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FLICKERS FROM HOLLYWOOD
Allson Skipworth, appearing in
Appearing To-day At Paramount's WHARF ANGEL, bas
The King's
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Harry Houdini the late anti- spiritist and Carter the Great, who in conjunction with his company is to appear at King's Theatre for a period of seven nights com- mencing to-day were friends long standing and both sincere investigators of the dccult. For over thirty years their pathways 'converged and in all parts of the. world each pursued faithfully any clue tending to an exposition of mysteries which savoured of the supernatural or preternatural.
After diligent research those two friends met in Houdini's home and compared notes. The result was the same. Carter sat long into the night with Houdini and their conversation was earnest and stud- tous; at this their last meeting both bade one another goodbye after agreeing that, if they were-
CARTER THE GREAT
not vouchsafed another conference rere on earth, whichever one or the other who died first that one was to return possible to this world in spirit form and if a de- fine materialzation of the form was not within the power of the ghostly visitant, then some sign or tap or knock was to be made as a sign or signal that a success ful return to ferrestrial bounds was accomplished.
one ambition.-to play Queen........ Elizabeth
Sir Guy Standing, appearing fà Paramount's DOUBLE -DOOR, never misses a boxing match in Hollywood.
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Roland Young, featured in
HERE IS Paramount's
MY HEART, made his screen debut with John Barrymore 15 years ago.
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Bing Crosby, starring in "Para- mount's WERE NOT DRESSING, receives about 5,000 requests for photographs each month.
Sidney Toler, appearing in Paramount's HERE COMES THE GROOM, started his career as a copy boy on a newspaper.
George Raft, Paramount star. once worked as an electrician's help for £1 a week.
HOUSING PROBLEM
SOLVED
Many or California's back- country ranchers are staunch sd-“ vocates of bigger and better ple- tures of the nineteenth century.
For nearly thirty of these ranchers were able to sell their log-houses and tumbling-down ' red barns because the Paramount studios decided to make a film of the beloved'classic-MRS. 'WIGGS · OF THE CABBAGE" PATCH
Director Norman Tauros sent bis assistants scouring the coun- tryside for pld-parns and having bought them, had them torn down and the worn-out, timbers taken to Paramount, where a "cabbage patch settlement was reconstructed.
Pauline Lord, W.
Fields. Za
Bu Pitts, Evelyn Venable and Kent Taylor are important members of the cast.
of his surname which would have been two dots, a space and a dot; which is the letter C in the code Houdini if the first one to die, was to tap four dots in the same wise, which four dots in the morse code means the letter H
THE WORLD MOVES ON
Big Fox Film Romance
"The World Moves On" which is coming to the King's Theatre soon, Is one of the best new fims, and la bound to excite a certain" amount of argument, since it is an honest forthright plece of ant wer propagands. As it happens this picture does tell a story, & very good one too, as well as con- demning war. Primarily it is con- cerned with the fortunes of a family through a century and more of alternate strife and pro- sperity.
There is the American branch
at New Orleans of which Richard (Fanchot. Tone) is the youthful- head, France and Germany have their individual branches, and So does England. Et Manchester where Madeleine Carroll is called upon through the death of her father to take over the cotton
business Richard and Mary Anever agree when they meet at family reunions but the war bringse them together and they marry. With the coming of peace Richard nearly loses his soul in the craze for money and power but the family is ruined by the Wall Street crash and he and Mary · start a new life together.
NEWS FLASHES Madeline Carroll in ber arst
Following a year of strenuous activity in screen, radio and stage. work, Eddie Cantor has rewarded himself with a holiday abroad It is his first trip to Europe in ten years. He sailed December 1 for a vacation of several weeks.
His wife, Ida, and three of his. five daughter 19-year-old Mar- Jorle, who' acts as his personai secretary, Natalie, eighteen, and Edna, fifteen, are accompanying him. (Marilyn and Janet, twelve and six. respectively, were reluct antly left benfid because of school.)
Landing in Naples, Cantor w01 proceed to Rome where he ex- pects to meet Mussolini; then on to Nice or Cannes, followed by a visit to Paris. He will arrive in London in time" for "Christmas, It is noteworthy that for the comedian and his wife the visit to England is in the nature of a "second honeymoon." It was to the British capital that pop-eyed Eddie took his blushing bride twenty years ago and it was there at the Alhambra · Music Hällthat he scored his first big success.
When Eddie left New York on his well-earned vacation, it was with the satisfying knowledge that his latest Samuel Goldwyn production, "Kid Millions." had been acclaimed the best picture
his career! of
• Hollywood part acts with calm dignity and speaks her lines well Though it may lower one's spirits
· this film is provoking and unmis- takingly sincere. There is a long cast carefully chosen players such AS Lumsden Hare Reginald
"THE PAINTED VEIL" COMPLETED
Great Garbo's Nineteenth
American Picture
Garbo's nineteenth American picture, THE PAINTED VEIL bas been completed at the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Herbert, Marshall and George Brent are her leading men, and Jean Hei- sholt again plays her father. He first played such a role in SUSAN LENOX, HER FALL AND RISE (also known as THE RISE OF BELGA). Richard Bo-
leslawski directed the film Version
of Somerset Maugham's novel.
More than a score of lavish sets were constructed for the new film For the opening scenes an Austrian village was built by the M-G-M's technical stag. There were charming Ittle houses, bal- conted and windowed, with stately cathedral, raising its gaunt spires to the sky, at one end of the street,
For the more intimate scenes, a complete house was built; a quaint bedroom with beamed ceiling, a large entrance hall with a stately spiral stairway winding hioned kitchen. The script also downstairs, and a large old-fas-
called for dock scenes, including a river boat; a "polo club house, a Hongkong curio shop, the ex- terior of a monastery, Interior
Denny Sigfried Rumann, Louise Dresser and Dudley Digges.
A scene from “The World Moves On" "with Franchot Tone and
Madeleine Carroll.
Hollywood's motion pictures are changing the style and manner of lying in a "great many coun- tries, in the opinion of Arthur
GAY DIVORCEE
W. Kelly, vice-president of Unit Adagio Dance In Full
ed Artists in charge of foreign diam tribution, who arrived in Holly wood the other day.
Mr. Kelly based his opinion on
Incidentally, the day before he salled Cantor was the guest of honor at a luncheon of the As- sociation of Foreign Press Corrst-hand impressions gathered respondents. R. J Cruikshank, their president, paid him a grac- ious compliment.
"The papers are full Public Enemies so I nominate Eddie Cantor as Public Benefactor No. 1*,” said Cruikshant, who repre- sents the London Daily News Chronicle!ZONA WEST
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Many of our big men over in Europe seem to be trying to make Canfor makes them people cry. laugh. It might be a good idea have him stop over at Geneva hand to the disarma-
needs help.”
A gown of spun glass, silk and lace, Bo fragile that it could be worn only once, was moulded and
Both laughed at this for both were sceptics-both had sought for long years the return of the dead, but without avall. Carter reminded Houdini of the pho- Nothing occurred for a fong spherescent figure that had my time, until one night in Carter's Sew steriously and obligingly appeared seance where bells, oʻring Hand - Bee for them at a seance in London knocks are heard and after the ganza,
but which figure upon the fash
of an electric torch in the darken-. to
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recently in an eight-months' tour of Australia, New Zealand, Java, Stam, - the Philippine Islands, Chim and Japan.
Evening Dress
Admirers of Adagio dancing are promised unusual thrills in "The
feature of the film is a sen- It is impossible," Mr. Kelly stat- cational Adagio ensemble number ed, "to over-estimate the influence performed by fifty beautiful girls of Hollywood films in stimulating
and an equal number of boys International trade, Every Ame-
cach team fully attired in com rican picture is an animated cata-ventional pallroom costume. The logue of American-made products American manufacturers and ex- porters owe a deep debt of grati tude to Bollywood producers for opening up again and again new marketa for their good
Foreign representatives of Ame rican, firms, Mr. Kelly pointed out, are quick to admit the
*playing: portant part pictures in directing attention to Smer- chandise made in the United States. In one week
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Adagio demonstration comes as a spectacular added effett th” Thế Continental the show's feature dance,
* Daring Gances of this sort here- tofore have been enacted in as seanty garb as possible. The girls are hurled about through the alr depends upon accurate catches Jike basketballs and their safety
by the men Fifty of the dancers are garbed in a while evening clothes and fifty in black.
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offices of the Government pouse, a Chinese field barracks and last, but by no means least, a massive stone wall surrounding the
pesti- lence city of Mel-tan-fug-
Knowledge of the Chinese. language proved to be a valuable asset to players seeking roles in THE PAINTED VEIL One of these was Herbert Farjeon, who has played over 1500 roles on stage and screen and who plays Dr. Simonds in the film
"China's Greta Garbo is also importantly cast to the picture. She is Soo Yung, of Canton, and more recently of Honolulu, a young actress, regarded in her own country as is the Swedish star here. She first attracted the attention of producers during her recent world tour with Mei Lan Fang, noted Chinese actor. She plays Amah, Garbo's maid.
And for Miss Garbo's feminine fans, be it noted that she will ap- pear in a new colure. It is a simple and new treatment which proves very effective, according to report. The hair is comped straight back from the forehead, the bangs brushed down. Strands of hair are taken from behind the ears and brought over the top of the head to form a ribborz band effect. The band is fasten- ed flat to the head by means of small, Invisible hairpins.
10:05-10.15 p.m.-The String Quartet.
Virtuoso
TO-DAY'S RADIO PROGRAMME
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12.30-1 p.m.--Recorded Music, 1pm-Local Time and Weather
Report
1.03 p.m.--Recorded Music. 1.15 p.m.—A Relay of the Orches- tra from the Hong Kong Hotel "Grill Room (by courtesy of the
Management),
130 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins
Rugby Press News, etc., 2.15 p.m.-Close Down." 4-7 pm Chinese Programme. 6-5.15 p.m.--Children's Studio Con-
cert. 7-11.15 pm-European Program-
7 p.m.-London
and New York Stock and Commodity Quota- tions.
7.05-7.30 p.m. Orchestral,
Hungarian Rhapsody No.
-(Liszt).
Afternoon of a Faun (Debussy). L'Apprenti-Sorcier (The Sorcer
er's Apprentice)" (Dukas).-:
7.30-8 p.m.--Variety.
Organ Solo-Broadway Thru' a
Keyhole Terance Casey.. Band - Happy, I'm Happy
("Caravan").
Vocal Duet Looking for a Little bit of Blue-Layton and John- stone.
Fox-Trot-Who made Little boy
Blue.
Fox-Trot. There was
Woman.
an old
Plano Duet-Footlight Parade-
Belection.
Plano Duet The Way to Love- Selection-Carroll Gibbons and John W. Green.
Song Why Wasn't I told. Song. Wrap yourself in Cotton Wool-Bobby Howes.. (Come- dilan),
2. & p.m.-Local Time and Weather
Report to
18.30 pm-Reuter Press Bulletins, Rugby | Mid-day Press, News, Further London Stock and Commodity Quotations. 10.15-11.15 pm-From the Studio. Dance Music by the Orchestra of RMS. Empres of Japan". directed by Frank Harwood; 11.15 p.m.--Close down.
| DAVENTRY RADIO
4 p.m.-Big Ben, The BBC. En- pire Orchestra, (Leader, Dantel Melsa). Conductor, Eric Fogg. Selection. The Beggar's Opera (Austin) Lyric Suite, Op. 54: (1) Shepherd's Boy; (2) Nor- wegian Rustic March; (3) Noc- turne: (4) March of the Dwarfs (Grieg)." Symphonic Poem, Le Rouet d'Omphale (Ohphale's Spinning Wheei) (Saint-Saens. arr. Mouton) By the Tarn (Eugene Goossens). Polove- tzian Dances (Prince Igor) (Borodin
Greenwich Time Bignal at 9am.
5 pm-Talk: - "India" The Rev.
C.-F. Andzews, der
5,20 p.m. Friendly Harmony.” Pat Hyde (in light syncopated songs) with Anne Stone (and) her ukelele),
5.45 pm The News 6 p.m.-Close downl
BERLIN RADIO
9. p.m-Dja, Djh Announcement (German, Engl). German Folk Song. Programme Forecast (German, English)
9.15 p.m.—Fireside Evening Hour 9.45 p.m.-News in English on Dja and in Datch on Djn <
10 pm-Selections from the Opera The Flying Dutchman," by Eichard Wagner., Title role. Roll Heide, Benfa" Marla y." Maximovitch, Daland: Wilhelm _="_Strienz, Conductor: » Werner
Richter-Reichhelm.
on
11.15 p.m.-News In- German
Dja and Din 11.30 p.m.The Brothers. 'altér
Orchestra
12.15 am-News in
Dja and in Dutch on Dia. 12.30 am
(Gern
down Dja
Engl RADIO MANILA
Danse Hour-
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8.10pm
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8.03-8.30 pm-From the Studio.
HONG KONG CHINESE CHORAL SOCIETY Conductor Mr. J. Anderson”
Miller, LR.A.M. Ballet-Now is the Month of
maying. Thomas Morley, English
Folk Song Early one morning..
arr. Thomas Dunhill, Solo Shepherd, thy demeanour -
VaryThomas Brown. Solo.-Mrs. J. Anderson Milljer.
(Old English);"
Part Song-Orpheus with his
Jute Edward German. Solo. Have you seen but a whyte
· lille_grow.—arr. Dolmetsch. Solo. Mrs. J. Anderson Miler.
(Old English). Ezabethan
Part Bong. Come again! Sweet love doth now invite-Johni Dowland.
Madrigal Come let us join the
roundelay-Wm. beale. Solo.-Oh! No John-Folk Song.. (Mrs. Anderson Miller.)-(arr.
Cécil Sharp).
North Country: -----
Folk Bong-Bobby Shaftoe- HWG Whittaker. 8.30-9 pm-Light Orchestral Music Overture to the Opera "Die diebische ister (Rossini). Master Melodies:
(a) The Pledge.
(b) Maids of Tulla.
(c) Mooncoln-Irish Reels. (d) Kinnegad Blashers. (e) Ticknock Jig.
(The Unknown-Irish Jigs. Lehariana (Geiger). 8-9.20 p.m. From the Studio. Conrado de la Cruz Violin. Nura KanisAccompanist. 1. Sonata in G No. 11-Grieg,
(a) Lento Dolarose. (b) Allegretto Tranquillo. (c) Allegro Animato."
9.20.
Hebrew Melody Joseph Ach-
Allegretto-Bocherini Kreis-
Ballet Music from (Gounod)-played by BBC Wireless Military
Beuter Press Bulletins,
Dim Stock and Quotations From the Studio.
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