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"Spring Time"
"Alibi."
11,30 a.m--Chinese recorded · pro-
British Murder Mystery,
Eng's.
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**Confessions of a Co-Ed."
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KOWLOON.
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Say It With Songs,"
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One Little Quartel"-The High Hatters.
There's a Blug Note in my Love Song."-Paul Whiteman and
his Orch.-22873.
Dinen, of the Little
Dutch
Dolla "Paul. Whiteman and bis Orch.
Try to Forget.Leo Roisman
and his Orchestra.-22870..
She Didn't Say 'Yes.' **
The Night Waa Made for Love."
-Leo Reisman and his Orches-
tra.-22960.
20 to 7.50 p.m.-
A Concert,
Piano Soto Cradle Song"" (Brahms)-Alfred Cortot.--1271. Song "Beau Soir" (Bourget-
Debussy).--Mary Garden (Sop. *rino)—1439.
Violin Solo Audaatino "
mare-Saenger).
Violin Solo" At Dawning "
(Cadman). Fritz Kreisler.
1185
Piano Solo Danse. Exotique" (Horowitz-Demany). --- Vladimir (Horowitz),-1468.
Song- I Love to Hear You
"Seed;"
Cock of the Air."
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AFRIT
KING'S
CONFESSIONS OF A CO-ED
A Paramount Picture
made from
the faming
pages of her
intimate
diary
with
Queen's.
To-night or Never."
Phillips
HOLMES
King's..
The Secret Six.!! Behind Office Doors.".
Sylvia
SIDNEY
her joys, heartaches,
Sunshine Shuria,"
**** Palmy Days." World.
The Man I Killed."
Norman
FOSTER
Atar.
"The Heroine." "Ku Tze Kip Sing."
Chinese picture. "Untamed.""
"Three Musketeers."".
"Men of the North."
"Way For a Sailor."
Gold Diggers of Broadway,"
thrills, temptations.
MOVIE NEWS
On the Screen in Hong Kong.
“ALIBI"
AT THE QUEEN'S.
TRIUMPH OF BRITISH
ACTING AND DIRECTING.
"Alibi," the British film frem
Singing " (Glanville Haydn Agatha Christie's novel, "the
Wood), John. McCormack (Tenor).-1425.
Murder of Roger Ackroyd," is
1932.
BOOKING: AT THE THEATRE
TEL. 25319
NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 3rd APRIL. The film that critics hare paid to see-and they've gone again and again I
“CONFESSIONS OF A "THE SECRET SIX.”
CO-ED."
WONDERFUL FITTINGS. IN
A SORORITY HOUSE.
Ultra-modernism in furniture and
Violin Solo- Albumblatt-Mar- showing, at the Queen's Theatre, com setting reaches its peak in
Muerite " ler-Fritz Kreisler-1170,
(Rachmaninoff-Kreis until Saturday (inclusivo). To the sorority house set, especially Feveryone who is thrilled by a crime built at the Faramount Hollywood 8 p.m.-Lomal time and weather re- mystery, Alibi" can be unrestudio for the filming of "Confes servedly recommended. Those who
part,
1.3 to 825 ). M.
Orchestral,
have not read the book will doubtsions of a Co-Ed" the picture made lens bo mystified to the end and from the real diary of an anony those who know the story will no mous school-girl. Capriccio Italien " (Tanhaikow- aky), Leopold Swakowski and less enjoy watching how the drama
TECHNICALLY RIGHT TO
THE GANGSTERS'
WEAPONS!
"SUNSHINE
What kind of autos are driven by the best gangsters?
This is one of" the odd questions
SUSIE"
with
Renate Muller Jack Hulbert Owen Nares
7)
story of the gang was all moonshine Mr. Z giving evidence, said he Iwan still in fear of personal
violence,"
Hopkins, who pleaded not guilty, was committed for trial.
LIKE GANGSTER
FILM
BARRISTER'S BLACKMAIL
CHARGE.
A bagrister, roferred to as Mr. Z. was the prosecutor ab Cambridg when George Alexander John Hop king, a sales manager, of Etching. ham Park-rond, Church End, Fin- alley, N., was charged with
cie.. manding C800 with menaces,
Mr. F. Levy, prosecuting, said that Mr. Z met. Hopkins at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall.' SW in March 1931, They were interested in a company that was to be formed. In the following mouth Mr. Z, gava Hopkins, £100. In return for a post-dated cheque, which was dishonoured:
On February last Hopkins, tela. phoned to Mr, Z and said he want ed to speak to him on a matter of life or death. A meeting was ar ranged at St. James'-treet, S.W. Hopkins brought a car and took Mr. Z for a drive in St. James' Park. Mr. Z asked about the "dis honoured cheque and Hopkins said. that the 100 had been paid to a bookmaker. There was, he said, a gang of bookmakers now demanding £500 from him on threats of being
beaten up."
..
If
Beaten Up." They had compelled him, to give a signal in the park as to whether Mr. Z would pay this money. not Mr. Z would also be beaten ap and the price would be in granned to £1,000 or £1,500,
At this stage" said Mr. Levy, it rather looks like an American gangster film, Mr. Z be- ing taken for a drive round the park and threatened that a signal Would be given that he would be beaten up if he did not pay £500.
Mr. Z was frightened, and when The got out of the car be informed the police Hopkine afterwards went to Mr. Z's house and after he had been given a cheque for £500. hidder police appeared and arrest- ed him. It was alleged that the (Continued on“ Previous Column.)
VOGUE OF THE PERIOD
PLAY
SHOCKS FOR LONDON CENSOR.
The idea of refashioning themes of years ago with modera dialogue seems to be spreading among the dramatiste,
"She Passed Through Lorraine," Mr. Lionel Hale's entertaining play about Joan of Arc is an example, and the same method is applied though less noticeably, seeing that its period is so rauch nenter our. own-topluy in which Bybil Thorndika is to appear, "The Dark Saint."
The Zweig play has been seen in Germany, Franes and the United States, but our Lord Chamberlain, after reading the script, refuses to allow it to be performed publicly..
Volpone in a magnifics of Venice who pretends to be ill in order to batter on his friends, through whone credulity he amnases a fortune.
"Fire"-And Henry VIII. Wives.
"Fire," written by Miss Ermita Lascelles, ie, at least for the Eng- This is an adaptation by a younglish public, a new kind of histórical
technicians had to decide in pick. ing machines for the underworld war episodes in "The Secret Six," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's drama of municipal politics which will
come on Sunday to the Queen's Theatre. Research into police records and The set includes interior and ex- the Philadelphia" Orchestra.unfolds, picking up the clues and 6049/8930. Daphnis et Chloe-Suits No. 2" which the murderer helps the de- ground for the pyjama party with used to obtain data as to makes and woman dramatist, Miss Barbara drama. "The authoreas has used, in
noting the "deliente nuances by terior scenes, and provides the back other sources of information were
models used. Gang leaders, it was Ling, of a play written towards the her own words, the method of the disclosed, always utilize highgrade end of the nineteenth century by old miracle plays, their naive and very reliable cars, so that en Francois de Curel, which was more medley of ruggednest, crudity, sine trouble will not result in or losen dassic of its timo,
Maurice Ravel)-Boston Sym- phony Orchestra under the direction of Serge Roussevitzky. --7140/71-44.
8/26 to 8.46 p.m.-
Operatic.
"The Magic Flute-Overture " (Mozart).Philharmonic Sym- phony Orchestra of New York under the direction of Willem Mingelberg. 1483.
direction of Alfred Hertz-c585. 8.45 to 10.30 p.m.--The Vagabond
King"-These records are kind fy lent by the Paramount Films of China, Inc., and played on Western Electric Sound Equip "mont,
tective, Poirot, to his conclusion.'
a couple of dozen pretty co-eds, re- The film is is the true tradition
California of British acting quiet, natural, cruited from several effective. The comic relief of the colleges. Sylvia Eidney; featured fatuous Lord Halliford is most
but it is Frank Dyall as. Sir Roger,
doftly handled by John Doverall, with Phillips Holmes and Norman Austin Trevor as Poirot, and J. H. Foster in "Confessions of a Co-Ed;" Roberta a Dr. Sheppard who share the festivities. the great part of the laurels. Robert's performance in its power and delicacy is a real masterpiece
of film work. The supporting cast is
25 Power Lounge.
capture or possible death.
This was only one of the odd bits of research that went into the enak
ing of the picture, which dearge
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Mies Thorndike will appear in The Dark Saint" as a Nun." She retires to her convent because the man she loves prefers another girl
Hill directed from an original by Nineteen years later, the man buv Every detail in the architecture Frances Marion.
modernistic school of design. Spentil a regular dictionary of it was widow.
A
spiritual fervour, and horse play in order to reconstruct the hectic life of one of the protagonists of the period to which those plays belong
namely, Thomas Cranmer, We begin in the prison in Oxford just before Cranmer's and, and then. look backward, as it wers, at pie- tures in the firo, to the couplings
life, at Craumer's matrimonial and and uncouplings of Henry VIII's
ecclesiasticul intrigues, and also, though not sufficiently, his real ba-
lief in a reformed church At the.
I end, in a scene which somehow fails
Die Fledermaus--The Bat-You all good, and in Elizabeth Allen, And You (J. Strauss-Chi- British pictures have a charming cago Symphony Orchestra un-heroine, somewhat of the Sylvia
Slang of the ing died, abo amerges, and much of der the direction of Frederick Sydney type. All she needs, in fact, and furnishing of the sorority underworld, a language almost in the setion of the play is concerned Stock-1481.
is proper "boosting," for she has all **Tristan and Isolde-Prelude " the skill, and attractiveness re- house represents a new note in the itself, was collected and tabulated with the meeting of herself and his
(Wagner). San Francisco Symquired of film heroines, phony Orchestra under the
There is curious stillness. in many parts of the film. The action sially constructed steel furniture, accumulated. Types of guns used murder her rival. This crime had The nun, it appeare, once tried to moves rapidly but there is no including shouting, and the very occasional
semicircular lounge by gangsters ranging from the been disclosed by the other woman raising of the voices by Poirot and that seats twenty-five parsons at one sawed-off "belly guns' to sub-to only one person--but he was the the Scotland Yard detectivo bo-
one from whom, above all, the nun comea doubly effective.
time; unique lighting effects; glass machine guns, were located.
had hoped it would be kept. "Alibi "is proceeded by an ex-walls, and radical innovations in Wallace Boery plays the principal 10.30 p.m.-Rugby mid-day Press apllent British short comedy-a
It is said to be a very fine part to be effective, we see him recant household appliances are employed role in the new picture Lowis for Miss Thorndike. The scene is akit on army methods, in which a amall troupe headed by Ernie to carry out, the dearing scheme. Lotni, gets across some excellent
Bione, John Mack Brown, Jaunlaid in a ammil French provincial Iooling.
"Confessions of a Co-Ed," which Harlow and Marjorie Rambean L.B.
is now showing at the King's then. have featured roles. fre, is reputed to be the first inside
news.
10.33 p.m.-Clone down,
enter the picture theaire with the usual heap of cares perched on your shoulder, but you'll discover that those cares vanish instantly at Susie'a magic touch. There is n' something about the picture that radiates happiness; that makes you feel that life is, after all, rally. worth living. It may be the bright music, it may be Jack Hul bert's irresistible fooling those scones in the beergarden are surely
"SUNSHINE SUSIE."
A TONIC FOR THE BLUES...
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Ite
town,
1.
against his recantations, and endure
the flames while the mob below in triumph over their revenge.
Many of the episodes de come to Audacities of "Volpone." life with just that crudity and
horseplay which the dramatist ent story of modern American college
Another treatment of a period fessedly attempta. History without youth brought to the screen,
punics and loves of three interest-subject in a modern style is, that dignity it may be, but it is history action centers around the helters ing young characters, played by which Miss Ruth Langner has given with all that horrible mixture of her adaptation of Stevan Zweig's ; childishness and savagery which the kelter activities of the young peo Holmes, Miss Sidney and Foster Volpone," a play based on Ben Tudor Bags must include. "All the There are people, morose indivi-
royal wives are seen, but the story duals, who are apt to take their ple that make up the present day Extensive research on college cam-Jonson's "Volpone, or The Fox.". troubles. the funniest ever devinid-but above
in advance, who have college population.. Opening with puncs preceded the Alming, and the
This is a rather audacious affair, of Katharine Howard is particu all, there is the sunshiny-person so certain a tonie for the blues as declared that there never has been ality of the star herself, per Sunshine Sasia" coming to the races the ambitions, rivalries, jeal the cast were instructed to keep there was a Inter, veusing as Covent, terprets the pathe of that shidiakri
A sorority initiation, the story scores of undergraduates used in in the comedy vein. The original ||larly eclected for emphasis, and Volpone was played in 1805 and Miss Miriam Adams beautifully in- ality destined to be remembered org after there has reached itsing's Theatre soon,You may happy conclusion.
(Continud on Previou, Column.)" (Continued at foot of heti, columaï}} thoir: action “natural.".
Garden in 1732.
victim if the palace plota..
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