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The death occurred suddenly his residence at Castle Peale yester- day afternoon of Mr. Edward Mow Fung at the age of 62 years.
Deceased, who is n well-known re- sident of Hongkong, had not been in very good health recently. He had been connected with Der A, Wine and Company, Printers and Station ers, at D'Agullar Street, for twenty years.
Broadway, however, until she meets Member of an Australian Chinese a big shot gambler, who puts her Bennett's role in that of the Duchess
Resociated with the Colony's
of the bright light district. wife of a ducal member of the De Ned was a public spirited man of Comedy and thrills follow in quick Medici. As the Duke, Frank Mor keen intelligence, taking great it-succession until a smashing climax gan re-enacts the role he created terest in Hongkong problema, Hein which the gambler is slain by the with marked waccesa in the Broadway contributed notably to the recent brother of the woman he loves, Wini-stage production. Others in the dis discussion on Hongkong's economic fred Show, musical comedy star, has tinguished cast are Fay Wray, Louis problem and lent his enthusiastic the role of the country girl who sings
Eaton, support to the effort to find remedies, her way to fame, Phil Kegan her Calliern, Vince Barnett, Jay
Irene Ware Jesale Ralph, John Among his other activities, he some assistant, while Lyle Talbot is the fatherford and Paul
Genevieve Tobin the years ago entered the timber indus- ganibler, and
"Big Hearted Herber try, Iving the contract from Gov- Rociety girl who Talbot loves. Miss
Herb: rt". Hearted
the ernment to clear part of the Aber-Shaw besides playing the leading deen hillsides,
part also sings three songs by her Warner Bros. comedy romance open- He was a well known sportsman, self and one with Phil Regan. The ing to-day at the Queen's Theatre, were specially in leraided as a novel and most un his favourite recreations being fish-musical and lyrics
written for the picture by Messrs. usual fun film concerning u discor ing and shooting. He was
Pigeon Wrabel and Dixon, famous Broadway dant family in which the wife and the founders of the Ciny
and Hollywood
Twa mother tames the crabbed hond of composers. Shooting Club at North Point and spectacles were created and stage by the family by a bitter deze of his own familiar
, liguri
at Craigengewer Bob Connolly in which acores of medicin. Aline MaeMahon heads Club. Alert and
with enterprising some friends he started the Sportsutiful dancing girls appear. Others the all-star cast as a wife daomed the cast include Allen Jenkins, to drudgery by a husband, whu al- Equipment shop in Gloucester Build- Maric Wilson, Spring Byington, though he has attained affluence, be ing. He was also one of the moving Joseph King, Donald Ross, Frank leves that a woman should do al organisers of the great Sports Centre Dawson and Harry Seymour, Frank her own housework just it was scheme at Castle Peak, which unfor-MacDonald directed the picture, done in his family when he wna a tunitely came to nothing. Of equ-
the Kibbce as child. Guy
crab able temperament, always good no-
burband, attempts to force his son tured and good company, he made)
friends many
and few enemies. He flaving scored a decidet triumph in into a disagreeable job In his plumb
together. "The
supply factory and files into a had suffered,
he learns his trouble red recently trond het Musketeers, Walter Abel and three terrific go when
to a colbage zure. He leaves a widow and adopt-gol Grahame rise to new heights in daughter is engaged
The picture carries a heart their current picture, RKO Radio's man. ed child.
Deceased was brother of Mr. Fred mystory drama, "Two in the Dark," throbbing romance as well as comedy
now at the Alhambra. Both are with Patrical Ellis and
Philip Reed Mow Fung, J. P., and of Miss Ruby comparatively newcomers to the As the young lovers. Helen Lowell Mow Fung, the late Mrs. W. Fincher American screen, Walter Abel having has a funny comedy role as "Once-fi- ; and the late Mrs. E. Dawson, Mrs. played in two pictures and Miss week" maid,
is the only person Parkson (formerly of Foochow), Grahame having made four in Holly-with the temerity to anss the boss: Mrs. Lyons, (now in America) and wood, although she was featured or Robert Barrat, Henry O'Neill, Mar- the late Mrs. Mackay. Messrs. Teddle starred in more than forty British farie Gateson, Nella Walker, Hale and Ernte-Fincher and Norman Mac- nins. Abol, however, has had an ex-familton ami Claudia Coleman-all Kay
all prominent local sportsmen, ceptionally successful stage career, famous on both stage and screen, are nephews of deceased.
having played in such Broadway kits have other important roles, while The funeral takes place to-day, as "The Long Voyuge," "I Love An the two sons of "Big Hearted Her- passing University corner, on the Actress," "Desire Under the Elms," bert" are portrayed by Trent Dur- Pokfulam Road, at Gun for the "Sea Gull," "Hangman's House," and kin and Jay Ward. Protestant Christian cemetery, Pok-"Merrily We Roll Along." Miss
"three
Live Ghosts" fulum.
Grahame's first American triumph Creating a German prison enamp
in "The Informer." Next she frami
el:tches made by a former Mr. John Macleod
played in "The Arizonian," and in American soldier who was confined
The Three Musketeers" as Milady
in one for more than a year was We regret to report the death, In de Winter.
the unusual experience of techni- the Canossian Hospital yesterday
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer clans at the morning, of Mr. John MacLeod, 43, Hollywood's newest and most studios recently. The comp was second omcer of the Changte, now in glamorous romantic team makes its created for a sequence of Three port. The deceased was apparently debut in the persons, of Constance Live Ghosts", the hilarious condy best health Tuesday Bennett and Fredric March in featuring Richard which comes ing, he had a sudden attack of Century comedy, depicting the more sketches were drawn from memory
Amoy haemorrhage and was taken to the colourful romantic escapades of c by Frederick J. Hablinton, former
Manila hospital, where he died a few hours great artist and greater lover of 16th Chi
Chicago resident who was wounded Jater.
Century Florence, which
Foochow United Mr. MacLeod, a native of North Artists brings to the Star Theatre and taken prisoner by the Germans in August, 1919. Ho was not re- Scotland, was a very popular officer, to-day; for one day only. When proteased until after the Armistice. He Holhow and was well known here and inducers Joseph M. Schenck and Darrylow lives in Los Angeles.
"Three
Foochow vin Swntow Ghosts" is the story of three Swatow, Amoy and Formosa to co-star they established what
Holhow Scotland.
The funeral will take place at prontises become one of those
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The poignant strains of "Rose Marie", I Love You" were inter- rupted by "The Coloured Man's the kind of dance that makes strong men weak, an Gilda Gray returned to the scroen in Motro- Goldwyn-Mayer's "Rose Mario" oning Saturday at the 'King's and Alhambra Thontres. Exponent of the operatic pleco was Jeanette MacDonald who,
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"Some of These Days" pounded out scarred piano, the "girl with the ball-bearing hips" presented a A new variation of her famous "Shimmy” whlow onco set the world to wrigg gling. "The Coloured Man's Itch" is an anatomical number exocuted Amoy with hands,
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