CINEMA TRADE NOTICES
"DANTES INFERNO"
"OUR LITTLE GIRL"
como
to
The Film needed a circus-a real "Dante's Inferno." one of the most startling dramas "ever pro.circus-for certain aequences in duced by the motion picture in Sirley Temple's new starring pic- dustry, with scenes of unmatched ure Our Little Girl," showing at the Oriental Theatre on to-morrow, spectacle-and-soul-stirring sights—lendar anil Tuesday...
The circus wouldn't that leave one breathless in their! SWELD.
town-not on its regilar schedule. The thrilling adventure of Dante Bo Hollywood, proverbially prodi In his journey through the In-gal. and wanting what is wanted ferno, as recorded in that greatest when it wants it, hired a whole of all literary classics. "The circus-shipped to the Fox lot.
As result you need not wait for Divine Comedy." is pleturized for! the Arst time on the talking 1 the circus to come to town. It's screen ILS an expression of atin town, in this picture.
modern story" theme. And becomes one of the greatest spectacles ever attempted.
Bad Uttle boys and girls may be sent to bed without dinner, but they have no place in Purgatory
Acrobats, clowns, stunt riders, wild naimals, freaks, and kindred
reus personnel arrived for this picture, and erected one of the largest tents ever used in the circus world. Everything moved exactly as though a public performance were scheduled for the morrow,
Fox Fum decided in the produc- tion of "Dante's Inferno," showing simultaneously at the Alhambra and King's from to-morrow.
The starting-and-colourful Hellward Butcher production, scenes of the picture are peopled with thousands of mature sinners. but no children, which is quite in accord with Dante's report of what
Elephants were watered, wild animals, fed and the big tent was utapled.
"Supporting Shirley in this Ed
Hell is like. ---..
In the modern sequences of the picture, however, several children are employed.
DIED LEARNING.
"I desire
semary Ames, Joel McCrea, Lye Talbot, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ma saret Armstrong, Ruta Oria. Leonard Carey, Warren › Hymer, Jack Donohue, and others.
EVERY NIGHT AT
EIGHT"
Film producers having lured many celebrities from radio world, air oficials have launched a counter attuck with an offer in the form These were the last requests in
of a five-year singing contract to the will of Mr. Charles Haines, of
motion three
picture
actresses Petersfield, Hampshire, for many years a master at Dover College. providing they will give up all screen work. Alice Faye, Frarices who died in August: that my body should be shrouded Langford and Patay Kelly, prin- acipals appearing opposite George in my father's dressing-gown the mantle of a good and grent, Raft in Walter Wanger's Para nan, My Coffin is to be of papier macho or of the lightest ani cheapest deal possible, with iron or steel bandies, and by no means of brass....." He asked that on the headstone of his grave should be Anscribed: He died learning,
and directed that a post-mortem -examination should be carried out on his busy, being fully con vinced that burial alive is far more common than is usually r He left £8,269..
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-E.$5
7.15-5.90
mount musical comedy drama "Every Night At Fight" which opens at the Queen's Theatre to may received the railio proposal from Raymond Paige, Western Musical Director of the Columbia Company. Faige Broadcasting became enthusiastic about the sing ing of the three girls after witness ing a preview of "Every Night At Eight" in which they appear as a realised."sister singing trio. Miss Langford and Miss Faye, both proteges of
THEL ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB
ORIENTAL
LAST
4 TIMES TO-DAY
A CORKING GOOD COMEDY DRAMA
A BLONDE who got
her man...
helps solve
a merry
murder 'mystery!
ONE NEW YORK NIGHT
with
FRANCHOT TONE UNA MERKEL CONRAD NACEL
HARVEY STEPHENS
" ̈ROAD"
WANOMAI
TEL. 2647E
TO-MORROW MONDAY-TUESDAY
ANOTHER
DELIGHTFUL PICTURE
BY THE SCREEN'S BIGGEST LITTLE STAH
Shirley TEMPLE
Rosemary
de her greaters
picture
AMES OUR MCCREA LITTLE
LYE "TALBOT
ERIN
GIRL"
O'BRIEN-MOORE
Prices Matinees 20 c.-8. Evenings 20 e.-30.-50 c.-70 s.
ESTARE
SHOWING TO-DAY. At 2.30, 5,29, 1.20 & 9.20 PM.
GENE ST
Laddi
with
JOHN BEAL
GLORIA STUART VIRGINIA WERSLER
RKO RADIO.
NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, ONE DAY ONLY ROBERTA
Rudy Valles, were wellknown on the air before entering films. Miss Langford has been singing on the Hollywood Hotel Hour major radio programme in addition to her picture work.
STRANDED
Only an eighth wonder of the world could stop the Hollywood set builders. It did!.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1935.
TO-DAY ONLY AT THE
KING'S ALHAMBRA
AL 1.90. 5,10. 7.75 & 9.80 P.M. Atz 30, 5,20, 7,87 & 9.30.P.M.
See it not once.......
not twice...
but many
times!
Gracethics
in her new picture
JOVE ME FOREVER
HOM
"DANTE'S INFERNO" (SUN." with Spuncar TracT-CLAINS TRIVO2*
"LOVE ME FOREVER"
Grace Moore At Her Best
tox PICTURE
QUEEN'S
THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.18, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M. REAL ENTERTAINMENT ! Paramount &
Every Night
at Eight"
with
GEORGE RAFT-ALICE FAYE
PATSY KELLY-FRANCES LANGFORD
THE THREE RADIO ROGUES
-ALSO IN THE PROGRAMME
POP-EYE CARTUON
NEWS BEEL
JAPANESE IN
SCREEN BOUVENIRS
NORTH CHINA.
Military Freely Make darmerie Headquarters.
Arrests
(Special to the "Hong Kong Dal▾
Press Copyright.)]
The lovable star of "One Night O: Love" Grace Moore is with us Peiping, November 10 (by mall), once again at the King's and The spokesman of the Japanese Alhambra theatres in "Love Me milltary forces in Peiping admit-
delightful Forever"
musicale ted on Nov. 5, that several Chinese had been arrested in Pelping by crammed full off gorgeous scenes tantalizing music and warm-heart-Japanese gendarmes., The exact ed romance.
Miss Moore who takes the lead ing rule in this picture is neard to
advantage. Her beautiful good voice rings OUL clear when she fr.m "La Bo- renders exceipts
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Love Me Forever"
"QUEEN'SP
"Every Night At Eight"
ORIENTAL:-
"One New York Night"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:—
"Love Me Forever"
MAJESTIC:---
Chinese Picture
STAR:-
"Laddie"
KING'S:-
Sunday
took him to the Japanese Gen-
Mr. L azed 50, was formerly director of the Military Supplies Department
"Dante's InfernoTM of the Honan Provincial Govern- ment. He is now detained also in ] QUEEN'S:—
The the Japanese Headquarters.
has not case of Mr. L's arrest been announced, by the Japanese. ORIENTAL: ---.. however,
"Every Night At Eight"
41
"Our Little Girl"
“ALHAMBKA:
NEW PEIPING MAYOR Early this week. Mayor Yuan Lang resigned from his post as Mayor of Peiping. General Chin | STAR: Te-chun, new Mayor of Peiping, who formally assumed office on November 9. declared in his in- augural speech that he will do his best to allay the uneasiness of the local populace. restore their con fidence, and promote friendly re-
number of Chinese taken into custody was not disclosed by the spokesman who declared that they were being detained at the present time at the headquarters of the gendarmerie in the Japanese bar- hemel and Rigoletto wide berricks He adds that after the-lations-with-neighbouring coun acting and the way, she portrayed her part was exceedingly fre
Japanese authorities had com- pleted their investigations, those Miss Moore is supported by a arrested would be handed over to The fine cast including Leo Carrillo
the Chinese authorities. Robert Allen, Michael Bartlett.
spokesman, declared it was be- Alberni.ieved that one of the arrested Spring Byington, Luis Douglas Dumbell and Thurston
Hall
surpasses
"Love Me Forever any musicale yet seen and even "One Night of Love" is incompar- able to this delightful picture of music, love, laughter and romance. I is a first rate picture, seted hv a. first rate casz
POT POURRI FROM HOME
Chinese was A bona-fde Blue- shirt. and another a leader of Volunteers still operating in Man- churia The arrest of the alleged Blueshirts, he continued: had been carried out by "an understanding and not with the "permission" of the Chinese authorities
tries
"Dante's Inferno"
"Roberta"
MAJESTIC
"Public Hero No. 1
WAR STAMPS
Italo-Abyssinian Issues
(Special Air Mali Service)
2
MAJESTIC
THEATRE site
NATHAN ROAD;" KOWLOON FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY A: 3.30, 5.20. 7:20 & 9.20 F.M.
A CHINESE PICTURE
with CANTONESE DIALOGUE
1
SUNDAY "PUBLIC HERO NUMBER 1
"WITH
CHESTER MORRIS
Another anniversary stamp comes from Mexico in celebration of the centenary of the federation of the State of Chiapas, the arms of which dominate the vignete "print- ed in deep blue and of the face. value 10 centavos...
HOLLAND'S ISSUE
As a voluntary contribution to- wards the national aviation fund ("Voor het National Luchtvaart- fonds"). Hellarid has provided(a distinctive 6 cents stamp showing the shadows of three aeroplanes reflected on a map of the country, printed in sepla and sold at a pre- mium, of 4.cents upon its actual postal value. The departure of the Spanish expedition "Iglesias" to explore the Amazon recently was the occasion of a special stamp of 30 centavos, recess printed in traverse rectangular format with a miniature reproduction of an an "“dient map of the Amazon region," with a galley of the period inser Brazil has commemorated the cen- tenary of the so-called "Ragged Revolution" of 1835 by means of a 700 res stamp portraying Benta Goncalves, President of the Repub- lic of Rio Grande. together with the arms and shleid of that State, which is to be followed by further, denominations bearing a Ukeniss of the Duke of Caxias (1,000 reis), a cavalry charge (300 reis), and a gauche horseman (200 rel),
A postal record of a great en- gineering achievement comes in the
TWO CASES IN A WEEK Li Ming, section chief in the -Bureau of Social Affairs of the Tientsin Municipal Government, was kidnapped on the night on
the October 30 by
Japanese military police. Although the Municipal Government immediate- ly despatched a Secretary, L
Japanese authorities. his efforts to bring about Mr. El's release were futile. This was the second kidnapping case in Tientsin within the past and economic situation will also Haile Selassie in full war kit. -
He will achieve all these, ends, declared General Chin, with a sense at absolite sincerity and all the time strictly follow the instructions-of-the-Central Gov- ernment. The people in Petping, he added, are now in the grip of a kind of fear and nervousness quite uncalled for, and it will be?
London, Oct.-25.- sense of
War and conquest are a prolife his duty to instil a security and confidence in their source of new-stamp issues. The minds. To achieve this end, he stamp follows the flag, and after said, it is of prime importance armies comes the peaceful, pene- that the authorities should co- tration of the post. Already the promises to
form of a new 3 cents stamp of operate more closely with the Abysstrian, conflict people.
leave its imprint upon the stamps
the United States, picturing - the of the combatant nations. It is
the iColorado river. Ceylon pre understood that the Italian Gov-newly completed Boulder Dam on ernment have in preparation a
sents. a panorama of Adam's Peak series of postage stamps com
(7,420ft.), the sacred mountain of" memorating the avenging of
the Buddhists and Moslems, upon a new 3 cents pictorial postage stamp of the colony. The Angio Egyptian Sudan sends two addi
Interesting Items On Shao-kun to see the
Various Topics
London, Oct. 25.
TO LAST 500 YEARS Mr. Douglas Cockerell, who was selected by the British Museum au- thorities for the responsible task of binding the Codex Sinaiticus, will exhibit at Doriand Hall in Novem- ber a trial binding on a dummy volume for the second volume of the Codex.
make a The aim has been to binding that will protect the book for at least 500 years.
All the materials used, linen for.
guarding, thread for sewing, vellum for mending, and the leather, have been specially made and, as far as possible, teated:"
Some 15 oak boards have been
prepared by Mr. Stanley Parker, of Letchworth, and the four that stand best will be used for the
covers of the Codex.
a
week, the hold-up of Wang I-fan; Deputy-Director of the Tientsin Press Censorship Bureau, and four of his "assistants by a number of armed Japanese, being the first.
PROTECTION TO FOREIGNERS
Referring to the protection of foreign nationals in the old capl- will tal, General Chin said, he
issue approach this important with a sincerity. He said that Adows, while a separate issue for this is one of his heaviest duties the occupied province of Tigré la foreshadowed. On the Ethiopian and he will do his utmost to give de there is talk of an impending
The foreigners due protection. stabilizing of the focal financial
issue
portraying the
Emperor
tional air mail stamps of 74 and 10 plastres resp:ctively in the familiar “» Early next month the Belgian design of Gordon's statue and a receive his best attention. The
pest office will put on sale a very 20 plastres denomination showing. financial dificulties, confronted by aeautiful stamp portrait of the the camel postman. The tercen- Peiping recently have also been
SETS OF FIVE
auction at:
ate Queen Astrid, surrounded by tenary of the French colonization. the main cause of ́ worry to the
and of the West Indies is comminor- a deep turning border people, and it will henceforth be
by special stamp issues national campaign against tuber-emanating from French Guiana, Another Chinese official of the his mission to place the livelihood carrying a picialum in aid of the fated
Government has
of the people on a sound footing. culosis, in which the dead! Queen Guadeloupe, and Martinique.. Tientsin City been arrested by the Japanese
In regard to construction work
With the sale by took a close and personal inter- gendarmes. He is Wang Chia- the ancient city, General
est. It will be followed in Decem Harmer, Rooke's rooms of the chin of the Bureau of Social Chin said he will follow the ad-
per by seven other denominations, unique 1 cent British Guiana. Affairs On November 4, a num-. mrable example set by his pre-
identical in design but printed in stamp of 1858, the last remnant of ber of Japanese gendarmes enter- decessor and push on those works contrasting cours and sold with the second greatest stamp collec- ed the private residence of LA Hsi- which are still left unfinished.--
b surtax for ine beseft of the tion that has ever been brought chin in Tiezitain at 10 am, and China United Press
Bamé CauLE;
together, will have been scattered. This item, being the personal pro- The anniversary of the assas-perty of the widow of Mr. Arthur Holland and Java requires extra burgh this week on the organisa-
but for this ordinary tion of precautionary measures for sination of King Alexander of Bind, of Utica, NY, was not ins postage, stamps can be used.
protecting the civilian population Yugoslavia was marked on October cluded with the rest of his collec
9 by the circulation of a set of tion that was disposed of in Lon-.. Besides making the Dutch public in the event of attack from the alr. airminded the National Luchtra The Glasgow conference on Thurs de memorial stamps bearing his don and New York during 1934–35. artonds has helped to give Dutch day is to be attended by city rekeness in the uniform of an for over £170,000. Speculation is civil aviation its very high place in presentatives and county council Admirai, tanked with laurel leaves rife as to what it will realize under the world by providing funds for delegates from Renfrew, Lanark, and with the date of his death the hammer to-day, but it is hard- long-distance flights and for ex- and Dumbarton On Friday Com inscribed beneath. The memory by anticipated that bidding will periments in new types of ma-mander Hodsoll will visit Edin of Hans Christian Andersen is reach the peak figure of £7343 by. some particular attained at the sale of the Ferrari"
at the stamp treasures in 19221) postage stamps issued
Mr. George Robey's collection of instigation of the Danish Minister his death, the subjects of which stamps will come under the ham for Education on the centenary of French and French Colonial include, in addition to a portrait mer at Puttick's early next month.
chines.
HIGHLANDS: “NEW DEAL”
honoured
LASTED 1,248 YEARS" The leather is to be white alum goatskin with sliver clasps. Warner Bros., could not I Five hundred years is an unam produce the great Golden Gate bitious life for the binding com- Bridge, now being built and which pared with that of the warliest de- is the background of importantcorated leather binding in this Deal for the Highlands" may be ments that may be necessary for bust of the poet-fabulist. himself,
burgh to address a conference of the city authorities and local re- presentatives from the Lothians and South-Eastern Counties. These meetings will afford an opportun Ity for discussing local arrange the organisation of medical and
ambulance services..
two characters from his best- known stories, the Swan and the Mermaid,
Good Bale
I learn that the conference fixed to be held in Glasgow on Novezz ber 25 to discuss the organisation for advancing the policy of "A New
action in "Stranded" the next
ante-dated or postponed. Sir Ian country, change at the Queen's Theatre, al-
A countryman paying his first though the company did reproduce. This is at Stonyhurst College, the Macpherson, MF., who has con-
́FIRST OIL WELL LICENCES Characteristic types of German sections of it. The Golden Gate Roman Catholic-public school. It sented to preside over the con- Bridge has a suspension span near covers the MS. of St. John's Cospelference-in-Glasgow, has been ask-
The negotiations between the womanhood arrayed in the visit to the seaalde was struck by ofing to an ancient boatman, he the latest series ly three times as long as that of taken in 1104 from the coffin ofed to give his opinion on the mat Board of Trade and the numerous costumes of their native provinces the vast expanse of water. Turn- Brooklyn Bridge. It is supported St. Cuthbert, who died in 687.
ter. If the conference is post applicants for licences, to sink of our stamps released at the said a magn hy towers so huge that it requires.
poned it is intended to raise during wells in Britain have hsen mere beginning of October and to re- "I shouldn't half like to take NO EXTRA CHARGE the election campaign only the prolonged than was, expected, but main current down to the end of some of this home to the mizun
"question that a Royal Commission' proper is 8450 feet long, the total This new
I learn to day that the first 11- Fetiruary, 1936. They have been Do you think you could sell me a Dutch air atamp of inquiry into the social and length, including the approaches is is of special interest to col-economic conditions in the High of a fortnight. The applications Diebitsch from photographs spect-
cences will be issued in the course adapted by the artist Kari bottleral?
The boatman! «ezsented gland
450 freight cars, to haul the steel
for one tower. While the bridge
17 miles. Even the movies could lectors. Each one sold Pro-langs and Islands should be ap- come from large and small con- ally posed by Hans Retzlaff, charged the countrymen sixpence
not build this Ite massive vides four cents profit for the pointed without delay by the news and individual prospectors Hungary commemorates with for the service. however, set the scale for the rest
National Aviation Fund.
It can Administration. All Farliamentary keen to try their luck in the search stamps the tercentenary of the A few hours later the visitor re of the production of "Stranded"
candidates will be asked to com- for oil. Each has been subjected founding of the University of turned to the shore again after a The use of the Golden Gate be used only for inland postage.
"It is one of the few aviation mil themselves to & pledge in to carsful omcial scrutiny, as the Budapest under charter from the tour round the town By now the Bridge is in the nature of a
Issued. favour of an inquiry of this rind. preview of the biggest undertaking stamps, Holland has ever
Mines Department does not want Prince Primate Petrus Pazmany, tids had gone out. of its kind in history, and a pro-It may be the last
ANTI-AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS
to encourage any "tin-pot" flota- whose likeness appears on the 6. The man gazed open-mouthed at jest that will be prominent in the At the present moment Bollaud world's headlines for years to is the only European country which
I understand that Commander tons. I nderstand that one of 16, and 20 Aller values, the re the spectacle,
"Hm-m, mister;" blications l'introm a large mainder reproducing picture of nomeStranded" is a stirring does not charge extra postage for Hero of the Home Office, will the drama featuring Kay Francis and
letter carried brikal thin address conferences of local auoll company whose main interests the ceremy of signing the char- to the bostmi
fez
ez of incorporation in 1835, good trade to George Brent Brank Borzage
Europe. The Fair mail
between thorities – In Glasgow and Edin-are in the Middle East, Firected."
turning?
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