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ELECTRIFICATION SCHEME
FOR MANCHURIA.
HUGE COMBINE PLANNED.
TODAY ALTH CINEMA
HONG KON
Central? qui
Around the World
„Minuten,”
Douglas Fairbanks,
Queen's."
“Hook,, Line `and flinker,!
CONSOLIDATION OF SMALLER
UNITS.
Makdon, March 21.-There are at
present some 30 electriö power com-
The Spider."`
paties in Manchuria. It is learned | King's." that among the new prájects of the recently established government in a scheme to ; consolidate there inbo one great. power trust with
a capitalisation exceeding
$100,000,000,
It is estimated that this scheme
World..
for the rectification of this whole Biad
Sout!:
of Manchuris will take at least five years to carry through. Manchuria the feech point will be the already large power-plant att Fushan, which will earvd the whole of that territory, In North Man churia a huge modern power plant! will be construted as Harbin with longthy overhead power-lines to the bullying districts.
Japanese Government's Reply. Tokyo March, 1.-The Japnuisse Government has sent a communica -tion through the' Japanese Consul
at Changchun in acknowledgment. of the. Mahshoukou Government'a Note of March 12 in which the for- eign policy of the now State whs outlined,
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The acknowledgment from Japan makes no reference to the question of recognition, but welcomes the
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ow State's declared policy of the door," aqual opportunity for Topan alt and respect for axistng treaties.
* Representnáited dent, a
Mukden, March 20.-According to
a tentative decision just reached Mr. Ma Toh-hai and Dr. Chao Chin-pao, Minister of Justice, will be despatched to Moscow and Tokya Tompeotively as the diplomatic ro- prosentatives, of the new Man- ahurian Government.
The despatch of these two pro- minent men is regarded as a first step towards the exchange of Am- bassadors with the two neighbour ing countries.
BRITISH WAR DEBT TO UNITED STATES.
SENATOR ROBINSON'S
„ATTACK ON PRESS REPORTS.
Spring Time
(Chinese picture).
KOWLOON.
Strictly. Unconventional
COMING.
Dentral.
To-night or Never. Corsair."
Quesos.
**Alibi,”
King's.
World.
Star.
Confessions of a Co-Ed."
The Man, I Killed"
Sunshine Susie.
Palmy Days."
"Robin Hood,”
"Say It With Songs."
FITAE SHOWINGS TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 6,10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M,
KING'S
Hist!
"Don't move-don't speak! Not
a sound! There's mystery here.
and a spell that must not be broken until
Watch Closely! It is
The SPIDER
w Edmund Lowe Lois Morad
NEXT ATTRACTION FOR ONE DAY ONLY WEDNESDAY, 30th MARCH. FREDERICK LONSDALE'S
"CANARIES SOMETIMES SING
with TOM WALLS
MOVIE NEWS
On the Screen in Hong Kong.
'HOOK, LINE AND
SINKER."
WOOLSEY AND WHEELER IN RATTLING GOOD FARCE.
Queen's Theatre,
Woolsey, whose him fanie
reste
A REAL MYSTERY STORY.
B
" ALIBE!". COMING TO THE
QUEEN'S
be one
colebrated
French detective, whose whimsical
|inannerisms and astute deductions !
give a charm to his actions.
“THE SPIDER.“
SOMETHING ABOUT THE STAR-EDMUND LOWE.
OOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL: 25313:
COMMENCING THURSDAY:
who is this girl who loves & tells ?
CONFESSIONS OF A CO-ED
a Garamont Glide
You'll never know her!. name. You will know her story the oon- aded it to ber diary.
wilk
SYLVIA SIDNEY PHILLIPS HOLMES NORMAN FOSTER
ONFESSIONS OF
A CO-ED
UNDERGRADUATES
SUPERS”
Confessions
Co-Ed described as the Brst authentic "story" of an American college provided many pretty undergradu- ates with several days of screen ex- perience; and they liked it. Even thros, days of hard work," Alming outdoor sporting scenes for the pro- duction in the high California Biorräs, failed to cook their ardor.. Skiing, skating now-balling and other sach. deually profitless, pas- times Was the sort of work requir fod,
Th the Lead.
Philips Holmes, Bylvin Sidney and Norman Foster headed the youthful cast of "Confessions of a Co-Ed, and when official word roached the campuses of the colle ges that a long week and would be spons Aiming winter sport in the mountains, hundreds of girla appli ed for jobs. Three days were spent in the snow-covered mountains, and then many of the girls journeyed to Hollywood for the luxurious in aide sequences.
"Confessions of a Co-Ed," which will show on next Thursday at the King's Theatre here, was made from. the intimate diary of a college girl who, for obvious reasons, re mains annonymous. It deals with the joys, the ambitions, the jealou sies, rivalries and love affaire of present day college mon and wo-
men.
Of the three featured players in the pieturo, Holmes was discovered by Paramoans edirector making the picture Varsity" on the cam- pus of Princeton university leas. than three years ago, and dragged from his books into the cinema lime-light.
The Screen's Best Actors
WALTER HUSTON AS GUNMAN-AND
A MOVING MENJOU DRAMA.
Who is the greatest actor on the His friends and his brother are all screen asks Campbell Dixon the killed, he himself is desperately London Daily Telegraph critic. Ex-wounded; but an implacable pur- clude Chaplin na hardly comparable Pose drives him on. When the last with the tragedians, and I suppose
bandit is dead he climbs on his horas and rides on, and you know three good judges out of four would vote for that commonplace that, sick so he is of fighting for looking Cerman, through whose too, law and order, he will be risking too solid fesh shipse the purest his life in the next town in the genius. I mean, of course, Emil same thankless causò, Jannings.
America had men like that in
Impressive Realizm.
The equator encircles the earth. But how often do we sea Jan-1869, So does Edmund Lowe, His pictures nings? Like Garbo, he is tempera- Robert Woolsey, comedian ia
A story of the real "mystery"
mental in the true sings of the at the present time. äre being, ex word; he knew his English was Walter Huston's performance is further than ever in his first school is told in The Murder of hibited in more alties, the world bnd, he never liked Hollywood's beyond praise. He makes the im straight " Alm comedy rôle. He is Ruger Ackroyd", acknowledged, tooyur, than those of any other star. climate or its people, or ita food, pasi to marhai a flesh-and-Bidoti, featured with Bert Wheeler, is Christio's carefully planned novels. globe with the regularity of Cook's
of the best of Agatha They visit the ports of the habitable so he packed up when the talkies three-dimensional güre. He never
came ind went home.
makes a gesture; be hardly ever The lamentable result is that we change his expression but by the "Hook, Line and Sinker, at the It enshrines one of the solutions of tourist brigados. Pictorially, is have had nothing from him between time you have watched Him drinke
Hercule Poirot, the
the classic "Blue Angel and a and wash, and wirid his watch after: Lowe a true citizen of the world, ̈ drama of Berlin's underworld a couple of murders while tomark. When his latest offering, The which will reach London shortlying casually,Don't seem to be The title, Storms of Passion," re much law and order in this town;" upon his hilarious antics in Rio
Spider," Fox Filma?
mystery calls the days when the screen was you feel that here is man you drama, which is now showing at young; but the picture is said to be know, and, in a queer fashion, like Rita, “The Cuckoos,” “Dixiina”
The novel was excellently drama the King's Theatre, the ranks of tremendous.
It is this remarkable gift for Washington, March 17-News and "Half Shot at Sunrise," come- tised by Michael Morton, and his admires will increase. Magic.
characterisation that makes Walter Beery and Barrymore,
Huston one of the most consistent. paper reports that Mr. Andrew dies with music, is revealed as a Alibi" was a pronounced West has a universal appeal and in
Jannings, for practical purposes, y interesting actors on the screen. End stage success, running for nine The Spider" Lowe portrays is lost to the English-speaking He is plain enough-so, for that Mellon, the former Secretary of the new personality in his latest vehi months. For the screen it was stage conjurer who brings his art screen. Who, then, is the greatest matter, tre: Jannings abo Treasury, will shortly open negotia
Beery, Arliss and Robinson-and I tions for the revision of the British.
adapted by Cyril Twyford and to bear in unraveling a bailing actor that remains ?
Opinions will diffor. I have don't suppose he has a ha'porth of -war debt, have provoked a warning Woolsey's Old Bols,
Brock Williams, and the trhosla, murder."
heard experts say that the boat (he sex appeal. But he has effortless from Senator Robinson, the Demo»
tion is first-rate.
The weeks of preparation, procedactor in Hollywood is Jean Her faculty of getting inside the skin la certainly the igast appreciated) power, invincible sincerity, and a crat leader, that the United States
However, it is just a new Wool The picture showing on Thursdaying the actual shooting of the scenes sholt, the middleaged Dane with of his characters which comes pret Government must regard the prosey to film fans alone.. To thea at the Queen's was made at the were trying ones for Lowe. His the sad dark eyes, who has a small ty near being genius.
Is it merely a coinvidence that blem from the standpoint of the tregoers of a few years ago, it is Twickenham Film Studios, under connection with magic thereto had part as a Swiss guide in "Private
Lives
every one of the men :I have-men- American taxpayer father than the just. Woolsey as he was when he Leslio S. Hiscott directing.
the supervision of Julius Hagen, consisted of a short residence in the I can imagine others plumping tioned esine to the screen from the British.....
same hotel with Thurston. But he for Wallace Beery, who smashes his stage scored his great triumphs in Sir Roger Ackroyd, was the very buckled down to a rigorous system thods that are undeniably effective, way through film after film by me. Benstor Robinson based his warn-
Forbidden. ing on a story "attributing to Mr "straight" comedy rules in vaude- rich and very unpopular squire pf of training, hour after hour of but just a little theatrical. (Aren't My excuse for dwelling on "Law Mellon the view that Britain faces ville, undue hardship owing to her ue-
cle.
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.90 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.20.
MERRY MADMEN
OF THE SCREEN.
Mighty Start of Half shot
Sunrise
WHEELER WOOLSEY
Heading the Parade in a Slam-Bang Cirens of Nonsense
HOOK, LINE AND SINKER
DOROTHT LER RALF HAROLDE Jobyns Howland Natalie Moorhead With World's Greatest- Array, of Nata, Nit-Wita and Dames de Luxe Directed by EDDIE OLINE.
NEXT ATTRACTION. THE DRAMATIO
BRITISH
MURDER MYSTERY
"ALIBI"
STAR
the village; and when his life was
nerve racking trial till he could you rather tired of seeing him re and Order is "Mr. Huston. A TO-DAY & TO-MORROW mysteriously "snuffed out, nobody
gister menace by squinting through thally a much better film is the new He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. seemed to be vory much upset. Dis. make a card disappear and re-ap- one eye!) Or Lionel Barry-more Columbia offering Forbiddan,"
AT 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 1v 1.20 preciated currency. He argues that He began his career as a jockey, like does sometimes estrange one's pear in his hand, by pinching the to whom, as to Marie Dresler, real with Adolphe Menjou and Barbara countries with a depreciated cur-
catso he was overshadowed in the A few years ago Columbia was a roney obtained a great advantage then became a bellhop, wher in neighbours and household. But the edges between his index and little success has coms into partly be Stanwyck
independent concern in foreign commerce, though one of juries forced him from the turf. He law takes cognisance of death in any gera, drawing up the other two silent days by his handsomer bro-shroom the penalties is that they must meet wont, on the stage on the advice of of the district dies a violent death conceal it. Then he knew he was Menjou, who has the role of his rushed through productions at
shape, or form, and when the squirs and sliding them before or behind ther John Or George Arliss, which turned out "quickies WHAT about LOVE? that brilliant little Roumanian, Ed." the pasteboard as desired, to reveal ward G. Robinson, Or Adolphe free lance actors as required and that is it engaged unemployed or their debt payments on a gold
OF a hotel patron and spent many there are no bounds of the suspi basis
"rendy, Senator Beed, on behalf of Pres
years in stock," beginning as pro. cions and activity of the police,
and sident Hoover, bas denied the a. porty boy
bif" players. rovision of the British debt is un-
Vandeville and Ziegfeld. der consideration,
J.
distinguished career in Forbid lightning speed for reasons of den.
Now Sort of Western
story that the dead mad w Bo Lowe in The Spider." William that my own cheibe, now Columbia is making as high
economy. Thanks to the organising goning of Harry Cohn, it prosper- ed where rirals, weds under, and would not be Walter Huston, whom percentage of first class hims you may see in “Law and Order." | any studio, in the world. 4" Plati.
This new Universal picture is not Hum Blond The Guilty Ged a masterpiece. It lacks the sweep dration Dirigible," and now
Throat Bat Menperhaps the Forbidden" is one of the best of The Covered Wagon" and Forbidden are four that you "Cimarron" and the humanity of will remember... 4
It is to the advantage of the Lois Moran is featured with
whole-heartedly hated that any one Cameron Mennies and Kenneth I am not sure i of a number of persons might ba MacKenna directed it. El Brendel Between seasons, he toured vaude-suspected of the crime. The local and George E. Stone, are much to Official Denial of Report,
ville circuita and it was during one inspector of police was quickly and
the fore.
There is a huge, cast, Washington, March 17.-The Deof these that he invented his fa- easily convinced of the guilt of one torium in which the scene is rid
necessary to fill the theatre audi- partment of State to-day issued ʼn mous "props"-tortoise-shell glasses of the suspects, but Hercule Poirot formal denial of reports that the and a long alim cigars Woolsey paid no regard to the apparently. Administration planned to readjust and his "prop" have been inse and settle international debta. ^.
parable over afdel One report said that Mr. Androw He met his partner, Bert Whooler W. Mellon, former Secretary of the when - Ziegfeld engaged them to deductions arrived at the truth." Treasury and how Ambassador to team up in the stage presentation The truth, however, is not reveal Groot Britain, had bisií obdered to fof flia. Bltat and joined Endia ad until the very end, and the discuss with the British Govern Pictures when that studio par direction of the picture was so care mento sotticment of outstanding chased the production and staged fully planned that there is not the questions regarding International it. 61 * talkio «starring Bebe slightest suggestion is to t obligationsi
bost Western over made. Lay talkles traz made. "Th has B. Lorong and Order” has not enough light pibt, unforced pathos, and Amusing obvious. He conducted his investity of the culprits
and shade, the characterisation is dialogue, it is faultlessly, directed, tigations quietly and in his own
too austers. There is not a woman and acted with a ramionate incor- In addition to Austin Trevors in it, and practically no comedy.ity that is profoundly moving, M. peculier manner, and by a series of who plays Poirot, the strong cast for its appoa. it depends wholly Menjou adds one more to his long included: Franklin Myall as the on the conflies between the gang gallery of clever portraits, i Bliss murdered squire, Harvey Braban and a man who takes on the job power, and there is line: charact who control a little frontier town Stahwyol SYVERIS gutno emotions ( as the police inspector, JH Roof cleaning u barfs, John Devorail, Ronald Ward, Tho marshal is Saint Johnson cidal shoot
bom sho Earle Grey, Merbia Swinburne, W. Barnett). An sustere, silent exrbaure
cost may have read the novel by if bumpk off to aaye her lover from told, man, ha is consumed by just one pas Forbidden meta" long and that feffor law and order.
Diana Beaumont, (Continued at foot of next column) Ellibeth-Allen and Claire.
Strictly Uncon-
ventional