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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
FOLIES BERGERE
A night in Paris without the morning after.
That is how advance reports i describe "Lolles Bergere", Darryl F. Zantck's new 20th Century musi- cal extravaganza starring Maurice Chevalier, at the King's Theatre to-day.
The lavish dance and musical
presentations, featuring more than seventy of Hollywood's loveliest dancing girls, were staged by Dave Gould in the sensational manner In which the Paris musical institu- tion, from which the film takes
its name as well as its mood and settings, is world--renowned.
Maurice exerts the inexhaustible
Chevaller charm in double measure In "Folies Bergere", which offers him, in his first dual role not only as Charlier, the gay, Straw hated, singing star of the Folles Ber- gere", but as a bemcnocled French baron whom he impersonates in his act as well.
The fun begins when the Baron!
LADIES LOVE DANGER
Fear strikes most actresses who become known as Hollywood's best dressed women.
They recall the fate of various stars who passed into obscurity as actresses after they gained fame as "clothes horses".
Glamorous Mona Barrie, extoll- ed by Royer screen stylist, for her ability to wear clothes thun any-
one he has seen in Hollywood in
five years, is unafraid of becoming
ja mere mannequin,
wear
"Katherine Cornell could the most stunning gown ever created or just a barrel and she
would still hold her audiences through sheer acting power". Miss Barrie says. "While I can think of no woman to-day who has the right to compare herself with Miss Cornell, I still believe clothes will not take any audience's mind away from either good or bad acting.
"I love smart clothes and being smartly dressed".
In her latest Fox Film vehicle.
She
goes off to try to raise finds to "Ladies Love Danger", co-featured coyer a
bank shortage and the with Gilbert Roland, Miss Barrie Sactor is called into impersonate
wears sumptuous clothes. in life as well as upon the hi
portrays a, bating stranger who stage.
nonchalantly enters bachelor's snart apartment, and settles there for the night, without explana- tions, just after a murder has been
Complications "develop when the baron returns unexpectedly and learns that his wife has been Airting with Charlier. To tes: commlited next door. her, he tums the tables by im-
merely
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"Ladies Love Danger" will
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1935.
LAST TWO-DAYS at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15, & 9.30 P.M:
F
MOST SENSATIONAL
| MUSICAL EVER BROUGHT TO THE SCREENI
Starring
O MAURICE
E
Chevalier
with
ANN SOTHERN MERLE OBERON
S BERGERE
Also Billy Symphony Technicolour “TantoIDE AND THE HARE”
and Mickey Mouse in "THI DOG NAPPER"..
WEDNESDAY"
LADIES LOVE DANGER" with MONA BARRIS
THE ALHAMBRA
Living On Velvet
QUEEN'S
GPS: THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY at 2.90,-8 10. 7.20′′k 9.30
With the boy taha made this drama,,3,
₹ of fickle marriage .
[the most talked,
abwest play of the
| Think i wice before
· 30 avarty Turise!
Directed be
Jake Bakerian
11
CHILD
NEXT CHANGE
TOWARD
ARNOLD
KAREN
MORLEY
FRANCÉ
THOMAS
from the Rjay ku
LEOPOLD CATAL
MICKEY MOUSE SPECIALS AND VARIETY PROGRAMME
THE QUEEN'S
Wednesday's Child
"Living on Velvet," a powerful An appealing picture full of. drama with
human and unusual emotions most it
interest, romance is the current attraction at the Alhambra Theatre,
now
Child,' is Wednesday's showing at the Queen's Theatre. The story is of Bobby Philips who sees his mother making love to a strange ma while his father is away.
Sometime after. Bobby | hears his parents, quarrel over the
་་
REVISED PRESS
LAW
More Stringent Control
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S:-
"Folies Bergere" QUEEN'S:-
"Wednesday's Child"-
ORIENTAL.-
"The Mighty Barnum"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Living On Velvet"
MAJESTIC:-
"West Point of The Air'
KING'S.-
Coming
T
"Ladles Love Danger" QUEEN'S:-
"Public Hero Murder"
ALHAMBRA!-
"When A Man's A Man"
BIG RANSOM WANTED
For Banker's Son
MAJESTIC
Pesan
FHEATRI
Natan Road Kowloon. Tel. 57222|| TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2,30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 PM.
FLYING
ROMANCE! 'Greater than "Hali Dive Boury . •
mighty triumph of
Jove Satagia thrillaj
WALLACE
Beery
West Point
OF
THE Air
READY FOR TROUBLE
Strikers Build
Barricade
Shanghai, Aug. 6. On the eve of the resumption of Shanghal. Aug. 7.
negotiations with the management, Anine-year-old boy. Sang Zeu-the striking workers at the Union teuz. was kidnapped yesterday, at Brewery, 1420 Gordon Road, pre- 1.30 pm, while playing in a pass-pared themselves for trouble yes- age-way behind his parents' house. Iterday by barricading themselves A demand for $500,000 ransom un the top floor of a three-storey has been made. Mr. Sung Zal-building on the south side of the 2. It increases the power of ling, a prominent resident in the building. It was reported that
compound, adjoining the supervision of the local authori-French Concession, and a native they were armed with iron hars ties over the papers;
of Ningpo, living at No. 50, Pass-and other effective weapons and
Kay Francis is exquisite in this picture of delicate love and it is a
[Special to the. "Hong Kong Daly different Kay Francis from the
• Press" (Copyright).3 one we have grown to admire. personating Charlier and an im-seen next Wednesday at the King's aviator. Kay is driven to despers, episode and overhears his mother
Falling in love with a mad
Nanking, Aug. *1. passtoned love, scene ensues, with Threatre.
The revised Press Law, against the wife uncertain whether the
tion by his carelessness and irres-saying "it is unfortunate that we'l which Chinese newspaper publish- man 13 her husband of
Ponsibility and despite a terrific have a child."
ers and newspapermen in different Robby's struggle to reform him she very
house of happiness early fails. However, au accident crashes above his head as he attends parts of the country are agitating, to him right matters so everything the divorce proceedings. Then the contains the following features:- turns out happily in the end.
1. It renders the procedure of Francis are
registration for # Supporting Kay
new paper George Brent and Warren William
stricter and more dificult: who both give a very realistic portrayal, specially the former in the role of the irresponsible fellow. Femine hearts will flutter with envy when they see Kay Francis in a different frock everytime she makes an appearance,
Charlier's Impersonation of him
Ann Sothern and Merle Oberson have the leading feminine roles
De Ruth directed from a script by Bess Meredyth and Hal Long.
in "Folies Bergece", which Roy for release through United Artists.
4 KNOW'S
9.30–4.15
1.15-0.30
TAKE ANY TEAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
ORIENTAL
2 MORE TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
DAYS
THE PRINCE OF HUMBUGS!
WHAT A CHARACTER
FLEMING
ROAD
TEL. 28478
A FANTASTIC AND AMAZING PICTURE PRESENTED ON A GIGANTIC SCALE.
Joseph M. Schonel presents
WALLACE BEERY
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THE MIGHTY BARNUM
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court awards him to his mother for 8 months and 4 months to his father. His mother marries again and his resentment causes him to become exceedingly nervous.
He is forever wanting to go to his father and when he learns that his father was going to marry again↑ he is terribly taken aback. Bobby is sent to a military school, put aside by both parents intent upon their own happiness with their own
The picture is very entertaining in every way and the two shorts that precede it are very appro-loves. priate, especially Borah Minevich The picture is pathetic in several and His Band which is a resily sequences and the acting of good bit of musical comedy. Frankie Thomas as Bobby is all O.M.O.
that can be desired. Kazan Morley sad Edward Arnhold turbed in their good "bit" of support and in all the the picture is delightful.
STRIKERS VACATE
*7
BREWERY
J
POLO ENTHUSIASTS ENTERTAINED
main
3. It makes the papers res- age 344, in Route Amiral Bayle, that they were ready for what ponsible for what appears in ad- the father of the child, is the night happen. ..vertisements, personal notices, sub-director of the Farmers Bank
pietures and illustrations;
of China, 368 Peking Road...
The boy left the house at 1.15
Outwardly, the brewery present-
cd a peaceful picture and some of 4. It gives local authorities
the 180 entrenched workers even the power to suspend a news-p.m. and half an hour later, Mrs. ventured into the yard during the paper as soon as they discover Sung, worried over the absence of kot part of the day to stretch out anything therein which is con- her child, told a woman servant
in the shade and indulge in sleep trary to law;
to bring him back. The servant prehensions of the
apparently undisturbed by ap- bad just started looking for the plant itself
future. The boy, when a youth of about 17 or the refrigerating system was kept was idle except that 18 threw a letter over the garden operating and delivery of draught fence. disappearing immediately beer permitted. Food was "brought afterwards down
Route Amiral to the strikers, from outside at in- Bayle The letter contained a 'tervals. demand for a ransom of $500,000 No news of the boy has been re- ceived since.
5. It forbids newspapers so publish the proceedings of court cases held in camera. No com- ment shall be allowed on a case unt judgment is rendered; and 6. It forbids newspapers to publish reports about the private Lives of people.
FULL - PARTICULARS, Under the new law, in applying
CLYDE SHIP-REPAIR WORK
The compound itself preserved the Aspect it presented last Wednesday when riot squads were called in to'.
CONFERENCE TO-DAY
Shanghai Aug. 7... The 180 strikers at the Union Brewery 1420 Gordon Road, who
* STRINGENT CONTROL barricaded themselves on the top
Shanghal, Aug. 7. The desire of the National Gov: At the time of his disappear-control the situation. Some 40,000 floor of a three-storey building in- 31 (Goodness) Painter and Dick ernment for a more stringent con-ance the boy wore khaki shorts, a
empty bee bottles-potential am- side the factory, vacated the pre-Harris entertained a number of trol of the press as evidenced by white shirt, and Chinese shoes orderly rows, covering most of the muzitidu-were still standing, in mises peacefully at 5 pm. yester-keen Polo devotees last night at the new and revised Press Law, is He can be recognized by a scare ground. Empty beer cases and day, following an announcement the Harris house In Jernighan in accord with a world-wide ten- at the base of his nose.
empty casks, flanked, the buildings by the management that the Road, when most of the keener dency towards the limitation of
on most 'kides. factory authorities would receive followers of the galloping game individual freedom in favour col- the strikers representatives this turned up to sample most scrump-lectivism and therefore it should afternoon. Mr. Frithjof Hoehnke, tious hot dogs and Com on the not be too strongly criticized. The
A. conference of the management director. arrived from Japan Cob.
will be held this morning, follow- question, however, still remaining yesterday. The following notice, It is hardly necessary to men- to be solved is whether the met-
ing the return of Mr. Frithjof in both English and Chinese, was tion the chief tople of conversa-hods of control provided, in the The Clyde graving docks were whence he was recalled by cable. Roebake, a director, from Japan. plause and the reluctance of the tion! It would be hard to think new law are reasonable, and how fairly busy last month, Barclay It is expected that the mauaga. office:-"I returned from Japan of a single player whose name did the freedom of the press is to be Curle and Co., having dry-docked ment will meet the representatives to-day and have been grieved to not crops up in the course of con- safeguarded after such regulations 1 vessels for overhauling, damage of the strikers immediately after- hear that serious trouble has versation whilst the speculation have been put into force.
repairs, etc. Barclay Curie and wards to announce a definite po- arsen in the brewery. I am care- resulting from a discussion into
Co. had about a dozen vessels for licy. If it is decided to remove fully studying the matter, with a the relative merits of the possible
sündry repairs.
the strikers by force, determined view to finding a satisfactory solu- | American and British teams for
Harland and Wolff nave had a resistance is expected, tion.""
the Hoyt Cup was reminiscent or for registration, - a newspaper or busy time, eight vessels having
Bottled beer, but no draught The attitude of the striker is a call-over at the Beaufort Club. magazine must state the source of been dealt with in the space of a beer, is being delivered now from the company's new factory in attributed
Altogether it was a grand rol-ts financial support and "give an week. Work was completed on the to apprehension re: When Mr. Martin Benson gavegarding the position in view of licking evening, and one only to outline of its organization, its waiwera, and they dry-docked thei
Road. This plant is Ichang members of the Shirley Temple the Maharaja of Rajpipla £50,000 the functioning of the company's, be a player to teel at home
estimated income and expenses to Zealandic for damage repairs and complement of workers. and it is operating with virtually à full for Windsor Lad almost exactly a
gether with its circulation and continued insulation and general because the old operatives fear year ago he did a good stroke of new, factory in Ichang Road with once.
virtually a full complement Polo was discussed from Peiping development plans. The purpose repairs on the Karamea. Other they will be dismissed shortly that workers. The old operatives tear to Manila, and I. for one, hope of this is to prevent papers and vessels dealt with included the they have adopted their present they may, he dismissed shortly
American Army team magazines with inadequate duan Haranga, the Ceramic, the Tarana attitude Mediation by the Bureau from the P.I., mounted by Americial backing being established, but ki, and the King Malcolm for sun-of Social Affairs of the Chinese can units trom North China will its efficacy is extremely doubtful. dry repairs, and the Lassell for City Government and the General
Labour
Thursday Finion, last pay us a visit and compete for the The unscrupulous publisher could engine repairs. French Cup (presented by MessTa enally misrepresent his financia) D. and W. Henderson and Co.vening, effected only a trucs pend Hardivillers), 25, whatever the position without detection. Fur- had eight vessels for voyage reing the return of Mr. Hoehnke, players rating maybe ponies alther, it is next to impossible for a patrs. Alexander Stephen and Sons tions, some dealers increased th
"Owing to the unsettled" condi- ways do count a very great deal, new newspaper or magazine to completed work on the Trojan Star. price of bottled beer by ap This is another Red Letter Day and only those accustomed to the forecast its estimated circulation, and the Fairfield Company con-proximately five cents (large bottle). Now Windsor Lad retires to the in these parts, for to-day the rail- peculiarties of the China pony Granting that this could be done, tinued general hull repairs on the yesterday. The price charged hy stud at a fee of 400 guineas. With way from here to Shangjár has can hope to play him successfully. it would prove of not much use; Autolycus. norihal fortune he has › a career started regular service. For the Shanghai can field a very strong As the Shanghai Newspapers' before him of anything from '10, to time being the Hangchow-Yushan team. Not only that, it can find Union points out in its petition to train will go straight on, although two other first class teams to try the National Government, the "HOTSPUR'S" SHARE
the Klangsi railway is a heavier its selected team out, and I shall clever could sill defeat the pur- It is doubtful now if his owner one. As soon as the Talentang never subscribe to the idea, pre-poses of the law by making false would accept £100,000 for him,
river is built
at Hanchow, the valent, apparently, amongst some representations while the honest At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9,30 P.M. In the congratulations which light rails on the Chekiang ra- ernment secret service agents, owner and trainer, have experi-way will be replaced by heavies Players, that the standard of play wound submit to its shackled and pitted against organized crime, to
sufer. in Shanghai is remarkably low. whom a misstep or recognition enced since last September Mr. ones, and then there will be fast means death, forin the background Benson's chief regret is that the through trains.
League and the friends will be given a treat on Sunday, August 18, at the King's Theatre, when a picture featuring "Shirley" and Pat O'Brien, and a series of in teresting shorts, will be shown at 11.30 am, The charge for admis- sion is only 30 cents and as the King's Theatre are making no charge for the use of the theatre and the services of the staff, quite a large sum ought to be collected for local charities, for which pur- pose the show is being staged.
PUBLIC ENEMY NO 1
Thrills of the work of the Gov-
business..
After winning the Derby for the Maharaja, Windsor Lad was beaten into third place for the Eclipse Stakes, the race which he won yesterday at Sandown Park.
It was then that Mr. Benson bought him. He has since won six races with the colt, worth nearly £23,000 in stakes alone.
15 years.
THE NEED FOR A GOOD HARVEST
Yushan. Ki. Aug, 1.
of "Public Enemy No. 1", Metro late Capt. Sidney Galtrey, who We are told that another line
that an
li
at
In response to repeated petitions submitted by various newspaper unions for the revision of the Re- was for many years "Hotspur" of will come here
· Goldwyn-Mayer's amazing and
from Nanking, be moved to other hilla. It is thevised Press Law, the Central Poli- gripping document of the war of The "Daily Telegraph," and who passing the Chektang and Anhwe farmers that suffer, the merchants tical Connell has referred the died last May, could not be present border. The surveyors have been are anxious to get all they can matter to one of its committees for the Department of Justice on gangland coming zoon to the to accept his share.
here twice. Still another line is to help trade. which has been examination. Capt. Galtrey played an impor- Queen's Theatre.
during past China United Preas (by mail), Based on actual cases and re-tant part in the purchase of the supposed to join up from Fuhtlen, rather uncertain
The aerodrome is, being en-years. the new thriller, which horse by his present owner, ports shows in detail the method of the capture of & "notorious publie enemy, throws the spotlight on story together with Joseph Callela, one of the omcials overlooking the great deal of public relief work Captain: "Now suppose you, are the daring of the nation's peace who enacts the crime overlord, work why this was to be made was been done. Over 4,000 loads on duty one dark night. Suddenly like heroes whose work, for their The convict stampede and all such a large base. He said he grain have been divided among a person appears from behind and own sake, must be unsung. 2.
break, the raid on the gangster really did not know, but those the poorest, and money hes been wraps two arms around you so thất hide-out and the sensational run-were instructions. The people are given to the extent of $50,000, we you can't use your rifle, da ning to earth of the crime over- | all bemoaning the loss of their hope the worst is now over. If would you my lord are all packed with thrilla, fields, and many graves have to only we can get a good harvest. Cadet "Let go, honey.
to only we can get
Chester Morris, who has given the screen many fine perform- ances, plays a pivotal role in the
larged greatly. It is said that it We are hoping for a better har- must be big enough for five or six vest this year. The last year's hundred plänes to land. I asked suffering has been terrible. A
The Grand Army of the Republic
the brewery itself is unchanged.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAYANAMBRA
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