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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
ROMANCE IN MANHATTAN ONE HOUR LATE
Theatre-goers who enjoy stirring pictures of real life, told in simple form, without artifelality, pictures -that ́ resemble a page from the Book of Life, are conddently ex- pected by RKO-Radio to find their entertainment tas: es superbly gratified in the drama of love. heartbreak and struggle. “Romance in Manhattan," starring Francis Lederer and Ginger Rogers, show: ing to-day at the King's Theatre.
The film, presented as a ilving. breathing adventure of life in the crowded districts of New York City. is calculated to sur the heart, with its human tragedies. its simple Joys and its courageous optimism.
The story of "Romance in M..n- hattan" is a simple one ci a young Immigrant who comes to America afre with hopes and dreams but is denied entry because he lacks possession of the $200 demanded by the laws of the country. He slips overboard from the ship en which he is being, deported and swims ashore. His sufferings, his struggles and his unyielding by le to win a place in the New World make a series of dramatic situa- tions which bulld up into a stir- ring climax. A love story runs like a golden thread" through the grip- ping drama.
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How one fleeting hour changes six unusual lives is dramatically told in the new Paramount film. "One Hour Late" coming to the Alhambra Theatre to-morrow, with Joe Morrison, Helen Twelvetrees, Conrad Nagel, Arline Judge, and Toby Wing.
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ne'story is a dramatic comedy- romance. Written by Libby Block. Ralph Murphy directed from the screen play by Kathryn Scola and Pau) Gerrard Smith. `
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The film presents Joe Morrison, the golden-voiced tenor who first introduced "The Last Round-up," as a young clerk with two ambi- Lions; to marry the girl of his dreams who works in the same office with him, and to be a great radio singer.
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The girl resists his affection finally ending up with an after- office-hours affairs with her boss who is the victim of an unrequited love.
The climax of the film is staged na s.alled elevator where, for one fleeting hour, the lives of six peo- ple waver while the hearts of the two lovers are drawn closer to- gether.
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LAST
TO-MORROW
TIMES TO-DAY, & THURSDAY
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STORIES
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Summer Prices Matinees 20 ets.-80 ets.Evenings 20 ets.-35 ets.-55 ets.
ONE MORE RIVER
It was Diana Wynyard's, success in school days and small amateur performances which turned her ambition toward the theatre.
FROM HEADQUARTERS
HUNG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1935.
TO DAY ONLY
AT
2.30.6.10.7.15
9.30 P.M.
HAPPINESS AHEAD!.
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
WITH THE SCREEN'S NEW SWEETHEARTS:
Frincet
LEDERER
Ginger
ROGERS
They'll chestun yo athle laughable. aryable story al a love that bi
́above the city's
Romance
in MANHATTAN
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PICTURE
MARK OF THE VAMPIRE SATRICAL STORY
Sin'ster shadows, vampires that roam in the night. error in its ultimate intensity, blend with sus- pense. thrills, romance and comedy in "Mark of the Vampire," Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's amazing detec- tive thriller currently playing at the Queer's Theatre.
Dealing with a mysterious crime, in the midst of an uncanny vam- pire cult, the story centres round a detective whose wits are pitted against the "un-dead" and who by an amazing strategy uncovers one of the strangest criminals in mo- dern Eterature.
And Perfect Casting
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TH. No. 25813 25332
TO-MORROW
Faithful to a man. she had cause to hate...not daring to kiss a man who loved her-she was condemned as "bad" by a world that would not understand.
DIANA
THE Wynyard
John Galsworthya Best Seller.
ONE MORE RIVER
Wish Frank Lawtön, Jane Wyatt, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Colin Clive,. Llanel Atwill, Reginald Denny and many others. A UNIVERSAL PIC. TURE, presented by Carl Laemmle.
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EMPIRE FILMS
For The Schools
(Special Air Mail Servics)
purpose
London, June .22. "The Private Life or Don Juan,"
The Empire Film Library, a re- which is coming to the King's pository or films which will teach Theatre on Sunday, has a story
the boys and girls of this country which for delightful satire has
to know mure of the Empire to never been surpassed on the screen. which they belong, was yesterday At the peak of his sex-appeal inaugurated by the Duke of Glou- career Don Juan is being imper-cester at the Imperial Institute, sonated by several young men who south. Kensington. The And that his name assists thelr and aims of the library were ex- conquests. One of them is killed
"plained by Lieutenant-Colonel J. in a duel and the news filles round
Colville, MP, the president of the Seville that the famous lover is board of governors, who presided., dead. Actually Don Juan is tiring Lieutenant-Colonel Colville said of his affairs and finding the urge that the hall in which they met to climb balconies less pressing than the urge to sleep. So he allows the report of his death to
Lionel Barrymore plays the prin- cipal role as Professor Zelen, amazing student of demonology, who aids the police in rerreting out a vampire horde.. Bela Lugosi of "Dracula" fame, plays the horri- fe vampire. Count Mora, and Carol Bcrland is Luna,
h's vampire daughter, They Agure in blood-go undenled. chilling episodes in a weird old castle, Romance is provided by pretty Elizabeth Allan and Henry Wadsworth as theglovers in terror." Jean Hersholt is "the dominating Baron Otto.
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THE FUTURE OF THE MATRICULATION
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:—
"Romance In Manhattan"
QUEEN'S:-
"Mark of the Vampire"
ORIENTAL
"Count of Monte Cristo"
Kowloon
MAJESTIC:
"Forraking All Others"
“ALHAMBRA:-
"Sweet Music"
KING'S.-
Coming
"One More River"?
"The Private Life of Don
Juan
QUEEN'S:-
"Let's Live (To-night" DRIENTAL:-
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"From Head Quarters":
SIR F. LEITH ROSS
FOR CHINA
To Advise Government
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 22.
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Nat, Rani Kawloon, Tel. 67222 FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
CLARK
JOAN
CRAWFORD
GABLE
ROBERT
MONTGOMERY
in the gayest, romantic marry-go-round of the year
Forsaking
ALL OTHERS
A W S. VAN DYKR Production A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
CHINESE INFLUENCE
Upon Agriculture In
India
(Special Air Mail Service)
London," June 22, At a meeting of the Senatus Sir Frederick Leith Ross, the Academicus of Edinburgh Univer- Government's chief economic ad- sity Dr. Otto Samson was appoint- viser, it was announced by Sired Tweedle Fellow for 1939-36 Samuel Hoare, Foreign Secretary, and 1936-37. This Fellowship is in the House of Commons this awarded to enable the holder to carry out exploration and research in the less-known regions of Asia and Northern Africa.
afternoon, is to go to Ching at
an early date so that he may be sole to advise the Government on che situation...
Sir Samuel, who had received a cheer on rising to answer 'ques
was bequeathed to the institute by the Empire Marketing Board as a centre in which the public, and particularly school" children, could see displays of Empire films, Three-quarters of, a million peo- ple, of whom the great majoritytions in his new Cabinet post, had were children, visited the institute
been, asked if he had any state- lust year and saw films of the day-
ment to make on the situation in to-day life of the Empire.
China,
Moriths later he tries to recap- ture his ascendency, but meets a pathetic fate. He has not altered In the slightest but nobody will belleve it is! Don Juan, so even- tually weary of reduff, he goes home to his long-neglected wife
It is not enough," he con- and becomes belatedly domesticat-tinued, "merely to show the Empire
ed.
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It is an intriguing example of Fuckish wit to have made the flim deal with Don Juan's later and less successful years and an outstand- London's Position Questioned ing example of apt casting to nave starred Douglas Fairbanks in the title role. For Doug, amazingly youthful though he is for his age. would be the last man to suggest he should play the straight roman- tic part of Don Juan as & youth.
under one roof, for there are many schools and homes in the United Kingdom to which a visit to Lon- don is difficult or impossible. It
pire films is necessary also to send our Em- out on loan to such schools."
The Empire Marketing Board lala the foundations of the
He said that for some months China's economic situation had been one of undoubted difficulty. and the position had been still further complicated by the recent rise in the price of silver.
SIGNS OF PROGRESS Despite the financial crisis the political situation was not unfav- curable. There were signs of a steady progress towards order and
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library and Dominion, Indian, and stability. University's
(Special Air Mall Service)
London. June 22. Whether London unique position as the only Univer- sity granting external degrees should absolve it from the reform of the examination system pro- posed by the Northern Universities was questioned by an education authority yesterday.
À baffling murder mystery with starting new twist will be un-
As stated in "The Daily Tele Jolded on the screen at the Orien-
graph" yestertay, the proposal of cal Theatre on
Wednesday and the Ave Northern Universities to Thursday with the showing of discontinue, the use of the school the picture, "From Headquarters certificate examination for ma- Not only does the spectator behoid triculation, starting in 1938, has the scientific unravelling of amet with the approval of all tangled murder plot, but in the Universities except London. very midst of the search for the slayer, another murder Is com mitted right in Police Headquarters in an effort to cover up the major crime.
Following engagements in several legitimate productions in London theatres, Miss Wynyard came to America to play the leading role in "The Devil Passes" in New York, and it was during the
run of this play that she was placed un der contract for motion pictures Her first picture was "Rasputin and the Empress," with John, Lionel, and Ethel Barrymore, and Blackmail of the blackest surt, is she has since been seen in notable one of the threads that
runs:
roles in "Cavalcade," "Where Sin-through the dire plot which the ners Meet," "Reunion in Vienna," police are called upon to untangle "Men Must Fight." and "Lets Try o find the slayer. Again."""
Miss Wynyard comes the
to
King's Theatre on Wednesday in the starring role of "One More River, Universal's dramatic pie, turization of the last novel written by the late John Galsworthy. The
pléture was directed by James, Whale, and other members of the cast are Frank Lawton, Mrs. Pa- trick Campbell. Colin Clive, Jane Wyratt, Reginald Denny, G. Aybrey Smith, Lionel Atwill and Alan Mowbray.
BELOW THE SEA
Coloured motion pictures shown at the same time and on the same screen with..the...usual black-and- white variety, are now to be seen by audiences for the first time Alm history. This is one of the
Two women and three meh have sufficient motives to kill a Broad-
way millionaire playboy, All are put through the vary.ng methods of Inquist!tion by the police in the effort to discover the criminal..
Eugene Pallette Has the role of Sergeant Boggs in this picture. Other. sterling players in the cast nclude Dorothy Burgess, Hugh Herbert, Theodore Newton, Hobart Cavanaugh, Henry O'Neill, Len Murray and Murray Kinnell
Altogether the picture is one of the most realistic as well as' most baffling murder mysteries ever to -come to the screen, with thrill upon thrill following in rapid suc- cession to a smashing climax.
is a small motion plature projector beside him and a small screen at the end of the assembly room, An
latest achievements of the ingen-action-operator turns the crank of
ous Hollywood technicians, '
the projector and images appear on the screen.
In the Columbia feature "Below the Sea" coming on Thursday to Tropical fish are shown in their the Queen's Theatre there is a brilliant reds and greens and golds. scene representing a gathering of Delicately-tinted bits of vegetation sclent'sts and their guests aboard and coral appear. And meanwhile, a yacht just about to start for then the conventional black-and- tropics in search of rare fishes and white the volces of the audience: ocean-floor vegetation. The pro- aboard the yacht can be heard fessor in charge tells his audience commenting upon the brightly- "We will now observe the results hued specimens while they them- of our previous exreuition". There selves are visible in subarea light,
Yesterday a member of the Secondary Schools Examinations Council, the recommendation of which led to the Northern Univer- sities' proposal, agreed it was con- ventent for external students to have got through the, London ma- triculation before they left school, "But," he added, "the Council feels that the advantages of the aeparation of matriculation from disadvantages of students having the school certificate outweigh the
after leaving school." to take the London. matriculation
There is an amazing cast sup- porting Fairbanks, including Merle mer, Binnie Barnes, Diana Napler, Oberon, Benita Hume, Joan Gard-
Patricia Hilliard. Melville Cooper, Owen Nares, Barry MacKay, and a score of other well known players..
of the reform proposed by the Northern Universities,
EMPLOYER'S DEMAND An official of the Board of Edu- cation said that while the Board was in favour of the reform it was not within its powers to dictate Its acceptance to the Universities. "In any case," he added, "the situation we want to remedy has 'been caused not by the Univer- sities but by employers. Many em- ployers are entirely ignorant of dur educational system, but they think matriculation is a qualifica- tion employees ought to have.
"If only they would not demand it, all would be well. "The Dally Telegraph" would be doing pa Mr. Frank Fletcher, headmaster publie service 1 It pointed out of Charterhouse and chairman of how unnecessary is the employ- the, Headmasters' Conference, salder's question: Have you matricu- most headmasters were in favour lated??"
LAST
TWO
DAY'S
Colonial authorities gave or lent films. The Postmaster-General was a partner in the venture, and last year the circulation of Empire reached total of 14,500, and they and Post Office films together
were sent to some 1,500 schools. By this means an audience of nearly three million, chiefly school children, were enabled to travel in Imagination to distant parts of the Empire.
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and
Dr." Otto Samson was born Hamburg in 1900, and studied political science and then Oriental languages at the University there. In 1928 he entered the famous. Ethnographical Museum (Museum fur Volkerkunde) in Hamburg, and
1930 became head of the East Asiatic Section, a post which he held til the Nazi revolution in 1933. In 1931-2 he travelled in China to collect ethnographic specimens for the Museum.
- STUDY OF PEASANT LIFE
In the couse of his travels he made an intimate study of the daily life of peasant and crafs- men and of the technical pro- cesses employed by them. An examination of the data
then colected
suggested connections with India reflected "" craft and agricultural processes and their products.
In North China, however, there had had been disquieting deve lopments during the
past two weeks or so..
Sir Samuel said that he had
representatives in been in ccostation with British
Tokylo Nanking, and through them with the influence of China upón India. It is the extent and direction of the Chinese and Japanese Gov-and vice versa, that Dr. Samson ernments. These communications now proposes to study. This can were still continuing.
only be done by actually living in villages near the borders of India. and observing technical processes in operation, the several stages in the manufacture of everyday
The aims which the institute in- herited were all silent flims, and they had not yet acquired the ap-life, the resources, and potentiali- paratus for sound projection. ties of each port of the overses Their arst endeavour must be to Empire.
"I am glad to note," the Duke Extend in the direction of "sound" they must look for cooperation to films and apparatus, and for this
of Gloucester said, "that the board of governors have recognized the their friends, and well-wishers at
home and averses.
A GREAT ADVANCE The Duke of Gloucester, in de" claring the library open, said that the institute's main activities were twofold-on the one hand, inquiries and investigations into the ecorro mic resources of the Empire with a view to their profitable develop- ment, and, on the other hand, the display of. Empire products and Empire flims, so that the general public might learn more of the
QUEEN'S
THRILLS BEYOND BELIEF!
MARK OF THE
VAMPIRE
AT 2.30, 5.10.
7.20 & 9,30
P.M.
PLEASE! Don't tell the climas! Let your friends be thrilled and mystified!
Importance of one cardinal prin- ciple-namely, the claims,, of the youth of these islands to a closer and clearer knowledge of the Em-
Pire oversed. To-day science has so far progressed that even the
can be seen by any citizen who will most distant corners of the Empire
take advantage of all the facilities at his disposal.
!
"It certainly marks a great ad- guide the affairs of the institute vance in the policy of those who
that they should not be content with displaying Empire films in the institute cinema hall, but should also have decided
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to establish an Empire Film Library which will help to bring the over- sea Empire closer home and to make it more real even to the re- motest schools of the British Iates and
Mr. "Howard Ferguson High Commissioner for Canada, handed to the Duke of Gloucester a Cana dian film for the use of the library
The Kingly Thought
A district council was discussing the best way to celebrate the Jubilee, Ope" couteflior was an xious that a. decorated mug be giren to each school child and the old Talk
"It will be nice to think, be heavily that when these people. look at their mugs it wil remind them of the councilors who i them
Then
other
de wondered fl
objects, and the function of these village economy when the latter is processes, and products in the viewed as a living organism,
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