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Round The World With Mickey Mouse
After a quick trip round the world | yet I began thinking of tiny com- —20,000 miles at least, but I'm no munities in north Norway and good at figures-I have returned | Spitzbergen that I visited last to New York to say that Mickey year. You know-cut
from Mouse has been with me most of | civilizaţión, inhabited by a faw the time. On the Pacific, in sturdy, folk who don't mind lone- Japan and China, at Manchouli-liness. suspended precariously between
Siberia and Manchoutlkuc-and in England. Even when I missed him I found that actually he was not far away. In Canada, for exam- ple; but I could not be expected to meet him on the train. Tet when the Canadian Pacific gives "movie shows every night on the journey across the North American continent he is there, and Min- nie! Don't forget Minnie.
Mickey Mouse; pampered by the easy fe of New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo might be for- given for missing Manchoull. But there he was with Minnie.
But Mickey did not get on the The Russians have a Mickeyesque train and enter the Soviet Union.
character of their own, but Mickey himself has not yet been admitted. The Soviet comrades would have given him all the furs and caviar he could use more than he could use--but they were not prepared to part with 'valuta'-good `Ameri- can dollars for the privilege of
The isolation of, a liner crossing, the Pacific is more apparent than real. It is, as a matter of fact, a thing of the past. The radio, the ocean telephone, the daily news-cheering up the workers when paper to be found on the table at lunch, wireless news briefs pinned to the bulletin boards maintain constant contact with the five con- tinents. The world is still very much with us even aboard the Em press of Japan crossing that vast ocean" between Vancouver and Yo- kohama.
even
taking time off in the upbuliding of the second Five Year Plan. It is not that Mickey is too frivolous for men and women creating a new world-one must rest during the construction of Utopla but when there isn't enough money to go round someone must suffer. So Mickey must wait for his visa into the U.S.S.R.
In England Mickey is every-
The motion picture at sea em- phasises one's contact with civil- zation almost as much as the rawhere, of course. But Law him dio newspaper. It is impossible to feel adrift on a boundless ocean While watching Eddie Cantor in The Kid from Spain." Or the antics of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
The adventures of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse make a tremendous | hit before an ocean audience just as they do in all the cities of the world, where they are shown. The extraordinarily interesting fact is that Mickey Mouse's crazy and amazing deeds appeal just as strongly to the sophisticated as to the average man, woman or child. Men of affairs, writers, lawyers, captains of industry, statesmen, outwardly stiff in dress suits and starched shirts; clever women. leaders of society, smartly gowned in dresses from Paris and Futh Avenue--dil abandon themselves to the full enjoyment of Mickey
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in Colchester, oldest town in. Brl- tain-old even before the Romans turned it into a colony.. Mickey's antics were delighting an audience.
assembled within the walls the Romans built. Somewhere in that town lived Old King Cole. Now Old King Cole is a nursery rhyme sharing with Mickey the affections of children in the twentieth cen- tury.
Then back to New York, my world trip ended. And my story. too. Mickey is too well-known here to be news!
ORDERS FROM ABROAD
Mouse. Genuine laughter, with Chinese Government
sheer delight in it, follows him
from one astoundingly ingenious feat to another. And at the end they applaud in such a way that
you know they mean it.
Buys Steel Rails
London, Nov. 27. Mickey Mouse is the sort of per-
Different sections of the Lanca. son that has many houses in many countries. Like the pre-de-shire engineering industry are pression millionaire in the period reporting increased activity with when millionaires could afford to good prospects for the coming build, homes. Mickey Mouse has so many homes in Japan that one thinks of Japan as his adopted country. Only to discover that he
months.
in heavy electrical engineering work for hundreds of men for 12 months will be provided by the erder which Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., of Trafford Park, Manchester, have secured from the Victoria Fails and Trans- vaal Power Co. for the "supply of
has adopted other countries also. In theatre after theatre in Tokyo Mickey Mouse appears. It is fas- cinating to see his familiar outline on the billboards surrounded by machinery and plant for the new intricate designs which might have been made by an artistic fly ---mysterious to us but meaning.
real words to the Japanese who go to the box office to spend their yens and sens for a sight of Mic-
generating station to be erected at Klip River Station, South Africa.
Messrs. Charles Walmsley and
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY DECEMBER
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30.5.10, 7.15 & 9.90 P.M.
KINGS
WILD! WEIRD! WICKED!
BLACK
KARLOFF
and BELA LUGOS!
In a story suggested by EDGAR ALLAN
POE
CAT
With David Manners, Jacqueline Wells, Lucite Lund; Henry Armetta. Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. Directed by Edgar G. Ulser. Presented by Carl Laemmle... A UNIVERSAL. PICTURE
UNCERTAIN -
'LADY
Showing At The Queen's
“VIVA VILLA
At The Oriental
Latest and perhaps most power.
ful of the screen's great romantic biographies, "Viva Villa" fictional
21, 1934.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE T. No. 25313 25332
NEXT CHANGE ON THE SCREEN
TILLIE ANDGUS
A Paramount Picture with
W-C-FIELDS Alison SKIPWORTH - BABY L. ROY
ON THE STAGE WAN WAN SAN
CHINESE ENSEMBLE
TREASURE ISLAND
Opening At The
story of the life of Pancho Vila, Queen's To-morrow great Mexican revolutionary to' the Oriental leader, comes
with
"Uncertain Lady," now showing at the Queen's Theatre with Ed-Theatre starting Sunday ward Everett Horton and
Gene morning performances during the vieve Tobin in the leading roles, programme at 12 o'clock. is a hilarious comedy of a busi- As a record of personal achieve ness woman who is willing to give ment and conquest, and as an up her husband to another woman | intriguing record of the love if the other woman will find affairs of a great warrior, "Viva her another husband just as good! Villa" takes Its-place among the The details of this astounding Immortal biographical productions proposition provide many hilarious of the screen. Situations and there is laughter
galore in this amusing and highly sophisticated story
and
A blustering plate with blood in his eye and friendship in his heart, and a young boy in the midst of the greatest adventure of his life-these are the characters brought vividly to the screen by Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper in "Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson's famous plate story which opens to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre.
The heart appeal of this screen team that made motion picture history with ""The Champ" and recently in "The Bowery," has in vehicle a story that
this latest
In point of time, money effort expended on its production. of
the uncertain "Viva Villa" ranks with ladies and certain gentlemen, screen's, greatest classics. Wallace Miss Tobin was excellent as the Beery in the role of Pancho Villa wife while Horton gave a perfect is a new and amazing personality. characterisation as the over-ner- Filmed largely in Mexico, e carries them to stirring dramatic Vous, over-timid husband.
that Thequently against obstacles
insurmountable. supporting cast including Paul seemed
More heights. Cavanaugh, Dorothy Peterson, than 100,000 natives were used in Bether on board the good ship Renee Gadd and George Meeker the tremendous battle scenes. and carried off their roles well helped to make the picture both entertaining and amusing.
HOLLYWOOD SPEAKS
At The Alhambra
De
Their adventures" to-
Hispaniola,
оп and later
the island in search of treasure where Beery as Long John Silver"saves his young friend Jim Hawkins, from the pirates, will stir the who have emotions of millions
Fay Wray and Katherine Mille share the feminine honors. Supporting the star is a notable cast that; besides. Miss Wray and Miss De Mille, Includes Leo Car riilo, Donald Cook, Stuart Erwin, read the book and bring new George E. Stone. Joseph Schild-thrills to those not familiar with kraut, Phillip Cooper. Frank the story.. Puglia, Henry B. Waltħall and others.
Added to this co-starring team is one of the most notable sup- porting casts of the year „with every player contributing a strong performance. Lionel Barrymore like? What makes a world "pre- miere so glamorous and spectacu-enacts Baly Bones: Otto Kruger is Dr. Livesey; Lewis Stone plays These questions are on the tips Captain Smollett, captain of the Hispaniola: Nigel Bruce pufis and of everyone's tongue quer blusters in old English fashion for tons "Hollywood Speaks" answers in a dramatic fashion that dis- the part of Squire Trelawney, and tinguishes this picture. Geneviere Charles "Chic" Sale adds enter- tainment as Ben Gunn, marooned
Co., Ltd., of Bury, paper-making wood's inside life the side that
A microscopic view of Holly-lar? engineers, have secured an order from Finland for a new newsprint never reaches publication in the machine of the 3-reel type. It will newspaper-is offered to the have a speed up to 450 metres patrons of the Alhambra Theatre, Tokyo's bazaar street, where the minute and a net rim width of where Columbia presents. "Holly-
key.
I strolled along the
Ginza,
210 ins."
From East Africa Goldfield development in
wood Speaks."
sidewalks are lined with stalls and men, women and children, some in Westem, some in Japanese dress, walk, endlessly. Here you buy toys Lupa Territory, Tanganyika, East minence on the screen?. What is as cleverly conceived and executed Africa, has resulted ID
How does a movie star become a movie star? What chance has the the extra girl to attain pro- orders this strange thing called a screen as anything from German,y home being placed with - ' Manchester test? What is a Hollywood party of toys. And here the Japanese works for air-compressors, puraps, buy models of Mickey Mouse. The and other machinery required, for foreigners buy Japanese dolls: the the preliminary working Japanese buy Mickey.
walked B
gramme.
pro.
On & crowded railroad station Brazil are preparing preliminary Engineers in Manchester and in Japanese woman. As details of the contract received by conservative, as Japan could make the Metropolitan-Vickers Co, for het in her dress-kimono, ob the electrification of certain lines getas. It was a hot day, and she of the Brazilian Central Railway. was using her fan. Suddenly - I
comprising a route length of 150 took a lively interest in that fan. kilometres. It was à Mickey Mouse fan. There he was, the lad himself,
Perhaps the greatest surprise of the trip was when I met Mickey and Minnie in danchouli, There they wel as late a Hie and twice as natural +king at me from a store window
Laucashire ärme have BÌ50 received substantial shares of con. tracta recently placed for equip- ment for overseas railways,"
Orders have been placed with Messrs. Beyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd., of Manchester, for the Bengal-Nagpur Railway (India), and with the Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., of Newton-le-Willows, for the Egyptian State Railways,
Locomotive Orders
I had just come up from Har bin, where, by the way, the waters of a devastating flood came near" ly up to the railroad, and where
Orders for shunting tank locomo from the window we saw houses flooded to the roofs, and a vast lives and 19 boilers have been area covered by water as though placed with Messrs. Nasmyth by a lake. Manchouli was the Wilson & Co., Ltd, of Manchester, transfer station from the Chinese y the Crown Agents for the Eastern Railway to the Trans- Siberian. There was time to kill before, the train started. I took
walk
Palestine Railways.
The Barrow Haematite-Steel Co., at Barrow-in-Furness, have received another order for steel
rails from the Chinme, Government Don't think of Marchoull as a which will, with other orders: God forsaken place or a cold for hand, provide 2,000 men with bidding waste. It is neither. And employment for some time.
TO-DAY
ONLY
Tobin and Fat O'Brien are co- featured in a cast that la superbi in reputation and performance, The megaphone was handled by Eddie Buzzell, the man who rose from actor to director in two short years in Hollywood.
pirate.
Also commendable in their minor roles are little Cora Sue Collins, William V. Mong, Charles McNaughton and Dorothy Peter
son,
QUEEN'S
098 00
Edward Everett
HORTON
Genevieve ΤΟ ΒΙΝ
AT 2.30, 5.10,
77.20 & 9.30
P.M.
UNCERTAIN LADY
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S
HONG KONG
"The Black Cat QUEEN'S
"Uncertain Lady"
ORIENTAL:--
"She Learned About Saliors"
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA ----
Hollywood Speaks".
MAJESTIC:—
"Sadle McKee"
'KING'S:—
Coming
"Title and Gus” QUEEN'S:-
"Treasure Island".
MAJESTIC:-
"Manhatten Melodrama"
ALHAMBRA:--
"Mickey Mouse” programme
ORIENTAL:-
I
"Wonder Bar"" "Sürer Dollar: "Lady Killer"
4 SHOWS
ОА
1.20–£15.
1.15-0.30
་
•
MAJESTIC
THEATRE:
Nathan Boart Kowloon. Tel 67292 FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.90; 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 PM.
CRAWFORD
Sadie McKee
FRANCHOT TONE GENE RAYMOND. EDWARD ARNOLD. ESTHER RALSTON
- SPRCIAL. MATINEE. PRICES
FOR THIS PROGRAMME
10 cts., 20 cts., 30 cts. &
40 cts,
"EXT CHANGE-
IN
CLARK GABLE "Manhattan Melodrama'
TAKE ANY TRAM ON HAMPY VALLE
ORIENTAL
2 DAYS
ELENINO..
ROAD BY
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§ TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
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AN EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD COMEDY
WITH A LAUGH EVERY MİNUTEN
LEWAYRES SHE LEARNED
ALICE FAYE
EXTR
SPECIAL FEATURE KRAKOTAO
POLICE SAVES ZULU TRIBE
Arrival Stops Massacre
ABOUT
SAILORS
Natal
THE DEMON OF THE INDIAN # OCEAN. A planetary cataclysni epacted before your very eyes. The world's most treacherous under-sea volcano in a terrific eruption..
It was named in commemoration of the massacre by a forces of Zulus of, some 600 Boers, who had been granted territory there during the early settlement of the colony. by the Datchet
The peace-making ceremony be- tween the two tribes last month was one of the greatest gatherings of its kind ever held in Southern Natal, and was attended by high oficials of the Native affairs. De- partment, the Natal police com-
A detachment of police patrol-- mand, and the head of the Royal ling near Weenen. Natal, was House of the Zulus.
Mr H C. Lugg, the Chiet compelled to fire on a crowd of 1000 Zulus to prevent the mas- Native Commissioner in Natal sacre of a rival tribe. Three Zuius impressed upon the warring chiefs were killed" **
that the - Government's patience The incident followed a renewed bad been exhausted with their long outbreak of the six-year-old feud quarrel between the Cunus and Tembus tribes, on a far, wider scale than the spasmodic nghting of the past.
The police party, which had 12. rides and a few revolvers, CRIDE suddenly upon the thousand- strong Cunus Zulus, assembled on "a hill top, about 10 miles from Weenen: They were preparing for a silent raid on the sleeping members of the Tembus tribe.
Had it not been for the timely ar- rival and intervention of the police
there is every likelihood that the Tembus, Zulus would have been massacred.
Bush Tactics:
It is only six weeks ago that the chieftains of the two rival tribes, assembled in Durban and shook banda at a great peace-making ceremony.
This was to call a halt to the sporadic nghting over a period of A years, in which over 200 Zulus have been killed, more than 700 of their buts burned, and herds, of cattle destroyed. Bahka
To cope with this new outbreak the police have adopted rush mo- billaation tactics commandeer every available man from stations
The
Patience
meaus for its long the Zalu wATE
ALHAMBRA
TEENTRE
TO-DAY ONLY
HOLLYWOOD SPEAKS
GENEVIEVE TOBIN PAT O'BRIEN
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