izzy" of the Shanghai Muncipal Police is dead. For the past 20 years he had been a familiar figure to those who have visited Central Police Station charge room at night. He had been interested ju thousands of cases in his time. full name was Zung Tsz-and his official title was Chinese Police Constable 390, For 82 years he had been in the Police, and for 28 years of this he was uniformed clerk at Central charge room, For nearly 20 years he had been on night duty.
Recently he had not been well, and on August 1 he was granted Jone month's leave. He died at his home in the French Concession at 10.80 p.m. on August 12 at the ago of 53, sown." What the film lacked in credibility it made up. for in the vulgarity of the working out of the plot. The spectacle of an apparent ly cane matron highly delighted at the discovery that, her prospective son-in-law had had a discredits intrigue with a cinema star nauseating to a degree, but merd fully; so unreal that bored disgust was' tempered with irritated ridicule. Hollywood should study the French method of handling such a theme. It is-to be hoped that the selectors of films for these two popular resorts will shake off the hot-weather feeling and do better than this in future-—E.n,
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