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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1935.
CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
1 AM A THIEF
THE ST. LOUIS KID
James Cagney will be seen for the last me to-day at the Aibam-
A rubbery that had not been writ tea into the script and a thief who was not in the cast added a touchora Theatre in his latest. Warner of surprise and suspense to the making of "I Am a Thief" the Warner Bros picture which "comes to the Alhambra Theatre on Sun
day.
During the shooting of some of the most exciting scenes in the dis- appearance of the famous diamonds whose fate on the Paris-Instanbul express forms the theme of the picture, Director Robert Florry thund his coat was missing. With it had disappeased a considerable amount of money in a wallet.
Bros. picture, The St. Louis Kid,” which is said to be most riotously (unny as well as the most thrill- ingly dramatic production in which | he has yet appeared.
The story by, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan revolves about a cl trust war which Jimmy has un- wit:indly started by a speech "con- jured up to get himself out of jail for having knocked the milk magnate cold.
The milk war leads to a score situations in which
Florey reported the loss to the studio police department and went or thrilling
un with the picture While Mary | Jimmy is arrested for a murder he' Astor, who has the role of a secret did not commit, his girl is hd- operator, busied herself napped, and another war with the »ervice
loard the train, hunting for the band of abductors. The breath- inst Karenina diamonds in the film taking action. interspersed with Sequence. LWO plain-clothes men hilarious comedy winds up in a were engaged in n parallel but novel and astounding climax.. more realistic search for the direr Jimmy has the role of a red headed, hot tempered Irish truck- driver who gets into trouble every minute.
tor's vanished cost.
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The real officers, however," wera bens successful in their search Viss Astor was in hers,
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SUNNY
SIDE
UP
A COMEDY ROMANTIC MASTERPIECE.
SUN. SHIRLEY (EMPLE IN BRIGHT EYES. Summer Prices Matinees 20 ets.-30 ets.----Evenings 20 etz,-85 eta.-56 cts.
THE RIGHT TO LIVE
"The Right to Lve a Warner Bros, picture which is scheduled 'as the feature attraction at the Alhambra Theatre, Kowloon, an Wednesday next, deas with a most daring and unusual theme in which a beautiful young woman is con- fronted by the problem of whether she has the right to live her own life, to love and be happy, or to remain with her hopelessly crippled husband.
In the picture a gn falls in love; with her husband's britner, after the husband has been "crippled by a terrific airplane crash, and is
torn between her desire for love and the galeties cr life and her feeling of duty towards the man she married.
BABOONA
During the filming of their fa- .test jungle thriller. "Baboona." now at the King's Theatre, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson helped a tribe of baboons :0 defend themselves against two murderous leopards A least, they stood by ready to a.d. Mrs. Johnson with gun to shoulder in case the baboons were
warsted. During the battle, John son cracked his camera furiously.
"I had a strong inclination to shoot those two killers," says Mrs. Johnson Martin and I both like monkeys.. They're pests some- times but they're really lovable and friendly beasts. I could have stopped the batde at once with my powerful rife but Martin stopped me instead. He was right.
TO DAY ONLY
ᎪᎢ . ' 2,80.5.10.7.15
9.30 P.M.
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRES
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
Supervised by frymas Talley
BABOONA
THE QUEEN'S
Charles Butterworth Scores
AN AERIAL EPIC OVER. AFRICA
WORLD PEACE
Mr. Henderson On Disarmament
Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 2
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE
TR No. 25313
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TOʻMORROW
THEY DIDN'T
fall IN, LOVE.. THEY crashed INI
T'S A SMALL
TO DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Baboons"
QUEEN'S:-
"Baby Face Harrington"
ORIENTAL:-
*Whoopee"
Kowloon
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Natan Baad Kowloon. Tel. 57242 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 PM..
WORLD
MAJESTIC:-
"Evelyn Prentice"
ALHAMBRA":
The St. Loula Kid”
Willia
DANCE IN TERM TIME
Ideal Setting
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 2 Stowe is, I suppose, the only pub- lic school that gives a dance in
members of the school over the age term-time. On Saturday about 100.
of 16 took tickets for the second dance held there.
KING'S.-
ميل
Coming
"It's A Small World":
QUEEN'S:-
"Vagabond"
ORIENTAL:
"Sunnyside Up"
MAJESTIC:
"Marie Galante"
MALARIA IN CEYLON
Levies Heavy Toll
Kandy..
EVEN MOHE
LAUGHSOAR
THRILLS5
than
THE
THIN MAN"
Evelyn Prentice
NEXT CHANGE 'MARIE GALANTE"
WITH
SPENCER TRACY, KETTI GALLIAN
STARS WITHOUT SATELLITES
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, July 3.
A Friend who is interested in the social niceties of Wimbledon has liscovered that the chaperone is alnost extinet there, writes a cor- respondent.
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He tells me that of the 96 com- petitors for the Ladies' Singles (two-thirds of whom were unmar
would
miniaria is once more levying a heavy toll in the Wattegama area ried) he could only find four who The band and the caterers art and an indication of the extent honourable state of chaperonage.
admit to being in the to which the population has been siderably increased attendance at the affected may be found in the con-
Two of these were English. Mrs.. Round goes to Wimbledon to watch progress of her champion the dispensary, where the daily daughter," average is in the neighbourhood
Those who saw Forsaking All Others" will perhaps remember
A National Peace Congress, at- that despite the fact that such tended by delegates from nearly 350. players as Clark Gable and Robert organizations, was opened yester- Montgomery were in the leading day at Friends House, Euston Road, roles, Charles Butterworth almost, W. Dr. G. P. Gooch, president atole" the picture. In "Bulldog of the National Peace Council. Drummond Strikes Back" he was presided at the opening session. equally successful in the role of which was attended by Lord Cecil, "Algy," Colman's best friend. Now Mr. Arthur Henderson, M.P., Pre-ed from London, and partners at last the powers-that-be in film-
sident of the World Disarmament were forthcoming in the form of land have realised that nothing Conference, and the Chinese Am- elder sisters and friends. short of a leading role would do bassador. for Butterworth and he is given his first leading part in "Baby Face Harrington," the current at- traction at the Queen's Theatre."
He shares the honours in this excellent film with Una Merkel. herself an actress of the highest order.
The Chairman said this was the twenty-tith congress largest they had held.
and the
Mr. Henderson expressed his in- debtedness to Lord Cecil and to those who had worked with him to bring about the immense success of the national déclaration which was announced at the Albert Hall the previous night. It was essen- tial, Mr. Henderson continued, that peace lovers should be on the alert,
The setting was ideal. The dance took place in the Elbrary, designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and altered later by Adam Supper was in the pelan frescoes by Valdre. old Music Saloon, with its Pom-
of, 300,
According to a report submitted at a meeting of the local Malaria. Relief Committee, held at Watte-
"
Miss Hargreaves, whom Miss Round defeated on Friday, is also accompanied by her mother.
The two foreign "girls are Miss A. Lizana, the 19-year-old Chilean, and the Polish Miss J. Jedrzewska. Both have brought chaperones, it
The weather made the groundsgama, it would appear that the one of the finest examples of the village of Udarawana is the most 18th century landscape gardener's
seriously affected.
only to act as guides and inter- art-ideal for
The Committee agreed strolis between
to re-preters. dances.
quest Government to revive the distribution of foodstuffs in view LONG, LONG AGO. On another June night, some 180 considerable distress and the I worth has built his reputation on They should be serioukly consider years ago, there was another big attenuated condition of the villa-
party at Stowe.
The story, an account of a meek little clerk who is mistaken for a novorious public enemy, is crammed with the kind of s.tuations Butter-
mastering, and is thoroughly re- commended.-F. Mela.
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ing what active measures could be taken to arrest the drift in the
Lord Temple, then reputed to be wrong direction which they were the richest man in England, was witnessing in his and other coun-entertaining the Princess Amella IMPERIAL BANK OF INDIA tries. It was not suggested that Sophia to an Arcadian supper..
there was any immediate danger of
The weather then, however, was a great European conflict, although not so kind. they were compelled to recognize was of the party, wrote scidly Horace Walpole, who that movements were going on. which were very near the danger line of actual conflict:
¡Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 2 One of the results of the establish. uent of the Reserve Bank of India has been the removal of the restrie- ions previously imposed on the Imperial Bank of India, and this great institution, with branches in every centre of importance through.duction or even limitation out India, Burma, and Ceylon, is now free to carry on banking busi next 21 London aud elsewbere. moreover, under the Imperial bank of India Act, 1920, the bank was precluded from dealing in foreign exchange business or, with certain exceptions, from opening accounts in London. Neither was the bank. able to purchase or sell freely is London bitts, drafts, and tale- graphic transfers on India, nor to participate generally in the finance
COLLECTIVE SYSTEM Disarmament appeared to be fading out of the picture, and re-
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about it:
We supped in a Grotto in the Elysian fields, and were refreshed with rivers and gentle showers that dripped from all the trees, and put us in mind of the heroic ages when kings and queens were shepherds and shepherdesses and lived in caves and were wet to the skin' two or three tims a day.
He could not help laughing at the fact that the party-"gay young things of three score or
seldom mentioned in any of the re- ferences that certain Governments made to the machinery do peace. That altuation surely represented a surprising change, which was disappointing and might even be come dangerous, having regard: to thereabouts"-spent their time try the disturbed condition of the ing to keep dry, and "wrapped up European situation.
in coats and cloaks for fear of The paramount need of the pre-catching cold." serit moment was to make a reality the collective system. Tuie
of
gers.
Offers of private contributions of several planters in the Madulkelle foodstuffs included those ..of district of gifts of tea,
During the epidemic of Novem. ber-March hundreds of pounds of Madulkelle and Hunasgeria dis tea were given by estates in the
tricts and their generosity was very greatly appreciated by the Committee.
REFUSING MEDICINE The advent of the south-west monsoon spells a brighter outlook than the countryside has knowa for many months. Nevertheless, it is felt that such relief measures days of the epidemic should con- as were in force during the early tinue.
The story, based on the "Sacred One of the most dramatic scenes of the external trade of India. Un-"! failure to make full and effective progressive disarmament had been ef from fever to stop it.
Flame" by Somerset Maugharn, au- thor of "The Painted Vell" and "Of Human Bondage" is filled with Intense emotional situations be- tween the secret lovers and a startling dramatie climax in which the wife is accused of murdering her bed-ridden husband.
Josephine Hutchinson who "re- cently made her bow on the screen In "Happiness Ahead" but who has long been famous for her work
we ever photographed was being der new Act, however, these ree unfolded, and as long as the monkstrictions have also been removed, were deft and quick enough to hold and the resulting expansion in the the big cats at bay it was to our scope of the bank's operations is advantage to get the pictures. It expected to result in a considerable was, after all, the purpose of our increase in the volume of its busi trip.".
IT'S A SMALL WORLD ·
Dess
Affection
Spencer Tracy has appeared in Policeman at West Hartlepool "I
Should
the collective
officers working in rural areas is One of the problems or medical that the villager is still unappre clative of the therapeutic value of quinine. He takes bis medicine with a very bad: grace and is all too ready at the first signs of re use of the collective peace system signed and ratified. had assisted to bring about the
The Committee, in an endeavour present disturbed and critical post-system fail or be weakened serious undertaken to send a special vist - peace to assist the medical officer, have tion in Europe, and although he ly they would be thrown back on had no destre to be an alarmist he international anarchy with cach
tor to neighbouring villages to see believed the nations were now con- nation claiming to be the sole
that fuver patients continue to fronted with the greatest. peace judge of its own rights and pre-
take their medicine as directed, crisis since the League of Nations pared to assert its rights by force distribute pamphlets in Sinhalese. They are also taking steps to was founded. It was his convic-of arms. Although the Geneva in furtherance of this object. tion that collective security and Conference bad failed so far to de- while every effort is being made disarmament were closely inter-liver the goods it remained in be-by the officers of the Health countries truly safe from war until: for which it was organized was un- a world agreement in favour of changed.
with Eva La Gallienne in the Civic twenty-one pictures in four years, asked him to stop his noise, and locked, and nothing could make "ing and the fundamental, purpose.Department to 'efect, mosquito
Repertory Theatre, beads the all- star cast, in the role' of the beauti- ful young wife.
VAGABOND LADY
A record number of sets mark "Vagabond Lady," the Hal Roach M-G-M feature coming on Sunday to the Queen's Theatre, as one of the most costly and eliborate creen comedies to emanate from the film capital for some time. With such a variety of locales as A waterfront, a department store. the interior of a palatial home, a circus midway, the deck of a sail- ing sloop and more than a score of ather backgrounds, the production, in its swiftly changing sceries, call. ed forth the skill of a staff of twenty expert technicians and a crow of five hundred artisians,
Properties used in dressing this large group of settings represented a small fortune, and included valuable furnishings and equipment. besides Buch riusual things as a
His average is five each year. His tis reply was 'Good-night, darl- latest is "It's A Small World," ing.""
which is due on Saturday at the King's Theatre. This Fox Film comedy concerns a romance that works out of a head-on collision, through a comedy of hilarious errors.
Tracy's leading woman. Others Wendy Barrie, the British beauty,
In the cast are Raymond Walburn, Virginia Sale, Astrid Allwyn, Irving Bacon, Charles Bellon, Nick Foran, Belle Daube, Frank McGlynn, Br., Frank McGlynn, Jr., Bill Gulls, Ed Brady, and Harold Minijir.
S4 Stubbly).„ MacGregor: "How did you know my barber raised his price on shaves?”
Wife: "A little beard told me.”
What Was It?
He called It Portrait of a Lady,
erate of live lobsters, paintings of And the critics said it was no por--
circus freaks, balen of vegetables trait and the women said it was no and sundry other strange objects,
lady
TO-DAY
AND
TO-MOBROW
Í
GULLN'S
WHEN A TIMID SOUL GETS TOUGH
It's a laugh riot!
BABY FACE HARRINGTON
CHARLES BUTTERWORTH - UNA MERKEL
| “GYPSY
REVU
NIGHTS
control.
NOT ALWAYS
AT 2.80, 5.10.
/7.20 & 9.30
P.M.
OBEYED
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 2 The ingenuity of motoristein Bome has proved equal to the 24- nour ban on hooting which is now in force in many parts of this country,
A friend in Italy tells the writer that hus drivers in particular have perfected a technique of revving up their engines Pedestrians Dowadays scatter at their approach as rapidly as ever they did at the sound of the brillest motor born
While Mussolini's efforts to make Roa quieter are not too succesful, it is said that ocular proof ïis everywhere given of the Dace Zap peal for lar
Mias Lizana has soquired English so quickly that next year she does not think she will need a
·GREATEST STAMP
COLLECTOR
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, July 2. Feople might well be pardoned for thinking that the Hind stamp collection, which has just been sold by auction at Har ner's, in New Bond-street, for a total off £172,500, was the most valuable collection. in" the world.
They are quite wrong.
It is generally considered that the King has the finest display of British Empire stamps. The value of his collection bas been variously estimated up to..., nã : much as £600,000,
And the collection in the British Museum, which was left to the nation by the late Mr. T. K Tapling, is worth at least £250,- 000.
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Many kings and presidents of republics have remarkably fine collections of stampa. Next to that possessed by King George, the collection of the King 02 Egypt is perhaps the finest of them all.
ALHAMBRA
VESTRE
TODAY & TOMORROW. * 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 ₫ 9.20 p.m. WARNER BROS. LAUGH AND ACTION RIOT "LIKE:.** HERE.
COMES THE
NAVY!!
SAMI 2
GAGNEY
THE ST. LOUIS
XID
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