Queen's Holiday Comedies
"IT'S" A HIT!
CLARA
BOW
備理
IN
it
with
ANTONIO MORENO
AN
ELINOR GLYN». CLARENCE BADGER
PRODUCTION
thenese, ADOƯM ZUKÔR ««‡ŠINI ULAJIT
a Paramount Picture
THE delightfully amusing story of a pretty shopgirl who dazzled men of millions with "IT."
ALSO
Charlie Chaplin
IN
"A DAY'S PLEASURE”
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2nd, 1928.
THE SILVER SCREEN.
NEW COLOUR FILMS. !
Coloured films as well as talking filma are in store for next year's cinema programmes
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LANCASHIRE
AWAKES.
JAPAN'S COMPETITION IN
ויו.
CHINA.
SMOKING BAN AT A DANCE.
LADY ELLESMERE'S ACTION.
CIGARETTE.END DANGER.
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LONDON, July 11th. Damage to the extent of many PRODUCING CLOTH ON BULK dances throughout the season owing pounds is done nightly at private
SCALE.
JOINT SYNDICATE FORMED.
One of the biggest of the forth-
to the casual way in which the coming colour picture! will be Redskin."" with Mr. Richard Dix
young guests, both men und wo- and Miss Louise Brooks, in a story
men, leave their cigarettes burn- of a modern Indian, with scenes
ing on mantelpieces and polished tables, or even tread them into the taken at Taos Pueblo, the old wall- ed city once the home of the Strenuous efforts are being made wipet when they get up to danes. Navajo Indians. The entire film by the Lancashire. cotton industry hostesses to persuade their guests Every effort has been made by will be taken in colour by the to recapture trade with foreign to exercise more care. technicolour process, already used
Ash-trays
by Mr. Douglas Fairbanks in markets," writes the Manchester are left in every conceivable spot. correspondent of the London Some, titled hostesses, mindful of the way in which guests sit and Morning Post on July 6th.
smoke on the stairs between dances, place an ash-tray 'on every step of the staircase.
Black Pirate." Mr. Dix has been taking a course| of sun baths on the beach at Santa Monica, near Los Angeles, to ne quire the desired bue of bronze for his part as the Indian hero, and will not use grease-paint.
"The
The first market to be tackled in China, where Lancashire has lost considerable headway owing to the tompetition of Japan.
eas's dance last month a house- At the Hon. Mrs Ernest Guine
maid walked through the various If the steps, that are now being drawing-rooms with a tray taken meet the success it is anti-sweeg up the ashes and remove She wore burning cigarette-ends. cipated, similar methods will be a red dress and a cap like a mitre, applied to other markets, particum that everyone should notice her. larly India.
Sections in natural colour will also be included in another out door film now being made. Water Hole," with Mr. Jack Holt and Miss Nancy Carroll-
Filmgoers who for the first time were able to appreciate the remark A joint syndicate has been set able tint of Misa Clara Bow's bair
comprising manufacturers, in the coloured scenes in
"Red up, Hair" at the London. Plaza Te merchants, dyers and bankers with cently will be interested to com- the intention of producing certain pare the rather darker auburn of cloths on a bulk scale, at rates Miss Nancy Carroll in this new which will make them competitive film with the vivid locks of the with the fabrica being shipped to
China by Japan..
audacious Miss Bow,
At present it is concentrating on dyed cloth of which China uses 60,000,000 to 50,000,000 yards an nually.
5
MARION DAVIES
IN
THE
With
OWEN MOORE
to
KARL DANE
"Remembering, no doubt, the fire that occurred at a dance in Bruton- street, W., recently, Lady Elles- mere, who gave the most important tall of the season at Bridgewater House on Monday night, put up crisp placards in the great gallery which read:
But perhaps out of all the Lon- don hostesses only Lady Ellesmere, with her 400 Old Masters, would venture to do this-and, moreover, and herself obeyed.
Mr. C. B. Cochran says he has been offered £1,000 weekly for each of two West End theatres in which
For some members of the younger he is interested to Convert them into "talking movie "houses."
All the interests' concerned are generation are extremely wilful, He believes that the talking doing their share of the work at and would resent any such inter movie will revolutionise the rockbottom prices. A member, who farenes, however justified, on the It is the fear theatrical business. It is already as taken a prominent part in the part of hostesses. causing alarm, he says, to New scheme announced, that the result that they and, far more important, York producers, and several large has been that they can put on the their debutante daughters, would market in China a cloth rather become unpopular that prevents theatres are now given over to it better in quality than that made s from taking effectual
Large offers are being made to players to desert the legitimate by Japan at & competitive price. stage for talking pictures,
Several cases have already been shipped to China and sold at the Actions at good prices, and before the end of the year a considerable quantity of this cloth will have been shipped under the scheme.
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The way the film censorship works in England is probably ad mirable in comparison with that operating many other parts of the world, but it is hard to under- stand, all the same.
There is a film lately shown in London which was produced, and shown, in America under the title of "Underworld." As the title suggests, it is a crook picture, an unusually good and dramatic one,
A larger number of firms have entered into guarantees to stand 4py loss that may be incurred when the goods are marketed, and by this means the burden, if any, will be a light one.
which George Bancroft gives PARIS. DIVORCE SCANDAL magnificent and deeply moving performance as Bull Weed, a par-
steps to stop the nuisance and even danger of the burning cigarette- end at private dances.
QUEEN'S THEATRE
FOR 3 NIGHTS ONLY
TO-NIGHT
SUNDAY TO TUESDAY NEXT Bagly tough gunman in a town SEVEN PERSONS FOR TRIAL THURSDAY, AUG, 2nd.
Cons
Pheltuith Cocoa and Ne Ison Halted Prodlo
WISCONSIN
Usual Times and Prices.
The Ideal Summer Drink
ELBSCHLOSS BEER
Trays, Markers, Playing Cards Given Free for
EVERY DOZEN QUARTS
SOLE' AGENTS : THE WING ON Co., LTD.
HONG KONG,
AN ALUMINIUM SHAKER
WITH EVERY TIN,
GIVEN FREE
DRINK
DELICIOUS HOT of COLD DRI
Get one tin for trial Obtainable at all Stores
and Cafeshops,
Sole Agents:- HUI and HUI Co. (Ainsandra Building), Hongkong.
Bayer Tablets of
Aspirin
Ectors You Take
“Bunyor” Tablch, of Austria, descère Shem schon well be better and stronger. The Hans on the machat have not the name bund
Open, vel."Spry are pollen
«* Tablets of Jagiel
we hurudes. You can peteguise stor ärtind
The Bayer
..which resembles what we have heard of Chicago.
All the characters in the film are crooka; one little incident shows a crooks' ball, before entering which male guests are requested to "park their guns"; the climax depicts a grim fight, with Bull Weed hold ing the police at bay single-hand-
éd.
JUDGE TO EXPLAIN HIS
CONDUCT. Š
PARIS. „Accusations of widespread bribery and corruption as well as of cul- pable negligence'in drawing up and It may be argued that we can verifying legal documents are made be purged by and terror," as in Parisian legal circles in connec Aristotle claimed, by witnessing tipp with the scandal el Americas dramatic presentations of crime divorces, which is being investi misfortune, catastrophe, and gated by order of the Minister of punishment but why is a film call Justice. ed "Paying the Penalty" lear harmful than it would be if called ." Underworld "1"
*
+
#
The investigation follows charges that wealthy Americans have made Paris a European model of the famous United States divorce cën. tre of Reno, Nevada,
The Censor has also requested that the character "Jack the Rip- Haatily constituted divorce dos- per" in the extremely interesting siers were tent from New York picture"Waxworks," first shown and other American cities and by the Film Society and now to be placed in the hands of Paris soli- seen publicly, shall be called not citors, who either took them too by that, but by some other name lightly for granted, or actually Useless to ask why: the Censor bribed cpart oficials to expedite never explains anything.
and facilitate hearing.
Furthermore, domiciles, were de- A tall, black-haired lad namedclared, as in Paris, in which city Charles Rogers is the happiest boy the interested parties had either in Hollywood to-day. Just a little never resided or had resided only more than two years ago he had for a day.
his first screen text and now he Of the seven accused persons who is a full-fledged star. He enrolled, are to appear before the First rather, dubiously, in the Para Civil Court on July 21st, on vari- mount Pictures School, and play Due charges of illegal and unprofes ed the leading role in the picture sional conduct, a clerk of the court that was the graduating thesis for and two
process-servers have to the school, "Fascinating Youth." face the most serious charges.
Minor parts in a couple of pie ures gave him some experience, and then came a chance to play lead in Winga"
Following this Mary Pickford arranged to borrow him from Paramount, to play opposite her in My Best Girl," and when
"Get Clara Bow made
Your Man," "Charles was the man.'
TALKING FILM DEVELOP. MENT.
INVENTORS SUCCESS AFTER 20 YEARS.
BRITISH. TRIUMPH.
A piquant note has been added to the fierce controversy over talk: ing films by the fact that a Bristol cabinet-maker and shopkeeper, Mr. H. A. Johnson, has invented a de vice which seems to threaten the
The clerk of the divorce court is
accused of having deliberately in troduced into the divorce papers of American couples matters which he knew to be fictitious. The process servers are charged with having the parties concerned but upon served the divorce papers not upon
solicitors who had agreed to obtain
divorces easy
for their absent clients.
These solicitors are charged with bribery. and corruption, The Divorce Court judge before whom
these cases come for hearing he
to explain his lack of care and foresight in allowing himself to be deceived. A
It is stated that out of 167 American - divorce decrees
pro- nounced in Paris during the last judicial year. 142 were dealt with by the same court and by the same officials.
At 9.20 p.m.
THE
WORLD FAMOUS MAGICIAN
LONG TACK SAM
DIRECT FROM LONDON AND NEW YORK
With his brilliant company of Chinese wonder workers, dancers, acrobats, equilibrists, jugglars, con- tortionists, gymnasts, and devil workers
INCLUDING THE 'BEAUTIFUL
Misses MI
AND
NA
NEE SA LONG
in a fall time performance of astonishing
acts in a thing of Oriental aplandour
PRICES OF ADMISSION":
$3, $2 AND $1.
Booking At The Queen's.
GRAND TATTOO
11th, 12th & 18th September.
SCENARIO
Ladles and Gentlemen are wanted
to perform in the Spectacular Scenaris,
Performers wi
appear in O English and Scottish scenas,
Singing is not essentis), but some "Vocalists are required.
position of one large section of cheaper, and much more effective American talking-pictures, writes method of controlling the combia- the Daily Express Cinema corren ed operation. pondent.
The invention has been acquired
It is understood in this class of by the British Phototone Com Names and Addresses to be sent,
falking-film that the projection of
the film controls the sound; but in pany, who are using it to film the immediately, to
effects of Wings ** The
Mr. Johnson's device it is undor: King of Kings," and Mr. An stood that the sound controls the thony Asquith's Underground." projection of the film.
This British invention is much
HON. SECRETARY,
"TATTOO" SCENARIO,
YMCA, ONY HALL-
“Simpler And Cheaper.””. cheaper to instal than its least This, idea, on which Mr. Johnson expensive American rival. It can states that he has been engaged be installed in the home," for Dee TUESDAY -Hext (August 7th).at for, the past twenty years, is said in connection with home-films and
The First Rehearsal will be held on
by British experts to be a simpler, gramophone records, for less than (Continued at foot of next column) 25.
Time and Pitce will be announced Inter
AT THE
QUEEN'S
RED
MILL
ROMANCE
LAUGHS ADVENTURE
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
At 2.80, 5.10 & 7.15 Only..
-At 9.20 p.m.-
י
LONG TACK SAM
AT THE
WORLD
HEAVEN ON FARTH
with
CONRAD NAGEL
and
RENEE ADOREE
The delightful romance of à ssion of wealth and a sancy
psy mald}
TO-DAY TILL SATURDAY
Orchestra 5.15 & 9.20.
THRILLS and GAIETY ! :
NORMA SHEARER
Interpreter 2.80.7.15.
ant Midnig
The story of a girl who throw herself headlong into the midst of a big city's night life with all its adventures and perils! AT THE
STAR
-SHIPBUILDERS.
SHI REPAIRERS. BOILER MAKERS, ...FORGE MASTERS,
OXY-ACETYLENE AND ELECTRIC WELDERS,
MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.
TO-DAY: TO SATURDAY,
Continuous
2.80 to 11.15.
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OF HONGKONG, LIMITED.
-DRY" DOCKS.
Length 787 Feet
Length on Blocks 759 Feat. Depth on Centre of
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