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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
HAT COAT AND GLOVE ·
Best of the courtroom dramas to reach the screen because it car- ries romantic interest and tents of suspense to degree, Hat, Coat and onetis to-morrow at the Theatre..
the elu-
UDUSA)
Glove Queen's
CHARLIE CHAN IN EGYPT
Warner Oland's latest screen appearance as that genial and Chinese sleuth. philosophical
of the most Charlie Chan, one completely captivating detective heroes in the history of book or screen, will be showing at the King's Theatre, when Fox Film's latest vehicle for the inimitable Warrier Oland. "Charlie Chan in Egypt." begins to-day.
In this story of a martial boli, ««lay's aftermath, RKO-Radio pro Centu colourful enst. Ricardo Cortez, always an assurance of a strong characterization. is support. ed by Barbara Robbins, John Beal, brilliant newcomers from the New York stage and Dorothy Burgesa. "Hat, Coat and Glove" will in- trigue audiences with its story, Robert Mitchell is a great criminal lawyer, separated from his wife who loves Jerry Hutchins, A girl of Jerry's past is found dead in his studio. A hat, coat and glore are the only clues to the person who killed her. Jerry is arrested. and by the woman whom both love. Roberts persuaded to defend Jerry. The story builds with ter-well-received comedy. rifle suspense and reaches a climax
courtroom всепел. In "Hat, Coat and Glove" Cortez gives a capital performance. Miss Rob bins should become one of filmdom's favourites. and Heal in just" a surely a picture find of the first magnitude.
And
GOIN' TO TOWN
another fashion earth ake is getting under way. With the appearence of the blonde star in Paramount's "Goin' to Towa," coming on Saturday to the King's Theatre, fashion authories all over the world are preparing to receive the impact of Paramount's blonde star in up-to-date surroundings, modern comedy and streamlined
lothes
Ever since this facinus Par2- int star revolutionized the style world with her inimitable Gay 90's tostumes in *She Done Him Wrong," fashion authorities have. wondered if any tread in clothes bistory has ever had such far- reaching indueners,
Even not when Mae West,herself is mincing about the sets of "Goin' to Town' in completely modern and original 1935 ostumes, smart modistes in New York, Paris and London still ́include what they call "Ma West models' in each and every collection.
Seven lending men, hended by Paul Cavanagh, Ivan Lebedeff
4 SHOWS
DAIS
1.20-$18
7.16–9.30
In this picture, the eighth of the famed Chan series, Fox Film has produced an ingeniously thruling and baring mystery, which met with hearty applause from this reviewer. "Charlie Chan in Egypt" Is the biggest and most pretentious Chan picture ever made and car- rles the interest from thrill-packed sequence to chili-packed sequence with Stepin Fetch't adding much
The story carries Charlie Chan to the mystery-scented land of the Pharoahs, in the Valley of the Kings, amid the splendours and riches of the last resting places o! the mighty monarchs of thousands of years ago. Priceless gold and jewelled treasure have been taken from among those brought to light by the French Historical Society's expedition, near Luxor on the Nile. and Charlie Chan is assigned to trace the thefts and the thieves. A killer strikes and with the" sha
dowy hand of death casting it gloom over the entire family of the expedition's leader, Charlie Chan's skill and courage are tested to their mit.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1935.
SHOWING TO-DAY at 8.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.80 P M.. COMING TO THRILL YOU
CHILL YOU!
A 3,000-year-old curse takes its toll. and Charlie Chan plunges into his weirdest adventure!
CHARLIE
CHAN IN EGYPT
!
with WARNER OLAND "PAT" PATERSON and STEPIN FETCHIT
NEXT CHANGE
MA in "GOIN' TO TOWN". PARAMOUNT
WEST
WEREWOLF OF LONDON
Coming To The Queen's
This is a Universal film shortly coming to the Queen's with Henry Hull as Dr. Glendon, Warner Oland as Dr. Yogami, Valerie Hobson as Lisa Glendon, Lawrence Grant as Sir Thomas Forsythe, Ethel Grif- fin as Mrs. Whack and Zeffie Tll-
In support of Warner Oland. "Charlie Chan in Egypt" "has a distinguished cast including "Pat" Paterson, Thomas Beck, Rita Can-bury as Mrs. Moncaster. sino and Stepin Fetchit."
and Tito Coral, support Mag West in "Goin' to Town," in which a siniert girl uses her line on society and her curves on men with equal
success.
Directed by Alexander Hall, the picture features a series of now tunes for Miss West, includ ing "He's a Pad Man" and "Love In Love." Miss Wust also sings an operatie aria from Samson and Delilah
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AN EXCITING MYSTERY PICTURE THAT THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVES
ALMUST FAILED TO SOLVE:
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Great
Cosmopolitan Magazine mystery!
The perfect crime ...but then Philo' Vance is the per- fact detective! You'll gasp...you'll howl...but you'll never guess it!
Casino MURDER CASE
FALL
ALISON
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London, Sept. 3.
-Evenings 20 eta-35 ets.-55 ets.
The fim informs us that accord- ing legend, a werewolf is an in- dividual who, at certain phases of the moon, undergoes a horrifying transformation into a wolf, Henry | Hull, as a famous botanist, is bit- ten by a werewolf while searching
PICTURE
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"
HEADLINES SCREAMED
HER GUILT LOVE VINDICATED HER NA
NAME the
WOMAN
NEXT CHANGE HAT, COAT
and GLOVE"
with
RICARDO CORTEZ·
It's Mae Time with Mae West returning in her new Paramount picture, "Goin' To Town", which comes on Saturday to the King's Theatre, with Paul Cavanagh, Ivan Lebedef and Tito Coral..
for a rare flower in a mysterious AT THE QUEEN'S
valley in Thibet.
Name The Woman
With this rather dreary weather
ROAD WATCH BEGINS
In Sentry Huts
Those 15,000 men who went out on to the roads of Gerat Britain
On his return to London he is
of afflicted with the curse the werewolf and at every full moon he turns into a wolfish creature and a "killer," The climax is a strug- gle between Hull and Warner for possession of the only known anti- we are now experiencing a visit cote to werewolfery. Finally Hull to the Queen's Theatre will un- s.alks his own wife (Valerie Hab-doubtedly help to banish any of at 6 am. recently to sit in sentry ital effects. The new program-huts and count the traffic nave a me that opened yesterday, "Name the Woman" is a Columbia produc tion, directed by Albert Rogell who has certainly made an excellent job of it.
son) and is shot by her lover.
"The film has plenty of action and should go over 'well. There is an
amusing scene of two Bloomsbury ladies, Mrs. Whack and Mrs. Mon- caster, Arst in a public house and then peeping through a keyhole
problems, writes a correspondent.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Charlie Chan In Egypt" QUEEN'S:-
"Name The Woman" ORIENTAL:-
"Casino Murder Case"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
Chinese picture.
MAJESTIC:
"Carniva?""
KING'S:-
Coming
"Goin' To Town"
QUEEN'S:—
"Eat. Coat and Glove"
" "Werewolf of London” - ALHAMBRA:-
"Mad Love"
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LONDON
By Smuggler King's Widow
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TRACY - EILERS
JIMMY DURANTE
1
DISRAELI AT MALTA
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Sept. 3. Malta, which is so much in the Dews at present, nearly diverted into strange paths the carrer Small, slim pretty Beatrice Lil-
one who was destined to be Prim Len, widow of millionaire Al Lil- | Minister. When Disraeli visited Hen, America's "bumped-off" rum- Malta in 1830 he was the com- running king, salied from South-plete coxcomb. "It would no ampton for New York in the Nor- have mandie, Sailed back to the land of her husband's gangster enemies, the men who murdered him.. . She has just sold Al's £50,000 fleet of seven rum-running ships for £2,400. She spent months on holiday in London with friends before she found a buyer.
.
d
been
possible." said Sir William Gregory "to have found more agreeable, unaffected companion when they were by themselves;, but when they got into society his coxcombry was Intolerable. . He made himself
mess
so hateful to the officers' that, while they welcomed Clay, ceased to invite" 'that'
"In America I could not get a they dollar apiece for them," she told demned. bumptious Jew boy. me. A left me £1,000,000, no I "Dizzy's" own account was rather different. It was at Malta that have plenty of money.
Times have changed. Some of Al's friends, rich a few years ago.
are
now pushing fruit trucks through New York streets."
She flicked cigarette àsh off her
WHISKY DEALS
"Al made a lot of money out of Prohibition. He used to come to
They were provided by the Ministry of Transport with printed grey fur, lists of twenty-six types of vehicles. Richard Cromwell is in the lead-between the commercial van with The list points to the difference
and seeing the transformed botan- ing role as an ambitious young 12-oneumatic tyres and the solid-
porter, who is assigned. to cover tyred light lorry. the murder of District Attorney Forbes. During his rambles in
ist when these two decide to go on the Waggon for ever afterwards
H.L M.
RADIO AND FILM
portunity
HIS QUANDARY
But I found one enumerator--
the list for the three-wheeled
search of none other that a big that is the official name for the scoop story, Cromwell sees a young
census, takers-in. a quandary be- girl escape from a window. He cause there was no allowance in follows her up and is able to link her as the daughter of the murder-trailer that had just passed. ed mayor. Here is his big story.
He follows up this story only to learn that his "mystery woman" (Arline Judge) has nothing to do with the murder.
"Throughout the film the action
Special Air Mail Service)
London, Sept. 3. The Radio Exhibition, which has
The story goes on with one thrill just Anished at Olympia, has
after another, with romance brood given the wireless industry an op-ing in the near future How Crom- for estimating, future well gets his story and wins his prospects and its friendly rival for heart's desire is good entertain- popular favour the film industry a ment, and when he battles the vil- chance to compare accounts. In an in the rumble seat of an au- the upshot it emerges that in the tomobile when travelling at high coming year the nation will prob- speed will give you all the thrilla ably spend almost as much upon you want... wireless apparatus and licences as it does upon visiting the "movies." The figures in both cases are strik- ing. The total number of wireless Licences held last July was 7,146,- 050. It the rate of increase upon the previous year which that figure shows rise next July to 7,900,000. The amount spent last year" on new sets and apparatus was £25,- as Holywood's 000,000. It is expected this year to most entertaining bariquet of the reach £30,000,000, which, with the total of licence fees added, makes roughly £34,000,000. That figure challenges, it last the financial pre-eminence of the Colossus of
MUSICAL EXTRAVA-
GANZA
After having taken nearly a year to make, Paramount's "THE BIG BROADCAST OF 1930" is at will surely rank last completed. And the result
A German actress said to be the equal of Bergner will shortly be seen in England. She is Grete Mosheim, and is one of the many artistic exiles from Germany unde the Nazi regime. The play in which she will appear is called This musical extravaganza has a Two Share & Dwelling." by Mrs. definite story running through it Alice Campbell, the novelist. The carried out by Jack Oakie, Burns
Бездоп.
foot of the list, and hoped he He eventually wrote it at the would not make many more dis-
coveries,
The authorities are spending be taken every day until Sunday £50.000 on the census, which will
night.
From the results of the census the authorities will even be able to work out the strength needed for of a private car is 1.25 tons. Eight certain roads. The average weight tons is the weight of the average
omnibus. The heaviest outfits on
the road are the 18-ton steam- 's smooth and the comedy and re-lorries with trailers. mance are kept just with that pro- per blending, C. A.
FILM DIRECTOR FROM SHANGHAI
Early in the morning the cyclist rules the road. On one 8 a.m.-7 am. form, dealing with Western
avenue, a new London arterial road, 080 cyclists were recorded against 150 motor-cars. That was only one side of the road. A large rumber were registered going the other way.
FEW HORSES
Scotland every year and buy some-
times as much as £2,000,000 worth of whisky. When it had crossed the Atlantic he would take it in these ships I've sold to a secret harbour 200 miles from New York "Soun rivals began to pick on him; cost him more than £200,000 with their hold-ups. Then one
day, two years ago, they kidnapped
him.
the brought off what he thought
was a great stroke of wit in the
acket court
Yesterday, sitting in the gal-.. herv among strangers, the ball entered, lightly struck me, and Jell at my feet. I picked it up and. observing a young rifleman excessively stl. I humbly re- quested him to forward Itя Jussage into the court, 113 1 really had never thrown a ball in my life. This incident has peen the general subject conversation at all the messes to-day.
But "apparently of conversation flattering than Disraeli
less
imagined.
Disraeli dined at a regimental messi an Andalusian dress and
"I took 5.000 ransom money "paid
a round of visits in his to a miserable tenement house in
maju jacket, white trousers, and New York. Al told me as we went a sash of all the colours of the home that his captors had warned rainbow." Even more fantasti they would bump him off. him to quit the liquor business or were nig plans while at Malta..
He for it appears from one of his laughed, and got himself some lettera that he had some gunmen bodyguards..
thoughts, indeed had resolved. to "Ten days later I went into his join tue Turkish Army as 2 in the window--dead.
He was sitting, in a chair volunteer in the Albanian War The war came to an end premo turely, and "Dizzy's" career was not diverted into the paths of
later, must sometimes have felt it martial glory. Gladstone, years
was rather a pity.
room.
HAD TO KEEP QUIET "What could I do?' If I got the
have gone to a similar grave. 1 police on to the murder I should
had to keep quiet.
had been killed by one of his own "I found out afterwards that he bodyguards. That's the way it was in those days.
"Al Capone is lucky to be in a State penitentiary. We knew him well. He used to visit us.
"I'll still need a bodyguard when I get home. How nice it is to live in England."
She smiled: "It won't be long before I'm back,"
MARCONI'S WAR SERVICES
Shanghai, Sept 14. In connection with the local showing of "Abdul the Damned." it is interesting to note that a for-
By the middle of the day the mer Shanghal boy assisted with the cyclist majority had disappeared direction of the picture, Mr. C. R. I stood in Chiswick High-road from action takes place at the West End and Allen, Lyda Roberti. and the entertainment, world the ple- Foster-Kemp, who was born in
hoon to one o'clock and counted residence of a young Canadian Wendy Barrie.
aronet, In the mat with. Miss
ture theatre, for, though the £40,- Shanghal, is at present with Bri- 491 motor vehicles going into Lon- Mosheim will be Helen Haye,tic comedy drama, however, is a hands to the, cinema box-omces England, where he has also ass five horse vehicles. An enumera-
Interspersed through the roman-000.000 which the public annually tish International Pictures, Elstree, don against only 141 cyclists
During that hour I counted only Dorothy Black, Peter Gawthorne and Wyndham Goldie. The last host of novelty numbers headed by leaves that industry still ahead, ed with the direction of "Drake uned is the actor from the Liver- Bing Crosby and chorus, followed the margin is narrow. The social of England," which is to be shown
tor told me he had not counted a <Special Air Mall Kérvion). pool Repertory Theatre.. in turp by Amos 'n Andy. Ethol observer will not lament the de- locally in the near future, and score of horge vehicles all the
London, Sept.3.. "Two Share a Dwelling" will Merman and a troupe of dancing creasing disparity. Whatever its stars Mr. Matheson Lang and Miss morning.
Marchese Marconi stated on his be presented in Manchester and elephants, Mary Boland and Char- shortcomings, British wireless pro- Jane Baxter: "Invitation to the
The men are spending eight arrival here today that the Rome Glasgow before coming to London., lie Ruggles in a sketch. Bir Gur vides a considerable stimulus for Waltz," with Miss Lillian Harvey tours in the sentry boxes each reports that his services had been Standing and Virginia Weidler in the mind as well as for the senses, in the leading role; and "Mimi" day counting motor-cars, bicyles, called upon by the Duce were pre- Miss Mosheim was a discovery a miniature drama, Jessica Drago- and nothing quite so trashy is with Miss-Gertrude Lawsence and lorries, horse drawn vehicles and mature. Dice w of Reinhardt. Ten years ago he nets in songs, Ray Noble's band, fathered by Portland Place as the Mr. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ⠀
shall probably offer my ser yna rehearsing an important play Bill Robinson, the negro dancer, worst of the Alms that Hollywood,
Each man will receive about vices," he said, "but I am leaving Mr. Foster-Hamp was a pupil of and his leading lady fell ill with a nine-year-old Ruth Blenczynski, or for that matter a British studio the Public School for Boys here three guineas for his week's work for Brazil by ordinary liner on septic throat
piano prodigy, playing three Cho- Intent on the making of films for for sme years, before proceeding
Sept. 12, and shall be there about In despair he showed the play pin etudes, Willy West and McGinty quota purposes, offers us. Nor need hom? and faishing his education tion to the Waltz Miss Butterfly a week. My visit there has no com to a young student who had asked in a sketch, Richard Tauber, the the film industry on a long view at Brighton College. He later re- Wu, the famohs Chinese nim actection with my experiments with him for a job. Within twenty Vienna Boys' Choir and Ina Ray feel depressed, for with 3.000.000 ceived a position with British In-ress, paid a visit to the BIP. stu ultra-short waves, but is concerned four hours she know the part and Hutton's band.
licences in sight we approximate to ternational Pictures was able to act it brilliantly on
dios at Elstree and had a long and with ordinary wireless. the first night :
one for each family and so pre- In a letter to a relative in Shang-interesting talk with Miss Lillian Tr war breaks out between Italy
hai, Mr. Foster-Xem;”, mentioned. Harvey and the production staff, and Abyssinia, I shall place my ser wireless consumption,
that during the aiming of "Invits, of which he was a memberi;
vices at the disposal of the Duce."
"THE MOSHEIM".
The critica hailed her as a genius was known in Germany as The sumably to saturation-point- in and from that time forwards ibe Mosheim
walkers,
Beauty Note "Only one girl in 5,000 in this country is physically perfect," says a sculptor. And yet all the others insist on wearing one piece bathing
ALHAMBRA
FRENTEE
• SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 a 9.30 p.m.
A Farcical Comedy⠀ in Cantonese
SOR-LO JOOK-SAU"
with TSZE-HAU-CHUT and Miss MARY WONG
NEXT CHANGE
M-G-M's Weirdest Horror Drama
"MAD LOVE”
Starring
PETER LORRE Sereen's Most Frightening
Villain
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