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"PLUNDER.'
The much talked British all- talking picture "Plunder," which had its engagement postponed re- cently because of some unforeseen reasons, will have its public screen- ing on Thursday at the Central
Theatre.
THE
CHINA MAIL.
PRINCE'S THEATRE. CARTOONIST TRIED
Opening Ceremony
on Friday.
an un-
SOME UNIQUE FEATURES.
The new theatre built by Sir Robert Ho Tung, to be known as Prince's Theatre, at the junction of Prince Edward Nathan Road and Road Kowloon, which will be opened on Friday, embodies many new and It is probably unique features. the largest theatre in the Colony, having seating accommodation for Many have seen Tom Wolls and about 2,000 persons, and Ralph Lynu, the two foremast Bri- usually wide stage, over 50 feet in tish comedians, and like them, width, "with dressing rooms attach- Many have said that one willed, with everything provided for the never feel tired of seeing them, performance of Chinese elage plays though their picture be screened when required.
The building is built on thorough- continually for a whole month.
In "Plunder," they are having they modern lines and is fire-proof best of their mood. They are two throughout, full protection against really powerful laugh-making guys. fire being provided by the latest ap They may not nee actions. One or pliances installed by the Jardine two words from them will lead to Engineering Corporation. A special uproaring laughter that will shake feature is the fire proof curtain, the the biggest theatre of the world. first of its kind in the Colony.
the Intention to show It is
One will be a stone-faced man if he does not langh chokingly in seeing their actions when in the con- spired burglary. There will be still more fun when they are Inter- rogated at Scotland Yard.
selection of the best sound pictures available on the R.C.A. Photophone sound reproducing equipment.
Another special feature is an up- to-date restaurant and soda-fountain In the programme of Thursday in the buliding, which will be under
at the Central Theatre, there will able management. be shown in addition a recl of Bri- The building was constructed tish Sound News which someone under the supervision of Mesars. has asked for, Another added at-Denison. Ram & Gibbs, and the elec traction in the same programme is trie lighting was some jazz numbers played by Pete Mesars. Wm. C. Jack & Co., Ltd. Mandell's famous Jazz-band.
"CITY STREETS."
Admirers of Gary Cooper's he Iman portrayals will find added interest in his latest 'starring pic-
installed by
Lash." His other screen roles have been in "The Brute," "The Spieler," "Interference," "Taming of Shrew and Jasz Heaven."
the
J. Harold Murray and Fin
Dureny share the lending honours
ture for Paramount, "City Streets," the next attraction at the King's Theatre. The virile Westerner ap Women Everywhere," with pears, for the first time in his three George Grossmith, Rose" Dione and years of starring fame,
Ralph Kellard in the supporting dressed
directed throughout the pleure in civilian clothes. Uniforma and range Kurb are gone for this picture, and Cooper is seen in the everyday costume of the city man.
But "City Streets" gives Cooper more than the chance to appear in civilian clothea, It gives him story of vibrant power, packed with punchful action, set in the little-
A
known haunts of the underworld 'racketeers, It gives him a deli-
roles. Alexander Korda the production.
"GENTLEMAN'S FATE”.
TO FORGET.
Charlie Chaplin's Closest Friend.
COMMITS SUICIDE..
Ralph Barton, the famous American cartoonist and illus- trator, is dead, a suicide, the, victim of an unhappy mar ringe, and Charlie Chaplin; his closest friend, is nearly broken-
hearted..
Chaplin may be self-centred but not when a friend is in trou
ble.
When Chaplin came to London, Ralph Barton came with him, just to be comforted. The world's sorriest clown could be cheerful enough when helping on
a friend.
"He's very unhappy" said Chaplin to me, after introducing US, the day that they arrived, says a representative of the Daily Herald. "So I've brought him with me. He's worrying about $ woman."
Charlie had known troubles about woman himself.
So all the time of Chaplin's visit to London Ralph Barton was the only man constantly in
his company.
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.
Entertainments. To-day – Kingd "Rookery Nook".
To-day Quest'a
"Gentleman's Fate."
Theatre;
Theatre;
Today Central Theatre; "Many a Slip."
To-day Maiestie "The Love Parade."
To-day World "Trader Horn.".
Today Star "Cheer Up and Smile,"
Treaza.
Theatre;
Theatre:
Home Matla Thursday-Inward from Europe via Suez (Rajputana),
Friday Outward for Europe via Siberia (Empress of Japan), 6 p.m. Sports. See Sports Diary on Page 5,
Miscellaricous. Saturday Bazaar in aid of St. Paul's Hospital Fund, 10 am.
Saturday-Open Air Concert, Kowloon Football Club.
MUSSOLINT & A GIRL Offered a Free Holiday
in Italy.
BERLIN 'PHONE OPERATOR. -
Once, when we discussed poli- tics and the future of the world, Ralph was the third person there. Ralph and Charlie shared the
Signor Mussolini invited a Berlin same suite.
He sat at Chaplin's famous telephghe girl to spend her holi- midnight party at the Carlton, at day in Italy at the experise of the own table, with Sir Italian Government, because the Charlie's Philip Sasson and Lady Maureen girl rendered excellent service when the Duce called the Italian Am- Stanley, and an exclusive few.
Even Lady Oxford and Ladybassador in Berlin.. Aston and Winston Churchill had The line was disturbed, but the to sit elsewhere. But Ralph was girl came to the rescue and conveyed Mussolini's message to the Am- at Charlie's side all the time,
bassador in perfect Italian.
I found him charming but very quiet. He would do no work. British magazines offered him commissions, but he refused them all.
He went on Charlie's secret tramps with him. He was the only one who went with Charlio to his old school at Hanwell.
Please pass the revolvers. That's the request that was made in sign language
а during melodramatic banquet scene in John Gilbert's latest picture, "Gentle man's Fate." showing currently at the Queen's Theatre.
The scene depicts a "peace"
Mussolini asked, the girl for her) name, but she refused to reveal it in accordance with official instruc- tions..
Later the Ambassador found out her name, and the invitation was extonded.
Even now the postal authorites When Charlie could not take refuse to reveal the name of the who is said to speak four girl,
Ralph out himself, he would hand him over to Teddy Knoblock, an- other close friend, and they would go about for hours,
Once, when Charlie went to
there was such a crowd outside that Ralph Barton shut the
ciously enthralling leading lady as alnner given by a Jersey City boot. buy sweets for some children, co-star, little Sylvia Sidney, and a splendid cast of supporting actors legging ring to its rival racketeers, which includes Paul Lukas, Wil. At the climax, a quarrel between door, and the 'little old lady be
the leaders of the rival factions
ensues and the feminine members of the party phas their escorts revolvers underneath the table..
"MANY A SLIP."
hind the counter thought she was being held up by two.roughs. "It's all right," said Ralph, "that's Charlie Chaplin..'
Never once, during his stay in London, was Ralph Barton allow ed to be alone.
foreign languages fluently.
She rejected offers by a film company to act as a voice double in talking film.
Delicate Daughters.
The Critical Years.
At no period of her life is your daughter in greater need of sympathy. and watchful cars than during those years when she is passing into woman- Many girls suffer greatly at this time. Often too, they suffer in hood. silence.
The dawning consciousness "Out With Ralph."
of sex drives a girl within herself, He helped Charlie change the and in addition bearing the languor, money into shillings to send the headaches and back pains that accom- Hanwell boys. Charlie, accused of any the changes, she becomes mor- bid, worried and depressed. At this breaking an appointment, was stage there is danger of antemía do usually "out with Ralph."
veloping which may affect her health One night Carl
Hence the Robinson, for the rest of her life. Charlie's secretary, left me to go sympathy and help of a mother are
vital at this juncture.< to see Eugene O'Neill's great The signs must be watched for and play, "Strange Interlude." When it your daughter shows that shu_is_cx- he returned he heard Chaplin's pariencing difficulty in maintaining "Where have you been?"
her strength you should immediately "'Strange Interlude, Charlie," put her on a course of Dr. Williams
Pink Pills, the blood and nerve tonic said Carl.
which has proved such a boon to Ralph Barton, who was pre women and girls afflicted with those sent, nearly fainted, and then aliments peculiar to their sex. Rend an English mother, walked out of the room.
Mrs: Fogg, of 6, Littlemore Lane, "You should not have said Oldham, England, who states: "A that Carl," said Charlie. "You year ago my daughter Bessie was so remember about O'Neill and weak and anaemic that we thought |
She Ralph Barton's wife. You re the would go into a decline.
would not ent, was always moody and minded him." ·..
depressed.
She seemed utterly life-
liam Boyd and Wynne Gibson.
"City Streets" ia strong melodramo, centering around the romance of Cooper and Miss Sidney.
Mervin Le Roy, who directed the Cooper, operator of a shooting gallery in a street carnival, falls in picture, made this one of the most love with the girl, who is involved "unique" shots seen in talkies, the with the beer-running racketeers. camera being placed aquarely on the The girl, dazzled by the easy money Door for the "under the table" earned by her father and friends, closeup.
Не urges Cooper to get in on it. refuses. But, when the girl la framed and sent to prison for a Joan Bennett, who is having the murder of which she was innocent, leading feminine role of Universal's he turns racketeer and beats the daring comedy. "Many A Slip," is "big boys" their own game. seen as a girl who gains the man of The authentic background of the her heart_83_a_husband by the dram is assured by the identity of simple expedient of telling him that the author. Dashiell Hammett, ache is expecting an heir.. former Pinkerton detective, whose Joan. is as beautiful in her face. recent magazine storles have as she acts, and is in the seventh startiod millions of readers. He generation of theatrical folks, one uses incidents and settings for his of her ancestors having been stories that he has actually experi- manager of the old Drury Lane enced. Rouben Mamoulian, who Theatre in London. Her mother la directed the sensational. pleture, Adrienne Morrison, a famous lead "Applause," made this picture. ing woman of the last generation, and her father is Richard Bennett, present-day atar of the stage.
Joan made her stage debut with A mallor to be really expert in his her father in "Jarnegan," while her trade must than an expert seaman. first picture was "Bulldog Drum- He must be a masterful musician as mond." Others in which she has well. Otherwise. how could he hope lately been eeen are "Disraeli," to At into the quartettes in the "Moby Dick" and "Maybe ''It's cool of the evening after the day's 'Love." work is done?“
Her leading man in "Many A It was the musical accomplish-Slip," which is now showing at the ments of Clyde Cook which secured Central Theatre, is. Lew Ayres, whö. Then, a few hours later came him the post of first mate on the has recently created one of the the news of his suicide. good ship "The Dove," in the screen's greatest sensation when musical romance of Morocco, he skyrocketed to fame in the lead- "Women Everywhere," which opens ing role of Universal's "All Quiet On the heep in his line of comedy, and next Thursday at the Queen's The Western Front," and has al as Hopkins the love-sick plumber, in Theatre.
And it is those seafaring ready become the most populax-male | "Many A Slip," he is a positive instruments such as the concertina, star in motion pictures. Among riot. Summerville played a great the jew's-hard and harmonics on the pictures in which he has ap- role in "All Quiet On The Western which Cook specializes. **
peared are "Common Clay," "The Front," and scored also in Uni- "The Dove" is not the first movie Kiss," "Beat Is. West" and "The versal's "See America Thirst," as ship on, which Cook has sailed. He Doorway To Hell."
well as a riotous series of wartime was the cockney. Bailar in "Captain Slim Summerville just about tops comedies..
"WOMEN EVERYWHERE."
the tribute
There had been another Mrs. less. After many other remedies had Barton since O'Neill married the failed, I started giving har Dr. Wil third one, but, for all that, it re- lams Pink Pills and she began to Her appetito was in:
weakness left her, and she grew Two days before Chaplin went bright and folly. In a few short to Berlin I said good-bye to Bar-weeks Dr. Williams Fink Pills made ton, who went back to New my daughter like a new girl," York. alone.
called to Ralph the plight that he pick up wonderfully.
returned, the sense of tiredness and
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