WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1932.
KONG'S ROUND HONG
CINEMA THEATRES
OFFICIAL SOURCES.
"HONEYMOON LANE."
There seems to be a trend, among the newer
day.
it rises again to Indicate the next mile is clear."
Speed! Delirious speed! "What's all the rush?" queries the auto driver.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
FAKE BREACH OF PROMISE CLAIMS.
Simple Methods.
Four beautiful London girls have found a novel means of making a living-faking claffis for breach of promise..
Their plan of attack is simple. The girl meets a young man who becomes infatuated and takes her about with him for a week or two,
Then the girl discovers that she must go to the country for a time. In despair, the young man pro- mises to write every day. does so-passionately.
Ha
"Cut calls the director, productions of Holly cameras are stopped. It was 14 wood, toward simplicity and charm Robert Armstrong, featured player, in talkie plots, a trend toward warm opening the throttle on a locomotive and appealing heart-interest. Eddie-opening it wider than it ever had Dowling gives a splendid example been opened before, attaining a of this seeming vogue in "Honey speed of more than 100 miles an They go to dances, dinner or any moon Lane," his first picture since hour on rails, something almost un-other public function where their "The Rainbow Man," which is heard of.
"partnership" is likely to be showing at the Central Theatre to- Yet that is what happened for observed.
scence in Radio Pictures' spectacu- "Honeymoon Lane" is far, far re- lar all-taking railroad drama "Dan- moved from the blood-curdling, or ger Lights" appearing on Sunday jazzy films of a few months ago at the Queen's Theatre. It is brimful with remantic fervour, The mad race of a special train seasoned with plenty of chuckles against time marks the thrilling
For one reason or another, the and outright laughs, and played by climax of the picture, which is said country stay in prolonged.
The à brilliant cast of actors including to be full of thrilla
as well as young man's ardour, cools. His Ray Dooling, June Collyer, Raymond romance:
letters decrease in number
and Hatton, Noah Beery, Mary Carr,
Armstrong learned
to drive an finally stop. Corliss Palmer and Ethel Wales.
engine in two weeks. He piloted But the letters of the first The story tells of how young love the special train for scene after week remain. The girl threatens and faith calmly over-ride the ma-scene at breakneck speed over moun- to sue him for breach or promise. chinations of plotters, thugs and tains, through gorges, along the Faced with those fetters and their even il circumstance.
plains and into cities, finally pulling known "partnership,"
the only Eddie Dowling, who as a brilliant to a halt in Chicago where Loula alternative of exposure, is to buy playwright and stage star has the Wolheim, playing the part of an in her silence and, often, to go on reputation of never writing or apjured division superintendent, was buying it for the rest of his life. pearing in a Hop production, up-taken to a hospital.
Unfortunately, the police holds that tradition in this show. Railroad men with years of ex powerless, because these He and June Collyer are seen as the perience declared they never had rarely come into court. lovers. Mary Carr is the adorable seen a train go as fast as Arm- Mother Murphy. Raymond Hatton, strong drove the special--it was a sure-fire comedian, assisted by the truly a record run! former wrestling champion, George Kotsonaros, appear as a couple of Kide-splitting gambling house boun-
cers.
Noah Beery is the villianous
"KEPT HUSBANDS."
Having as its theme the problem
uncle and Ray Dooley, comedienne of a poor young man who marries of the Follies for ten years, pro-a rich society belle and is forced) vides much fun as a sort of flibber-into an idler's life as a consequence, tigibbet around Mother Murphy's Radio Pictures" "Kept Husbands," hotel:
opening to-day at the Queen'a Theatre, deals with an intensely human subject.
ALEKO AND PANTHEA.
any-
**THE NIGHT ANGEL”
are cases
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
Firmer Conditions.
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Liverpool, Apr. 28.
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME. DA
The following programme will
be broadcast to-day from the Hons Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 855 metres | (645_K.C!#);
5-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 6-6.20 p.m.-Children's Concert, 7-10,80 p.m. European Pro-) gramme of Victor Records.
7.03-7.32. p.m.---Operatie. Cavalleria Rusticana-Selection
(Mascagni),
Creatore's Band (85815). Aida-There, Where the Virgin
Forerts Rise (Verdi),
Elisabeth Rethberg and Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (8160). Pagliaccf-Fantasy
(Leoncavallo, arr. Tavan),
Marek Wober & His Orchestes (V-50017). Samson et Dalila-Pause, My Brothers
(Saint-Saens),
Glovanni Martinelli (Tenor) (8159).
8. p.m.-Local Time. 7.32-8.20 p.m.-A Concert. Piano Solo-
Alt-Wien (Old Vienna) (Godowsky), Prelude in A Minor (Debussy),
Isabelle Yalkovsky (4115)
Song→→
By the Waters of Minnetonka
(Lieurance), Trees (Kilmer-Rasbach),
Ernestine Schumann-Heink (Contralto) (1198).
Mandolin Solo
Souvenir, Barcarolle, HumoresquS
(arr. De Face),
Neapolitan Caprice (De Pace),
Chorus
Bernardo De Pace (20670).
Springtime (Mildenberg), The Glow-Worm (Lincke),
Violin Solo-
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED
IN CHINA MAIL.
Social Functions, Today--Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong, Repulse Bay and Peninsula Hotels, and King's Restaurant.
May 8 Overseas League Concert, Helena May Institute..
Entertainments. To-day- King's Theatre; "Delicious"
-Theatre:
To-day-Queen's "Kept Husbanda."
Today Central Theatre: "Honeymoon Lane.”
To-day Majestie So This la Paradise." Today Ster "General Crack."
Theatre:
Theatre:
Lammerts' Auction. *May 10- At Kowloon Naval Depot, old and surplus Victualling atores, 9.80 £.m. ?
Home Malla. To-day-Inward from Europe via (Ranch(); Outward for Suez Europe via Siberia (Asama Maru), 8.80 a.m.
To-morrow-Outward for Europe via Siberia (Ranchi) 10,80 a.m.
Meetings.
To-morrow-Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Messrs.
Boys and Girls Chorus of Jardine Matheson's Boardroom, 4.15|
Brooklyn (85814),
Ruralia Hungarica-Presto
(Dohnanyi),
Ruralia Hungarica--Molto Vivace,
(Dohnanyi).
Fritz Kreisler (1428).
Song-
Mother, My Dear (Nolen-Treharne), A Brown Bird Singing
(Barrie-Haydn Wood),
John McCormack (Tenor) (1187).
p.m.
To-morrow. S.P.C.A. Meeting, Messrs. Jardiner Offices, 5.15 p.m. May 18-Fifty-firat ordinary
of meeting Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Messrs. Jardine 'Matheson's Offices, noon.
May 19-Fifty-first ordinary General Meeting of The Canton In- surance Office, Ltd., Messrs. Jardine Matheson's Office, noon.
8.20-8.40 p.m.--Band Selections.
May 27-Union Insurance So- Trovatore-Anril Chorus (Verdi),
ciety of Canton Ltd., China Fire Forge in the Forest (Michaellis).
Arthur Pryor's Band (19897). | Insurance Co., Ltd., British The Black Horse Troop (Sousa), Trader's Insurance Co., Ltd., 11 The National Game (Sousa),
a.m., 11.15 am, and 11.20 am. respectively, at Union Building.
Princeton University Band SIR KINGSLEY WOOD
(20355)
8:40-9.20 p.m. Variety. Humorous Song-
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Telegraph Letters.
I'm the Last of the Red Hat
Mammas, He's a Good Man to Have Around,
Sophie Tucker (21994), Instrumental-
Kaala-Medley,
Sir Kingeley Wood, M.P., the Waonabele-Medley,
Postmaster General, addressing the Royal Hawaiian Trio (20281) Grimsby Chamber of Commerce,
Song
The Rogue Song, The Narrative,
In the "apat" raw cotton market Cast in the film are Dorothy during the past week demand has It is claimed for Aleko and Macksill, Joel McCrea, Clara Kim- been irregular, with a smaller Panthea who are appearing to-day, ball Young and Bryant Washburn. turnover, at the Queen's Theatre that they are "Kept Husbands" was produced
The futures market early in the
Souta's Band (19741). mind readers and are able to answer under the direction of Lloyd Bacon. week continued its waiting attitude, The Princeton Football Medley, questions about anything or
(arr. Weaver), but business was sufficient to main-
(a) The Orange and the Black, body. It is said that should you de-
tain a steady undertone. The an(b) Nassau (arr. Weaver), sire to know whom you will marry
nouncement in the Budget state- they are able to tell you; that should The popularity of the Nancy ment of the formation of an ex-] you want to learn what business you Carroll-Fredric March team as a change equalisation account en- should engage in to be successful, romantic duo has been responsible couraged buyers and, with lack of they will impart the information; for the fact that Paramount has offerings of raw cotton, firmer con- that should you wish to discover the again cast them together in one of ditions prevailed. whereabouts of some missing rela-the most important dramatic Prices for Egyptian cotton im- tives or friends, they will supply it, romances of the season-"The proved with American values and and so on.
Night Angel" which comes to the further advanced on a considerable It appears, too, that Professor King's Theatre next Sunday. amount of short covering. Aleko is a paychologist and he March and Mias Carroll were last claims to be able to impart a know-seen together in "Laughter”-the ledge of mental science in such a story of a show girl who married for manner that he who runs may read, money and then regretted that she Scotch immigrant wall, first hears and understand. He emphasises the had ever deserted her musician boy- the words of "Delicious," a song importance of mental attitude to friend.
written about her by a Russian wards the problems that have to be
In "The Night Angel" Miss Car-sultor aboard the boat on which she faced by each of us in the battle of roll, is an impoverished countess. is coming to America, when she and life, and submits that there is no Her scapegrace mother operates a the poet steal into the first cabin in philosophy or science by which a cabaret in her home city of Prague, order to use the piano. They have man can arrive at success, when he gay capital of Bohemia, and Nancy no business there, and are allowed is facing the other way, when every is the chief entertainer in this to remain only when Charles Far- step he takes is on the road to colourful resort.
rell, a young sportsman and polo failure when he talka like a failure, Edmund Goudling, the author and player also a passenger on the boat, acts like a failure.
director of "The Trespasser" and intervenes on their behalf. Prosperity, he says, begins in the "The Devil's Holiday" wrote and As the musician, portrayed by mind and is impossible while the directed "The Night Angel" at Raul Roullen, sends the lilting, tune mental attitude is hostile to it. No Paramount's New York studios. Into the air from the piano, it is one can become prosperous while he Among the prominent Broadway immediately picked up and spread really expects or half expects to be actors who play important support over the liner in a number of sur always poor, for holding the ing roles are Phoebe Foster, Alison prising ways, poverty-thought keeps him in touch Skipworth, Donald Meek, Cora In addition to "Delicious," the with poverty-producing conditions. Witherspoon, Clarence Derwent and picture, features five other songs Records kindly loaned by a Listen
Estelle Winwood.
"DANGER LIGHTS."
The shrick of a locomotive whistle
"DELICIOUS.”
specially composed by George Gersh- win, one of which is his newest contribution to serious music," the New York Rhapsody," said to be Bounds in the distance. An auto- What is seld to be B new a companion-piece to his immortal mobile driver atopa at a railroad technique in the presentation of "Rhapsody In Blue." crossing. He looks to his left-but songs in motion pictures occurs in David Butler directed "Delicious," the cast, El almost before he can turn his head "Delicious," the new Fox musical which features in a train, thunders by.
romance, starring Janet Gaynor and Brendel, Raul Roulien, Lawrence
A railroad semaphore projects Charles Farrell, showing at the O'Sullivan, Manya Roberti, Virginia Cherrill, Olive Tell and scores of horizontally as the train enters the King's Theatre, to-day; "block"--but--before-it- Bettled Miss Gaynor, seen As a little others."
Bringing Up Father..
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