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John
CURLY TOP
Boles Rever pursued T career or music. Music · pursued him. From earliest boyhood, the handsome romantic star who is teamed with Rochelle Hudson in Shirley Temple's "Curly Top", now at the King's Theatre has found his career inextricably tangled with
music.
Boles first encounter with music occurred in his high-school days. He was then a valued member of the glee club, but he wanted to be an athlete, and wred with might and main to be.
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AL the University of Texas, where he hoped to prepare him- self for a career in medicinë, the glee club nemes:s caught up with him.
Even when he joined the army to fight in France, his singing again
with him, and Boles caught up found himself in great demand as a. Y.M.C.A. entertainer.
About this time, Boles decided to reconcile himself with his fate. Abandoning the idea of a medical career, he set himself to the serious study of singing.
MR. DYNAMITE
Since the time when Caln killed Abel history has been full of mür- der mysteries. The real truth about the Cain and Abel affair was To this
never actually known. day no one knows how or why the murder Was committed. Among contemporary murder mystery au- thors there is none more prolific than Dashiell Hammett whose "Thin Man" scored such instan-
taneous success as a novel and on
the screen. Now comes Universal with a brand new Hammet mystery "Mr. Dynamite" opening at the Queen's Theatre soon.
The plot of "Mr. Dynamite" is so intricately woven and with such clever skull, it will babe some of the keenest minds. No less than three murders are committed in a fortnight in the city of San Fran- cisco, right under the hoses of some of the most famous sieuths
the world. The police are at their wit's end and admit they can find no solution. Then someone sends for Mr. Dynamite, an ex- tremely clever detective and he be- A brief and spectacular career gins to unravel the mystery in such on Broadway, followed, his first a way that will prove astonishin role being a lead in "Little Jesse to the audience. Besides Lowe, James". But before he had been there is an excellent cast in the on Broadway for long, his hand-picture, including Jean Dixen. some good looks had won him Esther Ralston, Victor Varconi, motion picture contract and laun- Verna Hille. Robert Oleckler
ched him on his present successful many others. career.
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In "Curly Top", Boles supple-
ments Shirley Temple's singing
with two numbers especially writ- are "Curly
ten
They for him. Top" and "It's All So New to Me," both fron the score of Ave hit
WELCOME HOME
and
A laugh-led picture about four tunes, all with music by Ray Hen-smooth swindlers who find rough derson and lyrics by Ted Hoehler, going in a small town, is Fox Edward Heyman and Irving Caesar, Film's "Welcome Home," showing The story of a Bttle orphan glri | on Wednesday at the Alhambra who became cupid for a million-with James Dunn, Arline Judge, aire, "Curly Top" was directed by Raymond Walburn and William Irving Cummings for Fox.
Frawley heading the cast,
WINGS IN THE DARK
Flying pictures, whether war or otherwise, are a.ways a source
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SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM. IT'S HER HAPPIEST PICTURE !
SHIRLEY
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1935.
QUEEN'S
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"YOU'RE THE
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MYRNA LOY CARY GRANT GS IN THE DARK
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SEIT CHANGE
LOUIS-BAER TITLE BOUT "THUNDER IN THE NIGHT"
FOX PICTURE
ON THE STAGE-CHING LING FOO TROUPE
THE ALHAMBRA
"
Spencer Tracy In
Good Form"
The Sander Jinx, featuring Spencer Tracy and Virginia Bruce which opened its season at the Alhambra yesterday is not, as one" would thing from the title, gangster film but rather one which centres round the activities of the Star reporter of a New York daily who has won the nickname through his success in solving erines that have baffled the police. The roje
played by Tracy.
Miss Bruce is the paper's "sab- sister" who is, adopt nt giving ad- vice to the lovelorn through her columns, but who cannot control her own heart when it comes to Tracy.
Who Doesn't Know Me?
Mickey's 7th Birthday
Sper suspense, drama and ro- The story, centres about Dunn, a
inance are the keynotes of this boy who brings his light-fingered powerful picture and great credit friends to his home to town and must be given to each member of
Hollywood, Sept. 28. to reform. But habit the east for the fine way in which decides
Mickey Mouse will live to a ripe proves too strong for this quartette they support the leading players.
"The Murder Man" is Tarry old age, but he will never grow cf charming scoundrels, and before they know what they are doing Rapf's new production for Metro old.
This reassuring prediction was they are "taking" the local citi-Goldwyn-Mayer and is recommend.
best ed as very acceptable entertain-made to-day by the man j ment.-F.M.A.
qualled to make--Walt Disney, the deservedly famous; "father" Mickey.
zens.
D. G. DeSylva produced "Wel- come Home," which was directed by
!
VISIT.
(Special Air Mal Service)
London, Sept, 30. During the past few days Bignor Mussolini has been virtually in- accessible to the Ambassadors of the Powers. He has shut himself up in the big room in the Palazzo Venezia in which he works.
of attraction and "Wings in the Dark now showing at the Queen's will. I predict. prove to be no exception.
The principal characters are There are romantic complications i by Cary Grant and the ravishing for Dunn, hairbreadth escapes for Myrna Loy who both give a most his friends. A hilarious climax convincing performanice, Grant solves all their troubles and sees DUCE'S HEADQUARTERS, takes the role of an inventing the four gentle grafters off on their aviator who is striving to perfect way to greener Delds, Instruments which Will make blind-flying perfectly sate. TO demonstrate their rellability he James Tinling. intends to fly the Atlantic, but on the eve of the flight, he is stricken blind and becomes so imbittered that he retires to a cab'n in the words in order to be quite alone In his misery. Myrna Loy. h's sweetheart, manages to persuade him to
and return to his work with the aid of money which she provides, and which he is under the impression is coming from various aviation articles he "has written, he carries on. When his experiments are just about com- Here he grasped the handle with pleted. however, further financial
and masterful grip. a frm disaster overtakes hlm and in pulled. The handle did not yield.
fortunes. recoup their
"Where the profit of
these Miss Loy undertakes a fight from affairs Moscow to New York for a huge money-prize.
order to
Where the Proflt Comes In While waiting for a train Dob-
son looked about for something interesting. He noticed an auto- matic machine, and promptly in- serted a penny.
the Palazzo Venezia.
Although he is Foreign Minister, the Duce seldom uses the Palazzo Chigi, the official' Italian Foreign "Ive often wondered." he re-office, but receives his visitors at marked aloud"
"Where the pront оп these
A visitor with an appointment is taken to a waiting-room. After a few minutes he is conducted to Signor Mussolini's room.
affairs"
and
As my picture shows, it is vast. It looks like
the interior of a Venetian palace. Up till the end of the 18th century it was Vene tian territory in Rome-the. Vene- tian Embassy to the Holy See,
DIAGONAL APPROACH
of
Discovered Co-day in his studies, holding an informal reception, for Hollywood friends and well wish- ers who dropped in to congratulate his on Mickey's 7th birthday and to watch Mickey himself proudly cutting a huge seven-candle birth day cake. made of cheese, the friendly and personable Walt-he prefers to be called by his first name took time out to explain why he considered his brain child such a good life insurance, risk.
"Each year," he said, "Mickey attracts an entirely new audience or 4,000,000 people. Where do all these де fars come
Hined:
Mr. Walt Disney
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TO-DAY
MAJESTIC 7:20 18 0.20
MAURICE
CHEVALIER
÷ THEATRE=—-~-
| At 2.30, 5.20
FOLIES
BERGERE
P.M.
with ANN SOTHERN • MERLE OBERON
Coming UNDER THE PAMPUS MOON
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong.
KING'S:-
"Curly Top"
QUEEN'S:
"Wings In The Dark" ORIENTAL: ----
"Mark of the Vampire".
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :----
The Murder Man"
MAJESTIC-
"Fo. es Bergere"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Thunder In The Night"
MAJESTIC
Under The Pampus Moon"
LONDON TO BRIGHTON
WALK
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Sept. 30.
A brilliant performance Vas achieved in the Surrey Walking Club's London to Brighton race on Whitlock Saturday by H. H (Metropolitan W.C.). In retaining the "Victory" Cup Whitlock ·Im- proved by more than eight minutes the record of, ähr. imin. 6sec.. which was set up by J. H. Ludlow.. the Derby walker, in 1932. Whit- lock's time for the distance of 52 miles from the Clock Tower, West- minster. to the Brighton Aquarium was 7hr. 53min. 5sec. Hls time for " the race, which now finishes be- yund the Aquarfum at 巋 point aldrig the front, was 7hr. 53min. 50sec.
Whitlock, who is 27 years of age. has accomplished several very fine performances. but none equals his uchievement of Saturday. He is the holder of the world's four- hour record, which he set up at the White City track two years yu. This season his successes include victories in the National 5) Kilometres Championship and In the Nottingham to Birmingham alk. Whitlock, after being among the leaders from the start, went. away from his rivals after Croy- don, and subsequently was never Eeriously challenged. Long before (Special Air Mail Service) the half-way stage was reached the was well inside all previous times London, Sept. 28.
at the various intermediate stages. In a newspaper which contains the report of Mr. Campbell Black's throughout, and his pace did not He walked In perfect form
THE AIR PILOT
bis
parting with
aeroplane by parachute over the Nile it may seem odd to stress the matter-of-
factness of modern Dying. None
the less it is so, and it is im portant that it should be known
slacken. He covered the full dis tance at an average speed exceed- Ing 6 miles an hour.
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to be so. For a large number of so forgiving) would soon be quite young men who now own Eght at home in "an aeroplane. The cars will soon have the opportunity time is not far off when they will of flying if they have a mind to it. get their chance. In the mean- There is no great mystery about time young men with a hankering piloting an aeroplane. At one after the opportunity to fly should time it was believed that one had get used to the idea that there is no serious difficulty. The esset.. tials may be mastered in a few hours-more or less in accord- ance with aptitude.
from? that a predecessor of Mickey flour. That's easy. Every year 4,000,000 ished in the land of Egypt in children reach the age of appre- 3,000 BC. In his collection of. to begin young and that only those clation of screen cartoons.
papyrus manuscrip.s are numer-with an exceptionally adventurous "Then again, Mickey's family ous drawings from so-called comic nature could make anything of it. Youth is, of course, a great ad- is well established as the oldest in trips of those days showing a the eld of pictorial
entertain-character whose fesemblance to vantage. It was said during the
And ment, and even though Mickey Mickey s quite starting.
war that the best age to learn was himself is only seven years old, he interesting thing about it is 18, but that was to some extent a some of his ancestors go back to that the position of this earlier counsel of necessity. Youthful air the age of the Pharaohs in Egypt.
Mickey as a lead. among his pilots were turned out by the "Finally. Mickey, because of his fellow creature is very clearly de- gross, and their teachers had every ubiquitous nature and proven
reason to be proud of them, but 'One of these. Egyplan pictures the late General Brancker-whose When the Serene Republic col-ability to surmount all obstacles,
ancestor as blography
reviewed re- Wis
that cently-held
the toid him the machine was out of lapsed it became the Embassy of has every prospect of surviving shows Mickey's
Ideal Austrians even such terrific catastrophes as prince in a land where humanized また conquerors, the
serve as his subjects which age Was
War 25: Apart from The Austrians had it up to the those, for instance, which the dis-
mind a recent Mickey flying it may safely be said that Great War, when it was conscat-tinguished H. G. Wells predicts in calls to
Mouse film, 'Pluto's Judgment normal men may learn to fly at al- ed. A few years ago it became the his new film "Things to Come","
Walt was reminded that his Day', in which our little friend is most any age at which the urge to Duce's headquarters.
go up makes itself felt. Eighteen The visitor enters by the door "audience of four million" seemed the patron and protector of cats
a bit modest, numerically,
and kittens against the mischief- is not too early and 45 is not too on the door on the left of the
"Modest? Well, yes, coming making of Pluto, the Pup.
late. There was at least one in- picture. He marches diagonally
"In fact, continued, Wak en- stance of father and son on flying across the room with what-unless from a Hollywood producer, I dare
saw it dos seem like an under-thusiastically. "It is Mickey's good duty at the front during the war, he wears rubber soles-seems an
statement. But just the
and one of the best of pre-war interminable clatter.
Be shook the machine. "Tve often wondered," he con- The final scene where she is tinued, giving it another vigorous the profit-hang fog-bound over the aerodrome at shake, "where the conclusion of her fight is
porter came up and most thrilling and I would hear- tily recommend all movie "to see this picture at any price.
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When he is about three yards away the Duce looks up from his papers. When he is a yard away
the Duce stands up to greet him
According to the importance of the visitor he either shakes hands arcss the desk or comes round to do so.
TIDY DESK
The Duce's desk is very tidy unlike that of Primo de Rivera. for instance, which was always littered with papers, among which he never seemed to be able to find what he wanted.
same.
that's approximately the quantity or young newcomers the world pro- vides. Of course," he added with a smile, “I haven't sald anything about the 100,000,000 or so other patrons who constitute Mickey's regular week-after-week audience all over the world."
"How does Mickey fit into the
ancient Egyptian scene?" he was
asked.
It
nature, his sympathy for the un- derdog-and cat-that gives him such an enduring character. seems to me that if Mickey's race has survived for several thousand years so far, his longevity may be accepted as a matter of course.
"Happly for the future of Mickey no world conflict or uni- versal cataclysm will ever obscure
him. A strict neutral, he never becomes involved in national poli- "I have a very good scientific au- tics and international jealousies. thority for that," replied the He is an international good-will genial Walt. "His name is Pro-builder, with passports to all fessor Jean Capart, a moted countries, be they republics, king- Egyptologist, who is the director doms. empires or dominions." of the Royal Museum in Brussels. Long live Mickey Mouse!
"Professor Capart has proof, taken from ancient excavations,
pilots was taught by his mother.
Novelists and descriptive writers
generally often convey the impres slon that there is something mys terious and birdlike in the make up of an air pilot. They suggest he is fine-drawn and always on stern terms with destiny. Actually he is very much like any other man of his age, weight, and dis- position. Appealing to General Brancker again, we find that au- thority pinning his faith on the reliable rather than the imagina- tive, on the courageous, stolid type with no great artistic interests but appetite for hardy sports. There is, in fact, a very close con- nection between horsemanship and flying-ap close that every flying club would be the better of stables Business Man (after interview-behind the hangar. Most men. it by another 15 minutes. To Eng-about the visitor's country, or his ing his daughter's suitor); "1 lish visitors he talks English, his special interesta.
regret I cannot see my Way to command of which is steadily im Very rarely be accompanies his allow you to marry my daughter proving.
visitor to the door, though an old at present, but give me your name For the arst quarter of an hour friend gets the additional honour and address; then, if nothing bet-tion is worth nothing when there are so many slovenly performers he Invites questions For the of a dictatorial arm round his ter turns up in the near future,
on the road, for the air is not quite second he asks questions in return shoulders,
vou may hear from us again.".
Its most prominent feature is a large glass of milk from which the Duce sips from time to time.
The normal interview Insts about half an hour. If Bignor Mussolini
is very interested he will extend
"Orthodox
an
and many women who take plea- sure in driving a car accurately and with some style (the limita
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