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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
WINGS IN THE DARK
Cast in the role a daredevil aviatrix who risks 'fe and limb for the sake of the man she loves Myrna Loy, screen favourite, heads the cast of Paramount's Wings in The Dark, opening at the Queen's" Theatre today.
MR. DYNAMITE
A pipa organ that shot bullei as chief of the
curiona many idgets built by studio technicians
Universal's
thriller, "Mr. öynamitə” · coming soon to this queens "Theatre,
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Cary Grant, -"tall, dark n
Tus homicidal musical instru- handsome, is coupled with Miss
ment Loy in the romantic leads of the Hammett, noted author of crime avented by Dashiell picture as an airman who is a Hetions, wins wrote the story Trum scientist and adventurer, His fife which the film was made It was is devoted to "making light safe
worked out in detail by Director through the perfection of instru-
collaboration ments for blind dying. On the Alu Crosiand in
Universal Citys Arsenal, of the transatlantic flight which with
music department and architectural will prove the complete access of
staff. An original piece of music his experiments; he is blinded by an
written especially for this accident. Despairing of ever re- covering his light and disdaining organ fusilate in which a Colt's 44 revolves," u periscope and a charity ho retires to a cabin in the
cbony pianoconsola woods to brood. But Loy who loves custom-made
important parts. The bin persandes him to return to his played work even furnishes money which musical shot was fired in the climax he believes is coming from a series scene of the picture. The stur, articles on aviation which he is Edmund Lowe, Jean Dixon, Esther publishing.
Ralston and Verna Hillie act in Just
his ex- periments are nearing completion this scene which reveals the true the airplane is recovered by the criminal. Love has the title role Dynamite" A cynical, company from whom he bought it. of "Mr. Then Miss Loy, in a fionl desparate i coldly humourous private detective ffort to help him, undertakes a who solves a baffling series of mur- Hight from Moscow to New York der to the discomfiture of the for an enormous purse. In a final, gripping climax Cary Grant goes loft to bring Miss Loy down when he is fog-bound above the landing
at the end of the flight.
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police. The actor, however, ran no It was risk in the organ scenic. Iran Dixon who might have been seriously injured if the timing had
gone wrong.
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STATUARY 5,000 YEARS OLD
Eyes Formed Of Sea culated toes, and also a beautifully
Shells
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London, sept 30.
mou.ded woman's breast, which might well have been executed in a period of high artistle develop- ment,
The discovery was made in the north-east corner of the walled city of Jericho, where Professor One of the most remarkale Garstang has been excavating on archBeqiogICKI discuveries record-behalf of Sir Charles Marston, the
ed has recently been made in Pale, skine. i am able to describe and
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1935.
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30. 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. IT'S HER HAPPIEST PICTURE!.
SHIRLEY
TEMPLE Curly Top
NEIT CHANDE
LA FOX PICTUPS writ
JOHN BOLES ROCHELLE HUDSON JANE DARWELL
Produca tibu (INFIELD'SHESHAN
LOUIS-BAER TITLE BOUT ** THUNDER IN THE NIGHT **
FOX PICTURE
CURLY TOP
At The King's
The greatest picture. Shirley Temple has turned cut in the course of her career is undoubted- ly "Curly Top" now show.ng to packed houses at the King's Theatre.
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This picture is different in parts from her previous appearances and is full of dancing, songs and laughter, all of which are ably pub over by the entire cast, not" for getting our Shirley.
QUEEN'S
DAARMEE THEATRE “,
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.80, 6.10, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.
> "YOU'RE THE SWELLEST SWEETHEART
A MAN EVER HADI",
The teammedin Therandan, day of
gel soha shat he wacka te fac ve
sha kind, when hoe dipped in wings.
MYRNA LOY CARY GRANT.
NGS IN THE DARK
A Paracent Mature with Roscoe Karms
Hobart Crvenaugh + Dean Jagger
ON THE STAGE-CHING LING FOO TROUPE
ITALY CLOSES CONSULATES
Food Supplies For Year's War
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London, Sept. 28.
Count Vinci. the Italian Minis- tar at Addis Ababa, stated that he
had sent instructions to the Con- sulates at Debra Marcos. Dessie. and Makalle to close on Friday and
for the Consuls and their staffs to start for Addis Ababa.
It is estimated that the journey from the first two centres will take a least 10 days, and that from Makalle 16 days.
The story concerns Shirley and her elder sister Mary (Miss Hud- son) who are orphans. There are shown at the commencement of the picture in typical surroundings with Shirley, stealing the scenes by her childish and amusing pranks Then a millionaire (John Boles) comes along and decides to adopt Shirley and her sister. The rest of the reel is devoted to their changed life in luxurious sur- roundings. Complications set in when another male steps into Mary's life, and all but succeeds In winning her heart.
No orders have yet been given to Eventually Boles marries Mary. close the Harrar consulate, which to "Curly's" delight for she also, is the nearest to the Ogaden front. The Empress has gone to Bichot. she claims with childist en- thusiasm will be married to "Uncle, a lake resort, 45 miles away, un- Eddle." All ends happily when til Saturday. Curly going out into the porch, There is no possibility of Abys takes the two lovers unaware and sinia starving in the event of a catches them in each others protracted war. For the first time arms. All Curly can say is "Oh, the history of the country the
Government my word!"
and cranks the world over, are showering letters of advice on the Emperor about how to win the
war.
He has received magical charms, Interpretations of dreams fore- casting the defeat of the Italians religious counsel from well-mean-
TODAY AT THE CINEMA
"KING'S:
Hong Kong
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"Curly Ton"
QUEEN'S:-"
"Wings In The Dark""
ORIENTAL:-
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"Ruggles of Red Gap"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :—
"Fun Variety Programme" MAJESTIC:—
"Time Square Lady"
KING'S:-
Sunday
"Curly Top"
QUEEN'S:-
"Whigs In The MAJESTIC:
Dark"
"Folles Bergere"
ORIENTAL:
"Mark of The Vampire"
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ing but obviously eccentric indivi- A duals, in nearly all the languages of Europe, and offers from ex-off- cers of any nationalities to serve in the army without pay.
"Murder Man”
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CHINA FLEET MAGAZINE
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London, Sept. 30, Paymaster Lieutenant-Commar- der John A. Moore, of H.M.S. Med- way, is the editor of a new
THREE WEEKS' magazine, China-Side." intended
TOUR
"Non-Political
for officers and men of the Chuna.. Fleet and others, which it is hoped to publish late in October. All profits, if any, will go to charities. The price of Issue will be is 3d. British money. 40 cents Hong Kong.. and 50 cents Northern, post tree in each case, Paymaster Lieutenant Commander Moore," (Special Air Mail Service)
who has served in the Navy since London, Sept 30
January. 1918, has had several President Roosevelt has set out years experience in China, where QA E three we-ks' tour through he was at one time secretary to
ne Southern and Western States. the Chief of Staff. In 1927-28 he- The tour is described as "non- was assistant secretary to Admiral Biz Bugh Watson in the Reserve Polical," but this disclaimer 1s not taken too seriously. It will Fleet at Portsmouth. not be a campaign. Mr. Roosevelt will make a few speeches, but he
is going to listen rather than to
the Supreme Court
With his usual courtesy the Em peror has replied to many of these bewildering communications, but his secretaries have been forced to ignore requests for his photograph or for Abyssinian stamps, which have encumbered the palace mall. Count Vinci said that he had no reason to believe that the local au. The prospect of war is drawing. thorities will attempt to prevent foreign adventurers to Addis Aba the departure. The only other ba. Not relying on long-distance Italians stil in the interior are appeals, they have come confident" priests stationed at Guder, Teha that personal application, coupled na, Bongo, Lajo, and Maji, who with credentials of varying degrees wish to remain, and 10 employees of authenticity, will be sufficient or a Swiss engineer here, who has to secure for them a commission of Government contracts for rebuild-high rank in the army. They are Ing bridges and other construc-finding, to their discomfiture, that talk. The Message with which he pa atable o tional work. All these 10 are
the Abyssinian military organisa- wil welcome Congress back to than the original Act. leaving.
tion is not attracted by this sur Washington in January will in fact, set the keynote for his cam- felt of volunteer talent.
Some of these hopeful. specula-paign later in the year, and in ly supported by the miners' union,
order that he may hot strike a and Mr. John Lewis, the miners'.
pledged false note he wishes to hear for leader, recently
the himself what the local leaders of miners' vote to the President, But pub le opinion are thinking. The there is room to doubt whether the South and West are peculiarly uterances of he rather conserva- .. important to him, because they ve spokesmen of labour are have really benefited most from Bected by the votes of the rank bis programme.
and e. The strike of 400,000 minera, which began on Tuesday, despite the mediation of the As-- sistant Becre.ary for Labour, shows- an embarrassing doggedness on both sides. The Guffey Act comes into operation on November 1, will.
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turs in war, who have managed to enter the country without deposit ing a sum in cash as an exchange for a visa as a guarantee that they will not become public charges, are How wondering who will pay their hotel bills.
A NEGRO EDEN “ Negroes have also been drawn here from the United States and British possessions in the hope that the kinship of colour will be sufficient to gain them lucrative
nas made prepara- tluns to feed troops and the civil population by a systematic or- ganisation of supplies, which al ready would ensure sufficient
entire population posts.
"The picture is one of the best. Fox Films have turned out in a long time and it is one in which the whole family can enjoy. It is wholesome entertainment especial-stocks for the
for one year's campaign. ly for the kiddies. It should not be missed.-"0."
ARMY APPOINTMENTS
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London, Sept. 30, Brigadier A. H. Hopwood, D.S.O., to-day assumes command of Tien-
A. A. A
The Agricultural. Adjustmen administration is one of the most Important of Mr. Roosevelt's in- struments, though its involved. workings have received compare tively atle notice in this country
income, which during the pre- vious decade has been tating
GUFFEY ACT The Guffey Coal Act was strong-
re-
then enable a representative com- The so-called "Black Eagle," the
missión e prescribe "fair condi Hitherto the armies in the tela British Indian who applied for The A‚‚A, was established to re- tions" for all bituminous coalfields. have lived on the towns and vil-Abyssinian nationality, has been
dress the balance of the national Boh sides are now aghting to est- lages through which they passed, sent to Addis Salem, after various
bish a favourable "status quo."" devastating the crops and causing lively adventures in Addis Ababa, famine. Foreseeing the danger to train troops far from the dis steadily in favour of the urban bas: lis decisions.
un which the new commission wi'l that the conflict will last more tracting pleasures of the capital
But the very section of the nation. It levies a stubbornness of the contest will than one season, the authorities Another negro, John Robinson have purchased large supplies of from Chicago, is hopefully await-products-a tax paid mainly by cite feelings of anger and resent- corn, barley and tief-native graining a commission in the air service. the urban consumer and out of be unable to appease and which ment, which the commission will which have been stored in sub- A few of the negroes in the the proceeds subsidises those far-will find their ultimate reflection
tax on the manufacturers of farm
mers who agreso keep their crops within prescribed 3mits. The
ilus.ra.e for the arst t.me £gures feet below the surface caicolithic tain Area, in succession to Briga-grind cereals to hoard for their exception is Robert Fard, from the plan is open to grave economic and
uncovered
Musee du Louvre, and certain Bri- tish universities. At a depth of 21
of prehistoric statuary modeled in deposits were
of the clay which have been found as period which has hitherto been Jerichu by. Prót. Garstang.
taken as marking the beginning The site was deep celow the of Palestinian civilisation. levels of the Biblical city.
Soundings were made below this The find consists of two groups level, with the result that some 25 of statuettes which belong to the feet lower still Professor Garstang Neolithic period, or a thousand came upon the remains of an ear- years or more before the tradition- lier civilisation which had been ai date of Abraham (about 2,000 entirely unsuspected. It is com B.C.). In each case a man, a wo- parable with the Neolithte period man and a chlid szem to have in Europe, and may be computed formed the theme of the statuary to extend from 4000 to 3300 B.C. groups. For the most part these
One of the statuary groups, is of partially baking clay. It was found
are in smajl fragments. which ched being patiently assembled in whether it was put there for bak-Office of Deputy Director General,
when recently in Jerusalem, I wak-
the laboratory of the Archaeologi- cal Muscum.
VALUABLE PIECE
on a heap of calcined s'ones, but,
ing cannot be determined.
AN OLD FRIEND
social oblections.
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there is no doubt that li has helped the farmers, who badly ne.ded help. Moreover, Federal unemployment relier has been a godsend to the agricultural States. They may not suffer as much fron unemployment as the industrialis-. ed areas, but they have scanty financial "resources and they are Re- the hardest hit by drought. publicans, speaking in the Middle West, denounce all the President's other works, but the questi "Would you repeal the A.A.A.?" reduces them to embarrassed all-
JUICE.
URBAN PARTS
terranean depots at all provincia promised land of their race have centres.
not found the country and the People have been ordered to people to their liking. The one der A. J. Ellis, D.8.0. The new own use, and sell the residue to Barbados, who was buried yester commander is a Lincolnshire of the Government at a fixed rate of day with semi-military honours cer" who was O.C., 2nd Battalion.
one thaler approximately 2s) for after five prosperous years as chter The 1st Battalion is in South 2cwt. The Abyssinian soldier is saxophonist in the Emperor's band Chine
the easiest in the world to feed. He was said to be the only black Colonel W. P. MacArthur, D.8. He can live and fight on a single rabbi in the world, O.B.E.. left the War Office yester- handful of grain every 24 hours.
TWO American negressen and day on promotion" to major-general | He roasts' it on a convex iron 'sheet their families were stranded here as Commandant of the Royal Army' PROOF AGAINST BLOCKADE after the deaths of their husbands, Medical College in Milbank, in The country is self-contained in who brought them to Abyssinia in Buccession to Major-General R. B. the matter of food, and
no search of a "Negro Eden." They Ainsworth, C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E. who blockade will affect it. A war will have been sent to Djibout, and are retires. Colonel J. W. L. Scott, not send up the price of staple now engaged in laundry work for
In recent years, the French troops. D.S.O.. yesterday succeeded to the commodities. vacancy thus created at the War when the thaler fluctuated be- tween 11 to 20 to the sterling. Army Medical Services. The new the price of bread never changed. Assistant Director-General is Col, For the native, marketing is an F Casement, DSO, from Chester, operation apart from the needs of
In the more urban parts of the country, naturally, the "A.A.AU Colonel H. M. J. Perry, O.B.Elife. He sells his surplus produce
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not an electoral asset; indeed, the Director and Professor of Patho in purchase little luxuries, or pay was promoted texes. I the price is unsatisfac-
London, Sept. 30,
defeat of the Democratic candidate tery he takes it home again.
Lieutenant-Commander W. A.
in the recent Rhode Island by: (supernumerary)
He im assured against war Lindsay-Watson, who has retired election is thought to have been shortage even in the matter of ❘ at his Own request, entered due in some degree to resentment clothes. While imported cotton is Osborne as a cadet in May, 1917, against the payment of the pro- popular, native weavers still exist, ; and passed out as midshipman cessing tax on cotton, as Rhode and are to be seen playing their from HMS. Thunderer in Septem- Is and is an important centre, of primitive looms behind the hedges ber, 1931, when he was appointed textile manufacture. In such areas of their back-yards,
i to the Hawkins, in China. On the attude taken by tabour is Already preparations are going ecmpleting his courses as sub-ikely to be decisive On the sur on to revive the industry on a leutenant he joined the Effing face Mr. Roosevelt has good hopes large scale. In other words, the ham, flagship in the East Indies, in that quarter. The New York threat of being cut off from the and while in her was promoted to State Federation of Labour recent- gutside world does not perturb the lieutenant from December, 1928. ty decided not to support the for- native in the slightest. His coun- After n commission in the cruiser mation of an independent Labour try can feed, clothe and house him Canterbury he specialised in tor party. The American Federation- without any expenditure or effort pedoes in 1929. He has since been of Labour is still friendly. The on the part of the Government. on the staff of the Vernon, tor- railway unions have been grati-
HOW TO WIN
pedo ́school, and torpedy offer of fled by the re-enactment of the Sorcerers, magicians, and sooth the Iron Duke and the aircraft- Rallroad Pensions Act in
a form sayers in all parts of Abyssinia, carrier Eagle.
which, is hoped, will be" more
JERICHO'S AGE
Altogether, the discoveriesTM roll One of the most valuable pleces, back the history of Jericho to an however, was intact except for a age for more remote than had ever logy at Millbank, small fissure. That was the man's been surmised. IM the light of major - general head which is here reproduced what is now disclosed, Jericho yesterday. from the official photograph if the | must be regarded as the oldest Department of Antiquities, taken settled community in Palestine,
in the museum where the figures with the possible exception of straments, which are at present are lodged: It is eight inches high, Lachish, where the period of great- being classified by Miss Joan Crow fashioned in unbaked clay, and est expansion has already been foot. bears a pale pinkish wash. Pur- found by Mr. J. L. Starkey to have plish brown radiating lines re been in the third millennium 2.0. sent hair and beard:
In a
Prof. Garstang estimates that there are similar Neolithic depo- total stratification of site of at least four acres at this The eyes, which are a notable feet the excavation revealed the level. Below them there is evid- and arresting almost uncanny cultural changes and sequence of ence of Microlithic culture and of feature, are formed by sea shells human industry, culture, and oc- the Stone Age. which have evidently been select- | cupation through a period of some
·ed with great care. Over them the 2,000 years before the time of the clay has been dexterously drawn to Patriarch Abraham. With the Neolithic period was assisted by||| represent", eyelids. Among other statuary were found pottery re- the discovery of a series of 'seven, well-preserved parts of the stat-sembling that of Thessaly, and a painted and burnished house uettes were feet with finely art numerous assortment of fint in- Поста.
Precise identification of the
in political intransigence,
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