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BEGGARS IN ERMINE
"Beggars in Ermine" is the per- tinent title of the new picture which opens to-day at the Alhame bra Theatre. It's a story of men- alcants tight enough, but of a new kind of mendicant..
Starting with steel mills and Wall Street magnates, the story takes น ruined and crippled financier. "who still retains his powerful mind, and puts him at the head of a colossal combina- tion of beggars, and it is with the help of this gigantic world-wide organization that he finally re- turns to his former eminence and causes the ruin of the men who ruined him.
That, in brief, is the basis of, "Beggars in Ermine." but inter- twined with the 'main plot are are tales of tender romance. rich veins of humour and inspiring heights of dramatic endeavour. Playing the stellar role 13 that internationally famous stage and screen performer, Lionel Atwill, and this part is the finest thing that Atwal has ever done before. the motion picture cameras,
Supporting Atwill is that dean of motion picture players, H. B. Walthal. while pretty Betty Furness lends beauty and youth- ful appeal to the romance In- terest.
James Bush, Jamlesm
Thomas, Astrid Allwyn and George Hayes also give per- formances worthy of commenda- tion.
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30--5.13
7.15-8.30
THE NOTORIOUS SOPHIE LANG
I.
One of the busiest actresses in Hollywood, Gertrude Michael featured in Paramount's 'The Notorious Sophie Lang." coming to, the Alhambra Theatre on Sun- day. has had only one regret during her past Hollywood season -she has never been cast as "lady of fashion."
But in her, appearance as the most fascinating and elusive jewel thlef of two continents in "The Notorious Sophie Lang," she dons a series of costumes that represent the newest, up-to-the-minute style creations of Travis Banton, famous Hollywood fashion expert.
In this picture which also features Paul Cavanaugh, Leon Errol, Arthur Byror and Alison Skipworth. Banton has equipped Miss Michael with other changes of costume and a complete all- purpose wardrobe.
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AT
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KINOY
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
Sorrell
and Son"
with WINIFRED SHOTTER
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Lionel
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TIMES SQUARE LADY
Marking the ascent of Virginia Bruce to the brink of stardom, Times Square Lady," a "different"
In "The Notorious Sophie Lang," Miss Michael plays a glamorous. adventuresa who outwits her rivals and the police of two con- tinents by her beauty and quick-story of New York night re, will thinking She meets her match.
be screened on Sunday at the however, in a suave soldier of Queen's Theatre. fortune, and how these two fall in love and combine for their ad- venturous pursuits furnishes an amusing climax for the picture.
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THE LITTLE, COLONEL
Little Shirley Temple's unusual interest in her latest picture, "The Little Colonel." in which she shares starring honours
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SORRELL AND SON
The powerfully emotional appeal of Warwick Deeping's famous story "Sorrell and Son," which made the with Lional silent nim of that name a world Barrymore, was due to a combina- | success ive years ago, is even more tion of circumstances that did not | apparent in the talkie version obtain in fer previous Arms,
It ..thrilled.
showing at the King's Theatre.
HB Warner's performance is as moving a characterization as the
America's darling that the title role should fall to her. .She wrated to know, before screen has seen-
in many years the taking of the picture. what Warner simply tugs at the heart- dress she would wear. and how strings from the beginning of the closely they resembled the period film to the end: the downright post Civil War einotion of his Captain Sorrell seems certain to make the world weep as satisfyingly as did the silent film
costumes of the
on
days worn by the grown-ups.
"The Little Colonel" based the acclaimed book of the same came, will be coming to the King's Theatre on Friday. Barrymore plays the gruff Yack-hating Ken- tucky colonel, and Shirley the charming tot who proves a peace- notable cast of maker. In the this De Sylva production, whose Masing sequence is in Technicol our, are Evelyn Venable, John Lodge, Sidney Blackmer. and the ace of tap dancers, Bill Robinson.
THE CASINO MURDER
CASE
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Featured with Miss Bruce is Robert Taylor, another compara- tive newcomer to the link for whom stardom. is predicted. He re-, gistered a sensational hit in "So- ciety Doctor.”
Still a third unusual personality is Pinky Tomlin, the "hog-callin' crooner" from Oklahoma wbo Crashed to fame when he wrote the popular hits "The Object of My Affection" and "What's the Reason I'm Not Pleasin' You?" and rode the tunes to personal popularity in a fashionable Los Angeles ball-
room.
Times Square Lady" is comedy- drama with a romantic story with something of the flavour of "The Thin Man." It deals with an Iowa" girl who suddenly finds herself helr to a variety of metropolitan sport ing enterprises. Her struggles to keep her rebellious henchmen an- der control lead to her unusual romance.
SMARTY
When a dignified and courtly gentleman like Warren William who has played nothing but gen- tleman, ever since he came to the screen, loses h's temper, and decides to get rough, he is pretty likely to make a thorough job of it. Warren has a habit of doing thoroughly whatever he decides to do at all.
NOVEL FIGHT
To Be Staged In Mid Ocean!
CHARLES II.'s WEDDING GOBLET
Baught For £580
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, May 18. Seventy years ago a glass goblet
New York-One thousand sports- men with 81,000 each are neces-fetched 15s at a country house sale in Cornwall. Yesterday at Chris sary to make certain the most tie's the bidding begau at £400 and exclusive world's Heavyweight did not sad until Mr. Arthur championship bout in history.
The fight is to be staged on a trans-Atlantic haer some-where in mid ocean. The spectators will be the 1,000
the sportsmen with $1,000 and a fair for the bizarre. An eren thousand spectators, no. reporters, no politicians, no taxes.
no boxing commission demands, only the champion the challenger. in a ring pitched in the Grand Bail-room, fighting it out 1,500
miles off skoré.
Churchill had made the winning god of £380, which is £150 higher than the previous maximum for a glass, goblet at auction.
The
"The Little Colonel"
*Times Square Lady"
ORIENTAL:----
"Smarty**
"Secuoina"
MAJESTIC:--
"What Every Woman Knows" "
STATUES NOT WANTED
Another Epstein Controversy
MAJESTIC
PARASTHEATRES Nathan Bast Kowloon. Tel 57222 SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 6.20. 7.20 & 8.20 P.M.
CHINESE PICTURE WITH CANTONESE DIALOGUE
NEXT HANGE
ון
HELEN HAYES
IN
"WHAT EVERY
WOMAN KNOWS
M-G-M. PICTURE
COVENT GARDEN
1.
A Happy Family"
Sir Thomas Beecham was very Basing OM the difficulties of grand npera production when he spoke yesterday at a reception given in his honour by the mem- bers of the D'Abernon CIUD
"In spite of our little difficul- ties and troubles," he said, "we are really a very happy family at. Covent Garden. We always meet in the morning on the best of terms. By two o'clock in the afternoon we are ready to cut each others 'throats,
performance ancient friendships "By the middle of the evening
bave been aroken and family ties are sundered, and at the end of
According to Mr. Jacob Epstein the Rhodesians — the Southern This remarkable trophy was des Ehodesians, at cribedi and illustrated in
all events are Philistines Daily Telegraph, March 26. It
The was designed in 1663 st the Duke Rhodesia, which has purchased as Government of Bouthern Buckingham's glass house at its new London headquarters Agar Greenwich to commemorate the
of Charles II. with House, in the Strand, the former uptials Catharine of Braganas. Mindful home of the British Medical Asso- of the king's escape after Worces ciation, does not propose to retain | the day people part never to meet ter, the designer engraved on the the 18 Epstein statues around the | again... Maybe. But the pro-goblet & vignette of Charles in the top of the building.
"But at 10 o'clock ex mora- moter doesn't think so. A thou Boscobel oak. Hence the name of sand spectators at a thousand this historic glass is "The Royal Maternity."
The statues, which include ing all is forgotten, and we start dollars a ticket insures a million Oak Goblet."
"Primal. Energy" our daily round once mare. and "Form Emerging from Chaos,"
“That, I am sure you will all dollar gate. He's signed half of
aroused a storm of controversy agree, the thousand at the price and
when first set up in 1908.
the ideal state of things. he's only touched the East. He's
How can you compare it with the fat level of monotonous existence) sure that somewhere between here and the Pacing are that many more gentlemen who would pay that sort of money to attend his
Absurd?
fantastic performance.
SCHMELLING, THE OPPONENT?
In a few days, if all goes well,
he expects to offer Ancil Hoffman, manager of Max Baer, a guarantee of $300,000 for the champion's services. If Mr. Hagman does not like that sum, he will be offered a percentage on the million dollars,
The radio and movie rights should command 2 size+ble fortune. Henry Ford paid $100,000 for the World Series broadcasting rights last year, and he was competing with hundreds of thousands of spectators, the press, and ghost writers than there are in heaven.
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It is known that the king pre- sented the goblet to his friend Rouse, who had been Speaker in Mr. Epstein said to a representa- the "Short" Parliament. Hiative or."The Daily Telegraph descendants used to keep the glass un the open shelf of a manorial dresser, whence it was taken down for use at family christenings and marriages.
MANY ESCAPES
yesterday.
dictate London taste in sculpture "This is the latest attempt to this time from Rhodesia,
Happiness is impossible without continual bickering and friction.
happiness. Such things are vital to human
SHORT SEASONS CRITICISED "They propose the removal of Sir Thomas, who had been in. the B.M.A sculptures, which 25troduced to the company by Mr. The goblet has had a charmed years ago won against the Philis Neven du Mont, chairman of the life. It has been left on the rack tines. To-day we have a victory club executive, had to stand on a of a railway carriage, lost at a
ban exhibition and even dropped of the Philistines from the out-stool in order to be seen. Looking
escaping breaking miraculously. Posts of Empire!"- For 20 years the late owner,
OTHER SIDE OF THE CASE
"The position has seen nisun-
down with some doubt at his "platform," he observed, amild laughter, "I feel like Beckmesser "
In the Master Singers),
Sir Thomas criticised the short. season of, grand opera in London.
"Covent Garden is a most try- ing place," he said "We meet there for a few weeks, labour hard day and night, and then we part for another year. It is a very sorry business.
Mr. Joseph Bles (who had given The other side of the case was Hence in his latest Warner Bro-radiu rights, and picture rights £150 for the goblet) lent it to the put by Mr. A. T. Scott, of the firm ictoria and Albert Museum, but of Sir Herbert Baker, RA, and A. Mr. Churchill informed me that he T. Scott architects to the South- was not acting for any national institution yesterday, although he
ern Rhodesian Government who had offered not to compete against sald:- auch public museum if it had en- tered the auction lists. Altogether derstood. What we feel is that the the Bless collection totalled over #gures, which were all very wel £4,000. Mr. Churchill' paying £940 and Indeed very appropriate round for a "Bevirescit" 1750 goblet and the B.M.A. building are quite out a similar eum for a glass with the of place as decoration to a Gov- only known portrait of Prince ernment offey. Charles Edward facing towards
"Anatomy for the BMA-~~-yes, the left.
But do these figures indicate the Lastly, hmong the very rareproduce of Southern Rhodesia? enamelled glasses made by Bielby, No It is a question of what is ap-unworthy of us." of Newcastle-on-Tyne, was a 1770 propriate backet bowl with a hunting scene
ther production. "Smarty" willen will be seen at the Oriental Thea tre on Friday and Saturday, he not only slaps pretty Joan Blon- dell' face when she becomes too exasperating for flesh and blood to stand, but he throws her own. French-heeled slippers at her. rips an expensive evening gown from her shoulders, and then, for good measure; indulgës in a rough and-tumble fist fight and. *ICST- ling match with Edward Everett Horton, his friend of years' stand- Ing.
The picture is a merry comedy tangle based on a play by F. Hugh romance o! a strange marriage Herbert and Carl Erlekson. Others
in the cast are Frank McHugh. Claire Dodd, Joan. Wheeler, Vir- ginia Sale and Leonard Carey..
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The promoter plans to offer the challenger-probably Schmelling A flat $100,000. This, counting radio and camera rights, will leave him approximately $800,000 for operating expenses-boat rental, entertainment, publicity, and all could prevent his walking off the the rest Only poor management boat at the finish with at least
$300,000.
The scheme is not entirely new. It was offered Mr. Joe Jacobs when he had the champion of the world in Max Schmelling, but he backed down when the promoter refused to increase the guaranteed "I took up this game," the hope-cash advance from $80,000 to leas novice 'sald apologetically to his caddie, "merely to practise self-control.”
Commiseration
This story of devoted parenthood and selflessness tells of Captain who cannot find a jab after the war. When his wife leaves him because of his poverty Sorrell devotes his life to the up- bringing of their son, allowing no consideration of menial work or poor pay to deter him. No sooner has the boy started, brilliantly headdying, siz," career as a surgeon than his father dies from a disease which no sur- gery can cure.
Warner's superb. portrayal" is backed by all-round strength in the
In "The Casino Murder Case" remainder of the cast, among whom opening its local engagement to-Hugh. Williams, Margot Grahame, day at the Queen's Theatre, & Ruby Miller, Donald
Calthrop,
Winifred Shotter and Evelyn Robert give character studies that are no less than excellent.
new and entirely different Phik Vance is presented to the screen to thrill the theatre-public in 88. Van Dine's gripping murder The settings are uniformly good, mystery. The, scientific gentle and the director, Jack Raymond," man who solves the crime in the has obviously been at great pains picture is our good friend, Faul to find some of, the richest beauties Lukas, who is always dependable of the English countryside for his for an excellent characterization. outdoor scenes.
Lukas 1 assieted by leading lady for the screen-
а
new
Rosalind Russell, a prominent resolve the crimes and thus to east cruit from the Broadway stage suspicion on everyone. who has been in pictures for a short time only.
The baffling. plot deals with the eccentric Llewelly family. One member is murdered, another shot
Alison Skipworth is convincingi
as Mra, Liewellyn and Isable Jewell plays her daughter. Donald Cook, Louise Fazenda, Ted Healy, Arthr Byron. Leo "Carroll. Purnell Pratt
and two others etrangely poisoned, † and Leslie Fraton are others, la It befalls Lukas' as Philo Vance to the cast.
You ought to have gone in for
TO-DAY
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SATURDAY
$100,000.
"If he had, raised the advance to an even hundred thousand,” Mr. Jacobs told the United Press, "Schmeling would have been the
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We with tu And a suitable
Daily Telegraph Exhibition in white. This was lent to The home for these 18 statues, where Olympia in 1998, and Mr. Cecil with their surroundings and pro- at they will be in artistic harmony Divis gave £8 for it yesterday.
perly appreciated. Perhaps a con- noisseur will buy them. Perhaps
museun will acquire
them. Possibly they might be bought and presented to the nation.
first champ to defend his title out op top of the ocean."
a
Of course, Hoffman, il and when he gets the offer, may frown on "But the point is that it is not Baer, for all we know, may be dislike of them in themselves that qne of those citizens who can't go actuates the Southern Rhodesian wading without getting seasick Government in wanting them re- But he's able to get the offer moved." mighty soon, for the promoter is downright serious.
QUEEN'S
PHILO VANCE'S Newest Adventure!
S. S. VAN DINE'S
"CASINO MURDER CASE"
From Cosmopolitan Sarish with PAUL LUKAS Rosaled Russel
AT 2.30, 5.10
7.20 & 9.30
P.M.
·NEXT CHANGE
"TIMES
SQUARE
LADY"
with
ROBERT TAYLOR
Mr. Scott added that if suitable arrangements for the future of the statues could not be made they might after all stay where they
were.
The appearance of the statues In 1908 first brought Mr. Epstein into prominence. As soon as the wurks were revealed to the public gaze. (although "feld glasses were necessary to view them properly) a storm of controversy arose.
Many well-known figures in the world of art, including Sir Charles Holmes, the ex-keeper of the National Gallery, and Mr. Laur- ence Binyon, came to Mr. Epstein's'; defence.....
The Bint
The page-boy had just carried the guest's luggage to the bedroom. Now, my boy." "said that man," what's your name?
NAM replied the boy but they call me Billard Cue because I work much better with a
John Smith, at
"I can remember when London had 31 weeks of grand opera in the summer
and from 15 to 20. weeks in the winter. It is scanda lous that in this great city we baya now only six weeks of grand opera in the year. It is totally
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SOPHIE LANG"
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