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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1930.3
THE SILVER SCREEN.
BROADWAY AGAIN.
Läder the bright lights of Broad- way in little old New York, and beaind the scenes in Broadway theatre- Camiliar setting this for
New York Nights," now showing. at the Queen's Theatre; The per sonality of Korma Talmadge, how. ever, mukes these well-worn secñes full of lo..and interest, and the story is a fast one in more senses than one. This talkie. is, based on a_play` called "Tin Pan Alley," which was a great success on the New York stage, and there is plenty. of thrilling dramatic incident in. the film "There are some unusual complications and surprises in the story, but rights in New York must be very sultry indeed if they are anything like those depicted on the.
screen.
The next change of programme at the Queen's will be on Sunday, when Raoul Walsh's all-talking effort for Fox Movietone," The Cock-Eyed World," will be pre- scated. Edmund Lowe and ̧ Victor. MeLaglen, who made screen his-- tory as Quirt and Flagg in What Price Glory, are still the same two boys, though the period of the pleture is ten years after the Armis- tice, Happy results in the matter of photography and sound were cers tain because Walsh used an incom. parable team consisting of Arthur Edeson the."ace" camera man, and Edmund H. Hanse, i star "sound" "man, the same combina- tion that worked on the filming of * In Old Arizona." "The Cock- Eyed World" is based on a story by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson, with scenario by Walsh and dialogue by Billy K. Wells.
At the Star Theatre this evening Joan Crawford will be seen in "Dancing Daughters," a
very lively modern story.
The picture showing at the Majestic Theatre, Kowloon, to-day, is The College Widow," showing for the first time in Hong Kong. It is a very lively story of college life, with plenty of fan and thrills.
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LANSDOWNE HOUSE TO BE A CLUB.
PLAYS TO BE PRODUCED IN IT.
mansion in Berkeley Square, Lon. Lansdowne House, the historic
don, formerly the property of the late Marquis of Lansdowne, bas. been purchased by the newly form- ed Bruton Club and will be used that if the policies were framed by as a social and theatrical club. the leading English companies no
Lansdowne House was purchased Commerce and industry were call clauses operating in the case of
fearanceded to be felt in the last March by Mr. Benson Greenall. ing for the very best men and losses. Where the policies putting have just completed a deal with for £750,000, and the Bruton Club women in their higher ranks, and the injunction of the indentor were those trained in the Encat tradi- taken out with foreign companies, of the property. The present pre- Mr. Greenall for the acquisition tions of our schools and univer- it, was well to hesitate before con. sities inade the most humane and signing one's goods to the tender Bruton Street. The new club is to
mises of the Bruton Club are in- understanding, as well as most mercies of the sens when the cover, have a swimming-pool, a gymna- competent, of administrators and in the event of losses other than siuin, and squash rackets courts, employers." Who would be 50 total loss; was the flimsy one con- foolish as to pretend that all waa tained in some such policies acces
and to make approach to the pre-
well with our commercial and in-sitating attempts to recover. Tses easier a new roadway is to
dustrial enterprise when we were supplying to-day caly 11 per cent. of the world's purchases of import- ed goods, as compared with 14 per cent. in the year before the war?
To take the instance of one, trade only, in such a pro British country as Argentina, more than 90 motor- cars out of every 100 advertised the success of North American en- terprise every hour at the day to every observer in the streets of Buenos Aires, while so intensely bought only 12 British cars out of British a country as New Zealand
every 100 she imported.
result, in foreign courts, gave very little prospect of success.
be constructed by continuing the Curzon Street cul-de-sac through Dealing with the markets for Lan-into Berkeley Square, and a carri cashire goods; he said that prin Carzon Street into the club.
age way will also be built from cipal markets were being incessant- textile producing centres-by con
Mr. Jesse Barrington, a director ly attacked by the minor cotton
of the Bruton Club, axplained the centration on the best sellers in main objects of this ambitious ven- cach market, and by standardisation | ture. in their mills. Lancashire needed The club," he said, is a-mix-
to exploit fresh markets, and the ed one and has grown from previ reluctance on the part of some ex-ous organisations, which have been porting textile firms would have to particularly interested in theatrical be overcome, and they would have matters. We propose to combine to study particularly the close con- the amenities of a West End social serves of the Captinental rivals who club with the production of plays, furnished textile goods to Tripoli There are many plays which have and the French colonies, "the Philip little commercial appeal and would pines, and the United States: A not have very much chance of pro- vast field in Asia and Africa await duction in an ordinary theatre but ed development for the right kind which have certain artistic: merits Present of goods, but it would seem that a which should enure for them the big chango would have to come over light of day. We therefore propose the present industrial system before to construct fullsized stage and Lancashire would come into its own an auditorium which will hold 800 again.
people.
TO-DAY ONLY At 2.30, 5.30, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
Dolores
Costello The COLLEGE WIDOW"
WILLIAM COLLIER, JE Anders Randolf
Directed by ARCHIE L. MAYO
BROSTO
AT THE
MAJESTIC
Nathan Road, Kowloon. Showing for the FIRST TIME in Hong Kong.
BOY'S DEATH ON MOORS.
INQUEST STORY OF FOUR
'DAYS' SEARCH. D.
The plays will be produced by professional producers, with whom
we have already made arrange. ments, and, the casts will also be provided by well-known profession- al actors and actresses. Admission to the theatre will, of course, only be open to members and their guests.
When we have completed the necessary alterations to convert the building into one of the largest and most luxurious clubs in the world, it will be found that in spite of minor' reconstruction the front of this famous Adam building will re main almost exactly as it is to-day and except for certain alterations to modernisé some of the amenities
The Rochdale County Coroner held an inquest recently, on Alea. Jenkinson, aged six, of Shore Road. Littleborough, who was found dead on the moors above his home after having been lost for four days,
Evidence of identification was given by the father, James Jenkia- 80s, who said he last saw him alive when he left for work In the evening when he returned home the body was missing, and he im- the interior decorations will also mediately began to search for him remain substantially untouched.. with friends and the police. He could not suggest any other ex- planation than that his son lost his way on the noors during the mist, Two Hundred Join in Bearch.
"The Sculpture Gallery will be Police Sergeant Holliday describ converted into either a restaurant ed the search made for the boy, and or a lounge, or possibly a ballroom, but it will still remain the Seul- said that on Sunday, about twenture Gallery. It will be necessary hundred people took part in the for the purpose of constructing the Boarch. They did not search as for
We think it would be sacrilegious to interfere on any considerable scale with a building of such bis- toric associations.
as the spot where the, boy was even Adam facade buck a few feet, but.
new street to move the beautiful tually found, as they did not think
it was physically possible for him in effect the whole house will re- to have got so far. It was three main substantially as it stands to jand a half miles from his home in
day."
The purchase price is said to bò.
a direct line and was all uphill and about £250,000. over rough ground. From what he saw of the boy and the ground where he was found he agreed with the father that be got lost and dropped down exhausted,
Robert Gardiner, of New Hoad. Dearnley, who found the boy, said he lay with his face to the ground with arms outstretched as if he had sunk down exhausted.
fellow must have gone through. He knew the district well, and he could understand how, on returning home, from the field in which he had beer playing, he would veer to the right instead of the left and get on the moors. Then he would run until The Coroner: said that the gym he could not, run any more and pathy of everyone, as well as him drop down exhausted. He would self, was with the parents in their return a verdict, that the boy died. great trouble. It was dreadful to from cold exposure through ac think of the mental agony the poor cidentally getting lost on the (Continued at foot of next column)."" moors."
QUEEN'S
NORMA TALMADGE "NEW YORK NIGHTS GILBERT ROLAND LEWIS MILESTONE
JO.COMÈSTINE
ROCIDON Under the Bright Lights
30
Broadway!
NEWSREEL
ALL TALKING
UNITED
[ARTISTS
LECTURE
MUSICAL NUMBER SINGING DANCING
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
At
230, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20
WORLD
John
Barrymore
Presented by Foraph 70. Jaharichu
TEMPEST
6 CAMILLA HORN. LOUIS WOLHEIM
THURSDAYTOSATURDAY At 2.30 & 7.15-laterpreter. At 5.15 & 9.20-Orchestra.
STAR
A. DARING STORY OF: THE RICH
NOW YOUNG,
SET
THE OF
TO-DAY
with
JOAN
CRAWFORD
ANITA PAGE
JOHN.
MACK BROWN-
OUR DANCING. DAUGHTERS
THURSDAY TOSATURDAY
At 8.30 & 9.20.
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