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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
THE WINNING TICKET.
The Irish and the Italians get together in a big way in the hilarious pot pourri of trial - and tribulation that marks "The Win- ning Ticket" showing at the Oriental Theatre to-marrow and Thursday, bilarious uproarious comedy drama revolving about the Irish Sweepstakes.
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The picture introduces a new comedy team in the persons of Leg Carrillo and Louise Fazenda with Ted Healy adding to the fun in the role of a shiftless bro- ther-in-law.
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WINGS IN THE DARK
For Paramount's stirring plc- ture of adventure and romance above" the clouds. "Wings in the Dark" coming to the ̈ Alhambra Theatre on Saturday next. Myrna Loy and Cary Grant have been cast as flying sweethearts in the co-starring roles.
Miss Loy plays a 'head-line hunting,thri seeking avlatrix. while Grant acts the role of a scientist of the air. His life work is the perfection of blind-flying and
will plotng devices that make flight absolutely safe.
The "two are first brought to- brazen cether when Miss Loy's attempt to cash in on the pub- licity of Grant's transatlantic fight torces his withdrawal from the project.
"The Winning Ticket" deptets
but an intensely human.
funny story of the family of an Italian barber married to an Irish wife, and the hectic happenings that follow the Irish Sweepstakes ticket which turns out to be the prize. winner. The baby loses the ticket and then the fun becomes fast and furious as the Ttalian barber and his family hunt for the miss-him, follow him to him hide-out,
1g cardboard borrow against it. fand In Jail and anally solve their problems in a hilarious de- nouement.
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He attempts the fight" again but is blinded by
accident and flees to the "woods for solace. Miss Loy, who has learned to love
brings him one of the famous "Seeing Eye" dogs, and helps him to regain his self-respect and interest in his work.
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THE IDOL
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IN
A GREAT PICTURE OF JOY AND LAUGHTER
JAMES DUNN
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
BRIGHT EYES
PLESSING
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A GREAT COMEDY! IT'S ALL FUN! HE WON $150.000 SWEEPSTAKE
BUT LOST THE WINNING TICKET
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THE
WINNING
TICKET
co Carrillo Louise Fazenda Ted Healy
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Summer Prices Matinees 20 ets.-30 cts. ——— Evenings 20 ets.-35 ets.-56 ets.
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN :
DROOD
Universal scenario 'experts have solved a mystery, that has had de- tectives and newspapermen and writers up in the air for a han- dred years. The mystery is, what became of Edwin "Drood," Singing opium fend, in the last and greatest of Charles Dickens works, left unfinished at his death
the
Now, if you think we are going to solve this mystery for you, you are very much mistaken. One of the things that made the produc-
the fact
A
WOMAN IN THE DARK
Tensely gripping melodrama in the most modern style is "Woman In the Dark," filmed from Dashiell
and
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1935.
SHOWING TO-DAY
ATA
2,30.5.10.7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
gives The author of “Th Thin Man" the world another thrilll Dashiell Hammetts
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
WOMAN
IN THE
DARK
With FAY WRAY RALPH BELLAMY MELVYN DOUGLAS ROSCOE ATES Directed by Phil Rosen. As sociale producer, Burt Kelly. Produced by Select Pro- dections.
CARNIVAL
"Carnival," # fast-moving comedy-drama featuring Lee Trary, Sally Ellers. Jimmy Dur- ante and a new screen star, Dickie Walters in due on Thursday at the Queen's Theatre.
"This Columbia flim was author- ed by Robert Riskina and direct- ed by Walter Lang.
VAGABOND LADY
A good plot, plenty of action, and lots of comedy make "Vaga bond Lady, the Hal Roach-M.- Sath Q.-M. feature. directed by Taylor one of the fastest moving screen efforts of the season. The comedy is the current attraction at the Queen's Theatre..
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. No. 25913 25392
NEXT CHANGE-
MYSTERY
EDWIN DROODI
CARL LABMMLE PRESENTS
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE WITH
CLAUDE RAINS
DOUGLASS MONTGOMERY MATHER ANGEL • DAVID HANKERJ
COOKED HIS PORRIDGE
In An All-Night Queue
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 6.
A young Scotsman, cooking his porridge over a spirit lamp, was one of ave lang who waited The fun starts when Tony, the throughout the night for seats at Lee Tracy is seen in the role of irresponsible son of R. D. Spear, to-day's battle between the lawn a spellbinding barker who finds millionaire
⚫ department store tennis finalists, Perry and Von he can't talk the police out of owner, returns from a round-the-Cramm, at Wimbledon, writes a taking away his infant, mother-world tour in a sailing sloop. He correspondent.
less son. He changes tris name and with his carnival show chases around the country. Then ro- mance comes into his life.. and with it the sointion of all his
woes.
The role is Tracy's best while Sally Ellers is romantically cast as the girl whose love ap- pears to be a lost cause-until the Anaïfadebut. She is "Daisy"
the planist at the carnival pup pet show.
comes home just in time to come. plicate the wedding plans of his brother, John, who is arranging
Josephine to marry
Spiggs, daughter
the department store's highly irresponsible and somewhat riotous Head Janitor.
of
Trouble really starts when spiggs, who favours Tony, gets drunk on the latter's boat in an effort to prevent the wedding. Her more noteworthy who has become angry Alm appearances include "Bad with Tony tries unsuccessfully to Girl" Dance Team" and "Disor- derly Conduct."
The beschnozzled Durante. a de burlesque version of Cyrano Bergerac, is seen as "Fingers" a kleptomaniac, от just plain pick-pocket as he would ruefully admit. He is more happily cast here than in any of his recent Alms.
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WOMEN OFFICERS IN U.S.S.R. SHIP
(Special Air Mail Service) Hammett's exciting story that ran
London, July 6. serially in Liberty Magazine, with
The part women are playing in Fay Wray. Ralph Bellamy Melvyn Douglas in the featured Soviet Russia et present has been
the visit roles. It contains as a novel fea-Ludicated by
of the ture the paralled adventures. of U.S.SR ship Sura to Hartlepool. two fugitives, a man and woman, Women occupying positions such as who are thrown together to de- stewardesses in these cargo vessels fend themselves against a com- are not uncommon, but on board. moni menace.
the Sura the chief engineer,"first mate, and first wireless officer are all women. There was a woman has his heroine and hero in a wireless operator on board a Rus-
Past master at contriving breath-taking situations, Hammett
He was David McCulloch, of Edinburgh, He told me that with a friend he had travelled.400 miles by road to be present for to-day's great match,"
"""My car is equipped for sleeping he said, "and my friend and I are taking turns in keeping our places in the queue and sleeping in the
car."..
An appetising smell of porridge drifted through the window of the cat.
.
red the contents of his little saucepan vigorously.
І еп-
"I have not missed Wimbledon for seven years. I know the seat I want and I usually get it. joy the fun of waiting in the queue. Mr. McCulloch made sure of a good place in the queue by taking up his position immediately play ceased in the afternoon.
get her father off the boat. So "I am not missing my morning ranch time is lost in this process | porridge," he declared, as he stir-
the that Tony is forced to sali whole party up the coast to the Spear summer home so that they might get there in time for the ceremony. During the trip a storm arises.. Tony's assistant, gets drunk with Spiggs. As a result, "Jo" is forced to assist Tony with the salls. Her inexperience - en- rages him. He is already out of patience with her anyway. The ensuing argument ends In a tussle. which results in both learning that their love for each other is so strong that nothing should separate" them.
A, B, C, D AND X
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TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S:
Hong Kong
"Woman In The Dark". QUEEN'S:TM
"Vagabond Lady"
ORIENTAL:-
"Bright Eyes" !
it
Kowloon
MAJESTIC:--
"Marle Galante"
ALHAMBRA:---
"I Am A Thief"
KING'S.-.
Coming
"The Mystery of Edwin
Drood"
QUEEN'S:
"Carnival"
Age of Indiscretion"
ORIENTAL:--
"The Winning Ticket"
!
NEW GEOLOGICAL
MUSEUM
H
MAJESTIC
A
THEATREM
"Nathan Road Kowloon. Tel. 672:13. FINAL SHOWINGS TO DAY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 8.20 P.M.
THEY CALLED HER "BEAUTIFUL TRAITOR”
She sang and danced by night-and wept by dayl
Maris Galants
A FOX Pieten with
SPENCER TRACY KETTI GALLIAN
NED SPARKS HELEN - MORGAN
· SIGFRED RUNLANN.
science, art, and industry by the wise foresight of the Prince Con sort. With the Science Museum on one side and the Natural His- tory section of the British Museum on the other, it provided a sulte ut scientific exhibits unequalled in any other country.
In 1683 the Duke of York, later
Planned For Light James I had opened the Ash-
And Simplicity
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molean Museum at Oxford which. contained the first British geologi- cal collection. In 1835, as a result of the work of Henry de la Beche, the Geological Survey, was found- ed as the first oficial organization
more
kind. To-day there were, than 120 official geological surveys in different parts of the world, to many of which, and particularly those in ather parts of the Empire, the Geological Survey
of Great Britain had been
of its London, July 6. The Duke of York opened the new Museum of Practical Geology in Exhibition Road, South Ken- sington, yesterday, on the occasion of the centenary of the Geological Survey of Great Britain The Duke was received by Mr. Ormsby Gore, First Commissioner of Works, and Lord Rutherford nirman of the Advisory Council, Department of Scientific and In- dustrial Research,
Mr. Ormsby Gore said that the Geological Survey of Great Britain was the oldest national geological survey in the world. It was in- stituted for the purpose of pre- paring coples of the Ordnance Survey maps geologically, coloured so as to be of service to science" and Industry by providing an It was a "horizontal" quete early accurate representation of the to-day at the entrances. People geology of Great Britain. The slept with newspapers as bedclo-Museum of Practical Geology had thes
At 2 a.m. five girls were busily making-up in an effort to hide their weariness.
LORD HEADLEY'S SUCCESSOR
developed out of the collection by the Survey of specimens of rocks, minerals, and fossils, and Was First opened to the public in 1841. It was soon found that the im- portance of the collection warrant- ed the erection of a building designed to display the work of the Survey and the application of geology to the arts and industry. and In the year of the Great Ex- hibition the building in 'Jermyn Street was opened by the Prince Consort..
London, July 2
(Special Air Mail Service) by taking her D. Certificate Miss Dorothy Spicer holds all the
London, July 2 The British Muslim Society is Air Ministry's general licences for
holding a meeting shortly in
RAFID GROWTH There are four of these. A and memory of its founder and presid Certify that the holder is quali-ent, Lord Headley..
During the period of more than fied to inspect aircraft and sero A Headley Memorial Committee 80 years' occupation of the old
has, it is understood, already been building the museum had expand engines respectively before flight.
tion of "The Mystery of Edwin seemingly inescapable web of the slan vessel which visited Hartle-" ground engineers. Drood" intriguing was that only half a dozen people of most damning circumstances and pool a year ago, but women navi- he keeps them in hot water-one gators and chief engineers are a might almost say boiling water- novelty.
the Universal studio 'knew what the solution of this hundred year-old mystery was. The writ- ers, John L. Balderston, Gladys Unger, Bradley King and Leopold
until the final scenes. which move with that relentless swiftness that has marked his earlier storles,
such as "The Maltese Falcon."
Making a Bargain
B and D require a greater de-set up by the society to considered and become cramped by limita- gree of proficiency. Those who what form a suitable memorial possess these can pass aircraft and should take...
Atlas, were sworn to secrecy. The The Glass Key" and "The Thin Mr. and Mrs. Binks were discuss-engines after overhaul,
'director, Stuart Walker, was sworn to secrecy, and Edmund Grainger, the prodricer, saw to it that none of the players know until the final sequences how this story was going to end on the screen. None of the scripts which
Man."
Fay Wray, remembered for her
roles in "King Kong" and "The
Richest Girl in the world," is the man in The Dark." Ralph Bell-" amy, who Was Katherine Hep-
much-harassed heroine of "Wo-
circulated had the final ending burn's leading man in "Spitfire," on it. No screen secret of recent years has been so closely guard-story. Melvyn Douglas is the man
ed.
I AM A THIEF
In Hollywood, the land where modern make-belleve is created,
is the ex-convict of the Hammett
who makes all the trouble for the pair. H
An excellent cast includes such favourites as Roscoe Ates, Reed Brown, Jr.. Ruth Gillette, Gran- ville Bates, Nell O'Day and Joe the
15 is often more difficult to find | King. Sade Cowan wrote
a satisfactory imitation, than it screen adaptation and Phil Rosen
is to discover the real thing.
-directed this "KRO-Radio” Picture.
When Warner Bros. decided to It is a
Select Production. and
use an imitation. jade necklace showing to-day
as the gift which Ricardo Cortez | Theatre,
bestows upon Mary Astor in the
early scenes of "I Am A Thief;'
*at the King's
ม
which is showing for the lasted to rent them at all. The cther time to-day at the Alhambra was that those who were willing Theatre, they let themselves in to do so, placed an excessive for all kinds of unforeseen diffi-rental value on them, h culties.
.'. The property department, after
If the production executives consultation with the production had been bent upon using no heads, decided to sidestep that thing less than a real jade neck- | situation by purchasing a good lace, the problem would have necklace of limitation jade. been simple. Almost any first-class Right there the difcuities be- | jeweller has them as have every gan to multiply. They found first-rate Oriental shop
cut, first of all, that there are fewer good imitations of jade on the market at least on the Southern California market than of any other semi-precious stone.
Officials discovered, however, that there were obstacles in the way of employing genuine jade. One was that many arms declin
ing an arrangement which implied
the exercise of the "give-and-take"
theory
"You know," declared Mr. Binks, it takes two to make a bargain." Yes," said Mrs. Binks, "but only one of them gets it"
TO-DAY
AND
TO-MORROW
The X licence, which Miss Spicer bas not taken, deals with the side- lines of aeronautical knowledge.
These include such individual specialist skill as making compass adjustments, the ability to over- haul magnetos and electrical equipment, or to test parachutes.
It will not be easy to find a suc- cessor to the late Mosleh peer.
His best known and most influen- tial British coreligionist in this country is Mr. St. John Philby, But Mr. Philby spends much of bis time in Arabia and would therefore hardly be likely to accept the position if it were offered him
QUEEN'S
Ar 2.30, 5.10
Elected one of the best
7.20 & 9.30
P.M.
of the month by Photoplay"
and you'll have to agree
after
you see:
"VAGABOND
LADY'
with
ROBERT YOUNG EVELYN VENABLE Metro-Goldwyn
tion of space. The structural con- dition of the building deteriorated, until in 1928 the Royal Commission on National Museums and Gal- feries described the condition as "quite deplorable and indeed dan- gerous." The new building WAS commenced in 1829 and was sub- stantially completed in 1933, when it was required for the World Monetary and Economic Confer- ence. The cost of the building, was some £220,000, and a lease of the Crown site of the old premises had been granted at a rent which considerably exceeded the interest on the capital sum expended on the new building, dig
The arrangement of the museum was in accordance with the best modern museum practice. The gallery or exhibition space, on three floors, had been treated with simplicity of form and finish in order that the Interest of visitors might be concentrated on the ex- hibits. The maximum intensity of natural light had been secured and special consideration has been given to the provision of the most modern forms of artificial lighting. A top floor would be devoted solely to research, by the stan of the Burvey and by studenta. The building had been designed by: an- architect on the staff of the Omes. "of; Works, Mr. J. H«Mar
GROYALE PRI The Duke
that the
parent. He was glad to know that there were present a large number of delegates from abroad who had" come to celebrate the centenary of the Survey,
For 85 years, the Duke con- tinued, the building in Jermyn Street was a famous centre "of geological science, in which geolo- gists, mining engineers, asic
a study metallurgists pursued which enabled them to contribute to the development of the mineral resources of the world. From now the geological world would think of the Survey in connection with the new building.
or
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Among those presented to the Duke were Sir Patrick Duff, Secre- tary of the Office of Works; Mr. JH. Markham, architect of the building: Sir Frank Smith. secre- tary, Department of Scientific and Industrial
Jolan Research; Bir Flett, director of the Geological Survey: Mr. W. F. P. McLintock, curator of the museum; and re- Presentatives of the firms con- cerned in the construction of the building.
A Reminder
"The full fury of the stormi burst upon us so suddenly related the tornado victim, “that in an instant the house was demolished, and scattered to the four winds of heaven." 'How I escaped being torn to pieces. I don't know.
"By Jove' exclaimed. Mr. Meek, "that reminds me, I quita forgot to post my wife's letter."
ALHAMBRA
TREATRE
TO-DAY ONLY 1, at 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 A 8.20 p.m.
thief
MARY A STOR
RICARDO CORTEZ DUDLEY DIGGES
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