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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1935.
CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
-"LADDIE"
ONE MORE SPRING
Out of the most appealing of tic- dona. rongies, is "Laddie," com- Log on Friday at the King's | enjoyası. Theatre. It is a RKO-Radio Pic- cure, based on the world-famOLIS. Gene Straton-Porter
novel, and builds what is said to be one of the
nest of screen romances.
Mrs. Stratton-Porter wave su deftly the human sympathy and arama into "Laddle," that the novel is listed among the ten bes sellers of the last sixty years. And it comes to screen with all the wizardry of her, literary genius in- Lact.
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screen
Movie lovers who remember the entertainmen. that resulted from the juxtaposi- tion of the talents of Janet Gay- nor and Warner Baxter, will delight in the announcement that his team of screen lovers аге again co-starred. The picture is "One More Spring," a Fox Film production, which is on to-day at the King's Theatre.
These stars, who made such a screen
future of "Pady" Bad "Daddy Long Legs." appear in a poignant and tender romance of to-day, adapted from the acciaim- ed' best-seller from the pen of Robert Nathan
Janet Gaynor has a deeply emo- tional role us a courageous giri alone in the world, and Warner Bax.er is the romantic adventurer who clings to the right to dream. Advance reports from cities where "One More Spring" is playing, hail the performances of these stars as extraordinary and memorable,
Ladie, a son of the soil, college Lred, but preferring to follow in his father's footsteps as a farmer, meets the "Princess," an English giri of noble family. Her father sympolzes the blue-blood social level. It is is a tremendous battle of for, and by love, that ensues; with drama.ic situations interwoven in the subplot and the humour threads.It is tribute to the power of the story, that it has 40,000,000 feaders all over the world to-day;
This vibrant romance set in a and RKO-Radio, makers of "Little snowcoated park is said to be pack- Women" and **Anne of Green cd to the hilt with excitement. Gables" spared naught" to give It is different from any role either similar distinction to the photo-star has yet had, and affords each play wrought out of the classic
loveL
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Some critics have called the
"Laddie" love theme the sweetest
rare opportunity to reach new emotional heights.
Stepin Fetchit brings his peculiar and original comedy to relieve the of all fictional romances. But. In tenseness of this picture that has truth, it is not altogether 'Action- been called hard is earth and soft al. for "Laddie," as Mrs. Stratton- as clouds. The talented support- Porter later writer, was in some ing cast is composed of Walter' respect a story of her own youth-King, Jane Darwell Roger Imbot, ful environment. Its characters Mitchell, Rosemary Ames actually lived. and its thematic Qualen. Nick For and Astrid threads were actually spun by Fate Alwyn. to enmesh the lives of the Indiana folk, and he British family, about whom the tale centers.
John Ben has the title role, and Gloria Stuart is the "Princess." Other important roles are in the hands of Glerla Shea: Charlotte Henry, Donald Crisp, Willard Ro- bertson, Dorothy Peterson. Greta Meyer, Grady. Sutton, Virginia Weldler and Jimmy Butler. George Stevens directed for RKO-Radio.
GAMBLING LADY
been
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WEREWOLF OF LONDON
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.
Janet
GAYNOR
Warner
BAXTER
ONE MORE SPRING
VEXT
A POR PICTURE with
WALTER KING JANE DARWELL ROGER IMHOF GRANT MITCHELL
United
QUEENS
SAMME THEATRE TENSA
LAST TWO-DAYS at 2.80, 5.10 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.
IN ROMANCE WEREWOLF
again
*KO
"LADDIE "" CEANEX with JOHN BEAL-GLORIA STUART RADIO
HIS GREATEST GAMBLE
Teaching the daughter he loves to love another man is the drama- te feat accomplished by Richard Dix in his starring role in "His Greatest Gamble" RKO-Radio Pic- ture coming soon to the "Queen's Theatre." -
CAN
YOU TAKE IT?
Hers is the supreme shocker of all motion picture theers!....... Every minuİO AR sturally of bile-cnia- ing suspaneel.......Try this on your DEVI, If you can!
OF LONDON
Carl Loemmie presents
A Universal Picture with
HENRY HULL » WARNER OLAND
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KINGS:-
"One More Spring" QUEEN'S:-
"Werewolf of London"
ORIENTAL:-
"Legong"
Kowloon
VLHAMBRA:-
"Home On The Range" MAJESTIC:
"We Live Again”
Coming
KING'S:-
"Laddle"
VALERIE HOBSON
QUEEN'S:-
MIDNIGHT
CRASH
CAR
SOVIET DIVORCE LAW
Brother and Sister Killed
(Special Air Mail Service
London, Sept. €
A sun and daughter of Mr. Ber- ard. Wills, ΟΙ the imperial Tobacco Company, were tatally
In this production, Dix protrays à scapegrace but well intentioned father who seeks to guide his child to happiness, at no matter what the cost may be to him. He steals the girl from the mother's custody, but their life together is termin-
an accidental killingigured in a midnight collision in ated when
Bedfordshire. sends him to jail for a long term.
on Friday night. They were:
Gerald "Boverley Wills, aged six- teen, and
Joan Beverley Wills, aged eigh teen.
A vampire is always a gentleman except when it is a lady, but a Ten years pass 'and the werewolf is a brute. The vampire daughter is rendered bieeds his her.
weakwilled the and as her mother's dictation al- i victims with neatness of a surgeon or a black-most give up the man she loves. mailer, but a werewolf is inclined At which her father breaks jail and to 1:ave things ashambles. nie of the vampire does not mean instan, death, or necessary death
The
were-
any
at all, The bite of the werewolf kils at once or intacts with lycan- throphobia, the contagious wall
disease, eventually fatal. However, there is one consolation. You do
not have to go to special trouble to kill a werewolf. such as driving a stake through h.s heart The ordinary rifle or re- volver bullet does the trick very character part is both a nicely. All these points of differ- glamorous and a sympathetic one.ence between the vampire and
Barbara Stanwyck has given an entirely different role from which she has portrayed, tri the New Warner Brothers produc- tion of "Gambling Lady" which comes to the Oriental Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday in that
her
In "Gambling Lady" she is a werewolf will be moot subjects gambler, but the squarest. when "Werewolf of London," Uni- straightest shooting poker player versal's latest and reputedly best that
shuffled ever
the paste thriller-thrills the audience at the boards.
"Queen's Theatre." As the gambling lady she plays only in the fashionable night clubs frequented by millionaire men-about-town and in the bril- lant Casino of Monte Cario. Miss Stanwyck is supported by two leading men, Joel McCrea, and Pat O'Brien, Claire Dodd is the
other woman..
precipitates to a pulsating climax which saves the girl's happiness although it sends him back to pre son for lfe. Dorothy Wilson, Bruce Cabot and Edith Fellows support Dix. John Fobertson directed.
INJURY TO MR. H. G. WELLS
(Special Air Mail Service),
London, Sept. 6. Mr. H. G. Welis will be tempor- arily disfigured by injuries he re- ceived on Saturday in an accident In an empty house in Hanover Terruce, Regent's Park. Mr. Wells was going over the house, which has just bought, when he
hit 1 the face falling for ladder. is
he
was
3
LASKY IN. ENGLAND
by The Injury (Special Air Mall Service)
stated
not to be serious, but he will be temporarily deprived London, Sept. 6. of the use of one eye. He has had Yet another Hollywood producer a couple of siliches put in a cut, The picture is based on the is coming to England to make which is just over the eye. When thrilling story by Dorts Malloy alms-Jesse Lasky, one 0: the the accident happened Mr. Wells which is climaxed' by a murder for rounders of the Famous-Lasky was able to call the mald, and she which McCrea is arrested, and, (now Paramount Films: cinema summoned a taxicab, in which he which he cannot explain without combine. He is sailing for Lor left for his flat. Mr. Alfred Noyes bringing dishonour on a woman. don this week. The story also reveals the grip ca
occupied the house until six months He has gone into partnership ago. The present occupier is Prin- city life of the gambling syndi- with Mary Pickford, and will pro
cess Rospigliosi. She was away for cates and the methods they em- duce plctures at the new studios the week-end, and Mr. Wells had ploy to take cash from the suckers. being bulit at Denham, Middlesex arranged to inspect the house in Others in the cast include C. Miss Pickford will not be play. her absence. The maid stated that Aubrey Smith, Phillip Reed. ing in the Alms, but may come
Mr. Wells was looking over the top Philip Faversham, Robert Elliot, to London to supervise some ni
rooms in the house, and apparent- Willard Robertson, Arthur Vinton the contemplated; new and Ferdianad.
ly the accident happened when be rroduc
was about to climb a ladder to the
4 SOWS
DARY
1.20–£15
7.15–1.30
tions.
TARE ANY TRAIN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUD
ORIENTALE
LAST
STHEATRE D
14 TIMES TO-DAY
BEAUTIFUL BALI PICTURED
IN. A ROMANTIC STORY
TO-MORROW
& THURSDAY A GREAT STORY A GREAT CAST
A GREAT SHOW
PLAYED BY AN ENTIRE BAS ACTION, COMEDY
NATIVE CAST
LEGONG
ROMANCE IN BAL
ted Native Girls
filmed entirely in
TECHNICOLOR
AND THRILLS.
Burlana STANWYCK "Gambling
Lady"
Tam JOEL MCREA
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roof,
PROPOSED ACTION BY LEAGUE
'Special Air Mall Service)
London, Sept. 8. The Bishop of Gloucester (Dr. Headlam) writes in the Gloucester Diocesan Magazine:
"I am concerned at the proposed action of the League of Nations. II 10 close the Suez Canal against the Italians it will either. mean Immidiate war, and we do not know what alles the Italians may not find, nr eise it will mean
a bitter sense of resentment which
must eventually produce war,
On the other side tl:ose friends
Sylvia Beverley Wills, fourteen, is in Bedford County Hospital with serious injuries. Christopher charged from hospital after treat Beverley Wills, twenty, was dis
nient.
(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Prek" (Copyright)]
Moscow, Sept 22.
The divorce law has now under- gone drastic reforms as the result of a publication on Sunday of the long awaited report and proposals of the council of the People's Com- missaries.
"Gold Diggers of 1939"
ORIENTAL:-
"Gambling Lady"
ALHAMBRA:-
"Silk Hat Kid”
OBITUARY
Sir
Elliot Lewis
London, Sept. 22.
Оп the question of neglected youth and the alteration of the alimony law and procedure in divorce.
A Melbourne message states that Hitherto the only formality ne- the death has occurred of the cessary for the dissolution of marLeutenant-Goverdor of Tasmania riage was the notification of either the Hon. Sir New Ellott Lewis party to register of their wish to K.C.M.G.
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Not an Road Kowloon. Tel. 57222 FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9,80 P.L
A love story written in
heart's blood!
SAMUEL
GOLDWYNA
Anna STEN Fredric MARCH WE LIVE AGAIN MAMOULIAN
PRODUCTION
QUEEN VICTORIA'S
LEGACY
(Special Air Mall Service)
Lonilon, Sept. G. Victoria, on holiday at Braemar, Eighty-three years ago Queen learnt with astonishment that she ad inherited a fortune of over half a million sterling from one of her subjects-an eccentric miser, " James Camden Neild. Inheriting father. Neild had added to it by considerable estate from his ed at Hobart and Balioi College. uccessful speculation and parsi. at the Inner Temple in 1883, Tate: Oxford, and was called to the Barony of the extremest type, refua
solicitor of the Supreme Court being admitted as barrister and
cancel their marriage whereupon The deceased, who was born in the divorce is registered officially, 1858. has been Governor of Tas and the other party informed by mania surice 1933. He was educat
post
unity will be given for the opposite From now onwards an opport-
support above all, of the children party to be heard and questions of
disclosed before the court.
The four were returning to their home in Sylvan-avenue, Mill Hill,
According to official reports over London, N.W., from & holiday 300,000 cases came before the Scotland. Christopher was driv- court during 1934 to enforce pay- ing. At Tempsford, on the Grentment of alimony.- North Road, tweed Biggleswade Transocean Kuo Min; and St. Neots, birey were in colli- eion with a heavily-laden potato lorry.
Gerald, who was sitting in front next to his brother, died in the ambulance on the way to hospital. His sister, Joan, died in hospital an hour or two later.
NAVAL MOVEMENTS
EXPLAINED
on
3
The collision occurred as the car
London, Sept. 22. was passing the lorry, which was
The Foreign Oface issued travelling in the same direction. statement The car was wrecked and was a
Sunday to the effect that the British Ambas- fones of twisted metal after the sador called accident.
M. Suvich September 20, to inform
H
on
on
the
Christopher ran to a nearby garage and restaurant, and attractItalian Government in the name ed attention by breaking a window, of His Majesty's Government of Some of the glass fell on a sleeping the movements of the British child and woke it.
fleet and the Mr. Bernard Wills is a cousin the British forces in the Mediter- reinforcement of of Lord Dulverton, chairman of ranean, in and brother of Mr. F. O. Wills, IL the Imperial Tobacco Company. The Ambassador added that this men and materia. director of the company. He
Indicated no aggresive intentions engaged at the head ofFoes of the on the part of the British Govern- company in London.
DANCER OFFERED £500 A WEEK
CO.
13
(Special Arr Mail Service)
London, Sept. 6. Miss Josephine Baker, the loured dancer and revue star, has been offered £500 a week to ap- pear at the Ziegfeld Theatre, New York.
The contract will be for six months beginning this autumn. In the meantime Miss Baker to fight a case in the French courts concerning a postage stamp portrait of herself.
measures
ment but that: such were merely precautionary.
M. Suvich replied that the Italian preparations in the Meal- terranean were merely at a pre- cautionary nature and implied no aggressiveness, Transocean Kuo Min
U.S. NAVY FLIER CRASHES
London, Sept. 22.
Tasmania.
备
they should wear out more quickly. ing even to brush his clothes lest
The Queen, after making handsome provision for all who had 'claims n the estate, davoted most of the to the parchase of Bal-
In 1888, he was elected a mem-alance ber of the House Tasmaula, un which he served for
of Assembly, moral.
many years He was Premier and Attorney General from 1890 to 1903 and again held the Premier- ship from 1909 to 1912. He be came Chancellor of the University of Tasmania in 1924. continuing
FAMOUS FIRM MOVES
(Special Air Mat: Service
London, Sept. 6.
in that post until 1933. Formerly teen years has just finished.
- A "move" that has taken four-
ari officer in the Commonwealth
Military Forces, he was later plac-year-old firm of Fry's from Bris. The great exodus of the 207-
ed on the retired list. He was Pre- sident of the Tasmania Law 80-marks the severing of a link with tol to the nearby Somerdale clety for many years, and in 1902 the day of George II was allowed to retain the title cr Honourable for life.- British Wireless..
BELFAST RIOTS
(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally
press (Copyright),}
In fourteen years the complete works have been moved from the conanes of the city to a 320-acre estate bordered on "thres aides by the River Avon. Six and a half million bricks and 250 miles of telephone wire have been used in the new factory.
The majority of 4,000 cm- ployees stil ve In Bristol, and Belfast, Sept 22. Ave special trains and numerous Religious antipathies between the motor-coaches are for the five- Catholics and Protestants again re- mile journey each day.. suited la rioting here on Saturday night and Sunday morning and it is reported that the situation is getting to be extraordinarily agit- aled.
In the notorious York quarter an Innkeeper was murdered by a masked man before the very eyes of his guests. Houses owned by Catholics in the nearby streets wère seriously damaged by stone-throw- ing while elsewhere attempts were made to set fire to buildings.
On Sunday morning, when the Lieutenant Felix Waitkus, Lit-police were patrolling the streets. huanian airman attached to the
in tanks, and armoured cars, shots United States Navy, who left New
were fired at them from house-tops York yesterday on an .attempted
The upheaval began on Friday non-stop flight to Lithuania, crash-
night at a given signal near Bel- ed at Ballinrobe, County Mayo,
Last when a man playing an accor Ireland, this forenoon.
dian in the street was shot dead, All day on Saturday the deinon. 1 strations went on in Belfast, the first shots being fired in the main street towards evening. **
Was
The artist, M. Bacha Kamenskza. is suing for £286 as his fee for the portrait... Miss Baker claims Waitkus was unhurt, but that the portrait Was never
exhausted by his long ordeal. Ho ordered, but was a labour of love. hopes to continue the fight when bis machine has been repaired. He encountered very bad weather late on Saturday night, the police Near the docks shotting broke out over the Atlantic and says that being obliged to drive the tanka but for, Free State radio- Instruc- tions hourly from Athlone, he could not have held his course British Wireless."
FINE CLIMB BY TWO ITALIANS
Special Air Mail Service)'
London, Sept. 6. Another remarkable Alpine feat
of peace who are so anxious to pro-hus been recomplished by two
mean helping, the,
young climbers of Leeco, Signori
Scarcely
A pretty girl, wearing the very
straight into the crowd to disperse the demonstrators.-
Transocean Luo Men,
SIR FREDERICK IN NANKING
Nanking, Sept. 23.
hibit the sale of arms quite forget Cassi and Ratti, who have scaled latest in bathing suits, was sitting that it may stronger side against the weaker.Lavaredo, one of the hitherto un-
he north wall of the west peak of on the beach when a young man Interference in other people's at climbed routes of the Dolomites. fairs is likely to use a very difThis wall is 600f,high and hat, remarking that it was a fine Alexander Cadogan arrived here ficult situation. I am afraid that begins with a shear rise which no 23.5
I have always been very distrust-dy yet had overcome, though
Approached her and took of his
Bir Fralerick Leith-Ross and Bir
this morning, Sir Frederick, who
"How dare you speak to me!" is staying at the country house Lí
ful of what the action of the there had been many attempts by said the girl, indignantly, I don't: League of Nations might do, and Italian and foreign climbers, The know you, from Adam,"
two climbers took 50 hours to
I have often noticed how the ar- rench the top and passed two
"Well," returned the young man, dour of pacifism seems to lead to nights without sleep hanging from unconcernedly, I would scarcely
So the trok
know you from Eve."
War"
Dr. Kung, called on the Finance Minister and Mr. Wang Ching-wa at pm. He will be leaving for Shanghai to-morrow night-
BeuterTM
ALHAMBRA
CHEATRE
TO-DAY & "O-MORROW ut 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 & 9:30 PM. "THE KID" COMES BACK
Jackle Coogan comes back to the serben.. as a grown-up byście! manproxing. ble mettle as bath andi af ni shegund:
Adalah Zahor
Zane Grey's
HOME ON
RANGE
THE
Paranqus): Fictwin with
VJACKIE COOGAN"
RANDOLPH SCOTT EVELYN BRENT
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