THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1936.
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"YELLOW DUST. ALHAMBRA THEATRE
When a hard young prospector
love with an falls in
alluring California gold camp entertainer, tells her the location of the rich- lost mine. he has ever struck and then hears that she has not only filed claim on his mine for her-
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self, but is favouring icrook. storms of action burst amidst the thunder of six-gune in]
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-WITHOUT REGRET”— QUEEN'S THEATRE
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"THE GARDEN MURDER
· CASE”—KING'S THEATRE
on a
Daisy Guillaume, cireus eques- trienne, is up in the air, ladder, to get on even terms with Jack Earle, eight-foot-six giant. her companion of the big top at New York. Love, however, suz- mounts all difficulties.
"Strange Wives" gives you
business man who
HIDDEN WAYS OF
ENGLAND
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When I was an undergraduate I was despatched from Oxförd Sunday after Sunday with stopwatch in hand on what was called
My 3 training walk. eye was fixed on the distance, looking for the next milestone. If the stopwatch pointed to 14min. 59 1-5sec. for each mile! I was over-joyed. If it pointed to 15min 0 1-5sec. I was as depressed as Micawber. The Jonly Cotswold stone I ever saw in four years was the Cotswold milestone.
It is not enough to travel on foot. You must learn to saun- ter as Charles II., Richard Jef- feries, W. E Hudson and Edward Thomas sauntered, and you must learn to saunter alone.
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"I cannot see the wit of walk- ing and talking at the time," said Hazlitt. For seeing England is a whole-time job.
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Not even the most raucous companion can destroy the stupendous effect of the Grand Canyon, but the swish of one skirt. as Rupert Brooke remind- ed us is enough to banish the clusive loveliness of an Eng- [lish wood.
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(Continued from Page 8.). Marine-The 1934 Account has
358.92. The Balance carried for-
by the ardent attentions of Kent American Taylor. handsome, ne'er-do-well marries a Russian refugee. Right intimate friend who stands in She lives to regret her after their honeymoon her rela- the way of your seeing any aviator.
to live with them. marriage to him.
thing or anyone else, but the Being officially tives come informed of his death, she marries! They are a temperamental lot, casual companionship of the One of the sisters-in-law mar-strangers, of the passing again, this time a man worthy of her love, Paul Cavanagh, wealthy, ries a millionaire. A brother-intramos and farmers who are aw marries a movie actress and the intimates of the country- famous titled London physician.
Frances Drake, Taylor's ex-ecomes a leading man. Another side and act as nature's inter- sweetheart appears, informing girl just arrived from the old preters.
When you re of them you ber that her first husband is alive country becomes a flapper. They and demanding blackmail or she try to marry her off to an artist leave them with as little form
But when the day mar-but instead the latter falls in love ality as you met them. There Andrews. will expose the bigamous
is no need for hypocritical arrives, leave your clubs in the riage of her rival. Many drama-with the wife.
It is one of the most absorbing stammered excuse.
locker, leave your books on the tic, thrilling situations follow
shelf. Part Friends screen
On this journey you Miss Land's attempt to save her stories ever told on the
"My way lies there," you say have to, start with an open- husband's career from scandal, and is splendidly acted and dir-
If you ected. Roger Pryor and June firmly, and you part friends. even a vacant mind. disgrace and ultimate ruin.
Clayworth appear in the leading Can you leave your sister, wife take your golf clubs you will been closed and the Profit of $64,-
forget to look for England. roles, ably supported by such or uncle thas?
[590.14 carried to Profit and Loss But if you start out with no Account. players as Esther Ralston, Hugh You travel alone, not because O'Connell, Ralph Forbes, Cesar you are unsociable, but because plan, no maps, no desire to play The nett premiums for the year Romero, Phyllis Brooks, Francis you are sociable. In a crowd the game that obsesses you all 1935 amounted to $1,249,287.30 A2 the super-scientific detec-L Sullivan, Valerie Hobsor, Ivan you just nod in passing to the the rest of the year, and no and claims and expenses to $704,- tive, Edmund Lowe gives a per Lebede, Leslie Fenton and shepherd or road-mender. books, but only a
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All the best things that 1 brigade fees, and adjusting the in love! It is the first time in American Civil
war and shows find a carry-over from the adventures that he was the desolation it caused, not by herded world But alone in have seen in England have been reserve for unexpired risks, there To lis a credit balance of $65,420.85, undergone this experience, and battle scenes, but by what it did the quietude of the country you the unexpected things
romantic to one particular family. find yourself. You are at last come suddenly as I did on an which has been carried to Profit
inn called the "Rose Revived" and Loss Account. humorous The Bedfords (Walter Connolly finding out your
and Janet Beecher) live a happy testing your own personal un without suspecting its existence The Fund at the end of the year, If you feel enhanced its romance for me by including the additional reserve, Virginia Bruce is the smart and peaceful life on their planta forced reactions.
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To come by chance as I did Accident and General - The Society girl who gives him pal-tion with pitation of the heart, and to save (Miss Sullavan) and her cousin, feel like dancing you dance. If ber from police
suspicion he with whom she is in love (Ran you feel like keeping silent you on the birthplace of Shake- nett premiums amounted to $418,- Sonnets made the place ten After taking into account commis- risks not only his reputation, but dolph Scott). If you have tears, keep silent. You are meeting speare's Dark Lady of the 329.79 and claims to $250,587.58. bis life.
ition and expenses of management, prepare to shed them now, as the yourself. Supporting the two principals beautiful acting from all concern-
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of it beforehand. which deserves special mention. ture of life during these troubling slowly means that you are
"Nowhere" As Objective Outstanding in their roles areous times cannot fail to ealist also on the verge of meeting Benita Hume, Douglas Walton, sympathy and Nat Pendleton, Gene Lockhart, lavishly
formance in this picture that is! utterly delightful. He crawls his! way in and out of a series of thrilling adventures, more than once being in actual danger of sudden death..
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SO RED THE ROSE”— ORIENTAL THEATRE
tastes, own
A secret of stupen-
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But there is one Mitchell and Frieda
Inescort, and assuredly furthers Miss Sul ordinance to be obeyed while Henry B. Walthall, Jessie lavan's reputation as one of the Ralph, Charles Trowbridge and screen's greatest actresses. Etienne Girardot contribute not-
jably.
“STRANGE WIVES””— MAJESTIC THEATRE
romance
"THE GIRL FROM 10TH AVENUE-STAR THEATRE
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I. suddenly Contributory Bonus The Di- you go alone, denying yourself boarded a coal-barge at Whit-rectors recommend a Bonus of 20 This is a First National Picthe sweetness of the com-church, handicapped by a nine-per cent to contributors of con- Agripping
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No Surrender
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