary to Mr. Gladstone. goes from the gaint swing into a child's legs covered with bruises.
Baron Kilbrucken of Killegur was swing from the elbown. Letting nised to the Peerage in 1909. He up his hold on the bar, he twirls in would appear that the child was was the oldest son of the late John; mid air and, regaining the Robert Godley, of Killegar, Co. awings over again. Leitrim, former Assistant Under- Secretary of War. He married in 1871 the Ilon. Sarah Jaines, dangh- i ter of the first Lord Northbourne, [ his wife pre-decensing him in 1921.
He was a Trustee of the British! Museum and Chairman of the Governing Body of Rugby School, of which he was an old boy.
tle i
A BABY GIRL ILL-TREATED
it
From investigations made, bar.presented to the woman by a
WOMAN FINED $25 TO-DAY
former principal tenant of the floor, whore the woman claimed was her godmother. The woman herself was formerly a prosti- tute and was now a kept woman of n seaman who was away.
Dr. G. II. Thomas, of the Govern ment Civil Hospital, to whom the child was taken for examination, Charged with Ill-treating an 18- told the Courf that he found the was Private Secretary to Mr. Glad-month-old female child, a woman legs of the child covered with stone in 1872-74 and 1880-82, while living at 5, Lower Lascar Row, was bruises consistent with her being he was for a time Commissioner of fined $25 and bound over by Mr. beaten with a small flat stick ex- Inland Revenue and later Undur-Wynne-Jones at the Central Magi-hibited in court. The child was Secretary for India.
stracy this morning.
Homewhat under-nourished. Sub-Inspector Fraser, Child
the The woman, replying to Welfare Inspector at the Secre- charge, said the chilt refused tariat of Chinese Affairs, stated nourishment and was continuously that on Saturday he received in-fretting. formation that the child was being His Worship observed that she beaten at the home of the woman, could have had the child examined and went there accompanied by ojby a
ns that lady inspector. They found the obvious thing to do.
The heir to the title is the Hon.
Hagh John Godley, K. C., Counsel to the Chairman of Committes of the House of Lords since 1923, and formerly Assistant Parliamentary) Counsel to the Treasury-British
Birrleas
doctor,
WAS
the
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TOM WALLS, Yvonne Arnaud Edmond Breon Winifred Shotter in
ON APPROVAL
Adapted from FREDERICK
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TO-MORROW
A Grand Double ATTRACTION ·
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On
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Monte Blue
One
Woman
'SKIN DEEP
Loathed His Uzir Faca
Another
Girl
Loved Him
Because Ho Was Handsome
DAVEY LEB
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T
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The World Famous Chinese Miracle Man LONG TACK SAM with
Misser MINA & NEE-SA LONG
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STAR Daily at 2.30, 5.20
BUSTER
KEATON
in his latest comedy
7.20 8.9.20 p.m.
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