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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
ONE HOUR LATE
Hollywood, credited with a ma- jority of the more important dress and jewellery fads of the past year, launches a new one with the production of Paramount's "One Hour Late" coming to the Alham- bra. Theatre on Wednesday.
In the picture, which features Joe Morrison, Helen Twelvetrees and Conrad Nagel in the principal roles, Arline Judge wears some of the new wooden costume jewellery which has already created a sen sation in the Alm capital.
The pieces which Miss Judge
are
KISS AND MAKE-UP
Pygmalion, the Greek soulptor. fell in love with his glorious creation. Galatea: brought her to life only to learn she was just heartless stone.
And the BP. Schulberg Para- mount picture, "Kiss and Make- Up" now playing at the Queen's Theatre presents the modern, and sophisticated version of the samé theme in the story of the hand- some young beauty doctor. Cary, Grant, who falls in love with one of his own creations only to learn that she is just make-up.
wears in "One Hour Late"
Genevieve Tebin playe the made of fine-gained, natural. po- beautiful but heartless patient lished hardwood, and consist of a and Helen Mack, the understand- brooch, ring, bracelet and wrist-ing secretary. Edward Everett watch, The movement and the Horton" and Lucien Littlekeld are crystal of the wristwatch are quite cast in comedy roles, Mona Maris. naturally made of metal and glass, Toby Wing. Henry Arrietta, Do- respectively, but the case and the rothy Christle and the 13 Wam- strap re-moulded of wond to fit the pas Baby Stars of 1934 are in the wrist,
supporting cast.
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ALEXANDER DUMAS' ROMANTIC® FANTASY BROUGHT TO THE SCREEN IN ONE OF THE TRULY GLORIOUS PICTURES OF ALL TIME!
A MARVELLOUS STORY, A
COUNT. MONTE CRISTO
HOBERT DONET - BEN
Summer Prices Matinees 20 ets.-80 ets.Evenings 20 ets.-35 ets.-55 eta.
$10 RAISE
Baward Everett Horton, the ver- satile screen and stage actor, took a second calculating look at Wi- Har Benedict when they met on the studio set to start work on "$10 Ralse" the new "Fox Film picture to-day at the King's Thea- tre.
Benedict is the Oklahoma boy who walked right into the highly coloured office boy role. He has one of those Will Rogers faces that prevents, the audience from seeing anyone else while he is on' the screen...
"William.” sald Horton. I've got ten scenes to your one; but if the director gives you just two more close-ups something tells me It will be your picture."
Horton Is co-featured with
"$10 blonde. Karen Morley in Raise," a blithe comedy with hu- man problems dealing with love on a small pay check, boss- fearing book-keeper, and a non- arriving raise which balks, re-
ance.
ROMANCE IN MANHATTAN
By a coincidence, the emotional experiences of Karel Novak, the immigrant boy portrayed by Francis Lederer in "Romance in Manhattan." were paralled by Lederer himself when he arrived in New York from Europe.
SWEET MUSIC
A fan dance chorus, whose twelve members have an average weight 1205 pounds each, will be seen inRudy Vallee's new Warner Bros.' Alm, "Sweet Music," which opens to-day at the Alhambra Theatre.
Viewed from a distance, these fan dancers, with their blonde hair. rouged Ups and powdered bodies, seruny, hairy, muscular legs and look most entrancing, but on closer
brawny armis suggest that some- Thing is wrong with this picture.
The picture 14 a gigantie comedy.. musical based on a story by Jerry Wald. Novel dance and ensembles were directed by Bobby Connolly with hundreds of beautiful girls. Music and lyrics were written by three famous dance teams, Warren and Dubin, Fain and Kahal,' and Dixon and Wrubel Rudy Vallee's Connecticult Yankees and Frank Milt Britton's Orchestra also ap pear....
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1935.
TO-DAY ONLY
AT
2.30.5.10.7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
KIISTO
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
[YOU KNOW THIS FELLOW...
EVERY OFFICE HAS ONE!
"He's too timid to ask a hard-" boiled boss for a raise-and in this human comedy that might be a page from anybody's life he awakens a laugh and a heart-tug for everyone who ever worked for a living!
$10 RAISE
EDWARD EVERETT HORTOR KAREN MORLEY-
PREVIEW
The Mark Of The Vampire
The very title of the picture, The cars at the vampire aug. gests an eerieness that should ap peal to all ernome-goers with a partiality for anything calculated to send cold shivers down the spine and make one's hairs stand on ends. The writer was ILODgst those who were invited to attendi the preview of this picture at the Queen's Theatre yesterday morning and came away with the impres- sion that "The Mark of The Vampire will prove an excellent box-office proposition for the inanagement of this. popular theatre.
The story concerns the village of Visoka, in Czechoslovakia, and the villagers in the belief that the
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THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TYL No: 25313 26332
FROM TO-MORROW.
GINGER ROGERS
FRANCIS
LEDERER
Romance MANHATTAN.
with
ARTHUR HONL
RKO-RADIO
PICTURE
A NEW DRUG CONVEN- TION
im
KIT 1 PIJOM
Closer co-operation between the The Count of Monte Cristo" $1 Governments of the showing at the Oriental Theatre fighang the cit drug traffic is on Sunday Monday and Tuesday. foreshadowed.
of The Council the To recreate function for
the League of Nations has just tlim version of the Dumas To-
agreed to proposals which are expected to lead to a new drug❘ convention.
It will be remembered that two important drug agreements are already binding upon the majority
Governments. of
The Oplum Convention of 1925 has establish-
mance, the producers" order one of the largest interior sets in the history of Alm production. Two huge sound stages were made into one. A grand staircase at one erd was large enough to permit 200 players to walk up and down at the same time without “rub" | ed "a "uniform system for restrict-, bing elbows."
Hundreds of costumes, ranging from "gauzy harem clothes" to uniforms weighing goldbraided forty pounds each, cost a fortune to make. Nineteen wardrobe "as- sistants and twenty-eight make- up experts were needed to take care of the hundreds of players.
PARIS HONOURS INVEN- TOR OF THE CINEMA
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, June 19.
M. Louis Lumiere, the man who invented the cinema, was honoured by the Municipal Council of Paris on Saturday or the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of his in-
ing Imports and exports. Further, the 1931 Convention has mited the manufacture at dangerous drugs in the world's factories to scientific require- medical and ments. But the ingenuity of drug traffickers is so inexhaustible that the League can never afford to rest from its labours, A year or two ago the International Crimi- nal Police Commission at Vienna. suggested that a new conventior: would be useful and submitted the first draft to the League's Opium Advisory Committee.
support.
D
TO-DAY AT THE
"CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"$10 Raise" QUEEN'S:-
"Ks and Make-Up' ORIENTAL
"White Parade"
Kowloon
MAJESTIC:
Chinese Picture
ALHAMBRA
"Sweet Music"
KING'S.—
Sunday
"Romance Manhattan"
QUEEN'S:—
"Mark of the Vampire" ORIENTAL:-
"Count of Monte Cristo" MAJESTIC:
"Forsaking All Others" ALHAMBRA :----
"Sweet Music"
DIVERS TAKE FILMS
Of Famous Wrecks
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A CHINESE PICTURE
WITH CANTONESE DIALOGUE
-SUNDAY-
JOAN CRAWFORD CLARK GABLE ROBERT MONTGOMERY
IN
"FORSAKING
ALL OTHERS".
M. G. M. PICTURE.
CARDINAL BOURNE LEAVES £17,000-
-Secret Charity Trust
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, June 19. The will of Cardinal Bourne, who Archbishop of Westminster, dled on January 1 at the age of 173, has just been proved. He left property valued at £17,308, with net personalty "£16,541
The will, dated January, 1929, was written in the Cardinal's own- handwriting on two sheets of notepaper. He left the whole or his property to B.shop Joseph Burt, Bishop Manuel Bidwell, Mgr, George Coote. Mgr. Maurice Emanuel Carton
and de Wiart, She is the Ophir, super-salvage Mgr. Lionel Evans, "as joint ship; and expert divers, working tenants and for their own bene from her, will take submarine, ft.” He also appointed then
There is a ship lying in Beardmore's Basin, on the Clyde, that is going to probe the secrets of the seas.
Already the scheme has re- ceived an encouraging amount of alms and make scientific exami-executors of his will.
nation of famowa wrecks--includ- Cardinal Bourne' had, however, ing that of the Lusitania with instructed his executors, by means view to salvage work,
of a secret trust, to dispose of his westate along, specified charitable lines. Their solicitors said-yester- day:
States Members of the League, with few exceptions have welcomed it with
open arms. hirty-three countries have in-
Within a few days she formed the Secretary-General | sail.
living-dead roam about the place t after sundown live in constant fear. Count Mora and his daugh. zer Luna, dead for hundreds of years, roam the countryside and when Sir Karell Burotyn is found lead in his Castle (which is the happy hunting ground of the vampires), it is at once attributeda] to the work of the vampires. The rest of the film provides horror after horror and we actually ser two hair-raising attempts at mur
that they are willing to take part The expedition is backed by a der. Bats of the giant variety fyvention. After the president of all over the place, but why spoil the council had extolled his work, a conference for the purpose. syndicate of experts, and will be the whole show for you by reveal M. Lumiere was presented with a Some who are definitely interest-led by Captain Henry B. Russell ing the plot hera?
gold medal of the City of Paris.ed, however, feel that in its pre- expects to wrest from the The photography is excellent It was at the end of 1895 that sent draft form the conversion Italians the world supremacy in und the cast all acquitted their the first cinema-goers were taken could not be fitted in with their deep-sea salvage.":n parts with credit. Lionel Barry into a cellar where for twenty respective system of legislasian. inore, Elizabeth Allan and Belaminutes they were regaled by a
The salvaging of the Lusitania Hence, usast step towards will be Britain's first serious ven- Lugosi in particular were grand spectacle which included such sub-
clearing away these dimculties, ature in this branch of maritime and on the whole The Mark ofjects as a babies' quarrel, a blacks-
endeavour. The Vampire" is that type of picmith at work, a train, a game of committee of experts will get to Lure that must on no account be cards, soa pictures, and workers work on the draft. This body has missed.
leaving the Lumiere factory at purposely been kept fairly small, Lyons. The first show brought in and will consist of representatives 35 francs.
of Great Britain. Canada, India, France, Italy Russia, Japan and seven smaller countries.
LET'S LIVE TO-NIGHT
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I very much enjoyed the pre- view yesterday of "Let's Live to- night” starring Lillan Harvey and Tullio . Carmanattl.. They shown together in a picture that moves smoothly and is thoroughly enjoyable. Lilian Harvey's acting is full of life while Carmanatti who sings a song also is polish- ed. This picture will be shown at the Queen's Theatre shortly.
It shows them meeting at Monte Carlo, when a brief, friendship la enjoyed by both. Carmanatti de- parts, while Lilian Harvey rejoins ́her mother. Here she meets Car- manatti's brother who falls in love
Seated beside M. Luuis Lumiere at the official reception on Satur- day was his brother Auguste, who helped him in all his inventions.
realises that his brother is very much in love with her, and is torn *tween a love for her to his brother, whom he does not wish to hurt.
Splendid scenes of the French Riviera and Monte Carlo, does much to brighten the picture, which is played to a background of "immense wealth-"Filmgoer."
Oh! Oh!
Professor: And whatever on
THE RICHEST GIRL IN with her. She becomes engaged earth made you write a paragraph
THE WORLD
to him, and a very complicated | like that?” situation arises with Carmanatti's return to Monte Carlo. Lilian is not in love with the man she is engaged to, while Carmarktl
He is an ambitious young man. With an annual income of $0,000, ne seeks to further his carcer. Op. portunity knocks on his door "in the lovely shape of "The Richest Girl in the World." But he does care for another girl of equal He too, stood on the deck of a beauty and glamour.-but without great trans-Atlantic liner as it a bankroll. steamed majestically up the bay: Such is the dilemma confronting and caught his first breath-taking Joel McCrea as leading man to view of the Manhattan skyline Miriam Hopkins in "The Richest with a late afternoon sun bathing Girl in the World" RKO-Radio the buildings in shimmering gold.lam of marrying for love or Picture, which dramatizes the pro- He too felt the thrill of stepping money at the Star Theatre this foot on American soil. typical to | week. him of the Land of Dreams That- Come. True.
As Tony Travis, McCrea and Dorothy. Hunter, the richest, girl Although Lederer came over in in the world, are attracted to each luxurious
other. Dorothy poses. ae her own quarters and with a place on Broadway ready for him secretary-companion to discover it to step into, he says that be 18 her riches rather than her heart.
Tony, like previous suitors, wants sure that no immigrant boy ever
When he admits a predilection experienced a greater thrill than for a wealthy girl, she propels him be did as he lacked out over the toward her real secretary, whom he great (eastern metopolis and."meets as the heiress. He stuns tho glimpsed the Statue of Liberty, masqueraders in s climax of sot-
re.
or the first une co-starred with Ginger Rogers, In Romance in Manhattan," a modern drama in terspersed with many sympathetic comedy episodes Sunday at the King's Theatre.
Miriam Hopkins is star
the title role of The Richest Girl in the World," supported by Me Crea, Fay Wray, Reginald Denny, Henry Stephenson, and George Mesker William Baiter dirooted ram Norman Krasna's screenplay.
TO-DAY
ONLY
the ex-
Early next year, after perts bave met, the League Coun- ell will fix the date of the con- ference and will appoint its' Prest-1 dent. In omcial circles it is con- sidered that June, 1936, is the most likely time for the holding of the conference.
CABLES.
The Female of it In a town school an infant class reading lesson was in progress. The word "stile" occurred, and the teacher inquired What is a stile?" Immediately six-year-old Audrey replied. "The way you put your clothes on "*"*
They're Not Speaking Now Sue-"I refused to marry Harry Student: "I quoted it, sir, from two months ago and he has been. Dickena.” -.
hitting up the booze ever since." Professor:
Kate "Well, I calls that carry aren't they?"};
Ing a celebration too far.”
"Beautiful
lines,
QUEEN'S
Kissand Make-Up
"A" Poromount Picture" with
CARY GRANT. GENEVIEVE TOBIN HELEN MACK 299 HOFTON
AMPAS BABY STARS
SCHULBERG
Ar 280, 5.10.
7.20 & 9.30
P.M.
TO-MORROW
more
MARK
who
"The executors of the will wish us to state that the whole of the
estate, although left to the execu tors personally, was, in effect, as- signed by Cardinal Bourne for certain specified charitable pur- poses. They have no power of dis- position over it."
Bishop Manuel Bidwell died. In 1930 Probate has been 'obtained: by Mgr. Coote and Mgr. Cartón de Wlart, power being reserved by:
The syndicats-Argonaut Cor- poration, Ltd--hold the salvage right in almost five hundred the other two executors, wrecks, and world patents in a new salvaging apparatus in which divers can work at hit- herto undreamed of depths. "We are not treasure-hunters
the accepted sense of the term." Captain Russell said. "The syndicate is a business proposi- tion..
TWENTY-SEVEN ADVENTURERS
The Ophir is a Clyde-built twin-screw steamer, and has been fitted out at a cost of £15,000-- with modern salvage outfit wire- less installation, patented sound- ing machine and range-Anders
Twenty-seven men will call with her including a Junior officer WILO survivea the Lusitania's disaster; and the team of four expert divers will be led by J. 13. Peress and James Jarrett,
Peress is the inventor of the new flexible metal diving suit, and Jarrett is the diver who descend- ed recently to a depth of 400 feet in Loch Ness on experimental, work.
"In the ordinary" diving suit," said Captain Russell, practical work can seldom be undertaken at. a depth greater than 200 feet; but our apparatus has been tested: and found successful at 1,400 feet E
THE FIRST SALVAGE The Lusitania, which was tor pedoed on May 7, 1815, lies in 276 feet of water about eight miles of the Old Head of Kinsale, will be the Beene of their dr salvage
Using the special apparatus Alins will be taken of the
for scientific purposes, azid the divers will cut their way into the strong room with oxy-senty-
and
Just Fancy
The two ladies were having a trip on an ocean liner for the first time: The boat remained for an hour or two in a harbour and one, of the ladies asked a seaman the reason.
"Oh, they're just doing something. to one of the screws," was the reply.
"Dear me!" exclaimed the lady, "Fancy a little thing like a screw. holding up a huge liner like this"
ALHAMBRA
THEATRE
OPENS TO-DAY
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