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CASINO DE PARIS
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Jolson, sensation of Al Janions, Mammy singer who first introduced the talking pictures and Ruby Keeler, his wife, former Boadway musical star who leaped to fame in the movies in two years, in Fires National Intent; said to be greatest, musical spectacle, "Gasing le Paris" opening ay the Queen's "Theatre To-morrow.
CURLY TOP
The happiest picture of Shirley Temple's career "Curly Top" come. to the Alliumbea du Šaturday.
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 110W and Intriguing and saveral dance routines for the audience's Approval
In this Fox Film coniedy-drama. John Boles is cast as a bachelor who adopts Shirley and her big sister, Rochelle Hudson. H generosity takes them from the drab and dreary atmosphere of an orphanage to the sunny
summer
There the romance of Boles and Miss Hudson flourishes under the childish guidance of little Shirley who sings, dances and laughs her was into their hearts.
-While tha picture is...a mamunoth musical spectacle, it carries a well dofined plot and a fascitieting ro mance with tense, emotional scenes, interspersed with hilarious comedy relief. "Al Jolson has the role of a Broadway entertainer, who is bar. red from the New York stage, irroundings of a palatial home
in Southampton, cause he quits his shows without notice, his woukness being wine, women and the "ponies". He winds up in Caliente at the race tracks waking up with a headache and without n jub. Glenda Farrell plays the part of his devoted sister who gets him striaghtened up, and finally convincing him that Broad- way is through with him, persuades him to take a job in Chicago with a partner. She has already per suaded Huby Keeler, who has a role of a clover dancer on the West Crast to team with her brother, After a series of exciting incidents the New York opening comes off in a blaze of glory in an unusual and surprising climax.
4.SHOWS
1-20-5.15
1.18-880
Shirley is not the only one to" sing in this joyful flm, John Boles sings "It 18 All So New To Top" while Mud Curly
fludson surprises hy Rochelle singing for the first time, "The Simple Things in Life"
song
Ray Henderson, America's der
the melodies' song writer, wrote
numbers for for all the "Curly Top" which was produced by Winfield Sheehan and dirgeted by Irving Cutumings.
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Prices Matinees 20 t.-30 c.
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& SATURDAY A 3 RING CIRCUS OF MELODY, SONG, DANCE AND
ENJOYABLE OMEDY!
A New Heart Thrill!
JEAN HARLOW WM. POWELL "Reckless
FRANCHOT TONE
May Robson
Evenings 20-30 -50 e −70'6.
"RECKLESS"
Jean Harlow dances! Jean Har- low sings! And William Powell croons in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's dazzling musica! extravaganza, 'Reckless" showing at the Oriental
Non-Stop Flight To Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
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London, Oct. 10.
The first non-stop formation fight by a uni of the RAF from England to Gibraltar was success- fully completed yesterday. No. 203 (flying-boat) Squadron, which re- cently flew its Rangoon flying- boats home from Basra, set out at dawn yesterday from the Mount
For the first time these two most talked-of-stars of the screen of the appear together in one most inspirational. thrilling and tuneful pictures of the year.
In "Reckless". Miss Harlow plays the role of Mona Lesile. an obscure carnival dancer who is litted to Broadway stardom by Powell.. the happy-go-lucky pro- moter of everything from trained feest bearded wrestlers. Fran- chot Tone, is seen as Bob Harri- son, the spoiled,milionaire play- great boosts Mona to boy who
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1935.
SHOWING TO-DAY at 230, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.
MOST SENSATIONAL TITLE BOUT
JOE
LOUIS
VS.
MAX BAER
ONLY 27 DAYS AFTER BOUT IN NEW YORK.
-ÁLIO ÄDDED ÁTTLIGZION-
"THUNDER, IN THE NIGHT' with EDMUND LOWE-KAREN MURLEY A FOX PICTURE
NEXT CHANGE
LESLIE HOWARD - MERLI OBERON "THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL '
THE QUEEN'S
"Mr. Dynamite"
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UNITED ARTISTS
QUEEN'S
THEATRE.“
TO-DAY ONLY 31 280, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.
Gar! Lavand
Elamut LOWE
DYNAMITE
THE KING'S
Louis-Baer Fight
The much talked of Louis-Baer "Dynamite," starring Edmund Lowe, opened its season at the fight of which we have read co- Queen's Theatre yesterday and lumns and columns in the news- those who saw It were agreed papers has at last come to us on the screen and was shown for the that it was not only one of the most thelling murder mystery first time at the Kings Theatre stories of the year but also that yesterday.
at durrsal Petre kopel
JEÀN DIXON ESTHER DALSTON VICTOR VARCONI - MAIY 'M/HUATH.
WAR FILMS FOR CINEMAS
Hired From. Museum
At 6s. "A Foot
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<Special Air Mali Service)
London, Oct. 10.
"Omcial war nims are being
it was Lowe at his best and that Although the fight only lasted! alone should be sufficient guaran-four rounds, the Alm is complete hired ror use in ordinary films and news-reels. The price, says the tee for excellent entertainment.
Lowe plays the part of "Dyna- mite" a reckless, black sheep de- tective who is given a police es- cort out of every town he enters, but he redeems himself when be is called in by private interests to solve the mysterious murder of down a young boy who is shot as he is leaving the grounds of a gambling resort.
exaggeration to It is no
say that the versatile Lowe covers while Jean himself with glory Dixon, as his secretary, is also good.-F.M.A: ¿
SPANISH ULTIMATUM · TO PARAMOUNT
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has
with ginning
every incident from
be-
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Thunder In The Night" **Joe Louis vs. Max Baer".
QUEEN'S:
"Mr. Dynamite"
ORIENTAL:-
"Great Hotel Murder"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Max Baer vs. Joe Louis" "Welcome Home"
MAJESTIC:-
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"Under The Pampus Moon"
KING'S
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Coming
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"The Scarlet Pimpernel"
QUEEN'S:-
"Casino de Paris"
ORIENTAL
"Reckless"
FURTHER FALL IN SECURITIES
(Special Air Mail Service)
London Sept. 28. From the review of the Stock
MAJESTIC
THEATRE- by a NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOAN TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2:30, 5.20, 7.20 a 9.20 P.M.
Love is his law!
WARNER
BAXTER
and KETTI
GALLIAN
UNDER the PAMPAS MOON
HELP THE CHILDREN
AD excellent opportunity of securing attractive Christmas pre- same time, sents and, at
the
to end, and is enough / annual report of the Imperial War Exchange published to-day," and helping one of the most deserving
Museum, is 6s a roo,
to show US what these mighty men have to go through.in order to gain that most coveted heavy weight Crown.
to run at the sound film rate of 24 pictures per second instead of
the long list of falls in prices there causes in the Colony, will be pre-
But in spite of the fact that Bri tish Government stocks fell to the at the silent film rate of 16 pic-lowest points of the year, it would
"Before these old silent Milans can be injected into modern sound recorded, it will be seen that yester-sented at a sale of work in aid of day was a rather depressing day the Society for the Protection of productions," the report states,
Helena May Institute That Joe Louis is master of the "producers must go to the expense for those who hold or deal in securi- Children which is being held at
tles-except, of course, "bears" and the situation
first stretching them printing those few persons who have the Wednesday next. October 30, from from the very going 15 quite apparent,
and every second picture-frame twice courage to buy on a falling murket. 2 to 6.30 p.m. leaves nothing to be
The sale is being organised by wondered after one has seen the fim, and
the Women's Auxiliary of the the King's Theatre must be con-
Society, and the opening gratulated having obtained
mens will be performed at 3 p.m. this film of the fight so soon after
by Lady Southern. All manner of the event.
articles will be on display at the various stalls, including Christmas presents. provisions, etc., and there will also be bran tubs "White Elephant stall, teas will also be served.
on
tures per second."
The report says a ying officer be easy to exaggerate the import ance of yesterday's happenings who wis brought down in No-
The market appears to have taken The programme at the Kings Man's Land during the war has
its tue at the opening from Paris, is a double attraction. and follow-found an "air photograph of his
where on Thursday the Bourse had ing the fight film is an excellent wrecked machine in the muscum.
been weak, and as this was follow mystery drama, titled "Thunder
The officer was anxious to deter-ed by Continental selling in a mar- featuring mine the exact position where he ket where buyers were few and far In The Night" and Edmund Lowe... Karen Morley and was brought down. The place was between prices fell rather sharply. traced for him on the map, and But it would be in correct to say Paul Cavanagh.-C.J.A.
a search was then made for an "air
that there was any real nervous- photograph of the exact date of
ness. the incident.
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NEWS SHEETS OF THE PAST
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Sept 28:
cere-
and a whilst,
All articles will be found to be most reasonably priced, and as the Society is greatly in need of funds with which to carry on its excellent work, it is hoped that many parents and children will
The selling appeared to be of A photograph taken from 3 speculatively-held stock carried on great height was found, and the borrowed money as well as on be- make a point of giving the sale officer saw represented by a amall half of nervous investors. The the'r support. and unmistakable spot the aero- New York Stock Exchange was also plane in which he crashed.
weak," but this was a reflecting of The year's attendance at the the weakness of London. The museum was 307,983, compared Paris Bourse, however, yesterday
Madrid, Oct 22. The Spanish Government has decided at the request of the War Minister O1 Robles that they re- Paramount he American quire film company 10 immediately An exhibition illustrating the with 295,885 in the previous year.
English newspapers withdraw various films that are history of now appearing abroad in which from the early news-sheets of the Spanish army policy
been seventeenth century until the pre- It is sent made o appear ridiculous: stated that should the Govern- Owen Seaman at the hall of the of Journalists, Tudor ment's demands not be fulfilled Ins.ltute
days, the Govern-Street. The collection is the pro- within three ment will prohibit all paramoun. perty of the London Press Club, films from being shown on Span- and it has been placed on exhibi- connection Ish territory --
tion unt Friday in with the annual conference of the Transocean Auo Man
Institute of Journalists.
ADVICE TO ABYSSINIA
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Oct 10.
Ian Hamilton.
General Su
was a little steadier. Movements It commedity prices were irregu- |lar,' profit-taking causing a fail in directions, but "bullish"
some
time, was opened by 8 THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL speculation a rise in others.
Twenty
The demand for dollars again dominated the foreign exchanges yesterday. It is mainly the out-
JAPANESE BEER"
(Speclat Air Ma'i Servical
London, Oct. 10. White Japanese statesmen are making declarations sympathetic to Abyssinia, Japanese merchants are makinig money out of Italy.
Already many of the Italian
years ago" Baroness Was asked by a famous Orczy publishing house to supply a come of the tendency on the part Expeditionary Force are wearing thrilling serial in rather a hurry. p Continentul holders of capital shirts bearing the label, in Eng-
Within fifteen minutes of receiv- to transfer funds to New York... In ing the commission she had for-
some instances yesterday Contio-ish. "Made in Japan."
Japanese brewers are sharing in There is no important phase inmulated mentally the story of ental owners of gold deposited in
"The Scarlet Pimpernel". Origin- London were even reported to be the harvest, Italian Somaliland the evolution of the modern, news-'
ally the setting was to be Russia, selling gold and purchasing dollar has imported in the first two quar- paper which the exhibition doza
but for diplomatic, reasons Baru- funds. Gold cannot be held on ters of 1935 Elx times the total im- not "lustra.e. A page from Car-
ness Orczy altered it to France in private account in the United porta in 1934, ton's press is the earliest exhibit,
the time of the revolution. Since States. Gold currencies showed
There is no attempt, as there and there follows an interval of over a century before the dhect ancestral line of the newspaper
Batten station at Plymouth with social heights and then plunges speaking at the annual dinner of begins with the "Mercurius Gallo. country of the world.
its new Short Singapore II. four- engined flying-boats to return to Basra and reached Gibraltar be- Lore dusk, having flown the 1,070
miles non-stop.
her into an abyss of scandal.
"Reckless" contains. even more three steller players. than these
"A few British officers who ser- ved in the Tirah campaign would to do it:
them how not teach
belgicus," a summary in Lain of six month's news in the year 1805. The propagandist news-sheets. of the Civil War, issuing from the rival headquarters in London and Oxford, are strongly represented was almost completed. in the collection, which contains
The Nose Knows
It's first publication the story has further general appreciation, the often is in the case of Japanese been a best seller in almost every New York rate falling to $4.91 13-16 | "whisky," to disguise the country and the Paris rate to 74 45-841. or the beer's origin. The prin- Because so many popular books|Large engagements of gold were cipal brands are “Sakoura” and have been unsuccessful as nims, reported for New York, these in- "Asahi." 1 seized the opportunity of dis- cluding a part of the £810.000 of cussing the subject with Baroness gold sold in the London bullion Orezy when the filming by Ale- |market. Italian currency showed xander Korda of her famous book depreciation, the Milan exchange rising to 6011; forward fire were "It seems certain to
me ai- nominally quoted at a discount of also a contemporary report of the ready", she said, "that the picture 18-21. one month, and 61. three
rial and execution of Charles the will be an excellent interpretation months. First. Proclamations by Charles
of my story. The amazing thing theBecond and Queen Anne is the way that the actors and against the printing of seditious actresSSES have given the precise books are therɩ to remind the visi characterisation that. I visualised tor of the strict surveillance to
when I wrote the story. It has been almost uncanny to watch.. in Tater Stuart times.
not to collect together and give their enemies a target. If there seems any opening for a close or which the presses were submitted
der attack, let it be by night. After all, I ought to know what I am
RARE PRODUCTIONS The section of the exhibition devoted to the productions of the
When Mr. Korda first plabbed to produce "The Scarlet Pimper- ne?" he invited my advice. I was glad to help in any way I could: and now I am proud of my small part. in the making of a fira which I confidently think will be a big success",
the City Imperial Volunteers in Saturday, said: "I London on trust the Abyssinians will make Its cast includes such dependable their daggers gleam in the moon artists as May Robson, Ted Healy,
und will take their lessons from Pendleton, An attempt made by a similar Nat
Robert Lighthe Afridis and Mohamands rather fying-boat, which left Plymouth Rosalind Russell, Henry Stephen than from instructors of the par- for Singapore to replace the boat son and Louise Henry.
ade ground-the present-arms. It teems with elaborate musical last in Sicily some months ago,
Ecos2-stepping sort An not successful. WHE
inter-numbers. In these tingling must- mediate call had to be made at cal numbers, presented against Lisbon in that case. Yesterday's lavish backgrounds and surround- Bight by three. boats was therefore ed by hordes of beautiful girls, of special significance at the first you will hear the catchy song of its kind and as promising well hits sung by such singing stars of for the remainder of the journey, "Bitter Sweet". Kinney, the sen- which it is hoped to accomplish sational Creole "blues" singer, without calls at ports not in Bri-
- | talking about. I commanded a tish control. If the experiment
ther reports. Given favourable brigade at the opening of the should succeed. an important step In the development of the system conditions the squadron may reach Tiran campalen until I broke my eighteenth century is of the great- leg, and commanded again the | est interest to the student of Bagra within a week.
Brigade, which saw the newspaper history, for there are Tae three flying-boats left Third Mount Batten at 8.35 yesterday closing phases of the War-name- many rare, and some unique, cop- morning and arrived at Gibraltar 7. a save face, patched-up peace. 128 of early newspapers on view at 6 pm. (3.8.T.). Each boat has It was in Tirah and not at Alder- Among these is a copy of an is- The plans for the rest of the a crew of six and is equipped with shot, or on Sallsbury Plain, that sue of "The Times" during 1785, papers, surviving still, could point
under the newspapers original tiše, to an origin at least 50 years ear fourney allow only three other bunks and living quarters so that we learned."
boat the crew may liye on board and
and the only known copy of the calls. From Gibraltar the
her than the oldest London gener will go direct to Malta, a distance prepare meals in the
first issue of the "Morning Poal" in at newspaper, the "Morning Post,” Etchep.
1772. Examples of many of the porn in 1772, In this kaleidosco- provincial newspapers' in their plc aze it was impossible to priza, earliest form may also be studied. too highly the virtue of continuity. Sir Owen Besman said that no- Bir Emsley Carr proposed a vote Thing in the exhibition had im- of thanks ta Bir Owen pressed him more than its evi- Beaman for opening the ex- dence of the powers or endurance hibition Mr. Alan Pitt, Rob- of the provincial Press. Large bins, president of the-Institute numbers of the provincial news was in the cha'r.
of reinforcing British units in the East through a chain of British stations will have been taken,
THREE MORE CALLS
So It Seemed
of 985 miles. The next stage will The Bingapore III. is fitted with Rolls-Royce Kestrel (540 take them to Aboukir.. 920 miles four distant; and from there the re-h.p.) engines set in tandem pairs The barber had used his electric maining 1,070 miles to Barra will between the wings and has a clippers in cutting small Betty's be covered non-stop. No attempt cruising speed of about 105 miles hair.
No. 203 Squadron La "I think my neck wasn't clean,” will be made to complete the an hour journey in fast time The squad-commanded by Group Captain E. ron will if necessary, wait at its E. Saul, who was also in command various ports of call for good wea-on the homeward' fight.
she told her mother on coming home 'cause that man used his Vacuum cleaner on it"
ALHAMBRA
FUENTEE
"What I admire her for most is her exquisite taste in perfumery.
"I see;" you let yourself be led by the nose."
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20.& 8.80 P.M.
THE WORLD'S SENSATIONAL HEAVY-WEIGHT BOST" MAX BAER
Former World Champion
V8.
JOE LOUIS
Detroit K. O. King
SHOWING 'WITH
WELCOME HOME
Vinith
JAMES DUNN, ARLINE "JUDGE
A Fox Picture A LOUDER AND FUNNIER COMEDY!
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