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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
ANN CARVER'S PROFESSION
Gene Raymond believes that. woman's place is in the home! Fay Wray insists that careers and marriages, go hand in hand!
The oft-discussed problem of home versus career" is the pivot upon which "Ann Carver's Pro- fession." Columbia production. starting to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre, hinges, and as a result, the two leading characters, Miss Wray and Mr. Raymond, spent most of their time between scenes discussing the pros and cons of the situation.
The story by Robert Ruskin, deuls with, marital difficulties which result when a woman law- yer atsains financial Independence and personal prominence as a re- sult of her legal exploits, while her husband plod along in a poorly position as an apprentice architect. Tragedy follows, the husband is; accused of murdering a night club singer who has showered him with attention, and happiness comes only when his wife, after defend- ing him in the court-room, gives
up her career.
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Raymond personally believes that any marriage." even though, the woman's job is unimportant, is slated for the rocks when both husband and wife work. Friction Is inevitable After All" says Gene. "marriage is a hazardous enough „undertaking without being further handicapped by a wife who must divide, her interests between her employer."
THE SILK EXPRESS
With The "Silk Express," a Warner Brothers picture" - which comes to the Oriental Theatre on Wednesdag, and Thursday. Neil Hamilton appears as features lead in his
twelfth mystery drama. Sheila Terry is co featured with Hamilton, while an exceptionally strong cast in the supporting roles.
Hamilton is considered one of the most talented actors i Holly- wood in mystery rules. It is one of the essential qualifications of a mystery players that he reveal nothing of the plot. While he himself knows the solution of the crimes. He must not betray it to the spectator by word or action or facial expession.
Hamilton had been so succesful in concealing his emotions, parti cularly in such productions* that he
was ingaged by Warner for The Silk Express." most baffling drama,"
He play his part perfectly in no way giving the audience the slightest hint of who perpertrated the crimes that occured on the transcontinental silk train while. Seattle to New speeding from York with a cargo worth $3.000,-
000.
Other members of the cust, most of whom are at one time or un- other under suspicion include "Guy Kibber. Arthur Byron, Dudley Digges, Allen Jenkjas. Harold Huber, Arthur Hohl, George Pat Calling and Vernon Steele.
PURSUED
Life on the cupra plantations of Miss Wray, on the other hand, the Dutch East Indies, down below believes that a woman can have a the equator, is pictured with a career of her own and stil, mau-
wealth of fascinating detail in tain a happy home, provided she Pugsued a new Fox fhm which makes up her mind early enough opens at Alhambra to-morrow that her husband is her chief in-you like your background off the beaten track and a strong, under. through your film thrills, here is a romance ruaning
terest and her career secondary. She states her own case in proof
In private e Miss Wray is the wife of John Monk Saunders,
Gene Raymond is
an
author and scenarist. They have been married nearly six years and though each has a successful career. their marital happiness is a Hollywood legend.
eligible young bachelor of 25 who has not yet been married or even engaged. But he has made up his mind that his wife will be Mrs. Gene Ray- mond-first, last and always and that her one concern will be his
concern happiness.
Eddie Buzzell directed Carver's Profession." Others in the cast are Claire Dodd. Claude Gul- lingwater, Jessie Ralph and Frank Conroy,
PUBLIC HERO NO. 1
Modern as to-day's newspaper headlines, and thrilling as their graphic accounts of the war of the government on organized crime. "Public Hero No, 1," Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer's amazing thriller of
the
work of the secret service, having its final run at the Queen's Theatre to-day.
A
current
of
picture for you to see.
If
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1935.
NAIR CONDITIENEN AHEROES,
TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
4-Star Story with a Star
for Every Holed
Slandette COLBERT
"Private WorldsTM
CHARLES BOYER-JOAN BENNETT BELEN VINSON • JOEL MAGREA
Denched be Gregorý se Čers
A Walter Wanger Production THURSDAY 19.30 ros P.M. CONTINOUSLY →→→
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Gene RAYMOND Henry HULL IN "TRANSIENT
The
France: DRAKE LADY "
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
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PRIVATE WORLD
A sterling cast, a vivid, enthrall- ing story and Ane direction have been assembled in Paramount's #Private Worlds." now showing t the King's Theatre, to make of this psychological love drama a wide appeal. story or compelling interest and
The glamorous Claudette, Col- bert, winner of the Academy Award for 1934, heads the cast ΟΙ "Private Worlds," in the character. of a woman who seeks refuge from love in the memory of a dead
hate women by the willful mis- deeds of his sister, Joan Bennett, Joel McCrea and Helen Vinson are
** Pursued " reveals the lovely sweetheart. Opposite Miss Colbert Roseinary Amg and the lusty Rus-is Charles Boyer as her colleague sell Hardic as screen sweethearts a men who has been taught to and both turn in splendid per- formances. Hardy goes to Borneo to take charge of a plantation and on his arrival, sinister things begin to happen all because Victory Jory, as a scheming and jealous half caste, wants to do away with him.
The story is worked out with fine regard for plausibility and human psychology and ends on a happy note.
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in the supporting cast..
"Private Worlds," which was adapted from the best-selling novel by Phyllis Bottome, is set in the unusual background of a hospital for the insane, where Miss Colbert: McCrea and Boyer act as doctors. In making the picture, the Fox Despite their insight into the 10s studios. it is said, enlisted the aid of John Arensma, ârst white man
of the human mind, Calbert and born in Borneo, to guard against in open conflict, both as doctors Boyer And themselves constantly slipping up on detail. This is ap and people, without comprehend- parent in the finished film for ining the underlying cause of their addition to the strong story structure, the picture abounds in "Colour."
By her performance in the role of a cafe entertainer. Miss Ames takes another long step forward as an engaging actress. She also has occasion to sing a catchy number written expressly for the picture..
Pert Kelton, George Irving a Torben Meyer round out the well- balanced cast.
Based on a story by Larry Evans. Pursued" was produced by Sol M. Wurtzl and directed by Louis King from a screen play by Lester Cole and Stuart "Anthony.
Tracing the pursuit of a notor Gus public enemy, the work of the operative who turns him up to Justice, and the amazing ramifica-
START AND INTENTIONS FOR tions of the Federal Agencies pl- ted against the underworld, the turous Jeff Crane. and Joseph story tells. in details actually Callies, the gangster overlord. taken from records, cases and Lionel Barrymore has a great role newspapers, the ever more ap as the strange old doctor and parent fact that crime does not Jean Arthur, Paul Kelly, Lewis pay.
Stone and others, are featured in Chester Morris plays the adven- this amazing picture.
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Naughty
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antagonism.
While the drama between these two is resolving a minor plot is evolved when McCrea is Jured away from his wife by the vampire Ester of Boyer. Helen Vinson.
In the dramatic and gripping climax there is a riot in the hospital and Joan Bennett be-
comes
critically 111 when she learns of her husband's infidelity. Miss Colbert and Boyer work to- gether in their desperate efforts to fight the situation and learn for the first time that their apparent hatred had really concealed growing love whics.
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acting and unusual setting of this far above average picture...
TRANSIENT. LADY PURSUED
One of the largest streets ever bizilt for a motion picture is seen in Universal's new film. "Transient Lady" which comes to the King's Theatre on Thursday, with › Gene Raymond, Henry Hull. Frances Drake and June Clayworth in the featured roles.
The story is jald in a small Alabama city" named Karnak and for one scene alone a street just over a quarter mile in length "was constructed, A glance down this street makes any small-towner feel homesick because of its natural.
ness.
Down each side of the unpaved street runs,& narrow side-walk, with the usual rough spots where the flagstones have been tilted! As you glance down the street you see a large and imposing country courthouse,
old-fashioned
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PITY ME-I had the most precious thing in life-and threw it away!
ANN CARVERS PROFESSION
coming on Wednesday. Zist instant
Theatre.
RUDYARD KIPLING'S NEW POEM
Patriotic Verses In Honour Of The Royal Jubilee.
Special Air Mail Service)
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Landon, July 30.... THIRTY-EIGHT years ago to-day-on July 17, 1897, when Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations were, ending Mr. Rudyard Kipling first published his famous poem, "Recessionat." To-day, when His Majesty the King leads his Fleet to sea, so ending the Silver Jubilee displays of the defence forces, Mr. Kipling publishes a new patriotic poem Entitled "The King and the Sea," the verses pay a striking tribute to the Sailor Prince who yesterday, as Sovereign, reviewed his majestic Fleet at Spit- head."
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THE KING AND THE SEA
July 16 Review of the Fleet by the King
After his Realms and States were moved To bare their hearts to the King 'they loved Tendering themselves in hamage and devotion. The wide wave up the Channel spoke
To all those eager, exultant folk-
Hear now what man was given you by the ocean!
There was no thought of orb or Crown
When the single, wooden, chest went down
To the steering-flat, and the careless gunroom haled him
To learn by ancient and bitter use
How. neither favour nor excuse
Nor aught his sheer self henceforth availed him. 'There was no talk of birth or rank
By the slung hammock or scrubbed plank
In the steel-grated prisons where I cast him, But niggard hours and a narrow space For rest-and the naked light on his face- While the ship's traffic flowed unceasing past him. Thus I schooled him to go and came,
To speak at the word, at a sign be dumb,
To stand to his task, not seeking others to aid him;
To share in honour' what praise might fall
For the task accomplished and, over all,
To swallow rebuke in silence. Thus I made him.
I loosened every mood of the deep On him, a child and sick for sleep,
Though the long watches that no time can measure
When I drove him; deafened and choked and blind, At the wave-tops cut and spun by the wind; Lashing him, face and eyes, with my displeasure,
I opened him all the rule of the seas-
Their sullen, swift-sprung treacheries,
To be fought, or forestalled, or dared, or dismissed with laughter.
I showed him worth by folly concealed,
And the flaw in the soul that a chance revealed [Lessons remembered, to bear fruit thereafter).
I dealt him power beneath his hand, For trial and proof, with his first command, Himself alone, and no man to gainsay him."
On him the end, the means, and the word,. And the harsher judgment if he erred, And, outboard, ocean waiting to betray him. Wherefore, when he came to be crowned, Strength in duty held him bound,
So that not power misled nor esse ensnared hlo Who had spared himself no more than his seas had spared him!
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After his leges, in all his lands,
Had laid their hands between his hands, And his ships thundered service and devotion,
The tide wave, ranging the planet, spoke On all our foreshores as it broke Know new what man I gave you-I, the ocean!
RUDYARD KIPLING."
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Private Worlds" QUEEN'S:~ 11
"Ann Carver's Profession" ORIENTAL:-
"Naughty Marletta""
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Murder In The Clouds"
MAJESTIC:
ཁྐྲན་
"Palmy Days"
Coming
Transient Lady"
KING'S.-
QUEEN'S:
"One New York Night"
MAJESTIC:
"Count of Monte Cristo"
ORIENTAL:-
"Silk Express
ALHAMBRA:-
"Pursued
"Black Sheep'
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EDDIE CANTOR
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WITH
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DIAMOND SEIZURE
SEQUEL
British Court Returns Valuable Stones
Shanghai, Aug. 14. Another chapter in the diamond case, heard by the Registrar. Mr. C. H Haines, in H.M. PoHce Court, recently, Was closed yesterday.
Twenty People Taken when the diamonds, worth several
Into Custody
lakhs, which were seized from the offices of the China Diamond Cutting Works by order of the British Court, were returned to. Shanghai, Aug. 15.
Mr. J. B. Ipekdilan. The seizure In a raid on a counterfeiting.
was made on June 24, and the plant in
an alleyway of Ruetish subjects, Mr. R. M. Gregory charges brought" against two Bri- Bourgeat, near Route des Soeurs, early yesterday morning detec-
and Mr. F. R. Gabbott, of alleged tives of the French Municipal smuggling were dismissed by the Police confiscated about $500.000
Reigistrar On July 8 when he in sycee and coins, all spurious, stated. In the course of his judg- and arrested nineteen men and a woman, Elaborate coining ma-
"The evidence submitted by the chinery was found...
prosecution does more than raise a presumption that t these China during the past years, they diamonds were Imported into
The police surrounded the place at about 2 a.m. and, on, a given signal, rushed into the house and rounded up the occupants. The twenty prisoners are to appear in the Second Special, District Court in the Concession to-day.
ment.....
the majority of them. had not- Pald duty. Had the prosecution been able to show that the dia- moods had been só imported. It In their search, the detectives that they had been so imported would still be necessary to show discovered a large coin stamping by the two accused. There is not machine, said to be worth ap the slightest evidence before me proximately $100,000, and much that Mr. Gregory, or Mr. Gabott, other counterfeiting equipment. A large quantity of silver also was hold, therefore, that there is not- did so import them, and I must found.
The police learned. that the on their defence.".
hing to justify me putting them counterleiters had moved into the
Interviewed house about two months ago and China Daily New," yesterday, Mr. by the "North- apparently had been active since Inkdjian, who returned to Shang- that time in producing and dis- hai in the ss. President Jefferson, tributing spurious dollars. It was reported that the turned to him yesterday by the said that the diamonds were re- coiners had been buying up bad, British Court. On his arrival in dollars and small money" from Shanghai, he stated. he was ser-" various exchange shops, melting ved them,
and, then recoining the the Chinese Maritime
warrant, but, later, metal
Customa for distribution as good money. The imitation coins were said to be of fair workmanship
Bycee and
with a
withdrew it.
"Asked if there was much smugg-
and many persons are believed tong of diamonds into Shanghai, have been victimized.
Mr. Ipekdjian laughed and re- plied to the effect that there was a great deal. The whole trouble, he said, was the present
high
THE SAYINGS OF duty which existed. I! the
THE GREAT
"We have been living too long
Chinese Maritime Customs only would bring down the duty on import stones they would them- selves benent. In one year, Mr. Ipekdjian said, before the duty on imported diamonds had reached
ou the assumption that war would its present height, the Customs
not come for ten years; WB
now received more revenue than dur- have to face facts, and we knowing the past five years. that war is less likely to come if
we are prepared."-Admiral Bir Howard Kelly,
"War is contrary to the mind of God and a blasphemy against the future of man." The Bev, Dick Sheppard.
£ 4
**eeping out of the wars of other nations ought to be America Purpose No. 1-Senator Nye...
"The Highway Gods is free, but human life is precious. Mr. rlore-Belisha,
Let us maintain an unshakeable faith in the ultimate progress and destiny of civilisation."-Mr, Dun Can Bandys, M.P.
The business of governing India, has developed into the muddle that was inevitable from the moment politicians began to ignore facts. favour of their own theories. Lord Monkswell
euter
The young people of to-day
"and"
general store, a musty looking real estate office and a typical smáli town drygoods store. Further on 13 a hay and grain, and feed store, next to it is
a poolroom, then Hero. Back of the statue is the unusual aspect of a murder trial oxmonly good he comes the town's best restaurant, usual bandstand, and to the left going on, it is a specta which isn't so good. Flanking the is a church. restaurant ta the bank. Across the
worth looking Driving through dusty streets street le-a furniture store and a
There are many are a few automobiles and many in this barber shop and a hotel. Oppoeite horse-drawn vehicles of various the courthouse is the town's public degrees of ill-repair whed it square, with two canrons and a filled with a statue of the town's Civil War of an exciting court day
ALHAMBRA
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