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As soon as a shooting date for "Nelt Gwyn" showing at the King's Theatre to-day, had been decided upon. Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, starritut |Society.

Ti as Nell with Cedric Hardwicke Charles II, was faced with the neces-

The Informant's name will be in sity of "fattening up." Miss Neagle's kept strictly private, except normal weight is eight stone two cases where malice is proved. pounds but Nell Gwyn was the Moe

West of Merrle England and believed

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WHEAT HERE

Jean Hersholt, June Lang and Michael Whalen in "The Country Doe- tor," in which the Dianne quintuplets make their first feature-length film appearance. The pleture comes to the King's and Alhambra Theatres on Saturday.

WOMAN'S

DEATH

VERDICT OF SUICIDE

ᎪᎢ .

INQUEST

'WARE WHITE ANTS

EXPERT GIVES EVIDENCE ON GRAVE MENACE

numbered but at Shek Kip Mei vil-weekly luncheon yesterday, when Mr.

The speaker said the cockroach was the Althiest insect which contaminated food while the depredations of the White nat were one of the gravest At the opening of the session the President, Mr. W. N. Thomas Tom, welcomed Rotarian T. B. Wilson on

return from long leave. by those present, said he was. gind Rotarian Wilson, warmly acclaimed to return. Since he left six months

his

An Inquiry into the death of a Hongkong Rotarians were regaled to woman, named Wong Luk, aged 30, a treatise on the greatest menaces to who was found. Banging in on un- human life and property at their Within a comparatively short time Hongkong may have a new industry lage on June 10, was conducted by T. Cowan addressed them on the sub- flour milling. At present there are two Australians in the Colony who Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen, sitting as Ject of the White Ant.

Magis have spent the last few months looking Coroner, at the Kowloon

tracy yesterday afternoon. into the position here, and it is their plan to return to Australia, gather in curves. It was therefore necessary Hopkins Adams, popular

The jury empanelled to assist the

Messrn. capital and return to commence in Coroner comprised

B. H. for Anna Neagle to put on several author. In "in Person," Adarns again porting Australian wheat and milling Nyhoff (Foreman), W. L. Hutt, Jar., menaces-to the sazety of buildings. pounds before playing the part. Here are some of the foodstuffs which Annato sophisticated comedy-drama, it in works which they will construct and L. E. Rosario,

giving Ginger Rogers an opportunity here.

Detective-Sergeant J. M. Forrest Neagle resorted to, and which

was in charge of the Inquiry, who to display her heretofore little reveal- heartily recommends

in that Med talents

direction. The Mr. W. R. Watkins, the financial

Dr. G. 1. want to put on weight rather than story concerns the comic and romantic expert of the pair, and Mr. E. C. charge of the Kowloon Public Mor- Medical Officer in Henry, lose it:-Porridge and cream, e entanglements which develop when am Julinn, an authority on wheat and tuary, deposed that he conducted and lavishly buttered toast for break-

A half-pint of

egoistical actress falls in love with mille

months studying post mortem have spent fast.

inorning

examination on and night. Potatoes baked in their handsome young man who refuse to antions bere, visiting mills aiready body of a female aged about 30 ago he had been running foul of skins and eaten will butter, at fenst accept her celebrated charms as an in existence in China and Japan, and 9 a.m. on June 1: The body was

offset to her exhausting twice a day. Chocolate after lunch. In his mountain cabin he disciplines there would be an Immense market 1 Lau Chuen and Li Sheic-lui in the and at Seattle he was presented with

they have come to the conclusion that identified as that of Wong Luk b As much butter as possible at tea.

in Hongkong, South China, Manila

lotem pole souvenir as the visit- presence of Sergeant Forrest. Always some kind of ple or pastry at

The and possibly the Malny Peninsula for

ing member from the most distant As far as possible Anna

Hour milled in the Colony.

cause of death was asphyxiation due club. Though he knew little about dinner.

to hanging. Death had taken place totem poles kept this dict going

Fight

he recognised ко many the production of "Nell

about the previous day. There

familier faces in its carving that he were Gwyn" and supplemented it with aut

no other signs of violence. felt quite homesick.

(Laughter), One of the most unique comedies

Deceased had been suffering additional ration of milk every after-

He congratulated the Club on ils noon to prevent any loss of her hard-that this reviewer has seen in many a

parumonia.

rinw officers and looked forward to won pounds through the exertion and long

Replying the Coroner, witness the continued activities of the Club nerve-strain of filming,

said that pneumonia might cause under the new President., persons to have delirium and men- jal derangement.

arrogance.

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her, but it is not long before he reci- procates the actress romantic urge, In Person," makes the debut of Ginger Rogers as a sola star.

"Personal Maid's Secret"

the

day!

was

at

At present Hongkong inparts from Australia no less than 1,007,839 piculs of our annually, of a total value of almost five million dollars. Manila imports considerably more than this amount annually frum Australia.

the advantages Pointing out some

'He was working in a scene in "Theret Lindsay, Warren Hull be gained by milling the wheat here

Press

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at

from

shown Star Theatre yesterday under the title of "Personal Maid's Secret.” "The Voice of Buzle Ann”

The talented cast is headed by Lionel Barrymore went on striket

Louise and Ruth Donnelly. Voice of Bugle Ann" in the episode Lindsay does a clever bit of acting rather than in Australia Mr. Watkins where he comes home from prison, as the ambitious wife

wald yesterday to a who "You come into the bedroom, read foresight to see that judicious spend presentative that several sites were. the script clerk, "throw your hat on ing will bring them contacts with already under consideration for the numbered hut at Shek Kip Mei with

erection of

of the mill and ench was turn means fina

view of unloading the whent from ships and for forwarding it in the form of flour.

the bed-" "Holy

the

Mackerel,

has the

Rotarians continunily in his travels (Laughter). He had visited many clubs

no!" business men and. socially prominenTM favourably placed from the point of-law, and their ve months old with white, ants in

zam

Feiled the startled star Throw a hat families, which in turn on a bed--and especially on Friday cial secens, Warren Hull, former the thirteenth! Never!" Bad luck

musical comedy and radio star, dis a hat on a bed is following throwing a one o

of the oldest of stage superstitions. lys great talent in his first alm role Friday the thirteenth is another. director hard Thorpe changed the

Richard and eliminated scene Maureen O'Sullivan Eric Linden sem

Su

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Jinx

as the husband. Ruth Donnelly has the role of the maid who is the real

inspiration behind the rise to fortune.

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The President welcomed the follow- ing guests; Rotarian E. B. Cromwell, The discovery of the tragedy was West Point, Mississippl; Messrs. M. then related by Li Shek-lui, mother-

Symon, W. A. Butterfield, W. L. in-law of deceased, aged 60. She

McKenzie, and J. D. Danby, Hong- stated that she resided at an un-kong.

The speaker, Mr. T. Cowan, said he her husband, her son, her daughter- had had great experience in dealing Australia; but relation with each when he came here he thought he her who

was in the Garden of Eden-so much Food. Before deceased died, she had of the fruit had already been eaten! been rather short-tempered and this The ants were supposed to work only took in the summer and to confine their was unusual. Deceased also Hitle food, and appeared irritated, activities to the roofs of houses. In The erection of the plant and On the morning of June 10, deceased his research here on 60 houses he Miss Donnelly, although she plays a buildings would cast only a fraction had left the hut to go to Tsimsha- found that they not only attacked semi-comedy role to start with. is as much in Hongkong as it would in tsul, and had returned about 5 p.m. the body of houses, Boors, etc., bul head the supporting cast in the now given an opportunity in this picture Sydney, while machinery brought from After their evening meal, witness's also worked in the winter though not Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pleture, which

show her

ability, Anita England or Amerien to Hongkong son went out and the rest comes on Tuesday to the Alhambra Louise, as her

of the to such a great extent. Theatre Also featured-are-Dualley-Albertson."plas

would avoid the immense duty which household retired.

Capitalist Ant A Child's Distress romantic rotes and is imposed on such material entering Digges, Charles Grapewin, Spring, are an

Specimens of the ants were passed ing pair of Australian ports. Byington and Henry Wadsworth.

Witness was The labour in the

awakened about

Airways Service," 10 round by the speaker for examination Arthur Treacher is completed mill, in the "In Person"

pm. by the crying of the baby boy, and from a sketch be illustrated the riotously funny na n

a stiff necked, but "In Person," the attraction showingler who insists on patronicing the would cost very little compared to the who slept in the same bed as wit-foudding and growth of a colony. at the Oriental Theatre on Friday and maid, although quite in love with her tralia where the minimum wage is

wages which must be paid in Aus- ness, Witness called to the child's Each swarm of ants contained about Saturday comes from the same pen Others in the cast who do excellent over three pounds a week.

mother, but received

three fertile queens and these were no replaten care of by fertilising ants Sho which wrote the sensationally success work are Henry ONelli, Ronnie

niony towards deceased's

cubicle, know ful screenplay, "It Happened One Cosby, Gardon Elliot, Florence Fair:

known as the soldier ants. It was Night." The pen belongs to Samuel and Maude Turner Gordon.

Australian capital to back the ven- and outside it sho

an- the soldier ant who made the initial, tare is not lacking and when. Mr. other call. On receiving no reply, cavity in which the queen laid her Watkins and Mr. Julian leave the witness pushed open the sliding 80,000 germs each day and he super- Colony at the end of this week and door and found her daughter-in- intended the storage of excreta and return to Sydney via Manila (where low hanging in the room. A cord the work of the "nurses" who looked they will

n short period)

Hollow, Pakhoi and Haiphong was tied arguand her neck, and the after the little ants in their early off for they will hav advanced stage sal at quite another end was tied to

will both be ceased's feet were about four inches Another class of ants in each colony

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worn envitics and bed in the front cubi-along the well milling of Australian wheat here. cle and hastened back to the room, secrete a portion of wood extract to She tried to undo the knot around bring back to the colony as food. Besides milling the flour the all deceased's neck, and after some dif-

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was kept at a will also be able to produce many flculty, she succeeded in doing so fungus-like excreta and the

constant temperature of

80 degrees by the subsidiary lines such as breakfast She gave a call and her

queen foods which at present have to come

husband

continued to lay her germs while the came to her assistance from America or Australia in a form Chinese medicine. A

with some

soldier ant, like some insect capitalist, litic extremely bulky and perishable.

later supermerca son returned home, and he

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tasks and looked after important ques- tions of lian products on the market here and

defence. ard taking back with thein a number of Chinese products to place on the Australian market.

Saw Rennio's Machinery "We'plan," said Mr. Watkins yes terday, to form a truding company the aim of which will be reciprocal trade. Australia is confined to ex- porting primary products witt exception, while she can pro- almest fitably import from China only manu- factured goods. We have found that in the lust few yours Chinese goods have increased very much in quality and many lines which we looked at In Japan we found were produced more cheaply and were of a better quality in China."

withesi.

went with matter at the Shamshuipo Station.

Police Witness could give no rea son for deceased having done away with herself, and could only say she commilled suicide.

If a channel was broken and the stream of ants became confused it was the soldier ant who showed them the circuit round the obstruction; if Lau Chuen, husband of deceased, attack threatened he signalled by und watchman employed at the thumps on the floor to the workers to Children's Playground, Tsimshatsui, make sultable preparations. said he was on good terms with his wife. For a month before her death, said the dying ant of Hongkong was In reply to questions the speaker she had appeared to be irritable certainly related.

ache,

had come to stay. If there was no queen ant in the vicinlly the whole lot would die before morning.

and angry for periods of three or What happened was that male mem- the white int 4*VE ness left the house that night, de- swarm and fly blindly four days at intervals. Before wit-bers of a colony would occasionally ceused had complained of a head- by chance they contacted with a round until

The father-in-law Lau On, also gave evidence, after make contact they died within a few of deceased, een ant. In that case they founded a colony with her but if they did not which Sergeant Forrest deposed to hours. The fact that though blind, proceeding to the scene and finding they were attracted by a light was the body.

The Coroner said the jury should holder seeing millions of these white matter of instinct; but a house- While in Japan Mr. Watkins spent the medical evidence, the cause of evening need not think that the anta

have

no difficulty in returning, of ants in his house on any particular a lot of time inspecting flour mills, death, as asphyxiation due to hang and by a strange coincidence founding, and that deceased hanged her the mill which was using the ma- self. The fact that she suffered chinery originally installed in Rennie's from pneumonia prior to her death mill--the Inst venture of this sort was also which was undertaken in Mengkong. The Australian pair have thoroughly investigated the venture of

Rearic who many years ago bullt i largo will family of deceased!. to grind wheat In Hongkong, but failed. His failure, they state, was due to over speculation and his in- ability to buy whent at

a world bought mainly America. To-day wheat all over the world costa

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Rotarian W. A. Cornell thanked the a cause of her death.

speaker for his address and assured The jury agreed unanimously with him that If he could do anything to the Coronet, and joined with hun in alleviate the problems which these expressing their sympathy. to, the insects presented in Hongkong l

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