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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
BABY FACE HARRINGTON
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If you like to laugh rum,-don't walk to the Queen's Theatre where "Baby Face Harrington, the fun-
niest aim of the year opens its
VAGABOND LADY
in your screen fare and want to If you are tired of heavy drama
see something that, will afford you' laughs as well as give you that local engagement to-day.
little touch of romance that is the And now only funniest, but, most seasoning for any good motion It has no parallel, nor picture production, then you can't original comparison because its star afford to miss Vagabond Lady" Charles Butterworth, Ls unique the Hal Roach-M-G-M full-length among comedians. This is Batter-light comedy coming on Sunday worth's first leading role, in ato this Queen's Theatre. plcture especially writtan for him Director Sam Taylor. has turned
Although the picture principally out what in show parlanceia. concerns the exploits of the un-known as a "natural" in "Vaga It has humour," lats smiling Butterworth, Una Merkel bond Ludy." shares honours as his wife. They make the perfect comedy team, these two, each with a different
technique, each balancing the ather, yet both in perfect, har-
mony.
of action and romance.
And the cast-it's something to write home about even to the least important of players. Robert Young, always good, is, even better in this picture as "Tony" a fun- loving son of a millionaire depart- ment store owner, who returns in a sailing ship just in time to upset the marriage plans of his brother
Briefly, the humour of the story lles in the situations · A small- town clerk becomes involved with one of the toughest gang's hood-Jehn" portrayed by Reginald Jums in the country and is sus- pected of being chief of the gang.
While police stage a man hunt for his arrest, he is perilously" the guest of the gang in their remote hideout: The surprise Anish calculated to push you right out,
of your chair.
DAILY 130-Ki
7.13–0.80
Denny."
It happens that John" is de the daughter of the department sirous of marrying Josephine"
store's irresponsible head janitor. Evelyn Venable as "Jo" is ideally enst. She gives the part, real sincerity having lots of fun in the
process.
TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUE
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
FLEMING
ROAD
WANGHAI
TEL" 204TE
FOND MEMORIES OF THE PAST AGAIN BRING. JOY TO THOUSANDS ! REVIVAL OF THE WORLD'S BEST COMEDIES.
FOR TO-DAY ONLY 1 DAY TO-MORROW
AROLD LLOY
SAT.
IN
FEET FIRST"
JANET GAYNOR CHARLES FARBELL
IT'S A SMALL WORLD
ONLY
EDDIE.
CANTOR WHOOP
"SUNNYSIDE UP'
THE ST. LOUIS, KID
to
the
henry vllis, acquira wile, wALIAN- James Cagney comes Seymour, is the last of us" proces
Alhambra Theatre to-day in his sion of five spouses to reach only-datest Warner Bros. picture, The
wood.
Ana late comer is Wendy barrie, the young and lovely English' ac- trees who is now appearing in ber first American picture, Fox, Film's Its A Small World, opposite Spencer Tracy, which is due on Saturday at the King's Theatre.
The others who procréded wert Binnie Barnes, ste Lancaste (Mrs. Charles Laughren) Merli Obern and Kathleen Grieg.
St. Louis Kid" which is said to be the most riotously funny as well as most thrilling dramatic pro- duction in which he has yet ap- peared.
HUNG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2,30, 6.10, 7.15
& 9.30 P.M..
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREY
WHERE NO MAN EVER VENTURED BEFORE...THEIR PLANES BLAZED THE WAY TO NEW THRILLS IN THE SAVAGE HEART OF THE UNTOUCHED AFRICAN JUNGLE!
MR. & MRS. MARTIN JOHNSON'S
BABOON
Supervised by Truman Talley
BABOONA
At The King's
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"Baboona" which is having its at the King's theatre will prove of tremendous educational
value in the revelations of animal life and habits.
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The film which is full of thrills, also gives an insigo, "into one of the most engaging real life come- dy ever seen on the screen.
Thanks to the efforts of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson the public is able to see, on record, the most daring exploits in the African jungles which were photographed very clearly in every detail.
AN AERIAL EPIC OVER ÁFRICA
AT THE STAR
A Thrilling Drama
Would you sacrifice life and freedom that your family might and happiness? Would you sur- render money, power, influence to protect the good name of a wife and a daughter you haven't seen for twenty years.
18, 1935.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE-
TML, No. 25919 25332
NEXT CHANGE
THEY DIDN'T
fall IN LOVE... THEY crashed INI
IT'S A SMALL
WORLD
DID IT MATTER?
(Special Az Mal Servicn;
London, July 2 One of the most magnificently irrelevant verbal exchanges heard in the House of Commons for some time passed between Rear-Admiral Sir Murray Sueter and Dr, O'pono- van. It was in the debate on the Hertfordshire County Council Bill.
Rear-Admiral Sueter, stressing the dangers of electrical instru- Here are questions of which, ments in improper hands, related dramas are made. Here are pro- one of his namai experiences. blems to be solved, not only by In the early days of X-rays they the weak, but the strong as well. took photographs of the ship's What the solution is, Columbia | doctor's brain. The next morning Studios provides in the thrilling the doctor's hair came out in hand- drama, "Whirlpool," the current fuls: attraction at the Star Theatre.
Jack Holt, virile he-man star of
In this film the Johnsons had to conquer the jungles, the unex- the screen since the early silent plored lands and unknown tribes
days, proves adequate to the oc- from the air as well as on land... casion and answers these questions Nothing so far has touched the both convincingly 'and dramatical- wonder of the aerial epic over ly. Africa. It stands alone as a mas-· terpiece. The rest of the animal pictures must take second place to this compelling adventure which is in every
sense an extraordinary Alm. Strange as it may scem, these records of the Johnsons give added significance to the saying that truth is stranger than fiction for in seeing "Baboona" you will see a triumph of reality.-OM.O.
WHIRLPOOL
How inexorably adverse circums- tances may dog a man's footsteps throughout life is ably and vividly depicted in Columbia's "Whirlpool" which opened last night at the
'Star Theatre.
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Supporting Holt in "Whirlpool" are Jean Arthur, Doraid Cook, Lila Allen Jenkins and John Miljan.
"Whirlpool" was directed by Roy William Nell from an original story by Howard Emmett Rogers adapted to the screen by Dorothy Howell and Ethel Hill:
"YOU BELONG TO ME"
The idea that actors and other artistic people were poor at mathematics and other related school subjects was recently char- Arterized as a myth by Mrs. Laura Barringer, special school teacher in the film studios, who has been training child stars for more than
nine years.
Miss Barringer's newest pupil is With Jack Holt in the starring role of Buck Rankin," who later David Holt, six-year-old actor, who the identity of Dukes featured with Lee Tracy, Helen Sheldon," big-time gambler and Mack and Helen Morgan in Para- racketeer, the story smoothly un-mount's "You Belong to Me," now felds and bullds to a dramatic de-
playing at the Alhambra Theatre.
interest throughout.
nouement with more than usual "It is a remarkable thing." said Mrs. Barringer, "but virtually all of the boy actors who have come under my tutelage during the past nine years have been excellent in mathematics."
The story, by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan revolves about a Milk Trust war, which Jimmy has un- wittingly started by a speech con- Rankin, a carnival owner, is sent jured up to get himself out of jail to the penitentiary for twenty Miss Barrie, by her own adja for having knocked the milk years on a charge of manslaughter xion, came to Hollywood without magnate cold.
and shortly learns that Helen, his even a letter of introduction to
The milk war leads to a score bride of but a few months is to anyone, to say nothing of a con
of thrilling situations in
which bear him
a child. She swears tratt. She was elected for a screen test pud won out by sheer ability.
Cagney is arrested for a murder eternal delity, and in order to When anyone asks Wendy Barrie.
he did not commit, his giri la kid-release her from the life of a lovely young English actress how napped, and another war with the convict's wife, Rankin, through a the happened to come to Hollyband of aaductors. Breath-taking cleverly planned ruse, leads her to wood to try American picture, she action, interspersed with hilarious believe he has died in an attempt- just says, "It all happened because comedy winds up in a novel and ed prison break. I changed my mind and it was a
astounding climax. nice day for an airplane ride."
Others in the cast of "It's a
..
Some of Mrs. Barringer's other actor-pupils include Shirley Tem- ple, Dickie Moore, Jackle Searl and Mickle Rooney.
the
The discovery of Sandra. his daughter, and Helen as the wife of At the expiration of his term hea prominent judge, greatly in- 30-011 Jimmy has the role of a red-underworld as Sheldon, with the situation ensues when
establishes himself in the volves matters. An inescapable Small World," which Edwin But, headed, hot-tempered Irish truckald of his former henchman "Mac, lawyer unearths Sheldon's
a abyster cher produced and Irving. Cum driver who gets into trouble every who furnishes hilarity with bis and threatens
past Raymond minute.
wife and mings directed, are:
thousand-and-one imaginary all daughter, and the story speedily Walburn. Virginia Sale. Astrid Allwyn, Irving Bacon,. Charles
moves to a startling climax Sellon, Nick Foran, Belle Daube, Frank MeGlynn, Sr., Frank McGlynn, Jr., Bill Gillis. Ed Brady, and Harold Minjir.
I AM A THIEF
"I Am a Thie?" Warner Bros. latest melodrama mystery thriller is scheduled to open at the Alham- bra Theatre on Sunday, with Mary Astor and Ricardo Cortez heading an all-star-cast.
The picture based on a story by Ralph Block and Loris Malloy, recounts the breath-taking adventures of a band of interna tional jewel robbers who plot to steal an almost priceless set of diamonds known as the Kareninas,
Patricia Ellis has the romantic rcle and proves as
efficient in rough methods as Jimmy himself,
for she smacks him for a row of milk cans when he smashed her ear. But she makes him like it 'so well that he rushes to her rescue when she is kidnapped. She does not confine her smacks to Jimmy, however, but lets a detective have it in the faw when he gets fresh.
The famed Kareninas, prize loot
of the Continent, attract the at tention of rival gangs whose bat- ties with each other and with officers of the French Burete re- suits in cold-blooded murders, kill- ings and the wounding of several
others,"
Mary Astor has the role or a beautiful and cultured woman who is trying to get hold of the famous diamonds by hook or crook. She spies on and follows the first pur chaser of the jewels, a gentle
The diamonds are used by secret service operatives as a bait to catch a gang of jewel thieves composed of renegade nobles, beautiful adventuresses and men of such daring and cleverness that they have succeeded in outwittingly dilettante of evident wealth, a
the officials,
part played by Ricardo Cortez,
men's.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
“Baboona"
QUEEN'S:
"Baby Face Harrington"
ORIENTAL:-
"Feet First”
Kowloon
MAJESTIC:-
"Evelyn "Prentice"
ALHAMBRA :--
"The St. Louis Kid"
KING'S.-
Coming
"It's A Small World"
QUEEN'S:-
*Vagabond"
ORIENTAL:-
י:
"Whoopee" "Sunnyside Up"
STRIKING VINDICATION OF TARIFFS
in
MAJESTIC
Pages: a 1"HEATRE CONTEN Natsu Bead Kowloon: Tel. 57222] TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20
William
9.20 P.M.
EVEN MON
LAUGHS qual
THRILLS
than "THE
THUN MAN"
nhentice
NEXT CHANGE "MATIE GALANTE"
WITH
SPENCER TRACT, KETTI GILLIAN
DAILY AIR SERVICE ACROSS ATLANTIC
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 2 "A daily transatlantic air service is expected to be in full operation within two years.
The service is to be maintained "
(Special Air Mail Service
London, July, 2. strikingly from the new national No Industry has benefted more policy of Protection and stable by 10 giant Sikorsky S42 Bgins- finance than the British iron and boats, which have a flying range steel Industries, which a few years of at least 4000 miles, and which ken by depression. Sir John Beale, ago seemed the most hardi stric-already hold 10 world air records.
These machines which cost the chairman of Guest, Keen and
£25,000 each, will be manufactur Nettlefolds, one of the mosted under licence in this country. important of the iron, and steel The sole manufacturing rights in DI O'Donovan criticised this statement. He declared the doc-
producing firms, took occasion to Great Britain and the Empire have been acquired by the British remind his shareholders how dur- tor's hair would have taken threeing the bleak times which are not Aircraft Manufacturing Company weeks to fall dut.
so far past a business sound in from the United Aircraft Corpora- The gallant Admiral stood to his
every branch had still needed the
tion of America. guns
added load for its factories which
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"ON" FOR "IN"
It Dr. O'Donovan, however, had wished to hit him between wind and water, the Admiral had given hun the opportunity.
He prefaced his anecdote by the statement that it occurred "on his Majesty's ship Benbow."
A naval officer of similar rank to Sir Murray Sueter assures the writer that the substitution of "on" for in," when speaking of a British warship is nexcusable.""
Ex
And, it will be recalled, Joseph Conrad used to be very scornful of those who talked about a person being "on", any kind of ship, "as it he was a seagull on a plank.".
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̈(Special Air Mal! Service)"
London, July 2
It seldom devolves upon a.court to censor a wl by the omission from probate of words said to be defamatory of a living person.
A case somewhat similar to that concerning the will of Sir John Collie, which came before the Pro- bate Court this week, arose a few years ago, the testator. being like wise a knight.
A
A subsidiary company will be only Protection could give. Since formed by the British Aircraft then. under the shelter of Govern-Manufacturing Company to con ment action, the tron and steel struct and operate the machines Industries have reorganised and on the transatlantic service. integrated their own financial £500,000 issue of capital will be structure and created new works. made by the subsidiary in three The confidence with which they weeks time. have proceeded. and the prosperity which has justified and enhanced Liverpool and New York. this confidence, reflect creditstruction of the machines will be- alike upon the private enterprise which
has seen the opportunity, and upon the Government and the banking system which has provided this field for calm expan
sion.
. INCREASED HOME TRADE
Negotiations during the past few weeks in London and Luxembourg have provided a beneficial agree- ment with the Continentai Steel Cartel, which, as Sir John Beale has Solnted out, provides an in- creased home trade and ar increased export trade at the same time. It was the pressure of British tariffs which exacted this agreement from our neighbours, and-the agreement itself has made it possible to relax this pressure from Its highest point, but the main force of the tariffs remains
as a strengthening element. While the fruits of the new agreement with the Cartel remain to be i
In that instance also the az-reaped in future years, the general grieved person was a lady change of policy already effected Ambiguity in the home-drawn has raised the volume of wages will gives most trouble to the paid in the steel trade 30 per cent. courts, and it is paradoxical that above their 1933 level in a single many judges and eminent legal year.
me have talleu to make their intentions clear.
The story goes that the famous Serjeant-at-Law, Maynard, pur- posely worded his will in obscure terms, so that the courts could set- tle" some very fire moot points which had bothered him in his
Ufetime:
QUEEN'S
ATIMID SOULGETS TOUGH
laugh ziet!
BABY FACE HARRINGTON
CHARLES BUTTERWO
HARVEY STEPHENS
Ar 2.30, 5.10
7,20 & 9.30
P.M..
HIS FIRST QUESTION
Polat Air Mail Service)
London July 2
Mr. MacDonald answered his first Parliamentary question as Lord President of the Council yes- terday. It dealt with industrial research.
This is one of the many depart ments for which the Lord Presf- dent is responsible. Among other things he has to answer in Parlia- ment for the Cinematograph Fund, the work of various museums, and the Economic Advisory Council.
The Department of Bcleritific and Industrial Research, which is the department Parliament asks most questions about, dates back only to 1915. But the Privy Coun ell has for centuries been connect-
ed with scientific research,
Its Arst essay in this direction was the result of King Ha interest in science friendship with Sir Isa At the Kings suggesti Council in 1675 empo to build a hous cuadrants in the #Greenwi
wich:
The service will operate between Con-
in forthwith, and the service is expected to be in full operation within two years.
HITLER SENDS THANKS TO BRITISH LEGION
(Special Air Mall Service)·
London, July 2.-- The Brighton branch of the British Legion, who met German ex-servicemen at Brighton last week, received a telegram-to-day from Herr Hitler, the German Chancellor.
It ran: "Thank you very much for the friendly greeting and al the kind thoughts from the Eng- lish and German ex-servicemen, It is my heartfelt wish that this first re-union of ex-servicemen will bring understanding and peace to the nations of the
e world. -Adolf Hitler."
The German delegation of ex- prisoners of war who are on a visit to England laid a wreath on the Cenotaph to-day
ALHAMBRA
FRENTRE
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
at 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. WARNER BROS. LAUGH AND ACTION RIOT LIKE HERE
COMES
THE
·NAVY #I
CAGMEY
THE ST. LOUIS
KID
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