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ENTERTAINM,
QUEENS
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 pm: A COLLEGE CURSE IN YOUNG ROMANCE ! Music Song Laughter! The gaiety of carefree yorth footloon on the campus! ... and two loren of the prettiest co-eds all a part of the zippiest rousi omedy in months!
"Old Man Rhythm'
with
CHARLES BUDDY ROGERS
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BARBABA KENT-GEORGE BARBER BETTY GRABLE
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Richard Barthe mess in**FOUR HOURS TO KILL"
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4 SHOWS
FLEMING
"DAIL
2.80-$13
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ORIENTAL
LAST
14 TIMES TO-DAY
A NOVELTY MELO. DRAMA Something unusual in Sereon. Productions, Played by a Great Cast of Stars.
THEY MADE HIM PASPER. AND HE BECANER JUNG! -
LIONEL
ATWILL
BEGANE
IN
Prices Matinees 20 c--39 c.
ESTARE
TO-DAY ONLY 1936 MOST ABSORBING AND EXCITING MYSTERY:
Adolph Zakar presents
TH
THE
GLASS KEY
EDWARD ARNOLD CLAIRE DODD RAY MILLAND ROSALIND KEITH TO-MORROW JOE E BROWN IN HIS BIGGEST AND BEST
*PICTURE!
"BRIGHT LIGHTS'
SANTA RILES A RED
Moscow,
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"Santa Claus nearly came, tò
grief when he visited Moscow
ROSO MANGHAI TEL. THATS
TO-MORROW MONDAY-TUESDAY WARNER BROS. TROPICAL MUSICAL OF SONGS AND LAUGHTER Mexico's Million-dollar Paradise of Girls,
PAT O'BRIEN DOLORES IDEL RIO.
15 OTHERS
CALIENTE
Evenings 20 c.—30 -60 c.—70 c
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1936.
TO-DAY AT THE LES MISERABLES CAVALRY THAT
KING'S
CINEMA
Hong Kong
"Lea, Miserables" QUEEN'S:—
"Old Man Rhythm" ORIENTAL
"Beggars In Ermine"
- Kowloon
ALKAMERA:~
This Is The Life"
MAJESTIC:-
"The Arizonian”
STAR:-
1:
"The Glass Key"
KING'S:-
Sunday
"Les Miserables" QUEEN'S:
"Old Man Rhythm"
ORIENTAL:
"In Caliente"
ALHAMBRA:---
"Hi Gaucho{" MAJESTIC:-
STAR
"Gold Digger of 1935"
“Bright Lights”
THE GLASS KEY
At The Star
From the well dressed gentleman we saw of him in "Every Night at Eight," when he acted as conduc- tor of a jazz band and finally producer of an excellent musical comedy, George Raft has returned to us in the type of characteriza- tion which won him fame during the early days of his screen career. The Glass Key" which opened, at the Star Theatre last night. features Raft'in a drama of poll- tical battle, which is filled with
At The King's
Fresh laurels were heaped on the heads at Fredric March and Charles Laughton now showing at the King's Theatre as co-stars in the stirring production of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables."
WILL CHANGE
FAMOUS REGIMENTS TO
BE MECHANISED
·250
Years' Record
London, Jan 14,
The substitution of the armoured car, the light motor-car or the light tank for the horse in eight of our famous Cavalry Regiments an nounced recently in the "Morning Post" has long been threatened.
So great a departure from 'tradi- tional cavalry is naturally a keen disappointment to the Regiments concerned, but the need for greater mobility and increased fire power could not be longer postponed. The
A truly great picture. handsome - ly mounted and flawlessly directed this latest 20th Century production follows the eventful Life of Jean Valjean, who suffered five years of torture in the galleys of a French prison ship for stealing a loaf of bread and found his whole life darkened by the shadow of the Law, in the person of Javert, a fanatical detective who has de- dicated himself of carrying our that Law to the letter: March does the fines: work of his career as the unfortunate Valjean and Laughton is superb as Javert. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the celebrated British stage, and screen star Is splendid. making his American screen debut in the role of the kindly Bishop Bienvenu who starts A few years ago two Regiments the brutalized exconvict
of Cavalry were converted into road to a noble and prosperous armoured car regiments. They were life..
the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Rochelle Hudson. as Jean Val-, | Own), of which the Duke of York
Cosette, Jean's ward,
and John is Colonel-In-Chief, and the 12th Beal. as her sweetheart, Marius, Royal Lancers, whose Colonel-in- furnish the love interest which | Chief is the Prince of Wales,
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the
offers a counter-plot to Valjean's desperate adventures in his life- long attempt to evade tho relent- less Javert. The aim is released through United Artists.
possibilities of modern weapons have to be exploited to the fullest extent and acceleration of move- ment had of necessity to extend the use of the motor.
It will be of interest to recall the. more important of the earlier cam- paigns of the Regiments now that a distinct' break with their history' is to take place.
FOUNDED IN 1685
"Les Miserables" is maynificent- entertainment, fuT of the colour and passion of the novel which millors have read and will enjoy | date their existence from the period
the privilege of seeing it so bril Lantly transcribed to the screen.
OLD, MAN, RHYTHM
The 1st King's Dragoon Guards
of the Duke of Monmouth's' rebel- lion in 1685. The Regiment was known for its great exhibition of loyalty at the battle of Sedgemoor. and subsequently escorted Mon- mouth and other State prisoners to London. **
Smartly effervescent, "Od Man It served i Flanders under King Rhythm" a new type or campus Willam and was present at the musical comedy, opens to-day at Siege of Namur It further dis- the Queen's Theatre, replete with tinguished itself throughout Mari- novelties in plot and maody. Its borough's campaigns, at Schellen- keynote is the sparkling spon-berg. Blenheim Ramilies, Oude- taneity of youth contrasted with the laborious rejuvenation of an old-timer Acundering enthusias- tieally in an atmosphere which tempts and intrigues hum
A clever cast and an ambitious
WEEK-END RADIO excitement, a murder mystery and production have been given tills
PROGRAMMES
(Continued from page 4)
11.30 p.m.—Come let us all now merry; be ... Peasant. Music and Anecdotes. A Short Popu- far Musibal Radio Suite, ari ranged by Lotte Theile. 12.1 a.m.-News and Review of the Week in English on DJA and in Dutch on DIN.
AL
12.30 a.m.-Close DJA, DJN (Germ..
Engl.).
RADIO MANILA
Saturday
p.m.-Studio Music,
6.30 p.m-Spanish Informational
Period.
8.40 pm-English Informational
Pertoa.
6.55 pm-Stock quotations through
the' courtesy of Swan, Culbert son and Fritz.
7 p.m.-The Town Crier presents a
Quarter-Hour of Melody,
715 p.m.-P. Educational Period. 7.30 p.m-Ding Yalongs Parde of
Songs,
7.45 p.m.-Musical Potpourri,
romance, which are all woven into i the engrossing story by Dashiell Hammett.
Edward Arnold plays the role of a shrewd political overlord of a big city who gets entangled in a murder committed in the city. However Raft comes to his rescue and solves the mystery and after countless breath-taking adven- tures manages to bring his man to book,
Rosalind Keith plays the part of Arnold's daughter and is well. backed by the rest of the cast.--- G.J.A.
"IT'S IN THE AIR"
The most modern stratosphere gondola ever designed was con- structed for the thrilling fight sequences in Jack Benny's starring comedy-drama, "It's in the, Atz.” which opens on Wednesday at the King's Theatre.
Because stratosphere. balloons are still in the experimental stage, it was necessary for Gibbons and those connected with the con- struction of the project to make thorough study of past fights in order to learn how the gondola should be handled during the
8.15 p.m.-Pioneers of the Phillp-filming of the production.
pines.
e.30 pm-Rodrigo Danao and his
Favourite Tunes.
8.43 pim-Stock Quotations and
local Market Reports.
9 p.m.-Klim Dancing Party, spon- sored by Borden Co., manufac- turers of Klim and Malted Milk --Klim Orchestra directed by Johnny Harris. 11.pm-9ign OK.
Bunday
p.m.--Manila Philharmonic Aca- demy-Students' Recital, con- ducted by Resurrection B. San- taza
Communist Youth Club, for the 6 pm-Radio Revels, conducted by first time since the revolution.
Roberta March.
He appeared through the win-4.30 p.m.-Organ interlude, dew, to the delight of children 6.43 pm The Catholic Hour. brought by their parents for the 7pm-Manila Trading Center occasion. One youth, however, had not heard of the Government's re-
Musicale, conducted by Alfredo cent order sanctioning Christmas
ROB coremonies.
The comrade demanded that *this foolishness" must cease, turn ed his wrath on "Santa Claus."
"You," he said in a thundering volts, report to-morrow to the
The comedy-drama features a cast including Ted Healy. Una Merkel, Nat Pendleton, Mary Car- lisle, Harvey Stephens and Grant Mitchell
Byron Morgan and Eew Lipton wrote the original story. screen play and adaptation, while Harry W. Conn, Benny's radio writer, and Herman J. Mankiewicz were responsible for additional dialogue.
THEY ARE BOUND)
FOR WALES
narde, and Malplaquet. The Regi-, ment also fought at Dettingen and- at Fontenoy. In 1759 it was at the battle of Minden. It also served in the Crimea before Sevastopol, in India, China, and South Africa,
It is commonly know 25° the which features' Charles | "K.D.G.1⁄2" and at one time "the (Buddy Rogers as the leading Trades Union," from having been juvenile character, with George employed to suppress serious trade Barbier in the title role and such riots in Manchester, Blackburn, and clever eyefuls as Betty Grable. Wigan many years ago. Barbara Kent, Grace Bradley, Joy Hodges and Evelyn Poe.
show,
The plot concerns a captain of Industry's entry into college es a freshman in order to keep an eye on his sporting son Who is pretty campus gold digger, and to divert his in- fatuation to a girl favoured by the parent. A mot of fun attends the ensuing complications.
ebamoured of a
"Buddy" plays "the son, George Barbier the father. Barbara Kent plays the 1ather's choice and Grace Bradley the gold digger.
comedy Eccentric
roles a.re handled by Eric Bore and Dave
Hat." Chasen, both seen lately in "Top
The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) also dates its origin from 1685, when troops of horse were
· raised. The Bays fought under King William in the Irish and Fan- dera campaigns. In 1787 the Regi- ment obtained the designation of "The Queen's Bays" in consequence of an order directing it to be mounted on long-tailed bay horses. Among other campaigns It took part with Sir Colin Campbell in the relief. and capture of Lucknow,
WILLIAM OF ORANGE
SHOWING TO-DAY
SKINGSS
VACUOR PANDA
MASTERPIEC EVES AGAIN
Les
Miserables
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM..
THE SCREEN'S MIGHTIEST · ACTORS IN THEIR SUPREME HITI
Fredric MARCH Chartes LAUGHTON
'DARIYL ZANUCK prodščiten
ALSO WALT DISNEY SILLY SYMPHONY
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TECHNICOLI VA
EVER PRODUCED.
WATER BABIES "
ALHAMBRA THEATRE
NATHAN RD, HOWLOON-DAILY AT 2,30
LAST SHOWINGS
TO-DAY
She Dances for You! Sings for You! Cuts Up for You, Tool
This is the LIFE!"
A FOX PICTUS walk
JANE WITHERS ·
JOHN MUBIRE
FINAL
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FROM TO-MORROW
Romance flames from the Pompas as the gauchos ride the trail!
Gaucho
A rousing cdventure with Musict
with
JOHN CARROLL STEFFI DUNA
-ROD LAROCQUE Directed by Thomes
·Atkins TKO .RADIO Picture
SHOWINGS - MAJEZIO
TO-DAY
RICHARD
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in e drama mighty
in its sweep
THEATRE
ARIZONIAN
| MARGOT GRAHAME-PRESTON FOSTER LOUIS CALHERN
BUNDAY: **GOLD DIGGER
8th King's Royal Irish Hussars was raised in, Ireland in 1693 of
At 2.80, 5.20,
7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
IKO-RADIO PICTURE
OF 1935"
"BIG IRON-STEEL MERGER?
Kawasaki Dockyard, Nippon Pipe And Asano Yard
3rd The King's Own Hussars owes Laddie" when at the trot It has is origin to certain independent ( roll of distinguished service in troops raised in Berkshire, Middle-all parts of the world, including sex, Hertfordshire and Essex, ind Orthes, the Peninsula, Waterloo, The musical numbers are many was formed into a Dragoon Regi- and Lucknow. and varied. six new songs writ niet in 1685 The Regiment de- ten for "Old Man Rhythm" by Louclared for William of Orange after Gensler and Johnny Mercer are in hu landing at Torbay and fought ah Protestants. This Regiment keeping with the fast tempo of under tiim in the Irish and Flan- has distinguished itself in many
London, Jan. 14. modern youth, and are the bašte of
ders wars. Other of its earlier cam- countries. Its nickname was once the attractive special episodes in
paigns were Dettingen, Fontenoy "fne Cross-Belts," from the cir-
Negotiations seem to be going the performance, a ne
and Colloden. At Dettingen its cumstance that it was permitted to jon between the Kawasaki Dock- losses exceeded those of all the wear the sword belt over the right yard Company, the Nippon Stee. oiner Cavalry together, one regi- shoulder in place of round the Pipe Company and the ment-7th Dragoon Guards--only waist, as usual in Dragoon regi- excepted. In 1778 the 3rd Hussars were authorised by King George LII, to bear on, its strength a kettle drwumer clothed as a sergeant to commemorate an incident of war. } The regimental motto, "Pristine but the Kobe Yuzhin claims that The Regiment was in the Walche- virtutis memores" (mindful of their the merger is only a matter of ron expedition of 1809 and later ancient valour) was specially con- time. distinguished itself at Badajoz and ferred in commemoration of its Balamanca. In 1842 it formed part; brilliant gallantry at the battle of
the avenging army which entere Leswares, in India. ed Afghanistan, forcing the Khyber,
FOUR HOURS TO KILL,
Theatre Hides Escaped Killer in Thrill Film!
Drama in a theatre that takes place in front of the footlights, instead of behind, is the story told in Paramount's “Four Hours To Sijl,”” starring Richard Birthal- mess, the next attraction at the Queen's Theatre.
Barthelmes plays an escaped
convict, hiding in the theatre and walling for his chance to get the man who squealed on him. In the same audience are others whose life dramas are bound with his. A peakroom by who has stolen to get money, a rich woman plan- ning to run away with her sweet- Mr. Aubrey N. Morgan, Mr. heart, a handsome philanderer Lindbergli's brother-in-law, said who preys on impressionable to-night that he expected the women:
oms in Llandaff, near Cardiff, Lindberghs to arrive soon at his I cannot tell you when Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh will arrive hare," he said
7.30 pm Dance Music by the
Manila Polo Club Orchestra. "All I know is that they are. 8.30 p.m.--Filipino Youth Hour, definitely coming here to spend a
conducted by Leon Ma, Quer-quiet holiday." ...rero, Jr."
1. p.m.-Nine O'Clock Monitor..
While police frantically search for Barthelmes, he makes a tele- Phone call that lures his victim to the lobby of the theatre. Then, Just, as the separate life dramas of the others are rising to their climaxes he steps from his hiding place and shoots down the man before the eyes of an aghast,
caught and the tangled, ives of Morgan, Limited, furnishers and drapers, of Cardiff, where they the others straightened out will say, overlooks the picturesque furnishes the climax to a thrilling valley of the Tak.
Tomorrow is mentioned as the probable time of their arrival, ho The house of Mr. Llewellyn
ments, for its gallant conduct at the battle of Baragossa, when it captaired the belts of the Spanish cavalry.
بارا
Asano
Dockyard Company for an amal- gumation.
Mr. Yoakuma Kawasaki, mana- ging director of the Kawasaki Dockyard Company, denies this,
The local journal says that Mr. Hachisaburo Hirao, chairman of the Kawasaki Dockyard Company, had conversations with Mr. Moto- iro Shiraishi, vice-president of the Nippon Steel Pipe Company. and Mr. Kaname Suekane, mana-
9th Queen's Royal Lancers we Pass, capturing Kabul and effecting called "The Delhi Spearmen" by the release of British captives, the natives because of the good
4th The Queen's Own Hussars they made of their long lances at traces its origin back some 250 the siege of Delhi. years: This Regiment was also at The regiment was equipped as ging director of the Asano Dock- Dettingen and Fontenoy, and did lancers in 1816. It had spent much Yard Company, in this connection Rood service in London during the of its earlier service in India when he visited Tokyo at the end Gorton riots of 1780. In the course Throughout the Mutiny its services of last year to submit reports of its first five years of Indian sex were pre-eminent. It served at the to the Government on his recent vice, from 1821, it lost 12 officers Relief of Lucknow, and later took fasion to Bruall, and 500 non-commissioned officers part in Lord Roberts' famous March and men from fever and cholera to Kandahar. The 4th Hussars took part in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava
SCOTTISH REGIMENT
It is not explained whether the entire organisation of the Kawa- 10th Royal Hussars was added to: saki Dockyard Company is to the Army in 1715, and first saw amalgamate with the two om- service at Falkirk and Culloden | Cerns or the Steel Works alone is (1745-46). It took part in the re- the merger.,
treat to and battle of Corunna, and In the event of the plan mate- The Queen's Own Hussars is one 18ter was in the Penirisula, and rialising. the merger company of the few Cavalry Regiments of took part in the battics of Vittoria, I will have an annual output of Scottish origin. In 1889 Indepen Orthes and Toulouse. It has borne 900.000 tons of plz Impr. 800 dent troops of horse and dragoons the title "Royal" since 1811 000 tons of bars, shapes and In consequence, of having the sheets, 250,000 tongo pipes. a Killecrankie, ba
special favour of successive Princes arid 80,000 tons of special stee; It was the custom of its bands to et Wales it is regarded as one of It wil
secretary of the Communist Party 9.30, p.m.-Gospel Hour, conducted Morgan, bead of the firm of David audience. How the criminal ia) were raised in Scotland and fought
Committee."
"I,” replied "Santa Claus"
by Rev. R. E. Jones,
timidly. am the secretary of the 0.46 pm-Symphony Concert
Communist Party Committee."-10.15 pm Blumber Hour.
11 pm-Bign Off.
E.U.P.
drang
ay "The Guard of Old Gaul" the most distinguished regiments the Japan when marching past and “Hieland; in the Army Gift-
Company
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