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1 BANGALORE
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15,000 20th Oct. 17,000 3rd Nov, 6,000 10th Nov.
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6,100 24th Nov.
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RANPURA
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Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antway & Hall. Marseilles & London,
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marsellos, Havre, London, Hamburg,
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Bombay, Marsellies, Havre, London
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1934.
Cinema Notes
(Continued from Page 3)
"SHADOWS OF SING SING"
CENTRAL THEATRE
tral Theatre.
:
"HEADS, WE GO!”—ALHAMBRA
THEATRE
Reincarnation
(Continued from
Page 10).
strength
Sympathy flooded through him,,to,of legs-one broken, the exclusion of his own. hurt.
The journey, a torture from the "You hurt?" he cried. But beginning, became an agony. Step- there was no answer.
ping slowly along between the The story of an innocent man,
In the darkenness he passed his lines, the burden on his shoulders caught in the tolls of the law; his
more Heavily at every thrilling flight from prison to ob-hand lightly over the Agure. It dragged
was a man, breathing, the clothes pace. His arm racked with pain tain material proof of his In- wet and sloppy to the touch of his at partially supporting the nocence; and a romance woven into these dramatic events are of-cut hand. The man was half ly-weight; his breath whistled be- ing in a puddle, and had, ap-tween his teeth like that of a run- fering in the Columbia produc-parently rolled over in it. Search nor badly exhausted. Soon his lungs, tion, "Shadows of Sing Sing." which is now showing at the Con-revealed a wet and useless box of felt red bot
¡matches in one of the coat poc- But he would not give up. He kets. He throw them away. would do this thing if it were the Bruce Cabot, In, the leading Here was need to take a de-last thing he ever did-to get into role, is capably supported by Mary cision, and Grigg took it without the light! All his life he had! Brian, Bradley Page, Claire Dub- hesitation. At. any moment an- tried to get into the Bight and fall- rey, Grant Mitchell, Irving Bacon other train might come upon them.ed from lack of resolution--not and Dewey Robinson.
That danger entailed precaution. strength. Now It was Phil Rosen directed.
He felt the four railway lines and and resolution combined that was dragged the senseless body slow called for. If once he lowered the ly and carefully batween the two burden-he failed. Step by step centre rails so that it lay length-lhe forced his way into the dark- ways. In so doing he had to exertness. It seemed shot with red Constance Cummings, the beau- all the strength of his one arm sparks and flashes of light which tiful Hollywood actress, makes and the exertion made him radiated before his smarting eye-
Again the man balls in circles and whirls. her British film debut in British breathe heavily. International's current produc moaned.
And so he did not see the thin tion, "Heads, We Go!", now show
"What's up?" whispered Griga crescent of light from the tunnel's ing at the Alhambra Theatre.
solicitously. "What happened?" mouth until he had rounded the The picture, which was special-
But there was no reply. He bend, and then the full force of ly written by Fred Thompson atood upright to consider what to daylight seemed to come on him and directed by Monty Banks, do, and could not decide.
the distance, al- suddenly. But showa Constance Cummings in Should he go and fetch help? Or though short, was almost beyond jone of her best roles to date, and
wait until help came? Then his capability. But this his whole | also brings together such popular gradually he became aware of the body was racked with anguish. players as Frank Lawton, Binale angry warning of the rails. A His eyelids were leaden with the
McNaughton and train was coming.
effect of the narcotic. The tempta- Barnes, Gus Claude Huiberc.
Every moment the noise grew tion to let go and sink down to The story of "Heads. We Go!" louder. A distant thin abriek alelepful oblivion thrust back at is romantic one interwoven from the whistle heralded its rush every painful step he took. It with gay comedy and adventure into the tunnel.
seemed impossiblo ever to get to Constance and Binnie are cast in This time his brain was light-the round hole where the daylight the roles of two mannequins, one ning swift, telling him what to do. flooded through. of whom spenda a amall inheri-He stooped and felt the rails When he was at the very end of tance to be near a young man Those on the left trembled and his endurance and the thought with whom she has fallen in love throbbed as with life. Those on had already registered on
isin
a first sight She meets him un- the right were still. He threw brain that it was impossible to go Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp &der the most peculiar conditions, himself down on the right and lay another yard, that he had failed; Holl
first as a Channel steward and along the side of the track, press-some second strength seemed to Bombay, Marseilles & London. 7,000 8th Dec. Bombay, Marsellies, Havre, London, then as a millionaire yacht owning, his body down to the uneven flow through him strengthening Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & cr. Force of circumstance seas ballast, his arm around his head, the resolve' to succeed. And so he Full
Connie posing as a famous Alm his heart throbbing almost pain-carried on. Step by step, until 17,000 15th Déc.
Bombay, Marseliles & London.
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As before, the noise Increased to to side, he emerged from the tremendous cacophony. It swoop-mouth of the tunnel. At that mo-i [ed down on him, a blare of discor-ment the red rim of the sun dia-} dant sound: There was a rushing appeared below the horizon, and,
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came more distinct, as when a dramatic Before he began he realised the door opens. He heard one
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of all those who distance to the tunnel's near-minute." Presently he viaw the film.
lest excist. It might be a mile-or footsteps approaching and he shut The story concerns the real less. And which way should he his eyes, feigning sleep. He felt struggle of
a young physician choose? There was no lightening that, being in bed, he ought to be who, quite against his will, must of the blackness on either side. To asleep until awakened. He wait choose between a strictly ethical was not worth thinking about. Holed until the visitor was well into on everyone's lips. But whyfjand her face changed curiously,
taken career and one that is not too was entirely without sense. of the room before opening his eyes. Memory baulked. He couldn't | "Yagger. They've honourable. Intermingled with direction in the darkness.
Approaching, with curiosity remember. So much had happen- away He's gone." Her voice car this struggle is the greater. one Can you get on your feet, no written on her plump red cheeks, ed in the tunnel to obscure recol-ried tragic finality.
"Gone! You mean dead?”. concerning a choice of love-one that I can carry you?" he whisper was a buxom woman, who might loction of the life before: The
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But the man had faintned again: kle and galety,
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The cast, headed by Ralph Mor- Perhaps it was as well. To lift a bite of something to eat. Shan't "Bread and milk” she said smll- either!" She turned and left the 7th Sept. Amoy, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
ing, "and teal 15,000 20th Seph Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
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S'hal, Mol, Kobe, Osaka Thama. to life aardup of vivid charac-equipped with average strength had gone. Grigg smiled to him- pointment. The smell of bacon knew! Every newspaper in the
and two arms, Grigg had only sell,, he was feeling pleasantly had been so good.
country clamoured to know where RAJPUTANA 17,000 4th. Oct. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. ters excellently portrayed. SANTHIA
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The necessity of making it serve bacon two or three. rashers reaching his one arm out of the murderer, poisoner of half a dozen CHITRAL 15,000 19th Oct. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
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In the use of it
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"You poor son!" she said kind- he must have been in the tunnel 8,000 2nd Nov, Amoy, Bhai, Moll, Kobe and Ombs March, who were last seen to underneath the man, the inert people were holding an argument TANDA
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Tether in Merrily We Go to form across his back. Then slow He listened intently, but could ly. "How you carried him, no- To think that he, James Grigg, Hell" make a welcome return to ly, and with infinits caro, he exert only catch an occasional word. body knows! There's a roomful had found Yagger-and brought the screen in Paramount's latest red every ounce of his strength to Unce a man's voice thriller than of 'em downstairs, waiting to see him In-single-handed! He had production, "Good Dame,"get to his feet, his teeth fastened the others more like a boy's you to ask that! They want your done something Indeed; He be arm and sald, "But I tell you Yagger..." story."
gun to feel very different to the Again they demonstrate their into the cloth of a limy
sustalat appeal, his sound left arm around a pair Be couldn catch the rest, but the -- "Who?" queried Grigg, KO
hesitant creature that cringing auperb ability.
ory."" Yagger ^ "Why these newspaper, men of had been James Grigg before.
course. I told 'em they could see His blue eyes lit up as he be
gan to create the life story of the when I said so—hot before ran to "What about what about., new James Grigg He promised name was "The other he took him up himself it should be interesting.
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And in-help-
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