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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
"G MEN"
"G Men" First National's sen- sational picture written about the heroic deed of the secret service men in the United States Govern-
ment Department of Justice, opens at the Alhambra
on
Saturday
Theatre."
THE GOOD FAIRY
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Ixtiuate glimpses of great orphanage form part of the earlier sequences of The Good comedy which is now at the King's Fairy." the brilliant Universal Theatre with Margaret Sullavan und Herbert Marshall in the star- ring roles.
The picture is said to be one of the most thrilling and dramatic
Miss Sallavan herself is an in- pictures ever presented, based on
mate of this institution, a photo- sensational newspaper headlines
graphically correct reproduction which have covered the front of the Municipal Orphanage for pages of all the dallies, of Amer-girls in Budapest, Hungary, and ica.
with a large number of her com While the picture presents no panions is seen at work in the kit- names of the public enemies nor chen of the refuge. emphasizes any time of place of the actual battles, few will miss the actual connection of the oc- currences that take place.
The production is enacted by an all star cast headed by James Cagney as the leading "G Men" the red-headed star having turn ed from crook roles to government agent, Margaret Lindsey has the leading feminine role opposite him.
There is 14 ungaual number directed by Bobby Connolly in which scores of beautiful girls dance, with Ann Dvorak leading the chorus, and singing a song specially written for her by Fain
and Kahal.
**
William Keighley directed,
4 SHOWS
DAILY
7.15-8.30
Here, acting out fairy tale for the benefit of a group of the younger girls gathered about her. Margaret loses her hold on A swinging light and trashes to the floor concidentally with the en
the trance
Bondi, of Beulah superintendent, and Alan Hale, sa theatrical impressario come to spicet an usherette for his theatre
"Margaret is chosen for the posi tion, and thus begins a series of highly dramatic adventures which befall a young girl enirely unte customed to the world and its pit falls.
More than 100 young girls were engaged for these scenes, which niso how departments in which they are taught sewing wood-work- ing and other useful arts,
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ORIENTALE
LAST
THEATRE
4 TIMES TO-DAY
A MIGHTY STORY OF THE HIGH SEA!
IT'S EXTREMELY THRILLING!
ORSAIR
Roland
WESTS
Vivid and Re mantic Pistori sation of Wal ton Grean's LabS erty Mamuskoa Soudal Noval. Bagring
TO-MORROW.
& SATURDAY
WARNER OLAND
UNRAVELS THE MOST MYSTERIOUS CRIME
IN HIS CAREER,
Where
mystery terrifies!
CHARLIE CHAN IN PARIS WARNER GLAND Summer Prices Matinees 20 ets.-80 ots. ---Evenings 20 ̊ets.-85 ets.-56-ets.
CHESTER MORRIS
BLIND DATE
At The Queen's
After a long interval we see, Nell Hamilton again on the local screen, this time in the Columbla produc- tion. "Blind Date:" delightful comedy romance and others in the cast are Ann Bathern and Paul Kelly.
This
is
a
The story is about an ambitious young motor mechanic who in his efforts
"feather to
his nest" neglects the girl friend with the result that she walks away from him into the arms of a wealthy playboy who she meets on a "blind date. It can be imagined' what follows for complication after complication sets in though even- tually everything ends happily.for all concerned.
In the role of the wealthy playboy, Hamilton lives up to the high standard of acting that we have all long since learnt to ex- pect from him while Paul Kelly, as the ambitious young mechanic
HUNG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, AUGUST 1935
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
TO-DAY ONLY at 2,30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.
EN OFFERED. HER
MILLIONS]
Cart Lasimalo presents
MARGARET SULEAVAN HERBERT MARSHALL In Ferenc Molnars Masterpiece
"THE GOOD
FAIRY"
with
FRANK MORGAN
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
TO-MORROW
ANNA STEN FREDRIC MARCH
IN
WE LIVE AGAIN
QUEENS
THEATRE
TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 PM.
Fredric March in Samuel Goldwyn's "We Live Again,” a powerful and compelling drama, based on Leo Tolstoy's 'immortal · classic ̈·o Resur- rection" released by United Artists, offers March the role of the hand- some young Russian prince who loves and betrays the peasant, Katu- aba... played by Anna Sten. "We Live Again" comes to the King's Theatre to-morrow,
WE LIVE AGAIN
BURLINGTON HOTEL CLOSES
Blind Dale
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"The Good Fairy" QUEEN'S:-
"Blind Date"
ORIENTAL:-
"Corsair
Kowloon
MAJESTIC:-
"The Whole Town's Talking"
KING'S..
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Coming
"We Live Again” "Ladies Love Danger"
QUEEN'S :-
"The Flame Within" "I Lived With You".
"Charlie Chan In Paris" "The West Point"
A MODERN DON ORIENTAL
QUIXOTE
Girl Of To-day Criticised
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 18.
MORE GOLD FROM THE EGYPT
Success Of Suction Salvage
MAJESTIC
senTHEATRE CRANE
Nathan Raad Kowloon, Tel. 67222 TO-DAY ONLY
At 2,50, 520 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
EDWARD G ROBINSON
in the bart picture ha avar mað
THE WHOLE TOWNS TALKING
A JOHN FORD PRODUCTION Serven play by Ja Swérlins and Rabere Riskim. Based on a story by WGR. Barnett, Directed by John-Paré,
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
MODERN GIRLS
"Responsibilities As Citizens
(Special Air Mal Service)
London, July 18. The salvage ship Artiglio is due "I beleve," said Miss E. M. Pop-to-day at Plymouth, where she will ham, in an address to the Imperial land gold bars and sovereigns Social Hygiene Council, "that there valued at £45.000 recovered from are many girls to-day who-have the wreck of the liber Egypt om had an average education which | Ushant. This year's operations, has not been sufficiently broad or which began in the last days of purposeful. This is followed by June, have been notable for the some years of social galety, and remarkable success attained with then they either wake up to the the apparatus for suction in deep fact that they have some respon-water, specially devised by Sorima. sibility as citizens, but their minds Company and already used effec-craving among many modern girls are quite blank as to how to carry/tively last year. The gold carried for some sort of training in citi- out these responsibilities, or else by the Artiglio has been recovered zenship
引
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, July 18. » The belief that there was
but that they did not
key do not realise what is wrong since July 4 by means of suction know how or where to get it wis with them except that they fight alone.
expressed by Miss M. E. Popham, Or the original consignment an of the Empire Citizenship Train- with their families and are tho-
"I believe," she said, "that there are many girls to-day who have
has not been sufficiently broad or had an average education which
purposeful.
board the Egypt there has now been ing Council, at the Imperial Social salved 90.8 per cent of the sover-Hygiene Congress in London yes- elgns, 97.4 per cent of the silver,
terday. and 98.25 per cent, of the gold bars. Such a result in recovering treasure from a wreck in the open sea, 400ft. below the surface, is an unprece dented achievement, and especially remarkable when It' is remembered that it was never possible for divers to perform any manual work under water, every
is
roughly dissatisfied with life. They are sated with pleasure.”
Making every allowance for the ex gencles of public oratory and the need for institutions to make out a case for their own existence, we cannot-but think that Miss Pop- ham, like Don Quixote, is slaying
purely figmentary foe, There are many modern girls who are not educated for, nor have any occasion to seek, a gainful oc- thing being done from the salvage they have some responsibilities as cupation. All the better for them vessel following directions received citizens but their minds are quite if their education is not purpose-by telephone from the observation blank as to how to carry out these ful, which means narrow, and there chamber at the bottom,
"This is followed by some years of social life and gafety, and then they do one of two things. They either wake up to the fact that
responsibilities, or else they do not realise what is wrong with them except that they fight with their familles and are discontented" and " dissatisfied with life,
is no harm done if it is not broad. It is now seven years since the Their duties as citizens are to look salvage operations were started charming and put their fathers' The wreck was definitely located money into circulation. If they on August 30, 1930, and on June 22 THE TROPICAL EXPRESS NON- When Director Rouben Mamoù.
worked they would put themselves 1933, the. first gold reached the STOP REVUE CO, COMING TO |lan wanted to film a cavalry drill
-SATED WITH PLEASURE Into competition with less fortun- deck of the Artiglio. By the endThey are sated with pleasure, (Special Air Mail Service) THE KING'S THEATRE ON THE As & detail of Dmitri's wild and
ale people who need the money, of that season treasure to the 21ST AUGUST.
reckless life as a cadet in "We
London, July 18, and if they tried to go into public value of about £740,000 had been they object strongly to their fami There was probably no Live Again," the Samuel Goldwyn
lies attempting to give them some more life they would probably be nutsan- recovered. During 1933 & further screen version of Tolstoy's "Re-melancholy place in all Mayfair ces. Their sole duty to the state quantity of gold and silver, valued guidance in life, and yet they are surrection," which brings Anna to-day than that old-world estab-is to marry the right man and to at about £250,000, was salved, and unable to direct their lives them-
selves. 8ten and Fredric March to the lishment, the Burlington Hotel, in bring up their families, if they last year the Artigilo raised trea- King's Theatre on Friday, March | Cork-street and Old Burlington- | have any, well.
sure to the value of about £160,000. I refused a double for the stirring street for to-night the hotel.
| manoeuvers.
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closes for ever.
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PLAIN TRUTH
PRINCESS ROYAL'S CURL" CLUSTER
(Special Air Mall Service)
London. July 18.
"They feel that they should take up some sort of job, but the possi- buity of a voluntary career has not been put before them in early Kife
"At this stage of their lives, then,.. they face the question, "Are we going to marry or adopt a career? and they are afraid of making a failure of both.”
Miss Popham added that it was
to help girls who were faced with these dificulties that the Empire Cizenship Training Council had been formed
"The plain truth is the world to- He said there was nothing the Servants who have given many professional riders many of them years of their lives to the service day is bubbling with semi-uplift, former Cossack officers could do of this famous stopping-place for semi-educational institutions of that he couldn't, and be proves it. the nobility and gentry and the doubtful value which justify them- "We Live Again" incidentally, county famlilties for 110 years selves by declaring that the mo- is the third of a trio of March were going about their jobs with dern girl (or it may be the mo-
The Princess Royal has changed dern something else) is all wrong. her Coiffure. It was done by Mr. vehicles to be shown throughout sad hearts. the country almost simultaneously, One employed, a floor walter, has. The fact, however, is that the mo- Henri, of Henri et Phillips, ton- and no three films could possibly been there for 35 years. I was told dern girl is worth two of her grand-don, her hairdresser, who was offer an actor three more widely by Mr. John O'Neill, the head mother. She is healthier, better summoned to Egerton Hall, New diversified roles or three such porter, who himself has been em-looking, has more brains, stronger market, where the Princess Royal golden opportunities to prove his ployed for nearly 20 years.
character, more courage and better was staying. veraatlity and artistic abfiity.
The great Cect Rhodes, who judgment.
["For the last few years the Prin- died, 33 years ago, and that gay. No doubt there are girls to-day cess whose long beautiful "hair old monarch the late King Leo-who fight with their families, and has always been admired, has greatly to be deprecated if girls pold of the Belgians, used to stay are thoroughly dissatisfied with worn it parted on the left, and took up social work with the denire at the hotel, but few members of e. Ia takes every sort to make a brought to the rear of the head to earn a little pin-money. If a girl's private resources were not. the staff remember, them.
world. But there are not half as with pins. de las many as there used to be, and cer- Ber new style is with the part-large enough for her needs and tainly not enough to make a fussing also on the deft, with the side she wished to take a job she ought combed back and ending with to work for salary which was in clusters of small curls. No pasaccordance with the market value. are used, only small hair clips.
BRITAIN'S FIRST £80 'PLANE
Special Air Mail Service)
London, July 18. also scores. Pride of place, how Emilia Pastrana a leading figure expected to be introduced in this An" era of cheap fiying for all 18 ever, goes to pretty Ann Sothern In Professor Doorlay's Tropical Ex-country within a few weeks by the who turns in an excellent per-
press Non-Stop Revue which give completion here of the first British formance. Others in the cast in- clude Mickey Rooney, Spencer its opening performance at the "Flying Flea an aeroplane cost- Charters. Jane Darwell Geneva King's Theatre on August 21 at ing only £80.
and Tyler Brooke.-
Mitchell
M. A.
I LIVED WITH YOU.
5.30 p.m.
GREAT WEENCES;
It is just as much a wrench for
the visitors who have been com- | about. Ing to the hotel-some for as long
O'Neill said, "Nearly all the vial- as 50 years to have to leave," "MI. tors have left; there will be no- one in the hotel at midnight."
Most of the hotel remains -much ak it was in Georgian days, when Two Flying Fleas are being it was the palatial town home of assembled here at the moment by Marquis Cornwallis,
The housebreakers will soon be a life just in the usual way. Into five young men, one of whom is this happy family one of the giris Mr. C. F. Brooke, formerly of the at work, and when the old hotel
RAF
introduces a Russian prince down and out because he will not seli
Fles can take of has disappeared a block of flats The Flying Mes can take off will be bulit, a jewel which belonged to his with a run of only 110yds, and it
The whole of the furniture and can land at 20 m.p.h...
effects will be sold by auction -- #L- Lived With You" opening to- mother. When he is induced to morrow at the Queen's Theatre do so his philosophy of life cor will appeal to the majority of rupts all but Auntle who sees picture-goers because it depicts through his philosophy.
Ilfe as so many 'know it at home, Ivor Novello, is the Prince and The life of the Wallis family is he has admrable support from the average life of the working- Ursula Jeans, Minnie Rayner, Ida class family: Father and the Lupino and others, girls are out earning their living
doing so badly and and not
Auntie assists "Mum" in the
running of the house
It is an ordinary family, jogging along quite comfortably and Hving
I fifteen minutes it can reach an attitude of 3,000ft. Its top speed is between 75 and 80 mp.h., and it has a range of about 200 miles on an average petrol consumption of forty-five, miles to the gallon
New Man on the Farm A farmer sent his green, newly hired man out to plough a large feld. Two hours later the farm
ANTI-ICE DEVICE FOR AIRCRAFT
(Speclat Air Mail
It is a fascinating style a well- known London hairdresser stated, but has no particular name.
STARTS
·PIN-MONEY GIRLS Lady Emmott said that it was...)
**This is a style," he said, "that has been widely adopted by the younger people.
London, Jilly 18 SATURDAY Aug. 3rd ALHAMBR
One of the greatest problems of
aviation is thought to have been solved by the manufacture by a leading Birmingham firm of a de- vice which will prevent the forma tion of ice on aircraft. The in- vention consists of a method by which an anti-freezing liquid is supplied by means of compressed air through rubber tubing to the leading parts of the seroplane which are subject to ics formation.
subject of several
As soon as the first engine is hand returned to the house com- ⠀⠀ The method which has been ready for installation, Mr. Brooke pletely exhausted. and his colleagues intend to test one of the machines at a local Let's don't! I've seen all the dëld before inviting Air Ministry
officials to inspect it. Roosevelts."
Broadway Bepartee Let's go to the movies,
How do you expect me to hold mental work that plough,” he walled, “with two | throughout the big horses trying to pull it away mon from me all the time
·AT THE
THE SURT
BIGGEST SCREEN SENSATION IN 5 YEARS
The Federals Are Camta
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