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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1935
White Man's Ways
(Continued from Page 9).
he kept them he did not tell her, but always there would be a few at Also everything about the place hand, and the men came, and drank was of absorbing interest. Once, or out of glasses, and gave Husky some twice he took her over the river to more of those shining round things, the settlement. It was a big con which she now knew to be coins, the struction camp with over a thou actual money she had hitherto sand men, and she had never seen so known only as hieroglyphic entries many people, of so many houses, at in the factor's books at the post, as one time in all her life before. And credit for skins turned over to him the things the men were doing were or debit for stores and ammunition incredible. Cutting great slices out and bolled sweets received from him. of the river bank levelling the rock. But one day Husky let her taate ridges, deepening the stream-such the funny amber liquid, and she atrange things to do! The rail drank a whole glassful straight head, the train that came once a down. It choked her. She felt as fortnight, the gas-cars that went if her whose inside was on fire. clattering along the rails, the motor Then she recovered, and blinked the trucks and caterpillar-wheeled trac-tears out of her eyes, and after that tors and the immense land dredgers she began to laugh. She did not and scoops were like some thrilling remember much, after that, except |nightmare.
that she had laughed and laughed,
But she was never unfaithful in simply at nothing at all; but in the the midst of these excitemente, bemorning it was dreadful Her head cause she was so grateful to Husky, achad. She had never felt a twingo and so proud of her home.
of pain in her life before, and sha They had lots of visitors. At re- thought this must be death. But gular intervals they came, in the It was not. She got better. Only evenings, and as the snow went and her inside still felt sore, and when the short summer came those vial-she stood up she fell down again at
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus. Genoa tore increased numbers Husky took once. The room went whirling
Marni edmetimes in his big motor-round her.
the Hauptmand trial, Ben Helaz, Brooklyn, N.Y., writer, testified he saw leader Fisch jump over St. Raymond's Cemetery fence on the night the Lindbergh ransom was' pald. Heler and a girl were in' a parked car, he stated, and he re- cognized Fisch's published picture after Hauptmann's arrest."
Called as a defence witness" in
Cinema Notes
(Continued from Page 5.)
“KID MILLIONS"—KING'S THEATRE
Cantor's
boat to a little shack on piles across After that ahe did not touch the the river, and there the visitors amber liquid any more. She came were congregated waiting for him. to hate the smell of it. She noticed Later on, he sent her over alone, that some of the men laughed, the paddling in a big Indian canoe, and way she had done, but lota of, them she would bring back as many as did not laugh. They started to five or six at a time. And when argue, and they often fought, and "Kid Millions", Eddie they landed on the beach Husky things would get smashed up, and annual musical extravaganza `for would be there to received them, then Husky had to hit them over the Samuel Goldwyn, brings the famous and each of them would hand over head to make them quiet, and often comedian to the screen as a boy to him a small round shining thing they were sick. She did not like It Cinderella of the Brooklyn water- which he slipped into bis pocket. She discovered, too, that Husky front, who becomes, the heir to
The things made a pleasant chin- lived in constant fear. He was fortune in burled treasure in the king sound against each other in his afraid of the Mountio. Marni land of the Pyramids. pocket, and she would sometimes knew all about the Mountie. He was touch it just to hear them chink..
a friend. You didn't have to kill Block and Sulit George Murphy Then the visitors would crowd people who interfered with you; you and this season's crop of Goldwyn into one room, and Marni would be just sent word to, the Mountie, and Girls prance along the Nile with sent to the kitchen, and she would he punished them instead.. slt with her hands in her lapshe got hurt, he came and made you well. tuneful tale of adventure in the If you Eddie in this fastpaced, fun-packed 9th Apr. no longer wore Eskimo Clothes, but Only you must never do anything harem of the Shelk and the tombs 20th Apr.
was dressed, to her infinité delight, that he told you not to do, because of his fathers.
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in a series of garments that took he never forgot. hours to put on, beginning with
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The story and dialogue were white things that tickled her skin, fear...
She could not understand Husky's written by Arthur Sheekman, Nat 2ard Apr. and ending with a thick wide skirt work; but he paid for everything he Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn. Certainly he never did any Perrin and Nunnally Johnson, while 21st May that made it difficult to walk easily, bought from the factor in coins, 80 Burton Lane and Harold Adamson and a thick woollen sweater of gor he could not be in debt, and he only contributed the tuneful song num geous pattern-and the would listen hit people over the head when they bers. to the voices of those men, big needed it, and anyway they always hard-faced, powerful men, with came back, and were very good tasy", a poor boy's dream come 3rd Apr.
The elaborate "ice cream fan- 4th May coarse voices and thunderous guf-friends afterwards.
fawing laughter as they talked and. It was very puzzling. No one opens a free, Ice cream factory for true, in which Efie, the 'millionaire. joked in the next room.:
told her that the first law of the boys and girls, is filmed entirely in Then afterwards she would have North is that thou shalt sell no Technicolour under the direction of to ferry some of them back to the liquor. No construction camp could Willy Pogany and photographed by other aide and often she had to help carry on wihout that law, and peace Ray Rennahan. them into the canoe, and as she pad could not be preserved among the released through United Artists.
"Kid Millions" is 8th Apr. dled she was in terror lest they natives." 8th Hay should upset, because they would
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not alt still, and were always losing tion camp you will find a bootlegger
So wherever you get a construc- "TWO SECONDS"-ALHAMBRA their balance.
alky pedlar they call him-and
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It was all very strange; but later, that was Husky's job. He charged Husky would produce from his poc afty cents for ferrying customers satality of Edward G. Robinson, as Additional evidence of the ver kets handfuls of those shining round across the river, which 8th Apr things, and make them into tail piles Manitoban border, and fifty cents for is provided in his latest First NR- was the a master delineator of human types that she loved to topple over, so that a shot of hooch pure rot-gut wood tlonal picture, "Two. Seconds. 7th Apr. a shining silver cascade poured alcohol imported from the Statue or
across the table. Then he would be Quebec-and another fifty cents to gunman,
Robinson, who has appeared as in a very good mood, only there be taken back to the other side. oriental, has always been a stone- gambler, editor, and 11th Apr. would be the strangest smell in the Seven-and-sixpence for little more hearted man, dominating man and Sun, 3 p.m. 7th Apr. room, and wherever he went, some than a liqueur glass of pure polson events with an inflexible will and Sun, 8 p.m. 10th Apr. times it was quite overpowering, it was a lucrative trade, and Marni daring which carried all before it. Thurs., Noon 4th Apr from him as possible, because it was alone, and save him any exertion. portrays John Allen, a hard-work- and she would creep as far away could soon handle the motor-beat In "Two Seconds," however, he not a pleasant smell:
He did not fear the Manitoba ing iron worker who is a victim of She began to discover things. Provincial Police, for his landing- circumstances. All those men came in order to stage hut was on piles in the river, As Allen, Edward G. Robinson swallow small quantities of a liquid below high-water mark, and there- makes a radical departure from the that Husky kept in black bottles, fore beyond their jurisdiction; but characters he has been giving, ple with strange labels on them Where on rising ground behind the camp ture audiences, beginning with stood the trim red-roofed buildings "Little Cassar on through “Five
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The short summer, with its STAR THEATRE
plagues of mosquitoes and blackles, passed, and the snow came.Buel- Dealing with the dramatic ques ness became slacker Eventually tion of how much a man should only a skeleton staff remained at the justly, sacrifice for humanity, construction camp to brave the blisWhom the Gods, Destroy,"featur zards and the appalling low tempera-ing Walter Connolly, Doris Kenyon, tures and the hardships of a Bay and Robert Young, is now showing winter. But Husky had other irons at the
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