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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
CURLY TOP
The happiest picture of Shirley Temple's career. "Curly Top" cones on Friday to the screen of the King's Theatre,
LILIES OF THE FIELD
One of the most charming films that has come from any studio this year is to be seen and certain- ly should be seen at the King's of the Theatre to-day. "Lilies Field comes like a surfeit of raw and powerful spirits. It has the speed that enthralls instead of killing, wit that entertains without disgusting. ana pictures of the English countryside that the pub tricate dance routines for audience of the. English countryside has approval
for years been pleading for in
In Curly Top," a charming story of a little girl who captures the heart of a lonely bachelor and makes both their dreams come true, Shirley has two new songs to sing and several new and
In this Fox Fum comedy-drama, vain. John Boles is cast as a bachelor | The nim, cleverly adapted froul who adopts Shirley and her big Julin Hastings Turner's famous sister, Rochelle Hudson. His gen-play that marked the Anal curtain erosity tukes them from the drah
of tragic Meggie Albans, is writ- and dreary atmosphere of an
ten round crinolines. claret cups orphanage to the sunny summur
and chop whiskers. surroundings of a palatial home if Southumpton. Their the romance Hudson ot Boles and Rochelle
flourishes under the childis Buldance of little Shirley who sings, dances and laughs her way irito their hearts.
It tells how sn ultra-modern young miss adopts Victorian mun- pers and modes in order to get her man, and in the process gives hungry Mayfair a new idea.
The whole affair is delightful and, as the pirouetting heroine. Shirley is really happy in this Winifred Shotter has her finest picture for she has the oppor-part to date and etches it bril- tunity of displaying her full talents when she sings "Antinal Crackers in My Soup" and "When I Grow Up."
Shirley is not the only one to sing in this Joyful Bim. John Boles sings "It's All New To Me and Curly Top," while Rochelle Hudson Surprises by singing for the first time, "The Simple Things in Life."
lantly. She is natural, rogulsh and, uncommonly attractive; it would be hard to imagine u hap- pter example of casting.
Anthony Bushell shows new acting power as the hero: Judg Gunn, as the twin sister who re mains modern throughout, makes a perfect foll to Winifred Shutter's assumed coyness.
Norman Walker deserves praise for his direction and Cyril Bris Ray Henderson, America's ace
tow for his carnera work. song writer, wrote the melodies for
You can take the whole family all the song numbers for "Curly Top."
which
produced by including maiden was Winifield Sheehan and directed by. "Lilies of the Field."
will love it. Irving Cammings.
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EORIENTALE
LAST
4 TIMES TO-DAY
UNBELIEVABLE! TRRIFYING! 1000 TAYI ING EVENTS!
NEVER BEFORE a picture like it!
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BABOONA
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WINGS IN THE DARK
TO-MORROW & SATURDAY CHARLFS LAUGHTON'S
GREATEST COMEDY
TRIUMPH!
RUGGLES OF RED GAPE
CHARLES LAUGHTON MARY BOLAND CHARLIE RUGGLES
ZASU PITTS
Evenings 20 c.-80 50 e-70 6.
For those who like their drama replete with thrills, excitement and new irens, Paramount's Wings in the Dark" coming soon to the Queen's Theatre, should be one they marked on their list us cannot afford to miss. A love story laid against the timely and topical plot of a pilot who dares death in the perfection of "Blind flying"
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KUGGLES OF RED GAP
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1935.
TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5.10; 7,15 & 9.30 PM.
UNITED AKTISTS PICTURE
WINIERED)
SHOTTER
Ellis
Jefferys
Pines HtField
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SHIRLEY "CURLY TOP" "with N
TEMPLE
"CAR 99"
At The Queen's
The screen brings once again before the delighted eyes of *** the stalwar. feminine followers torm of the new star who appear-
50 "di ed so engagingly. and ferently" in "The Gilded Ly" I 3 mood entirely removed from that of the brash reporter of his former success Fred MacMurray. In "Car 99', now at the Queen's Theatre, is the simple policeman, very much in love with the vil- lage belle. Masculine hearts.
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well as those of the feminine ele- ment, will stir to the thrill of his smashing effectiveness in dealing with bank robbers and gangsters
"Car 99" is better than the average detective movie, and s saved form too close similarity to all other mystery films by its in- timate connection with the opera -
large tion of a
central police
BOLES
QUEENS
BA THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 9.30 P.M.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
SHOT THRU WITH ACTION AND THRILLS!
QUEEN'S:
The super-charg
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Burging up the
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adelante clip!
CAR 99
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FRED MacMURRAY'
why reeled a rotation in The Chad Ly SIR GUY STANDING ANN SHERIDAN WILLIAM FRAWLEY
ROCHELLE HUDSON and JOHN BOLES are romantic in SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S joy package of surprises, "Curly Top," her new Fox Film picture,
ich is ribboned with sunny song, dance and laughter.
headquarters, with all tas FILM STAR WITH
cinating radio equipment and the opportunity it affords to witness' the training of future protector: | of the law. Sir Guy Standing makes a villain as urbane to the eye and as thoroughly black at heart as the most fastidious taste in villians could desire. With hero and villian so completely satisfac- tory, and a story replete with tense situations. "Car-99" is cellént entertainment.
MAX BAER-JOE LOUIS TITLE BOUT
ex-
Rushed by air-mall to the Col- ony, the first pictures of the Max Baer-Joe Louis prize fight will be shown in the King's Theatre on October 23rd.
The complete fight will be shown on the screen, followed by an excellent mystery drama, titled Charles Laughton, eminent "Thunder In The Night," starring English actor, who forged to the Edmund Lowe, Karen Morley and forefront of stage and screen stars | Paul Cavanagḥ.
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with a long series of characteri- The print of the aght is being Bonnie Powell. zations of horrifying and sinister brought here by characters, finally wins the oppor- Fox Film ace cameraman, who thoroughly will make a "Magic Carpet" of our tunity to portray a lovable person in the title role of beautifu; island. This is the first Paramount's "Ruggles of the Red time the King's Theatre has been Gap" showing at the Oriental able to play a film so soon after. Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
the incidents occurred. The aim I don't want to behead
my reaches Hong Kong in the record charming wife as poor Henry did,
time of 27 days after the fight. That is one of the reasons why I
It will be of interest to those was glad to get the chance to
who live in Kowloon, that the play "Ruggles".
the same picture of
are
A VOICE
Nino Martini's Debut
#Sperlar Air Mail Service)
London, Sept.. 28. Yesterday writes correspon- dent I saw privately "Here's to Romance." the new Fox musical film, starring Nino Martini, for whom Mr. Jess Lasky predicts a great screen future,
His voice is full and round and without the apparently—evén
$0 noticeable amplification
in this picture-of considerable po- wer.
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MISS VIOLET MELNOTTE
Miss Violet Melnotte, the theatre owner, died in London last night. Before she first entered into man- agement at the old Avenue Thea- tre in 1885 she had had a success- ful career as an actress. In 1892 she and her husband, the late Mr. Frank Wyatt, built the Duke of York's Theatre, which she let In 1898 to the late Mr. Charles Frohman, who retained it until his death in 1915. She sold it in 1928 for about £120,000, but in 1933, when over 80, she resumed control at her old theatre. Last year her engagement to her man- ager was announced, but the inar- riage did not take place
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"Lilies of The Field"
"Car No. 90"
ORIENTAL:-
"Baboona"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:--
"Fun Variety Programme"
MAJESTIC:- W
Chinese picture.
KING'S :-
Coming
"Curly Top" QUEEN'S:
"Wings In The Dark" MAJESTIC:--
"Time Square Lady" GRIENTAL:-
"Ruggies of Red Gap"
SAFEST NIGHT AIRPORT
Beacons. Girdle Aerodrome
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MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.80, 5.20. 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
CHINESE PICTURE
WITH
CANTONESE DIALOGUE
FRIDAY, 18th. TIME SQUARE LADY
WITH
VIRGINIA BRUCE ROBERT TAYLOR
...A NOVEL FILM FROM
UTAH
(Special Air Mail Service,
London, Sept. 30.
A contract for 20,000 cars and chassis was placed this week with Morris Motors by their Lendon dis- tributors. Messrs. Stewart and Ardern, Limited. The is the lar- gest sing e order ever received by the company, and represents a re- cord increase compared with last year's contract, which was itself a record.
Sir Malcolm Campbell, brought back with him from Utah a film
It is not of considerable value. a film of his famous car. the B'ue Bird. hurting over the Salt Flats, at 300 m.p.h.. and is not in the ordinary sense of the word a spec- tacular film, but it contains: data who are which will interest a'l Croydon Aerodrome is now flood-engaged in the science of high- lit by what is claimed to be the speed locomotion. safest system in Europe, and one contrived by British lighting en- gineers.
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Sept. 28,
It is a record of the dashboard readings of Blue Bird's instru- ments. and it was taken by There is no doubting the eta-special cine-kodak apparatus dur- elency of this new system." Halting the run. The camera was in an hour ago, writes a correspon a cabinet fixed to the Blue Bird. dent. I was looking down, through and in the cabinet here were duo- the calm sky of a perfect Septem-licates of certain instruments, a
counter ber night, on Fleet-street, "The chronometer, revolution Daily Telegraph office clearly to be and oil and blower pressure gau-
a height of ges. distinguished from 3,000ft,
The battery needs of every make of car are provided for by Eidde batteries among which Is the Double Life batery, with is two years
We return and descend on Cros don's aerodrome with its great red beacon, visible 60 miles away The new white biscuit of light with never a glare gives us welcome. And there are the friendly yellow flashing lights to mark the boun daries.
ILLUMINATED WIND GAUGE
Tre batteries of floodlights pour their brilliance across the tarmac and the grass for bait, a mile, and a line of little yellow beacon lights girdle the big aerodrome.
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unconditional guarantee. made possible by the double - paration between plates which adds to the mechanical strength and life of the ba.tery. The range of this bat.ry has been considerably extended along the lines of the standard ba.tery, both is regard o types and replacement facili- ties. A recent addition is the Exide Buoyed Power motor-cycle battery.
balanced helical- with A larger beacon with a lighted fitted
the mounting base gives the pilot his sense of springs placed on perspective. The lights come from boits cush on the battery from the machine and 6-volt current, as harmless and he frame of as incapable of causing fire as a protect it from extreme vibration. car's lighting set, so that if one be knocked over with the tip of
Au
Gentle Hint
Irishman had just signed his name in the hotel register,
Mr. George Grey Butler; "Ewart Park, Wooler, Northumber- land, the only surviving son of the late Mrs. Josephine Butler, and Canon the social reformer,
a wing it collapses without causing George Butler, died last night at serions damage. the age of 84. He had a dis- To the south of the aerodrome tinguished career at Cambridge a 201t, wind indicator picked out University, was appointed, Der-in lights swings to the slightest and was called back by the clerk, that he had manent
the examiner. to Civil breeze--and if there is one thing who pointed out
1876 Service Commissioners in
that matters as much to the pilot omitted to record his nationality. Taking up the pen he wrote, and oecame Senior Examiner six as his compass it is the wind in- so years later. Mr. Butler, who was dicator on the landing ground. It "Iriah, and proud of it"
A Scota. guest arrived a few a widower, retired in 1895.
is a beautiful system of lighting. There is no glare to meet the in minutes later and, seeing the
Irishman's entry, wrote, "Scotch- coming pilot-merely layer' of welcoming light; no basty rushing and fond of it." of moveable light on wagons to this point and to that as the wind veers and no bedazzling towers.
from
What is more, he is extremely Ecod looking. in an aesthetic and way. I heard slightly dolorous
Valentino, compared with though he has none of Valentino's robustness; and r shall not surprised if his looks, coupled with
is singing of favourites "Pagliaccl" and "Tosca," bring him success.
HOW HOLLYWOOD WAS BORN
After the picture Mr. Lasky, one of the pioneers of the film indus- try, recalled the days when he and Sam Goldwyn (then Goldfish) scraped together £5,000 to make "The Squaw Man." with Ceef de Baer-Louis Mille as director and Dustin Far- fight will be screened at the Al- hambra Theatre also on the 23rd. with another Fox Film titled welcome Home," starring Jimmie
Dunn,
Mihiel. We had hired 4.000 "ex- tras," and prepared 100 acres, dug trenches, sowed the land with explosions, mines all wired for planted a dozen cameras here and there, and bult a lower on which um, the Broadway actor, as star.
stood the director, with, the flag Mr. Lasky and Mr. Goldwyn were that was to be signal for cameras shown a barn near Los Angeles to turn and mines to explode. which, a sardonic Scot. Robert "At this stage the mayor arrived Brunton, bad fitted as a studio: with his wife and daughter. He and there Hollywood was born.
had dene us some favours, 80 But the picture that made his- we allowed them to stand on the not mada without tower. His daughter saw a friend trouble. "Farnum had agreed to take 25 per cent. of the shares, because we had no money to offer him," said Mr. Lasky.
tory
Was
the ground and caled. The triend did not hear.
EIGHT MILLION CANDLES There are eight floodlights to be switched, from Croydon's nerve centre, the control' tower, over such angles of the aerodrome as the wind demands. Each is of six kilowatts, has the power of a million candles, and iluminates 41 million square feet.
It stars beautiful Myrna Loy and handsome Cary Grant as a pair of dying daredevils. And al- though it is impossible to gainsay the excellence of Miss Loy's recent pictures, she seems to excel even the best of her past performantes in her breezy, down-to-earth and sympathetic role opposite Grant.
"Besides, I feel that I know just Grant's characterizations in
how "Ruggles" felt when he was equally gratifying. His very dif ficult role is superbly handled, and transported from England to Red be gives a powerful performance Gap. I felt the same way when which should be remembered for a first came to this country. I long time. Deprived of his usually wanted everyone to like me, and
is 0 good-looking clothes, he
I didn't quite know how to go leather jacketed pilot almost
about it. My experience helped."
Major Mealing. of the Depart- through-out and proves that he
In the cast supporting Laughton
LADY PAMELA SMITH
ment of Civil Aviation in the Air can hold his own admirably as an
Ministry, described to me to-night setor. Credit for the absorbing in "Ruggles of Red Gap"
(Special Air Mail Service) interest of this picture is also due Mary Boland. Charlie Ruggles,
* "Who-boo,' called the mayor's the far-seeing polley which has so Director James Flood, and a long Roland Young and Zasu Pitts.
London, Sept 28.
dat ghter again, waving the direc- made our great port the safest and list of supporting players whose The picture, adapted from Harry
"At the last moment he BA- i tor's flag-and Lady Famela Smith, whose eng-
then he broke best equipped in the world for safe roles were cleverly woven in as
Wilson's famous novel, is
nounced that he must have cash.jonse Every mine exploded, can-landing at night. "We know," he integral parts of the main plot.
the story of the American tourists agement to Mr. William Michael
I found a glove un roared. armies charged, and said, "that night flying must come who won
Berry, the second son of Lord With difficulty an English butler in a
was announced last manufacturer willing to take over everything went exactly according and must come quickly. We must poker gime and brought him Camrose,
to'plan-except that the cameras. fly not only in the daylight hours, home 10 show up the four-night, is the younger daughter ot's holding; the shares he reject-. several
but in the hours of darkness. Fly- ed were sold later for the late Lord Birkenhead. N!
were not turning. Bushers.
million, dollars, and Dustin Far-
That little error cost us 10 days ing is a means of transport which must go on from strength to num died a pauper."
work and 30 000 dollars"
strength, and in this new develop- ment and In: these new demands we have been urged on by our ever progressive Post. Office."
Mr. Villiers, son of Adml, Villiera and a relative of the Earl of Clarendon, as Mr. E. Fletcher. Director of the General Electric Company told me, has been mainly. responsible for this new standard of aerodrome lighting.
CHINESE ART FROM THE PALACE
to
OWE
Leon
and
I understand that the King and Queen bave consented to lend
Palace from their objéts d'art collections the forthcoming collection at Windsor. International Exbibition of Chin- ese Art at the Royal Academy,
Their Majesties are patrons of the exhibition and have been keenly interested in it from the first:
She has three great gifts beauty, brains and wit. Buch, a combination among womenkind King's comes only once in a long time.
A 30,000 DOLLAR ERROR Mr. Lasky's best story, however, was about "Wings" first of the flying pictures, "It was estimated to cost a million dollars," he said.
To-day's Langh
from the
Mr. Michael Berry, who is being The Queen is a connoisseur of trained for the family newspaper
Old Friend: "I was a great ad- Chinese jade, and was, indeed, business, is a forceful and able
"It cost two million, and made mirer of your late husband, Mrs collecting pleces before jade was young man of 24.
in this He has done the usual round of two and a halt milions-in fact, Hope. Have you any little thing generally appreciated
This father's newspapers, has work-I believe. It was the second big- you could let me have to remind country.
me of him?” A number of her own purchases ed in Aberdeen and Glasgow, and gest moneymaker in film history.
"The biggest scene in the alm Widow (softly) "There's only It is probable that loans will be will be seen, I gather, at Burling is now in Manchester. He is com-
was the American pnah at St. me." both from made
Buckinghamton House."
ing to London in a few months.
ALHAMBRA
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at 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9-30 P.M..
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FUN VARIETY PROGRAMME
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