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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
BLACK FURY
"ALL KING'S HORSES
When the First National picture Carl Brisson, handsome staging 'Black Fury" comes to the Queen's. Continental star who was introduc Theatre local audiences will witnessed to the film public in "Murder ac a production that is heralded by the Vanities", makes his new film competent critics to be one' of the ten greatest pictures of 1933, and
appearance in Paramount's "All ne which will make Paul Muni s
the King's Horses," coming to the leading contender for the award Ortental Theatre on Friday and of the Academy of Motion Picture Saturday. Arts and Sciences this year.
Tense drama, tempered with humour, romance and astounding spectacles feature this picture which is one of the largest cast ever assembled for a single product tion. There are thirty-six speaking parts, as contrasted to six or seven in the average" picture.
Karen Morley has the leading feininine role. William Gargan portrays the part of her seducer. The production was directed by Micheal Curtis from the , story "Jan Volkanik" by Judge M. A. Musmanno and the play "Bohunk" hy Harry Irving.
4 SHOWS
▼DAILY
1.20-5.18
Starred with Brisson in this. melodic comedy romance is Mary Elis, singing star of the New York and London stage.
The film's story is
king and queen whose public Ufe interferes
devoted to a
with their romance.
Edward Everett Horton, Kathe- rine DeMille and Eugene Pallete
are prominently cast in the sup- porting roles of the picture, Direct- ed by Frank Tuttle. "All the King's Horses" teatures new songs by gam Coslow and the "Viennese" dance, created by LeRoy Prinz
THAT ARY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY SUB
ORIENTAL
LAST
4 TIMES TO-DAY LAUREL & HARDY'S NEW LAUGH RIOT AND A GREAT COMEDY DRAMA
...A Girl from lowa Outsmarta Broadway
"TIMES SQUARE LADY"
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VIRGINIA BRUCE ROBERT TAYLOR Halen Twelvetrees
M.G.M Cast
FLEMING
ROAD
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TO-MORROW
& SATURDAY
A MILLION DOLLAR COMEDY SENSATION:
Adiliph Zukor presents
CARL BRISSON MARY ELLIS ALL THE KINGS HORSES
EDWARD EVERETT HORTON KATHERINE DEMILLE EUGENE PALLETTE QA Paramagn Picture Street dhe kayak Tuttle
Summer. Prizes Matinees 20 ets-30 ets.—Evenings 20 elz-35 ots.-66 ets.
GEORGE WHITE'S 1935 SCANDALS
Red letter than evels on your calendar!
The outstanding acrech nows is that America's master showman, Georgs White, who has sponsored fifteen musical hits on Broadway, "Las created a richer, more gorgeous
edition af his popular "Scandals."
"George Whites' 1935 Seandais, setting now standards in scintillat- ing entertainment, comes on Satar. day to the King's Theatre,
screen
Fox Film's 1236 version is said to be so spectacular that it makes Broadway self-conscious,
This new and opulent model 18 considered to be 365 times richer and more sense-stirring than the first one.
It boasts haunting and peppy melodies, a rich stage extravagADIS, wellth of stars and beautics. All contribute towards sparkling entertainment for young and old.
The picture holds a strong story that could slone sustain interest with its romantic, element drawn from small-town Americans lured hy the siren calls of Broadway and Hollywood,
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HARD ROCK HARRIGAN
What is said, to be George O'Brien's outstanding screen achievement due at the Alhambra on Sunday, the film "Hard Rock Harrigan," has the Colorado" River Aqueduct telts a brand new type of story in as a background and
a brand new way, crammed with action and alive with thrills and' plenty of excitement.
with
feud
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1935.
LAST TWO-DAYS at 230, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.
RKO
RADIO
William
Ginger
POWELL ROGERS
The city sleuth who created ibn inle of "The Thin Man" be a gresim mystery drama!
OF MIDNI
SATURDAY
"GEORGE WHITE'S 1935 SCANDALS” with ALICE PAY-JAMES DUNE - NED SPARES A FOX PICTURE
THE STAR OF
· MIDNIGHT
At The King's
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Halled as one of the best of the modern mystery dramas. "Star of Midnight." featuring Wilam Powell and Ginger Rogers opened its run at the King's Theatre
yesterday to crowded houses.
The story centres about the dis-
of appearance
Alice Markham.
QUEEN'S
GANUM THEATRE GIMEN
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY at 2,30, 5,10, 7,20 & 9.30 P.M.
THE
The Story 41.
the Cavorme=" Daughts, Who Tied to Pull the Shades On Bar Farbidden Love Al
SECRET BRIDE
Warni› Brax' dramatis sensation stersing
BARBARA STANWYCK
*** WARREN WILLIAM · GLENDA FARRELL
THE ALHAMBRA
Abdul The Damned
The long-awaited B.I.P. Produc-
tion, "Abdul the Damned" opened its run at the Alhambra Theatre yesterday ana ti the opinion of the writer it is one of the best pictures seen in this theatre, or on the local screens for that mat- ter, for a very long time.
FIRE, AIR AND SEA THRILLS
Showing Industry's
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Prowess
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London, Sept. 16. Suhouetted against "a wall of dame framed in the square of a doorway
freman gasmasked appears carrying in his arms the
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As is well-known the story is taken out of a page of the history Turkey and when it is said that every detail has been attended to und the sinister complications which ensue.
with the minules attention, then body of an unconscious child, The missing Alice discovered to be Mary Smith,
indeed one may form an idea of
Just round the corner, there aru masked star of a New York revue.
how very good the picture must be but just as her identity is learned. she vanishes again.
1s
Tommy Tennant, a newspaper ¦ reporter who is hot on the trail
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Fritz Kortner plays the part of Abdul Hamid. the Sultan who was su cruel that he was eventually
of the story, is killed in Dalzell'sumed out by his own people, and this player scores a tremendous (Powell) apartment and what was just a mystery becomes a murder hit. As Kudar Pasha, Nils Asther gives what is described as the best case, with lives and liberties at
performance of his career while stake.
Adrienne Ames, as Therese, an Austrian dancer and singer, was excellent.
Dalzell is now forced to solve the mystery or face the possible charge of having murdered Ten- nant Donna Ginger Rogers) appoints herseM ashia "Dr. Watson" and is drawn into the exciting events which follow. Complications mount swiftly, and the action moves to a suspense- charged climax.-F. M. A.
THE BLED CONFERENCE
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London, Sept. 10,
The Little Entente, consisting of Czecho-Slovakia, Yugo-Slavie, and Rumania, was originally founded to prevent the
The story deals between a husky hard rock driller, portrayed by George O'Brien and his tunnel boss, played by Fred Kohler. The men are engaged in
restoration of the drifing a tunnel through a moun- Habsburgs. But events have made tainside to complete a gigantic this original purpose rather mean- aqueduct project. The action oc- Ingless. The Habsburgs are 2 curs principally in a construction shadow and their restoration, camp, deep within the interior of while not impossible, would not the tunnel.
mean the rebirth of the Dual
raw.
the
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Star of Midnight" QUEEN'S:--
"Secret Bride"
ORIENTAL:-
"Times Square Lady
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:---
"Abdul The Damned"
|MAJESTIC:—
"Private Life of Don Juan"
KING'S:-
Coming
"George White's 1935
Scandals"
QUEEN'S :-
"Black Fury" ORIENTAL: ----
All The King's Harses"
TRIAL OF LORD DE CLIFFORD
MAJESTIC
THEATRESS Nathan Road Kowloon Tel. 67222 TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.30. 5.20. 7.20 9.20 P.M.
ONDON FILMS
Douglas
Fairbanks
The
PRIVATE LIFE OF DON JUAN
century and Henry VII. put in its place the Court of the Lord High Steward, which differed from the Upper House of Parliament In that only selected peers usually 23 n number) need be summoned to it. For this reason it could be and was packed by the executive
Application At The under the Tudors and Stuarts and
Old Bailey
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London, Sept. 16. The pending charges against
usen for the extinction of political opponents. This abuse was the object of constant protest by the peers, who in 1695 Secured the insertion in the Treason Act of a clause compelling the summoning to the Court of the Lord High
two divers on the sea floor. One of Lord de Cilford were mentioned: Bteward of the whole body of the
them kneels before an ancient- looking chest. He has prised open the lid, and from within comes the glow of treasure.
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Round another corner, an airman
is at the controls in his cock-pit. He is wearing the breathing ap- paratus that was used in the fight over Mount Everest. Elsewhere a man garbed in asbestos rushes into the depicted flames of an air crash to save the pilot.
These are some of the ways in which British Industrial prowess is Illustrated at the Shipping. Engi-
The picture is so good that I re- commend it without the slightest hesitation to even the most fasti- dious, and in this connection I am of the opinion that the manage-neering and Machinery Exhibition would be taking ne risk at Olympia, Most of the exhibits whatever 11 they displayed the on the floor and in the gallery are "satisfaction guaranteed or money tou technical to appeal to the back" sign in the box pcel-N.M. general public, but here and there comes across something of absorbing interest,
ment
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SHOT STAR DRAMA
Millionaire's Son Arrested
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QUEEN MARY MODEL
There are the ship models, for Instance. For the first time, an exact model of the Queen Mary is exhibited. Twenty-two feet long and weighing three tons, it cost £3,500 to make. In another part of the hall is a model of the Nor- .mandie.
There are models of many ships, meticulously exact, including the destroyer Arrow, which can travel au 37 knots, and an O class sub- marine with her six bow torpedo tubes.
I learned that tests are being carried out in the laboratory on a model of the hull of a liner which may be the successor to the Queen Mary.
before 'the Recorder (Sir. Bolmas at the Central Criminal Court
Gregory, K.C.).
him with
com-
Che
Lord de Clifford stands mitted by the Kingston County Magistrates for trial on an indict- ment charging manslaughter of Douglas George Hopkins on the Kingston by-pass road, and driving a motor-vehicle in a manner dangerous to the public. He is also committed on a coroner's Inquisition: for man slaughter.
Lards Temporal, The Act applies, however, only to treason and mis- priston of treason, not to felony.
THE LAW TO-DAY As the law stands to-day a peer accused of treason or felony is tried by the House of Lords . Paruament is s.tting, otherwise by
Lord High the Court of the Steward. Ine privilege, which cannot be waived, belongs to all hereditary peers whether members of the House of Lords or nut, but not the Lords Spiritumi. These latter in the the
critical centuries would not claim privilege of peerage, because to do so would have been to admit the jurisdic- tion of a lay Court. They are summoned to the House of Lords trial of a lay peer but for the leave before judgment is delivered on the medieval principie that a clerk cannot be concerned in a judgment of blood; to the Court of the Lord High Steward they are not summoned at all,
Mr. Eustace Fulton, for Director of Public Prosecutions said the coroner's inquisition would go straight away to the House of Lords, but the charges on which Lord de Clifford had been com- mitted by the magistrates would in the ordinary course have be- come an indictment yesterday. The officials of the House of Lords, as the House would nut be in session until October, thought it would be more convenietat if the coroner's inquisition only sent to them now, and the bill of Indictment were not presented ut the present session of the Central Criminal Court, but at the next session in October.
were
The office of Lord High Steward merged in the Crown in 1399, and is now usually granted only to the Lord Chancellor, for the particular trial. His Grace the Steward pre- sides whether the trial takes place The Recorder agreed to this in Parliament or in his own. Court. course being adopted,
In the former case the peers pre- Mr. N. M. Faulka, who appeared sent are Judges of both law and for Lord de Clifford, remarked | tuct; in the latter they are prac- that it would be convenient for tically in a position of a jury, the trial to take place as soon as though a majority is sufficient, for
a verdict. possible
All the Judges are summoned to advise the Court on questions of law.
again in October
A FEUDAL RIGHT. The case of Lord de Clifford, committed by magistrates and on a coroner's inquisition for trial on , charge of manslaughter, calla
London, Sept 16. The talented Irene Hervey ap-Monarchy within the old frontiers.
Sho.s resounding through a pears as George O'Brien's charm It is a sign of weakness and in-
lonely farmhouse where a wild and beauty lend a welcome con- security on the part of the Little
party was in progress revealed a
The Department of Industrial trast to the rugged and untamed Entente that it should be so afraid tragedy that led to the arrest yes-
The Recorder. It will come ou background. where the "hard of his shadow. The
and Scientific Research runs its terday of a US. millionaire's son. conference rock" men fight nature in
The that has just come to an end at
By soon as possible in the eircum- victim was twenty-five-own free cinema. Bere you may Bled shows that this fear still per year-old Evelyn Hoy, Broadway's see the making and testing of stances. We shall be sitting here blonde idol and star of the London model hulls at the National Physi- sists. But it "has abated a littlë, The coming "Scandals" has for
stage production of "Good News" cal Laboratory, Teddington, where for a greater fear has come fat magnets a handful of stage and
wax ships "steam" down 500ft Fcreen stars whose names have,
JOURNEY TO TIBET
least upon Czecho-Slovakia)-the in 1928. blazed from the marquess of Man
fear of Austro-German union. And
She was found shot through the tanks through artifically raised In 1934 60 ships" hattan's proud playhouses. Con-
there can be no doubt at all that head in a bedroom at the farm at storm-waves. tributing to the gayety are "Alice
Nanking, Oct 1.
were tested in this way, this fear is reasonable. The Yugo- Coatesgille, near Downing Town designs Faye, James Dunn, Ned Sparks, As the preparations for his com- Slavs, who are not wedged in. be- (Pa.) owned by Mr. Henry H. Ro- and the resultant saving in fuel is attention to the right enjoyed by Lyda Roberti, Clif Edwards, ing journey to Tibat have been tween Austria and Hungary and
g18, son of Coloniel Huddleston | estimated at £500,000.
a peer of the Realm to accused of Arline Judge, Eleanor Powell, completed, Mr. Cheng Yun, Gov-are a considerable military Power, Roxers, who died last July.
a felony to be tried by members Emma Dunn, Benny Rubin, and ernment envoy to escort Panchen still fear the Habsburgs more than At her feet, says Reuter, lay a
of his own order. This essentially Goerge White, who conceived, pro- Lama on his homeward trip, will Hitler (indeed, they are not alto-
45-calibre pearl-handled pistol. duce, and directed the entire pro-
teudal right of the nobility has leave Nanking for Chinghai on gether convinced that Hitler may
It is alleged that the shooting
been traced as far back 83 the duction.'
October 10, it is learned from of- not, be their friend some day),, so apparently followed an argument
Emperor Charles the Bald (875- ficial sphere to-day" Mr. Cheng that although the Czecho-slovaks when Mise Hoey tried to leave the
881), but in England it is tradi THE SECRET BRIDE
A LONDON INDUSTRY will be accompanied by Mr. Kao
were willing to leave any reference farm where she had been staying
tionally held to be secured · ́ by Ching-kwel, adjutant and author to the Habsburgs out of the resolu-
In another film are shown one Magna Carta. Fourteenth-century Barbara Stanwyck, in an entirely ¡ity on Tibetan affairs.
tion passed at the end of the con-
Mr. Rogers, who was arrested on
of London's own industries, the furists based it on the principle new kind of a role, and with War- It is understood that as son ference the Yugo-Stavs preferred technical charges in connection making of ships' propellers. Two that even the King, through the ren William as leading man comen as Mr. Cheng has met the "Living to have a hostile reference insert- with the discovery of the body, is thirds of the work in propeller-justices, could not be judge in his to the Queen's Theatre to-day in her latest production Warner Bros, with the Spiritual Leader around academic form. Thus the restora-
Buddha," he will leave for Lhassaed, although in a rather mild and thirty-four years old and a for-making is down by hand, and I own cause, and therefore in cases mer Oxford student. His father, The Bearet Bride."
was told that one highly skilled where, tenants-in-chief were the end of this month-
tlon, if it were to come about who inherited one of the Stan- part of the job, that of cutting cused of treason, or felony and if Central News Agency.
might still mean trouble. The dard Oll fortunes, served in the grooves in the cast blades, passes convicted would forfeit their lands Little Entente could, of its own strength, avert It; but it cannot, of Its own strength, avert Austro- German union. Even the help of has, not formally but in effect, re- France is not a sure guarantee nounced her claim to Bessarabia. Nanking, Oct 1.
against the union, which is the so that the Rumanians showed A Chinese Mission of Enquiry to reason why the Little Entente has none of their old anti-Russian sen
twelve members, among whom are The Yugo-Slavs have refrained also showed how much relations Messrs. Ling Ping, Lin Kaughou from recognising the Russian Gov-between Yugo-Slavia and Italy had and Lin Ching-yin. Mr. Ling Ping ernment for sentimental dynastic improved--there was no talk of an was elected as leader of the Misreasons (the Karageorgevitches are Italian danger." There has been stop, with Mr. Lin Kang-hou as related to the Romanons), but a tightening of the bonds between the vice-lender.
change in the Tugo-Star attitude six capitals Prague,
the
The picture,. based on Leonard Ide, is a thrilling drama of political intrigue which involves the commission of two baffling murders and the impeachment of
the the governor of
satate bribery charges. It is said to provide Miss Btanwyck with her greatest opportunity for. tenes emo-
OD
MISSION TO SIAM
a weer.
World War.
tional characterization for which Sism was organized yesterday with discovered its fondness for Russia.timents at Bled. The conference assured. Even those of such for-rst -defined, but two distincti
she is famous.
from father to son. There are only to the Crown they could be“ judged. about seven families in England only by their peers. The mag- who have inherited the special "nates under Edward III. tried but falled to extend the privilege to ability,
misdemeanour, which did not in- All the great propellers of the volve forfeiture. The manner of world are cast in London, I was
exercise of the jurisdiction was" at
eign ocean greyhounds ́ as the courts had emerged by the reign Bremen and Europe. It was said of Richard I. One was the whole that some hips of the German body of the Baronage assembled feet steamed into action at Jutland Parliament and Judging upon driven by propellers made at Dept common law. The other was the Belgrade, ford.
essentially military court was apparent at Bled, and the re Bucharest, Moscow, Rome, and It may take three months to strievalty composed of peers under cognition of the Russians by the Paris. This tightening, which was, complete a big ship's propeller, the presidency of the Constable of Yogo-Slav Government can be so to speak, overhauled at Bled. Forty tons of bronze may be used, England and judging by civil, or Hugh Herbert, Tom Buckingly a matter of time, Russia in has only one cause the rearma which takes 10 days to cool from Roman law. The Court of
her fear of Germany and Japan, - ment of the Third Realm."
its molten state.
Shirleyalty tapsed in the afteenta
There is an unusually strong cast with Arthur Byron in the role of the governor. Grant Mitchell as the erring cringing secretary of the stala financier. Henry O'Neill in the role of a big contractor and
his beet Central News Agency. betrays the governor, friend. The others in the cast are
Willard: Arthur Aylesworth, deltobertson and William Davidson.
William Dieterle 'directed the pro
duction from the screen play by iam and Mary McCall Jr..
of 1
The last trial for felony in the House of Lords was that of Earl Russell for bigamy in 1901.
ALHAMBRA
MENTRE
SHOWING TODAY
at 2,30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 P.X.
FRITZ
KORTNER
NILS ASTHER ADRIENNE AMES. JOHN STUART Directed by
KARL GRUNE Herina Shute Sunday Referee
FRITZ KORTNER MAKES IT..A MASTERPIECE AN ARTISTIC LUXURY
ABDUL the DAMNED
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