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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY
26, 1935.
CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
KID MILLIONS
15
The banjo-eyed comedian funnier than ever as Cinderella of the Brooklyn waterfront who turns cut to be the sole heir of Frofessor Wilson, late egyptologist who left fortune in buried trea- "sure in Egypt.. The presence of several other claimants to the fortune makes
the Story fast. funny and furious...
The fun begins when the boat- Joad of treasure hunters embark and run high during the crossing and Ethel and Hymer try unsuccess- fully to put Eddie out of the way. Arrived in Egypt. Eddie gets mixed up with his gorgeous Harem of Goldwyn, · Girls, The Sheik's daughter. developes, a`ter- ritic crush on Eddie and saves kim from the boiling oil vats on his promise to wed her. But
AGE OF INDISCRETION
"When parents divorce-what rights have the children?"
This is the question asked, and answered with dramatic intensity n "Age of Indiscretion," amaz drama of action, of separat'on' and Its consequence and the law courts.
The new picture, with Paul Lukas, Madge Evans, May Robson' and Itle David Jack Holt Involved in the main action, is a graphic echo of several famous court cases of recent times. Delving into the intimate facts. It has produced a scipping plece of human interest entertalam..it touched with high
drama.
May Robson plays a dominant character as the mill onaire mo- ther-in-law. battl'ag with her millions to wrest n ch ld. from the arms of h's father following a se- paration. Lukas, as the fghting father, has one of the host unusual and interesting icles of his career.
Eddie wants to get back to his Brooklyn Sweetheart and Fanya's jealous flance helps him get away with
the fortune in a plane. Eddie lands in New York and free ice-cream factory opens a
An elaborate cast surrounds the for boys and girls. The finals principals. Beautiful Helen Vin- showing the ice-cream being son plays the philandering wife frozen and served, is the love-skilfully, Ralph Forbes. Madge liest and most effective techni- Evans, and Catherne Doucet are colour sequence the screen has among those who contribute to the offered to date,
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THE KING'S
Born To Be Bad
A story of ambulance chasers is. revealed in "Born to be Bad" the latest current attraction at the King's Theatre.
In it Lorretta Young and Cary Grant are co-starred and the plot centres around a heavy damage.
ing a small accident.
CARNIVAL
At The Queen's
LAST TWO-DAYS
AT
2.30.5.10.7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
YOUNG, HEALTHY- and FEMALE! *** Men fought for her charms, even though the cheated, lied, and double-crossed
them.
Then life got even with her, when she tried to be good!
SHANGHAT DIAMOND
THEFT
Sentence Passed
FORETTA
YOUNG
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BORN TO
BE BAD
INFLUX OF EELS
Variety To Bund Menus
Shanghal. July 20.
A new method of eel-Ashing was
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE
TEL. No. 26313 25992
SUNDAYA
ins MYSTERY
EDWIN DROOD
CARL LAEN MLE PRESENTS A UNIVERSAL FICTURE WITH
CLAUDE RAINS
DOUGLASS
MONTGOMERY
SHATHER ANGEL · DAVID MANURI N
SHANGHAI VESSEL
SPIRATED
Pleading guilty to a charge něj theft by conversion, Elins I. Berger ( was given a suspended sentence of ¦ one year and one day by Judge Milton J. Helmick in the U. Smaugurated on the Bund yesteryesterday when the launch re- Court for China, yesterday, Berge was arrested by the T, S, Marshal for China at 3.ö'clock on Friday afternoon, as a result of a com nlaint taken out by Mr. A. P. Berlinsky.
The prosecution on behalf of the Caited States Government was con. ducted by Mr. F. Watson, the Dis trict Attorney, while the accuseil. who pleaded guilty, "was legally re- presented by Mr. J.-B. Davies,
day morning when rickshaw coo- Hes armed with nothing more than the aprons of their vehicles caught hundreds of this species lor fish. The more adept pisca- torial artists: however, even
scorned the use of anything more than their bare hands, relying on manual dexterity, and going in more for quality than quantity.
The reason for the influx of eels into the waters of the Whang-
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KLING'S:-
"Born To Be Bad"
QUEEN'S:---
"Carnival".
ORIENTAL:-
"The Gay Bride"
Kowloon
MAJESTIC:...
"George White's Scandals”
KING'S..
Coming
The Mystery of Edwin
QUEEN'S
Drood"
"Age of Indiscretion" MAJESTIC:-
"Caraven
MAJESTIC
THEATRES
Nathan Rat Kowloon. Tel. 57222 TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
"GEORGE WHITE'S
SCANDALS
WITH
BUOY VALLE JIMMY DURANTE ALICE FAYE
TO-MORROW:
CARAVAN"
WITH
CHARLES BOYER LORETTA YOUNG
FLYING NEWS
The "Jubilee" Touring
Plane
Shangha!, July 20 News of the piracy of the Chin- ese river launch Sing Ching Ying. оп the Shangha.-Paghu ruri, which was committed on Thursday morning, was received in Shanghai
turned from Chek'ang. The vessel, operated by the King Kee S.N. Co., of Shanghai, left the Stachow Creek wharf or Weenesday after- noon, towing ave junks, two of Further information 13 now signed for day and night bomb- which carried cargo, Mr. Berlinsky s" complaint read
while the available about new military aero-ing duties. The undercarriage is others had more than 20 passen-lanes which are listed for inclu- retractile. Split flaps are fitted to that Berger and wilfully, unaw
gers on board, besides goods..
sion in the New Type Aircraft the wings. A Pegasus engine sup- fully, and feloniously, with intent
Everything was quiet until the Park and "fy past" at the Royal plles power. to defraud. obtain and falsély pre-
vessel reached the Sungktang ds Air Force Display. In all, eleven. "tend" that he had a customer for
1935 TOURING PLANE „ trict early on Thursday morning. aeroplanes are scheduled to ap-" Five comfortable seats with the sale of a diamond ring. This
when, a place known as Tsang pear in the Park, including new ample leg and elbow room are was on May 22, 1933, and by means of this stety, which Mr. Berlinskyo, which has cccurred several Cheh Kong, the boat-train sudden bomber-transport planes, a dive-fitted in the cabin of the ST. 25 subsequently found to be false, detimes in recent years, is not de- ly was greeted with a volley of bomber, the new coastal recon- twin-engined monoplane. which fendant was said to have obtained | fnitely known, but the common
shots fired by pirates who had a naissance monoplane, fighters, and is announced as the "Jubilee" mo- from the complainant a diamond 1 explanation given is that they boat. at the'r disposal. The laodah "general purpose" craft intended def in the range of aircraft built ring valued at $900, which he later come out of the paddy fields and of the launch tried to escape by primarily for service in the Middle by General Aircraft, Ltd. This converted.
small creeks with the arrival of Increasing the vessel's speed, but East.
rew aerocar, priced at £1,550. really hot weather.
It was too fate, a number of the
Nowworthy in the design of the ¦ (equipped and ready to fly away The type of eal concerned is í marauders boarding one of the Bristol Type 130 bomber-transport from the works at Feltham, Mid- the "Autts abla," which, being junks
and starting to loot the monoplane is the all-metal struc- dlesex supersedes the ST. 10 ma- Anless, is often mistaken for a passengers' cabins. The passen-ture of the fuselage and the chine which won the King's Cup snake Snakes are. Indeed, often gers were mostly water-melon.mer-wings. Even the wing coverings race last year. It derives power found amongst the eels, as are chants, who were robbed of more are made of metal in thin sheets, froin two Niagara 90 h.p. aircooled terrapins, which' are esteemed han $1,000 in notes, and one of which take much of the loads and engines and-its internal furnish- among the native population as a them, who offered resistance, sus- stresses Imposed on the wings in ings are planned on automobile table delicacy,
tained stab wounds inflicted by the night. The fuselage is a metal lines. Production plans cover a pirates. Having removed their shell of monocoque form with no steady output of two ST. 25 ma- booty to their own vessel, the internal bracing struts to cramp chines a week
rates escaped in the darkness. space. Power is derived from two Absence of an engine in When the vessel arrived in Ping- Pegasus motors, which are mount- nose of the fuselage allows the nu, the wounded man was taken to eat in nacelles in the leading edges pilot excellent outlook, and the hospital, while a request was made of the wings.
transparent roof provides good to the authorities for the sup-
The wings are located on a level cutlook above and to the rear. The Fression of the marauders. Ac with the top of the fuselage. Flaps cabin seats are arranged in two cording to a report made by the at
the trailing edge, operated side-by-side pairs, with the fifth vessel's owners, the pirates res-through hydraulic mechanism by occasional seat behind them; the poris'ble for the se'aure of the the pilot, stoepen gliding angle fifth seat is hinged for swinging vessel were in the cotton uniforms and assist take-off and landine out of sight, in such a way that and some of them wore masks.
in restricted areas Accommoda- it makes a large ledge for the They were armed with all sorts of tion is provided in the fuselage stowage of luggage. weapons, including pistols, swords, for a crew of four, when the ma- PRAGUE-MOSCOW RUN and 'ron clubs.
chiue is employed on bombing
Two British twin-engineed air- duties, and lor a crew of three biners will open on August 1 the and twenty-four fully armed In-service which the Czechoslovaklan As can be well imagined, the fantrymen when it is needed for air transport company, Ceskoslo- main dish on the bill of fare of the carriage of troops. The fuse- venske Statnl Aerolinie, is to run the boatmen in the Soochow lage. is an admirable streamlined between Prague. and Moscow. They Creek yesterday evening was eels, shape, and great care was taken are scheduled for delivery next Bolled or Fried. Interviewed by in design to avoid excrescences month.
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Judge tremek sentence delenu- ant to a year and a day's àprison. ment, Wil transportation McNeils Island, the Federal penitentiary in Puget Sound. Re- manding fun the custody of the U. S. Marshal, the Judge suspend- ed the sentence for five years, dur- ing which time he is to be under probation
THE RADIUM HEN"
Two thousand scientists from all parts of Great Britain had a day out recently. They went to the National Physical Laboratory at Lee Tracy and Sally Ellers pró- Teddington, where the annual in-
vide
excellent entertainment an
at the Queens Theatre in Colum-
spection was held, and where many new marvels of science were on
bla's latest picture "Carnival view.
a story written by Robert Riskin. Supporting these two well known stars, is Schnozzle Durante who
Among them was an apparatus known as the "clucking her," hich used to trace radium
is
suit against a wealthy man follow-supplies the comedy which makes which is occasionally lost in hos
this a very fine. film, and inciden-pitals. The nearer the apparatus They conspire to prove that a tally it is one of the best roles in gets to the missing radium the truck belonging to the wealthy which the beschnozzled Durante quicker become the "clucks." "man had disabled a small "boy for Ilfe whereas the little boy was not
in the least hurt apart, from 1 faw small-scratches.
1.
3
Lorretta Young plays the part of
beautiful
has over been cast.
A new addition to the screen who prove to be a star in the making, is Dickie Walters, aged
Experiments are being made to And sound-proof floora A floating floor consisting of concrete slabs resting on rubber pads has been 2 who makes his debut in this constructed, and this greatly re- but unscrupulous picture and, puts human
duces the sound. On these lines it He will undoub- tedly please all those who go to see Carnival."
mother while Cary Grant takes the role of the wealthy man to per-
rection.
al
In this picture' such professiona
into the story.
touch
The story which provides Tracy
as racketeers, lawyers, doctors and with plenty of scope in which to insurance adjusters are all more show his great talent,, opens with .or less portrayed as ambulance him putting up a fight to keep his infant, whom the police are
chasers.
the
The picture is one that willį trying to take away, as the grand- Interest all It is worth while parents do not consider a Car- seeing-0. M. O.
nival & suitable place in which to bring up a child." He gets away with child, however, and two years later returns to Carnival where he meets Bally Ellers and together they give us the thrill of romance which comes into story at this stage and brings the picture to delightful and amusing end.
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN 'DROOD.
A quiet little woman who appar- ently tried to efface herselt on the
set, actualy had more to say about Walter Lang directed this high- the making of Universal's sensely entertaining fim arid add an- tional mystery drama "The My-
other success to the Columbla stery of Edwin Drood" than did Studio-R.A.J. even the director. She is Madame Hulda Grenier, former confidente of the prezent Queen Mary of Eng- land and the most noted authority "on everything English during the victoria era, now in Hollywood Madame Grenier was technical supervisor on "The Mystery of Ed- win Drood," which comes to the King's Theatre next Sunday, with Claude Rains in the starring role.
Universal presents in th's Blu, Douglas Montgomery, Heather Ap- gel, David Manners, Valerie Hob- n, Francis L. Sullivan, Forrester Harvey, E, E Clive, Zeme Tibbury and Walter Kingsford. It was Walter Kingsford. It was directed by Stuart Walker
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Observant walkers on the Bund foreshore have noticed during the past few days a growing quantity of this fish in the water, but it was not until yesterday morning
that
their numbers became re- markable. Literally hundreds could then be seen and it was not, long before idlers and rickshaw coolles on the Bund decided to do something about it.
After a Storm Fortunately for them, the tide was running cut all morning til 11 o'clock, when it began to turn. Discarding their shoes or sandals.. and rolling their trousers up above their knees, they clambered. down into the foot-high All they then had to do was to bend down and literally pick the
water.
fish up out of the water.
Baskets on the foreshore were rapidly filled up and taken away, and the "fun" only finished when all had registered bumper catches, and had to stop for lack of sult able facilities for taking more away.
is hoped to solve a problem at pre-coolles will be reaping the bene-storm. This, he said, could al-
Imost always be relied upon. sent confronting architects.
TO-DAY
AND
TO-MORROW
fits of a free "harvest.".
QUEEN'S
Ar 2.30, 5.10
7.20 & 9.30
P.M.
HEAT CRACKS
BRIDGE
the
a "North-China Dally News" re- that would add to head resistance. The machines chosen for this porter yesterday, one of them. In Fully laden, the craft weighs 18,000 important service, after careful between mouthfuls of fish, volun- pounds-just over eight tons. Its study of the claims of competing teered the information that the span is 96 feet, length a few in-foreign transport 'planes, are Air- rise of eels". occurs often a8ches less than 70 feet and heightspeed Envoy monoplanes equip-
25 : `many four times
year, 16 feet. The undercarriage is not ped to carry ave passengers, dr There is nothing unusual in the though not in quite so large retractile but is enclosed in four passengers and a radio opera- phenomenon, and the eels, will quantities. His experience. he streamlined fairings which great- tor, on the power of two Czechos- probably disappear in a few days. said, was that they rose to they reduce resistance to movement lovakian 280/320 hp. radial eng- While they last, however, the top after very hot weather and through the air.
ines. From Prague to Moscow BIPLANE AND MONOPLANE Is approximately 1,200 miles;" the There is great technical interest Journey will be done in one day
the two Vickens machines in- in three stages. cluded in the list. One is a bi- plane and the other a monoplane and both were built in:/he first place to meet the requirements of an Air Ministry specification. numbered 04/31, for a new "gen-- As a result of the heat the sur- eral purpose" aircraft. The mono- face of the bridge over the LMB. pläne," however, is a "private ven- Rallway at Kenton, near Harrow, ture of the firm, built with the rose 15ins al the crest and cracked firm's money and not to Air Mini- with a report heard several hun-" stry order (History tells that dred yards away. The bridge was frequently the "private venture" closed and motorists had to make 'plane wins out over the omdial a three-mile, detour to cross the specification when the decision rallway. taken as to which craft shall go into service). This time both ma- chines are exceptionally good, though no details of their abili- The alarm was given by the oc- ties may yet be published. The cupants or a
police Patrol car biplane is a single-engined craft which was passing over the bridge (Pegasus moderately supercharged | at 5,15 pm when the surface fitted to perform the dutied of cracked. A member of the staff "general purpose" aircraft, day of a nearby hotel said that the and night bomber, and constal noise was like that of a pistol stiot, defence a torpedo carrier. It car Engineers discovered, that the
ntétwo (it le built damage was confined to the con- irs crete and tarmac surface. – Water duralumis. Handley | And, gas ma'na”, underneath the slots are atted to pavement were unaffected. / Work-
men were immediately sent to level' the bridge crest. One-way traffic. was perifted at 9.15 p.m.
with LEE
TRACY
Sluty that veren abis by
SALLY EILERS JIMMY DURANTE
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR
'81.10 70 cts" 40 cts
entirely
form:
entirely" of
It is de-
'Buses were stopped at either side of the bridge, and passengers, were allowed to walk over,
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