4 SHOWS
DAILY
120-$15
די
GEORGE
QUEENT
THEATRE
TO-DAY ONLY xt 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30
RAFT
EDWARD
ARNOLD
in Paramount's
"The G ASS KEY"
by the author of "The Thin Man" DASHIELL HAMMETT
TAKE A TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB
ORIENTAL
THEATRE.
2 MORE TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
DAYS
THE MIGHTIEST SPECTACLE
PLEMING
ROAD STANOHA
TEL. 1847E
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1935.
TO-DAY AT THE Canton - Hankow Line
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"The Nitwits"
QUEEN'S
"The Glass Key"
ORIENTAL:-
"The Crusades'
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:~~
."Pursuit"
MAJESTIC
"Girl In The Case"
STAR:
"H's Greatest Gamble"
Coming
+
KING'S :-
THAT EVER GRACED THE SCREEN! QIGANTIC THRILLS THAT ACTUALLY STAGGER YOUR IMAGINATION, THE MOST DAZZLING AND SPECTACULAR SCREEN SHOW YOU EVER WITNESSED:
Her Beauty Decides the Fate of the World!
The Scarlet Middle Ages
live again in romance
and thrilling spectada!
Adolph Zakor presenta
CECIL B. DeMILLE'S
"The CRUSADES"
TETTA FOUNG “HINAY WILCOXON
A Paramount Pictate
Prices Matinees 20 .-80 c. Evenings 20 a~80 d.—50 c.—70 0.
ESTARE
TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 5.23 7.20 & 9,29 P.M.
The story of a man who lived turcesty. jend liked #1
GREATEST GAMBLE
with
RICHARD DIX DOROTHY WILSON ⚫RKO RADIO PICTURE ∙SATURDAY, 80th-
#4 GAY DIVORCEE By Special Request. One day only.
MR. DAVID OSTRER TO MARRY BARONESS
Η
Brother Of Film Magnate
London, Nev. II. Notice has been given at a London register office of the forth- coming marriage of Mr. David Ostrer, the film company manager, and Baroness Ingeborg Wilmans Edle von Wildenkron, formerly the wife of Baron Ernst von Wildenk- ron, from whom she obtained a divorce. The marriage wil; be by !teence.
"CALL OF THE WILD"
A fortune for a story theme. Motion picture producers have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for just that a slender thread from which a screen play may be developed.
"Call Of The Wild"
QUEEN'S:-
||
"Annapolis Farewell"
ORIENTAL:-
"Gold Diggers of 1935" "West of The. Pecos" "Bride of Frankenstein”- "Car· 99"
MAJESTIC:--
"Our Little Girl"
STAR:-
"Gay Divorcee"
"NITWITS"
Inspected
EUROPEAN OFFICIAL ON TOUR
Mr. Walker Impressed With
Progress Made
Mr. R.D. Walker, M.C., Mana-
METAL ROAD ger of the British Section of the i The Headquarters at Heng Chow- Kowloon Canton Railway returned; is also equipped with a hospital. yesterday after having been on a There is also a good metal road for five days tour of inspection of the motors between Ping Bhek and
LAST TWO-DAYS
Bert
•KINGS!!
7.15 & 9.39
Robt
WOOLSEY
The reigning Quisque of Goofydom fodn prich
THE
WITWITS
SUNDAY
Fred: Käating Betty Grable Evelyn Brent
Erik Rhodes
RKO-RADIO PICTURE
Construction Work of the Canton-Heng Chow-distance of about 140 CLARK GABIE in" "CALL OF THE WILD LORETTA YOUNG UNITED
Hankow Railway.--The--tour was "miles-and-also-another-good- undertaken at the invitation of the highway on the other side of the Chu-Shtu Section Administration. | river, between
and Hengchow Mr. Walker was accompanied by { Changsha, "Motor. buses operated Mr. Li Lu Chao the Managing"} by the Provincial Government Director of the Chinese Section of maintain a regular service `along the Canton-Kowbon Railway as these two highways and stop at far as Ping-Shek, Mr. LI could not all the villages on the route, proceed further as he had to re- turn to Canton to attend an offl- cial meeting.
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Mr. Walker was most impressed 'with the country he passed through especially the section be- MR. WALKER IMPRESSED
tween Lok Chung and Ping Shek,- Mr. Walker in an interview this "a 32 miles section which ran along afternoon, sald that he, was shown the side of the Gorge, the scenery over the whole of the construction being described as marvellous. works at Heng Chow, and was HANKOW-CANTON IN 31 DAYS most impressed with the project It is possible even now to make which was going on, and which the above trip in three and a half he described as being "excellent." days by travelling over the follow- Heng Chow Railway station is one) Ing routes:-
of two-storied reinforced concrete Take train from Wongsha Sta- construction with a garden roof, Įtion, Canton, at 7.45.am and ar- and is fitted with wireless. There I rive at Lok Chong at 4.55 pm, are also sixteen cottages there for where an overnight stay is neces- the officials set out in "Model sary. Leave Lok Chong by train at 7 Town" style, all complete with a.m: the next morning, and arrive modern sanitation,
at Ping Shek at 10.32 am. From here it is necessary to take the 10.40 a.m. motor bùs to arrive at Peng Chow at 6.08 p.m., where the night must be spent. At 9 am. the following morning, the journey is continued by motor bus, arriving
WORK GOING ON APACE Regarding the line, Mr. Walker informed us that this was proceed- Ing rapidly and there was only an- other 90 malies of track to be laid before the two cities would be
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Goofy Comedians At completely linked. All the bridges at Changsha at 1.25. p.m. where
Their Best
Bert. Wheeler and Robert Wool- sey, that goofy pair of comedians are with us again, and this time
tectives in the picture "Nitwits" in the personages of scientifle de-
showing at the King's
now Theatre.
With all the paraphernalia, for detection, this pair has included
em-
A recent instance of this was 20th Century's Call of the Wild," which comes to the King's Theatre alle detector which they use Next Sunday with Clark Ga to their advantage, They bie, Loretta Young and Jack Oakia ployed it on one of their suspects.. in its loading roles.
one of whom may have slain a song magnate and his auditor and blackmailed
Producer Darryl Zanuck decided to capitalize on the current public interest in gold. Gold has become more a magic world than ever dur- ing the past year. He considered stacks of manuscripts. Among them one story stood out as having infinitely more possibilities of de velopment than the others. Besides.
mány. How and through what ways they succeed as hilarious as they ere
Bre comical.
Music is synonymous with every Wheeler-Woolsey, picture and this Nitwits" is no exception. Three
no story had captured such univer-popular melodies with the grip- sal intertat as this during three ping melodramatic theme are in- decades,
"THE NITWITS""
Graig Kennedy Philo Vance ! Sherlock Holmes Take your fat feet and run! Johnnie and Newton are here, with a bag full of new sleuthing tricks to put you to shame!
The crime-solving aces of fiction are now rivalled by Johnnie and Newton, who come on the scene in the persons of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in "The Nitwits," Uow showing at the King's Theatre.
"The Niwits" combines amateur sleuthing, non-sensical hilarity and fast-stepping melody.
"THUNDER MOUNTAIN"
cluded in this vehicle. Others in this delightful cast. are Betty Grable, Joey Ray and Joan San- derson.
The picture is delightful-"0".
"HIS
GREATEST GAMBLE"
Mr. Walker apore very highly of
and tunnels have been completed, another night stop over is neces-→ The line, he thought, would be."; sary and then to catch the next completed by August and he un- morning train at 8 am, to arrive derstood that construction, trains, at Hankow at 11 pm. with passerers will continue to | run unil the end of the year, when Mr. H. H. Lắng, Director and En- through traffic between Hankowgineer-in-Chief of the Clulu Chow and Canton will be opened. The | Shao Chui Section and his organi- line is divided into six districts | sation and also of the very excel- and each to have their own hospi-lent treatment handed out to him tals and doctor.
"by all the officials,
TOKYO BUDGET
SLASHED
No Funds For Development Of Civil Aviation
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OLD RESIDENT RETIRES
Mr. Davidson Sails
For Canada
JACK DAKIKAFTISTE
FINAL
SHOWINGS MAJESTIC At 2.30, 6.20.
THEATRE:
7:20 & 9.20 P.M.
TO-DAY
GIRL
EUGENE FRELIKE
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
in
DUWORLD
DAV
Jimmy
CASE
IN THE
CHINESE ART TREASURES
DOROTHY
“LAMBERT· · DARLING
EDIMA
STARTS SATUNDAY?
"OUR LITTLE GIRL”
Private View Day Arranged
London, Nov. 27.
Private' view day of the Chinese Art Exhibition at Burlington House caused heavy traffic congestion, long lines. of-motor-cara being drawn up in Piccadily.
Sir John and Lady Simon arrived hall an hour before the doora opened and waited in the long queue af visitors Practically the whole of the Diplomatic Corps was present and spent most of the day in the exhibition.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and his daughter, Ishbell, also arrived ear- 17 and stayed until late in the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin devoted much of the morning..to the exhibits, while Lord Hewart and Bir samuel Hoare were only able to come late, when the crowd, containing many of the most not able members of the Peerage and London, society, was so thick that
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. E. Davidson, accompanied by their daughter, Tokyo, Nov. 13.
Mrs. Beity Pass, and little grand Refusal to appropriate funds for
daughter, Miss Pamela Pass, are the development of civil aviation
Bailing for Canada this morning in Japan featured yesterday's
in the Empress of Canada. meeting of Treasury officials, who
They plan to settle down in considered the 1936 budgetary
Victoria, B.C. where the climate estimates submitted by the Minis- will be more beneficial for Mas tries of Foreign and Overseas Davidson. Their son, Mr. Donald Affairs, Finance and Communica-Davidson, who is on one of Messrs. It was difficult to see the exhibits Butterfield and Swire's ships, plans Both declared that they must come to spend his leave with his parents again. next year.
tions.
Demands of the Overseas Affairs Ministry for new undertakings, not provided for in the budget for the current year, were slashed by 65 per cent., while Galmusho mates were cut by 60. per cent and the Communications Mints In the R.KO.-Radlo picture Histry's demands "by more than 96 Greatest Gamble" now showing at per cent.
At The Alhambra
い
esti-
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Mr. Davidson is a well-known. local resident and has identified himself in bowls, playing regularly for the Kowloon Bowling Green Club.
Mrs. Davidson was many years ago, a teacher at the Kowloon Junior School, Gun Club Hill
Mr. Davidson is on retirement from the Army.
VIEWS OF SOUTH-WEST LEADER
THE HEADLESS BUDDHA
Others present included Colonel D. J. Colville, Secretary of the De partment of Overseas Trade, the "Marquis of Zauland, Lord and Lady Peel, Eart and Countess Winterton, Sir Herbert Samuel, the Dean of Westminister, the Bishop of Lon- don, Lady Astos and her son, the Hon. IV. Winstor Gic Anter Chamberlain, Sir Ernest Wilton, Mr. John Masefield. ́and' Lord Eustace Percɔ. At
The statuary attracted great at tention, particularly the lovely headless Budding. The cabinets
the Star Theatre, Richard Dix .* Officials of the Exchequer, cab starred, in a role that is totally Y.5,000,000 from their own original different from his outstanding suc-"| budget of V.100,000,000. The excitement of a gold rush, cess in "Cimmaron."
Foreign Orice demands for the primitive justice of the Invless
This is, I think his first oppor-7,5,000,000 for the promotion of West, the romance of a strong man
was reduced to and a lovely woman are the enter tunity to show us what he can do foreign trade tainment elements offered in For in a "modern" role, and in a pic Y.350,000. Of the 7.30,000,000 ask- Film's grand new film of outdoor ture which was directed by Johned by the Gaimusho for new enter- adventure, "Thunder Mountain," Robertson. Dix comes out of the prises, the Finance Ministry re-
Cantun, Nov. 27, Bunday to Tuesday... showing at the Alhambra Theatre, ordeal with flying colours. The cognized only .13,000,000. Esti
I expect the Central Autho- film, briefly speaking. concerns mates of the Overseas Affairs rities to send an army to quen Adapted from the new novel by Philly (Dix) and his family. A Ministry were reduced from 14 the Hopel-traitorous-movement Zane Grey, famous writer of divorce court awards Alice (Doro-000,000 to 7.5,000,000, while those declared Mr. Hsian Western stories, "Thunder Moun- tain" stars George O'Brien with Wilson) to his wife, Florence of the Communicationis Ministry veteran Kugimintang leader, in a possible to read the inscriptions by
In order to prevent her from be- were slashed from T.20,000,000 to interview. last night. Barbara Fritchie and Frances
ng brought up as a snob, Dix Y.1,000,006. "Rengo." steals his daughter, and for a while father and daughter live to happiness...
Mr. David Ostrer is a brother of Mr. Mark Ostrer, chairman of the Gaumont-Eritish Picture Corper tion, and of Mr. Isidore Ostrer: He stated yesterday:" "I cannot say a the moment when the wedding will take place, but it will not be very long"
The Baroness told a Dally Tele- Grant in the principal romantic graph representative last night: roles. "I think it will be in about a fort- | :might."
"THE GLASS KEY'
Their blias is interrupted by
containing fade exhibits evoked much enthusiasm, particularly the series of thin sheets engraved in so all timt it is only
Fu-chen, writing
photographing and enlarging.
"Mr. Hu's health is not good at the moment," Mr. Hsiao disclosed, "He may not be able to leave yet
⠀
-- SAVANTS OVERJOYED
The Chinese room with lacquered "ANNAPOLIS FAREWELL" from France for Chins, although celling and lattice work front, con- press reports stated that he would taining a marvellous lacquer table crime which sends Dix to goal tar During the Alming of "An-leave on November 26,"gintald in gold and silver, of the Mystery addicts will have the Afteen years, and the girl is there-napolis Farewell in the United A local paper stated this mor- Ming Dynasty as well as apprh "Isn't Jebbe a believe in the faith opportunity of unravelling the in upon recovered by the mother. States Naval Academy, the featurning that General Li Chung-je priate screens and tall vases, was cure?"
tricacies of another, Daaheill Ham Under the latter's care: Allce is fed players including Sir Guy "He 15"
matt's murder mystery in Para systematically moulded into a weak, Standing, Richard Cromwell, Tom was requested by Nanking to go thronged all das, dent "Is it true that he wouldn't have mount's "The Glass Key' closing willed debutante. Dix, in a de- Brown, John Howard and, Benny there to discuss ways and means
of national defence a doctor for his wife the other day to-day at the Queen's Theatre. sperate effort to save the Ita Baker, all members of the cast "when she was 11?"
This newest film from the pen of his daughter, breaks jail to come were required to live according to Union News, the author of the, justly famous to her at and there is a supern the strict regime of naval officers
The This Man" stars George
and midshipmen. That will be Raft with a supporting cast that and exciting climax
the next attraction at the Queen's includes Edward Arnold, Claire Those in support include Brace Theatre, Dodd, Rosalind Keith, Hay Mil Cabot, Shirley Grey and Edith All the actors of the film unit
Fellows Redincam...
And daily wore the uniforms of naval
It is quite true,"
"Well I saw a doctor go into his house just now."
"Oh, that's all right. He's
now himself!"
land and Charles Richman!
officers or midshipmen and were on the Naval grounds from 8 ore o'clock in the morning until late
afternoon,
ALHAMBRA
FALLNÉRE
TO-DAY at 230, 520, TÍM & 120 KM.
BEAUTIFUL GIRLJAV DETECTIVE NAILS
"PUBLIC
· HERO No. 1′′.
PURSUIT
CHESTER SALL
MORRIS
HILERS
SCOTTY BECKETT- HENRY TRAYERS
C. MENRY CORDON
A was overheard to say, "This is what I have always wanted; I feel that all my life has been wasted."
LOUDLE. FRAISED
Many students are arranging & prolonged course of study at the exhibition. One has already spent. three weeks among the bronzes of the pre-Christian era, and has not yet seen any other room. Gener- ally, the crowd was loud in te admiration of the beauty of the treasures and the perfection of the display.
It is predicted that the exhibi- ton will have a great influence on British designing at a time when It particularly needs a new fiúp. All the newspapers to-day pablish copious pictures and articles des- cribing the spirit of Chinese art, i
The Royal Central Asian Society is giving a lunch in connection with the exhibition on December 2 at which Mr. Que Tal-chi, the Chinese Ambassador, and Mr. Laurence Binyon will be the chief speakers. The Government is giv ing a banquet on the following day, over which Mr, W. G. Ormsby Gore will preside. Several mem- bera of the Cabinet besides men- bers of the Dinomatic Corps, lead ing Chiness and leaders of society
Filled gold jewellery-prooches, rings, buckles and hair ornaments lent by the Soviet, mecially for cinated the women. Most of the visitors seemed silghly puzzled by the paintings, but Royal Academ clans, who were there in force, studled them absorbedly. One: | Router
will be present
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