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CHARLES BOYER ALGIERS"

HEDY LAMARR in

A United Artists Picturo.

Friday,

April 14, 1939.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Production At

Assassination A.D.C. Attempt Fails

Y.M.C.A. Nets Applause ALHAMBRA

Massacre Of Hankow Puppets Attempted THE YM.C. A. Amateur

done

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

HANKOW, Apr. 14. Dramatic Club on once again, to Arab Leader Surpassing Her SABLE CICADA Performance

AN UNKNOWN Chinese the field from which it derives: threw a bomb into the Japaneso part of its name. With the excop. gendarmerie branch office for the tion of "Busman's Honeymoon,” second district of the Chinese rather indifferently produced

Surrenders

city, while a photograph of last year, and an unfortunate Palestine Civil War Chinese and Japanese officials sally into one. Act plays, ita was being taken at 10.40 a.m. attention had been concentrated yesterday.

A Japanese report states that only two Chinese were wounded, of whom one was the photographer.

The perpetrator of the outrage escaped. Reuter.

Sagres Still Detained

in recent years on Pantomimes.

Nearing End

LONDON, Apr. 18. play which was produced some years leader of the Palestino Arab.

"London Wall," John van Deiten's

Aras Abdul Razzik, prominent ago at the Duke of York's theatre and which you can

read in those irregulars, to-day crossed with excellent series of Famous Plays 16 followers into the territory of published by Gollancz, was a happy the Druses, and surrendered to thought for this year's presentation,

na testided by the fact that an appall-the French authorities. ing small audience last night gave!

Razzik was Interned in the

generous and unstinted applause at Palmyra concentration camp. the fall of each curtain and at the. exits of most of the players,

It is believed that his surprising petion was "due to internal strife among the Arabs.

With one or two exceptions, the Another message says that the The steamer Sagres is still Y.M.C.A. production is well cast-the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem has been detained by the

Y.M.C.A.'s propenalty for develop-Invited to new Palestine conversa- Japanese. inz catirely new inient from which tions in Cairo, and it is reported that Negotiations for her release are the Philharmonie Society and the he will accept the invitation. continuing, it was learned from Hongkong A.D.C. have generously new British proposals for a solution the naval authorities this morn-drawn being again in evidence.

of the Palestine problem, satisfactory to the Arabs, will be the subject of ing.

Talent Unearthed

the conversations-Tarna-Ocean.

The ship was stopped by the Japan- Notable in this category are Alec ese about three days ago off the Austin, who plays the part of the Fukion coast and diverted into Baku office boy "Birkinshaw," and Pauline to enable her claim to fly the British

who gives a refreshing

flag to be verified, according to the tree of the role of "Miss Pat

Japanese explanation.

The diction of Peler Randolph ("Hec Hammond") is sur- The vessel, which is the property prisingly clear and unforced and i of Messrs. Williamson and Co., had he could overcome a tendency to loaded salt in Chuan Bay, near Amoy, overact in parts and not to act in and was proceeding to Sharp Peak others he would easily carry off the at Foochow when she was stopped. major honours.

MARSHAL GOERING

Inspects Colonisation Plans On Way to Rome

Rome, Apr. 13.

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As it is, the most polished perform- ance is, naturally perhaps, given by Janie Weller ("Miss Burton"), who Is completely at home in a dimcult May role, aa befis one who has already lo

October graduated to the wider Reld repre- sented by the Hongkong the leading January

A.D.C. Rita December Cole ("Miss Janus") has Field Marshal Goering and his wife of York Theatre

role played by Marie Ney in the Duke March left Tripoll by the motorship

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Mr. May

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and

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ACT OF REVENGE Hammer Attack Severely Punished by Court

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Six months' hard labour, to be followed by banishment, was impos- ed on Hung Kam-chung, 31, ployed, when he appeared before Mr. Rt. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy yesterday and pleaded guilty

to assaulting and causing

bodily harm to Cheng Chi-kornt Chung Sau Street West, on April 6. Detective Sergeant R. Macvey pro- secuted, and said Cheng was attack- ed by defendant with an

Iron hammer. The complainant had been in hospital for some time, and it was thought at first that the Injury would be serious. Defendant was arrested the next day by a Chinese detective. Continuing, Sergeant Macvey said that the attack was an act of revenge, as complainant had previously given evidence which had led to the arrest and Imprisonment of defendant.

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H. S. Harrison

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OBITUARY

Creator of Detective Philo Vance

New York, Apr. 12.

Colleges and then went to Horvard. He began its literary career on the Los Angeles Timer and for many. years served as art, dramatle ? and Ilterary editors of several American publications. In 1029 ..he

Was appointed police commissioner of Bradley's Beach, New Jersey.

Wright wrote his first Philo Vanco "The death occurred to-day of story in 1926, but for many years be- Willard Huntingdon Wright, aged fore he had been writing: books of a 51, belter known as S. S. Van_ Dine, more Ulterary and serious nature and writer of many detective novels and was a noted authority on literature creator of the character, Philo Vance, and act. - Ho' was a consistent con-

-United Press,

tributor to American and European Born in Virginia, Wright was high class magazines on Hterary and. educated at St. Vincent and Pomona artistle subjects.

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