LOOK OUT TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
For Brand New Super-Productions
to be shown, at
CENTRAL THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30.5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.p.m.
BALACLAVA
age Olie immortal *EMAITH THE LIGHT WITH ADE
Following this British" super- production there will follow a list of latest productions :—.
TABU:A Paramount super-pro-.
duction just released. It's # picture of exquisite. tropical beauty, the last. work of that master of the screen. Murnau, director of The Last Laugh,"in- troducing a story of The Bouth Seas, made with a untive cast. It concludes with a veritable screen poem of tragedy.
PHANTOM of the OPERA-A Universal 1931 Special A with mysterious "Talkie every player in full dialogue, except the loading inan,... LON CHANEY. It's the last of the man of a thousand faces in filmdom.
THE CAT CREEPS-Universal's new production from John Willard's famous play "The Cat and the Canary." SOCIAL LION:-A 1931 Paramount Comedy starring Jack Oakie and Mary Brian,
RESSURECTION: A Universal
1931 all dialogue super- production. It betters the silent film of the past. DRACULA Another Universal
super-production. Supersti tion of yesterday may be a fact of the world of science of today is explained in this picture. It is mysterious all through.
"RIGHT TO "LOVE A 1981 Paramount super produc tion starring the sweet Miss Ruth Chatterton.
FIGHTING CARAVANS: A "Covered Wagon" type of picture of Paramount's starring Gary Cooper and Lily Damita.
STOLEN HEAVEN:-
Nancy
Carrol's best of the season. QUEEN HIGH- Another 1931
Paramount production,'
REJECTED ARTISTS'
VENGEANCE.
INCENDIARISM CAUSE OF MUNICH FIRE.
Munich, June 6.-That an act of vengeance on the part of artists
PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES.
LECTURE BY PROFESSOR HIRSCHFELD.
11 to 11.30 am-Stock quotations. 11.30 a.m.-Chiness programme, 19:30. p.en-European programino, 1. p..Local time and wonther
report.
Y
دارد
1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press news, etc.
Relay of speech from the Rotary Club tiffin-Mr. W. G. A. Turner on "Post War Activities of an Armament Firm.”ent p.m.-Close down.
6 to 8. p.m.-European programme of Victor records supplied by Messrs Tanng Fook Piano Co.
8 to 11.30. p.m.-Ko' Shing Theatre-
rolay,
6 to 0.16 p..---`
Children's Programme. "Dance of the Toy Regiment.
Victor Salon Orchestra.-10849. Songs for Children-(a) “The Fiddle Song," (b) "Dancing Song, (e) The Bee." (d) "The Clock" (e) "Who Eas Seen the Wind."-Alica Green' (Soprano).
Songs for Children-(a)" My Old Dan," (b) Honk Hank,” (e) Cradle Song," (d) "Sol- dier Bova," (c) Wing Foo," (f) The Zoo."Alice Green (Soprano).-19831,
Songs for Children-(a)
The. Frog and the Mouse." (b) "The" Tailor and the Mouso,". (e): "The Frog He Would Awooing Go."-Alice Green (Soprano). Songs for Children-(a) Bow- Wow-Wow," (b) Song of the Cricket," () "Good-Morning.” (d) A True Story," (e) "My Pony Alice Green (Soprano). --19830.
6.10 to 6.45 p.,—
"Pinno
Instrumental.
Salo Humoreske " (Dvorak).—Hana Barth. Piano Solo-" Polish Dance" (Scharwenkn).-Hans Barth.—
20203.
Violin. Solo" Souvenir Porti
que" (Zdenko Fibich).-Michel Gusikoff.
Violin Solo-" Tola Wild Roso." (MacDowell), — Michel Gusi- koff.-19802.
22
Piano Solo-Rustle of Spring"
(Sinding). Hana Barth. Pinno Soln Narcissus
(Nevin). Hana Barth.-90121. Violin nad Cymunl Duct The Old Gypsy (Kondor Ergo).- Bela Schaffer-Feri Sarkozi. Violin and Cymbal Duet" The
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1931.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
HONGKONG'S FINEST GNEMA
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m
CHARLES FARRELL AND MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN
IN
"THE PRINCESS AND THE PLUMBER'
NEXT CHANGE
CLARA BOW IN “NO
LIMIT”
Booking at the Theatre. Telephones: 25313, 25330.
MAN WHON
STOLE DO WE MAKE USE
OF UNIVERSITIES?
SUBMARINE.
· ITALIAN'S WAR-TIME
ESCAPADE.
PUT TO SEA WITH A DOCKYARD CREW.
The recent delivery. to Roumania of a submarine built in, an Italian yard at Trieste recalls an amazing episode which took place in October, 1914, but which attracted little notice at the time owing to the pressure of war, news.
This was nothing less than the theft of a submarine by an Italian naval officer, who, chafing under the
Broken Violin" (Danko Pistal.neutrality of his own Government, -Belt Schaffer-Feri Sarkozi. conceived the idea of waging war against the hated "Tedeschi" on his own account,
20749,
7pm-Stock quotations. 6.45 to 7.15 p.m. ---
Hawaiian Music.
"Beautiful
Ferern-John Paaluhi, "Wailnna Waltz "
Built for the Roumanian Govern-
Fercra- Anthony Franchini.
Hawaii." Frankment at a coat of 1,500,000 lire, the submarine was receiving the finish- Hawaiing Twilight."-Lawaiianing, touches at the FIA.T. San
Trio 16080,
Spezia. "Hilo-Hawaiian March Frank Giorgio, shipyard, near
On October 3, 1014, the firmn-report-, (Drawayed to the Government that the bast Waters), Erank. Ferera-John had disappeared. It was found that she had boon seized by an Italian
naval
reservist officer, Angelo Belloni, who held the rank of captain. His "crew" consisted of fifteen dockyard workmen, who obeyed his orders under the impres- sion that he had been given.com. mand of the bont, which displaced 300 tons and had a speed of 13 knots.
Panchi.-20028. Along" Miami Shore." Hilo
Hawaiian Orch.
Honolulu' Sweetheart of Mine Hilo Hawaiian, Orch.-21558. › Old Black Joe."- Sam-Ku-West
with Steel Guitar. The Rosary"-Sam-Ku-West with
Steel Guitar,-21447 7.95 to 6 p.m. approx.).—
From the Studio. Doctor Magnus Hirschfeld will broadcast a lecture on Sexo- logy A New and Important Seicneo."
whose works had been refused by the 8 p.m.-Local time and weather jury caused the catastrophic fire 8.09 to 11.30 p.m.-Ko Shing Thea
which destroyed the famous "Glass-
report.
tre relas
news.
#
CORRESPONDENCE.
Palast," Munich's great art exhibi- 10.30 p.m.--Rugby mid-day Press tion hall, with nearly 3,000 paint- ings and stulptures, is a rumour
11.30 p.m. Close 'down. persistently circulating among the public and especially in art circles. It is said that the managing com- mittee of the exhibition received Beveral threatening letters. An- other version attributes the disas ter to self-combustion of house- painting materials. The investi- gations of the police have not yet been completed:
ADMIRAL'S CINEMA FAREWELL
NO
" DINGLE-DANGLE!!!.
All letters intended for publica. iton must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not for publication, unless en desir ed; but as evidence of good faith ED.]
“BALACLAVA.”
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HONG KONG
- DAILY PRESB."'].
EARL BEAUCHAMP'S QUESTIONS.
U.S. EXAMPLE.
Some pertinent questions about our universities, the use we might make of them, and the support sometimes withheld from them, were asked by Earl. Beauchamp, Chancellor of the Duiversity of London.
In his charge to new graduates presented for degrees at the Albert Hall he said:
Are we not somewhat too diffi- dent and too reticent about our- selves and what we can provide, so thint sorao of our kinsmen tend to think un reserved and stand- offish?
Have our business men nothing to, ask the Universities? At Her- -vard University every summer hundreds of experienced business men pay fees to go to school. again at the great Harvard Busi ness School. Does this, I won- der, mean anything significant to
us f
I wish I could see our rich mea giving great aums for the ad. vancement of science and learn- ing in something the same way as the American doen.
Help for the Commonwealth,
I wish I could see in this coun- try," said Earl Beauchamp, "some part of that intense belief and pride in the Universities which one sees in the United States.
"Torpedo Boat Chase, Belloni simply went on board the aubmarine and ordered her to be made ready for sea, on the pretext of taking her out into the Gulf of “A University should, of course, Spezia for wireless trials. She minds its own business, but I often slipped out of harbour after dark. and was not missed till the follow wonder whether we in England do ing morning. A torpedo-boat was not take too narrow a view of the dispatched in pursuit, but found no business of a University. Politics trace of the purloined submarine.
Before seizing the boat Bolloni in the ordinary sense is not its busi- wrote several letters, expinining his neas, but I wonder whether, espaci plan and his motives. To the ally in these troubled times, the
F.I.AT. Company he wrote:
or
I am not crazy, nor is there Universities could not, if they were any agreement with my crew, who asked, come to the help of the are in complete ignorance of my Commonwealth. May. it not be that project; nor have I any arrange ment with
any "person
the remedies for some of our dis authoriy, Italian or otherwise.contents will come not out of Par- Unfortunately for his design, the lament but from University labora- submarine had no tempedoes, or other armament on board, and she tories, scientific departments, nad was also short of fuel and pro-thinkers t visions. It was stated afterwards
that Belloni hópad to obtain for-
More and more the Universities
pedoes from some Allied warship.. in the Dominions were looking to Once at sea, he told his crew of this country for increased and in- tandlubbers that he had been en-tensified fellowship. trusted with a secret mission and
MOVIELAND
FOR THE WEEK
ZINEK
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Ar 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9,20.
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GEORGE O'BRIEN
OF
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LAST DUANES
EWORLDA
TO-DAY TO THURSDAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.20.
HOWARD HUGHES' THRILLING AIR SPECTACLE
HELL'S ANGELS
The first multi-million dollar talking picture with
· JEAN HARLOW
What do
you want ?
must go first to Corsien. They In London I think wo are fully Sidney, Rear-Admiral Evans
reached Rossa Island and then alive to this," he said, ' and 'the Sin, We have just had the privi- anchored in Ajaccio, where the (Evans. of the Broks”), who has, been in command of the Royal Auslege of attending & private exhibi: French garrison, believing the sub fact that to the University there come year by your students from. tralian Navy sina 1929, took an tion of the British film "Balaclava" marins to be an enemy craft, were unconventional farewell of the at the Central Theatre. In view of about to open fire on it. In the the Dominions is proof of our faith. naval personnel when he entertain. the constant disappointment of the nick of time the Italian fag was that we could do or we ought to But I am not sure that we do all ed some 2,000 officers and men and public at the scarcity of good films hoisted. their wives at a cinema. :: in Hong Kong we feel it our duty By this time the crew had become do.” made man mandi
to recommend this Blm for the suspicious, and gave information to The honorary degree of Doctor of excellence of the acting, then the French-authorities, who sent an Laws was conferred upon Lord curacy of detail, which is due to armed guard to take possession of Macmillan in recognition of his military assistance, and for the the submarine. Eventually an Ita services as chairman of the newly dignity, and restraint of the pre-linu destroyer arrived, the stolen established. Court under which the sentation. Yours, ete.,
boat was escorted back to Speria, machinery required by the revised 25 words $1.00 prepald and the would-be hero brought be constitution of the University has
for 3 Insertions. 'fore a court-martial.:
bean framed.
The retiring Commander explain ed that, although the gathering was an unconventional one, it was much better than marching round in awful majesty in cocked, hat and all the dingle-dangle of braid on the quarterdecke of the various
ahipa
FOUR OBSERVERS. Hong Kang, June 15, 1931
If there is anything you want to buy or
Ulassified advertisement. "
THE SILVER SCREEN.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
"LOTTERY BRIDE.".
now era in American music for the screen is inaugurated by Rudolf Frimi's melodic componis tions for "Lottery Bride.". Arthur Hammerstein's firat... all dialogue,
production for United Artists, now showing at the Queen's Theatre.
This is the verdict of those who, have heard the Friml music writ ten especially for the Hammerstsin Alm light opera. They call it the finest creation of the composer's career, and when one romembors: the musical splendor of "Roso Mario Katinka," "Firefly," "High Jinka" and "Sweet Ade line, the praise bears significance.
In the cast are Jennette, Mac- Donald," who left the stage to be- come loading "light opera prima loana of pictures John Garrick, Leading man; Joseph Macaulay,
dramatic baritcrie Robert Chia- holm, popular Broadway singer; Joo E. Brown, comedian; Zasu Pitts and others.
་་
"INSPIRATION."
From gorgeous creations, ex- quisite toilettes and lavish ́ aur." roundings, Greta Garbo goes to threadbare costumes, unkemptness and squalor in "Inspiration," ner latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talk- ing picture which will open to morrow at the Queen's Theatre,
The change is not a gradual one' but comes with a dramatie suidden-- ness as the central plct of the story reaches its crucial point.
Parte
The story was written especially for the Swedish star by Gend Markey and depicts a romantic episode in the life of a model.
Clarance Brown directed the new Garbo film. Robert Montgomery heads the supporting east which includes Lowis Stone, Marjorie" Rambeau, Beryl Morcer, Judith Vosselli, John Miljan, Edwin Maxvoll Zelda Sears, Oscar Ap- fel, Joan Marsh and Gwen Loo.
KING'S THEATRE.
"THE PRINCESS AND THE PLUMBER."
Overalls can scarcely be called a court costume, but those drab gar- ments are what Charles Farrell wears when he meets Balkan royal- ty in "The Princess and the Plum- ber," the current Fox Movietone feature at the King's Theatre.".
is Playing opposite Farrell Maureen O'Sullivan, the dainty Irish colleen, whom director Frank Boranga discovered in Dublin while: he was filming John MaCormacka. Movietone," "Song O My Heart." Miss. O'Sullivan jumped right into the leading feminine role of that. picture without any professional experience, and when critics stated that her charming performance was only a "sh in the pan," she dis credited their judyinent with her remarkable work in "So This Ia London" and "Just Imagine.
"NO LIMIT.”
Do You Know That Clara Bow is of mixed English, Scotch and French ancestry (Estat.
She won a magazine beauty con- test in 1922 in New York: While she was junior in high school. there.
Sho made her first film appear anee as a result of the beauty cen-, test contract, in Beyond the Rain bow," a Metra picture, featuring" Billie Dove. She afterward desidad to give up pictures and return- ed to “school, taking a business course for three months
She had an offer to appear in "Down to the Bea in Ships" as the little stowaway and left school to take it. She then played ins more than a score of pictures, ins; cluding "Back Oxen; "Fres to Love," and "The Plastid: Age Lo. fore she icined Paramount and made such senantions Mun Traps," "Kid Boots," "It" and
Rough House Rosie
She made "Wings" in 1925-018 of the greatest silent Alras of all time. She has since appeared in eight, talkies The Wild Party, "Dangerous, Curves, "The Satur day Night? Kid, True to the Navy"Paramount on Parade.", Love Among the Millionaires." "Her Wedding Night, and No The last-named film comes Landit." to the King's Theatre-next.
MOVIELAND
FOR THE WEEK
QUEEN'S
FINAL SHOWINGS TO DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20. foi ding AM BEL
THE ROMANCE of SONG
“JOSEPH BA, SCHENCK
THE LOTTERY BRIDE
JEANETTE
MAC DONALD JOHN GARRICK JOE E: BROWN ROBERT CHISHOLAS JOSEPH ALACAULAY:
ZASU PITTS
CARTHUR, HAWAWLERSTEIN FLODUCTION
CROWN W, COMIDINE JUN
Borated by PAUL 1STHEN, LUNITED ARTISTS PICTURE,
ADDED ATTRACTIONS THE UNITED ARTIST
FEATURETTE
"AMERICANS COME"
FOX NEWSREEL
NEXT CHANGE
Artists model toast of Paris, lover's dream! You've never seen. the soul of a wo wan revealed as in
this picture!
THE ONE and
KONLI
GRETA
GARBO
in
CLARENCE BROWN'S
production of
Inspiration
with ROBERT MONTGOMERY LEWIS STONE MARJORIE RAMBEAU
-gu, Gaya Narr
ALL TALKING'-
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