EDENDALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 547, 27 December 1928, Page 15

EDENDALE

“A GIRL IN EVERY PORT” **A Oirl in Every .Port.” The name itself should be ei ough to explain this unusual yarn about the first mate of a tramp scooner. This tale of the seas is now playing at the Edendale Theatre* starring Victor “A Oirl in Every Port.” is one of the most unique, and, at the same time, one of the most thrilling pictures of the seas ever screened. The story deals with the romantic adventures of a burly first mate in the various ports of the world which his ship touches. It takes the audience through the twisted streets and the queer cafes haunted by the sailors when they go ashore in ports of call. In each port there is a girl who?* name is carefully noted in“; Spike Madden’s” note book. “If I Were Single.” a comedy of matrimonial troubles, will also be shown, starring May AlcAvoy and Conrad Xagel. Vilma Hanky is to take some exteriors for her next picture on Fifth Avenue. New York had better prepar# \ for inure traffic congestion.

36 YEARS OF CRIME HAD RECEIVED 82 LASHES ■\Vhat is probably a record in crime has been set up by a native who was declared an habitual criminal in the Native High Court at Durban recently. He had no fewer than SI previous convictions. The native began his criminal career as far back as 1892 and, as well as numerous terms of imprisonment, had received altogether S2 lashes since 1900. His latest exploit, after servipg a sentence of seven years’ hard labour, has been to break into a house. At about -1 o'clock in the morning, the householder awoke, and a fierce hand-to-hand struggle ensued before the European succeeded in overpowering the intruder and tying him up. The judge remarked on the fortunate fact that the prisoner was not in possession of a knife at the time of the burglary. The native’s plea that he was drunk the court refused to accept. He admitted 31 previous convictions, and the prosecutor suggested that he had probably forgotten the others after 20 or 30 years.