Shanghai, Apr. 29, Four diamond rings, valued at ai proximately $80,000, were stolen by daring armed tober from the Shing Feng: Siang, a Chinese jewel ery shop at 580 Nanking Road, at 1030 am, yesterday. The robber, dressed in stylish foreign clothes, walked into the shop and asked the assistants to show him a few diamond rings. Not suspecting the sinister 4n-tentions of the newcomer, the assist. ants displayed four rings.
'Suddenly the robber pulled out a pistol, ordered the assistant to keep quiet' and pocketed the rings. He then made the victim follow him. to the door. Before an alarm could be raised, the thief disappeared in one of the alleyways, Beith is a likeable—it at times uncomfortable—rogue. The Misses Joyce Middleton and Kitty Sharp ft perfectly into their respective cha-acters, and W. N. Dickson gives a straight-forward account of himself as the budding artist....though his methods of sketching might concelvably baffle some of his professional brethren.
The play as a whole is a magnifcent achievement on the part of the actors and especially of Mr. Smith Wright, who produced it—cx.36.,
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