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In a production of auch dramatic Intensity as "Dreyfus," it is not to

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Behind a grey wall on Causeway Hill is the Juventie Remand Home, The Steamship, | be expected that thero should have in a building erected in 1900 as

occurred as many funny Incidents--the Belillos Rotormatory, 3 usually connected with unrehearsed The Homo now houses juvenile effects-as characterise the making of oHondors of the Colony and it was the average Alm. One such incident, for this purpose that the Govern however, which occasioned the hilarity ment took over the promises in of every one on the set, except the November; Inst year. Inspector Individual most concerned, happened C. P. Fallon, formerly attached to during the filming of the little scene the Criminal Investigation Depart- in which Dreyfus, outside his hat on mont of the Police Force. for many Devil's Island, expresses his emotion years, Je in charge of the Romand

Home. on hearing that he is to be sent home for re-trial. This was shot in a On an Invitation extended by corner of a set in, which flourished the Inspector General of Police, most realistic specimens of the cactus Press representatives visited the plant and prickly pear, complete with Home earlier in the wook, and

by spikes, mado

the ingenious were conducted on tour of property department of British Inter-

inspection, national Pictures. Amid the hushed silence of everyone on the act, Cedric Hardwicke, who portrays Dreyfus in the film, commenced speaking his lines, while the cameraman rotated the handle of his machine. Every thing was going beautifully, when

The maximum term of confine- suddenly the star's soliloquy was

ment at the Home is six months. interrupted by a loud exclamation, agonised as well as unauthorised, At present there are 37 Chinenu one Indian lad Borving which was duly recorded on the and "talkle" receiving apparatus. It came different terms. The nost pre- from the gentleman at the camera, valent offenders, it was learned. who had unexpectedly been painfully were snatchers. punctured, in an anatomical region not usually mentioned in polite society, by one of the busincas-ends

Inspector Fallon is usalated by a Chinese sergeant and seven constables, mostly for the escort- ing of "offenders to and from the Police Courts.

At the Home the boys, some of whom are without parents or of a cactus plant, as he stopped back relatives, are taught to read and to bend over his machine. The scene write, and three lectures of an was, of course, refilmed. Another un-hour each per week are given, two rehearsed incident occurred ono late by Probation officers and one by afternoon when the key of the hand-a visitor from the Ohineso cuffs which fettered the wrists of Y.M.C.A. "Dreyfus" was mislaid, and he had to remain shackled in his dressing roam for some considerable time. "Dreyfus", which is the authentic and poignant film record of the famous esplonage case which proves truth stranger than fiction, is now showing at the Alhambra Theatre,

"Jennie Gerhardt"

Fine Basket Work, Basket work is the main indue try. The handiwork of the youths la indeed remarkable. They make rattan

paper

chairs, waste baskets, fish baskets, school baskets, foot stools, rattan stands, Chinese toa pot baskets, Chinese travelling baskets, flower baskets and useful letter holders. The Iads in the department are under a rattan instructor.

The goods may be purchased by the public and small orders may be placed with the Police Depart- ment. The work may be seen on Tuesdays and Thursdays of each week from 3 to 5 pm: The prices for the articles range from ten

cents to $1.40.

8. P. Schulberg's film version of "Jennie Gerhardt", the famous novel by Theodore Dreiser, has been booked for the King's Theatre, where svill open on Thursday. Sylvia Sidney, petite brunette star, plays the title role, with Donald Cook, Mary Aator, H. B. Warner and Edward Arnold heading the supporting cast. Marion Gering, who directed Miss Sidney in "Madame Butterfly" and "Ladies of the Big House", also directed "Jennio Gerhardt". The film is the second in

The offenders are well cared Dreiser which Miss Sidney is

for. On the ground flour there is heroine. She was Roberta in his "An American Tragedy". An in "Ana aick bay, comprising three beds. American Tragedy", she is a tragic Any boy not feeling well Ja kopt figure, a woman caught by forces for under observation for two days:

ability to battle. She and then he is sent to the Govera beyond her wins the love of a noted politician, hement Civil Hospital if it fa Is killed in a railroad wreck before necessary. There is also a special their child is horn. She gets work

wealthy young room for the treatment of scabies na personal maid to

In Inspector Fallon's office woman, her beauty has the same In-cases. fluence on the latter's brother. With there is a medical cupboard which him she finds real love, and their is well replenished with Arat aid years together are blissfully happy But when he discovers what she has concealed from him during this time that she has a daughter, he turns from her. In the events that follow, she insists on sacrificing everything to her love. The picture was made with grent fidelity to the novel, which caused sensation when it was published, though it has since been halled as one of the greatest-port- rayals of a woman's character ever produced by an American writer.

"The Invisible Man"

equipment.

Blankets In Summer!

Оп the ground floor there is also the boys' mess room, wash room, where they bath, and wash their own clothes, a store room and a class room. On the first floor are the dormitories, one for boys serving between four and six months, and another for the overnights. The dormitories are locked at 8 pm, and a constable is in attendance.

It was surprising to learn that even on the hottest day during the past few months some of the Inds slept under blankets!

Each day the boys rise at G❘ alm, and at 6.30 they go down- stairs for exercise for one hour. Breakfast is served at 8 o'clock. After breakfast they have a free hour and at 9 a.m. one party starts.

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basket making until noon, while another party is set to work cleaning the home for the same period." These duties alternato from week to week.

H. G. Wells' imagination, James' Whale's direction and expert acting on the part of a large cast of dis Linguished stage and screen actors 1.ako Universal's "The Invisible Man", which is showing at the King's Theatre, the most striking pictures seen for years. How Universal managed to put this extraordinary story on celluloid remains one of the mysteries of Hollywood, because throughout all of the exelling reels, things happen so incredibly that one is prone to shake his head and blink his eyes to look again. Naturally with auch

and a wonderful idea theme, something beyond ordinary

At noon, the boys get congee- proportions was expected, but nothing Ao Astounding as. this uncanny film. and from 12.30 to 2 p.m. they have. Somehow the treatment given this school. From 2 to 4 pm. basket; wolrd tale by R. C. Sherriff, who is making is continued,

while, a credited with the screen play, makes | lecture fa also held from 2 to 3 the picture entirely reasonable and o'clock. This occurs three times not fantastic in the least, and the " week, and when there is па expert characterizations lent by Claude Rains in his pieturu debut, lecture the boys are exercised.

Gloria Stuart William Harrigan, Didley Digges, Henry Tracers, Una O'Connor, and Forrester Harvey, en- hance this effect of entirely lexical occurrences, although the menace of the unseen is present always,

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

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the garden or in the compound | in front of the building. Volley. ball and other games are played.

At 6.80 they wash and then go !

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KOWLOON MISHAP

LORRY COLLIDES' WITH PRIVATE CAR

The Police are looking for a lorry driver who disappeared shortly after 9 p.m., yesterday, after being involved in a collision

with an Austin soven, No. 1784, at the junction of Shanghai Street and Public Square Street, Ynumati.

Five persons, including three women, were in the Austin seven, which belongs to Mr. Tang Po-sai. Fortunately nobody was hurt, beyond a severe shaking.

Both lorry and private car were titc latter severely damaged, getting the worse of the impact. |

According to a Police report, the private car was proceeding from north to south along Shang- hai Street, when it collided with lorry No. 877, which was going towards Nathan Road on Public Square Street..

Immediately after the accident, the larry driver dlanppeared.

The driver of the private car reported the matter to the Yuumati Police.

upstairs until dark when they turn into bed and the dormitories are locked.

Parents Visit. The Home is doing a great work. The boys are free from 2 p.m. Saturday to Monday morning, On Sundays parents are allowed to visit them. Some of the Inds, when arrested, are reticent re- garding their parents; but when they see their comrades being visited by mothers and fathers they break down, and the "dead" parents come to life!

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IT, WITH A ROPE'

GOSH! WHY DON'T YOU LET THEM

GO DOWN INTO IT

GOING DOWN INTO THE TANK WAS MY [DGA..... AND IM GONNA CARRY. IT OUT! BESIDES, THE OPENING 191T BK ENOUGH FOR A GROWN MAN!

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WELL, DAD IS FIGURING HAYUD HE'LL HAVE TO LEAVE HIS JOD' BECAUSE OF A DIFFERENCA ABOUT SALARY... HE WANTS THE 'COMPANY TO KEER ON.

PAYING HIM-ONE, AND THEY' DON'T WANT, TO!!...