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INTERPORTER WEDS.

DR. "J., A. R. SELBY AND MISS

E. B. BLACKBURN":

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1933.

CINEMA SCREENINGS.

PRESIDENT BOÁT CAPSIZES

AFTER 14 YEARS.

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The pretty wedding was solem- Ond hundred miles per hour speed- nised at the Union Church, Ken-boat racing, the world's thrilling nedy Road on Saturday, the Rev. sport, is shown in "Fast Life," the E. G. Powell officiating, batween breath-taking action picture featur Dr. John Alexander Robertson ing William Haines at the Queen'

Theatre from Thursday next. No Selby, the well-known Interport effort has been spared to bring the Rugby footballur youngest son of roaring realism of boat racing to the Dr. and Mrs. A. MacDonald Selby;"

screen. Thie camera was evidently of Port William, Scotland, and mounted ...on

cruft following 80 Miss Edna Beatrice, Blackburn, close to the speeding racers that the allest daughter of Mr. L. J. Black results obtain startling effects in re

How collision burn.

does take place is a marvel of

until the big boat smash-up bined motion picture and engineering. William Haines has never bee

hech offered a role with the virile punch to equat his "Sandy" in tha fast-moving racing picture, He continues with the refreshing "wise tracking"

Bere

com-

ng" that has marked his work,

The bride, who was given away by her father, was charmingly at tired in a dress of Walte satin, lined with pink georgette with pearl button trimmings, created by Mme. D'Obry. She carried a Sheath of arum lilies and orange blossom. She was attended by Misses Joyce Harris-Walker and in previous pictures, with a new restrained performance in dramatic Vivienne Blackburn, who wore

scenes that shows his real acting beautiful dresson

white ability of organdie with gold tissue sashes

"A Farewell to Arms" and gold shoes. and carried Bheaths of blue larkspur, Ming

To the "thousands who have read Athol Dovey, flower girl, wore a Ernest Hemingway's novel, "A Fare- similar dress and carried a posy telligent film version now showing at

well to Arms", th

the sensitive, in- of blue pansies, and Master Peter.

the King's Theatre, cannot be other Harris-Walker, page, wore a white than a fulfilment. To those who safior suit.

be new, but the film will still be

:1

have

MADISON'S MISHAP

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'MOONEY'S CASE" TO: BE RE-TRIED

San Francisco, Mar. 20. Seattle, March 25. The famous Mooney-Billings "The 14,000 ton American Mail case-América's equivalent to the liner, President Madison, suddenly Dreyfus case is to have another capsized in the mooring deck to-airing. day'

After 14 years', arbitration," the She is slowly filling with water Superior Court of the United It is believed three of the crew States has granted Mooney a fresh trial on the charges arising out of are trapped

Later the dynamiting outrage in 1916.

One hundred and fifty scamen and workmen stampeded for the Mooney was condemned to death shore when the President Madison on a charge of engaging in a bomb heeled over with water pouring in explosion on Preparedness Day in through a hole where repair men San Francisco, which killed a num

ber of people, had taken off three plates.

A call-over revealed that all except five escaped. Two Chinese swam to the quay after crawling through a port hole.

OVERSEAS CHINESE

Popular feeling rạn high in his favour and the sentence was com- muted to life imprisonment."

aham

Mrs, C. Harris Walker was-ma-willot read the novel the story STATUS OF IMMIGRANTS INcently investigated crime in Am

tron of honour and was attired in one of the most magnificent love and Fre deric Henry, ng Barkley, Helen Cooper, readily take

a black lace ensemble, another romances the screen has yet pro

création by Mme. D'Obry.

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Since the trial the Important The cause of the disaster is witnesses against Nooney and unknown. Reuter.

Billings have been proved to have committed perjury, and the Judge who tried them and 10 of the jurors who convicted them have declared that they no longer believe them to have been guilty. The Wicker- Commission which rein

erica described the case as shocking to one's sense of justice." Nanking, Mar. 26.

Owing however to the strength of crime they did act commit but the Governors of California, the Sup- those business interests in Mr. Alun-Gordon was best man Hare in the front ranks of screen of the National Government met release of Mooney and Billings on the United States Supreme Court PACIFIC SERVICE

The Overseas Affairs Committee California which are opposed to the preme Court of California, and even yesterday and discussed, among the ground that they are dangerous have refused to give them their other things, the conditions of the revolutionaries, none of the com- Chinese immigrants in the Straits petent authorities in California has Settlement. It is understood dared to release the men, although that the Committee decided to one Governor was urged to do so send a number of recommende President Wilson himself. tiens to the Chinese Foreign

Witnesses, who testified against Office with a view to Improving the status of the Chinese im-them, the jury, the trial judge, and migrants through diplomatie arresting police officers Have ad- British mitted that Messrs. Mooney and negotiations with the Authorities.-Reuter..

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men

duced. Catherine.

and

Gary while the duties of groomsmen were carried out by Messrs. Percy lovers. Much of the credit for the film's excellence, however, must be Allison and A. P. Hall-Thompson.

After the ceremony a reception given to Frank Borzage, the director was held at the Gloucester Build-and Benjamin Glazer, the associate ing, following which the couple producer. These are the two left for Fanling where they will who made "Seventh Heaven", another love story with a war background; → spend their honeymoon. The and, in their hands, something of the

bride's going away dress was a

ensemble by Mme quality of that other film has been green satin

brought into "A Farewell to Arrus." D'Obry with a short white fur The film is stark and real and coat.

beautiful. It is something you can- not afford to misst

Another Ceremony

+

Famous Comedy Pair

Give Marie Dressler and Polly

and

Another wedding. consider- able Incal interest, particularly in foran something to fight about- Police circles took place at the and watch the laughs roll up. Union Church, Hongkong, on They're at it again-this time as Saturday afternoon, when. Miss mothers-in-law battling over the in Elsie Edith Wiltshire, daughter of lives of their married children, the late Mr J. Wiltshire and Mrs. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Prosperity",

showing

Theatre the Queen's at A., A. Lewis, was married to Mr. now. John Orem, of the Hongkong "Politics" have as many battles as of

The heroines of "Caught Short" Police Force, late of Carnoustie yore, but the battles are louder and Scotland, The Rev. E. G. Powell funnier. Then,

tog, there is officiated:

dramatic twist in the new story, and The bride was given away by Marie does some straight character. her step-father, Me. A. A. Lewis, neting that tugs at the heartstrings. and looked charming in a dress of The story deals with two widows who white wool fage, with a veil and are friends, in a small town, until orange blossom. her bouquet be- their children get married: Each

starts in to regulate the new family ing of arum Jilies. She was at- tended by her sister. Miss Flor-and fur flies: Folly goes broke, there ence Wiltshire, and Miss Ellen run on the bank, Marie gets a

figures juh in a grocery store and Tones. AS bridesmaids, their way to put it on a paying basis by dresses being of floral ninon, and trading" and "swapping. Their their bouquets composed of yellow battles cause the youngsters to gela Carnations." Little Miss Maureen divorce-and then everything clashes. Cherter-Woods was the flower-Marie sacrifices herself and is plann girl, her frock being of lemoning to end her life for the in- georgette, and she carried a assurance money when Sonny comes home, with the profits of a big deal. ket of yellow carnations....

All ends happily.

The bride's mother was dressed in floral ninon, a creation by Ma- dane D'Obry, who also made the "Bride's and bridesmails' dressës. The duties of besteman were carried out by Mr. Harold Brown. There was a largely attended reception at Lane Crawford's re-

"Horse Feathers”......

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Arthur, Julius, Leonard and Herbert Marx are four of the best-lmown comedians in the world, but you've probably never heard of them. They're known to you as Harpo, Groucho, Chien and Zeppo, respective staurant after the cerem inrx Brothers, and you may their ly. Collectively they're the Four where the health of the happy

them ..in "Horse Feathers". couple was duly proposed. Mr. intest picture, at the King's Theatre and Mrs, Orem left later for the

very shortly. I was in Galestare, honeymoon, the bride's going that Arthur, Julius and Leonard away dress being of lemon geor-suddenly became Harp, Groncho and gette, with a hat to match.

CHINA'S THANKS.

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HUGE LOVING CUP FOR SIR JOHN HOPE SIMPSON

Chico. Art Fisher, one of vaude- ville's leading menologists, Wax playing poker with them after the show one night. He gave them the titles-Groucho, because Julius al- ways looked su serious; Harpo, e

cause

st Arthur always sirummed the harp; and Chico, because Leonard's ability to dispose of fried chicken was well known. The fourth Marx Brother at the time was Milton, who Shanghai, Mar. 26.

retired during the war and was Milton was Sir John Hope Simpson, left succeeded by Herbert, Shanghaito-day. for London named Gurumo, because he always gboard the Empress of Canada, wore rubbers, then called gum boots. having auccessfully completed his And Herbert, when he took Gummo's work as Director-General of the place, took the title of Zeppo.

Chinese National Flood Relief

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the greatest dyke-construetion the Chinese Government instead scheme in the world along the have presented Sir John with a Yangtze.

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