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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
LILIES OF THE FIELD
Captain Norman Walker, direc- tor, of the new dim "Lilies of the Field," which
King's is at the Theatre CR Wednesday once underwent the unusual experience of having bls film unit taken over by the Army while on location.
That was during the timing or his great stent success "Tomiry Atkins" in Egypt. Lord Lloyd, had Just signed an order forbidding the landing of arms and anununition In the country when Captain Walker's film unit arrived cori- plete with rifles. of an ancient pattern and round upon round of blank car.ridges for their War eple...
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The result was a very delicate situation which seemed likely to cause
the abandonment of the Alm. Then a novel way out was discovered. The unit should be taken over by the Army, and its s.ores. Issued in accordance with strict service regulationg,
SHE
Legends, fanciful iales based upon ancient fragments or truh and elaborated by passing years. nave always intrigued the adven-
urous. The lost Atlantis, the strange isle of the Sargassa Sea, pirutes' hidden gold, phantom ships, and countless other fabulous tales have lured men
from the mundame life to high adventure in the far corners of the world. and have provided writers of fiction with plenty of fuel for their maginations.
An ancient legend handed down from father to son for 500 years, serves as the beginning of specta- culat hazurdous and strange events in RKO Radio's "SHE" now snawing at the King's Theatre.
According to the legend 1.n ar.cestor of Leo Vincey, had, five centuries before, discovered in the land of Muscovy a fountain of life-giving hire, and whoever bathed therein would have you.h Imagine what followed! The projected endlessly. His wlite, Army stores waggon driving up after enduring untold torrors and With the costumes and equipment | hardships. ¦ managed to for the day's fiming: make-up | civilization and tell of the flame issued by the quartermaster like and or a cruel, beautiful woman rations of budy-beef; and every- who ruled over a strange, tropical thing returned and checked in the | kingdom surrounded by high evening. This arrangement never- theless worked admirably both' for . the authorities and the film com- pany, who had the troublesom business of stores administration taken out of their hands, and at no cost to themselves.
Since this auspicious start Cap-❘ tain Walker has scored many suc- cesses including that rollicking comedy "The Mico e Watch," and "Loose Ends" which, brought Owen Nares and Edna Best back to the
screen Allen.
glacial mountains.
reach
She brought
with her an amulet of gold upen which was carved a picture of a woman bathing if a flame.
The amulet, with the legend, had passed down to Leo Vincey Believing that the gold trinket would lead him to the place of life-giving Are, he set out upon the adventurous expedition.
How he found the kingdom of Kar and its awesome, beautiful queen, and how he saw the life- and discovered Adrienne giving Are, and stood upon the to immortality is ex- eltingly unfolded in the story of "SHE".
BABOONA
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson once more
the FORM
savage. reaches of Africa in their newest Him, "BA0QQna” showing at the Oriental Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday.
animals
Vast herds of elephants, giraffe, zebra, rhinos, gazeiles and other
which
populate Africa were photographed for the first time by any exploration party when Mr. and Mrs. Martin John- son used an airplane safari for their latest expedition into the Jungle and flat lands of the dark continent
man.
result
hrisho.d
"CAR 99'
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1935.
M
"TO-DAY ONLY at 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 2.30 PM.
She bathed in lame and lived 500 smart to lind hại Just love at the very hour?
MERIAN-C COOPER
„perantes in mighty spectacle H. Rédur Haggorifi weird, wondrous dary at the women who learned the secret of com tinued youth so wicked that a kingdom quailed before her! So human that a Louch of love tranformed her!
SHE
Wondrous
to Behold!
W!
FABULOUSLY PRODUCED with a cost of 5.000 including HELEN GARAGAN, RAHDOLPH SCOTT, HELEN MACK NIGEL BRUCE
and one Ľ. Hadian FLO SADIO Dicti
TO-MORROW
WINIFRED SHOTTER - ELLIS JEFFREYS IN "LILIES OF THE FIELD"
CHINESE ART TREASURES
Unpacking At The Academy
Special Air Dial Service>
London, Sept. The unpacking of the 96 stre). lir eases of priceless antiques which will, form the chief collection at the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, to be held from No vember 28 until next March, began at the Royal Academy yesterday,
The vases ecatam about 800 precis trout the Peking Palace.
35 centuries of covering about Chinese history, and the unpack ing, with the extreme care required in such delicate work, may, recupy several weeks, Since thein arrival vas Burlington House on July 9, under af armed escort, the consign- ment has lain in the vaults there, and during transit up the lift to the galleries and at the unpacking On the shoulder-straps worn byrernoay yesterday the antiques were subjected to the same close the troopers of the Michigan supervision and minute examina- State Po.ice. the heros of Para- tion as on board H.M.S. Suffolk mount's stirring adventure drama, during the voyage from Shanghai, "Car 99,"
which opens at the At the curmony there were pre Queen's Theatre to-morrow, is at Sir Percival David, director narrow purple thread, almost in- vis.ble at a distance of a bew feet. Those threads caused Paramount a great deal of trouble during the feming of the plcture. When the talloring department b.gan go make the tunics for the roopers. he purple tareads were ommitted. Kari De zer, author of the Satur-
Post stories day Evening
from which Cat 99" was adapted, on the Paramount lot as technica. adviser, saw the error.
the exhibition, Dr. W. C. Chen, Counsellor at the Chinese Embassy, Dr. F. T. Cheng, the Special Comi missioner representing the Govern rest of the Chinese Republic, Dr C. C. Wang, Director of the Chinese Government
Purchasing Commission, Mr. W. R. M., Lamh, secretary of the Royal Academy, Mesars Niu, Na, Sung, and, Pu. the four Chinese museum experts who had packed the antiques before shipment, and a British Customs official.
INSCRIBED BRONZES
Heretofore it was only possible
photograph small to
groups or these an.mas due to the impos51- by of geting near enough to them foox,
оп
Dut when the Johnsons took to the sky, the
Although Charles Barton, the dl-
When the first case was opened it animals cou.d not escape their "rector, was ready to start shoot- airplanes. As a
was found that each of the contents the ex- ing the pictur, work was stopped was enclosed, in a separate box CD- plorers ob.ained scenes of vast while tailors worked all night put vered with Imperial yellow silk. herds never before glimpsed by ting in the purple threads. The uch box having handles of ivory purple hread incident is one of held by a cord. The interior al One scene which the Johnsons the effor.s make for absolute ac- the first Box was heavily lined with made from the air for their curacy in this pictun. True, in-green silk, and the prece it cou- latest Jungle ffm, "Baboona" cidents from the annuals of the showed hundreds of giraffe on
Michigan State Police were used the run in an effort to elude the to illustrate the efficiency and dis- roaring airplanes. This shot, the patch with which the police explorers explained, disproved the handle routine cases. The gripping popular belief that the giraffe climax of the picture shows the was gradually becoming extinct | "great round-up" in which all the in Africa. It revealed that there forces of the state are massed to are more girafe there now than track down a gang of desperadoes there were fifty years ago,
and bank robbers.
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THE AGE OF CHIVALRY LIVES AGAIN IN THE SCREEN'S MIGHTIEST
SPECTACLEI
BOMB AND GAS ATTACKS
Inadequate Defence
(Special Air Mail Service
London, Sept. 28.
2.
-TO-MORROW.
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EMPIRE AIR SERVICES
New Fiving-Boats
(Special Air Mall Servi
London, Sept., 28. Some particulars concerning the flying-tonts which, Imperial Air-
were
Earl Russell, F.R.S., Sir F. Gow-j land Hopkins, F.R.S. (President of the British Association, 1933), Mr. | ways will use when its Empire ser Julian Huxley, Sir Daniel Hall! vices are accelerated and given
greater frequency in 1907 FR.S. (late chief scientific adviser
nade available yesterday. It has to the Ministry of Agriculture),
been known for some months that Frofessor Frederick Soddy (Profes work on a new type of flying-boat sor of Chemistry at Oxlord), and was proceeding at the works of others have Issued through the Messrs. Short Brothers at Roches- National Peace Counci atale Ler. It is now announced that an ment criticizing the Government's order for a fleet of these boaty has air raid precautions. The state-been placed with the firm. The design is for a high-wing mono- plane with no external bracing The loaded weight will be over 17 tons, and, by adjusting the pay. load, the boat may be given a range of 1,500 miles."
The exact performance figures have not been disclosed,
ment says:-
We view with apprehension the growing tendency in official quar- ters of this and other civilized countries to accept the use of a craft for unrestricted bomb and gas, attack on civil populations.
It is
nt
TODAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"She" QUEEN'S:
"The Crusades"
ORIENTAL:-
The Little Colonel"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :-
"Father Brown. Detective”
MAJESTIC:-
"Mark of The Vampire”
KING'S:-.
Coming
"Lilles of The Fleld"
"Curly Top"
QUEEN'S:-
"Car, No. 99" "Wings In The Dark"
ORIENTAL:-
"Baboona"
GAS SCHOOL
Training For Fire Brigades
(Special Air Mail Servico)
MAJESTIC
SALATHEATRE
NATRAN. ROAD, KOWLOON FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2,80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
"They Ruled the World of the "Undead"
Lionel
BARRYMORE MARK VAMPIRE
of the
PLEASE!
Let your friends learn the thrill- ing climax for themselves?
will star Miss Goddard and a man not yet selected;"and the last two will have all-star casts,
Mr. Chaplin will direct them all, and they will be released, like his previous pictures. through United Artists
Mr. Chaplin's own pictures will be silent-probably the only silents now being made in Europe or America. (In the East talkies are still in the minority.). He is can. vinced that without speech they will have a better chance in foreign markets. The others will be talkies.
It is said that Mr. Chaplin's next plcture will have Napoleon as chief character. I happen to
terested in a
London, Sept. 25. The measures which the Gov-know that he is intensely in- ernment propose to take to pro-
French story "in tect the civil population against which Napoleon return to Paris the effects of air attacks were after
nis reported, death on St descrioed by Wing-Cmdr. E. J. Helena; but whether, he will play as he has Hodsoll, Assistant Under-Secretary the Emperor himself, In charge of the Air Raids Pre- always wanted to do, remains to cautions Department of the Home be seen. Office, at a conterence of the In- stitution of Fire Engineers at Sheffield yesterday.
They will include:
First-aid and decontamination posts. casualty clearing stations, and base hospitals.
An intelligence service.
information.
We consider this the most bar-stated that the top speed will be barous perversion of science and "not far short of 200 miles an industry that has yet occurred in our." and it is pointed out that the actual speed will depend on human history, and we feel sure
the type of sngine fitted and that a that if practised. It would in a short time lead to the breakdown final decision in this matter h
not been taken. It may be noted of civilized life.
that Imperial Airways has In our opinion nothing short of present under trial a number of the complete abolition of "aerial Bristol Perseus sleeve-valve engines bombing and of bombing aircraft which yield about 700 h.p. tach.
this result. prevent
Theud that the latest type of Pegins method (implicit in the British engine, using high-octane fuel, Government's air expansion
ing. pro may deliver about 900 h.p. The gramme) of countering air attack ultimate choice between these two by means of reprisals carries its engines will naturally determine
performance. own condemnation. The accep- tance of this principle by our own Government has already increased the general apprehension of 3 attacks in Western Europe,
can
can
tained was a Li, An inscribed posed by the bronze cauldron on three legs of the Shang Yin Dynasty, dating Jačk probably to about 1200 B.C. Other bronzes opened during the morning
actually pro-
FOUR ENGINES
It may be recalled that when the new flying-boat was tirst discussed it was stated that the cruising] speed would probably be between GAS-PROOF SHELTERS
150 and 180 miles an hour. If this "Active defence by interceptos still the intention the top speed aircraft anti-aircraft guns, &c., would not be likely to be much in admittedly only result" in excess of 180 miles an hour. The casualties in the attacking force probable pay-load is also expressed In inexact terms. It is announced "without preventing more than a small fraction of the possible that this will be between 3 and ήνει Содя "for norual stage damage. The measures of
Bights. The longest of the normal passive defence
stages flown at present us about 600 Government--- niles. On the longer stages which the adaptation of rooms to may have to be undertaken in 1937 render them gastight but unpro- when, for example, New Zealand" tected against explosive or incen- may also have to be served, the diary bombs; the purchase of ay-load will have to be reduced in cheap gas-masks and the organizirder to allow the necessary addi-
unal fuel to be carried, tion of casualty and rescue ser-
In the new bout four engines will vices-are grossly Inadequate,
be set in the leading edge of the though they are
to calculated
wing and will be fitted with produce a dangerous illusion of variable-pitch airscrews to enable security, Some slight mitigation a machine which has fairly high certain to be wing-loading to take off easily. Ting (cauldron) of bronze, with caused by a modern air raid may The wing will be nearly 29ft, above
loop handles in the form of bird-
be achieved, but this, will be small the keel and so should afford am- heads. Flat cover, with loop handio tu centre and four bird compared with the total loss of ple clearance for the airscrews even The only passive defence a noderately rough waters. There life. bends on margin to act as sup- -porters when reversod. Pariod of ilkely to be technically efficacious will be wing-tip floats to assist in preserving stability on broken weas, the Warring States.
is the construction of armoured the span will be 114ft, and the gas-proof shelters and the provi-length eshit. The hull will be of Kuni (food vessel) of bronze, with
tao-tien (ogre masks) and thun- sion of closed-circuit oxygen gas-instal and so will the whole of the der pattern. Without handles.
masks and complete vesicant-proof structure, but the wing and control
will be covered Square Kue!
with (food vessel) of suits for the whole population. surfaces bronze, inscribed. Dragon pat- tern below the lip and t'eo-lich (ogre masks) on the lower part of the body. Eight flanges on the body and two loop handles in the
represented the Bang, Ming, and Ch'ing Dynasties, anal some of them bore commemorative scriptions. Among them were the following:-
rentcooking vessel) of bronze with inscribed dediention to Fu T Gold and silver inlay.
form of birds.
1
Yu (wine container) of bronze, with inecription. Decoration of dragoti pattern on the body, with thunder pattern in intervening spaces. Four flanges: Taun (ritual wine
bird,
of the casualties
Not only would this be imprac- fabric The wing will have flaps ticable because of the enormous on the trailing edges to steepen the cost involved, but it would be an glide and reduce the alighting intolerable burden on the popular speed which may nevertheless no higher than that of existing flying- tion and destroy all the possibili- boats in the service of the com- ties for a better te which science
pany. rightly applied car offer.”
aphy; the work of the same 'Em- peror. In the Yung-Chêng period this piece of rorcelain was sent to Ching-te Chên by Imperial com- mand, that its colour might be
opied.
for
Fire brigades to be issued with respirators and protective cloth.
Home Office to establish gas school for training instructors in anti-gas measures.
Local authorities to undertake work of organisation in
their areas. London will be treated as a se parate problem...
Wing-Cmdr. Hodsoll emphasised 'he need for co-operation. If one area should experience dificulty because its organisation was tem- porarily inadequate it would surely mean; he said, that a neigbouring area which had perhaps escaped ottogether or had been led off more lightly would give neip.
HOUSEHOLDERS' HANDBOOK information would reach the police or the fire brigades as t result of the instinctive action on the part of the public to tell a policemen or to ring up a fre
station.
The Home Office was preparing
a simple nandbook of instructions
to all householders and occupiers
of premises. The Government is-
sue of respirators and protective clothing would be made indepen- cenfly of any equipment of the kind which existing are brigades might possess.
It was intended to orgaulae the training of Are brigade personnel in anti-gus measures, including decontamination of "clothing and equipment. For that purpose "a certain number of men would be trained as instructors at the gas school which was shortly to be Established by the Home Office.
CHARLES CHAPLIN AS NAPOLEON?
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Sept. 25. Charles Chaplin is planning to a large
Ample accommodation for pas- sengers, luggage and mails will be provided in the hull. The forward part will be divided into two vessel 1) of
decks, the upper one to accom- bronze, with inscription and
modate the crew, mail, and cargo, flanges. Loop headles of dragon
and the lower que 'to ba devoted to form, and body decoration of
the passengers, providing presum- animal, and dragon
ably the sleeping accommodation motives.
bat would be needed when "the Em- PORCELAIN AND JADE
A group of throne-room furniture pire services operate by night as Porcelain and jade pieces came
The passenger go in for production on or the Ching Dynasty (including well as by day. next, and as each was unpacked it the accessories of an Imperial cabins will be lofty and will afford scale. He has been four years was compared with its photograph writing-table, contains the follow- a standard of comfort which has
thinking about and making the catalogue brought from ing
not been approached so far in com.
"Modern Times," the new comedy China. The Bung Dynasty porce A throne of teak wood with de-mercial aeroplanes.
that London'; is to see before lain pieces include an elliptical corations of cloisonné enamel and
Christmas Now he talks of turn- narcissus pot of porcelain with carvings of cloud scrolls and bata,
ing out six pletures in, two years." light greenish-blue glaze, Ju ware, with a lacquer footstool, painted
Two will star himself and Pau- inscribed with an imperial ode of the Ch'ion-lung period, with a carved wooden stand containing an album of painting and calli-
in
with golden flower designs; * races; and a teak wood writing- palace screen of teak wood, with leste, insoribed with the writings of cloinne enamel decorations and Liu Yung, Weng Fang-Kang, and carvings of mountains and ter-athers,
lette Goddard, his leading lady in "Modern Times," for whom a great future is prophesied; two others
nat
Hitherto Chaplin nas produced only one picture in which he did
star himself. This was the of Paris," brilliant "A Woman which lifted Adolphe Menjou to fame. It was the first picture made in the modern manner and started a vogue for cynical realism that persists.
"ROYAL CAVALCADE "" "Royal Cavalcade," the British International screen record of the King's reign. greatly interested the King when it was shown at- Balmoral Castle.
All the necessary apparatus including sound and film projec tors, was taken to Balmoral and mstalled for the occasion.
M
ALHAMBRA
THENTRE
#O DAY
at 2,30, 6.20, 7.20 & 8.30 P.M.
HE KNEW WHAT A MAN WOULD DO FOR LOVE!
Parker Brown, Datacitea
Thin) .........who donha, the world's anost primdass jewala te lay at The foot of a boneful women
Adelsk Zukuz· prasante.
"FATHER BROWN Detective
with
WALTER CONNOLLY
PAUL LUKAS GERTRUDE MICHAEL
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